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Lithiophilite from
Midnight Owl Mine, Independence Gulch, White Picacho Mining District, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Open-Cast Mine
Classification
Species:Lithiophilite
Formula:LiMn2+PO4
Comments:Occurs as crystals and masses.
Habit:Large crystals
Colour:Salmon-pink
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Stewartite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Lithiophilite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Midnight Owl Mine, Independence Gulch, White Picacho Mining District, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:157836
Long-form Identifier:1:3:157836:2
GUID (UUID V4):14e14a6d-ff97-4e74-bcad-7db4cda859f5
Nearest other occurrences of Lithiophilite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Independence Mine, Independence Gulch, White Picacho Mining District, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Lone Giant pegmatite, Independence Gulch, White Picacho Mining District, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) White Jumbo prospect, White Picacho Mining District, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) Sunrise prospect, White Picacho Mining District, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) Morning Star Mine (Morning Star prospects; Morning Star pegmatites), San Domingo Wash, White Picacho Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eucryptite Holmquistite Lepidolite Liddicoatite Lithiophilite Montebrasite Petalite Rossmanite Spodumene Triphylite...of most occurrences (12.5 × 8 cm) from the Tanco mine, Bernic Lake, Manitoba. (c) A large crystal of muscovite...a miarolitic cavity (16 × 12 × 12 cm), Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, California; the yellow arrow shows...pegmatites, wherein they succeed the more common white (muscovite) and dark (biotite) micas of the outer...micas, also the most enriched in Rb, were colorless white micas in the wall zone (one of the earliest and
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
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cm, Garnet Ledge dike, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. Varieties of elbaite:...elbaite: (c) rubellite, 10 cm, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, California, found by Ralph Potter in 1958, William...terminated, 6 cm, 1991 London Pocket, Little Three mine, Ramona, California; (e) indicolite, 5.6 cm, Aracuai...rubellite, 4 cm, Tourmaline Queen mine (1972), Pala district, San Diego County, California, Jesse Fisher and...begins with relatively coarse-grained quartz (clear, white), followed upward by fine-grained tourmaline (dark)
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)
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)
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
Report (issue)
transparent. Color: Pale brown, pink, pale yellow, gray, white, colorless; colorless in transmitted light. Luster:...petalite, pollucite, tourmaline, triplite, lithiophilite, lacroixite, crandallite, muscovite, albite...pegmatite, Bernic Lake, Manitoba, Canada. In the USA, at the Nevel quarry and Bell Pit, Newry, Oxford...in Maine; in the Midnight Owl pegmatite, White Picacho district, Maricopa Co., Arizona; in South Dakota...of Custer; at the Nesbit mine, Gunnison Co., Colorado; in the Stewart mine, Pala, San Diego Co., California
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...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)
and other species. tourmaline, triphylite-lithiophilite, Most of the giant crystals show rough external...from a mass of pegmatite in northwestern Riverside county, california. He clearly recollects his chagrin...suggestionsrelating to results of his operations at the Harding mine in northern New Mexico. The writer also has profited...of giant, lath-shaped spodumene crystals, Harding mine, New Mexico. The largest crystals are about 12 feet...North Carolina, in the Harding pegmatite of Taos County, New Mexico (Fig. 1; 8, Fig.8), in a small area
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The pegmatites were the Bennett pegmatite mine, Oxford County, Maine (Wise et al. 1994; Wise and Rose 2000);...2000); the Harding pegmatite, Taos County, New Mexico (Chakoumakos and Lumpkin 1990); Strickland-Cramer...Portland, Connecticut; Midnight Owl pegmatite, White Picacho District, Arizona (London and Burt 1982);...Wise 2001); and the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine (King and Foord 1994; Harvard Mineralogical...Rakovan and Hughes 2000), and one from the Dwyer Mine, Wilberforce, Ontario. Durango fluorapatite (E.J
Report (issue)
collector minerals of the Prescott National Forest, Arizona By James D. Bliss1 Open-File Report 99-305 1999...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ! U.S. Geological Survey, Tucson, Arizona CONTENTS Non-technical Summary______________...22 Comparable sources of iron oxide in northern Arizona __________________________ 24 Permissible geology...______ 53 Rare new minerals of the United Verde Mine fire ___________________________ 53 Calcite ___...Socorro, New Mexico in 1994 to those in Tucson, Arizona in 1998 30 Histogram of 31 cat litter prices for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cations present at Mg1-9 and Fe10 3+ Midnight Owl Mine, Arizona Granite Fillowite CaNa8(Ca3Na5)Mn42Fe...Stornesite-(Y) is largely altered. Only two of the white grains in b are pyrite (Py). X and M refer to xenotime-(Y)...Þllowite reported from the Midnight Owl Mine, White Picacho District, Arizona (London and Burt 1982) also...when it crystallized on the retrograde path (e.g., White and Powell 2002). In summary, the situation in the...an exception is secondary Þllowite in the Midnight Owl Mine (London and Burt 1982). Chladniite is known
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
an unknown phase completely replaced by a soft, white, kaolinized material and a hard phosphate nodule...matrix of platy albite contains abundant, skeletal, white crystals of montebrasite and some small darker crystals...dendritic montebrasite, the subrectangular white blocks and the white nodule are located at the core–margin...similar to the argillaceous material that forms the white subrectangular blocks (Fig. 3a). X-ray powder diffraction...deformed, irregular veinlets of quartz cross-cut the white aggregate, porcelaneous or soft depending on the
Book
professor of mineralogy at his alma mater, the mining academy at Freiberg. In 1815, he published Über...huge petrified logs in the Petrified Forest in Arizona. The silicification of wood has traditionally been...(upper row); note the location of nonindexed points (white) along grain, phase, and subgrain boundaries as...phase. The high porosity is also shown by the milky-white color of the crystals, a difference is the loss...Furthermore, such areas can also regions (light). White spots denote the presence of exhibit changes in
Book (volume)
...........................................13 Arizona ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ...................................................................14 Arizona – Apache Co. Mining Districts ...............................................................22 Arizona County Map ............................................
