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Delafossite from
Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Delafossite
Formula:CuFeO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cupriteā“˜43 photos of Delafossite associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Copperā“˜23 photos of Delafossite associated with Copper at this locality.
Goldā“˜8 photos of Delafossite associated with Gold at this locality.
Goethiteā“˜6 photos of Delafossite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Chalcotrichiteā“˜3 photos of Delafossite associated with Chalcotrichite at this locality.
Hematiteā“˜2 photos of Delafossite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Delafossite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (9 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:4399
Long-form Identifier:1:3:4399:1
GUID (UUID V4):f3bbaf2e-84a6-4627-8156-90fe66d0c19f
Localities for Delafossite in this Region
Junction Mine, Calumet and Arizona group of claims (Calumet and Arizona Mining Company group of claims), Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Cole Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Hendricks Mine, Hendricks Gulch, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Southwest Mine, Hendricks Gulch, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Copper Queen Mine, Queen Hill, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Delafossite
3.1km (2.0 miles) ā“˜Hendricks Mine, Hendricks Gulch, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) ā“˜Southwest Mine, Hendricks Gulch, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) ā“˜Copper Queen Mine, Queen Hill, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
4.3km (2.6 miles) ā“˜Muheim-Anderson prospect (Cochise prospect; Copper Queen Branch [MSHA]), Dubacher Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
5.4km (3.4 miles) ā“˜Cole Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
5.7km (3.5 miles) ā“˜Junction Mine, Calumet and Arizona group of claims (Calumet and Arizona Mining Company group of claims), Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
38.3km (23.8 miles) ā“˜Last Chance Mine (1907 Mine), Casey Hill, Courtland, Turquoise Mining District (Courtland-Gleeson Mining District), Cochise County, Arizona, USA
59.3km (36.9 miles) ā“˜Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Cu1+ Fe3+ O2 Delafossite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point...Yekaterinburg, Russia; remnant is Al2 O3 . (2) Bisbee, Arizona, USA; average of two analyses, remnant is hematite...MapimıĢ, Durango, Mexico. In the USA, good crystals from Bisbee, Cochise Co., and in the United Verde mine...mine, Jerome, Yavapai Co., Arizona; from the Alpha mine, Kimberly, White Pine Co., and Eureka, Eureka...(2) Pabst, A. (1946) Notes on the structure of delafossite. Amer. Mineral., 31, 539ā€“546. (3) Wiedersich
Book (edition)
found in Arizona. In the twelve years since then 61 more minerals have been reported from Arizona, a number...change. This checklist is an effort to bring the Arizona mineral list up to date. Of the 61 minerals added...locality being in Arizona. They are: bechererite from the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite...Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from the Grand...Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near Gray Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
731 Delafossite and the system Cu-Fe-O By D. S. BUIST,1 M.Sc., M.A., A. M. M. GADALLA,Ph.D., M.Sc. Tech...patterns obtained from four samples of natural delafossite have been found to be similar to that obtained...the thermobalance in air, a sample of natural delafossite and the synthetic 3Cu20.FeaOa behaved similarly...the first to report the existence of a mineral delafossite to which he assigned the formula Cu20.F%03. Subsequently...Rogers (1913, 1922) identified delafossite in copper ores from Bisbee, Arizona, and Kimberley, Nevada. He
Journal (issue)
Bisbee! Wm ,' .\ V> s K * *SKEĀ» ā€¢\v Ā„*ā€¢ S\* 'W , 4 .v - N ā– ST. -ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢,> ā€¢ ā– % SW 'VARIZONA-III ^-^v...The Mineralogical Record P. O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 g_ g ā€” ā€”^ affiliated with the Friends of...September-October 1981 Arizona-m famous mineral localities: Bidee, Arizona by Richard W. Graeme a...Record Third in a series id four issues devoted to Arizona published bimonthly by the Mineralogical Record...B-2120 Schoten COVER: AZURITE on malachite from Bisbee, about 6 inches tall. William Larson specimen;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
irregularities due to similar substitutions. DELAFOSSITE FROM KIMBERLY, NEVADA AusrrwF. Rocnns,StanJorilUni...minerals, one of the rarest and most interesting is delafossite,a cuprous metaferrite, with the formula, CuFeOzor...writer2 called attention to its occurrenceat Bisbee, Arizona, and was able to establish it as a valid mineral...note is to place on record the discovery of delafossite at a second American locality. A specimen of...Dr,scnrprrox oF THE Dcralossrra: The Kimberly delafossite is a black metallic mineral and occurs in spherical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collectors familiar with porphyry copper deposits of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Many of the worldā€™s finest...chalcopyrite, antlerite, brochantite, atacamite, delafossite, and malachite are reported, as are malachite...native copper; prospects at Ladenton, Rockland County, New York; Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut; the...Mountain copper mines, Lehigh County, and at Cornwall, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania; at Ducktown, Tennessee;...mine in Mecklenburg County and at several of the copper mines in Guilford County, North Carolina. Cuprite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NOTES ON THE STRUCTURE OF DELAFOSSITE A. Pansr, Lrnitersity of Calif ornia, B erkeley,Calif ornia. Arsrnect...interionic radii and coordination it is shown that delafossite, CuFeOs, is probably to be considered cuprous...by Soller and Thompson. It was concluded that delafossite probably has the same structure as SoIIerand...intensity observations on powder patterns of delafossite from various sources compared with theoretical...These are probably not due to variations in the delafossite. The smaller difierences are"near the limits
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)
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)
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA ā€¢ Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/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
Book (edition)
/BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were...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)
~J.RY Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee. These old workings were...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
651 On the composition of natural delafossite By M. H. HnY Department of Mineralogy, British Museum...March 1968] Summary. Two new microanalyses of delafossite from Nizhnii Tagil (the type locality) and Kimberly...that this compound is identical with natural delafossite, and gave thermogravimetrie data for material...support of this conclusion. All three analyses of delafossite in the literature (Friedel, 1873, type material...Sverdlovsk) district; Bohart in Rogers, 1913, from Bisbee, Arizona; and Schaller in Ross, 1925, from Salmon, Idaho)
Journal (issue)
Record Inc., 6349 N. Orange Tree Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85740 The Mineralogical Record Inc. Is a non-profit...Volume Fourteen, Number Five ARIZONA- V Articles Lost mines of Arizona ................................mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs Famous mineral...Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ........................................................... 337 by J. S. White and J. A. Nelen Arizona index to the Mineralogical Record, 1970.1983 .
