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Acanthite from
Rosh Pinah Mine, Rosh Pinah, Oranjemund Constituency, ǁKaras Region, Namibia


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 Rosh Pinah Mine, Rosh Pinah, Oranjemund Constituency, ǁKaras Region, Namibia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:655910
Long-form Identifier:1:3:655910:6
GUID (UUID V4):67174811-e84c-45ea-87d3-0bbd9f856a8a
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kingston"] at 08:22 13 August 2013 Rosh Pinah LEAD-ZINC MINE Figure 1 (above). Transparent yellow...the Rosh Pinah mine (foreground) with the village in the background. Gisela Hinder photo. Namibia 398...at 08:22 13 August 2013 he Rosh Pinah mine is located in southern Namibia, 20 kilometers north of the...and the farms Namuskluft 88 and Spitzkop III. The mine is somewhat isolated, and in order to get to it...need to be spent driving the roads in southern Namibia. The main access road branches off from the tarred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pan-African, Neoproterozoic Rosh Pinah Zn-Pb deposit, southwestern Namibia D.J. Alchin Kumba Resources...Grahamstown, South Africa e-mail: J.Moore@ru.ac.za “Rosh Pinah” – The stone which the builders refused has become...genesis of the Neoproterozoic Rosh Pinah Zn-Pb deposit in southwestern Namibia. During continental rifting...rifting at ~740 Ma, an intracratonic rift (Rosh Pinah Graben) became detached from the main Gariep depository...fluid populations – a pre-orogenic, riftrelated Rosh Pinah ore-forming fluid dominated by MgCl2- and CaCl2-rich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
blankets of porphyry Cu deposits in the Atacama region. The Chilean Palaeocene-Eocene metallogenic belt...Faride epithermal silver–gold deposit, Antofagasta region, Chile, Economic Geology, 86, 1222– 1237. Warren...Capricornio Au–Ag epithermal vein system, Antofagasta region, Chile G. Arfè∗ 1, M. Boni1, N. Mondillo1,2, R...of smithsonite from Skorpion and Rosh Pinah Zn–(Pb) deposits (Namibia): preliminary results G. Arfé1,...Ag-sulphoselenides, Ag-sulphoantimonides, Ag-sulphosalts and acanthite, as well as by base metal sulphides including
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
blankets of porphyry Cu deposits in the Atacama region. The Chilean Palaeocene-Eocene metallogenic belt...Faride epithermal silver–gold deposit, Antofagasta region, Chile, Economic Geology, 86, 1222– 1237. Warren...Capricornio Au–Ag epithermal vein system, Antofagasta region, Chile G. Arfè∗ 1, M. Boni1, N. Mondillo1,2, R...of smithsonite from Skorpion and Rosh Pinah Zn–(Pb) deposits (Namibia): preliminary results G. Arfé1,...Ag-sulphoselenides, Ag-sulphoantimonides, Ag-sulphosalts and acanthite, as well as by base metal sulphides including
Book
Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits...__ Republic of Namibia The President State House W°Ntdhoek FOREWORD Namibia is endowed with an...from near and far. Fine mineral specimen from Namibia are displayed in all the famous natural science
Report (issue)
pseudomorph after borax, 17.6 cm, from the Baker mine, Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California...Seibel and Jim Minette, in the then-underground Baker mine, a locale which literally vanished into air at some...Magnesioaxinite, 1.9 cm, from Merelani, Arusha Region, Tanzania. Marin Minerals specimen and photo. ... Despujolsite, 1.5 cm, from the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa...a single pocket last year in the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa
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REPUBLIC OF NAMIBIA - MINISTRY OF MINES AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NAMIBIA FIRST...ENERGY Of the several hundred minerals present in Namibia, around sixty have been exploited. some, such as...base metals and industrial minerals have helped Namibia rank amongst the top five mining countries in Africa...terms of production and reserves. In this context, Namibia is a major producer of copper, lead, zinc, cadmium...unpublished. It is evident that mineral exploration in Namibia, as elsewhere. has changed from serendipitous discoveries
