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Chrysocolla from
Potter-Cramer Mine, Vulture Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chrysocolla
Formula:Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorite1 photo of Chrysocolla associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysocolla data
Locality Data:Click here to view Potter-Cramer Mine, Vulture Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1075353
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1075353:6
GUID (UUID V4):fe0e0beb-fc04-4a7d-a955-4b0e74944d5b
Nearest other occurrences of Chrysocolla
2.0km (1.2 miles) Scott Mine, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
4.2km (2.6 miles) Tonopah-Belmont Mine, Belmont Mountain, Tonopah, Osborn Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
6.8km (4.2 miles) Moon Anchor Mine, Hummingbird Springs, Osborn Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
12.4km (7.7 miles) Blue Knob Mine (Blue Knob No. 30; 31; 32 prospects; Blue Knob M.S. #4551; Fred Harvey claim; Harvey Copper claim; Jenkins Clifton & Fisher claim), Osborn Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
24.1km (15.0 miles) Evening Star Mine (Silver Queen Mine; Old Queen group), Tiger Wash, Tonopah, Osborn Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
24.3km (15.1 miles) Unnamed prospect, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
30.3km (18.8 miles) El Centinillo Mine (El Centinella Mine), Vulture Mining District, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
31.3km (19.5 miles) Queen of Sheba Mine (La Aguila patented claim; La Firmos Mine), Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
34.0km (21.2 miles) Rainbow Mine (Copper Penny Mine; Norps group; Silver Thread Mine; Two Sisters Mine; Old Gold claims), Weldon Hill, Maricopa County, Arizona, USA
37.1km (23.1 miles) Alaskan Mine (Alaskan claim), Harquahala Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Potter-Cramer Mine Figure 1. Potter-Cramer mine vertical shaft. Mike Sawicki photo. Reproduced with...permission. Maricopa County, Arizona Figure 2. View facing southeast, showing the Potter-Cramer mine from the...POLMAN Polman Minerals PO Box 93276 Phoenix, Arizona 85070 gpolman@polmanminerals.com It is the type...fluorescent mineral wickenburgite. Also found at the mine are several other rare minerals, including phoenicochroite...creaseyite, and vauquelinite. I have owned the Potter-Cramer mine since 2002 and have recently mined some of
Book (edition)
/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
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
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
Journal (issue)
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 ..............................................
Book (edition)
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
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)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Shattuckite Rocks & Minerals 2009.84:544-550. Kunene District Kaokoveld, Namibia M any collectors choose to...apacheite, ajoite, and stringhamite as well as chrysocolla, an excellent lapidary material. Shattuckite...Dr. Rob Bowell, a consultant geochemist in the mining industry, is an avid collector of microminerals...deposits. Commonly associated minerals include chrysocolla, ajoite, malachite, quartz, and hematite. It...West. Arizona hosts the type locality, the Shattuck or Shattuck-Denn mine at Bisbee, Warren district, Cochise
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral from Arizona and Sonora SIDNEY A. W I L L I A M S Phelps Dodge Corporation, Douglas, Arizona AND R I...Associates, Tucson, Arizona SUMMARY. Creaseyite was first noted in specimens from Tiger, Arizona, and was then...then found at Wickenburg, Arizona, and Caborca, Sonora, prior to description. It is an oxidezone mineral...occurring with wulfenite, willemite, mimetite, chrysocolla, wickenburgite, and ajoite. The composition is...on specimens from Tiger, Arizona, during a study of minerals from that mine by Richard A. Bideaux. N
Journal (issue)
[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 ....................................
Book (volume)
...........................................13 Arizona ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ...................................................................14 Arizona – Apache Co. Mining Districts ...............................................................22 Arizona County Map ............................................
