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Calcite from
Argenta Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Argenta Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1036019
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1036019:6
GUID (UUID V4):0e889d6f-dbcd-495c-91b6-6b4d0906a79d
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.7km (0.4 miles) State of Maine Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Montezuma Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) San Pedro Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Galvez Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) Lucky Cuss Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) Tribute Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Toughnut Mine, Tombstone, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) Blacktail Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Bunker Hill Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Florida Mine group, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY., ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin 187...187 1973 Reprinted 1985 Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Geological Survey Branch A...A Division of the University of Arizona Tucson ARIZONA BUREAU OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL TECHNOLOGY TheArizona...of the State legislature. Under this act, the Arizona Bureau of Mines, created in 1915,was renamed and... a division of the Universityof Arizona administered by the Arizona Board of Regents, is charged by the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2. Western side of Stapleton Gulch in the Argenta district. The Stapleton workings are visible in the...vanadinite, 8 mm across, Blackhawk mine, Radersburg district, Broadwater County. 340 ROCKS & MINERALS Christopher...wulfenite-producing mining districts in Montana Figure 3. Map of Montana showing locations of mining districts...mineralization is not generally associated with the mining districts of Montana, a few localities have produced...show reports through the years. Many of Montana’s mining districts are in high mountainous areas, and any
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LARAMIDE NEAR ALTA, SALT LAKE COUNTY, UTAH LAURENCEP. JAMES Mining Geologist,Box 226, Golden,Colorado80402...California 94025 Introduction Mining Districts The two largest metal mining districts in Utah, BinghamandPark...minerals from the the Little Cottonwood(Alta) district, which centers Binghamporphyrycopperand the Park...compositepluton is in contact with Mississippian Eocene. The Argenta area, near Alta, is slightly limestones,thick bodiesof...cut the Alta and Little Cottonwood stocks,and ARIZONA FIG. 1. Locationof the Alta area, Utah. The Big
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Group Element Deposits in the Goodsprings District, Clark County, Nevada PETER VIKRE,1,† QUENTIN J. BROWNE...California 94305-2115 Abstract The Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada, includes zinc-dominant carbonate...with Late Triassic porphyritic intrusions. The district encompasses ~500 km2 although the distribution...crystalline rocks of the craton. They consist of calcite, dolomite, sphalerite, and galena with variably...are exposed largely in the central part of the district: feldspar quartz porphyry, plagioclase quartz
Report (issue)
RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN THE SOUTHERN PIONEER MOUNTAINS AND VICINITY, BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA...Bannack mining district 3 Geology 4 Mineralization 6 Geochemistry 7 Blue Wing mining district 9 ...12 Ermont mining district 12 Mineralization 15 Geochemistry 16 Argenta mining district 18 Geology...Mineralization 20 Geochemistry 21 Baldy Mountain mining district 21 Geology 21 Mineralization 23 Geochemistry...RECONNAISSANCE OF MINING DISTRICTS IN THE SOUTHERN PIONEER MOUNTAINS AND VICINITY, BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA
Report (volume)
SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR BuiiIiETIN 574 MINING DISTRICTS OF THE DILLON QUADRANGLE, MONTANA AND................................................. Mining districts...................................................................................... Mining development. ...................... .. - - ' -..................................... 18 Placer mining....... ~................................................................ 20 Present status of mining .....:........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...rocks and gentle terrain where crystals of barite, calcite, and gypsum are found along with petrified wood...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 98, 2003, pp. 339–366 The Tuscarora Au-Ag District: Eocene Volcanic-Hosted Epithermal Deposits in...Mexico Bureau of Geology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 RICHARD... California 94025 Abstract The Tuscarora mining district contains the oldest and the only productive...productive Eocene epithermal deposits in Nevada. The district is a particularly clear example of association of... and Carlin-type deposits may lie beneath the district. Introduction 120° Period Source Au (oz)
Report (issue)
THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARGENTA TO BANNACK, BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA ROAD LOG AND FIELD TRIP...mileage at east end of Argenta (fig. 1). Drive southeast on Argenta Road across Argenta Flats, a gently sloping...is approached, road descends from the level of Argenta Flats. Tertiary strata form the 300-ft-high mesa...source would remain for the several decades since mining ceased in 1941, for cyanide breaks down in the...the Bannack district, and the current placer-mining operation. BANNACK MINING DISTRICT History Bannack
Journal (issue)
changed to "Argenta" after the Fre nch word for silver A heney, 197 1). W The Argenta m ining district occupies...ttlesnake Creek roug hly bisects the district w ith most of the mine development occur ring on the north...north side. The dominant rocks of the district are sedimentary rocks that range in age from Precam brian...0.3 mm long, Stapleton prospect, Argenta District, Beaverhead County, Montana, photo by Lanny R. Ream...ost of the Tucson shows re main mysteries. The Arizona Mineral and Fossi l Show is still the main motel
Report (issue)
