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Acanthite from
Wallaroo Mine, Kadina, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia


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 Wallaroo Mine, Kadina, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:962838
Long-form Identifier:1:3:962838:0
GUID (UUID V4):7cc840e8-71ce-46a8-8a52-a07935973181
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
9.1km (5.6 miles) ⓘWandilta Mine, Kadina, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
18.6km (11.6 miles) ⓘMoonta mines (Wallaroo and Moonta Mining; Moonta Copper Recovery Co. Ltd; Moonta Mining Scheme; Moonta Prospecting Syndicate), Moonta, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
89.3km (55.5 miles) ⓘMiltalie Silver Mine (Miltalie Mine), Cowell, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia, Australia
References
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Report (issue)
taken from the Library NN GU 1900 TP CATALOGUE SOUTH OF AUSTRALIAN MINERALS: 1983 by R.J. Noble...Government Printer, South Australia, 1983 REF 349.994, N668c Noble, R. A. Catalogue of South Australian minerals...(Robert John), 1946—supiic LIBRARY Catalogue of South Australian minerals: 1983. Bibliography. ISBN 0...Mineralogy—South Australia. |. Just, J. (Juri). Il. Johnson, J. E. (James Eric). Ill. South Australia. Dept...and Energy. IV. Title. (Series: Handbook (South Australia. Dept. of Mines and Energy); 7) 549.99423
Journal (issue)
Adams Atacamite from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia ......................................ATACAMITE, 10.5 cm, from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia. Collection of (and photo courtesy of)...break to collect minerals at the famous Red Cloud mine. Everyone had fun on the trip, and Graham found...after three semesters to pursue an opportunity to mine placer gold near Quartzsite. He also bought and...made many collecting trips back to the Red Cloud mine in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1996 he managed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 05:52 29 January 2015 FRENCH CREEK IRON MINE, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA M any minerals described...specimens. One such locality is the French Creek iron mine, Chester County, Pennsylvania, an occurrence worthy...of chalcopyrite crystals from the Old Lurzenbach mine, Gosenbach, Siegen, Germany. Jack Halpern specimen...at Rossie, St. Lawrence County, at the Sterling mine, Jefferson County, and in very large crystals associated...chalcopyrite crystals were found in the Gardner Hill mine, Guilford County, North Carolina. Some of the finest
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Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement To The Mineralogical Record, September–October 2020 ... Mineral Collections in Australia Organized by Robert Sielecki Designed by Wendell Wilson with Photography...September–October, 2020 Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September–October...1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian...Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman photo. ‱ 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia
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Volcanic zeolites and associated minerals from New South Wales ............................................Sutherland Minerals of the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ........................................... 407 by A. Pring Broken Hill, New South Wales; a brief review ............................Minerals from the Kintore opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales ............................................Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ...........................
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CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia = _ |) VieBAtO TATA JARS LIPOW Si. ao sĂ© ... CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia Philip Scalisi David Cook VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand Reinhold...Classic mineral localities of the world, Asia and Australia. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines and...resources—Asia. 2. Mines and mineral resources—Australia. 3. Mines and mineral resources—Soviet Union
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
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the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia....Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo... (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. (9) Shigaite, N’Chwaning II mine, South Africa. v This special
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comparative ethnology include areas of North and South America and of Polynesia for comparison. The Museum...Tetrahedrite Tetrahedrite Hessite Hauchecornite Galena Acanthite Manganite Hematite Skutterudite Zinckenite Stephanite...Senarmontite Cassiterite Cassiterite Manganite Scheelite South Africa St Andreasberg, Harz, FRG Shikoku, Japan...particularly interesting collection of miners' lamps and mine surveying instruments. Ancient and mediaeval mining...worn by mine officials of Saxony on ceremonial occasions. A special attraction is a model mine, 20m below
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com Australian agent/distributor: Pan Macmillan Australia; tel. 1300 135 113; fax 1300 135 103; customer...history. Prehistoric artists from the San people of South Africa to the ancient Egyptians ground rocky soil...west coast of Africa mirrored the east coast of South America. H e also noticed amazing matches between...split m various places, including the Teth~ Seaway. South-western North America was f i (led by the Sundance...Indo-Australian, North American, Antarctic and South American - carry continents, like cargo on a raft
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CHALMERS, Cuwrator, Australian Museum, Sydney, AUSTRALIA & ROCK CURRIER, photographer and collector, Ardsley...TOWNSEND, Curator, Geological Museum, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA „e MAX WIEBEL, Professor, Swiss Federal Institute...U.S. A. ye ALBERT CHAPMAN, collector, Sydney, AUSTRALIA Ye M. DUSTERUD, Museum Manager, Mining Museum...SYDNEY PIETERS, dealer and collector, Windhoek, SOUTH-WEST AFRICA }€ KAREL TUCEK, Director of Minerals...stood atop the “mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock.
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chalmers, Cura­ tor, Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia ^ rock currier, photographer and collector, Ardsley...townsend, Curator, Geological Museum, Johannesburg, south Africa ^ max wiebel, Professor, Swiss Federal Institute...u. s. a. ^ ALBERT chapman, collector, Sydney, AUSTRALIA ^ M. dusterud, Museum Manager, Mining Museum,...SYDNEY PIETERS, dealer and collector, Windhoek, south-west Africa ^ karel tucek, Director of Minerals...stood atop the "mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock.
