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Sphalerite from
Blue Lizard Mine, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Blue Lizard Mine, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:856813
Long-form Identifier:1:3:856813:7
GUID (UUID V4):be25ed13-9ec7-41ff-86c8-063bc3fca50e
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
2.0km (1.3 miles) Posey Mine, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
18.6km (11.6 miles) White Canyon No. 1 Mine, Fry Mesa, White Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) Yellow John Mine, Fry Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
19.8km (12.3 miles) Jacobs Chair Mine, Jacobs Chair, White Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
20.4km (12.7 miles) Bell No. 1 Mine, Fry Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
20.6km (12.8 miles) Found Mesa, White Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
21.7km (13.5 miles) Happy Jack Mine (Blue Dike Mine), White Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
23.7km (14.7 miles) W.N. Mine, Deer Flat Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
27.6km (17.1 miles) Hideout Mine (Hideout No. 1 Mine), Deer Flat Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
33.9km (21.1 miles) Jomac Mine, White Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
References
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biological processes. Since the advent of human mining and manufacturing, particularly since the industrial...indirectly (e.g., alteration of mine tunnel walls; weathering products of mine dumps and slag). A second human...Keywords: Mineral evolution, archeology, new minerals, mining, philosophy of mineralogy, sociology of mineralogy...time associated with the advent of near-surface mining and smelting technologies in classic times (e.g... at least in part, to human activities such as mining or quarrying. If such substances are formed purely
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the blödite group from the Blue Lizard mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA A. V. KASATKIN1*, F. NESTOLA2...East Silver Oak Road, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA 5 Fersman Mineralogical Museum of the Russian Academy...respectively, were found at the Blue Lizard mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA. They are closely associated...spectroscopy, crystal structure, solid solution, Blue Lizard mine, Utah. Occurrence and general appearance Introduction...underground at the Blue Lizard mine, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah, USA manganoblödite,
Report (volume)
Ore Deposits of the White Canyon Area San Juan and Garfield Counties, Utah By ROBERT E. THADEN, ALBERT...systems___________________________________ Glen Canyon group________________________________________ Wingate...system________________________________________________ San Rafael group__________________________________________...127 129 129 Blue Lizard mine __________________ ~--------------------------Fry No.4 mine, by Earl J....__________________________ 131 133 135 Jornac mine~-------------------------------------------------Posey
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Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uranium depositsin the Monticello mining district, San Juan County, Utah. The Sa2/Sa4 ratios of these sampleswere...Morrison Uravan District, pyrite North Formation Montrose County, Colorado Star mine: mineralized ...--23.0 Gypsum Valley District, San Miguel County, pyrite Colorado Pitchfork mine: sulfide from sheared... sulfur. Thomsons District, Grand County, Utah pyrite-marcasite Little Eva mine: pyrite as interstitial...--38.3 Bull Canyon District, Montrose County, Colorado pyrite marcasite Mineral Joe mine: pyrite nodule
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the urani• minerals. Mi Vida mine, Monticello district, San Juan Count], Utah. Polished section,plain light...border o• the picture. Hidden Splendor mine, San Rafael district, U•h. Polishedsection,plain light. OCCURRENCE...filled with clay minerals. Rifle mine, Rifle district, Garfield County, Colo. Polished section, plain light...carbonaceousmaterial. Marshbank Canyon claim, San Rafael district, Emery County, Utah. Longitudinal polished section...carbonaceous material. Hideout mine, White Canyon, San Juan County, Utah. Transversepolishedsection,plain
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shrouded in the clouds. Author’s photo. The Champion Mining Company & No. 4 Shaft Robert L. Fox Jr. foxbooks@att...Michigan you will find the site of the Champion Mining Company. The Company was formed in 1899 as a partnership...of the Champion Mine. The mine was managed by Copper Range Company. The Champion Mine had six shafts at...still in operation in 1930. During the 1930s the mine was working the 48th level, 4,800 feet from the...Champion Mine was one of the largest and richest copper mines in the Lake Superior region. The mine produced
