Velvet Mine, Littleshot Camp, Madera Canyon, Old Baldy Mining District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USAi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Velvet Mine | Mine |
| Littleshot Camp | - not defined - |
| Madera Canyon | Canyon |
| Old Baldy Mining District | Mining District |
| Santa Cruz County | County |
| Arizona | State |
| USA | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
31° North , 110° West (est.)
Estimate based on other nearby localities or region boundaries.
Margin of Error:
~2km
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Mindat Locality ID:
58602
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:58602:6
GUID (UUID V4):
0f0b54de-c3fd-4edc-83ce-7a7b0d23653b
‡Ref.: Schrader, F.C. & J.M. Hill (1915), Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, Arizona, USGS Bull. 582: 168, 177-178.
A mine located at the head of the east fork of Madera Canyon, 1/8 mile east of the Littleshot Camp at an elevation of 5,860 feet.
This mine is in a 500 foot east-west belt of whitish rhyolite which intrudes the quartz schist country rock. On the west the schist has a width of only 150 feet to the point where it is underlain by granite, and at a short distance above the ,mine in an easterly direction a dark reddish-gray, medium-grained quartz-mica diorite appears and seemingly becomes the country rock.
The rhyolite belt has a known length of 800 feet, some croppings of the rock appearing beyond the saddle to the SE. The rhyolite is closely sheeted in a direction about parallel with the trend of the belt and ismore or less crushed, altered, and iron stained. It contains much pyrite and considerable chalcopyrite, and both minerals are frequently in places coated with chalcocite.
Workings include a 200 foot tunnel and a shallow shaft.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Chalcocite Formula: Cu2S |
| ⓘ Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 |
| ⓘ Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Chalcocite | 2.BA.05 | Cu2S |
| ⓘ | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| S | Sulfur | |
|---|---|---|
| S | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| S | ⓘ Chalcocite | Cu2S |
| S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Cu | ⓘ Chalcocite | Cu2S |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Mexico
- Sierra Madre OccidentalMountain Range
North America
- Sonoran DesertDesert
North America PlateTectonic Plate
- Basin and Range BasinsBasin
- Mazatzal DomainDomain
USA
- Arizona
- Santa Rita MountainsMountain Range
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