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Xanthoconite from
Batopilas, Andrés del Rio mining district, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico


Classification
Species:Xanthoconite
Formula:Ag3AsS3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Xanthoconite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Batopilas, Andrés del Rio mining district, Batopilas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:12001
Long-form Identifier:1:3:12001:2
GUID (UUID V4):178b5708-e9da-4711-873d-fd69b4f3b4fd
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
anc MINERALS OF MEXICO 7 | : = Pras #0 AaprTTARE ; | MINERALS OF MEXICO William D. Panczner...The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy— Collectors and collecting— Mexico. 2. Mines and...and mineral resources— Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This book...is * CONTENTS Foreword Preface Important Mining Districts Discovery and Developments in México
Journal (issue)
cultural standpoint. These are localities rich in mining history and regional flavor; the old drifts and...2 Germany An historical perspective on silver mining in G erm any.................. by W. Lieber and...n ta rio ............... 49 by W. E. Wilson Batopilas Famous mineral localities: the Batopilas District...District, Chihuahua, M e x ic o ...........................................................................(Berman • an historical perspective on silver mining in ©crmang — » » Werner Lieber Baden-Badener-Strasse
Book
"'<' ~/ BOUNDARIES U A Mo<'« u~ o V :¾ MEXICO r - ·•-.. ·-··-··-··-·· < •• ....... V S TATES...org/details/mineralsofmexico0000panc MINERALS OF MEXICO • ERALS OF ~XICO M ______ William D. Panczner...The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy-Collectors and collecting-Mexico. 2. Mines and mineral...mineral resources-Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This boo i
Report (issue)
Coahuila, Mexico; remainder is Cu. (3) Ag3 AsS3 . Polymorphism & Series: Dimorphous with xanthoconite. Occurrence:...and sulfides. Association: Silver, arsenic, xanthoconite, stephanite, acanthite, tetrahedrite, chlorargyrite...mine, Silver City district, Owyhee Co.; in Nevada, in the Star mine, Cherry Creek district, White Pine Co...Atacama, as exceptional crystals. From Mexico, at Batopilas, Chihuahua, and Sombrerete, Zacatecas. Name:
Report (issue)
Xanthoconite Ag3 AsS3 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic. Point...Ontario, Canada. At the General Petite mine, Atlanta district, Elmore Co., Idaho, and from about 13 km north...Flathead Co., Montana, USA. From the Batopilas district, Chihuahua, Mexico. Name: From the Greek for yellow... (1950) Studies of mineral sulfo-salts: XV. Xanthoconite and pyrostilpnite. Mineral. Mag., 29, 346–358
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
translucent and a lighter red than pyragyrite. Xanthoconite (Ag AsS ) is the monoclinic form of proustite...Banner district, Boise County; the Lava Creek dis­ trict, Butte County; the Atlanta district, Elmore...crystalline masses, was found in the early years of mining in the Silver City, Flint, and DeLamar districts...Dunton district and as late-forming crystals in the rich silver ores of Newman Hill, Rico district, Delores...after argentite), stephanite, pyrargyrite, and xanthoconite. Proustite has also been reported from several
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kongberg or beautiful herringbone plates from Batopilas. Silver and silver-bearing minerals are part of...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...“new” silver mineral specimens on the market. Only Mexico, Peru, and, to a lesser extent, Kazahkstan have...copper were the first). The earliest known siIver mining occurred in Cappadocia in Asia Minor and is dated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera...Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar” 7 The Homestake Mining Company 8 “Pirate’s Treasure Chest, Only Much Larger...Minerals Secondary Minerals Gangue Minerals Post-Mining Minerals 20 Descrip�on of Mineral Species 40 Future...Mine 41 Appendix - Geology & Mineralogy Creede District 44 References In January 1985, after producing...century of mining ended in the renowned Creede Mining District. On August 5, 1992, Homestake Mining Company
