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Calcite from
Twin Buttes Mine, Twin Buttes, Pima Mining District (Olive Mining District; Mineral Hill Mining District; Twin Buttes Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:Crusts several inches thick comprised of crystals.
Habit:Simply-terminated, rhombic
Colour:Creamy-white (egg shell)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Epidote
Laumontite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Copper2 photos of Calcite associated with Copper at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Twin Buttes Mine, Twin Buttes, Pima Mining District (Olive Mining District; Mineral Hill Mining District; Twin Buttes Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:258208
Long-form Identifier:1:3:258208:5
GUID (UUID V4):0435dc64-ad99-49e3-a860-73cc281d946e
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
7.5km (4.6 miles) Crown King & Tiger Mine groups (Crown King and Tiger Mines), Esperanza Mine group [old], Pima Mining District (Olive Mining District; Mineral Hill Mining District; Twin Buttes Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
9.6km (6.0 miles) Sierrita Mine, Batamote Hills, Pima Mining District (Olive Mining District; Mineral Hill Mining District; Twin Buttes Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) San Xavier Mine (San Xavier Mine shaft), Pima Mining District (Olive Mining District; Mineral Hill Mining District; Twin Buttes Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
11.3km (7.0 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
11.5km (7.2 miles) Mineral Hill Mines (Azurite group; Old Azurite Mine; Copper Glance Mine), Mineral Hill, Mission complex, San Xavier, Pima Mining District (Olive Mining District; Mineral Hill Mining District; Twin Buttes Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
11.6km (7.2 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
15.5km (9.6 miles) San Xavier pit (San Xavier open pit; San Xavier West Mine; San Xavier Unit Open 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
16.4km (10.2 miles) Neptune Mine (Neptune property; Fluorine Mine; Fluxore Mine; Turtle Green Mine; Turtle Spar Mine; Turtle Star Mine; Cardiella Mine), Gunsight Mountain, Papago Mining District (Sierrita Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
23.8km (14.8 miles) Black Dike Mine (Black Dike group; Black Dike claim; Black Dike deposit; Black Dyke Mine; Big Dike; Bobson group; Big Dike Apex & Ajax), Papago Mining District (Sierrita Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
24.5km (15.2 miles) Santa Rita Quarry, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
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OF THE SIERRITA MOUNTAINS, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA. By F. L. RANSOME. INTRODUCTION. The Sierrita Mountains...nearly meridional mountain ranges of southern Arizona. They separate the Santa Cruz Valley on the east...Santa Rita Mountains to the east or the Baboquivari Range to the west, the Sierrita Mountains are of minor...scenically unimpressive. On the west side of the Sierrita Mountains, mainly in a rather definite belt of foothills...prospects within what is locally known as the Papago district, although they appear to be included within what
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