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Descloizite from
Red Cloud Mine, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Descloizite
Formula:PbZn(VO4)(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Vanadinite2 photos of Descloizite associated with Vanadinite at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Descloizite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Wulfenite1 photo of Descloizite associated with Wulfenite at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Descloizite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Descloizite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Red Cloud Mine, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1470685
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1470685:5
GUID (UUID V4):445a359f-49c6-4545-b0ad-fe5de6608a92
Nearest other occurrences of Descloizite
30.9km (19.2 miles) American Boy Mine, Obregon, Cargo Muchacho Mining District (Hedges Mining District; Ogilby Mining District), Cargo Muchacho Mountains, Imperial County, California, USA
31.3km (19.5 miles) Guadalupe Mine (Guadaloupe Mine), Obregon, Cargo Muchacho Mining District (Hedges Mining District; Ogilby Mining District), Cargo Muchacho Mountains, Imperial County, California, USA
35.1km (21.8 miles) Little Bear Mine, Big Bear and Little Bear Mine, Obregon, Cargo Muchacho Mining District (Hedges Mining District; Ogilby Mining District), Cargo Muchacho Mountains, Imperial County, California, USA
44.7km (27.8 miles) Castle Dome Mining District, Castle Dome Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
63.7km (39.6 miles) Radium Hot Springs area, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
82.4km (51.2 miles) Ramsey Mine (R. & A. Mine; R and A Mine; Ramsay Mine), Plomosa Mining District, Plomosa Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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...is often yellow through orange, and more rarely red. It has also been recorded as green, blue, colorless
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...Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...Certificate (only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was
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 ..............................................
Journal (issue)
May-June 1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity, Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon...Shannon Famous mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona...................................G. M. Edson Famous mineral localities: Tiger, Arizona ................... by R. A. Bideaux 135 141...The Mineralogical Record P. 0. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 Departments Notes from the Editor .. What’s...16-bus 1 B-2120 Schoten ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see p. 141). This crystal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
although it also occurs in various shades of red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, and brown or as...hemimorphite, wulfenite, willemite, vanadinite, descloizite, caledonite, and others. It has been described...Preble Hill mine near Garland, Maine; the old lead mine near Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Sterling Hill, New Jersey; and the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, and the well-known Wheatley and nearby...nearby mines, Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania (Slot0 1989). In the western United States. where
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains)...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
Report (issue)
wax-yellow, yellow-orange, bright orange, red-orange, bright red; gray, grayish white, rarely white, colorless;...hemimorphite, vanadinite, pyromorphite, mimetite, descloizite, plattnerite, Fe–Mn oxides. Distribution: Hundreds...Slovenia. In the USA, from Arizona, at the Red Cloud and nearby mines, Silver district, La Paz Co., in the...the Old Yuma mine, near Tucson, Pima Co., at the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., large crystals...from the Glove mine, near Amado, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz Co., at the Hilltop mine, Chiricahua Mountains
Catalog/List
STIBNITE: Hunan Province, China: 1-2 inch single silver crystals and small clusters from this world renown...last. TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near clear thumbnails...inch specimens, $25.00 each. CAMPYLITE: Dry Gill Mine, Cumberland, England; A unique and rare species...at $15.00 each. BROOKITE: Magnet Cove, Garland County, Arkansas; Dipyramidal thumbnail crystals mounted...DENDRITIC WIRESIL VER Elure Mine, Cobar, NWS, Australia; Fine crystalline wire silver with dendritic growths
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)
species in this region are wulfenite, cerussite, descloizite, and mimetite. Most historical collecting sites... Chah- Figure 2. Cluster of red wulfenite crystals, Chah-Kharboze mine. A, specimen width 1.5 cm; B...and Kokorin 1981). The host rocks in Chah-Milleh mine are Upper Proterozoic schists and marbles (Romanko...(Romanko et al. 1984). The Zn-Pb ore in the Ahmad Abad mine is hosted by intensely folded and faulted dolomitic...2013). Chah-Kharboze Mine The most famous Iranian wulfenites, with gemmy blood-red crystals on a white
Report (issue)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A sbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...Survey in accordance with the provisions of the Mining and Minerals Policy Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-631...discovered or not presently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once discovered, depends...4 (0H) .................... Variety of descloizite. Descloizite, Pb(Zn,Cu)V0 4(0H). Endlichite, Pbs[(V................................... Synonym of descloizite. Francevillite, (Ba,Pb) (U02)2(V0 4 )2•5H20.
