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Mimetite from
Hilltop Mine, California Mining District (Chiricahua Mining District), Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Mimetite
Formula:Pb5(AsO4)3Cl
Comments:Occurs as typical botryoidal coatings associated with wulfenite in gossan cavities.
Colour:Bright yellow
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Wulfenite6 photos of Mimetite associated with Wulfenite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Mimetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hilltop Mine, California Mining District (Chiricahua Mining District), Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:129116
Long-form Identifier:1:3:129116:2
GUID (UUID V4):073f2562-015b-4075-81f0-52d89718a21c
Nearest other occurrences of Mimetite
30.9km (19.2 miles) Vesley Mine, Granite Gap, San Simon Mining District, Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USA
31.2km (19.4 miles) Bob Montgomery Mine, Granite Gap, San Simon Mining District, Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USA
31.3km (19.4 miles) Bob Montgomery Claim Group, Granite Gap, San Simon Mining District, Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USA
32.0km (19.9 miles) Granite Gap, San Simon Mining District, Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USA
50.4km (31.3 miles) Commonwealth Mine (Pearce Mine; Silver Ware Mine; Brockman Mine; Smith Mine; Rinaud Mine; Ritter Mine; Eisenhart vein), Pearce, Pearce Mining District, Pearce Hills, Sulphur Springs Valley, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
57.1km (35.5 miles) Defiance Mine, Costello Mine group, Gleeson, Turquoise Mining District (Courtland-Gleeson Mining District), Cochise County, Arizona, USA
64.1km (39.8 miles) Golden Rule Mine, Dragoon District (Golden Rule District), Cochise County, Arizona, USA
73.0km (45.3 miles) Red Hill mine, Red Hill District, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USA
77.8km (48.4 miles) Silver Trail tunnel, Little Hatchet Mine, Sylvanite Mining District, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, USA
78.3km (48.7 miles) San Diego Mine, Tombstone Extension Mines, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wulfenite’s deep, rich colors can be as warm as the Arizona climate in which it occurs so prolifically. RICHARD...RICHARD A. BIDEAUX 710 W. Bangalor Drive Or0 Valley, Arizona 85737 WULFENITE HAS BEEN A FAVORITE of mineral...specimens, not only to the mine, but also often to the particular place in the mine and even to the period...example, more than 150 localities are on record for Arizona alone (Anthony, Williams, and Bideaux, 1977; Wilt...collector since 1948, is the coauthor of Mineralogy of Arizona and the forthcoming Handbook of Mineralogy. Volume
Report (issue)
smithsonite, hemimorphite, vanadinite, pyromorphite, mimetite, descloizite, plattnerite, Fe–Mn oxides. Distribution:...Slovenia. In the USA, from Arizona, at the Red Cloud and nearby mines, Silver district, La Paz Co., in...in the Old Yuma mine, near Tucson, Pima Co., at the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., large crystals...Glove mine, near Amado, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz Co., at the Hilltop mine, Chiricahua Mountains, and...Defiance mine, Gleeson, Cochise Co.; in New Mexico, at the Stevenson-Bennett mine, Organ Mountains, Doña
Journal (issue)
RECORD, MAY-JUNE 2013 Mineral Collections in Arizona A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record May-June...Mineralogical Record, Inc. P.O. Box 30730, Tucson, Arizona 85751 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Wulfenite with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...(only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection Introduction...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was
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)
White Development Officer William D. Panczner ARIZONA-IV Associate Editors written content Paul E. Desautels...Incognita - The search for minerals in Spanish Arizona .......... 67 by W. D. Panczner and C. S. Panczner...Jones The minerals of Malpais Hill, Pinal County, Arizona..............................109 by R. W. Thomssen...Shannon Calciovolborthite from the New Water Mountains ................................119 by W. Hunt...Hunt Famous mineral localities: the Hilltop mine ..........................................121 by D. K.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arizona Wulfenite KEN BLADH Geology Department Wittenberg University Springfield, Ohio 45501 kbladh@wittenberg...localities in Arizona with world-class (best-of-species) specimens of wulfenite. Arizona wulfenite specimens...well-established group of nine “best-of-species” Arizona localities, based on the consensus 10   ROCKS &...MINERALS Figure 1. Wulfenite, Defiance mine, Cochise County. Les and Paula Presmyk specimen, 6 cm wide;...order, the Defiance mine, the Glove mine, the Hilltop mine, the Mammoth–St. Anthony mine (Tiger), the Old
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
Report (issue)
Residents of Arizona MINERALS OF ARIZONA by Frederic W. Galbraith and Daniel J. Brennan THE ARIZONA BUREAU...UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON FOREWORD As a service about mineral matters in Arizona, the Arizona Bureau of...University of Arizona, is pleased to reprint the long-standing booklet on MINERALS OF ARIZONA. This basic...Dr. Frederic W. Galbraith, as a bulletin of the Arizona Bureau of Mines. It has moved through several editions...released in its Fourth Edition as Bulletin 181, Arizona Bureau of Mines. The comprehensive coverage 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)
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)
