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Rhodochrosite from
Naica Mine, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Rhodochrosite
Formula:MnCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rhodochrosite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Naica Mine, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:936614
Long-form Identifier:1:3:936614:5
GUID (UUID V4):902f0454-9efe-48d1-b22e-b6ee2a1acb1a
Nearest other occurrences of Rhodochrosite
89.2km (55.4 miles) ⓘSan Antonio Mine, East Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
91.3km (56.7 miles) ⓘSanta Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
91.5km (56.9 miles) ⓘPotosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
Book
"'<' ~/ BOUNDARIES U A Mo<'« u~ o V :Ÿ 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(above left). Fluorite, 5 × 4 cm, from the Navidad mine, Rodeo, Durango. Peter Megaw specimen, Jeff Scovil...8 cm, from the Segovidad Vein, Santa Barbara, Chihuahua. Peter Megaw specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Mexican...Tucson, Arizona 85728 pmegaw@imdex.com Fluorite Mexico is one of the world’s principal fluorite producers...time to them here. Specimen-quality fluorite from Mexico occurs in a variety of deposit types, spanning...geologist with thirtyfive years’ involvement in Mexico. His primary exploration foci are carbonate replacement
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20513 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee R egular readers...Fluorite with sphalerite, 8.8 cm high, from the Elmwood mine, Smith County, Tennessee. Note the gemmy corners...to describe is difficult. The Burnt Hill tungsten mine, York County, New Brunswick, is located in a metamorphic...the greisen and in kaolinite at the Mount Pleasant mine, Charlotte County, New Brunswick, as transparent...specimen from the Faraday (also called the Madawaska) mine, located near Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario
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...District Chihuahua .......................... Santa Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine................ San Antonio Mine....... Cusihuiriachic District..... Barranca de Cobre (Copper Canyon) Batopilas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Agate cabochon, 24 × 69 mm, Laguna Ranch, Chihuahua, Mexico. McCloskey Lapidary specimen. This is a striking...Figure 2. Elbaite “rocket,” 10.3 cm high, Pederneira mine, SĂŁo JosĂ© da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Wayne... Fluorite and quartz, 11.1 cm high, Yaogangxian mine, Yizhang, Hunan, China. Conan Barker specimen. I...Fluorite on celestine, 10 cm wide, MĂșzquiz, Coahuila, Mexico. Richard and Safaa Jackson specimen. This is one... Figure 11. Elbaite and quartz, 12.7 cm wide, Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California. Wayne Sorensen specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 1002-1034 ORE GENESIS IN THE CHIHUAHUA, NAICA DISTRICT, MEXICO JOHN G. STONE CONTENTS PAGE Abstract.............................. 1010 Structure in mine area Northwest fractures Northeast fractures 1010............... Genesisof the primary ores of the Naica district ...................... 1024 1024 1025......................... 1033 ABSTRACT In the Naica miningdistrictof north-centralMexico,pyrometasomatic...The only igneous rocks known in the Sierra de Naica, consistingof thin, discontinuous dikesand sills
Journal (issue)
late 1999 at the Naica Mine in Chihuahua, Mexico. I had the opportunity to visit this mine a little more...more than a decade ago. Naica is a working lead, zinc and silver mine in which large Photo courtesy Wikipedia...1000 feet down in the limestone host rock of the mine. The crystals were formed from circulating hot waters...drilling through the Naica fault, which they were worried would flood the mine. The Cave of Swords, discovered...discovered in 1910, is another chamber in the Naica Mine containing large gypsum crystals. Please join
Book (volume)
Guerrero, Mexico, 4 (on Epidote) Mun. Las Vigas de RamĂ­rez, Veracruz, Mexico, 49 La Sopressa Mine, Amatitlan...Amatitlan, Guerrero, Mexico, 57 (on Quartz with Prehnite) Goboboseb Mts., Brandberg Area, Erongo Region, Namibia...Maine, 40 (with Ferberite, Quartz & Siderite) Tasna Mine, Atocha-Quechisla Dist., Potosi Dept., Bolivia,...(& Malachite) Morenci Mine, Greenlee Co., Arizona, 39 Barite Sidi Lahcen Mine, Djebel Ouichane, Nador...23 (with Malachite on Chrysocolla) Mashamba West Mine, Kolwezi Dist., Democratic Rep. of the Congo, 39
Catalog/List
17. 18. 19. 20. 21. -2BARYTES. Silverband Mine, Dun Fell, westmoreland. ~ single glassy transparent...pinkish Granite. ltxltxlt"- £2.50. BORNITE. Dolcoath Mine, Camborne Cornwall. A pure, purply, tarnished metallic...the higher workings of the Mine. 2xltxlt". £1.50. BOTALLACKITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Select... . 3x2xlt". £8.00. ' . . BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. Metallic grey slightly tarnfshed...‱. BROCHANTITE. Blanchard Claims, Bingham, New Mexico, U.S.A. Light green, silky, -needly crystals encrusting
Report (issue)
the classic smithsonites from the old Kelly mine in New Mexico. Associations of aurichalcite, kipushite...come from a recent find in Sounion mine #6 (also known as the Exi mine, “Exi” being Greek for “six”) in...$130). Cu-rich smithsonite, 2.7 cm, from Sounion mine #6, Laurium district, Attika, Greece. Greek Rocks...===============ï‚„ The same discovery in Sounion mine #6 has also produced larger specimens which show... calcite and hemimorphite, 5.5 cm, from Sounion mine #6, Laurium district, Attika, Greece. Greek Rocks
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
