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Acanthite from
Santa Rosa Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile


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 Santa Rosa Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:546656
Long-form Identifier:1:3:546656:6
GUID (UUID V4):04578814-4d37-4e7d-a0a7-c8feb6773c5c
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Dolores 3 mine (Dolores Tercera mine), Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
0.2km (0.1 miles) Bocona Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
0.5km (0.3 miles) Colorada Mine (Corrida Colorada Mine; Colorado Mine), Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
0.5km (0.3 miles) Constancia Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
0.7km (0.4 miles) San Blas Mine, Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
0.7km (0.4 miles) Rothschild mine (Rothschils mine), Copiapó, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
22.3km (13.8 miles) El Jardín mine, Sierra Jardín, Pabellón, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
25.0km (15.5 miles) Los Bordos Mine, Elisa de Bordos, Pabellón, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
33.4km (20.7 miles) Alacrán Mine, Alacrán, Pampa Larga mining district, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
33.8km (21.0 miles) Jote Mine, Pampa Larga mining district, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Atacama, Chile
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Au-Ag EPITHERMAL VEIN SYSTEM, ANTOFAGASTA REGION, CHILE GIUSEPPE ARFȧ AND MARIA BONI* Dipartimento...Ag-sulfoselenides, Ag-sulfoantimonides, Ag-sulfosalts, and acanthite, as well as by base metal sulfide minerals including...weathering zones of porphyry Cu deposits in the Atacama region. Keywords: Capricornio, epithermal, Au-Ag...INTRODUCTION The Antofagasta region in northern Chile hosts many of the world’s significant porphyry Cu...owned by SQM Inc. (Sociedad Quı́mica y Minera de Chile), hosts a low-sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag vein system
Journal (issue)
The Guatomo (“Hat Yai”) mine near Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province, Thailand ............................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...in the area of the No. 1 shaft at the Pyšminskij mine near Berezovsk. Figure 29. Workings along veins... The Guatomo (“Hat Yai”) mine near Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province, Thailand Marco P. Sacchi
Book (volume)
ERAL INDEX Acanthite San Juan de Reyes Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 52 Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango...47 (Cuproadamite with Ferrolotharmeyerite) Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 22 Apophyllite (on Stilbite) Jalgaon...Malachite) Liu Feng Shan Mine, Anhui Prov., China, 18 (& Malachite) Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, 32, 38-39...Quartz) Yaoganxian Mine, Chen Zhou, Hunan Prov., China, 56 Calcite (on Fluorite) Elmwood Mine, Elmwood, Tennessee...India, 40 (on Copper) Quincy Mine, Houghton Co., Michigan, 49 Wenshan Mine, Wenshan Autonomous Pref,, Yunnan
Book
Pefloles, Compania Minera Fresnillo, and Compaii.ia Santa Rosalia, who aJlowed me to photograph, gather samples...specimens from such places as the La Fe Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the state of Baja California...places as Mapimi in the state of Durango; Naica and Santa Eulalia in the state of Chihuahua; and Zacatecas...CALl[NTCS ... I MI ( Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein...University of New York, Albany) Figure 4. The mineral province of Sonora. (Modified from Berstein, 1964, back
Book
Pefioles, Compafiia Minera Fresnillo, and Compania Santa Rosalia, who allowed me to photograph, gather samples...specimens from such places as the La Fé Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the state of Baja California...places as Mapimi in the state of Durango; Naica and Santa Eulalia in the state of Chihuahua; and Zacatecas...WIC ' ' (OSE INSET) Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein...Mexicali Show & Nensengdo Figure 4. The mineral province of Sonora. (Mod ors ified from Berstein, 1964
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
C. After the Punic Wars, Iberia became a Roman province, and huge quantities of silver flowed from Spain...in June 1859 and was shown to be acanthite. Thus, the famous Ophir mine was born. For a time, the Comstock...hot and wet. Square-set stoping was developed to mine bonanza orebodies more than 100 feet wide and subsequently...kilograms (1 metric ton) was found at the Smuggler mine. Pearceite was a principal ore in the district,...directly to the smelter. The legal machinations of mine owners at Aspen set an important precedent in mining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Patagonia, Argentina: response to subduction of the Chile Ridge Richard H. Sillitoe 1 Received: 22 March 2018...massif during early stages of subduction of the Chile oceanic-ridge spreading center at the Pacific margin...oxidation in both the Deseado massif and Atacama Desert of northern Chile was the result of Cenozoic uplift...massif, up to 30 myr of supergene activity in the Atacama Desert were coming to an end because of the onset... Epithermal Au-Ag deposits . Tectonic uplift . Chile Ridge . Deseado massif Introduction Supergene sulfide