QUADRANGLE AND ADJACENT BROWN1 S LAKE AREA, BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA A preliminary report by W^ B* Myers ...~"~--"~~~''~-"~~-"~"~" Copper »- .Jndiani Queen mine ..............~~.~...~..~~.~.... ~~.«...~.~..~....the NWi of the ^£S:^^A^^^ quadrangle, Beaverhead County; ^^^^^^f^r^^Maatwaa... ": . .-. . In pocket tc...QUADRANGLE AND ADJACENT BROWN1 S LAKE AREA, BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, -,' *; MONTANA A preliminary report by W, B....Myers INTRODUCTION . ,j Geologic mapping in the Argenta area was started in the spring ; of 1946 with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
purple, and grey. These géodes are found in Pike County, Ala., which is about 50 miles north of Montgomery...Montgomery. I have found them scattered all over the county, but they are especially abundant just south of...rattles when shaken is called Nature's rattlebox. ARIZONA—Flat doubly terminated loose smoky quartz xls coated...drusy dogtooth calcite have been found at the Holland mine in Washington Camp Mining District near Nogales...made several trips to Magnet Cove (Hot Springs County) which is about 15 miles east of Hot Springs on
Journal (issue)
PROTECTING AND PRESERVING FOSSILS TEEMING WITH GARNET, CALCITE, AND MALACHITE Best of Both Worlds! Free edEx...Galaxy & Nova Wheels This machine is made in the USA by Kingsley North. Features: • Stainless Steel construction...TAKING A CLOSER LOOK AT COPPER Revealing Garnet, Calcite, and Malachite Mineralization Exploring Clarkdale’s...Bob Jones 56 MAXFIELD MINE 38 Exploring Utah’s Big Cottonwood Mining District 26 PALEONTOLOGY IN THE...botryoidal chalcoalumite discovered in Bisbee, Arizona. (ROB LAVINSKY, The Arkenstone/ iRocks.com; GETTY
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cnawlont, Bisbee,Arizona. Petzite was reported from the Red River District, Taos County, in 1904, and is...coilected at a gold prospect in southern catron county, 41 miles northwest of Silver city. The tellurium...found in small amounts at the Aztec mine, ute creek District. A mine report (dated 1916)by E. H. perry...to identify the mineral. A detailed study of the mine later made by Chase and Muir3 showed tetradymite...mines in the organ District. oxidized tetradymite from the South Shaft of the Memphis mine exhibitecl, in
Report (issue)
_ New ~exico 2 _____________________________ _ Arizona•---------------------------------Utah ________...Alaska.. a Includes 550 tons from Davis, Murray County, Okla. 'Production to 1934 only. PART 1. GENERAL...fluorspar-zinc district Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district Valle Mines, Mo. Tri-State zinc district Arkansas...province : Leadville, Colo. Aspen district, Colo. Spring Creek diStrict, Colo. Monarch-Tomichi districts...Cottonwood district, Utah Northern Rocky Mountains province: Mineral Hill (Halley) district, Idaho Alder
Journal (issue)
WASHINGTON May 5, 2007 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...assemblage, which typically includes albite, adularia, calcite, chlorite minerals and anatase. This assemblage...They enlarge and become filled with minerals like calcite and quartz (as the fissure opens or later). In...process leads to simple veins filled with massive calcite or quartz. Given the right balance between the...in petrographic specimens. Analcime Beaverhead County: Igneous rocks, volcanic tuff of the Grasshopper
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurrences and the Illinois-Kentucky fluorite district. A fine witherite from Fallowfield, Northumberland...Commonly associated minerals are barite, fluorite, calcite, and galena. Witherite is uncommon in the eastern...reported from the Hubbard quarry at Covert, Seneca County, and the Gates Road quarry, Jamesville, New York...Mahan or Loudville mines at Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It is best known from Mississippi...those of the fluorite-dominated Illinois-Kentucky district where fine witherite specimens have been found
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...----------------------------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book
Hunt for sapphires at the Spokane Bar Sapphire Mine. Help paleontologists excavate dinosaurs in Malta... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24. Snowbird Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 26. Darby Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 27. Marysville Mine Tailings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . 73 28. Spokane Bar Sapphire Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
production and reserve grades source, fineness, mining methods, other economic commodities and general...is useful for analyzing the roles genetics and mining method have on placer grades and volumes. Deposits...Individual workings are not included if deposit or district data are presented. A deposit was subjectively...and areas in Alaska, including sluice and drift mining. 5. Some volumes were estimated from deposit...is listed as a mining method for many deposits. Most placer mining methods (drift mining, dredging, etc
Journal (issue)
there as a dealer and collector in 1938. True, mining in these earlier times was not as widespread and...Alluvial gold and dia- mond mining, not tourmalines or other pegmatite gemstone mining, predominated. but still...exist as crystals. Calcian Duftite from Beaverhead County, Montana Larry B. French 21 N. Winchester Miles...duftite have been recovered from the Blue Wing Mining District, approximately 20 miles southwest of Dillon...heretofore unreported from this district and was found on the dump of the Pomeroy Mine. The Pomeroy is located
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Report (volume)
........................................ 10 Arizona......................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by reason of some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Company, Yanacocha, Peru Abstract The Mule Canyon mine exploited shallow, low-sulfidation, epithermal Au-Ag...of the Northern Nevada rift in northern Lander County, Nevada. Mule Canyon consists of six small deposits...of opaline and chalcedonic silica ± adularia ± calcite and dolomite. Deposition of gold in As-rich overgrowths...e-mail, djohn@usgs.gov *Present address: Newmont Mining Corp., PO Box 388, Valmy, NV 89438. 0361-0128/01/3335/425-39...rift (White and Hedenquist, 1990). THE MULE CANYON mine exploited low-sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag deposits
 
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