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Sepiolite from
Cerro de Mercado Mine, Victoria de Durango, Durango Municipality, Durango, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sepiolite
Formula:Mg4(Si6O15)(OH)2 · 6H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorapatiteⓘ1 photo of Sepiolite associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sepiolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cerro de Mercado Mine, Victoria de Durango, Durango Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:56710
Long-form Identifier:1:3:56710:7
GUID (UUID V4):5ae83eae-343e-4513-a2dc-dd8a768d22c9
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE GEOLOGY & MINERALS OF Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Downloaded by [The University of British Columbia]...Columbia] at 18:18 29 October 2014 MEXICO PETER K. M. MECAW IMDEX Inc. P.O. Box 65538 Tucson, Arizona 85728...Figure 1. Map of Mexico showing the lacation of Cerro de Mercado in the state of Durango and other igneous-associatediron...deposits of Mexico. err0 de Mercado, also known as Iron Mountain, Cerro Mercado, and Cerro del Mercado (Zubiria...northern outskirts of Durango City, of . capital the state of Durango, Mexico (fig. 1). This legendary
Journal (issue)
localities: The Trucco mining district, Taxco de Alarcon, Guerrero, Mexico ......................................mineral localities: The Refugio mine, Municipio de Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico ................................Wilson Jlerro de Jllercado Famous mineral localities: Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Mexico ................Ferry ~alace of Jlline_s The Palace of Mines in Mexico City .................................... .497...Smithsonite, 4 cm wide, from the Refugio mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico. William Dameron collection; Jesse Fisher
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JanuaryFebruary: Wulfenite and mimetite. San Francisco mine, Sonora. Mexico. Shirley Fiske specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...photo. March/April: Gold, Mystery wind mine, California. Pacific Mineral Museum specimen, Mark Mauthner...Silver with calcite, Southwest orebody, White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan. Lance Hampel specimen...July/August: Sphalerite with pyrite and calcite, Portland mine, Ouray County, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan specimen...SeptemberlOctober: Calcite with hematite inclusions, Lei Ping mine, Guiyang, Hunan Province, China. Werner Lieber specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VolcanogenieIron Oxide Deposits,Cerro de Mereado and Vicinity, Durango, Mexico JAMESI. LYONS* Departmentof...Abstract The iron depositsof the DurangoCity, Mexico,areawere formedby subaerialvolcanic processes duringa...extrusiveactivitywasconcurrentwith the eruptionof the Mercado Iron Member. Both unitsprecededthe eruptionof a...The Mercado Iron Member of the Cacaria Formation consists of seven facies variations. The Cerro de Mereadoiron...subaerialvolcanicprocesses. The maindepositat Cerro de Mereadoapparentlyresultedfrom the eruptionof an
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Scovil M ining began in Mexico more than four hundred years ago! As a result, Mexico has been a prolific...1960s. European museums received specimens from Mexico as early as the late sixteenth century, but it...American museums began to acquire specimens from Mexico. The Harvard collection is probably typical of...no strong connection to Mexico and its mines. A precious opal from the Iris mine in Queretaro (fig. 1)...offered as a general introduction to the minerals of Mexico, the theme of the 1999 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show
Book
K FIELD GUIDE to the GEMS and MINERALS of MEXICO (Exclusive of Baja California) A guide to the...Information............ Driving in Mexico................... Trailcring in Mexico ............. 5 6 6 7 8 8........ A Word to the Wise ............. Jade in Mexico......................... Manto and Chimney Deposits.................. Los Lamentos District.... Placer de Guadalupe Puerto del Aire District Chihuahua ......El Potosi Mine............. San Antonio Mine....... Cusihuiriachic District..... Barranca de Cobre (Copper
