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Cryptomelane from
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cryptomelane
Formula:K(Mn74+Mn3+)O16
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Lotharmeyerite8 photos of Cryptomelane associated with Lotharmeyerite at this locality.
Adamite5 photos of Cryptomelane associated with Adamite at this locality.
Manganese-bearing Adamite1 photo of Cryptomelane associated with Manganese-bearing Adamite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cryptomelane data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:40109
Long-form Identifier:1:3:40109:6
GUID (UUID V4):c3e60994-36ba-424a-bdc6-6d139569d4d5
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
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 .................................... 32 Sidebar: First Discovery of Adamite at Ojuela................................ 43 Sidebar: Purple...find in the San Judas chimney, Level 6, of the Ojuela mine. Houston Museum of Natural Science collection;
Report (issue)
116.16(3)° Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Mexico. 2.557 (100), 3.414 (90), 3.175 (90)...(2) 47.0 18.7 14.2 11.4 8.4 99.7 (1) Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Mexico; by electron microprobe, total Fe as...Adamite, cryptomelane, chalcophanite, goethite. Distribution: From the Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico...Lotharmeyerite, a new mineral from Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Mineral. Record, 14, 35-36. (2) (1983) Amer
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...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...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
Thesis/Dissertation
The mineralogy of the Mapimí mining district, Durango, Mexico Item Type text; Dissertation-Reproduction...MINERALOGY OF THE MAPIMl' MINING DISTRICT, DURANGO, MEXICO by Victor Joseph Hoffmann A Dissertation...Mineralogy of the Mapimi Mining District,______ Durango, Mexico______________________________ be accepted...samples from the mines and offered information on the mine locations and their access. Mr. Salvador Davila...Smithsonian Institution from both the collections of Ojuela mine specimens obtained by Foshag in 1934 and from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Scovil M ining began in Mexico more than four hundred years ago! As a result, Mexico has been a prolific...1960s. European museums received specimens from Mexico as early as the late sixteenth century, but it...American museums began to acquire specimens from Mexico. The Harvard collection is probably typical of...no strong connection to Mexico and its mines. A precious opal from the Iris mine in Queretaro (fig. 1)...offered as a general introduction to the minerals of Mexico, the theme of the 1999 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show
Book
K FIELD GUIDE to the GEMS and MINERALS of MEXICO (Exclusive of Baja California) A guide to the...Information............ Driving in Mexico................... Trailcring in Mexico ............. 5 6 6 7 8 8........ A Word to the Wise ............. Jade in Mexico......................... Manto and Chimney Deposits...Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine............. San Antonio Mine....... Cusihuiriachic District....... Minerals of Ojuela Mine .... . Velardena District........................ Durango ...............
Report (issue)
manganese-bearing base- metal deposits. Association: Cryptomelane, kaolinite, quartz. manganite, hetaerolite...Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey; from the Price mine, near Newport, Giles Co., Virginia; in the Philipsburg...Colorado, at the Wolftone mine, Leadville, Lake Co.; from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino Co., California;...California; in the Lone Star mine, Fierro-Hanover district, Grant Co., New Mexico; at Bisbee, Cochise Co....district, Juab Co., Utah. In Mexico, from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango. In Australia, from Broken Hill
Report (issue)
10 Mn7.7 V0.20 Al0.08 O16 . Mineral Group: Cryptomelane group. Occurrence: A primary mineral in hydrothermal...Clifton-Morenci district, Greenlee Co.; the Magma mine, Superior, Pinal Co.; from the Artillery Mountains...Mountains, Mohave Co., and elsewhere. In New Mexico, from the Luis Lopez district, Socorro Co. From the Philipsburg...Montana. In Mexico, from the Talamantes district, Chihuahua, and in the Ojuela mine, Mapimı́, Durango. At many...the Dry Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. In France, from the Richesse mine, near Bourgeten-Huile
