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Azurite from
New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Azurite
Formula:Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2
Comments:Not common, occurs in small amounts. As thin films coating malachite and veinlets to 1 cm thick.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Malachite
Tenorite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Malachite67 photos of Azurite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Copper3 photos of Azurite associated with Copper at this locality.
Calcite1 photo of Azurite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Sericite1 photo of Azurite associated with Sericite at this locality.
Hematite1 photo of Azurite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Goethite1 photo of Azurite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Azurite data
Locality Data:Click here to view New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Little Ajo Mountains, Ajo Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (41 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:46693
Long-form Identifier:1:3:46693:2
GUID (UUID V4):430407ff-6a5e-493a-bf4e-30088a664d47
Nearest other occurrences of Azurite
74.7km (46.4 miles) Copper Squaw Mine (Andrade Mine; Luper Mine; Cooley Mine), Quijotoa (Covered Wells), Quijotoa Mining District, Quijotoa Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
94.8km (58.9 miles) Mildren Mine (Mildren claim; Mildred Mine), Mildren Mine group, Ko Vaya, Cababi Mining District (Comobabi Mining District), Comobabi Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
97.2km (60.4 miles) Steppe Mine (Steppe claim; Little Mary Mine), Mildren Mine group, Ko Vaya, Cababi Mining District (Comobabi Mining District), Comobabi Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
References
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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 ................................Wilson Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ..............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3500 South Beryl Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85735 azmarmot@gmail.com ARIZONA Pseudomorphs and Epimorphs Unless...crystals, 7.5 × 7.5 cm, South Belmont mine, Duquesne, Santa Cruz County. SEUDOMORPHS (Greek for false forms)...related and are also appealing to many collectors. Arizona has numerous localities that have produced attractive... north of Duquesne, Santa Cruz County, as seen from the Holland mine; Barbara Muntyan photo. Barbara...minerals, has retired to Tucson and now writes about Arizona localities. 158 ROCKS & MINERALS Pseudomorphs
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
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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
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
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)
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)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Queen Creek, Arizona 85142 raycyn@cox.net HARVEY JONG 1777 N. Central Drive Chandler, Arizona 85224 harvey@digipan...harvey@digipan.com Arizona T Type Minerals here are about 880 mineral species reported from Arizona. Of these...type or cotype minerals (they were first found in Arizona). This article presents a short description of...type locality for each. Of the type minerals of Arizona, 49 are named for people, and 17 are named for...Mineralogical Association (IMA) as new species with type localities in Arizona. Because the original scientific
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Shattuckite Rocks & Minerals 2009.84:544-550. Kunene District Kaokoveld, Namibia M any collectors choose to...Dr. Rob Bowell, a consultant geochemist in the mining industry, is an avid collector of microminerals...West. Arizona hosts the type locality, the Shattuck or Shattuck-Denn mine at Bisbee, Warren district, Cochise...Cochise County, after which the mineral in named (Schaller 1915). The mine itself was developed by one...who built his fortune on A Little Mining, A Little Banking, and A Little Beer (Fathauer 1991), and it
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Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za AJOITE Messina Mine, Musina, Limpopo Province, South Africa I t might...originating from the Messina mine in South Africa. (Note that the town where the mine existed was originally... The registered mine name remains Messina.) Since the early 1950s, the Messina mine has produced spectacular...type-locality specimens from the New Cornelia mine, Pima County, Arizona, in the United States have provided...exist worldwide, are described here, but the Messina mine specimen illustrated as figure 1 is a fine example
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...mines and prospects. Some of these mines, such as at Ajo, Clifton-Morenci, Globe-Miami, Superior, Ray, Jerome...of electricity,” and the copper of Arizona was essential to the new industrialization. Copper was squarely...squarely at the center of power and politics in Arizona for the first thirty years of this century. Arizona’s
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2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia...of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Many of the world’s finest specimens of native copper, azurite, malachite...as are malachite, copper, tenorite, atacamite, azurite, allophane, calcite, and pyrrhotite pseudomorphs...Schuyler, Sommerville, and Flemington copper mines, New Jersey, where at one time cuprite was found locally...copper; prospects at Ladenton, Rockland County, New York; Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut; the South Mountain
Report (issue)
Director Professional Paper 209 THE AJO MINING DISTRICT ARIZONA BY JAMES GILLULY UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Faults of northeast trend near the Ajo Peaks. .......... Little Ajo Mountain fault........................... Minor faults possibly cognate with the Little Ajo Mountain fault ................................features ..................................... Mountains ............................................ Pediments...volcanics ...................................... Pre-Cornelia metamorphism of the Concentrator volcanics ..
