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Orthoclase from
Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:8317
Long-form Identifier:1:3:8317:1
GUID (UUID V4):19638744-0662-445f-9e5d-2787063c7a05
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
54.6km (33.9 miles) Saint David area, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
60.6km (37.7 miles) Burrito de Fierro Mine, Cochise Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
68.9km (42.8 miles) Texas Canyon area, Dragoon, Cochise Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
69.0km (42.9 miles) Standard prospect, Cochise Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
70.9km (44.0 miles) Gunnison Copper Project, Cochise Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
71.5km (44.4 miles) Mowry Mine (Patagonia Mine; Enterprise Mine; Phoenix Mine), Mowry Hill, Mowry Wash, Mowry, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
73.0km (45.4 miles) Burro Pit, Johnson Mine (Johnson Camp Mine), Johnson Camp, Gunnison Copper Project, Cochise Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
73.1km (45.4 miles) Republic Mine, Johnson Camp, Gunnison Copper Project, Cochise Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
73.5km (45.6 miles) Johnson Mine (Johnson Camp Mine), Johnson Camp, Gunnison Copper Project, Cochise Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
73.5km (45.7 miles) Santo Nino Mine (Santo Niño Mine; North Santo Nino; North Santo Wind; Brooks; Santa Maria Mo Mine), Santo Niño Mine area, San Antonio Canyon, Duquesne-Washington Camp, Patagonia Mining District, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
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Book
The Warren (Bisbee) Mining District Cochise County, Arizona Ralph J. Stegen Ernest Wright Donald G.... Bryant Arizona Geological Society Spring Field Trip April 30, 2005 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK... Welcome to the Arizona Geological Society Spring 2005 field trip to Bisbee, Arizona. We are grateful...for granting us access to the company property in Bisbee. On this trip, we will visit one of Arizona’s most...with a rich history that is well documented at the Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum (a must-see!). Our
Report (issue)
The Warren (Bisbee) Mining District Cochise County, Arizona Ralph J. Stegen Ernest Wright Donald G.... Bryant Arizona Geological Society Spring Field Trip April 30, 2005 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK... Welcome to the Arizona Geological Society Spring 2005 field trip to Bisbee, Arizona. We are grateful...for granting us access to the company property in Bisbee. On this trip, we will visit one of Arizona’s most...with a rich history that is well documented at the Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum (a must-see!). Our
Report (issue)
General Geology of Central Cochise County By JAMES GILLULY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER ...Copper Belle monzonite porphyry.______________ Cochise Peak quartz monzonite_____-___-_________ Turquoise...series._______________________________ Bisbee group and Bisbee formation....._______ Glance conglomerate..._______________________ Cintura formation ______________________ Bisbee formation________________________ Cretaceous fossils...al structure.__________________ Area north of Cochise Stronghold. ____ General features._______________
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)
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)
itty nf l\rt~nttU iullrtttt ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS OF ARIZONA By FREDERIC W. GALBRAITH...(Revised) ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES, GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN NO. 153 One dollar (Free to residents of Arizona) PUBLISHED...PUBLISHED BY lIlniul'r.lluy nf Arizuna TUCSON. ARIZONA SERIES No. 17, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION...bulletin will be forwarded to the Arizona Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This description of the minerals of Arizona has been largely compiled from publications and manuscripts
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...Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ........................................................... 337 by J. S. White and J. A. Nelen Arizona index to the Mineralogical Record, 1970.1983 .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1957 GEOLOGY OF THE COCHISE HEAD AND WESTERN PART OF THE VANAR QUADRANGLES, ARIZONA BY FLOYD F. SABINS... Scherrer Formation, and Concha Limestone. The Bisbee Group (Lower Cretaceous) is about 2600 feet thick...Faraway Ranch Formation overlie the Nipper and Bisbee units, and are overlain by the welded tuffs of...side. 1315 1316 F. F. SABINS—COCHISE HEAD AND VANAR QUADRANGLES, ARIZONA CONTENTS TEXT Introduction Location...Accessibility The Cochise Head quadrangle is in southeast Arizona in the northeast part of Cochise County (Fig. 1)
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
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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
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100 km southeastof the twin cities of Nogales, Arizona-Sonora, on the international border. By means...Ransome (1904, 1916) made a detailed study of the Bisbee quadrangleand later attemptedto cormons (1910)...Can- relate Paleozoicsectionsin various parts of Arizona. anea granite, based upon his interpretationof...Precambrianor early Paleozoicsediments rocks in Arizona and Mexico. rest unconformablyupon this older...north of the international border in southern Arizona 25 m.y. ago. These distinctgenerationsof intrusive
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)
Report (issue)
map of the Rustler Park quadrangle, southeast Arizona By John S. Pallister1, Edward A. du Bray1, and...code. Denver, Colorado 2University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona NOTE: The revision of stratigraphic nomenclature...Geology of the Rustler Park Quadrangle, southeast Arizona, by John S. Pallister, Edward A. du Bray, and John...Phenocrysts of highly altered feldspars (sanidine or orthoclase, 10 percent; oligoclase, 5 percent) and subhedral...with the Cintura Formation of the Lower Cretaceous Bisbee Group. May also be correlative with Nipper Formation
