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Bornite from
Morenci Mine, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bornite
Formula:Cu5FeS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Malachite1 photo of Bornite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bornite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Morenci Mine, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:814593
Long-form Identifier:1:3:814593:2
GUID (UUID V4):6a64c99d-7b9b-4197-a042-104e446c1b53
Localities for Bornite in this Region
Western Copper, Morenci Mine, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Bornite
7.3km (4.6 miles) Golden Eagle prospect (Golden Eagle & Phonolite tunnel; Bokares placers; North San Francisco River placers), Dorsey Gulch, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
28.0km (17.4 miles) Safford deposit (Spalding; Lindsey and Anderson claims; Sanchez Copper deposit; Esperanza Mine), Sanchez, Lone Star Mining District (Safford Mining District; Dos Pobres Mining District), Graham County, Arizona, USA
31.3km (19.4 miles) Safford Copper Mine (Kennecott Safford; Lone Star Mine), Lone Star Mining District (Safford Mining District; Dos Pobres Mining District), Graham County, Arizona, USA
32.1km (19.9 miles) Safford Mine (Dos Pobres Mine; Dos Pobres ore body; Los Pobres; Safford Phelps Dodge; Phelps Dodge Safford project; Arrowhead Mine), Lone Star Mining District (Safford Mining District; Dos Pobres Mining District), Graham County, Arizona, USA
64.2km (39.9 miles) Cooney Mine, Mogollon Mining District, Mogollon Mountains, Catron County, New Mexico, USA
74.3km (46.2 miles) Slate Creek Deposit, Telegraph Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
93.9km (58.4 miles) Little Mule group (Wolf Mine; Silver Star prospect; Silver Spar prospect; Crunk Barite; Copper Belle-Stanley group; Stanley group), Stanley Butte, Stanley Mining District, Santa Teresa Mountains, Aravaipa Mining District, Graham County, Arizona, USA
95.5km (59.4 miles) Friend Mine (Copper Range group; Blake and Warren; McIntosh and Stevens), Stanley Mining District, Santa Teresa Mountains, Aravaipa Mining District, Graham County, Arizona, USA
96.9km (60.2 miles) Beck Mine (National Mine; Hattie Lee Mine), Steins Pass Mining District, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USA
97.7km (60.7 miles) Copper Reef Mine (Copper Reef Consolidated; Rawhide Mountain prospects; Coronado claims; Coronado group; North Star Mine; North Star shaft), Copper Reef Mountain, Stanley Mining District, Graham County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
No. 1 Arizona State Bureau of Mines Bulletin CHARLES F. WILLIS, Director Directory of Arizona Minerals...THE University of Arizona TUCSON, ARIZONA 1915-16 DIRECTORY (Compiled OF ARIZONA MINERALS from...district, Cochise County; Gila County, at Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in Mineral Park;;...Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty; Yavapai County, in ores of Bradshaw Mountains; Yuma County, in...and Stibnite. ARGENTITE (silver glance). Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WESTERN COPPER AREA, MORENCI MINE, ARIZONA BENJAMIN N. SCHUMER§* University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences...Geosciences, 1040 E. 4th Street Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA RALPH J. STEGEN Freeport McMoRan, Inc., 10861...Ste. 141, Oro Valley, Arizona 85737 USA MARK D. BARTON University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences...E. 4th Street Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA J. BRENT HISKEY University of Arizona, Department of Mining...E. Rogers Way, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA ROBERT T. DOWNS University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/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
Report (issue)
Trip 18 : Safford District (Sanchez) and Morenci - Metcalf October, 1994 Bootprints Along the Cordillera... Dear Field Trip Participants: On behalf of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy...October 2, 1994 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK MORENCI DISTRICT AND SAFFORD DISTRICT(Sanchez) FIELD TRIP...the Cordillera" post-meeting field trip to the Morenci and Safford mining districts. The trip will examine...mineralization, and copper oxide mineralization at Morenci on the first day of the trip. Day two will be spent
Book (edition)
/BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings...Peter Kresam and Richard Graeme . Mineralogy of Arizona John W. Anthony, Sidney A. Williams, and Richard...Richard A. Bideaux AN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors... JoHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona, where he rose
Book (edition)
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
Book (edition)
