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Acanthite from
Kongens Mine, Overberget Mining Field, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Dyscrasite2 photos of Acanthite associated with Dyscrasite at this locality.
Silver2 photos of Acanthite associated with Silver at this locality.
Argentopyrite1 photo of Acanthite associated with Argentopyrite at this locality.
Sternbergite1 photo of Acanthite associated with Sternbergite at this locality.
Cubanite1 photo of Acanthite associated with Cubanite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kongens Mine, Overberget Mining Field, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:354717
Long-form Identifier:1:3:354717:5
GUID (UUID V4):eed8f864-2292-4f6e-bb01-56751c7dd81a
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
1.1km (0.7 miles) Gottes Hülfe in der Noth Mine (Gottes Hülfe Mine), Overberget Mining Field, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
1.3km (0.8 miles) Mildigkeit Gottes Mine (Mildigkeit Mine), Overberget Mining Field, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
2.3km (1.5 miles) Christian 7th Southern Adit (Saggrenda), Overberget Mining Field, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
2.4km (1.5 miles) Haus Sachsen Mine, Haus Sachsen, Overberget Mining Field, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
3.3km (2.0 miles) Gamle Segen Gottes Mine, Underberget Mining Field, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
13.4km (8.3 miles) Juliane Marie Mine, Vinoren Southern Mines, Vinoren Silver Mine Field, Flesberg, Buskerud, Norway
13.7km (8.5 miles) Norske Løve, Vinoren Southern Mines, Vinoren Silver Mine Field, Flesberg, Buskerud, Norway
14.0km (8.7 miles) Ringnesgangen Mine, Vinoren Southern Mines, Vinoren Silver Mine Field, Flesberg, Buskerud, Norway
15.1km (9.4 miles) Northern Ravnås Prospect, Vinoren Southern Mines, Vinoren Silver Mine Field, Flesberg, Buskerud, Norway
19.1km (11.9 miles) Humlebekk Claim, Himsjø, Øvre Eiker, Buskerud, Norway
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralfunn på Kongsberg etter nedleggelsen av Sølvverket Fred Steinar Nordrum Sølvgruvene på Kongsberg (1623-1958)...leting etter mineraler i sølvforekomstene på Kongsberg av samlere bosatt i Norge tok til om­ kring 1970...så som Lars Gulliksen og Per H. Sælebakke fra Kongsberg og Tore Solberg og Stein Jacobsen fra Drammen...flaten, men fra 1972 på Vinoren og 1973-74 i Overberget og Underberget også langs stollnivåene inne i...enerett til drift av sølv- og gullforekomster i Kongsberg, Flesberg og Eiker opphevet. Dermed ble ble det
Journal (issue)
cultural standpoint. These are localities rich in mining history and regional flavor; the old drifts and...on silver mining in G erm any.................. by W. Lieber and H. Leyerzapf 3 Kongsberg Famous mineral...mineral localities: the Kongsberg silver mines, N o r w a y .............................................Islet Famous mineral localities: the Silver Islet mine, O n ta rio ............... 49 by W. E. Wilson ...COVER: Kongens article in photo © SILVER crystals, 3.3 by 4.5 cm, from the mine, Kongsberg, Norway. (See
Report (issue)
GEOLOGISKE UNDERSØKELSE NR. 162 SILVER DEPOSITS AT KONGSBERG (THE MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE OF A NATIVE SILVER- COBALT-NICKEL...Native silver Arsenic Dyscrasite Argentite and acanthite jalpaite Sphalerite Chalcopyrite Tetrahedrite...(p. 106) have not up till non been knownTTrom Kongsberg. This alBo applies to stellerite, which is a rather...at the present locality of the mine Kongens grube (His Majesty's Mine). According to tradition the find...to the effect that one Fig. 1. Key map of them, mine Kessel, has been worked showing location of at a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
18-22. Burvald, I. (2018): Trachenbergk Bergwerck, Kongens seigerhytte og Traag Mines Ltd. i Bamble, og Mynten...Mn2+)10O8(BO3)4, a new oxyborate mineral from the Kitteln mine, Nordmark ore district, Värmland, Sweden: description...discoveries from the Larvik Plutonic Complex, southern Norway. Norsk Mineralsymposium 2019, 47-51. Karstensen...Drábek, M. & Škoda, R. (2018): The Kongsberg silver deposits, Norway: Ag-Hg-Sb mineralization and constraints...Lithium mineralization in Norway. Lithium 200 years. Meeting proceedings and field trip guide Stockholm-Utö
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
no other group of minerals has more associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great...recovered as a byproduct of low-grade copper and lead mining. This fact, coupled with the historically low price...copper were the first). The earliest known siIver mining occurred in Cappadocia in Asia Minor and is dated...probably reflects the fact that the earliest silver mining amounted to gathering the metal in its native state...silverware trade (Grimwade 1985). The other great silver-mining center of ancient times was Spain. The earliest
