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Turquoise from
Tyrone Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Turquoise
Formula:CuAl6(PO4)4(OH)8 · 4H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Wavellite2 photos of Turquoise associated with Wavellite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Turquoise data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tyrone Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:12562
Long-form Identifier:1:3:12562:8
GUID (UUID V4):dd81ddd6-ebdc-46c8-9b27-7c9fb3828c64
Nearest other occurrences of Turquoise
0.7km (0.4 miles) Burro Chief Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Azure Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Porterfield Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) Parker Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) Red Hill Turquoise Mine, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) Chapman Turquoise Mine, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
31.9km (19.8 miles) Chino Mine (Santa Rita pit; Santa Rita Mine), Santa Rita, Santa Rita Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
40.5km (25.1 miles) Copper Rose Mine, San Lorenzo, Georgetown Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
82.1km (51.0 miles) Silver King mine, National Group, Eureka Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
83.9km (52.2 miles) Miss Pickle mine, Eureka Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
mines, and prospects of the Tyrone stock and vicinity, Grant County, New Mexico By D. C. Hedlund 1 Open-File................. Porphyry copper deposits of the Tyrone stock....................... Precious- and base-metal...of the quartz-pyrite veins of the White Signal district............................... Quartz-molybdenite.... Quartz-pyrite veins, including White Signal district............... Silver-lead-manganese oxide veins...veins.................................. Turquoise veins...............................................
Report (volume)
Fluorspar Deposits of Burro Mountains and Vicinity New Mexico By ELLIOT GILLERMAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL..._________----___---___----___--__________ ' History of mining.____________________________________________ Production...deposits._--_____------_--------_--._--_-_..__-__. "Burro Chief-..l.__....._........._"___........ .........------.--. Grandview, Bounds, Fence Line, and Grant County. __________ Langford and Hines_-------____-...Geologic map of the Burro Chief fluorspar deposit and vicinity, Burro Mountains, Grant County, N. Mex._______________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IZATION, AND CHARACTER BURRO MOUNTAINS, ELLIOT OF MINERAL- NEW MEXICO GILLERMAN ABSTRACT Faultsdividethe...Faultsdividethe Big Burro Mountainsinto threeseparateand distinct blocks. The Tyrone stock occupiesthe northeasternpart...northeasternpart of the central Tyrone-Burro Peak block. This block is a horst, uplifted along the Austin-Amazonand...roof pendantsof metamorphicrocksinto which the Burro Mountain batholith was intruded, and the deep erosion...chalcopyritedepositsin this area, have been removedas a consequence of the uplift. ThE Burro Mountains in southwestern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
wire and leaf gold, smoky quark, and turquoise specimens, New Mexico boasts an array of mineral species...Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 THE PURPOSE OF THIS INDEX is to provide a comprehensive listing of New Mexico...Particular attention was directed toward incorporating new information on discoveries and occurrences, although...to compile all of the mineral occurrences in New Mexico-a venture of that magnitude is beyond the scope...Minerals of New Mexico is the basic reference for locations. Abstracts from the New Mexico mineral symposia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
symbol to promote outstanding aspects of their county or state. Approval is usually not difficult because...is found only in a 32 × 80-kilometer rectangular area in southwestern Chambers and adjacent northwestern...material requires access to freshly plowed fields, new roadcuts, or recent excavations 36 ROCKS & MINERALS...these deposits contain a highly variable mix of turquoise quality, the best stones were a pure blue color...Corporation explored for copper in the Cerbat Mountains, Mohave County. They acquired mineral rights to two sections
Report (issue)
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 122 COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE TYRONE DISTRICT, NEW MEXICO BY SIDNEY PAIGE • I . ' : i~ ~ t...Professional Paper 122 COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE TYRONE DISTRICT, NE'W MEXICO BY • .SIDNEY PATGE .· WASHINGTON................................ . Position of the area ............................. ·........................................... . Geology of the Tyrone district ..................................................................... . Faultingin the Tyrone district .................................. ·......
