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Opal from
Maid of Sunshine Mine, Turquoise Mining District (Courtland-Gleeson Mining District), Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Maid of Sunshine Mine, Turquoise Mining District (Courtland-Gleeson Mining District), Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:735810
Long-form Identifier:1:3:735810:4
GUID (UUID V4):fd9f4de2-e9b2-4d9e-bdc1-49b3a405d9d8
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
0.5km (0.3 miles) ā“˜Last Chance Mine (1907 Mine), Casey Hill, Courtland, Turquoise Mining District (Courtland-Gleeson Mining District), Cochise County, Arizona, USA
16.1km (10.0 miles) ā“˜Festerling Mine (Elsicor Mine; Cora Mine), Black Diamond Peak, Middle Pass Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
20.4km (12.7 miles) ā“˜San Juan Mine (San Juan group; Gordon Mine; Mann adit; Sulphide adit; Silver adit), Gordon Camp, Middle Pass Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) ā“˜Unnamed Cu-Ag prospect, Middle Pass Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
24.9km (15.5 miles) ā“˜Empire Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
25.2km (15.7 miles) ā“˜Grand Central Mine, Contention-Grand Central Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
26.4km (16.4 miles) ā“˜Lucky Cuss Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
30.4km (18.9 miles) ā“˜Montezuma Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
35.1km (21.8 miles) ā“˜Gallagher Vanadium & Rare Minerals Corp Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
38.2km (23.7 miles) ā“˜Centurion Mine, Centurion, Cochise Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
References
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Report (issue)
INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY., ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin 187...1985 Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Geological Survey Branch A Division of the University...University of Arizona Tucson ARIZONA BUREAU OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL TECHNOLOGY TheArizona Bureau of Geology...established in 1977by an act of the State legislature. Under this act, the Arizona Bureau of Mines, created in 1915...expanded. The Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology, a division of the Universityof Arizona administered by
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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 Ā© 2022 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserYed. Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4358-8...McDonald Co\Ā·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...Interstate Condensed .a:..fREEPORT-McMoRAN Publication of this book was made possible in part by financial
Report (issue)
Residents of Arizona MINERALS OF ARIZONA by Frederic W. Galbraith and Daniel J. Brennan THE ARIZONA BUREAU...BUREAU OF MINES Bulletin 181 1970 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON FOREWORD As a service about mineral...mineral matters in Arizona, the Arizona Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, is pleased to reprint the...MINERALS OF ARIZONA. This basic journal was issued originally in 1941, under the authorship of Dr. Frederic...Frederic W. Galbraith, as a bulletin of the Arizona Bureau of Mines. It has moved through several editions
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA ā€¢ Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona...collected by Ed Over. Chip Clark photo. ' INERALOGY OF A ZONA THIRD EDITION John W Anthony Sidney A. Williams...Society The University of Ariwna Press / Tucson .. The University of Arizona Press Copyright Ā© 1977...1977, r982, 1995 Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserved. First edition 1977 Revised reprinting (second...in the United States of America 00 99 98 97 96 95 6 5 4 3 2 I Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
Journal (issue)
Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario...Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig University of So. Florida Tampa, FL Richard W. Thomssen Mineral Exploration Consultants... Tucson, Arizona 85740 The Mineralogical Record Inc. Is a non-profit organization Board of Directors...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
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MINERALOGY OF ARIZON ' = ' ~ ā€” t . se ā€œ = ā€˜ 1 1 co e - a _ . ? E agtee - 4 . Pn... MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona...collected by Ed Over. Chip Clark photo. MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA THIRD EDITION W. Anthony Joh n Sidney A. Williams...Society The University of Arizona Press / Tucson The University of Arizona Press Copyright Ā© 1977,... 1982, 1995 Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserved. First edition 1977 Revised reprinting (second
Book (edition)
PROPERTY AiVEirGy(EYRT oF THE Q! creonl lia OE ~| /BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore...ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined in the 1890ā€™s and were subsequently... Mineralogy of Arizona John W. Anthony, Sidney A. Williams, and Richard A. Bideaux AN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA...ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors... JoHN W. ANTHONY received his B.S. and M.S. degrees...degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following several
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ā€¢ MS LAZULI TURQUOISE GARNET ONYX ā€¢ PERIDOT* ā€¢ ZIRCON ā€¢ CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS ā€¢ AOATI...The land. oflF of thinks truth that is country are hun- in this dreds of areas where beautiful... to States contain a United plains of the great variety of gem minerals waiting informed collector...been found this country, is the its locations of in key which unlocks this treasure chest for the...only provides a prehensive listing and description of the locations in which these gems are cross-indexes
