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Calcite from
Potosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Mimetite53 photos of Calcite associated with Mimetite at this locality.
Hemimorphite34 photos of Calcite associated with Hemimorphite at this locality.
Pyrrhotite20 photos of Calcite associated with Pyrrhotite at this locality.
Hematite19 photos of Calcite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Quartz17 photos of Calcite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Goethite10 photos of Calcite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Gypsum9 photos of Calcite associated with Gypsum at this locality.
Fluorite8 photos of Calcite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Siderite8 photos of Calcite associated with Siderite at this locality.
Pyrite7 photos of Calcite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Potosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Photo GalleryView Gallery (96 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:109738
Long-form Identifier:1:3:109738:2
GUID (UUID V4):ec099e6e-fadb-46d3-a1e5-6b87da6e885f
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Buena Tierra Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
0.8km (0.5 miles) Santa Rita Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
0.8km (0.5 miles) Animas Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
0.8km (0.5 miles) Cocineras Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
0.8km (0.5 miles) Inglaterra Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
1.6km (1.0 miles) Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
5.9km (3.7 miles) San Antonio Mine, East Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
42.8km (26.6 miles) Cuervo Mine, Sierra Gomez, Aldama Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
46.2km (28.7 miles) Julimes, Julimes Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
58.5km (36.3 miles) Nopal No. 1 Mine, Sierra Peña Blanca, Peña Blanca District, Aldama Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mina Potosí Santa Domingo, Santa Eulalia district, Municipio de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico. Didier...Desouens photo. Creedite Colorado Fluorspar Company Mine Wagon Wheel Gap Mineral County, Colorado C MARK...southeast of the still-active silver-mining town of Creede, with the mine an additional 4 kilometers south... Figure 2. Locality map showing the Colorado fluorspar mine near Wagon Wheel Gap, southeast of Creede; prepared...one of the upper workings of the mine. Later, Larsen returned to the mine and collected a large suite of
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Siderite Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia...include azurite, pyromorphite, fluorite, quartz, and calcite. Then there are the minerals that collectors have...carbonate, or Fe2+CO3, and is a member of the calcite _ group, crystallizing within the trigonal system...siderite from Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla district, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia...include hematite, magnetite, quartz, cacoxenite, calcite, barite, and various chlorite minerals, but these
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Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...bygone era. • Amethyst from Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico that has exceptional aesthetics, color, and composition... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region
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10:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Session...5:00 PM ET LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Thursday...grow. 73001 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) Looking almost like...com/6150 73002 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) For those that have...750 73003 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) As if Momeik doesn’t
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Mason University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals...including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...(Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as pale blue rosettes of pearly plates in calcite veins cutting...cutting trap rock at Moore, the long-abandoned iron mine at Andover, and as an accessory mineral at Franklin...grouping of aurichalcite sprays on matrix from the 79 mine, Gila County, Arizona. The 6.5-cm specimen is in
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Downloaded by [University of West Florida] at 23:45 31 December 2014 Realgar Jiepaiyu Mine, Shimen, Hunan Province...rocks and has been identified as a product of coal-mine fires. Commonly associated minerals include orpiment...stibnite, a variety of sulfides and sulfosalts, calcite, and barite. Realgar rarely occurs in the eastern...Paris, Oxford County, Maine, and the Palermo No. 1 mine, Groton County, New Hampshire. It occurred with...1941) and was an unusual mineral occurring in calcite at the Lower New Street trap-rock quarry at Paterson
