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Chalcophyllite from
Copper Stope, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Stope
Classification
Species:Chalcophyllite
Formula:Cu18Al2(AsO4)4(SO4)3(OH)24 · 36H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cornubite5 photos of Chalcophyllite associated with Cornubite at this locality.
Pharmacosiderite4 photos of Chalcophyllite associated with Pharmacosiderite at this locality.
Azurite2 photos of Chalcophyllite associated with Azurite at this locality.
Olivenite1 photo of Chalcophyllite associated with Olivenite at this locality.
Metazeunerite1 photo of Chalcophyllite associated with Metazeunerite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Chalcophyllite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcophyllite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Copper Stope, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (8 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:414885
Long-form Identifier:1:3:414885:2
GUID (UUID V4):e6cd0e21-e4fc-48c3-9db7-fe8358e09248
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Geology of Majuba Hill Pershing County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This report concerns work...Commission 1046-1 Geology of Majuba Hill Pershing County, Nevada By ALBERT F. TRITES, Jr., and RALPH...production________________________________________ Mine workings ________________________________________________...pocket] PLATE 7. Geologic map and section of Majuba Hill. 8. Geologic map of surface above Middle adit...Upper and Middle adit levels and sections through Copper, No. 153, and Myler stopes. ' 10. Geologic map
Journal (issue)
Type Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist who specialized in mercury deposits....H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Saskatchewan Library] at 03:35 01 August 2012 Chalcophyllite Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, Cornwall, England... This month’s Connoisseur’s Choice mineral—chalcophyllite—falls into the latter category, its name having...from the Greek words for both its major element (copper) and its typical morphology (leaflike). This attractive...location; the type material is in the Freiberg Mining Academy collection in Germany (Anthony et al. 2000)...specimens from Wheal Tamar, Devon, England. Chalcophyllite occurs in a range of colors from emeraldgreen
Journal (issue)
$6.00 The Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada A Source of Superb Secondary Copper Minerals Daniel...(phroth@sunrise.ch) Introduction Since the 1950’s, the Majuba Hill Mine has been recognized by the mineral collecting...variety of colorful and unique copper-arsenate and other secondary copper mineral specimens. With the recent...minerals from the Majuba Hill Mine. Spherical aggregates of arthurite crystals from Majuba Hill. FOV 3.8 mm...Evanich photo. History The Majuba Hill Mine, located in Pershing County, Nevada, was first located in 1907
Report (volume)
........ Tin and copper deposits.................................. Majuba Hill mine workings............................... The Majuba fault..................................... The tin deposit.............Suggestions for prospecting...................... The copper deposit .................................. Mineralogy... Plate 9. Geologic map. and section of Majuba Hill, Nevada.................................. In pocket...pocket 10. Geologic map and sections of the Majuba Hill mine............................... In pocket Figure
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
August 2013 The crystal structure of parnauite: a copper arsenate–sulphate with translational disorder of...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA 3 Department of Earth...for parnauite from the type locality, Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA (MH; type specimen), and also from Cap...Cap Garonne, Var, France (CG), and the Clara Mine, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, are presented. The average...disorder, chemical analysis, Raman spectroscopy, Majuba Hill, Cap Garonne. (SO4)0.94 (PO4)0.43 (CO3)0.19
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
7 cm across, Khanong open pit, Sepon mine, Vilabouly district, Laos. Irv Brown specimen. TUCSON (Dis)...pseudoboleite, 1.1 cm high, Amelia mine, Santa Rosalia, Boleo district, Baja California, Mexico. Irv Brown...Aurichalcite, field of view 7.6 cm, 79 mine, Dripping Springs, Pinal County, Arizona. John Cesar specimen. ...specimen. Figure 10. Baryte, 12.3 cm high, Ouichane mine, Nador, Segangane, Morocco. Spirifer specimen. ... Figure 11. Topaz, 12.7 cm high, Xanda mine, Lavra da Ilha, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Eric Long specimen