Report (issue)
NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES E. H. WELLS Pre.tdent and Director...Literature of New Mexico By Thomas Peltier Wootton SOCORRO, N. M. 1930 CONTENTS Page The New Mexico Bureau....... 125 2 THE NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES The New Mexico Bureau of Mines and...established by the New Mexico Legislature of 1927. It was made a department of the New Mexico School of Mines...and to publish statistics relative to New Mexico geology, mining, milling, metallurgy and oil and natural
Report (issue)
assessment of the Silver City I°x2° quadrangle, New Mexico-Arizona by D. H. Richter, W. N. Sharp, K. C... INTRODUCTION The Silver City l°x 2° quadrangle, New Mexico-Arizona, has a wide variety of metallic and nonmetallic...southern Basin and Range province of southwestern New Mexico and southeastern Arizona. Bedrock of the ranges...constitute about 65 percent of the quadrangle's surface area, are filled with Late Cenozoic (Pliocene-Pleistocene)...deposit types in the Silver City l°x 2° quadrangle, New Mexico-Arizona, showing some geologic characteristics
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
New Mexico FLUORITE A Statewide Survey PHILIP SIMMONS 11816 Harrington Road SE Albuquerque, New Mexico...Mexico 87123 philsim22@gmail.com Figure 1. Fluorite, 8.7 × 6.2 cm, Doublestrike prospects, Bound Ranch...Ranch district, Grant County. Collected by Brian Huntsman, Ray DeMark specimen. 400 ROCKS & MINERALS...Fluorite, 14.1 × 10.6 cm, Foster mine, Gila fluorspar district, Grant County. Collected by Jay Rosenbauer...Rosenbauer in the early 2000s, New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources (NMBGMR) Mineral Museum specimen
Book (edition)
HURLEY NEW MEXICO Scenic Trips to the Geologic Past Series: No. I - Santa Fe, New Mexico No. 2 - Taos-Red...Nest, New Mexico, Circle Drive No. 3 - Roswell- Capitan - Ruidoso and Bottomless Lakes Park, New Mexico...Southern Zuni Mountains, New Mexico No. 5 - Silver City-Santa Rita-Hurley, New Mexico Additional copies...from the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Campus Station, Socorro, New Mexico. HO: FOR...FOR THE GOLD AND SILVER MINES OF NEW MEXICO Fortune hunters, capitalists, poor men, Sickly folks, all
Report (issue)
Resource Maps of the Silver City 1° X 2° Quadrangle, New Mexico and Arizona The Conterminous United States...Resource Maps of the 0 Silver City l X2° Quadrangle, New Mexico and Arizona By D. H. Richter, B. B. Houser, K...---------------------------------------------History of mining activity -------------------------------------...ILLUSTRATIONS Page FIGURE 1. Index map of Arizona and New Mexico showing location of the Silver City 1 °X2° quadrangle------2...City 1 oX 2 o quadrangle, New Mexico and Arizona, showing principal mining areas a..,.d 3 year of
Map
resource map 24 Mining Districts and Prospect Areas in New Mexico by Virginia T. McLemore edited by...Shari Kelley New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources A division of New Mexico Institute of...of Mining and Technology Socorro, New Mexico 2017 Mining Districts and Prospect Areas of New Mexico by...McLemore Shari A. Kelley (editor) Copyright © 2017 New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources Nelia...Director and State Geologist Mining Districts and Prospect Areas in New Mexico by Virginia T. McLemore edited
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RALPH WAYMAN 930 Warren Ave., Longmont, Colo. New Mexico is truly a paradise for the gem, crystal, and...early one Monday morning, we were well into the mountains southwest of Denver before most tourists were...on the road. Our first stop was at the King Turquoise Mine in Colorado's famous San Luis Valley. The mines...of Manassa (Conejos County), Colo. The Indians originally discovered the turquoise, and it has been worked...worked off and on since. The turquoise is different here, because it comes in many shades of blue and
Map
New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Resource Map 15 March 1986 Silver and gold occurrences...occurrences in New Mexico by Robert M. North and Virginia T. Mclemore New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources...Resources, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 Abstract Anomalous amounts of silver and/or gold have been identified...identified in 153 mining districts or prospect areas of New Mexico. Production from most of these occurrences...200,000 ounces of silver. Silver and gold in New Mexico occur in 14 distinct types of deposits ranging
Book
MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40 MADIASIMA...MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna B. Kennedy...Kennedy [aN VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATl TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE Copyright © 1983...Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing...minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines
