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Dioptase from
Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Dioptase
Formula:CuSiO3 · H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Malachite1 photo of Dioptase associated with Malachite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Dioptase associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dioptase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:22562
Long-form Identifier:1:3:22562:7
GUID (UUID V4):072f7e41-8d84-4d74-a60e-4b37ce10a86d
Localities for Dioptase in this Region
Shattuck Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Dioptase
3.7km (2.3 miles) Shattuck Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
59.3km (36.9 miles) Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
73.4km (45.6 miles) Johnson Camp, Gunnison Copper Project, Cochise Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
76.9km (47.8 miles) Unnamed Pb-Cu-Ag-Au-Zn-W prospect, Tres Alamos Wash, Johnny Lyon Hills, Yellowstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
91.5km (56.9 miles) Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nebraska, Lincoln] at 07:52 28 December 2014 Arizona Mineral Classics A rizona contains a wealth of...see copper minerals well represented among the Arizona classics listed in tables 1, 2, and 3. Bideaux...listed 163 different copper minerals found in Arizona. Sixty-one percent of the classic minerals listed...advanced degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and collected personally at many of the classic...his previous article (Rocks & Minerals 1981) on Arizona minerals. 18 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded by
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 ................................mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs Famous mineral...G. M. 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 (issue)
RECORD, MAY-JUNE 2013 Mineral Collections in Arizona A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record May-June...Mineralogical Record, Inc. P.O. Box 30730, Tucson, Arizona 85751 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil photo...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was...May-June 2013 Contents Mineral Collecting in Arizona .. ..... ..... ..... ..... ... ..... .........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RICHARDSon 3340 east Mountain Vista Drive Phoenix, Arizona 85048 richardsonutaz@gmail.com Figure 1. A 1954...Rusack. All mineral photos taken by Jeff Scovil of Arizona specimens in the Flagg Mineral Foundation collection...date: Not only does it mark the centennial of Arizona statehood, but it is also the golden (fiftieth)...after Arthur Leonard Flagg and located in Phoenix. Arizona and Arthur L. Flagg are intimately interwoven....Foundation vice-chairman. A field collector of Utah and Arizona minerals, he has previously written for Rocks &
Report (issue)
837 c = 9.932 Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Bisbee, Arizona, USA. 2.490 (vs), 1.575 (s), 1.251 (s), 2.050...(1) 81.80 (2) 84.12 15.88 100.00 2+ (1) Bisbee, Arizona, USA; by electrolytic determination of total...goethite (Bisbee, Arizona, USA); cuprite, tenorite, chrysocolla, malachite, plancheite, dioptase, atacamite...mine, Michigan, USA). Distribution: From the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, and at the...the Algomah mine, Ontonagon Co., Michigan, USA. Name: From the Greek for near and melaconite, which in turn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper silicates are such aesthetic minerals as dioptase, plancheite, and the rare minerals apacheite,...American West. Arizona hosts the type locality, the Shattuck or Shattuck-Denn mine at Bisbee, Warren district...district, Cochise County, after which the mineral in named (Schaller 1915). The mine itself was developed...developed by one of the Bisbee copper kings, Lemuel C. Shattuck, a man who built his fortune on A Little Mining...it was one of the richest of the Bisbee mines. The Shattuck-Arizona Mining Company paid more than $8
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
misidentification occurred. A well-documented case in point is dioptase, a mineral that is today familiar to virtually...at which dioptase was the featured mineral (Jones 1985). The most striking feature of dioptase is its emerald-green...that triggers an instant sight identification as dioptase. It has a vitreous luster and is typically translucent;...density of 3.28-3.35. It is uniaxially positive. Dioptase crystallizes in the hexagonal system (3) and is...otherwise finely crystalline massive aggregates. Dioptase is a copper silicate hydroxide with a formula
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/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
Catalog/List
TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near clear thumbnails...at $15.00 each. BROOKITE: Magnet Cove, Garland County, Arkansas; Dipyramidal thumbnail crystals mounted...Hill, Calaveras River, Valley Springs, Calaveras County, California: Really neat little buggers for sure...ANDRADITE GARNET: Hans Garnet Mine, Paradise, Plumas County, California: Very showy deep red garnets on matrix...WULFENITE: 320 foot level, Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Black coloration is caused by included manganese
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)
Journal (issue)
January–February, 2020 Mineral Collections in Arizona-II A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record January-February...Record, Inc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil photo...wulfenite became the official State Mineral of Arizona by Alexander G. Schauss A Fat Jack Adventure by...COLLECTIONS Erika Brown Mineralogical Society of Arizona Members Wyatt Busby Tom Moore Mark Candee Dick
Report (issue)
210–9.224 Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Tiger, Arizona, USA. 5.30 (10), 2.659 (10), 1.629 (10), 2.303 (9)...Tiger, Arizona, USA; corresponds to Pb0.9 Cu6.1 O8 . (2) Hansonburg district, New Mexico, USA; by electron...willemite, descloizite, dioptase, chrysocolla, creaseyite, quartz (Tiger, Arizona, USA); plattnerite, malachite...“limonite” (Mapimı́, Mexico); embolite, chrysocolla, dioptase, plattnerite, hemimorphite, iranite, boleite,...(Tchah Khuni mine, Iran). Distribution: In the USA, in Arizona, from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger,
Journal (issue)
Institution Pete J. Dunn Smithsonian Institution ARIZONA-II Peter Q. Embrey British Museum (Natural History)...The Mineralogical Record P. O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 published bimonthly by the Mineralogical...Articles The Defiance mine and vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona ..............203 by J. R. Thompson Slide..................211 The C. & B. mine, Gila County, Arizona .............................................J. A. Crowley The Grand Reef mine, Graham County, Arizona ..............................219 by R. W.
