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Acanthite from
Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK


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 Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Alston Moor, Eden, Cumbria, England, UK
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:295316
Long-form Identifier:1:3:295316:8
GUID (UUID V4):d1f6c4ab-60e6-4620-b1f7-9c2abf844137
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
44.1km (27.4 miles) Roughton Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
44.3km (27.5 miles) Higher Roughton Gill (Balliway Rigg), Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
44.8km (27.8 miles) Red Gill Mine, Roughton Gill, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
57.4km (35.6 miles) Force Crag Mine (Force Craig Mine), Coledale, Above Derwent, Allerdale, Cumbria, England, UK
References
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RAT, U.K. EDITORIAL BOARD: R.F.. Bevins, Cardiff, UK KS.W Braithwaite, Manchester, C.K. I.F. Bridge:>...Cuprite, variety chalcutrichite, from Fowey Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field...Gunheath china clay pit, St Austell, Cornwall, England 3 15 N.l. Elton Sector phosphorescent gypsum...(selenite) crystals from Mepal Bridge, Cambridgeshire, England B.A. Grguric 19 The silver and cobalt mineralisation... 23 Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R. Nudds 31 NOTES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arsenides, was described from the Tynebottom mine, Garrigill, Cumbria, England by Ixer & Stanley (1987). It...Russia. It is also spatially associated with acanthite, chalcopyrite, and Ag-rich members of the tetrahedrite...silver–nickel–cobalt mineral association at Tynebottom mine, Garrigill, near Alston, Cumbria. Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc...mineral of the chalcopyrite group from the Montgros mine, Haute-Loire, France. Eur. J. Mineral. 5, 891- 897...Verbreitung in den Erzen der Tsumeb- und Kipushi-Mine. Neues Jahbr. Mineral., Monatsh., 241-264. Strunz
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coal 220 to 260 Alston Gro·up Girvane1la Band Asbian (P- P 1a) (D 1)- Lower Alston Massive limestone...Stainmore The northern one-third of the Backbone of England, that ridge of hilly country known since last century...Stainmore between the two halves. The northern half or Alston Block is host to a great majority of the deposits...a cavity in the Great Limestone flats, Boltsburn Mine. Collected by Sir Arthur Russell and now in the...sheets 19 and 25, and parts of 13, 24, 26, 31, 32 (England and Wales) LONDON: HMSO 1990 . I\. © C,rown
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pleasecontact the publishers. Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages...Orefield The Alston Block ...................... The Pennine Escarpment ........... Alston Moor ...........Wensleydale ...................... Wharfedale, Grassington Moor and Greenhow .................... The West Cumbrian................... 201 72 Foreword ORTHERN England, an area of great natural beauty, is additionally...District, the north Pennines, Cumbria, various regions of north-east England, and North Yorkshire. Such
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UK TS C 2 COVER:Superbtwinnedyellowfluoritecrystal 15 mm on edge from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria...T'wENTY YEARS IN MINERALS NORTHERN ENGLAND David Green • Peter Briscoe The UK ]011rnalof Mines at1d Minerals...EVENTS Mick Wolfe Richard Bell THE SHAP GRANITE CUMBRIA DESIGN Julie Ballard QUARRY, Max Wirth • David...Ratcliff & Roper (Print ) Ltd Worksop, Nous. S80 2EE UK Journal of Mines & Minerals No. 22 -t- Campylite...classic minerals of Northern England. This specimen from ~ry Gill Mine, once part of the Fred Bull collection
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historically interesting localities as the old cobalt mine at Great Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Sussex County, New Jersey; the old Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County, New York; Pennsylvania...counties, Missouri. It has been found in the Martin mine of the Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc district...district, Lafayette County, Wisconsin; and the Mohawk mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. In the western United...with a thucolite-bearing vein exposed in the Evans mine at Placerville, San Miguel County, Colorado. Attractive
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PO Box 315. Harpenden. Hertfordshire AL5 2ZD. England Telephone: +44 (0)1582 762413 Fax: +44 (0)870 055...specimens are labelled "Cumberland", "Alston" or "Alston Moor" (Cumberland as a county no longer exists...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during...specimens were acquired through dealers operating in Alston, and, for whatever reason, they opted to change...on minerals from localities in Cornwall. Devon. Cumbria and Yorkshire. He was renowned for his compendious
Catalog/List
refere nce and specime n numbe r(s) 25 3 Inde x by mine ral showing spe cime n numbers 39 4 Index by...Name of the speci es. Locality. including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure...is:5 Ferney Green Drive, Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria, LA23 3HS Please write to Max stating the names...Waterba.nk mine Waterbank mine Hilton mine Esgair Hir mine Milltown quany Esgair Hir mine Broadlaw vein...Mllttownquany Wh.Jane Comw. HIiton mine Waterbank mine Mllltown quany Eaglebrook mine Uechwedd Helyg Wh.Gorland
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(1986): Silver Mineralization of the Karuizawa Mine, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. – Mining Geol., 36(6):...Kitakaze, A. (1982): Silver Minerals from the Sanru mine, Hokkaido (in Japanese with English abstract). –...research of ores in Co and Ro veins in Bratrství mine (In Czech)]. – MS, Úst. nerostných Surovin Kutná...Ni-skutterudite from Bi-paragenesis at Bratrství mine in Jáchymov/Joachimsthal (In Czech)]. – Sbor. geol...characteristics of complex ore mineralization in veins at Adam mine (In Czech)]. MS, Geofond, Praha. 519 Nickel, E.
