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Brochantite from
Copper mine, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Brochantite
Formula:Cu4(SO4)(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Brochantite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Copper mine, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:565095
Long-form Identifier:1:3:565095:8
GUID (UUID V4):5481e51d-6177-42a9-8729-b4f7463923ec
Nearest other occurrences of Brochantite
4.0km (2.5 miles) Carlisle Mine, Steeple Rock Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
45.0km (28.0 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
45.0km (28.0 miles) Humboldt Mine (Humboldt tunnel; Liverpool tunnel; Arizona Copper Co. group [in part]), Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
45.2km (28.1 miles) Yavapai Mine (Arizona Copper Co. group [in part]), Clifton, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
45.9km (28.5 miles) Morenci Mine, Morenci, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
46.0km (28.6 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
46.6km (28.9 miles) Eleven and Celtic group (Celtic group; Veiled Prophet group), Placer Gulch, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
47.1km (29.2 miles) Copper Mountain, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
47.2km (29.3 miles) Metcalf Mines (Arizona Copper Co. group; Metcalf Open pit), Clifton, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
47.8km (29.7 miles) Shannon Mine (Shannon Mountain Mine), King Gulch, Greenlee County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
leaf gold, smoky quark, and turquoise specimens, New Mexico boasts an array of mineral species. RAMON S....Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110 THE PURPOSE OF THIS INDEX is to provide a comprehensive listing of New Mexico...Particular attention was directed toward incorporating new information on discoveries and occurrences, although...to compile all of the mineral occurrences in New Mexico-a venture of that magnitude is beyond the scope...Minerals of New Mexico is the basic reference for locations. Abstracts from the New Mexico mineral symposia
Journal (issue)
................ 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................... 5...5 by W. E. Wilson Minerals first described from New M ex ico ...................................... 9...Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico ............................................ 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Brochantite Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi]...Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when most green acicular copper minerals...minerals were routinely labeled brochantite, a seemingly inexhaustible supply of such specimens supposedly originating...was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times. The level... and although the once implied abundance of brochantite may be burned permanently into the minds of older
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite...mill. So it has been at places such as Broken Hill, New South Wales, where linarite’s legacy is primarily...fracture surfaces. Linarite is a basic sulfate of copper and lead with the formula of PbCu(SO4)(OH)2. It...parts of deposits originally containing lead and copper sulfides. It is most frequently encountered in...Southwest. Associated minerals are many and include brochantite, caledonite, malachite, aurichalcite, cerussite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aspect of malachite mineralogy. Malachite is basic copper carbonate with the formula Cu,CO,(OH),. Some published...presence is unknown, so the extent of substitution for copper in the mineral’s structure is uncertain. Malachite...azurite, copper, and cuprite; less commonly reported are malachite after atacamite, brochantite, chalcopyrite...widespread secondary minerals of copper, occurring in the oxidized portions of copper deposits of all types. The...Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick
Report (issue)
Preliminary Model of Porphyry Copper Deposits Open-File Report 2008–1321 U.S. Department of the Interior...Geological Survey Preliminary Model of Porphyry Copper Deposits By Byron R. Berger, Robert A. Ayuso, Jeffrey...Seal, R.R., 2008, Preliminary model of porphyry copper deposits: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report......36 Figures 1. Cross section of a porphyry copper deposit showing idealized alteration zoning (after... Tables 1. Intrusive rock compositions associated with selected porphyry copper deposits..........37
