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Chrysocolla from
Ray, Pinal County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Chrysocolla
Formula:Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz3 photos of Chrysocolla associated with Quartz at this locality.
Cuprite2 photos of Chrysocolla associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Malachite1 photo of Chrysocolla associated with Malachite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysocolla data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ray, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:704984
Long-form Identifier:1:3:704984:2
GUID (UUID V4):e4c89c1b-0cbe-42b8-a3cc-77e37eb39d08
Nearest other occurrences of Chrysocolla
1.6km (1.0 miles) Hunch Mine (Civalier property), Scott Mountain, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Ray Mine, Scott Mountain, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
7.1km (4.4 miles) Copper Butte Mine (June Bug Mine; James Incline; Cochise Mine; Wallace shaft; Poor Mans Wash property; Patented claims; Old Fred Mitchell property), Copper Butte, Copper Butte Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Dunham Mine (Dunham and Centipede Mine; claim MS 1590), Kelvin, Riverside Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
9.2km (5.7 miles) Gran Copper (Rare Metals claims; Century group; Lucky Traid; Johnson property; Rare Metals claims; Reinstated claims; Black Copper group), Grayback [peak] area, Riverside Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
9.3km (5.8 miles) Mendosa Mine (Lucky Strike Mine), Mineral Creek-Gila River confluence area, Kelvin, Riverside Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
10.0km (6.2 miles) Kelvin-Sultana Mine (Kelvin-Sultana Copper Co. properties; Sultana-Arizona Mine; Riverside group), Mineral Creek-Gila River confluence area, Kelvin, Riverside Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
10.5km (6.5 miles) Zelleweger claim (Kelvin prospect), Kelvin, Riverside Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
10.5km (6.6 miles) Golden Bell Mine, Grayback [peak] area, Riverside Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
10.7km (6.7 miles) Rare Metals Mine (Rare Metals deposit), Kelvin, Riverside Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3500 South Beryl Avenue Tucson, Arizona 85735 azmarmot@gmail.com ARIZONA Pseudomorphs and Epimorphs Unless...5 cm, South Belmont mine, Duquesne, Santa Cruz County. SEUDOMORPHS (Greek for false forms), examples...related and are also appealing to many collectors. Arizona has numerous localities that have produced attractive...View of Lime Peak, north of Duquesne, Santa Cruz County, as seen from the Holland mine; Barbara Muntyan...minerals, has retired to Tucson and now writes about Arizona localities. 158 ROCKS & MINERALS Pseudomorphs
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)
of the rainbow! This rainbow ends over Tiger, Arizona, a mining camp for gold and other metals. Downloaded...(below). Arizona sweethearts (heart pendants) to 28 mm. Top: “Gem chrysocolla” from Arizona. Bottom:...“Campbellite” from Bisbee, Cochise County. Left: Malachite from Bisbee, Cochise County. Right: Turquoise from Sleeping...Beauty mine, Gila County. Figure 3 (top right). Collecting at the Rowley mine, Maricopa County. Though best...specimens, this mine also produces excellent chrysocolla rough as well as some rare gemstone rough such
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nebraska, Lincoln] at 07:52 28 December 2014 Arizona Mineral Classics A rizona contains a wealth of...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...his previous article (Rocks & Minerals 1981) on Arizona minerals. 18 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded by
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 ................................mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs Famous mineral...and R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..............................................Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ..............................................
