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Pyrite from
Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chalcociteⓘ42 photos of Pyrite associated with Chalcocite at this locality.
Dickiteⓘ19 photos of Pyrite associated with Dickite at this locality.
Borniteⓘ7 photos of Pyrite associated with Bornite at this locality.
Calciteⓘ1 photo of Pyrite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Copper Sulphides1 photo of Pyrite associated with Copper Sulphides at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Photo GalleryView Gallery (17 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:618852
Long-form Identifier:1:3:618852:8
GUID (UUID V4):ce8124a1-e039-422d-8dfc-fa4cb485ec9f
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
6.4km (4.0 miles) ⓘLa Mariquita Mine, Cuitaca, Cananea Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
7.8km (4.9 miles) ⓘMaria Mine, Cananea, Cananea Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
30.6km (19.0 miles) ⓘState of Texas Mine, Montezuma Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
32.7km (20.3 miles) ⓘHarper Mine, Bear Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
33.3km (20.7 miles) ⓘLutz Tunnel, Ash Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
34.8km (21.6 miles) ⓘLine Boy Mine, Line property, Duquesne-Washington Camp, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
35.0km (21.7 miles) ⓘNelly James Mine (Miller Canyon deposit; Miller Canyon prospect; Nellie James prospect; Holenstein Mine), Miller Canyon, Miller Peak, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
35.0km (21.8 miles) ⓘCopper Glance Mine, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
35.4km (22.0 miles) ⓘBenton Mine (Benton property), San Antonio Canyon, Duquesne-Washington Camp, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
36.2km (22.5 miles) ⓘAlfonso Villey Mine (Alfonso Villy prospect), Duquesne-Washington Camp, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...(hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected in 1958;...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken
Journal (issue)
Number 5 The JllilpillaB Jlline Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico .............................................with malachite, 5.4 cm, from the Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico. Fine Minerals International specimen;...the mines and minerals of Mexico is devoted entirely to the Milpillas mine, a relatively new locality...quantities. We published a preliminary report on the mine by Tom Moore and Marcus Origlieri back in 2008,...specimens; they visited Milpillas and went underground with the miners. Since the mine has now shut down permanently
Journal (issue)
row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalå mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacå Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization along the Cananea lineament, northeastern Sonora, Mexico: Contribution to the understanding of the Cananea...mineralization along the Cananea lineament, northeastern Sonora, Mexico: Contribution to the understanding of the Cananea...mineralization along the Cananea lineament, northeastern Sonora, Mexico: Contribution to the understanding of the Cananea...Nacional AutĂłnoma de Mexico. L.D. Colosio y Madrid S/N, Col. Los Arcos, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83240 MĂ©xico. ...y Naturales, Universidad de Sonora, Rosales y Encinas, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000 MĂ©xico. MA (3) Geosciences
Journal (issue)
with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...7 THE COLLECTIONS 1 1 Malcolm Alter Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Mark Kielbaso Jim & Imelda Klein...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...enough, just across the border to the south is Mexico, rieb in active mines where miners are gathering...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization associated with the Laramide magmatic arc of Mexico Martı́n Valencia-Moreno, Antoni Camprubı́, Lucas...mineralization associated with the Laramide magmatic arc of Mexico, Ore Geology Reviews (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...mineralization associated with the Laramide magmatic arc of Mexico SC RI MartĂ­n Valencia-Morenoa*, Antoni CamprubĂ­b...Colosio y Madrid S/N, A.P. 1039, 83000 Hermosillo, Sonora (MĂ©xico) Instituto de GeologĂ­a, Universidad Nacional...(MĂ©xico) Departamento de GeologĂ­a, Universidad de Sonora. Luis Donaldo Colosio y Madrid s/n, 83000 GEO
Journal (issue)
(rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica, Mexico---Stephen Blyskal and Sigrid Stewart collection;...like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many fortunes have been...ofLeadville, Colorado. Eventually rnoving on through New Mexico and Arizona as a prospector, he leamed some mineralogy...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the
