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Fairbankite from
Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fairbankite
Formula:Pb122+(Te4+O3)11(SO4)
Comments:Tiny, clear crystals in thin crusts plastered of walls of voids left by leaching of galena. Closely associated with oboyerite.
Habit:Crystals less than 0.5 mm
Colour:Colorless
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Oboyerite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Jarosite4 photos of Fairbankite associated with Jarosite at this locality.
Winstanleyite2 photos of Fairbankite associated with Winstanleyite at this locality.
Chlorargyrite1 photo of Fairbankite associated with Chlorargyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fairbankite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (9 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:57259
Long-form Identifier:1:3:57259:8
GUID (UUID V4):a5e27f5a-a818-4497-abf0-79ea3c37e337
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Livingston, and Dexter. Photo taken in 1895. Fairbankite, ideally PbTe4+O3, is a rare secondary lead tellurite...locality is the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona. Fairbankite is named in honor...developed the Grand Central lode (Williams 1979). One fist-sized specimen of rock with fairbankite crystals...crystals was found on the waste dump of the mine by Sydney A. Williams (1979). Crystals are present as a thin...lining the walls of voids left by leached galena. Fairbankite crystals are colorless and transparent and exhibit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Queen Creek, Arizona 85142 raycyn@cox.net HARVEY JONG 1777 N. Central Drive Chandler, Arizona 85224 harvey@digipan...harvey@digipan.com Arizona T Type Minerals here are about 880 mineral species reported from Arizona. Of these...type or cotype minerals (they were first found in Arizona). This article presents a short description of...type locality for each. Of the type minerals of Arizona, 49 are named for people, and 17 are named for...Association (IMA) as new species with type localities in Arizona. Because the original scientific descriptions have
Book (edition)
found in Arizona. In the twelve years since then 61 more minerals have been reported from Arizona, a number...change. This checklist is an effort to bring the Arizona mineral list up to date. Of the 61 minerals added...locality being in Arizona. They are: bechererite from the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite...ca1cioaravaipaite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite...from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near Gray Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
{Named for Persons Associated with and Geology in Arizona RICHARD S. M I T C H E L L Of the almost 2,500...can be collected in Arizona. Approximately two dozen of these 630 species Arizona persons involved in...explora­ tion or development of mining, mineralogy, and geology in Arizona. Who are these persons and what...Douglas, Arizona. Ten of these are tellurium minerals, especially from the Tombstone mines in Cochise County...County. The earliest paper to honor Arizona persons with mineral names was by Carl Lausen (1928), who incorpo­
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...described in 1979 from the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA, has been re-examined...from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (traceable to S. A Williams, who first described...tellurate; plumbotellurite; Grand Central mine; Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA 2 Introduction ‘Oboyerite’...minerals described from the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA by Williams (1979), the
Report (issue)
Pb2+12(Te4+O3)11(SO4) Fairbankite Crystal Data: Triclinic. Point Group: 1. Crystals nearly equant,...similar to cerussite and anglesite. Cell Data: Space Group: P1. a = 7.0205(3) b = 10.6828(6) c = 14.4916(8)...744(4)° Z = 1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Grand Central mine, Arizona, USA. 3.268 (100), 3.151 (82), 3.025 (50)...1.23 1.77 0.05 . 99.79 100.00 (1) Grand Central mine, Arizona, USA; average electron microprobe analysis;...Pb2+12(Te4+O3)11(SO4). Occurrence: Very rare on the mine dump from a hydrothermal Au-Te-bearing ore deposit
Report (issue)
Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic. Point Group: m (?). As dense spherules, to 6 mm, also as bow-tie...2.47 γ = 2.48 2V(meas.) = 70◦ Cell Data: Space Group: n.d. a = 6.241 b = 5.686 c = 8.719 β = 91◦...91◦ 410 Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Grand Central mine, Arizona, USA. 3.054 (10), 2.842 (8), 1.765 (8),...47 1.76 Total 99.0 100.00 (1) Grand Central mine, Arizona, USA; H2 O by the Penfield method on a...Distribution: USA. From the dumps of the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Cochise Co., Arizona, Name: Honors
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA Geosciences, Museum...Williams in 1979 from the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA, has been re-examined... tellurium oxysalt, Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arziona, USA, discreditation. Introduction...minerals described from the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona, USA by Williams (1979), the...the others being oboyerite, fairbankite and winstanleyite. Girdite was described as occurring in dense
Report (issue)
version 1 Crystal Data: µm. Triclinic. Point Group: 1 or 1. Physical Properties: D(calc.) = 6.66 ...n.d. γ = 2.26 2V(meas.) = n.d. Cell Data: Space Group: P 1 or P 1. a = 12.249(8) α = 116.45(4)◦ β = 98...= 6.868(3) X-ray Powder Pattern: Grand Central mine, Arizona, USA. 3.040 (10), 3.180 (7), 2.976 (5)...28 Total 100.8 100.00 3.99 (1) Grand Central mine, Arizona, USA; by microanalysis, H2 O by the Penfield...Occurrence: A rare mineral found in specimens on a mine dump, an alteration product of rich gold-bearing
Report (issue)
Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Cubic. Point Group: 2/m 3. concave faces, to 0.5 mm, in castellated...Space Group: Ia3. a = 10.963 Z = [8] X-ray Powder Pattern: Grand Central mine, Arizona, USA. 3.165...70 14.30 Total 99.9 100.00 (1) Grand Central mine, Arizona, USA; corresponds to Ti0.76 Fe0.11 Te3...rodalquilarite, “opal”. From the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA. To honor Betty Jo Winstanley...Massachusetts, USA, 119095. References: (1) Williams, S.A. (1979) Girdite, oboyerite, fairbankite, and winstanleyite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oboyerite, fairbankite, and winstanleyite, four new tellurium minerals from Tombstone, Arizona S. A. WILLIAMS...WILLIAMS Phelps Dodge Corporation, Douglas, Arizona SUMMARY.Girdite, H2Pba(TeO3)TeO 6 is white, H = z...triclinic but are too small for X-ray work. Fairbankite PbTeO3 is triclinic a = 7.8I]~, b = 7.11, c--6...amounts on the waste dumps of the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Arizona, associated with a wealth of other...SINCE the discovery of rodalquilarite at Tombstone, Arizona, more than thirty new tellurium oxysalts
Book
History Museum specimen is from Terlingua, Texas, USA, and was used for the determination of the mineral's...description of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality. The NHM...00135 Green River Fonnation, Uintah Co., Utah, USA A. Pabst, P.A. Estep, E.J. Dwornik, R.B. Finkelman... Aerugite (Neotype) BM 1963,00481 South Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis...34. Afwillite (Cotype) BM 1925,00080 Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa J. Parry and F. E. Wright
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona...Tucson .. The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, r982, 1995 Arizona Board of Regents All rights...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona/ John W. Anthony ... [et al.]; Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals-Arizona. I. Anthony, John W (John Williams), 1920-. QE375...HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish Rule Arizona as a
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[evenings by appointment only] WULFENITE — RED CLOUD MINE (ED OVER SPECIMEN KEHA Wayne and Dona Leicht, 332...Institution Pete J. Dunn Smithsonian Institution ARIZONA-II Peter Q. Embrey British Museum (Natural History)...The Mineralogical Record P. O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 published bimonthly by the Mineralogical...1980 @ Articles The Defiance mine and vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona ..............203 by J. R. Thompson........................211 The C. & B. mine, Gila County, Arizona ....................................
