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Calcite from
Apex mine, San Carlos, Manuel Benavides Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Vanadinite130 photos of Calcite associated with Vanadinite at this locality.
Wulfenite4 photos of Calcite associated with Wulfenite at this locality.
Arsenic-bearing Vanadinite4 photos of Calcite associated with Arsenic-bearing Vanadinite at this locality.
Descloizite2 photos of Calcite associated with Descloizite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Apex mine, San Carlos, Manuel Benavides Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:117771
Long-form Identifier:1:3:117771:8
GUID (UUID V4):0feb5b14-19d3-447e-b113-62e0e1ba0ce6
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
17.1km (10.6 miles) Sierra Rica, Manuel Benavides Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
21.1km (13.1 miles) Tres Marias mine, Manuel Benavides Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
26.3km (16.4 miles) Contrabando dome prospect, Presidio County, Texas, USA
29.1km (18.1 miles) Fresno mine (Buena Suerte), Presidio County, Texas, USA
32.3km (20.1 miles) Lone Star mine (Tres Cuevas mine; National Resources claims), Brewster County, Texas, USA
32.4km (20.2 miles) Sample group (Duncan prospects), Brewster County, Texas, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) Bobs Mine (Maggie Sink Mine; Neyland-Davis Mine; Mitchell-Gillette Mine), Brewster County, Texas, USA
33.2km (20.6 miles) Duncan group (Hoover and Pilkington), Brewster County, Texas, USA
33.9km (21.0 miles) Margaret D lode (Maggie D lode), Brewster County, Texas, USA
34.2km (21.2 miles) Mariposa Mine, Brewster County, Texas, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on mimetite, 7.2 cm across, San Francisco mine, Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico. Classic combination from the...Scovil photo. Wulfenite from Mexico Figure 2. Wulfenite localities in Mexico; prepared by William Besse...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...(Los Lamentos), and Apex mines in remote areas of Chihuahua State; the Ojuela mine near Mapimi in Durango
Journal (issue)
particularly from the huge silver deposits of Mexico and eru. panish silver mining remade the economy...Record, E Figure 3. Montezuma, the ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, is said to have observed a blazing...Potos , Bolivia in the mid-1700s. Collection of Carlos and Mar a Iturralde. E W W W W W The Mineralogical...forced labor, cobbing out silver ore at a mine in Chihuahua; from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r i e a i...mita mestizo E W Figure 18. Indian miners in Mexico, from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r i e a i er (1869)
Journal (issue)
May 28, 6:00 p.m., a short hike to an old copper mine prospect at the base of Lookout Mountain, Golden...of calcite collected from the San Carlos Mine (Apex Mine) in San Carlos, Mun. de Manual Benavides, Chihuahua...Chihuahua, Mexico. I could not locate much geological information on the San Carlos area except Moore...Moore (2008) noted “the San Carlos replacement deposit of argentiferous galena, mined briefly in the late...limited number of superb wulfenite specimens.” The calcite matrix is rather gemmy and fluoresces a nice green
Report (issue)
SURVEY PRELIMINARY DEPOSIT-TYPE MAP OF NORTHWESTERN MEXICO By Kenneth R. Leonard U.S. Geological Survey...Figure 4. of Mineral Deposits in Northwestern Mexico Los Gavilanes Tungsten District El Antimonio District... Preliminary Deposit-Type Map of Northwestern Mexico Kenneth R. Leonard Introduction The following...Baja California and the northern part of Chihuahua, Mexico. The area is important for the evaluation...prospects, and mineral occurrences in northwest Mexico. A record may refer to one deposit or to a group
Journal (volume)
PORFIKIO DIAZ, President of the United States of Mexico. TRAISACTIOIS OF THE Yol. Containing tiik...the President and the people Uui1.e.d Htates of Mexico. PREFACE. As ]iii[)ers era-l ex])huuo(l of...'‘rhe othi'T found more or and industries of Mexico. Pro(‘(H‘diiigs of <)(‘ on the title-page, this...Laws of Mexico. Precious Stones of Mexico. sion, p. 568), 55 The Value of Ores in Mexico. By N. H...H. Emmons, 2d, The Sierra Mojada, Coahuila, Mexico, and Its Ore-Deposits. By James W. Malgolmson (Discussion
Report (issue)
MExICOn ec BiOrosandeMachoacanm Mogollon News Mexico. Toles AOE cok oe cre Oh Mexiconasey ote teers...cd ce seis sere eats Oh oie Sole tak rN Ocampo: MEXICO We Sasco he Poo sw oS @Ouartz Hail Montana 2a...teks 7. Sections through Matehuala half dome, Mexico Aenea SmmSCLUCLUTAlEMaprOrsOllyentons district...Section 25. sotructuralamaplorm! li@Orodistrich Mexico ss. 29 Generalesectionvote | Onrodistnictepmearme...Rear erate nen tteannun. orice on’as MCiotn Aine San, Ratael lodesiy teeyy, Ouamvz Islihl Chis, ner
