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Calcite from
Black Rock Mine, Black Rock Wash, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorite29 photos of Calcite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Willemite24 photos of Calcite associated with Willemite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Rock Mine, Black Rock Wash, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (10 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:44003
Long-form Identifier:1:3:44003:1
GUID (UUID V4):d6316708-113d-4f8f-8fdf-9b4aa06fa09b
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Silver Glance Mine (Silver Glance claim), Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Pacific Mine (Pacific claim), Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Mandan Mine (Mandan claim), Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Papago Mine (Papago claim), Black Rock Wash, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Riho prospect (Riho vein; Ronaldo Pacheco's Mine; Pacheco property), Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Red Cloud Mine, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Atom claims (Atom No. 1 claim; Atom No. 2 claim; Atom No. 3 claim), Picacho quadrangle, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Hamburg Mine (Hamburg claim; Hamburg prospect; Blake), Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Princess Mine, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Chloride-Mandarin-Cash Entry prospects, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz 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)
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 (issue)
Mineralogical Record Inc., 7413 N. Mowry Place Tucson, Arizona 85741 Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Associate...reprints, book sales, shows) P.O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 602-297-6709 Subscriptions • Individuals...second class postage (USPS-887-700) Paid at Tucson, Arizona, and additional offices. POSTMASTER: send address...Madera County, C alifornia............................. 127 by T. Szenics The El Dragon mine, Potosi...Lehrberger & G. Schnorrer-Kohler Arizona's Silver mining district ......................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fluorite in Arizona BARBARA L. MUNTYAN 3500 S. Beryl Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85735 azmarmot@gmail.com...specimen photos by Jeff Scovil Figure 1. Map of Arizona showing noteworthy fluorite localities; prepared...William Besse. W hen one thinks about outstanding Arizona minerals, fluorite may be far down on the species...But Mindat lists no less than 390 localities for Arizona fluorite, distributed among twelve counties, suggesting...(http://mindat.org/fluorite/Arizona; accessed March 2016). The only area in Arizona without much fluorite is
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arizona Wulfenite KEN BLADH Geology Department Wittenberg University Springfield, Ohio 45501 kbladh@wittenberg...localities in Arizona with world-class (best-of-species) specimens of wulfenite. Arizona wulfenite specimens...well-established group of nine “best-of-species” Arizona localities, based on the consensus 10   ROCKS &...MINERALS Figure 1. Wulfenite, Defiance mine, Cochise County. Les and Paula Presmyk specimen, 6 cm wide;...order, the Defiance mine, the Glove mine, the Hilltop mine, the Mammoth–St. Anthony mine (Tiger), the Old
Report (volume)
ARIZONA AVAILABILITY OF BOOKS AND MAPS OF THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Instructions on ordering publications...Trigo Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona By DAVID R. SHERROD, RICHARD M. TOSDAL...WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: SOUTHWESTERN AND SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR MANUEL LUJAN, JR.·...Trigo Mountains Wilderness Study Area, La Paz County, Arizona I by David R. Sherrod .. : [et al.]. p...wilderness study areas-southwestern and south-central Arizona ; ch. J.) Includes bibliographical references.
Catalog/List
including our regular jobs, home remodelling, the summer rock show schedule and other things, that It has been...Pebble Peddler workshop, and It is stuffed full of rock, mineral and fossil specimens. To make life easier...$10.00 per specimen. BOTRYOIOAL BORN/TE: Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Wiscon�in: 1.5 to 3 inch spe_cimens...fu�naces, 9.5 a man made mlne��I �ade by _ metallic silver In color, showing very nice bright beauties, are...PSEUOOMORPHSAFTER ARAGON/TE!!! Coro Coro, La Pa:t District, Bolivia: Really interesting little critters
Catalog/List
WULFENITE & ASSOC/A TIONS: Finch Mine (AKA Barking Spider), Pinal County, Arizona: Very nice combinations which...ROWLEYWULFENITE &ASSOCIATIONS: Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mtns., Maricopa Co., Arizona: Clear golden wulfenite crystals...30.00 each GLOVE WULFENITE: Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Very nice crystalline specimens with...each YUMA WULFENITE: Old Yuma Mine, Tucson Mountains, Pima County, Arizona: Butterscotch to deep orange-red...mounted in 1 1/4 79 WULFENITE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizo _na: Transparent bright yellow
Catalog/List
suns as they are naturally found imbedded in the black shale matrix. Priced at $15.00 and $25.00 each depending...STIBNITE: Hunan Province, China: 1-2 inch single silver crystals and small clusters from this world renown...last. TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near clear thumbnails...inch specimens, $25.00 each. CAMPYLITE: Dry Gill Mine, Cumberland, England; A unique and rare species...at $15.00 each. BROOKITE: Magnet Cove, Garland County, Arkansas; Dipyramidal thumbnail crystals mounted