Book (volume)
...........................................11 Arizona .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
...........................................11 Arizona .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical Record Inc., 7413 N. Mowry Place Tucson, Arizona 85741 Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Associate...back issues, reprints) P.O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 602-297-6709 Editing, advertising Wendell...second class postage (USPS-887-700) Paid at Tucson, Arizona, and additional offices. POSTMASTER: send address...Number Three Articles The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, A rizona by G. B. Allen & W. Hunt 139...........221 COVER: ANGLESITE from the Touissit mine, Morocco. The large crystal measures 4.5 cm. This
Journal (issue)
ARTHUR WILLIAMS Phelps Dodge Corporation Douglas, Arizona Pp. 377-419 ; 7 Text-figures BULLETIN OF THE...Ekaterinburg immediately became a centre for the copper mining industry, which had begun in 1701 and was controlled...transliteration. first in . CHROMATES OF LEAD with mining. hospital When J. G. Gmehn 381 (1751) visited...particularly since he had a more than ordinary interest in mining. Reports of other, later visitors, particularly...particularly Peter Pallas, all tend to confirm that gold mining began after Gmelin's visit. When Pallas visited
Journal (issue)
May-June 1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity, Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon...Famous mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona........................................G. M. Edson Famous mineral localities: Tiger, Arizona ................... by R. A. Bideaux 135 141...The Mineralogical Record P. 0. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 Departments Notes from the Editor .. What’s...16-bus 1 B-2120 Schoten ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see p. 141). This crystal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
described by Williams and Bideaux (1975) from Arizona and Sonora, Mexico, followed by a later report...other secondary silicates (such as dioptase and chrysocolla), sulphates, phospho-sulphates, and sulphocarbonates...45Zno.oo)4(AIo.07 Fe 1.93)2S14.960174,93(H2 O) Arizona and Sonora IWilliams and Bideaux, 1975) {mean of...green) Tiger, Arizona (Williams and 4. 12.497 21.375 7.283 Bideaux, 1975) Potter Cramer mine (Williams...Aggeneys occurrences are compared with those of Arizona and Argentina. When the b0 unit cell length is
Catalog/List
mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, lxl ins £5 lx2ins _lyro?'~~e . __ __ _ ___ ___...Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn
Catalog/List
~black cry~t~i;,o;-~;atrix. M~~nl Malo~O:. i:~n{ba District. IX I ins £5 2 AEGIRINE £10 Pyroxene Malawi lxl...Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix. £5 PbSiO/3 County. Arizona. U.S.A 2x2...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland....maenification there are small crystals · - · .County. A:fiZC>i:i--=a=--- 60 AMAZONITE Attractive green
Report (issue)
Field Trip to Bighorn Mine, Socorro Mine, and I I I Copperstone Mine, Arizona I I I I Led by, Hugo Dummett...Dummett and Nora Colburn I I I I ARIZONA I I � GEOLOGICAL I SOCIETY I I L _______________________ ____________________...____________________ � t A ES ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1 9 8 8 Spring Field Trip VISIT TO THE BIGHORN...Colburn, Trip Leaders. ARIZONA COPPERSTONE GOLD MINE, LA PAZ COUNTY, ARIZONA. View of the new open...but referred to as the Dome Rock Mountains at the mine. A large detachment fault that strikes NW-SE daylights
Catalog/List
Ca)(Ti Nb) 0 rich black masses in matrix (Karnasurt Mine, Revda, Kola Peninsula, Russia) 1½1 £2.50 lx2 ins...PO/ 4 yellowish plates on mauve Ussingite: (Umba Mine, Reuda, Kola Peninsula Russia) (6mm pure plate £3)...pyromorphite like micro's on matrix. (Moctezuma Mine, Sonora, Mexico) 1cm £4.50 039 BERZELIANITE Cu/2...silvery spots 1n 1cm matrix (HiliTop Mine. Organ Mountains Dona Anna County, New Me xic o) H 21 S B;!.t.n...Scorodite (Fe Arsenate) h) (Gold Hill tline,'i'ooele County U�a ½ n size £1.50 lxl E� lx2 £8 114 CREASEYITE
Catalog/List
mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, free standing. ______ ______ Malawi Black crystal...Greenish , sparse, acicular micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall...ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________ County. Arizona, U.S.A £5___ Rich...Feldspar_____________ Black areas in actinolite Basinas Mine Sweden 1x1 £1.20 ALLANITE 9 Ce Y Fe SiO__________...grey masses with possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, ALSTONITE 13 Hexham.Northumberland micros.____
Catalog/List
=:85-=-0=5=51===============:1 6649 E. RUSTIC DRIVE, MESA, ARIZONA 85205 (U.S.A.) PriceListof Minerals & Supplies...state mineral name,.chemical formula, mine name, Mb,-=llange county, state, country. Often other det'ailed...micro bag. 2 Lbs for $5,00 ARIZONA APEX HlNE:AZ; Jillions of sharp lustrous jarosite...00 and ramshornshapes.Theseare not post mining. POTTER CRAMER CLAIH:AZ; Typelocality for Wicktnburgite...GALENA:Florence P~Ag~ine, AZ;The'ore• 1ineral at this classic mine,Richwith minor11atrix. 4,80 .95 2.25 RedCloudHi
Book (edition)
Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;... N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower right...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Pohl Richard Graeme D. K. Jones Douglas K. Miller Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum =Donald Olson ‘Delma Perry
 
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