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...Co\Ā·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Slovinky (Slovensko) Primary low-temperature delafossite (CuFeO2) from mine tailing Slovinky (Slovakia)...(Praha) 21, 1, 78-83. ISSN 1211-0329. Abstract Delafossite was found in the upper parts of the mine tailing...used for identification of delafossite. The Raman spectrum of delafossite measured at 532 nm is characterized...empirical formula of delafossite is (n = 7): Cu1.00Fe1.01O1.99. Lattice parameters of delafossite refined by the... chemical composition and micro Raman data, delafossite probably comes from the primary quartz-siderite-sulphide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
irregularities due to similar substitutions. DELAFOSSITE FROM KIMBERLY, NEVADA AusrrwF. Rocnns,StanJorilUni...minerals, one of the rarest and most interesting is delafossite,a cuprous metaferrite, with the formula, CuFeOzor...writer2 called attention to its occurrenceat Bisbee, Arizona, and was able to establish it as a valid mineral...note is to place on record the discovery of delafossite at a second American locality. A specimen of...Dr,scnrprrox oF THE Dcralossrra: The Kimberly delafossite is a black metallic mineral and occurs in spherical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cerussite, goethite, mimetite, 1013. Cornwall Delafossite, 731; wo]framite, 995. Pengenna mine, St. Kew:...Mtns., Montana: pseudoleucite, 596. Bisbee, Arizona: delafossite, 731. Franklin Furnace, New Jersey:...920; peristerite, 165. Kimberley, 5~evada : delafossite, 731. Lake Valley, Sierra Co., New Mexico: ramsdellite...ramsdellite, 327. Losguijas Camp, Pimo Co., Arizona: hfibnerite, 995. Mahnomen mine, Cuyuna, Minnesota:
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARIZONA COPPER Featured at the 1997 Tucson Show Downloaded by [California Institute of Technology] at...Valley, Arizona 85737 TERRY C. WALLACE Department of Geosciences University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721...Clifton-Morenci, Globe-Miami, Superior, Ray, Jerome, and Bisbee were, and are, among the largest copper camps in...into the ā€œage of electricity,ā€ and the copper of Arizona was essential to the new industrialization. Copper...squarely at the center of power and politics in Arizona for the first thirty years of this century. Arizonaā€™s
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
determined at 800o C. and below. Ternaryphases are delafossite(CuFeO) and copper ferrite (CuFezOr). Neither...experimental data. The free energy of formation of delafossite has been calculated at 675o and 25o C. with the...s1'stemCu-Fe-Oare copperferrite (CuFezOa) and delafossite(CuFeO2).A reversibletransformation in CuFezOafrom...diffraction data for tetragonal CuFezOaand CuFeOz (delafossite) are given by Weil et al. (1950) and Sollor and...675o*25o C. This is the lowest temperature at which delafossite and magnetite are stable together. in Fig. 1
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
643 On the composition of delafossite By H. W~EDERSICg, J. W. SAVAOE, A. H. MUIR, JR., and D. G. SWARTHOUT1...exists as a stable compound, and that the mineral delafossite has essentially this composition. These results...of Buist, Gadalla, and White who propose that delafossite has an approximate composition Cu~FeaO~ instead...commonly considered to be the same as the mineral delafossite, does not exist. Instead, they postulated the... 1967) have studied CuFeO 2 and the mineral delafossite using the MSssbauer effect (ME) without C 1
Book
GOLD-II] 1-112 MMEEā€¢] 25 I 1994 1-80 ARIZONA-I] ARIZONA-II] [ 129-200 201-272 129-192 193-256...321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400 257-336 [ 257-320 [ [ GOLD-I ] 321--412 ARIZONA-V] 265-352...321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA]...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298 ALABAMA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1080; Andhra Pradesh, India, age, 529. Bisbee, Arizona, delafossite, 731. Bismoclite, Brazil, 785. Bismuth...BUIST (D. S.), GADALLA (A. M. M.), & WHITE (J.), Delafossite and the system Cu-Fe-0, 731. BURNS (R. G.), Pleochroism...data, type of substitution in, 920. Cornwall, delafossite, 731; wolframite, 995. Coranadite, reflectivity...X-ray, thermogravimetric anal., comparison with delafossite, 731. DAD.~K (V.) & NOV~K (F.), Stannian andradite...from Devon, 991; Datolite from Devon, 1017. Delafossite, Arizona and Cornwall, X-ray, 731; Neva&~, X-ray
Journal (issue)
Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Articles Bisbee revisited: an update on the mineralogy of this...mineral from the Clear Creek claim, San Benito County, California ............. 471 by R. C. Erd, A....Ā·ember-December, /993 P.O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85 740 Tel: 602-297-6709 FAX: 602-544-0815 419...Minernlogical Record, ā€¢Ā·olume 24. November-December. /993 BISBEE REVISITED ------------------- ā€¢ AN UPDATE ON...Company 650 l East Grant Road, Suite L Tucson, Arizona 85715 The research for the original study of the
 
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