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Chalcocite from
Copper King Mine, Person County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Copper King Mine, Person County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:413866
Long-form Identifier:1:3:413866:2
GUID (UUID V4):8a8367c2-9aeb-4f09-a387-35f56c723205
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
1.8km (1.1 miles) Holloway Mine (Copper King Mines), Virgilina District, Granville County, North Carolina, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Annie Maud Prospect, Granville County, North Carolina, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Blue Wing Mine (Royster Mine; Spring shaft), Virgilina District, Granville County, North Carolina, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) Cornfield Property (Cornfield Prospects), Granville County, North Carolina, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Engle Prospect, Person County, North Carolina, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) Gillis Mine, Virgilina Mining District, Person County, North Carolina, USA
6.0km (3.7 miles) Old Durgy Mine, Person County, North Carolina, USA
6.5km (4.0 miles) Copper World Mine, Person County, North Carolina, USA
6.9km (4.3 miles) Anaconda Mine, Virgilina Mining District, Halifax County, Virginia, USA
7.3km (4.5 miles) Durgy Mine (Yancey Mine; Person Consolidated Mine), Person County, North Carolina, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
of the Virgilina District of Virginia and North Carolina FRANCIS BAKER LANEY JorNrr,y By ?HE Gror,ocrcer...i]tt 59 6I ORES. General statement ... Native copper deoosits :vlrneralogv oI the verns '.f-'.-- statement...ore minerals General stat^ement 74 Bornite Chalcocite . l, . Chalcopyrite Native iopper Klaprothite...Generalstatement............... Relations of bornite anrl chalcocite Relations of bornite ancl chalcopyrite .. .....minerals Development Concentrating plant . Blue Wine mine-.. General*statement... Undergroundilevelopment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minerals of the Big Indian Copper Mine Downloaded by [North Carolina State University] at 23:01 15 March...March 2015 SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH ARNOLD G . HAMPSON P.O. Box 1379 1301 Memtt Way Dolores, Colorado 81323...from his collection THE BIG INDIAN COPPER MINE is an open-pit copper mine located within the Big Indian mining...mining district in San Juan County, Utah, approximately 33 miles northwest of Monticello and about the...the same distance southeast of Moab. The mine has been a noted source of exceptionally fine specimens
Report (volume)
especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list...State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G...... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South Carolina.. .Dr. Earle Sloan, Charleston. South Dakota....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;
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along with lesser...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COPPER-BEARING Minerals of COLORADO ED RAINES Geology Museum Colorado School of Mines 1310 Maple Street...noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...Colorado produced almost 260 million pounds of copper. Nearly 100 million pounds came from the Leadville...with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926). During the twentieth century...the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with more than 210 million pounds mined
Book (volume)
.......................................346 North Carolina ........................................................................................356 North Dakota ...............................................................................427 South Carolina ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ...............................
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Bagdad Area Yavapai County Arizona GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 278... Geology and Ore Deposits of the Bagdad Area Yavapai County Arizona By C. A. ANDERSON, E. A. SCHOLZ, and J...PROFESSIONAL PAPER 278 A study of the Bagdad porphyry copper deposit and its geologic setting UNITED STATES...^___________________ Intrusive rocks_____________________________ King Peak rhyolite ____________________ Dick rhy olite...Gila(?) conglomerate,______ Structure in the Bagdad mine ________________ Relationship of mineralization
Journal (issue)
2002 • $15 Kristalle Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)...COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...Treasure of Butte Hill and Development of the Great Copper Industry” by C. P. Connolly in McClure’s Magazine...& Jerry A. Lorengo Ed McDole: “Montana Mineral King” By Richard A. Bideaux What’s new in minerals:...from Butte. Specimens of copper sulfides and sulfosalts like bornite, chalcocite, colusite, covellite, digenite
Book (volume)
vertebrate remains. The breaks of the White River north of Crawford in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all tributary branches
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation,
Report (volume)
......... North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota............................................. South Carolina......................................:..........especial interest or value. Some minerals, such as the copper ores of Pennsylvania, are included in the list...1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892...Fair edition, 1904. Genth, F. A., Minerals of North Carolina: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 74, 1891. Shannon
Report (issue)
