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Canfieldite from
Silver veins, Carguaicollo Mine, Uyuni Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia


Locality type:Vein
Classification
Species:Canfieldite
Formula:Ag8SnS6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Canfieldite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Silver veins, Carguaicollo Mine, Uyuni Municipality, Antonio Quijarro Province, Potosí, Bolivia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:902448
Long-form Identifier:1:3:902448:9
GUID (UUID V4):caea9cbf-7fcb-44c3-908c-54ea71c90a8a
References
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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...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping
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cycle .............. The Tertiary petrographic province ............................. The Tertiary me...excellentwork of Myron Davy (I92O), the Bolivian Tin Province has beenthe object of much detailedresearch. Its...a short summary of the present knowledgeof the province. Many questionshave not yet been solved;geologicaland...provenearly Tertiary2 ageare knownin this part of Bolivia. The batholith of apliticgranitewhichI foundin...canism in themiddle andsouthern partsof thetin province pro• Theageof theyoungmagmatie rocksof Peru,especially
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCE BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR BOLIVIA by Keith R. Long1 , Jane S. Ciener2 , Fernando...U.S. Embassy, La Paz, Bolivia. 4 Servicio Geologico de Bolivia, La Paz, Bolivia INTRODUCTION This bibliography...references useful for a mineral resource assessment of Bolivia. In its present form it is a nearly exhaustive...resources, economic geology and areal geology of Bolivia. References pertaining to mineralogy, geochemistry...(Federico), 1950, Nuevas publicaciones geologicas sobre Bolivia: Mineria Boliviana, v. 7, n. 53, p. 7-8. Earth
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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...world's copper production, nearly 30 percent of the silver production, significant amounts of lead, zinc,...processes that build the volcanoes also generate the veins rich in metals and build the huge plutonic masses...the Quechm (the Inca) had words for gold (cori), silver (colqui), the ruby silvers (cochiso), and argentite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TERRY From antiqbi@, the quest for silver and, more recently, for silver minerals has M e n expbrers, conquerors...beautiful herringbone plates from Batopilas. Silver and silver-bearing minerals are part of the nobility...associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great wars. Silver is said to have magical purifying...turn lead to silver (both of these myths are partially true!). To the mineral collector, silver minerals...unlike gold, silver is quite a reactive element, forming more than one hundred different silver-bearing minerals
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(EPMA) have been performed on samples of silver-rich, gold-poor veins from the Roşia Montană ore deposit,...90Te2.07S3.77 was also identified in one of the veins investigated. The Ge content of sphalerite and tetrahedrite...minerals, accompanied by minor native gold and gold–silver alloy. Despite this, important quantities of tellurides...has been regarded as a typical non-telluride gold–silver epithermal ore deposit, with the gold occurring...Gheorghe ore field, Cetate massif) the abundance of silver minerals (argentite, proustite, pearceite, polybasite)
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.................. .42 3.1.6 Pirquitas, Jujuy Province, Argentina ..................................... 58 3.2.7 Maranda J, Murchison belt, Northern Province, South Africa ........... 59 VIII Table of...4.12 Carguaicollu, Oruro, Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia ............................ 89 3.4.13 Bolivar...Occidental, Bolivia ............ 89 3.4.14 Huari-Huari, Potosi, Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia ............Occidental, Bolivia ......... 91 3.4.16 San Vicente, Uyuni, Cordillera Oriental, Bolivia ...........
