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Cuprite from
Last Chance Mine, Ravensthorpe, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Last Chance Mine, Ravensthorpe, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1030557
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1030557:9
GUID (UUID V4):d0cafa8d-c1fd-4f19-abb7-58bc32fe6309
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
0.4km (0.3 miles) Mount Benson Mine, Ravensthorpe, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
6.7km (4.2 miles) Floater Mine (Gilbert Gold Mine), Ravensthorpe, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
8.5km (5.3 miles) Elverdton-Mt Desmond Copper Mines, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
15.6km (9.7 miles) Gem Mine (Gem Extended), Kundip, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
15.8km (9.8 miles) Hillsborough - Fairplay Mine, Kundip, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
15.9km (9.9 miles) Harbour View Mine, Kundip, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
16.2km (10.1 miles) Flag Mine (Red White and Blue), Kundip, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
30.5km (18.9 miles) McCulloch (Hamersley River; Hamersley Gorge), Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
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Report (issue)
OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R...Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never... exploration interest has remained high. In the last decade this has resulted in the discovery of several...understanding the geology of the State over the last 15 years coupled with a surge in base metal exploration...D DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA L RESOURCES SULLETIN No. 8 OF WE G. H. LOW, 8.Sc. ISSUED UNDER...knowledge of the known copper deposits i n Western Australia. Although no large copper mines have been...t a t e from the Kimberleys in the north t o Ravensthorpe near the south coast. The former Governvent...Scope of this Bulletin .. ........ ... Minerals in Western Australian Copper Ores Distribution and Mode o... . . . . . . . . Other Deposits (Blaelis Copper Mine and Tarraloola) The Gascoyne GoldfieldThe Mangaroon
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Windsor] at 20:00 17 November 2014 Creede The last Wild West Silver Mining Camp in Colorado T he...host to such well-known mines as the Amethyst, Last Chance, Commodore, and Bachelor. The mining encampment...1890 through 1893 and turned Creede into one of the last notorious Wild West silver mining camps that brought...cm and is from the Puzzle vein, Bulldog Mountain mine. Ex George Robertson specimen, now in the Dave Bunk...Figure 5. The Holy Moses mine as it appeared in 1890. At this time the mine consisted of a rustic cabin
Report (issue)
mineral localities, with the minerals found at each mine or locality. Most mining districts and mineral localities...whole, along with those for which the specific area (mine, for instance) is not known. Other minerals, however...covellite, cuprite, jasper, limonite, malachite, molybdenite, powellite, pyrite. Black Rock mine - specular...hematite. Galena mine - galena. Iron Mountain Pass deposits - hematite. Skylark mine - azurite, calcite...calcite, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, copper, cuprite, diopside, garnet, hematite, malachite, magnetite, muscovite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PHILLIPSITE, and THOMSONITE. Adams County Alaska mine, Seven Devils district: azurite, grossular, malachite...malachite, powellite, and scheelite. Arkansas mine, Seven Devils district: grossular. Blue Jacket claim...and stilbite. Copper Bo~' mine, Seven Devils district: epidote. Helena mine (reportedly just northwest...northwest of the Peacock mine at the present site of a small open pit but also reported to be about 1 mile northwest...ilmenite, magnetite, monazite, and zircon. Peacock mine (also South Peacock), Seven Devils district, in
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Mineralogical Record Inc. Articles The Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Id a h o 339 by N....by R. S. W. Braithwaite Barite from the Niobec mine, Chicoutimi, Quebec .....................355 by...Kennedy and G. Gagnon Minerals of the Yates uranium mine, Pontiac County, Quebec . 359 by D. L. Leavitt ...Record, November — December, 1981 Bunker Hill the mine kellogg, shoshone county, idaho by Norman Radford...Bellflower Drive Newark, California 94560 he Bunker Hill mine in the famous Coeur D ’Alene district of Idaho has
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
`|ÇxÜtÄÉzç Éy g{x Spring Creek Area Last Chance Mining District Plumas County, California Gail E. Dunning...discovered between 1905 and 1909, the mines of the Last Chance mining district produced significant quantities... Figure 1b. Map showing the location of the Last Chance Mining District. The results of our study indicate...of the El Dorado mine collapsed adit. LOCATION The copper mines of the Last Chance mining district are...The earliest record of copper mining in the Last Chance mining district is given by MacBoyle (1920);
Report (volume)
and reserves..___________________________________ Mine descriptions.._________________________________________...Idaho________________________________________ Singiser mine._______________________________________ Birch Creek...176 178 178 180 181 183 183 183 IV CONTENTS Mine descriptions Continued Deer Creek district, Mon...Bear claim____________________________________ Last Chance and Shady Tree claims_______________ Referen...______ 49. Geologic map and sections of the Last Chance and Shady Tree claims, Beaverhead County, Mont_____
Book
CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia = _ |) VieBAtO TATA JARS LIPOW Si. ao sé ... CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia Philip Scalisi David Cook VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand Reinhold...Classic mineral localities of the world, Asia and Australia. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines and...resources—Asia. 2. Mines and mineral resources—Australia. 3. Mines and mineral resources—Soviet Union
Book (volume)
Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel, on the W...outcrops and ridgesFairhill agates;  in Bull Moose mine dump 5 mi. SE Barbosalite, exceptional reddish-violet...Broken Butte Gold MineArsenopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite. Visitors tour the mine from May through