Journal (issue)
KHURSHEED DINSHAW NEVADA PATENT MINE 34 United States’ only active azurite mine. STUART “TATE” WILSON Regular...Regular Columns PYRITE: A NATURAL HISTORY 48 It’s much more than ‘Fool’s Gold’. STEVE VOYNICK ROCK...Azuritecredit) with Malachite,. (photo Milpillas Mine, Mexico : ARKENSTONE specimen now in the Jeff Kremer...of Tiffany Stone are no longer available from the mine at Delta Utah, even though the beryl content is... Mexican miners working underground at Ojuela mine circa 1908. Note safety equipment of the day. IMAGE
Report (issue)
a whiff of Mexico too. There are many good things here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district...blue topaz: Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....impressive: Axinite, 5 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....County, especially from the Stewart mine. And from the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County...(besides plenty of elbaites) such rarities from that mine as cassiterite, hambergite, and a large, superb
Journal (issue)
Lawrence, Kansas Front cover Quartz scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington;...Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
referred mainly to fossils, formed by calcite and pyrite, it also included pseudomorphs in the “mineral...of the nonexistent In 1975, the Santo Niño and Santa Elena veins were argentite. Acanthite formed as...Juan de Rayas in Guanajuato (Mexico) and has become the richest silver mine in the world, in more recently...ceased vein. The San Juan production by the de Rayas mine in time of World War II. Guanajuato also In 1946...very city In Morocco, the of Oberschlema Bou Azzer mine, itself, which finally already very had to be relocated
Report (issue)
Caridad, Pilares, Cananea, Maria, Mariquita, Milpillas October, 1994 Bootprints Along the Cordillera... September 19, 1994 Dear Participants: Welcome to Mexico and Sonora. and beneficial to you. I hope this trip...Caridad, Pilares, Cananea, Maria, Mariquita, Milpillas" is intended to be a brief introduction to...the porphyry molybdenum deposits of northern Sonora. and breccia copper- It will point out the...Caridad on the southern most end and finish with Milpillas, the northern most known copper resource
Report (issue)
show Jordi also scored something interesting from Mexico and something else from Brazil, and now all of...====ï‚„ Co-rich calcite, 7.8 cm, from the Oumlil mine, Bou Azzer, Ouarzazate, Morocco. Fabre Minerals...Silver on actinolite, 5.4 cm, from the Bouismas mine, Bou Azzer, Ouarzazate, Morocco. Fabre Minerals...==========ï‚„ About three years ago the Bouismas mine at Bou Azzer surprised the collecting world by producing...“from an exceptional find in 2010” in the Bouismas mine, show much stouter, withal a little elongated, metallic
Report (issue)
elbaite, amethyst, Tsumeb minerals, and Sweet Home mine minerals. Also scattered on these pages are items...====================================ï‚„ work as a mine supervisor at Boron) for what turned out, by the...“presence.” Stolzite, 3 cm, from the Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Ex-Minette...distinctive blue fluorite on quartz from the Huanggang mine, Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia, China. These... Fluorite on quartz, 15 cm, from the Huanggang mine, KĂšshĂ­kĂštĂ©ng Banner, Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia
Journal (issue)
Calcite aus der Gordonsville Mine, USA Kupfermineralien von der Milpillas Mine, Mexiko ‱ QuecksilberMineralien...57 SpektakulĂ€re Calcitfunde in der Gordonsville Mine, Tennessey 58 Neuigkeiten aus der Vulkaneifel...Außergewöhnliche Kupfer-Mineralien von der Milpillas Mine in Sonora, Mexiko 76 Neue Mineralien 86 ACHAT-Magazin...ein Exemplar von der TyplokalitĂ€t, der Uchucchacua-Mine bei der Stadt Oyon in der Provinz Lima handelt,...BĂŒcher Cap Garonne - das Buch? Die Cap Garonne Mine in der Gemeinde Le Pradet, Departement Var, Region
Journal (issue)
(a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson...discovery of morganite at the famous Corrego do Urucum mine in 1973. Will Johnson collection (I had to trade
Catalog/List
1/18/21 11:02 AM Quartz and Hematite Jinlong Iron Mine, Longchuan, Guangdong, China 7.5 cm tall x 11 cm...AM Malachite on Quartz with Shattuckite Omaue Mine, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia 7.6 cm tall...1/18/21 11:02 AM Scheelite on Muscovite Pingwu Beryl Mine, Mt. Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang, Sichuan,...example, mined 25 years ago from the Pingwu Beryl Mine, is one of the most remarkable of the species. Scheelite...indd 16 1/18/21 11:02 AM Rhodonite Morro da Mina Mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil 8 cm
