Tonopah-Belmont Mine (East Vulture Mine; Belmont-McNeil Mine; Economy Mining Co. Mine), Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn District, Big Horn Mts, Maricopa Co., Arizona, USA

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Giester, G. and B. Rieck (1996) Bechererite, (Zn,Cu)6Zn2(OH)13[(S,Si)(O,OH)4]2, a novel mineral species from the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Arizona, American Mineralogist: 81: 244-248.

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USGS 15 minute Belmont Mountains topo. map.

Arizona Department of Mineral Resources (ADMR) Belmont-McNeil mine file.

MRDS database Dep. ID file #10062455 & 10113715.

A former underground Ag-Au-Pb-Cu mine located in the W½ sec. 36, T.4N., R.W. (Belmont Mountains 15 minute topo map), North of Tonopah and about 20 miles SW of Wickenburg in Belmont Mountain, a craggy, thin peak.

Mineralization involves veins cutting andesite in the Big Horn Mountains. These mountains are made up of a basement of Precambrian schist and gneiss, intruded, and partly covered by the Tertiary andesites.

Workings include a 500 foot deep shaft with levels at 100, 250, 400 & 500 feet.

Mineral List

Anglesite Arsendescloizite Arsentsumebite Ashburtonite Aurichalcite Azurite Baryte Bechererite (TL) Boleite Botallackite Brochantite Calcite Caledonite Cerussite Chalcophanite Chalcopyrite

Chlorargyrite Chrysocolla Coronadite Covellite Creaseyite Cryptomelane Cumengeite Descloizite Diaboleite Epidote Galena Goethite Gold Gypsum Hematite Hemimorphite

Herbertsmithite Hydrozincite Jarosite Leadhillite Linarite Litharge Malachite Massicot Mimetite Minium Molybdofornacite Munakataite Murdochite Paralaurionite Paratacamite Phosphohedyphane

Plattnerite Plumbojarosite Pyrite Quartz Rosasite Saponite Schmiederite Shannonite Smithsonite Sphalerite Vanadinite Vauquelinite Willemite Wulfenite Zincite Zircon

64 entries listed. 64 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).