Catalog/List
AURICHALCITE - BISBEE: Southwest Mine, Cochise County, Bisbee, Arizona: Exceptional baby blue to deep blue...thick hair like growths on matrix associated with calcite, hemimorphite and other minerals: 1 to 2 inch specimens:...with calcite on limonite: 1X1 to 2X2 inch specimens: $2.00 each AURICHALCITE - 79 MINE: 79 Mine, Banner...Banner District, Gila County, Arizona: Delicate radiating acicular and lathlike bright blue crystals on...on hemimorphite, smithsonite and calcite. From one of the worlds finest locations, very showy: Specimens
Report (issue)
ARIZONA LODE GOLD MINES AND GOLD MINING by Eldred D. Wilson, J. B. Cunningham, and G. M. Butler Bulletin...Bulletin 137 Revised 1967 Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Geological Survey Branch A...Division of the University of Arizona Tucson ARIZONA LODE GOLD MINES AND GOLD MINING by Eldred D. Wilson, J...J. B. Cunningham, and G. M. Butler State of Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology Geological...Geological Survey Branch 845 N. Park Ave., Tucson, Arizona 85719 Bulletin 137 Revised 1967 Reprinted 1983
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 (issue)
Inc., © 2022 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $40 plus shipping Order through...photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini
Report (issue)
TUCSON, ARIZONA VOL. February 15, 1933 IV, No.2. -=-~ - llututfstty of p.riloun fBulltttu ARIZONA BUREAU...DEPOSITS OF SOUTHERN YUMA COUNT'Y ARIZONA J By ELDRED D. WILSON ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY LIBRARY CO...PuBLISHED BY 1Itnttttrnitt! of i\rt1!ona TUCSON, ARIzONA ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES, GEOLOGICAL SERIES NO.7 BULLETIN...BURGESS; G. M. BUTLER; R. J. LEONARD; E. N. HOPKINS ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES STAFF E. P. MATHEWSON, Metallurgist...Metallurgist MARK EHLE, Mining Engineer J. B. TENNEY, Geologist G. R. FANSETT, Mining Engineer R. E. S. HEINEMAN
Book (edition)
0.C D.?~•.!~'J..~5 ~!~.~J.RY Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee...and were subsequently partially filled with waste rock. Peter Kresam and Richard Graeme. • 1nera o ...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
Book (edition)
/BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings...filled with waste rock. Peter Kresam and Richard Graeme . Mineralogy of Arizona John W. Anthony, Sidney...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
GOLD-II] 1-112 MMEE•] 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]...15th annual FM-TGMS-MSA Mineralogical Symposium: silver (chairman R. W. Graeme) 25:69-76 New minerals recently...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON
Report (volume)
I ', .. I' I I Placer Gold Deposits of Arizona By MAUREEN G. JOHNSON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...----------Introduction History of placer mining in Arizona ----------~-------'----------------Purpose...- -------- - --- ----------------------Cochise County ____ __ ___ l. Dos Cabezas and Tevis1ton districts...Courtland-Gleeson district (Turquoise district) --------------------3. Bisbee-Warren district (Gold Gulch placer)...-----------------------4. Huachuca placers (Hereford or Hartford district) -----------------Other d~tricb -------------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Similarly, it is reported from the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922). An unusual...from the Algomah mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan (Williams 1962). In the arid mining districts of western...from the Santa Rita district, Grant County, and the Orogrande district, Otero County, New Mexico. Dioptase...malachite occurs in the Blue Jay mine, Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada. Dioptase associated with...from the Black Pine mine, Granite County, Montana. In California it occurs at the Blue Bell mine and with
Catalog/List
good stuff that used to come out of the Marencl mine, ~ut the price is a whole lot better. specimens...Magnet Co1Je 1 Arkansas: Nice quality lustrous black brooklte crystals as eingfe dipyramidal crystals...plastic perky boxes: $3.00 each BROWN DOG-TOOTHED CALCITE: Chihuahua. Mexico: I Know, there's a lot of thla...GARNET CALCITE: Chihuahua, Mexico: OK, I know what you are thinking, what the heck la "Garnet Calcite"? My...what they really are is specimens of near total calcite twinning • The cofor Is clear to dark brown, and
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
Book (volume)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 2014 Fourth...Fourth Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...printing December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page..............................................13 Arizona .................................................................389 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Page Ohio ........
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)
THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ! RIZONA~VI CONTENTS Arizona-VI (Introduction) ............. ... ................ 483 W. E. Wilson The Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona ............ .. ........... ............. .. ........ 484 W. E. Wilson The Arizona Silver Belt; Silver King to McMillenville .................... ..... 507 L. Presmyk The Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona ............................. ......531 W. E. Wilson & M. Hay The Carlota Mine, Gila County, Arizona ............................. .. ..
 
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