| cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken |
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(2020) Mineral Collections in Texas III. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 51 (6.1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino |
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Hoffmann, Victor Joseph (1968) The mineralogy of the Mapimí mining district, Durango, Mexico, University of Arizona. |
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| The mineralogy of the Mapimí mining district, Durango, Mexico Item Type text; Dissertation-Reproduction...MINERALOGY OF THE MAPIMl' MINING DISTRICT, DURANGO, MEXICO by Victor Joseph Hoffmann A Dissertation...Mineralogy of the Mapimi Mining District,______ Durango, Mexico______________________________ be accepted...samples from the mines and offered information on the mine locations and their access. Mr. Salvador Davila...Smithsonian Institution from both the collections of Ojuela mine specimens obtained by Foshag in 1934 and from |
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Presmyk, Les, Megaw, Peter K. M. (2019) Wulfenite from Mexico. Rocks & Minerals, 94 (1) 34-47 doi:10.1080/00357529.2019.1519672 |
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| mimetite, 7.2 cm across, San Francisco mine, Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico. Classic combination from the “Red Mimetite...Scovil photo. Wulfenite from Mexico Figure 2. Wulfenite localities in Mexico; prepared by William Besse...Megaw is an exploration geologist who has worked in Mexico for forty years, which has led him to specialize...localities in the states of Chihuahua, Sonora, and Durango, Mexico, combined with the five top wulfenite produc-...Chihuahua State; the Ojuela mine near Mapimi in Durango State; and the San Francisco mine in northern Sonora |
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(1995, November) November/December 1995. Mineral List. Nick Carruth |
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| NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1995 1. ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. V-shaped cavity in limonitic gossan...40x40x15mm. £10. 4. APATITE. Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Mexico. Several light lemon yellow transparent gemmy...5. APATITE (VAR FRANCOLITE). Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. Cellular matrix lined with lustrous...60x50x45mm. £22. 7. AURICHALCITE AND HEMIMORPHITE. 79 Mine, Hayden, Arizona, USA. A 50x20nan cavity in veinstone...U.V. 70x60x25mm. £12. 9. AZURITE. West Caradon Mine, St Clear, Cornwall, in veinstone matrix. 30x2Qx20mm |
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Cairncross, Bruce (2019) Connoisseur's Choice: Duftite after Wulfenite, Tsumeb Mine, Namibia. Rocks & Minerals, 94 (1) 54-59 doi:10.1080/00357529.2019.1519674 |
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| brucec@uj.ac.za Duftite after Wulfenite Tsumeb Mine, Namibia T sumeb wulfenite is world-famous (see...the pseudomorphs after wulfenite from the Tsumeb mine. One of these is duftite after wulfenite; it is...varieties are known from the United States and Mexico, in particular, and all are featured in this column...covered by dark green duftite intermixed with mottramite, with some of the outermost layers composed of...calcium-rich duftite, EDS confirmed, 11.8 cm, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. Mariusz Oleszczuk specimen and photo. |
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(2024, May) The Red Ledge Mine!. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 55 (3) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| The Red Ledge Mine! The Mineralogical Record MAY–JUNE 2024 • VOLUME 55 • NUMBER 3 • $30 Wayne & Dona...MAY–JUNE 2024 Articles The History of the Red Ledge Mine, Washington District, Nevada County, California... Moore COVER: GOLD, 5.2 cm, from the Red Ledge mine, Nevada County, California. Barry Yampol (Mineral...Buzz Gray and Eduard Gübelin at the Benitoite Gem mine, ca. 1968. Harold and Erica Van Pelt photo. Bob...Johnson, Buzz Gray and his son Mike at the Stewart mine party ca. 1976. Harold and Erica Van Pelt photo |
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Metropolis, William C. (1999) Highlights of Mexican Minerals at Harvard University. Rocks & Minerals, 74 (1) 56-61 doi:10.1080/00357529909602515 |
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| Scovil M ining began in Mexico more than four hundred years ago! As a result, Mexico has been a prolific...1960s. European museums received specimens from Mexico as early as the late sixteenth century, but it...American museums began to acquire specimens from Mexico. The Harvard collection is probably typical of...no strong connection to Mexico and its mines. A precious opal from the Iris mine in Queretaro (fig. 1)...offered as a general introduction to the minerals of Mexico, the theme of the 1999 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show |
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(2013) Mineral Collections in Arizona (supplement to the May-June issue) The Mineralogical Record Vol. 44 (3.1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...enough, just across the border to the south is Mexico, rieb in active mines where miners are gathering...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite |
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(2005, December) Premier Select List - December 2005. Paul A. Lowe |
