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Polybasite from
Silver King Mine, Comstock Wash, Kings Crown Peak area, Pinal County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Polybasite
Formula:[Ag6Sb2S7][Ag9CuS4]
Comments:Fine specimens from the upper levels.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Polybasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Silver King Mine, Comstock Wash, Kings Crown Peak area, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:129853
Long-form Identifier:1:3:129853:6
GUID (UUID V4):1c7c6085-b6d5-4280-8185-5cd712bb6733
References
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Report (issue)
itty nf l\rt~nttU iullrtttt ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS OF ARIZONA By FREDERIC W. GALBRAITH...(Revised) ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES, GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN NO. 153 One dollar (Free to residents of Arizona) PUBLISHED...PUBLISHED BY lIlniul'r.lluy nf Arizuna TUCSON. ARIZONA SERIES No. 17, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION...bulletin will be forwarded to the Arizona Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This description of the minerals of Arizona has been largely compiled from publications and manuscripts
Report (issue)
Residents of Arizona MINERALS OF ARIZONA by Frederic W. Galbraith and Daniel J. Brennan THE ARIZONA BUREAU...UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON FOREWORD As a service about mineral matters in Arizona, the Arizona Bureau of...University of Arizona, is pleased to reprint the long-standing booklet on MINERALS OF ARIZONA. This basic...Dr. Frederic W. Galbraith, as a bulletin of the Arizona Bureau of Mines. It has moved through several editions...released in its Fourth Edition as Bulletin 181, Arizona Bureau of Mines. The comprehensive coverage of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Polybasite Downloaded by [Northeastern University] at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa...this rather informal family is polybasite, a relatively common silver ore mineral that is rare as fine...fine specimens. Although the most familiar polybasite localities are in Mexico, exceptionally fine specimens...have been available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping...Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice specimen. Polybasite is typically
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
acanthite paramorph after argentite from the Rayes mine, Guanajuato, Mexico. Francis Benjamin specimen,...1878); the Baker quarry near Billmeyer, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where it occurs as an alteration...well-known Silver Hill occurrence in Davidson County, and the McMakin mine in Cabarrus County (Genth 1891);...Virgilina district, Halifax County, Virginia (Dietrich 1990). The great silver occurrences of the American...although it was apparently sparse in some famous silver districts, such as Leadville, whereas others that
Report (issue)
No. 1 Arizona State Bureau of Mines Bulletin CHARLES F. WILLIS, Director Directory of Arizona Minerals...THE University of Arizona TUCSON, ARIZONA 1915-16 DIRECTORY (Compiled OF ARIZONA MINERALS from...district, Cochise County; Gila County, at Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in Mineral Park;;...Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty; Yavapai County, in ores of Bradshaw Mountains; Yuma County, in...district; common in silver veins. ANTIMONY ORES. See Jamesonite and Stibnite. ARGENTITE (silver glance). Mohave
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tucson, Arizona 8snl and WENDELL E. WILSON MinerabgimlRecord 4631 Psseo Tubutama Tucson, Arizona 85715...TERRY From antiqbi@, the quest for silver and, more recently, for silver minerals has M e n expbrers, conquerors...beautiful herringbone plates from Batopilas. Silver and silver-bearing minerals are part of the nobility...associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great wars. Silver is said to have magical purifying...turn lead to silver (both of these myths are partially true!). To the mineral collector, silver minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
featured proustite, an arsenic ember of the major ruby-silver family (Cook 1996). The species was chosen because...and historical importance as an ore mineral of silver, well-crystallized specimens of pyrargyrite have...several Mexican occurrences. Ideally, pyrargyrite is silver antimony sulfide (Ag3SbS,). Most analyses show...up to several percent. Pynte, acanthite, polybasite, and silver pseudomorphs after pyrargyrite are reported...alteration product of acanthite, dyscrasite, and silver. Pyrargyrite is relatively widespread as a low-
Report (volume)
See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby...Shelby County, near Whiting Station and Calera; Talladega County, in several places. Bauxite. Cherokee
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/County, Arizona...Tucson .. The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, r982, 1995 Arizona Board of Regents All rights...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona/ John W. Anthony ... [et al.]; Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals-Arizona. I. Anthony, John W (John Williams), 1920-. QE375...HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish Rule Arizona as a
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA,FOURTHEDITION V e a o_ of li rizo TI RAYMOND W. GRANT RONALD B. GIBBS...CALLAHAN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON f -- The University of Arizona Press www.uapress.arizona...arizona.edu © 2022 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserYed. Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4358-8...McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
Book (edition)
/BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings...Peter Kresam and Richard Graeme . Mineralogy of Arizona John W. Anthony, Sidney A. Williams, and Richard...Richard A. Bideaux AN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors... JoHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona, where he rose
Book (edition)
0.C D.?~•.!~'J..~5 ~!~.~J.RY Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee...Richard A. Bideaux THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors . .. JOHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the Uni~ersity of Arizona, where he rose...Gem and Mineral Society, and the University of Arizona. SIDNEY A. WILLIAMS has authored or co-authored
Book (edition)
OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian...by Ed Over. Chip Clark photo. MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA THIRD EDITION W. Anthony Joh n Sidney A. Williams...of Arizona Press / Tucson The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, 1982, 1995 Arizona Board...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona / John W. Anthony . . [et al.] ;Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals—Arizona. QE375-5-A6M56 I. Anthony, John W. (John Williams)
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (volume)
........................................ 10 Arizona..................................................Minerals of Arizona, their occurrence and association: A report to the Governor of Arizona, Tucson, 1909...mineralogy of Arizona, Easton, The Chemical Publishing Co., 1910. Willis, C. F., and others, Arizona State Bur...Bur. Mines Bulls. 1-8, 1915-16. Comstock, T. B., A preliminary examination of the geology of western...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...Loneliest Road and Geologic Tours in the Las Vegas Area. Digitized by the Internet Archive In 2022 with...Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...COLOR PLATES (following page 242) Gold, Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Paao ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District...District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite...Quartz, 14.2 cm across, Newbeny Mountains,Clark County. Steve Scott specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...Clinotyrolite spray, 3.4 mm across, Lovelock mine, Churchill County. Figure 2 (bottom). Wulfenite, 1.1 mm high...high, Chalk Mountain, Churchill County. Dan Behnke specimens and photos. Hot Springs Iron meteorite
Report (issue)
ArijÂŁoua iulltUu ARIZONA, BUREAU OF MINES ARIZONA ZINC AND LEAD DEPOSITS PART I ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES... PUBLISHED BY linhttrsitg of Ari!ona TUCSON, ARIZONA April, 1950 Vol. XXI, No.2 ){ninf,faiil1 of.... _______ ._. ______________ . __ Governor of Arizona MARION L.BROOKS, B.S., M.A_ (ex officio) ____ State...____________Vice-President of the University, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS Committee: R. L. NUGENT, Chairman; P. S....PIllLLIPS; D. S.POWELL; M. VORIS; M. P. VOSSKUHLER. ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES' STAFF T. G. CHAPMAN, Director
Report (issue)
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Ill II II I Ill 11111111111111111 A15016713866 MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS...3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...Loneliest Road and Geologic Tours in th<' Las Vegas Area. Mining and the discovery, identification, and...Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91 121 Gregory
Journal (issue)
THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ! RIZONA~VI CONTENTS Arizona-VI (Introduction) ............. ... ................ 483 W. E. Wilson The Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona ............ .. ........... ........... .. ........ 484 W. E. Wilson The Arizona Silver Belt; Silver King to McMillenville ...................... ..... 507 L. Presmyk The Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona ............................. ......531 W. E. Wilson & M. Hay The Carlota Mine, Gila County, Arizona ............................. .. ..
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Original Article Yerranderie a Late Devonian Silver–Gold–Lead Intermediate Sulfidation Epithermal District...Volcanic Complex host the Yerranderie epithermal silver–gold–lead district 94 km west–southwest of Sydney...faultcontrolled, intermediate sulfidation, epithermal silver–gold–base metal vein system that has significant...galena–chalcopyrite–native silver–pyrite assemblage, and finally a pyrargyrite–polybasite– pearceite assemblage...Peaks–Silver Peak mine area, whereas arsenopyrite, which is present in both the Colon Peaks–Silver Peak
Report (issue)
1 COUNTY REPORT HYSICAL >ci 8 PHYSICAL •CI. .Lib. IES TN 24 C3 1ERAL RESOURCES OF A34 1 IPINE...IPINE COUNTY, CA! IA -*ci?2®^?^a£~Vfes^A^Gw^i I ver Mou nta i nV-*- Digitized by the Internet...ALPINE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA by WILLIAM B.CLARK With sections on the Zaca gold-silver mine and the...the Leviathan COUNTY REPORT sulfur mine by James R. Evans 8 1977 CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND...2 i DOCS. -US Frontispiece. Typical Alpine County scenery. View looking southeast across Twin Lakes
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........ Black Colt mine.......................................... Comstock mine............................. Lady Franklin mine....................................... Superior mine.........................mines..................................... Iron King mine........................................... Brush...States mines......................... Ingersoil mine........................................... 1 1...deposits Continued Gypsy mine............................................... Virginia mine..................
Report (volume)
the Lawson-DumontFall River District Clear Creek County Colorado By C. C. HAWLEY and FRANK BAKER MOORE...important Central City-Idaho Springs mineralized area UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...of the Lawson-Dumont-Fall River district, Clear County, Colo. 2. ~ap showing major faults (veins) of the...analysis of biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss, Almaden mine _____ -------------- ________ ----------_ 4. Modes...THE LAWSONDUMONT-FALL RIVER DISTRICT, CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, COLORADO By C. C. HAWLEY and FRANK BAKER MooRE
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depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...____________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami districts...Miami districts, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome______________________________ 213 Ray, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_______________...Ransome_______________ 216 Morenci, Arizona. _________________ ___ 217 Ely, Nevada, by A. C. Spencer_________________...Mexico. ____________________________ 225 Ajo, Arizona _________________________ 226 Silverbell, Ariz
 
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