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| Description | |
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| Comments: | From the roof in the inner part of the south tunnel and adjacent parts of the crosscuts hang great masses of closely spaced, acicular or filiform (jackstrawed), silky, white cerussite about a foot in length, for which this mine is famous. |
| Habit: | Jackstrawed sheaves of needle-like & pencil-like crystal aggregates |
| Colour: | White |
| UV Fluorescence: | Whitish (SW). |
| Quality of samples: | Good crystals or rich for species - important (!) |
| Rarity at site: | Very common |
| Confirmation | |
| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| References | |
| References: | Keith, Stanton B. (1975), Arizona Bureau of Mines Bull. 191, Index of Mining Properties in Santa Cruz County Arizona: 58 (Table 4); Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 159; Schrader, F.C. & J.M. Hill (1915), Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, AZ, USGS Bull. 582: 258-263; Kartchner (1944); Arizona Bureau of Mines file data; Kunz, G.F. (1885), On remarkable copper minerals from AZ, Annals N.Y. Acad. Sci.: 3: 275-278; Shannon, D.M. (1981), What's new in minerals, Min.Rec.: 12: 117-118; Univ. AZ Bull. 41 (1916-17), Mineralogy of Useful Minerals in AZ: 26; Schrader, F.C. & J.M. Hill (1915), Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, USGS Bull. 582: 262; Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of AZ: 28, 50; Dana 6:1094. |
| Associated minerals: | |
| Associates: | Minium |
| Data | |
| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Cerussite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Flux Mine (Goshen Mine), Flux Gulch, Alum Gulch, Harshaw District, Patagonia Mts, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona, USA |
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