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| Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Zaire. Crystals to 9mm. 48x30x17mm. £48 2 BRAZILIANITE Tefirio Mine, Linopolis...£28 6 CUPRIAN AOAMITE on 7 ORPIMENT MOTTRAMITE Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 70x33x30mm. £48 Luchuml...balls to 5mm. 30x29x18mm. £55 9 FLUORITE Okurusu Mine, Namibia. Gemmy green/purple crystals to 18mm.Hlghest...72x60x53mm. £95 10 CALCITE, FLUORITE & BARITE Jaimina Mine, Caravia, Spain. Calcite crystals to 32mm. Fluorite... 12 FLUORITE on Rock Crystal. Yaogangxian Wolfram Mine, Ylzhang, Hunan Province, China. 9mm Fluorite xtls |
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(2023) Duftite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America |
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| hydrothermal base-metal Association: Olivenite, mottramite, azurite, malachite, wulfenite, calcite (Tsumeb...bayldonite, beudantite, mimetite, cerussite (Cap Garonne mine, France). Distribution: Many minor localities. Abundant...Zambia. At the Touissit mine, near Oujda, Morocco. From the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, France...France. In the Virneberg mine, near Rheinbreitbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. From Beresovsk, near...Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. From the Ojuela mine, Mapimı́, Durango, Mexico. In the USA, |
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(1989, Spring) Spring 1989 Reference Minerals List. David New Minerals |
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| REFERENCEMINERALSLIST ADAMITE Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico Select golden-yellow to blue-green...Amelia mine, Boleo, Baja California, Choice bright blue single cubic crystals. covering Mexico 1 to 2...to lxl-1/2" 5 Specimens $ 10.00 CROCOITE Red Lead mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia Bright orange-red crystalline...minor black $ 15.00 FLUORITE Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico Superb pale green lustrous intergrown stepped 1/2"...crystals HEMIMORPHITE Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico Superb lustrous milky white 3 to 6 mm terminated |
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Powell, Darryl (2019) Wulfenite is Loved!. Childrens' Guide, Tucson Gem & Mineral Society. |
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| c1ystaJ form . \1 \/uJfeniLe i pa.rt of a group or mine,-aJ known a Lhc Schee lite Grou p. The ScheeliLc...Yuma Mine (a.I o known simply as t.he Yuma Min ) was a sma.11 mine t.hat. began a a surface mine and,...MonumenL The mine is pictured to the left. in an old photo taken around 1 920. The Old Yuma Mine is now on...land. CoUecting pec11nen not allovved. The Old Yuma Mine was mined for a number of different important. metals... copper, zinc, molybdenum, silver and gold. The mine operated on and off from 1 9 1 6 to 1 947. In tJ1ese |
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Cook, Robert B. (2001) Pyromorphite : Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d'Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho. Rocks & Minerals, 76 (3) 190-194 doi:10.1080/00357520109603216 |
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| Nebraska, Lincoln] at 23:16 02 June 2016 Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho...anglesite, malachite, leadhillite, descloizite, mottramite, wulfenite, vanadinite, and bayldonite, to name...pyromorphite occurred at the Lubec lead mine, the Gouldsboro mine, and with wulfenite at the upper Colton...Maine (King and Foord 1994). Recently the old lead mine at Loudville, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, once...Connecticut. It is reported from the Sparta copper mine south of Ossining, Westchester County, New York |
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(1980, July) Mineral Lists. Richard W. Barstow |
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| times. J ULY 1980 1.ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Ma pimi, Durango, Mexico . Select l ustrous lime-green sharp...£18.00 3. APATITE variety FRANCOL ITE . Holmbush Mine , Stoke Cl~sland , Cornwall. Specimen A: Smal~ sparkling... 1tx1tx1 " , £4.75p 7 . ARTHUR ITE. Majuba Hill Mine , Churchill Co., Nevada , U. S. A. Lime- green crystallised...ma1;rix . 2X1f'.', £6.00 9 . AXI NITE . Colebrook Mine , Rosebe ry, Tasmania, Australia. Lusteous clove-...1fx1t", £9 . 00 11 . OAYLDONITE. Penberthy Croft Mine , ~t . Hilary , Cornwall. Dark apple-green slightly |
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Kampf, A. R., Steele, I. M., Jenkins, R. A. (2006) Phosphohedyphane, Ca2Pb3(PO4)3Cl, the phosphate analog of hedyphane: Description and crystal structure. American Mineralogist, 91 (11) 1909-1917 doi:10.2138/am.2006.2268 |
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| 9(2) Å3, Z = 2, is a new mineral from the Capitana mine, Copiapó, Atacama Province, Chile and has been identified...numerous other deposits world-wide. At the Capitana mine, it occurs as transparent, colorless, tapering hexagonal...secondary mineral in the oxidized zone of the Capitana mine, a Cu-Pb-Ag deposit, where it closely associated...array of unusual minerals. In 2004 at the Capitana mine near Copiapó, one of the authors (R.A.J.) collected...the dumps of the southern workings of the Capitana mine. Three samples were found on different parts of |
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(1965, March) Mineral Catalog. Southwest Scientific Company |
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| ADAMITE A basic arsenate of zinc Mexico Durango, Mapimi, Mina Ojuela ~enish-gray to reddish-brown crystalled...limonit'e ...................... . Mexico Durango, Mapimi, Mina Ojuela White to very pale yellow sheave-like...on limonite .................. . Mexico Durango, Mapimi, Mina Ojuela ~lliant lime-yellow prismatic orthorhombic....... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro crystals on limonite gossen...silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on monzonite . |
