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Acanthite from
Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Ortenaukreis, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Silver14 photos of Acanthite associated with Silver at this locality.
Quartz6 photos of Acanthite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Chalcopyrite4 photos of Acanthite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Tennantite Subgroup4 photos of Acanthite associated with Tennantite Subgroup at this locality.
Billingsleyite4 photos of Acanthite associated with Billingsleyite at this locality.
Fluorite2 photos of Acanthite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Tetrahedrite Subgroup2 photos of Acanthite associated with Tetrahedrite Subgroup at this locality.
Famatinite2 photos of Acanthite associated with Famatinite at this locality.
Baryte2 photos of Acanthite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Bariopharmacosiderite2 photos of Acanthite associated with Bariopharmacosiderite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Ortenaukreis, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Photo GalleryView Gallery (68 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:30
Long-form Identifier:1:3:30:7
GUID (UUID V4):e3ac3efd-c519-462c-9db0-9b8784735506
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
3.5km (2.2 miles) Friedrich-Christian Mine, Wildschapbach valley, Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach, Freudenstadt, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
6.9km (4.3 miles) Wenzel Mine, Frohnbach valley, Oberwolfach, Ortenaukreis, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
8.6km (5.3 miles) Güte Gottes Mine, Zundelgraben, Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Rottweil, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
8.7km (5.4 miles) Daniel im Dehs Mine, Bad Rippoldsau-Schapbach, Freudenstadt, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
9.0km (5.6 miles) Anton Mine, Heubach Valley, Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Rottweil, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
9.3km (5.8 miles) Neuglück Mine, Böckelsbach valley, Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Rottweil, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
9.3km (5.8 miles) Sophia Mine, Böckelsbach valley, Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Rottweil, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
9.6km (5.9 miles) Schmiedestollen dump, Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Rottweil, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
10.0km (6.2 miles) Dreikönigstern Mine, Reinerzau mining district, Alpirsbach, Freudenstadt, Karlsruhe Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
10.6km (6.6 miles) Johann Mine, Burgfelsen, Wittichen, Schenkenzell, Rottweil, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINES IN THE SCHWARZWALD ORE DISTRICT, SOUTHERN GERMANY Sebastian STAUDE, Alevtina DORN, Katharina PFAFF...Tübingen, Wilhelmstrasse 56, D–72074 Tübingen, Germany Abstract Several examples of hydrothermal vein-type...the Schwarzwald ore district, in southwestern Germany. The complex history of naming of the sulfosalts...(hexagonal AgBiS2). The upper limit based on untwinned acanthite is 179°C, whereas recalculated compositions of...miharaite, Schwarzwald ore district, Black Forest, Germany. Sommaire On trouve plusieurs exemples de minéralisation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Willstaett-Eckartsweier Germany info@wendel-minerals.com Clara Mine The Figure 1. Dumps of the Clara mine where collecting...a small fee. Near Wolfach in the Black Forest Germany From the Myth of the “Golden Calf ” to Modern Mining...6.4 cm. Museum for Minerals and Mathematics Oberwolfach specimen. Figure 4. Barite, so-called Meisselspat...1977 find. Museum for Minerals and Mathematics Oberwolfach collection. T RADITION holds that the wooded...mountain. According to another legend, two men from Oberwolfach tried to find the “golden calf ” with magic.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydrothermal fluorite-barite-(Ag-Cu) Clara deposit, SW Germany Maximilian F. Keim 1 & Benjamin F. Walter...Accepted: 8 March 2018 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018 Abstract The silver-copper...the fluorite-barite vein system at the Clara deposit in SW Germany shows large scale vertical zoning. Low...silver-bearing phases and the precipitation of acanthite and native silver. The study illustrates, how...D-72074 Tübingen, Germany 2 Stuttgart, Germany The Schwarzwald ore district in SW Germany hosts numerous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
