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Psilomelane from
Superior Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Psilomelane' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Psilomelane data
Locality Data:Click here to view Superior Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:930068
Long-form Identifier:1:3:930068:2
GUID (UUID V4):d109504e-849c-4e23-ab3b-55f8a5f8e810
Nearest other occurrences of Psilomelane
1.2km (0.7 miles) Florida Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Gallagher Vanadium & Rare Minerals Corp Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) Galvez Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
8.9km (5.5 miles) Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
29.4km (18.2 miles) Higgins Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
29.4km (18.3 miles) Twilight Mine, Higgins Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) Hendricks Mine, Hendricks Gulch, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
30.2km (18.8 miles) Golden Gate Mine, Escabrosa Ridge, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
31.2km (19.4 miles) Mammoth claim, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
31.6km (19.6 miles) No. 4 claim, Escabrosa Ridge, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
References
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Report (issue)
DEPOSITS OF MANGANESE ORE IN ARIZONA. By E. L. JONES, Jr., and F. L. RANSOME. INTRODUCTION. By E. L....in some of the old mining districts of Arizona, notably in the Bisbee, Tombstone, Globe, and Patagonia...Manganese ore as such was first shipped from the Tombstone district in 1915, and from the Globe and Bisbee districts...Geological Survey examined manganese deposits in Arizona, E. L. Jones, jr., visiting many scattered deposits... > and F. L. Ransome those of the Bisbee and Tombstone districts. The work of Mr. Jones was done in August
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz 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
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...lead). Tombstone district, Cochise County; Gila County, at Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in...Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty; Yavapai County, in ores of Bradshaw Mountains; Yuma County, in...in Castle Dome district; common in silver veins. ANTIMONY ORES. See Jamesonite and Stibnite. ARGENTITE
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)
Book (edition)
/BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings...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)
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
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
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...McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
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
Report (issue)
INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY., ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin 187...187 1973 Reprinted 1985 Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Geological Survey Branch A...A Division of the University of Arizona Tucson ARIZONA BUREAU OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL TECHNOLOGY TheArizona...of the State legislature. Under this act, the Arizona Bureau of Mines, created in 1915,was renamed and... a division of the Universityof Arizona administered by the Arizona Board of Regents, is charged by the
Journal (issue)
[evenings by appointment only] WULFENITE — RED CLOUD MINE (ED OVER SPECIMEN KEHA Wayne and Dona Leicht, 332...Institution Pete J. Dunn Smithsonian Institution ARIZONA-II Peter Q. Embrey British Museum (Natural History)...The Mineralogical Record P. O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 published bimonthly by the Mineralogical...1980 @ Articles The Defiance mine and vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona ..............203 by J. R. Thompson........................211 The C. & B. mine, Gila County, Arizona ....................................
Book (edition)
found in Arizona. In the twelve years since then 61 more minerals have been reported from Arizona, a number...change. This checklist is an effort to bring the Arizona mineral list up to date. Of the 61 minerals added...locality being in Arizona. They are: bechererite from the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite...from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from...the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near Gray Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cryptomelane, a new name for the commonest ot?the "psilomelane" minerals. Am. Min. 27: 607-610, 1942. THE...unsatisfactory state,chieflybecausethe term "psilomelane" has cometo be usedto refer to any hard, massive...is needed. However, as statedbelow,the term "psilomelane"shouldnot be usedin this sense,but shouldrefer...identified shouldbe referredto as belongingto the "psilomelane type." This term is to be understood to include...Pyrol•usite.The namepolianiteshouldbe dropped. *Psilomelane•BaR00•s.2H20 (?), R = MnTMchiefly,alsoMnn, Co
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Journal (issue)
Record Inc., 6349 N. Orange Tree Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85740 The Mineralogical Record Inc. Is a non-profit...Volume Fourteen, Number Five ARIZONA- V Articles Lost mines of Arizona ................................Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs Famous...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ..............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
manganite, pyrolusite, ramsdellite, cryptomelane,psilomelane, hollandite, braunite, and coronadite. Another...juvenileorigin. In a reporton the Superiordistrict,Arizona,in 1914 (61), Ransome applied theterm "hypogene"...a simple,nearly horizontal surface,as at Tombstone,Arizona, above which the oxide minerals of manganese...general, the depth from the surfaceto water in a district increases with the declinein rainfallandvariesfromplaceto...is found 50 to 100 feet belowthe surfacebut in mining operationsthe manganeseoxidesare foundas muchas
Report (volume)
........................................ 10 Arizona......................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Report (issue)
nlirttltttu iullrtitt ARIZONA BUfiEAU OF MINES ARIZONA ZINC AND LEAD DEPOSITS PART II ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES...to Residents of Arizona) PUBLISHED BY 1!tuiurrllUy 11f 1\ri~11utt TUCSON, ARIZONA TABLE OF CONTENTS...................................... History of Mining .................................. _..... _.......................................... Torn Scott Mine ..... _.............................................................................. Silver Bill Mine ._ ... _.......................................
