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Tobermorite from
Christmas Mine, Christmas, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Tobermorite
Formula:Ca4Si6O17(H2O)2 · (Ca · 3H2O)
Comments:Occurs as rare plates plastered on fracture surfaces in metalimestone.
Habit:Plates
Colour:Pearly-white
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Apachite
Gilalite
Xonotlite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Stringhamite13 photos of Tobermorite associated with Stringhamite at this locality.
Whelanite5 photos of Tobermorite associated with Whelanite at this locality.
Xonotlite4 photos of Tobermorite associated with Xonotlite at this locality.
Andradite2 photos of Tobermorite associated with Andradite at this locality.
Grossular1 photo of Tobermorite associated with Grossular at this locality.
Scawtite1 photo of Tobermorite associated with Scawtite at this locality.
Kinoite1 photo of Tobermorite associated with Kinoite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tobermorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Christmas Mine, Christmas, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:130528
Long-form Identifier:1:3:130528:9
GUID (UUID V4):6edecd0b-ab99-459a-bbb6-5cf05ebfd6f0
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA,FOURTHEDITION V e a o_ of li rizo TI RAYMOND W. GRANT RONALD B. GIBBS...CALLAHAN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON f -- The University of Arizona Press www.uapress.arizona...arizona.edu © 2022 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserYed. Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4358-8...McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
H)3(H2O)2, an (old) new mineral from the Bawana mine, Milford, Utah Anthony R. Kampf,1,* Stuart J. Mills...Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...diopside–garnet–magnetite skarn at the Bawana mine, Beaver County, Utah, and has also been confirmed to occur...occur at other localities. At the Bawana mine, it is found as irregular clusters and radial aggregates...structures of the tobermorites (tobermorite 9Å, tobermorite 11Å, tobermorite 14Å, and clinotobermorite).
Report (issue)
» 90± Z = [4] X-ray Powder Pattern: Christmas, Arizona, USA. 13.4 (100), 7.786 (50), 4.790 (40), 3...Total 98.9 100.00 44.97 14.26 (1) Christmas, Arizona, USA; average of two closely agreeing analyses...cracks or interstices in diopside grains (Christmas, Arizona, USA). Association: Kinoite, apachite, stringhamite...calcite, tobermorite (Christmas, Arizona, USA). Distribution: From the Christmas copper mine, Gila Co., and... near Sa®ord, Graham Co., Arizona, USA. Name: For Gila Co., Arizona, USA, where it was found. Type
Book (edition)
found in Arizona. In the twelve years since then 61 more minerals have been reported from Arizona, a number...change. This checklist is an effort to bring the Arizona mineral list up to date. Of the 61 minerals added...locality being in Arizona. They are: bechererite from the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite...from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from...the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near Gray Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and gilalite, two new copper silicates from Christmas, Arizona F. P. CESBRON Laboratoire de Minrralogie-Cristallographie...France AND S. A. WILLIAMS BOX 872, Douglas, Arizona 856o7, USA SUMMARY. Both new species are retrograde...that occur in tactites at the Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona (USA). Gilalite is green, H = 2, D...Cu95iloO29" IIH20. Occurrence. The Christmas mine in Gila County, Arizona, is a porphyry copper deposit producing...including xonotlite, apophyllite, calcite, and tobermorite. This suite has formed at the expense of the
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona...Tucson .. The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, r982, 1995 Arizona Board of Regents All rights...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona/ John W. Anthony ... [et al.]; Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals-Arizona. I. Anthony, John W (John Williams), 1920-. QE375...HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish Rule Arizona as a
Report (issue)
