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Opal from
Joe Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Anglesite
Empressite
Pyrite
Rickardite
Rodalquilarite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Joe Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:238246
Long-form Identifier:1:3:238246:3
GUID (UUID V4):b9bdef7f-f348-46ae-afef-5b30ffcc032c
References
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{Named for Persons Associated with and Geology in Arizona RICHARD S. M I T C H E L L Of the almost 2,500...can be collected in Arizona. Approximately two dozen of these 630 species Arizona persons involved in...explora­ tion or development of mining, mineralogy, and geology in Arizona. Who are these persons and what...Douglas, Arizona. Ten of these are tellurium minerals, especially from the Tombstone mines in Cochise County...County. The earliest paper to honor Arizona persons with mineral names was by Carl Lausen (1928), who incorpo­
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
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
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RADIOACTIVE OCCURRENCES IN THE UNITED STATES PART 1: ARIZONA, NEVADA, AND NEW MEXICO By MAHGARET COOPEB CONTENTS...index for Arizona, 2. Bibliography 197 Nevada, and New Mexico 208 3. Index I. Gazetteer for Arizona, Nevada...Nevada, and 5. Index III. Subject index for Arizona, NeNew Mexico 205 vada, and New Mexico 222 FOREWORD The...thorium, and other radioactive occurrences in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. It represents the first...Gazetteer for Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico; Index II, Geographical Index for Arizona, Nevada, and
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MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, 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
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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)
Report (issue)
1982 BY MICHAEL N. GREELEY FIELD ENGINEER I ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF MINERAL JOHN H. JETT, DIRECTOR TUCSON...CONGRESS FAIRGROUNDS PHOENIX. ARIZONA RESOURCES 85007 TUCSON, ARIZONA (602) t>26 -!j 399 85701 ...purpose of this directory, an active mine is arbitrarily defined as a mine that is in continuous operation...information for our records. ACTIVE MINES IN ARIZONA TABLE OF CONTENTS ... COMPANY com~ ~~:A Industries...Andrada Marble C~pany. Inc ••••• Arizona Portland Cement Company. Arizona Silica Sal·1d Co ............
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once a flourishing little mining town which still appears on many Arizona maps as "Silverbell." A road...called the Silverbell road. Silverbell was a copper mining camp. The hills around it were honeycombed with...shack to liv%,*in and a chance to live — a gold mining town — a golden opportunity perhaps. Your editor...of wood there is nothing to indicate a thriving mining town once was located there. KENT YARNELL The...The Wreckers Are at Work . . . Winslow, Arizona Desert: Today, I look from the windows of our museum at
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RECORD, MAY-JUNE 2013 Mineral Collections in Arizona A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record May-June...Mineralogical Record, Inc. P.O. Box 30730, Tucson, Arizona 85751 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...(only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection Introduction...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was
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[evenings by appointment only] WULFENITE — RED CLOUD MINE (ED OVER SPECIMEN KEHA Wayne and Dona Leicht, 332...Institution Pete J. Dunn Smithsonian Institution ARIZONA-II Peter Q. Embrey British Museum (Natural History)...The Mineralogical Record P. O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 published bimonthly by the Mineralogical...1980 @ Articles The Defiance mine and vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona ..............203 by J. R. Thompson........................211 The C. & B. mine, Gila County, Arizona ....................................
Catalog/List
Chicago Alissa Ford Managing Director San Francisco Joe Maddalena Executive Vice President Kathleen Guzman...of Crystallized Gold from the famed Eagle’s Nest Mine in California A superb Crystallized “Leaf” Gold...Amethyst to come from the famed Four Peaks Mine in Arizona A sharp and complicated Crystallized Silver...Silver with Copper from the famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A “classic” Rhodochrosite with associated Pyrite...Pyrite and Quartz from the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado An unusually massive and extremely colorful, Smithsonite
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/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
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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
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Inc. © 2019 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Order through...scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal
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519–12.586 Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Moctezuma mine, Mexico. 3.036 (100), 3.343 (60), 7.223 (50), 2...89 3.4 0.27 98.1 97.73 100.00 (1) Moctezuma mine, Mexico; average of four analyses, H2 O by the Penfield...jarosite, “opal” (Tombstone, Arizona, USA). Distribution: From the Oriental (Bambollita) mine, northeast...Moctezuma (Bambolla) mine, 12 km south of Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico. On the dumps between the Joe and Grand Central...shafts, Tombstone, Cochise Co., Arizona, and at the McAlpine mine, Tuolumne Co., California, USA. From
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aragonite on calcite, 10.3 cm across, from the Agrigento mine, Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy. In...example is (see fig. 11). The Arkenstone specimen, Joe Budd photo. Aragonite was named for the Spanish...Alston Moor (Tindle 2008). The Yorkshire Silverband mine, Cronkley Fell, Durham, has produced interesting...particularly from the Botallack mine, Wheal Owles, and Wheal Cock, St. Just district, as well as Wheal Edward...Edward, Callington district. The aragonite from these mines is found as white, gray, red, or blue-green globular
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Record Inc., 6349 N. Orange Tree Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85740 The Mineralogical Record Inc. Is a non-profit...Volume Fourteen, Number Five ARIZONA- V Articles Lost mines of Arizona ................................Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs Famous...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ..............................................
