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Brochantite from
Morenci Mine, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Brochantite
Formula:Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Azurite9 photos of Brochantite associated with Azurite at this locality.
Baryte4 photos of Brochantite associated with Baryte at this locality.
Malachite1 photo of Brochantite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Brochantite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Morenci Mine, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (11 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:424960
Long-form Identifier:1:3:424960:3
GUID (UUID V4):69843682-a26b-4c32-bfe4-c597b88448eb
Nearest other occurrences of Brochantite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Yavapai Mine (Arizona Copper Co. group [in part]), Clifton, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
1.4km (0.8 miles) Humboldt Mine (Humboldt tunnel; Liverpool tunnel; Arizona Copper Co. group [in part]), Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Copper Mountain Mine (Manganese Blue Mine; Copper Mountain claim working; Old Blue shaft; Detroit Copper Co. group; Manganese Blue ore body), Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Clifton Copper Mines (San Jose; Copper Centre; Clifton gp; Standard gp; Standard Consolidated Copper Co.; Standard Mine; Standard Copper), Standard Gulch, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) Copper Mountain, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Metcalf Mines (Arizona Copper Co. group; Metcalf Open pit), Clifton, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
5.1km (3.1 miles) Shannon Mine (Shannon Mountain Mine), King Gulch, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
5.7km (3.5 miles) Eleven and Celtic group (Celtic group; Veiled Prophet group), Placer Gulch, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
28.0km (17.4 miles) Safford deposit (Spalding; Lindsey and Anderson claims; Sanchez Copper deposit; Esperanza Mine), Sanchez, Lone Star Mining District (Safford Mining District; Dos Pobres Mining District), Graham County, Arizona, USA
30.9km (19.2 miles) San Juan Mine (Peacock Mine), Peterson Wash, Lone Star Mining District (Safford Mining District; Dos Pobres Mining District), Graham County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...district, Cochise County; Gila County, at Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in Mineral Park;;...Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty; Yavapai County, in ores of Bradshaw Mountains; Yuma County, in...and Stibnite. ARGENTITE (silver glance). Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WESTERN COPPER AREA, MORENCI MINE, ARIZONA BENJAMIN N. SCHUMER§* University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences...Geosciences, 1040 E. 4th Street Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA RALPH J. STEGEN Freeport McMoRan, Inc., 10861...Ste. 141, Oro Valley, Arizona 85737 USA MARK D. BARTON University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences...E. 4th Street Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA J. BRENT HISKEY University of Arizona, Department of Mining...E. Rogers Way, Tucson, Arizona 85721 USA ROBERT T. DOWNS University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences
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 • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/County, Arizona...Tucson .. The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 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
Book (edition)
0.C D.?~•.!~'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 © 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. Minerals—Arizona. QE375-5-A6M56 I. Anthony, John W. (John Williams)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carbonates at the Northwest Extension Deposit, Morenci District, Arizona: Implications for Conditions of Supergene...Corporation, One North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85004 Abstract Stable isotope analyses were performed...Northwest Extension copper oxide deposit, Morenci district, Arizona. The δ18O values of azurite (23.3–25.5‰...dominant phase. Introduction THE MORENCI mining district in southeastern Arizona hosts one of the largest supergene...the genesis of oxide copper mineralization at Morenci. Previous work Various people have studied the
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 © 2022 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserYed. Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4358-8...McDonald Co\·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
Report (issue)
Trip 18 : Safford District (Sanchez) and Morenci - Metcalf October, 1994 Bootprints Along the Cordillera... Dear Field Trip Participants: On behalf of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy...October 2, 1994 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK MORENCI DISTRICT AND SAFFORD DISTRICT(Sanchez) FIELD TRIP...the Cordillera" post-meeting field trip to the Morenci and Safford mining districts. The trip will examine...mineralization, and copper oxide mineralization at Morenci on the first day of the trip. Day two will be spent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the rainbow! This rainbow ends over Tiger, Arizona, a mining camp for gold and other metals. Downloaded...(below). Arizona sweethearts (heart pendants) to 28 mm. Top: “Gem chrysocolla” from Arizona. Bottom:...“Campbellite” from Bisbee, Cochise County. Left: Malachite from Bisbee, Cochise County. Right: Turquoise from Sleeping...Beauty mine, Gila County. Figure 3 (top right). Collecting at the Rowley mine, Maricopa County. Though...known for its wulfenite mineral specimens, this mine also produces excellent chrysocolla rough as well
Report (issue)
itty nf l\rt~nttU iullrtttt ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS OF ARIZONA By FREDERIC W. GALBRAITH...(Revised) ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES, GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN NO. 153 One dollar (Free to residents of Arizona) PUBLISHED...PUBLISHED BY lIlniul'r.lluy nf Arizuna TUCSON. ARIZONA SERIES No. 17, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION...bulletin will be forwarded to the Arizona Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This description of the minerals of Arizona has been largely compiled from publications and manuscripts
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
Journal (issue)