Journal (issue)
Update on the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada ................................ U p d a t e o n t h e M in e r a l o g y OF THE MAJUBA HlLL M lN E, P e r s h in g C o u n t y Martin...of Nevada, Reno Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 Interest and collecting activity at the Majuba Hill mine have...(Jensen, 1985). Information on new discoveries at the mine, as well as on certain aspects that were left vague...to the mine is tenuously unrestricted. INTRODUCTION Several companies have held the Majuba Hill property
Report (issue)
Radioactive Deposits of Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLET l]N ^1 0 0 9 - C A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF URANIUM RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS OF NEVADA By T. G. LOVERING ABSTRACT Thirty-five occurrences...occurrences of radioactive rocks had been reported from Nevada prior to 1952. Twenty-five of these had been investigated...Monster mine, which shipped 5 tons of ore to Marysvale, Utah, during 1951; the Majuba Hill mine; the Stalin's...prospect; and the West Willys claim in the Washington district. No estimate has been made of thorium reserves
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
two "iir"r,flnffHffHjirffifls fromtheMajuba Hill Mine, Wrlr-reu S. Wrsr Departmentof GeologicalSciences... the middle adit level of the Majuba Hill Mine, PershingCounty, Nevada. Parnauiteoccursaspale-bluefansand...in ditute HCl. The name honors Hatfield Goudey,a mining geologistand mineralcollectorof San Mateo, California...spangolite,chalcophyllite, malachite,azurite,chalcanthite,and bronchantite. Introduction The Majuba Hill Mine...Mine (northernPershingCounty, Nevada)is locatedin a subvolcanic complexof rhyolitic porphyries and brecciasintruded
Catalog/List
Normandite. Native Elements, Two new Gold locations and Copper after Aragonite. Metallic minerals , Arsenopyrite...South Africa,Cobaltian Gersdorffite from Gortdmm Mine Containing unusual elements , Iquiqueite,Galkhaite...grey masses with possible Als1oni1e Fallowficld mine. Ix½ £4 Ba Ca C0/3 micros. Hexham.Nonhumbcrlond..._ _ magnification there arc small cr stals _ __ County. _ AI1zona 60 AMAZO:-;ITE 2x3i nch£5 Madagascar...IxI£4 TiO --- - 37 ANC\'LITE Cc Ix1/, £2.50 Ix I£4 County. Rich pinkish fine grai ned mass in calc i te Dark
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Mandarino Famous mineral localities: The Annaberg District, Lower A u stria ...............................McGlasson, Symposium Co-chair (The Collector s Stope, 9641 East Hickory Tree Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85749;...Santa Cruz, California 95060 Namibite, a rare copper-bismuth vanadate, has been identified previously...because o f its resemblance to other dark green copper minerals, namibite has recently become more common
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...accorded special varietal names all their own. Copper impurities, for example, can impart a blue or green...Tsumeb which owes its color to the presence of copper was called “herrerite” (named after the local Herero...indicative of its valence. In the case of copper impurities, if the copper was in the +1 state it would be “cuproan... which is +1 for copper and +2 for cobalt, the “-ian” suffix applying to +2 copper and +3 cobalt. Confusing
Book
long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS · OF THE TINTIC MINING DISTRICT, UTAH BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN AND G. F. LOUGHLIN....... . PART II. History of mining 'and· metallurgy in the Tintic district, by V. C.l!eikes ................. . Copper ore.: ....................... . Lead ore .......................... . Copper-lead ore...water: .. ~.~~ ............... . Drainage of the district ....-... ·......... . Mineralization ...........Lead minerals ..·...... -.............. . 139 98 Copper minerals ................... . 139 Iron minerals
Book
is a fue l for reactors to produce electricity, mining operati ons. Robert Lau f presents here a highly...gs were 111ade vvith Crystalscientist, Sparks, Nevada; Jim A. Pasch is, Ore Microscopist, Maker® 2.0...structures in three dimensions for a richer Mountain Mining; Leonard Himes and Michael Jacob, appreciation...Czech Republic) and elsewhere in the Erzgebirge district. Those n1ines had been \VOrked for silver and...vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical
 
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