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Smithsonite from
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Smithsonite
Formula:ZnCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Legrandite22 photos of Smithsonite associated with Legrandite at this locality.
Adamite16 photos of Smithsonite associated with Adamite at this locality.
Calcite9 photos of Smithsonite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Hemimorphite7 photos of Smithsonite associated with Hemimorphite at this locality.
Goethite5 photos of Smithsonite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Paradamite5 photos of Smithsonite associated with Paradamite at this locality.
Rosasite4 photos of Smithsonite associated with Rosasite at this locality.
Limonite4 photos of Smithsonite associated with Limonite at this locality.
Wulfenite3 photos of Smithsonite associated with Wulfenite at this locality.
Quartz3 photos of Smithsonite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smithsonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Photo GalleryView Gallery (36 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:19399
Long-form Identifier:1:3:19399:3
GUID (UUID V4):a80fc707-b7b3-406b-adf0-da53b9f2f69e
Localities for Smithsonite in this Region
La Cigueña vein, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
La Esperanza, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Palomas Oriente, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
San Diego, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
San Judas Chimney, Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
Nearest other occurrences of Smithsonite
20.0km (12.4 miles) La Platosa Mine, Bermejillo, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
85728 pmegaw@imdex.com Legrandite Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico W e all love a good detective...was first described in 1932 and was named after “a mine manager . . . Mr. Legrand, of Belgian nationality...collector of minerals who is known to have visited Mexico three times during the early 1900s. The specimen...locality, the Flor de Peña mine, Lampazos de Naranjo, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Legrandite, Zn2(AsO4)(OH)∙H2O...Peña is an obscure little mine in the state of Nuevo Leon in northernmost Mexico, famous only as the type
Journal (issue)
Mexico ineralogical Record September-October 2003 ❖ Volume 34 Number 5 ❖ $20 Wayne & Dona Leicht,...Van Pelt, Los Angles Mexico Special Issue II The Ojuela Mine Preface to Mexico-II1............................................................... 24 Mapimí District Geology .................................... 32 Sidebar: First Discovery of Adamite at Ojuela................................ 43 Sidebar: Purple...find in the San Judas chimney, Level 6, of the Ojuela mine. Houston Museum of Natural Science collection;
Journal (issue)
cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Conichalcite Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb Otjikoto Region, Namibia A n article appeared...Conichalcite on malachite, 10.5 cm across, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. Fine spherules...green crusts of fibrous spheres at the Cap Garonne mine, Le Pradet, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France...chrysocolla and cuprite has come from the Clara mine, Oberwolfach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Conichalcite...of conichalcite spheres to 2 mm scattered on smithsonite crystals. The typical habit of Figure 2. Conichalcite
Report (issue)
a whiff of Mexico too. There are many good things here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district...blue topaz: Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....impressive: Axinite, 5 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....County, especially from the Stewart mine. And from the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County...(besides plenty of elbaites) such rarities from that mine as cassiterite, hambergite, and a large, superb
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sphalerite and celestine, 17 cm high, Cumberland mine, Smith County, Tennessee. Steve Neely specimen....Wulfenite, 14.5 cm wide, Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scott Rudolph specimen. Figure...13. Smithsonite with hemimorphite, 7.8 cm high, San Antonio mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scott...Fluorapatite with arsenopyrite, 13.5 cm high, Panasqueira mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal. Marcus Budil specimen. Figure...Elbaite, quartz, and albite, 17.5 cm wide, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Marty
Journal (issue)
row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino
Book
Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the U.S.-Mexico Border TRACKING GLOBALIZATION Robert J. Foster... Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the U.S.-Mexico Border elizabeth emma ferry Indiana University...Minerals, collecting, and value across the U.S.-Mexico border / Elizabeth Emma Ferry. pages cm — (Tracking...States. 2. Minerals—Collection and preservation—Mexico. 3. Rock collectors. 4. Mineral industries—Social...industries—Social aspects. 5. United States—Commerce—Mexico. 6. Mexico—Commerce—United States. I. Title. QE392.5.U5F47
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Co., in the Old Yuma mine, near Tucson, Pima Co., at the Mammoth–St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., large...from the Glove mine, near Amado, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz Co., at the Hilltop mine, Chiricahua Mountains...in the Defiance mine, Gleeson, Cochise Co.; in New Mexico, at the Stevenson-Bennett mine, Organ Mountains...Lucin District, Elko Co., Nevada. In Mexico, from the San Francisco mine, Cerro Prieta, Magdalena, Sonora;...and Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua; in the Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Durango. Large crystals at Tsumeb, Namibia.
