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Pyrite from
Surprise Mine, Cookes Peak Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Surprise Mine, Cookes Peak Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1431776
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1431776:7
GUID (UUID V4):a4e7692f-7413-4c92-bf40-3032187d16bb
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.5km (0.3 miles) ⓘDesdemona Mine, Cookes Peak Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘSummit group (Poe Mines), Cookes Peak Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) ⓘInez Mine, Cookes Peak Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) ⓘFaywood Mine, JosĂ© Mining District, Cookes Peak Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
5.6km (3.5 miles) ⓘKeystone Mine, Old Hadley Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) ⓘJumbo prospect, Old Hadley Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) ⓘRattlesnake Canyon, Old Hadley Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) ⓘProspect No. 1, Old Hadley Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
15.1km (9.4 miles) ⓘOld Dude shaft, Macho Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
16.5km (10.2 miles) ⓘGrattan Mine (Gratton Mine), Fluorite Ridge Mining District, Luna County, New Mexico, USA
References
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COOKES PEAK Mining District Luna County New Mexico PHILIP SIMMONS 11816 Harrington Road SE Albuquerque...Albuquerque, New Mexico 87123 philsim22@gmail.com Figure 1. A view of Cookes Peak from the north at the campsite...campsite near the Surprise mine showing the typical terrain and vegetation of the upper slopes. The cholla... T HE COOKES PEAK MOUNTAIN RANGE has been part of a long history of silver-lead-zinc mining in southern...southern New Mexico, but it is best known within the collector community for producing many beautiful specimens
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Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such
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MINERAL-RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO Virginia T. McLemore, Kelly Donahue, Michael...Report OF-459 New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology...Technology Socorro, New Mexico 87801 September 2001 Prepared for the New Mexico State Land Office 1 SUMMARY... SUMMARY Luna County, in southwestern New Mexico (Fig. 1) is not well known for its mineral potential...metals and nonmetals have been produced from the county from 1876 to 2000. Much of this production has
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549.4 ISSN 0510-201 4 Copies availablefrom: Mining Information Centre Department of Mineralsand Energy................................ 12 12 Methods of mining .............................................................................................. Mexico ................ Morocco ............. Chapter...................................... Methods of mining ............................................................................................... Mexico ..............................................
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83 New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...Western Grant County, New Mexico by Elliot Gillerman NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY KENNETH...KENNETH W. FoRD, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES FRANK E. & KoTTLOWSKI, MINERAL RESOURCES...REGENTS Ex Officio Jerry Apodaca, Governor of New Mexico Leonard DeLayo, Superintendent of Public Instruction...PATRICIA E. CANDELARIA, Secretary JAMES M. ROBERTSON, Mining Geologist RoNALD J. RoMAN, Chief Research Metallurgist
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WULFENITE, PbMoO4, 7cm, Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA; Evan Jones Collection, ©...Joyce & Bob Hendrix on new home in Payson. MSA wishes you much happiness in your new mountain paradise. I...please give a warm MSA Welcome to Carlie Murphy, our new MSA Social Coordinator. Thank You Carlie for joining...the Arizona Geological Survey and at the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum. Dr. Rasmussen received the...in 2010 for her work as Curator of the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum in Phoenix. Our April 13th program
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Bureau of Land Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast...Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource surveys...mineral deposits present in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nev. and northeast...Examples of mineral deposits in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nev. and northeast...and prospective tracts in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nev. and northeast
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This Issue President’s Message 1 Officers 2 New Booklet 3 Educational Awards at Denver 4 2017...updated. Bill Besse has been advancing this work. The new website should be completed by the end of the year...markivanjacobson@gmail.com VICE PRESIDENT: Virgil Lueth; New Mexico Tech, 801 Leroy Place , Socorro NM 87801-4796;...VALLEY CHAPTER: Larry Nuelle; LNuelle@gmail.com NEW JERSEY CHAPTER: David Shapiro; Dshapiro33@gmail.com...Page 3 New booklet now available on the Early Mining History of the Himalaya Pegmatite Mine The early-day
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JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2019 Articles The AlmadĂ©n mining district, Ciudad Real, Spain ............................................................... 3 What’s new in minerals: Springfield Show 2018 ................$315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...Freilich, 65 Joseph Aaron Freilich was born in Queens, New York, on September 27, 1952, the son of Riva (Gitlitz)...visit to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and was inspired by the extensive mineral collection
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======================================ï‚„ What’s New in the Mineral World? Report #43 April 2, 2014 by...to fill you in on what’s new on the web. Actually there is quite a lot new, as dealers have processed...Other web dealers besides Rudolf now also have the new golds from Brazil, but to get a feel for how good...who is also offering fine gold specimens from the new occurrence. Gold, 1.9 cm, from Serra do CaldeirĂŁo...small cabinet-size fluorite specimens from a “small new find” at Frohnau near Annaberg, Erzgebirge, Upper
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the current-year issues of the monthly catalog "New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey." Prices...AldSka Distribution Section, U.S. Geological Survey, New Federal Building - Box 12 101 Twelfth Ave., Fairbanks... Bldg. 810, Federal Center ‱ FAIRBANKS, Alaska--New Federal Bldg., 101 Twelfth Ave. Gold-Bearing Skarns...complexly zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of...In recent years, a significant proportion of the mining industry's interest has been centered on discovery
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it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland
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....................................... 102 District of Columbia .......................................... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to
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the resurgence of lead mining and prospecting between 1948 and 1955, when new deposits were found, and...mapping, it was considered necessary to prepare a new and expanded text. 26th August, 1971. J. H. LORD... . . . . . . . . . . . . Lead. zinc and silver mining in Western Australia .... History and production...the lead ores . . . . . . . . .... Northampton District . . . . . . . . .... Baddera group ........ ....occurrence .... Baddera mine . . . . . . . . .... Baddera North .... .... Gurkha mine ........ Page ...
