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Muscovite from
Ridley Mine, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ridley Mine, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:265422
Long-form Identifier:1:3:265422:5
GUID (UUID V4):ebe40082-b5f0-4a3d-aae9-c7670a9b8dab
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
3.5km (2.2 miles) ā“˜Curtis Mine, Frijole claim group, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) ā“˜Omega Mine, Monument Mountain, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
10.4km (6.4 miles) ā“˜Yuba Mine (Inghram Mine), Hughes Gulch, Greaterville placer deposits, Greaterville, Greaterville Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
11.2km (7.0 miles) ā“˜St. Louis Mine (Morning Star Mine; Isabel), St. Louis Gulch, Hughes Gulch, Greaterville placer deposits, Greaterville, Greaterville Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
12.7km (7.9 miles) ā“˜Dimple Mine group, Mount Fagan, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) ā“˜Pauline Mine, Mount Fagan, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
15.9km (9.9 miles) ā“˜Old Baldy prospects, Littleshot Camp, Madera Canyon, Old Baldy Mining District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
16.1km (10.0 miles) ā“˜Chief Mine (Chief claim), Prince Mine group, Hilton Mines, Copper Camp, Hilton (Lead Mountain), Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
18.5km (11.5 miles) ā“˜Eureka Mine (Eureka claim), Elephant Head group of claims (Tremaine-Daniels group), Mount Hopkins, Tyndall Mining District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
19.1km (11.9 miles) ā“˜Elephant Head group of claims (Tremaine-Daniels group), Tyndall Mining District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
References
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Report (issue)
No. 1 Arizona State Bureau of Mines Bulletin CHARLES F. WILLIS, Director Directory of Arizona Minerals...THE University of Arizona TUCSON, ARIZONA 1915-16 DIRECTORY (Compiled OF ARIZONA MINERALS from...Tombstone district, Cochise County; Gila County, at Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in Mineral...Mineral Park;; Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty; Yavapai County, in ores of Bradshaw Mountains; Yuma...Yuma County, in Castle Dome district; common in silver veins. ANTIMONY ORES. See Jamesonite and Stibnite
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 Ā© 2022 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserYed. Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4358-8...McDonald Co\Ā·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
Book (edition)
/BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings...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 ā€¢ Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona...Tucson .. The University of Arizona Press Copyright Ā© 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
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
Book (edition)
0.C D.?~ā€¢.!~'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
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 Ā© 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. Mineralsā€”Arizona. QE375-5-A6M56 I. Anthony, John W. (John Williams)
Report (volume)
DEPOSITS OF THE SANTA RITA AND PATAGONIA MOUNTAINS ARIZONA BY FRANK C. SCHRADER WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JAMES...17 Climate and vegetation. 18 _._ History of mining and present conditions___________________ 20 ...____________ Mining districts, camps, and properties. Helvetia district_ . General features. __ Helvetia camp__..._______________ _____ Ore deposits _ . Copper World mine ____ _____ _____ Location and topography _ _ History..._____ Black Horse mine _ Leader mine_ '. Isle Royal mine Heavy Weight mine Old Dick mine _______________
Report (issue)
OF THE TUCSON AND NOGALES 1Ā° by 2Ā° QUADRANGLES, ARIZONA Edited by Jocelyn A. Peterson Open-File Report...Gray-scale contour maps of element distribution in Arizona, scale 1:3,500,000: 19. Uranium ........................................ 63 22. Location map of mining districts .......................................Principal deposit types and cumulative production in mining districts.............. 13. List of mines with...and Nogales 1 by 2 quadrangles in south-central Arizona have made important economic contributions to a
Report (issue)
Mineralized Areas of the Basin and Range Province in Arizona By Stanley B. Keith 1 Lorraine Schnabel 2 , Ed...editorial standards and stratigraphic nomenclature. Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology; present...Tunder Dr., Phoenix, Arizona 85044 2U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado 80225 Arizona Bureau of Geology...Avenue, Tucson, Arizona 85719 ^J.C. Wilt and Co., 3035 So. Shiela Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85746 Contents...Mineralized Areas of the Basin and Range Province in Arizona..............................................in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SANTA MOUNTAINS, GENESIS OF RITA-PATAGONIA ARIZONA. ā€¢ FRANK C. SCI:IRADER. CONTENTS. PA,ā€¢-. Location........................................... 238 Mining districts .......................................Patagonia mountains are situated in southern Arizona in Pima and Santa Cruz counties, and in the Patagoniaand... an importantdistributiveand shippingpoint for mining districts, is locatedon the Benson-Nogales branchof...range. MINING DISTRICTS. Beginning on the north the range is subdividedinto the Empire, Helvetia, Greaterville
Report (volume)
........................................ 10 Arizona......................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Exploration: Application to Northern Patagonia Mountains, Arizona BYRON R. BERGER,ā€  TRUDE V. V. KING, LAURIE C. MORATH...southeastern Santa Rita and northern Patagonia mountains, Arizona. Two concealed porphyry copper deposits have been...ground-water quality in the Santa Cruz River Basin, Arizona (Fig. 1). Large areas of advanced argillic and...southeastern Santa Rita and northern Patagonia mountains, Arizona. 1003 1004 BERGER ET AL. FIG. 2. Generalized...1980). Selected geographic names are in bold type. Mine names referred to in text are shown. on mineralization
Report (issue)
