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Malachite from
Red Cloud Mine, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Red Cloud Mine, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:44033
Long-form Identifier:1:3:44033:2
GUID (UUID V4):a5885867-e18d-43ec-913f-a1594d4c889e
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
1.0km (0.6 miles) Papago Mine (Papago claim), Black Rock Wash, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Chloride-Mandarin-Cash Entry prospects, U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Clip Mine (Silver Clip Mine; Blaine Mine; Silver Mines Consolidated Mine), Clip, Hidden Valley, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
7.2km (4.4 miles) Picacho Copper Mine, Imperial National Wildlife Refuge, Silver Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
13.8km (8.6 miles) Picacho Copper Mine (Picacho Mine; Picacho Glance; Copper Glance Mine; Copper King Mine), Picacho, Picacho Mining District, Chocolate Mountains, Imperial County, California, USA
20.7km (12.8 miles) Francho Copper prospect, Black Mountain, Chocolate Mountains Mining District, Chocolate Mountains, Imperial County, California, USA
22.0km (13.7 miles) Volunteer Mine (Volunteer group of claims; Volunteer Group Mine), Quartz Peak, Paymaster Mining District, Chocolate Mountains, Imperial County, California, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Caveman Mine (Cave Man group of claims; Scudder prospect; Caveman group), Quartz Peak, Paymaster Mining District, Chocolate Mountains, Imperial County, California, USA
26.0km (16.2 miles) Annie Mine (Anna Mine; Annie Lead Mine), U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds, Castle Dome Mining District, Castle Dome Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona, USA
30.4km (18.9 miles) Coffee Pot Mine (Coffee Pot prospect; Coffee; Coffey), Obregon, Cargo Muchacho Mining District (Hedges Mining District; Ogilby Mining District), Cargo Muchacho Mountains, Imperial County, California, USA
References
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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...Certificate (only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nebraska, Lincoln] at 07:52 28 December 2014 Arizona Mineral Classics A rizona contains a wealth of...scientifically interesting minerals owe much to the mining industry that extracted these resources for commercial...see copper minerals well represented among the Arizona classics listed in tables 1, 2, and 3. Bideaux...listed 163 different copper minerals found in Arizona. Sixty-one percent of the classic minerals listed...advanced degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and collected personally at many of the classic
Journal (issue)
SOCIETY VOLUME 76, NO. 5 ISSN 2572-7486 OF ARIZONA MAY 2017 The Rockhound Record, Volume 76, No...WULFENITE, PbMoO4, 7cm, Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA; Evan Jones Collection...Collection, © Jeff Scovil. ”Official MSA/Arizona Campaign Wulfenite” Heart Shaped Matrix & Wulfenite Crystal...22, 2017, Wulfenite became Official Mineral of Arizona, so May, we celebrate Wulfenite with a program...MSA Mineral Collection 8 Official Arizona Symbols 9 Arizona Mineral Collector 10 Mystery Mineral
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...cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below)...(below) Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This
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 ................................Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs Famous...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ..............................................
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 ......................................
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
Report (issue)
fragrant white pandemonium of blossoms—Springtime in Arizona is great time to be here, considering the weather...example there is new work afoot at the famous Red Cloud mine in the Trigo Mountains, in the southwestern...little about— New digging for wulfenite at the Red Cloud Terry Szenics wrote in 1975 that “…in perfection...aesthetic appeal, most collectors agree that Red Cloud wulfenite has no equal”—and this judgment prevails...wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, see the essay by Szenics just quoted (“Ed Over at the Red Cloud,” in the July-August
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)
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 ....................................
