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Cuprite from
Azurite Mine, Roper Gulf Region, Northern Territory, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Azurite Mine, Roper Gulf Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:356885
Long-form Identifier:1:3:356885:9
GUID (UUID V4):264f9797-8aff-44d5-a4e8-7b00fdb32671
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
2.6km (1.6 miles) Sandy Flat Mine, Redbank Area breccia pipes, Roper Gulf Region, Northern Territory, Australia
2.8km (1.7 miles) Bluff Pipe, Redbank Area breccia pipes, Roper Gulf Region, Northern Territory, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Australian Museum, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia IAN T. GRAHAM1,2 ROSS E POGSON1 1 Geoscience...College Street, Sydney New South Wales 2010, Australia ian.graham@austmus.gov.au ross.pogson@austmus...New South Wales, Sydney New South Wales 2052, Australia Figure 1. The Albert Chapman Mineral Collection...the finest crystallized specimens ever found in Australia, representing an important part of Australia’s...Smithsonite. (7 × 4 cm; D49972), Broken Hill Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Prospect dolerite
Journal (issue)
Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement To The Mineralogical Record, September–October 2020 ... Mineral Collections in Australia Organized by Robert Sielecki Designed by Wendell Wilson with Photography...September–October, 2020 Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September–October...1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian...Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia
Report (issue)
No. 7 Woolman, Government Printer, South Australia, 1983 REF 349.994, N668c Noble, R. A. Catalogue...Mineralogy—South Australia. |. Just, J. (Juri). Il. Johnson, J. E. (James Eric). Ill. South Australia. Dept. of...and Energy. IV. Title. (Series: Handbook (South Australia. Dept. of Mines and Energy); 7) 549.99423 ISSN...Keywords: Mineralogy/Catalogues/Minerals/South Australia. Issued under the authority of The Hon. R. G...longest crystal is 9 mm. Frontispiece: Azurite, Burra copper mine; 5 mm crystal group on chrysocolla.
Report (issue)
WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R. J...Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never...DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces .......................................... Cambridge Gulf area .............................................34 35 35 36 36 36 36 37 CHAPTER 5 CENTRAL AND NORTHERN AUSTRALIAN PLATFORM COVER Geology ...........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A Cuprite Downloaded by [Temple University Libraries] at 20:14 01 June 2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba...Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia M any mineral species of particular...the world’s finest specimens of native copper, azurite, malachite, atacamite, and a host of other minerals...least of these is cuprite, the topic of this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. Cuprite is most familiar as...brittle with a conchoidal to uneven fracture. Cuprite is relatively soft with a Mohs hardness of 3 .
Journal (issue)
7(1):15-17 Bismoclite from the Leinster area, Western Australia. Grguric, Ben A. and Madsen, Ian C. 8(2):83-8S...8(1):3-8 Secondary copper minerals of the Crusader mine, north-west Queensland. Sharpe, James L. and Williams...secondary minerals from the Nifty copper mine, Western Australia. Downes, P.J., Shields, P. and Bevan, A...• Kasolite from the British Empire mine, Arkaroola, South Australia. Plimer, Ian R., Besley, Robert and...Mendozavilite from the Fitzgerald River district, Western Australia. Birch, William D., Pring, Allan and Wallwork
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4  Northern and western Europe . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.7  Northern and Central Africa . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . 1.10 Southeast Asia and Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...closely link geomorphological (land)forms in a region with the climate during a certain period of time...way. Encrustations made up of tenorite and (or) cuprite are called cupriferous oxicrete or adopting the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Azurite Downloaded by [National Sun Yat-Sen University]...mineralogical author Richard Bideaux (1 973) wrote that “Azurite must be considered a cornerstone mineral of any...for superior gold specimens. For these reasons, azurite remains one of the most popular and highly sought...of the 2002 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, three azurite specimens from Tsumeb and one from Morocco have...chosen for this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice. Azurite is perhaps the most familiar blue mineral, ranging
Journal (issue)
the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ........................................University of Wollongong Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500 Australia Thomas G. Vallance Department of Geology University...University of Sydney Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia INTRODUCTION Australia, the island continent with a land...minerals and mines in their plans to establish Australia as a new colony in the late 18th century. The
Journal (issue)
with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...botryoidal malachite in the Big Horn Mountains and azurite from near Tucson in 1855. Other explorers reported...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Azurite S N SU DEHNE MCLAUGHLIN 5 Tenth Avenue West Moonah, Tasmania 7009, Australia dehne.mclaughlin@bigpond...August 2013 from the Malbunka Copper Mine Northern Territory Australia Photos by Dehne McLaughlin and Maureen...Looking east at a tent camp and vehicles on the mine waste rock dump. Note adit entrances commence in...Besse. Figure 3. Atacamite, chrysocolla, and azurite in footwall sandstone. Photographed area is 50...range of forms and habits, but azurite from the Malbunka copper mine (also referred to in the past as
Catalog/List
SPECIMEN LIST from PAUL Ao LOWE BRITISH - CORNISH - NORTHERN WORLD DISPLAY - REFERENCE 1995 Nol Terms All...Time 8am -9pm) FLUORITE,Rosilare Level.Minerva Mine No 1 ,Cave-in-Rock District.Southem Illonois.Xtl...£10 9. SPHALERITE,var.Ruby Blende.Mid-Continent Mine,Pitcher.Oklahoma,USA Rich continuous druse of ruby...PYRITE.Nanisivik Mine.Baffin Island,North West Territory,Canada SPC of pure pyrite consisting of interlocking...22. AZURITE altering to MALACHITE.Tsumcorp Mine.Otavi.Namibia.Lovely xtl group of tapering azurite prisms
