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Acanthite from
Kentuck Mine, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, 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 Kentuck Mine, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:571400
Long-form Identifier:1:3:571400:1
GUID (UUID V4):654e673f-56d0-4e53-a495-3473c08b9032
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Challenge and Confidence, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Crown Point Mine, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Flemings Shaft, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Exchequer Claim, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Belcher Shaft, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Alpha Claim, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Imperial Mine, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) Ophir Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Knickerbocker Mine, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Chollar Mine, Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Comstock Mining District, Storey County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Relations in the Comstock Lode PETER G. VIKRE ASARCO, Inc., 510 East Plumb Lane, Reno, Nevada 89502 Abstract...Comstockdistrict 15 mi (24 km) southeastof Reno,Nevada,formed 13.7 Ma in Mioceneeruptiverocksof the Alta...consists of quartz,electrum,silverminerals(mainly acanthite),pyrite,basemetalsulfides, andminoramounts of...additional bonanzas awaitdiscovery alongunexplored Comstock faultsegments withindeclining palcothermalgradientsto...north. 0361-0128/89/982/1574-3053.00 15 74 COMSTOCK LODE,FLUID-MINERALRELATIONS Introduction THE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 08:10 15 April 2015 T he discovery of the Comstock lode in the early 1850s was a long time in coming...including Sandy Bowers, Joe Platos, and Henry Comstock, staked claims. By the time Pat McLaughlin and...astonishment when out of nowhere appeared Henry Comstock, who, upon examination of the pale dust, began...quickly, so O’Riley and McLaughlin agreed to take in Comstock and Penrod as equal partners. Unknown to the men...men, these claims delineated the Comstock lode-with Gold Hill on the south and the head of Six-Mile Canyon
Book
long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
 
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