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Azurite from
Cerro Gordo Mine, Cerro Gordo, Cerro Gordo Mining District, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Azurite
Formula:Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Azurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cerro Gordo Mine, Cerro Gordo, Cerro Gordo Mining District, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:143720
Long-form Identifier:1:3:143720:1
GUID (UUID V4):556a5ce2-a933-4838-8a66-a3b912ca5b91
Nearest other occurrences of Azurite
12.5km (7.8 miles) Copper Queen-Lucky Boy Mine (Copper Queen Mine), Summit 2347 meters, Nelson Range, Lee Mining District, Inyo County, California, USA
14.8km (9.2 miles) Santa Rosa Mine (Lee-Santa Rosa Mine; Santa Rosa Mines), Malpais Mesa, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
24.1km (15.0 miles) Keynot Mine (Key Not Mine; Golden Princess; Mountain View; War Eagle; Keynot; Keynote Mine; Mallard Duck), Keynot Peak, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
29.3km (18.2 miles) Inyo Copper Mines and Smelter Company property, Hunter Mountain, Ubehebe Mining District, Cottonwood Mountains, Panamint Mts (Panamint Range), Inyo County, California, USA
33.2km (20.6 miles) Reward Mine, Reward, Russ Mining District, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
33.6km (20.9 miles) Thompson Mine, Darwin Mine (Anaconda; Bernon Mine; Defiance Mine; Essex Mine; Independence Mine; Intermediate Mine; Rip Van Winkle Mine; Thompson Mine), Darwin, Darwin Mining District, Darwin Hills, Inyo County, California, USA
35.4km (22.0 miles) Giroux Mine (Jeroo Mine; Rio Tinto Mine; Rio Tinto Consolidated Mine), Darwin, Darwin Mining District, Darwin Hills, Inyo County, California, USA
35.7km (22.2 miles) Empress Mine, Zinc Hill, Zinc Hill Mining District, Argus Mts (Argus Range), Inyo County, California, USA
36.0km (22.4 miles) Zinc Hill Mine (Utacaia group; Colorado group; Darwin Zinc prospect), Zinc Hill, Zinc Hill Mining District, Argus Mts (Argus Range), Inyo County, California, USA
36.2km (22.5 miles) Darwin Mining District, Darwin Hills, Inyo County, California, USA
References
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Report (issue)
MINEEAL EESOUKCES OF THE INYO AND WHITE MOUNTAINS, CALIFOENIA. By ADOLPH KNOPF. INTRODUCTION. The first...termed the Inyo Mountains and the northern portion the White Mountains. Since 1860 mining has been in...activity, for it was then that the mines of Cerro Gordo, in the Inyo Mountains, were yielding the great output...notable producer of silverlead ore in the State of California. Gold ores have also been important, and recently...knowledge of the geology and ore deposits of the range has been brought together by Spurr from various
Report (issue)
Geology of the Cerro Gordo Mining District Inyo County, California By C. W. MERRIAM , GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...______ _ Previous geological studies in the Cerro Gordo area ____ _ Present investigation ____ ~ ___..._____________________ _ Igneous rocks of the Cerro Gordo area ________________ _ Intrusive igneous rocks...structure _________________________________ _ Cerro Gordo anticline __________________________ _ Subsidiary...___________________________ _ Faulting in the Cerro Gordo area ________________ _ Normal faults ______
Report (issue)
Minerals of California By ARTHUR S. EAKLE, MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining Bureau...Hon Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of the State of California. Sir: I have the honor to transmit Bureau...Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this date...Bureau. and Mineralogy of the University of California, with this Eakle has given freely of his time...Minerals Distribution by Counties Bibliography on California Minerals Index to Minerals — 197 204 210 220
Report (volume)
Mineral Resources of the Inyo Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Inyo County, California U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... Mineral Resources of the Inyo Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Inyo County, California By EDWIN H. McKEE, JAMES...Mineral resources of the Inyo Mountains Wilderness study arear Inyo County* California. (U.S. Geological Survey...19.3:1708-A 1. Mines and mineral resources California Inyo Mountains. I. McKee* Edwin H., 1935. II. Series:...of the Inyo Mountains Wilderness Study Area (CDCA-122), California Desert Conservation Area, Inyo County
Report (issue)
Paper 110 A GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE OF THE INYO RANGE -AND THE EASTERN SLOPE OF THE .~OUTHERN SIERRA...KNOPF ·WITH A SECTION ON THE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE INYO RANGE BY EDWIN KIRK WASHINGTON GOVERNl\IENT PRINTING·...Owens Valley ........................... . The Inyo Range .............. ~ ........ . The Sierra Nevada...................... . Stratigraphy of the Jnyo Range, by Edwin Kirk·.; ................................Page. Geology-Continued. Stratigraphy of the Inyo Range, by Edwin Kirk-Continued. Carboniferous system-Continued
