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Orthoclase from
New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Comments:Part of a massive replacement of quartz monzonite; phenocrysts in the Cornelia quartz monzonite & minute crystals in the groundmass of the monzonite. Primary igneous mineral and secondary replacements of groundmass.
Habit:Crystals to several inches diameter
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Anhydrite
Chalcopyrite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:46659
Long-form Identifier:1:3:46659:8
GUID (UUID V4):31cd5fd7-f89a-4bfc-b547-1a4f7e96a468
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
73.8km (45.9 miles) Linda Lee claims, Quijotoa (Covered Wells), Quijotoa Mining District, Quijotoa Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Record Inc., 6349 N. Orange Tree Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85740 The Mineralogical Record Inc. Is a non-profit...Volume Fourteen, Number Five ARIZONA- V Articles Lost mines of Arizona ................................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 ..................................................Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ..............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Family of Alteration in Porphyry Systems of Arizona and Adjacent New Mexico Simone E. Runyon,1,2,3,† Phillip...E. University Ave., Laramie, Wyoming 82071-2000, USA 2 Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution...5251 Broad Branch Rd. NW, Washington, D.C., 20015, USA 3 Lowell 4 Department Institute for Mineral Resources...Geosciences, University of Arizona, 1040 East Fourth St., Tucson, Arizona 85721-0077, USA of Earth and Atmospheric...districts with Laramide porphyry systems across Arizona and New Mexico. Previously undocumented Na-Ca alteration
Report (issue)
Director Professional Paper 209 THE AJO MINING DISTRICT ARIZONA BY JAMES GILLULY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Faults of northeast trend near the Ajo Peaks. .......... Little Ajo Mountain fault........................... Minor faults possibly cognate with the Little Ajo Mountain fault ................................features ..................................... Mountains ............................................ Pediments...volcanics ...................................... Pre-Cornelia metamorphism of the Concentrator volcanics ..
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
Book (edition)
/BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings...Peter Kresam and Richard Graeme . Mineralogy of Arizona John W. Anthony, Sidney A. Williams, and Richard...Richard A. Bideaux AN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors... JoHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona, where he rose
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
Catalog/List
TO SCOTT WILLIAMS MINERAL 457 • SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA PHONE (602) 945-0803 COMPANY 85252 SOUTHWEST...Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls imbedded in syenite CROSSITE
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)
Book (edition)
0.C D.?~•.!~'J..~5 ~!~.~J.RY Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee...Richard A. Bideaux THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors . .. JOHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the Uni~ersity of Arizona, where he rose...Gem and Mineral Society, and the University of Arizona. SIDNEY A. WILLIAMS has authored or co-authored
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE AJO COPPER DISARIZONA. • JAMES GILLULY. ABSTRACT. The New Cornelia orebody at Ajo, Arizona, is...tilting of the whole mountainblock containingthe mine through an angle of nearly 60 degrees;the other...bulk of the MINERALIZATION OF A]O COPPER DISTRICT. :249 magmamust havelessfugitive qualitiesthan...indirector remoterelationships. In thecopperdepositat Ajo, it seemsto me possible to find suggestionsamountingto...the locusof the alteration to have shifted very little throughoutthe development of the deposit. Although
Book
EEL LEY. Department of Geology University of Arizona and GAOT G. HIGRS United States Geological Survey...Survey th THE UNIVERSITY Tucson, Arizona OF ARIZONA PRESS About the Editors. SPENCER . . R...R. TirLey has worked as a mining geologist in the western United States in both the operational and...Geology Department faculty at the University of Arizona, Professor Titley has carried out field and laboratory...and earned the doctorate from the University of Arizona. Caro. L. Hicks is an Editorial Assistant with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
porphyrycopper ore bodiesat Ajo, Mineral Park, and Morenci, Arizona, and at Santa Rita, New Mexico, were determinedwith...interpretabledistributionof potassiumis presentat the New Corneliamine and at Morenci. The intensityof thorium...hydrothermalactivity, and supergene effects. Potassium at each mine is enriched as much as twice over similar barren...oœuraniumlessuseful. Gamma-raydetectionof thoriumappearsto be of little value. Introduction THE distributionof potassium...supergeneprocesses. It has long been recognizedthat the later mine whetherthis potassiumenrichmentresultsonly from
Report (issue)
