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Wulfenite from
Apex mine, San Carlos, Manuel Benavides Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Wulfenite
Formula:Pb(MoO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Mimetiteⓘ11 photos of Wulfenite associated with Mimetite at this locality.
Calciteⓘ4 photos of Wulfenite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Dolomiteⓘ1 photo of Wulfenite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wulfenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Apex mine, San Carlos, Manuel Benavides Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Photo GalleryView Gallery (8 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:117770
Long-form Identifier:1:3:117770:1
GUID (UUID V4):1eb9971b-06d3-4b6c-aa0a-a6bf6e7e2d7e
Nearest other occurrences of Wulfenite
17.1km (10.6 miles) ⓘSierra Rica, Manuel Benavides Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
21.1km (13.1 miles) ⓘTres Marias mine, Manuel Benavides Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
96.5km (60.0 miles) ⓘOruro Mine, Cuchillo Parado, Coyame del Sotol Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
96.5km (60.0 miles) ⓘPlomosas Mine, Cuchillo Parado, Coyame del Sotol Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
96.5km (60.0 miles) ⓘAurora Mine, Cuchillo Parado, Coyame del Sotol Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Wulfenite on mimetite, 7.2 cm across, San Francisco mine, Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico. Classic combination...Jeff Scovil photo. Wulfenite from Mexico Figure 2. Wulfenite localities in Mexico; prepared by William...Megaw is an exploration geologist who has worked in Mexico for forty years, which has led him to specialize...MINERALS Five wulfenite localities in the states of Chihuahua, Sonora, and Durango, Mexico, combined with...top wulfenite produc- ers in southern Arizona, represent a majority of the world’s best wulfenite localities
Journal (issue)
particularly from the huge silver deposits of Mexico and eru. panish silver mining remade the economy...Record, E Figure 3. Montezuma, the ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, is said to have observed a blazing...Potos , Bolivia in the mid-1700s. Collection of Carlos and Mar a Iturralde. E W W W W W The Mineralogical...forced labor, cobbing out silver ore at a mine in Chihuahua; from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r i e a i...mita mestizo E W Figure 18. Indian miners in Mexico, from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r i e a i er (1869)
Journal (issue)
May 28, 6:00 p.m., a short hike to an old copper mine prospect at the base of Lookout Mountain, Golden...from the San Carlos Mine (Apex Mine) in San Carlos, Mun. de Manual Benavides, Chihuahua, Mexico. I could...geological information on the San Carlos area except Moore (2008) noted “the San Carlos replacement deposit of...specimens, as well as a limited number of superb wulfenite specimens.” The calcite matrix is rather gemmy...question is: what sulfide (primary zone) in the Apex mine contains vanadinite? The list of 17 minerals noted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is derived from adjoining rocks, or that the wulfenite was formed by hypogenesolutions. The present paper...and lead-copper ores, in southwest United States, Mexico and part of South America, in certain localities...western United States,l particularly in Arizona, New Mexico, and,to a lessextent in Nevada and California,...New Mexico, about 1.0 per cent vanadium oxide is present as vanadinite.s Descloizite, wulfenite, galena...with associated wulfenite carried, 3-5/6 vanadic oxidea while the C and B vanadium mine near Christmas
Report (issue)
SURVEY PRELIMINARY DEPOSIT-TYPE MAP OF NORTHWESTERN MEXICO By Kenneth R. Leonard U.S. Geological Survey...Figure 4. of Mineral Deposits in Northwestern Mexico Los Gavilanes Tungsten District El Antimonio District... Preliminary Deposit-Type Map of Northwestern Mexico Kenneth R. Leonard Introduction The following...Baja California and the northern part of Chihuahua, Mexico. The area is important for the evaluation...prospects, and mineral occurrences in northwest Mexico. A record may refer to one deposit or to a group
Journal (issue)
by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................& A. Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ................................................. 376 New Mexico Symposium 2019 by C. J. Stefano ................................. 387 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains...(January-February issue): WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona
Journal (issue)
