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Malachite from
Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Azurite454 photos of Malachite associated with Azurite at this locality.
Chrysocolla61 photos of Malachite associated with Chrysocolla at this locality.
Tenorite16 photos of Malachite associated with Tenorite at this locality.
Hematite15 photos of Malachite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Cuprite11 photos of Malachite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Quartz10 photos of Malachite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Allophane7 photos of Malachite associated with Allophane at this locality.
Dioptase7 photos of Malachite associated with Dioptase at this locality.
Gibbsite4 photos of Malachite associated with Gibbsite at this locality.
Limonite4 photos of Malachite associated with Limonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (15 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:7387
Long-form Identifier:1:3:7387:5
GUID (UUID V4):5746d1df-72f7-4cbf-8fe8-bff726f3f9d3
Localities for Malachite in this Region
Copper Mountain Mine (Manganese Blue Mine; Copper Mountain claim working; Old Blue shaft; Detroit Copper Co. group; Manganese Blue ore body), Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Detroit Mine (Arizona Copper Co. group [in part]), Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Humboldt Mine (Humboldt tunnel; Liverpool tunnel; Arizona Copper Co. group [in part]), Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Humming Bird Mine, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Morenci Mine, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
4.3km (2.7 miles) Humming Bird Mine, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Detroit Mine (Arizona Copper Co. group [in part]), Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Copper Mountain Mine (Manganese Blue Mine; Copper Mountain claim working; Old Blue shaft; Detroit Copper Co. group; Manganese Blue ore body), Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Longfellow Mine (Ofarizona Copper Co. group [in part]; Longfellow incline), Clifton, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Humboldt Mine (Humboldt tunnel; Liverpool tunnel; Arizona Copper Co. group [in part]), Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Arizona Central Mine (Detroit Copper Co. group [in part]; Arizona Central vein; Copper Mountain tunnel), Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) Morenci Mine, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles) Clifton Copper Mines (San Jose; Copper Centre; Clifton gp; Standard gp; Standard Consolidated Copper Co.; Standard Mine; Standard Copper), Standard Gulch, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Metcalf Mines (Arizona Copper Co. group; Metcalf Open pit), Clifton, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
8.4km (5.2 miles) Las Trajas Mine (Arizona Copper Co. property [in part]), Pinkaro Gulch, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
No. 1 Arizona State Bureau of Mines Bulletin CHARLES F. WILLIS, Director Directory of Arizona Minerals...THE University of Arizona TUCSON, ARIZONA 1915-16 DIRECTORY (Compiled OF ARIZONA MINERALS from...district, Cochise County; Gila County, at Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in Mineral Park;;...Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty; Yavapai County, in ores of Bradshaw Mountains; Yuma County, in...and Stibnite. ARGENTITE (silver glance). Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nebraska, Lincoln] at 07:52 28 December 2014 Arizona Mineral Classics A rizona contains a wealth of...see copper minerals well represented among the Arizona classics listed in tables 1, 2, and 3. Bideaux...listed 163 different copper minerals found in Arizona. Sixty-one percent of the classic minerals listed...advanced degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and collected personally at many of the classic...his previous article (Rocks & Minerals 1981) on Arizona minerals. 18 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the rainbow! This rainbow ends over Tiger, Arizona, a mining camp for gold and other metals. Downloaded...(below). Arizona sweethearts (heart pendants) to 28 mm. Top: “Gem chrysocolla” from Arizona. Bottom:...“Campbellite” from Bisbee, Cochise County. Left: Malachite from Bisbee, Cochise County. Right: Turquoise from Sleeping...Beauty mine, Gila County. Figure 3 (top right). Collecting at the Rowley mine, Maricopa County. Though best...showing some of the Arizona gemstone localities, prepared by William Besse. Arizona Gemstones Wolfgang
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/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)
Q! creonl lia OE ~| /BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee...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)
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...Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
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
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)
Journal (issue)
RECORD, MAY-JUNE 2013 Mineral Collections in Arizona A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record May-June...Mineralogical Record, Inc. P.O. Box 30730, Tucson, Arizona 85751 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil photo...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was...May-June 2013 Contents Mineral Collecting in Arizona .. ..... ..... ..... ..... ... ..... .........
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carbonates at the Northwest Extension Deposit, Morenci District, Arizona: Implications for Conditions of Supergene...Corporation, One North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85004 Abstract Stable isotope analyses were performed...deposit, Morenci district, Arizona. The δ18O values of azurite (23.3–25.5‰, SMOW) and malachite (21.0–23...production by exothermic oxidation of sulfides. For malachite, a relationship between higher temperatures and...enrichment in 13C with height above the water table. Malachite δ13C values range from –9.6 to –11.1 per mil and
Report (issue)
itty nf l\rt~nttU iullrtttt ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS OF ARIZONA By FREDERIC W. GALBRAITH...(Revised) ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES, GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN NO. 153 One dollar (Free to residents of Arizona) PUBLISHED...PUBLISHED BY lIlniul'r.lluy nf Arizuna TUCSON. ARIZONA SERIES No. 17, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION...bulletin will be forwarded to the Arizona Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This description of the minerals of Arizona has been largely compiled from publications and manuscripts
Journal (issue)
50th Anniversary Issue! Arizona ineralogical Record January-February 2020 ❖ Volume 51 Number 1 ❖ $40...$40 THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ARIZONA-VII . . . . Arizona-VII (Introduction) .................................................... 5 W. E. Wilson Arizona Wulfenite in the News, 1877–1940 ................15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona .............................................B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ..........................................
