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Chalcocite from
Posey Mine, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Posey Mine, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:187445
Long-form Identifier:1:3:187445:7
GUID (UUID V4):104083bd-a2aa-4abe-b3e5-07dbfb0e48c2
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
2.0km (1.3 miles) Blue Lizard Mine, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) Wee - Hope Mine, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles) Radium King West Channel Workings Mine, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Radium King Eastern Working Mine, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) Bullseye Mine, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Spook - Dee Bullseye Coleman, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Uranium King (Cove Group), Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
12.5km (7.7 miles) Maybe Mine, Red Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
14.8km (9.2 miles) Gizmo Mine, Fry Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
18.1km (11.2 miles) Saddle Prospect, Fry Mesa, White Canyon Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
217 PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE WHITE CANYON AREA SAN JUAN COUNTY UTAH By W. E. Benson, A. F. Trites, Jr... PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE WHITE CANYON AREA SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH By W. E. Benson, A, F. Trites, Jr...Jurassic(?) rocks ....................... Glen Canyon group .................. Wingate sandstone ......Geologic map showing part of White Canyon district, San Juan County, Utah ......... .Inside back cover Figure...map of Utah .................................................................. . 2 2. White Canyon and surrounding
Report (volume)
Ore Deposits of the White Canyon Area San Juan and Garfield Counties, Utah By ROBERT E. THADEN, ALBERT...systems___________________________________ Glen Canyon group________________________________________ Wingate...system________________________________________________ San Rafael group__________________________________________...129 129 Blue Lizard mine __________________ ~--------------------------Fry No.4 mine, by Earl J. Ostli...131 133 135 Jornac mine~-------------------------------------------------Posey mine________________
Report (volume)
____ __ __ __________ __ ___ 125 125 History of mining and production ____ ------------------------------Geologic...belt_-----------------------------------East ·white Canyon belt____________________________________ ~[oab...vanadium, copper, and radium during various periods of mining in the past 50 years. Most of the deposits in Triassic...Triassic unconformity. In northeastern Arizona, eastern Utah, and western Colorado three mineral belts have been...formation, are the Monument Valley belt, the east White Canyon belt, and the Moab belt. The chief unoxidized uranium
Report (issue)
impregnation, replacement, or coating on fractures and mine walls. The commonly associated minerals are listed...other Survey geologists, AEC geologists, and by mine operators. Identification is based on the writers'...the solution will turn orange-red. Carnotite or tyuyamunite turns red-brown when a drop of concentrated...mineral grain on the glass slide. If the mineral turns red-brown it is a vanadate probably carnotite or tyuyamunite...tyuyamunite. This reaction is -immediate and the red-brown color will disappear quickly as the MINERAL
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Report (issue)
Introduction Geology of the Alamosa River basin Mining activity and impact Deposit geology Chemical and...geologic map of the Summitville open-pit mine Localities of larger mine workings, Alamosa River basin Schematic...changes in Pb-isotopic composition caused by open-pit mining of the Summitville deposit B. 208Pb/204Pb isotopic...changes in Pb-isotopic composition caused by open-pit mining of the Summitville deposit 35 36 39 40 Tables...from acidic waters from the Summitville open-pit mine Published lead-isotopic data for rocks and ores
Report (issue)
Marble Weston Pass Twin Lakes Lincoln Gulch Red Mtn. Ashcroft 39° Granite s nsa ka Winfield ...Gu Gold Brick Calumet Whitehorn iso Brown's Canyon Pitkin Gunnison n Ri ve r V Currant Creek...ree ver El Plomo / San Luis re Riv er Trinidad La San J Ja ra C uan Ri San Luis Hills Rio G...lor es Us ver N. Creede Silverton V s Ri Red Mtn. e Rico Rico Wet Mtns. Crestone Eureka Burrows...SIlverCliff - Westcliff Lamar Ophir Mt. Wilson V Red Mtn. Pass Ouray Ouray S. Ouray Sneffels Telluride
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................... Utah...................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish... Tenn. California........Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Catalog/List
supplied. Usually; the ■ine naae ■ountain range, county and state will be furnished with speci1ens. PRICES:...lusterous (miniatures are small) ALMANDJTE Deep red/black xls on matrix ALM/INDITE 10-25mm Sharp xis...pg 115 M • Af!/\GONITE from Mexico & the Weldon Mine were misidentified!!-Sorry, but it's Calcite! ARAGONIIE/CALCITE...Chanpion Hine Utah Crystal Peak,' Four Peaks Horseshoe Da111 Spain Maine Carter Hine,tl Champion Mine Grants... ash. Pass, Mexico California Colorado Chi le 'San Manuel Mi "Niaca, Mexico 79 Mire • Morenci 0juela
Report (issue)
SECONDARY MINERALOGY OF ALTERED ROCKS, SUMMITVILLE MINE, COLORADO by Marta J.K. Flohr 1 , Roberta G. Dillenburg...2. 3A. 3B. 4. Simplified map of the Summitville mine site .................... Encrustation of hinsdalite...Cu-sulfate mineral on chalcocite ...... Hinsdalite after alunite in chalcocite-rich rock ............................................... Hinsdalite-chalcocite intergrowth and relict aluminous phosphate-sulfate.............. 23 INTRODUCTION The Summitville mine (Fig. 1) was developed in an epithermal acid-sulfate
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
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enter must be obtained to prevent trespass. Old mine workings are dangerous and entering underground...oFtne ato aa Gem Ghd nQkTeane Uva a nes ly ia" mine Ui nrobs inesob cere ts ou ioe tok us 'aaieomolitt...exception of the rhodochrosites of the Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Colorado, which were loaned for photography...and the Central Mining District, Grant County Burro Mountains Apache No, 2 District Lake Valley Caballo...Mountains Chloride District Hansonburg District Socorro Area New Placers District Grants Area Nacimiento
Report (issue)
...... ·- ......... . J,5 Historical sketch of mining and smelting in New Mexico....... . . . . . . ....... : . .............. - ........ .. . . T~os County, by L. C. Graton and W ..Lindgren ..... ................. . . , ... -.. . Rio Hondo. (Twining) district . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......................::::: ::.:::.::: ::: :::: :: ':::: :: ::::. Red River district. ..................•......... -~ . . ......·::-; : : :. ::.·.i?:5.•.:...,. .... Black.Copper mine ........ ............. ~ ... .. . .... ·.......
