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Sphalerite from
Veta Grande Mine, Álamos, Álamos Municipality, Sonora, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Veta Grande Mine, Álamos, Álamos Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:142477
Long-form Identifier:1:3:142477:5
GUID (UUID V4):de1ba693-68eb-45c6-84c5-6b8f01ac58b5
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
17.6km (10.9 miles) Piedras Verdes Mine, Piedras Verdes, Álamos Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
62.1km (38.6 miles) Bahuerachi Cu deposit, El Saucillo, Guazapares Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
69.0km (42.9 miles) Palmarejo Mine, Palmarejo, Chínipas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
70.4km (43.7 miles) Independencia deposit, Palmarejo, Chínipas Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
94.3km (58.6 miles) Cieneguita Mine, Urique Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
99.5km (61.8 miles) Bolivar Mine, Urique Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...would like to thank the director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum who allowed me to travel extensively
Report (issue)
SURVEY PRELIMINARY DEPOSIT-TYPE MAP OF NORTHWESTERN MEXICO By Kenneth R. Leonard U.S. Geological Survey...Figure 4. of Mineral Deposits in Northwestern Mexico Los Gavilanes Tungsten District El Antimonio District... Preliminary Deposit-Type Map of Northwestern Mexico Kenneth R. Leonard Introduction The following...economic data on mineral deposits and occurrences in Sonora, North Baja California, South Baja California and...and the northern part of Chihuahua, Mexico. The area is important for the evaluation or mineral deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DISTRICT OF SONORA, MEXICO2 S. F. E•oNs. INTRODUCTION. The Cananea Mountains are situated in Sonora, Mexico...NO.3$H. 6 DEMOCRATA SH. 16 ............ 5 VETA GRANDE NO.5SH. 15cANANEA-DU'LUTH •.' 7 COBRE 6R,a...•T Two (•) M/Z• CANANEA MINING DISTRICT OF SONORA. 313 It is the centralof theseridges, the greater...south through Huacolote and Tinaja .creeksinto the Sonora River, which empties into the Gulf of California...actively worked at present. 2. The next important mine is the Henrietta, with ore bodies at the contact
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wasidentifiedfor the firsttime in the district.Pyrite, sphalerite,galena,andchalcopyriteare alsopresent.Gangueminerals...1895; twentieth century production is modest in Mexico (Fig. 1). The area coversapproximately700 with...ranked third among silver-producingdistrictsof Mexico (Barry, 1931). However, someevidencein- and black...05 mm in size.The presenceofilmenitewas western Mexico is one of the most extensive volcanic reportedby...1 to 5 perceneandit is widespreadin thispart of Mexico(Da- cent. The age assignmentis middle to late Eocene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SedimentaryRocksof the Cananea Mining District, Sonora,Mexico LAWRENCE D. MEINERT GeologyDepartment,WashingtonState...depthtosphalerite-pyrite-chalcopyrite to pyrite-sphalerite-galena distalto the centerof mineralization....Cananeamining district,locatedin the stateof Sonora,Mexico,approximately160 km southof Tucson,Arizona(Fig...largestminingdistrictin 0561-0128/82/45/919-$152.50 Mexico and has producedmore than 5 billion lb of copperand... ! o "x E o • SKARN FORMATION, CANANEA, MEXICO 921 TABLE1. CananeaMining District EstimatedProductionFigures
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Guitarra epithermal deposit (Temascaltepec district, Mexico): Volatile and helium isotope analyses in fluid...Querétaro, Qro., Mexico b Department of Earth and Environmental Science, New Mexico Institute of Mining...Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801, USA Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Geophysics,...Universitaria, Delegación Coyoacán, 04510 México, D.F., Mexico e Departament de Cristal·lografia, Mineralogia...deposit (Temascaltepec district, South-Central Mexico), belongs to the low/intermediate sulfidation epithermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
México, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, 04510, CDMX, Mexico Geological Engineering Program, Faculty of Sciences...widespread tin minerals (cassiterite and stannite) and sphalerite. Hypogene alteration assemblages are hardly developed...[21]. A similar dike also occurs at the Dolores mine, on regime [29,30]. Llallagua Formation consists...a blindtointrusion Cerro Pozokonishales (Huanuni mine;deposited Figure 2) during a marine transgression...likelyNorteña source for 110° (e.g.,anticline Veta Grande, Oriente, Nueva, Progreso veins),as(B) or the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 2 (above). Morenci mine, Greenlee County, a typical open-pit copper mine. Courtesy of Phelps Dodge...31 Aurichalcite 79 mine 10 Azurite Bisbee   1 Morenci mine   5 Barite Magma mine 24 Calcite Bisbee  ...Anthony mine (Tiger)   4 Cerussite Bisbee, Cole Shaft mine   1 Flux mine 16 Grand Reef mine   3 Mammoth–St...Mammoth–St. Anthony mine (Tiger)   4 Chalcoalumite Bisbee   1 Chrysocolla Globe-Miami district 17 (Inspiration...(Inspiration mine, Live Oak mine) Morenci mine   5 Ray mine   8 Copper Bisbee   1 New Cornelia mine (Ajo)  
Journal (issue)
Wilson Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................Friends of Mineralogy COVER: COPPER from the Ray mine, Arizona. The specimen is 3 inches wide, and was...article beginning on page 311 for more on the Ray mine. n o te s fr o m t h c j EDITOR ARIZONA This...Old Dominion mine, the Morenci-Metcalf district, the San Manuel mine, the Inspiration mine, Monument Valley
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......................
Report (issue)
proustite, pyrargyrite, polybasite, silver, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, quartz, calcite, barite. Distribution:...belt, Yunnan Province, China. From the Van Silver mine, Brandywine Creek, British Columbia, Canada. In...California. In Mexico, from Catorce, San Luis Potosı́; and from Sombrerete and Veta Grande, Zacatecas. In
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
including magnetite, pyrite, calcite, fluorite, sphalerite, galena, pyromorphite, cuprite, quartz, feldspars...have been recovered from a number of sites in New Mexico. Lustrous, sharply faced, hexagonal hematite plates...in the New Placers district and at the San Pedro mine, Santa Fe County. Small, well-developed hematite...skeletal plates to 7 cm from Nador, iY&rocco. ~~~ mine in the Ajo district, Pima County. The premier Arizona...Arizona hematite locality is the Veta Grande claim block in La Paz County near Quartzite. It has produced
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
Report (volume)
C.-••...••••••••••.•.••...••• Geologic maps of mine workings, Walker 2 and Walker 3 veins, Vance County...View No. 2 claim; B, Jointing in dunite on the Veta Grande claim .•••.•••.••••..••••.•...••. A, Planar banded...2 claim; B, Planar banded chromite ore from the Veta Chi ca claim. • • • . • . . . . . • . . • . • ....in planar banded chromite ore from the Fairview mine .....•.....•..•...... ·-· ...••....... A and B,...-ore from the Veta Chica claim •••..•..•• A, Folded chromite ore from the Veta -Grande claim; B, Fold
Journal (issue)
Islet Famous mineral localities: the Silver Islet mine, O n ta rio ............... 49 by W. E. Wilson ...photo © SILVER crystals, 3.3 by 4.5 cm, from the mine, Kongsberg, Norway. (See the this issue.) Keith...silver mines at all in Asia. He does mention a silver mine in Macedonia that used to yield a talent of the...January-February, 1986 Figure 2. Interior of a German silver mine, 1830s. Photo Deutsches Museum, Miinchen. hillside...Wieden Near the village of Wieden is the old Anton mine, records of which date to 1786 (though mining in
Book
.................... Dividend Record of Rosario Mine...................................................has had many years of actual mining experience in Mexico, Cuba, Spain, Nicaragua, Canada, and the United...Southern States, and the Major's efforts extended to Mexico and the Central and South American Countries. As...have him ob­ tain representative samples of all the mine workings for metal­ lurgical tests, pick out and...old natives, one of whom, a Mr. Linas, had been Mine Su­ perintendent for Major E. A. Burke and others
Journal (issue)
[evenings by appointment only] WULFENITE — RED CLOUD MINE (ED OVER SPECIMEN KEHA Wayne and Dona Leicht, 332...Record Inc. copyright 1980 @ Articles The Defiance mine and vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona ............................................211 The C. & B. mine, Gila County, Arizona ........................................213 by J. A. Crowley The Grand Reef mine, Graham County, Arizona ........................................227 by M. Sprunger The Grey Horse mine, Pinal County, Arizona.........................