solidsolution series in the Schwarzwald ore district (SW Germany): The role of mineralization processes and fluid...Tübingen, Wilhelmstrasse 56, D-72074 Tübingen, Germany [Received 30 October 2009; Accepted 28 April 2010]...locations in the Schwarzwald ore district of SW Germany. Electron microprobe analysis is used to correlate...sediments. The basement is subdivided into the Baden-BadenZone (BBZ) in the North (belonging to the Saxothuringian)...1980). From the Middle Triassic to Jurassic, SW Germany was part of a shelf platform with distinct time
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EVOLUTION AT THE WENZEL HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT, SOUTHERN GERMANY: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FORMATION OF KONGSBERG-TYPE...Tübingen, Wilhelmstrasse 56, D–72074 Tübingen, Germany Abstract The post-Variscan Wenzel vein-type deposit...deposit near Wolfach, in the Black Forest, Germany, the type locality of the Ag–Sb alloy dyscrasite, was...deposit, Kongsberg-type deposits, Black Forest, Germany. Sommaire Nous avons entrepris une étude du gisement...Introduction The former Wenzel mine, near Wolfach, Schwarzwald district, southwestern Germany, is a hydrothermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
vein mineralization at Wittichen, Schwarzwald, SW Germany: geological setting, ore mineralogy, and fluid...Co–Ag–Bi–U mining area (Schwarzwald ore district, SW Germany) hosts several unconformity-related vein-type mineralizations...72074 Tübingen, Germany e-mail: markl@uni-tuebingen.de W. Werner Regierungspräsidium Freiburg, Landesamt für...und Bergbau (LGRB), Albertstr. 5, 79104 Freiburg i. Br., Germany U–Bi, Bi–Ag, Ni–As–Bi and Co–As–Bi. Important...Göttingen, Goldschmidtstr. 1-3, 37077 Göttingen, Germany Keywords Bi–Co–Ni–Ag–U vein mineralization . Schwarzwald
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
galena: A case study from the Schwarzwald, SW Germany Maximilian F. Keim, Rafael Vaudrin, Gregor Markl...supergene ore deposits of the Schwarzwald, SW-Germany, were performed by laser ablation-inductively coupled...calculations, since secondary native silver and acanthite are widespread and chlorargyrite is very rare...stability relations; chlorargyrite; native silver; acanthite GuilBert & Park 1984, keim & markl 2015). Whether...Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, Germany DOI: 10.1127/njma/2016/0002 eschweizerbart_xxx
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tübingen, Germany 2 Bayerisches Geoinstitut, University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany Helmholtz-Institut...Stuttgart, Azenbergstraße 18, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany *corresponding author: Sebastian Staude MA mail:...E D phone: +49 (0)7071-29-73080 AC 4 SC Germany 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Abstract The tennantite-tetrahedrite...near-surface AC environments of oxidation zones or on mine dumps, where elements are highly mobile and a high...Wittichen area in the RI Schwarzwald ore district, Germany (Staude et al., 2010; George et al., 2017). Fahlore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Location map showing the Black Forest and the Clara mine. THE NETHERLANDS POLAND CZECHOSLOVAKIA TOM...TOM R O S E M E Y E R 1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 Columnist Tom Rosemeyer...showing the Clara minefs). SWITZERLAND OLD CLARA MINE Minerals of the Clara Mine, Wolfach, Germany To Freudenstadt...Grube Clara as it is known in Europe, is nestled deep in the Black Forest of southwestern Germany. While...quite a reputation in Europe. The Clara is by no means the only mine located in this section o f the country