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01:16 09 August 2017 MineralĂłgica! Society of the District of Columbia Following is a statement of the activities...activities of the Mineralogical Society of the District of Columbia during the last eight months: At the...Connecticut. A motion picture entitled " Nickel Mining, Smelting, and Refining," was shown at the March...meeting. This was followed by motion pictures on Tin mining in Bolivia. A trip was planned to the Kibblehouse...July 8th, 1951, to French Creek Mines, in Chester County, Penn. When sixty-one rockhounds pounded the old
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Pennsylvania. Member, "Dr. Fred Stenbuck, President of the New York Mineralogical Society and his charming wife...Davidsons extended an invitation for next year. and Mexico, Ebony Manganese from Africa and India and Chromite...Haven, This is a place to visit often. Appointments New Jersey, has been elected president of the to do so...made through the office. newly organized Monmouth County Mineral March Field Trip and Gem Society. Member...Club as a frontispiece for their new list of mineral localities of New York State. IN REMEMBRANCE On December
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organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...for scientific papers has been discontinued and a new series, termed Professional Papers, has been substituted.......... G A rea in sq. m. 932 975 7 8 Pikes Peak......... ColO.......... 932 975 9 A n th raci...... Iron, marble, lime, clay, coal. If) Lasscn Peak ....... Cal........... 3,034 Dillcr, J.S.. .......clay. 35 Gold. Wyo.......... 3,412 31 32 Pyramid Peak ..... Cal ........... Franklin. .......... Va.-W
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Molybdenum Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PA...MOLYBDENUM DEPOSIT AND SURROUNDING AREA, LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA FRONTISPIECE. Buckingham area. Group...Molybdenum Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE, DAVID W. BlAKE, THOMAS...COPPER ENVIRONMENT IN THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...molybdenum deposit and surrounding area, Lander County, Nevada I by Ted G. Theodore ... [et al.]. With
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ornacite, Hemimorphite & Rosasite From the Alice Mine, Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer Excalibur...offered me a modest lot of material from the Alice Mine, near Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada. The deposit...unknownolive greenelongatedneedlesfrom the Alice Mine provedto be molydofomacite, as evidencedby Mo>CrEDSanalysis...years ago I collected at the site of the Big Mike Mine in the mouth of Panther Canyon, Tobin Range, Pershing...and cuprite, Cu2O. Mining of the ore body took about three years. Open pit mining was followed by a leaching
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17:52 26 February 2015 TOM ROSEMEYER 1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P.O.Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 CONNOISSEURS...localities do not compare with those in Arizona and New Mexico, but the microcrystals of wulfenite and associated...twenty-five years either as a result of new mining operations or as new discoveries in abandoned mines. The...Boulder County, but gave no details. He also mentioned that wulfenite occurred in Park County, but again...occurrence on Gunnell Hill, Central City district, Gilpin County, given by J. S. Randall (1887) in his book
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Smithsonite slice and egg, 5.8 and 2.7 cm tall Masua Mine, Carbonia-lglesias, Sardinia, Italy Cal and Kerith...wide 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico Steve Neely collection (ex...978-0-9790998-6-1 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria Staebler Gunther Neumeier...Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 ‱ Denver, C O 80211 ‱ USA Phone 1.303.495.5521 ‱ Fax 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie...ite; 9.:n,,..._,....,., Santa Eulalia, ch· ualwa, Mexico La Plante photo nïżœ sp ct, Attica, Greece ion;
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BULLETIN 67 Mineral Deposits of Lincoln County, New Mexico by GEORGE B. GRISWOLD 1959 STATE BUREAU...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Alvin...Burroughs ............................ Governor of New Mexico Tom Wiley .................................................... Albuquerque For sale by the New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Campus Station
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specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality... 6 mm across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3...near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side along
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to preserve and promote the unique geologic and mining heritage of Wisconsin while underscoring the importance...force in the museum’s creation. Dr. Weis grew up in New York, and as a child was fascinated with rocks, minerals...brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was...manufacturer’s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a
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Corner Pg 7 Old Colorado City History Center Pg 8 New Magazine—American Rockhound Pg 9 Secretary’s Spot...Superior), pyrite cube ~ 1 mm. Part of a geode collected at Brummett Creek, Brown County, Indiana. Continued...as the Viburnum Trend, the Old Lead Belt, and the New Lead Belt in the Missouri Ozarks) are the result...Mississippi Valley-type Deposits). Marcasite and pyrite, common simple sulfides found in the carbonate...~1mm in length. Collected Grays Quarry, Hancock, County, Illinois Fig. 4A. But wait! I thought perhaps
 
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