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Location for a give-away at the Tucson micromount symposium

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Henry Barwood

Location for a give-away at the Tucson micromount symposium
April 06, 2012 08:13PM

Registered: 5 years ago
Posts: 565

At the Arthur Roe Micromount Symposium during Tucson I picked up some specimens of zeolites in basalt (?). My handwriting was unfortunately uninterpretable and all I can make out for the locality is:

Big U ____ Mtn.
Greenlee County, AZ

No locations in Mindat seem to match anything close to this. Can anyone help me out with a probable/potential location?

Henry Barwood
Troy University
Troy, Alabama USA

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Gerhard Niklasch

Re: Location for a give-away at the Tucson micromount symposium
April 06, 2012 08:57PM

Registered: 4 years ago
Posts: 185

Could it be Big Lue Mountains?
Cheers, Gerhard

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Henry Barwood

Re: Location for a give-away at the Tucson micromount symposium
April 06, 2012 09:11PM

Registered: 5 years ago
Posts: 565

Hi Gerhard,

Could be, but my specimens appear to have only zeolites in them.

Henry Barwood
Troy University
Troy, Alabama USA

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Don Saathoff

Re: Location for a give-away at the Tucson micromount symposium
April 06, 2012 09:29PM

Registered: 7 years ago
Posts: 1,651

Hello Henry (again).... Coal Creek in the Big Lue Mts is a good location for micro collectors... hollandite, heulandite, mesolite, as of 1992. What species have been added since (of zeolites) I'm not sure. Other species include pseudobrookite, titanite, hematite, tridymite, phlogopite, quartz, calcite, and a couple of yet-to-be identified amphiboles .....

Don

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