Journal (issue)
cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...copper-containing minerals (e.g., chalcopyrite, azurite, malachite, chrysocolla, linarite, etc.). Consequently...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...chrysocolla pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Shaba Region, Democratic Republic of Congo Downloaded by [University...described. Well known are malachite after azurite, copper, and cuprite; less commonly reported are malachite...wood and bone. Azurite, shattuckite, chrysocolla, chalcoalumite, goethite, and cuprite pseudomorphs after...or interesting localities include the Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock...County, and New Brunswick, New Jersey; the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 20:09 23 November 2014 from Eastern Australia JAMES L. SHARPE PETER A. WILLIAMS School of Natural...Bag 1797 Penrith South DC New South Wales 1797, Australia p.williams@uws.edu.au sharpemin@dodo.com.au Figure...copper, 2 inches high, Mount Elliott, Cloncurry region, Queensland. M. Newnham specimen, J. Bosworth photo...Sydney in Penrith South DC, New South Wales, Australia. Dr. Peter A. Williams is a professor of chemistry...wife, who had been a bal gal (woman who worked in a mine) in Cornwall. She identified the specimens as containing
Book (volume)
rises abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi. Black Hills region enclosed by the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne rivers...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...the core of the Black Hills region. Two divisions are recognized: the Northern Section, centered in lead...a somewhat larger area around Harney Peak. The northern section is characterized by vein deposits, while...United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel, on the W
Report (issue)
Introduction, p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland...Index, p. 60; : Subject Index, p. 86 : Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p. 95...95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject Index...Index, p. 129 : Subject Index, p. 145 Northern Territory : ; Locality Index, p. 123. ; Locality...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining
Journal (issue)
................. 15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ....................................... 29 B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ...........................& W. E. Wilson Mineral collecting at the Magma mine, . . Superior, Arizona ..........................123 L. Presmyk & M. Hay Treasures of the Magma mine, Pinal County, Arizona .................................... 147 W. E. Wilson & Mark Hay The Ford mine, Pinal County, Arizona ........................
Journal (issue)
Newnham 10 Heyington Close, Croydon Victoria 3136, Australia Telephone (03) 9725 5386 Facsimile (03) 9723 5041...Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 2, Number 1 June...Isa District, Queensland Part 3 - The Mount Oxide mine ............ B. Day & B. Beyer 3 Zeolites and...England The Francis Collection A. Pring 21 Post mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit...Sabine's Shaft, Mount Bonnie mine. 44 km north-west of Pine Creek. Northern Territory. The specimen is 2 x 5
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Senior mine personnel inspecting an ingress of water on 8 level, on 21 January 1924. F. W....SOUTHWOOD 7 Campbell Court Warrandyte, Victoria 3113 Australia mal.southwood@bigpond.com RAQUEL ALONSO-PEREZ...2. A fine group of large, lustrous, blue-black azurite crystals on a powdery, friable matrix consisting...the Eckleben Hotel, in the town of Tsumeb, in northern Namibia (then known as South West Africa*; fig...Herr Wilhelm Klein, a senior manager at the Tsumeb mine, and his subject was “Die Mineralien der Tsumeber
Report (issue)
large regional faults such as near deposits in northern Chile (Behn and others, 2001; Gow and Walshe,...Clark and others, 2007). In the thermal infrared region, quartz and hydrous silica contain emission minima...the Red Mountain and Sunnyside deposits in the Northern Patagonia Mountains of    7 Arizona (Green and...typical assemblage might include malachite + azurite + cuprite + chrysocolla, with minor amounts of other...the magma is largely inherited from the source region (Carmichael, 1991). Other parameters, such as magma
Journal (issue)
the last hard rock mines in England. Frazer's Hush mine in Weardale is scheduled to close shortly and South...unfortunately this was too little too late to save the mine. A few hand specimens of siderite displaying drusy...cassiterite and wolframite were collected just before the mine closed. South Crofcy will perhaps be best remembered...Isles where large excavations have been made in mine dumps and left unfilled. This type of activity gives...pharmacosiderite collected from a shaft dump of Ting Tang mine (see separate article in this issue). The locality
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/...Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish Rule Arizona as a Territory 28 Statehood 48 PART 3 rr 22 NOTABLE ARIZONA...District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART...Aurichalcite Azurite and cuprite . 1X , • Azurite and malachite Azurite and malachite Azurite and malachite
Journal (issue)
Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R... D. (1999) Famous mineral localities: Ting Tang mine, Gwennap, Cornwall 19:18-23 CLARK, A.M. (1998) Earth's...P. (1995) Crystallized Enargite from the Gregory mine, Ashover, Derbyshire 15:28-29 DAY, B. (1998) Collecting...from Boulby mine, Cleveland 14:4-8 __& McCALLUM, D. (1993) Millerite from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
csic.es Correspondence: psg004@ucn.cl Abstract: Northern Chile is home to the world’s largest copper ore...associations: atacamite/brochantite (99%) and azurite/chrysocolla (1%). The study of various minerals...likely geological sources of these minerals. The azurite/chrysocolla samples appear to belong to the same...Periods (ca. 11th–16th centuries), located in northern Chile (Figure 2). We analysed 568 samples with...and fragments). Figure 1. Metallogenic belts in northern Chile, mining districts and copper mines. Metallogenic
 
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