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Alunite from
Sugarloaf Butte, Quartzsite, La Paz County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Table/Butte
Classification
Species:Alunite
Formula:KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
Comments:Occurs as branching, irregular veins within schistose dacite. Contains up to 4.3% Na2O.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Alunite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sugarloaf Butte, Quartzsite, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:256210
Long-form Identifier:1:3:256210:0
GUID (UUID V4):cac12738-bf45-4682-bc72-45f9df1d3632
Nearest other occurrences of Alunite
0.1km (0.0 miles) Natroalunite deposit (Sugar Loaf prospect; Sugarloaf Butte Alunite deposit), Sugarloaf Peak, Middle Camp-Oro Fino Mining District, Dome Rock Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
References
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Report (issue)
100.48 100.00 (1) National Belle mine, Colorado, USA. (2) Matanumad, India; remnant SiO2 0.09%, TiO2 0...Forms a series with alunite. Alunite group. Occurrence: Less common than alunite, formed by solfataric...Association: Alunite, kaolinite, halloysite, sillimanite, quartz. Distribution: In the USA, from the National...Custer Co., Colorado; at Sugarloaf Butte, near Quartzsite, La Paz Co., Arizona; in Carlsbad Cavern and...Africa. Name: As the sodium, natrium, analog of alunite. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman, and C
Journal (issue)
Parijs en vooral het gebied rond Daméry en Fleury-la-Rivière in de Champagnestreek. Dankzij uitstekende...JOUY-EN-JOSAS (78). Salle du vieuw Marché, Place de la Marne. Beurs. SOUCHEZ (62). Salle des fêtes, rue...Parc Chanot. Beurs. LE BOURGET_DU-LAC (73). Salle de la Traverse. LINZ. Palais Kaufmännischer Verein, Bismarckstraße...und Jaspisfundstellen in Arizona, USA   AGAB MINIBUL 45(1), 01.12 1-15 La cubanite 16-19 Le corindon... 4 Mineraal van de maand : halloysiet van Grotte La Scaladina, Sclayn, Namur, België 5-16 Steenrijk Brazilië
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AI,I]NITE: A NEW OCCURRENCENEAR WICKENBIIRG. ARIZONA Nftcuaor,F. SurnrnawarsnCursrnn F. Rovsr, .[n....Temfe,Arizomo85281. AssrRAcr A nerv occurrence of alunite is located about 3 miles west of Morristown and...and 10 miles south of Wickenburg, Maricopa County, Arizona. It is associated with clay deposits and constitutes...one half mile area. The host rock containing the alunite is a rhyolite which has undergone hydrothermal...alteration. In hand specimen, pink patches of alunite up to 5 mm in diameter are surrounded by a matrix
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)
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...Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
Report (issue)
Carolina World Nonbauxite Aluminum Resources Alunite By ROBERT B. HALL GEOLOGY GEOLOGICAL AND RESOURCES...domestic and foreign alunite resources including discussion of possible use of alunite as a nonbauxite ore... Robert B World nonbauxite aluminum resources alunite. (Geology and resources of aluminum) (Geological...background ____________——— Characteristics of alunite deposits ______————— Mineralogy ________________—__...Sedimentary deposits _______———— Alunite as an aluminum resource ____———— Pure alunite versus alunitic rock _———
Book (edition)
Q! creonl lia OE ~| /BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee...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 (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 (volume)
brucite, by W. W. Rubey and Eugene Callaghan. Alunite, by Eugene Callaghan and D. F. Hewett_____-_---_...4. A, The "eggshell" beds, West End area, Clark County, Nev.; B, Anniversary mine, West End area_____________________...near Bissell, Kern County, Calif.; B, Magnesite mine, Afton area, San Bernardino County, Calif _______________________...Bauer magnesite deposits near St. Thomas, Nev.; B, Alunite deposit near Boyd, Nev . _.. .._ . 13. Geologic...of brucite-magnesite area in Paradise Range, Nye County, Nev_-----___________________________ 122 142
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/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
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
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)
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)
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...DISTRICT DISTRICT PIIIAA PIMA ODEN PIT HIKE PRINCE OF ARIZONA MI 05N PROSPECT NEAR OLD MI RAY MINE REOOINGTON...111-57-424 AU Pb MU mINE VV AG 04 mARIcUpil PRINCE OFV ARIZONA MI 05'1 01w 16 33-46-371 112-21-53w Pb AN V A AGV
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...ASG -Archives de Science Geneve BM - Bulletin de la Societe fram;aise de mineralogie et de cristallographie...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Plat., Malawi, G 10 17 River Formation in Uintah County, Utah. Deer et al., v. 2A,483, 1997. Aenigmatite
