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Mojaveite from
Emerald Mine, Silver Plume Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Mojaveite
Formula:Cu6[Te6+O4(OH)2](OH)7Cl
Comments:Greenish-blue flat spots in fracture on iron-oxides covered beige matrix. The first verified occurrence of mojaveite in Arizona.
Habit:massive
Colour:greenish-blue, with lighter and darker concentric rigs
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Raman Spectroscopy
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mojaveite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Emerald Mine, Silver Plume Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1577675
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1577675:4
GUID (UUID V4):49f386f4-4af0-477e-9b98-136511042f4c
References
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Report (issue)
γ = 2.165(4) 2V(meas.) = 20° Pleochroism: X = emerald-green; Y = Z = yellowish green. Absorption: Z =...Absorption: O > E. Pleochroism: O = yellowish green; E = emerald-green. Cell Data: Space Group: Fdd2. a = 5.7491(10)...765(2) c = 18.001(9) X-ray Powder Pattern: Tombstone, Arizona, USA. 2.491 (10), 3.451 (9), 4.866 (8), 2.996...(3) 26.79 36.41 34.05 2.75 100.00 (1) Tombstone, Arizona, USA; insoluble quartz and chlorargyrite present...quartz (Tombstone); mojaveite, cerussite, chrysocolla, perite, quartz (Aga mine); mojaveite, andradite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
braccoite, chanabayaite, favreauite, fermiite, mojaveite, oppenheimerite, parawulffite, saamite, and wulffite...Cu4FBr(OH)6, is a new mineral found at the Great Australia mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. An assemblage...are in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, U.S.A., and in the Robert B. Ferguson...O.C.G. Barrydawsonite‑(Y)* Bluebellite* and Mojaveite* R.H. Mitchell, M.D. Welch, A.R. Kampf, A.K....Bluebellite and mojaveite, two new minerals from the central Mojave Desert, California, USA. Mineralogical
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Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA; 4Division of Geological...California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA; 5Department of Core Research Laboratories, Natural...106, Reno, NV 89502, USA; 85199 East Silver Oak Road, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, USA; 9124 Pineplank Lane...Lane, Simi Valley, CA 93065, USA; and 10Laboratoire de Physique des Milieux Condensés (LPMC), CNRS-UMR...wellcrystallised tlapallite at the Wildcat prospect, Utah, USA. The chemical formula of tlapallite has been revised
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KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com... Gressman tom.gressman@minrec.org The Tintic District: Juab and Utah Counties, Utah...................COVER: CLINOCLASE, 3.9 cm, from the Mammoth mine, Tintic District, Utah. Rock Currier collection; Jeff Scovil...sample of a pascoite group mineral at a mine in Grand County, Utah. Died, Alex Earl, 26 Jayson Alexander...over the American West. A trip to the Blue Bell mine near Baker, California, in 2016 was particularly
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Dalt, PART OF DUMP OF FAMOUS OLD TRADE DOLLAR. MINE, SILVER C~TY, IDAHO. SPECIAL ARTICLES MARBLE. By Dr.......................................... 84 The Mining of Gilsonite in Utah. By W. J. Fene..............inches i n slze. Some spangled with Prrlte, Zinc and Silver. Hard enough to polish. Very shOwY specimens. a...WEST PARIS. MAINE STA N L E Y 1. PERHAM OXf'ORO COUNTY MINIEIIA L S AN D GE M S A SPECIALTY A M BER M...commercial quantities in Little Borax Lake, Lake County. A considerable tonnage of borax was recovered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as an ‘unvollständig erkannte Minerale’ with an emerald-green color and a vitreous lustre. Detailed mineralogical...Favreauite, a new selenite mineral from the El Dragón mine, Bolivia. Eur J Mineral 26:771–781 Mills SJ, Kampf...Bluebellite and mojaveite, two new minerals from the central Mojave Desert, California, USA. Mineral Mag
 
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