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(1994, Winter) Collection Dispersal Winter 1994. Sam Weller (Mineralogist) |
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| fire five years ago. ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Fine, pale-lemon coloured, transparent...5x1.25", £12.00. A/2. ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi. Durango, Mexico. Superb, large, colourful cabinet display...well. 6x3.5x2.5", £85 ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. An attractive and inexpensive example...5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...£10.00 A/5. ADAMITE (Mauve). Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. From a rare find of several years |
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Cook, Robert B. (1995) Connoisseur's Choice: Wulfenite. Rocks & Minerals, 70 (2) 120-122 doi:10.1080/00357529.1995.9926609 |
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| 04:18 15 March 2015 San Francisco Mine, Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico I"lfun 1. This particularly fine...the San Fruclsco mine (also known 85 lbe Cerro Prieto mine), Magel. . ., Sonora, Mexico. The largest crystal...spectacular wulfenite specimens from the Red Cloud mine. Wulfenite was first described as "yellow lead spar"...descloizite. Pseudomorphs of mimetite, vanadinite, mottramite, and descloizite after wulfenite are known. Arizona...collectors include the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine at Tiger; the Hilltop mine in Cochise County, noted for its pleasingly |
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Marshall, Royal R. (1977) The Zinc Minerals. Rocks & Minerals, 52 (2) 57-66 doi:10.1080/00357529.1977.11761913 |
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| mineral listed in Table I . Although it occurs in many mine workings, most of it (if not all) has developed...in others as a secondary mineral. In the Mowhawk Mine, San Bernardino County, California, hetaerolite...cutting the main ore body, while at Sterling Hill Mine (in the same district) it occurs as secon dary...in Table I I I and Table IV. Descloizite and mottramite are consider ably more abundant than the other...and the copperrich end member of this series, mottramite, is less abundant than descloizite. Similarly |
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(1976, April) Mineral Lists. Richard W. Barstow |
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| faces. 3-tx2x2". £11.50. 3. ALLANITE. Mary Kathleen Mine, queensland, Australia. Sharp, lustrous black, well...lxfxf". £4.50. 11. 12. 13. -2AZURITE. Ting-Tpng Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Rich, bright blue small sharp...colourful specimen. 3x2xlf". 1:8.00. BARYTES. Ladywash Mine, Eyam, Derbyshire. Lustrous, creamy, tabular bladed... 32-x3xlt-". 1:28.00. CHALCOPVRITE. Great Laxey Mine, Isle of Man. Select, bright, brassy, sharp twinned...association. 1:9.00. CHILDRENITE. George & Charlotte Mine, Tavistock Hamlets, Devon. Sparkling, s arp, small |
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(2014) Mineral Collections in Texas (A Supplement to the Sept-Oct issue) The Mineralogical Record Vol. 45 (5.1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica, _Mexico_---Stephen Blyskal and Sigrid Stewart collection;...like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many fortunes have been...ofLeadville, Colorado. Eventually rnoving on through New Mexico and Arizona as a prospector, he leamed some mineralogy...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the |
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(1995, July) July/August 1995. Mineral List. Nick Carruth |
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| Greenside Mine, Patterdale, Cumbria, pinkish grey xls. 50x30x20mm. £9. 6. BARYTOCALCITE. Blagill Mine, Alston...12x10x8mm. 80x80x40mm. £375. 11. CALCITE. Carrock Mine, Carrock Fells, Cumbria. a quartz/calcite veinstone...level". 80x70x15mm. £18. 12. CALCITE. Cambokeels Mine, Weardale, Cumbria. A sharp lustrous hexagonal xl...60x60x2Ontn. ■max. £285. 14. CALCITE. New Glencrieff Mine, Wanlockhead, Scotland, A small group of three colourless...30x20x20mm. £6. 15. CALCITE ON NATIVE COPPER. Caledonia Mine, Michigan, USA. Several sharp calcite xls to 10mm |
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Johnson, Paul Willard (1965) A Field Guide to the Gems and Minerals of Mexico. Gembooks, Mentone, CA. |
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| K FIELD GUIDE to the GEMS and MINERALS of MEXICO (Exclusive of Baja California) A guide to the...Information............ Driving in Mexico................... Trailcring in Mexico ............. 5 6 6 7 8 8........ A Word to the Wise ............. Jade in Mexico......................... Manto and Chimney Deposits...Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine............. San Antonio Mine....... Cusihuiriachic District....... Minerals of Ojuela Mine .... . Velardena District........................ Durango ............... |
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Panczner, William D. (1987) Minerals of Mexico. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-5848-1 |
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| anc MINERALS OF MEXICO 7 | : = Pras #0 AaprTTARE ; |
MINERALS OF MEXICO William D. Panczner...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy— Collectors and collecting— Mexico. 2. Mines and...and mineral resources— Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This book...Jalisco; D. Santiago Ramirez’s La Riqueza Minera de Mexico, and his translation of Dana’s Tratado de Mineralogia...a. ie = Maes Lie Auadado = ae MINERALS OF MEXICO Vv |
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