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Dioptase from
Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mountain Range
Classification
Species:Dioptase
Formula:CuSiO3 · H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified, SEM-EDS
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cristobalite2 photos of Dioptase associated with Cristobalite at this locality.
Rose Quartz2 photos of Dioptase associated with Rose Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dioptase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:827276
Long-form Identifier:1:3:827276:8
GUID (UUID V4):6ed0eb25-e6d7-4d52-890a-da4d86846e5c
References
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December Mineral News Weis Museum 4 covered a wide range of topics related to agates, as well as agate dealers...6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia...Figure 7—Manganoan Calcite – Montreal Mine (Iron County, WI). Figure 3 (left) - “Wonderful World of Agates”...mineral specimens from the Montreal Mine (Iron County, Wisconsin). Most of the specimens came from the...An unusual specimen from the Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, Wisconsin) is a sheet copper (figure 6). One of
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enabling Nanette to offer i'lr.~: expand a useful range of reference books and equipment. •/; The forthcoming...cooks Kltchen mlne,camborne, Cornwall. Ex R.11.Thomas Collcction. A small representatlve speclmen of...Eagles Hest mine, Hichigan Bluff,Placer county,Californla,USA. Sprlgs of very brlght gllstening gold,...TOURMALINE,Klmalaya mine, Kesa Grande, C:.lifornla, USA. Ge••Y pink doubly teralnated crystal vlth-~o vlalble...150 AJOlTE,Nev Cornelia mlne,Ajo,Plma Co,Arlzona,USA.(K,Na)cutAlSi, ~ .JH,O.Type locallty.Turquolse green
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Publisher: Thomas M. Gressman Editors: Thomas P. Moore Günther Neumeier Circulation Director: Thomas M. Gressman...though, Colorado contains none of the Basin and Range Province that provides a geological environment...By 1864 his expertise had brought him to Gilpin County, Colorado, where his reputation as a consultant...~ ) I~,. ~~ _ "f'• 0istrict, , ~ ,;:: V County , Colorado . l'fJ 1/ {r-zr--D '/;"~ of 2000...name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results for gold and silver content
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Wendell E. Wtlson Associate Publisher: Thomas M. Gressman Editor: Thomas P. Moore Circulation Manager: Mary...largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection; self-collected...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil...5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado; Karl Warning collection; Jeff Scovil...COLLECTION Pyrite on quartz, 11 cm, Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington. Ex Bruce Oreck collection. Joe Budd
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Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations, tungstenite occurs only as powdery...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...bentonite clay. colored bentonite clay. These nodules range from cm size to 12 inches (30 cm) or more. Many...some very unusual forms spanning a fascinating range of crystallization that may be present to some degree...top) arc more typically in the micro to mm size range. with fonns typically sufficiently complex to require
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by M. A. Menzies Pink topaz from the Thomas Range, Juab County, U ta h ................................stibnite, malachite, rhodochrosite, silver, azurite, dioptase, beryl, copper, cerussite, etc. . . . 136 mineral...themselves, many of them to competition quality, range in price mostly from $50 to $500, with few up to...Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T3B 4T7 Topaz occurs in a range o f fluorine-rich silicate environments, from plutonic...associations? Geology Geological environments for topaz range from plutonic through volcanic, and more rarely
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Editors: Thomas P. Moore Günther Neumeier Associate Publisher & Circulation Director: Thomas M. Gressman...purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the closing years of the 19th century...in the Gien Rose Limestone formation of Lampasas County. Lampasas celestine first became well known among... HI STORY_....,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _......., J COUNTY MAp o, '1~AAa M'Al.t.OFM.11.ES An 1870 map of...Barber's Hili salt dome at Mont Belview, Chambers County, on the Texas Gulf coast, small but sharp tetrahedral
