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Covellite from
Tyrone Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tyrone Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:176981
Long-form Identifier:1:3:176981:4
GUID (UUID V4):608f0f20-dbba-4f7b-af42-162c7fd3ce36
Nearest other occurrences of Covellite
13.5km (8.4 miles) Moneymaker Prospect, Southwest and Central Burro Mts Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
13.8km (8.6 miles) Neglected Mine, Southwest and Central Burro Mts Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
15.1km (9.4 miles) Black Hawk Mine, Twin Peaks, Black Hawk Mining District, Big Burro Mountains, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
16.0km (10.0 miles) Seventy-Six Mine, Chloride Flat, Chloride Flat Mining District [includes Silver City Mining District], Grant County, New Mexico, USA
24.4km (15.1 miles) Yankey Girl Prospect, Gold Hill Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
27.5km (17.1 miles) Ground Hog Mine, Vanadium, Central Mining District (Bayard District), Grant County, New Mexico, USA
28.7km (17.8 miles) Pinos Altos Mine, Pinos Altos Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
29.2km (18.1 miles) Gila Mines, Pinos Altos Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
31.9km (19.8 miles) Chino Mine (Santa Rita pit; Santa Rita Mine), Santa Rita, Santa Rita Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
51.1km (31.7 miles) Atwood-Henry Clay Mine (Alamo Mine), Virginia District, Lordsburg, Lordsburg Mining District, Pyramid Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
mines, and prospects of the Tyrone stock and vicinity, Grant County, New Mexico By D. C. Hedlund 1 Open-File................. Porphyry copper deposits of the Tyrone stock....................... Precious- and base-metal...of the quartz-pyrite veins of the White Signal district............................... Quartz-molybdenite.... Quartz-pyrite veins, including White Signal district............... Silver-lead-manganese oxide veins...mines, and prospects of the Tyrone stock and vicinity, Grant County, New Mexico.........................
Report (volume)
Fluorspar Deposits of Burro Mountains and Vicinity New Mexico By ELLIOT GILLERMAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL..._________----___---___----___--__________ ' History of mining.____________________________________________ Production...deposits._--_____------_--------_--._--_-_..__-__. "Burro Chief-..l.__....._........._"___........ .........------.--. Grandview, Bounds, Fence Line, and Grant County. __________ Langford and Hines_-------____-...Geologic map of the Burro Chief fluorspar deposit and vicinity, Burro Mountains, Grant County, N. Mex._______________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
leaf gold, smoky quark, and turquoise specimens, New Mexico boasts an array of mineral species. RAMON S....Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 THE PURPOSE OF THIS INDEX is to provide a comprehensive listing of New Mexico...Particular attention was directed toward incorporating new information on discoveries and occurrences, although...to compile all of the mineral occurrences in New Mexico-a venture of that magnitude is beyond the scope...Minerals of New Mexico is the basic reference for locations. Abstracts from the New Mexico mineral symposia
Report (issue)
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 122 COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE TYRONE DISTRICT, NEW MEXICO BY SIDNEY PAIGE • I . ' : i~ ~ t...Professional Paper 122 COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE TYRONE DISTRICT, NE'W MEXICO BY • .SIDNEY PATGE .· WASHINGTON................................ . Position of the area ............................. ·........................................... . Geology of the Tyrone district ..................................................................... . Faultingin the Tyrone district .................................. ·......
Book
MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40 MADIASIMA...MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna B. Kennedy...Kennedy [aN VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATl TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE Copyright © 1983...Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing...minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines
Report (issue)
NEAR THE BURRO MOUNTAINS, GRANT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO. By SIDNEY PAIGE. LOCATION. The Burro Mountains lie near...near and southwest of Silver City, Grant County, N. Mex. Silver City is reached by a spur of the Atchison...likewise passes through Deming. TOPOGRAPHY. The Burro Mountains consist of two distinct mountain masses, the...carved, sloping, gravel plain. The Little Burro Mountains rise out of this dissected expanse of semiconsolidated...conical mass of the Big. Burros. The Little Burro Mountains trend northwest and southeast, are about 8
Report (issue)
assessment of the Silver City I°x2° quadrangle, New Mexico-Arizona by D. H. Richter, W. N. Sharp, K. C... INTRODUCTION The Silver City l°x 2° quadrangle, New Mexico-Arizona, has a wide variety of metallic and nonmetallic...southern Basin and Range province of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. Bedrock of the ranges...constitute about 65 percent of the quadrangle's surface area, are filled with Late Cenozoic (Pliocene-Pleistocene)...deposit types in the Silver City l°x 2° quadrangle, New Mexico-Arizona, showing some geologic characteristics
Journal (issue)
................ 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................... 5...5 by W. E. Wilson Minerals first described from New M ex ico ...................................... 9...Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico ............................................ 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BLACK HAWKNewDISTRICT Mexico Minerals of the Downloaded by [McGill University Library] at 10:10 18 December... Because most of its mine development occurred in the late 1800s, this district, with its approximately...HAWK (also known as Bullard Peak) district is the largest district of the silver-nickel-cobaltbismuth-uranium-arsenic...Radium, Northwest Territories, Canada; Batopilas, Mexico; Chafiarcillo, Chile; Joachimstal, Czechoslovakia;...Norway; Bou Azzer, Morocco; and the Consols mine at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. These deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia...table, the secondary sulfides chalcocite and covellite. This is particularly well known to collectors...familiar with porphyry copper deposits of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Many of the world’s finest specimens...Schuyler, Sommerville, and Flemington copper mines, New Jersey, where at one time cuprite was found locally...copper; prospects at Ladenton, Rockland County, New York; Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut; the South Mountain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
16 April 2015 Minerals of the Ground Hog Mine GRANT COUNTY Even though some of its dumps can still provide...this mine became famous can now only be found in collections. RON GIBBS P.O. Box 448 Tyrone, New Mexico...HOG MINE IS LOCATED in the Central mining district near the town of Bayard in Grant County, New Mexico...Mexico. Even though the mine has been a steady producer of lead and zinc ores from the early 1900s until...chalcopyrite. History The first mining activity at what would become the Ground Hog mine began on the San Jose
Report (volume)
depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami..._ 219 Santa Rita, New Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________...Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico __________________ 224 Nacozari, Mexico. ____________________________ 225 Ajo...__ 233 Shasta County, California______ _ __ 234 Snowstorm lode, Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho__ _ 235
Report (issue)
and Duncan mining districts, Grant and Hidalgo Counties, New Mexico, and Greenlee County, Arizona By..... Mining districts, mines, and mineralization............................. Steeple Rock district......subdistrict................................... Duncan district...................................................... Generalized geologic map of the Summit Mountains and Canador Peak areas..........................stratigraphic sections, Summit Mountains-Canador Peak-Redrock Canyon areas, New Mexico.... Index maps showing
Book (volume)