Thesis/Dissertation
The mineralogy of the Mapimí mining district, Durango, Mexico Item Type text; Dissertation-Reproduction...MINERALOGY OF THE MAPIMl' MINING DISTRICT, DURANGO, MEXICO by Victor Joseph Hoffmann A Dissertation...Mineralogy of the Mapimi Mining District,______ Durango, Mexico______________________________ be accepted...samples from the mines and offered information on the mine locations and their access. Mr. Salvador Davila...Smithsonian Institution from both the collections of Ojuela mine specimens obtained by Foshag in 1934 and from
Report (issue)
show Jordi also scored something interesting from Mexico and something else from Brazil, and now all of...==== Co-rich calcite, 7.8 cm, from the Oumlil mine, Bou Azzer, Ouarzazate, Morocco. Fabre Minerals...Silver on actinolite, 5.4 cm, from the Bouismas mine, Bou Azzer, Ouarzazate, Morocco. Fabre Minerals...========== About three years ago the Bouismas mine at Bou Azzer surprised the collecting world by producing...“from an exceptional find in 2010” in the Bouismas mine, show much stouter, withal a little elongated, metallic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aragonite on calcite, 10.3 cm across, from the Agrigento mine, Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy. In...calcite, glaucophane, lawsonite, pumpellyite, smithsonite, hydromagnesite, brucite, cerussite, celestine...Alston Moor (Tindle 2008). The Yorkshire Silverband mine, Cronkley Fell, Durham, has produced interesting...examples of aragonite, particularly from the Botallack mine, Wheal Owles, and Wheal Cock, St. Just district...spheres and a cone, 17 cm across, from the Brandenberg mine, Todtnau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Gregor Markl
Journal (issue)
Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...time collection,” he said, “collected by a former mine superintendent over a period of many years. Nearly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
left). Fluorite, 5 × 4 cm, from the Navidad mine, Rodeo, Durango. Peter Megaw specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Tucson, Arizona 85728 pmegaw@imdex.com Fluorite Mexico is one of the world’s principal fluorite producers...time to them here. Specimen-quality fluorite from Mexico occurs in a variety of deposit types, spanning...geologist with thirtyfive years’ involvement in Mexico. His primary exploration foci are carbonate replacement...collecting focuses almost exclusively on minerals of Mexico, and he has won awards for exhibits of Mexican
Catalog/List
directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...bygone era. • Amethyst from Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico that has exceptional aesthetics, color, and composition... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume...000-$3,000 52006 MIMETITE Var. CAMPYLITE Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland)
Journal (issue)
Titelpagina Erik De Nul aan het werk in de Mount Mine, Trebisken Green, Perranport, Cornwall, Groot-Brittannië...worden specimens van austiniet-XX van de Gold Hill mine, Utah, USA aangeboden. Meer details hierover vindt...september 14 oktober 11 november 9 december Sweet Home Mine, Colorado Belgische mineralen Australië Digitale...aanbod van de maand vandaan komt) is de Gold Hill Mine, die gedolven werd in de Gold Hill, die zijn naam...veel moeite inpakken in zijn label ! De Gold Hill Mine (zie figuur op vorige pagina) wordt tot de bekende
Catalog/List
museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...Auction 2 53001 CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority...Caledonite and a dash of azure blue Linarite. The mine is now collapsed and only a memory for the lucky... 53002 CHALCOCITE Lucky Friday Pocket, Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin, USA This is one
Journal (issue)