Book (edition)
/BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were...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)
mines. Our generation, in 1. Presented to the Arizona Geological Society , March 3, 1964. This memorial...deposits in Mexico from 1922 to 1926, in southern Arizona, Virginia and the Central Mining District of New...position of ore relative to the source hinges upon Arizona Geological Society - Guidebook III theories of...continually emphasize the importance of studies of Arizona Geological Society - Guidebook III structure in...Christmas, Esperanza, Mineral Park and Peach mines in Arizona, and at Battle Mountain in Nevada. As part of his
Book (edition)
~J.RY Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee. These old workings were...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)
Tectonics of Sou thea t rn Arizona Tectonics of Southeastern Arizona By HARALD D. DREWES GEOLOGICAL...Drewes, Harald, 1927Tectonics of southeastern Arizona. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1144) Bibliography:...: I 19.16:1144 1. Plate tectonics. 2. Geology-Arizona. I. Title. II. Series: United States Geological...Stratigraphic correlation chart of southeastern Arizona 2. Geologic map and structure sections of part...Tucson Mountains between the Sus picnic area, Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, and Sahuaro School 10. Geologic
Book
GOLD-II] 1-112 MMEE•] 25 I 1994 1-80 ARIZONA-I] ARIZONA-II] [ 129-200 201-272 129-192 193-256...321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400 257-336 [ 257-320 [ [ GOLD-I ] 321--412 ARIZONA-V] 265-352...321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA]...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298 ALABAMA
Report (issue)
. " . ,,-,�-- . --,- , , ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FALL FIELD TRIP 1988 ,I � �, ----' SOCIETY...L [ L L , \ . I , . l " L l, . L ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 1988 Fall Field Trip VISIT...TOMBSTONE, B ISBEE AND COMMONWEALTH DISTRICTS, ARIZONA October 22 and 23, 1988 Hugo Bummett and Nora Colburn...1) TUCSON TO TOMBSTONE 2) TOMBSTONE TO BISBEE 3) BISBEE TO 1- 1 0 (TEXAS CANYON) FIELD GUIDE NOTES:...guidebook cover; John Guilbert, of the University of Arizona, for filling in as a tour guide/expert for Tom
Report (issue)
Peloncillo Mountains, Hidalgo County, New Mexico, and Cochise County, Arizona b y ELLIOT GILL ERMAN 1958.............................................. 41 Bisbee group ...........................................part of the Peloncillo Mountains, New Mexico and Arizona .................................................Mountains, situated as they are on the New Mexico-Arizona boundary, are critical in a comparison and correlation...resemble rocks in Arizona. The upper Paleozoic strata are similar to rocks of southeastern Arizona and indicate
Report (issue)
the Santa Rita Mountains, Southeast of Tucson, Arizona GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 658-C Mesozoic...Southeast of Tucson, Arizona By HARALD DREWES MESOZOIC STRATIGRAPHY IN SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... stratigraphy_____________________________ Pre-Bisbee rocks________________________________ Temporal...37 42 43 43 Creataceous stratigraphy Continued Bisbee Group__________________________________ Glance...-Environment of deposition.._____________ Post-Bisbee rocks__ ______--_____________--_-_-_Fort Crittenden
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
IN CARBONATE ROCKS NEAR JOHNSON CAMP, COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZONA BY JOHN R. COOPER ABSTRACT Contact-metamorphosed...quartz monzonite at Johnson Camp, in Chochise County, Arizona. The metamorphosed carbonate rocks show successive...sketch map of Johnson Camp Gunnison Hills 594 area, Arizona 579 Volume relations 595 2. Cross section through...577 578 J. R. COOPER—CARBONATE ROCKS, COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZONA TABLES Page Table 1. Distribution of metamorphic...altered rock. In some districts, like Morenci, Arizona, observers (Lindgren, 1905, p. 163) have concluded
Report (issue)
Cosponsored by THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY ARIZONA Arizona Geological Survey TucsoN AruzoNA...front and back covers are by Peter F. Corrao, Arizona Geological Survey. Back cover© 1989 by Peter F...SURVEY Cosponsored by Arizona Geological Society University of Arizona Arizona Geological Survey 9th...Sonoran and southern Mojave Deserts, southern Arizona and southeastern California, United States, and...magmatic arc rocks of south-central and southeastern Arizona By Nancy R. Riggs, Kenneth A. Hon, and Gordon B
Journal (issue)
January–February, 2020 Mineral Collections in Arizona-II A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record January-February...Record, Inc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil photo...wulfenite became the official State Mineral of Arizona by Alexander G. Schauss A Fat Jack Adventure by...COLLECTIONS Erika Brown Mineralogical Society of Arizona Members Wyatt Busby Tom Moore Mark Candee Dick
Catalog/List
specimen from the Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona GLOBES AND ATLASES ...... . 79 Sharp hexagonal...TT 440 N. SCOTTSDALE ROAD , INC. SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA , U.S.A. COPYRIGHT 1961 by Scott Williams Mineral...calcium hydroxy-silicate. California Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline on merwinitegehlenite...... . AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate. Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. Sky- blue micro...micro xls and coatings on monzonite . Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine. S.ky-bJue crystals and
 
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