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Acanthite from
Smuggler Mine, Lone Cone Mining District (Dunton Mining District), Dolores County, Colorado, USA


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 Smuggler Mine, Lone Cone Mining District (Dunton Mining District), Dolores County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:374026
Long-form Identifier:1:3:374026:2
GUID (UUID V4):5a9b9a38-572b-475d-bfe5-6c2cc8e82113
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Free Coinage Mine, Lone Cone Mining District (Dunton Mining District), Dolores County, Colorado, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) America Mine (Corkscrew; Columbia; MS 18486a; Nil Desperandum; MS 18486a; Patented Claims: America; MS 18486a), Lone Cone Mining District (Dunton Mining District), Dolores County, Colorado, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Emma Mine (Barbara; Normandic; Brooklyn; MS 18498; Sirius; MS 12931; Cynthia; Orion; MS 12953a; Modern Mines), Lone Cone Mining District (Dunton Mining District), Dolores County, Colorado, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Geyser Group (Wheel of Fortune; Uncle Bim; Unpatented Claims: Aviation; Blue Bird No. 2), Lone Cone Mining District (Dunton Mining District), Dolores County, Colorado, USA
6.8km (4.3 miles) Puzzle Mine (Puzzler Mine), Horse Creek, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
8.9km (5.5 miles) Smuggler/Almont (Smuggler Almont), Lone Cone Mining District (Dunton Mining District), Dolores County, Colorado, USA
10.5km (6.5 miles) Rico Argentine Mine, Silver Creek, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
10.7km (6.6 miles) Enterprise Mine, Newman Hill, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
11.1km (6.9 miles) Newman Hill, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
35.1km (21.8 miles) Liberty Bell Mine, Telluride Mining District, Colorado, USA
References
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recovered from an interesting array of important mining districts; it is currently available from Mexico...arsenic in amounts up to several percent. Pynte, acanthite, polybasite, and silver pseudomorphs after pyrargyrite...reported. It occurs as an alteration product of acanthite, dyscrasite, and silver. Pyrargyrite is relatively...suggest. It is commonly associated with proustite, acanthite, tetrahedrite, stephanite, miargyrite, polybasite...However, the development of numerous gold and silver mining districts in the westem states during the latter
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Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October 2014 PART 1 Downloaded...Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October 2014 A Historical...Historical Overview of t h e District and the Smuggler Union and Associated Mines and Veins of Marshall Basin... Inc. 1441 West 46th Avenue, Suite 14 Denver, Colorado 80211 n 1875 Co\orado was still a territory awaiting...Soptemberl0ctob.r 2000 319 Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Acanthite from Linqiu, Shanxi Province, China. Compliments...Compliments of Mineralpedia, Dakota Matrix. Acanthite from Cobalt-Gowganda dist., Ontario, Canada, Compliments... CHAPTER REPRESENTATIVES (ALSO BOARD MEMBERS) COLORADO CHAPTER: Jeff Self; selfawareminerals@gmail.com...now available on the Early Mining History of the Himalaya Pegmatite Mine The early-day history (1896-1913)...(1896-1913) of gem tourmaline mining at the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, is rife with conflicts by men
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HISTORY OF FOUR Native Silver Localities 7 in Colorado Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego]...72 Golden, Colorado 80403 All photos by author unless otherwise noted SINCE 1859 COLORADO HAS PRODUCED...rather than the native metal. Native silver in Colorado has been deposited both as a primary mineral,...across, Up to Date mine, Bald Mountain, Caribou area, Grand Island district, Boulder County. Specimen owner...(Front Range, central, and San Juan Mountains) of Colorado mineral belt. Some representations of mineral
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microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains)...schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve:...Reserve: quartz (chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite, gold
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[Northeastern University] at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers...have been available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping...this year’s Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, a Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...other silver and lead sulfosalts; silver; gold; acanthite; and a wide assortment of other sulfide minerals...of the more interesting Colorado occurrences include mines of Clear Creek County, particularly in the Georgetown
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untarreplaced by various silver halides, ruby silvers, acanthite, and stephanite are known. Similarly, silver has... occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal...Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more
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Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of...especially Fischer and others, 1946). MINERALS OF COLORADO: A 100-YEAR RECORD By EDWIN B. EcKEL ABSTRACT
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Inc. 1441 West 46th Avenue, Suite 14 Denver, Colorado 80211 eraines@ Icolorado.net The Great Irony...house. Photo hy Uycrs, CB.1904. courtcs\ Ouraj County Historical Society. Volume 75, November/December...campaign (Nevins Figure 2. Map of the Telluride district showing the principal veins, adits, and shafts...to Ed Raines, who researches Colorado ‘s geology, mineralogy, and mining history, is part owner of FRS...historic preservation efforts in the Leadville mining district. Downloaded by [UZH Hauptbibliothek / Zentralbibliothek
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of COLORADO ED RAINES Geology Museum Colorado School of Mines 1310 Maple Street Golden, Colorado 80401...noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...photographer unknown. B etween 1868 and 1922, Colorado produced almost 260 million pounds of copper....from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).... During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with