Book
"'<' ~/ BOUNDARIES U A Mo<'« u~ o V :¾ MEXICO r - ·•-.. ·-··-··-··-·· < •• ....... V S TATES...org/details/mineralsofmexico0000panc MINERALS OF MEXICO • ERALS OF ~XICO M ______ William D. Panczner...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy-Collectors and collecting-Mexico. 2. Mines and mineral...mineral resources-Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This boo i...i.. is deJicated tu the people of Mexico and to the three people who directly affected me and this project
Book
anc MINERALS OF MEXICO 7 | : = Pras #0 AaprTTARE ; | MINERALS OF MEXICO William D. Panczner...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy— Collectors and collecting— Mexico. 2. Mines and...and mineral resources— Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This book...Jalisco; D. Santiago Ramirez’s La Riqueza Minera de Mexico, and his translation of Dana’s Tratado de Mineralogia...a. ie = Maes Lie Auadado = ae MINERALS OF MEXICO Vv | Oona tA. IMPORTANT MINING DISTRICTS
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
manganeseoxides which are cryptomelane in part. It occurs at the Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. The name is...(19E3)Lotharmeyerite,a new mineralfrom Mapimi, Durango,Mexico. Mineral. Record. 14. 35-36. E. S. Pilkington...follows:Hope's Nose;Pd74.03,74.12;A10.54, 1.56; Toyoha Mine, Hokkaido, Japan.Bull. Geol. Surv. Japan,3l, Cu
Journal (issue)
by R.S.W. Braithwaite Graphite from the Lead Hill mine, Ticonderoga, New Y o r k ........................Sage Lotharmeyerite, a new mineral from Mapimi, Durango, M e x ic o ..................................................................... 53 Notes from Mexico by W. D. Panczner ...............................advertising 602-299-5274 COVER: AMETHYST from Guerrero, Mexico. The crystal measures about 9 cm; Olaf Medenbach...amethyst, see Bill Panczner’s new column, Notes from Mexico, on page 57 of this issue. EDITORIAL: Mineralogie
Journal (issue)
Science (Rochester, NY) Miguel Romero (Tehuacan, Mexico) Abraham Rosenzweig (Tampa, FL) Randolph S. Rothschild...on the Benitoite Gem mine, it was stated that the Mina Numero Uno, a nearby mine having a similar mineralogy...Another rope-climbing strahler who had France’s “Mine Des Farges,” now known worked the high altitudes...ranged from rel­ from Mina La Farola (the Farola mine) atively clear to opaque white to yellow- some 500... gemmy, white barite crystals, mak­ El Salvador mine, was one, and volborthite, ing them very attractive
Catalog/List
covering small quartz crystals 3x3cm Bwlch I Glas Mine, Tal-y-Bont Ceredigion Wales £6 I 19 NIFONTOVITE...1cm long and 3 mm across on very small matrix Fuka Mine, Okayama Japan £ 15 -20 - TANXALITE-obv:iousblac~...creamy white cleavable like a feldspar 6x3cm £25 Fuka Mine,m Okayama Prefecture Japan , (photo left) 23B) smaller...MANGANAXINITE obvious brown mass in 3x2 Casagna Mine, Graveglia Valley Liguria Italy £ 10 L...~~--------1...CHRYSOCOLLA, blue botryoidal on 6x4 Star of the Congo Mine. Lubumbashi, Katanga DR Congo £18 31 AMBYGLONITE
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...to mineral localities like Tsumeb, Franklin and Ojuela, and also to suites or pockets of individual species...crystals to 1.6 cm on vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana
Journal (issue)
Rhodonite, 4.7 cm, from the 1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection...collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia. George Stacey collection, Jeff...Scovil photo. Middle row from left: • 2.3 cm, Kintore mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia. Aloe Family collection;...spent the rest of their lives there as miners and mine captains. Cornish tradition favored the collecting...build his mineral collection. His job at the Moonta mine was sampling ore for the company’s assay office
Catalog/List
