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Acanthite from
Spain


Locality type:Country
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Silverⓘ70 photos of Acanthite associated with Silver at this locality.
Calciteⓘ38 photos of Acanthite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ22 photos of Acanthite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Bornite17 photos of Acanthite associated with Bornite at this locality.
Pyrargyrite1 photo of Acanthite associated with Pyrargyrite at this locality.
Miargyrite1 photo of Acanthite associated with Miargyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Spain
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:302403
Long-form Identifier:1:3:302403:4
GUID (UUID V4):f8d5b40d-0d29-4103-b49e-c529c5e0672a
Localities for Acanthite in this Region
Las HerrerĂ­as Mines, Las HerrerĂ­as, Cuevas del Almanzora, AlmerĂ­a, Andalusia, Spain
La Cena del Depósito concession, Cerro Minado Mines, Cuesta Alta, Huércal-Overa, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Mina Casualidad, Baños de Alhamilla, Pechina, Almería, Andalusia, Spain
Los Almadenes Mining Group, Alcaracejos, CĂłrdoba, Andalusia, Spain
Navalespino Group of Mines, Fuente Obejuna, CĂłrdoba, Andalusia, Spain
Espuela de San Miguel Mine, Villanueva de CĂłrdoba, CĂłrdoba, Andalusia, Spain
Minas El Centenillo, Baños de la Encina, Jaén, Andalusia, Spain
ChinipĂ­ mine, Canfranc, Huesca, Aragon, Spain
Teresita Mine, Riosa, Asturias, Spain
Minas del Horcajo, AlmodĂłvar del Campo, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Pozo Argentino, Minas del Horcajo, AlmodĂłvar del Campo, Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Hiendelaencina, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Santa Cecilia Mine, Hiendelaencina, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Majadillas mine, Pardos deposit, Pardos, Guadalajara, Castile-La Mancha, Spain
Berta quarry and mine, Sant Cugat del VallĂšs-El Papiol, VallĂšs Occidental-Baix Llobregat, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Prullans, Cerdanya, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain
Bosc de Poblet, VimbodĂ­ i Poblet, Conca de BarberĂ , Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Atrevida Mine, Bosc de Poblet, VimbodĂ­ i Poblet, Conca de BarberĂ , Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Tacha gallery, Atrevida Mine, Bosc de Poblet, VimbodĂ­ i Poblet, Conca de BarberĂ , Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Balcoll Mine, Falset, Priorat, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
San Francisco Mine, Horcajuelo de la Sierra, Community of Madrid, Spain
La Perla Mine, Montejo de la Sierra, Community of Madrid, Spain
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ASSEMBLAGES IN Ag AT THE PARDOS DEPOSIT, IBERIAN RANGE, SPAIN Isabel FANLO§, Ignacio SUBÍAS and Ester MATEO Cristalografía...Zaragoza, C/Pedro Cerbuna 12, E–50009 Zaragoza, Spain Abstract The Pardos deposit consists of a system...Cu–Ag veins located 185 km southwest of Zaragoza, Spain, in the western (Castilian) branch of the Iberian...freibergite, pyrargyrite, stephanite, polybasite and acanthite. Textural and compositional lines of evidence...dissolution-and-reprecipitation, Pardos deposit, Iberian Range, Spain. Sommaire Le gisement de Pardos, un systùme de
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existence of changes in pressure and/or temperature. Acanthite pseudomorphs after argentite In the classical...distinguished, cubic “argentite” and monoclinic “acanthite”. But the first study performed by X-ray diffraction...diffraction (Ramsdell, 1925) showed that argentite and acanthite had identical structures, and that therefore it...temperature above 173ÂșC, but always becoming acanthite, the monoclinic polymorph, when cooled below that...Santo Niño and Santa Elena veins were argentite. Acanthite formed as a primary mineral also discovered, and
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DEPOSITS IN THE POBLET AREA, SOUTHWESTERN CATALONIA, SPAIN CARLES CANET§ Departamento de Recursos Naturales...Universitat de Barcelona, E–08028 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain SUSANA JORGE Departamento de DidĂĄcticas EspecĂ­ficas...(EducaciĂłn), C/ Villadiego s/n, E–09001 Burgos, Spain ABSTRACT The Lower Llandoverian metasedimentary...the Prades Mountains, in southwestern Catalonia, Spain, consists of interbedded massive feldspar beds,...selenides, sedex, black shale, metamorphism, Catalonia, Spain. SOMMAIRE Les roches mĂ©tasĂ©dimentaires du Llandoverien