Report (issue)
of Mexico too. There are many good things here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district, San...topaz: Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California. Ex Bryant...impressive: Axinite, 5 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California. Ex Bryant...the Pala district, San Diego County, especially from the Stewart mine. And from the Himalaya mine, Mesa...Mesa Grande district, San Diego County, Dave offers (besides plenty of elbaites) such rarities from that
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on mimetite, 7.2 cm across, San Francisco mine, Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico. Classic combination from the “Red...Scovil photo. Wulfenite from Mexico Figure 2. Wulfenite localities in Mexico; prepared by William Besse...collector for fifty-six years, is now a retired mining engineer, and has specialized in Arizona minerals...Megaw is an exploration geologist who has worked in Mexico for forty years, which has led him to specialize...wulfenite localities in the states of Chihuahua, Sonora, and Durango, Mexico, combined with the five top wulfenite
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Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler
Catalog/List
Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Session...Collection LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...Auction 2 53001 CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority
Report (issue)
Geology—Mexico. 2. Geology, Structural—Mexico. 3. Faults (Geology)—Mexico. 4. Ore deposits—Mexico. I. Alaniz-Álvarez...epithermal deposits of México, examples of which have a mining history going back to pre-Columbian times. The...The evolution of Middle America and the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Sea region during Mesozoic time: Geological...Tectonostratigraphic Terranes and Tectonic Evolution of Mexico: Geological Society of America Special Paper 278...Paleozoic ages in the northern part (Sonora and Chihuahua) and Mesozoic ages beneath the rest of the Sierra
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and include both common and rare species such as calcite, rhodochrosite, spessartine, magnetite, willemite...unusual rhodonite on galena specimen from the North mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; field...masses embedded in white, coarsely crystalline calcite, generally near late pegmatite dikes. It was particularly...translucent pink crystals partially exposed from white calcite by acid or other matrix etching techniques. Crystals...Rhodonite also has been reported from the Stinson mine on Jenny Jump Mountain, Warren County, New Jersey
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JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2019 Articles The Almadén mining district, Ciudad Real, Spain ......................... Maharashtra, India 6 cm The Almade;n Mining District, Ciudad Real, Spain Borja Sainz de Baranda...Universitario-28805 Alcala de Henares (Spain) The Almadén Mining District exploited the largest mercury deposit in the...three millennia. Mining there ceased in 2003, and following reclamation in 2012, the district was declared...Unesco. The Almadén District has yielded excellent cinnabar specimens during its long mining history, along
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deposits at Múzquiz, Coahuila in northeastern Mexico Francisco González-Sánchez a,⁎, Eduardo González-Partida...201, Zona El Gigante, 61650 Tacámbaro, Michoacán, Mexico Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma...Boulevard Juriquilla 3001, 76230 Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico Instituto de Geofísica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma...México, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 México, D.F., Mexico d Geologia Minería y Consultoría, Av. Zaragoza...Querétaro, Mexico e Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, The University of New Mexico, Northrop
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Article Giant Fluorite Mineralization in Central Mexico by Means of Exceptionally Low Salinity Fluids:... Juriquilla 3001, Juriquilla 76230, Querétaro, Mexico; ambiente@geociencias.unam.mx (A.C.-C.); jtvazquez@geociencias...México. Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, CDMX 04510, Mexico; camprubitaga@gmail.com (A.C.); edithca@unam.mx... Juriquilla 3001, Juriquilla 76230, Querétaro, Mexico; erikhdc@gmail.com Geología Minería y Consultoría...Consultoría, Cipreses 1904, Jurica 76230, Querétaro, Mexico; l_e_g_r@hotmail.com Unidad Académica de Ciencias
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
speciation of mercury in soils from a mining zone in Villa Hidalgo, SLP, Mexico: A preliminary risk assessment...Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo León, C.P. 66455, Mexico Instituto Potosino de Investigación Científica...Col. Lomas 4a. sección, San Luis Potosí, SLP. C.P. 78216, Mexico c Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo...Luis Echeverría, CP. 78216, Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico b A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords:...Hg speciation Geochemistry Mercury Mining The mineralized district La Tapona in Villa Hidalgo SLP was
