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Malachite from
Copper Queen Mine (Halero Mine), Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

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Copper Queen Mine (Halero Mine), Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
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Description
Comments:Magnificent specimens.
Quality of samples:not specified / average specimens
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
References
References:Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 580; Anthony, J.W., et al (1995), Mineralogy of Arizona, 3rd.ed.: 285; Ransome, F.L. (1903b), The copper deposits of Bisbee, AZ, Engr. Mining Jour.: 75: 444; Dana 6:1093; Kunz, G.F. (1885), On remarkable copper minerals from AZ, Annals N.Y. Acad. Sci.: 3: 275-278; Douglas, J. (1899), The Copper Queen mine, AZ, A.I.M.E. Trans.: 29: 511-546; Frondel, C. (1941), Paramelaconite: A tetragonal oxide of copper, Am.Min.: 26: 567-672; Lindgren, W. (1904), The genesis of copper deposits, Engr.Mining Jour.: 78: 987; Palache, C. & L.W. Lewis (1927), Crystallography of azurite from Tsumeb, Southwest Africa, and the axial ratio of azurite, Am.Min.: 12: 115-141; Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of AZ: 27, 53.
Associated minerals:
Associates:Azurite
Chalcoalumite
Limonite
Paramelaconite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Copper Queen Mine (Halero Mine), Queen Hill, Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA
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