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...WULFENITE: Old Yuma Mine, Tucson Mountains, Pima County, Arizona: Butterscotch to deep orange-red crystal inch...mounted in 1 1/4 79 WULFENITE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizo _na: Transparent bright yellow
Catalog/List
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...including quartz, calcite, barite, cerussite, malachite, azurite, fluorite and a host of other minerals
Show/Event (guide)
august ¥ 22-23,2014 Gold Eagle's Nest Mine, California, USA J «. *.1 DALLAS Mineral Collecting ...Year’s Speaker Lineup Brice Gobin Tanzanite: From Mine to Market Dr. Robert Bowell Tsumeb: A Mineralogical...fringe benefit of exploring Mexico for silver-lead-zinc and silver-gold deposits, which “necessitates" frequent...frequent visits to established mining districts to see what’s new. Sometimes he finds only a few flats...source of several major specimen recovery projects. Silver from Batopilas, Chihuahua, Mexico Peter Megaw Collection
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A 1985 Report: Arizona's Red Cloud Mine 54 ROCKS AND MINERALS R A Y M O N D W. G R A N T Mesa Community...Southern Avenue Mesa, Arizona 85202 T H E R E D C L O U D M I N E in L a Paz County, Arizona, is considered...that L a Paz is a new county, resulting from the recent division of Yuma County. Red Cloud wulfenite...the Red Cloud mine, making occasional finds of good specimens. However, five years ago the mine was closed... The price of silver was rising, and the mine was reopened at that time to mine silver. During the past
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)
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...outstanding Arizona minerals, fluorite may be far down on the species list. Azurite, malachite, wul- fenite...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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WEST-CENTRAL New Mexico in what was once a thriving mining region and is still a paradise for mineral collectors...Magdalena district with the world-famous Kelly mine and the equally famous Hansonburg district with the...collectors. The rich ores mined in the Magdalena district from 1866 to 1970, together with Gustav Billing’s... This later became the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, or New Mexico Tech for short. Approximately...died in 1926, was a noted mine operator in the region and owned the Kelly mine during its heyday as a zinc
Journal (issue)
Collector's Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the...Corporation Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens, but production of...of the elongated, fibrous malachite specimens seems subordinate to other, more common forms seen from
Catalog/List
$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...internet sites earlier this week at $25.00 each!! Mine are only $7.00 each while they last! WHITEPINEM...Seaman Minera� Museum in Houghto�, �ichigan. �he mine is now closed! These aro very nice crystalline copper
Catalog/List
recenUy acquired a huge old collection from an Arizona dealer/collector who was selling out due to age...fine quallty materlal wlth approxlmately 80% from Arizona localilies. This dealer had contacts with numerous...numerous miners at many of the famous mines In Arizona, and compiled this huge hoard betwecn 1960 and 1990...other ncw material from sources othcr than thc Arizona coilection. Due to the tremendous amount of new...THE FOSTER COLLECT/ON: RED CLOUD WULFENITE: Red Cloud Mine, La Paz County, Arizona: The best wulfenite locallty
Show/Event (guide)
In short, Wulfenite is a spectacular 1nineral. Arizona has provided ·world-class Wulfenite specunens for...collectors and 1nuseums all over the world. Yes, Arizona is famous for itsWulfenite specimens, so fainous...Wulfenite is the Official Mineral of the State of Arizona! Check out your local library for many colorful...©2019 Da!l1'1 Powell Phy ical Properties Color: Red Rcdcli h-or;rngc, Or;U1gc, Orange- ellow, yellow...c1ystaJ form . \1 \/uJfeniLe i pa.rt of a group or mine,-aJ known a Lhc Schee lite Grou p. The ScheeliLc
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical Record, fuc. P.O. Box 35565, Tucson, Arizona 85750 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection;...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil...5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado; Karl Warning collection; Jeff Scovil
Catalog/List
listed in other sections as well! AZURITE AND MALACHITE: Bou Beker, Morocco: Striking vivid combinations...green malachite crystals, as nioe as the good stuff that used to come out of the Marencl mine, ~ut the...Mexico: OK, I know what you are thinking, what the heck la "Garnet Calcite"? My first thought exactly. But once...apeoimens from 4 to 7+ Inches In largest diameter of red-brown, tan and clear to white calcite crystal combinations...copper leaching operation at one of the mines In Arizona. Chalchanthite 11 water soluble, so It ts ganeraUy
Journal (issue)
May-June 1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity, Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon...Shannon Famous mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona...................................G. M. Edson Famous mineral localities: Tiger, Arizona ................... by R. A. Bideaux 135 141...The Mineralogical Record P. 0. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 Departments Notes from the Editor .. What’s...16-bus 1 B-2120 Schoten ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see p. 141). This crystal
 
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