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Publisher & Circulation Director: Thomas M. Gressman Senior Editor: Thomas P. Moore Editor: Christopher J...effort, the mining of variscite nodules at Fairfield, Utah (the type locality for what are now known as montgomeryite...museum quality.” (Szenics, 1967) Spruce Peak, King County, Washington, 1977 Beautiful pyrite and quartz specimens...specimens are now in the four or even five digit range. Benny (who died in 2014) 14 would have been amazed...and FLECK, G. (1980) The Grey Horse mine, Pinal County, Arizona. Mineralogical Record, 11 (4), 231–232
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1 Greenockite General Stock Sylvinite Superb Dioptase crystals Collinsite crystals pl This catalogue...matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE Ca (V 0 ) SiO...(Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 497 TELLURITE Te 0/2 good...brown metallic (Herbb £2 Mine, Powhatton County Virginia USA) lcm £6 314 PYRARGYRITE Ag/3 SbS/3 pure crystalline...masses, well coating matrix. (Dooneen Mine Allihies, County Cork, S.Ireland) . lxl £3.50. 1x2 £6.50 2xl.5ins
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priced at $2,500. Zweibels had a nice small lot of dioptase from the now closed Tsumeb Mine in Namibia. Three...millimeters in diameter were in the $800 and up range. Francois Lietard had some epidote from Ashudi,...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone:208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com World...priced at $300. The. Rocksmiths had quite a bit of dioptase from Reneville, Congo, a new batch apparently;...Minerals had a nice display-the main specimen a dioptase from Reneville. It is a very large double geode
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Wendell E. Wilson Associate Publisher: Thomas M. Gressman Editor: Thomas P. Moore This special supplement...deposits of recent geologic age along the Apennine range. (5) sedimentary evaporite gypsum-sulfur deposits...crystal is 9.4 cm), from the Wuning mine, Wuling County, Jiujiang, Jangxi province, China. Roberto Appiani...terminated crystals from the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California, U.S.A. Jeff Scovil photo. (variety...January-February, 2011 39 ÜORI & MAURIZIO CASAZZA DIOPTASE 14 cm (with crystals to 3 cm), from the Tantara
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the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs Famous mineral localities: the... Allgood, G. M. Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ............................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...YUMA COUNTY NAME CHANGED Is nothing sacred? The famous Red Cloud mine is no longer in Yuma County, Arizona...divide the county in two, the northern half (more or less) being renamed as the new county of La Paz.
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in. ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and Malachite...citrine, calcite, rbodochrosite, and fluorite. Sizes range from 14.91 to 454 carats. Editor: Susan Costello...crystals can have great individuality of shape, the range of symm.e try is greatly constrained: there are...186 Schor! NaFei' Al6(BO1) 3Si6O,s(OH), 187-188 Dioptase CuSiOi{OH)2 189 Lep,dolite K(Li.Al'3(S1.Al).O... ~ 29 Native Gold Sheet on Quartz El Dorado County; California 30 5 cm (2 In.) high Native Gold
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Publisher & Circulation Director: Thomas M. Gressman Senior Editor: Thomas P. Moore Editor: Christopher J...Sowerby’s Exotic Mineralogy (1811– 1817): (1) Dioptase crystal, 2.1 cm, from Altyne-Tyube, Russia. (2)...mineral specimens in the 131-inch (“thumbnail”) size range dates back to the 18th century, and achieved a rebirth...beryl, 2.4 cm, from Slieve Corra, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Ireland. Gem-crystal thumbnails illustrated...advertised specimens in the approximately 131-inch size range— some of which were quite fine. Schortmann’s, for
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Microcrystalline anatase coating with crystals in the 1-2 mm range richly coating red-brown matrix. Total specimen...aragonite crystals from Tazouta, Morocco. The specimens range in size from 1.5 to 2.5 inches and are made up of...AURICHALCITE - BISBEE: Southwest Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona: Exceptional baby blue to deep...AURICHALCITE - 79 MINE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizona: Delicate radiating acicular and lathlike...Morenci Mine, Clifton-Morenci District, Greenlee County, Arizona: Excellent specimens of this great deep
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Record Articles The Thomas Range, Wah Wah Mountains, and vicinity, western Utah .......................Violet #5 claim , Wah Wah M oun­ tains, Beaver County, Utah. The crystal is about 1 cm in size. John Barlow...mineral localities: 1he Thomas Range, WahWall Mountains, vicn ty, Western and Utah by Lanny R. Ream P...83864 he rhyolites o f westcentral and southwestern Utah comprise one o f North America’s most interesting...With the boom in the mineral collecting hobby, the range has become increasingly popular with collectors
