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Alunite from
Cameron, Cameron Mining District, Coconino County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Census-designated Place
Classification
Species:Alunite
Formula:KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
Comments:Occurs in uranium ores as powdery crusts and masses.
Colour:White
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Alunite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cameron, Cameron Mining District, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:66843
Long-form Identifier:1:3:66843:3
GUID (UUID V4):8a1d3398-b49a-417e-9d6e-bd54ccea3a26
Localities for Alunite in this Region
Murphy Mine (Black Point Mine; Black Point-Murphy Mine), Cameron, Cameron Mining District, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Alunite
20.8km (12.9 miles) Murphy Mine (Black Point Mine; Black Point-Murphy Mine), Cameron, Cameron Mining District, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
42.9km (26.6 miles) Black Peak breccia pipe area occurrences, Black Peak, Willow Springs, Coconino County, Arizona, USA
57.5km (35.7 miles) Sunset Crater (Sunset Peak), San Franciscan volcanic field (San Francisco Peaks; San Francisco Mts), Coconino County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
associated with uranium mineralization near Cameron, Arizona By Charles S. Spirakis, Denver, Colorado...Colorado and Christopher D. Condit, Flagstaff, Arizona Open-file report 75-416 1975 This report is preliminary... Contents Page Abstract- 1 Introduction -- Mining activity 2 2 Objective __ _--- 2 Stratigraphy...12 4.--"Enhanced natural color" image of the Cameron area--- -- 13 3.--Flow chart of computer-enhancement...--Stretched-ratioed, false color image of the Cameron area------ ---- ---- --- ----- ---- __-__-_-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alteration Carbonate emplacement Silicification Alunite Mineral relationships General review Urano-organic...Dakota on the northeast to Arizona on the southwest (Fig. 1). Most mining activity is con- Page Figure...ore replacing a log 1092 16. Monoclinal fold in Coconino salient . . . . 1096 17. Structural pattern, southern...Woodrow Mine 1103 27. Orphan Mine, Grand Canyon, Arizona... 1101 28. Circular collapse and a collapse syncline...View Uranium Mine, Cameron, Arizona 1105 31. Volcanic centers of northeastern Arizona. 1106 32. Volcanic
Book (edition)
Q! creonl lia OE ~| /BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee...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)
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
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
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)
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...Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and the J ackpile deposits to the east; (2) in Arizona, the Orphan deposit lies northwest of the San Francisco...Francisco volcanic center, and the Cameron ore bodies to the northeast; (3) in Utah, arcuate uranium...Sal igneous center, and in Colorado, the Uravan district encircles the center on the east. Distribution...southern margin of the Plateau in New Mexico and Arizona, and a west prong extends northward through Marysvale...accompanying chemical changes. Caribou Mine, Boulder County, Colorado Among the Front Range veins, the alteration
Book (edition)
found in Arizona. In the twelve years since then 61 more minerals have been reported from Arizona, a number...change. This checklist is an effort to bring the Arizona mineral list up to date. Of the 61 minerals added...locality being in Arizona. They are: bechererite from the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite...Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from the Grand...Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near Gray Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite from
Report (issue)
Nevada 89557-0088, U.S.A. Eiji Izawa, Department of Mining, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University 36,...S.A., 72 p. Ashley, R. P., 1974, Goldfield mining district, jLn Guidebook to the geology of four Tertiary...metals in silicified rocks of the Goldfield mining district, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Professional...Paul, 1945, Quicksilver deposits of the Knoxville district, Napa, Yolo, and Lake Counties, California: California...silica rhyolites of the Coso Volcanic Field, Inyo County, California; Journal of Geophysical Research, v
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
Report (issue)
Geology and development of the Hishikari mine: Mining Geology, v. 36 (2), no. 196, p. 117. Adams, S....46, p. 9-24. Ashley, R. P., 1974, Goldfield mining district, in Guidebook to the geology of four Tertiary...metals in silicified rocks of the Goldfield mining district, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Professional...Paul, 1945, Quicksilver deposits of the Knoxville district, Napa, Yolo, and Lake Counties, California: California...silica rhyolites of the Coso Volcanic Field, Inyo County, California: Journal of Geophysical Research, v
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, New Yor{, N. Y. Breccia Pipe near Cameron, Arizona Abstract.- Black Peak protrudes above a tableland...east of Echo Cliffs and 30 miles north of Cameron, Arizona. A breccia pipe on the west slope of the butte...upward. Sources of uranium mineralization in the Cameron area may be inferred from the origin of the pipe...activity. Associated with the pipe are carbonates, alunite, gold, silver, iron, manganese, and possibly uranium...mechanism of introduction of mineralization in the Cameron area. CONTENTS Introduction 1661 Acknowledgments
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...115W 118 34-56-154 113-54-53W CATALINA DISTRICT CATALINA DISTRICT CHILDS-ALOWINKLE HUN CINNABAR MINE 02N