90:42± Z = [2] X-ray Powder Pattern: Christmas, Arizona, USA. 12.89 (100), 3.168 (70), 7.663 (50), 10...Total 102.0 100.00 47.26 13.08 (1) Christmas, Arizona, USA; average of two analyses; after recalculation...calcite, tobermorite. Distribution: Name: In the Christmas copper mine, Gila Co., Arizona, USA. For the...region in Arizona, USA, where it occurs. Type Material: University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA; The...and gilalite, two new copper silicates from Christmas, Arizona. Mineral. Mag., 43, 639{641. (2) (1980) Amer
Book (edition)
OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian...by Ed Over. Chip Clark photo. MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA THIRD EDITION W. Anthony Joh n Sidney A. Williams...of Arizona Press / Tucson The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, 1982, 1995 Arizona Board...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona / John W. Anthony . . [et al.] ;Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals—Arizona. QE375-5-A6M56 I. Anthony, John W. (John Williams)
Report (issue)
Powder Pattern: Bawana mine, Rocky mining district, Beaver County, Utah, USA. 3.013 (100), 6.79 (52)...7.41 100.00 (1) Bawana mine, Rocky mining district, Beaver County, Utah, USA; electron microprobe analysis...tenorite, chrysocolla (Bawana mine); gilalite, ruizite, stringhamite, tobermorite, andradite, bornite, calcite... chalcopyrite, quartz, wollastonite (Christmans mine); apophyllite, lepidocrocite, stringhamite, thaumasite...From the Bawana mine, Rocky mining district, 5 miles NW of Milford, Beaver County, Utah, USA. Also from the
Book
History Museum specimen is from Terlingua, Texas, USA, and was used for the determination of the mineral's...description of the species nominates Socrates mine, Sonoma County, California, as the type locality. The NHM...00135 Green River Fonnation, Uintah Co., Utah, USA A. Pabst, P.A. Estep, E.J. Dwornik, R.B. Finkelman... Aerugite (Neotype) BM 1963,00481 South Terras mine, St-Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, England R.J. Davis...34. Afwillite (Cotype) BM 1925,00080 Dutoitspan mine, Kimberley, South Africa J. Parry and F. E. Wright
Report (issue)
metavolcanic rocks. Association: apophyllite. Tobermorite, clinohedrite, wollastonite, diopside, thaumasite...localities. At Tetela de Xonotla, Puebla, Mexico. In the USA, at Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Virginia; from Franklin...Crestmore, Riverside Co., California; and at Christmas, Gila Co., Arizona. In Canada, at Point Shivery, Bay of...Prefecture; Kaisuka, Chiba Prefecture; and in the Mihara mine, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. From the Wessels and
Report (issue)
best of 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...in the ancient Laurium mining district of Attika, Greece. On the website of his always-interesting Greek...Spiromitros has a December 24 update with a “Christmas sale” on Laurium and other Greek items, with prices...Cu-rich smithsonite, 2.7 cm, from Sounion mine #6, Laurium district, Attika, Greece. Greek Rocks specimen
Catalog/List
massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless... £6 BaCa .C0/3 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 975 ALTHAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway...50 2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near...£3 2x2 £4.50 2x3 £6.50 Feldspar 963 ALBITE Maine USA 811 ANATASE Tysse, Hardanger,Norway variety CLEA
Catalog/List
___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...-- ·- · ~~1 ~0/~ 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 1073 AMBL YGONITE Eitarama,Ruanda, Central...--··---- - - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye...ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine.Ravalli County. Montana U.S.A 963 ALBITE Maine USA Rich pinkish line grained mass...North Sweden 501 ALLOPHANE New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England variety VIRIDINE (Mangan rich variety)
Catalog/List
£10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...lx½£5 ZnAs0/4 2 AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck crystal sections ,on...£15 Na Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some with...£12 7.x2 £24 Hydrocarbon 963 6 ✓ ALBITE Maine USA variety CLEAVELANDITE, pure white sheafy, masses...no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine grained
Journal (issue)