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Pty Ltd PO Box 537, Torrensville Plaza, South Australia 5031 i\\l MINELAB Visit our website www.mlnelab...CONGRATULATIONS!! The winner of the Minelab GP extreme in the last subscription competition was Stephen Dmytrenko of...SUBSCRIPTION COMPETITION Don't miss out on the chance to win a $5,500 Minelab GP extreme detector! 24...GOLDEN AGE OF PROSPECTING BOOK OFFER This is your last chance to order some of these books as next months there...45unda'f, Ma'( t'fth 1-001- at 'Pa\mer, 45outh Australia. 6.arrett Meta\ Detet.tors and Other 'Priz.es
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Postcard view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS...rare minerals and interesting ore deposits. The western third covers two provinces, the Rocky Mountains...at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal...pegmatites of Jefferson County, and the Snowbird mine in Mineral County continue to be productive sources...in Butte. of gold in the Deer Lodge Valley of western Montana (Keys 1868). While returning to Iowa from
Journal (issue)
Miller 34 THE TALE OF A TOURIST MINE A new life for Colorado’s Last Chance. 34 By Steve Voynick 48 54...Cover This bournonite specimen from the Herodsfoot mine (Lanreath, Cornwall, England) is a really fine example...Benitoite Mine Update I’d like to clarify some information about the California State Gem mine and about...about present-day access to the mine that was published in Bob Jones’ article Benitoite (June 2017). People...the benitoite mine is a patented mining claim and is private property. Accessing the mine without written
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite. Hell Canyon...Canyon subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek...stolzite. Wilcox district, S. of Mogollon. Lone Pine mine: emmonsite, khademite, lannonite,* mackayite, poughite...poughite, rajite,* tellurium, wilcoxite.* Sacaton mine, Blue Rock and Bit Spar prospects: fluorite. Volume...Mountains. Stevens mine: barite. Hembrillo district, San Andres Mountains. Red Rock mine: talc. Kilbourne
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/...District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART...scepter quartz Aragonite Aurichalcite Azurite and cuprite . 1X , • Azurite and malachite Azurite and...enclosing cuprite Caledonite Cerussite and dioptase Chalcoalumite after azurite with cuprite Chrysocolla
Book (edition)
Leigh McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa...material was cut parallel to the grain. The Blue Ball Mine, in Gila County, has produced thousands of azurite...quantity of this material came from the United Verde Mine at Jerome, GEMSTONES ANDLAPIDARYMATERIALS OF ARIZONA...Gila County. The Keystone Mine, the Inspiration Mine, and the Old Dominion Mine have all produced good gem-quality...the following about the material from the Keystone Mine: "It varies in color from bright to pale blue, bluish-green
Book (edition)
or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a...there may be others. The biggest problems are with mine names and occasional1y mining district names. Mining...come from one ore zone, but not others. So if the mine is still operating, some of the minerals may not...mineralization, or the occurrence could be worked out. This last point is especially true of the mining districts
Book (edition)
zy MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County...District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART...scepter quartz Aragonite Aurichalcite Azurite and cuprite il Ee Azurite and malachite Azurite and malachite...enclosing cuprite Caledonite Cerussite and dioptase Chalcoalumite after azurite with cuprite Chrysocolla
Report (issue)
miles to the southeast. The district lies near the western border of the Mogollon Range, which here presents...heavily wooded and furnish an abundant supply of mine timber. The district was visited by L. C. Graton...suggestions. Detailed reports on-the geology of the Last Chance and Maud S. mines, by Wilbur H. Grant, of San...p. 719, 1918. 173 MOGOLLON DISTRICT, N. MEX. Mine production in Mogollon or Cooney district, Socorro... TOPOGRAPHY. The Mogollon district is on the western flank of the Mogollon Range, which rises abruptly
Book
that first index, which has served us all for the last ten years, and which has inspired this new effort...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Greece 22:303-308 ALBERTA Mineral occurrences in western Canada [British Columbia and Alberta] (by A. Ingelson)...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE
Book (edition)
Corporation as mineralogist/petrographer for the Western Exploration Office and director of the Geological...Deposits The Bisbee District Tl1e Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger 17 17 21 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 27 4. "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites 31...calcite Chrysocolla with quartz and malachite Cuprite ( chalcotrichite) in calcite Malachite in calcite...calcite Malachite replacing an azurite crystal Cuprite Cerussite Cerussite on dioptase Cyanotricbite Ajoite
Book (edition)
Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...Corporation as mineralogist/petrographer for the Western Exploration Office and director of the Geological...Deposits The Bisbee District The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger Lee Le 2A 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 Ld 4. “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites ol...Chrysocolla with quartz and malachite 16 2 Cuprite (chalcotrichite) in calcite 19 Photographs Wulfenite
Journal (issue)
Scovil 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...DeCamp photo. Iolite, 4 cm, from the Entia Valley, Australia. Collected by George Stacy; Jeff Scovil photo...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini
Journal (issue)
every rock in every nook and cranny in the every last village of every valley in the mountains always...lot of topazes in matrix from Shamoozi, a famous mine producing fine pinks. This was a better lot than...the Vagabond Hotel, and the purchase of the Best Western ExecutiYe lnn by a foolishly uninfonned and greedy...once was the premier hotel mineral show, the Best Western Executive Inn, the facility secured by Marty Zinn...dealers from these two facilities populated the Best Western quickly, and good dealers have filled the entire
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
downthrow on the west. Renewed erosion followed this last orogeny. The Tertiary formations, chiefly igneous...copper carbonates, limonite, copper pitch ore, cuprite, and manganese oxides. Chalcocite, 422 REVIEWS...and Last Chance; the last being the largest. In the past twenty-five years the Last Chance mine has yielded
 
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