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nature and Origin of Black Chrysocolla at the InspirationMine, Arizona ALLEN H. TtIROOP AND PETER R...variety of green chrysocolla(as opposedto melaconite, copperpitch,and tenoritc). Its X-ray propertiesare...example, chrysocolla-bearingore bodieshave beenbroughtinto productionin the last few yearsin Arizona at both...both Ray and Inspiration. It is thereforesurprisingthat, in spite of the considerableimportanceof the...Inspiration Mine in the GlobeMiami mining district of Arizona. The copper silicateore (both green and black)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
climates. Associated secondary minerals include chrysocolla, malachite, azurite, mimetite, wulfenite, cerussite...is reported from the Perkiomen mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (Gordon 1922). An unusual occurrence...cuprite, chrysocolla, and planchtite is described in ore from the Algomah mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan...Santa Rita district, Grant County, and the Orogrande district, Otero County, New Mexico. Dioptase associated...the Blue Jay mine, Goodsprings district, Clark County, Nevada. Dioptase associated with pseudomalachite
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)
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
Report (issue)
Florence to Miami, Arizona Compiled by Stephen M. Richard Guidebook for the Arizona Geological Society...Society Spring Field Trip April 20-21, 1996 Arizona Geological Society P.O. Box 40952 Tucson, AZ 85717 THIS...(POSTON BU1TE) PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSIT, PINAL COUNTY, ARIzONA. By C. K. HOAG . 9 17 STOP 4. NORMAL FAULTING...WHITFORD CANYON AREA, NORTHWEST O F SUPERIOR, PINAL COUNTY, ARIzONA. B y 1. E. SPENCER AND S. M. RICHARD 22...TEAPOT MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE AND VICINITY, PINAL COUNTY, ARIzONA, BY S. M. RICHARD AND 1. E. SPENCER ...
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
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...copper and local mining costs. At Dos Pobres, Arizona, from the top of the orebody to the 0.2 percent...km (Langton and Williams, 1982). At Sierrita, Arizona, from ore exposed at the surface to the base of
Journal (issue)
WASHINGTON May 4, 2013 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...will show pictures of the minerals from Tiger, Arizona, and also of his travels to the Second International...has written a paper on the Minerals of Tiger, Arizona for this newsletter which includes information...Lead Minerals from Golden Horn Batholith, Okanogan County, Washington Randy Becker --- huntbecker @aol .com...secondary lead and copper minerals (cerussite, chrysocolla and linarite) surrounding unaltered galena. Boggs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SupergeneCopperMineralizationat the LakeshoreMine, Pinal County, Arizona STERLING S. COOK UnitedStatesBureauof Mines...terationpatternsgovernedthe formationof the chrysocolla, brochantite, and chalcocitezones. The chalcocite...geochemicalchangesassociated with the formation of the chrysocolla zoneareconsistent with the destruction of biotiteandplagioclase...complex assemblage of copper-bearing clayor chrysocolla or bothis presentin the alteredphenocrysts.There...thoroughlyleached of copper cuprite-native the chrysocolla zone, the copper wad zone, and the duringwea
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral from Arizona and Sonora SIDNEY A. W I L L I A M S Phelps Dodge Corporation, Douglas, Arizona AND R I...Associates, Tucson, Arizona SUMMARY. Creaseyite was first noted in specimens from Tiger, Arizona, and was then...then found at Wickenburg, Arizona, and Caborca, Sonora, prior to description. It is an oxidezone mineral...occurring with wulfenite, willemite, mimetite, chrysocolla, wickenburgite, and ajoite. The composition is...was first examined by X-ray diffraction in I967 on specimens from Tiger, Arizona, during a study of minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 01:33 12 December 2015 PO Box 7773 Phoenix, Arizona 85011 jeffscovil@earthlink.net Figure 1. Azurite...view 7.6 cm, 79 mine, Dripping Springs, Pinal County, Arizona. John Cesar specimen. Volume 91, January/February...high, Intrepid Potash mine, Potash district, Eddy County, New Mexico. Phillip Gregory specimen. Figure...natrolite, 2.4 cm high, Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Irv Brown specimen. Figure 16. Cavansite...12.7 cm across, Kelly mine, Magdalena, Socorro County, New Mexico. Bob Byers specimen. 22 ROCKS & MINERALS