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Germany; Pribram, Czechoslovakia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; Chanarcillo, Atacama, Chile; and in the states...crystals in Cornwall; at Wallaroo, South Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Found in sandstone...Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....Witwatersrand, South Africa, are the major economic gold producers. The Republic of South Africa is in...total annual production. Localities. Apart from South Africa, Above: Gold on quartz from California. Such
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Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., 225 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003 All rights reserved. No...coated by a thin black film (eg silver, proustite, acanthite and pyrargyrite). In the presence of light, realgar...arsenopyrite or pyrite); - hackly (eg silver, gold or acanthite); - splintery (eg nephrite or garnet); - earthy...Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine - Nevada (USA) ‱Application: ore (extraction of...Bingham - Utah (USA); large plates in New South Wales (Australia); in scheelite scarns in Tyrny-Auz (USSR)
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illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...Distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., 225 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003 All rights reserved....coated by a thin black film (eg silver, proustite, acanthite and pyrargyrite). In the presence of light, realgar...arsenopyrite or pyrite); — hackly (eg silver, gold or acanthite); — splintery (eg nephrite or garnet); — earthy...Caucasus — crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine — Nevada (USA) e Application: ore (extraction of
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museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...similar to granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but...over its beer: to go underground in a non-working mine is sheer folly unless you are accompanied by someone...(preferably several people) who really knows the mine. Before venturing into the field serious collectors...really is a matter of life or death when you are in a mine - only a plan will show where water on the floor
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or pass beneath one another (e.g., west coast of South America). rising granitic magma continental crust...P L AT E 8 Chalcopyrite and Calcite. Groundhog mine, Vanadium, New Mexico. 4 x 5 cm. Thesecrystals formed...igneous rock, kimberlite (named for Kimberley, South Africa, where diamonds have been mined for over...least one such deposit at Argyle, in Western Australia. Both kimberlite and lamproite are thought to...that garnet inclusions in diamonds from Kimberley, South Africa (and by analogy, the diamonds themselves)
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Geological Survey; 52BL, David Huston, Geoscience Australia; 17TR, Marli Miller; 23TR, 48 (in Optical Effects...of Geological Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa; 65 & 127, Ian Coulson, University of Regina...movement of the Africa mirrored the east coast of South Making continents Earth’s crust draws basalt crust...in various places, including the Tethys Seaway. South-western North America was flooded by the Sundance...Indo-Australian, North American, Antarctic and South Why plates move formed at the mid-ocean ridge
Journal (issue)
miners drill holes in the rock at Taxco silver mine in Mexico. Right: North Sea drilling rig 'Claymore-A'...All these minerals are mined for industrial use. South Africa is the world's largest producer of gold,...mining in the 1970s, Australia has become the world's leading producer. Australia is also a major producer...fluorescence. M NERALS 0 rr- m ("") -I ACANTHITE IS A SILVER SULPHIDE MINERAL 0 . ,..,. WHICH...:::XJ INTO THE CLOSELY RELATED ARGENTITE Cl) Acanthite is nearly always black or grey in colour and specimens
Report (issue)
for north and west, and negative coordinates for south and east. Poorly known locations are indicated ...CPY CT CU CUB CUM CUP DIG DIOP 1 MINERAL NAME ACANTHITE ACTING LITE SILVER ALBITE ALTAITE ALUNITE AMPHIBOLE...COUNTRY NAME Australia, New South Wales Australia, Queensland Australia, Tasmania Australia, Western Australia...SKOURIOTISSA SOLBEC SOTIEL SOURDOUGH BAY SOUTH DUFAULT SOUTH RUSTY HILL SPENCEVILLE SPRUCE POINT STALL...5011 502| 5031 5041 5051 5061 5071 5061 5091 WALLAROO HEDGE HEEDON MEIS5 WEST MCDONALD WESTARM WHALESBACK-LITTLEOEE
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which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Girardville, itself 40 km northwest of Lac Saint-Jean in south-central Quebec, very large and sharp ilmenite Cl)...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the
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In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...‘mirror images' of each other Left: Cerussite from South- West Africa, forming multiple intergrowths Far...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...Collectors working on the spoil tip of a mine. Quarries and mine workings remain a fruitful source for the
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JOINT-AUTHOR OF "MINING TABLES," "THE GEOLOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA," AND "THE GOLDMINES OF THE RAND " FOURTH...Infusible. Density, 10*6. in Canada Ontario, Mine), (Vermilion and North Carolina (Cowee Valley)...of Kalgoorlie in A Tonapah in Nevada, West Australia. large quantity of gold material. Such mountain...are situated in Australasia (Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, New Zealand), the...Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana, Chili, Peru, Brazil, South Africa (Witwatersrand, Barberton, and Lydenburg
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want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...‘mirror images’ of each other Left: Cerussite from South-West Africa, forming multiple intergrowths Far...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...Collectors working on the spoil tip ofa mine. Quarries and mine workings remain a fruitful source for...end of the crystallization of magma sky Reef in South Africa occur in accumulations in a major and the
Report (issue)
J.N. CRAMSIE, DIRECTOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW SOUTH WALES i Original typing: Review: Cartography:...View across Clarence–Moreton Basin from the coast south of Evans Head (see Photograph 12). Insets are: cut...Survey of New South Wales, Sydney, xii + 292 pp, with CD-ROM. Edited by: R.A. Facer © New South Wales Department...metallogenic map sheet area lies in northeastern New South Wales and extends over a significantly mineralised...large part of the Clarence-Moreton Basin in New South Wales, and includes parts of large Tertiary volcanic
 
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