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Acanthite from
Bishop Mine, Chocolate Peak, Inyo County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Comments:Occurs in small amounts with Ni & Co minerals.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bishop Mine, Chocolate Peak, Inyo County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:478198
Long-form Identifier:1:3:478198:1
GUID (UUID V4):fb85b91a-92a3-4ec9-9163-cf6b29e1edaa
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
34.4km (21.4 miles) ⓘMirage-Mariposa Mine (Wooley Mine; Golden Mirage & Mariposa claims; Golden Mirage Mine; R&R claims), Black Canyon Spring, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
35.6km (22.1 miles) ⓘKaty prospect (Katy Nos. 1 & 2), Sierra View, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
36.9km (22.9 miles) ⓘBlack Canyon Mine (Sanger; Flora; Mineral Point; Carol J; Hope Group; Eagle and Westward Eagle), Sierra View, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
45.0km (28.0 miles) ⓘKearsarge Mine (Kearsarge group; Cliff Mine), Kearsarge Peak, Kearsarge Mining District [1], Inyo County, California, USA
49.5km (30.8 miles) ⓘBull Domingo Mine (Domingo Mineral Company; Gator No. 2 prospect), Index Hill, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
49.9km (31.0 miles) ⓘWilkerson Mine (Hole In the Wall Mine; Lost Hope Mine), Index Hill, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
59.3km (36.8 miles) ⓘCliff Mine, Sentinal Peak, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
60.8km (37.8 miles) ⓘSilver Reef Mine (1), Banner Ridge, Chidago Mining District, Benton Range, Mono County, California, USA
62.1km (38.6 miles) ⓘReward Mine, Reward, Russ Mining District, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
63.5km (39.4 miles) ⓘMammoth Consolidated Mine (Mammoth Mine; Crystal Craig Mine; Argosy group), Mammoth Lakes, Lakes Mining District (Lake Mining District; Mammoth Mining District), Mono County, California, USA
References
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localities as the old cobalt mine at Great Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut; the Franklin...mines, Sussex County, New Jersey; the old Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County, New York;...in Lebanon County, the French Creek iron mines and Wheatley lead mines in Chester County, and the Dyer...Berks County. It is reported from the Alberene and Old Dominion soapstone quarries, Albemarle County, Virginia;...in the Martin mine of the Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc district, Lafayette County, Wisconsin; and
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7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
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MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
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Moore Tpmoore1@cox.net The Guatomo (“Hat Yai”) mine near Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province...731 . by M. P. Sacchi The Santa Rosa mine, Inyo County, California ......................................SCORODITE crystal, 1.6 cm wide, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. Unique Minerals...$315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...in the area of the No. 1 shaft at the Pyơminskij mine near Berezovsk. Figure 29. Workings along veins
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Universitesi] at 11:52 22 December 2014 Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece E rythrite, an attractive...green encrustations on chloanthite at the old cobalt mine dumps below Great Hill near the East Hampton–Portland...Jackson County, North Carolina. It has been reported from the Fredericktown district in Madison County, Missouri...with nickel arsenides in the Mohawk No. 2 mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan. Annabergite has been found at...district, Custer County; the Gem mine at Gem Park, Fremont County; Elk Park, San Juan County; and with uraniferous
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PP. 539-45 Silver mineralization at Sark's Hope mine, Sark, Channel Islands R. A. IXER Department of...minerals pyrargyrite, pearceite, polybasite, and acanthite. Gangue minerals are hematitic quartz, calcite...Sark's Hope mine on Little Sark was the most important and, indeed, was the only metalliferous mine in the...which includes sections and" maps of Sark's Hope mine and an extensive list of mineral species. Their...mineralogical and paragenetic study is that of Bishop et at. (1977) on one specimen, BM 1964R, 440 from
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...mineral localities: The Bishop copper prospect near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia . . . . . ...Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...770-973-3632, E-mail: jcgray@gsu.edu Southern California Chapter Visit our website at www.mineralsocal...mineral localities: THE BISHOP COPPER PROSPECT near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia Henry Barwood
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radiating structure. Opposite: gold on quartz from California. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 7 THE MINERAL KINGDOM...states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area...area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico. Treatment...from South Africa, Above: Gold on quartz from California. Such a specimen would command very high prices
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deposits of the Miocene Bodie Hills Volcanic Field, California and Nevada Edward A. du Bray1,*, David A. John2...Survey, MS 901, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, U.S.A. 3 Department of Earth Sciences...Survey, MS 910, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, U.S.A. 5 U.S. Geological Survey, Reno...Bodie Hills volcanic field (BHVF), astride the California-Nevada border north of Mono Lake, is one of the...north of Mono Lake, in western Nevada and eastern California, represents a large (>700 km2), long-lived (~9
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museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology...crystal form. Other crystals Wulfenite (Arizona, USA) 29 may show lesser symmetry on a scale at the...over its beer: to go underground in a non-working mine is sheer folly unless you are accompanied by someone
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MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines
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through the region, headed for the gold fields of California on a trail from Salt Lake City, Utah. A few of...compared to the expectations of what was ahead in California, so the prospectors moved on, but not before...home state), Alec Henderson, JackYount, and John Bishop staked placer claims, 50 feet wide by 400 feet...historian. His great-great uncle, James G. Fair; was mine superintendent at the Comstock. 382 ROCKS & MINERALS...find out what the blue sand was and continued to mine until the sand turned into a decomposed mass of
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pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan...from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced most of the rare minerals, ceased...(Smith, 1988) and a modification of that in the "California Locality Index" (Kampf et al., 1989). I have...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991)...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence
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logical sequence to the discovery of gold in California. Gold was first discovered in Nevada in the Washoe... by Mor­ mon emigrants. They had started for California too early and upon reaching the Carson River...below where silver was afterwards found in the Ophir Mine. Worth about $13.50 an ounce, the gold deteriorated...mentioned throughout this paper is principally acanthite, Ag2S, originally believed to be argentite.£Vi...the "blue-stuff." That fall the Groshes went to California in search of funds and returned in the spring
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Mineral Resources of the Silver Peak Range Wilderness Study Area, Esmeralda County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL...Mineral Resources of the Silver Peak Range Wilderness Study Area, Esmeralda County, Nevada By WILLIAM J. KEITH...Mineral resources of the Silver Peak Range Wilderness Study Area, Esmeralda County, Nevada. U.S. Geological...mineral resources Nevada Silver Peak Range Wilderness. 2. Silver Peak Range Wilderness (Nev.) I. Keith...part of the Silver Peak Range Wilderness Study Area (NV-060-338), Esmeralda County, Nevada. CONTENTS
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] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF... Chief BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia,...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...JenlCalifornia, Chief of the Division of Mines. Minerals of California is one of the Division's
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Benleonardite, a new mineral from the Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico C. J. STANLEY, A. J....the disused Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Mexico. The associated minerals are acanthite, hessite, an unnamed... KEVWORDS: benleonardite, new mineral, Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Mexico, reflectance data, X-ray data...AJC) from the spoil tips of the abandoned Bambolla mine (also known as Mina La Bambolla and Mina La Moctezuma;...43' W.). It is associated with native silver, acanthite, hessite, an u n n a m e d Ag4TeS mineral, pyrite
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copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...140mm (5œ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to...secondary cementation origin in association with acanthite, stephanite, proustite, pyrargyrite, copper and...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica... 48 mm, El Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on
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Amethyst Vein System, Sari Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Colorado-Federal Center, Bldg. 810 ‱ MENLO PARK, California-Bldg. 3, Rm. 3128, 345 Middlefield Rd. ‱ RESTON...Amethyst Vein System, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado By NORA K. FOLEY, STANTON W. CADDEY,...Amethyst vein system, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado / by Nora K. Foley . . . [et al.]. p...ores—Geology—Colorado—Mineral County. 2. Ore deposits—Colorado—Mineral County. I. Foley, N.K. II. Series
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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...Philadelphia. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought huge numbers of gold seekers to California, and some of...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands
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deposits in coastal hydrothermal springs in the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico Augusto Antonio RodrĂ­guez-DĂ­az...Bahia Concepcion Bay of the central-eastern Baja California Peninsula. Hot spring activity is related to...are associated with the opening of the Gulf of California. The hot springs are hosted by Miocene volcanic...Ba, Ca, Cu, Mg, Pb, Sb, Sr, Tl, V, W, and Zn. Acanthite and native silver occur along with pyrite in a...mineralization . Todorokite . Acanthite . Native silver . Mn-stromatolites . Gulf of California Editorial handling:
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of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ..................... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M....Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
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CoronaCorporation)beganto intemperaturealteration,and peak thermal metamor- vestigatethe preciousmetalpotentialof...Australia; and Renco, Zimbabwe. For these the Calumet mine (Goranson, 1925; Moorhouse, depositsthere is controversyas...Varndell, 1986), or in association transitionzone (mine series,Fig. 2) betweenfootwall with (Walfordet al...whichwasalreadyin productionat that time separatedfrom the mine seriesby a fault or shear (Gauthieret al., 1985;...metamorphism followedby de- Hangingwallamphibolites Mine series & &gneisses limit of calcite-diopside alteration
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31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...COLOR PLATES (following page 242) Gold, Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with...Conichalcite Gold, Round Mountain Mine Quartz, Lovelock area Acanthite Grossular, Nightingale district
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miles) bordering the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes) in the west to 2,805 kilometers...Plain , and Baja California (Fig. 1) produced specimens from such places as the La Fe Mine in the state of...Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the state of Baja California Sur. There are excellent opportunities for discovering...Tehuantepec, the Gulf Coastal Plain, and Baja California. (Modified from Berstein, 1964, front cover;...surface in large caves. Some of these caves and mine stopes were so large that it was said that the cathedral
 
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