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Sphalerite from
Chivera Mine, Cananea, Cananea Municipality, Sonora, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chivera Mine, Cananea, Cananea Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:58061
Long-form Identifier:1:3:58061:2
GUID (UUID V4):4d574304-5051-436f-8724-9c87d010c5b5
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Manzanal Mine, Cananea, Cananea Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
44.6km (27.7 miles) State of Texas Mine, Montezuma Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
48.3km (30.0 miles) Lutz Tunnel, Ash Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
48.5km (30.1 miles) Cave Mine, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
50.2km (31.2 miles) Western Tungsten Mine (Western Mine), Cochise County, Arizona, USA
50.3km (31.3 miles) Nelly James Mine (Miller Canyon deposit; Miller Canyon prospect; Nellie James prospect; Holenstein Mine), Miller Canyon, Miller Peak, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
52.8km (32.8 miles) Hamburg Mine (Wisconsin Mine; Hartford Mine), Ramsey Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
53.0km (33.0 miles) Reef Mine, Carr Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
56.5km (35.1 miles) Unnamed copper prospect, Brown Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
59.1km (36.7 miles) Royal and Deer Horn Mine, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Manchester Library] at 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production...a single zinc mineral, sphalerite. Fortunately for the collector, sphalerite tends to form well-crystallized...unusually large number of good sphalerite occurrences, the Eagle mine at Gilman holds the record as that...the source of a correspondingly large number of sphalerite specimens. Inasmuch as the minerals of the now-closed...issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice (figs. 1 and 2 ) . Sphalerite is notable for its dodecahedral cleavage, the
Book
"'<' ~/ BOUNDARIES U A Mo<'« u~ o V :¾ MEXICO r - ·•-.. ·-··-··-··-·· < •• ....... V S TATES...org/details/mineralsofmexico0000panc MINERALS OF MEXICO • ERALS OF ~XICO M ______ William D. Panczner...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy-Collectors and collecting-Mexico. 2. Mines and mineral...mineral resources-Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This boo i...i.. is deJicated tu the people of Mexico and to the three people who directly affected me and this project
Book
anc MINERALS OF MEXICO 7 | : = Pras #0 AaprTTARE ; | MINERALS OF MEXICO William D. Panczner...1938Minerals of Mexico. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineralogy— Collectors and collecting— Mexico. 2. Mines and...and mineral resources— Mexico. I. Title. QE377.M6P36 1987 549.972 86-13325 ISBN 0-442-27285-5 This book...Jalisco; D. Santiago Ramirez’s La Riqueza Minera de Mexico, and his translation of Dana’s Tratado de Mineralogia...would like to thank the director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum who allowed me to travel extensively
Book
K FIELD GUIDE to the GEMS and MINERALS of MEXICO (Exclusive of Baja California) A guide to the...Information............ Driving in Mexico................... Trailcring in Mexico ............. 5 6 6 7 8 8........ A Word to the Wise ............. Jade in Mexico......................... Manto and Chimney Deposits... SECTION 1 — Highway 15 El Antimonio District Cananea District ...... Arizpe District ........... Nacozari...Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine............. San Antonio Mine....... Cusihuiriachic District..