Waste Characterization of the Sonoran Region, Arizona U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1370-D...the States ofArizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah x^ .v ' ~ A%JJ&yb...Radioactive WasteCharacterization of the Sonoran Region, Arizona Edited by M.S. BEDINGER, K.A. SARGENT, and WILLIAM...cooperation with the States of Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah UNITED...waste characterization of the Sonoran region, Arizona. (Geological Survey professional paper ; 1370-D)
Report (issue)
WASTE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE SONORAN REGION, ARIZONA Edited by M.S. Bedinger, K.A. Sargent, and William...Alternates ARIZONA Member: Larry D. Fellows State Geologist and Assistant Director Arizona Bureau of Geology...Alternate: H. Wesley Peirce Principal Geologist Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Tucson... HEM Member: James M. Hill Chief, Bureau of Geology New Mexico Energy and Minerals Department Santa Fe f...f NM Alternate: Frank E. Kottlowski Director New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources Socorro
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
Report (issue)
Residents of Arizona MINERALS OF ARIZONA by Frederic W. Galbraith and Daniel J. Brennan THE ARIZONA BUREAU...UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON FOREWORD As a service about mineral matters in Arizona, the Arizona Bureau of...University of Arizona, is pleased to reprint the long-standing booklet on MINERALS OF ARIZONA. This basic...Dr. Frederic W. Galbraith, as a bulletin of the Arizona Bureau of Mines. It has moved through several editions...released in its Fourth Edition as Bulletin 181, Arizona Bureau of Mines. The comprehensive coverage of
Report (issue)
itty nf l\rt~nttU iullrtttt ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS OF ARIZONA By FREDERIC W. GALBRAITH...(Revised) ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES, GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN NO. 153 One dollar (Free to residents of Arizona) PUBLISHED...PUBLISHED BY lIlniul'r.lluy nf Arizuna TUCSON. ARIZONA SERIES No. 17, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION...Mineralogy has been published. A tremendous amount of new data on the elements, sulfides, sulfosalts and oxides...Bulletin 149 to conform to that appearing in the new System, in spite of the fact that Volume I covers
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
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
Report (issue)
RESUME of the GEOWGY OF ARIZONA by Eldred D. Wilson, Geologist THE ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES Bulletin...UNIVBR.ITY OP ARIZONA. PR • • • _ TUC.ON FOREWORD This "Resume of the Geology of Arizona," prepared...prepared by Dr. Eldred D. Wilson, Geologist, Arizona Bureau of Mines, is a notable contribution to the geologic...geologic and mineral resource literature about Arizona. It comprises a thorough and comprehensive survey of...continued, detailed studies which will follow. The Arizona Bureau of Mines is pleased to issue the work as
Report (volume)
tll.e Batamote CQpper-B ismuth-Sllver .~nOf11aiS1, Pima Cobnty;ArJZona .· U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Batamote Copper-Bismuth-Silver Anomaly, Pima County, Arizona By DAVID L. HUSTON and PAULK. THEOBALD ...concentrate sampling undertaken in the Batamote Mountains, and hypotheses as to the cause of the Batamote...Batamote copper-bismuth-silver anomaly, Pima County, Arizona I by David L. Huston and PaulK. Theobald...Docs. no.: I 19.3:1907 1. Copper ores-Arizona-Batamote Mountains Region. (Paul Kellogg), 1928- . II. Title
Report (issue)
Preliminary report of molybdenum occurrences in Arizona by Jan C. Wilt 1/, Stanley B. Keith 2/, Jocelyn...to the Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology a division of The University of Arizona This...'1030571 04 M030562 04 M030563 04 '1030584 04 CouNTY DEPosir 'ostHP +litire LAtiroOE ♦ Looroae 28N... wA A 7 PROSPECT 15N 02E 27 MU AMOLE DISTRICT BANNER DISTRICT BLUE HELL GROUP 19N 215W 101 35-03-A wA...CUA AG BORIANA MINE 18N 115W 118 34-56-154 113-54-53W CATALINA DISTRICT CATALINA DISTRICT CHILDS-ALOWINKLE
Book (edition)
found in Arizona. In the twelve years since then 61 more minerals have been reported from Arizona, a number...bring the Arizona mineral list up to date. Of the 61 minerals added to the list, six are new minerals...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)
generalporphyrycopperdeposit type. There appearsto have been little published effort specificallyto compareand contrastthe...Kalamazooportionof the San Manuel-Kalamazoo district,Pinal County,Arizona, has presentedan unparalleledopportunityfor...drilling(Lowell,1968) of the Kalamazoo portionof the district and in exploitationof the San Manuel portion....centerof the orebodyis 1968), located in Pinal County, Arizona, is here poorlymetallized, so that ore actuallyformsa...•uar•z I•i INNER SlightlyAugmented Augmented Orthoclase- Microcline Dustedwithtracesericite AlterationK-sparwith
Catalog/List
ndak.net NEW YEAR, NEW ITEMS, SAME LOW PRICES! 1997 CATALOG #1 Hello again and happy new year! We sincerely...catalog should have something for everyone! Over 250 new and exciting items to choose from! Yup, that's right...again for your patronage and enjoy the catalog! ALL NEW STEMS FOE 1997: PYRITE SUNS IN SHALE MA TRIX: Sparta...last. TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near clear thumbnails...inch specimens, $25.00 each. CAMPYLITE: Dry Gill Mine, Cumberland, England; A unique and rare species
 
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