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Acanthite from
Cheek Mine, Moore County, North Carolina, 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 Cheek Mine, Moore County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:401931
Long-form Identifier:1:3:401931:2
GUID (UUID V4):87db6571-30b1-4ad6-a444-2c230da412f6
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Thomas P. Moore Tpmoorel@cox.net A gold specimen from the Spanish Dry Diggings, Eldorado County, California...EUCLASE with Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See...What's New in Minerals Tucson Show, 2016 (by T. P. Moore) ........................ ........................very rare loose crystal. Ossining, Westchester County, New York. wckport, New York. Ex. Coll. : New...a pleasure to deal with. (My favorite tongue-in-cheek Conklin quote: "If a specimen ever sells, it was
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■b m m m M ' Wayne & Dona Leicht. 875 North Pacific Coast Highway. Laguna Beach, CA 926 ^ (949) 494-7695...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Thomas P. Moore Niantic, CT Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey........................................ 53 by T. Moore Denver Show 2000 ..................................................................... 56 by T. Moore Letters.......................................
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KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...org Senior Editor & Advertising Manager Thomas P. Moore tpmoore1@cox.net Editor Christopher J. Stefano cjstefanoxls@gmail.........................................81 by T. Moore What’s New Munich 2023.................................................................107 by T. Moore COVER: FLUORITE, 4.3 cm, from the Valdelmar area...$145/one year, (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription
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Kizer N ew Year’s resolutions—did you make one? Mine was to do the things I have been putting off for...processes (Behre, 1953; Tweto, 1974). The Pyrenees Mine was a major lead producer in the area. Photo by...Leadville. Photo by. P. Brandes Silver is found in acanthite and argentiferous tetrahedrite. Gold is native...days of mining. Some assays from the Robert E. Lee mine were as high as 10306 ounces/tonne silver (Blair...economy (Blair, 1980; Wallace, 1993). The Matchless Mine, one of H.A.W Tabor’s properties. Photo by P. Brandes
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1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders  800-842-6796...as gifted research assistants in Mapimí. Thomas Moore of the Mineralogical Record reviewed the geological...table, surrounded by minerals from [the] Ojuela [mine].” Saturday Evening Post, 1927: George Kunz, mineral...cluster of aguilarite crystals from the San José mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, in the Terry Wallace collection...article, George Kunz described his visit to an opal mine, saying: 7 Introduction They had been working
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ephemera. Mineral News Excalibur Mineral Corp. 1000 North Division Street Peekskill, NY 10566-1830 www.excaliburmineral...Ownership: Excalibur Mineral Corporation, 1000 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY 10566-1830. Publisher:...Kvanefjeld, Point of Rocks (Colfax Co., New Mexico, USA) and a few from Aris. 5-15 mm free-standing crystals...collected April or May 2006 in the Cigana Mine (used to be Jocao Mine) (Galilea, Minas Gerais, • Brasil). The...the vendors said the material comes from a copper mine - they are unusual in metamorphic, calc-silicic
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situation seems to have been noted at the Husky mine in Canada. Regarding the current status of this...out of the same areas we mentioned for silver, acanthite, pyrargyrite and polybasite. This suite of minerals...Colorado Calumet claims all the way to the Two Point mine. As far as I know, this area is un-comparable to...Ownership: Excalibur Mineral Corporation, 1000 North Division Street, Peekskill, NY 10566-1830. Publisher:...notable areas. The Canadian crystals from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory are truly magnificent, with an
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VOLUME 37 NUMBER 1 $15 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)...Editor-in-Chief Wendell E. Wilson THE Editor Thomas P. Moore MINERALOGICAL RECORD Circulation Manager Mary...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 by T. P. Moore Munich Show 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...1968) which described the discovery in a tongue-in-cheek fashion, and profiled the GSC mineralogists who