Book
of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland 181 13 63 72...mineral species: an exception is the mining museum of Kongsberg, Norway, showing only a single species (silver)...aspects of Africa and its inhabitants, such as mining, agriculture, zoology, special botany, prehistoric...Hardenbergstr. 42, D-1000 Berlin 12 030-314-2254 Mining and metallurgy building, at Ernst-Reuter Square...Dr S. Herting (Mrs) Notes The original Royal Mining Academy of Berlin was founded in 1770 by a decree
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Trondheim-Norwegian Institute of Technology, 7034 Trondheim, Norway (Received April 2, 1991; accepted after revision...variety of metals up to the present. The earliest mining efforts on North American representatives were...Present-day mining is restricted to a number of deposits in USA, Canada, Sweden and Norway, a number which...deposit of the US is unique in that the recent mining (post-1950 to its closing in 1987) was primarily...Sweden (Stephens et al., 1979; Zachrisson, 1980), Norway (Bjorlykke et al., 1979, 1980), Ireland and the
Journal (volume)
discoveries from the Larvik Plutonic Complex, southern Norway 47 Harald Oskar Folvik Mineralene fra Skjerpemyr...richterite from the Hydro quarry, Fen complex, Southern Norway: crystallographic data and crystal-chemistry 102...type locality at the Kjennerudvann lake, Kongsberg, Norway 110 Roy Kristiansen and Hans Christian Olsen...old, new mineral to Norway 116 Roy Kristiansen Lithium mineralization in Norway: a review 119 Gunnar...pegmatites within the Tysfjord granite, northern Norway. Norsk Bergverksmuseum Skrifter 38, 5-28. Husdal
Book (volume)
Professor of Geology and Economic Geology Freiberg Mining Academy Translated and Revised by WALTER HARVEY...Institution of Mining Engineers (England) Member American ; Member Institute of Mining Member of the...the Washington Institute of Mining Engineers; and Metallurgy; Academy WITH 272 of Science, etc., etc...ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL 1905 Copyright, 1905, by .THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL TRANSLATOR'S...Chrome Deposits of Hestmando and Other Localities in Norway. (6) The Chromite Ore Deposit of Kraubath in Upper
Book
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...flattened rhombohedrons (resembling those of Froland, Norway) to 12 cm across, some individuals weighing up...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...richterite (Menezes and Martins, 1984). EUROPE NORWAY Omdal, Froland, Aus~Agder. Thick-tabular to equant
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
University, the Geological surveys of Finland and Norway, Luleå University of Technology and the Swedish...copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started in 1968 and the current mining depth...in the Rödingsfjället nappe complex, Nordland, Norway . . .............................................Massive Zn-Cu-Pb deposits in the Røros ore district, Norway: setting and formation .........................X. Matos The Jörn granitoid complex, Skellefte mining district, Sweden: petrography, lithogeochemistry
Book (edition)
OF METALLURGY,” DE M. INST. L’ECOLE ‘f THE MINING SECOND REWRITTEN \ ros. F.R.S. C.2E. DES...GREATLY ENLARGED BY HENRY Ad AUTHOR PROFSSOR OF MINING OF AT THE WITH LOUIS, SoM.,, sl; O.peh C.Ge...the second, examples are given from the principal mining regions of the old and the new world. In this portion...Royal School of Mines, and formerly student at the Mining School of Clausthal. For a period extending over...because by the 1x in mining, fresh obliteration of those I hold that past mining records must be treated
Book (volume)
Acta International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences and Geomechanics Abstracts Journal of...explain the ideas of those who have worked on it (and mine, where they differ from those readily available...higher-temperature, silver-bearing variety. In Norway, three of the deposits (Sulitjelma, Bleikvassli...countries: Ireland England Scotland 3 7 1 Wales Norway Sweden 1 7 17 Finland Poland USSR 12 2 30. ...near-neutral solutions . . . . There may even be a small field near neutrality where polysulfide species are more
Journal (volume)
Strashimir Borisov Strashimirov, University of Mining and Geology “St. Ivan Rilski” (BG), Nada Vasković...(see the inside of the front cover for members) Field trip Subcommittee Friedrich Koller, Co-Chairman...the front cover of the field trip guides, Acta Mineralogica-Petrographica, Field Guide Series, Vol. 1–29...AM15 Gas storage in minerals: Experimental and field studies ...........................................301 EG56C4 Industrial clay deposits: From the field to the industry ...............................
 
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