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Allanite from the Mount Wheeler 'White area, Pine County, N e v a d a( L e e ,B a s t r o m ) . . . . ....some alkali, potassium and ferrite (Morey). . Alunite and jarosite, solid solution between. Sulfate studies...studies II (Brophy, Scott, Snellgrove).. Alunite, isomorphous substitution in natural and synthetic (Parker)...Anthophyllite albiteepidote hornfels facies, Fremont County, Colorado (Salotti) Antigorite, ferroan (Jenkinsite)...barite deular and semi-random oneposit in Hot Spring County, layer structures.. 819 Arkansas (Lippmann) Ba
Report (issue)
RESUME of the GEOWGY OF ARIZONA by Eldred D. Wilson, Geologist THE ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES Bulletin...UNIVBR.ITY OP ARIZONA. PR • • • _ TUC.ON FOREWORD This "Resume of the Geology of Arizona," prepared...prepared by Dr. Eldred D. Wilson, Geologist, Arizona Bureau of Mines, is a notable contribution to the geologic...geologic and mineral resource literature about Arizona. It comprises a thorough and comprehensive survey of...continued, detailed studies which will follow. The Arizona Bureau of Mines is pleased to issue the work as
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arsenopalladinite, from the Cau~ iron mine, Itabira District, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 455 ARSLAN,M., 750 ATUERTON...palladium minerals from the Cau8 iron mine, Itabira District, Minas Gerais, 455 BRIGATrl, M.F., 149 BROWNE... in the study of shannonite, a new mineral from USA, 305 Chondrite, mineralogy of a graphite-containing...Electron-microprobe analysis, of shannonite, a new mineral from USA, 305 ELTON.N.J., 166, 745 Enclaves, and their bearing...metasomatism associated with the Melones Fault Zone, USA, 383 Feldspar, micropores and micropermeable texture
Report (issue)
at the 93rd Annual Convention of the Northwest Mining Association on December 4, 1987. It describes...presented at 93rd Annual Convention of the Northwest Mining Association. Advances in our understanding of the...areas produced these metals as by-products of mining other metals (Bingham, Utah); other areas contain...work might be concentrated, such as northwestern Arizona where Ni-sulfide occurrences, mafic gneisses with...An example of this would be the La Plata mining district in southwestern Colorado. Dis- seminated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
involvement of deep formation waters? Eion M. Cameron & Matthew I. Leybourne & Carlos Palacios Received:... Editorial handling: B. Lehmann E. M. Cameron (*) Eion Cameron Geochemical Inc., Carp, Ottawa, ON K0A...from Houston and Hartley (2003) Casa Grande, Arizona (Nelson and Johnston 1994). In northern Chile,...tennantite, and pyrite. Reserves recoverable by openpit mining are 79 Mt of oxide ore at 1.18% Cu and 231 Mt of...Based on laser 40Ar–39Ar measurements of supergene alunite, Rowland and Clark (2001) identified a long period
Journal (issue)
sulfates and antimony- or arsenic-rich minerals. Two mining areas in western Montana – Black Pine (Jensen and...(Continued on page 3) The Harding Mine, Picuris District, Taos Co., NM, (figure 1), is well known to mineral...world-famous pegmatite. The mine has an interesting mining history that is often overlooked. Prospectors dabbled...but found little of interest. The first phase of mining occurred in 1918, when several local prospectors...changed hands several times during this initial mining phase and demand for Figure 1: An overview of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocks of the BHVF host quartz-adularia and quartz-alunite epithermal gold-silver deposits, from which about...fluids at ≤250 °C, whereas those of the quartz-alunite systems require more acidic, oxidized, and sulfur-rich...mineral deposits in the Bodie, Aurora, and Masonic mining districts (e.g., Hill 1915; Chesterman et al. 1986;...adjacent hydrothermal alteration in the Masonic mining district Abundantly and coarsely porphyritic, unconformably...flow to mineral assemblages (described in the “Mining districts and alteration zones in the Bodie Hills
Report (issue)
2005). In some districts (for example, Christmas, Arizona, and Battle Mountain, Nevada), more copper is recovered... Utah (Babcock and others, 1995), and Bisbee, Arizona (Bryant and Metz, 1966), polymetallic replacement...Turkey) and(or) molybdenum (for example, Sierrita, Arizona; Continental [Butte], Montana) resources. By-Product...with the price of copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of the orebody to...km (Langton and Williams, 1982). At Sierrita, Arizona, from ore exposed at the surface to the base of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Adams, Hood, Rainier, and Shasta (Cascade Range, USA), was investigated using field observations, petrography...groups of sulfate minerals identified are: (1) alunite group, (2) jarosite group, (3) readily soluble...recognized: (1) alunite+silicaFpyriteFkaoliniteFgypsumFsulfur, (2) jarosite+alunite+silica; (3) jaro...isotopic data of alunite indicate the mixing of magmatic and meteoric fluids. Some alunite-group minerals...disproportionation of SO2 in a condensing magmatic vapor. Such alunite, observed only in those volcanoes whose interiors
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collecting. Although Texas is not known for its mining industry, be­ cause of its large oil and gas exploration...Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan in 1938. The Terlingua mining district...district is noted for its rare mercury minerals. Mining here was contin­ uous from 1900 to the middle 1940s;...on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991). i i • I...Brewster Briscoe Brooks Brown Burleson Burnet Cameron 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36
Report (volume)
Geologists: Bulletin, vols. 5, 6. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Transactions, vols. 65-67. New York...Mineralogist, vols. 6, 7. Menasha, Wis. American Mining Congress: Reports of 23d and 24th Annual Conventions...Appalachia, vol. 15, nos. 2, 3. Boston, Mass. Arizona State Bureau of Mines: Bulletin, nos. 113-117....vol. 11. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 89, 90. San Francisco, Calif...Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 23, 24. Montreal, Quebec. Canadian Mining Journal
 
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