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Acanthite from
Hazel mine, Van Horn-Allamoore Mining District, Culberson County, Texas, 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 Hazel mine, Van Horn-Allamoore Mining District, Culberson County, Texas, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:198562
Long-form Identifier:1:3:198562:7
GUID (UUID V4):2bfd095c-6381-4973-8a49-ee771e7478f1
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
32.6km (20.2 miles) Plata Verde Mine, Van Horn Mountains, Hudspeth County, Texas, USA
53.4km (33.2 miles) Stokes prospect, Quitman Mountains, Hudspeth County, Texas, USA
References
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Texas mineral locality INDEX Whereas Texas is well known for its vastness, cattle industry, and oil...I T S T O P O G R A P H Y A N D G E O L O G Y , Texas, the second largest state, has produced relatively...famous localities. A s this article will show, Texas has had—or currently has—nu­ merous mineral occurrences...produce good specimens; yet when specimens from Texas are sought in collections and dealers' stocks, few...some basic facts that help explain the situation. Texas has very little federal land in its mineralized
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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
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HayesandEinaudi,1986). Clark and Scottand Kidson,1977). The mine area lies approxde la Fuente(1978) recognizeda northwest-trending...Chihuahuatroughalongdebed sequences in Trans-Pecos Texas(Price, 1982, collementsin underlying Jurassicevaporites...thicknessof at least 1,200 m. The basalCretaceous in the mine area are consistent with this east-northeast La...COMMUNICATIONS NEW MEXICO i "•,•I Paso TEXAS •5•Hazel Plata Verde N et al., 1986). The igneousrocksformed...westcoastof Mexico.The mainphase qfigneousactivityin Texas,between38 and32 m.y., involved widely scattered
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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...species hauckite (type locality: the Sterling Hill mine) was named in his honor in 1980, in recognition
Book
milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please... SULPHIDE LENSES IN ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS (Mackinaw Mine) Pentlandite, chalcopyritc, pyrite, raaucherite
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Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...sometimes in the field-Randy Becker, Norm Radford, Chris van Laer, Dr. Russell Boggs, Dr. Mike Menzies, and others...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.
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
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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...percent of the state. Nevada's public lands offer mining, livestock grazing, wild horse viewing, .scenic...Road and Geologic Tours in th<' Las Vegas Area. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91
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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..........Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C. Texas............Dr. William B. Phillips, Austin. Vermont...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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....................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................248 259 269 271 275 281 r 4 CONTENTS. Page. Texas...................................................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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settlement was initially spurred by the lead-zinc mining in its southwest comer, a heritage preserved by...several new localities, including the Flambeau copper mine near Ladysmith (Rosemeyer 1999, the Vulcan Materials...Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and the Wausau area (Falster 1987)...marcasite. A major mining district, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district, was in these rocks...barite, and copper minerals were found. Mining in this district ceased in the late 1970s. A branch of the
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instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
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Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...(only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection Introduction...Steve Mas]ansky Dale Armstrong Bill Besse Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum Paul & Barbara Matt Lauren...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...sell to wholesalers who will take them north to Texas and Arizona. One of the biggest developments in
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ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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................................ Killhope Lead Mining Museum Trevor Bridges 18 ........................moving. Sallie Bassham, the Librarian of the Northern Mine Research Society has kindly agreed to take over...field as you collect - Grid Ref, mine or quarry name, locality in mine or quarry, in situ or loose, diagram...including the geology, history of exploration, mining yesterday and today, mineral genesis and collecting...garn_et.Au and Ag account for 80% by value of the mining output. Petroleum 1scurrently under exploration
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-Sat. 10-5, Sun. 12-5 photo by Harold arid Erica Van Pelt, Los Angeles Publisher John S. White Smithsonian...Articles Famous mineral localities: the Les Farges mine ................................ 261 by A. Brousse...Brousse Pyromorphite from the Couer d’Alene district, Id a h o .......................... 273 by J. A. Crowley... Ferroaxinite from New Melones Lake, Calaveras County, California, a remarkable new locality...........Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof, Pretoria Belgium: Paul Van Hee Marialei 43 B-2120
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179 by Paul Tambuyser Yttrocrasite from Central Texas..............................182 by Wilson W. Crook...Leicester LE1 5XW South Africa: Horst Windisch, 30 van Wouw St., Groenkioof, Pretoria th e M in eralog...Tungsten Mine Trumbull, Connecticut The Long Hill tungsten deposit at Trumbull, Fairfield County, Connecticut...good crystals, is located in Trumbull’s Old Mine Park. Mining was never very prof­ itable and the town received...drinking water, a comfort station, and parking lot Old Mine Park is today an attractive and popular recrea­
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Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by...Africa: Horst Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof, Pretoria Belgium: Paul Van Hee Deuzeldlaan 16-bus...significant mineral localities in C o l o r a d o ,by county. In addition, there is a complete listing o f all...type localities, and an alphabetical cross-index by mine name. T INTRODUCTION In the Spring of 1976 a group
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101 Station Landing, Suite 300, Medford MA 02155, USA, Email: cs-journals@wiley.com, Phone: 781-388-8598...Petroleum Geologists, 1444 S. Boulder, Tulsa, OK 74119, USA, Email: bulletinsubscription@aapg.org, Phone: 918-584-2555...49-711-3514560 Exploration and Mining Geology Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, National...Wiley & Sons Inc 350 Main Street, Malden MA 02148, USA, Email: cs-journals@wiley.com, Phone: 781-388-8598...101 Station Landing, Suite 300, Medford MA 02155, USA, Email: cs-journals@wiley.com, Phone: 781-388-8598
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- MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY ~ NEW YORK CINCINNATI...TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE ' Copyright© 1983 by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. Library of Congress...Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. L35 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold...Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario Ml P 2E7, Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street...Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Limited Molly Millars Lane Wokingham
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location and means of access to all the metallic mining districts in the State, as well as a large number...documented summary of the beginning of Colorado mining history. Part of his summary is given here in the...had been recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed...however, because it contains lists of the mines and mining districts that were active at the time in Clear...only reports the early history and status of the mining industry, but includes a list of all the species
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MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI TORONTO...TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE* Copyright © 1983 by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Library of Congress Catalog...Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand...Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario Publishing M1P Van Nostrand Reinhold 17 Queen Street 2E7, Canada Australia...Australia Pty. Ltd. Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Limited Molly Millars Lane
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[evenings by appointment only] WULFENITE — RED CLOUD MINE (ED OVER SPECIMEN KEHA Wayne and Dona Leicht, 332... 92651 [714]494-7695 PHOTO BY HAROLD AND ERICA VAN PELT. LOS ANGELES J publisher John S. White -...copyright 1980 @ Articles The Defiance mine and vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona ..............203 by J. R............................211 The C. & B. mine, Gila County, Arizona .......................................213 by J. A. Crowley The Grand Reef mine, Graham County, Arizona ..............................219
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one-half inch across has lately occurred in a Colorado mine at a great depth. Beautiful greenish yellow trans...come to light. The anglesites from the Tintic District, Utah, are among the finest ever seen. They are...filled with a iquid, an interesting fact, since the mine is exceedingly dry, no water ever being taken from...black, has lately oc curred at the Copperopolis mine, and in very fine crystals. Pharma- cosiderite,...crystals I have seen, has also just been found at this mine. Some of these crystals are about \ inch across
 
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