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Acanthite from
Montana Mine, Yankee Fork Mining District, Custer County, Idaho, 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 Montana Mine, Yankee Fork Mining District, Custer County, Idaho, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:449481
Long-form Identifier:1:3:449481:2
GUID (UUID V4):5d3bf22d-cc99-4335-a69a-adeceb22a8db
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.1km (0.1 miles) Why Not Group Mine (Hidden Treasure; Why Not; Eustace Mountain; Estes Gold; Estes Mountain Montana; Thunderbolt), Yankee Fork Mining District, Custer County, Idaho, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) McFadden Group Mine (Altura; Yankee Fork Mine), Yankee Fork Mining District, Custer County, Idaho, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Golden Gate Mine (Accidental; Klondike), Yankee Fork Mining District, Custer County, Idaho, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Sunbeam Mine, Yankee Fork Mining District, Custer County, Idaho, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Grouse Creek (Bismarck; Grouse Creek Venture; Bismark; Grouse Creek Open Pit; Grouse Creek Project; Grouse Creek Unit; Golden Sunbeam; Golden Sunbeam Mine), Yankee Fork Mining District, Custer County, Idaho, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Whale Mine (Mulcahy), Yankee Fork Mining District, Custer County, Idaho, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) Charles Dickens Mine, Yankee Fork Mining District, Custer County, Idaho, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) McClure Prospect, Yankee Fork Mining District, Custer County, Idaho, USA
8.3km (5.2 miles) Yellow Bird Prospect, Yankee Fork Mining District, Custer County, Idaho, USA
8.9km (5.5 miles) Black Mine (Oxarna Gold Mining Company Property), Yankee Fork Mining District, Custer County, Idaho, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
r------' .--. !i i , i ' i Boundary '---~ IDAHO Bonner_j l--;~u:d{ene\, I , L~ Coeur'cI'Alene...its pyromorphite, Idaho also boasts many other mineral species. ( :\.. -~:/ Idaho <....: (_ ", I...Power i..r v. ) 't,.,. 1. r': ~ Caribou Idaho 83816-2043 , • c-vz..J. '. 2",_J'-1 '\ o, ...INDEX BRIEFLY DESCRIBES the mineral localities in Idaho; all known localities that may have produced well-crystallized...localities for minerals that were first discovered in Idaho. Unfortunately for the field collector, most of
Book (edition)
Idaho Minerals The complete Reference and Guide to the Minerals of Idaho Lanny R. Ream 1!11, ) a...PISTOLS Idaho Minerals Idaho Minerals The Complete Reference and Guide to the Minerals of Idaho with Special...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Rerun Publishing P .O. Box 2043 Coeur d'Ale ne, Idaho 83814 Copyright © 1989 by L.R. Ream Publishing...R Ream Publishing P.O. Box 2043 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814 (208) 667-0453 To those collectors who are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Montana Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015...2015 K NOWN AS THE TREASURE STATE, Montana is rich in mineral and gemstone localities. The state motto...with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces
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SunbeamandGrouseCreek Gold-SilverDeposits,Yankee Fork Mining District, EoceneChallisVolcanicField, Idaho:A...00 1964 SUNBEAM ANDGROUSE CREEKAu-AgDEPOSITS, IDAHO Introduction 1965 ing the Sunbeamand GrouseCreek...CusterCounty, Idaho (Fig. 1A). The Yankee B. Cannon,G. Hahn,R. Honea,T. Jacobs,M. Jones, Fork miningdistrictwasestablished...barrenandlow-gradematerial.Together,the two de- (Fig. lB); the Custer graben is one of the three. positsare a geologicresourceof...Early descriptionsof the vein depositsare conThe Custer grabenis a major northeast-trending tained in Wmpleby(1913)
Journal (issue)
scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...noted) (top row, from left) Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection...Northwest; that is, the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska and the Canadian Provinces of British Columbia...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...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...million pounds (Del Rio 1960). By comparison, Butte, Montana, produced more than 266 million pounds of copper...the Eagle mine’s (Gil304 ROCKS & MINERALS man district) production. This does not mean that copper has
Report (volume)
Potential and Geology of he Challis National Forest, Idaho I U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1873 Mineral...Potential and Geology of the Challis National Forest, Idaho By RONALD G. WORL, ANNA BURACK WILSON, COLE L. SMITH...potential and geology of the Challis National Forest, Idaho (U.S. Geological Survey bulletin; 1873) Bibliography:...Mines and mineral resources-Idaho-Challis National Forest. 2. Geology-Idaho-Challis National Forest. I...Geophysics 27 Mineral resources-locatable minerals 28 Mining and exploration history 28 Metals 29 36 Industrial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[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...Colorado occurrences include mines of Clear Creek County, particularly in the Georgetown area, where it
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
high-grade Au-Ag-Te sample from deep in the Cresson Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, analyzed by Unger (2008)...minerals, and the reevaluation of many historic mining districts that took place in the latter half of...Rawhide 20. Bullfrog 21. DeLamar (Silver City) 22. Yankee Fork (Challis) 23. Cannon (Wenatchee) 24. Republic...Ortiz 3, 4 30. Central City 3, 4 31. Boulder County 3, 4 32. Black Hills 3, 4 33. Golden Sunlight...gold-silver deposits, Yankee Fork mining district, Eocene Challis volcanic field, Idaho: A volcanic dome-
Report (issue)
the Challis Volcanics in the Twin Peaks Caldera, Idaho. USGS photograph by Frederick S. Fisher. Geology...Resource Assessment of the Challis I°x2° Quadrangle, Idaho Edited by Frederick S. Fisher and Kathleen M. Johnson...mineral resources in the Challis 7°x2° quadrangle, Idaho UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...resource assessment of the Challis I°x2° Quadrangle, Idaho / edited by Frederick S. Fisher and Kathleen M....I19.16:P1525 1. Geology Idaho Challis Region. 2. Mines and mineral resources Idaho Challis Region. I. Fisher
