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Ktenasite from
Cliff Mine, Ophir, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Ktenasite
Formula:ZnCu4(SO4)2(OH)6 · 6H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified, Dealer/Collection Label
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz2 photos of Ktenasite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Serpierite1 photo of Ktenasite associated with Serpierite at this locality.
Namuwite1 photo of Ktenasite associated with Namuwite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Ktenasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cliff Mine, Ophir, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1560426
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1560426:2
GUID (UUID V4):492297f5-e1ef-4945-880e-26162b82e1b3
Nearest other occurrences of Ktenasite
1.1km (0.7 miles) Hidden Treasure Mine, Jacob City, Ophir Mining District, Tooele County, Utah, USA
52.6km (32.7 miles) Trixie Mine (Trixie shaft; Old Trump prospect), East Tintic Mining District, Utah County, Utah, USA
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Wisniewski of Wendell, Idaho, Jim Johnson of Atlantic Mine, Michigan and Dan Johnson of Spring Creek, Nevada...great grandchildren. His interest in mineral and mining was something that he liked to share with schools...National Geographic associated with articles about the Cliff ruins ofthat area. After he left the Park Service...occurrences. California Mines Aga Mine. Baker, San Bernardino County In January of 2004 the rare CulPb...with angle site, pyromorphite, and gold at this mine. Subsequently besides vanadinite, mottramite, and
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hidden t re a s u re and other mines in the ophir district T O O E L E C O U N T Y, U T A H O re deposits...Mountains in 1865, and soon afterward the Ophir mining district was organized. The Hidden Treasure, Chicago...were the most famous mines in the early days of Utah mining (Gilluly 1932), producing many millions of dollars...the district until 1972, when the Ophir Hill Consolidated mine closed. The Hidden Treasure mine lies...During the past twenty years, the mines in the Ophir district, especially the Hidden Treasure, have been
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Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isère, France...Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals,...Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. A Acanthite, Colorado, 442; Utah, 56
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and D. Millward 64 Cuprosklodowskite from Geevor mine, Cornwall N.J. Elton, J.J. Hooper and L. Coggon...sulpha tes in an underground level of Botallack mine. Krohnkite is present and this is believed to be...assemblages observed in material from the mine tailings around Bota llack mine and Wheal Cock. The supergene mineral... INTRODL'CTION Botallack mine (SW 363 336) in the St Just mining district, Cornwall (Fig. I), although...)~~~ BALLESWIDDEN MINE '\:;;:~. .F lGURE 1. Schematic geology of the St Just district (after Jackson et
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Leicestershire R.J. King 9 The zinc analogue of ktenasite from Smal1cleugh and Brownley Hill mines, Nenthead...D .H .M. Alderton 17 The Mineralogy ofWapping Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire F. fnce 25 13 NOTES...N. Hubbard 35 Strontianite from Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria M . Wood 35 Secondary copper...copper minerals from the Knockmahon area , County Waterford, Republic of [i'eland S. Moreton 36 Book Reviews...Arthur made his first visit underground in a working mine, at Wheal Providence, St. Ives, Cornwall, being
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occurrences in the Lake District, and in the Caldbeck Fells area within the Lake District, respectively, and...should be consulted for further details of any Lake District mineral mentioned in our list. More than 850 species...on minerals collected by A. de Hailer at Tynagh mine, Ireland, unpublished except in newsletters (Bulletins...Greigite. As a secondary mineral at Gravel Hill mine, Perranzabuloe, Cornwall (C. Sparrow, pers. comm...schr6ckingerite and gypsum, on walls of a level in Geevor mine, St. Just, Cornwall (Elton and Hooper, 1992). Andradite
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September/October: Silver crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado; Dave Bunk specimen...413; Nevada, 515 Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook, 154–59 Apatite, nomenclature...Mistaken Identities, A. L. Guth, 456–58 Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum, 280 Arkansas, wavellite, 346–50...20 Bernstein, M., 444–45 Beryl, New Mexico, 21; Utah, 21 Beudantite, Nevada, 516 Biotite, Quebec, 501...Uvite with Overgrown Dravite, Bigelow, St. Lawrence County, New York, 250–59; Gemstone Deposits in Turkey
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to 22nvn from 3 ---- - - ----- Cook's Kitchen mine, Cornwall. Spedmen In the collection of the Royal...articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...SOCIETY Peter Moore • John Pearce 10 FORCE CRAG MINE Dtlf.!idGreen • DavidMcCa/lum • Mike Wood 15 MINERAL...through the appropriate channels. YSTRAD EINION MINE John Mason • Steve Rust 37 BOOK REVIEWS 45 CLASSIFIED...Sponsors: SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIETY PEAK DISTRICT MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SO�IETY UK Journal of Mines
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Beryllium deposits of the Mount Antero region, Chaffee County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Trace Element...Beryllium deposits of the Mount Antero region, Chaffee County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 982-D...1974, Murataite, a new complex oxide from El Paso County, Colorado: American Mineralogist, v. 59, nos. 1-2...Gate Canyon and Ralston Creek areas, Jefferson County, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Circular 320...and Havens, R. G., 1962, Thalenite from Teller County, Colorado, Art. 121 in Geological Survey Research