Report (issue)
No. 1 Arizona State Bureau of Mines Bulletin CHARLES F. WILLIS, Director Directory of Arizona Minerals...THE University of Arizona TUCSON, ARIZONA 1915-16 DIRECTORY (Compiled OF ARIZONA MINERALS from...district, Cochise County; Gila County, at Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in Mineral Park;;...Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty; Yavapai County, in ores of Bradshaw Mountains; Yuma County, in...and Stibnite. ARGENTITE (silver glance). Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral
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...Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil photo...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was...May-June 2013 Contents Mineral Collecting in Arizona .. ..... ..... ..... ..... ... ..... .........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE NATURE OF CHRYSOCOLLAFROM INSPIRATION MINE, ARIZONA MrNc-SueNSuN, New MexicoInstituteof Mining and...Arsrnncr Abundant chrysocolla occurs in the oxidation zones of the metallized Precambrian Pinal schist and Tertiary...in the vicinity of Inspiration mine, Arizona. This chrysocolla is not a definite chemical compound but...A cryptocrystalline phase is present in the chrysocolla, but its composition has not been determined...structure according to DTA, dehydration, infrared and r-ray diffraction studies of the samples. INrnorucrroN
Journal (issue)
May-June 1980 ARIZONA! Articles The Hamburg mine and vicinity, Yuma County, Arizona by D. M. Shannon...mineral localities: the Red Cloud mine, Yuma County, Arizona..............................................G. M. Edson Famous mineral localities: Tiger, Arizona ................... by R. A. Bideaux 135 141...The Mineralogical Record P. 0. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 Departments Notes from the Editor .. What’s...Paul Van Hee Deuzeldlaan 16-bus 1 B-2120 Schoten ARIZONA-1 COVER: WULFENITE from the Red Cloud mine (see
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Lead Minerals from the Eagle Eye Mine, La Paz County, Arizona Paul M. Adams 126 S. Helberta Ave. #2 Redondo...south southeast of the town of Brenda, La Paz County, Arizona, in Section 15, T3N, R 16W of the New Water...energy dispersive x-ray spectroscoContinued on page 6 Fig. 1 mm). Chrysocolla pseudomorphs after unknown...on page 7 C' Fig. 1 Chrysocolla coated with quartz, Ray Mine, Pinal Co., Arizona; photo by Bruce Paul...conventional search tools. I use metacrawler for USA-English language sites. Mctacrawlcr (www.metacrawler
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page 4 In this issue … Mineral of the month: Chrysocolla ......p. 2 May program details ................Month Chrysocolla Happy May Day! by Sue Marcus May’s mineral of the month is chrysocolla. It is a...slippery mineral, though not in the literal sense. Chrysocolla varies in color, usually from aqua to green,...has been silicified (permeated with silica). Chrysocolla is rarely expensive, with pieces readily available...a layer of chrysocolla covered by a clear, sparling blanket of drusy quartz. Chrysocolla is a secondary
Report (issue)
listing and map showing molybdenum occurrences in Arizona by Jan C. Wilt /, Stanley B. Keith !/, and Ted...to the Arizona Bureau of Geology and Minerals Technology a_ division of The University of Arizona This...listing and map showing molybdenum occurences in Arizona by_ Jan C. Wilt, Stanley B. Keith, and Ted G. Theodore...molybdenum occurrences throughout Arizona prepared in part by the Arizona Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology...SierritaEsperanza copper-molybdenum deposit, Pima County, Arizona, in Jenney, J. P., and Hauck, H. R., eds.,
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Institution Pete J. Dunn Smithsonian Institution ARIZONA-II Peter Q. Embrey British Museum (Natural History)...The Mineralogical Record P. O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 published bimonthly by the Mineralogical...Articles The Defiance mine and vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona ..............203 by J. R. Thompson Slide competition..................211 The C. & B. mine, Gila County, Arizona .............................................J. A. Crowley The Grand Reef mine, Graham County, Arizona ..............................219 by R. W.
 
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