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Polybasite from
Porco, Agua de Castilla, Porco Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia


Classification
Species:Polybasite
Formula:[Ag6Sb2S7][Ag9CuS4]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Stephanite6 photos of Polybasite associated with Stephanite at this locality.
Acanthite6 photos of Polybasite associated with Acanthite at this locality.
Argyrodite6 photos of Polybasite associated with Argyrodite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Polybasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Porco, Agua de Castilla, Porco Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:663017
Long-form Identifier:1:3:663017:1
GUID (UUID V4):1c09f303-5434-4639-a634-afec0260f84f
Localities for Polybasite in this Region
Huaylla Vinto, Porco, Agua de Castilla, Porco Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia
Santiago Alto mine, Porco, Agua de Castilla, Porco Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv Rausch) Jase...Behnke, Joe Budd, Michael Canoy Rock Currier, Frank de Wit, Jordi Fabre, Mark Garcia, Tino Hammid Jaroslav
Report (issue)
589(1) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Machacamarca, Bolivia. 3.02 (100), 1.863 (50), 2.66 (40), 3.14 (30),...Total 99.95 99.68 100.00 (1) Chocaya, Bolivia. (2) Aullagas, Bolivia. (3) Ag8 GeS6 . Polymorphism & Series:...deposits (Bolivia). Association: Canfieldite, stephanite, acanthite, pyrargyrite, polybasite, aramayoite...number of localities in Bolivia, including Aullagas, Colquechaca, Potosı́, Oruro, Porco, Chocaya, and Machacamarca...Korea. From Shuiji, Fujian Province, and in the Baiguoyuan deposit, Hubei Province, China. Name: From the
Journal (issue)
Enluminees, and also his second book, Collection de Planches (i.e. 120 plates, 60 colored and 60 uncolored)...oland Bounds, President, 315 Stam ford Dr., Newark, DE 19711; Tel: (302) 731-8407; e-mail: 25628@ udel.edu...livia Alfredo Petrov Casilla 1728 Cochabamba, Bolivia e-mail: alfredopetrov@earthlink.net Bill and Carol...Colorado 80020 e-mail: smith72@attglobal.net Bolivia, a landlocked nation three times as large as M...this gazetteer. INTRODUCTION Most people think of Bolivia as a land of great mountain ranges and high cold
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
amounts up to several percent. Pynte, acanthite, polybasite, and silver pseudomorphs after pyrargyrite are...acanthite, tetrahedrite, stephanite, miargyrite, polybasite, silver, calcite, dolomite, and quartz. There...Bastin (1923) reported crystals of pyrargyrite, polybasite, and chalcopyrite in ore from the Emma and Smuggler-Altmont...fine acanthite, polybasite/pearceite, and aguilarite. Pseudomorphs of both polybasite and acanthite after...found in ores of a number of mines in the Pahuca de Soto district, Hidalgo, and in the Zacualpa district
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
diameter have been found. transparent sphalerite, polybasite, The best-known specimen producers stephanite...Nevada, and site. Supergene wire-silver also San Antonio mines. Good silver specioccurred intimately associated...produced good silver specimens include mines at Porco, ciated with azurite, acanthite, proustite, and...localities, including Wheal associated with acanthite, polybasite, men, Jeff Scovil photo. Vincent, Herland, Basset...specimens of historical imporfamous Las Planchas de Plata mine near Nogales, Sonora. tance were found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
