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Cuprite from
Omega Mine, Monument Mountain, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Copper2 photos of Cuprite associated with Copper at this locality.
Hematite2 photos of Cuprite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Cuprite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Omega Mine, Monument Mountain, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:843327
Long-form Identifier:1:3:843327:5
GUID (UUID V4):e8210201-0a8f-4024-987a-aca7ebe05c6a
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
0.9km (0.5 miles) Old Dick Mine, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Exile King Mine, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Curtis Mine, Frijole claim group, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Elgin Mine, Elgin Mine group, Peach-Elgin copper deposit, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Old Pap Mine, Old Pap-Old Put Mines, Rosemont (Rosemont Camp), Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Peach Mine, Peach-Elgin copper deposit, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) East Helvetia deposit (Helvetia East Mine; Helvetia Mine; Rosemont deposit), Rosemont (Rosemont Camp), Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Tiptop Mine, Tiptop Mine group (Tiptop Camp prospects/mines), Tiptop Mountain, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Pickwick Mine, Rosemont (Rosemont Camp), Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
3.1km (1.9 miles) Chicago Mine, Rosemont (Rosemont Camp), Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Copper Deposits of Part of Helvetia Mining * District, Pima County Arizona By S. C. CREASEY and GEORGE...Description and maps of four mines typical of the district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON....._._........»......._.__...^.'......_.___.__ Rosemont lease__-_________---._____.-_-__-_._._____-_.____...adjacent to the Rosemont lease and Leader, Copper World, and Narragansett mines, Pima County, Ariz. 29. Generalized...Generalized geologic and underground map of the Rosemont lease. 30. Generalized geologic map of the area
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...McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
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)
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 (volume)
DEPOSITS OF THE SANTA RITA AND PATAGONIA MOUNTAINS ARIZONA BY FRANK C. SCHRADER WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY JAMES...17 Climate and vegetation. 18 _._ History of mining and present conditions___________________ 20 ...____________ Mining districts, camps, and properties. Helvetia district_ . General features. __ Helvetia camp__..._______________ _____ Ore deposits _ . Copper World mine ____ _____ _____ Location and topography _ _ History..._____ Black Horse mine _ Leader mine_ '. Isle Royal mine Heavy Weight mine Old Dick mine _______________
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
Report (issue)
OF THE TUCSON AND NOGALES 1° by 2° QUADRANGLES, ARIZONA Edited by Jocelyn A. Peterson Open-File Report...Gray-scale contour maps of element distribution in Arizona, scale 1:3,500,000: 19. Uranium ........................................ 63 22. Location map of mining districts .......................................Principal deposit types and cumulative production in mining districts.............. 13. List of mines with...and Nogales 1 by 2 quadrangles in south-central Arizona have made important economic contributions to a
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...CUA AG BORIANA MINE 18N 115W 118 34-56-154 113-54-53W CATALINA DISTRICT CATALINA DISTRICT CHILDS-ALOWINKLE
Report (volume)
........................................ 10 Arizona......................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Catalog/List
good stuff that used to come out of the Marencl mine, ~ut the price is a whole lot better. specimens...copper leaching operation at one of the mines In Arizona. Chalchanthite 11 water soluble, so It ts ganeraUy...CLEANED COPPER AND MALACHITE: Southwest Mine, Bisbee, Arizona: I've had these for a few years now and...DJOPTASE on CHRYSOCOLLA: Morenci, Greenlee Co., Arizona: 1.6 to 2 Inch specimen of colorful emerald green...specimen material comes from a collection from Mining Engineer Eben Bebee who first arrived in Cripple
Report (issue)
Historic Mining Camps and Jurassic Calderas By BRENDA HOUSER With a paper on the GREATERVILLE PLACER...PLACER DISTRICT By LESLIE Cox ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FALL FIELD TRIP, 1992 Arizona Geological Society...AZ 8 571 7 Historic Mining Camps and Jurassic Calderas, Southeastern Arizona! By BRENDA HOUSER With...GREATERVILLE PLACER DISTRICT By LESLIE Cox ARIZONA GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY FALL FIELD TRIP, 1992 Arizona Geological...Greater v i ll e P acer l D istrict ......... 5 Red Mountain O v erview ............................ 8 Harshaw
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I COAL CITY, St...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
Report (issue)
