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Molybdenite from
Ray Mine, Scott Mountain, Pinal County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Molybdenite
Formula:MoS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz4 photos of Molybdenite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Pyrite2 photos of Molybdenite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Chalcopyrite1 photo of Molybdenite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Molybdenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ray Mine, Scott Mountain, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:47204
Long-form Identifier:1:3:47204:9
GUID (UUID V4):e73b9360-e0ff-4f29-a276-ead95ba88c5b
Nearest other occurrences of Molybdenite
4.0km (2.5 miles) Calumet Mine, Scott Mountain, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Rare Metals Mine (Rare Metals deposit), Kelvin, Riverside Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
9.6km (6.0 miles) Troy Ranch Prospect, Tiger Mountain area, Dripping Springs Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
16.8km (10.5 miles) Samsel Mine (Samsel group of claims; Samsel deposit; Utah Copper Gold claims; Pinal Tungsten Mines claims), Mays Gap area, Pinal Mountains Mining District, Pinal Mountains, Gila County, Arizona, USA
17.1km (10.7 miles) Resolution deposit, Superior, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
18.7km (11.6 miles) 79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
20.0km (12.5 miles) Chilito Mine (Chillito Mine; Schneider group; Sioux group; Southwest Inspiration property; Copper States Mining Co. property; Velasco pit), Schneider Hill, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
22.2km (13.8 miles) Madera prospect (Madera claims), Madera Peak area, Pinal Mountains Mining District, Pinal Mountains, Gila County, Arizona, USA
22.9km (14.2 miles) Ellis vein, Madera Peak area, Pinal Mountains Mining District, Pinal Mountains, Gila County, Arizona, USA
23.4km (14.5 miles) Rainbow group (Clark prospect; Clark claims), Powers Gulch, Top of the World, Summit Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
listing and map showing molybdenum occurrences in Arizona by Jan C. Wilt /, Stanley B. Keith !/, and Ted...to the Arizona Bureau of Geology and Minerals Technology a_ division of The University of Arizona This...listing and map showing molybdenum occurences in Arizona by_ Jan C. Wilt, Stanley B. Keith, and Ted G. Theodore...molybdenum occurrences throughout Arizona prepared in part by the Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology...SierritaEsperanza copper-molybdenum deposit, Pima County, Arizona, in Jenney, J. P., and Hauck, H. R., eds.,
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...35-03-A wA 113-49-A w W MO 81 PBA CUA AG BORIANA MINE 18N 115W 118 34-56-154 113-54-53W CATALINA DISTRICT...CATALINA DISTRICT CHILDS-ALOWINKLE HUN CINNABAR MINE 02N I14-19-18w 09 33-32-154A CUPRITE MINI 175 16E
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Center in the Superior (Pioneer) District, Arizona SCOTT L. MANSKE† Independent Consultant, P.O. Box...the Superior (Pioneer) district of east-central Arizona, lying under thick Tertiary cover approximately...quartz-pyrite-chalcopyrite ± anhydrite veins. Molybdenite is present in an early generation of quartz-rich...Laramide-age porphyry copper cluster of east-central Arizona. It lies within the well-known Superior (Pioneer)...of shaft 9 of the Magma mine and 120 km north of the city of Tucson, Arizona. This discovery stands largely
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)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/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)
Alteration-mineral assemblages in the Copper Mountain (British Columbia, Canada) and El Teniente (Chile)...some districts (for example, Christmas, Arizona, and Battle Mountain, Nevada), more copper is recovered from... Utah (Babcock and others, 1995), and Bisbee, Arizona (Bryant and Metz, 1966), polymetallic replacement...Turkey) and(or) molybdenum (for example, Sierrita, Arizona; Continental [Butte], Montana) resources. By-Product...copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of the orebody to the 0.2 percent
Report (issue)
No. 1 Arizona State Bureau of Mines Bulletin CHARLES F. WILLIS, Director Directory of Arizona Minerals...THE University of Arizona TUCSON, ARIZONA 1915-16 DIRECTORY (Compiled OF ARIZONA MINERALS from...district, Cochise County; Gila County, at Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in Mineral Park;;...Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty; Yavapai County, in ores of Bradshaw Mountains; Yuma County, in...and Stibnite. ARGENTITE (silver glance). Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral
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)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geosciences University of Arizona, 1040 E. Fourth Street, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0077 † Corresponding...molybdenum-copper systems within the Laramide arc in Arizona, as well as at the Yerington district in Nevada...Sierrita-Esperanza, Copper Basin (Crown King), Granite Mountain (roots of the Ray porphyry system), Gunnison (Texas Canyon...district), E- Sycamore Canyon, the New Cornelia mine (Ajo district), and two systems in the Yerington... and rare accessory chalcopyrite, fluorite, molybdenite, wolframite, and scheelite. Coarse hydrothermal
Report (volume)
Geology of the Final Ranch Quadrangle Arizona By N. P. PETERSON CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL GEOLOGY GEOLOGICAL...--._____-__-___________-_____._---_-_----Gibson mine.._______-_-___-_____-_---_----------_-Cole and Goodwin...Geologic map of the Pinal Ranch quadrangle, Arizona. -In pocket FIOUBB 1. Index map of Arizona _ ________________...RANCH QUADRANGLE, ARIZONA By N. P. PETERSON ABSTBACT The Final Ranch quadrangle in Arizona embraces a rugged...minerals associated with greisen. INTRODUCTION The Pinal Kanch 71/£-minute quadrangle is the southwest quarter