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINER.GES. 148 (2003) THE OTAVI MOUNTAIN LAND IN NAMIBIA: TSUMEB, GERMANIUM AND SNOWBALL EARTH by Frank...carbonate successions in the Otavi Mountain Land, Namibia, host a large number of polymetallic (Cu-Pb-Zn)...structure. Massive Cu ore at the Khusib Springs mine is composed of tennantite, enargite, galena and...jungproterozoischen Karbonatabfolgen des Otavi Berglandes (Namibia) sind zahlreiche polymetallische (Cu-Pb-Zn) Sulfidvorkommen...this is more than the name of a small town in Namibia and a polymetallic copper deposit: Tsumeb is renown
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...potential map of the Neoproterozoic Gariep Belt in Namibia .......................... 480 . . ...........pyritic Zn-Pb-Cu-(Au-Ag) sulphide deposit, Bergslagen region, south-central Sweden . . .......................Ahola Occurrence of gold (electrum) in the Lousal mine, Iberian pyrite belt, Portugal ..................Jingwen Mao & Bernd Lehmann The Omitiomire deposit, Namibia: late tectonic copper emplacement in a Neoproterozoic
Journal (issue)
cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in north central Mexico and the adjacent border region relative to Late Cretaceous carbonate platform...Sierra Mojada range looking south with historic mine workings along the lower slopes. Town of Esmeralda...Coahuila Block and Sabinas Basin in the Sierra Mojada region. Solid rectangle represents the general position...~ 1500 m and extends to ~ 1200 m elevation in a region where the highest local elevation is 2400 m in...the deepest mine workings at 1135 m elevation. Wells in carbonate strata around the mine area are nonproductive
Journal (issue)
prism. The border area between South Africa and Namibia had produced excellent, large, green fluorite crystals...Pella. Additional rutile from Khomas Hochland in Namibia was available at Mineralientage 2005 - these first...across.JurgenTron specimen. The Erongo Complex (Namibia) continues to produce excellent specimens. A rough...'skorpionite' from the new Skorpion Mine near Rosh Pinah in Southwest Namibia were offered at the show. Skorpionite...or tarbuttite. Skorpion Mine is expected to become the world's largest zinc mine, covering 15% of our zinc
Book (edition)
complicates identification (e.g., argentite-acanthite). - The Compositional Series notes related minerals...due to decreasing temperature (e.g., argentite-acanthite). • Lamellar pressure twins, commonly of equal...(medium grey, large grain) to form an argentite/acanthite reaction rim (darker grey); the formation of such...forms yes strong red Stilleite Mottramite Acanthite Hollandite mosaic and polysynthetic Crednerite... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre
Journal (issue)
Stibioclaudetite, AsSbO3, a new mineral from Tsumeb, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3 cm across, from the Machacamarca mine (Viboras Vein), near Colavi, Potosí Department,...good friend of mine, Jim Minette, worked as superintendent of a large open-pit borax mine that produced...W. E. Sheffield (fl. 1808) Chrysocolla Dalehead mine, Cumberland (Cumbria), England W. E. Sheffield was...Sowerby for study and illustration. The Dalehead mine, source of this chrysocolla, is also known as one
Book (edition)
Rickardite II/B.04-20 Argentite II/B.05-02 II/B.05-10 Acanthite Naumannite II/B.05-30 Hessite II/B.05-40 Jalpaite...(yellowish white), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(greenish grey), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(bluish grey shades), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // 8 Gold A ...sample - photo A), dolomite (dark grey); Harstigen Mine, Pajsberg, Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden [j]; Nic
Book (edition)
MINE andtheir LOCALITIES JAN H. BERNARD AND JAROSLAV HYRSL INERALS DESCRIBED SINCE 2004 MINERALS...25111111, Naipa mine, Mozambique Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As deposit, Takab region, Iran Grandviewite...Domafov, Czech Rep. Juangodoyite, 60111111, Santa Rosa mine, Chile Back cover photo: Ho/fertile on hematite...piment pseudomo,phs after realga,; 75 mm, Palomo mine, Pen, Page 3: Stepite on arsenic, 45 111111,Jachymov...2(4) - 4.0(6) - 2.58(10) - 2.04(5). At the Kiura mine, Saiki City, Oita pref., Japan. IMA 2012-101. Adolfpateraite