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OF ā€¢ l ā€¢ John W, Anfflony, Sidney A, Williams, and Richard A. Bideaux ā€¢ NO LONGER THE PROPERTY...PROPERTY OF THE .U~'V~~~ff~ 0.C D.?~ā€¢.!~'J..~5 ~!~.~J.RY Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper..... of ā€¢ r1zona / John W. Anthony, Sidney A. Williams, and Richard A. Bideaux THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA...ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors . .. JOHN W. ANTHONY received his B.S. and M.S. degrees...degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following several
Book (edition)
edition of Mineralogy ofArizona was published in 1995 (Anthony et aI., 1995). It had descriptions of about...found in Arizona. In the twelve years since then 61 more minerals have been reported from Arizona, a number...number of minerals have been discredited, and some minerals have had a name change. This checklist is an...an effort to bring the Arizona mineral list up to date. Of the 61 minerals added to the list, six are...locality being in Arizona. They are: bechererite from the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite
Journal (issue)
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
Catalog/List
Ā·Minerals (602) 962-648/l 1727 W. DRAKE CIRCLE, MESA, ARIZONA 85202 (U.S.A) SPECIMEN PRICE LIST All Ā·IJleciā– ens...not completely satisfied, PLEASE, send any or all of the speciā– ena bade for 1 proapt refund. (We do ask...LOCATIONSā€¢ If no state 11 listed, 1t 1& fr011 Arizona. As a general rule, locations will be given ā– uch...supplied. Usually; the ā– ine naae ā– ountain range, county and state will be furnished with speci1ens. PRICES:...junk apeciā– ens because of their low price.. ( The fact that a large percentage of _our_ sto_ck is s_el
Journal (issue)
Inc., Ā© 2022 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $40 plus shipping Order through...photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp... CONTENTS Introduction: The Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV
Book
PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of the first quarter-century of publication of the Mineralogical...helping to build one of the single most valuable and authoritative published archives of data for the mineral...problems, however. With each passing year the sum of knowledge contained in the back issues has grown...early on that, were this problem of access not relieved, the sheer bulk of data would eventually compromise...compromise its own reference value. In 1980, at the urging of Pete J. Dunn, we initiated a feasibility study for
Catalog/List
Ā·Minerals (602) 962-64:81$ 1727 W. DRAKE CIRCLE, MESA, ARIZONA 85202 (U.S.A) .. ---- . SPECIMEN PRICE LIST ---...not completely satisfied,,PLEASE! send any _or all of the sptclā– ens back for 1 proapt refund, (We do ask...LOCATIOHS: If no state is listed, it is fr011 Arizona. As a general rule, locations will be given 111...aupplied. Usually; the ā– ine ~e ā– ountain range, county and state will be furnished with speciā– ens. PRIES:...junk speciā– ens because of their low price, (The fact that a large percentage of our stock is self collected
Catalog/List
SPRING 1989 ft. We((enj\linera(s Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent "Endsleigh", 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall...British and especially Cornish mineral stock. Sam will of course still be on the bridge from time to time to...however there is now a new captain at the helm. Ports of call this year are Bristol, Iver Heath, Harrogate...Heath and London (details on back cover). The rest of the time we will be in dry dock in Truro servicing...summer, autumn and winter, all of which will also contain a special section of unusual and rare cut gemstones
Journal (issue)
50th Anniversary Issue! Arizona ineralogical Record January-February 2020 ā– Volume 51 Number 1 ā– $40...$40 THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ARIZONA-VII . . . . Arizona-VII (Introduction) .................................................... 5 W. E. Wilson Arizona Wulfenite in the News, 1877ā€“1940 .................... 15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ........................................ 29 B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ....................................
Book
Museum Gems & Minerals reveals the beauty and splendor of the natural world around us. This book is a comprehensive...illustrated guide to 260 examples of gems and minerals from the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto...right conditions, geological activity over millions of years can form amazing and sometimes strikingly beautiful...the crystal structure of minerals, as well as illustrations and explanations of many geological concepts...informative introduction to Gems & Minerals explains some of this science, continued on back flap... ye :
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This book is respectfully dedicated to the memory of Dr. John Sinkankas for his kind initiative and support...phorographed specimens are fivm the collectio11s of both authors as ire!/ as from many other collections...specimens for this book. Front co,Ā·er photos: Turquoise, polished. 55 mm, ZhiJandy, Kazakhstan, G Galena...polished, 70 mm, Anjanabonoina, Madagaskar, G Page 5: Opal - fire, polished, 50 mm, Mezezo, Ethiopia, G Page...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43
Journal (issue)
northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt ore dump, Oceanic mine, San Luis...Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan material was used...X-ray analysis, so the furnace must be considered one of the type localities, even though it is not a natural...surface. The original reference mentions a number of localities at which this mineral has been found,...colĀ­ lection of the U.S. National Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist
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MINERALOGY DANAā€™S NEW MINERALOGY The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana...Sections by VANDALL T. KING ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK And with Illustrations...translation or any part of this work beyond that permitted by Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States...States Copyright Act without the permission of the copyright owner is unlawful. Requests for permisison or...required, the services of a competent professional person should be sought. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication
 
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