Empire. No attempt has been made to give details of mining or metallurgical processes. HARCOURT, Chairman..."ore-bearing zone" 1'ead "ore-bearing zone of the Knaben district," and transpose the paragraph with that following...certain ores, as for example those of the Quyon mine, Quebec, but oil flotation is far more generally...small quantity. It is found in many places in the mining districts of West Cornwall in association with...DrakeĀ­ walls mine, near Calstock (r7J. From a remark in the deĀ­ scription of the Drakewalls mine in the memoir
Book
from the Sacramento River S e AUT EXEC Fort Nem Helvetia e 2. o 569 83 Peters Ors is oda y = . . 2 6 2...permanent rancho in the very heart of a savage district without personal risk or expenditure. . . . It...farm of two wooden buildings which housed four Muscovite workers. In one of the houses a well-furnished...stolid watchers of long days. ā€œI shall call it New Helvetiaā€”New Switzerlandā€” after my homeland,ā€ he rambled...and remaining islanders were left to defend New Helvetia. That pinnace crew oared their way into official
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The fact that these have been found chiefly in mining and quarrying operations of limited extent, many...identical with that found on Ridley and Crum Creeks in Delaware County, contained segregated masses of...of coarse orthoclase-albite-muscovite-granite. In this granite most of the minerals were found. Those...small group of crystals imbedded in tourmaline. Muscovite, biotite and pyrite and two specimens of hyalite...granitic beds of this gneiss good crystals of muscovite occurred. All this region has long been built
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
polymetallic Au-Ag vein deposit in the Central City district, Colorado: Mineral paragenesis and pyrite trace...polymetallic AuAg vein deposit in the Central City district, Colorado: Mineral paragenesis and pyrite trace...polymetallic Au-Ag vein deposit in the Central City district, Colorado: Mineral paragenesis and pyrite trace...City historic Au-Ag mining district is located in the Front Range of Colorado, USA, and has been one of...Previous studies have related ore formation in the district to the emplacement of Late Cretaceous-Paleogene
Report (issue)
STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY A. S. FURCRON, Director THE GEOLOGICAL...herewith Bulletin 80 of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology entitled, "PaleozoicPrecambrian Appalachian...and James W. Smith Georgia Department of Mines, Mining and Geology Atlanta, Georgia 30334 In cooperation...------------------------------------------- 17 Ridley Limestone ------------------------------------...Pond Spring Formation, Murfreesboro Limestone, Ridley Limestone, Lebanon Limestone, and Carters Limestone
Report (issue)
Carolina Geological Survey. The greater part of the mine descriptions were obtained during 1905, 1906, and...operations have been described in the early days of mica mining by white people, and several of the deposits where...are described below. The present period of mica mining was begun in 1867 by L. E. Persons, of Philadelphia...Mr. Persons's attention was directed to Jackson County by someone in Philadelphia who had seen a crystal...In the fall of 1867 Mr. Persons went to Jackson County and learned from Mr. Davies the location of favorable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
, Structural and petrologic studies in Duchess County, New York, Pt. II: G. S. A. Bulletin,47,775-850...includes the southern half of Chester County, all of Delaware County and parts of Philadelphia and Montgomery...Anna I., Geology of the McCalls Ferry-Quarryville District, Penna. : U..t.G.S., Bal,l,etin 799, 7 l-84 (1929)...schist of the Doe Run and Avondale region, Chester County, Pa.: U.S.G.S., ProJ. Paper 98-B (1916). 1r Swartz...largest body, six miles long, lies between the Rosemont Fault and the Delaware River extending approximately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
transpressional-transtensional displacements. Major mining camps are sited near deflections, strike slip or...in these flanking domains. The largest lode gold mining camps are in terranes at greenschist facies; they...metamorphic feldspars and Fe, Mg, Ca-silicates to a muscovite/paragonite-chlorite f albite/K-feldspars assemblage;...equilibrium (fluid-mineral ā€˜8O/ā€˜6O; aK/aH vs. a,,/a,-muscovite/albite) or disequilibrium conditions (hydraulic...of metal content at the scale of an entire mining district. 14. Primary stable and radiogenic isotope
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated with the shallow and more distal pyriteā€“muscovite alteration contain three-phase H2Oā€“CO2 inclusions...also observed in veins associated with pyriteā€“muscovite and pyrrhotiteā€“albite alteration. These inclusions...et dans les parties plus distales, Ć  pyrite + muscovite, contiennent des inclusions Ć  trois phases H2Oā€“CO2... en association avec lā€™altĆ©ration Ć  pyrite + muscovite et pyrrhotite + albite. Ces inclusions sā€™homogĆ©nisent...1987, Ho et al. 1990a, b, Yeats & Vanderhor 1998, Ridley & Diamond 2000). Estimates of CO2 in the initial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
to be ca. 2.66ā€“2.65 Ga in age Že.g. Coolgardie district: Knight et al., 1994; Witt et al., 1994.. 3. Structural...10 km . aplites U ā€“ Pb: 2667 " 4 Ma Porphyry Mine granite, felsic volcanic rocks Porphyry Eisenlohr...and rheology of the enclosed lithologies Že.g. Ridley, 1993.. However, the deposit itself is typically...andror chemical contrasts Žcf. Hronsky et al., 1990; Ridley, 1993.. Granitoid-hosted gold deposits are located...pluton ŽFig. 3; Great Eastern; deposits in Cue district: Cassidy et al., 1990.. Where mineralisation is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MS920, Reston, VA 22092, USA b U.S. Geological Survey, MS973, Denver, CO 80225, USA c TsNIGRI, 129B, Varshavskoye...those in the Allegheny district, Califomia (BiShlke, 1989), the Juneau district, Alaska (Goldfarb et al...within this area that the current Muruntau open pit mine is being developed. Carboniferous-Permian granitoid...zones, highly silicified bodies and the Murnntau mine in southern Tamdytau. Three strands of left-lateral...prominently displayed in the vicinity of the Murnntau mine as a 5-km-wide band of brittle faults that trends
 
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