fire five years ago. ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Fine, pale-lemon coloured, transparent...5x1.25", £12.00. A/2. ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi. Durango, Mexico. Superb, large, colourful cabinet display...well. 6x3.5x2.5", £85 ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. An attractive and inexpensive example...5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...£10.00 A/5. ADAMITE (Mauve). Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. From a rare find of several years
Journal (issue)
Identifying Microscopic Minerals from Mapimi, Durango, Mexico ................... 5 The HGMS Beading Group...Identifying Microscopic Minerals from Mapimi, Durango, Mexico by Arthur Smith Member of the Houston Gem &... wulfenite many others wulfenite, calcite cryptomelane all minerals in oxidized zone. Keys: form...P. 2003. Record 34(5):5-91. The Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Mineralogical Smith, A. E. 2001...and other microminerals from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Rocks & Minerals 76:128-29. B
Catalog/List
otherwise instructed. 1. ADAMITE.Mina Ojuela,Mapimi,Durango,Mexico. • .. • Specimen special A.Choioe...with red cavity. 2. 3. ALSTONITE, Fallowfields Mine,Hexham,Northumberland. Sharp,creamy,small spikey...00. 11 length) ;'cross". ANGLESITE. Tsumcorp Mine,Tsumeb 1 0tavi,S.W.Africa. Choice,gemmy,flattened...3x2x11; 1', 25. 00. 16. ARSENOPYRITE.P endarves Mine , Camborne , Cornwall . Si 1 very ~e ll. ••f oraie...11 ,~15.oo. • .. 18. 19 • AURICHALCITE. 79 Mine, Gila Co.,Arizona,U.SrA, Lustrous turquoise-blue
Book (edition)
Right (center): A fine irregular network of cryptomelane replaces a siliceous rock; even quartz grains...strong, greenish grey Mineral Permingeatite Cryptomelane Reflection Colour & Ø Reflectance Pleochroism... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...vein in jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1 (top left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil...Figure 2 (above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil...Figure 3 (left). Fluorite, 2.5 cm on edge, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen...specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis Paris photo (2004). Figure 5 (far...barite specimens at the Elmwood zinc mine in middle Tennessee. This mine, opened in 1975, and other nearby
Catalog/List
Orallhagcn, near Larvik South Norway Ojuela Mme, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE 1 0 98 88 Unusual rich yellow...lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal..._lx2_ _80 _ _____ _,o 1129 ALMANDINE Braslad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Unknown location I 1 63 □a...lxl£2 2x3£6 3x4£8 feldspar ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland ANDRADITE Grua. Oppland Norway 5
Catalog/List
CABINET(70-100mm) MUS=MUSEUM(lOOmm+) ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela,Mapimi,Durango,Mexico.Limonitic,gossan frag­ ment topped...of small grains. £10. 7W. AMETHYST(IN GEODE). Mexico. Excellent,near perfect half-sph ere shov­ ing...6W. SW. 9W. ALSTONITE. Jug Vein,Brownley Hill Mine,Nenth ead,Cumbria. Barite-rich matrix fragment topped...colln. TN,£20. 14W. 1sw. 16. 17W. -2- Tsumcorp Mine,Otavi,N.:imib!a. Ex Cyril Quc!t coll<'r.11011. Thin...on rear. SC,£20. 18W. APATITE. Barraco Grande Mine,Panasquiera,Beira-Beixa,Portugal.Gemmy, grey-blue
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: the Sterling mine, Antwerp, New York ........ 199 G. W. Robinson...and S. C. Chamberlain Pseudomorphs from the Burra mine, South Australia ..............................219...................................195 Notes from Mexico..................................................cm long, on white natrolite from the Dallas Gem mine, San Benito County, California. For more on this...charge. MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY OF MEXICO The Geological Society of Mexico is the oldest professional earth
Catalog/List
d>anu> ^IVefCenS^Minerats Mineral Dealer <£ Mine Agent Barn Cottage, Lower Boscaswell, Pendeen, Nr...£5-50. 'Z ‘_ 2£x2x1", £4.25. ALMANDINE. Broken Hill Mine,New South Wales.Australia. Very largei ,matrixfree...£8.00. 9- ANDERSONITE/BAYLEITE. San Mateo,New Mexico. F J ----Rich,bright-yellow to appleA — Calcite-coated... 2-Jx2xJ", £14.00. 10. ANGLESITE. Broken Hill Mine,New South Wales.Australia, Several large,creamy... Very rich for this mine. 1-Jx1^x1",, £20.00. 11. ANGLESITE. Bunker Hill Mine,Kellogg,Idaho,U.S.A.
 
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