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
Report (issue)
Mineralized Areas of the Basin and Range Province in Arizona By Stanley B. Keith 1 Lorraine Schnabel 2 , Ed...editorial standards and stratigraphic nomenclature. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology; present...Tunder Dr., Phoenix, Arizona 85044 2U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225 Arizona Bureau of Geology...Avenue, Tucson, Arizona 85719 ^J.C. Wilt and Co., 3035 So. Shiela Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85746 Contents...Mineralized Areas of the Basin and Range Province in Arizona..............................................in
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
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...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...Palynology. THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS Copyright © 1966 by The Arizona Board of Regents Printed in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EarlyTertiaryIgneousRocksandSulfideMineralsin Arizona: Implications forthe Sources of Plutons andMetalsin...southeast, the Mojave,centralArizona,andsoutheastern Arizona provinces. Porphyry copperdeposits arepresent in...icts, furthermore, requirethatthesoutheastern Arizona Pbprovince bedivided intotwosubprovinces. Thenorthern...theirrespective post-l.7Ga magmatic histories. Throughout Arizona, Pb isotope compositions of LateCretaceous and...peripheral totheporphyry copper deposit. Introduction ARIZONA contains one of the most dense concentrations of
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)
. a = 9.9904(6) b = 5.9934(4) c = 5.5255(4) X-ray Powder Pattern: Calculated pattern. 4.948 (100),...100.00 (1) Childs Aldwinkle mine, Copper Creek, Pinal County, Arizona, USA; average of 13 electron microprobe...mineral formed by weathering of a mineralized (molybdenite, bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite) breccia pipe...Aldwinkle mine, Galiuro Mountains, Bunker Hill District, Copper Creek, Pinal County, Arizona, USA. Name:...in Tucson, Arizona, USA, who found the first specimen. Type Material: University of Arizona Mineral Museum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Africa Mineralogy Molybdenite (Frondel,JudithW., er a/.) I l-12 1857 Aluminum Arizona Maricopacounty, Wickenberg...Arazi, 5., et al.) 7-8 1329 Arizona Economic geology Aluminum, Maricopa county, Wickenberg (Sheridan, Michael...(Mclean, W. John, er a/.) 7-E 1103 Hemihedrite,Pinal county, Florencemine, Maricopacounty, Wickenburg,Rat...a/.) 7-8 1088 Kinoite, SantaRita mountains,Pima county (Anthony, John W., er a/.) 5-6 7O9 Phoenicochroite...Jerome,United Verde mine (Wood, Michael M.) 5-6 729 Wherryite, Tiger, Mammoth mine (Mclean, W. John.)
Journal (issue)
January–February, 2020 Mineral Collections in Arizona-II A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record January-February...Record, Inc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...wulfenite became the official State Mineral of Arizona by Alexander G. Schauss A Fat Jack Adventure by...COLLECTIONS Erika Brown Mineralogical Society of Arizona Members Wyatt Busby Tom Moore Mark Candee Dick
Report (volume)
Ore . Deposits of the Castle Dome Area Gila County, Arizona By N. P. PETERSON, C. M. GILBERT, and G. L...rocks __________________________________ ---_______ Pinal schist and associated rocks_____________________________... 5. 6. Geologic map of Castle Dome area, Gila County, Ariz _____ In pocket Geologic sections of Castle...Section showing distribution of copper in Castle Dome mine (coordinate W. 1800)--------------------------------...Section showing distribution of copper in Castle Dome mine (coordinate W. 2920)---------------------------------
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...bulletin will be forwarded to the Arizona Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This description of the minerals of Arizona has been largely compiled from publications and manuscripts
Report (issue)
Top, and Table Top Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, P1»a and P1nal Counties, Arizona By John B. McHugh...Top, and Table Top Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, P1ma and P1nal Counties, Arizona.....................Peak, Ragged Top, and Table Top Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, Arizona.................................Peak, Ragged Top, and Table Top Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, Arizona.................................Peak, Ragged Top, and Table Top Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, Arizona... 10 Table 3. Results of analyses
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)
Creek district Arizona Geological Society February 2001 Field Trip Leader: Tim Marsh, AMT (USA) Inc. THIS...PhD AMT (USA) Inc. 7400 N. Oracle Road, Suite 343 Tucson, AZ 85704 Prepared for the Arizona Geological...miles northeast of Tucson Arizona, 12 miles east of BHP's San Manuel-Kalamazoo mine/mill/smelter complex,...Mining Company, Calumet and Arizona Company, and several others, followed by Arizona Molybdenum between 1933...received an Aquifer Protection Permit from the Arizona Department of Water Resources to drive a 9200'
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exposed in the Copper Creek district in Pinal and Graham Counties,Arizona (CC, Fig. 1), but a more representativenumberwould...may be made by reference to three districts in Arizona alone, beginning with what is thoughtto be the..."small" disseminatedcopper deposit beneath the Mammoth mine area (Medhi, 1976). A secondstageof reconnaissance(carried...intrusivebrecciabodies--especially district in Pinal and Graham Counties(CC, Fig. 1). 290 section of...Lavenderpit; MM, Morenci-Metcalfe; P, Pima mine; RH, Red Hill; RM, Red Mountain; SD, Safforddistrict; SP, Squaw'Peak;
 
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