Copper Queen Mine, Mayer, Agua Fria Mining District, Bradshaw Mountains, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA

Modified by CombineZP, collected from the 100 level of the Copper Queen Mine.

Light green, elongated crystals of olivenite with quartz. Collected by Geologist Clive Bailey. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Modified by CombineZP, Photograph by Ron Gibbs of Olivenite from the 100 level of the Copper Queen Mine.

White, fibrous crystals of leucochalcite variety of olivenite with iron oxides. Collected by Clive Bailey, Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Green, elongated olivenite crystals on iron oxides with quartz. Collected by Clive Bailey, Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

White, fibrous group of leucochalcite variety of olivenite crystals in quartz pocket with iron oxides giving a bit of color. Collected by Clive Bailey, Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Teal blue microcrystalline clinoclase on matrix from the Copper Queen Mine near Mayer (not Bisbee!).

© Alexander Wong

Light green, elongated olivenite crystals with quartz and iron oxides. Collected by Geologist Clive Bailey. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Colorless opal-AN coating green olivenite. Collected by Clive Bailey, Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Colorless opal-AN coating green olivenite. Collected by Clive Bailey, Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Teal blue microcrystalline clinoclase on matrix from the 100 ft. level of the Copper Queen Mine near Mayer (not Bisbee!). I acquired this from Arizona Rocks (Emil G. Yatsko - Cornville, Arizona).

© Alexander Wong

White, fibrous crystals of leucochalcite variety of olivenite with iron oxides. Collected by Clive Bailey, Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

White, fibrous group of leucochalcite variety of olivenite with the green olivenite crystals toward the tips in quartz pocket with iron oxides giving a bit of color. Collected by Clive Bailey, Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Teal blue microcrystalline clinoclase on matrix from the Copper Queen Mine near Mayer (not Bisbee!).

© Alexander Wong

Teal blue microcrystalline clinoclase on matrix from the Copper Queen Mine near Mayer (not Bisbee!). I acquired this from Arizona Rocks (Emil G. Yatsko - Cornville, Arizona).

© Alexander Wong

These slightly green olivenites and blue clinoclase were obtained from the New Mexico Mineral Symposium.

Green, elongated olivenite crystals in quartz. Collected by Clive Bailey, Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Green, elongated olivenite crystals. Collected by Clive Bailey, Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.

Teal blue microcrystalline clinoclase on matrix from the Copper Queen Mine near Mayer (not Bisbee!).

© Alexander Wong

A radiating group of clinoclase crystals from the Copper Queen Mine in Yavapai County (less well known than the mine of similar name at Bisbee). Clinoclase is quite rare in Arizona, being known only from the vicinity of Mayer, and this specimen, though small, is a particularly nice example for the state. Dan A. Polhemus photo, acquired using a ...

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