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera...Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar” 7 The Homestake Mining Company 8 “Pirate’s Treasure Chest, Only Much Larger...Minerals Secondary Minerals Gangue Minerals Post-Mining Minerals 20 Descrip�on of Mineral Species 40 Future...Mine 41 Appendix - Geology & Mineralogy Creede District 44 References In January 1985, after producing...century of mining ended in the renowned Creede Mining District. On August 5, 1992, Homestake Mining Company
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera...Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar” 7 The Homestake Mining Company 8 “Pirate’s Treasure Chest, Only Much Larger...Minerals Secondary Minerals Gangue Minerals Post-Mining Minerals 20 Descrip�on of Mineral Species 40 Future...Mine 41 Appendix - Geology & Mineralogy Creede District 44 References In January 1985, after producing...century of mining ended in the renowned Creede Mining District. On August 5, 1992, Homestake Mining Company
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera...Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar” 7 The Homestake Mining Company 8 “Pirate’s Treasure Chest, Only Much Larger...Minerals Secondary Minerals Gangue Minerals Post-Mining Minerals 20 Descrip�on of Mineral Species 40 Future...Mine 41 Appendix - Geology & Mineralogy Creede District 44 References In January 1985, after producing...century of mining ended in the renowned Creede Mining District. On August 5, 1992, Homestake Mining Company
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract The Wittichen Co–Ag–Bi–U mining area (Schwarzwald ore district, SW Germany) hosts several unconformity-related...Mainz, Germany Introduction The Schwarzwald ore district (SW Germany) hosts a large number of polymetallic...2007). In the eighteenth century, the Wittichen mining area was the largest Co and Ag producer in SW Germany...potential high-grade mineralization below the former mining levels (Werner 2006). Recently, some of the old...leaching of the surrounding granite. The Wittichen mining area is the type locality of the sulphide wittichenite
Report (issue)
Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, Volumen Conmemorativo del Centenario (ISSN 1405-3322). Volume 57 (2005), no...Geology—Mexico. 2. Geology, Structural—Mexico. 3. Faults (Geology)—Mexico. 4. Ore deposits—Mexico. I. Alaniz-Álvarez...epithermal deposits of México, examples of which have a mining history going back to pre-Columbian times. The...The evolution of Middle America and the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Sea region during Mesozoic time: Geological...Tectonostratigraphic Terranes and Tectonic Evolution of Mexico: Geological Society of America Special Paper 278
Report (issue)
need for a compilation of Spanish geological and mining terminology that goes beyond the few Spanish-English...terms, which have grown out of five centuries of mining tradition in Latin America, and frequently draw...Honduras hydrology Latin America Mexico noun (feminine) noun (masculine) New Mexico obsolete Paraguay Peru petroleum...adverbio Argentina Arizona (EE.UU.) Baja California (Mexico) Bolivia Brasil California (EE.UU.) America Central...hidrologia Latinoamerica Mexico sustantivo feminino sustantivo masculine Nuevo Mexico (EE. UU.) caida en desuso
Book
Republic. Dendritic aggregates from Batopilas, Chihuahua, .Mexico, reached up to 150 mm (6 in). Crystals...Franklin, NewJersey, USA and Jalpa, Zacatecas, Mexico. Moschellandsbergite. 6 mm giain, Moschellandsberg...intensive oxidation/reduction reactions of pyritc in Rio Tinto. Spain and in Kostajnik. Serbia. Application:...Kazakhstan. Massive aggregates are important Cu ore in Rio Tinto, Spain; Bor. Serbia; Bisbee, Arizona. USA and...Athabasca Lake. Canada. Acanthite. 23 mm. Arizpe. Mexico Acanthite Ag 2 S MONOCLINIC • • • Properties:
Journal (issue)
minerals at the Line Pit, State Line chromite district, Pennsylvania and Maryland ..................149...and Canada: $10 postage + $16 subscription = $26 Mexico and Central Amer.: $13 postage + $16 subscription...Mineralogical Society (Baltimore, MD) Carlos Barbosa (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Pierre Bariand (Paris, France)...Mineral Co. (Dover, NJ) Benny Fenn (Colonia Juarez, Mexico) Kim Fortune (Lakewood, CO) The Fosters (Phoenix...L yko Minerals and Gems (El Paso, TX) M ad Rat Mining and Minerals (Ontario, CA) M ike Madsen Minerals
Journal (issue)