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no other group of minerals has more associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great...recovered as a byproduct of low-grade copper and lead mining. This fact, coupled with the historically low price...copper were the first). The earliest known siIver mining occurred in Cappadocia in Asia Minor and is dated...probably reflects the fact that the earliest silver mining amounted to gathering the metal in its native state...silverware trade (Grimwade 1985). The other great silver-mining center of ancient times was Spain. The earliest
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Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan What’s new in Colorado minerals? ...................................... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349 by J. A...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
Report (issue)
Carbonate-Hosted Sulfide Deposits of the Central Colorado Mineral Belt DAVID W . BEATY, GARY P . LANDIS...paralle l to host-rock bedding. Black Cloud mine, Leadville district. Sherman-type ore (bottom) in paleokarst...veined with ferroan dolomite. rv1oose mine, North Alma district. Photographs b)' \Villiarn Sacco, Peabody...Carbonate-hosted sulfide deposits of the central Colorado mine ral belt: Introduction, general discussion,...Regional geologic and tectonic setting of the central Colorado mineral belt . . . . Alan R. Wallace Paleozoic
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- - - - - - - - - - - Mineral Collections 1n Colorado A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record November-December..."Smithsonian packet," Smoky Hawk claim, Florissant, Colorado. Collected in 2008; Dorris Family collection;...certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This special...Collecting in Colorado The Collections: Mel & Pam Bersch Ryan Bowling Ralph Clark Colorado School of Mines...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North
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Tourmaline on quartz, Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History specimen...Pelt photo. MarcWApril: Beryl and calcite, La Pita mine, Maripi Boyacii, Columbia. Cal Graeber, Leonard...near Badger Creek, north of Coaldale, Fremont County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. July/August:...(Herkimer “diamonds’’), Treasure Mountain Diamond mine, near Little Falls, New York. Uli Bahmann specimen...SepteniberlOctober: Gold, Smuggler Union mine, Telluride district, Colorado. Colorado School of Mines Museum
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R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...SPECIMENS from the collection of the Geology Museum, Colorado School of Mines. See page 242 for a full description... All rights reserved. notes fromthej EDITOR COLORADO-III Here we are with our third special issue devoted...devoted to the mines and minerals of Colorado. As most long-time subscribers know, the first in the series...about $200 on the out-of-print market. The second Colorado issue was vol. 10, number 6 (1979), and we still
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the western states. Colorado and Nevada were his favorites because of their mining and coin minting history...the university, Kevin delved into mineralogy and mining history, and began to update his mineral collection...country as well as exploring scores of abandoned mining towns from California to New Mexico to Montana...and in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin...silver, galena, sphalerite, and amethyst in Creede, Colorado, azurite and malachite in Jerome, Arizona, gold
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ofo0000kell Telluride Ores of Boulder County, Colorado The Memoir Series of The Geological Society...Inc. Memoir 109 Telluride Ores of Boulder County, Colorado WILLIAM C. KELLY EpwINn N. GODDARD Department...SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INC. Colorado Building, P.O. Box 1719 Boulder, Colorado 80302 Printed in the United...and numerous ore samples were donated by local mining men, particularly Fred Dopp, H. M. Williamson,...supplied by William Byron, a mineral dealer and former mining engineer in Boulder, and by Professor Russell Honea
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northern Hymittos Mt (central Attica, Greece) district has made this region important due to its structural...world-class Lavrion mining district (25 km SE of Hymittos Mt.). At Agios Ioannis Kynigos mine veins of oxidized...study, with Ag hosted mainly in Ag-tetrahedrite, acanthite and jalpaite. Compositionally pyrite shows As...rendering it structurally equivalent to the Lavrion district and indicate that the WCDS has a minimum strike...abandoned mine of Agios Ioannis Kynigos which is situated c. 25 km northwest of the Lavrion mining district
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2015 Minerals of the Gilman District and Eagle Mine Eagle County, Colorado WILLIAM J. WARREN JR. Front...632 Golden, Colorado 80402 wjwmineral@aol.com ED PEDERSEN 11582 Ash Circle Thornton, Colorado 80233 pedersencpg@aol... ROCKS & MINERALS T he Gilman district, in Eagle County, Colorado, and its premier mineral specimen...Company’s Eagle mine, are located about 120 kilometers west-southwest of Denver. The Gilman district was originally...the Battle Mountain district and was later referred to as the Red Cliff district. Much of the older (pre-1940s)
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Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...from a variety of localities including: Australia Colorado Brazil Mexico California Nevada Canada Venezuela...Gold Nugget Bullfrog Mountains Death Valley Nevada, USA This unique and complex Gold nugget is rather leafy...Windy Point Mine Humboldt Co. Nevada, USA This brassy Gold specimen from the Windy Point Mine in Nevada...Ledge Mine (Bank Mining Company), Mack House Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra
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Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961).
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