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deposits in the MVT province of northeastern Mexico Francisco González-Sánchez & Antoni Camprubí & Eduardo...2008 # Springer-Verlag 2008 Abstract Northeastern Mexico hosts numerous epigenetic stratabound carbonate-hosted...Universitaria, Delegación Coyoacán, 04510 México, DF, Mexico e-mail: taga@geologia.unam.mx E. González-Partida...Juriquilla 3001, 76230 Santiago de Querétaro, Qro, Mexico R. Puente-Solís Programa de Posgrado en Ciencias...Universitaria, Delegación Coyoacán, 04510 México, DF, Mexico C. Canet Departamento de Recursos Naturales, Instituto
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu WILLEMITE Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto, Namibia M ineral nomenclature...20 June 2015 Figure 1. Willemite from the Tsumeb mine, Otijikoto region, Namibia. The specimen displays...at 00:58 20 June 2015 Figure 2. Willemite with calcite from Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey. The normal...we’ll just go through Figure 3. Willemite in calcite with franklinite from Franklin, Sussex County,...or granular anhedral crystals associated with calcite and franklinite. Primary willemite typically occurs
Journal (issue)
Lüneburg, Germany. (4) Native silver, 3.5 cm, from Potosí, Bolivia. (5) Chrysoberyl, 2.3 cm, from Takovaya...the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia....Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Magnetite Zinc Corporation of America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York T he technological...recent decades have come not from a New York iron mine but from one of its interesting zinc mines. One...fine specimen from the Zinc Corporation of America mine No. 4 at Balmat. Magnetite is one of many black...several stand out. The famous Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County (see Cook 2008 and...deep in the Zinc Corporation of America’s No. 4 mine at Balmat, St. Lawrence County, is well known for
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National University] at 06:43 31 December 2014 mine in Colorado, and they found virtually the entire...galena, sphalerite, pyrite, acanthite, bornite, calcite, dolomite, siderite, barite, fluorite, and quartz...tetrahedrite and pyrite specimen from the Anchor mine, Park City, Utah. The specimen was in the stock...examples at the present time are from the Sweet Home mine, near Alma, Park County, Colorado, where it occurs...Colorado localities include the Silverton-Eureka district, San Juan County, where tetrahedrite is often
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Scovil photo. March/April: Emerald crystal and calcite; Boyacá, Colombia; Martin Zinn specimen, Jeff Scovil...photos. September/October: Silver crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado;...413; Nevada, 515 Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook, 154–59 Apatite, nomenclature...Mistaken Identities, A. L. Guth, 456–58 Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum, 280 Arkansas, wavellite, 346–50...California, 20 Bernstein, M., 444–45 Beryl, New Mexico, 21; Utah, 21 Beudantite, Nevada, 516 Biotite,
Report (issue)
pseudomorph after borax, 17.6 cm, from the Baker mine, Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California...Seibel and Jim Minette, in the then-underground Baker mine, a locale which literally vanished into air at some...while the huge open pit excavation—where borate mining goes on to this day—was being enlarged. Some of...couple of them feature clinging bits of white calcite and metallic black graphite. The subtle colors... Despujolsite, 1.5 cm, from the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa
Journal (issue)
Mexico ineralogical Record November-December 2003 ❖ Volume 34 Number 6 ❖ $20 Wayne & Dona Leicht,...Angles Mexico Special Issue III Los Lamentos Famous Mineral Localities: The Erupción/Ahumada Mine, Los...Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico ...................................... 4 by W. E. Wilson Fresnillo...Famous Mineral Localities: Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico .............. 36 by T. C. Wallace & M. K. Hall-Wallace...Famous Mineral Localities: Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico .............. 55 by W. Lieber & Gerhard Frenzel
Catalog/List
Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...Director Alissa Ford Managing Director San Francisco Roberta Kramer Managing Director Chicago Kenneth...early 1900’s; a Stephanite from Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico, possibly the worlds inest, according to people...extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...‘goodies,’ as Rock would say, as they came out. Mining projects that Rock was a part of, often yielded
 
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