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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Ruizite
Formula:Ca2Mn23+[Si4O11(OH)2](OH)2 · 2H2O
Comments:Occurs in veinlets & on fracture surfaces in metamorphosed limestone that contains associated minerals.
Habit:Spherules of radial, acicular crystals.
Colour:Orange
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Abundance at site:Common
Confirmation
Validity:Valid - Type Locality
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Diopside
Grossular
Vesuvianite
Wollastonite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Kinoite17 photos of Ruizite associated with Kinoite at this locality.
Apachite14 photos of Ruizite associated with Apachite at this locality.
Gilalite13 photos of Ruizite associated with Gilalite at this locality.
Fluorapophyllite-(K)7 photos of Ruizite associated with Fluorapophyllite-(K) at this locality.
Hydroxyapophyllite-(K)4 photos of Ruizite associated with Hydroxyapophyllite-(K) at this locality.
Xonotlite2 photos of Ruizite associated with Xonotlite at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Ruizite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Ruizite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Junitoite1 photo of Ruizite associated with Junitoite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Ruizite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Christmas Mine, Christmas, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (33 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:46085
Long-form Identifier:1:3:46085:9
GUID (UUID V4):f0f1e4ad-5e19-433c-9d77-67976282720a
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Queen Creek, Arizona 85142 raycyn@cox.net HARVEY JONG 1777 N. Central Drive Chandler, Arizona 85224 harvey@digipan...harvey@digipan.com Arizona T Type Minerals here are about 880 mineral species reported from Arizona. Of these...type or cotype minerals (they were first found in Arizona). This article presents a short description of...type locality for each. Of the type minerals of Arizona, 49 are named for people, and 17 are named for...Association (IMA) as new species with type localities in Arizona. Because the original scientific descriptions have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
36849 cookrob@auburn.edu KINOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona F ew states can approach, much...and quantity of mineral specimens produced by Arizona. Its wide variety of economic mineral deposits...state, many of which have names uniquely linked to Arizona places and people (see Grant and Jong in this issue)...named for one of the earliest explorers to document mining of the state’s rich silver ores. The mineral, first...figure on the Sonora-Arizona-California frontier. Consequently, in keeping with the Arizona theme of the 2012
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogy of Tiger, Arizona, and his devotion to family. Joe was born in Sonora, Arizona, a small town in...in Pinal County that has since been mined out by the big Ray open-pit copper mine. He received his bachelor’s...pharmacy from the University of Arizona while working underground at the Ray mine. He served with the U.S. Marines...during the Korean conflict. Joe settled in Mammoth, Arizona, where he owned the local pharmacy and was active...mineralogy. Joe had already been dabbling in mining claims and mining exploration in the Mammoth area. An avid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
{Named for Persons Associated with and Geology in Arizona RICHARD S. M I T C H E L L Of the almost 2,500...can be collected in Arizona. Approximately two dozen of these 630 species Arizona persons involved in...explora­ tion or development of mining, mineralogy, and geology in Arizona. Who are these persons and what...Western Exploration Office, located in Douglas, Arizona. Ten of these are tellurium minerals, especially...the Tombstone mines in Cochise County. The earliest paper to honor Arizona persons with mineral names was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
32o DECEMBER I977 Ruizite, a new silicate mineral from Christmas, Arizona S. A. WILLIAMSAND M. DUGGAN...DUGGAN Phelps Dodge Corporation, Douglas, Arizona, U.S.A. SUMMARY.Ruizite is a new mineral found in the...calc-silicate assemblage at the Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona. Occurs with kinoite, apophyllite...Mammoth, Arizona. D u RI YG the course of investigation ofjunitoite at the Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona...Better samples were quickly found by Dave Cook, the mine geologist. Since subsequent study showed it to be
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
Report (issue)
² Ca2Mn3+ 2 Si4 O11(OH)4 2H2 O Ruizite ° c 2001 Mineral Data Publishing, ver sion 1.2 Crystal Data:...c = 9.03{9.064 X-ray Powder Pattern: Christmas, Arizona, USA. 11.95 (100), 4.19 (70), 3.12 (60), 5.09...Total 99.13 100.00 Chemistry: (1) Christmas, Arizona, USA; SiO2 by solvent extraction, Mn and Ca...assemblage under oxidizing conditions (Christmas, Arizona, USA). Association: Apophyllite, kinoite, junitoite...chalcopyrite, bornite, sphalerite, smectite (Christmas, Arizona, USA); apophyllite, pectolite, datolite, inesite
Journal (issue)
chromophore and various colors and the chemical causes County, Utah. Source: Photographic Guide to Mineral the...notably alkali-rich examples (Continued on page 5) ARIZONA M NE FEB. 2 - FEB. 16, 2008 (Sat. Sat. -10 to 6...of spectacular rhodochrosite from the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado. I even had Bryan Lees autograph this...currently the primary mineralogical publication in the USA. was always meant to be kept. We know this for at...from November 16, 1961. Perhaps 100 were printed. Mine is signed by the meeting honorcc - J. Robert Oppenheimer