Report (issue)
and summary of geology Production References cited Mine descriptions « Lawson area, north of Clear Creek...ClevelandC?) mine Flat Iron vein Mines east of Red Elephant Hill Central America (Tinker) mine-Comstock vein...Dexter mine i Johnson group Last Chance mine « r Little Giant mine Little Superior (Jack Rabbit) mine Orient...Orient mine Panama group ; Young America vein Mines west of Red Elephant Hill Amboy mine Girard mine Kanawha...Larger mines American Sisters mine--Bellevue-Hudson mine Jo Reynolds mine - . History and production -*
Catalog/List
Time 8am -9pm) FLUORITE,Rosilare Level.Minerva Mine No 1 ,Cave-in-Rock District.Southem Illonois.Xtl...shaley matrix Rich RF Ml £10 9. SPHALERITE,var.Ruby Blende.Mid-Continent Mine,Pitcher.Oklahoma,USA Rich continuous...continuous druse of ruby sphalerite xtls showing resinous lustre & good reddish translucency Xtls to 3mm...quartz Attractive D SPC C £24 17. FLUORITE on SPHALERITE,Naica,Chihuahua,Mexico.Ljovely xtl group of slightly...pale greenish fluorite cubes to13mm which sit on sphalerite matrix with a little chalcopyrite.Pretty D Ml
Journal (issue)
[evenings by oppoinrmenr only] WULFENITE — RED CLOUD MINE (ED OVER SPECIMEN Wayne and Dona Leicht, 332 Forest...K k" M COVER: RHODOCHROSITE from the Huallapon mine, Pasto Bueno, Peru. The large crystal measures about...San Diego County pegmatite specimens — Himalaya mine tourma­ lines, Ramona spessartines, etc., and California...rly P rin e ville , O re.) U.S. 10 / NEW FROM MEXICO Good crystals of Cassiterite' some with Murdochite... famous mineral localities: Los Lamentos Chihuahua, Mexico by Wendell E. Wilson The Mineralogical Record P
Journal (issue)
Three May-June 1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity, Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon...Shannon Famous mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona............................... ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see p. 141). This crystal, 5 cm across and nearly...Multiple Japan-law quartz twins from the Yankee Boy mine (1, 7, 33), by Richard A. Bideaux. Three specimens...described from an outcrop near the White Tail Deer mine in the Bisbee district. Wickenburgite (1,2, 80)
Report (issue)
Geology—Mexico. 2. Geology, Structural—Mexico. 3. Faults (Geology)—Mexico. 4. Ore deposits—Mexico. I. Alaniz-Álvarez.... . 183 J.L. Macías Major Faults 7. The Mojave-Sonora megashear: The hypothesis, the controversy, and...major faults. Included are papers about the Mojave-Sonora megashear (Molina-Garza and Iriondo), the San Marcos...the Taxco–San Miguel Allende system or the Mojave-Sonora megashear. The papers of this Centenary volume...The evolution of Middle America and the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Sea region during Mesozoic time: Geological
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: the Taewha mine, K orea...........................................The Collector’s Library, part III: Minerals of Mexico .................................................with mimetitefrom the San Francisco mine near Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico. The large crystal is 28 mm across...(Phoenix, AZ) Dick Jones, Dick Jones Mineral Co. (Casa Grande, AZ) Tony Jones, Calif. Rock and Mineral (Temple...Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, California Tourmaline Queen mine, Pala, California Pala Chief mine, Pala, California
 
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