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(Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia). Nowadays the phases from that mine are considered as anthropogenic, despite the fact...(SO4 )4 (VO5 )·4H2 O [27] Burro Mine, San Miguel County, Utah, USA. Secondary phases. Burroite Ca2...vents. Blue Lizard Mine, San Juan County, Utah, and the Burro Mine, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA. Low-temperature... Torrecillas Mine, Salar Grande, Iquique Province, Tarapacá Region, Chile. Rowley Mine, Painted Rock...Rock Mts, Arizona, USA. Low-temperature, apparently post-mining suite of phases that include various vanadates
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Limecrest-Southdown quarry, Sparta, New Jersey, USA: crystal chemistry of a newly approved end-member...aphthitalite, and hematite. Itelmenite is light grayish-blue with a white streak and a vitreous luster. It is...the Monte Ramazzo mine (44°28′5″N, 8°51′33″E), near Genova, Liguria, Italy. The mine was operating at...Crystals are blue to greenish blue and transparent with a vitreous to oily luster and pale blue streak. Twins...Ramazzoite is named for the locality, the Monte Ramazzo mine. The description is based upon two cotype specimens
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discovered in the Geschieber vein at the Svornost mine, Jáchymov (Joachimsthal), Western Bohemia, Czech...named for their type locality. The Jáchymov ore district is a classic example of the Variscan hydrothermal...minerals are the supergene products of the post mining alteration of the uraninite and sulfides of the...weak extinction and rotation tints in shades of blue and olive green. Reflectance values were measured...uranyl sulfate mineral from the Blue Lizard mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Journal of Geosciences, 60
Book
is a fue l for reactors to produce electricity, mining operati ons. Robert Lau f presents here a highly...that one ,vould receive from this so urce co1npn red Lo the "background" radiation vve receive fro111...structures in three dimensions for a richer Mountain Mining; Leonard Himes and Michael Jacob, appreciation...Czech Republic) and elsewhere in the Erzgebirge district. Those n1ines had been \VOrked for silver and...lear Energy Agency and the IAEA, also known as the "Red Book," provides a statistical profile of the uraniu
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uranyl sulphate mineral from the Blue Lizard mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 78(3)...mineral from the Blue Lizard Mine, Red Canyon, White Canyon district, San Juan Co., Utah, U.S.A. (37°33′26″N...(37°33′26″N 110°17′44″W). This underground U mine is host to a large number of rare Na-bearing secondary uranyl...uranyl minerals related to the post-mining oxidation of primary uraninite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite...collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Another cotype is at the Fersman Mineralogical
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sample absorbs light in the blue-to-violet range, the remaining colors (red, orange, yellow, green) would...4000-7000 Angstrom units (Å)). Within that range, red light has the longest wavelength, thus the lowest...the visible spectrum (in the order red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet), the wavelengths get progressively...longer wavelengths (that is, lower energy) than red visible light is referred to as infrared (IR) radiation... I was told that an amethyst specimen contained red spots of “iron” and black spots of “manganese,” and
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Fe3+(SO4)4O(H2O)2, is a new mineral from the Alcaparrosa mine, Cerritos Bayos, El Loa Province, Antofagasta, Chile...Alcaparrosa mine. Three cotype specimens are deposited in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California...Chovanite crystallized at the third, quartz-ankerite-sphalerite stage of 5 stages of hydrothermal activity and...in air and oil with rotation tints vary between blue gray and brown gray. No internal reflections were...The first Cr-dominant amphibole from the Akaishi Mine, Higashi-Akaishi Mountain, Ehime Prefecture, Japan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AgHg2 TlAs2S6, a new mineral from the Monte Arsiccio mine: occurrence, crystal structure and crystal chemistry...baryte-pyrite-iron oxide deposit of the Monte Arsiccio mine, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy. The mineral was identified...pyrite, realgar, Hg-bearing sphalerite and stibnite. Arsiccioite is red with an orange streak, metallic...uranyl sulfate mineral from the Blue Lizard mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Journal of Geosciences, 59...uranyl sulfate from the Blue Lizard old underground U mine, San Juan County, Utah, U.S.A. (37°33′26″N 110°17′44″W)