to g ra p h: The Bingham Canyon open pit, Utah, USA, 1998. Photographs by T M Porter. Ross Lang Andrew...University with a B.Sc. Honours. He completed his PhD in Mining Geology in 1979 at Imperial College, London. His...contributions to economic geology. Stints with Palabora Mining Company, JCI and Anglovaal added to Ross’ southern...After moving to Australia in 】 979, Ross, as a District Manager with CRA Exploration, led the team that...Western Australia, establishing the existence o f a new unconformity-vein style uranium province in the Proterozoic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A NEW AND OLD LOOK AT COPPER PROF. J . T. HENRY, SR. Central State University Wilberforce, Ohio Wilberforce...we will approach In the 1760's a mining company did this topic. mine copper. The production was too Copper...deposit. Late in June the dwell on the processes of mining and Cass expedition arrived at the mouth of refining...not the Lake Superior area. Secondly, the uses sufficient for profitable mining. The expe­ of copper in...region is a land of ancient remnants of mountains. This area was a mountainous one until the glacial
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1
Report (issue)
together with the total area of altered rock, ore, and sulfide-bearing area, in square kilometers for...of the Questa porphyry molybdenum deposit in New Mexico suggests that the ore fluid was probably derived...others (2008) tabulated the dimensions, including the area of hydrothermal alteration, orebodies, and sulfidebearing...copper deposit is 4–5 km, while the median size area of alteration is 7–8 km2 (table 2). Vertical Extent...which will vary with the price of copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Magmatic-Hydrothermal History of the Río Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest...Chuquicamata District, Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern...Ertsberg-Grasberg District, Papua, Indonesia Clyde A. Leys, Mark Cloos, Brian T.E. New, and George D. MacDonald...Tenke-Fungurume SedimentHosted Strata-Bound Copper-Cobalt District, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo Dzhezkazgan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TAULF, 1. Location San Manuel, Arizona, Red Hill area Alunite E. KNIGHT Occurrences t lost rock ...pyrite, opal Reference Schwartz, 1953 Chino, New Mexico, Niagra and Lee Hills concentrator Ajo, Arizona... Gilluly, 1946 Hill Morenci, Arizona, Ryerson mine shale-porphyry Ray, Arizona, No. 1, 2, and 3 mines...Cananea, Mexico, Coloradopipe and all mine Kelley, 1935 Safford, Arizona, shaft volcanics Tyrone, New...New Mexico, old town site quartz, kaolinite, sericite, enargite Butte, Montana, Enargite vein, Steward
Book
Editors. SPENCER . . R. TirLey has worked as a mining geologist in the western United States in both...In southern Yuma County he even discovered and named a whole new range of mountains during the course...specific mention are the mapping in southern Yuma County, studies on gold lode and placer deposits, work...Range Province, and work on a number of individual mining districts and on numerous mineral commodities.... , ie ¢ ¢ ¢ FOREWORD Recent discoveries of new copper-bearing ore deposits in the southwestern United
Journal (issue)
DEALER . ARTHUR CHAMBERLAIN , Editor . Member of the New York Mineralogical Club and of the Brooklyn Institute.... , 185 No . VI , Lower HELDERBERG LIMESTONE , TYRONE , PENN . , 186 NIAGARA ' S POWER WILL MAKE DIAMONDS...BY THE MINERAL COLLECTOR COMPANY , 26 JOHN ST . , New YORK . TIIK MIKKUM. COLLBCTltli. "JOPLIN" Is a...pyramid. Their exquisite purple and amber coloring and new modifications place them at the head of the Joplin...Price does not- indicate relative value, as the new types are not to be compared with the choicest of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pioneerApril 4, 1900. He earnedhis B.S. degreein mining in X-ray studiesof crystal structuresand did He...similar capacity for me. I am dump of the Black Beauty Mine. In the following very doubtful that I deservea...dotted with grains of pyrite, chalcocite, and covellite with no oxidized iron minerals; the other side...studies of the specimens of ore and capping from Tyrone, Morenci, and Bingham Canyon. Fortunately for me...determined the equilibrium relathat I wanted to study mining geology. I applied for admission to Harvard University
Book (edition)
PENNSYLVAN1 A & NEW JERSEY «s m •p ■* ; sms •v ■1 mm D 'A ©F PENNSYLVANIA AND NEW JERSEY By Scott...to man or nature, Gem Trails of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, its publisher and all other persons directly............ Physiographic Map of Pennsylvania and New Jersey 5 6 7 9 10 12 PENNSYLVANIA SITE NO. PAGE...Shelocta Siderite Concretions..... New Paris Fluorite....................... New Enterprise Banded Chert............. Ickesburg Trilobites.................... New Bloomfield Devonian Fossils Mt. Hope White Quartzite
Report (volume)
precipitation of the metalo........ Composition of mine waters............................................of sulphide enrichment Continued. Composition of mine waters Continued. Discussion of analyses Continued...on depth..................... Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions....... Oxidation....................................... Review of mining districts............................................. Burro Mountain district, N. Mex........................................ Cananea, Mexico.......
 
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