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metal gold pans, as well as a replica of the famous mine carriage which is considered to be the oldest of...arsenic, etc. There are many samples with gold, silver and lead tellurides from the famous ore deposits...spectrometry which allowed the evaluation of gold and silver content as well as the identification of gold in...technological analyzes have identified the varying silver content in native gold from various deposits of...conducted non-destructive analyzes of gold vs. silver ratio, using a portable X-MET 3000TX XRF spectrometer
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Approximate production percentages are Malaysia 39%, Bolivia 15%, Thailand 11%, Indonesia 12%, Australia 6%...of the continent, it is possible to outline a province extending from Alaska to Mexico. (Sainsbury et...would hesitate to nominate the entire zone as a province. Similarly global scale linear tin belts can be...(Schuiling, 1967a, 1967b). Even within a well accepted province the perspective of different scales is important...Asian tin zone is normally regarded as a single province extending some 3000 km. from Thailand to Indonesia
Journal (issue)
N 25 25 26 28 -. Banka 29 Billiton 34 Bolivia 36 Burmah 45 California 48 Canada Cape Colony...continued search to find what had been written upon Bolivia and the lesser known localities. No monographic...persons will wish to know about the tin-bearing veins, dikes, or placers of a particular country or district...Immigration Commission, to the Finance Minister of the Province, No. 119, Buenos Aires. Rep. Seer. Mines...Deposits at Embabaan only are promising. Though tin veins are present, only the alluvials have been worked
Journal (issue)
crystal group, 7 cm, from the Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Marty Zinn collection; Jeff Scovil......... Quiruvilca district, Santiago de Chuco province, department of La Libertad PASTO BUENO G r o u................. Pasto Bueno district, Pallasca province, department of Ancash R a u r a -H u a n z a l...district, Cajatambo province, department of Lima Pachapaqui district, Bolognesi province, department of Ancash... Dos de mayo province, department of Huanuco Huanzala mine Mercedes mine Chiurucu mine Uchucchacua district
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geochemical tin provinces of the East Indies or Bolivia) force an answer in the terms of the second question...nickel + silver -f arsenic + bismuth + uranium, and, to mention a rarity, selenium + lead + silver + copper...sphalerite, silver, gold, and palladium. I n places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at...peculiar bornite occurrences in the Ookiep area, Cape Province, are on one hand typical transition deposits;...(1940). 12 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 4 80 X Mouat Mine, Stillwater Valley, Montana RAMDOHR From a border
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and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...position. in the figure labeled 461 San Jose, Bolivia, for the brachydome v read w. insert superscript...5, for Black Forest read Odenwald. for Rhine Province read Westphalia. for in the Tirol read, Salzburg...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...Scandium — scandian Selenium — selenian Silicon — Silver — argentian Sodium — sodian Strontium — strontian
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Lower Paleozoic Sediments of the Cordillera Real, Bolivia H.-J. Schneider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 137 The Stratabound Kellhuani Tin Deposits, Bolivia B. Lehmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . 147 X Contents El Aguilar Mine: An Ordovician Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Lead-Zinc...Stratabound Iron Ores in the Silurian of Argentina and Bolivia M.-A. Boso and C. R. Monaldi . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279 Machcan Mine: A Pb-Zn Ore Deposit in Pucara Sediments of the
Journal (issue)
. n o t e s f r o m t h e y EDITOR SILVER ISSUE Among the precious metals, gold has always...behind, however, is silver. Though today only about 2% as valuable by weight, silver was nearly on a par...discerns a warm richness to silver that all the others lack. Furthermore, silver has been found as superb...famous and in­ teresting localities for native silver. Of course there are hundreds, perhaps thousands...and plenty remain for future issues. Unlike gold, silver forms the basis for an extensive array of addi­
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Accepted Manuscript The Kago low-sulfidation gold and silver deposit: A peripheral mineralization to the Nansatsu...Page, T. Ogata, The Kago low-sulfidation gold and silver deposit: A peripheral mineralization to the Nansatsu...journal pertain. The Kago low-sulfidation gold and silver deposit: A peripheral mineralization to the Nansatsu...to the well-known Nansatsu-type mineralization province dominated by high-sulfidation type epithermal...low-sulfidation deposit, characterised by adularia-quartz veins, composed of electrum, Ag-tetrahedrite, polybasite
