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Alunite from
Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Alunite
Formula:KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Mimetiteⓘ1 photo of Alunite associated with Mimetite at this locality.
Quartzⓘ1 photo of Alunite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Alunite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:750866
Long-form Identifier:1:3:750866:0
GUID (UUID V4):fc6c38bb-7a83-4bdc-a515-d1daedcdd6ee
Nearest other occurrences of Alunite
6.4km (4.0 miles) ⓘLa Mariquita Mine, Cuitaca, Cananea Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
46.9km (29.1 miles) ⓘBlue Nose Mine (Abe Lincoln Mine; War Horse Mine; Big Chief Mine; Big Jim Mine; Blue Nose Extension Mine; Home Again Virginia Hay claims), Harshaw, Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
46.9km (29.1 miles) ⓘSaddle Mountain, Harshaw, Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
47.5km (29.5 miles) ⓘStandard and Thunder prospects (Thunder and Standard Mine group), Alum Gulch, Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
47.9km (29.8 miles) ⓘSunnyside & Volcano Mines (Sunnyside Mine group; Volcano-Sunnyside Mine; Sunnyside Mine), Alum Gulch, Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
48.6km (30.2 miles) ⓘPat Alunite deposit (Pat property; Patagonia property), Palmetto Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
48.8km (30.3 miles) ⓘHumboldt Mine, Alum Gulch, Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
51.2km (31.8 miles) ⓘRed Mountain Mine (Red Mountain Copper prospect; Gem Mine; Carlton property; Ten Grand Mine; Red Mountain project), Red Mountain, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
51.3km (31.8 miles) ⓘRed Mountain, Harshaw Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
51.9km (32.2 miles) ⓘThree-R Mine group, Three-R Canyon, Palmetto Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Caridad, Pilares, Cananea, Maria, Mariquita, Milpillas October, 1994 Bootprints Along the Cordillera... September 19, 1994 Dear Participants: Welcome to Mexico and Sonora. and beneficial to you. I hope this trip...Caridad, Pilares, Cananea, Maria, Mariquita, Milpillas" is intended to be a brief introduction to...the porphyry molybdenum deposits of northern Sonora. and breccia copper- It will point out the...Caridad on the southern most end and finish with Milpillas, the northern most known copper resource
Journal (issue)
Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...time collection,” he said, “collected by a former mine superintendent over a period of many years. Nearly
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
approximately 1.5 km south-southeast of shaft 9 of the Magma mine and 120 km north of the city of Tucson, Arizona...province in which the last major copper find (Santa Cruz; Kreis, 1995) occurred more than 20 yr ago (cf...Kelvin Dos Sacaton Christmas Pobres Lone Star Santa Cruz Poston Butte Copper Creek San Manuel Vekol Sanchez.../ Esperanza ICO Red Mountain Bisbee Patagonia Milpillas Mariquita El AlacrĂĄn La Caridad Florida / BarrigĂłn...Tyrone Chino NEW MEXICO Copper mine, present or past producer Maria Cananea SONORA Pinos Altos Porphyry
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eocene-Oligocene Ag/Au deposit in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico Paula Montoya-Lopera, Gilles Levresse, Luca Ferrari...Eocene-Oligocene Ag/Au deposit in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10...Ag/Au deposit in 3 the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. 4 5 Paula Montoya-Lopera1, Gilles Levresse1*...76230, Querétaro, Qro, Mexico de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Campus Juriquilla...Juriquilla, 10 2 11 Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico. 12 3First Laboratorio Interinstitucional de Geocronología
Report (issue)
of the Questa porphyry molybdenum deposit in New Mexico suggests that the ore fluid was probably derived...2006; Rowan and others, 2006). Argillic minerals alunite, and kaolinite have doublet absorption features...2006). Argillically altered rocks (containing alunite and kaolinite) of porphyry copper systems were...(Green and others, 1998; Berger and others, 2003). Alunite, kaolinite, pyrophyllite, and muscovite were mapped...(1968) found that the pyrite content at Santa Rita, New Mexico, increases from irregular zones with <1
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
- " ; ‱ \c.‱:~o,°\ Co10..(o· . rov~oca, ‱ ‱ Cruz Solono ""' ., P u ,<10 "'----.... ~ S"''"‱~ F'roril... "'<' ~/ 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
Journal (issue)
level of the underground mine was refurbished to accommodate visitors, showing mine workings dating from...village of Almadenejos we find: The Vieja ConcepciĂłn mine. Here it is possible to visit part of the historic...(dating from 1755 to 1757). The Nueva ConcepciĂłn mine. The Baritel de San Carlos (San Carlos shaft house)... Also included is the Refugio shaft and various mine buildings. HISTORY AND MINING Archeological remains...area where the AlmadĂ©n mines are located (Sisapo 5 “mine” in the Celtic language). Most of the 17 books of
Journal (issue)
EUCLASE with Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See...DENVER MART EXPO HALL ROOMJ53 BARITE 20.3 CM XIEFANG MINE , GANZHOU PREFECTURE , JIANGXI PROVINCE , CHINA...1751 was funded mainly by donations from wealthy mine owners and from simple mining families. Modem times...when the area was also being referred to as Bana ("Mine"), and in 1228 when the name Argentifodina ("Silver...runoff from the mine dumps); this was later combined with the word Banska meaning "mine." The name Banska
Journal (issue)
by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................Martino & A. Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California......................................... 376 New Mexico Symposium 2019 by C. J. Stefano .................387 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection
Report (issue)