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ONE! when I typed in 'mineral news' and checked the uk button. Gary is still searching for materia_l,,!9"pu...was attended by some 150 delegates from around the UK, including some from as far as Scotland. An excellent...have a similar conference on the minerals of the UK and what the societies do, and the problems we are...moving. Sallie Bassham, the Librarian of the Northern Mine Research Society has kindly agreed to take over...field as you collect - Grid Ref, mine or quarry name, locality in mine or quarry, in situ or loose, diagram
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access it gave me to real mineralogists who were a mine of useful information and expertise. The culmination...the Central Branch (1988-95). My main interests are UK mineralogy (in particular the mineralogy of Leicestershire...organisation that will continue to play a major role in UK mineralogy. Frank Ince 2 Russell Society Newsletter...The impact of resource extraction of Northern England and offshore. • The Mineralogical Society is hosting...driving a European visiting professor to Boltsburn Mine in its latter years as a producer of spectacular
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except the Dale Beck Valley, Dry Gill and Carrock End Mine. Grahamis hoping to get the permit system properly...has donated a wide range of items, covering both UK and world mineralogical topics, to the Society Library;...of a number of publications (Mineralogical Record, UK Journal of Mines and Minerals, Lapis) and a variety...still very much a 'frontier place'. One supposed mine was started by a character called Otto van Stryk...Stryk who thought he had found a huge iron mine. Alas, he never got any useable ore out of it. Rick went
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in sphalerite contains fine grains of acanthite. 1 – acanthite + sphalerite, 2 – sphalerite, 3 – rammelsbegite...crystals. Individual, seemingly orthorhombic acanthite crystals are deposited on drusy gangue. The crystals...those of argentite. This material corresponds to acanthite sections orientated at random, since argentite...below 176 °C. The study of polished sections of acanthite pseudomorphs after argentite shows obvious photosensitivity...PRIMARY MINERALS – ENCYCLOPAEDIC PART Acanthite Ag2 S Acanthite was described by Kenngott [221] in two
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as St. Andreasberg/central Germany or the Wenzel mine in SW Germany (Schnorrer-Köhler, 1983, Staude et...individual sample or sub-locality (e.g. vein or mine) contradicts this general paragenetic sequence for...Bi2S3 (bismuthinite), Ag3AsS3 (proustite), Ag2S (acanthite), AgAsS2 (trechmannite or smithite). It should...UAg-(Co-Ni-As-Bi-Sb-Cu) vein deposits, Eldorado Mine, Port Radium, NWT. Unpublished MSc Thesis. Saint...Ni-Fe-Co arsenides and sulpharsenides from the Ulsan Mine, Republic of Korea. Min Geol. 35, 1-16. https://doi
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with high temperatures, but they are unusual for the UK and are therefore worth a comment. As responsible...seen any truly serious cases of heatstroke in the UK, the potential is there and I have seen many minor...each day Possible sites include: Great Orme Copper Mine (entrance fee) Alderley Edge Mines (insurance fee)...above and below ground, including the famous Ojuela Mine where he collected excellent adamite. Some of the...rich, typical of many Triassic sandstones in the UK. It is not very compact and has just a little overgrowth
Book
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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conspicuous but by their absence, nor have we in England any journal which, like the Zedtschrift fur Praktische...MAN. . JUL PRINCIPAL KINGDOM 4 185 Sar ENGLAND : Rocks TPAANIESIE ORE : : ; : : E :...Penney : 11.—Profile section across ‘Last Chance”. Mine, Utah 12.—Section of Argentiferous Sandstone bed...Knockmahon, tee 37.—Fragment of lode, Bergmannstrost Mine, Clausthal 38.—“ Pebble,” Huelgoét. 39.—Section...Extended Hustlers’ Mins 55.—Section across New Chum Mine 56.—Diagrammatic section across Broken Hill Tage
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of Mineralogy Natural History Museum London, i UK CHAPMAN & HALL London - Glasgow - New York : Tokyo...Chapman & Hall, 2-6 Boundary Row, London SE1 8HN, UK Blackie Academic & Professional, Wester Cleddens...Cleddens Road, Bishop- briggs, Glasgow G64 2NZ, UK Chapman & Hall Inc., 29 West 35th Street, New York NY10001...study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the UK Copyright Designs and Patents Act, 1988, this publication...licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK, or in accordance with the terms of licences issued
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Typesetting Services Ltd, Wallington, Surrey, England. Contents Preface Historical Perspective Acknowledgments...of Earth Sciences, Cambridge Univ., Cambridge, England. Sharon Cisneros: Minerological Research Co., San...of Mineralogy, Natural History Museum, London, England. Rock H. Currier: Jewel Tunnel Imports, Baldwin...Minerals, Monograph 4, Mineralogical Society (England), 1974 J. W. Salisbury, L. S. Walter, N. Vergo...Crystallography, Vol. 1, Kynoch Press, Birmingham, England and more recent editions Journal of Applied Crystallography
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Department of Mineralogy Natural History Museum London, UK SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V. First edition...licences issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency in the UK, or in accordance with the terms of licences issued...appropriate Reproduction Rights Organization outside the UK. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside the terms...from Switzerland, Stefan Graeser (Basel); from the UK, David Vaughan (Manchester); and from the USA, Pete...31 31 31 483 c551 578 577 577 5 5 9 10 18 Acanthite Fischesserite Colusite Radhakrishnaite Geffroyite
 
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