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Acanthite from
Atocha mine, Arque Province, Cochabamba, Bolivia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Atocha mine, Arque Province, Cochabamba, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:291785
Long-form Identifier:1:3:291785:6
GUID (UUID V4):8ed77169-c09b-4f24-b4ec-96ffb7817511
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro...and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now owned outright by the Federal Government
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
National University] at 06:43 31 December 2014 mine in Colorado, and they found virtually the entire...others, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, acanthite, bornite, calcite, dolomite, siderite, barite...tetrahedrite and pyrite specimen from the Anchor mine, Park City, Utah. The specimen was in the stock...examples at the present time are from the Sweet Home mine, near Alma, Park County, Colorado, where it occurs...with enargite and fluorite come from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County (D. Bunk
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
January 2015 Bournonite Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China T here are certain mineral...the most prolific being the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan Province. (Additional locality information and photographs...from such disparate localities as the Black Hawk mine, Blue Hill, Maine; New York City, New York; an unspecified...King. It has also been reported from the Albion mine in the Little Cottonwood district, Salt Lake County...Wrightson district, Santa Cruz County; and the Boggs mine in the Big Bug district, Yavapai County, where it
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits of Miocene age in the Eastern Cordillera in Bolivia were studied by ICP/MS and EPMA for major and minor...concentration of trace amounts of indium. Keywords: Bolivia, indium, petrukite, polymetallic, Potosi, sphalerite...Sn-polymetallic ore belt Arica BOLIVIA Potosi CHILE Lake Uyuni Border Cities Atocha Lakes Tertiary strata...terrains of Japan (Ishihara et al., 2006) and Bolivia (Ishihara & Murakami, 2008a). The total indium...(Sinclair et al., 2006). Tin-polymetallic deposits in Bolivia (Fig. 1) appear to be one of the major source regions
Catalog/List
wire silver growing atop calcite crystals with acanthite. This represents one of the most attractive examples...of white calcite with sharp crystals of gray acanthite to the left. Situated in the middle is the “trunk”...Ward Minera! on QUARTZ RHODOCHROSITE District Mine. Climax Climax olTolg-Yole Lake. County. ncredibly...years to find a specimen rhombs rhombs Climax Mine, ot rhodochrosite $50 OOU 60.000 Ex The ... 8 nn ae from the \ slight ¢ « nax 1g Mine : The Kevin Ward Mineral Exceptional German
Book (edition)
complicates identification (e.g., argentite-acanthite). - The Compositional Series notes related minerals...due to decreasing temperature (e.g., argentite-acanthite). • Lamellar pressure twins, commonly of equal...(medium grey, large grain) to form an argentite/acanthite reaction rim (darker grey); the formation of such...forms yes strong red Stilleite Mottramite Acanthite Hollandite mosaic and polysynthetic Crednerite... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
20013 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Part 2 Huanggang Mine, Inner Mongolia, China T he first part of this...northern England, particularly from the Rogerley mine, has made these classic specimens available once...made of the complex crystals from the Trevaunce mine, St. Agnes. The crystals on the Smithsonian specimens...crystals to 2 cm have been recorded.The East Pool mine has produced crystals to 6 cm in colors ranging...and purple to colorless. In the St. Ives Consols mine, West Penwith, some of the largest fluorite crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ánimas–Chocaya–Siete Suyos Polymetallic Deposit, Potosí, Bolivia Lisard Torró 1, * , Malena Cazorla 2 , Joan Carles...Plaza del Bicentenario–Zona Central, La Paz 2314, Bolivia; diva.moshi@gmail.com Departament d’Enginyeria...maria.pura.alfonso@upc.edu Colegio de Geólogos de Bolivia, Edificio Señor de la Exaltación Nro. 4683, Av...1 y 2, Zona de Obrajes, Casilla 8941, La Paz, Bolivia; oarce.cgb@gmail.com Correspondence: lisardtorro@hotmail...In-bearing Ánimas–Chocaya–Siete Suyos district in SW Bolivia. Ore mineralization occurs as banded and massive
Book (edition)
Rickardite II/B.04-20 Argentite II/B.05-02 II/B.05-10 Acanthite Naumannite II/B.05-30 Hessite II/B.05-40 Jalpaite...(yellowish white), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(greenish grey), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(bluish grey shades), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // 8 Gold A ...sample - photo A), dolomite (dark grey); Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden [j]; Nic
Catalog/List
new or rt•ccnt minera ls ABHURITE Sn O O1-l Cl ACANTHITE AgS ACTINOLITE Amphibole ADAMITE Zn AsO/4 AEGIRINE... x i £5 Rich wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero...Bastnas Mine Sweden Jx2 £6 2 x2 £1.20 2x2 £1 2 Ix ! £4 l x2 £8 New East Wheal Russell mine, Devon...£ 16 2x3 £25 l x l £3 San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales l x2 £1.5 0 6x6mm £3... Rich fawn sheaves in silvery schist Kaveltorp Mine Sweden Jx2 £ I l.x2 £2.5 0 l x2 £1.20 2x2 £2
