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Quetzalcoatlite from
Old Guard Mine, Tombstone, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quetzalcoatlite
Formula:Zn6Cu3(TeO6)2(OH)6 · AgxPbyClx+2y
Comments:One tiny specimen as small nodules of coarsely-granular crystals cemented with gold.
Colour:Bright blue
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Gold
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quetzalcoatlite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Old Guard Mine, Tombstone, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:246058
Long-form Identifier:1:3:246058:1
GUID (UUID V4):798e1460-d0c4-4d16-b89c-a4b1663059b2
References
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Report (issue)
Quetzalcoatlite Zn6 Cu3 (Te6+ O6 )2 (OH)6 • [0.24AgCl • 0.30PbCl2 ] c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing...4.9925(9) Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Moctezuma mine, Mexico. 8.752 (100), 2.748 (70), 2.520 (42b), 3...43.13 4.77 Total [100.00] 100.00 (1) Moctezuma mine, Mexico; by electron microprobe, average of 20 analyses...26 (OH)3.90 . (2) Blue Bell claims, California, USA; average of 9 analyses on 3 grains; recalculated...(Moctezuma mine, Mexico); khinite, dugganite, chlorargyrite, gold (Old Guard mine, Arizona, USA). Distribution:
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765(2) c = 18.001(9) X-ray Powder Pattern: Tombstone, Arizona, USA. 2.491 (10), 3.451 (9), 4.866 (8), 2.996...(3) 26.79 36.41 34.05 2.75 100.00 (1) Tombstone, Arizona, USA; insoluble quartz and chlorargyrite present... dugganite, quetzalcoatlite, tlapallite, gold, chrysocolla, tenorite, quartz (Tombstone); mojaveite,... cerussite, chrysocolla, perite, quartz (Aga mine); mojaveite, andradite, chrysocolla, cerussite, burckhardtite...dump of the Old Guard mine, and at the Lucky Cuss, Emerald, and Empire mines, Tombstone, Cochise Co., Arizona
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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
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History Museum specimen is from Terlingua, Texas, USA, and was used for the determination of the mineral's...description of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality. The NHM...00135 Green River Fonnation, Uintah Co., Utah, USA A. Pabst, P.A. Estep, E.J. Dwornik, R.B. Finkelman... Aerugite (Neotype) BM 1963,00481 South Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis...34. Afwillite (Cotype) BM 1925,00080 Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa J. Parry and F. E. Wright
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 ....................................
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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)
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Arizona85607 Abstract Khinite was found at the Old Guard mine, one pieceknown. It is CurPbTeOn(OH)u, linesare2...pieces of parakhinite were found at the Emerald mine. Formula also hexagonalP6222with a = 5.753,c: 17...on a mine dump at Tombstone. Spurredon by this discovery,I beganan exhaustive searchof all mine dumps...telluriumspeciesas well as rare ones such as sonoraite,quetzalcoatlite,and xocomecatlite. 'tellurium mineralsat TombThe...oxysalts. On a secondvisit to Tombstone,the dumpsof the This dumphasbeen Old Guardminewereexamined. alm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dcalc = 6.29 g/cm3, from the Empire mine, Tombstone, Arizona, USA, has been solved by direct methods and...discovered on the dumps of the Old Guard mine in Tombstone, Arizona, USA and described by Williams (1978)...mineral associated with parakhinite, dugganite, quetzalcoatlite, tlapallite, tenorite, chlorargyrite, chrysocolla...work is from the dumps of the Empire mine, Tombstone, Arizona, USA, and was obtained from the mineral collection...tellurite species from the Wendy open pit mine, El Indio Tambo mining property, Chile. The Canadian Mineralogist
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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
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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 ..............................................