Book (edition)
complicates identification (e.g., argentite-acanthite). - The Compositional Series notes related minerals...due to decreasing temperature (e.g., argentite-acanthite). • Lamellar pressure twins, commonly of equal...(medium grey, large grain) to form an argentite/acanthite reaction rim (darker grey); the formation of such...forms yes strong red Stilleite Mottramite Acanthite Hollandite mosaic and polysynthetic Crednerite... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
district lies in the Department of La Libertad, Province of Otuzco, in the northern part of Peru. From...the vicinity of Milluachaqui and are penetrated by mine workings. Local Structure: The veins at Milluaehaqui...decreased slightly with depth, and even in the principal mine, La Guardia, values in both elements nearly disappear...original deposition under thermal conditions. The acanthite is interpreted as an inversion of originally deposited...hypogene or supergene systems, the presence of acanthite pseudomorphing octahedral argentite (intergrown
Journal (issue)
not be reliable, for information about from which mine they came. Most will have forgotten but often will...erroneous detailed location data. The Sweet Surrender mine near Story is located near the northwest end of...Show. We might have done better buying a bucket of mine run quartz and cleaned it at home. These run from...Castoral are now mining the Clear Creek Crystal mine near Oden, west of Lake Ouachita on the Ouachita...Stu thinks they are better than Sweet Surrender mine and he is probably right. Stuart is a true wholesaler
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite. Hell Canyon...Canyon subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek...(chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite, gold, hematite...stolzite. Wilcox district, S. of Mogollon. Lone Pine mine: emmonsite, khademite, lannonite,* mackayite, poughite...poughite, rajite,* tellurium, wilcoxite.* Sacaton mine, Blue Rock and Bit Spar prospects: fluorite. Volume
Catalog/List
1-1/4xl-3/4" $ 20.00 3. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico Superb pale blue-white...excellent form. 2x3xl-1/2" $ 15.00 4. ACANTHITE Rayas mine, Guanajuato, Mexico Superb lustrous dark...dolomite. 2x3x3/4" $ 50.00 15. CALCITE Mandawaska mine, Bancroft, Ontario, Canada Select dark tan 4 mm...matrix. 1-1/2xl-3/4" $15.00 CERARGYRITEChanarcillo, Chile Choice pure dark olive-brown compact vein section...native silver $ 85.00 CERARGYRITEChanarcillo, Chile Select dull brown drusy micro crystals covering
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carriers, were found to be transformed into acanthite. Acanthite was also found locally in association with...identified as uytenbogaardtite (Ag3AuS2), and/or by acanthite, with both of the replacing minerals commonly...collected from surface exposures and underground mine levels. The mineralogy was determined from polished...radiation. X-ray powder data of uytenbogaardtite and acanthite were obtained using the Debye-Scherrer method...observed in the mineralized bodies cut by underground mine galleries (500, 550, 600, 650, and 690 m.a.s.l.)
Report (issue)
ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...in Oruro ... 26 BY ROBERT B. COOK The Morococala Mine ..................................................Deposit: A Pre-Columbian Gem Mine ........... 80 BY ALFREDO PETROV The Anahi Mine ..........................(Chacaltaya, about 5,100 meters), the highest metallic ore mine (Chorolque, up to 5,450 meters), and so on. But
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...low-Mg), barite, todorokite, romanechite, pyrite, acanthite, native silver, Miner Deposita montmorillonite...6O10 (n = 3, ESM, Appendix 1). Silver minerals Acanthite and native silver, associated with pyrite, were...were identified by SEM-EDS (Fig. 6). Acanthite and native silver occur as disseminated, small grains (2
Book
table, surrounded by minerals from [the] Ojuela [mine].” Saturday Evening Post, 1927: George Kunz, mineral...cluster of aguilarite crystals from the San José mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, in the Terry Wallace collection...I didn’t, and then I couldn’t work anymore.” Santa Rosa, Guanajuato, 1998: I visited a miner’s house...house in the small mountain town of Santa Rosa, where many miners live. He showed me 5 Introduction a box...buildings, and in people’s houses. The miner in Santa Rosa who presented minerals to the Baby Jesus follows
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
displacement of 1200 m near Las Torres mine and of 1700 m at the Valenciana Mine. The Veta Madre vein was discovered...of the southern portion of the Basin and Range province is also shown (modified after Henry and Aranda-Gómez...southernmost part of the Basin and Range Tectonic Province (Henry and Aranda503 Ore Geology Reviews 101...± 0.8 Ma) located to the north of the town of Santa Rosa (Fig. 3), immediately north of the district that...diagenesis (e.g. Gifkins et al., 2005). Near El Cubo mine the Calderones formation includes thin (3–5 m thick)
Report (issue)
Cordillera' Porphyry Copper Deposits from Alaska to Chile Dear Field Trip Participants: On behalf of the...Talapoosa and Olinghouse districts and the Gooseberry mine. Northeast of Lovelock we pass through Roberts'...Oil Co. Westley Mines and joint-venture partner Santa Fe Pacific Minerals Company have recently explored...GOOSEBERRY mine is located about 9 miles to the south of this point. Production at the mine is from an...K-Ar methods . Ore minerals include native gold, acanthite, electrum and native silver. Sparse pyrite, chalcopyrite
Journal (issue)
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....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro...and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now owned outright by the Federal Government
Journal (issue)
2009 Articles Topaz from near El Chaltén, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. . . . . . . . . . ....cm (4 inches), from the Morro da Mina manganese mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Probably...2008 issue for his article on the Mockingbird gold mine). Like the rest of us on the staff, he will be striving... 2009 5 Topaz from near El Chaltén Santa Cruz Province, Argentina Robert Brandstetter Auweg 1, A-2831...until around 1869; it was divided in 1881 between Chile and Argentina. Despite Patagonia’s enormous size
Catalog/List
(2 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm) 81B06 STILPNOMELANE, Sterling Mine, Antwerp, N.Y. (a) very nice (7 x 11 cm) Botryoidal...millerite spray) ••• $20.00 81B07 CHALCOCITE, Magma Mine, Superior, Arizona. Sharp (1 mm) chalcocite crystals...above more than one crystal •.. $22.50 81B12 ACANTHITE, Ag s, Saint Andreasberg, Harz Mts., East Germany...Germany. (a) excellent 2 x 2 3 x 2 cm acanthite paramorphic after argentite crystal cluster. Cuba-octahedral...calcite coating ••• $80.00 (b) solid "dendritic" acanthite reminiscent of copper from Ray, Arizona (1.5 x
Journal (issue)
typically abraded specimens you’ve found in the old mine dumps. And you’ve probably looked long and hard...Everyone has heard repeated warnings about entering old mine workings. But, face it, those deep, open shafts...commonality: They can be very dangerous. Each year mine rescue specialists and conventional search and rescue...Statistically, shafts are the most dangerous part of any mine; 90 percent of all accidents and entrapments in...disturbed. In the narrow confines of an underground mine, shattering timbers can be as deadly as the rock
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1988) or Gold Deposits from the Sonoran Desert Province (Pérez-Segura, 1993); nevertheless, previous names...dissected by the current extensional Basin and Range province, and originated in the active North American...basement rocks and, most especially, with the province of Yavapai Paleoproterozoic granitc rocks, and...Also, the same authors postulate that the Yavapai province represents a crustal weakness area that might...indicated that the observed deposits in Santa Gertrudis and Santa Cruz Mixtepec formed during two distinct
Book
Universidad de Concepci6n Casilla 4107 Concepci6n, Chile ISBN 978-3-642-88284-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-88282-1.... . . . 37 The Metalliferous Ore Deposits of Chile and Argentina, and Their Geologic Framework J. Oyarzun... . . . . . . . . 147 X Contents El Aguilar Mine: An Ordovician Sediment-Hosted Stratiform Lead-Zinc...Sulfides in the Greenstone Belt of South-Central Chile - An Overview G. Alfaro and S. Callao . . . . ....Formation and Massive Sulfide Orebodies, South-Central Chile: Geologic and Isotopic Aspects S. Callao, G. Alfaro
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copacabana km 81 73 Berenguela Santa Barbara 0 Bolivia Chipmo Palca Chile 15˚S LAKE Las Rosales TITICACA...Fault Mineralized vein Caldera margin Lake Main mine Village / Town 70˚W Fig. 1 Simplified geologic...lla jata ayo alipam Qda. C 8 300 000 N SHILA MINE CONCENTRATE MILL COLPA SHILA AREA lle ue aq...Fullchulna Volcanism middle Shila Volcanism Miocene Santa Rosa Formation Arcurquina Formation Early Murco Formation... 1995; Jannas 1998), apart from the Suyckutambo mine and the recently discovered Chipmo and Poracota
 
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