Book (edition)
found in Arizona. In the twelve years since then 61 more minerals have been reported from Arizona, a number...change. This checklist is an effort to bring the Arizona mineral list up to date. Of the 61 minerals added...locality being in Arizona. They are: bechererite from the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite...Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from the Grand...Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near Gray Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite from
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...Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
Catalog/List
matrix. £60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...£30. 9. CHALCOTRICHITE. (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Bisbee, Arizona, U.S.A Gossan matrix with one surface with...OLIVENITE (5cm x 3cm x 3cm) Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada, U.S.A. Area 4 x 2.5 cm richly covered...(3.5cm x 2.5cm x 2cm) Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada, U.S.A. Very rich little specimen of small...£28 29. NEPTUNITE (5cm x 3cm x 1.5cm) San Benito County, California, U.S.A. Terminated very bright black
Journal (issue)
Record, lnc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping; Hardcover:...mineral localities like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many... Eventually rnoving on through New Mexico and Arizona as a prospector, he leamed some mineralogy and...in the Gien Rose Limestone formation of Lampasas County. Lampasas celestine first became well known among... HI STORY_....,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _......., J COUNTY MAp o, '1~AAa M'Al.t.OFM.11.ES An 1870 map of
Book (edition)
/BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were...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
Journal (issue)
50th Anniversary Issue! Arizona ineralogical Record January-February 2020 ❖ Volume 51 Number 1 ❖ $40...$40 THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ARIZONA-VII . . . . Arizona-VII (Introduction) .................................................... 5 W. E. Wilson Arizona Wulfenite in the News, 1877–1940 ................15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona .............................................B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ..........................................
Report (issue)
10.08 55.30 2.23 Total 100.02 100.00 (1) Bisbee, Arizona, USA; average of three analyses. (2) Pb(Cu, Zn)(VO4...duftite, mimetite, wulfenite, cerussite, azurite, dioptase. Distribution: Many localities. From Mottram...England. In the USA, at the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., from Bisbee, Cochise Co., at the... and from the 79 mine, near Hayden, Gila Co., Arizona; at the Mayflower mine, Socorro Peak district,
Journal (issue)
Inc., © 2020 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Order through...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root...5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino County, California (#1869). Jerry Cone photo. Aurichalcite...sphalerite, 20 cm, from the Elmwood mine, Smith County, Tennessee. Paul Bordovsky photo. Wire silver
Book (edition)
~J.RY Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee. These old workings were...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arizona Wulfenite KEN BLADH Geology Department Wittenberg University Springfield, Ohio 45501 kbladh@wittenberg...localities in Arizona with world-class (best-of-species) specimens of wulfenite. Arizona wulfenite specimens...well-established group of nine “best-of-species” Arizona localities, based on the consensus 10   ROCKS &...MINERALS Figure 1. Wulfenite, Defiance mine, Cochise County. Les and Paula Presmyk specimen, 6 cm wide;...worldwide in historical sequence. The nine consensus Arizona localities, as important components of wulfenite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals. Most of them...Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke, Washington County. It has also...at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut; as good micromount material at the...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as...Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey; at the Conklin quarry near Lincoln, Providence County, Rhode Island;
Report (issue)
Residents of Arizona MINERALS OF ARIZONA by Frederic W. Galbraith and Daniel J. Brennan THE ARIZONA BUREAU...UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON FOREWORD As a service about mineral matters in Arizona, the Arizona Bureau of...University of Arizona, is pleased to reprint the long-standing booklet on MINERALS OF ARIZONA. This basic...Dr. Frederic W. Galbraith, as a bulletin of the Arizona Bureau of Mines. It has moved through several editions...released in its Fourth Edition as Bulletin 181, Arizona Bureau of Mines. The comprehensive coverage of
 
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