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
great silver-mining center of ancient times was Spain. The earliest reference to the Spanish deposits...province, and huge quantities of silver flowed from Spain to Rome. Pliny reported that the Iberian mines were...3. Sternbergite, 1.7 cm across, Hiendelaencina, Spain. Barbara Cureton specimen, Wendell Wilson photo... the Himmelsfurst, and the Elizabeth. In 1521, Spain conquered Mexico, and the world’s economy changed...with slave labor, made Spain the weathiest nation in the world. Charles V of Spain, who was the fortunate
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2016 Figure 2. An exceptionally sharp 4.2-cm acanthite paramorph after argentite from the Rayes mine...abundant acanthite. Many mines of the Colorado mineral belt contained important amounts of acanthite, although...whereas others that contained important amounts of acanthite produced no good specimens (Eckel 1997). Some...coated with acicular crystals of primary acanthite. Masses of acanthite to about 0.5 kilogram and groups of...Pelican-Dive mine (with later, apparently primary, acanthite crystals overgrowing earlier “isometric” crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ETSI Minas, c/ RĂ­os Rosas, 21, E–28003 Madrid, Spain Heinz-JĂŒrgen BERNHARDT Ruhr-UniversitĂ€t Bochum...chalcopyrite, polybasite-pearceite, argentite (now acanthite), and Au–Ag alloy (“electrum”). This Ag2S enrichment...(stromeyerite) or in a supergene redistribution (stage 8, acanthite II). Keywords: Pallancata, intermediate sulfidation...proustite–pyrargyrite, pearceite–polybasite, acanthite, uytenbogaardtite, Peru Introduction The Pallancata...miargyrite* Au-Ag alloy (electrum) uytenbogaardtite acanthite stephanite jalpaite* stromeyerite* mckinstryite*
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ba, Ca, Cu, Mg, Pb, Sb, Sr, Tl, V, W, and Zn. Acanthite and native silver occur along with pyrite in a...Keywords Hot spring mineralization . Todorokite . Acanthite . Native silver . Mn-stromatolites . Gulf of California...Granada-CSIC, Av. Fuentenueva s/n, 18002 Granada, Spain 1 Posgrado en Ciencias de la Tierra, Universidad...InstrumentaciĂłn CientĂ­fica of the Universidad de Granada, Spain. Quantitative WDS analyses of Mn oxides were conducted...MineralogĂ­a y PetrologĂ­a at Universidad de Granada, Spain. The mineralogy of silica deposits was verified
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other silver and lead sulfosalts; silver; gold; acanthite; and a wide assortment of other sulfide minerals...hexagonal crystals associated with proustite and acanthite in vuggy ore on Newman Hill, and in the Revenue... Mark Mauthner specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. acanthite, silver, quartz (amethyst), pyrite, and calcite...with pyrite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, acanthite, stephanite, electrum, and quartz. Elsewhere in...46 ROCKS & MINERALS to 0.5 cm occurred with acanthite, adularia, and quartz at the Summit King and Summit
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arsenic in amounts up to several percent. Pynte, acanthite, polybasite, and silver pseudomorphs after pyrargyrite...reported. It occurs as an alteration product of acanthite, dyscrasite, and silver. Pyrargyrite is relatively...suggest. It is commonly associated with proustite, acanthite, tetrahedrite, stephanite, miargyrite, polybasite...crystals to 2 cm associated with native silver and acanthite are reported from Batopilas, Chihuahua. Material...fine acanthite, polybasite/pearceite, and aguilarite. Pseudomorphs of both polybasite and acanthite after
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2 Department of Geology, University of Oviedo, Spain * Corresponding email: mercedf@geol.uniovi.es [Received...precious metal minerals are Ag-rich tetrahedrite, acanthite, argyrodite, pearceite-polybasite and Au-Ag alloy...tetrahedrite-tennantite, digenite, covellite and acanthite. Two types of veins/veinlets and fracture infillings...of galena, Ag-rich tetrahedrite, pearceite and acanthite. Where these inclusions were plucked during polishing...are silver sulphides and sulfosalts, such as acanthite, argyrodite (the Ge-bearing mineral) and the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
untarreplaced by various silver halides, ruby silvers, acanthite, and stephanite are known. Similarly, silver has...as wires Somerset County, and the Planten with acanthite at Silver Plume, and with Avenue and Prospect...of the Benton district, and silver wires with acanthite are during 2003 are the Mineral Section of the...rite have been recovered from the Silproustite, acanthite, millerite. and chalver King mine, Pinal County...solid sheet of silver silver associated with acanthite found in the La Rose mine at Cobalt was occurs
Journal (issue)
Barreiro, 1728) of the northern provinces of New Spain. Hispanic Society of America collection. THE BUSINESS...Record, 19 Figure 21. The Viceroyalty of New Spain and its various administrative centers, many of...NOWLEDGMENT W W E E REFERENCES E Conquest and Commerce Spain and England in Ores and Industry in South the...clusters of poker chip stephanite crystals, fine acanthite crystal clusters and a few very fine pyrargyrite... 1920). et al., MINERALS W Acanthite chispas Figure 5. Acanthite thumbnail crystal, 2.3 cm, from
Report (issue)
mine, Villaviciosa de Cordoba, Espiel, Cordoba, Spain. Fabre Minerals specimen and photo. An “Initial...mine, Villaviciosa de Cordoba, Espiel, Cordoba, Spain. It’s good to see such a fine lot from this major...==========================================ï‚„ Acanthite on quartz, 2.7 cm, from Guanajuato, Mexico. Mineral...update with some dazzling small specimens of acanthite from Guanajuato, most of them bargains for $200...feature razor-sharp, brilliantly metallic black acanthite crystals; some are thumbnail-size groups without
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
barian celestite) instead of galena. Selenian acanthite, cadmian freibergite, and argentian goldfieldite...famatinite/luzonite, cadmian freibergite, selenian acanthite, goldfieldite, argentian goldfieldite, covellite...covellite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, selenian acanthite, zincian tetrahedrite, cadmian freibergite, goldfieldite...goldfieldite and famatinite/luzonite. Selenian acanthite, cadmian freibergite, and argentian goldfieldite...<0.5 mole % FeS and up to 2 wt.% Cd. Selenian acanthite is the main silver carrier in the prospect and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GeolĂłgicas, Pedro Cerbuna 12, (50009) Zaragoza, Spain f Servicio General de IsĂłtopos Estables, Facultad...Ciencias, Plaza de la Merced s/n, (E-37008) Salamanca, Spain b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...the inclusions are mostly galena, polybasite, acanthite and native silver (Figs. 3a and 5b), with minor... pyrargyrite, freieslebenite, native silver, acanthite and minor arsenopyrite. In most cases, tetrahedrite...typically replaced by a rim of chalcopyrite and acanthite toward the edges, suggesting high contents of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Origin of the AtrevidaVein (CatalonianCoastalRanges,Spain)' Mineralogic,Fluid Inclusion,and StableIsotopeStudy...Barcelona, Mart(i Franques s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain E. CARDELLACH, Departmentde Geologia,UniversitatAutdnomade...UniversitatAutdnomade Barcelona,08193 Bellaterra,Spain D. M. RYE, Department of Geologyand Geophysics,Yale University...(JaumeAltoera),CSIC,Mart( i Franquess/n, 08028 Barcelona,Spain Abstract Atrevidais a Ba-F basemetal vein locatedin...142 ATREVIDA VEIN, CATALONIAN COASTAL RANGES, SPAIN 143 Introduction knownreservesof barite. It hasbeen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mine, Cornwall, England. Figure 16. Silver with acanthite (9 × 4.5 cm; D50716), Kongsberg, Norway. Hill...mine, near Bad Ems, Germany; native silver with acanthite from Kongsberg, Norway (9 × 4.5 cm; fig. 16);...from Baia Sprie, Romania (11 × 5.5 cm; fig. 17); acanthite and stephanite from Freiberg, Saxony, Germany;...Cumbria, England; dolomite from Eugui, Navarra, Spain; epidote from the Knappenwald, Salzberg, Austria;... Greenland; freieslebenite from Hienelaencina, Spain; manganite from Ilfeld, Germany; pyrrhotite and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carrer de Martí i Franquùs s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; acachoamgeo@gmail.com (A.C.); joan.carles.melgarejo...Carrer de Martí i Franquùs s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; artiaga@ccit.ub.edu