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Acanthite from
Germania, Breckenridge Mining District, Summit County, Colorado, USA


Classification
Species:Acanthite
Formula:Ag2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Acanthite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Germania, Breckenridge Mining District, Summit County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:707140
Long-form Identifier:1:3:707140:9
GUID (UUID V4):86bf1cca-a2c9-49c7-bf91-10b1e6f1aed4
Nearest other occurrences of Acanthite
16.4km (10.2 miles) General Teller Lode, Snake River, Montezuma Area, Summit County, Colorado, USA
17.6km (11.0 miles) Saints John Mine (Florado; Saint John Mine), Montezuma Area, Summit County, Colorado, USA
17.8km (11.1 miles) California Mine, Glacier Mountain, Montezuma Mining District (Snake River Mining District), Summit County, Colorado, USA
17.9km (11.1 miles) Bell (California; Meteor; Wing), Montezuma Area, Summit County, Colorado, USA
18.6km (11.5 miles) Equity Mine, Montezuma Area, Summit County, Colorado, USA
18.7km (11.6 miles) Jerry Tunnel, Glacier Mountain, Montezuma Mining District (Snake River Mining District), Summit County, Colorado, USA
18.7km (11.6 miles) Burke Martin Mine (Silver Wing), Snake River, Montezuma Area, Summit County, Colorado, USA
19.8km (12.3 miles) Atlantic (Sarisfield; Sarsfield; Bullion and Yellow Jacket; Mozart), Montezuma Area, Summit County, Colorado, USA
20.2km (12.5 miles) Treasury Vault Mine, Geneva Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
22.4km (13.9 miles) Winning Card (American Eagle; Eliza Jane), Peru Creek area, Argentine Mining District, Summit County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality...across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side
Book
milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please...chlorite, apatite, dolomite, electrum, gold, acanthite k. QUARTZ-SULPHARSENIDE VEINS Arsenopyrite, niccolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
visits and mapping, concurrent with the progress of mining, are essential to uncover significant data, otherwise...heretofore been reported from the Michigan iron mining districts. The first of these, stilpnomelane, occurs...criteria are recognized. TEE BARTLETT METEORITE, BELL COUNTY, TEXAS I'RED M. BULLARD This nickel-iron meteorite...about 5 rniles west of the town of Bartlett in Bell County, Texas, about 4 years ago. A polished and etched...Vandiesitte, a supposed telluride of Bi and Ag from Colorado, is shown to be a mixture of tellurobismuthite
Book (edition)
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...are with mine names and occasional1y mining district names. Mining districts, generally are not now formally...the Coeur d'Alene District is the name presently used for the entire silver district that runs from Kellogg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...heard the term “vug hole.” The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full...history as well as minerals, the World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old...only comprehensive mineralogical study of the district. This work is as valuable today as it was 37 years...is 490 km to the west. Butte is situated in the Summit Valley, an intermontane valley at an elevation
Journal (issue)
(rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...heard the term “vug hole.” The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full...history as well as minerals, the World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old...only comprehensive mineralogical study of the district. This work is as valuable today as it was 37 years...is 490 km to the west. Butte is situated in the Summit Valley, an intermontane valley at an elevation
Book
Mineralogical Record P. 0. Box 1656 Carson City, NV 89702, USA N. Bariand 90/91; British Museum (NH) London 110/111...representing 100-200 mineral species: an exception is the mining museum of Kongsberg, Norway, showing only a single...universities, 14 by town or city councils, 13 by district councils or regional boards, and 16 form part...aspects of Africa and its inhabitants, such as mining, agriculture, zoology, special botany, prehistoric...Hardenbergstr. 42, D-1000 Berlin 12 030-314-2254 Mining and metallurgy building, at Ernst-Reuter Square
Report (volume)
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...A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Book
193-256 137-208 129-192 209-264 193-256 [ [ COLORADO-Ill] 177-256 121-184 89-168 1-120 1-88 [ ...177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400 COLORADO-II] 321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400...69-132 65-128 1-64 11 / 1980 20 I 1989 [ COLORADO-I] [ 289-352 385-448 [ AUSTRALlA] 353-504...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
Report (issue)
......... Carbonate rocks in the Bayhorse mining district..............................................Hobbs.................................... Bayhorse district subterrane.................................................................................... Mining activity......................................... Principal geographic features and boundaries, mining districts, and selected mines and prospects in...Idaho black shale terrane and the Bayhorse mining district...........................................