Catalog/List
CRYSTALS New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima County, Arizona. Hydrated copper aluminum silicate. New mineral...FLUORITE CRYSTALS Castle Dome, Yuma County, Arizona. Calcium fluoride. New Find. Green to purple well-formed...crystals. CHERVETITE Moana, Gabon. Lead vanadate. New mineral described in 1963. Tabular crystals and sections...pseudomorph after AZURITE Crystals Piedmont Mine, Bloody Basin, Yavapai County, Arizona. Hydrated copper...crystals, both singles and small groups having azurite crystal form (similar to Figure 798, Dana Textbook
Report (issue)
Resource Assessment of the Ajo and Lukeville 1° by 2° Quadrangles, Arizona By Jocelyn A. Peterson, Dennis...Southern Arizona is rich in mineral conmodities and has potential for the discovery of new ore deposits...resource potential for the Ajo and Lukeville 1° by 2 quadrangles in southwestern Arizona, where porphyry copper...Phoenix, Ariz., and 60 km east of Yuma, Ariz. The Ajo 1° by 2° quadrangle is located between latitudes...the Lukeville 1° by 2° quadrangle leaving within Arizona a triangular part of the northeast corner from
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Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have taken place in recent...Southampton University. A consultant geochemist in the mining industry, he is also an avid collector of micromounts...Mountain states. In the copper mines of Houghton County, Michigan, where primary arsenides have provided...from Hinsdale County, Colorado, and from the Blackbird and Nickel Plate mines in Lemhi County, Idaho. In
Catalog/List
again, and have added over 30 brand new items to this catalog. These new items are not in the sale section...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
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 (article/letter/editorial)
THE AJO COPPER DISARIZONA. • JAMES GILLULY. ABSTRACT. The New Cornelia orebody at Ajo, Arizona, is...tilting of the whole mountainblock containingthe mine through an angle of nearly 60 degrees;the other...bulk of the MINERALIZATION OF A]O COPPER DISTRICT. :249 magmamust havelessfugitive qualitiesthan...indirector remoterelationships. In thecopperdepositat Ajo, it seemsto me possible to find suggestionsamountingto...the locusof the alteration to have shifted very little throughoutthe development of the deposit. Although
Catalog/List
ndak.net NEW YEAR, NEW ITEMS, SAME LOW PRICES! 1997 CATALOG #1 Hello again and happy new year! We sincerely...catalog should have something for everyone! Over 250 new and exciting items to choose from! Yup, that's right...again for your patronage and enjoy the catalog! ALL NEW STEMS FOE 1997: PYRITE SUNS IN SHALE MA TRIX: Sparta...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
Catalog/List
TO SCOTT WILLIAMS MINERAL 457 • SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA PHONE (602) 945-0803 COMPANY 85252 SOUTHWEST...Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls imbedded in syenite CROSSITE
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...(only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection Introduction...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was
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been described. Well known are malachite after azurite, copper, and cuprite; less commonly reported are...sphalerite, cerussite, pyrite, and even wood and bone. Azurite, shattuckite, chrysocolla, chalcoalumite, goethite...Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick...Brunswick, New 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;
Report (issue)
Preliminary report of molybdenum occurrences in Arizona by Jan C. Wilt 1/, Stanley B. Keith 2/, Jocelyn...to the Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology a division of The University of Arizona This...'1030571 04 M030562 04 M030563 04 '1030584 04 CouNTY DEPosir 'ostHP +litire LAtiroOE ♦ Looroae 28N... wA A 7 PROSPECT 15N 02E 27 MU AMOLE DISTRICT BANNER DISTRICT BLUE HELL GROUP 19N 215W 101 35-03-A wA...CUA AG BORIANA MINE 18N 115W 118 34-56-154 113-54-53W CATALINA DISTRICT CATALINA DISTRICT CHILDS-ALOWINKLE
 
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