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Acanthite from
Hecla Mine, Bradshaw Mining District, Beaver County, Utah, 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 Hecla Mine, Bradshaw Mining District, Beaver County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:181641
Long-form Identifier:1:3:181641:9
GUID (UUID V4):5ee5dc79-4adc-43c7-bce6-1399796d3cf4
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
4.2km (2.6 miles) Cave Mine, Bradshaw Mining District, Beaver County, Utah, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Lincoln Mine, Lincoln Mining District, Beaver County, Utah, USA
8.0km (5.0 miles) Beaver View Mine, Granite Mining District, Beaver County, Utah, USA
19.3km (12.0 miles) Prospects Northwest of Hearn Well, Star-North Star Mining District, Star Range, Beaver County, Utah, USA
24.6km (15.3 miles) Hoosier Boy Mine, Star-North Star Mining District, Star Range, Beaver County, Utah, USA
28.2km (17.5 miles) Sheeprock Mine, Newton Mining District, Beaver County, Utah, USA
37.6km (23.4 miles) Horn Silver Mine, Frisco, San Francisco Mining District, Beaver County, Utah, USA
37.9km (23.6 miles) King David Mine, San Francisco Mining District, Beaver County, Utah, USA
39.2km (24.4 miles) Drum Mine (Drum Shaft), San Francisco Mining District, Beaver County, Utah, USA
39.9km (24.8 miles) Washington Mine, San Francisco Mining District, Beaver County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Northeastern University] at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers...have been available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping...this year’s Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, a Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...other silver and lead sulfosalts; silver; gold; acanthite; and a wide assortment of other sulfide minerals...Colorado occurrences include mines of Clear Creek County, particularly in the Georgetown area, where it
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with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
untarreplaced by various silver halides, ruby silvers, acanthite, and stephanite are known. Similarly, silver has...2014 occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of...Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more
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with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives...Native copper crystal group, 13.6 cm, from an unknown mine in the Michigan Copper Country. Richard A. Kosnar...(1929) is considered to be the classic for the district. Many of these works are currently out of print...and research will serve as an overview of the district and as a framework from which interested persons...location and associated geology of the mines in the district. Historical and production information is summarized
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specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality...across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side
Journal (issue)
which is hosted by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and organized by the New Mexico...San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with his son Phillip is actively exploring the mine for minerals...minerals. The San Pedro Mine is perhaps best known for producing beautiful specimens of finely crystalline...Phillip have also developed a surface exposure at the mine to produce some very nice, single, sceptered quartz...during the last year: a presidential election in the USA, more lands closed to public use, mineral localities
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11 October 2014 A Historical Overview of t h e District and the Smuggler Union and Associated Mines and...history have called Leadville the quintessential mining camp of the frontier. If that is true-and it probably...Telluride was the scene of many encounters that the mining frontier had with its own destiny. From its struggle...here, too, the goals of frontier precious-metal mining shifted in midtwentieth century as the quest for...125 years of mining, are still capable of inspiring wonder at the inventiveness of the mining men and road
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WASHINGTON November 2, 2013 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...to see and enjoy. 5:00 pm Dinner will be at the County Buffet in Vancouver. Please join us if you can...look at it that it has grown bristly hairs of acanthite, silver sulfide? The samples are dry, and the... Of course, that suggests that the growth of acanthite on native silver could require some sort of tiny...“Filiform ilmenite crystals from Lemolo Lake, Douglas County, Oregon”, N. Jb. Miner. Abh. 187/1, 97-99 (2010)
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Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine, wellcrystallized baryte...of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar” 7 The Homestake Mining Company 8 “Pirate’s Treasure...Paradise 11 Mineralogy and Paragenesis Bulldog Mountain Mine 11 Six Stages of Mineraliza�on 18 Minerals Overview
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine, wellcrystallized baryte...of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar” 7 The Homestake Mining Company 8 “Pirate’s Treasure...Paradise 11 Mineralogy and Paragenesis Bulldog Mountain Mine 11 Six Stages of Mineraliza�on 18 Minerals Overview
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine, wellcrystallized baryte...of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar” 7 The Homestake Mining Company 8 “Pirate’s Treasure...Paradise 11 Mineralogy and Paragenesis Bulldog Mountain Mine 11 Six Stages of Mineraliza�on 18 Minerals Overview