J. P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica ..............................by the Geological Institute of the University of Mexico, the Earth Science Institute of the University...be held June 23-28, 1991, in Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. Some presentations will be in English. June 27-28...Ciudad Universitaria, Delegation Coyoacan, 04510 Mexico, D.F. NEW MAGAZINE A new, “popular” or mass-market...e 2 2 , M a y - J u n e , 19 9 1 HISTORY Early Mining History Records on file at the Nye County Recorders
Book
Republic. Dendritic aggregates from Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico, reached up to 150 mm (6 in). Crystals...FrankJ1n, New Jersey, USA and Jalpa, Zacatecas, Mexico. Moschellandsbergite. 6 mm grain, Mosche!landsberg...intensive oxidation/reduction reactions of pyrite in Rio Tinto, Spain and in Kostajnik, Serbia. Application:...Kazakhstan. Massive aggregates are important Cu ore in Rio Tinto, Spain; Bor, Serbia; Bisbee, Arizona, USA and...Lake, C-anada. 22 Acanthite, 23 mm, Arizpe, Mexico Acanthite Ag2S MONOCLINIC ••• Properties: C
Journal (issue)
item entitled: “Collecting stories: Los Lamentos, Mexico —1949.” This was intended to be the first of a...crystal pictured in Bill Panczner’s Notes from Mexico column last time (p. 170, Fig. 4) is not “3 inches...minerals at Tombstone, Arizona, and Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. Few other conclusions can be drawn from the data...China Czechoslovakia France Germany Japan Italy Mexico Namibia USSR USA Zaire Total Total number of species...was seemingly limited to about 450-500 (although mining operations must have removed many); scouring of
Report (volume)
of Science A. I. M. E____ American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Aardrijksk---. Aardrijkskundig...Devonian development diagram Direcci6n Dissertation district distribution division Doctoral, Document Doctoral...Meteorological, etc. microscopic, etc. Mimeographed Mineral, Mining min. res_ _ _ _ _ mineral resources Mineralog_____...American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Contributions 134, 136-139; Mining and Metallurgy...nos. 1-3. Ottawa, Canada. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Transactions vols. 49, 50. Montreal
Journal (issue)
within a skarn complex on privately owned patented mining claims which cover the mountain’s top, upper sides...their species. Specimen owners Arizona Mineral and Mining Museum Foundation Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum...east-central Arizona near the boundary with New Mexico. Copper deposits were discovered there in 1865...and the first claims were staked in 1872. Serious mining to exploit the rich near-surface copper carbonate... though they were certainly encountered during mining. It wasn’t until Phelps Dodge Corporation entered
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them and...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1
Book (volume)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...pageite read paigeite. for Algoma district read Sudbury District. in the left Itand figure in the...Institute Through February, 1918 as the American of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Technical Pubhcations:...Pubhcations: no. 1, 1927-date. InstiInstitute of Mining Engineers. Title varies: Proceedings; tute of Metals
Book (edition)
dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....(2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado. AM. 63. 930-937. 1978. 4...New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO Mexico, at Kellogg, Shoshone co., Idaho, and at Som(8E...weakly = = l = = = = brerete, Zacatecas, Mexico. In small crystals at Jachymov, Bohemia, Czech...Margarita Is., munic. Mulehge, Baja California, Mexico. Nephrite is a massive actinolite variety, usually
Book (edition)
and lore of stones, descriptions of occurrences, mining and cutting techniques, or market and price data...Birefringence Mapimi, Tsumeb, Tsumeb, Laurium, Mexico S.W.A.(Cu) S.W.A.(Co) Greece 1.722 1.742 1.722...copper, in lovely blue and green shades. Mapimi, Mexico: fine sprays of crystals in limonite matrix. Tsumeb...Mine, Michigan; Lake Superior district, Ontaria, Canda; Guererro, Mexico; also from Chile, Germany, Sweden...blue or green. Rarely found in England. Southern Mexico produces golden yellow material. Burma: brownish
 
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