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Selenite from
Gibraltar Mine, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gypsum var: Selenite
Formula:CaSO4 · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Selenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gibraltar Mine, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:66389
Long-form Identifier:1:3:66389:0
GUID (UUID V4):8976882d-c2c6-4ade-9f95-9f47cd9e0730
Nearest other occurrences of Selenite
0.0km (0.0 miles) ⓘNaica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
0.3km (0.2 miles) ⓘNaica Mine, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
91.4km (56.8 miles) ⓘSanta Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
91.6km (56.9 miles) ⓘPotosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
"'<' ~/ BOUNDARIES U A Mo<'« u~ o V :Ÿ 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...a. ie = Maes Lie Auadado = ae MINERALS OF MEXICO Vv | Oona tA. IMPORTANT MINING DISTRICTS
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...District Chihuahua .......................... Santa Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine................ San Antonio Mine....... Cusihuiriachic District..... Barranca de Cobre (Copper Canyon) Batopilas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pp. 1002-1034 ORE GENESIS IN THE CHIHUAHUA, NAICA DISTRICT, MEXICO JOHN G. STONE CONTENTS PAGE Abstract.............................. 1010 Structure in mine area Northwest fractures Northeast fractures 1010............... Genesisof the primary ores of the Naica district ...................... 1024 1024 1025......................... 1033 ABSTRACT In the Naica miningdistrictof north-centralMexico,pyrometasomatic...The only igneous rocks known in the Sierra de Naica, consistingof thin, discontinuous dikesand sills
Journal (issue)
June 1963 CONTENTS NAICA AND ITS CAVE OF THE SwoRDS-Paul W. Johnson "SULFUR HOLE" - William P. Moller...Coldornio T H E NAICA mining district i s i n the Sierra de Naica, Municipio of Saucillo, Chihuahua. The turn-off...turn-off for Naica is approximately 68 miles north. of Hidalgo de) Parral, or 71 miles south of Chihua­...and mercury. Like many mining districts in Mexico, Naica was at one time divided into a number of small...Currently the mine is divided into two parts on the basis of different owner­ ship: 1 . the Naica mine, including
Book (volume)
Cata Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 Adamite (Manganoadamite) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, 28 Aegirine..., Morocco, 48-49 Apatite (with Bikitaite) Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina,... 22 Aphthitalite PCA Intrepid Potash Mine, Carlsbad, New Mexico, 22 Axinite (Magnesio-Axinite) Char Band...Pakistan, 7 Azurite (& Malachite) "Sams Pocket", Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 20-21 Bastnaesite (on Calcite)...Tourmaline) Paprok Mine, Nuristan Prov., Afghanistan, 33 Bismuthinite Biggenden Mine, Mount Biggenden,
Book (volume)
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, MEXICO The Geology of North America O r > W 4^ *1^ ^ ^ \ \ f ax4 u \ \...of North America Volume P-3 Economic Geology^ Mexico Edited by Guillermo P. Salas Geologo Consultor...Centro Minero Nacional Carretera Mexico-Pachuca Pachuca, Hgo., Mexico, D.F. 1991 EXPLORATION LIBRARY...reserved. Geologia economica de Mexico. English. Economic geology, Mexico / edited by Guillermo P. Salas...; v. P-3) Translation of Geologia economica de Mexico. Includes bibliography references and index. ISBN
Catalog/List
Chondrite (Type III) Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico (26° 58’N, 105° 19’W) Witnessed Fall: February...Chondrite (Type III) Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico (26° 58’N, 105° 19’W) Witnessed Fall: February...solar system. The Allende ireball fell over Chihuahua, Mexico in 1969 providing a large amount of material...Meteorite Ordinary Chondrite (H4) Wilton Rural Municipality, Saskatchewan, Canada (52°59.76’N, 109°50.89’W)...com/5386 72076 Orange Calcite Sphere Stone Source: Mexico With its citrus hue and white banding, this sphere
Catalog/List
museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...Auction 2 53001 CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority...Caledonite and a dash of azure blue Linarite. The mine is now collapsed and only a memory for the lucky... 53002 CHALCOCITE Lucky Friday Pocket, Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin, USA This is one
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
was sent in by Mr. McDonald. ARIZONA—"The Bagdad Mine, Yavapai Co., Arizona, has lately produced some...is now in the hands of various collectors. Bagdad Mine has produced, from time to time, many unusual copper...polished gold ore comes from Burton's Tropico Gold Mine in Rosamond (Kern Co.), Calif., where the largest...largest Southern California gold mill is located. The mine is no longer in operation but it is open to the...(Jasper Co.), Ga. I D A H O — "The old Tungsten Hill Mine (Sec. 13, T. 64 N . R. Le) is situated about 18
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Notable items are a needle crystal selenite found about 100 ft. deep in a mine in Northern Michigan, a specimen...nice shelf of colored slag. There are opals from Mexico, lapis lazuli from Afghanistan, and bloodstone...by the Aztecs, and other effigies and idols from Mexico. Recent or present day sea shells I have from both...brick from Valley Forge, a piece of the Rock of Gibraltar, and a pebble from the Acropolis at Athens, Greece
Report (issue)
VERBEEK, R. PETER RICHARDS AND FABIEN CESBRON I Mexico: Hundreds of Localities, Great Associations 78...Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...MICHAEL GRAY 54 Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56...Castleton in Traek Cliff (Derbyshire), the Blue John mine (page 35). The term "fluorite" was coined in 1797...The Blue John Mine, Castleton. In Modern Terms A postcard depicting the Blue John mine near Castleton
Journal (issue)
Champions RETURN, HELL'S CANYON (Golf), Las Vegas. NEW MEXICO March 29-April 1—Spring Corn Dances at San Felipe...CALENDAR REFLECTION NATURE ADVENTURE FICTION WATER LOST MINE POETRY PUBLIC LANDS EXPERIENCE GHOST TOWN PHOTOGRAPHY...Desert 33 Current news of desert mines 34 Touring Mexico for Minerals By MARY S. SHAUB 35 Amateur Gem. Cutter...of California, far western Arizona and northwest Mexico. It is interesting to note that before the noble...fan palm was introduced into cultiva- tion in Mexico and the United States, it already had become well
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
transparent single and twinned crystals (i.e. selenite, Fig. 2a), and as polycrystalline semi-opaque...idiomorphic gypsum crystal, i.e. selenite, from the Naice mine (Mexico), (b) gypsum satin spar from Benson...(e) hydrothermal anhydrite fans from the Naica mine (Mexico, R.M. Lavinsky, CC-BY-SA-3.0) and (f) White...discovered re inside of the Naica Mine (Mexico, Fig. 3c). In this silver and lead mine, several natural cavities...ranging up to 7 m in length, found inside El Teniente mine in Chile (Cannell et al., 2005). Other locations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lepidodendrons. A few iron nodules present and crystals of selenite. Separated from red shales above by sharp line...Webster county, except the scattered crystals of selenite in the Coal-Measure shales, is stratified in heavy...some selenite, but, in view of the fossil content of the shales, it is probable that the selenite was...gypsum the of lamination and bedding The men the mine. behind wall Crawford of the in and -Interior...and if no water entered through the Strait of Gibraltar, or if the supply entering were considerably reduced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2006; Roveri et al., 2008b), which resulted in selenite and cumulate gypsum deposition in shallow marginal...likely the result of retrogressive erosion of the Gibraltar Strait rather than tectonically D driven subsidence...gypsum sequence is formed of 5 m of in situ bedded selenite, overlain by a gypsrudite formed of large angular...angular blocks (>2 m) laminated alabastrine and selenite gypsum supported in a matrix of gypsiferous sandy...exposed. The gypsum rudite beds, composed of broken selenite crystals, are interpreted as the result of mass