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Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Wendell E. Wilson Editor Thomas P. Moore Circulation Manager Mary Lynn Michela...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s...and showcase organizers: Douglas C. Toland and Thomas R. Hanna World-class epidote crystals were first...173 Dioptase, Cerussite and Other Minerals from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona
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It proved t. all parlles involved, USFS, King County police, WSMC, an probably the other claimants,...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...IL) had some unusual sand concretions from Green County, WI. These were from a small find recently made...crystal on copper from Ahmeek,MI. The Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History was a few large specimens...blatonite and it is from the Jomac Mine, San Juan Co., Utah. It forms bright yellow acicular crystals, some
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Publisher & Circulation Director Thomas M. Gressman Senior Editor Thomas P. Moore Editor Christopher J....scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...a collection which they presented to President Thomas Jefferson upon their return to the East; their...prospecting in the lands of the Pacific Northwest. A range of other minerals were discovered as well during...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal
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mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4 040 BITYITE Li and Be...white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE (variety...micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE Ba Na Ti B SiO Blue massive... About 7mm mass (Bulldog Mine, Creede, Mineral County,Colorado U.S.A) £4 439 STRACZEKITE Ca K Ba V 0...(Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 396 TORBERNITE Cu UO PO/4
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Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Wendell E. Wilson Editor Thomas P. Moore Circulation Manager Mary Lynn Michela...What’s new in minerals: Denver and Franklin Shows By Thomas P. Moore & Joe Polityka Tucson Mineralogical Symposium...mine at Park City, Utah. He had previously worked for the Walkers at Ophir, Utah (Shoebotham, 1956)....Butte silver ores originated at Great Salt Lake in Utah, where it was available at $2 to $3 per ton. By...ore from his claims was hauled 640 km to Corinne, Utah by ox team, and thence by rail to the reduction
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except these boracite xtls are much smaller and range in colour from cream to blue to light brownish....AMAZONITE, Rocket mining claim, Teller Co. Colorado, USA. 5.5x4.2x5cm. This is a perfect single xtl of lustrous...EPIDOTE, New Melones dam, Calaveras, California, USA. 4x3.2x3cm. This is an amazing combination of clove...specimen. £ 18. 166.AXINITE, Calaveras, California. USA. 2xl.5x0.9cm. This is a single mauve/clove fairly...clump at one end. £2. 168. AZURITE AND MALACHITE, USA. 6.5x4x3cm. A solid mass of green and blue matrix
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R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Urals, Soviet Union; the Morefield mine, Amelia County, Virginia; and the Anjanabonoina pegmatite in Madagascar...Logan Littleton, CO 80122 303-794-7803 Colorado-Utah Minerals Eldorado Enterprises Resource Enterprises...localities. Inasmuch as all samples from Tintic district, Utah, The Mineralogical Record, volume 16, March-April...district, Utah Liebenschlehen mine, Neustaedtel-Schneeberg, Germany Tintic district, Utah Aschaffenberg
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Xonotlite Opal Beryl Holfertite Rutile Anapaite Galena Dioptase Gypsum Titanite Tsumoite Schorl 10 9 8 8 8 7...the Herkimer Dololmite deposit in New York state, USA. Next by the number of specimens is vivianite, (29)...One of the big crystals was donated by W.Larson, USA, (Photos 2 and 3). This hematite was collected from...the gem collection. One is from Burma, a W.Larson, USA, donation, and another from India, location unknown...great deposits in the Mojave Desert of California, USA. Corundum acquisitions include a set of synthetic
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Guide to Topaz and Associated Minerals of the Thomas Range, Utah (Topaz Mountain), vol. 1, by John Holfert...html>. 103 pages; 1996; $25 (softbound). The Thomas Range, especially Topaz Mountain, has been one of...pages of color photographs of the minerals of the range. This is a very good effort for a field guide, with...also known as the “Cove,” on the south end of the range. This is the main collecting spot known to most...and reference to the collecting localities of the Thomas RangeRopaz Mountain, either for reference or to
 
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