0.C D.?~•.!~'J..~5 ~!~.~J.RY Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee...Richard A. Bideaux THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors . .. JOHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the Uni~ersity of Arizona, where he rose...Gem and Mineral Society, and the University of Arizona. SIDNEY A. WILLIAMS has authored or co-authored
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)
Report (issue)
itty nf l\rt~nttU iullrtttt ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS OF ARIZONA By FREDERIC W. GALBRAITH...(Revised) ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES, GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN NO. 153 One dollar (Free to residents of Arizona) PUBLISHED...PUBLISHED BY lIlniul'r.lluy nf Arizuna TUCSON. ARIZONA SERIES No. 17, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION...bulletin will be forwarded to the Arizona Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This description of the minerals of Arizona has been largely compiled from publications and manuscripts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nebraska, Lincoln] at 07:52 28 December 2014 Arizona Mineral Classics A rizona contains a wealth of...see copper minerals well represented among the Arizona classics listed in tables 1, 2, and 3. Bideaux...listed 163 different copper minerals found in Arizona. Sixty-one percent of the classic minerals listed...advanced degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and collected personally at many of the classic...his previous article (Rocks & Minerals 1981) on Arizona minerals. 18 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded by
Report (issue)
Residents of Arizona MINERALS OF ARIZONA by Frederic W. Galbraith and Daniel J. Brennan THE ARIZONA BUREAU...UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON FOREWORD As a service about mineral matters in Arizona, the Arizona Bureau of...University of Arizona, is pleased to reprint the long-standing booklet on MINERALS OF ARIZONA. This basic...Dr. Frederic W. Galbraith, as a bulletin of the Arizona Bureau of Mines. It has moved through several editions...released in its Fourth Edition as Bulletin 181, Arizona Bureau of Mines. The comprehensive coverage of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2005 Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/05 $30.00 ⫹ .00 doi:10...Pennsylvania 16652, USA Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA 3 Department...State College, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA 2 (Received February 28, 2005; accepted in revised...events, explaining the supergene chalcocites in the Morenci and Silver Bell porphyry copper deposits. Copyright...chalcopyrite from the El Teniente porphyry copper mine (e.g., Skewes and Stern, 1994; Maksaev et al., 2004)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carbonates at the Northwest Extension Deposit, Morenci District, Arizona: Implications for Conditions of Supergene...Corporation, One North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85004 Abstract Stable isotope analyses were performed...Northwest Extension copper oxide deposit, Morenci district, Arizona. The δ18O values of azurite (23.3–25.5‰...dominant phase. Introduction THE MORENCI mining district in southeastern Arizona hosts one of the largest supergene...the genesis of oxide copper mineralization at Morenci. Previous work Various people have studied the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Supergene Environment of the Morenci Porphyry Copper Deposit, Greenlee County, Arizona M. STEPHEN ENDERS,† Newmont...of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5640 SPENCER R. TITLEY,...Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 AND GORDON SOUTHAM Department...along the 5200 bench of the Metcalf pit within the Morenci copper deposit revealed that acidophilic iron oxidizing... 0.39% S). The modern climate in southwestern Arizona is semiarid and exhibits a biannual wet-dry cycle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
major and trace metal nutriMorenci copper mine (Arizona, USA). Here, oxidation and ents, which can be...that have contributed to the formation of the Morenci supergene metal deposits. We must never underestimate...associated with bioleaching operations and acid mine drainage environments. A microorganism closely related...recovered from samples of sulphide minerals at Morenci under near-neutral environmental pH 1 School of...mineral. (A) View of the Metcalf Pit, Morenci Copper Mine (Arizona, USA) showing the weathering profile studied
Report (issue)
other important copper ore minerals may include bornite and enargite. Ore minerals occur as disseminations...2005). In some districts (for example, Christmas, Arizona, and Battle Mountain, Nevada), more copper is recovered... Utah (Babcock and others, 1995), and Bisbee, Arizona (Bryant and Metz, 1966), polymetallic replacement...Turkey) and(or) molybdenum (for example, Sierrita, Arizona; Continental [Butte], Montana) resources. By-Product...an assemblage of magnetite, chalcopyrite, and bornite in the porphyry deposit at Elatsite, Bulgaria.