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biological processes. Since the advent of human mining and manufacturing, particularly since the industrial...indirectly (e.g., alteration of mine tunnel walls; weathering products of mine dumps and slag). A second human...Keywords: Mineral evolution, archeology, new minerals, mining, philosophy of mineralogy, sociology of mineralogy...time associated with the advent of near-surface mining and smelting technologies in classic times (e.g... at least in part, to human activities such as mining or quarrying. If such substances are formed purely
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
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Sutherland Minerals of the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ......................Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ..............................subscribers who wanted a source for books relating to mining and mineralogy. This July the Book Department celebrated...indeed it was reported in 1798 that an immense cliff of salt existed in the interior of the colony. It...teacher of languages. In 1836 he was appointed “Mine and Quarry Agent and Geologist” to the South Australian
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January 2015 Minerals of the Gilman District and Eagle Mine Eagle County, Colorado WILLIAM J. WARREN JR....com 298 ROCKS & MINERALS T he Gilman district, in Eagle County, Colorado, and its premier mineral specimen...Company’s Eagle mine, are located about 120 kilometers west-southwest of Denver. The Gilman district was originally...the Battle Mountain district and was later referred to as the Red Cliff district. Much of the older (pre-1940s)...the area by one, or both, of these names. The district is famous for its once-prolific production of
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Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. Occurrence: A single crystal (coated...(trigonal) HBaAl 3 (AsOJ 2 (0H) 6 Locality: The Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, in the middle Black Forest, Germany...)s(OH) 2 ·1.SH2 O Locality: T he Kamoto East mine, District ofKolwezi, southern Shaba, Zafre (Lat. 10°46'...Monoclinic 3PbCI 2 • PbCO 3 • H 2 O Locality: Bounds Cliff, St. Endellion, Cornwall, United Kingdom (Lat. 50°35...3PbC12 ·PbCO 3 ·H 2O, a new mineral from Bounds Cliff, St Endellion, Cornwall. Mineralogical Magazine
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noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).... During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with...the Eagle mine’s (Gil304 ROCKS & MINERALS man district) production. This does not mean that copper has...chimneys are limited to the Red Mountain district in Ouray County. Figure 2. Colorado mineral belt (COMB)
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index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act...referred to as Glamorgan. The new counties and county boroughs brought in by the Lieutenancies Act of...Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R
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Cuprite, variety chalcutrichite, from Fowey Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field...and S.M. Ingram 23 Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R....botallackite and clinoatacamite, from Castletown mine, Lochgilphead, Scotland R.E. Starkey and .v Huhbm-d...Huhbm-d 3R Thaumasite from Hi gh Sedling mine, Weardale. County Durham, and from Shap, Cumbria, England...veins. Throughout the orefield the economic ore mine ral assemblage is dominated by abundant argentiferous
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado
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states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area...area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico. Treatment...Australia. In the USA gold is often obtained by individual prospectors by placer mining. It is found along...areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange
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................................... Foss Baryte Mine - Request for Information and Specimens ..........then interested in, minerals. He joined Bury and District Mineral and Lapidary Society where he met Wally...that the shop had an enthralling array mineral and mining ephemera, often including framed antique geological...maps, share certificates, old mining postcards, mining tokens and mining-related ornaments. In 1994 the...Peak District of Derbyshire. UK Journal of Mines & Minerals 13 & Bulletin of the Peak District Mines
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(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)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar
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Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185 by...M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .........................................Harris Monazite and caldoancylite from the Foote mine, North Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203...(1 inch) on antlerite crystals from the Southwest mine, Bisbee, Arizona. For more information on this recent...variscite and associated minerals from Fairfield, Utah; zoned liddicoatite tourmaline from Madagascar;
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EDITORIAL COVER PHOTO: Bayldonite. Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Globular aggregates to 0...of-interest co amateur mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Concril?ucions or suggestions for articles...Simon Camm· Michael Merry ------- 16 ------THE VAN MINE S.J.S. Hughes -------26 ------A JOURNEY THROUGH... MINERAL NOTES SIEGENITE FROM ERGLODD MINE, TALYBONT, DYFED, WALES RGLODD Mine is located 200 metres east of...3. Mine subsidence and shaft collapse have demanded a programme co locate and stabilize old mine shafts
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McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral
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Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine...n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode , Su1nmit County . rt is also found in Canada, Mexico
 
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