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Uranium minerals from the San Marcos District, Chihuahua, Mexico Manuel Reyes-Cortés & Luis Fuentes-Cobas...(Victorino and San Marcos I) of Sierra San Marcos, located 30 km northwest of Chihuahua City, Mexico, was studied...plasma spectrometry, and gamma spectrometry. At the San Marcos I deposit, uranophane Ca(UO2)2Si2O7·6(H2O)...deposition of uranophane, (4) microfracturing, (5) calcite deposition in the micro-fractures, and (6) formation...activity during post-orogenic evolution of Sierra San Marcos. The secondary mineralization occurred through
Journal (issue)
Articles Famous mineral localities: the Taewha mine, K orea...........................................The Collector’s Library, part III: Minerals of Mexico .................................................WULFENITE with mimetitefrom the San Francisco mine near Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico. The large crystal is 28 mm...Australian Imports (San Diego, CA) Baltimore Mineral Society (Baltimore, MD) Carlos do Prado do Barbosa...Tom Daugherty (Covington, KY) Dawson’s Minerals (San Marcos, CA) D yck’s Minerals (Mililani, HA) Mercedes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alsopresent.Gangueminerals are mainlyquartz and calcite. Preliminaryfluid inclusiondataon samplesfrom the...1895; twentieth century production is modest in Mexico (Fig. 1). The area coversapproximately700 with...ranked third among silver-producingdistrictsof Mexico (Barry, 1931). However, someevidencein- and black...frequentlyobscuredby alteraiscomposed of 20 to 50 percent of Chihuahua, Durango,andZacatecas, lookingfor tion.Themicrodiorite...05 mm in size.The presenceofilmenitewas western Mexico is one of the most extensive volcanic reportedby
Journal (issue)
by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................& A. Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ................................................. 376 New Mexico Symposium 2019 by C. J. Stefano .................387 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection
Journal (issue)
by WE. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Pata gonia, Argenti na ..........................MARCH-APRIL 2020 The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California ................................................. 376 New Mexico Symposium 2019 by C. J. Stefano .................1 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection
Catalog/List
Back Cover COVER PHOTOGRAPH: _ VANADINITE Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona. Sharp hexagonal...Fl/R. MM LB. ADAMITE A basic arsenate of zinc. Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. Green-gray to red-brown...crystalled on limonite, rich ................. 1.50 . 25 Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. White-to-pale yellow...crystal FI. 1. 00 groups on limonite ................ Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. Brilliant lime-yellow... Gold Hill mine. .50 2.50 Transparent xls on limonite with austinite CUPROADAMITE Mexico Durango, Mapimi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when most green...was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times. The level...fine brochantite from the abovementioned Blanchard mine has been selected for this issue. Brochantite, a...with langite and posnjakite occurs in the Ecton mine, Montgomery County (Smith 1978); and brochantite...upper workings of the Stonehill or Woods copper mine, Randolph County, Alabama (Cook and Smith 1982)
Report (volume)
-Asociaci6n Mexicana de Ge6logos Petroleros Boletin. Mexico, D. F. Assoc. Am. Geographers Annals-Association...Bulletin; Mineral Information Service; Special Report. San Francisco, Calif. Calif. Jour. Mines and Geology-California...Mines and Geology. San Francisco, Calif. Calif. Oil Fields-California Oil Fields. San Francisco, Calif...Rica Instituto Geografi.co Informe Trim estral. San Jose. Cushman Found. Foram. Research Contr.-Cushman...Salvador Servicio Geol6gico Nacional Anales Boletin. San Salvador. Eng. Min. Jour.-Engineering and Mining
Journal (issue)
Mineraiogicai Research Co., 704 Charcot Avenue, San Jose, CA 95131. A list of other dealers in back issues...(Midwest Fed Show at Kalamazoo). The San Francisco Gem and Mineral Society (San Francisco Show). The Cincinnati...more than half an hour just walking through mine after mine, up inclines, past stopes and shafts, around...as you move along. Three cases of superb antique mine lamps highlight the whole presentation. For art...Bimonthly—$35 per year seamail Magma American Fed Show, San Diego Midwest Fed Show, West Allis, Wl Detroit Show
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cattle on Trinidad Carrillo’s Mesteño Ranch in Chihuahua, Mexico. Little did he know that he had just discovered...20:00 23 August 2013 Chihuahua Mexico Figure 1. Quartz with an outstanding calcite crystal that resembles... 96*2: 405,9(3: ers at the Las Choyas geode mine! This article summarizes our family’s five trips...(taken in 2001–2006) to this worldfamous mine in Chihuahua, Mexico, documenting changes that have taken place...for the miners. About a dozen people live at the mine camp at any given time while working for the Carrillos
