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Chalcocite from
Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Comments:A Dr. César Menor Salvån analysed some pyrite specimens from Milpillas that were thought to be Covellite or Bornite. These were identified as Pyrite coated by a Chalcocite (Cu2S) layer with a thickness in the range 13-19 ”m.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Pyriteⓘ42 photos of Chalcocite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Dickiteⓘ16 photos of Chalcocite associated with Dickite at this locality.
Borniteⓘ1 photo of Chalcocite associated with Bornite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Photo GalleryView Gallery (14 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:560582
Long-form Identifier:1:3:560582:8
GUID (UUID V4):81ff6a09-154a-4b44-ba14-cf9b724b4248
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
6.4km (4.0 miles) ⓘLa Mariquita Mine, Cuitaca, Cananea Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
34.8km (21.6 miles) ⓘLine Boy Mine, Line property, Duquesne-Washington Camp, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
36.2km (22.5 miles) ⓘAlfonso Villey Mine (Alfonso Villy prospect), Duquesne-Washington Camp, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
36.2km (22.5 miles) ⓘHamburg Mine (Wisconsin Mine; Hartford Mine), Ramsey Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
37.3km (23.2 miles) ⓘDuquesne-Washington Camp, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
37.6km (23.3 miles) ⓘBrooks prospect, Duquesne-Washington Camp, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
39.9km (24.8 miles) ⓘUnnamed copper prospect, Brown Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
42.8km (26.6 miles) ⓘFour Metals Mine (Guajolote Mine; Frisco Mine; Red Hill crosscut; Red Mountain Mine; Phoenix claims; Hillside claims), Red Hill, Providencia Canyon, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
44.9km (27.9 miles) ⓘMorning Glory Mine, Alum Gulch, Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
45.3km (28.2 miles) ⓘEndless Chain Mine (Cunningham tunnel), Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Number 5 The JllilpillaB Jlline Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico .............................................with malachite, 5.4 cm, from the Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico. Fine Minerals International specimen;...the mines and minerals of Mexico is devoted entirely to the Milpillas mine, a relatively new locality...quantities. We published a preliminary report on the mine by Tom Moore and Marcus Origlieri back in 2008,...specimens; they visited Milpillas and went underground with the miners. Since the mine has now shut down permanently
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization along the Cananea lineament, northeastern Sonora, Mexico: Contribution to the understanding of the Cananea...mineralization along the Cananea lineament, northeastern Sonora, Mexico: Contribution to the understanding of the Cananea...mineralization along the Cananea lineament, northeastern Sonora, Mexico: Contribution to the understanding of the Cananea...Nacional AutĂłnoma de Mexico. L.D. Colosio y Madrid S/N, Col. Los Arcos, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83240 MĂ©xico. ...y Naturales, Universidad de Sonora, Rosales y Encinas, Hermosillo, Sonora, 83000 MĂ©xico. MA (3) Geosciences
Journal (issue)
cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...(hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected in 1958;...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken
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row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalå mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacå Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino
Journal (issue)
particularly from the huge silver deposits of Mexico and eru. panish silver mining remade the economy...Record, E Figure 3. Montezuma, the ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, is said to have observed a blazing...employed as forced labor, cobbing out silver ore at a mine in Chihuahua; from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r...mita mestizo E W Figure 18. Indian miners in Mexico, from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r i e a i er (1869)... Figure 20. An engraving of the School of Mines in Mexico City, opened in 1795, from Calderon de la Barca
Report (issue)
the following page) from the open-pit magnesite mine at Podrečany, Czechoslovakia (now just Slovakia)...siderite in the Milpillas mine, Sonora, Mexico. If siderite specimens from Milpillas were present at...taken last autumn from a huge pocket in the Milpillas mine (see the print report coming up in May-June)...contact zone between oxidized ore and unaltered chalcocite below; all of the specimens are matrix plates...==ï‚„ Siderite, 5 cm, from the Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico. Arkenstone specimen; Joe Budd