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines
Report (issue)
M^iajKaMVMtrVMMIMMVW^- 'Vv s > MINERALS Of CALIFORNIA BULl,ETIN N«, 91 issei0 BY rr: ^ ;wIFORNIA...BULLETIN [November, 1922 No. 91 Minerals of California $ BY ARTHUR S. EAKLE, Ph. D. Professor...Mineralogy, University of California COMPLIMENTS OF ^^^foyd Sc, c/iosty GIST CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE...Stephens, Governor of the State of California, Sacramento, California Sir: I have the honor to transmit...upon the minerals of California. This bulletin records our knowledge of California minerals to date,
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE...Letter of Transmittal 5 Map 6 Outline o['. California Preface 7 Introduction 11 Native Elements
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite is likely the best... for a mineral than to be often confused with azurite. Such is the case with the much-rarer linarite...linarite, a striking blue mineral that occurs, like azurite, in the oxidized parts of base-metal ore deposits...all too late, that what was thought to be modest azurite—hardly worth the bother to collect—was actually...over have discovered linarite, often posing as azurite, at many historic sites thought to be no longer
Report (volume)
Resources of the Southern Inyo Wilderness Study Area, Inyo County, California U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Resources of the Southern Inyo Wilderness Study Area, Inyo County, California By JAMES E. CONRAD, JAMES...RESOURCES OF WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: SOUTH-CENTRAL CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL MODEL...resources of the Southern Inyo Wilderness Study Area, Inyo County, California. U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin...3:1705-6 1. Mines and mineral resources California Southern Inyo Wilderness. I. Conrad, James E. II. Series
Book
R-m DESERT FEVER f An Overview of Mining in the California Desert Larry M. Vredenburgh Gary L. Shumway...Russell D. Hartill Living West Press Canoga Park, California Copyright c 1981 by Russell D. Hartill, Gary...an overview of mining in cl981, S. F. PUBLIC LIBRARX This publication and related mining and historical...Edition of Desert Fever: An Overview of Mining in the California Desert has been limited to 1,000 copies...Future Imperial County 7 Riverside County 24 San Bernardino County Kern County 181 Inyo County 222 58 269
Report (issue)
and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas Inyo County, California Chester T. Wrucke, Sherman P. Marsh, Gary...and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas Inyo County, California by Chester T. Wrucke, Sherman P. Marsh...and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas, Inyo County, California................................ In pocket...Valley and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas, California.............. 2. Map showing mines and prospects...(BLM No. CDCA 117A), California Desert Conservation Area, Inyo County, California. SUMMARY The Saline
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fringe of the Mojave desert in south central California. It would be hard to find an area richer in variety...chrysocolla, azurite and malachite have all been collected in this area. This is an old mining district, having...could be spent in this locality to advantage. Cerro Gordo is just a few miles north of Darwin but it is...mines are at an altitude of over 9000 feet in the Inyo Mountains. The road climbs from Keeler at 3,600...dangerous, only steep. The list of minerals from Cerro Gordo is about the same as Darwin, though they occur
Report (issue)
] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF... Chief BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia,...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...JenlCalifornia, Chief of the Division of Mines. Minerals of California is one of the Division's
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
been described. Well known are malachite after azurite, copper, and cuprite; less commonly reported are...sphalerite, cerussite, pyrite, and even wood and bone. Azurite, shattuckite, chrysocolla, chalcoalumite, goethite...Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick...Jersey; the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania;...workings of the copper mines at Ducktown, Polk County, and the zinc deposits of eastern and central Tennessee;
Report (issue)