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 ....................................
Report (issue)
Subtransparent to opaque. Color: Red-orange, deep red, brownish red, brownish yellow, yellow, pale straw-yellow;...may be concentrically zoned. Streak: White to pale red or pale yellow. Luster: Subresinous to subadamantine...silicates. Association: Mimetite, pyromorphite, descloizite, mottramite, wulfenite, cerussite, anglesite...Sonora, Mexico. In the USA, in Arizona, fine examples from the Old Yuma mine, near Tucson, Pima Co.,...Hamburg, Red Cloud, and North Geronimo mines, Silver district, La Paz Co., and in the Puzzler mine, Castle
Journal (issue)
[evenings by appointment only] WULFENITE — RED CLOUD MINE (ED OVER SPECIMEN KEHA Wayne and Dona Leicht...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 ....................................
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
Catalog/List
WULFENITE & ASSOC/A TIONS: Finch Mine (AKA Barking Spider), Pinal County, Arizona: Very nice combinations which...ROWLEYWULFENITE &ASSOCIATIONS: Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mtns., Maricopa Co., Arizona: Clear golden wulfenite crystals...30.00 each GLOVE WULFENITE: Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Very nice crystalline specimens with...WULFENITE: Old Yuma Mine, Tucson Mountains, Pima County, Arizona: Butterscotch to deep orange-red crystal inch...mounted in 1 1/4 79 WULFENITE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizo _na: Transparent bright yellow
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....TENDENCY to occur in pleasing groups of intensely red, orange, or yellow crystals, wulfenite has been one...of spectacular wulfenite specimens from the Red Cloud mine. Wulfenite was first described as "yellow lead...that vary from brown through yellow, orange, and red. It is rarely noted in green and blue crystals and
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...a porcelain tile. Willemite may be white, gray, red, dark brown, honey-yellow, apple-green, blue, or...orebodies of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. In his superb descriptive mineralogy...2. Willemite with calcite from Franklin, Sussex County, New Jersey. The normal size range for Franklin
Report (issue)
No. 1 Arizona State Bureau of Mines Bulletin CHARLES F. WILLIS, Director Directory of Arizona Minerals...THE University of Arizona TUCSON, ARIZONA 1915-16 DIRECTORY (Compiled OF ARIZONA MINERALS from...Mountains; near Pueblo Viego; near Sulphur Springs; in La Gila Range and elsewhere. ANDRADITE. See Garnet....Tombstone district, Cochise County; Gila County, at Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in Mineral...Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty; Yavapai County, in ores of Bradshaw Mountains; Yuma County, in
Catalog/List
$10.00 per specimen. BOTRYOIOAL BORN/TE: Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Wiscon�in: 1.5 to 3 inch spe_cimens...fu�naces, 9.5 a man made mlne��I �ade by _ metallic silver In color, showing very nice bright beauties, are...PSEUOOMORPHSAFTER ARAGON/TE!!! Coro Coro, La Pa:t District, Bolivia: Really interesting little critters...internet sites earlier this week at $25.00 each!! Mine are only $7.00 each while they last! WHITEPINEM...Seaman Minera� Museum in Houghto�, �ichigan. �he mine is now closed! These aro very nice crystalline copper
Journal (issue)
Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations...ironstones, and economic deposits of coal. The dark red-brown clay ironstone fonns ledges and nodules that...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...locals, and there has been heavy collecting from Red Deer and Edmonton clubs in some areas, but in other...J.A .. and Sanderson, J .O.G., 1945, Gcolugy of Red Deer and Ro cbud heet . Alberta: Re carch Council
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from Arizona.-( a.) Vanadinite, (PbClz,3Pb3VzO~), occurs i n comparative abundance in the “ Silver District...District ” of Yuma County, Arizona, i n the Hamburg, Princess, and Red Cloud Mines, forming small but beautiful...beautiful crystals, having an orange-red, reddishyellow, or bronze colour, and high lustre. It is found...found also in the “ Vulture District,” between the Hassayampa river on the west, and Agua Fria on the east...from the Vulture Mine to the Antelope Mountains; further in Farley’s “ Collateral Mine,” about 20 miles
 
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