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Silver from
Silver King Mine (Silver King Mining Co. property; Fortune Mine; California Mine; White Horse Mine; Seventy-Four Mine; Last Chance Mine), Comstock Wash, Kings Crown Peak area, Pioneer District, Pinal Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA

Description
Comments:	Fine specimens; large masses fill cracks in Stromeyerite, bornite & chalcopyrite; also in beautiful filiform specimens.
Quality of samples:	not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
References
References:	The Resources of Arizona - A Manual of Reliable Information Concerning the Territory, compiled by Patrick Hamilton (1881), Prescott, AZ: 59; The History of Arizona, 2nd. State legislature, Chap. X: 119; Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 373; Guild, F.N. (1917), A microscopic study of the silver ores and their associated minerals, Econ.Geol.: 12: 297-353; Univ. AZ Bull. 41 (1916-17), Mineralogy of Useful Minerals in Arizona: 54; Galbraith, F.W. (1947), Minerals of Arizona, AZ Bur. Mines Bull. 153: 9, 16; Galbraith, F.W. (1947), Minerals of Arizona, AZ Bur. Mines Bull. 153: 16; Rocks & Min.: 21:431; Wilson, E.D., et al (1950), Arizona zinc and lead deposits, part I, AZ Bur. Mines Bull. 156: 98.
Associated minerals:
Associates:	Bornite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Sphalerite Stromeyerite
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Silver data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Silver King Mine (Silver King Mining Co. property; Fortune Mine; California Mine; White Horse Mine; Seventy-Four Mine; Last Chance Mine), Comstock Wash, Kings Crown Peak area, Pioneer District, Pinal Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA
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