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⇱ Pyrargyrite from Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada


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Pyrargyrite from
Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada

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Locality type:Mining Area
Classification
Species:Pyrargyrite
Formula:Ag3SbS3
Habit:stubby prismatic, massive, veinlets, grains
Colour:deep red
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Freibergite Subgroup2
Galena2
Acanthite2
Safflorite1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrargyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:8979
Long-form Identifier:1:3:8979:1
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Pyrargyrite in this Region
Langis Mine (Casey Cobalt ; Casey-Seneca), Casey Township, Cobalt Area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Christopher Mine (Columbus Mine), Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Deer Horn Mine (Cross Lake O'Brien Mine), Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
La Rose Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Lumsden Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Shaft 64, Nipissing Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
O'Brien Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Reinhardt Cross Lake Property, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Silver Cliff Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Silverfields mine (Alexandra mine), Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Temiskaming Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Townsite Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
University Mine (Giroux Lake Mine), Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrargyrite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Townsite Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
1.0km (0.6 miles) Shaft 64, Nipissing Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
1.1km (0.7 miles) La Rose Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
1.6km (1.0 miles) O'Brien Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
2.3km (1.5 miles) Silver Cliff Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
2.4km (1.5 miles) Silverfields mine (Alexandra mine), Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
3.0km (1.9 miles) Reinhardt Cross Lake Property, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
3.0km (1.9 miles) University Mine (Giroux Lake Mine), Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
3.1km (1.9 miles) Deer Horn Mine (Cross Lake O'Brien Mine), Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
4.6km (2.9 miles) Lumsden Mine, Coleman Township, Cobalt area, Cobalt-Gowganda region, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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Report (issue)
Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 57 Cobalt – Belleterre – Timmins Ontario and Quebec Ann... Geological Survey of Canada Miscellaneous Report 57 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Cobalt – Belleterre...Timmins Ontario and Quebec Ann P. Sabina 2000 ©Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, 2000 Catalogue...Available in Canada from Geological Survey of Canada offices: 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0E8 3303-33rd...for reference in selected public libraries across Canada Cette publication est aussi disponible en français
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
KEWEENAWAN OF SILVER DIABASES IN DEPOSITS AND ONTARIO. E. S. MOORE. INTRODUCTION. IT hasbeenrecognized...silverore in I886 in theLakeSuperiordistrictof Ontario,that somerelationexists betweensilverdeposits and...the generosityof the National ResearchCouncil of Canada, grants were made to aid field studiesand laboratorywork...collectionsof specimensof diabasessecuredfrom Cobalt, South Lorrain, Gowganda, Port Arthur, and other areas. These...indebtedness to the National Research Council of Canada for financial aid allotted for field and laboratorystudies
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ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Cobalt - Belleferre-Timmins; Ontario and Quebec Ann P. Sabina . , t...RESOURCES 1974 CANADA PAPER 73-13 ROCKS AND MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR, - COBALT -.BEMETERRE TIMMINS;...TIMMINS; ONTARIO AND QUEBEC Ann P. Sabina DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND R E S O U R C E S @Crown Copyrights...by mail from Information Canada, Ottawa from the Geologicql Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and...and Information Canada bookshops in HALIFAX - 1683 Barrington Street MONTREAL - 640 St. Catherine Street
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Report (issue)
anniversary of the discovery of silver at Cobalt, Ontario, in the year 1903. According to legend Fred...blacksmith employed by the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, threw his hammer at an inquisitive fox...vein that bears his name. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA BULLETIN 160 THE GEOCHEMISTRY OF SILVER AND ITS...Boyle DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES CANADA © Crown Copyrights reserved Available by mail...Queen's Printer, Ottawa, from Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian
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Report (issue)
GOVERN YOUR USE OF THIS DOCUMENT Your use of this Ontario Geological Survey document (the “Content”) is governed... copyright is held by the Queen’s Printer for Ontario. It is recommended that reference to the Content...
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PAPER 69-45 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES A CATALOGUE OF...MINERALS R. J. Traill ' GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA PAPER 69-45 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...n's Printer, Ottawa from the Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth St., Ottawa and Canadian Government bookshops...to change without notic e Queen ' s Printer for Canada Ottawa 1970 A CATALOGUE OF CANADIAN MINERALS...has elapsed since T . Sterry Hunt in Geology of Canada, 1863 , presented the first descriptive list of
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Cobalt Area, Ontario WILLIAM PETRUK Abstract The Silverfieldsdepositnear Cobalt, Ontario, has...characteristicfeatures of most of the silver depositsin the Cobalt area. The ore occursas nearly vertical veins in Huronfan...ore veins are thoseof nickel, in the mid-portions,cobalt,and in the lower parts,iron. High-grade silver...generallyassociated with mixturesof nickel and cobalt arsenides,medium-gradewith cobalt arsenides,and low- to very low-grade...lot 5, Concession 5, ColemanTownship, Timiskaming Mining District, Introduction .....................