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gulch, Montana, suggests more than one mineralization event took place. Pyrite and acanthite inclusions...low-silver, copper-bearing gold from Ninemile Creek, Montana. The presence of copper and the low silver content...Scanninganalysen an Gold aus dem Alder Gulch, Montana, weisen auf mehr als einen Mineralisationsvorgang...silberarmen, kupferhahigen Gold yon Ninemile Creek, Montana. Der Kupfergehah und der niedrige Silbergehah in...nicht typisch ftir die in dem westlichen Teil der USA iibliche Gold-Quarz-Pyrit Assoziation. Introduction
Catalog/List
and Nevada were his favorites because of their mining and coin minting history. During his second year...the university, Kevin delved into mineralogy and mining history, and began to update his mineral collection...exploring scores of abandoned mining towns from California to New Mexico to Montana. He did extensive research...and in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin...favorite memories are of collecting quartz in Montana, calcite in Utah, silver, galena, sphalerite, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exceptionally sharp 4.2-cm acanthite paramorph after argentite from the Rayes mine, Guanajuato, Mexico. Francis...1878); the Baker quarry near Billmeyer, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where it occurs as an alteration...Hill occurrence in Davidson County, and the McMakin mine in Cabarrus County (Genth 1891); and mines of...of the Virgilina district, Halifax County, Virginia (Dietrich 1990). The great silver occurrences of the...abundant acanthite. Many mines of the Colorado mineral belt contained important amounts of acanthite, although
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia .................................................................................. Idaho........................................................ 139 144 146 153 158 163 169 . 172 174 Montana..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
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Mine Vol. 35 No. 1 January 2019 News The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $6.00 Albert Edward Foote...Congress representing the Anti-Monopoly Party (Sioux County Herald I 874). Luckily, he was unsuccessful at...NewYork. Silver Ore from the Eagle Mine Red Cliff District, Eagle County, Colorado Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet...location. The specimen came from the well-known Eagle Mine (fig. 2 on page 3) of Empire Zinc Company, a subsidiary...Company. The mine is located at Gilman, Red Cliff District (also known as the Gilman District, Battle Mountain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 07:53 01 January 2015 Bournonite Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China T here are certain...clearly the most prolific being the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan Province. (Additional locality information...Hawk mine, Blue Hill, Maine; New York City, New York; an unspecified locality in Chester County, Pennsylvania;...Pennsylvania; the Cofer deposit in the Mineral district of Louisa County, Virginia, where it occurs with tetrahedrite;...occurrences of Sevier County and with tetrahedrite and galena in Montgomery County, Arkansas. Fine bournonite
Journal (issue)
Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations...Publishing, 3619 W. Fairway Drive, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 83815. Lanny R. Ream, Editor. Periodicals postage...postage (USPS 751-150) paid at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Postmaster send address changes to: Mineral News P.O...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...V anadiun1 l\'line, l\fagnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas is Reclaimed and Collecting Ceases
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Dam gold prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...obvious even when visiting some of the Garland County mines. I also planned to do some Magnet Cove collecting...not be reliable, for information about from which mine they came. Most will have forgotten but often will...just the county, is better than erroneous detailed location data. The Sweet Surrender mine near Story
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
name but a few, pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, acanthite, sternbergite, enargite, bornite, covellite, calcite...tennantite crystals from the Champion lode, Clear Creek County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...tennantite crystals with quartz from the El Cobre mine, Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. Cal and...tennantite specimen from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain Pass, Ouray County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff...those from the Freeland lode near Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County. Here, tennantite crystals from 3
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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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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...researches Colorado ‘s geology, mineralogy, and mining history, is part owner of FRS Geotech, Inc., an...historic preservation efforts in the Leadville mining district. Downloaded by [UZH Hauptbibliothek / Zentralbibliothek...convention. Colorado’s silver interestsdomposed of mine, milling, and smelter entrepreneurs; managers, professionals
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BUTTE, MONTANA Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines and History The Mineralogical Record Volume 33 • Number...crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection; Jeff Scovil...on canvas, painted to illustrate “The Story of Montana: The Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of...volume 33, January–February, 2002 Contents Butte, Montana: Minerals, Mines and History By Robert E. Jenkins...Jenkins & Jerry A. Lorengo Ed McDole: “Montana Mineral King” By Richard A. Bideaux What’s new in minerals:
Report (volume)
location and means of access to all the metallic mining districts in the State, as well as a large number...documented summary of the beginning of Colorado mining history. Part of his summary is given here in the...had been recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed...however, because it contains lists of the mines and mining districts that were active at the time in Clear...only reports the early history and status of the mining industry, but includes a list of all the species
 
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