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Mimetite from
Potosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Mimetite
Formula:Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite53 photos of Mimetite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Hemimorphite10 photos of Mimetite associated with Hemimorphite at this locality.
Goethite7 photos of Mimetite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Dolomite5 photos of Mimetite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Hematite5 photos of Mimetite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Wulfenite3 photos of Mimetite associated with Wulfenite at this locality.
Marcasite2 photos of Mimetite associated with Marcasite at this locality.
Galena2 photos of Mimetite associated with Galena at this locality.
Limonite1 photo of Mimetite associated with Limonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mimetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Potosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Photo GalleryView Gallery (84 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:46927
Long-form Identifier:1:3:46927:6
GUID (UUID V4):a60694a0-36bc-45f7-a2e9-4180e5181bd4
Nearest other occurrences of Mimetite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Buena Tierra Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
0.8km (0.5 miles) Santo Domingo Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
0.8km (0.5 miles) Inglaterra Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
1.6km (1.0 miles) Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
5.9km (3.7 miles) San Antonio Mine, East Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
91.5km (56.9 miles) Naica Mine, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
91.6km (56.9 miles) Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
References
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Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...bygone era. • Amethyst from Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico that has exceptional aesthetics, color, and composition... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1. Wulfenite on mimetite, 7.2 cm across, San Francisco mine, Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico. Classic combination...combination from the “Red Mimetite Pocket.” Richard and Safaa Jackson specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Wulfenite...Wulfenite from Mexico Figure 2. Wulfenite localities in Mexico; prepared by William Besse. Les Presmyk has...collector for fifty-six years, is now a retired mining engineer, and has specialized in Arizona minerals...Megaw is an exploration geologist who has worked in Mexico for forty years, which has led him to specialize
Catalog/List
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Session...5:00 PM ET LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Thursday...grow. 73001 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) Looking almost like...com/6150 73002 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) For those that have...750 73003 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) As if Momeik doesn’t
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Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Session...Collection LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...Auction 2 53001 CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority
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Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu WILLEMITE Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto, Namibia M ineral nomenclature...20 June 2015 Figure 1. Willemite from the Tsumeb mine, Otijikoto region, Namibia. The specimen displays...Black willemite is common from the Sterling Hill mine, with the color due to inclusions of franklinite...major willemite specimen producer is the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. Willemite specimens... malachite, calcite, and mimetite. Pseudomorphs of willemite after mimetite and after azurite are known
Report (issue)
pseudomorph after borax, 17.6 cm, from the Baker mine, Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California...Seibel and Jim Minette, in the then-underground Baker mine, a locale which literally vanished into air at some...while the huge open pit excavation—where borate mining goes on to this day—was being enlarged. Some of... Despujolsite, 1.5 cm, from the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa...a single pocket last year in the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa
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Mexico ineralogical Record September-October 2003 ❖ Volume 34 Number 5 ❖ $20 Wayne & Dona Leicht,...Van Pelt, Los Angles Mexico Special Issue II The Ojuela Mine Preface to Mexico-II1....................................................... 24 Mapimí District Geology ........................................in the San Judas chimney, Level 6, of the Ojuela mine. Houston Museum of Natural Science collection; Wendell...headframes and processing facilities of the Ojuela mine ca. 1900. The famous suspension bridge designed
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Lüneburg, Germany. (4) Native silver, 3.5 cm, from Potosí, Bolivia. (5) Chrysoberyl, 2.3 cm, from Takovaya...the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia....Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo
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scorodite, and some scorodite from the large Gold Quarry mine in Nevada contains significant phosphorus and vanadium...at the cobalt mine at Great Hill north of Cobalt, Middlesex County; the Booth bismuth mine at Monroe, Fairfield...Fairfield County; and the arsenic mine between Seymour and Derby on the west bank of the Naugatuck River,...Januzzi 1976). It has also been found in the Wheeler mine, Merrimack County, and in the Parker Mountain pegmatite...the old arsenic mine at Warwick, Orange County, and similarly at the arsenopyrite mine at Pine Pond near
Catalog/List
Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...Director Alissa Ford Managing Director San Francisco Roberta Kramer Managing Director Chicago Kenneth...early 1900’s; a Stephanite from Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico, possibly the worlds inest, according to people...extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...‘goodies,’ as Rock would say, as they came out. Mining projects that Rock was a part of, often yielded
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