Report (issue)
NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES E. H. Wells, President and Director...(Revised) AN OUTLINE OF THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO By E. H. Wells Socorro, N. M. September 1, 1930...OF THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO By E. H. Wells Value of New Mexico Mineral Production The utilization...utilization of her mineral wealth constitutes one of New Mexico's greatest industries. The value of the state's...estimates could be given. The approximate total value of New Mexico's mineral production in 1929 was $37,722,000
Report (issue)
Resource Areas of the Basin and Range Province of New Mexico Compiled by Michelle Frodey Hutchinsl' U.S....resource areas of the Basin and Range province of New Mexico........................................... In...resource areas of the Basin and Range province of New Mexico................................................Province which include areas of past or present mining and prospecting activity as well as areas of potential...map are not legal Mining District boundaries and may include more than one district (see table 1) as well
Report (issue)
13 13 13 13' 14 New Hampshire ...... ..................................... 14 New Jersey ............................. New Mexico ....................................... ...... . New York ........................................ Western United States mining districts ....................... World distribution...(21) (22) *114 *115 Geology of the Globe copper district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome, 168 pp., 1903. The...The mineral resources of the Mount Wrangell district, Alaska, by W. C. Meudenhall and F. C. Schrader, 71
Report (issue)
of the Interior Geological Survey Albuquerque, New Mexico Lower Colorado River basin By Frederick D....prepared by the New Mexico State Engineer Office.) Prepared in cooperation with the New Mexico State Engineer...basins of New Mexico - -- -- 1 2.--Subbasins of the Lower Colorado River basin in New Mexico - --...mapping in New Mexico ^. Soils resource map of New Mexico --5---Vegetative-type map of New Mexico 1 - ----...--Weather stations and cliraatologic divisions in New Mexico 22 7---Graphs showing average January and July
Journal (issue)
................ 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................... 5...5 by W. E. Wilson Minerals first described from New M ex ico ...................................... 9...Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico ............................................ 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...................................
Journal (issue)
Industry Background image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the...They are Found zite (201 cts) is from the Oceanview Mine in Southern California; the 0.72-ct benitoite (left...Dallas Gem Mine area, San America’s Royal Gems – Montana and Yogo Sapphires Benito County, California;...Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing Turquoise ite Country, Montana. Photos of gemstones...Rare and Beautiful American Gemstone and original mine image by Mark Mauthner. Red Beryl – A Very Rare
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE ORIGIN OF TUR(•UOISE MOUNTAINS, IN THE BURRO NEW MEXICO. • SIDNEY PAIGE. INTRODUCTION. ...quadrangle,New Mexico,an opportunitywas affordedto .examinethe turquoisedepositsof the Burro Mountains, New...New Mexico. Thesedeposi.ts, famousfor the beautyof thegemsproduced, arelocatedaboutIO milessouthwest of...Silver City, aboutI• milesnorthof theminingcampof Tyrone. The minesare no longerproductive,commercialturquoisehaving... Survey. •Zalinski, Edw., "Turquoise in the Burro Mountains, New Mexico," ECONOMICGEOLOGY, Vol. II.
Book (edition)
nn (Turquoise &the ian Books, wrtant au- Indian Edna Mae Bennett References to turquoise and many... gem has treatment of the fifty years! of turquoise in the culture of the Southwestern Indians, ...a satisfying treatment of the entire matter. Turquoise fulfills that need admirably search, in popular...subject only the admiration she shares with so for turquoise and its re- and in illustration. not many...provide a full view of this subject. us where turquoise is was mined in earlier days; methods of the lapidary;
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1
Report (issue)
ASHLEY SCHMITT "As !look back on four decades in mining geology I am impressed by the magnitude of the...geologists who developed the art and science of mining geology into a leading factor in the unprecedented...detailed ore deposit studies to the exploration for new mines. Our generation, in 1. Presented to the Arizona...their concepts of applied ore deposition with the new techniques of geochemistry and geophysics. vi ...1926. His thesis work in the Parral District of Chihauhua, Mexico, (1931) and other investigations in
 
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