metals. 3. Various metalliferous deposits (mostly copper, zinc, lead, iron, gold, and molybdenum) that contain...commonly contain some copper and zinc sulfides), metalliferous' deposits (including copper, zinc, lead, iron...sulfur are available as potential byproducts from copper, lead, and zinc deposits, coal, industrial and...sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration and...California Auschwitz mine, Lake County - 2, 4 Coso Range deposits, Inyo County - 14 Coyote Mountain deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...and Grace Dyck and wus titled “The Sunrise Iron Mine near Hartville, Wyoming”; it appeared in the MaylJune...Minerals was titled “The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite pegmatite, 12 miles W of Bosler
Corporate Document
2012 Copper King Mine, Silver Crown District, Wyoming (Preliminary Report) W. Dan Hausel Independent...Independent Geologist, Gilbert, Arizona 11/14/2012 COPPER KING MINE, SILVER CROWN DISTRICT W. Dan Hausel, Independent...low-grade, large-tonnage, bulk minable gold and copper (Hausel and Jones, 1982). Nearly all mining and...exploration activity in the district centered on the Copper King mine and the Hecla ghost-town with its mill constructed...Line district to extract diamonds, rather than copper and gold from 1979 to 1995, also had recovery problems
Book
The Warren (Bisbee) Mining District Cochise County, Arizona Ralph J. Stegen Ernest Wright Donald G....Society President, Ralph Stegen (Vice President, Mine-Site Exploration, Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp...trip with Ernest Wright (Phelps Dodge Mining Co., Copper Queen Branch) and Donald Bryant (Denver, Colorado)...will take us to outcrops of the Jurassic porphyry copper deposit and associated base- and precious-metal-bearing...precious-metal-bearing manto deposits and supergene-enriched copper deposits throughout the district (see maps on pages
Report (issue)
The Warren (Bisbee) Mining District Cochise County, Arizona Ralph J. Stegen Ernest Wright Donald G....Society President, Ralph Stegen (Vice President, Mine-Site Exploration, Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp...trip with Ernest Wright (Phelps Dodge Mining Co., Copper Queen Branch) and Donald Bryant (Denver, Colorado)...will take us to outcrops of the Jurassic porphyry copper deposit and associated base- and precious-metal-bearing...precious-metal-bearing manto deposits and supergene-enriched copper deposits throughout the district (see maps on pages
Book (volume)
grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Book (volume)
grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Report (issue)
prospector's pan were recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18 22 Mine and prospect descriptions . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . .. 39 39 40 40 40 41 41 Reported mine and prospect descriptions . . . . .. . . . . . ...MisceUaneous. . . . . . . . . . . . . Lost Cabin gold mine ., . _ . .. . .. . . . . . . _. . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . • • . • • • . . 42 44 47 Mine and prospect desc-iptions . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
THE GRAND GULCH MINING REGION, MOHAVE COUNTY, ARIZONA. By JAMES M. HILL. INTRODUCTION. Early iff November... R. Callaway, superintendent of the Grand Gulch mine, supplied many details that have been incorporated...district is in that part of Hohave County, Ariz., which lies north of Colorado River and embraces the...this paper is based only the Grand Gulch mine and the Bronze L mine, on the terrace above and immediately...GULCH MINING EEGION, AEIZ. .41 The Grand Gulch mine is 54 miles by road east of St. Thomas. The road
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE CLIFTON-MORENCI DISTRICT, ARIZONA... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Detroit Copper Company . _.. ___ .. __ .. __ ......... _........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • Arizona-Copper Company _......... _. _. _. _... ___ ........ .............. - .... ~ . . . . . . . . . Shannon Copper Company.~ ................. -.· ................._·_................................... Minerals Copper......... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
COPPER. NOTES ON COPPER DEPOSITS IN CHAFFEE, FREMONT, AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES, COIO. By WALDEMAR LINDGREN...LINDGREN. INTRODUCTION. Colorado is not an important copper-producing State. The annual production rarely reaches...by-product; that from San Juan County slightly exceeded 1,500,000 pounds. The copper ores, properly so called...from San Juan County. It may be said that Colorado does not contain a single copper mine of prominence...produced 349,466 pounds of cop'per from 6,249 tons of copper ores in 1906; the yield of Fremont and Jefferson
Report (issue)
COPPER. THE COPPER MINES OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1905. By WALTER HARVEY WEED. INTRODUCTION. Copper...greatest individual increase that of the Copper Queen mine at Bisbee, Ariz. The following table shows...various trustworthy authorities. & Production of copper in the United States, 190J/.-5. State or Territory...Pounds. 3, 565, 629 2,043,586 4,518,034 ton. North Carolina....... Georgia. .. ........... 1905. Pounds...United States and the leading part it plays in the copper market of the world are shown in the following
Report (issue)
Gold, base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina 1011 by Gwendolyn W. Luttrell 12 U.S. Geological...base-metal, and related deposits of North Carolina Abstract Gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, pyrite, tinf-,...barite, and rare-earths have been mined in North Carolina. Gold, with by-product silver, occurs in veins...province and in placers derived from these deposits. Copper occurs with complex sulfide ores in quartz veins...west of the Blue Ridge. 12 complex ores of gold, copper, lead, zinc, and silver in veins and 13 replacements
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 
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