Journal (issue)
Record, lnc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping; Hardcover:...Kunzite-Gary and Rosemany White collection, page 295; Malachite-Don and Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle...204; Cerussite-Joe Budd collection, page 63; Malachite-Tim & Holly Smith collection, page 244. (right...mineral localities like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many... Eventually rnoving on through New Mexico and Arizona as a prospector, he leamed some mineralogy and
Journal (issue)
January–February, 2020 Mineral Collections in Arizona-II A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record January-February...Record, Inc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil photo...wulfenite became the official State Mineral of Arizona by Alexander G. Schauss A Fat Jack Adventure by...COLLECTIONS Erika Brown Mineralogical Society of Arizona Members Wyatt Busby Tom Moore Mark Candee Dick
Report (issue)
Trip 18 : Safford District (Sanchez) and Morenci - Metcalf October, 1994 Bootprints Along the Cordillera... Dear Field Trip Participants: On behalf of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy...October 2, 1994 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK MORENCI DISTRICT AND SAFFORD DISTRICT(Sanchez) FIELD TRIP...the Cordillera" post-meeting field trip to the Morenci and Safford mining districts. The trip will examine...mineralization, and copper oxide mineralization at Morenci on the first day of the trip. Day two will be spent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3500 South Beryl Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85735 azmarmot@gmail.com ARIZONA Pseudomorphs and Epimorphs Unless...5 cm, South Belmont mine, Duquesne, Santa Cruz County. SEUDOMORPHS (Greek for false forms), examples...related and are also appealing to many collectors. Arizona has numerous localities that have produced attractive...View of Lime Peak, north of Duquesne, Santa Cruz County, as seen from the Holland mine; Barbara Muntyan...minerals, has retired to Tucson and now writes about Arizona localities. 158 ROCKS & MINERALS Pseudomorphs
Catalog/List
recenUy acquired a huge old collection from an Arizona dealer/collector who was selling out due to age...fine quallty materlal wlth approxlmately 80% from Arizona localilies. This dealer had contacts with numerous...numerous miners at many of the famous mines In Arizona, and compiled this huge hoard betwecn 1960 and 1990...other ncw material from sources othcr than thc Arizona coilection. Due to the tremendous amount of new...RED CLOUD WULFENITE: Red Cloud Mine, La Paz County, Arizona: The best wulfenite locallty in the world,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Supergene Environment of the Morenci Porphyry Copper Deposit, Greenlee County, Arizona M. STEPHEN ENDERS,† Newmont...of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5640 SPENCER R. TITLEY,...Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 AND GORDON SOUTHAM Department...along the 5200 bench of the Metcalf pit within the Morenci copper deposit revealed that acidophilic iron oxidizing... 0.39% S). The modern climate in southwestern Arizona is semiarid and exhibits a biannual wet-dry cycle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407, USA College of Natural Sciences, California State University...5500 University Parkway, San Bernardino, CA 92407, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...temperatures in coal bed fires is 1.9‰ (Pennsylvania, USA) to 1.7‰ (Germany). © 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights...gerhardtite is the United Verde Mine at Jerome, Arizona, USA (Wells and Penfield, 1885), though the mineral...mineral occurs at four other localities in the USA (e.g., Lindgren and Hillebrand, 1904; Lindgren, 1905; Williams
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
having the formula Cu,(OH),(CO,),. Pseudomorphs of malachite after azurite are common, although the converse...depth. It is almost invariably associated with malachite and commonly with a variety of iron oxides and...Namibia, exhibiting partial replacement by velvety malachite. Michel Derly specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...January 2015 Counties, Maine; Mineral Hill, Carroll County, Maryland; French Creek and Phoenixville, Pennsylvania;...Pontiac mine, Halifax County, Virginia; Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey; and the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
un executive editor of Rocks & Minerals, al. Malachite is also well known as loosely coherent aggregates...excellent review article on the morphology of malachite, which includes a comprehensive discussion of...in-depth treatment of this aspect of malachite mineralogy. Malachite is basic copper carbonate with the...copper in the mineral’s structure is uncertain. Malachite pseudomorphs after a variety of minerals have...known are malachite after azurite, copper, and cuprite; less commonly reported are malachite after atacamite
Catalog/List
TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near clear thumbnails...at $15.00 each. BROOKITE: Magnet Cove, Garland County, Arkansas; Dipyramidal thumbnail crystals mounted...including quartz, calcite, barite, cerussite, malachite, azurite, fluorite and a host of other minerals...Hill, Calaveras River, Valley Springs, Calaveras County, California: Really neat little buggers for sure...$4.00 each depending upon size and quality. MALACHITE AND QUARTZ: San Antonia Mine, Mexico: 2-3 inch
Catalog/List
TIONS: Finch Mine (AKA Barking Spider), Pinal County, Arizona: Very nice combinations which may have wulfenite...Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mtns., Maricopa Co., Arizona: Clear golden wulfenite crystals and yellow to...each GLOVE WULFENITE: Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Very nice crystalline specimens with individual...WULFENITE: Old Yuma Mine, Tucson Mountains, Pima County, Arizona: Butterscotch to deep orange-red crystal inch...1/4 79 WULFENITE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizo _na: Transparent bright yellow crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pennsylvania 16652 of Arizona, Gould-Simpson Building 77, 1040 E 4th Street, Tucson, Arizona 85721 Abstract...from three deposits (the Silver Bell, Ray, and Morenci mines). The overall range of Cu isotope ratios...minerals that are more enriched in 65Cu than both the Morenci and Ray mines. A possible explanation for the difference...a greater degree of leaching than the Ray and Morenci deposits. The comparative analysis of the Cu isotope...Djurleite Digenite Spionkopite Covellite CuI ppts Malachite Cu2S Cu2S Cu1.94S Cu1.8S Cu1.4S CuS Cu(II)2(OH)2CO3
 
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