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


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Enstatite
Formula:Mg2Si2O6
Comments:In basal facies of the Batamonte andesite series.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hematite7 photos of Enstatite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Phlogopite4 photos of Enstatite associated with Phlogopite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ2 photos of Enstatite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Enstatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:203324
Long-form Identifier:1:3:203324:2
GUID (UUID V4):086ce171-90f0-464b-82a7-176f4d5eabd3
Localities for Enstatite in this Region
Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Phelps Dodge Corporation Well No. 1, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
References
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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 .
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
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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)
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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
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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 (volume)
Washington. A. I. M. E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Transactions. New York...Institute of Mining , and Metallurgy Transactions. Montreal. · Canadian Min. Met. Bull.-Canadian Mining and Metallurgical...Bulletin. Montreal. Canadian Min. J our.-Canadian Mining Journal. Gardenvale, Quebec. Carnegie Inst. Washington...Journal. Montreal. Eng. Min. J our.-Engineering and Mining Journal. New York. Evolution-Evolution. Lancaster...Bull.; County Rpt.-Maryland Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources Bulletin; County Report
Report (issue)
ousielefeis iartetin steremiensis eretetererci terete ARIZONA OGG ico aie elailav'01.8) V1028 08 '6@..6)bcelevels...no OIL ORO OIG ZoZ 292 Boulder County Tellurides .... 294 Boulder County Tungsten ...... eeoeeesee 296...(COLORADO-UTAH-NEW MEXICO-ARIZONA) ... 323 A. Rifle area, Colorado «0s... 323 B. Uravan District, Colorado 324 Cope...DeeGkante District, New sMext Comer. clecetsls cused cists! 0/0 326 E. Shiprock District, Utah—Arizona .......vccccsnens F. Monticello-Moab-Thompsons District, Utah .....secvceee 326 327 ee eeseeee Gig GE DEAL
Report (volume)
Akita Univ. Mining Colt Jour. Akita, Japan. Alabama Acad. Sci. Jour. Ala. Journal of the Mining College...GEOLOGY, 1968 Arizona Acad. Sci. Jour.- Journal of the Arizona Academy of Science. Arizona State University...Tempe, Ariz. Arizona Bur. Mines BuH.- Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin. Tucson, Ariz. Arizona Highways-...Highways- Arizona Highways. Arizona Highway Department. Phoenix, Ariz. Arizona Land Dept. Water Resources Rept...Phoenix, Ariz. Arkansas Acad. Sci. Proc. Ark. Arizona State Land Department Water Arkansas Academy of
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ae TONITE TN263. Au. =American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, V.2 and Petroleum Engineers Ore...Inst! itute i an Americ ie Lye 2 of llurgical, Mining, Meta m Engineers and Petroleu © f the Ore deposiits...AND ZINC (1936) 134, MILLING METHODs 141, METAL MINING (1939) (1937-40) BLAST FURNACE, COKE OVEN AND...AIME TRANSACTIONS VOLUME 178, MINING GEOLOGY AIME TRANSACTIONS 181, MINING, INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, EDUCATION...I! Published by : : The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc. NEW
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inhabited continent. Also, to those exploration and mining geologists, and the personnel of foreign geological...L. Jensen Salt Lake City, Utah CONTENTS "The mining industry is infinitely worse off today than it...the politicians' failure to recognize that the mining industry is a highly risky business." James Boyd...placer gold rush and a poetic expression of an early mining venture. It was tin that apparently drew the Phoenicians...production costs. Depletion, Exhaustion, and Costs of Mining The exhaustion of an ore deposit may occur suddenly
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PAGE Extraction of Metals and Minerals 398 Mining, 398; Milling, 1+10; Smelting, 1+11+; Refining...and as such was taught as one phase of mining in the early mining schools. As greater attention was paid...tive industries. The early kinship with mining, and metal mining in particular, with which economic geology...specialized subdivision of economic geology known as mining geology which deals especially with the problems...problems of ore deposits and their relation to metal mining and, to some extent, with metallurgy. This relation
Report (issue)
assessments land areas__________ Geologic studies of mining districts and mineral-bearing regions._________________________...and Somerset Counties and northeastern Aroostook County, Maine, were investigated by C. C. Cameron (USGS)...hence, chromium could be a byproduct of nickel mining in these districts. In addition, some chrome sand...Porphyry copper deposit identified by Bear Creek Mining Company. The streams draining this first area were...Mitchell County, N.C., whose feldspar and mica production was gained from parts of the county outside
Report (volume)
assessments land areas__________ Geologic studies of mining districts and mineral-bearing regions._________________________...and Somerset Counties and northeastern Aroostook County, Maine, were investigated by C. C. Cameron (USGS)...hence, chromium could be a byproduct of nickel mining in these districts. In addition, some chrome sand...Porphyry copper deposit identified by Bear Creek Mining Company. The streams draining this first area were...Mitchell County, N.C., whose feldspar and mica production was gained from parts of the county outside
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and Sherman P. Marsh 775 Electrical Methods in Mining Geophysics.Gerald W. Hohmann and Stanley H. Ward...making a profit. Initially incorporated in the District of Columbia, the Publishing Company was reincorporated...With the engineering and commercial aspects of mining, Economic Geology will not be directly concerned... . The main period of ore deposition within a district seems to represent a relatively short time span...the broad economic sense, although in a few cases mining development probably is quite a way down the road
Book (edition)
Pla- Epeirogenic Move- CONTENTS 27. SOUTHERN ARIZONA ROCKIES 426 Physiographic Characteristics and...of Southeastern Arizona Cenozoic Geology of Southern Arizona Nevadan Orogeny Arizona tion Paleozoic...Yukon Aleutian Volcanic Belt Territory and the District of Greater Antilles Puerto Lesser Antilles...commonest types of reports are those that de- county or a certain stratigraphic details can be fitted...embrace more than a large state, and some are of county size. Some are fairly elongate, and most all have
Report (issue)
Brooks Range, Alaska, in 1979, prior to drilling or mining. Ground water seeping from the Red Dog deposit...Ni-Cu and platinumgroup elements in the Noril’sk district of Siberia had ered from Ni-Cu deposits in all...introduction to this review takes a brief look at nickel mining and geologic ideas before the 1950s. Discovery...metallurgist and geologist J. H. L. Vogt. At dinavia, mining for nickel started in the old copper his laboratory...northern Ontario, Company from which the Alexo Mining hoisted about 52,000 metric tons of ore with
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small resorts. Placer mining along the Salmon River and elsewhere and bedrock mining in the Seven Devils...composed dominantly of magnesian olivine, with less enstatite and still lesser amounts of augite and other minerals...Bull. 1028-R, p. 563-581. Cook, E. 1!"'., 1954, Mining geology of the Seven Devils region : Idaho Bur...Survey Bull. 879, 119 p. - - - 1948, The Ajo mining district, Arizona : U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 209... Reed, J. C., and Park, C. F., Jr., 1933, Some mining districts of eastern Oregon: U.S. Geol. Survey
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planimetric maps are generally held by city or county surveyors and land assessors, by irrigation districts...should be checked where possible against accurate county land plats or other detailed property maps. An...lines; they can generally be obtained from state or county surveyors. 5-9. Locating Outcrops on Photographs...basis of moderately accurate contro] data, as county plats of property lines or old Land Office corners...Box 80, Vicksburg, Miss. Lake Survey, U.S. Army District, 603 Federal Building, Detroit 26, Mich. Office
 
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