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"'<' ~/ BOUNDARIES U A Mo<'« u~ o V :¾ MEXICO r - ·•-.. ·-··-··-··-·· < •• ....... V S TATES...org/details/mineralsofmexico0000panc MINERALS OF MEXICO • ERALS OF ~XICO M ______ William D. Panczner...Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia Macmillan of Canada Division of...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy-Collectors and collecting-Mexico. 2. Mines and mineral...mineral resources-Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This boo i
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anc MINERALS OF MEXICO 7 | : = Pras #0 AaprTTARE ; | MINERALS OF MEXICO William D. Panczner...Nostrand Reinhold 480 La Trobe Street Melbourne, Victoria 3000, Australia Macmillan of Canada Division...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy— Collectors and collecting— Mexico. 2. Mines and...and mineral resources— Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This book...Boletin nuimeros 40 and 41 (Instituto Geoldgico de México, 1922, 1923), has an author been able
Catalog/List
1966 2 Fl/R ADAMITE A basic arsenate of zinc Mexico Durango, Mapimi, Mina Ojuela ~lliant lime-yellow prismatic......... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen with minor...Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on monzonite ... ALABANDITE Mar.ganese sulfide Mexico Puebla...Puebla, Mina Preciosa Sangue de Cristo Nearly pure dark brown cubic cleavable mass with green streak ......Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous
Catalog/List
Fl/R ALABANDITE Manganese sulfide Mexico Puebla, Mina Preciosa Sangue de Cristo ~rly pure dark brown cubic...White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon Nearly pure white xlline...sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls imbedded in syenite CROSSITE...iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite ..... . GRUNERITE...GRUNERITE Basic iron silicate Michigan Champion, Spons mine White-tan fibrous aggregates in magnetite with stilpnomelane
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...limonite, rich ................. 1.50 . 25 Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. White-to-pale yellow... 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
Book
HOLSER, Editor), Bulletin de la Societe Fralll}!1ise de Mineralogie et de Cristallographie (C. LEVY,...uncertainty; (x) not reported for apatite from Durango [252] but frequently occurs for crystals from other...diffraction maxima for a crystal from Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Mexico [252]. All crystals measured with...for the transparent crystals from Cerro de Mercado, near Durango, Mexico: (Grams per cm 3 at 22° C) Measured...CalO(P04)6F2 because analysis of the crystals from Durango departs somewhat from this composition. Calculation
Catalog/List
78-79 79 79 79 VANADINITE specimen from the Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona GLOBES AND ATLASES... 2 ADAl\llITE A basic arsenate of zinc. Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina O juela. �en-gray to red-brown...on limonite, rich . . .. .... . . ..... . . Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. White-to-pale yellow...groups on limonite . .. . .. ... .. ... . lVlexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. Brilliant lime-yellow prismatic...radial groups . .... .. . CUPROADAMITE ( ! I I Mexico Durango. Mapimi, mina Ojuela. 1, �e blue to steel-blue
Report (issue)
Twinning in barbosalite from the Sapucaia pegmatite mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, by M. L. L. Smith________________...geochemistry of fluorapatite from Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Mexico, by E. J. Young, A. T. Myers, E. L...cone (of) . Dacite and 7 possible dacite -, > (de and dc) 7' Dacite and > 7' possible dacite (f Basaltic...Phenocrysts An Total content Total Fa content DACITE (de) 62ABd446*_-. Slightly vesicular porphyritic augite...minerals Glass Total tion Total tion DACITE (de) ._ 7 Au 10 Au 1? .. . ................ 7
Book
11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals encompass...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...more directions. br Drusy linarite, Bingham, New Mexico, USA * 9x 75 x 2.cm Arborescent copper, Michigan...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm
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Explanation of the abbreviations used in the book c s L D DE H CL F M LU R X XX - color streak luster diaphaneity...to black in air; S - red; L - metallic; D opaque; DE - 8.9; H - 2.5 - 3; CL - none; F - hackly; M - cubic...Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...black: S - silver-white; L metallic; D - opaque; DE 10,5; H - 2.5 - 3; CL - none; F - hackly; M - cubic...Dendritic aggregates from Batopilas, Chihuahua, .Mexico, reached up to 150 mm (6 in). Crystals and aggregates
