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Acanthite from
Banner Mine, Gold Circle Mining District (Midas Mining District), Elko County, Nevada, 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 Banner Mine, Gold Circle Mining District (Midas Mining District), Elko County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:195926
Long-form Identifier:1:3:195926:0
GUID (UUID V4):012bd208-25e9-441a-8883-8f676ec10564
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Rex Mine, Gold Circle Mining District (Midas Mining District), Elko County, Nevada, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Saint Paul Mine (Banner-St. Paul Mine; Banner group), Gold Circle Mining District (Midas Mining District), Elko County, Nevada, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Elko Prince Mine, Gold Circle Mining District (Midas Mining District), Elko County, Nevada, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Eastern Star Mine (ASARCO Star claims), Gold Circle Mining District (Midas Mining District), Elko County, Nevada, USA
23.9km (14.8 miles) Hollister deposit (Ivanhoe/USX; Butte; Velvet; Clementine), Ivanhoe Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
31.1km (19.3 miles) Chimney Creek Mine (Chimney Prospect), Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
38.2km (23.7 miles) Dee Mine (Boulder Creek Mine), Bootstrap Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
39.2km (24.4 miles) Getchell Mine, Adam Peak, Potosi Mining District, Osgood Mountains, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
45.4km (28.2 miles) Betze-Post pit, Lynn Mining District, Eureka County, Nevada, USA
47.1km (29.2 miles) North Commonwealth mine, Tuscarora Mining District, Elko County, Nevada, USA
References
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MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
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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
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commonly show cubic, octahedral, less available than gold, and from that and dodecahedra1 faces. Parallel...Complete solid solution exists between silver and gold, proceeding relationship between the production...varieties aurian silver and argentian gold (electrum) to gold. Mercurian ment of Andean countries, detailed...untarreplaced by various silver halides, ruby silvers, acanthite, and stephanite are known. Similarly, silver has... occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal
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were some of the words used to describe a lluorite mine in the San Andres Mountains of New Mexico. The author...location for a possible collectin_g ve~ture. The mine was determined to be the Bohrnstedt lluonte mme...for us to reach the mine. This was accomplished and we eventually reached the mine (which included a hike...crystals covered the mine area and it appeared that no one had visited the mine since the U. S. Army...Army had closed the area in the 1940s. The "mine" was really a prospect as it consisted of a trench cut through
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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...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART
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Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St.... Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S:...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART
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Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a member of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...become mineralogist for Silver King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge Corporation as...noted for computer applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express
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his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a men1ber of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...become mineralogist for Silver King Mines, Inc., in Nevada. In 1965 he joined Phelps Dodge Corporation as...noted for con1puter applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and
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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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McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral
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KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...2023 Articles The Bairendaba Deposit, Keshiketen District, Inner Mongolia, China................................363 by C. J. Stefano The Nakhlak Mine, Anarak District, Esfahan Province, Iran...................only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...(deceased) Peter L. Via (deceased) SENIOR FELLOWS Gold Level Scott A. Rudolph (2022) Gail & Jim Spann
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Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root
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there is new work afoot at the famous Red Cloud mine in the Trigo Mountains, in the southwestern part...backgrounds on the history of wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, see the essay by Szenics just quoted (“Ed Over...headed by Wayne Thompson (“Bonanza at the Red Cloud mine,” in the SeptemberOctober 1996 issue). The Thompson...notable wulfenite would be found at the Red Cloud mine. But 14 years ago Robert Bell, a mineral collector...collector who lives in Kansas, purchased the mine anyway, and now he has contracted for experienced field man
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Tpmoorel@cox.net A gold specimen from the Spanish Dry Diggings, Eldorado County, California, and a little...with Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See the article...mineral room wall. And in 2016 we began presenting gold medallions-large pins with a magnetic clasp--that...very rare loose crystal. Ossining, Westchester County, New York. wckport, New York. Ex. Coll. : New...DENVER MART EXPO HALL ROOMJ53 BARITE 20.3 CM XIEFANG MINE , GANZHOU PREFECTURE , JIANGXI PROVINCE , CHINA
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University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Proustite DELORES MINE, CHANARCILLO, CHILE 344 ROCKS & MINERALS I ... 3 3 3 3 3 3 Figure I. Proustite, Delores mine, Chanarcillo, Chile. Chanarcillo proustites are...most desirable for the species, and the Delores mine is the best known of the old workings there with...the Banner district, Boise County; the Lava Creek dis­ trict, Butte County; the Atlanta district, Elmore...Elmore County; scat­ tered mines in Shoshone County; and the Carmen Creek dis­ trict of Lemhi County (Ream
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ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu © f the Ore deposiits...1 MAR 06 200 MAR 2 ¥ 2001 | NEVADA STATE LIBRARY CARSON CITY, NEVADA Digitized by the Internet Archive...(1933) AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME AIME TRANSACTIONS MINE PLANT VOLUME 112, MILLING METHODS (1933) (1934)...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND
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Earle and Drever, 1983; Pirlo and Giblin, 2004), and gold deposits (Grimes et al., 1995). However, groundwater...deposit is located in the Baiyinchagan district, Hexigten Banner, in northeastern Inner Mongolia, China...the groundwater occurring in the mountainous mining district mainly accepts aerial precipitation recharge...the groundwater can directly permeate into the mining pits from fissures zones. As disclosed by the drill...from the fracture zones at the 3th and the 4th mining level of the Weilasituo Zn-Cu-Ag deposit at a depth
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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...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...noted) (top row, from left) Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection...Amethyst scepter, 17 cm, from Petersen Mountain, Nevada; Brianna and Brendan Traw collection. Barite, 7...Ron Zeilstra collection; Michael Bainbridge photo. Gold, 1.2 cm, from Ikabaru, Bolivar, Venezuela; Tom Cooper...Philadelphia. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought huge numbers of gold seekers to California, and
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s...fine minerals on DVD wilensky Fluorite, Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Wilensky Fine Minerals...within a skarn complex on privately owned patented mining claims which cover the mountain’s top, upper sides...Minerals from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona Chapter authors: Les Presmyk
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....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................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
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May–June, 2017 Contents The St. Andreasberg Mining District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany.......................... 302 History 1487–1624: Mining Begins in the Oxidation Zone ................................. 315 Modernization and the End of Mining ................................... 317 Collecting...working in the lode” (Simonin, 1869). The Mining District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany...minrecord@comcast.net The geographically tiny St. Andreasberg District of silver mines has an outsized reputation: it
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and Duncan mining districts, Grant and Hidalgo Counties, New Mexico, and Greenlee County, Arizona By..... Mining districts, mines, and mineralization............................. Steeple Rock district......subdistrict................................... Duncan district.................................................mines and prospects in the Steeple Rock and Duncan mining districts.. Aeromagnetic map of Brushy Mountain...summary of exploration and mining activity in the Steeple Rock and Duncan mining districts............. Production
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Denver, Colorado USA © 2009 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 • Denver, CO 80211 • USA Phone 1.303.495...plwto Plldi.wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt............................ 4 BY ALFREDO PETROV Mining, Politics, and Tumult: A Brief Look at Bolivian...BY JAROSLAV HYRSL AND ALFREDO PETROV The Poopo District ................................................in Oruro ... 26 BY ROBERT B. COOK The Morococala Mine ...............................................
 
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