by WE. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Pata gonia, Argenti na ..........................MARCH-APRIL 2020 The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ................................................. 376 New Mexico Symposium 2019 by C. J. Stefano .................(January-February issue): 1 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains...)I( .... Â·ïżœ-·-·-· .._ WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona
Catalog/List
00 each while they last. TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch...inch specimens, $25.00 each. CAMPYLITE: Dry Gill Mine, Cumberland, England; A unique and rare species...UORESCENT GEODES: Nice quality geode halves from Chihuahua, Mexico. These are all deeply hollow and have banded...structures. $20.00 each DENDRITIC WIRESIL VER Elure Mine, Cobar, NWS, Australia; Fine crystalline wire silver...characteristics. WINDOW SELENITE: Colonias, Chihuahua, Mexico: Excellent single large bladed and terminated
Catalog/List
at $3.00 each. AURICHALCITE - BISBEE: Southwest Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona: Exceptional baby...00 each AURICHALCITE - MEXICAN: Mapimi, Durango, Mexico: Bright blue radiating acicular and botryoidal...inch specimens: $2.00 each AURICHALCITE - 79 MINE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizona: Delicate...00 and $15.00 each. 1 AZURITE - MORENCI MINE Morenci Mine, Clifton-Morenci District, Greenlee County...very limited supply. CALCITE - BISBEE: Southwest Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona: AWESOME! Exquisite
Book (edition)
Leigh McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa...specimens of wulfenite than Arizona, including many mines that for decades produced the finest wulfenite specimens...Arizona, as well as from Sonora and Baja California, Mexico. Currently, the collection holds more than sixteen...material was cut parallel to the grain. The Blue Ball Mine, in Gila County, has produced thousands of azurite...quantity of this material came from the United Verde Mine at Jerome, GEMSTONES ANDLAPIDARYMATERIALS OF ARIZONA
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA ‱ Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/...District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART...Cuprite Cuprite var. chalcotrichite Dioptase and wulfenite Fluorite on dioptase Gold Graernite and cuprite...Vanadinite Vanadinite after wulfenite Volborthite Wulfenite Wulfenite Wulfenite and cerussite Illustrations
Book (edition)
- , a,zy MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La...District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART...Cuprite Cuprite var. chalcotrichite Dioptase and wulfenite Fluorite on dioptase Gold Graemite and cuprite...Vanadinite Vanadinite after wulfenite Volborthite Wulfenite Wulfenite Wulfenite and cerussite Illustrations
Journal (issue)
Arizona has produced some of the most wonderful wulfenite specimens in the world. This 6.3-cm-high group...group of sharp crystals is from the Rowley mine (Maricopa County). (Jeff Scovil photo/ Scott & Margie Adams...FeAtUreS My Favorite Minerals 12 Part III: Wulfenite, cerussite, smithsonite, legrandite and selenite...fails to mention that, just south of Roswell, New Mexico, in Artesia, one can find perfect, doubly terminated...the Silver Reef article. I must have passed by the mine a dozen times. Next time, I will stop for sure.
Journal (issue)
Hydrous basic copper aluminum sulfate Grandview mine, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona (see the article...CARROLLITE copper, cobalt nickel sulfide Kambove mine, Katanga, Republic of the Congo (now Zaire) loose...Microscopy Study of Minerals in Geodes from Chihuahua, Mexico............................. 205 Robert B...$6.00 per year in the United States, Canada and Mexico. All other countries, $7.00 per year. Copy­ right©...explor­ ing an abandoned International Paper Co. mine near Newry, Me. The rocks shown are worth thousands
Book (edition)
Deposits The Bisbee District Tl1e Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger 17 17 21 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 27 4. "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites 31...Cerussite on aurichalcile Wulfenite on mottramite Auricbalcite and hemimorphite Wulfenite on stalactite Quartz...Turquoise Tyuyamunite Vanadinite Wicken burgite Wulfenite Wulfenite in place Yedlinite 37 40 46 47 57 59 60...Vanadinite Voltaite Wickenburgite Willen1ite Wulfenite Wulfenite Yavapaiite 44 48 49 TABLES 1. Codes for
Catalog/List
Assistant Director Alissa Ford Managing Director San Francisco Roberta Kramer Managing Director Chicago...early 1900’s; a Stephanite from Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico, possibly the worlds inest, according to people...extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...and Canada and started acquiring specimens from Mexico and, shortly, from the rest of the world. In his...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans
Thesis/Dissertation
