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Acanthite from
Green Mountain Mine, Cunningham Gulch, 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 Green Mountain Mine, Cunningham Gulch, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:492166
Long-form Identifier:1:3:492166:0
GUID (UUID V4):dccfc468-4533-4f06-b6c9-42a8643a376d
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
2.2km (1.4 miles) Buffalo Boy Mine, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Gold Nugget, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
4.3km (2.6 miles) Howardsville, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Ridgway Mine, Galena Mountain, Howardsville, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
4.9km (3.1 miles) Little Maud Occurrence, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
11.7km (7.3 miles) Great Eastern (Silver Wing; Frederica; Monitor; Sioux City), Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
11.8km (7.3 miles) Clyde Long property, Elk Park, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
11.9km (7.4 miles) Sunnyside Mine group, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
12.0km (7.4 miles) Zuni Mine, Anvil Mountain, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
13.9km (8.6 miles) Brooklyn Mine, Brown's Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
References
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Report (issue)
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
Book
MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40...MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna...Mines and minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index...index. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Colorado. 2. Mines and mineral resources—New Mexico. I. Kennedy, Marrianna...enter must be obtained to prevent trespass. Old mine workings are dangerous and entering underground
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Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan What’s new in Colorado minerals? ...................................... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ......................................................... 339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
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Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of...especially Fischer and others, 1946). MINERALS OF COLORADO: A 100-YEAR RECORD By EDWIN B. EcKEL ABSTRACT
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.3 COLORADO. of COLORADO. J. S. l GEORGETOWN, COLO. GEORGETOWN COURIER PRINT. 1887. 3 Bancroft...From a mineralogical point of view the wealth of Colorado exceeds that of In the metallic minerals almost...to in the following pages Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society. Proceedings of the Academy...the U. S. Geological Survey. J. GEORGETOWN, COLORADO, January, 1887. S. RANDALL. : MINERALS...gravel of streams and in veins. The veins of Gilpin County are especially noteworthy for the amount of gold
Report (issue)
Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961).
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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...MICHAEL J. GOBLA 19055 East Bethany Place Aurora, Colorado 80013 gobla@copper.net Unless otherwise noted...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded
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Carbonate-Hosted Sulfide Deposits of the Central Colorado Mineral Belt DAVID W . BEATY, GARY P . LANDIS...paralle l to host-rock bedding. Black Cloud mine, Leadville district. Sherman-type ore (bottom) in paleokarst...dolostone fragments (dark gray), white tabular barite. green sphalerite , and pyrite aggregates in a light hrownis11-gray...veined with ferroan dolomite. rv1oose mine, North Alma district. Photographs b)' \Villiarn Sacco, Peabody...Carbonate-hosted sulfide deposits of the central Colorado mine ral belt: Introduction, general discussion,
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Ontario Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol.
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. ..... 483 W. E. Wilson The Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona ............ .. ........... ......... .... ..... 507 L. Presmyk The Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona .................................. 531 W. E. Wilson & M. Hay The Carlota Mine, Gila County, Arizona ............................. .....Wilson & E. Jones Fluorite from the Oatman District, Mohave County, Arizona ............. .... ..... 569 M...M. Hay & D. Morris The Bagdad Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ............. ..........................
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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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............................................. 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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Mineral Localities: The Erupción/Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico ....................Front Cover WULFENITE from the Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico; 6.6 cm across. Norm...gathering around a natural amphitheater amid the mine buildings and headframes in order to hear what we...Mexico-II having been devoted to the famous Ojuela mine). Covered here are four more important and prolific...and Arizona Company, then managed the New Cornelia mine at Ajo with great success. While still working for
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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
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P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining at the College of California, parent to the University...California, and published in the fourth and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning in 1914 with a volume...Nevada and the Klarnath Mountains provinces. These mountain regions , together with the Basin Ranges and Mojave...are reported by county of occurrence. Map 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible...Meridian (M.D.M. Mount Diablo Meridian;S.B.M. - San Bernardino Meridian; and H.M. - Humboldt Meridian)
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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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KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...Society, supported gem and mineral shows around the county as a museum exhibitor and speaker, and served on... He started his own company, Phoenix Mineral & Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley... | w w w. FineMineral.com Tourmaline Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil. 19.5 cm Fine Minerals International proudly
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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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Ta~co Famous mineral localities: The Trucco mining district, Taxco de Alarcon, Guerrero, Mexico .........:Refugio Jlline Famous mineral localities: The Refugio mine, Municipio de Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico .............Front Cover Smithsonite, 4 cm wide, from the Refugio mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico. William Dameron collection;...that were collected and stored more carefully. The mine is still being actively worked today, as the city...IV: (2004, vol. 35, no. 6) San Pedro Corralitos, Amatitlan, San Francisco mine Mexico V.· (2008, vol. 39
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^ '“ P r . . . I West Orange SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY 9048 00992838 7 257989 R q549...P. Blake, professor of mineralogy, geology and mining the at College of California, parent to the...mineralogist of California, and pub- and sixth State Mining Bureau reports. Then beginning volume prepared...Nevada and the Klamath Mountains provinces. These mountain regions, together with the Basin Ranges and Mojave...species are reported by 1-2 shows the county boundaries and county names. When possible, locations of mines
Report (issue)
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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Hazen The best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec ........ .......................COVER: GROSSULAR crystals to 2.8 cm with pale green diopside on syenite matrix from the Jeffrey quarry...1972, and considered to be the finest known Jeffrey mine grossular specimen. Marco Amabili collection; James...York, Pennsylvania (Chester County), Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Washington, Colorado (two), New Mexico (the Bingham...Bingham Canyon mine), Nevada, Arizona (two), Mexico, Brazil, Northern England, Cornwall and Devon, Ste-Marie-aux-Mines
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. . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ...Henderson, Jr. COVER: ACANTHITE after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...his name to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Friends and admirers of Al who would like...comptroller of the fund), 625 Market Street, Suite 802, San Francisco, CA 94105. Checks should be made payable
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$315/three years, (Canada) $180/ one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...Brett Kosnar & Family David E. Ellis (2012-2018) Juan Fernandez-Buelga (2016-2017) Matt Zukowski Alex...September-October, 2018 Ctontento The Schneeberg Mining District, Western Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany ........(1716). The engraving depicts various historical mining scenes at Schneeberg including the famous 1477... Wilson6 and Thomas P. Moore7 The Schneeberg District in the famous Saxon Erzgebirge of Germany has
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino.......... 87 by T. Moore T he S ilv e r m in es district, C o u n ty Tipperary, I r e l a n d ...........microthin coating of bomite, 5.7 cm, from the Flam­ beau mine, Ladysmith, Wisconsin. William Larson collection;...Asbestos, Quebec, for $475, a couple of exquisite green apophyllite miniatures from India for $95 each,...Weardale fluorite miniature for $140, a beautiful 79 mine aurichalcite (2.75 inches) for $140, a Zambian libethenite
 
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