50th Anniversary Issue! Arizona ineralogical Record January-February 2020 ❖ Volume 51 Number 1 ❖ $40...$40 THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ARIZONA-VII . . . . Arizona-VII (Introduction) .................................................... 5 W. E. Wilson Arizona Wulfenite in the News, 1877–1940 .................... 15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ........................................ 29 B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ....................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Supergene Environment of the Morenci Porphyry Copper Deposit, Greenlee County, Arizona M. STEPHEN ENDERS,† Newmont...of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5640 SPENCER R. TITLEY,...Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721 AND GORDON SOUTHAM Department...along the 5200 bench of the Metcalf pit within the Morenci copper deposit revealed that acidophilic iron oxidizing... 0.39% S). The modern climate in southwestern Arizona is semiarid and exhibits a biannual wet-dry cycle
Report (issue)
90 Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Grandview mine, Arizona, USA. (ICDD 11–131). 10.2 (100), 3.88 (90), 5...43 15.82 49.38 22.37 100.00 (1) Grandview mine, Arizona, USA. (2) Cu4 Al2 (SO4 )(OH)12 • 2H2 O. Occurrence:...of copper sulfide Association: malachite. Brochantite, spangolite, chalcophyllite, olivenite, tyrolite...Moldova Nouǎ (Moldova), Romania. At the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, France. In England, from Wheal...Phoenix United mine, Linkinhorne, at Lanivet, and elsewhere in Cornwall; in the Old Potts Gill mine, Caldbeck
Report (issue)
2005). In some districts (for example, Christmas, Arizona, and Battle Mountain, Nevada), more copper is recovered... Utah (Babcock and others, 1995), and Bisbee, Arizona (Bryant and Metz, 1966), polymetallic replacement...Turkey) and(or) molybdenum (for example, Sierrita, Arizona; Continental [Butte], Montana) resources. By-Product...copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of the orebody to the 0.2 percent...km (Langton and Williams, 1982). At Sierrita, Arizona, from ore exposed at the surface to the base of
Report (issue)
Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Tintic district, Utah, USA. 7.07 (10), 3.59 (8), 2.54 (7), 1.80 (7), 1.98 (6)...100.00 Cl 4.11 4.44 (1) Region of Tombstone, Arizona, USA; average of four analyses, three partial; corresponds...deposits. Association: Cuprite, connellite, brochantite, chalcophyllite, cyanotrichite, linarite, caledonite...in many localities in minor amounts. In the USA, in Arizona, the original specimen found “within a radius...of Sunshine mine, Courtland, Turquoise district, Cochise Co.; at Metcalf, Clifton-Morenci district, Greenlee
Journal (issue)
RECORD, MAY-JUNE 2013 Mineral Collections in Arizona A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record May-June...Mineralogical Record, Inc. P.O. Box 30730, Tucson, Arizona 85751 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was...May-June 2013 Contents Mineral Collecting in Arizona .. ..... ..... ..... ..... ... ..... .........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Brochantite Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi]...Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when most green...acicular copper minerals were routinely labeled brochantite, a seemingly inexhaustible supply of such specimens...originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times... and although the once implied abundance of brochantite may be burned permanently into the minds of older
Journal (issue)
January–February, 2020 Mineral Collections in Arizona-II A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record January-February...Record, Inc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...wulfenite became the official State Mineral of Arizona by Alexander G. Schauss A Fat Jack Adventure by...COLLECTIONS Erika Brown Mineralogical Society of Arizona Members Wyatt Busby Tom Moore Mark Candee Dick
Report (issue)
goslarite, pickeringite, retgersite, morenosite, brochantite, gypsum. Distribution: Widespread; commercial...Antofagasta. In the USA, in Arizona, at the United Verde mine, Yavapai Co., and in the Clifton-Morenci district...district, Greenlee Co.; from the Blue Bird mine, Fierro-Hanover district, Grant Co., New Mexico; commercial amounts...amounts in the Bluestone mine, Yerington district, Lyon Co., Nevada; at Butte, Silver Bow Co., Montana;
Report (issue)
copper. Association: Malachite, chrysocolla, brochantite, antlerite, cuprite, cerussite, smithsonite,...crystals at the Touissit mine, near Oujda, Morocco. An ore at the Chingola mine, Nchanga, Zambia. Extraordinary...Extraordinary examples from Tsumeb, Namibia. In the USA, in Arizona, fine examples from the Copper Queen and other...at Morenci, Greenlee Co.; in the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Pinal Co.; from the New Cornelia mine, Ajo...in Utah, in the Apex mine, St. George, Washington Co., and at the Big Indian mine, near La Sal, San Juan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
commonly reported are malachite after atacamite, brochantite, chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, tetrahedrite...Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick...Jersey; the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania;...workings of the copper mines at Ducktown, Polk County, and the zinc deposits of eastern and central Tennessee;...and mines of the Virgilina district, Charlotte County, Virginia; and copper mines in Guilford, Mecklenburg
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2005 Copyright © 2005 Elsevier Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/05 $30.00 ⫹ .00 doi:10...Pennsylvania 16652, USA Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA 3 Department...State College, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA 2 (Received February 28, 2005; accepted in revised...events, explaining the supergene chalcocites in the Morenci and Silver Bell porphyry copper deposits. Copyright...secondary sulfate minerals such as chalcanthite, brochantite, and antlerite in the leach cap. In contrast
Report (issue)
THE COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE CLIFTON-MORENCI DISTRICT, ARIZONA BY w-ALDEMAR LINDGREN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • • Arizona-Copper Company _......... _. _. _. _... ___ .................................... ~-........ 65 Morenci shales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Brochantite.. .. . .. . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . ...metamorphism............................... 126 The Morenci contact zone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
 
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