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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Bornite
Formula:Cu5FeS4
Comments:Second most abundant ore mineral after chalcopyrite. Minute grains and stringers through Cornelia quartz monzonite; veins to 1 inch (2.5 cm) thick. Concentrated around pegmatite bodies in the New Cornelia quartz monzonite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Chalcopyrite
Gold
Pyrite
Sphalerite
Tennantite Subgroup
Tetrahedrite Subgroup
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chalcocite1 photo of Bornite associated with Chalcocite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bornite data
Locality Data:Click here to view New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:46667
Long-form Identifier:1:3:46667:7
GUID (UUID V4):874a0d51-9c38-4bf7-b7dd-bc5399d2ab61
Nearest other occurrences of Bornite
80.4km (50.0 miles) Vekol Hills project (Vekol Hills; Newmont Vekol), Kohatk, Vekol Mining District, Vekol Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
85.8km (53.3 miles) Little Mary claims (et al), Cababi Mining District (Comobabi Mining District), Comobabi Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
92.3km (57.3 miles) Lakeshore Mine, North Komelik area, Casa Grande Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
92.6km (57.5 miles) Picacho Mine (Cahuabi Mine; Cababi Mine), Sells, Cababi Mining District (Comobabi Mining District), Comobabi Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
93.7km (58.3 miles) Slate Mountain Mine, Prieta Peak area, Casa Grande Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
94.1km (58.4 miles) Buckeye Mine (Buckeye Copper Mine), Spring Mountain, Webb Mining District, Gila Bend Mountains, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
94.8km (58.9 miles) Mildren Mine group, Ko Vaya, Cababi Mining District (Comobabi Mining District), Comobabi Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
94.8km (58.9 miles) Mildren Mine (Mildren claim; Mildred Mine), Mildren Mine group, Ko Vaya, Cababi Mining District (Comobabi Mining District), Comobabi Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
97.2km (60.4 miles) Steppe Mine (Steppe claim; Little Mary Mine), Mildren Mine group, Ko Vaya, Cababi Mining District (Comobabi Mining District), Comobabi 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 ..............................................
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)
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,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
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)
/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)
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)
Geosciences University of Arizona, 1040 E. Fourth Street, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0077 † Corresponding...within the Laramide arc in Arizona, as well as at the Yerington district in Nevada. This work describes...(Kelvin-Riverside district), E- Sycamore Canyon, the New Cornelia mine (Ajo district), and two systems...systems in the Yerington district. Muscovite is the dominant mica in these coarse muscovite veins and associated...expressions of hydrothermal alteration vary from district to district in intensity, geometry, and mineral assemblage
Report (issue)
FLUID INCLUSIONS IN THE CORNELIA PLUTON, AJO MINING DISTRICT, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA By Dennis P. Cox and...Fluid Inclusions in the Cornelia Pluton, Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona By Dennis P. Cox, U.S...Examination of rocks in the Cornelia Pluton during the mineral resource assessment of the Ajo 2° Quadrangle revealed...formed the porphyry copper deposit at the New Cornelia Mine to the east. Subsequent detailed mapping of...hydrothermal alteration assemblages (Carten, 1979) in the Cornelia pluton. These assemblages, previously recognized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nebraska, Lincoln] at 07:52 28 December 2014 Arizona Mineral Classics A rizona contains a wealth of...scientifically interesting minerals owe much to the mining industry that extracted these resources for commercial...see copper minerals well represented among the Arizona classics listed in tables 1, 2, and 3. Bideaux...listed 163 different copper minerals found in Arizona. Sixty-one percent of the classic minerals listed...advanced degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and collected personally at many of the classic
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE AJO COPPER DISARIZONA. • JAMES GILLULY. ABSTRACT. The New Cornelia orebody at Ajo, Arizona, is...deposit consisting of chalcopyrite, with subordinate bornite, disseminatedin a stock of quartz monzoniteporphyry...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
Report (issue)
Resource Assessment of the Ajo and Lukeville 1° by 2° Quadrangles, Arizona By Jocelyn A. Peterson, Dennis...Southern Arizona is rich in mineral conmodities and has potential for the discovery of new ore deposits...resource potential for the Ajo and Lukeville 1° by 2 quadrangles in southwestern Arizona, where porphyry copper...Phoenix, Ariz., and 60 km east of Yuma, Ariz. The Ajo 1° by 2° quadrangle is located between latitudes...the Lukeville 1° by 2° quadrangle leaving within Arizona a triangular part of the northeast corner from
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)
ARIZONA COPPER Featured at the 1997 Tucson Show Downloaded by [California Institute of Technology] at...Valley, Arizona 85737 TERRY C. WALLACE Department of Geosciences University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721...mines and prospects. Some of these mines, such as at Ajo, Clifton-Morenci, Globe-Miami, Superior, Ray, Jerome...of electricity,” and the copper of Arizona was essential to the new industrialization. Copper was squarely...squarely at the center of power and politics in Arizona for the first thirty years of this century. Arizona’s
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)
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
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)
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
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)
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
Catalog/List
again, and have added over 30 brand new items to this catalog. These new items are not in the sale section...WULFENITE & ASSOC/A TIONS: Finch Mine (AKA Barking Spider), Pinal County, Arizona: Very nice combinations which...ROWLEYWULFENITE &ASSOCIATIONS: Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mtns., Maricopa Co., Arizona: Clear golden wulfenite crystals...30.00 each GLOVE WULFENITE: Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Very nice crystalline specimens with...each YUMA WULFENITE: Old Yuma Mine, Tucson Mountains, Pima County, Arizona: Butterscotch to deep orange-red
Catalog/List
recenUy acquired a huge old collection from an Arizona dealer/collector who was selling out due to age...fine quallty materlal wlth approxlmately 80% from Arizona localilies. This dealer had contacts with numerous...numerous miners at many of the famous mines In Arizona, and compiled this huge hoard betwecn 1960 and 1990...sources othcr than thc Arizona coilection. Due to the tremendous amount of new materlal, our calalog will...COLLECT/ON: RED CLOUD WULFENITE: Red Cloud Mine, La Paz County, Arizona: The best wulfenite locallty in the
Report (issue)
some meteorites. Association: Silver, chalcocite, bornite, cuprite, malachite, azurite, tenorite, iron oxides...Distribution: Occurs in many districts world-wide. In the USA, as remarkably large masses and excellent, large...porphyry copper deposits in Arizona including those at the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima Co.; the Copper Queen...in the Chino mine at Santa Rita, Grant Co., New Mexico. In Namibia, at the Onganja mine, 60 km northeast...large crystals from the Turinsk copper mine, Bogoslovsk, Ural Mountains, Russia. In Germany, at Rheinbreitbach
 
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