Journal (issue)
MONTANA AGATE: Best Catch on the Yellowstone River SILVER: In the Shadow of Gold + Arsenic Family Minerals...long in clusters were mined at the Mashamba copper mine, in Zaire. When they were introduced at major shows...Arizona, comes to mind immediately, as the Southwest mine produced some of the most handsome, multi-inch,...the world’s finest—have come from the Milpillas mine, in Sonora, Mexico. Actual mining of this deep deposit...were discovered there, and from 2006 to 2012 the mine produced huge quantities of the world’s finest azurites
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México are impressive. Over $6 billion worth of silver and gold alone have been mined. During 300 years...México. Today, México is still a world leader in silver production. It is also first in the production...Mexican minerals appeared. They included Dr. Antonio del Castillo’s Cuadro de Especies Mineraloégicas;...once said, “México will one day furnish the gold, silver, and copper of the world; that from her hidden...subterranean treasure houses will come the gold, silver, copper and precious stones that will build the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
siliceous breccia; (3) cockade breccia; (4) high-grade veins; and (5) late drusy quartz. The y34S values of the...4x) to cockade breccia (+8.1F0.5x), high-grade veins (+7.4F0.2x), and drusy quartz (+6.9F0.4x). This...to deposit in different environments. Gold and silver are readily transported by dilute, relatively low...secondary gold enrichment in the upper zones of the veins (Milesi et al., 1999; Greffie et al., 2002). Radiometric...Ar–Ar dates of adularia from a number of epithermal veins demonstrate that both the Cirotan- and Pongkor-type
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Mexico are impressive. Over 56 billion worth of silver and gold alone have been mined. During 300 years...Mexico. Today, Mexico is still a world leader in silver production. It is also first in the production...Mexican 1ninerals appeared. T·hey included J)r. Antonio de) Castillo's Cuadro de £species Mineral6gicas:...once said. "Mexico will one day furnish the gold, silver, and copper of the world; that from her hidden...subterranean treasure houses will come Lhe gold. silver. copper and precious stones Lhat will build the
Report (issue)
Related to Calc-Alkaline and Alkaline Intrusions I Veins and Replacements Polymetallic vein Sb-Au vein (simple...lode deposit or placer district) is defined as a mine, mineral deposit, prospect, or occurrence that is...occurrence, mineral deposit, prospect, and (or) mine. Displaced continental margin terrane. Fragment...intensely-deformed pieces of two or more terranes. Mine. A site where valuable minerals have been extracted...excavation has occurred. Significant mineral deposit. A mine, mineral deposit, prospect, or occurrence that is
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sample in his hands. ELEMENTS AND ALLOYS Silver Ag Silver is a member of the cubic crystal system but...silverwhite, tarnishing quickly to black. The streak is silver-white and the lustre metallic. It is malleable...hydrothermal veins, where it may have been formed by the action of hot waters on silver sul¬ phides,...arsenides on silver chloride. It occurs disseminated in various metallic sulphides. Localities. Silver is found...of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association with
Journal (volume)
1915. Accounts Mine, System Action of Dissolved Air of, in Mill Pulp, Advance in Silver, Aerial Tramway...and Folation, Air and Temperature in the Deepest Mine in the World,. Air, Compressed, for Ore Flotation...Alloys in Engineering Construction, Alloys of Gold, Silver and Platinum, Melting Points of,.. All-Slime Cyanide...Uplift, Complete Testing Laboratory, forperanza Mine, Compressed Air for Ore Flotation, Concentrates...ores of Tin, Assif, Berenguela Tin District, Bolivia, Blast Furnace Slag, Lead, Zinc Oxide from, Boiler
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/...District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART...Pyromorphite Qyartz Rosasite Scheelite Shattuckite Silver Silver X - Illustrations ' Smithsonite Spangolite...uranium and vanadium deposits; "mine fire" minerals at the United Verde mine in Jerome; and Arizona meteorites
Report (issue)
ruthenium 101.1 rhodium 102.9 palladium 106.4 silver 107.9 cadmium 112.4 indium 114.8 tin 118.7 ....B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...production, U.S. apparent consumption, and U.S. mine production of antimony from 1900 to 2012............................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption.....................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine production from 1950 to 2011...................
 
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