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Acanthite from
Virneberg Mine, Rheinbreitbach, Unkel, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany


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 Virneberg Mine, Rheinbreitbach, Unkel, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:75547
Long-form Identifier:1:3:75547:4
GUID (UUID V4):4ae8f8af-6297-421b-9990-914e8ff0c505
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
27.4km (17.0 miles) ⓘApollo Mine, Raubach, Puderbach, Neuwied, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
35.7km (22.2 miles) ⓘLĂŒderich Mine, AltenbrĂŒck, SteinenbrĂŒck, Overath, Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
41.3km (25.6 miles) ⓘSchöne Aussicht Mine, Dernbach, Wirges, Westerwaldkreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
46.3km (28.8 miles) ⓘFriedrichssegen Mine, Friedrichssegen, Lahnstein, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
48.1km (29.9 miles) ⓘGrĂŒneau Mine (GrĂŒne Au Mine; GrĂŒnau Mine), Schutzbach, Daaden-Herdorf, Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
52.1km (32.3 miles) ⓘConcordia Mine, Niederfischbach, Kirchen (Sieg), Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
52.1km (32.4 miles) ⓘFischbacher Werk Mine, Niederfischbach, Kirchen (Sieg), Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
52.7km (32.7 miles) ⓘSan Fernando Mine, Herdorf, Daaden-Herdorf, Altenkirchen, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
54.9km (34.1 miles) ⓘHolzappel Mine, Holzappel, Diez, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
58.2km (36.2 miles) ⓘBrĂŒderbund Mine, Kohlenbach Valley, Eiserfeld, Siegen, Siegen-Wittgenstein, Arnsberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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and then working as an exploration geologist and mine manager at various mines in Michigan’s Keweenaw...native copper deposit, which became the Champion mine. His academic interests ranged across the disciplines...the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum, 10 cm tall, Cliff mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. It is also a very unusual...silver specimens from the Cliff mine, the Keweenaw’s earliest successful mine. A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum...with a lovely reddish patina, 13 cm long, Phoenix mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. Arguably one of the
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Mineralogie, Malteserstr. 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany Earth Science Department / College of Science,...Feld 236, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany Sodenstr. 19, D-12309 Berlin, Germany Graslitzer Str. 5, D-63791 Karlstein...Karlstein am Main, Germany Ludwig-Maximilians UniversitĂ€t, Department fĂŒr Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften...Ressourcengeologie, Luisenstr. 37, D80333 MĂŒnchen, Germany Bundesanstalt fĂŒr Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe...Rohstoffe (BGR), Stilleweg 2, D-30655 Hannover, Germany Dr. Salah Al-Khirbash Prof. Dr. Rainer Altherr &
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(420 tons); others localities include Mansfeld (Germany), Bisbee (Arizona), Tsumeb (Namibia) and Surra...native sliver include Kongsberg (Norway), Freiberg (Germany), Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode...Moschellandsberg (Germany) and Juan Cavelica (Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world...Is found In Erzgeblrge and the Harz Mountains (Germany), Glkos (Russia), Sterling Hill (New Jersey, USA)...silver and arsenic. It is found at St Andreasberg (Germany), Sala (Sweden), Coimbra (Portugal), Prlbram (Czech
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(420 tons); others localities include Mansfeld (Germany), Bisbee (Arizona), Tsumeb (Namibia) and Surra...native sliver include Kongsberg (Norway), Freiberg (Germany), Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode...Moschellandsberg (Germany) and Juan Cavelica (Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world...Is found In Erzgeblrge and the Harz Mountains (Germany), Glkos (Russia), Sterling Hill (New Jersey, USA)...silver and arsenic. It is found at St Andreasberg (Germany), Sala (Sweden), Coimbra (Portugal), Prlbram (Czech
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peg1natites and T, \farcasite, I 00 mm, Mis burg, Germany meteorites); 2. sedimentary, when a mineral crystallizes...Crystals up to 140mm (5œ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...('3/i6in) were found Silver, 52 mm, Freiberg, Germany Copper, 120 mm, Keweenaw Peninsula, US.A. in Dzhezkazgan...secondary cementation origin in association with acanthite, stephanite, proustite, pyrargyrite, copper and...have been found . Silver, 55 mm. Schwarzwald, Germany 10 Beautiful specimens of wire silver with wires