from the tin deposits of Elsmore, New England district of New South Wales. Rankin, John, Sharpe, James...8(1):3-8 Secondary copper minerals of the Crusader mine, north-west Queensland. Sharpe, James L. and Williams...suite of secondary minerals from the Nifty copper mine, Western Australia. Downes, P.J., Shields, P. and...7(1 ): 19-26 • Kasolite from the British Empire mine, Arkaroola, South Australia. Plimer, Ian R., Besley...8(2):7S-79 Mendozavilite from the Fitzgerald River district, Western Australia. Birch, William D., Pring,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
precipitated and altered anhydrous phases to tobermorite, thomsonite, prehnite, pectolite, cebollite,hydrogrossular...kilchoanite, larnite, spurrite, grossular, and tobermorite. Subsequent injection of the basalt and hybrid...hydrogrossular, calcite, and vaterite. IN the Tokatoka district, about I5O km north of Auckland, a series of shallow...grossular-scawtite veins and hydrothermal precipitates of tobermorite and calcite, with lesser amounts of afwillite...case the limestone has been altered to an I I A tobermorite-grossular assemblage with subsequent hydrothermal
Catalog/List
----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...---·-··----·------ ·- - ---27 ANTHOPHYLLITE Kaveltorp Mine Sweden 1008 CHRYSOBERYL Kolsva. Vastmanland Sweden...--~----· ·---·-------- -- -62 COBAL TITE Bolidcn Mine, North Sweden 1003 ARSENIOPLEITE Sjogruvan,Ridd...2x3 £25 Ampibole 1140 ERYTHRITE Sl-a1tterud Cobalt Mine. Vikersund Norway 970 MAGNESIOHASTINGSITE Langban...________ __ _!LU9! .~~~ -E N1 163 GALENA Smallcleugh Mine, Nenthcad. Cumbria Cube-octahedral grey crystals
Catalog/List
...................... . . . . . . 77 78 Mining and Mining Engineering ............. 78 Paleontology...PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal barrel-shaped..., I NC. 440 N. SCOTTSDALE ROAD • SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, U.S.A. COPYRIGHT 1961, 1962 Scott Williams Mineral...... . Fl. Utah Toelle Co., Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine. .50 2.50 Transparent xls on limonite with austinite...fluo­ rescence under ultraviolet light. The Ojuela mine is one of Mexico's largest producers of beautiful
Catalog/List
Southwest Scientific Company P. 0. Box 796 - Sedona, Arizona 86336 Telephone (602) 282-7541 SOUTHWEST SCIENTIFIC...limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen...AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings...Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoirna Canyon Large black tabular crystals in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collecting. Although Texas is not known for its mining industry, be­ cause of its large oil and gas exploration...Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan in 1938. The Terlingua mining district...minerals. Mining here was contin­ uous from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991)...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence
Catalog/List
Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE Ca
Catalog/List
Geology ..... . Petroleum Geology ..... . Mining and Mining Engineering . Prospecting and Fluorescence...VANADINITE specimen from the Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona GLOBES AND ATLASES ...... . 79...TT 440 N. SCOTTSDALE ROAD , INC. SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA , U.S.A. COPYRIGHT 1961 by Scott Williams Mineral...fluo­ rescence under ultra violet light. The Ojuela mine is one of Mexico's largest producers of beautiful...calcium hydroxy-silicate. California Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinitegehlenite
Catalog/List
Bay, Skye, Scotland AEGIRINE Mount Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi 17 2 Rich mass of black crystal sections...ALBERTITE near Dingwall Scotland ANATASE Cuiba district, Gouveia Minas Gerais. Brazil 28 Quite rich black...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tourmaline from fault gouge near Barstow, San Bernardino County, California 1020 Allen, V. T. (Book Review) 152...Barnes) metarnorphism in the Contact Christmas Mouutains, Brewster County, Texas(Clabaugh) the Earth Conversation...H. Crestmoreite, riversideite (:mixtures of tobermorite and u'ilkeite) (Ta1'lor) (He)', Cryptomorphite...to the metamorphic history of the Spruce Pine district, North (Brobst, PolderCarolina. 317 vaart, Kulp)...from SitMerritt, C. A. with Huang, W. T. asaongi Mine, Bhandara DisPetrography of the troctolite of 683
 
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