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ounce lots $600.00. Darlene and I with our guides, mine foreman and guards at the Welo opal mines in Ethiopia...995 00 complete Free shipping in continent USA Made in USA Grit Sizes 60 to 200,000 1.0" hole with...with 3/4", 5/8" & 1/2" bushings Our made in USA soft wheels will last you 3-4 times longer than imported...without notice. C MARCH 2020 3 ROYAL PEACOCK OPAL MINE Dig your own Virgin Valley Fire Opals ALL YOU FIND...adventure of treasure hunting!! Located in the North-Western Corner of Nevada www. royal peacock.com
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are usually quarries, cliffs. road cuttings and mine dumps. but any outcrop of rock may prove fru itfu... Argentite-acanthite (Silver glance) Ag 2 S Crystal system Cubic (argentite); orthorhombic (acanthite). Habit...as groups of crystals in para llel alignment. Acanthite may crystall ize at low temperatures as pointed...structure and is called acanthite. The cubic forms shown are thus paramorphs of acanthite after argentite. Occurrence...enrichment. sulphide enrichment 20 Argentite-acanthite Bornite Bornite r Covelline Covelline 5cm
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sometimes called transformation pseudomorphs. e.g., acanthite after argentite. He makes metamict a subcategory...Fred Pough has suggested, perhaps with tonguein- cheek, that they be called pseudo-pseudomorphs. VII. Fossils...Mineralogists will host an evening devoted to the Champion Mine, White Mountains, California. Mr. Bob Wallace, of...Champion Mine as a historic site in 1995. We be treated to rare 8 mm color footage taken when the mine was...volunteers recounting their experiences restoring the mine buildings. On display will be mineral http://www
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are usually quarries, cliffs, road cuttings and mine dumps, but any outcrop of rock may prove fruitful... matrix 19 Argentite-acanthite (Silver glance) Ag 2 S Crystal (acanthite). Habit Crystals commonly...as groups of crystals in parallel alignment. Acanthite may crystallize at low temperatures as pointed...structure and is called acanthite. The cubic forms shown are thus paramorphs of acanthite after argentite. Occurrence...together in the zinc deposits of Franklin, New V, USA. The deposits are associated with crystalline :one
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grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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librarian. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California-for permission to reproduce...Driesner, administrator of the Division of Abandoned Mine Lands. The staff of Sterling Publishing Company...your portable mineral ultraviolet la1np. Pour some mine concentrate through a sifting screen, and pick out...Courtesy of Natural History Museum. of Los Angeles County. THE ORIGINS OF ROCKS AND MINERALS 11 The four...Courtesy ofNatural History Museum of Los Angeles County. l"'he granitic crust "floats" on the underlying
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Republic and Austria to the west, Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east and Hungary to the south. As...members. 4. Zlata Bana (translates as Gold Mine), Gemerka Mine Dumps Slanske Mountains, Presovsky Kraj....From Maglovec we moved on to the old and extensive mine dumps (last mined in 1922) associated with the ore...galena, finds of 1mm cubo-octahedral crystals of acanthite after argentite and brown-black sphalerite crystals...Slovak Ore Mountains 5. Gelnica-Slovinky and Cechy (mine dumps) - Gelnica, Slonenske Rudohorie Mountains
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Smith, Director Bulletin 802 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY FOR 1925 AND 1926 BY JOHN M....187 274 274 276 276 278 279 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY FOE 1925 AND 1926 By JOHN M. NICKLES...NICKLES INTRODUCTION The bibliography of North American geology, including paleontology, petrology, and...publications on the geology of the Continent of North America and adjacent islands and on Panama and the...index to the literature listed. The bibliography of North American geology is comprised in the following bulletins
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librarian. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California—for permission to reproduce...Driesner, administrator of the Division of Abandoned Mine Lands. The staff of Sterling Publishing Company...your portable mineral ultraviolet lamp. Pour some mine concentrate through a sifting screen, and pick out...Courtesy of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. THE ORIGINS OF ROCKS AND MINERALS 11 The four...The “centrosphere” History Museum of Los Angeles County. is the term that some people give to the Earth’s
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