Huntilite

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Silver Islet mine, Silver Islet, Sibley Township, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada
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Name:	After T. Sterry Hunt (1826-1892), US/Canadian geologist
A Mixture Of:	Nickeline, Silver

An impure silver arsenide originally described from the Silver islet Mine in Ontario, Canada in 1879 by Henry Wurtz, purportedly containing minor antimony, cobalt, nickel, iron, zinc, mercury and sulfur (probably from mechanical admixture of other species). Described by Wurtz as occurring as either "amorphous, often porous and crumbly, dark slate-gray, or almost black in color, and entirely dull in luster" or "lighter slate-color, a crystalline structure, and probably one cleavage... The hardness is 2.5 ; the streak is bronze-color; the mineral is sub-malleable" (Engineer, and Mining Journal, Jan. 25, 1879)

See: American Journal of Science, Third Series, Vol. 17, Number 102, (June 1879) p. 486

Classification of Huntilite
IMA status:	Not Approved
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References for Huntilite
Reference List: - +	American Journal of Science, Third Series, Vol. 17, Number 102, (June 18979) p. 486
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Canada

Ontario

Thunder Bay District

Sibley Township

Silver Islet

Silver Islet mine

American Journal of Science, Third Series, Vol. 17, Number 102, (June 18979) p. 486

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