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Behnke Famous mineral localities: the Corrego Frio mine and vicinity, Minas Gerais, Brazil .............................. 239 by C. G. Doll Across the San Juan Mountains ......................................Mineralogical Research Co., 704 Charcot Avenue, San Jose, CA 95131. A list of other dealers in back issues...Person-other—Other persons such as miners, field assistants, mine managers, etc. Place —Used when a mineral is named
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1988, pp. 1993-2001 GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE VIGAS RED-BED COPPER DEPOSIT, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO* JONATHAN...HayesandEinaudi,1986). Clark and Scottand Kidson,1977). The mine area lies approxde la Fuente(1978) recognizeda northwest-trending...VigasFormationin Mexicocorrelateswith the Yucca red bedsin northeasternChihuahua(Fig. 1). The ViandMountainFormationsin...Chihuahua,is the largestknowndepositin thisbelt red bedshave rangedfrom fluvial to marine (Scott (Giles...Price Las VigasFormationin the Rio Conchosarea as red dominantlyeast-northeast et al., 1985), perpendicular
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
Book
Gilbert Gautier; Eric Greene, Treasure Mountain Mining; Leonard Himes, Minerals America; Shelley and Dan...Nuclear Energy Agency and the IAEA, also known as the "Red Book," provides a statistical profile of the uranium...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...statistical "snapshot" of worldwide uranium mining activities and reserves, representing data that are believed
Book
of vvhich 70% is in New Mexico, 16% in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and 8% in Wyo1ning. These figures...doubtless the U.S.S.R., likewise established uranium mining industries. These efforts in the Reid and in the...,u11ounts only in brooks which run tlu·ough the red granite formations of the Scottish I-Iighlands. "And...Tare "uranate" type of fluorescence is orange or red and may be exhibited by epiianthinite, becquerelite...weak orange yellow-Tb); zircon (yellow, green-Dy; red-Sm and Tb). Color The oxides, complex oxides, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
over-emphasized. The spodumene "Iogs" at the Etta mine are not products of replacement. (4) The common...visits and mapping, concurrent with the progress of mining, are essential to uncover significant data, otherwise...heretofore been reported from the Michigan iron mining districts. The first of these, stilpnomelane, occurs...similar also are those of Derbyshire (Mill close mine), but here mineralized fissures are well exposed...locality), rruanuni, Bolivia, and the rtos Mine near San Felipe de oruro, Bolivia, gives identical r-ray
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On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
Catalog/List
course E9 B)65x55 ES C)40x30.E3 vhlte crystal- mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Well formed display vell...40xl5.E6 AURICHALC!TE and HEHIHORPHITE, Golconda mine, Derbyshire. representatlve speclmen vlth vugs of...lenlcular xtls.70x55.E9 ? BAYLDONITE,Brandy Glll mine, Caldbeck fells, Cumbrla. s,a!I br!ght apple green...green Glll mine, Caldbeck Fells,Cumbrla.Thumbnall xtls.E4 CALEDDN!TE,Red Glll mine, Caldbeck brlght...A)85x60.E6 B)40x35.E5 vlth vlth Brlght pale red on DOLOH!TE, Pant-y-gaseg, Anglesey, North Wales
Report (volume)
as the principal commodity or as a byproduct of mining other metals, based on a review of worldwide information...descriptive models were based on a single deposit or district and therefore lacked grade-tonnage distributions...Colombia, and more recently as byproducts from mining of sediment-hosted copper deposits in the Kupferschiefer...Europe and the Copperbelt of central Africa and mining of quartz-pebble conglomerate golduranium deposits...Blackbird Mine. Special thanks go to Jeff Mauk for giving me a tour of the White Pine Mine in 1989 and
 
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