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Book
Kingston. FHC MACMILLANS C IN CANADA O TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED: AT ST. MARTIN’S...HOUSE 1933 nO Copyright, Canada, 1933 by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED All rights reserved—no...from the publishers. permission in i Printed in Canada To My Wife 1 I PREFACE The rapid development...mation concerning them. The geological surveys of Canada and the United States and the provincial and state...the Geological Surveys of the United States and Canada and of the state and provincial surveys form the
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AT COBALT, ONTARIO, CANADA By KENNETH FISHER Westgate - Lyndell Rd., R2 Downington, Penn. Cobalt, the...the Ontario silver camp, is a very interesting locality, from both a mineralogical and a geological viewpoint...information is scant and not very specific. The town of Cobalt is one locality: South Lorraine, twenty miles in...some ten miles to the northeast is another and Gowganda area, sixty-three miles to the west is another separate...altho the one term of 'Cobalt' is somewhat loosely used to include them all. Cobalt is primarily an arsenide
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Thesis/Dissertation
Camsell River, Echo Bay (Port Radium) and Cobalt-Gowganda districts. references to the Erzegebirge, ...logical evidence gathered by the writer. The Cobalt- Gowganda deposits, previously considered to be genetic¬...Camsell River district and of the 21dora.do and Echo Bay vi veins in the Fort Radius district. The Northrim...paragenesis to the veins of the CobaltGowganda region. Vll * , ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The work is a dissertation... 192 / 193 THE NORTHRIM, GREAT BEAR AND COBALT-GOWGANDA VEINS . 205 Mineralization 205 • Depositional
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Book (edition)
then show green, blue, and sometimes red tinges, cobalt shows pink shades, while iron displays pronounced...deep violet and brown complex twins, lamellar Pyrargyrite yes Stromeyerite Selenium, native yes Proustite...Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach); XPL If marked in description...Copper, Embolite, Galena, Geversite, native Gold, Pyrargyrite, Niggliite Allabogdanite, Anyuiite, Auricupride... Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (sample: Melcher/Oberthür); PPL D Fine-grained
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THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF CANADA BY ELWOOD S. MOORE, .aA., Px.D. Professor of Economic Geology...UNIVERSITY TORONTO Tp ote” he (4s Copyright, Canada, 1933 By THE RYERSON PRESS EDITOR’S The aim...authoritative survey of the economic and social life of Canada. Canada is still at a stage of her development wherein...civilization. It is therefore possible to do for Canada what the complexities of an age-long development...characters of her social being. a young country such as Canada, that this should be underThe ways of her life
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits. Famous deposits of this type include Cobalt, Ontario; Bou Azzer, Morocco; Kongsberg, Norway; Jáchymov...vein type", "five element association", "nickel-cobalt-native silver ore type", “Bi-Co-NiAs-U-Ag-Formation”...is under debate for most localities (e.g., Cobalt-Gowganda, Petruk, 1968; Echo-Bay, Robinson and Ohmoto...from the Odenwald (Burisch et al. , 2017), Cobalt-Gowganda (Kerrich et al. , 1986), Bou Azzer (e.g., Essarraj...mineralization sequence for each investigated district. We did, however, make sure that no published
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Report (issue)
all the papers bearing on a particular subject or area; second, titles of papers, many of them abbreviated...in Geography, vol. 1, nos. 1, 2. Berkeley, Cal. Canada, Geological Survey: Memoirs, nos. 20, 23, 26, 29...Memorial Museum: Bulletin, no. 1. Ottawa, Ont. Canada, Department of Mines, Mines Branch: Summary Report...Mining Journal, vol. 34. Toronto and Montreal. Canada. 7 8 BIBLIOGRAPHY OP NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY...International Geological Congress, Twelfth Session, Canada: Guide Books, 1-4, 5-10. Iowa Geological Survey
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Report (issue)
••• • •• • •• British Guiana • •• ••• • •• ••• . Canada ••• •• • ••• • •• • •• • •• Newfoundland and Labrador...000. Oou1itry. 1 1,000. .British Empire-cont. Canada ••• ••• 925 Ceylon ..• ••• ••• 800 Cyprus...the 1netal only by Mexico, the United States and Canada.. Owing, ho,w ever, to the adverse oo·n ditions...1nini11g com1nenced on a small scale in the Cobalt dist1-ict of Ontario, the outpt1t of wh~ch rose rapidly to... 100·0 . .. M exico ••• ... United States .'. Canada • New 8011th ~ Tales ... P eru • •• ... Spain •
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Book (edition)
All rights reserved. Published simultaneously in Canada. Reproduction or translation of any part of this...Assemblages in Vein Deposits / 232 The Silver-Bismuth-Cobalt-Nickel-Arsenic (-Uranium) Vein Ores / 235 vIII...providing light of specified wavelength through this region are fixed monochromatic interference filters and...esof OreMinerals. Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course Handbook, Vol. 17, pp. 1-36. Galopin...the polished section to expose sufficient surface area. It is useful to bevel the edges of the su rface