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization associated with the Laramide magmatic arc of Mexico Martı́n Valencia-Moreno, Antoni Camprubı́, Lucas...mineralization associated with the Laramide magmatic arc of Mexico, Ore Geology Reviews (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...mineralization associated with the Laramide magmatic arc of Mexico SC RI MartĂ­n Valencia-Morenoa*, Antoni CamprubĂ­b...Colosio y Madrid S/N, A.P. 1039, 83000 Hermosillo, Sonora (MĂ©xico) Instituto de GeologĂ­a, Universidad Nacional...(MĂ©xico) Departamento de GeologĂ­a, Universidad de Sonora. Luis Donaldo Colosio y Madrid s/n, 83000 GEO
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the nonexistent In 1975, the Santo Niño and Santa Elena veins were argentite. Acanthite formed as...Juan de Rayas in Guanajuato (Mexico) and has become the richest silver mine in the world, in more recently...ceased vein. The San Juan production by the de Rayas mine in time of World War II. Guanajuato also In 1946...very city In Morocco, the of Oberschlema Bou Azzer mine, itself, which finally already very had to be relocated...and east of Schlema, 2014 Tucson show. The Imiter mine began its modern producing many quality specimens
Report (issue)
Caridad, Pilares, Cananea, Maria, Mariquita, Milpillas October, 1994 Bootprints Along the Cordillera... September 19, 1994 Dear Participants: Welcome to Mexico and Sonora. and beneficial to you. I hope this trip...Caridad, Pilares, Cananea, Maria, Mariquita, Milpillas" is intended to be a brief introduction to...the porphyry molybdenum deposits of northern Sonora. and breccia copper- It will point out the...Caridad on the southern most end and finish with Milpillas, the northern most known copper resource
Journal (issue)
with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...7 THE COLLECTIONS 1 1 Malcolm Alter Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Mark Kielbaso Jim & Imelda Klein...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...enough, just across the border to the south is Mexico, rieb in active mines where miners are gathering...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange
Journal (issue)
Issue President’s Message 2&4 Officers 3 Milpillas Azurite Story 5-9 State Mineralogy Books 10-15...28-30 Our Affiliates 31 Mimetite, Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Mexico, 2.4 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm, Alex Schauss Collection...Chapter Newsletter: Get it While You Can: the Milpillas Azurite Story by Bob Carnein A Lake George Club...exorbitant amount of money for an azurite specimen from Mexico (Figures 2, 3). The price was in the very low 3-figures...to answer that question and show you why the Milpillas mine is one of the great contemporary mineral localities
Journal (issue)
KHURSHEED DINSHAW NEVADA PATENT MINE 34 United States’ only active azurite mine. STUART “TATE” WILSON Regular...Azuritecredit) with Malachite,. (photo Milpillas Mine, Mexico : ARKENSTONE specimen now in the Jeff Kremer...of Tiffany Stone are no longer available from the mine at Delta Utah, even though the beryl content is... Mexican miners working underground at Ojuela mine circa 1908. Note safety equipment of the day. IMAGE...have Mexico become a reliable source of mineral specimen wealth – and periodic surprises. Mexico is a
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p. 258 COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to...fine minerals on DVD wilensky Fluorite, Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Wilensky Fine Minerals...and Other Minerals from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona Chapter authors: Les...Presmyk and Tony Potucek The Mammoth-St. Anthony mine at Tiger has produced not only large amounts of...Frank Schultz staked the first claims in 1879. The mine began as several separate workings that ultimately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cretaceous porphyry copper mineralization in Sonora, Mexico: Implications for the evolution of the Southwest...Abstract Two porphyry Cu-Mo prospects in northern Sonora, Mexico (Fortuna del Cobre and Los Humos) located within...North America province (Arizona, New Mexico, and northern Mexico) represents the second largest porphyry...throughout Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in the USA and Sonora and Sinaloa in Mexico (Luyendyk 1970; Barton...occurrences between 30–31° N latitude in Northern Mexico. Additionally, we propose a metallogenic tectonic
Book (volume)
Juan de Reyes Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 52 Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 47 (Cuproadamite...(Cuproadamite with Ferrolotharmeyerite) Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 22 Apophyllite (on Stilbite) Jalgaon, Maharastra...Liu Feng Shan Mine, Anhui Prov., China, 18 (& Malachite) Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, 32, 38-39 Barite...Quartz) Yaoganxian Mine, Chen Zhou, Hunan Prov., China, 56 Calcite (on Fluorite) Elmwood Mine, Elmwood, Tennessee...India, 40 (on Copper) Quincy Mine, Houghton Co., Michigan, 49 Wenshan Mine, Wenshan Autonomous Pref,, Yunnan