Report (issue)
view it is very important that the attention of mining men should be directed toward the development of...reserves of manganiferous iron ore in the Cuyuna district of Minnesota. Manganiferous ores of various kinds...in several parts of the United States. The Lake Superior iron-ore region contains extensive deposits of...of manganiferous iron ore, and in many mining districts of the West manganiferous silver ore is found...precious and semiprecious metals. In the Lake Superior region the principal districts producing manganiferous
Catalog/List
...................... . . . . . . 77 78 Mining and Mining Engineering ............. 78 Paleontology...PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped..., I NC. 440 N. SCOTTSDALE ROAD • SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, U.S.A. COPYRIGHT 1961, 1962 Scott Williams Mineral...... . Fl. Utah Toelle Co., Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine. .50 2.50 Transparent xls on limonite with austinite...fluo­ rescence under ultraviolet light. The Ojuela mine is one of Mexico's largest producers of beautiful
Report (issue)
ore reserves. In the summer of 1917 the Pioche district was examined by J. B. Umpleby and some of the...1918, E. L. Jones, jr., examined the Las Vegas district. The Siegel and Nevada districts and several of...J. T. Pardee. The description of the Las Vegas district was written by E. L. Jones, jr., and the remainder...or completely oxidized. The deposit at the Siegel mine is clearly of this type, as are also those at the...Mountain district. The Darky and Black Metals mines and the deposits in the Nevada district have features
Catalog/List
TO SCOTT WILLIAMS MINERAL 457 • SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA PHONE (602) 945-0803 COMPANY 85252 SOUTHWEST...Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls imbedded in syenite CROSSITE
Journal (issue)
White Development Officer William D. Panczner ARIZONA-IV Associate Editors written content Paul E. Desautels...Incognita - The search for minerals in Spanish Arizona .......... 67 by W. D. Panczner and C. S. Panczner...Jones The minerals of Malpais Hill, Pinal County, Arizona..............................109 by R. W. Thomssen...by W. Hunt Famous mineral localities: the Hilltop mine ..........................................121 by...Miller and W. E. Wilson The Silver Bill mine, Gleeson, Arizona ......................................
Journal (issue)
The Mineralogical Record P. O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 g_ g — —^ affiliated with the Friends of...September-October 1981 Arizona-m famous mineral localities: Bidee, Arizona by Richard W. Graeme a...Record Third in a series id four issues devoted to Arizona published bimonthly by the Mineralogical Record...Bisbee is located in the Warren mining district of Cochise Coun­ ty, Arizona. Situated in the Mule Mountains...common in the areas surrounding the town. Active mining began late in 1877 and continued with only minor
Catalog/List
Southwest Scientific Company P. 0. Box 796 - Sedona, Arizona 86336 Telephone (602) 282-7541 SOUTHWEST SCIENTIFIC...limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen...AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings...Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in
 
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