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Wulfenite from
Potosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Wulfenite
Formula:Pb(MoO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite7 photos of Wulfenite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Mimetite3 photos of Wulfenite associated with Mimetite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Wulfenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Potosí Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
Photo GalleryView Gallery (4 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:749294
Long-form Identifier:1:3:749294:5
GUID (UUID V4):6ad2f89f-8537-4cb8-a057-1cfabe529eb1
Nearest other occurrences of Wulfenite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Santo Domingo Mine, Francisco Portillo, West Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
5.9km (3.7 miles) San Antonio Mine, East Camp, Santa Eulalia Mining District, Aquiles Serdán Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
58.5km (36.3 miles) Nopal No. 1 Mine, Sierra Peña Blanca, Peña Blanca District, Aldama Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
91.5km (56.9 miles) Naica Mine, Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
91.6km (56.9 miles) Naica, Saucillo Municipality, Chihuahua, Mexico
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 07:53 01 January 2015 Bournonite Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China T here are certain...size, and perfection of flashy minerals such as wulfenite, rhodochrosite, and azurite coupled with their...clearly the most prolific being the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan Province. (Additional locality information...from such disparate localities as the Black Hawk mine, Blue Hill, Maine; New York City, New York; an unspecified...Pennsylvania; the Cofer deposit in the Mineral district of Louisa County, Virginia, where it occurs with
Catalog/List
Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...bygone era. • Amethyst from Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico that has exceptional aesthetics, color, and composition... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Siderite Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia...siderite from Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla district, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia...& MINERALS Figure 2. Siderite with quartz, from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The...Very fine examples of siderite were collected from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, where large cleavage...associated quartz (fig. 2). From the Palermo No. 1 mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, come
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Wulfenite on mimetite, 7.2 cm across, San Francisco mine, Cucurpe, Sonora, Mexico. Classic combination...Jeff Scovil photo. Wulfenite from Mexico Figure 2. Wulfenite localities in Mexico; prepared by William...collector for fifty-six years, is now a retired mining engineer, and has specialized in Arizona minerals...Megaw is an exploration geologist who has worked in Mexico for forty years, which has led him to specialize...MINERALS Five wulfenite localities in the states of Chihuahua, Sonora, and Durango, Mexico, combined with
Catalog/List
10:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Session...5:00 PM ET LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Thursday...grow. 73001 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) Looking almost like...com/6150 73002 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) For those that have...750 73003 TOURMALINE Momeik Township, Kyaukme District, Shan State, Myanmar (Burma) As if Momeik doesn’t
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mason University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals...including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as pale blue rosettes...cutting trap rock at Moore, the long-abandoned iron mine at Andover, and as an accessory mineral at Franklin...grouping of aurichalcite sprays on matrix from the 79 mine, Gila County, Arizona. The 6.5-cm specimen is in
Report (issue)
of Mexico too. There are many good things here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district, San...topaz: Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California. Ex Bryant...impressive: Axinite, 5 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California. Ex Bryant...the Pala district, San Diego County, especially from the Stewart mine. And from the Himalaya mine, Mesa...Mesa Grande district, San Diego County, Dave offers (besides plenty of elbaites) such rarities from that
Journal (issue)
Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler
Catalog/List
Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Session...Collection LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu WILLEMITE Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto, Namibia M ineral nomenclature...20 June 2015 Figure 1. Willemite from the Tsumeb mine, Otijikoto region, Namibia. The specimen displays...Black willemite is common from the Sterling Hill mine, with the color due to inclusions of franklinite...major willemite specimen producer is the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. Willemite specimens...from the 430-foot level, East vein, Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex County, New Jersey. The specimen
Journal (issue)
Mexico ineralogical Record November-December 2003 ❖ Volume 34 Number 6 ❖ $20 Wayne & Dona Leicht,...Angles Mexico Special Issue III Los Lamentos Famous Mineral Localities: The Erupción/Ahumada Mine, Los...Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico ...................................... 4 by W. E. Wilson Fresnillo...Famous Mineral Localities: Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico .............. 36 by T. C. Wallace & M. K. Hall-Wallace...Famous Mineral Localities: Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico .............. 55 by W. Lieber & Gerhard Frenzel
Journal (issue)
JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2019 Articles The Almadén mining district, Ciudad Real, Spain ......................... Maharashtra, India 6 cm The Almade;n Mining District, Ciudad Real, Spain Borja Sainz de Baranda...Universitario-28805 Alcala de Henares (Spain) The Almadén Mining District exploited the largest mercury deposit in the...three millennia. Mining there ceased in 2003, and following reclamation in 2012, the district was declared...Unesco. The Almadén District has yielded excellent cinnabar specimens during its long mining history, along