Nebraska, Lincoln] at 07:52 28 December 2014 Arizona Mineral Classics A rizona contains a wealth of...scientifically interesting minerals owe much to the mining industry that extracted these resources for commercial...see copper minerals well represented among the Arizona classics listed in tables 1, 2, and 3. Bideaux...listed 163 different copper minerals found in Arizona. Sixty-one percent of the classic minerals listed...advanced degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and collected personally at many of the classic
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)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Libraries] at 04:18 15 March 2015 San Francisco Mine, Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico I"lfun 1. This particularly...early 1970s al the San Fruclsco mine (also known 85 lbe Cerro Prieto mine), Magel. . ., Sonora, Mexico....spectacular wulfenite specimens from the Red Cloud mine. Wulfenite was first described as "yellow lead spar"...entrance, which was driven by the most recent mining venture. Shown is Phoenix collector John Lucking...deposits have oxidized during the weathering process. Arizona alone has more than 150 documented occurrences
Report (issue)
itty nf l\rt~nttU iullrtttt ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS OF ARIZONA By FREDERIC W. GALBRAITH...(Revised) ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES, GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN NO. 153 One dollar (Free to residents of Arizona) PUBLISHED...PUBLISHED BY lIlniul'r.lluy nf Arizuna TUCSON. ARIZONA SERIES No. 17, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION...bulletin will be forwarded to the Arizona Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This description of the minerals of Arizona has been largely compiled from publications and manuscripts
Report (issue)
Preliminary report of molybdenum occurrences in Arizona by Jan C. Wilt 1/, Stanley B. Keith 2/, Jocelyn...to the Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology a division of The University of Arizona This...'1030571 04 M030562 04 M030563 04 '1030584 04 CouNTY DEPosir 'ostHP +litire LAtiroOE ♦ Looroae 28N... wA A 7 PROSPECT 15N 02E 27 MU AMOLE DISTRICT BANNER DISTRICT BLUE HELL GROUP 19N 215W 101 35-03-A wA...CUA AG BORIANA MINE 18N 115W 118 34-56-154 113-54-53W CATALINA DISTRICT CATALINA DISTRICT CHILDS-ALOWINKLE
Journal (issue)
50th Anniversary Issue! Arizona ineralogical Record January-February 2020 ❖ Volume 51 Number 1 ❖ $40...$40 THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ARIZONA-VII . . . . Arizona-VII (Introduction) .................................................... 5 W. E. Wilson Arizona Wulfenite in the News, 1877–1940 .................... 15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ........................................ 29 B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ....................................
Journal (issue)
THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ! RIZONA~VI CONTENTS Arizona-VI (Introduction) ............. ... ................ 483 W. E. Wilson The Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona ............ .. ........... ............... .. ........ 484 W. E. Wilson The Arizona Silver Belt; Silver King to McMillenville .................. ..... 507 L. Presmyk The Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona ............................. ......531 W. E. Wilson & M. Hay The Carlota Mine, Gila County, Arizona ............................. .. ..
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 ....................................
Journal (issue)
January–February, 2020 Mineral Collections in Arizona-II A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record January-February...Record, Inc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below) Stock...Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This special
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains), NE of...schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve:...Reserve: quartz (chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals, including hemimorphite, pyromorphite, mimetite, willemite, hydrozincite, cerussite, malachite...relatively recently from Kristalle (Laguna Beach, California), it is thought to have been recovered sometime...depth. These include the Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the Buckwheat pit, Franklin, New...Chester County, the Ueberroth mine near Bethlehem, and the zinc mines at Friedensville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania;...Timberville district in Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties, and the Austinville district, Wythe County, Virginia;
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GOLD-II] 1-112 MMEE•] 25 I 1994 1-80 ARIZONA-I] ARIZONA-II] [ 129-200 201-272 129-192 193-256...321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400 257-336 [ 257-320 [ [ GOLD-I ] 321--412 ARIZONA-V] 265-352...257-320 321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO]...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN
Book
Verona. Contents PART I: COLLECTIONS Fluorite Mimetite 18 ‘Tourmaline Sulfur 22 Vanadinite Wulfenite...been saved from the destructive processes of ore mining and have been reverently preserved, having passed...are known to be in a mine, the hazards they face even before emerging from the mine are horrendous. More...shattering effect of the heavy explosives used in mining. If specimens do survive the explosions, most go...specimens of all the metal elements. For many years, California has supplied some of the best gold specimens
Report (issue)
nlirttltttu iullrtitt ARIZONA BUfiEAU OF MINES ARIZONA ZINC AND LEAD DEPOSITS PART II ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES...to Residents of Arizona) PUBLISHED BY 1!tuiurrllUy 11f 1\ri~11utt TUCSON, ARIZONA TABLE OF CONTENTS.................... 7 7 8 CHAPTER n.-DRAGOON MOUNTAINS . By ELDRED D. WILSON ..... .... ........... ...................................... History of Mining .................................. _..... _.......................................... Torn Scott Mine ..... _........................................
 
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