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| Colour: | Blue | |||||||||||
| Name: | Named after Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, from where it was first described. | |||||||||||
Classification of Bisbeeite | ||||||||||
| IMA status: | Discredited | |||||||||
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| Explanation of status: | A rare, poorly defined, secondary copper mineral. Defined by Schaller (1915), reviewed by Laurent & Pierrot (1962), who studied type material and compared it with African occurrences. Their studies confirmed it as a distinct species. Bisbeeite from the Grandview Mine (reported by Rogers, 1922) was later found to be cyanotrichite (Gordon, 1923). Oosterwyck-Gastuche (1967) concluded that the validity of bisbeeite was doubtful after examining material from another locality. Discredited by CNMMN (1977) = chrysocolla. | |||||||||
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Physical Properties of Bisbeeite | ||||||||||
| Colour: | Blue | |||||||||
Chemical Properties of Bisbeeite | ||||||||||
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| Essential elements: | Cu, H, O, Si | |||||||||
| All elements listed in formula: | Cu, H, Mg, O, Si | |||||||||
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| Health Warning: | No information on health risks for this material has been entered into the database. You should always treat mineral specimens with care. | |||||||||
References for Bisbeeite | ||||||||||
| Reference List: | Schaller, W.T. (1915), Four new minerals, Jour. Wash. Acad. Sci.: 5: 7 Rogers, A. F. (1922): The optical properties and morphology of bisbeeite. American Mineralogist 7, 153-154. Gordon, S. G. (1923): Recently described "bisbeeite" from the Grand Canyon is cyanotrichite. American Mineralogist 8, 92-93. Laurent, Y. & R. Pierrot (1962): Nouvelles données sur la bisbeeite, Bull. Soc. Franc. Minéral. Cristallogr. 85: 177-180. Oosterwyck-Gastuche, Mme. van (1967): Etude des silicates de cuivre du Katanga, Mus. Roy. Africa Centrale Ann. Ser. 8: 58. Bennett, K.C. (1975): Geology and origin of the breccias in the Morenci-Metcalf district, Greenlee Co., AZ, Univ. AZ, M.S. thesis, xx pp. Bideaux, R.A. et al. (1960): Some new occurrences of minerals of Arizona. AZ Geol. Soc. Digest: 3: 53-56. Mineralogical Magazine 43 (1980), 1054. | |||||||||
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Localities for Bisbeeite | ||||||||||
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