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Record, lnc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping; Hardcover:...Elbaite-Jack Olivier collection, page 204; Cerussite-Joe Budd collection, page 63; Malachite-Tim & Holly Smith...Bristol Kevin & Mark Brown Keith & Diane Brownlee Joe Budd Sam & Sarah Cooper Marc & Janis Countiss Thad...mineral localities like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many... Eventually rnoving on through New Mexico and Arizona as a prospector, he leamed some mineralogy and
Show/Event (guide)
Color Separations Hollis Phototechnics Tucson, Arizona Printing Waverly Press Easton, Maryland © 1989...crystal group, 13 cm, from the Eagle’s Nest mine. Placer County, California. Found in 1988. Collection of...sampler of local fun & flavor 2 Lost mines of Arizona ................................ Gold & silver...collector 13 The Mineral Museum of the University of Arizona A fine public collection just minutes away 17...accumulating. Although the Spanish travelled through Arizona as early as the 1530’s, it was Father Eusebio Francisco
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Annual Imperial County Fair, County Fair Grounds, Imperial, California. March 3-6—Pima County Fair, Tucson...Tucson, Arizona. March 4-6—Annual Desert Gem and Mineral show and field trips, sponsored by Desert Gem and...at Rodeo Grounds, Chandler, Arizona. March 5—All-day trip to Asbestos Mine in Pinyon Flats. Meet at Palm...12-13—Tenth Annual Arizona Sno-Bowl Winter Carnival at Arizona Sno-Bowl, Flagstaff, Arizona. March 17-19—Tenth...Show and range stock sale, Fair Grounds, Tucson, Arizona. March 26—All-day hike to Chino Canyon to site
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BOBJONESITE * RAYGRANTITE RONGIBBSITE * RUIZITE © RRUFF, Joe. Ruiz, Harvey. Jong. Table Of Contents President’s...Nominations, 2018 ROTY, 2018 Competitions 1011 The Arizona Mineral Collector 12 Page 13 Editors Corner ...Glendale resident Cody Horvath. We survived another Arizona summer and October is already feeling cooler than...Grant (Raygrantite), Ron Gibbs (Ron Gibbsite) and Joe Ruiz (Ruizite). Thank you to each of these members...presented by our own Mr. Bob Jones on ”Cornwall: Mining, Minerals and Amazing History.” Bob will take us
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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...cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below) Stock...Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This special
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museum collections, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff, Arizona. July 3-6—Annual Frontier Days celebration...celebration and rodeo, Prescott, Arizona. July 3-5—2nd annual Bit and Spur club rodeo, Tooefe, Utah. July...July 3-4—Round Valley rodeo, Springerville, Arizona. July 4-5—Western Motorboat championships, Pineview lake...4-5—Amateur rodeo, Willcox, Arizona. July 4-6—All-Indian Pow-wow and rodeo, Flagstaff, Arizona. July 4-6—Pioneer...and Mineral society, offices Arizona Power company, Prescoti:, Arizona. July 20-24—Field meeting of Society
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Phoenix, Arizona, schools. Border university conference golf, 1-2 track, tennis meets, Tempe, Arizona. School...Veterans of Foreign Wars con7-9 vention, Yuma, Arizona. Annual convention, United Postal 8-10 Employes...15 21-22 23-24 26 28-31 30 30-31 MAY, Five-county school track meet, Huntington, Utah. Sierra club...Highway association meets at Mount Palomar, San Diego county. Mt. San Jacinto to be climbed by Sierra club.... Prize w i n n i n g pictures in M a r c h 4 MINING Gold for the V a u l t s of A m e r i c a POETRY
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Inc., © 2020 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Order through...Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...Province, China. Keith & Diane Brownlee collection; Joe Budd photo. Tourmaline with cleavelandite, 4.3 cm...Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection; Joe Budd photo. Middle...the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd photo. Topaz, 2.6 cm
 
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