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Acanthite from
Ridgway Mine, Galena Mountain, Howardsville, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, 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 Ridgway Mine, Galena Mountain, Howardsville, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:380701
Long-form Identifier:1:3:380701:9
GUID (UUID V4):d8337748-e15b-40dc-bfdc-c9e5fe749ed2
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Little Maud Occurrence, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Gold Nugget, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) Buffalo Boy Mine, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Green Mountain Mine, Cunningham Gulch, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
5.0km (3.1 miles) Howardsville, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Great Eastern (Silver Wing; Frederica; Monitor; Sioux City), Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Sunnyside Mine group, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
13.6km (8.5 miles) Champion Mine, Cinnamon Pass, Park Mining District (Sherman Mining District), Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
14.0km (8.7 miles) Golconda Mine, Galena Mining District (Henson Creek Mining District), Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
14.4km (9.0 miles) Poughkeepsie, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
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The Triangle of Colorado Mountains of Minerals Contributors David W. Bunk, Robert B. Cook, Don Earnest... Contents PAGE4 PAGE 10 4 The San Juan Triangle of Colorado Ho for the San Juans! by Duane A. Smith, Mark...ocated in southwestern Colorado and covering over 31,000 square kilometers, the San Juans are some of the...not until the last 25 years of the 1800s that the San Juans began revealing the extent of their mineral...In 1896 world-renowned mining engineer Thomas ''T.A." Rickard called the San Juans one of Colorado's
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Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October 2014 PART 1 Downloaded...Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October 2014 A Historical...Historical Overview of t h e District and the Smuggler Union and Associated Mines and Veins of Marshall Basin... Inc. 1441 West 46th Avenue, Suite 14 Denver, Colorado 80211 n 1875 Co\orado was still a territory awaiting...Soptemberl0ctob.r 2000 319 Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October
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August 2013 BARBARA L. MUNTYAN P.O. Box 495 Ouray, Colorado 8 I427 hodochrosite, a manganese carbonate with...botryoids at San Luis, Argentina. Rhodochrosite has also been found in many localities in Colorado, particularly...particularly in the mines of the San luan Mountains in the southwestern part of the state. It occurs in colors...it i s one of the most recognized and coveted Colorado minerals. partiY DO e the presence of a mix...occurs in significant amounts in many mining districts of the Colorado mineral belt, a large, elongated,
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Flats Wilderness Study Area, western San Juan Mountains, Colorado* by Ken Hon, Dana J. Bove, and V. J...S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado, 80225 STUDIES RELATED TO WILDERNESS Bureau...Ouray and Hinsdale Counties, Colorado. SUMMARY The western San Juan Mountains, including the American...south-central Colorado during Oligocene and Miocene time. The earliest volcanic activity in the western San Juan...the largest of these centers is the Uncompahgre-San Juan caldera complex and the associated Silverton caldera
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Marvin Hanner Additions to the Ore Mineralogy of Colorado.................................................by Donald Grybeck Crystallized Minerals of the Colorado Mineral Belt....................................had achieved considerable fame, and the right to mine diopside was obtained that year by G eorge L. English...thereafter. In 1971 both the land and the right to mine diopside were purchased by the present owners, Schuyler...Alveum, R obert Dow, and G eorge Robinson. T he mine is now being worked interm ittently each year for
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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...William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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Mineral Dossier No 25 Silver Compiled by J. M. Ridgway, BSc, PhD, CEng, MIMM Minerals Strategy and Economics...Bibliography 97 ll,LUSTRATIONS Fig 1 Former silver mining areas and silver occurrences in the United Kingdom...Fig 8 United Kingdom production of silver, by county: 1861-1870 85 Table l World primary silver resources...resources 16 Table 2 Selected EEC mining operations with silver-bearing base metal concentrate production...silver-containing batteries 80 Table 10 United Kingdom mine production of silver: 1851-1982 83 Table 11 United
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............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ....................................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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I.M.E., Mining Geology Geophysics Div. Ann. Mtg., Min. Br. Abs.-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical...Metallurgical Engineers, Mining, Geology,. and Geophysics Division Annual Meeting, Mining Branch Abstracts....New York. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers Transactions...of Mines Bulletin; Mineral Information Service. San Francisco, Calif. Calif. Jour. Mines and Geology-California...Mines and Geology. San Francisco, Calif. Calif. Oil Fields-California Oil Fields. San Francisco, Calif
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Thordarson & Armann HosJ...-uldsson 4. Cana,)' Islands Juan Carlos Carracedo & Simon Day 5. The north of Ireland...a world leader in the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers...player in world zinc produ.:tion. Th· development of mining tin particular during the 18th and 19th centuries)...continue unabated despite there n '" being , ·~- link mining acti,·ity in Britain or Ireland. My original intention...onNewMinerals,Nomenclature andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto
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up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...preferred position. in the figure labeled 461 San Jose, Bolivia, for the brachydome v read w. insert...pageite read paigeite. for Algoma district read Sudbury District. in the left Itand figure in the
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anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...Miners' Association Cal St :M Bur California State Mining Bureau Can G S Canada, Geological Survey Can :M...Adams (F D), 18 Federal Government, relation to the mining industry: Hayes, 06 Fossil insects: Cockerell,...to geology: Davis ( W M), 12a Geologic bases of mining law: De Kalb, 10 Geologic basis for artesian prediction:...relations: Branner, 90a; relations to successful mining: Winslow, 9lc Geological work in the Southwest:
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Crossroads: Lyons, P. L., 4. Gilbert H., 10. Colorado, South Silverton area: Expanding horizons: Lay...the future: Just, E. ing: Burwell, E. B., Jr., 4. Mining geology, retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson...Moody, C. L., 3. 19th, 1952 : Alvarez, M., Jr.,6. Mountain-building, chronology, Iowa, ground water, geologic..., 11. D. J. Rocky Mtn. geosyncline in Canada: Colorado Plateau: Wengerd, Warren; P. S., 4. S. A., 6.... Landform interpretation, stereoSearch for new mining districts: Nolan, T. B., 1. pairs: Powers, W. E
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DIVISION Director OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO OLAF San Francisco P. 11 JENKINS, Chief BULLETIN...rewhich was publi.shed as Bulletin 67 of the State Mining Bureau. vision by the same author in 192-3 increased...specimens in the exhibit of the Division of Mines at San Francisco carry the letters S.M.B., and the specimen...either of the authors or to the Division of Mines in San Francisco. It would be impracticable to acknowledge...aboriginal tribes in the northeast corner of San Bernardino County in pre-historic times. The old workings
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said to have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small...and Geology mineral exhibit in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME...BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines and Geology Francisco, 1966 CA 94111...Counties of California: Minerals and mineral lists Mining Districts of California Unvalidated entries in...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch
Book (edition)
PAGE Extraction of Metals and Minerals 398 Mining, 398; Milling, 1+10; Smelting, 1+11+; Refining...and as such was taught as one phase of mining in the early mining schools. As greater attention was paid...tive industries. The early kinship with mining, and metal mining in particular, with which economic geology...specialized subdivision of economic geology known as mining geology which deals especially with the problems...problems of ore deposits and their relation to metal mining and, to some extent, with metallurgy. This relation
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Extended treatment is not accorded metallurgical and mining processes under mineral co1nmodities. This book...and as such was taught as one phase of mining in the early mining schools. As greater attention was paid...extractive industries. The early kinship with mining, and 1netal mining in p articularJ with which economic geology...specialized subdivision of economic geology known as mining -geology, which deals especially with the problems...geology. The economic geologist functions early in mining operations when he is called upon to determine
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Advancement of Science A. I. M. E__ American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Aardrijksk__ Aardrijkskundig...cientifica Circular Classe classification Company, County Collections Committee Communications Comparative...Devonian development diagram Direcci6n Dissertation district distribution division Doctoral, Document Doctoral...Meteorological, etc. microscopic, etc. Mimeographed Mineral, Mining mineral resources Mineralogic, etc. Meddel_ _...Monatsheft Monatsschrift manuscript Mount Meeting Mountain Mountains Museo, Museum, etc. n______:_ new
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label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest Known Concentration of Copper Juan Carlos...Javier Ortúzar, Jorge Zamorano, Paticio Cuadra, Juan Hermosilla, and Cristian Spröhnle 105 John P....Chuquicamata District, Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern...± Molybdenum Deposits of the Ertsberg-Grasberg District, Papua, Indonesia Clyde A. Leys, Mark Cloos,
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REFERENCESAND BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX 205 TheGlenaieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, whichproduced many...Dumfries; Mr S. C. Brownlee of Cumnock and Doon Valley District Council; Mr R. Hunter and Mr Kevin Wilbraham of...Society and the Museum Trust of the Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead, to help defray publication costs...costs. Ala Lit-i11gsto11e ix Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, withtheDaisy Bellengine housein theforeground...aspects of which reflect a bygone metalliferous mining era in Scotland. The first part of this book details
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the site of a former landfill at Fort Carson, Colorado. Tellurium is a critical component for the development...potential environmental and health issues caused by the mining and processing of many mineral commodities may...the environmental considerations related to the mining of nonfuel mineral resources, including the modern...Chapter B. Environmental Considerations Related to Mining of Nonfuel Minerals By Robert R. Seal II, Nadine....B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s
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Institute of Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) in Philadelphia, USA. And, last but not least, I gratefully acknowledge... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mining Ore Deposits: Geological Factors, Economy and Politics...that have accumulated over millennia close to a mining area can contain hundreds of thousands of tons...Rothenberg has gained the interest of a number of mining engineers, geoscientists, chemists and metallurgists...collaborate in the exploration of early copper mining in these regions. He was the first to arouse interest
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MINERALOGY. kansas.^ ArHausmannite in the Batesville district, H. D. Miser and J. G. Fairchild, U. S. Geo- ...classed as braunite. The mineral forms a Batesville district marketed manganese ore and, being entirely free...from the typical braunite that is found in this district, large part of the as well as at practically...important ore-forming minerals of the Batesville district, this paper regarding it has been prepared. The...The manganese ores of the Batesville district consist of oxides, of which psilomelane, hausmannite, braunite
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Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit is...Mackenzie Published by THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton...Australia 3053 iii © The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1998 The Institute is not responsible...and Angela Spry for The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Printed by: RossCo Print Factory...Association Limited Papua New Guinea - Department of Mining and Petroleum Bureau of Resource Sciences Queensland
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