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Chrysocolla from
Copper Coin Mine, Last Chance-Copper Coin Mine group (Smith Mine), Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, Copper Mountains, La Posa Mining District (Wellton Mining District; Wellton Hills Mining District), Wellton Hills-Copper Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chrysocolla
Formula:Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1
Comments:In irregular bunches.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysocolla data
Locality Data:Click here to view Copper Coin Mine, Last Chance-Copper Coin Mine group (Smith Mine), Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, Copper Mountains, La Posa Mining District (Wellton Mining District; Wellton Hills Mining District), Wellton Hills-Copper Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:172245
Long-form Identifier:1:3:172245:1
GUID (UUID V4):598d8b17-625d-4ac3-9c95-b5543ac6eaec
Nearest other occurrences of Chrysocolla
0.0km (0.0 miles) Last Chance Mine, Last Chance-Copper Coin Mine group (Smith Mine), Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, Copper Mountains, La Posa Mining District (Wellton Mining District; Wellton Hills Mining District), Wellton Hills-Copper Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
3.1km (1.9 miles) Betty Lee Mine (Betty Lee group; Arizona Consolidated), Frisco-Betty Lee-Ella J. Mine group, Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, Copper Mountains, La Posa Mining District (Wellton Mining District; Wellton Hills Mining District), Wellton Hills-Copper Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Unnamed Cu-Au prospect, Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Draghi Mine (Draghi prospect; Welton Hills Mine), Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, La Posa Mining District (Wellton Mining District; Wellton Hills Mining District), Wellton Hills-Copper Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
11.2km (7.0 miles) Unnamed Ag-Cu-Au prospect, Cabeza Prieta Game Range, La Posa Mining District (Wellton Mining District; Wellton Hills Mining District), Wellton Hills-Copper Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
13.5km (8.4 miles) McMillan prospect, Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, Cabeza Prieta Mountains, La Posa Mining District (Wellton Mining District; Wellton Hills Mining District), Wellton Hills-Copper Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
17.9km (11.1 miles) Unnamed Au-Cu prospect, Cabeza Prieta Game Range, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
32.0km (19.9 miles) Unnamed Au-Ag-Cu prospect, Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
35.6km (22.1 miles) Red Cross Mine (Norton Mine), Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, Mohawk Mining District, Mohawk Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
39.4km (24.5 miles) Venegas prospect, Tule Mountains, Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range, La Posa Mining District (Wellton Mining District; Wellton Hills Mining District), Wellton Hills-Copper Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
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Furcron of Atlanta, Ga., Neb., Miss Katharine M. Gohn E. W. M. Johnson of Lincoln, of Mesa, Ariz., Frank...Greenville, S. C, Lucien Beckner of Louisville, Ky., U. M. Sahinen of Butte, Mont., Gilbert O. Raasch of Urbana...hardness of less than 2V^ on Mohs' nail will copper coin is mark on scale usually leave a scratch...world, they grow straight and free in the sunny air. Instead, commonly found distorted by the trying...though, that malachite, an ore of the heavy metal copper, or hematite, an ore of iron, will be heavy in
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RECORD, MAY-JUNE 2013 Mineral Collections in Arizona A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record May-June...Thomas M . Gressman Editors: Thomas P. Moore Günther Neumeier Circulation Director: Thomas M. Gressman...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...Backcover (above) Stock certificate for the Rowley Copper Mines Company (1914) Dick Morris collection (below)
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UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY/^^ GEORGE OTIS -SMITH, Director Bulletin 625 THE ENRICHMENT OF ORE DEPOSITS...underground waters _________ ___ Composition of waters in copper and precious-metal mines of sulphide ores_ _____________________...___^________ Iron___ __________________.._____ Copper _____________________ Zinc-____________ ________...depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...Copper____________________________________ Principal copper minerals_____________________ Pake. 83 83 86 86
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8494 LjJ I en S5 ^s CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU. Henry G. Hanks, State Mineralogist. ...provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Mining Bureau," approved April 16, 1880. to : I have...danger of lire is very great, as mentioned in the last two reports, and alluded to again because the State...For the past year, satisfactory progress The Mining Bureau Museum floor. and thoroughly still ...abroad which cannol be The publications of the Mining Bureau should be sold supplied. at actual cost—
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