Journal (issue)
Islet Famous mineral localities: the Silver Islet mine, O n ta rio ............... 49 by W. E. Wilson ...Famous mineral localities: the Batopilas District, Chihuahua, M e x ic o ....................................photo © SILVER crystals, 3.3 by 4.5 cm, from the mine, Kongsberg, Norway. (See the this issue.) Keith...silver mines at all in Asia. He does mention a silver mine in Macedonia that used to yield a talent of the...January-February, 1986 Figure 2. Interior of a German silver mine, 1830s. Photo Deutsches Museum, Miinchen. hillside
Catalog/List
78-79 79 79 79 VANADINITE specimen from the Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona GLOBES AND ATLASES...CATALOGUE. 2 ADAl\llITE A basic arsenate of zinc. Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina O juela. �en-gray to red-brown...crystalled on limonite, rich . . .. .... . . ..... . . Mexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. White-to-pale yellow...radial groups . .... .. . CUPROADAMITE ( ! I I Mexico Durango. Mapimi, mina Ojuela. 1, �e blue to steel-blue...50 ADAM1TE from mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico Lime-yellow orthrhom bic- xls on limonitic smithsonite
Catalog/List
while they last. TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near...inch specimens, $25.00 each. CAMPYLITE: Dry Gill Mine, Cumberland, England; A unique and rare species...perky boxes: $2.50 each. CA VE-IN-ROCkFLUORITE/CALCITE: Great material from the now closed Mahoning and...UORESCENT GEODES: Nice quality geode halves from Chihuahua, Mexico. These are all deeply hollow and have banded...fluoresces bright green coated with drusy quartz or calcite interiors. They range in size from 2 112 to 4 inches
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydromica,kaolinite, and other clay minerals, calcite, epidote-zoisite,leucoxene,rutile, pyrite and other...Cananea (Mexico), Ely, LaDura (Mexico), Leadville, Miami, Quellaveco and Toquepala,(Peru), Ray, San Manuel...numerous in the incipientstageof alterationat San Manuel (16) and were observedin thin sectionsof rocksfrom...Recrystallized biotitephenocryst or aggregatestructure. San Manuel, Ariz. Plane polarizedlight. X 36. Fro. 2. Calcitelenses(white)...Calcitelenses(white) in biotite (dark). San Manuel, Ariz. X 65. Fro. 3. Interleavedmuscovite(light) in
Report (issue)
brochantite, antlerite, cuprite, cerussite, smithsonite, calcite, dolomite. Distribution: Widespread, with many...crystals at the Touissit mine, near Oujda, Morocco. An ore at the Chingola mine, Nchanga, Zambia. Extraordinary...; in the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Pinal Co.; from the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima Co.; at the Kelly... New Mexico; in Utah, in the Apex mine, St. George, Washington Co., and at the Big Indian mine, near...Sal, San Juan Co. Fine crystals from the El Cobre mine, Concepcion del Oro, and at the San Carlos mine
Book
placer deposits, work on the structural geology at San Manuel, regional interpretations of Laramide and later...CITIES a MORENCI oe SAFFORD © ILVER SS © SAN MANUEL M 7Jucson PIMAcoMISSION ° ESPERANZA Vie aXe...southwestern United States and adjoining regions of Mexico showing the principal physiographic subdivisions...Most ern United States and adjoining regions in Mexico. The purpose of this compilation is twofold: first...vein and bed replacements typified in the Magma mine at Superior, Arizona, and the host of small basemetal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Catalog/List
at $3.00 each. AURICHALCITE - BISBEE: Southwest Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona: Exceptional baby...thick hair like growths on matrix associated with calcite, hemimorphite and other minerals: 1 to 2 inch specimens:...Mapimi, Durango, Mexico: Bright blue radiating acicular and botryoidal crystals with calcite on limonite:...inch specimens: $2.00 each AURICHALCITE - 79 MINE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizona: Delicate...blue crystals on hemimorphite, smithsonite and calcite. From one of the worlds finest locations, very
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The remarkable blue and pink fluorescence in calcite from Terlingua, Texas, typically appears only in...edges into the nonfluorescing portions of the calcite. Calcite with similar blue and pink fluorescence has...constitute well-defined crystallo­ graphic planes in calcite. The drawing in figure 1 is of a specimen in which...described below. Figure 1. Calcite cleavage from Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Manuel Robbins is the author o/Fluorescence...and Min­ erals under Ultraviolet Light (©1994 by Manuel Robbins and published by Geoscience Press Inc.
 
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