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mediterranean was reïŹ‚ooded by Atlantic waters through the Gibraltar Strait (e.g., HsĂŒ et al., 1973; Blanc, 2002; LoïŹ...sea-level rise related to a deepening of the Gibraltar Strait. For Perez-Asensio et al. (2013) the ïŹrst...earliest Pliocene, at ca. 5.33 Ma (erosion at Gibraltar and then sea-level rise). In this paper, we shed...composed of clays that contain reworked fragments of selenite gypsum (Fig. 3B). Gypsum fragments are centimetre-...AĂŻt Abdallah. (A) Gypsum olistolith; (B) slab of selenite gypsum; (C) Porites blocks in conglomerates; (D)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pinkish rhodonite have been found in the Sunnyside mine at Silverton (San Juan Co.), Colo. CONNECTICUT—Richard..., sent us two items (one on the old lead-silver mine at Canton (Hartford Co.), Conn, and the other on...Reid, collected at the old Canton silver and lead mine. I recently visited the locality, for the first...including many with good crystals of quartz, calcite, selenite, dolomite, (with saddle shaped xls) and a few... mong the specimens were: Siliceous NoGypsum {selenite') Platy gray xls in Jules, white, brownish and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
peace which shall be is enduring as the Rock of Gibraltar. Let us all strive to get on God's side and not...issue j s D f a beautiful flower like group of selenite crystals known as a desert rose. Its color is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
found a tertiary deposit bordering the Bay of Gibraltar. This agrees in its fossils with those observed...tertiary, which runs from Greece to the Straits of Gibraltar, and the shores of Portugal, and from Malta to...locality referred to a thickness of nearly 1000 feet. Selenite abounds in part of it ; also beds of rock-salt
Journal (issue)
party of prospectors in search of the “Lost Cabin Mine”. {1} J. S. Diller, “The Geology and Petrography...CAVERNS AND OTHER CAVES OF THE GUADALUPE BLOCK, NEW MEXICO. J. Harlen Bretz. Jour. Geology, Vol. 57, No. 5...GEOMORPHIC HISTORY OF THE CARLSBAD CAVERNS AREA, NEW MEXICO. Leland Horberg. Jour. Geology, Vol. 57, No. 5...solved, for the Bureau’s experimental oil shale mine already has achieved low-cost production. Work on...far from the site of the highest mine in the United States. This mine, and in fact the entire 14,245-foot
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
an in a recent letter he writes: "Bastnaand old mine tunnel located west of Tucson. There were also calcite...much of the barite with cal- tain Pass, Calif. The mine is about 3 miles cite and galena." David P. Record...Mart, 4400 Mission Road, road leads to the mine. The mine consists of one shaft. Some bastnasite has...crystals. It is an attractive speciassaying. This mine will be a potential men. source of cerium metal...was announced in the March-April, 1950, manganese mine near Glen wood, Pike ROCKS AND MINERALS, p. 123
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
refilled by Pliocene flooding through the flattened Gibraltar sill. Despite the fact that this spectacular scenario... Laminated, alabastrine, thin gypsarenite and selenite beds Enterolithic folds, cyclic occurrence of...gypsarenite, gypsrudite, alabastrine, some thin selenite beds Soft sediment deformation (slumping), Garcia-Veigas...sections and thick sections from several large selenite crystals yields a considerable number of planktonic...Fig. 4. Thin-section micrographs from a large selenite twin. (A) Detrital calcareous material and planktonic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lack of modern analogues for the thick primary selenite gypsum deposits formed in the na Mediterranean...Basin (southern Spain). Here, the bottom-grown selenite gypsum beds pinch-out against graded clastic carbonate...The PLG evaporites consist of different stacked selenite facies with an ordered, rhythmic pattern forming...and banded selenite are the most common gypsum facies; a peculiar ur branching selenite facies is found...bed. The exclusive occurrence of the branching selenite only in the upper half of the PLG unit has been
 
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