 | | 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 (volume) | | PATAGONIA MOUNTAINS ARIZONA BY FRANK C. SCHRADER WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JAMES M. HILL WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...17 Climate and vegetation. 18 _._ History of mining and present conditions___________________ 20 ...____________ Mining districts, camps, and properties. Helvetia district_ . General features. __ Helvetia camp__..._______________ _____ Ore deposits _ . Copper World mine ____ _____ _____ Location and topography _ _ History..._____ Black Horse mine _ Leader mine_ '. Isle Royal mine Heavy Weight mine Old Dick mine _______________ |  | | Book | | How to Know the Minerals and Rocks McGRAW-HILL PAPERBACKS | Richard M. Pear! 46 full-color photographs... 9612 SUMMIT CIRCLE LA MESA, CA $2041 McGRAW-HILL PAPERBACKS HOBBY AND PROFESSIONAL GUIDES James...the Minerals and Rocks Richard M. Pearl McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. New York Toronto London Dedicated...and reviews. For information, address the McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., Trade Department, 330 West 42d...Card Number: 53-5783. PUBLISHED BY THE MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA |  | | Journal (issue) | | … Anglesite Touissit, Ouijda-Angad Prefecture Photo: Bob Cooke. Mineral of the month: Anglesite ..... Mineral of the Month Happy Valentine’s Day! Anglesite by Sue Marcus Most people don’t think of lead...transparent. Our Mineral of the Month for February, anglesite, is a lead sulfate mineral that is often found...allowing for it to be included in most collections. Anglesite was discovered by the English naturalist William...witherite was named). Withering first described anglesite in 1783 on the island of Anglesey in the Irish |  | | Report (volume) | | depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami districts...Miami districts, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome______________________________ 213 Ray, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_______________...Ransome_______________ 216 Morenci, Arizona. _________________ ___ 217 Ely, Nevada, by A. C. Spencer_________________...Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico |  | | Book | | the geysers at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Silica-rich minerals are deposited by the hot water...1500s, the German Inspired by Button's ideas, more mining engineer Georgius Agricola and more geologists...the raw materials of the landscape. Every valley, hill and mountain peak is made entirely of rocks and...solid core could even reach 7,500K/13,000°F! Some heavy elements such as uranium ended up in the crust despite...crater like this one, the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona, strike the Earth so hard they vaporize on impact |  | | Book (edition) | | Southwest Scientific Company, Inc. of Scottsdale, Arizona. To aid in the description of species, the collections...Federation of Mineralogical Societies, at shows of Arizona societies and State Fairs at Phoenix and Tucson...the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...men Minerals, and Company, London, Filer’s, Arizona, Science Establish- Easthampton, Redlands,...gravity - Homemade beam and Jolly balances - Use of heavy liquids - Selection of test specimens - Application | | | Book (edition) | | Southwest Scientific Company, Inc. of Scottsdale, Arizona. To aid in the description of species, the collections...Federation of Mineralogical Societies, at shows of Arizona societies and State Fairs at Phoenix and Tucson...at the outstanding shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...Southwest Scientific Company, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona, Minerals Unlimited, Berkeley, California, Ward's...gravity • Homemade beam and Jolly balances • Use of heavy liquids • Selection of test specimens • Application |  | | Journal (issue) | | articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors. and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...MINES Stephen Moreton • David Green 34 ABBEYTOWN MINE AND QUARRY Stephen Moreton • John Lawson • Robert...tantalising pieces of evidence that the mines in that district produced fine crystalline specimens. Fieldwork...Fieldwork was unable to provide corroboration as the mine levels are now inaccessible and little of note remains...house built on a fabulous plot at the top of Parley Hill, Culross. with breathtakingYiews acros the Firth |  | | Journal (issue) | | Desautels Mineralogy and Paragenesis of the 79 Mine Lead-Zinc-Copper Deposit.......................... WULFENITE on mottramite from the 79 mine near Hayden, Arizona. The large crystal measures about 2 cm...trip and new material from the St. Joseph Lead District. Yours sincerely, Gary R. Hansen GREEN APOPHYLLITE...purchased a fine collection of Stibnite from a new mine near Felsobanya. Clean, bright miniatures at $25...for information about the min erals of the Ecton mine in the July-August (Vol. Ill, No. 4) issue of the |  | | Report (volume) | | precipitation of the metalo........ Composition of mine waters............................................of sulphide enrichment Continued. Composition of mine waters Continued. Discussion of analyses Continued...on depth..................... Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions....... Oxidation....................................... Review of mining districts...................................................................... Burro Mountain district, N. Mex...................................... |  | | Book | | though, it required a real knowledge of German mining engineer Georgius breaks in the rock sequence...the raw materials of the landscape. Every valley, hill and mountain peak is made entirely of rocks and...solid core could even reach 7,500K/13,000°F! Some heavy elements such as uranium ended up in the crust despite...crater like this one, the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona, strike the Earth so hard they vaporize on impact...to happen. But over the next half century, the weight of evidence piled up. A key element was the discovery |  | | Book (edition) | | Southwest Scientific Company, Inc. of Scottsdale, Arizona. To aid in the description of species, the collections...Federation of Mineralogical Societies, at shows of Arizona societies and State Fairs at Phoenix and Tucson...the outstanding sho,vs of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...South,vest Scie11tifi.c Company, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona, Minerals Unlimited, Berkeley, California, Ward's...gravity • Homemade beam and Jolly balances • Use of heavy liquids • Selection of test specimens • Application |  | | Book (edition) | | in all large cities but if the student can visit mining districts and collect and observe for himself,...122 blende, Limonite 22. SULPHATES: Barytes, Anglesite, Gypsum, Linarite CHROMATES, TUNGSTATES, &c. ...atacamite, manganite, cerusite, aragonite, barytes, anglesite, celestite, olivine, topaz, andalusite, staurolite...water, while irid- ium is twenty-three times as heavy. The following how various common minerals differ...determining the weight of water displaced by the body, and so finding the ratio between the weight of the body |  | | Journal (issue) | | calcium silicate, one of the rarer zeolites • Grant County, Oregon • tiny crystals with a striking pearly...copper aluminum sulfate Grandview mine, Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona (see the article in Mineralogical...CARROLLITE copper, cobalt nickel sulfide Kambove mine, Katanga, Republic of the Congo (now Zaire) loose...explor ing an abandoned International Paper Co. mine near Newry, Me. The rocks shown are worth thousands...Chalcopyrite. 3.5 x 3 in. $20.00. RHODOCHROSITE. T ravonia Mine, Butte, M ontana. A very lustrous group of rose-pink |  | | Book (edition) | | Specific gravity (sp. gr.) is the weight of a mineral compared to the weight of an equal volume of water....be the weight in the air divided by the difference between the weight inthe air and the weight in the...streak; luster part adamantine (sparkling); a very heavy mineral with sp. gr. of 8.1. (See 12a.) CINNABAR...look like steps and cubes; streak gray-black; a heavy mineral with asp. gr. 7.6; color black; hardness...(very heavy); often with green spots. -Cu- COPPER 12a. Scarlet streak; hardness 2.5; very heavy with |  | | Book | | [(OH)5 (P04)4]' 6 H20 (monoclinic, brown) Rotlăufchen Mine near Wetzlar/FRG Original size 5 x 6 mm ISBN-13:...the metals and compounds which were forming. The heavy metals collected mostly in the inner core and the...a deeper view of the crust in mines. The deepest mine shafts are those of the gold mines in the Witwatersrand...mineral derives from the Latin minare, meaning mining, and mina, the shaft. Therefore mineral became...this country having a height of about 2 m and a weight of more than 3 t. But the larger a crystal grows |  | | Journal (issue) | | Los Angeles County