Geology—Mexico. 2. Geology, Structural—Mexico. 3. Faults (Geology)—Mexico. 4. Ore deposits—Mexico. I. Alaniz-Álvarez.... . 183 J.L. Macías Major Faults 7. The Mojave-Sonora megashear: The hypothesis, the controversy, and...major faults. Included are papers about the Mojave-Sonora megashear (Molina-Garza and Iriondo), the San Marcos...the Taxco–San Miguel Allende system or the Mojave-Sonora megashear. The papers of this Centenary volume...The evolution of Middle America and the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Sea region during Mesozoic time: Geological
Journal (issue)
Castell, Ribagorça, Osca, AragĂł Jorgina JordĂ  (Santa Coloma de CervellĂł).- El passat mes de desembre...Stolzitas de la Tala, Piromorfitas del Horcajo y de Santa Eufemia, Fluoritas de la Collada, Casiteritas de...de Tsumeb, con su hermana no menos hermosa de Milpillas y, como postre, un magnĂ­fico surtido de minerales... (2) Jambor, J.L. (1999): Nomenclature of the alunite supergroup. Canadian Mineralogist, 37, 1323-1341...local estarĂ  tancat per les vacances de Setmana Santa. 12 Mercadet de Minerals. 19 TertĂșlia i minerals
Journal (issue)
v/Dec2023 1. 98, No.6 - - - - - - - - ROCKS & MINE $12.95US $12.95CAN IIUJ ., . vww.tandfonlirie...tandfonlirie .com/vram MIM MUSEUM Vesuvianite Jeffrey Mine. Val-des-Sources. Les Sources RCM, Es t rie, Quebec...Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM Consulting...Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM...Windmountainite: Wind Mountain, Otero County, New Mexico Derek D. V. Leung and Andrew M. McDona ld 566
Journal (issue)
by WE. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Pata gonia, Argenti na ..........................RECORD MARCH-APRIL 2020 The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California......................................... 376 New Mexico Symposium 2019 by C. J. Stefano .................1 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Tunnels Au-Ag-Zn-Pb deposit, Montana, United States (mine now exhausted). 1971: Recognized control of ore...high sulfidation epithermal Au-Ag deposit, Chile (mine now exhausted). 1971: First formal recognition...which led to discovery of Perkoa Zn-Pb-Ag deposit (mine under construction). 1990: Recommendation of Cerro...porphyry Cu deposit, Chuquicamata district, Chile (mine under construction). 1978: Recognition of concealed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
extracted from Cerro Colorado, an 73 active PCD mine site that lies at the northern end of the Paleocene–early...Charrier et al., 2007). The 75 cores supplied by the mine site sample all the main rock types of this 76...Colorado Area 82 The BHP Billiton Cerro Colorado Mine is located about 120 km to 83 the northeast of...understanding the geological setting of the Cerro Colorado mine was 86 established by Bouzari & Clark (2002, 2006)...surface geology and a series of cores through the mine site, and the 88 following summary is mainly based
Journal (issue)
................. 15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ....................................... 29 B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ...........................& W. E. Wilson Mineral collecting at the Magma mine, . . Superior, Arizona ..........................123 L. Presmyk & M. Hay Treasures of the Magma mine, Pinal County, Arizona .................................... 147 W. E. Wilson & Mark Hay The Ford mine, Pinal County, Arizona ........................
Journal (issue)
This 3.4 cm -high specimen is from the DeMaria mine in Placer County, California. (Jeff Scovil Photo/Brett.......... 50 by Bob Jones collecting run-of-the-mine specimens by Steve Voynick Montana Placer Mining...Rockhound Roundup Gem & Mineral show in Deming, New Mexico. People were always posting pictures of and talking...nice stones that were brought to the show from Mexico. I am learning that if you want to get the best...Web site: www.gemfaire.com 4-6—FARMINGTON, NEW MEXICO: Annual show; San Juan County Gem & Mineral Society;
Book (edition)
wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico; (center) vivianite, Bolivia;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...beeen foe We @ Wadeetin relvvagigld .xteliliey? santa rowan leks ) Get « ryi St pewory sine toting bee...Richard Graeme D. K. Jones Douglas K. Miller Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum =Donald Olson ‘Delma Perry David...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©
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Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous...ilmenite crystals as described here for the Dodo mine. In general, ilmenite crystals from the Subpolar
Book (edition)
wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico; ( center) vivianite,...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...Graeme DJ D. K. Jones Douglas K. Miller DK Arizona-Sonora Desert DM Museum DO = "Donald Olson Delma Perry...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County; at the Double
Book (edition)
1) and AZURITE, Concepcion del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico (13, column 2). Colar, page 108 Transpose illustrations...Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...Transpose illustrations for TELLURITE, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico (#2, column 1) and TENNANTITE, Dresser quarry...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely... Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores
Report (issue)
country and, for the larger countries (Canada, Mexico, and the United States), by political subdivision...include the Sullivan mine, Canada (CABC 329), and San Francisco del Oro, Mexico (MXCH 182), where zinc...commonly used name of the mineral deposit, district, mine, prospect, claim, or occurrence is reported. Synonyms...parentheses. Terms such as "district," "area," "mine," or "prospect" are added to many names to give...Committee (1981). Deposit/district name: Cornwall mine, Pennsylvania, USA {USPA 5) Geogolic deposit code:
 
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