Book
of the abbreviations used in the book C s L D DE H CL F M LU - R X XX - color streak luster diaphaneity...to black in air; S - red; L - metallic; D opaque; DE- 8.9; H - 2.5 - 3; CL - none; F - hackly; M - cubic...Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...black; S - silver-white; L - metallic; D - opaque; DE- 10,5; H - 2.5 - 3; CL - none; F - hackly; M - cubic...Dendritic aggregates from Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico, reached up to 150 mm (6 in). Crystals and aggregates
Report (issue)
Honduras hydrology Latin America Mexico noun (feminine) noun (masculine) New Mexico obsolete Paraguay Peru petroleum...adverbio Argentina Arizona (EE.UU.) Baja California (Mexico) Bolivia Brasil California (EE.UU.) America Central...hidrologia Latinoamerica Mexico sustantivo feminino sustantivo masculine Nuevo Mexico (EE. UU.) caida en desuso...estadistica Santo Domingo levantamiento suroueste de las EE. UU. Uruguay Estados Unidos variedad verbo...Spanish languages. Lo siguente es una compilacion de pesos y medidas no metricos c\ue se emplea en los
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43..."Dana's System of Mineralogy•· ( 1944, I 951, 1962). de Fourestier (1999) and Strunz and Nickel (2001). Mi11eral...ASG -Archives de Science Geneve BM - Bulletin de la Societe fram;aise de mineralogie et de cristallographie... at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO Mexico, at Kellogg, Shoshone...Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co .. Utah. Also at Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald
Report (volume)
Baltimore, Md. Mexico, Institute Geologico: Bulletin, no. 16, 1902. City of Mexico. Michigan Geological...1901; vol. 17 and vol. .18, nos. 1-2, 1902. City of Mexico. Society Geologica Italiana: Bulletin, vol. ^,... 1901. Rome, Italy. Socie'te'Ge"ologique de Belgique: Annals, vol. 28, l'?01, and vol. 29, 1902. Liege...Liege, Belgium. Socie*te" Ge"ologique de France: Bulletin, 4th series, vol. 2, 1302. Paris, France. South...geological distribution of the mineral deposits of Mexico. Am. Inst. Mg. Engrs., Trans:, vol. 32, pp. 497-520
Book
times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...occasionally workable veins of cassiterite with hematite (Mexico); many other minerals too form as sublimates but...largely exhausted today, such as the silver of Mexico and South America, and the copper of Rio Tinto...rocks, and mining in ancient times; Aristotle's 'De Petris' was very probably written by an early medieval...(to several tons). In various copper mines of New Mexico and Arizona, abundant as branching growths(!) sometimes
Report (volume)
......................................... 281 Durango apatite .........................................three pages). 1: fluorapatite, Corro de Mercado mine, Durango, Mexico (Young et al. 1969) 2: REE-rich fluorapatite...fluorapatite, Pajarito, Otero County, New Mexico, USA (Roeder et al. 1987; Hughes et al. 1991b) 3: Sr-rich...Russia (Pekov et al. 1996) 13: belovite-(Ce), Durango, Mexico (Rakovan & Hughes 2000) 14: deloneite-(Ce)...(Chesnokov et al. 1987) 24: hydroxylellestadite, Chichibu mine, Saitama Prefecture, Japan (Harada et al. 1971;
Book (edition)
'HOLD AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia V.-\..'- NOSTR.-\..''D REI!-.'TfIOLD...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is...cut gem 4. Mounce diamond crystal 5. Gibson's Ruby mine, Cowee Creek, North Carolina 6. Corundum Hill, North...Eldorado Bar, Montana 8. W. D. Baltzley 9. Ellis mine pocket, Hiddenite, North Carolina 10. View of American...Pedro mine, Pala, California 15. Morganite crystal from Pala, California 16. Hazel W. pegmatite mine, Pala
Report (issue)
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Report (volume)
St S Com Maine State Survey Commission Mex I G .Mexico, Instituto GeolOgico Miss G S .Mississippi State...geology: Davis ( W M), 12a Geologic bases of mining law: De Kalb, 10 Geologic basis for artesian prediction:...95; Prouty, 09, 12; Smith (E A), 76a; Labausage mine: Evans (A W), 09. Raccoon Mountain field: Gibson...Mountain: Aldrich (jr), 08 Talladega Co., Gold Log mine: Bastin, 16a Granites: Watson, 10 Iron: Chauvenet...(A A), 45; Jackson, 38c Danville: Smith (J L), 70 De Sotoville, Choctaw Co.: Brezina, 04a Felix, Perry
 
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