Journal (issue)
50th Anniversary Issue! Arizona ineralogical Record January-February 2020 ❖ Volume 51 Number 1 ❖ $40...$40 THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ARIZONA-VII . . . . Arizona-VII (Introduction) .................................................... 5 W. E. Wilson Arizona Wulfenite in the News, 1877–1940 .................... 15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ........................................ 29 B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ....................................
Catalog/List
recenUy acquired a huge old collection from an Arizona dealer/collector who was selling out due to age...fine quallty materlal wlth approxlmately 80% from Arizona localilies. This dealer had contacts with numerous...numerous miners at many of the famous mines In Arizona, and compiled this huge hoard betwecn 1960 and 1990...other ncw material from sources othcr than thc Arizona coilection. Due to the tremendous amount of new...COLLECT/ON: RED CLOUD WULFENITE: Red Cloud Mine, La Paz County, Arizona: The best wulfenite locallty in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pennsylvania 16652 of Arizona, Gould-Simpson Building 77, 1040 E 4th Street, Tucson, Arizona 85721 Abstract...from three deposits (the Silver Bell, Ray, and Morenci mines). The overall range of Cu isotope ratios...deposits reveals distinct differences—the Silver Bell mine possesses leach cap minerals that are more depleted...minerals that are more enriched in 65Cu than both the Morenci and Ray mines. A possible explanation for the difference...a greater degree of leaching than the Ray and Morenci deposits. The comparative analysis of the Cu isotope
Journal (issue)
RECORD, MAY-JUNE 2013 Mineral Collections in Arizona A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record May-June...Mineralogical Record, Inc. P.O. Box 30730, Tucson, Arizona 85751 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was...May-June 2013 Contents Mineral Collecting in Arizona .. ..... ..... ..... ..... ... ..... .........
Book
EEL LEY. Department of Geology University of Arizona and GAOT G. HIGRS United States Geological Survey...Survey th THE UNIVERSITY Tucson, Arizona OF ARIZONA PRESS About the Editors. SPENCER . . R...Geology Department faculty at the University of Arizona, Professor Titley has carried out field and laboratory...and earned the doctorate from the University of Arizona. Caro. L. Hicks is an Editorial Assistant with...Palynology. THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS Copyright © 1966 by The Arizona Board of Regents Printed in
Report (volume)
See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby...Shelby County, near Whiting Station and Calera; Talladega County, in several places. Bauxite. Cherokee
Catalog/List
WULFENITE & ASSOC/A TIONS: Finch Mine (AKA Barking Spider), Pinal County, Arizona: Very nice combinations which...ROWLEYWULFENITE &ASSOCIATIONS: Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mtns., Maricopa Co., Arizona: Clear golden wulfenite crystals...30.00 each GLOVE WULFENITE: Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Very nice crystalline specimens with...each YUMA WULFENITE: Old Yuma Mine, Tucson Mountains, Pima County, Arizona: Butterscotch to deep orange-red...mounted in 1 1/4 79 WULFENITE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizo _na: Transparent bright yellow
Catalog/List
last. TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near clear thumbnails...inch specimens, $25.00 each. CAMPYLITE: Dry Gill Mine, Cumberland, England; A unique and rare species...at $15.00 each. BROOKITE: Magnet Cove, Garland County, Arkansas; Dipyramidal thumbnail crystals mounted...structures. $20.00 each DENDRITIC WIRESIL VER Elure Mine, Cobar, NWS, Australia; Fine crystalline wire silver...priced at $20.00 each CINNABAR AND STIBNITE: Gorlovka Mine, Ukraine; Nice thumbnails mounted in plastic perky
Report (issue)
production was in Arizona, and the greatest individual increase that of the Copper Queen mine at Bisbee, Ariz...27, 1905; and information furnished the writer by mine owners and managers. 93 94 CONTRIBUTIONS TO...also carrying 2,572,582 ounces of silver. The Arizona mines yield more gold than the Butte mines, but...Enormous bodies of this class of ore occur at Morenci, Ariz., at Bingham, Utah, and at Ely, Nevy that...from the fact that preparations are being made to mine and mill 12,000 tons of this ore a day at Bingham
 
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