C. After the Punic Wars, Iberia became a Roman province, and huge quantities of silver flowed from Spain...fii and quenching method. From Georgius Agricola, De Re Met&u (1556). Spanish silver mining resumed in...classic Natwa Fosilium in 1546. This work and his De Re Metullicu (1556) are invaluable sources of information...discovered. In 1535, Pizarro conquered Peru and Bolivia, and the incredible deposits of Potosi were discovered...silver mined up to that point in history, and Bolivia and Peru had also produced substantial amounts
Journal (issue)
Stefano The Nakhlak Mine, Anarak District, Esfahan Province, Iran...........................................Maria Fiske (2021) Dona and Kim Niederman (2021) Noel De Dora (2021-2022) Sean P. Sweeney (2021) John C. Medici...first introduced to mineral collecting by Leandro de Magistris, honorary curator at the Natural History... Andradite variety topazolite, 4.3 cm, from Ocna de Fier, Romania. Ex Washington Roebling, Smithsonian...Collection is an andradite (variety topazolite) from Ocna de Fier, Romania. The specimen had once been in Irv
Book (edition)
Sternbergite Tausonite Bournonite Eskebornite Polybasite Lenaite greyish distinct white with a creamy...internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach); XPL...grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL B Same sample as above:...(West Wits Line), Witwatersrand field, Gauteng Province, South Africa; PPL B Intergrowth of electrum (yellowish...Bleida, Bou Azzer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco (sample: Goldmann/Oberthür);
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
205 feet), Tocorpuri on the border of Chile and Bolivia is 6,873 meters (22,550 feet), and the highest...narrow to only 32 kilometers (20 miles), whereas in Bolivia they Dr. Terry C. Wallace is a professor of geosciences...09:23 14 October 2014 vivianites from Oruro, Bolivia; and fantastic pyrargyrites from Hauncavelica,...Pomerape (6,282 meters) on the border of Chile and Bolivia. These volcanoes, like hundreds of others in the...by one of the authors (TCW) and colleagues in Bolivia. in silicates and thus are quite viscous. This
Journal (issue)
Spanishlanguage Bocamina and the Catalan-language Revista de Minerales, and of course the Italian-language magazine...to 6 cm with wire silver and sharp hexagonal polybasite crystals to I cm (lngelson and Mussieux, 1989;...2009 a few excellent stephanite specimens from the Porco mine appeared at the Tucson show, and during the...specimens from Porco, with crystals to 2 cm, to the 20 IO Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines show (De Ascen~ao Guedes...silver deposits in which pyrargyrite, stephanite, polybasite and acanthite occur in ore quantities; just as
Journal (issue)
ificad a m in e, C e rro R ico d e P o to si, Bolivia. R esearch C h a rita b le T ru s t sp e c im e... famous mineral localities: Cerro ;8.ico de £ofosi Bolivia ^ --------------------- Wendell E. Wilson...Petrov Casilla 1728 Cochabamba, Bolivia Cerro Rico ( “Rich M ou n tain ”) de Potosi is among the oldest and...(1519-1521) and Pizarro conquered Peru and what is now Bolivia (1531-1535). Tons of silver began to pour from...Mineral specimens considered to be from Cerro Rico de Potosi (except perhaps phosphophyllite) must bear
Book (edition)
Chalcostibite II/E.04-10 462 Emplectite II/E.04-20 464 Polybasite II/E.05-50 466 Stephanite II/E.06-10 468 Proustite...(yellowish to blue grey anisotropy); Huallatani Mine, Bolivia [c]; Nic. + C Twinned skeletal bismuth (distinct...(dark grey); Dolores I Mine, Chañarcillo, Copiapó Province, Chile [a]; Nic. // Anhedral domeykite as fissure...(dark grey); Dolores I Mine, Chañarcillo, Copiapó Province, Chile [a]; Nic. // Domeykite (dark grey), safflorite...reflections); Dolores I Mine, Chañarcillo, Copiapó Province, Chile [a]; Nic. + 94 Domeykite A 60 μ C