Book (edition)
OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian...by Ed Over. Chip Clark photo. MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA THIRD EDITION W. Anthony Joh n Sidney A. Williams...of Arizona Press / Tucson The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, 1982, 1995 Arizona Board...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona / John W. Anthony . . [et al.] ;Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals—Arizona. QE375-5-A6M56 I. Anthony, John W. (John Williams)
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MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA,FOURTHEDITION V e a o_ of li rizo TI RAYMOND W. GRANT RONALD B. GIBBS...CALLAHAN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON f -- The University of Arizona Press www.uapress.arizona...arizona.edu © 2022 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserYed. Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4358-8...McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WINSTANLEYITE, TiTe3O8, FROM THE GRAND CENTRAL MINE, TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA LUCA BINDI§ AND CURZIO CIPRIANI...the type locality, the Grand Central mine, Tombstone, Arizona, in space group I21/a3̄ to a final R index...walfordite, crystal-structure refinement, Tombstone, Arizona. SOMMAIRE Nous avons affiné la structure...provenant de la localité type, la mine Grand Central, à Tombstone, en Arizona, dans le groupe spatial I21/a3̄... walfordite, affinement de la structure, Tombstone, Arizona. INTRODUCTION The compound TiTe3O8 was first
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
has also been found in the same tetragonal, space group 1r, with a : 10.226, b : 10.422, c : 9.8844, B 88"19'...spinel with minor pyrite, pyfihotite, Chromium Group and Electron ProbeGroup, Institute of Utiliza- main...num Group and violarite. Other platinum-group minerals present are ruthand Electron Probe Group, Institute...only one grain of the alloy from the Heazlewood district, Tasmania has been shown to be ruthenosmiridium...are {001} platelets bounded by {l l0}. The space group is P2r/a, cell dimensions determined by 4-circle
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Sweden (Sverige) Gladhammar mine, nickel-rich carrollite, 737 Harstig mine, Pajsberg, sarkinite, 681 Norr6...Norr6, arrojadite (hiihnerkobelite), 23o Sjo mine, Grythytte Parish, Orebro, xantharsenite, polyarsenite...Cornwall, luxullianite, 441; 442 Scar Crag, Lake District, arsenopyrite, alloclase, glaucodot, cobaltian...Court farm, Ramsgate, Kent, chalk, i6o Tynebottom mine, Garrigill, Cumbria, arsenical marcasite, gersdorffite...kidwellite, 952 WALES(Cymrul Dyfed, illite, 857 Parc mine, Gwynedd, hydrozincite, nickeloan hydrozincite,
Journal (issue)
Record Inc., 6349 N. Orange Tree Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85740 The Mineralogical Record Inc. Is a non-profit...Volume Fourteen, Number Five ARIZONA- V Articles Lost mines of Arizona ................................Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs Famous...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ..............................................
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Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, California...Otto Mountain near Baker, California. Most of the mining on Otto Mountain occurred between 1940 and 1970...further alteration. Ottoite is monoclinic, space group I2/a, with the unit cell: a = 7.5353(6), b = 5.7142(5)...Mountains, about 11 km west of Baker, San Bernardino County, California, has been a prolific producer of micro-crystals...naturally led to the investigation of other nearby mining sites in the Soda Mountains in the hopes of finding
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zeolite from H6wenegg, Hegau, Germany, has space group 12, a IO.226, b 1o.422, c 9.884/~, fl 88 ~ I9'....Electron-probe Group, lnst. of Utilization, and Platinum Group and Electron-probe Group, inst. Geol. Miner...non-pleochroic, fibrous mineral from the Christmas mine, Gila Co., Arizona. Strongest X-ray powder lines 12.90 (IO)...Bezsmertny, i978. aggregates from the Buca della Vena mine, Zap. 107, 31 o and 51 o (Bnnn6nncKnv).A mineral...red. A pseudocubic subcell has a 4.1o/~, but the group P42/mbc, a 8.367, c I7.959 /~. D 5-33. structure
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Glossary-Mlneralogical Record P.O. Box 35565 Tucson,Arizona 85740 U.S.A. On tbe Cover: Cumengeiteepitactically...(Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)
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variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. / Photo by Ken Mayer Production...1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil
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Enterprises, PO Box 213, Livermore, California, 94551, USA. Because of space limitations, only a subset of the...be found, Arizona (SW) indicates that the locality is to be found in southwestern Arizona. When used...(disagreement), and has caused us to avoid using mineral group names in this edition of the book. We look forward...Arabic numeral specifies the group to which a particular mineral belongs; a group is defined mainly on the...chemical compositions are sometimes included in the group even though they do not exhibit crystallographic
 
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