Journal (issue)
MEMBERS BOBJONESITE * RAYGRANTITE RONGIBBSITE * RUIZITE © RRUFF, Joe. Ruiz, Harvey. Jong. Table Of Contents...Nominations, 2018 ROTY, 2018 Competitions 1011 The Arizona Mineral Collector 12 Page 13 Editors Corner ...Glendale resident Cody Horvath. We survived another Arizona summer and October is already feeling cooler than...(Raygrantite), Ron Gibbs (Ron Gibbsite) and Joe Ruiz (Ruizite). Thank you to each of these members for helping...presented by our own Mr. Bob Jones on ”Cornwall: Mining, Minerals and Amazing History.” Bob will take us
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
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
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...magnetite, tenorite, chrysocolla (Bawana mine); gilalite, ruizite, stringhamite, tobermorite, andradite... 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 (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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magnetite, plagioelase, hercynite, 513 Glomsrudkollen mine, Modum, ktenasite, unidentified CuZn-A1 sulphate...4o6; datolite, apophyllite, 4IO Yorkshire Boulby mine, Loftus, Saltburn, iron-boracite, 404 Hepworth Iron...Mtn., kerolite, 443 Greece ( 'E~t~tag ) Kamariza mine, Laurium, ktenasite, 65 ASIA Israel Menhamiya...piemontite, spessartine, 537 India Nausahi, Keonjhar District, Orissa, chromian dravite, 408 Sagar, Madhya Pradesh...Pradesh, basalts, 165 Korea Jan#gun mine, Bonghwa, janggunite, nsutite, todorokite, rhodochrosite, 519
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada The Crystal Structure of Ruizite, a Sorosilicate with an [Si4013 ] Cluster F. C...February 1, 1984 Summary The crystal structure of ruizite, Ca2Mn2[Si4Oll(OH)2 ](OH)2(H20)2, a = 11.984(3)...index of 5.6% for 1226 observed (3or) reflections. Ruizite is a sorosilicate with an [Si401~(OH)2] linear...gebracht. 136 F.C. Hawthorne Introduction Ruizite is a hydroxy-hydrated manganese silicate mineral...Williams and Duggan (1977) at the Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona, U.S.A. It is associated with junitoite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
121 (Syn.), M l Boracite, see Iron-boracite Boulby mine, Loftus, Saltburn, Yorkshire, iron-boracite, 404...ALPHABETICAL Carter's mine, Madison County, North Carolina, kerolite, 443 Cassiar mine, British Columbia...Haidinger) Chenevixite, Mexico, anal., opt., X-ray, 27; Arizona, 27 CHENHALI. (B. E.), PEMBERTON (J. W.), PItlLLIPS...Mendips, crystal structure, 357 Christmas mine, Gila County, Arizona, ruizJte, 429 Chrome-picotite, New...Aegirine, Aegirine-augite, Diopside, Sahlite Coalinga mine, California, chrysotile, 453 Columbite, Cornwall
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)
Catalog/List
75x50x31 010 ALUMINOCOPIAPITE - Champion Mine, California, USA. A pure yellow botryodal mass. 28x28xl8...matrix. 6lx47xl8 22,00 017 APACHEITE - Christmas Mine, Gila Co., USA. Pale blue patches in matrix. Moderately...xl 13xl0x8 8,00 )!. .. 022 AXINITE xx - Obira Mine, Japan. A large terminated xl, 47x27, forming the...variety GOLDEN11 X - Slocum's Quarry, Haddam, CT, USA. A terminated 39x9x7 single xl embedded on a large...BRUSHITE - CALCIOFERRITE - ARAGONITE - Rocabruna Mine, Brugues Gaba, Barcelona, Spain. Very rich whitish
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
Catalog/List
with admixed Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Wales. Chocolate brown massive, with minor rock...rich greenish yellow with white Barytes Whitesmith Mine Strontian Scotland lx2 £10 17. SCAPOLITE translucent...25. RUIZITE fairly sparse red-brown coating on 2x2 matrix Christmas Mine, Gila County Arizona USA £12...Good small display piece Crown King Yavapai County Arizona, £15 32. CHALCEDONY off white botryoidal over...with vein of Psilomelane.(Manganese mine, Socorro County, New Mexico USA) ,Fluorescent green S.Wave from
Catalog/List
yellowish-green coarsely fibrous in matrix, Whitesmith Mine, Strontian Scotland large I x2 size £ 14 6. CHALCOPYRITE...inch (a most unusual form of this mineral) Agnew Mine, Leinster Western Australia £ 15 itvf: u-uth·d...to about half inch size over 2x2 area. Ciampino Mine Alban Hills Italy £ 15 17. SAL AMMONIAC glassy crystals...area on lxl.5 inch matrix Republic SOLD Scholller Mine, Kladno, Czech 18. APATITE -FLUORAPATITE- double...28. RUIZITE fairly sparse, red-brown coating on 2x2 matrix Christmas Mine, Gila County Arizona USA £12
Journal (issue)
[evenings by appointment only] WULFENITE — RED CLOUD MINE (ED OVER SPECIMEN KEHA Wayne and Dona Leicht, 332...Institution Pete J. Dunn Smithsonian Institution ARIZONA-II Peter Q. Embrey British Museum (Natural History)...The Mineralogical Record P. O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 published bimonthly by the Mineralogical...1980 @ Articles The Defiance mine and vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona ..............203 by J. R. Thompson........................211 The C. & B. mine, Gila County, Arizona ....................................
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...order-disorder structure, Raman spectroscopy, Bawana mine, Milford, Utah Introduction The proposal for the
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Six Articles Hubeite, a new mineral from the Daye mine near Huangshi, Hubei Province, China . . . . . ... . . . . 473 by R. H. Currier The Nueva Vizcaya mine, Burguillos del Cerro Badajoz, Spain . . . . . ...reprints, book sales, shows) P.O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 520-297-6709 • FAX: 520-544-0815 E-mail:...AZ 85741. Periodicals postage paid at Tucson, Arizona and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send
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