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instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...weighed 90 tons. Also huge crystals of sparkling blue Beryl from the Black Hills pegmatites have measured...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lillianite, galenobismutite, bismoclite, Cd-sphalerite, wurtzite, pyrite, pyrrhotite and one other potentially...uranyl sulfate minerals from the Blue Lizard mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 79(3)...two new minerals found at the Blue Lizard mine, San Juan County, Utah, U.S.A. The new minerals occur...minerals as efflorescent crusts on the surfaces of mine walls. Associated minerals include boyleite, chalcanthite...deposit that would later be exploited as the Blue Lizard mine, as well as for George W. Wetherill (1925–2006)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu4FBr(OH)6, is a new mineral found at the Great Australia mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. An assemblage...brochantite. Barlowite occurs as thin hexagonal blue crystals up to 0.5 × 0.3 mm, flattened on {001}...translucent crystals up to 3 mm. Barlowite has sky blue streak, vitreous luster, Mohs hardness of 2–2½,...are in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A., and in the Robert B. Ferguson...minerals from the central Mojave Desert, California, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 78(5), 1325–1340. Barrydawsonite‑(Y)
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CaAl2(PO4)2F2, a new mineral from the Hinomaru–Nago mine, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Journal of Mineralogical...mineral discovered in the Hinomaru-Nago mine, Kiyo area, Abu, Abu County, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan (34°53′N...Kato, A. (1998) Phosphates from the Hinomaru-Nako mine, Abu-cho, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Western Japan. Memoirs...Devonian composite Achala batholith. La Calandria mine is located at topaz- and columbite-tantalite bearing...new decavanadate mineral from the Burro Mine, San Miguel County, Colorado. Canadian Mineralogist, 55(3)
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no. 120 HN 18a HN 18b Noetzlin Std., no. S.P. 73, San Carron commercial elemental sulphur (14) (3) (5)...gabbro to the intruding granophyre at Bayfield County, Wisconsin. He suggested that “a progressively...22.09 22.16 j-2.7 With manxsite from Horsesho% Mine Assoeiatsd with HG%BU Concentrat%d from phonolitt*... N.Y. Welch Lake, Rockland Co., N.Y. Ellenville Mine, Ellenville, Pyrite Disseminated in olivinepyroxene...surfaoe boulder 21.98 + 10.4 Gypsum (&mite) Sphalerite Growing on pyrite-bearing boulder HP64 With
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01:16 09 August 2017 Mineralógica! Society of the District of Columbia Following is a statement of the activities...activities of the Mineralogical Society of the District of Columbia during the last eight months: At the...Connecticut. A motion picture entitled " Nickel Mining, Smelting, and Refining," was shown at the March...meeting. This was followed by motion pictures on Tin mining in Bolivia. A trip was planned to the Kibblehouse...described the wonders of Carlsbad Caverns, the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Meteor Mountain, the Petrified
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carbonate mineral from the Markey mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 82(5), 1089–1100...the jordanite homologous series from the Pollone mine, Valdicastello Carducci. European Journal of Mineralogy...at the baryte-pyrite-Pb-Zn-Ag deposit of Pollone mine, Valdicastello Carducci, Pietrasanta, Apuan Alps...underground Markey mine, Red Canyon, White Canyon District, San Juan County, Utah, U.S.A. (37°32′57″N...110°18′08″W). It is located ~1 km southwest of the Blue Lizard mine, where a number of new mineral species, most
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accumulations (pyrite with lesser arsenopyrite, sphalerite, etc.) oxidized under increasingly arid conditions...deposited in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., under catalog...(AsO3OH)(OH)3·H2O, a new mineral from the Dome Rock Mine, South Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 77(4)...volcano (Fogo volcano), Sãn Miguel Island, Azores District, Portugal. The mineral was found in a single fragment...Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Yu.U. Domerockite (IMA 2009-016), ideally Cu4(AsO4)(AsO3OH)
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