Museum Acquires Outstanding Micromount Collection Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...year, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County acquired the remarkable combined micromount collections...rattlesnakes only kill nine people per year in the USA, which has a population 4,000 times that of Amami...enough. No one on the island has feet as big as mine, so I hobble out into the forest in rubber boots...build locality suites. either by country, state or mine, resorting to alphabetical storage by species name |  | | Journal (issue) | | .......... p. 13 AFMS: Earth science history in USA ......... p. 14 EFMLS: Safety matters ............. Barite is an analogue of both celestine and anglesite; replace the barium with strontium, and you get...get celestine; replace it with lead, anglesite. All three minerals are in the orthorhombic crystal class...from the Red Hill Pit, Emerson, GA) and yellow (left, from the Meikle Mine, Elko County, NV). Photos:...Karsten from the Greek word βάρυζ (“heavy”). It is indeed unusually heavy for a nonmetallic mineral, with |  | | Book | | minerals is described, together with the methods of mining them. Italics emphasize essential scientific terms...Heritage 2. PROSPECTING AND MINING . . . . .11 Prospecting Mining Milling, Smelting, Refining ...atomic power, with all its military implications. Mining is one of the four basic industries that produce...others being agriculture, fisheries, and lumbering. Mining, however, has come a long way from its humble and...beginnings to its present stature. The earliest mining evolved from the chance picking up of gold nuggets |  | | Journal (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . 1fl NERALOGICAI. SOCIETY OF ARIZONA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...is very gratifying at the old abandoned tun~sten mine in to them to see the many old friends at T rumbull...from two Greek words from a new locality, Benton County, to meaning ,·ay and stone, as the mineral is Oregon...display. one of the summits of St. Gothard, ry Anglesite: Lead sulphate; first found ne Switzerland, where...specimen at- Sea, (hence its name) at the Parys mine tracted considerable interest as it was the where |  | | Book | | Director, American Meteorite Museum, Sedona, Arizona; Florence Le Dosquet and George D. Skinner, N....Our Mineral Heritage PROSPECTING AND MINING Prospecting Mining Milling, Smelting, Refining How To IDENTIFYMINERALS...minerals is described, together with the methods of mining them. Italics emphasize essential scientific terms...atomic power, with all its military implications. Mining is one of the four basic industries that produce...others being agriculture, fisheries, and lumbering. Mining, however, has come a long way from its humble and |  | | Book | | appreciation is also extended to the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, especially to Miss...deposit of stream gold, and a housewife found a hill of jade in British Columbia worth millions of dollars...for the picking-up. The southwestern states—Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma—for the most...Acreage in the United States State Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Florida Idaho Kansas...public use, and the rockhound should check with the district manager of the area he proposes to work in to |  | | Book | | forms for cerrusite. : A 286 Forms in which anglesite occurs 319 PLATE 19.—Sphalerite, some the normal...Brazil (in color) 207 PLATE 33.—Common opal from Arizona. sinter or geyserite from Yellowstone Siliceous...paint on the hands. Itis along way from finding and mining gold, chalcopyrite, hematite, carnotite, etc.,...specific gravity of a mineral is its weight compared with the weight of an equal volume of water, and is...is therefore the expression of how many times as heavy as water the mineral is. For instance the specific | | | Book | | Plate 18.—Typical forms for cerrusite. which anglesite occurs Forms in ..... 289 319 Plate 19.—Sphalerite...(in color) 296 297 Plate 33.—Common opal from Arizona. Siliceous sinter or geyserite from Yellowstone...on the hands. It is a long way from finding and mining gold, chalcopyrite, hematite, carnotite, etc.,...gravity of a mineral pavity is its weight compared with the weight of an equal volume of water, and is...is therefore the expression of how many times as heavy as water the mineral is. For instance the specific |
|
Heavy Weight Mine, Heavy Weight Hill, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA