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Acanthite from
Keystone Mine, Phillipsburg Area, Chloride Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA


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 Keystone Mine, Phillipsburg Area, Chloride Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1302053
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1302053:6
GUID (UUID V4):0a46ae32-fc07-403d-abd6-1f1a41ec1085
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
1.1km (0.7 miles) Great Republic Mine, Phillipsburg Area, Chloride Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Alaska Group, Grafton Area, Chloride Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Little Granite Mine (Mima Mine), Grafton Area, Chloride Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
14.1km (8.8 miles) Wall Street Mine (Nana Mine), Chloride, Chloride Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
14.9km (9.3 miles) White Mountain Mine (Apache Mine), Chloride, Chloride Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
15.6km (9.7 miles) New Era Mine, Chloride, Chloride Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
15.7km (9.8 miles) Silver Monument Mine (Silver Monument group; Black Range tunnel; Patented claim Silver Monument; Unpatented claims Cuba Libre; Oversight Nos. 1 and 2; Connection Nos. 1 and 2), Lookout Mountain, Chloride District (Apache District; Phillipsburg District; Black Range District), Black Range, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
30.8km (19.1 miles) Venus No. 1, San Jose District, Socorro County, New Mexico, USA
33.4km (20.7 miles) Pelican Group, Hermosa Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
33.7km (21.0 miles) Nana Mine, Hermosa Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
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Mineral Belts in Western Sierra C:ourlty, New Mexico, Suggested by Mining Distri.cts, Ceologyt and c... Mineral Belts in Western Sierra County, New Mexico, Suggested by Mining Districts, Geology, and Geochemical...on mineral belts in western Sierra County, New Mexico, indicates many new areas favorable for mineral...1921Mineral belts in western Sierra County, New Mexico, suggested by mining districts, geology, and geochemical...and mineral resources-New Mexico-Sierra County. 2. Geology-New Mexico-Sierra County. I. Heyl, Allen Van
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it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland
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Mexico ineralogical Record November-December 2003 ❖ Volume 34 Number 6 ❖ $20 Wayne & Dona Leicht,...Angles Mexico Special Issue III Los Lamentos Famous Mineral Localities: The Erupción/Ahumada Mine, Los...Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico ...................................... 4 by W. E. Wilson Fresnillo...Famous Mineral Localities: Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico .............. 36 by T. C. Wallace & M. K. Hall-Wallace...Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico .............. 55 by W. Lieber & Gerhard Frenzel Sierra de Cruces (Lake Jaco)
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Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll... The Cameron Area 85 Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona
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....................................... 102 District of Columbia .......................................... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
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should be arranged in alphabetical order, from Acanthite to Mylonite. (The front covers of Treasures of...free throughout the series, as they are needed. NEW ZEALAND Subscriptions Telephone (09)308 2871, fax...It was extracted from the Earth at the Pedra Alta Mine, San Geraldo do Baixio (Brazil). Below: A brooch...Washington DC (USA), who made a particular study of the geology of Crestmore in Riverside County, California...pale blue calcite and greenish brown vesuvianite (Mexico). Left Creamy white foshagite on a base(matrix)
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secondary phosphate minerals. Although some pegmatite mining for feldspar still continues (Jacobson 1994). the...the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in the... However, some mining, mineral exploration, and mineral collecting continues. and new finds will likely...the most complete location guides to mines in the area are those provided by the U.S. Bureau of Mines (1954...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl
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of weishanite, (Au,Ag,Hg), from the Keystone mine, Colorado, USA. LUCA BINDI1,*, FRANK N. KEUTSCH2 AND...University, 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA-02138, USA CNR-IOM-OGG, 71 Avenue des Martyrs, F-38043 Grenoble...the first time from a crystal from the Keystone Mine, Colorado, USA. The structure was solved in the space...orebody in the biotite granulite of the Poshan mining district, Tongbai, Henan Province, China (Li et al....pyrite, galena, sphalerite, pyrrhotite, scheelite, acanthite, native silver and native gold. Li et al. (1984)
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