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals of lead and copper discovered at Tombstone, Arizona, U.S.A., and described as new species by...Khinite was discovered on the dumps of the Old Guard mine. It is a rare secondary mineral that occurs...dugganite, and associated with pockets of quetzalcoatlite, gold and chrysocolla, and stained with §...Parakhinite was found in the dumps of the Emerald mine, where it occurs in vugs in massive vein quartz...and dugganite, three new tellurates from Tombstone, Arizona. Am. Mineral. 63, 1016-1019. Received November
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mineral species from the long abandoned Glücksstern Mine near the Gottlob quarry, northern slope of the Gottlob...Gottlob hill, Friedrichroda, Thuringia, Germany. The mine was a source of Mn and Fe ores until 1855. wakefieldite(La)...LaVO4, a new mineral species from the Glücksstern Mine, Friedrichroda, Thuringia, Germany. Eur. J. Mineral...untwinned aenigmatite crystal from Vesterøya, Vestfold district, Norway, having a composition (Na 3.73 Ca 0.27...originally discovered on the dumps of the Old Guard mine, Tombstone, Arizona. It is a rare secondary mineral associated
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, and D. R. Cook Hyalite from the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina ................................problem, and it is not uncommon for students to pull old books from Harvard’s vast library stacks and find...generations of mineral collectors to enjoy. Issues of 2 old publications such as The Mineral Collector and editions...Brazilian localities, Virgem da Lapa and the Golconda mine, have produced remarkable crystals of hydroxyl-herderite...Company spodumene mine, near Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and from the Dunton Gem mine, Newry, Maine,
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Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Clouo rrnn·a, Arizona; (lower right...Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...Richard Graeme DJ D. K. Jones Douglas K. Miller DK Arizona-Sonora Desert DM Museum DO = "Donald Olson Delma...Sherburn = Terry \Vallace VY we University of Arizona Victor Yount \\' iJ!iam and Ann Cook WD \Vayne
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variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. / Photo by Ken Mayer Production...1000° Mots inc. Native Gold on Quartz, Paymaster mine, South Porcupine, Ontario / Photo by Brian Boyle...Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer...Mayer Publisher Pyromorphite, Society Girl mine, Moyie, British Columbia / Photo by Ken Mayer Mineralogical... Ontario Canada Diopside on Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec / Photo by Jeffrey A. Scovil
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Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;... N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower right...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Pohl Richard Graeme D. K. Jones Douglas K. Miller Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum =Donald Olson ‘Delma Perry
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Enterprises, PO Box 213, Livermore, California, 94551, USA. Because of space limitations, only a subset of the...be found, Arizona (SW) indicates that the locality is to be found in southwestern Arizona. When used...Hidden Valley Road, Kingsport, Tennessee, 37663, USA. The authors appreciate the advice and kind assistance...City, Nevada, USA; Peter Embrey, London, England; Jessie Hardman, Long Beach, California, USA; and Barbara...Barbara Nichols, Livermore, California, USA. All of these colleagues made helpful comments and substantive
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...freibergite) or persons (e.g. haiiyne), they may have old Greek origins (e.g. epidote), less often Latin (e...journal (minrecordite), etc. Some names are of very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz...authors' effort. We took into consideration famous old, often now exhausted localities, wellknown in literature...fantastic, highly appreciated specimens from such old finds still circulate. However, mm,t of our interest
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Index 1723 1753 1783 Preface Mineralogy is as old as humankind. From antiquity, people have known and...By then so many new minerals had been added and old ones discredited, and the methodology of mineral...Lhoest: Liege, Belgium. John C. Lucking: Phoenix, Arizona. Emil Makovicky, Inst. of Mineralogy, Univ. of...Wallace: Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona. John S. White: Stewartstown, Pennsylvania...Wendell E. Wilson: The Mineralogical Record, Tuscon, Arizona. Barry Yampol: Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
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File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...Introdu ction available, these arc also given. For old names and many synonyms. refere nce is made to the...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl...Absitc. var. of brannerite. A .W.G. Whittle ( 1 954) Mining Rev. S. Austral. Dept. Mines no. 9 (for 1 952)
 
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