Journal (issue)
Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...time collection,” he said, “collected by a former mine superintendent over a period of many years. Nearly
Journal (issue)
(a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson...discovery of morganite at the famous Corrego do Urucum mine in 1973. Will Johnson collection (I had to trade
Book (volume)
t ,Connor ,Shana MINERAL INDEX Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, 51 Aegirine Mt Malosa, Zomba Dist...Mtns., Namibia, 31, 57 Margareta Mine, Amatitlan, Guerrero, Mexico, 20 Apatite (with Tourmaline) Gilgit-Baltistan...Areas, Pakistan, 15 Golconda Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 32 Panasqueira Mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal, 5,...Pakistan, 22 Azurite (on Malachite) Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, 64 Babingtonite Hongxi, Meigu, Sichuan...Bannisterite Zinc Corp Mine, Broken Hill, NSW, Australia, 69 Benitoite Benitoite Gem Mine, New Idria Dist.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the type locality, the Shattuck or Shattuck-Denn mine at Bisbee, Warren district, Cochise County, after...which the mineral in named (Schaller 1915). The mine itself was developed by one of the Bisbee copper...Shattuckite occurs at the New Cornelia open-pit mine in the Ajo district, Pima County, occasionally in...Pinal County and include the Mammoth–St. Anthony mine (Anthony et al. 1995a), in drill core from the Florence...district, and the 1,750 level of the San Manuel mine, where the first author has collected massive radiating
Report (issue)
describes his recent visits to a small former fluorite mine 2.5 kilometers north of the village of Mihalkovo...border with Greece. Until its closure in 1994 this mine produced fluorite for industrial uses, and, it seems...and sphalerite after calcite, from the Broken Hill mine, Aggeneys, Northern Cape Province, South Africa...epimorphs after calcite, 14.2 cm, from the Broken Hill mine, Aggeneys, Northern Cape Province, South Africa...Gegentrum mine, Frohnau, Annaberg district. Fluorite, 8 cm, from the Bergsmannisch GlĂŒck Gegentrum mine, Frohnau
Report (issue)
Powder Pattern: Butte, Montana, USA (close to chalcocite). 1.871 (100), 2.387 (90), 1.964 (90), 1.957...Digenite, bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, anilite, pyrite. Distribution: In Mexico, in Chihuahua, from...Barranca de Cobre [TL] and at the Salvadora mine, Milpillas. In the USA, in many of the porphyry copper...the Magma mine, Superior, Pinal Co., Arizona; in large isolated crystals from the Gem mine, San Benito...Akita Prefecture, and elsewhere. At the Mt. Gunson mine, South Australia. In England, from Seathwaite Tarn
Journal (issue)
M ontreal Mine! L L The Mineralogical Record MAY–JUNE 2020 ‱ VOLUME 51 ‱ NUMBER 3 ‱ $25 & Wayne...gemgypsy@bellsouth.net MAY–JUNE 2020 Articles The Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin ........................... 487 COVER: BARITE, 6.5 cm, from the Montreal mine. David and Karen DeBruin collection, ex Muscatine...crystals to 1.6 cm on vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana...world-class realgar specimens from the Royal Reward mine, Green River Gorge, King County, Washington. The
Journal (issue)
AZURITES 16 Part I: Electric blues from the Milpillas mine. By Bob Jones 16 PREHISTORIC TEXAS Lubbock...others, at an auction. I was told it was taken from a mine in Alaska called Aurora Borealis in the ’60s. I...on, there is an old mine adit bored into a sheer rock wall. Beyond the old mine, there are spectacular...from the Milpillas Mine T Story by Bob Jones he azurite specimens recently mined in Mexico are the...azurite. But this recent source of azurite, the Milpillas mine near Cuitaca, about 25 miles south of the Arizona
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
known sulfides of copper were covellite (1958) chalcocite (CurS), and digenite (about Cur.eS)' Then Djurle...oi djurleite is to. distinguish r-ray it from chalcocite. The two minerals possesssuperf.cially similar...About one-third of the djurleite lines have no chalcocite equivalentsand these include the fifth strongestdjurleite... 1' No patterns transitional between chalcocite and, chalcocite were observed. The existence of a limited...of digenite and the Cul e7S snmples,traces of chalcocite. rrr polished section, djurleite is similar to
Report (issue)
months” in the Big Bear orebody in the Fletcher mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri; these...twin, 6 cm, from the Big Bear orebody, Fletcher mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Weinrich...Galena, 4 cm, from the Big Bear orebody, Fletcher mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Weinrich...attractive specimens has been given as the Ortega mine in the Mundo-Tamboras district, Sanchez Carrion...occurrence was actually in a previously unnamed mine that the Ortega brothers, who developed it for the
 
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