Journal (issue)
Mexico ineralogical Record September-October 2003 ❖ Volume 34 Number 5 ❖ $20 Wayne & Dona Leicht,...Van Pelt, Los Angles Mexico Special Issue II The Ojuela Mine Preface to Mexico-II1....................................................... 24 Mapimí District Geology ........................................in the San Judas chimney, Level 6, of the Ojuela mine. Houston Museum of Natural Science collection; Wendell...headframes and processing facilities of the Ojuela mine ca. 1900. The famous suspension bridge designed
Journal (issue)
Lüneburg, Germany. (4) Native silver, 3.5 cm, from Potosí, Bolivia. (5) Chrysoberyl, 2.3 cm, from Takovaya...the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia....Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo
Catalog/List
Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...Director Alissa Ford Managing Director San Francisco Roberta Kramer Managing Director Chicago Kenneth...early 1900’s; a Stephanite from Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico, possibly the worlds inest, according to people...extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...‘goodies,’ as Rock would say, as they came out. Mining projects that Rock was a part of, often yielded
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
photos. September/October: Silver crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado;...413; Nevada, 515 Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook, 154–59 Apatite, nomenclature...Mistaken Identities, A. L. Guth, 456–58 Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum, 280 Arkansas, wavellite, 346–50...California, 20 Bernstein, M., 444–45 Beryl, New Mexico, 21; Utah, 21 Beudantite, Nevada, 516 Biotite,...William Metropolis Fine Minerals Crystal Springs Mining Company Samora Minerals/Mexican Amber Judy and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals...several Maine occurrences including the Cape Rosier mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, where it was found...Jones mine at Garland (King and Foord 1994). It is known in microcrystals from the Mascot mine (Graham...(Graham or Galena King mine), Coos County, and Mineral Hill near Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire...rare accessory mineral in the Tilly Foster iron mine, Putnam County, New York, and in the zinc ores at
Journal (issue)
M ontreal Mine! L L The Mineralogical Record MAY–JUNE 2020 • VOLUME 51 • NUMBER 3 • $25 & Wayne...gemgypsy@bellsouth.net MAY–JUNE 2020 Articles The Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin ........................... 487 COVER: BARITE, 6.5 cm, from the Montreal mine. David and Karen DeBruin collection, ex Muscatine...cm on vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Collected...world-class realgar specimens from the Royal Reward mine, Green River Gorge, King County, Washington. The
Journal (issue)
Number Four Articles The El Desierto sulfur mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Secondary minerals of the Mazarrón-Águilas mining district, Murcia Province, Spain . . . . . . . . . ...Famous mineral localities: The Pacajake selenium mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...for the Romero Mineralogical Museum in Tehuacan, Mexico from 1975–1981. He has traveled widely and occasionally...Associate in Geology, 1953–1954), the University of New Mexico (Assistant Dean and Dean, 1963–1965; Associate
Report (issue)
from a recent chalcocite find in the Las Cruces mine, Gerena near Seville, Andalusía, Spain—and I wrote...=========================== an open-pit copper mine still under active development: it’s for sure that...there. Chalcocite, 3.1 cm, from the Las Cruces mine, Comaria Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalućia, Spain...clusters of fluorite crystals from the La Viesca mine, La Collada area, Asturias, northern Spain, all...especially fine. Fluorite, 8.2 cm, from La Viesca mine, La Collada area, Asturias, Spain. Fabre Minerals
Book (edition)
LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Elsevier Radarweg...brilliant yellow redlamellar brown to brilliant Wulfenite medium grey; 15 medium grey; 15 grey; 15 medium... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...vein in jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey
Report (issue)
elbaite, amethyst, Tsumeb minerals, and Sweet Home mine minerals. Also scattered on these pages are items...==================================== work as a mine supervisor at Boron) for what turned out, by the...“presence.” Stolzite, 3 cm, from the Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Ex-Minette...distinctive blue fluorite on quartz from the Huanggang mine, Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia, China. These... Fluorite on quartz, 15 cm, from the Huanggang mine, Kèshíkèténg Banner, Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia
Journal (issue)
2023 Articles The Bairendaba Deposit, Keshiketen District, Inner Mongolia, China................................363 by C. J. Stefano The Nakhlak Mine, Anarak District, Esfahan Province, Iran...................species hauckite (type locality: the Sterling Hill mine) was named in his honor in 1980, in recognition...Robert (left) and Richard Hauck in the Sterling mine (2008). J.R. Glover photo. American Mineral Heritage...Sterling Hill Mining Museum, founded by the brothers, goes back to the closing of the famous mine in 1986,
Report (issue)
there is new work afoot at the famous Red Cloud mine in the Trigo Mountains, in the southwestern part...let me tell you a little about— New digging for wulfenite at the Red Cloud Terry Szenics wrote in 1975 that...appeal, most collectors agree that Red Cloud wulfenite has no equal”—and this judgment prevails still...general backgrounds on the history of wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, see the essay by Szenics just quoted...also Wendell Wilson’s description of the big wulfenite strike of 1996 there by an Arizona group headed
Report (issue)
pale blue barite from the Ouichane (or Sidi Lahcem) mine in Nador Province, and furthermore I cautioned against...barite from the Bou Nahas (or Afrou) mine in the Oumjrane-Alnif district near Meknes. Really, though, it’s...These new specimens come from the Shijiangshan Pb-Zn mine, which Jordi locates close to “Jipeng” in the Huanggang...descriptions of the geology, mineralogy and recent mining history of this red-hot mineral area, which comprises...much, much more than the famous Huanggang Sn-Fe mine, see the articles in our September-October 2012
 
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