Journal (issue)
crystal with calcite, 6.5 cm, from the Cosq uez mine, Colombia; found in 1998. Scott Rudolph collection............................................... 22 Mine Exploitation (or not) Today ......................occurrences (abandoned), The Nemoc6n mine is primarily a salt mine refitted as a tourist attraction; it...is the Muzo mine proper, and 12 km north of that lies the almost equally famous Cosquez mine; both of these...by the Penas Blancas mine, 10 km north of Cosquez, and in 1997 the La Pita mine, between Muzo and Cosquez
Book
sometimes called transformation pseudomorphs; e.g., acanthite after argentite. He makes metamict a subcategory... native copper after aragonite from Corocoro, Bolivia. 6. Encrustation pseudomorphs (perimorphs). “Pseudomorphs...been described in a stream receiving acid (C) (D) mine drainage rich in SO4 2 ions (Brady et al., 1986)...from the SiO2-dolomite sequence at the Mount Isa mine (Queensland, Australia). Pseudomorphs in the chert...(Muchez et al., 2008). A more than 250-year-old mine dump was studied by Filippi et al. (2015) to document
Catalog/List
directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...Auction 3 52001 HEMATITE Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy If there was ever a specimen that...SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile Terry Szenics...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume...MANGANOCALCITE Pachapaqui District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru It is difficult to believe
Report (issue)
’-’m3m; a = 4.080; Z = 4 2496Q (Cu/Ni)—East Gold mine, Bowser River district, Portland Canal area, B.C...silver Cell Studies, the same (a) 0, 0, S Z = mine, Coantimony). edge by Peacock (Univ. Toronto Geol...(Cu/Ni)—Calumet mine, Michigan; same pattern given by copper filings and material from Tamarak mine, Michigan...600, c¢ = 4.228; Z = 2 atoms 3235 (Cu/Ni)—Mohawk mine, Keweenaw Co., Michigan (ROM, M11447); same pattern...4.310, ¢ = w = 57°06’; Zr) = 2 William Same mine, York pattern given Cell dimensions calculated
Journal (issue)
It should be mentioned that it was not worth to mine at a time, because it could not be sold. Scientific...mentioned a province of Choco in the Central Cordillera (New Granada, Columbia) and a province ofQuito (Ecuador)...names of Solovieva Gora, Soloviev Log, and Soloviev mine (MaM1-1H-C1-161-1pHK, 1892). Numerous platinum placers...9'11century. They were united into the Avrorinskiy mine (Fig. I) (Yysotskiy, 1925). Initially, not much...published a note on platinum discovery near the Neiva mine in the NI Directory of Discoveries in Physics and
Book
2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous
Catalog/List
extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans...let alone someone hunting crystals. He went to Bolivia, Fiji, Ethiopia, Rhodesia, and many other places...Atacama Desert to collect Underground Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia, 1993. "RPG," Artigas, Uruguay...collection that he donated to the Neto and Ed Swoboda to mine University of Arizona RRUFF Project. Another was
Book
geochemical tin provinces of the East Indies or Bolivia) force an answer in the terms of the second question...places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...(1940). 12 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 4 80 X Mouat Mine, Stillwater Valley, Montana RAMDOHR From a border... 16 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 9 8 X Colavi, Bolivia RAMDOHR Wolframite (hübnerite), in typical lath-shaped
Catalog/List
museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...Auction 2 53001 CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority...Caledonite and a dash of azure blue Linarite. The mine is now collapsed and only a memory for the lucky... 53002 CHALCOCITE Lucky Friday Pocket, Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin, USA This is one
Book (edition)
maintain ore reserves, and in the proper location of mine workings to avoid caving ground. In the future he...descriptions. He also tells us that Hannibal had a silver mine, named the Baebulo, in southern Spain, in a mountain...amount of gold. For example, the Alaska Juneau gold mine mined with profit ores that contained only 0.00016...product. Consequently, the properties that deter¬ mine the commercial use of nonmetallic products are multitudinous...chemical analyses are sometimes made in order to deter¬ mine the quantities of other ingredients, particularly
Book (edition)
• t --•- """"" ' The Lornex copper-molybdenum mine and plant, Highland Valley, British Columbia. (By...measurements have been retained in specific cases such as mine levels when measured in feet, values of gold and...developing an annual ton of new copper capacity from mine through the refinery without intrastructure costs...fold in three years. As an example, the " Surface Mine Control and Reclamation Act,' ' which was initially...resources in the future.'' In 1977, a surface coal mine regulation that greatly restricts the areas of strip
 
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