with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...enough, just across the border to the south is Mexico, rieb in active mines where miners are gathering...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 04:32 20 November 2014 Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico f asked to name the first Mexican...Mapimi, Durango; or Santa Eulalia or Naica, Chihuahua. If asked to name a mineral for which Mexico is well...we have chosen adamite from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...concurrently. Typically associated minerals include smithsonite, hemimorphite, mimetite, olivenite, scorodite...although it has been reported from the Sterling Hill mine, New Jersey. It is relatively well known from the
Report (issue)
662(3) c = 5.562(1) X-ray Powder Pattern: Ojuela mine, Mexico. 4.251 (100), 2.871 (90), 7.03 (82), 4.83...28.47 14.51 16.05 Total 99.4 100.00 (1) Ojuela mine, Mexico; Zn and Fe by AA, As by UV spectrophotometry...Paradamite, scorodite, smithsonite, “limonite” (Ojuela mine, Mexico); smithsonite, tennantite, goethite...Distribution: In the Ojuela mine, Mapimı́, Durango, and at Pitiquito, Sonora, Mexico. From Sterling Hill...USA. At Tsumeb, Namibia. Name: For the Ojuela mine, Mexico, in which the first specimens were found
Journal (issue)
(rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica, Mexico---Stephen Blyskal and Sigrid Stewart collection;...Spann collection, page 253. (right colurnn) Smithsonite-Mark Hughston collection, page 144; Variscite-Gus...like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many fortunes have been...ofLeadville, Colorado. Eventually rnoving on through New Mexico and Arizona as a prospector, he leamed some mineralogy...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens
Journal (issue)
7:00 PM GUEST SPEAKER: Amy Titterington “Finding Mine Locations” Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom...Avenue” 7 Article - M. Nelson, “Legrandite from Mexico: the Holy Grail” 8-11 Presidential Matters 12...April 2021 CSMS Pick & Pack 7 Legrandite from Mexico: The Holy Grail Mike Nelson csrockguy@yahoo.com...great article entitled Legrandite: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico written by Malcolm Southwood and...Type Locality of legrandite (Flor de Peña Mine, Nuevo Leon, Mexico), the mining engineer who furnished the
Catalog/List
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 1995 1. ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. V-shaped cavity in limonitic gossan...40x40x15mm. £10. 4. APATITE. Cerro de Mercado, Durango, Mexico. Several light lemon yellow transparent gemmy...5. APATITE (VAR FRANCOLITE). Simms Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. Cellular matrix lined with lustrous...60x50x45mm. £22. 7. AURICHALCITE AND HEMIMORPHITE. 79 Mine, Hayden, Arizona, USA. A 50x20nan cavity in veinstone...U.V. 70x60x25mm. £12. 9. AZURITE. West Caradon Mine, St Clear, Cornwall, in veinstone matrix. 30x2Qx20mm
Report (issue)
933(1) c = 10.215(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Ojuela mine, Mexico. 4.08 (100), 6.68 (71), 5.93 (71), 3.09 (71)...37.71 53.42 8.87 Total 100.0 100.00 (1) Ojuela mine, Mexico; H2 O by the Penfield method. (2) Zn2 (AsO4...köttigite, scorodite, smithsonite (Ojuela mine, Mexico); leiteite, smithsonite, reniérite (Tsumeb, Namibia);...In Mexico, from the Flor de Peña mine, Lampazos, Nuevo León; large crystals found in the Ojuela mine...mine, Mapimı́, Durango; at the Potosı́ mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua. From Tsumeb, Namibia. At Sterling
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mason University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals...interest, including malachite, azurite, cuprite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, and rosasite. A...including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as pale blue rosettes...cutting trap rock at Moore, the long-abandoned iron mine at Andover, and as an accessory mineral at Franklin
 
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