reported occurrence. That is reserved for the Braden mine, Chile where a crystal ten feet long has been reported...of fine large crystals we must turn to Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico. There, at the Mina Maravilla, has been...crystals can reach several feet in length. In the mine has been found and preserved a natural cavern called...Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Of course, to go to the mine and visit the room is without equal for thrill....Cripple Creek, Colo. r 1 The selenite deposits at Naica are quite interesting. There is an element of danger
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
which Colorado is famous—amazonite, aquamarine, rhodochrosite, topaz, and native gold. The geology department...carbonaceous chrondrite that fell over northern New Mexico in 1969 is part of the meteorite display. This...center: Native silver weighing 10 ounces, Smuggler mine, Aspen, Pitkin County, Clorado. The specimen is...galena cubes coated with white quartz, Galena Queen mine, near Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado. Below:...of gold known from Colorado. From the Gold Flak mine, Farncomb Hill, French Gulch, near Breckenridge
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
Report (issue)
Tyson-originating examples from, oh, St.-Hilaire and the Jeffrey mine in Quebec; Ontario’s Flamboro quarry and Liscombe...gormanite from the Yukon; serandite, elpidite and rhodochrosite from St.-Hilaire; pyrite and pyrite after marcasite...called the “Cobalt Lode mine” (the Quebul specimen is attributed to the “Castle mine”). Stilbite and Chabazite...Safflorite coating silver, 5.2 cm, from the Castle mine, Gowganda area, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada...world-class anhydrite which came from the Naica district, Chihuahua, Mexico in the 1970s and 1980s, but Shelter
Catalog/List
Calcite. 2xl". £4.50. 4. NATIVE ARSENIC. Bidi Mine, Borneo. Choice, silvery grey, pure solid mass showing...2xl~1~·". £16.50. 5. ARSENOPYRITE. Parrall, Chihuahua, Mexico. Fine, bright, sharp silvery crystals to It"...display. 4x~x2". £28.00. ATACAMITE. Duke of Cornwall Mine, Kadina, S. Australia. Pure, bright green, botryoidal...Specimen B - Itxlxi". £2.50. AZURITE. Henderson Mine, Bisbee, Arizona, U.S.A. Bright blue, botryoidal...specimen. ~x2txli". £13.00. AZURITE. South Caradon Mine, st. Cleer, Cornwall. Rich, bright blue, lustrous
Book (volume)
Cata Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 Adamite (Manganoadamite) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 28 Aegirine..., Morocco, 48-49 Apatite (with Bikitaite) Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina,... 22 Aphthitalite PCA Intrepid Potash Mine, Carlsbad, New Mexico, 22 Axinite (Magnesio-Axinite) Char Band...Pakistan, 7 Azurite (& Malachite) "Sams Pocket", Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 20-21 Bastnaesite (on Calcite)...Tourmaline) Paprok Mine, Nuristan Prov., Afghanistan, 33 Bismuthinite Biggenden Mine, Mount Biggenden,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
National University] at 06:43 31 December 2014 mine in Colorado, and they found virtually the entire...tetrahedrite and pyrite specimen from the Anchor mine, Park City, Utah. The specimen was in the stock...the Sweet Home mine, near Alma, Park County, Colorado, where it occurs with rhodochrosite, fluorite, chalcopyrite...with enargite and fluorite come from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain district, San Juan County (D. Bunk...argentiferous tetrahedrite. The Freeland-Lamartine mine, near Idaho Springs, Clear Creek County, has also
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sweet Home Mine Rhodochrosite Wall at the Denver Museum of Natural History JACK A. MURPHY Denver Museum...Lees, operator of Colorado’s well-known Sweet Home mine. Lees, through his company Collector’s Edge, has...and museums around the world with fabulous rhodochrosite crystals since he reopened the famous old a... h 7? ’ A Mount Buckskin 13,865 Sweet Home Mine 1 mile 1 kilometer \ 3 . Alma- Figure 1....Home mine, Park County, Colorado. Maps by William W. Besse. 240 ROCKS & MINERALS silver mine in 1991
Report (issue)
pyrite, stibnite, zinkenite, siderite, quartz, rhodochrosite, dolomite, barite. Distribution: Numerous localities...crystals from the Herodsfoot mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. At the Mogul mine, Silvermines, Co. Tipperary,... Ireland. From the Georg mine, near Horhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, and at Clausthal, Neudorf, and...crystals from the Vı́boras mine, Machacamarca, Potosı́. At the Quiruvilca mine, La Libertad, and from Pachapaque...Utah, USA. In Mexico, in the Noche Buena mine, Mazapil, Zacatecas, and at Naica, Chihuahua. From Broken
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with quartz from the El Cobre mine, ConcepciĂłn del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen...exceptional 9-cm tennantite specimen from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain Pass, Ouray County, Colorado. Dave...the localities in Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The United States will be examined first, with...disease has not gotten to them.) From the Yankee Girl mine, Silverton district, San Juan County, tennantite...tennantite has been found associated with rhodochrosite and the rare minerals stromeyerite and miargyrite. Also
Journal (issue)
stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...$32.00 per year air, First Class to Canada and Mexico $25.00, rates include safes taxes as applicable...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series
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
 
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