mineralogy of the MapimĂ­ mining district, Durango, Mexico Item Type text; Dissertation-Reproduction (electronic)...MINERALOGY OF THE MAPIMl' MINING DISTRICT, DURANGO, MEXICO by Victor Joseph Hoffmann A Dissertation Submitted...samples from the mines and offered information on the mine locations and their access. Mr. Salvador Davila...Institution from both the collections of Ojuela mine specimens obtained by Foshag in 1934 and from the... paradamite scorodite vanadinite whitlockite wulfenite chrysocolla hemimorphite kaolinite quartz sauconite
Book (edition)
Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...Deposits The Bisbee District The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger Lee Le 2A 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 Ld 4. “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites ol...in calcite 19 Photographs Wulfenite Cerussite on aurichalcite Wulfenite on mottramite Aurichalcite...Aurichalcite and hemimorphite Wulfenite on stalactite Quartz twinned after the Japanese law Banded malachite and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mason University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals...including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as pale blue rosettes...cutting trap rock at Moore, the long-abandoned iron mine at Andover, and as an accessory mineral at Franklin...grouping of aurichalcite sprays on matrix from the 79 mine, Gila County, Arizona. The 6.5-cm specimen is in
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: the Taewha mine, K orea...........................................The Collector’s Library, part III: Minerals of Mexico .................................................20715 COVER: WULFENITE with mimetitefrom the San Francisco mine near Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico. The large...Australian Imports (San Diego, CA) Baltimore Mineral Society (Baltimore, MD) Carlos do Prado do Barbosa...Tom Daugherty (Covington, KY) Dawson’s Minerals (San Marcos, CA) D yck’s Minerals (Mililani, HA) Mercedes
Catalog/List
Back Cover COVER PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal...Fl/R. MM LB. ADAMITE A basic arsenate of zinc. Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. Green-gray to red-brown...crystalled on limonite, rich ................. 1.50 . 25 Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. White-to-pale yellow...crystal FI. 1. 00 groups on limonite ................ Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. Brilliant lime-yellow... Gold Hill mine. .50 2.50 Transparent xls on limonite with austinite CUPROADAMITE Mexico Durango, Mapimi
Catalog/List
years ago. ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Fine, pale-lemon coloured, transparent A/l. xtls...00. A/2. ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi. Durango, Mexico. Superb, large, colourful cabinet display specimen...5", ÂŁ85 ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. An attractive and inexpensive example of A/3....5x2x5/8", ÂŁ8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...ADAMITE (Mauve). Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. From a rare find of several years ago, these choice
Journal (issue)
the best vesuvianite specimens from the Jeffrey mine in Quebec. In this issue we present a review of...Herodsfoot Mine Work Readers who enjoyed Roy Starkey's superb article on the famous Herodsfoot mine in Cornwall...to the old engine house at the North Herodsfoot mine is being cleared of hundreds of tons of accumulated...restore the magnificent old ruins of the Herodsfoot mine (it does look like a Jot of fun, though!). At the...was originally the Count House for the Herodsfoot mine. Visits by mineral collectors (by appointment) are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zinc–germanium ores of the Tres Marias Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat & Frank Melcher...Marias carbonate-hosted Zn–Ge deposit in Chihuahua, Mexico contains sphalerite with the highest average...hematite, and amorphous silica or quartz. Minor wulfenite, greenockite, cinnabar, and descloizite also occur...Fe oxide mineralization. Keywords Tres Marias . Mexico . Willemite . Sphalerite . Germanium . Mississippi...al. 1996, 1988), the Tres Marias mine in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. The deposit, mined sporadically
Report (volume)
____ Colorado ____________________________ New Mexico __________________________ Arizona _ __________________________..._________________ Canada ______ _ __ __ ______ Mexico _____________ _ _ _______ Virgin Gorda _______...molybdenite from pipe (?) in granite, George Fast's mine, near La Trinidad, Sahuaripa district, Sonora, MexicoVII...in gneiss, Ogden mine, Edison, N. J____ I.. A, Tabular yellow crystals of wulfenite, varying considerably...Organ Mountains, N. Mex.; B, Yellow crystals of wulfenite approaching cubical dimensions, Organ Mountains
 
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