Journal (issue)
Moore Phosphate minerals from the Leveaniemi iron mine, Svappavaara, Sweden .............................Hollabaugh Laueite from Hagendorf-Siid andthe Palermo mine ................. 363 by L. C. Pitman New data...image of a crack hidden in the back (roof) of a mine adit (from A. P. Annan etal. (1988) Radar sounding...genetic relationship to diamond and may vary from one region to another. The accessory minerals are well known...of gravel. The gem percentage varies from region to region, but generally 20% to 40% of the diamonds
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing...shales of tl~e Acanthite Green River Fonnation in Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic
Book
Leach (this Vol.) in his contribution on the Ozark region in the United States which includes the Old Lead...stratification in the Triassic of the Cracow-Silesian region. Ann Soc Geol Pol (Krakow) 43, 3:285-300 Brigo...deposits, such as Friedensville, Elmwood and the Young Mine are sphaleriterich deposits, with very little galena...deposits. Proe Denver Region Exploration Geologists Society Symp, Denver Region Exploration Geologists...geochemistry of the Pine Point lead-zinc field and region, Northwest Territories, Canada. Econ Geol 78:1-25
Book
Deposits ................ . 4.5.2 The Homestake Gold Mine, South Dakota .. 4.5.3 Pre-Metamorphic Stratiform...Post-Metamorphic Quartz-Rich Vein Ores: The Sigma Mine, Quebec ................ . 4.5.5 Discussion and...Copper-Nickel Deposits of the Noril'sk-Talnakh Region, USSR ........... . 7.5.2 Discussion ................ 365 9.7.1 The Rossing Uranium Deposit, Namibia. . .. 9.7.2 Discussion and Suggestions for Exploration...Kennecott Mine, Alaska ................................. 9.8.2 The Copper Orebodies of the Mt. Isa Mine, Queensland
Book (volume)
Strata-Bound Zinc-Lead Deposits of the Upper Silesian Region, Polanda Review of Some Recent .Research .. .....Madenkoy Massive-Sulfide Deposit, Eastern Black Sea Region, Turkey ............. ............. .. .......... B., Epithern1al Au-Ag Mineralization, Maratoto Mine, New Zealand: Stable Isotopes and Fluid Inclusions...Facies Control of Stratiform Ore at the Magmont Mine, Viburnum Trend, Southeast Missouri .. ...........the geochemistries of a suite of plutons and a region of host cn1st can be distinctly characterized.
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...(lower right, center) mimetite, Tsiimehb, Namibia; (lower, right) gold, Amazonas, Brazi!. All specimens from...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...ye ty a ara id (ean ® “1 le hI AAP : oo A Mine seh Ranier “i i : lever vei ekealps ; cet
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...Arizona; (lower right, center) mimetite, Tsurneb, Namibia, (lower, right) gold, Amazonas, Brazil All specimens...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...= Brannerite ABUKUMALITE = Britholite-(Y) ' ACANTHITE • ~,,,,,.-" .. ,,.- Ag2S Dimorphous with argentite
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papers and 19 geological maps in Western Australia, Namibia and Greenland. Throughout his career, which has...4.3.9 The Brandberg West Greisen Vein Systems, Namibia . . 4.3.10 The Kalguta Mo-W-Be-Bi Greisen System.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.5.1 Navachab, Namibia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Cu Deposits of the Matchless Amphibolite Belt, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7...Pb-Zn-Cu-Ag-V Deposits of the Otavi Mountain Land, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (edition)
Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...from core to outside edge. .. ABERNATHYITE ACANTHITE K U02As04 Ag2S Dimorphous with argentite •...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely... Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores...Canada, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Acanthite is stable below 179°C. (Argentite is the stable
 
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