White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA (original) (raw)

Aluminocopiapite

Formula: Al2/3Fe3+4(SO4)6(OH)2 · 20H2O

Alunite

Formula: KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6

Habit: Rhombohedra modified by basal forms

Colour: Pink to pale brown

Description: Occurs in quartz veins; granular masses and rhombohedra.

Andalusite

Formula: Al2(SiO4)O

Localities:

Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Taylor Andalusite deposit (Taylor deposit), White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA

Description: Crystals form columnar masses; prismatic crystals to 10 cm long.

'Apatite'

Formula: Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)

Colour: White

Description: Occurs as small tabular crystals partly lining cavities in phosphatic rock.

Augelite

Formula: Al2(PO4)(OH)3

Colour: Colourless

Description: Occurs as crystals to 0.75 inches (1.8 cm) or more; commonly euhedral, transparent, and as fracture coatings and cavity fillings.

References:

Palache, Charles, Berman, Harry, Frondel, Clifford (1951) The System of Mineralogy (7th ed.) Vol. 2 - Halides, Nitrates, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Arsenates, Tungstates, Molybdates, Ect. John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Baryte

Formula: BaSO4

Description: Large crystals are found in fractures but are rare.

References:

Palache, Charles, Berman, Harry, Frondel, Clifford (1951) The System of Mineralogy (7th ed.) Vol. 2 - Halides, Nitrates, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Arsenates, Tungstates, Molybdates, Ect. John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Calcite

Formula: CaCO3

Corundum

Formula: Al2O3

Colour: Deep blue

Description: Occurs as coarse nodular masses, as deep blue plates or irregular crystals in andalusite; rare but widespread.

Crandallite

Formula: CaAl3(PO4)(PO3OH)(OH)6

Diaspore

Formula: AlO(OH)

Colour: White to yellow-brown

Description: Occurs as compact masses with andalusite or in veins of pyrophyllite; blades and plates to 3 cm long.

Epidote

Formula: (CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)

Fluorapatite

Formula: Ca5(PO4)3F

Colour: Light blue

Description: Coatings.

Fluorapatite var. Carbonate-rich Fluorapatite

Formula: Ca5(PO4,CO3)3(F,O)

Colour: Light blue

Description: Coatings.

Fluorapophyllite-(K)

Formula: KCa4(Si8O20)(F,OH) · 8H2O

Fluorellestadite

Formula: Ca5(SiO4)1.5(SO4)1.5F

Fluorite

Formula: CaF2

Goethite

Formula: α-Fe3+O(OH)

Description: Many pseudomorphs after pyrite.

Goyazite

Formula: SrAl3(PO4)(PO3OH)(OH)6

Halotrichite

Formula: FeAl2(SO4)4 · 22H2O

Hematite

Formula: Fe2O3

Localities:

Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Lower group of patented claims, Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA

Hematite var. Specularite

Formula: Fe2O3

Description: Locally abundant.

Hydroxylapatite

Formula: Ca5(PO4)3(OH)

Ilmenite

Formula: Fe2+TiO3

Description: Occurs sparingly.

Jarosite

Formula: KFe3+3(SO4)2(OH)6

Kalinite

Formula: KAl(SO4)2 · 11H2O

Kaolinite

Formula: Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4

Lazulite

Formula: MgAl2(PO4)2(OH)2

Colour: Deep blue

Description: Abundant in veinlets cutting the ore body and wiedely disseminated in phosphate rock and vein quartz.

References:

Palache, Charles, Berman, Harry, Frondel, Clifford (1951) The System of Mineralogy (7th ed.) Vol. 2 - Halides, Nitrates, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Arsenates, Tungstates, Molybdates, Ect. John Wiley and Sons, New York.

'Limonite'

Magnesio-foitite

Formula: ◻(Mg2Al)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)

Muscovite

Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2

Localities:

Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Key & Sanger Pyrophyllite deposit (Pyrophyllite Mine; Marguerite group; White Swan group), White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Inspiration prospect, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA

Description: Abundant. Forms veinlets with tourmaline and quartz.

Muscovite var. Sericite

Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2

Localities:

Key & Sanger Pyrophyllite deposit (Pyrophyllite Mine; Marguerite group; White Swan group), White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Inspiration prospect, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA

Description: Comprises almost all of a mica schist.

Natroalunite

Formula: NaAl3(SO4)2(OH)6

Natroalunite var. Strontium-bearing Natroalunite

Formula: (Na,Sr)Al3(SO4)2(OH)6

Orthoclase

Formula: K(AlSi3O8)

Phosphosiderite

Formula: FePO4 · 2H2O

Pickeringite

Formula: MgAl2(SO4)4 · 22H2O

Pyrite

Formula: FeS2

Description: Abundant.

Pyrophyllite

Formula: Al2Si4O10(OH)2

Localities:

Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Colton Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA

Colour: White to colourless

Description: Occurs as sheaves of plates to 12 mm and small clusters of radiating masses and veinlets in andalusite.

Quartz

Formula: SiO2

Localities:

Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Lower group of patented claims, Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA

Description: Forms veins hosting other minerals also occurs as crystals to 10 cm long lining walls of vugs and fractures.

Rutile

Formula: TiO2

Localities:

Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Moreau claim, Mine Canyon, Champion Mine area, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA

Colour: Wine-red to red-brown

Description: Occurs as abundant minute specks in andalusite; crystals to 3 mm common.

Schorl

Formula: NaFe2+3Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)

Description: Occurs as veinlets of hair-like fibers.

Scorzalite

Formula: Fe2+Al2(PO4)2(OH)2

Localities:

Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Lower group of patented claims, Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA

Description: Only material associated with svanbergite and schorl.

'Strengite-Variscite Series'

Formula: Fe3+PO4 . 2H2O - Al3+PO4 . 2H2O

Sulphur

Formula: S8

Description: Occasionally occurs as large balls filling cavities in andalusite ore.

Svanbergite

Formula: SrAl3(PO4)(SO4)(OH)6

Habit: Rhombahedra

Colour: Pale yellow to orange, brown

Talc

Formula: Mg3Si4O10(OH)2

Titanite

Formula: CaTi(SiO4)O

Description: Occurs as minute grains scattered through andalusite.

Topaz

Formula: Al2(SiO4)(F,OH)2

Description: Occurs as small amounts of granular material in andalusite.

'Tourmaline'

Formula: A D3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z

'Tourmaline var. Achroite'

Formula: A(D3)G6(T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z

Trolleite

Formula: Al4(PO4)3(OH)3

Colour: Pale blue to blue-green

Description: Occurs as masses intergrown with augelite.

'Viséite'

Description: Lines many cavities in the phosphatic rock.

Woodhouseite (TL)

Formula: CaAl3(PO4)(SO4)(OH)6

Type Locality:

Habit: Pseudocubic rhombohedra

Colour: Colourless to pale orange

Description: Occurs in veins; transparent to translucent. Some material is strontian.

References:

Palache, Charles, Berman, Harry, Frondel, Clifford (1951) The System of Mineralogy (7th ed.) Vol. 2 - Halides, Nitrates, Borates, Carbonates, Sulfates, Phosphates, Arsenates, Tungstates, Molybdates, Ect. John Wiley and Sons, New York.

Xenotime-(Y)

Formula: Y(PO4)

Zircon

Formula: Zr(SiO4)

Description: Occurs in minor amounts.