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caledonite crystals up to 4.5 mm tall from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Norman Thomson Collection...mm from the dump of Endeavour Level, Potts Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Paul Nicholson Collection...Tindle 3-9 Zincolivenite from the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall Jens C. Ø. Andersen and David Moulding...collected by Sir Kingsley Dunham from ‘Nentsbury Mine’, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges 61-64 NOTE...NOTE Acicular baryte in the Cavanacaw Gold Mine, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland James A.S. McFarlane
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attitude to life. Marcasite. 100 mm. Misburg. Germany 7 i 1. Elements Copper. 42 mm. Cornwall, UK...Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...: Vie in) were found Silver. 52 mm. Freiberg. Germany Copper. 120 mm. Keweenaw Peninsula. U.S.A. in...secondary cementation origin in association with acanthite, stephanite, proustite, pyrargyrite, copper and...have been found. Silver, 55 mm. Schwarzwald. Germany Beautiful specimens of wire silver with wires
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hoped that the above is all the information ACANTHITE Although most silver comes from argentite, this...this mineral first has to be turned into acanthite before the silver can be removed. ANcanthite is very...minerals contain exactly the same elements in Acanthite forms in hydrothermal mineral veins in association...is their internal structure: crystals sale of acanthite are monoclinic, ; while those of argentite conform...the cubic system of. symmetry. Externally, many acanthite crystals have a rather spiky appearance. It 1s
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5-+ Cu 11 Fe 3S 10 -+ 2Cu 5 FeS‱ + CuFeS 2 ‱ Ida-Mine, SWAfrika. (Vergr. 250 X). Aufnahme: P. RAMDOHR...Endes eine VerdrĂ€ngungs-Pseudomorphose vor. Temagami-Mine, Ontario. (Vergr. 250 X . Schliff nach einer OktaederflĂ€che...Eier/Nahe, HĂ€matit xx/Eifel, Pseu~ domalachit/Virneberg , Rockenberger Sandrosen/Friedberg. Suche Mineralien...Ausweis 1,00. Veranstalter: Verein der Freunde der Mine-. ralogie und Geologie (VFMG)e.V., Bezirksgruppe...Pyromorphite Pyromorphite Also the PARAMORPH Acanthite after Argentite, the EXSOLUTION PSEUDOMORPH Sphalerite
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meneghinile Pengenna mine,St Kew,Cornwall; Shallowfield Bridge,SouthMolton,Devon Tynebottom mine,Alston.CUm~ria...CUm~ria mercury Chatsworth mine,Grassinglon, Yorkshire Severallocalities in theLakeDistrictandComw melacinnabar...theLakeDistrictan:iCorrr::a!I natrojarosite Wanlhwaite mine,StJohn'sin theVale,Cumbria SouthTerrasmine,StStephen-in-Brannel...Cumbria pharmaco!ite Wanlhwaite mine,StJohn'sin theVale,Cumbria Chatsworth mine,Grassington, Yorkshire p:cropharmacolne...Im:ne,Caldbeck Fei:S,Cum:m {s!emberg::e)' Tynebottom mine,NWof Garrigill,nrAlston,Cumbria Cheesewring quany
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...shales of tl~e Acanthite Green River Fonnation in Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic...[Ol(C?,,)61all argentite specimens are actually acanthite (PO4)6l(S~O18)]-(S +oi} paramorphs after argentite...argentite (see under argentite). Crystals of acanthite formed directly below l 73°C are rare. (9.C). a [S~O1...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]‱6HzO
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Congress Catalog Card No. 66-17809 Printed in Germany 08 011635 3 PREFACE TO THE T H I R D (GERMAN)...N , Troy, New York, USA G. FRIEDRICH, Aachen, Germany H . FROHBERG, Toronto, Canada R. L A GANZA, North...Pullman, Washington R. A. ZIMMERMANN, Heidelberg, Germany 2 Bamdohr, Theorie Minerals XVÜ ABBREVIATIONS...places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are...(1940). 12 T H E ORE MINERALS FIG. 4 80 X Mouat Mine, Stillwater Valley, Montana RAMDOHR From a border
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Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...Prof. of Mineralogy, University of Cologne, West Germany; Curator of The Mineralogical Museun1. A dear friend... Mineralogical Museum, University of Cologne, Germany Mineralogical Museum , University of Berne, Switzerland...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
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Fritz: Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Donald B. Hoover: U.S.G.S., Federal Center, Lakewood...Institut fur Mineralogie, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany. Duane Mellor: Geology Library, Yale University...Berlin, Germany. Peter Susse: MINABS, Inst. of Mineralogy, Univ. of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany. C. Sheldon...Pennsylvania. Hans J. Wilke: Eppertshausen/Hessen, Germany. Wendell E. Wilson: The Mineralogical Record, Tuscon...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver
 
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