Catalog/List
·Minerals (602) 962-648/l 1727 W. DRAKE CIRCLE, MESA, ARIZONA 85202 (U.S.A) SPECIMEN PRICE LIST All ·IJleci■ens...LOCATIONS• If no state 11 listed, 1t 1& fr011 Arizona. As a general rule, locations will be given ■uch...supplied. Usually; the ■ine naae ■ountain range, county and state will be furnished with speci1ens. PRICES:...Fluorescent green, FI SW/LW AFWILLITE Glassy to white fiberous xln on natrix AJOilE Rare micro xls radiating...transparent xis in nodules 1\PATITE Small bluish white xls on lllbite fl orange SW *IINDESHJE/OLIGOCL/\Sf
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1964; Karibib district, Zambia: ROERINGand GEVERS,1964; White Pica&o district, Arizona: LONDON, 1979;...contacts in the Homestead and Midnight Owl pegmatites, White Pie&ho distria, Arizona (tiNDON, 1979). Tourmaline...niobium-tantalum oxides (NTQ), and apatite-lithiophilite intergrowths (AL) are concentrated in radial...Su&%ceexpol;ure of the upper Himalaya dike system (San Diego mine), Meea Chnde distri& Califbrnia. Tourmahne (Tur)...with applications to pegmatite petrology. lithiophilite Li8n2+P04 triphyllite LiFe*+PO 4 THE ROLE
Book (volume)
...........................................11 Arizona .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
...........................................11 Arizona .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Catalog/List
Southwest Scientific Company P. 0. Box 796 - Sedona, Arizona 86336 Telephone (602) 282-7541 SOUTHWEST SCIENTIFIC...limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen...AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings...Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...Lustrous white twin xl groups, minor muscovite MM Lot 10-1'' lxl" lx2" I. 25 .50 I. 00 2.50 5
Catalog/List
(602) 962-8486 1727 W. DRAKE CIRCLE, tv1ESA, ARIZONA 85202 (U.S.A) $7us'4u5 79'su 2'$B -- -·--------...sizes j6sp/'s_$f If no state ls listed, it is fros Arizona. As a general rule, location• will ;L given *·DfV...IUf)Plitd. Usually; }V• ■lne naael ■ountain ran9e, county and state will be K·yqXzVHF wlth Xw■Cl~111. • PRILS:...te/Wulfeni le .so 1.75 BAIHJ[ Micro to ?Oin111 white xi clusters - attractive BAIHT[ 2.-1 c Sherry colored...clusters - nice! ••• see M Vol lt,plOO 1.00 Magu Mine 4.50 ·BARITE Brown tabular sei--transparent x] clusters
Book (chapter)
professor of mineralogy at his alma mater, the mining academy at Freiberg. In 1815, he published Über...huge petrified logs in the Petrified Forest in Arizona. The silicification of wood has traditionally been...(upper row); note the location of nonindexed points (white) along grain, phase, and subgrain boundaries as...phase. The high porosity is also shown by the milky-white color of the crystals, a difference is the loss...Furthermore, such areas can also regions (light). White spots denote the presence of exhibit changes in
Catalog/List
SILICATE) black masses i n Actinolite. (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhyttan,Sweden) lx1 £ 1 . 1 0 218ALMANDINE...Norway) lx1 £2.70 1 x 2 £.4.60 012ALUMINITE pure white sphere shaped botryoidal nodule.(Newhaven Sussex...mass. (Tushar Mts. near Marysville Pilute County, Utah USA) lx1 £1.60 014 ALURGITE.variety of Muscovite...1 x 2 £1.20 2x2 £2.40 2 x 3 £4.80 017 ANALCITE white crystals well covering Basalt.(Talisker Bay.Skye...g h t l y crystalline i n matrix. (Mullaghderg County Donegal I r e l a n d ) lx1 £ 1 l x 2 £2 022ANGLESITE
 
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