Report (volume)
............................................. 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
Journal (issue)
JULY–AUGUST 2019 Articles The Auglaize quarry, Paulding County, Ohio ...........................................matrix, 5.5 cm, from the Auglaize quarry, Paulding County, Ohio. Joe and Susan Kielbaso collection; Jeff...$324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription...included a definitive suite of minerals from Delaware County, Pennsylvania (which he sold to Steve Carter of...mineralogy and mineral collecting. He attended the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Idaho, receiving
Report (volume)
precious metals, and the nearby Stanley uranium district has produced uranium ore valued at about $300...estimated value of mineral production from these nearby mining districts is nearly $85 million, of wruch an estimated...the study area, unlike those of the Yankee Fork district a few miles to the north, do not contain significant...their intersections. The productive deposits in Germania Basin are in breccia along a gently dipping thrust...pres· ent at the Lakeview (Crater Lake) mine. The district is potentially favorable for discovery of additional
Report (volume)
tellurides, selenides, and sulfosalts-Continued 4. Acanthite Ag2S III mon. P2dc(l4) High-Naumanite Ag2Se...Lepidocrocite 'Y-FeO(OH)* a-Ga20a Low-germania Ge02 High -germania Ge02 Ice H20 Hafnia Hf02 Montroydite... cubic 247.804 2 cubic Argentite AgzS II Acanthite AgzS III High-N aumanite AgzSe 3 hex-R 367...4762 ± .0030 24 257 Low-germania Ge02 104.589 2 tet. High-germania Ge02 104.589 3 hex. 18
Report (volume)
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...Alberta. Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans.-Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Transactions...-Canadian Mining Journal. Gardenvale, Quebec. Canadian Min. Metall. Bull.-Canadian Mining and Metallurgical
Journal (volume)
brought to an end an important chapter of British mining history. Known throughout its long working life...20th century culminated in the end of large-scale mining at the combined Beckermet – Florence mine complex...workings soon became flooded and inaccessible. Mining and exploration for hematite in Cumbria has long... In addition, throughout their long history of mining, these deposits have also attained international...to discontinue pumping it was clear that further mining and all access to the underground working would
Report (issue)
standards and nomenclature. • CONTENTS Page Page County and site name Kelly Camp Kettle Key East Knob...placer Sunset Creek placer Victor FERRY Republic district Addison Alva Stout placer Belcher Ben Hur Black...Nevada Nighthawk O.K. Okanogan Free Gold Palmer Summit Panama Paymaster Peacock Pinnacle Pittsburg Pogue...406 432 483 462 433 437 463 461 Starr Sullivan Summit Tough Nut Trilllle Twin Pine Walker placer War... 285 . 286 . 287 . 288 PEND OREILLE Metaline district Bella May Blue Bucket Calispell Cliff Comstock
Report (volume)
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..., 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...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...shales of tl~e Acanthite Green River Fonnation in Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic...Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado. AM. 63. 930-937. 1978. 4.23. 6.93. 7 .86, ~ = 99°37'
Book (volume)
ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu © f the Ore deposiits...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND...AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 178, MINING GEOLOGY AIME TRANSACTIONS 181, MINING, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, EDUCATION...I! Published by : : The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc. NEW
Report (volume)
ore deposition: Butler, B. S. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F. Pennsylvania... Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous...society. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers Transactions...Ontario. Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans.-Oanadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Transactions...-Oanadian Mining Journal. Gardenvale, Quebec. Canadian Min. Metall. Bull.-Oanadian Mining and Metallurgical
Book
variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. / Photo by Ken Mayer Production...organic geochemistry. Green River Formation, Uinta County, Utah, U.S.A. Trudell, L.C. (1970): Lithologic...Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. McDonald, AM. & Chao, G.Y. (1994):...Abernathy, operator of the Fumerole mine, Emery County, Utah, U.S.A., who found the first braunite. Mount... Jambor, J.L. (1992): Am. Mineral. 77, 670. Acanthite Ag?S, mon., C2/m. Dimorphic relationship with
Book (edition)
Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For Reference Not to...Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD New York ...Cal and Kerith Graeber Cureton Mineral Company Colorado School of Mines Charles and Marcelle Weber Dan...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous
Book (edition)
from core to outside edge. .. ABERNATHYITE ACANTHITE K U02As04 Ag2S Dimorphous with argentite •...the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...OCCURRENCE: Occurs in Colorado at the Pelican Dives rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma...Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode
Book (edition)
Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere nee Not to...Sagtiache Co1tntr Publlc I...ibran' Saguache, Colorado ~ VANNOSTRAND REINHOLD ~ - - - - N e w York...Cal and Kerith Graeber Cureton Mineral Company Colorado School of Mines cw Charles and Marcelle Weber...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M
 
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