Journal (issue)
.................. .-.............. MINE YIELDING GEM SPHALERITE ABANDONED MANY YEARS .·.~ ............include the Champion mine 2¾ miles slightly north of east of Amelia ; the Wingo mine near the southern town...town limits of Amelia ; the James Anderson mine and Jenkins prospect near Rhodophil 10 miles west-northwest...properties about half a mile south of the Morefield mine and about 3½ miles slightly north of east of Amelia...Amelia. At the Champion (Jefferson No. 4) mine, a mine famous as a producer of high quality mica but heretofore
Journal (issue)
...................... 3 WAVELLITE IN THE RORER MINE, VIRGINIA. By R. f. Holden 6 SOME MINERALS OF THE.......... 16 GEM QUALITY SPH ALE RITE FOUN D I N MEXICO ...........................•........ 17 GRIOTTE...would write us giving their ,observaSolo1non: A gold mine exists on tions on minerals found, location of Guadalcanal...chances are strong that the mine may shut down permanently. If the mine should shut down, then no more...lass than others. l t r WAVELLITE IN THE RORER MINE, VIRGINIA R. J. HOLDEN I (l a \ A couple decades
Report (volume)
use our processes in the United States, Canada, Mexico or Cuba without direct written sanction or specific...Canada THE MINES HANDBOOK Meeting tbe Needs of Mine and Smelter Hundreds of plants on both American...(all types) Crushers Crushing Rolls NEW YORK Mine Pumps Oil Engines Sampling Machinery Screens Stamp...all the metals, and a corresponding expansion of mine work. The MINES HANDBOOK will hereafter be published...Tuckahoe, N. Y., April, 1920. Vll THE MINES MINE HOISTS HANDBOOK AND Years of experience in building
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Magnetite 68 Amber Cuprite 69 Cassiterite 70 Sphalerite 71 Galena 72 Orpiment Pyrites 73 74 Marcasite...very lucky, the minerals that can be found on old mine dumps, beaches, in quarries, etc. in Britain cannot...on a local theme or even concentrate on a single mine. Others may consist of a single class of mineral...and Corocoro, Bolivia. Other sources include New Mexico and Arizona, U.S.A.; Bogoslovsk in the Ural Mts...Deposits in Czecho¬ slovakia and many parts of Mexico have been worked for centuries, although the historic
Report (volume)
use our processes in the United States, Canada, Mexico or Cuba (without direct written sanction or specific...California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE • MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments...Compressor NEW YORK Crushing Rolls Air Compressors Mine Pumps Ball Mills Blast Furnaces Oil Engines Screens...considered to be working the public and not the mine. Many suspicious promotions are however not positively...1691 Australasia Newfoundland 1866 New Zealand Mexico 1867 New Caledonia Central America 1977 Africa
Book (volume)
5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...operator of the Little Three Mine at Ramona, and Ralph R. Potter of the Himalaya Mine at Mesa Grande provided...Hypersthene, Zircon, Algodonite and Domeykite, Sphalerite, Niccolite, Smaltite, Cobaltite, Breithauptite...of the Dewey Diamond . The Murfreesboro diamond mine . A California diamond crystal . Seven corundum...Creek gravel washing . Yogo Gulch Mine . Rock Creek, Montana, sapphire mine . Cut and rough aquamarines .
Book (volume)
and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman...the only minerals having this kind of bonding. sphalerite, and a number of the sulfides have the homopolar...included. Groups, however, are not here restricted sphalerite form another group. Chemical similarities or...1844-date. falens, Bonn. Naturaleza. Naturaleza, Mexico. Vol. 1-7, 1869-86; ser. 2, vol. 1-3, 1887Published
Book (edition)
natural or synthetic, but, also to indicate the very mine from which it came! Inclusions are the most powerful...Birefringence Mapimi, Tsumeb, Tsumeb, Laurium, Mexico S.W.A.(Cu) S.W.A.(Co) Greece 1.722 1.742 1.722...copper, in lovely blue and green shades. Mapimi, Mexico: fine sprays of crystals in limonite matrix. Tsumeb...from the Mohawk Mine, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Domeykite is from the Mohawk Mine, Michigan; Lake...Lake Superior district, Ontaria, Canda; Guererro, Mexico; also from Chile, Germany, Sweden, and from Cornwall
Book (edition)
