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Apatite from
Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Comments:Minor amounts in altered rock.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:203318
Long-form Identifier:1:3:203318:1
GUID (UUID V4):0a03a2ba-85b5-4310-a018-e00180983736
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sodic-Calcic Family of Alteration in Porphyry Systems of Arizona and Adjacent New Mexico Simone E. Runyon,1,2,3...E. University Ave., Laramie, Wyoming 82071-2000, USA 2 Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution...5251 Broad Branch Rd. NW, Washington, D.C., 20015, USA 3 Lowell 4 Department Institute for Mineral Resources...Geosciences, University of Arizona, 1040 East Fourth St., Tucson, Arizona 85721-0077, USA of Earth and Atmospheric...districts with Laramide porphyry systems across Arizona and New Mexico. Previously undocumented Na-Ca alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geosciences University of Arizona, 1040 E. Fourth Street, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0077 † Corresponding...within the Laramide arc in Arizona, as well as at the Yerington district in Nevada. This work describes...(Kelvin-Riverside district), E- Sycamore Canyon, the New Cornelia mine (Ajo district), and two systems...systems in the Yerington district. Muscovite is the dominant mica in these coarse muscovite veins and associated...common accessory hematite, rutile, pyrite, and apatite, and rare accessory chalcopyrite, fluorite, molybdenite
Report (issue)
Director Professional Paper 209 THE AJO MINING DISTRICT ARIZONA BY JAMES GILLULY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Faults of northeast trend near the Ajo Peaks. .......... Little Ajo Mountain fault....................... Minor faults possibly cognate with the Little Ajo Mountain fault ..................................................... Minerals found in the Ajo mining district. ............. Features of occurrence .....73 73 77 77 81 82 83 83 83 83 83 84 86 86 86 87 Mining history ......................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kalamazooportionof the San Manuel-Kalamazoo district,Pinal County,Arizona, has presentedan unparalleledopportunityfor...drilling(Lowell,1968) of the Kalamazoo portionof the district and in exploitationof the San Manuel portion....centerof the orebodyis 1968), located in Pinal County, Arizona, is here poorlymetallized, so that ore actuallyformsa...total of with or withoutcarbonate, anhydrite,and apatite. chloriteand epidotereplacingmafic minerals; here...In the followingsections,the fresh rocksat San apatite,sphene,magnetite,and very sparsemonazite. Manuel-Kalamazoo
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 mineral...Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ........................................................... 337 by J. S. White and J. A. Nelen Arizona index to the Mineralogical Record, 1970.1983 .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dismembered Porphyry Systems near Wickenburg, Arizona: District-Scale Reconstruction with an Arc-Scale Context...Geosciences, University of Arizona, 1040 East Fourth Street, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0077 Abstract This...alteration, rock types, and structures to provide a district-scale cross section and associated palinspastic...and Copper Basin (Crown King). Extension at the district scale is placed in an arc-scale context using...had on spatial relationships at the deposit or district scale (e.g., Lowell, 1968; Wilkins and Heidrick
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARIZONA COPPER Featured at the 1997 Tucson Show Downloaded by [California Institute of Technology] at...Valley, Arizona 85737 TERRY C. WALLACE Department of Geosciences University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721...mines and prospects. Some of these mines, such as at Ajo, Clifton-Morenci, Globe-Miami, Superior, Ray, Jerome...into the “age of electricity,” and the copper of Arizona was essential to the new industrialization. Copper...squarely at the center of power and politics in Arizona for the first thirty years of this century. Arizona’s
Book (edition)
Q! creonl lia OE ~| /BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee...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)
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
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...Gem and Mineral Society, and the University of Arizona. SIDNEY A. WILLIAMS has authored or co-authored
Report (issue)
Resource Assessment of the Ajo and Lukeville 1° by 2° Quadrangles, Arizona By Jocelyn A. Peterson, Dennis...61 61 64 65 66 66 68 INTRODUCTION Southern Arizona is rich in mineral conmodities and has potential...resource potential for the Ajo and Lukeville 1° by 2 quadrangles in southwestern Arizona, where porphyry copper...Phoenix, Ariz., and 60 km east of Yuma, Ariz. The Ajo 1° by 2° quadrangle is located between latitudes...the Lukeville 1° by 2° quadrangle leaving within Arizona a triangular part of the northeast corner from
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)
Book
EEL LEY. Department of Geology University of Arizona and GAOT G. HIGRS United States Geological Survey...Survey th THE UNIVERSITY Tucson, Arizona OF ARIZONA PRESS About the Editors. SPENCER . . R...R. TirLey has worked as a mining geologist in the western United States in both the operational and...Geology Department faculty at the University of Arizona, Professor Titley has carried out field and laboratory...and earned the doctorate from the University of Arizona. Caro. L. Hicks is an Editorial Assistant with
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...'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...115W 118 34-56-154 113-54-53W CATALINA DISTRICT CATALINA DISTRICT CHILDS-ALOWINKLE HUN CINNABAR MINE 02N
Report (issue)