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Article Supergene Copper and the Ancient Mining Landscapes of the Atacama Desert: Refining...Refining the Protocol for the Study of Archaeological Copper Minerals through the Case Study of Pukara de Turi...Parcero-Oubiña, C.; 3 4 5 6 et al. Supergene Copper and the Ancient Mining Landscapes of the 7 Atacama Desert:...Refining the Protocol for the Study of Archaeological Copper Minerals 8 through the Case Study of Pukara de...of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA; fmh@unm.edu (F.H.); bgm10@unm
Journal (issue)
Mamaroneck, New York Volume Eleven, Number Three May-June 1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity...Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon Famous mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona...85740 Departments Notes from the Editor .. What’s new in Minerals? published bimonthly by the Mineralogical... ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see p. 141). This crystal, 5 cm across and nearly...Multiple Japan-law quartz twins from the Yankee Boy mine (1, 7, 33), by Richard A. Bideaux. Three specimens
Journal (issue)
WULFENITE, PbMoO4, 7cm, Red Cloud Mine, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA; Evan Jones Collection, ©...Joyce & Bob Hendrix on new home in Payson. MSA wishes you much happiness in your new mountain paradise. I...please give a warm MSA Welcome to Carlie Murphy, our new MSA Social Coordinator. Thank You Carlie for joining...the Arizona Geological Survey and at the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum. Dr. Rasmussen received the...in 2010 for her work as Curator of the Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum in Phoenix. Our April 13th program
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Korea University] at 11:41 06 January 2015 Moonta Mine, South Australia, Australia W ere it not for a...mineralizing fluids or earlier-formed species. The copper species atacamite [Cu2Cl(OH)3], boléite [KPb26Ag9Cu24Cl62(OH)48]...the famous mercury mines of Terlingua, Brewster County, Texas. Of these five species, only atacamite is...localities. Consequently, an atacamite from the Moonta mine, South Australia, Australia, has been suggested...addresses above. 374 ROCKS & MINERALS Atacamite is copper hydroxychloride with the formula Cu2Cl(OH)3. Some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RAMON S.DEMARK 8240 Eddy Avenue N.E. Albuquerque New Mexico 87109 Blue Fluorite Crystals 1) + Figure...Blanchard mine group R W.TUTHItL I Figure 9(above). Map showjng the woikings of the Blanchard mine group...ranch lands. Although mining activity,for 1ead.hasexisted inthe Hansonburg &ng district, which includes the...the Blanchard mine, . since 1872 (Jones 1904), the eariiest reference to fluor& in the area seems to be...most beautiful cabinet specimens to be found in New Mexico." The first Volume 78. NovembedDecember2003
Book (edition)
FOURTHEDITION V e a o_ of li rizo TI RAYMOND W. GRANT RONALD B. GIBBS HARVEY W. JONG JAN C. RASMUSSEN...McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones... Data Names: Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others]... MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA,FOURTHEDITION Introduction Many new mineral species have been documented in Arizona since...Mineralogy of Arizona was published in 1995. This new edition adds to the extensive work of the previous
Report (issue)
OF NEW MEXICO FAYETTE A. JONES, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 1 THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO BY FAYETTE... ALBRIGHT & NEW ANDERSON. ALBUQUERQUE. MEXICO PRINTERS NEW • BINDERS MEXICO STATE SCHOOL...SCHOOL OF MINES MINERAL RESOURCES SURVEY OF NEW MEXICO FAYETTE A. M. B. JONES, DIRECTOR DONAHUE...MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO BY FAYETTE A. JONES 1915 SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO ÜBRIdMr A ANDERSON...Board by Authority of the of Regents of the New Mexico State School of Mines LETTER To OF TRANSMITTAL
Journal (issue)
Number 5 The JllilpillaB Jlline Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico .................................................malachite, 5.4 cm, from the Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico. Fine Minerals International specimen;...mines and minerals of Mexico is devoted entirely to the Milpillas mine, a relatively new locality which has...quantities. We published a preliminary report on the mine by Tom Moore and Marcus Origlieri back in 2008,...and went underground with the miners. Since the mine has now shut down permanently, we are taking this
Book (edition)
Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...Sidney A. Williams Richard A. Bideaux Raymond W Grant PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Wendell E. Wilson Published...photographs has been generously funded by a special grant from the Phelps Dodge Corporation. • CONTENTS...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...ARIZONA MINERAL DEPOSITS Porphyry Copper Deposits 57 Porphyry-Copper-Related and Other Hydrothermal Deposits
Book (edition)
Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably...and were subsequently partially filled with waste rock. Peter Kresam and Richard Graeme . Mineralogy...thirty-five scientific papers and discovered sixteen new mineral species, naming two of them after his co-authors...co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a member of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogy and geochemistry of the copper-dominated neutral mine drainage at the Cu deposit Ľubietová-Podlipa...Mineralogy and geochemistry of the copper-dominated neutral mine drainage at the Cu deposit Ľubietová-Podlipa...Mineralogy and geochemistry of the copper-dominated neutral mine drainage at the Cu deposit Ľubietová-Podlipa...neutral mine drainage system at Ľubietová in Slovakia is overwhelmingly dominated by copper (17 ppm in...ppb in the most concentrated aqueous sample). This mine drainage is generated by oxidative dissolution of
Journal (issue)
R, Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur.........................355 by G. Niedermayr Brochantite and other minerals from the Paoli, Oklahoma,...C. M. Garland Arsenopyrite from the Kilpatrick mine, Madoc, Ontario...................................mushistonite; and an unnamed tin mineral from the Etta mine ..............................................383........................................389 What's New in Minerals?....................................
Book (edition)
Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably...and were subsequently partially filled with waste rock. Peter Kresam and Richard Graeme. • 1nera o ...thirty-five scientific papers and discovered sixteen new mineral species, naming two of them after his co-authors...co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a men1ber of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position
Book (edition)
Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...Sidney A. Williams Richard A. Bideaux Raymond W. Grant PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR Wendell E. Wilson Published...photographs has been generously funded by a special grant from the Phelps Dodge Corporation. (ngs * Prien’...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Porphyry Copper Deposits 57 Porphyry-Copper-Related and Other Hydrothermal Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF NEW MEXICO FAYETTE A. JONES, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 1 THE M I N E RAL RESOURCES OF N E W MEXICO BY FAYETTE...FAYETTE A. JONES 1915 SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO ALBRIGHT & ANDERSON, PRINTERS-BINDERS, ALBUQUERQUE Published... Published by Authority of the Board of Regents of the New Mexico State School of Mines L E T T E R OF TRANSMITTAL...Governor, Santa Fe, New Mexico. DEAR SIR: On behalf of the Board of Regents of the New Mexico State School...Resources Survey, entitled "The Mineral Resources of New Mexico," which I trust may prove of some value to the
Journal (issue)
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) Stock...Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This special...Kerry Cooper Barbara Muntyan Christi Cramer Jason New Jean des Revières Pinal Geology Museum John Ebner...considering the historic importance of copper mining in Arizona, native copper would be the logical choice for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia...deposits, especially those of copper. At relatively shallow depths, copper is concentrated as the native...collectors familiar with porphyry copper deposits of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Many of the world’s...world’s finest specimens of native copper, azurite, malachite, atacamite, and a host of other minerals originated...impurities. Its position in the oxidation cycle of copper deposits suggests that it can replace a variety
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Manila Mine Downloaded by [New York University] at 00:58 20 June 2015 Cochise County, Arizona ROBERT...mm, from the Gallagher mine. T HE TOMBSTONE MINING DISTRICT in Cochise County, Arizona, is one of the...the country’s most notorious nineteenth-century mining camps (Williams 1980). Apart from yielding silver...and also does photomicrography. Downloaded by [New York University] at 00:58 20 June 2015 Figure 2...and wulfenite. History The Gallagher and Manila mining claims are located approximately 13 kilometers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal copper deposits are dominated...dominated in their primary mineralogy by copper-bearing sulfide minerals such as chalcopyrite. When these deposits...2005), the sulfides become unstable and oxidize. Copper released from this reaction can form a plethora...“supergene” minerals, ranging from simple native copper and copper oxides to complex secondary minerals such...from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have taken place in recent
 
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