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Molybdenite from
Pontatoc Mine, Tucson area, Pima County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Molybdenite
Formula:MoS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Molybdenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pontatoc Mine, Tucson area, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:177710
Long-form Identifier:1:3:177710:9
GUID (UUID V4):e2685267-cb77-4e2b-ae8f-c0eb325330d3
Nearest other occurrences of Molybdenite
20.7km (12.9 miles) Stratton Mine (Old Hat Mine), Stratton-Daily Camp, Mount Bigelow, Pima County, Arizona, USA
29.0km (18.0 miles) Little Hill Mine, Oracle, Oracle Mining District (Control Mining District; Old Hat Mining District; Santa Catalina Mining District), Pinal County, Arizona, USA
30.8km (19.1 miles) Korn Kob Mine (Korn Kob prospect), Buchman Canyon, Redington Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
36.2km (22.5 miles) Vail, Pima County, Arizona, USA
38.0km (23.6 miles) North San Xavier pit (San Xavier North pit; San Xavier Mine), Mission complex, Pima Mining District (Olive Mining District; Mineral Hill Mining District; Twin Buttes Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, San Xavier (Tohono O'odom) Indian Reservation, Pima County, Arizona, USA
39.5km (24.5 miles) Redington, Redington Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
40.0km (24.9 miles) Mission complex, San Xavier, Pima Mining District (Olive Mining District; Mineral Hill Mining District; Twin Buttes Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
40.4km (25.1 miles) Eisenhower Mine (Eisenhower property/group; Mission Extension; Palo Verde Mine; Palo Verde copper deposit), Mission complex, San Xavier, Pima Mining District (Olive Mining District; Mineral Hill Mining District; Twin Buttes Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
40.9km (25.4 miles) Mission pit, Mission complex, San Xavier, Pima Mining District (Olive Mining District; Mineral Hill Mining District; Twin Buttes Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
41.9km (26.0 miles) Pima Mine, Mission complex, San Xavier, Pima Mining District (Olive Mining District; Mineral Hill Mining District; Twin Buttes Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
listing and map showing molybdenum occurrences in Arizona by Jan C. Wilt /, Stanley B. Keith !/, and Ted...to the Arizona Bureau of Geology and Minerals Technology a_ division of The University of Arizona This...Present address: Jan C. Wilt, Consulting Geologist, Tucson, AZ 85746 Present address: MAGMACHEM Exploration...listing and map showing molybdenum occurences in Arizona by_ Jan C. Wilt, Stanley B. Keith, and Ted G. Theodore...molybdenum occurrences throughout Arizona prepared in part by the Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology
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...nomenclature 1/ Present address: J.C. Wilt & Co., Tucson, AZ. 85746 2/ Present address: MAGMACHEM Assoc...'1030571 04 M030562 04 M030563 04 '1030584 04 CouNTY DEPosir 'ostHP +litire LAtiroOE ♦ Looroae 28N...35-03-A wA 113-49-A w W MO 81 PBA CUA AG BORIANA MINE 18N 115W 118 34-56-154 113-54-53W CATALINA DISTRICT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
district, locatedabout twenty miles south of Tucson,Arizona; (2) the Twin Buttes district, about six miles...the Catalina mountains about ten miles north of Tucson. Accordingto Chas. F. Park,• the oldestobservedrock...Buttes and San Xavier contain small amountsof molybdenite,thus relating them to this type of activity....martite and limonite. The ore is well exposedthrough mine operationsand the lower parts show no martitization...chalcopyrite(white). Black is mainly silicates. Twin Buttes, Arizona. X 45. Fro. 2. Magnetite,also primary,replacedby
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
Report (issue)
Mineralized Areas of the Basin and Range Province in Arizona By Stanley B. Keith 1 Lorraine Schnabel 2 , Ed...editorial standards and stratigraphic nomenclature. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology; present...Tunder Dr., Phoenix, Arizona 85044 2U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225 Arizona Bureau of Geology...Park Avenue, Tucson, Arizona 85719 ^J.C. Wilt and Co., 3035 So. Shiela Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85746 Contents...Mineralized Areas of the Basin and Range Province in Arizona..............................................in
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/County, Arizona...assistance ofthe Tucson Gem and Mineral Society The University of Ariwna Press / Tucson .. The University...University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, r982, 1995 Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserved. First...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona/ John W. Anthony ... [et al.]; Wendell E. Wilson...ed. p. cm. "Published with the assistance of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society." Includes bibliographical
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...of Mineralogy, the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society, and the University of Arizona. SIDNEY A. WILLIAMS
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...assistance ofthe Tucson Gem and Mineral Society The University of Arizona Press / Tucson The University...University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, 1982, 1995 Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserved. First...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona / John W. Anthony . . [et al.] ;Wendell E. Wilson
Report (issue)
RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF THE TUCSON AND NOGALES 1° by 2° QUADRANGLES, ARIZONA Edited by Jocelyn A. Peterson................................................. Tucson Quadrangle.......................................Gray-scale contour maps of element distribution in Arizona, scale 1:3,500,000: 19. Uranium .................of the study area................... 2. Thesis work used in the compilation of the Tucson quadrangle ...information for RASS, PLUTO, andNURE data bases, Tucson quadranlge....................................
Report (issue)
DECRETION LARAMIDE XN CORDILLERAN THE TUCSON TECTONICS REGION by St.an1eey B. Keeith .and Jean...early Pleistocene surface throughout the Sonoita area. The flood-plain soils are possibly no older than...formation (late Early Permian) in southeastern Arizona . 0.6 Milepost 28. Note buried soils on right for...will grow") . The scenic qualities of the Sonoita area have attracted film makers for such movies as Duel...or Clover Creek." Like other areas in southern Arizona, the Sonoita Valley because of trouble with Apaches
Report (issue)
. Glacier Bay ational Monument Wilderness study area, Alaska, by David A. Brew and Arthur L. Kimball...Kimball ..... Granite Fiords Wilderness study area, Alaska, by Henry C. Berg and Tom L. Pittman ................... . Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness study area and vicinity, Alaska, by David A. Brew and A. L...Wilderness study area, Alaska, by Bruce R. Johnson and Arthur L. Kimball . Arizona . . . . . . . . ........... ... . . ... . Arnold Mesa Roadless Area, Arizona, by Edward W. Wolfe and Robert A. McColly .
Report (volume)
Switzerland. Arizona Univ. Studies Geology-University of Arizona Studies in Geology. Tucson, Ariz. Arkiv...and Geology Bull. Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology County Rept.Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology Mineral Resources...Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin and County Report and Mineral Resources Report. Moscow, Idaho...near-surface tuff on the Pajarito Plateau, Los Alamos County, New Mexico, Art. 339: .U.S. Geol. Survey Prof...Geology and· ground water resources of the Drake area, McHenry Coun-ty, North Dakota: North Dakota Water
 
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