Journal (issue)
Issue President’s Message 2&4 Officers 3 Milpillas Azurite Story 5-9 State Mineralogy Books 10-15...28-30 Our Affiliates 31 Mimetite, Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Mexico, 2.4 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm, Alex Schauss Collection...Chapter Newsletter: Get it While You Can: the Milpillas Azurite Story by Bob Carnein A Lake George Club...exorbitant amount of money for an azurite specimen from Mexico (Figures 2, 3). The price was in the very low 3-figures...to answer that question and show you why the Milpillas mine is one of the great contemporary mineral localities
Journal (issue)
p. 258 COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to...fine minerals on DVD wilensky Fluorite, Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Wilensky Fine Minerals...magnetite as rosettes, and goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite. The exceptional epidote and quartz specimens produced...and Other Minerals from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona Chapter authors: Les...Presmyk and Tony Potucek The Mammoth-St. Anthony mine at Tiger has produced not only large amounts of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cretaceous porphyry copper mineralization in Sonora, Mexico: Implications for the evolution of the Southwest...Abstract Two porphyry Cu-Mo prospects in northern Sonora, Mexico (Fortuna del Cobre and Los Humos) located within...North America province (Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico) represents the second largest porphyry...throughout Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in the USA and Sonora and Sinaloa in Mexico (Luyendyk 1970; Barton...occurrences between 30–31° N latitude in Northern Mexico. Additionally, we propose a metallogenic tectonic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 2 (right). Pyromorphite, 7.7 cm high, Daoping mine, Gongcheng, Guangxi, China; Scott Rudolph specimen...(left). Elbaite and albite, 11.1 cm wide, Pederneira mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Green Mountain Minerals specimen...Figure 4 (above). Wulfenite, 12 cm wide, Defiance mine, Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona; Joe and Susan...(left). Hematite, field of view 6.4 cm, Eisenkaute mine, Marienberg, Germany; Norbert Stoetzel specimen...Elbaite, quartz, and albite, 17.5 cm wide, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California; Martin
Journal (issue)
localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,...Collection" labels list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results...thread, some taken from the surface of the American mine and some from its deepest workings indicating that...that depth does not change the character of the mine. One is impressed by the money as well as the scientific...quartz, interspersed with gold, but the owner of the mine, Mr. Walker, seeing the cabinet, said that the piece
Book (volume)
Juan de Reyes Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 52 Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 47 (Cuproadamite...(Cuproadamite with Ferrolotharmeyerite) Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 22 Apophyllite (on Stilbite) Jalgaon, Maharastra...Liu Feng Shan Mine, Anhui Prov., China, 18 (& Malachite) Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, 32, 38-39 Barite...Quartz) Yaoganxian Mine, Chen Zhou, Hunan Prov., China, 56 Calcite (on Fluorite) Elmwood Mine, Elmwood, Tennessee...India, 40 (on Copper) Quincy Mine, Houghton Co., Michigan, 49 Wenshan Mine, Wenshan Autonomous Pref,, Yunnan
Report (issue)
describes his recent visits to a small former fluorite mine 2.5 kilometers north of the village of Mihalkovo...border with Greece. Until its closure in 1994 this mine produced fluorite for industrial uses, and, it seems...and sphalerite after calcite, from the Broken Hill mine, Aggeneys, Northern Cape Province, South Africa...epimorphs after calcite, 14.2 cm, from the Broken Hill mine, Aggeneys, Northern Cape Province, South Africa...Gegentrum mine, Frohnau, Annaberg district. Fluorite, 8 cm, from the Bergsmannisch GlĂŒck Gegentrum mine, Frohnau
Journal (issue)
| w w w. FineMineral.com Tourmaline Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil. 19.5 cm Fine Minerals International proudly...greenmountainminerals.com BA R I T E 12 X 8” Parkside Mine, Frizington Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK Photo...specular hematite. In the bed of the access road to the mine, which descends the scarp of the Neogene plateau...authors Bartorelli and Cornejo a tour of several mine workings. One of the mines is reached through a...Fanadinho Creek and the Fanado River. Adão’s open pit mine is nowadays in full operation, having received artisanal
 
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