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Sphalerite from
Backbone Mine, Las Guijas Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Backbone Mine, Las Guijas Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:175467
Long-form Identifier:1:3:175467:4
GUID (UUID V4):7ed88732-8670-4de4-96fd-e3efea24678e
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Amado Mine group, Las Guijas Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Albatross Mine (Gnome King Mine), Las Guijas Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
5.7km (3.6 miles) Ajax Mine group, San Luis Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) M.C.M. Mine group (MCM Mine; Guadalupe group), San Luis Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Las Guijas Mine group (Immense Lode; Grand Lode; General Electric Mine; General Electric group of claims; Obregon claims; Black Gold group), Las Guijas Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) Mary G Mine (Mary E Mine; Princess claim; Princess group), Cerro Colorado Mining District, Cerro Colorado Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
9.7km (6.0 miles) New Colorado Mine, Cerro Colorado Mining District, Cerro Colorado Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Cerro Colorado Mine (Heintzelman Mine; Silver Queen Mine), Cerro Colorado Mining District, Cerro Colorado Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
10.7km (6.6 miles) Silver Hill Mine (Gold Coin Mine), Cerro Colorado Mining District, Cerro Colorado Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) Black Gold Mine (Black Gold group of claims), Las Guijas, Las Guijas Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
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OF THE TUCSON AND NOGALES 1° by 2° QUADRANGLES, ARIZONA Edited by Jocelyn A. Peterson Open-File Report...Gray-scale contour maps of element distribution in Arizona, scale 1:3,500,000: 19. Uranium ........................................ 63 22. Location map of mining districts .......................................Principal deposit types and cumulative production in mining districts.............. 13. List of mines with...and Nogales 1 by 2 quadrangles in south-central Arizona have made important economic contributions to a
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...........................................13 Arizona ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ...................................................................14 Arizona – Apache Co. Mining Districts ...............................................................22 Arizona County Map ............................................
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...........................................11 Arizona .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
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...........................................11 Arizona .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
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Mexicanborder,through New Mexico, to the head of the San Luis Valley, Colorado. Geologicmapping(Van Alstine...mappedbarrier of Precambrianrocks between the San Luis Valley and Arkansas Valley doesnot exist and that...United States Texas: 1, Christmas Mountains; 2. Eagle Mountains. New Mexico: 3. Fluorite Ridge; 4.... CooksPeak; 5. Burro Mountains;6. Gila; 7. Mogollon Mountains; 8. Sierra Caballo; 9. Salado-Sierra Cuchillo;...Hidalgo: 3. Ixmiquilpan. Guanajuato-San Luis Potosi: 4. Rio Verde. San Luis Potosi: 5. Zaragoza. Zacatecas:
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Ta~co Famous mineral localities: The Trucco mining district, Taxco de Alarcon, Guerrero, Mexico .........:Refugio Jlline Famous mineral localities: The Refugio mine, Municipio de Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico .............Front Cover Smithsonite, 4 cm wide, from the Refugio mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico. William Dameron collection;...that were collected and stored more carefully. The mine is still being actively worked today, as the city...Lamentos, Fresnillo, Las Vigas, Sierra de Cruces Mexico IV: (2004, vol. 35, no. 6) San Pedro Corralitos
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Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Proceedings of the 31st Forum on...87801 SOCORRO, 1996 11 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Daniel H. Lopez, President NEW MEXICO...ESSER, Lab Technician ROBERT W. EvELeth, Senior Mining Engineer NANCY S. GILSON, Assistant Editor KATHRYN...Alberta, CAN JOHN W. GEISSMAN, UNM LELAND H. GILE, Las Cruces CAROL A. HILL, Albuquerque BOB JULYAN, Albuquerque...University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA Abstract—Industrial minerals and rocks in the tri-state
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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
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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...mines. Our generation, in 1. Presented to the Arizona Geological Society , March 3, 1964. This memorial...geology in 1926. His thesis work in the Parral District of Chihauhua, Mexico, (1931) and other investigations...1922 to 1926, in southern Arizona, Virginia and the Central Mining District of New Mexico from 1927 to
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