2005). In some districts (for example, Christmas, Arizona, and Battle Mountain, Nevada), more copper is recovered... Utah (Babcock and others, 1995), and Bisbee, Arizona (Bryant and Metz, 1966), polymetallic replacement...Turkey) and(or) molybdenum (for example, Sierrita, Arizona; Continental [Butte], Montana) resources. By-Product...with the price of copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of the orebody to...km (Langton and Williams, 1982). At Sierrita, Arizona, from ore exposed at the surface to the base of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JOHNSTON MINERALIZED BASIN, BRECCIA PIPES ARIZONA AND J. DAVID LOWELL CONTENTS PAGE Abstract...939 939 ABSTRACT The Copper Basin district, Yavapai County, Arizona, contains a "porphyry copper"type...monzoniteporphyry units. Mineral depositsof the district have a rough zonal arrangement with copper-molybdenum...10 to 15 miles southwestof Prescott in Yavapai County (Fig. 1). The area is in the mountain region that...West Spruce Mountain at the northern edge of the district. Major ore depositsof Precambrianage in nearby
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAY-JUNE, PAPAGOITE, A NEW COPPER-BEARING FROM AJO, ARTZONA* 1960 MINERAL C. OssonNn llutrow, StanJord'(Iniaersi'ty...that once inhabited the region the mining center of Ajo, Arizona, is situated' Occunnoncr The papag...papagoite-bearingspecimenswere found at Ajo, Arizona, in an isolatedpocket 150ft. below ground-levelat the...papagoitelocality' and calcite, and minor quantities of apatite that is weakly dichroic, * Publication authorized...material near the center of the drawing is ajoite. Ajo, Arizona. stumpy crystals of rutile, sphene, slightly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
controlled the location of the Los blende,and accessory apatite,zirconand sphene.As Pelambresstock. Faulting in...silicate-altered rosettes,as well as minor sericite,calcite,apatite and andesitc marginal,and to the northwestof, the...amethystincin parts, overlain by anhydrite, magnetiteand apatite. Original, magmaticplagio- largely hydratedto gypsum...the two northernmost('Fig. 2) someveinletscarry apatite,and one occurrence of many of the larger fragmentsstill...ground waters. studiesat San Manuel-Kalamazoo, Arizona (Lowell The abundanceof quartz in both feldspar-stable
Report (issue)
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
Book (volume)
to g ra p h: The Bingham Canyon open pit, Utah, USA, 1998. Photographs by T M Porter. Ross Lang Andrew...University with a B.Sc. Honours. He completed his PhD in Mining Geology in 1979 at Imperial College, London. His...contributions to economic geology. Stints with Palabora Mining Company, JCI and Anglovaal added to Ross’ southern...After moving to Australia in 】 979, Ross, as a District Manager with CRA Exploration, led the team that...Porphyry Copper Deposits o f the American Cordillera, Arizona Geol Soc., Digest 20, Tucson, pp 128-155. For references
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The distributionof the samples the Central mining district. The stockhas passively collected in the Chino... quartz and K-feldspar with minor plagioclase,apatite, and magnetite. Sample 53; plane polarized,transmittedlight...previouslyin the Santa Rita stockby Kerr et al. apatite, and spheneoccur as accessories. Character(1950)...Disseminated secondarybiotiteoccursas very fine at Ajo, Arizona. to fine-grainedflakesor aggregates of a few...indented edges), Igneous and Alteration Petrography apatite, and zircon. Quartz and the feldsparsgenMuchof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MARcH--APRIL, 1968 2 The CorneliaPluton, Ajo, Arizona WILLIAM B. WADSWORTH Abstract The main mass...the orebodyto its matelymidwaybetweenGila Bend,Arizona and the presentpositionas a smaller,lateral continuationof...notedin Figure 1 are the late-magmatichistory at Ajo is facilitated by the two bodiesof the Cornelia pluton...Little Ajo Mountainblock is then thoughtto have been rotatedapproximately50 degreesby movementson Ajo Mountain...lying the Little Ajo Mountain Fault along the northeast adjacent to the mining town of Ajo and approxiedge
Report (issue)
Mountains and Adjoining Areas, Santa Cruz County, Arizona GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 658-E...Santa Cruz County, Arizona By FRANK S. SIMONS MESOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL...2. 3. 4. 5. Index map of part of southeastern Arizona . ... Generalized geologic map and sections of...12 21 MESOZOIG STRATIGRAPHY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA MESOZOIG STRATIGRAPHY OF THE PATAGONIA MOUNTAINS...MOUNTAINS AND ADJOINING AREAS, SANTA GRUZ COUNTY, ARIZONA By FRANK S. SIMONS ABSTRACT The Patagonia Mountains
Report (issue)
Porphyry Copper Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL ) SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Porphyry Copper Deposit and Surrounding Area, Lander County, Nevada By TED G. THEODORE and DAVID W. BLAKE ...COPPER ENVIRONMENT IN THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT, NEVADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Structural and stratigraphic features of the mining district Geology of the Copper Canyon area ...........Geologic map of the Copper Canyon area, Lander County, Nev. 2. Maps showing distribution patterns of
Book
Magmatic-Hydrothermal History of the Río Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest...Chuquicamata District, Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern...Progress at the Resolution Porphyry Cu-Mo Deposit, Arizona Magmatic-Hydrothermal-Structural Evolution of the...± Molybdenum Deposits of the Ertsberg-Grasberg District, Papua, Indonesia Clyde A. Leys, Mark Cloos,...Tenke-Fungurume SedimentHosted Strata-Bound Copper-Cobalt District, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo Dzhezkazgan
 
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