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.,
Journal (issue)
BAKER • 0 • Who Knows the Answer? . . . Tucson, Arizona Dear Editor: I can't decide whether your magazine...presentation — Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and...exhibit, Northern Arizona museum, Flagstaff. 3-6 Frontier Days, Prescott, Arizona. Lester Ruffner, Jr... FICTION 4-6 All-Indian Pow-Wow, Flagstaff, Arizona. WILDLIFE 4-6 Rodeo, Reno, Nevada. prize money...the virgin pine forest wherein lies Prescott, Arizona, had their beginnings ir. 1921 when a lively bit
Report (issue)
been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch...rhyolite locality in Alameda County and the lawsonite type locality Marin County, which have been completely...straw color" from Cherokee Flat, Butte County); and to borax ("Lake County, in large crystals in the clay...the total entry!). No hint acid. Clear Lake, Lake County" foreshadows the subsequent discovery of immense
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...desert of California and the Sonoran desert of Arizona, the lake beaches of the Middle West, the broad...a trip. Much of Utah, southern California, and Arizona is uncomfortably hot in the summer, although the...been closed. "The flower agate locations south of La Junta have been fouled up by rockhounds who left...car body is proof against cold and animals. An Arizona sheriff who has searched for hundreds of lost persons
Book (volume)
Verde Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona. In Nevada along the Virgin River in Clark County, and in distorted...distorted crystals from Humboldt County. From Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California. In the Permian basin...Silver City, New Mexico; Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona; in the Rand district and in the Calico and...and Barstow mines, San Bernardino County, California. A mass of cerargyrite weighing over six tons was...Bullfrog district, Nye County, and in the Rochester district, Halides 14 Humboldt County. In the Silver City
Report (volume)
Academia de ciencias mgdicas, fisicas y naturales de la Habana [Cuba]: Anales, vols. 71, 72 (pt. 2), 73 (pt...London. Appalachia, nos. 79-82. Boston, Mass. Arizona Bureau of Mines: Bulletins 138-140. Tucson, Ari/...Montana School of Mines, vols. 1, 2 (nos. 1, 2). Butte, Mont. Grand Canyon Nature Notes, vol. 9 (nos. 10-12)...12th. New Orleans, La. Louisiana Conservation Review, vols. 4, 5. New Orleans, La. Louisiana Engineering...Proceedings, vols. 21 (nos. 4, 6), 22. New Orleans, La. Maine Technology Experiment Station: Bulletins 30
Report (issue)
and gold deposition in the Betze deposit, Eureka County, Nevada M. B. Woitsekhowskaya and S.G. ftters....mineralization of the Eocene Tuscarora Volcanic Field, Elko County, Nevada ChristopherD. Henry, DavidR. Boden, andStevenB...Young-Griffin Department of Geosciences University of Arizona Tucson,AZ 85721 Maria B. Woitsekhowskaya Mackay...Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Arizona, West Chester University, San Jose State University...magmatism of the Tuscarora volcanic field, Elko County, Nevada, and implications for Carlin-type mineralization
Report (volume)
Natural Am. Naturalist- American Naturalist. Arizona State University. Tempe, Ariz. Am. Petroleum lost...Washington, D. C. Arizona Acad. Sci. Jour. - Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science. Arizona State University...Tempe, Ariz. Arizona Bur. Mines Bull.- Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin. Tucson, Ariz. Arizona Land Dept...Phoenix, Ariz. Arkansas Acad. Sci. Proc. Ark. Arizona State Land Department Water Arkansas Academy of...Almqvist and Wiksell. Stockholm, Sweden. Boletfn de la Asociaci6n Mexicana de Asoc. Mexicana Geoffsicos
Book (edition)
Lhoest: Liege, Belgium. John C. Lucking: Phoenix, Arizona. Emil Makovicky, Inst. of Mineralogy, Univ. of...Wallace: Dept. of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona. John S. White: Stewartstown, Pennsylvania...Wendell E. Wilson: The Mineralogical Record, Tuscon, Arizona. Barry Yampol: Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York...seventh edition (The Mineralogical Record, Tucson, Arizona, 1995), which accurately describes the stoichiometry...ABBREVIATIONS States, (as in postal usage) Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware
Report (issue)
1965. 1966. 1967. 1968. Numerous Federal, State, county, and local agencies and other organizations and...resources Continued Rocky Mountain region Continued Arizona _ ____________________ Oklahoma- _______ _________...cooperators________-____________________ State, county, and local cooperators_____________ Other cooperators...elements include copper, antimony, tin and bismuth. ARIZONA Gold placer and lode deposits, Gold Basin and Lost...Basin area south of Lake Mead in northwestern Arizona (locality 1, index max>) indicate that detrital
 
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