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by a few collectors for about fifty years, this area was popular for little more than a decade, providing...granite, lies within a Wilderness Area in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. There are many other proposed...County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side along picnic area, in small cavities in basalt: small crystals of...THOMSONITE. Adams County Alaska mine, Seven Devils district: azurite, grossular, malachite, powellite, and...mine, Seven Devils district: grossular. Blue Jacket claim, Seven Devils district, about 4 miles north-northeast
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Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd., 30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario. Published...Rhodostannite Samsonite Colusite Cylindrite Imhofite Pyrargyrite Berzelianite Indite Sulvanite Sinnerite Reflectance...Fr:inckeite Pvrolusite c;•lindrite lmhofite Pyrargyrite Sulnnite Sinnerite Andorite Chalcocite Djurleite...and with many Ag-Sb- or Ag-Asminerals such as pyrargyrite, proustite, freibergite, polybasite. Replaces...alteration of stibnite. Diff.: proustite and pyrargyrite show a higher ref!. and never a fibrous texture
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Report (issue)
MEXICO-ARIZONA) ... 323 A. Rifle area, Colorado «0s... 323 B. Uravan District, Colorado 324 Cope tick Rock...324 DeeGkante District, New sMext Comer. clecetsls cused cists! 0/0 326 E. Shiprock District, Utah—Arizona...Utah—Arizona ....vccccsnens F. Monticello-Moab-Thompsons District, Utah .....secvceee 326 327 ee eeseeee Gig GE...eS 5 elske} Ae stgers OOOO OE CIES Mimtas 561 Canada ..... eoeeoeeeeoeeeeoos 622 622 ANNOTATED...IN THE BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND NOT INDEXED RECEIVED Canada Snow Lake, Coats, MANITOBA C.J.A., Lakes Mines
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Report (edition)
CANADA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND RESOURCES MINES AND GEOLOGY BRANCH BUREAU OF GEOWGY AND TOPOGRAPHY GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGY SERIES No.1 GEOLOGY AND ECONOMIC MINERALS OF CANADA (THIRD EDITION) BY OFJ1ICERS OF TilE GEOLOGICAL...elevation 19,850 feet, the highest mountain in Canada, situated in southwestern Yukon in the St. Elias...International Boundary Commission, Ottawa, July 1913. CANADA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND RESOURCES MINES AND GEOLOGY...SERIES No. 1 GEOLOGY AND ECONOMIC MINERALS OF CANADA (THIRD EDITION) BY OFFICERS OF THE GEOLOGICAL
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Metallurgy Published on the First and Subscription in Canada, $2.00 Fifteenth ; to of each month Other...ciation, 726. E. Bruce, E. L., On the Swastika Gold Area, (C.M.I.), 166, 202. Agricola, Georgius, The "De...Analysis, Utiliza- Canada, Gold Production of, 659. tion and N'aluation, by E. E. Somer- Canada Iron Mines,...395. Canada, Mine Rescue Work in, 116. meier, 47. Building Stones and Clay Products, by Canada, Mine... Alaska United Gold Mining Co., 366. Alberni District, B.C., Copper Ore in, 632. Alberta and British
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York Articles Amethyst from the Thunder Bay region, Ontario .............................................Elliott at the Diamond Willow mine near Thunder Bay, Ontario. Photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt, Los Angeles...Leicestershire LE7 7Qb Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 South Africa:...Thunder Bay Region, Ontario by Donald G. Elliott P.O. Box 253 Thunder Bay, Ontario P7C 4V8 Canada methyst...methyst from the Thunder Bay region of Ontario has been col­ lected, sold to tourists, and exported to Europe
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CANADA DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND TECHNICAL SURVEYS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA Economic Geology Series...and Economic Minerals of Canada Officers of the Geological Survey of Canada Edited by C. H. STOCKWELL...editions of the Geology and Economic Minerals of Canada were published,. the- first in 1909, the second...February, 1947 and the known fields of Western Canada are estimated to contain about 3 billion barrels...New Brunswick, Quebec, Ontario, and Manitoba; iron ore in Ungava and Ontario; lithium in Quebec; and
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Mineral Collecting, 1960 ONTARIO, MICHIGAN AND COLORADO. By KEN FISHER Downloaded by [University of...grade of silver specimen' and that into northern Ontario, in late June, and grade will be several notches...Upper Peninsula of Michi- words, the minimum at Cobalt is quite a bit above one's previous standard. On...fortunate enough to seCollecting in Canada We planned to drive to Cobalt, Onta- cure some new mined and some...(we had made reservations), Time" pyrargyrite. The old pyrargyrite but we could not quite make the entire
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deeper circulation _____ _ _____ _________ The region of nearly stagnant waters _ Pulsating movements...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami...Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico...Arizona________________________ 228 San Francisco region, Utah, by B. S. Butler_________ 229 Yerington,...Snowstorm lode, Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho__ _ 235 Encampment district, Wyoming_____________;___ 236
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