natural or synthetic. but. also to indicate the very mine f ram which it came! I nclusions are the most powerful...from the Mohawk Mine, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Domeykite is from the Mohawk Mine, Michigan; Lake...Lake Superior district, Ontaria, Canda; Guererro, Mexico; also from Chile, Germany, Sweden, and from Cornwall...Quartz. ALABASTER ALLANITE After the Algodones Mine, Coquimbo, Chile. Occurrence: In sedimentary deposits...blue or green. Rarely found in England. Southern Mexico produces golden yellow material. Burma: brownish
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Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi Paris S40 Paulo Shanghai Singapore...it was first described.) Field of view: S77 16 mine WHAT IS A MINERAL? Figure 11. Phillipsite from...x 4) {hkl} or {hkl} consisting of 24 faces. Sphalerite and tetrahedrite, the latter being named after...x 76 mm. Figure 38. Wulfenite from St. Anthony Mine, Mammoth-Tiger 10x 18mm. District, Pinal County...CRYSTALLOGRAPHY Figure 76. Fluorite from Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Tennessee, USA. An unusual example showing
Journal (volume)
Copper Report; :.;.: Arizona Copper f Ashio Copper Mine, Japan MT'b'urant T. Ouiant ...... .H. ... Assays...Mines of West Australian Iron Resources Balcobo Mine Assays Economics Ball, H. S BalUMiU Practice....Report Block 10 Block 14 Hill, Discovery at British Mine. Hill Hill Hill, Output at Hill South Silver ...Burma Mines Burma Ruby Mine Bunihain, M. Butler, R. H. _ •. .w' ii.Vs a Mine ..'38, M25 . H... .Finance...•. -•;••, . > "J;'-' Blackwater Mine RlEort Blackwater Mine...., -•;;; M^uiewson (r.M E. P Blast-Enrnace
Book
it a veritable not just a picof informa- is mine tion, telling everything the collector needs to...directory of locations the United States, Canada, and Mexico where minerals and gems have been found and it...collecting locations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. It is the work of Russell P. MacFall, author of...can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it should...searched such detecting richly rewarded. Most of the mine entrances them- selves have been closed by waste
Book (edition)
that the positive and negative tetrahedrons of sphalerite (see that species) have a constant difference...Another form, shown bounded by twelve it is Sphalerite Boracite in Fig. 150, has the general symbol...gives the indices 221 for the face. To deter 192. mine, by plotting, the axial ratio of an orthorhombic...ordinary spinel type of another tetrahedral species, sphalerite; with it, complex forms with repeated twinning...allel 408 Tetrahedrite 409 410 Eulytite Sphalerite The most common method 245. Tetragonal System
Book (edition)
and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and Mexico. Every state, as a glance at the list of gem locations...IDOCRASE RUBY V. IOLITE SAPPHIRE ^ KYANITE SPHALERITE TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS (Cross-section...minerals. He will pick over stream beds, gravel pits, mine dumps, road cuts, and quarries. Some gems agate...been established. One of these is near Deming, New Mexico (described in this book's Locality Guide), and... and safety-toe shoes in an operating quarry or mine. They are prudent precautions against disaster in
Book (edition)
Smokey Quartz ~Sodalite —‘Spessartine Garnet = Sphalerite Sphene =©Spice Topaz Spinel Spodumene Star Sapphire...monroe Marquise cut Master model making Mattom Melee Mexico 261 Nigeria 261 Octagon cut 263 Opalescence 265...discovered. Ruby from Murgab; Spinel from Kuh-i-Lal mine; Turquoise from Eastern Tajikistan, plus Emerald...from the Kuh-i-Lal mine in Afghanistan. Writings by Marco Polo suggested that the mine was said to be the...gem mine in the world still in operation and records trace its operations back to 101AD. This mine yields
Book (volume)
2 PREFACE For two decades, an earlier work of mine—Practical Gemmology—has proved a useful elementary...or terraces. Emerald is recovered from the Chivor mine in Colombia by such a method. The method of recovering...diamond (4263 carats) recovered from the Premier mine * yon af TINT * . in the Transoaal. This shows how...is found in a mine they are looked upon as the greatest sign of ill luck, and the mine, no matter how...how profitable, is Aaa: The mine owner may himself not be superstitious, but nothing will induce the
 
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