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IN A HYDROTHERMAL VEIN-TYPE DEPOSIT: THE CLARA MINE, SW GERMANY, AS A TYPE EXAMPLE GREGOR MARKL§ Universität...Geowissenschaften, Wilhelmstraße 56, D-72074 Tübingen, Germany MAXIMILIAN F. KEIM Technische Universität München...Garching, Germany RICHARD BAYERL Ludwigstrasse 8, 70176 Stuttgart, Germany ABSTRACT The Clara baryte-fluorite-(Ag-Cu)...baryte-fluorite-(Ag-Cu) mine exploits a polyphase, mainly Jurassic to Cretaceous, hydrothermal unconformity...unconformity vein-type deposit in the Schwarzwald, SW Germany. It is the type locality for 13 minerals, and more
Report (issue)
months” in the Big Bear orebody in the Fletcher mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri; these...serious galena specimens from this famous leadmining region. 1 =========================================...twin, 6 cm, from the Big Bear orebody, Fletcher mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Weinrich...Galena, 4 cm, from the Big Bear orebody, Fletcher mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Weinrich...attractive specimens has been given as the Ortega mine in the Mundo-Tamboras district, Sanchez Carrion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of the Clara Mines Ober-Wolfach, Baden, West Germany Outstanding crystals of barite and fluorite...at­ tracted mineral collectors to West Germany's Clara mines. Today, the number of visitors has swelled...rare elsewhere can be found fairly easily in the Clara mines' abun­ dant vugs. Thus, American mineral collectors...The Clara mines are in the heart of the Black Forest, which forms the southwest corner o f Germany, bordering...opportunity for many sports. A l ­ though the Clara mine is the mineralogists' chief target, there are
Report (issue)
epithermal precious metal veins. Association: Acanthite, amethyst. Distribution: In Mexico, from Guanajuato...the North Lily mine, Tintic district, Juab Co., Utah. From the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest...Forest, Germany. At Serra S’Ilixi, Sarrabus, Sardinia, Italy. In the Barquilla deposit, Salamanca Province...St. Minver, Cornwall, England. From the Seikoshi mine, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Several additional
Report (issue)
0.60 Total 100.00 99.63 100.00 (1) Molly Gibson mine, Colorado, USA; recalculated to 100% after deducting...at low to medium temperatures. Association: Acanthite, silver, proustite, quartz, barite, calcite. ... in Montana, large crystals from the Drumlummon mine, Marysville, Lewis and Clark Co. [TL]; at Neihart...Niarada, in the Flathead mine, Flathead Co.; in Colorado, at the Molly Gibson mine, Aspen, Pitkin Co., and...at the Ophir mine, Comstock district, Storey Co., Nevada. In Canada, from the Morrison mine, and in the
Catalog/List
2.5 cm high and 1,5 cm across. £25 Tonca de Onca Mine, Virgem de Lapa Minas Gerais Brazil This is the...crystals with some pink Hureaulite 7x7 mmCigana Mine, Galileia Minas Gerais £36 4 BRUCITE clear silvery...matrix, not a visually attractive piece ! Ollinghouse Mine, washoe County Nevada U.S.A £50 . 6 STELLERITE...sample. Hartenstein Schacht 371 Erzebirge Saxony Germany 2x2.5 (380 grams) £38 8 NATIVE ANTIMONY rich...large lx2 inch £20 Ilimaussaq Greenland Sapucai Mine, Galileia Minas Gerais about 8.5mm Seinajoki Laani
Book
Netherlands. Back cover The museum ldar-Oberstein. West-Germany. is quaintly situated beneath the Felsenkirche...Copyright 1986 by . Ulrich Burchard, Lalling, West-Germany All rights reserved including the right of reproduction...Printed in Germany Miscellaneous: Design & Lay Out by Rainer Bode, Haltern, West-Germany Type set by...Wurzburg, West-Germany Colour separations by Litho Thungen GmbH, Thungen, West-Germany H. Bari, Musee...Printed by Sellier Druck GmbH, Freising, West-Germany 6 Gasull, Museo de Geologia, Barcelona 249; V
Book
coated by a thin black film (eg silver, proustite, acanthite and pyrargyrite). In the presence of light, realgar...arsenopyrite or pyrite); - hackly (eg silver, gold or acanthite); - splintery (eg nephrite or garnet); - earthy...deposits in Texas and Louisiana (USA), Tarnobrzeg region and Mach6w (Poland), Karakum Desert and Volgaland...(217), marcasite (437) • Occurrence: common; Clay region in Alabama (USA); Harz (GDR), FRG, Botogol deposit...Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine - Nevada (USA) •Application: ore (extraction of
Book
illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...coated by a thin black film (eg silver, proustite, acanthite and pyrargyrite). In the presence of light, realgar...arsenopyrite or pyrite); — hackly (eg silver, gold or acanthite); — splintery (eg nephrite or garnet); — earthy...deposits in Texas and Louisiana (USA), Tarnobrzeg region and Machow (Poland), Karakum Desert and Volgaland...(217), marcasite (437) e Occurrence: common; Clay region in Alabama (USA); Harz (GDR), FRG, Botogol deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mitt. 64, 11. At the Clara mine, nr. Oberwolfach, central Black Forest, W. Germany, as white, yellowish...Hero Town (420 m, 44 ~ west of south), QalaDizeh region, NE Iraq, in melilite skarn in contact with banded...M. 50, 681. At the dumps of the disused Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, as monomineralic crusts...across) around hessite and partially altered acanthite, it is intergrown with these and an unnamed Ag4TeS...on old mining dumps, northern Black Forest, W. Germany, as white to pale green radial, acicular, aggregates
Journal (issue)
noted) (top row, from left) Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection...collecting has flourished throughout the Northwest region in recent decades; a history of the mineral discoveries...the estate. Many early minerals collected in the region about Spokane, Washington, are represented in the...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
accessory minerals, such as tetrahedrite, tennantite, acanthite, and sulfosalts (matildite/polybasite). This explains...the activity continued until 1964, when the last mine of the Province (Calceranica) closed. Previous studies...Thermo-Scientific spectrometer (Thermo, Bremen, Germany). Specific amounts of Rh and Re were added to the...microscope (SEM EVO-40 XVP; Carl Zeiss, Oberkochen, Germany) on polished thin sections. 3. Results 3.1. Bulk...tennantite, Ccp = chalcopyrite, Py = pyrite, Ac = acanthite, Cst = cassiterite, Plb= polybasite, tetrahedrite
Book
professor, Abraham Gottlieb Werner (1750-1817) of Freiburg, Saxony, but shortly thereafter he wrote his own...produced specimens from such places as the La Fé Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the...meters (10,000 feet) high. Mineralogically, this region is of great interest to the collector and includes...locations in this richly oxidized and heavily volcanic region is excellent, especially at the currently developing...Sierra del Sur (Fig. 6), a structurally complex region composed of old, eroded mountains r Sows 1 G
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sammlungen Brennhausgasse 14 09599 Freiberg, Germany andreas.massanek@geosamm.tu-freiberg.de Downloaded...Schloss Freudenstein Schlossplatz 4 09599 Freiberg, Germany christina.seifert@geosamm.tu-freiberg.de Figure...New Permanent Exhibition in Freiberg, Saxony, Germany 212 ROCKS & MINERALS N ative silver, in bizarre...2014 dendritic or curled wires, argentite and acanthite, polybasite and stephanite, freibergite, freieslebenite...mineral localities in just Germany. Figure 3 (above). Krügerhaus in Freiberg, Germany. Detlev Müller photo
Journal (issue)
Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...FLUORITE crystal group, 8.1 cm, from the Shangbao mine, H unan, China. Collector's Edge Minerals specimen;...color, and give a historical background for each mine or mining venture. These catalogs, still available...issue from the beautiful collection of Steve and Clara Smale. Some readers are a little confused about...developm ent and m ineralogy o f this reknowned region o f the Kola Peninsula by Dr. Igor Pekov. Hardcover
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produced specimens from such places as the La Fe Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the...meters I 10,000 feet) high. Mineralogically, this region is of great interest to the collector and includes...locations in this richly oxidized and heavily volcanic region is excellent, especially at the currently developing...Sierra de! Sur (Fig. 6). a structurally complex region composed of old, eroded mountains Figure 5. The...production from this province. As a whole, however, the region is very remote and inhospitable and again travel
 
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