= 6.560(5) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Red Gill mine, England. 3.139 (100), 4.69 (57), 3.031 (55), 1...anglesite, leadhillite, brochantite, linarite, azurite, malachite. Distribution: Widely distributed,...Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England. In the Preobrazhensky mine, Beresovsk, near Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Middle...Iran. In the USA, in Arizona, large crystals in rich masses from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal..., in the Rowley mine, near Theba, Maricopa Co., and elsewhere; from the Mex-Tex mine, near Bingham, Hansonburg
Report (issue)
smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, malachite, azurite. Distribution: Widespread in small amounts. Localities...Loktevskii mine, upper Loktevka River, west Altai Mountains, Russia. At Monteponi, and in the Rosas mine, Sulcis...France. In the USA, in Arizona, fine examples from Bisbee, Cochise Co., in the Silver Hill mine, Pima Co...., and at the 79 mine, Gila Co.; from Cerro Gordo, Inyo Co., California; at the Kelly and Graphic mines...the Tintic district, Juab Co., at the Hidden Treasure mine, Tooele Co., in the Apex mine, near St. George
Report (issue)
principally in arid regions. Association: Malachite, azurite, tenorite, cuprite, linarite, caledonite, cerussite...Duchessa, Sardinia, Italy. In Germany, at the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest. In England, numerous...the USA, in Arizona, large crystals from Bisbee, Cochise Co., and at the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger...Mammoth mine, Tintic, Juab Co., Utah; at Bingham, Socorro Co., New Mexico; from the Cerro Gordo mine, Inyo...Inyo Co., California; in the Douglas Hill and Mason Pass mines, Yerington district, Lyon Co., Nevada. Many
Report (volume)
............................................ California....................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................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
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director DIVISION OF MINES...BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1938 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 5478! LIBRARY UNIVERSITY C- CALIFORNIA D:\ViS 1 DIVISION OF...Geologist C A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid...Reid J. Frank Sanborn, District Mining Engineer District Engineer Mining Engineer Mineral Technologist
Book
7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
Report (issue)
base-metal Association: Olivenite, mottramite, azurite, malachite, wulfenite, calcite (Tsumeb, Namibia);...bayldonite, beudantite, mimetite, cerussite (Cap Garonne mine, France). Distribution: Many minor localities. Abundant...Zambia. At the Touissit mine, near Oujda, Morocco. From the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, France...France. In the Virneberg mine, near Rheinbreitbach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. From Beresovsk, near...Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. From the Ojuela mine, Mapimı́, Durango, Mexico. In the USA, from the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
clinoclase, cornwallite, strashimirite, malachite, azurite, and cuprite. It is almost unknown in the United...Sussex County, New Jersey; Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona; and the Cerro Gordo mine, Inyo County, California...Gwennap in the eastern pan of the Camborne-Redruth district, Cornwall, England (Bancroft and Weller 1993)...Wheal Muttrell, Gorland; Unity; and the Ting Tang mine. Liroconite from Wheal Muttrell (ultimately incorporated...time of their writing, the specimen was in the County Museum at Truro, Cornwall, England. However, Jones
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characteristic of certain mineral species. For instance, azurite, chrysocolla, and turquoise bring to mind vivid...willemite, hydrozincite, cerussite, malachite, azurite, and aurichalcite. It has been somewhat tentatively...relatively recently from Kristalle (Laguna Beach, California), it is thought to have been recovered sometime...depth. These include the Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the Buckwheat pit, Franklin, New...Chester County, the Ueberroth mine near Bethlehem, and the zinc mines at Friedensville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 07:53 01 January 2015 Bournonite Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China T here are certain...minerals such as wulfenite, rhodochrosite, and azurite coupled with their localities can be used to gauge...clearly the most prolific being the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan Province. (Additional locality information...Hawk mine, Blue Hill, Maine; New York City, New York; an unspecified locality in Chester County, Pennsylvania;...Pennsylvania; the Cofer deposit in the Mineral district of Louisa County, Virginia, where it occurs with tetrahedrite;
 
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