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine, wellcrystallized baryte...of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar” 7 The Homestake Mining Company 8 “Pirate’s Treasure...Paradise 11 Mineralogy and Paragenesis Bulldog Mountain Mine 11 Six Stages of Mineraliza�on 18 Minerals Overview
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mail : Wydar8®aol.com Ortoher 2000 eD_enver Mine rnl News Continued from page 1 net size. Francois...rate req uests to Mine ra l News, P .O . Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene , ID 83816 -2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448...supply of Japan law twin quartz from Pampa Bl anca Mine. Peru. These are singles and matri x specimens up...there were large clusters of amethyst from the Anahi Mine, Bolivia. These are not the ametrine crystal s but...cobaltian calcite w ith primary malachite from Kakanda Mine. Kakanda Prov ince. Congo with cobaltian calcite
Report (volume)
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...Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania.... .Mr. R. R. Hice, Beaver. Prof. Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Rhode Island...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Pty Ltd, Hobart Cover photo: Crocoite, Adelaide mine, Dundas [Photo: A. Wright] Rear cover: Bismuthinite...Bismuthinite on quartz and siderite, Princess mine [Photo: A. Tuma] Cassiterite on quartz, Blue Tier [Photo:...Mount Bischoff [Photo: A. Tuma] Siderite, Renison mine [Photo: J. Leeming] While every care has been taken...Geology of Tasmania… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Mining in Tasmania … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … William...Mineral descriptions… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Acanthite to Azurite … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Baileychlore
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...production of environmental protection equipment. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...to Nevada in 1929 and was actively involved in mining in the state and the western U.S. for the rest
Report (issue)
by secondary processes. Association: Silver, acanthite, tetrahedrite, other silver sulfosalts, calcite...Mountains, at St. Andreasberg; and in the Himmelsfürst mine, Erbisdorf, near Freiberg, Saxony. From Hiendelaencina...In the USA, in Nevada, at the Comstock Lode, Virginia City, Storey Co., in the Hecla Rosebud mine, Rosebud...Rosebud district, Pershing Co., and from the Reese River district, Lander Co.; in Idaho, in the Poorman...Poorman mine, Silver City district, Owyhee Co. In Canada, from Cobalt, Ontario. In Bolivia, at Colquechaca,
Book (edition)
Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
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cultural standpoint. These are localities rich in mining history and regional flavor; the old drifts and...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...2 Germany An historical perspective on silver mining in G erm any.................. by W. Lieber and...Islet Famous mineral localities: the Silver Islet mine, O n ta rio ............... 49 by W. E. Wilson ...Batopilas Famous mineral localities: the Batopilas District, Chihuahua, M e x ic o ......................
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Mineral Localities: The Erupción/Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico ....................Front Cover WULFENITE from the Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico; 6.6 cm across. Norm...gathering around a natural amphitheater amid the mine buildings and headframes in order to hear what we...Mexico-II having been devoted to the famous Ojuela mine). Covered here are four more important and prolific...and Arizona Company, then managed the New Cornelia mine at Ajo with great success. While still working for
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Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations, tungstenite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...V anadiun1 l\'line, l\fagnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas is Reclaimed and Collecting Ceases...Located on the east rim of Magnet Cove, the Christy Mine, fonnerly known as the Christy brookite locality...the day that open-pit mining would reveal its expected buried treasures. Mining by Union Carbide for vanadium
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have been exposed by recent or currently active mining operations. The following disContinued on page...Gold Quarry Mine, Eureka County, Nevada. from the Radersburg District, Broadwater County, Montana Mike...small wulfcnite crystals found at the Broadwater County, Montana (Sec. 28, T 5 N, R 1 W), some interesting...article. Type I is an acicular Jo Dandy Mine, Radersburg District, •? Continued on page 4 Fig. 1 Aragonite...(Type 2 curved in center) 1/ 8 inch long, Jo Dandy Mine, Montana, photo by Al Leber. 2 Mincrnl Nc"·s
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................... Utah...................................................to refer to Geological 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 that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Book
T. J. Bornhorst, P. Brandes, R. Clark (Cliffs Mining Services Co.), B. C. Cornilsen, R. V. Dietrich...helpful suggestions throughout the project; to Ashton Mining of Canada, Inc. and Crystal Exploration, Inc.,...APPENDIX I: MICHIGAN MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITS FEATURING MINING, MINERALS, ROCKS, AND FOSSILS .......................243 APPENDIX II: MINERAL SPECIES LISTED BY COUNTY ...............................248 ABOUT THE AUTHORS...Oronto Group a.. 3: co w C: _J 0 0 Marquette Iron District, Baraga and Marquette Counties diabase dikes
 
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