Report (issue)
•• ••• ••• Argentina • • • •• • • •• • •• ••• Bolivia • •• •• • • •• ••• •• • • •• Uhile • • • •• •••...dilute solutions of potassium o;i: sodium cya,n .i de a1 e oxidized sm~face ores, and ores cont~ining silver...containing 85 p 1· cent. of sil,7er . • • 7 (5) Polybasite, n1ineral 11ea,r stepl1aJJ.ite in (:OJ11position...of silver. (J_l) I ocly1·ite (~~g·I), silver jodi de, a, bright yello,w mineral co11tanllilg 40 l)er ce11t...mediILID of excha,n'ge in tl1e settlement of tra de bala,n ces·, for plate a,11.d je,vc]le1y, in tl1e
Report (issue)
11 L ,Ii't:;ja .E 4 "lc (:il?.'1 )44o,Il':).ciI.,de,.':si;.1'*I:l.,•'1:4.14 y,i-1 :.'0.„,:-./1 ' .::'':::::...Honduras ; Mexico ; United States . 8 7 S. America : Bolivia ; Chile ; Colombia ; Peru . 1 2 6 WORLD MAP OF.... . . CentralAmerican States • SouthAmerica : Bolivia and Chile . . Argentina • . ...., Brazil . . ....(Dark-red silver ore) Stephanite (Brittle silver ore) Polybasite Tetrahedrite (Fahlore) • • • • • • • •...yields a globule of silver with sodium carbonate. Polybasite.—A sulphantimonite o f s i l v e r a n d copper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2 Cu-Ni 6. Andorite,Ag:S' 2PbS.3SbzSs. Oruro, Bolivia. M-7 dlodlod I z 3 3.7 3.41 3.28 2.90 2.75 ...8. Aramayoite,AgrS.(Sb, Bi)zSr.Chacaya,Potosi,Bolivia. M-207 odlodlodl 2 I 3.43 4.0 3.24 5.0 2. 8 4...10. Argyrodite,4AgzS.GeSz. Liza,Pio de Gallo Mine, Porco, Bolivia. M-10B 1 2 3 3.2 3.05 2.82 2.68 2... /o rCu-Ni 29. Cassiterite, SnOz. Llallagua, Bolivia 1 2 3.32 2.62 2.35 2. 2 8 2. l t r.75 1.665 1...Cylindrite,6PbS' SbrSa'6SnSz.Mina SantaCruz, Poopo,Bolivia. M-49 odI odI | 3.45 3.15 2.89 .2 .2 4.0
Report (issue)
onde balan HUES EA aoe ey Amat oceke 171 TANBINS, De Dae evoueleCRNiey Ole WANN CHMPRE))\.. ae pk awe...Tala Ae speek lept JavsSach EGR PANAT TON O Fa DIVA DE Sop enna cet ry ne cry ECT ten D tre ne OWmn? Sten...2022 1014 2023 i 2130 2131 1124 2132 1015 2024 3030 De oos 2.162 2.068 1.592 1.360 1.229 A ileal 7s 1.151...Cumberland, England (USNM, C277, “sriinlingite”); Serrania de Ronda, Malaga, Spain (USNM, R7242, “oruetite’’);...1305, tl 24 O87 Pe Teed ate 240: 1006s.Aa —Ooae + De 4 $0 1 2 # 1 39.0 SOAS 40.8 AGA A8i5*" 49.9 750
Book
2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...Administered Tribal Areas and North West Frontier Province. Ilmenite crystal clusters to 12 cm across have...Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings worked by local people on Zagi...attributions-the Xinig mine, Quinghai Province, and the Nan Dang mine, Guangxi Province-and those seen at Tucson were...II mine, Kalahari field, Northern Cape [Cape] Province. Although not quite equaling the inesite specimens
Journal (issue)
Paper 959-G, 17 p. MUGGE, O. (1884) Bemerkungen uber de zwillingsbildung einiger mineralien. Neues Jahrbuch...list • Chiletninex Ltda. Casilla 3576 • Santiago de Chile 465 Arizona Mineral Dealers Arizona IsFast...(602) 624-0680 David Riley Minerals Bitner's, Inc. De Natura 42 West Hatcher Phoenix, Arizona 85021 (602)...:.’u:._-:..:i:i:.:!Mlil]l,Ullll!lii:illliii BEN DE WIT SPECIALIZING IN: Eastern European Minerals Fossil...region is a part of the East Greenland Tertiary province and is a key area in the understanding of the
Report (volume)
Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia By U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY and SERVICIO GEOLOGICO DE BOLIVIA With a section on...Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia I by U.S. Geological Survey and Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia; with a section...mineral resources-Bolivia-Cordillera Occidental. 3. Geology-Altiplano. 4. Geology-Bolivia-Cordillera Occidental...Geological Survey (U.S.) II. Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia. Ill. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1975 [TN39.A4] 557...of cooperation between the Servicio Geologico de Bolivia and the U.S. Geological Survey. The geologic
Book
of the abbreviations used in the book C s L D DE H CL F M LU - R X XX - color streak luster diaphaneity...to black in air; S - red; L - metallic; D opaque; DE- 8.9; H - 2.5 - 3; CL - none; F - hackly; M - cubic...black; S - silver-white; L - metallic; D - opaque; DE- 10,5; H - 2.5 - 3; CL - none; F - hackly; M - cubic...gold-yellow; S -yellow; L - metallic; D - opaque; DE - 19.3; H - 2.5-3; CL - none; F hackly; M - octahedral...tin white; L - metallic to adamantine; D - opaque; DE - 13.6; M - liquid at temperatures above-39°C (-38
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Explanation of the abbreviations used in the book c s L D DE H CL F M LU R X XX - color streak luster diaphaneity...to black in air; S - red; L - metallic; D opaque; DE - 8.9; H - 2.5 - 3; CL - none; F - hackly; M - cubic...black: S - silver-white; L metallic; D - opaque; DE 10,5; H - 2.5 - 3; CL - none; F - hackly; M - cubic...C gold-yellow; S yellow: L metallic: D - opaque: DE - 19.3; H - 2.5-3; CL - none; F hackly; M octahedral...C tin white; L metallic to adamantine; D opaque; DE - 13.6; M liquid at temperatures above -39°C (-38
Book
geochemical tin provinces of the East Indies or Bolivia) force an answer in the terms of the second question...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;... 16 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 9 8 X Colavi, Bolivia RAMDOHR Wolframite (hübnerite), in typical lath-shaped...more rapid (Schemnitz, the silver-tin ores of Bolivia). There is no lower temperature limit of hydrothermal...the other. The deposits are known mainly from Bolivia and are there of Tertiary age, but they were surely
Book (edition)
Brazil, H Page 2: Vivianite, I 00 mm, Huanzala, Bolivia, H Page 3: Liddicoatite, polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina..."Dana's System of Mineralogy•· ( 1944, I 951, 1962). de Fourestier (1999) and Strunz and Nickel (2001). Mi11eral...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION
Journal (volume)
Tin-Silver Mines Report (m.d.) Report 10, 138 Bolivia, Bolivian Tin-Silver Ores Bolivian Tin-Silver...Caucasian Manganese Caucasian Manganese Deposits Cerro de Pasco, Pulverized Coal Chemical Prices Chenderiang...Veinstones (m.d.) Davison, E. H Wolfram Lodes of De Beers Dividends Derbyshire Oil-Drilling Diamond-Drilling...Gregory, M Griffin Centenary Guggenheims in Bolivia.. Company Liquidates Heriot, Milling continued...73 Polytechnic Exhibition, Camborne Report 320 Porco Tin Mines '139 J. Mackintosh Bell Porcupine Goldfield
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C. Rouse) 5:280-287 BOLIVIA The mineralogy of the department of Oruro, Bolivia (by R. B. Cook, Jr.)...creedite at Colquiri, Inquisivi province, department of La Paz, Bolivia (by R. B. Cook, Jr.) 6:278-281...from Llallagua, Bolivia (by A. R. Kampf) 13:235-239 The El Drag6n mine, Potosf, Bolivia (by G. Grundmann...m Rio das Ostras, [Rio de Janeiro state,) Brazil (by J. P. Cassedanne & S. de 0. Menezes) 20:439-440...the Virgem da Lapa pegmatites 13: 19-28 --and S. de 0. Menezes: "Pseudoleucite" pseudomorphs from Rio
 
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