Departement des Sciences de...Barcelona, Passeig Picasso s/n, 08003 Barcelona, Spain Departament d’Enginyeria Minera, Industrial i TIC...Avinguda de les Bases de Manresa 61–73, 08242 Manresa, Spain; maria.pura.alfonso@upc.edu Colegio de Geólogos...sulphosalts, oxides, phosphates, and Sulphides are acanthite [Ag S], arsenopyrite [FeAsS], bismuthinite [Bi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sheepranch, Calaveras County, and with skutterudite, acanthite, and annabergite at the Bishop silver-cobalt mine...Inyo County. A similar association of erythrite, acanthite, and skutterudite occurs in the Kelsey and O....Coahuila, where it is associated with native silver, acanthite, skutterudite, and proustite in veins cutting...in the La Encontrada mine, Granada, Andalusia, Spain. Figure 5. Spherical aggregates of erythrite to...same province, better known for its silver and acanthite specimens. Erythrite has been reported from a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the main precious-metal hosts. Stage IV barite–acanthite mineralization shows limited temporal overlap...the dominant hosts of Au and Ag, but Stage IV acanthite is an important Ag carrier, and is also enriched...was possibly deposited later during Stage IV as acanthite. with Stage III oxidation, as some vug-fillings...and goethite, or as intimate intergrowths with acanthite in vugs. 5.5. Stage V: supergene processes 5...barite and acanthite Stage IV, characterized by the crystallization of barite and acanthite, overlapped
Report (issue)
5.940(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Hiendelaencina, Spain. [ck??this for precisions of d’s??< ICDD??] 2.83... Total 98.78 100.00 100.00 (1) Hiendelaencina, Spain; corresponds to Ag1.14 Pb0.84 Sb1.20 S3.00 . (2)...Occurrence: Of hydrothermal origin. Association: Acanthite, pyrargyrite, silver, andorite, galena, siderite...crystals from Hiendelaencina, Guadalajara Province, Spain. In the Les Farges mine, near Ussel, Corrèze; Pontgibaud
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
-11.06 -10.2 Chalcocite Cu2S -19.1 -20.7 Acanthite Ag2S -7.7 -9.6 Troilite FeS -24.2 -24.3...Metacinnabar ZnS CdS HgS 794 746 726 Chalcocite Acanthite Cu2S Ag2S 555 528 Table 3. Ladd and Lee (1964...Metacinnabar Chalcocite Stibnite, ' bismuthinite Acanthite (pyrite, sphalerite, arsenopyrite)> pyrrhotite>...unrnetomorphoseddeposits 16 SIERRA DE CARTEGENA, SPAIN BUCHANS, NEWFOUNDLAND 14 RAMMELSBURG, GERMANY...coexistingsulfides. Galena typically contains deposits, Spain;Ryznar,et al., (1967) haveanalyzed the least S34
Book (volume)
Energía Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Madrid, Spain ISBN 978-3-031-18953-1 ISBN 978-3-031-18954-8 https://doi...ThinSectionLab, France; KGHM, Poland; Cobre Las Cruces, Spain, UPM-Consortium leader) is gratefully acknowledged...interstitial chalcopyrite. Py02, Moeche, Coruña, Spain 1.2 Classification Criteria for Textural Analysis...with evidence of deformation. AL-4, Almuradiel (Spain) (d + p) 14 1 Intergrowths and Textures Fig...xenomorphic inclusions of native silver (white) and acanthite (gray); the latter, also disseminated in gangue
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from magnetite-goethite-limonite to marcasite-acanthite, and finally to siderite after the primary minerals...with the formation of independent Ag–S mineral (acanthite), indicates that Au and Ag were significantly...minorcollected bornite, from covellite, marcasite, acanthite, and siderite. pyrite and ment zone the ore vein...goethite/limonite and minor sphalerite, galena, acanthite, and visible gold grains (Figures 3 and 4). Pyrite...minerals as marcasite, siderite, and oxides. Acanthite foundfound in the in secondary minerals such assuch
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Spaniards in 1517, the needs for minerals increased. Spain needed the gold and silver to finance its territorial...the Santa Eulalia area is uncertain. Records in Spain cite that silver was discovered in 1591 in the mountains...of the political unrest in southcentral Mexico, Spain withdrew most of its military forces from Chihuahua...but with MĂ©xico winning its independence from Spain in 1821, the Spaniards left the district and the...outbreak of the Mexican War of Independence from Spain (1810-1821). In the ensuing years the mines, mining
 
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