OF AMERICA ARIZONA 1986 THE NATIONAL GAZETTEER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ARIZONA 1986 FRONTISPIECE...reflects the Spanish and native American heritages of Arizona. The name honors the Jesuit missionary Saint Francis...also includes a Spanish recording of the Papago or Pima Indian word that refers to the place where the mission...of America. Arizona 1986. (U.S. Geological Survey professional paper ; 1200-AZ) 1. Arizona Gazetteers...Alphabetical list of Geological Survey maps of Arizona...............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals. Most...collector interest, including malachite, azurite, cuprite, smithsonite, hemimorphite, hydrozincite, and rosasite...including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Washington County. It has also been found at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as
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]...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical Record Inc., 7413 N. Mowry Place Tucson, Arizona 85741 Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Founder...reprints, book sales, shows) P.O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 602-297-6709 Subscriptions • Individuals...second class postage (USPS-887-700) Paid at Tucson, Arizona, and additional offices. POSTMASTER: send address...Grice Famous mineral localities: the Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire ....................................Gauthier & V. T. King The Fat Jack mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ............................... 21 by
Journal (issue)
PROSPECTS IN THEVIRGILINA DISTRICT, VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet The Virgilina district (Figure 1) was a source...Virgilina district in Virginia. Silver, which is reported to occur in four mines in the district, was produced...Hill copper mine and gold and silver from the Red Bank (Goldbank) gold mine in Halifax County (Sweet, 1976...was produced from the Red Bank mine (Sweet, 1971, p. 31). The district is composed of mostly igneous and...bornite, and chalcopyrite and all the native silver, cuprite, malachite, azurite, and chrysocolla are secondary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the generic name of cubic zirconia. 2 ENGLAND Cuprite and Malachite Color in minerals is a fascinating...the species. I t is interesting that the younger cuprite setting on malachite represents reduced conditions...is now well known from A c i Castello, as well. Cuprite and malachite. INDIA MEXICO Dendrites Eastonite...(Long. 83° 2'E; Lat. 18° 17'NJ of Visakhapatnam district, Andhra Pradesh, India. The rock types around...material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun­ tain is a typical
Book (volume)
(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Harold Van Pelt & GEOSCIENCE PRESS, INC. Tucson, Arizona © 1997 by John Sinkankas Library of Congress...Dosen ONN/ QBI96-40247 Trade Distribution by Mountain Press Publishing Company P.O. Box 2399, Missoula...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical Record Inc., 7413 N. Mowry Place Tucson, Arizona 85741 Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Associate...back issues, reprints) P.O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 602-297-6709 Editing, advertising Wendell...second class postage (USPS-887-700) Paid at Tucson, Arizona, and additional offices. POSTMASTER: send address...G. Brizzi Osarizawaite from the Silver Hill mine, Arizona ........................ 311 by C. S. Stolberg...tungsten mine, central Kazakhstan, U.S.S.R. The specimen was collected in 1982. The Aktschatau mine is among
Report (volume)
........................ 5 5 Distribution of mining districts........................................ore deposits.................................... Arizona.......................................................................... PART II. Catalogue of mining districts, by J. M. Hill.........................Classification of mining districts......................................... Arizona............................................... Alphabetic index of mining districts................................... 9
Journal (issue)
Saavedra province (politically equivalent to a U.S. "county"), Potosf department ("state' 1), southwestern...and silver mines, the Colavi-Machacamarca mining district, which have been worked since Spanish colonial... A hundred years ago, the Machacamarca mine in this district became the world's firs locality for well-crystallized...still be found on the dumps. Various mines in the district produced large quantities of specimen material...the three Ninache brothers, miners from the Colavi mine, were hiking over the barren hills of the unworked
Book
DEPOSIT. ^ jflnzona mining Directory A DIRECTORY OF Arizona^s Mines^ Mining Districts Owners or...ADDRESSES (Yavapai County) Copyright RUSSELL H. J 903 MILLWARD PRESCOTT, ARIZONA Published by The...The Arizona Mining Directory Prescott, Arizona Price $2.50 '-^ ' • THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Tvv'O...XXc. No. a. PREFACE Yavapai, the treasure county of Arizona, has developed beyond the speculative stage...operators than to this county a greater is October 298 1, were 1876, of mining locations Hinton, the
Report (issue)
" ; ^,- • ^... -'--' . CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU. Henry G. FIFTH Hanks, State Mineralogist...provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Mining Bureau," approved April 16, 1880. I have the honor... REPORT. The Act creating the California State Mining- Bureau, approvides for an annual report by the...statistical information in reference to mines and mining as shall be deemed important." In obedience to...Mineralogist, has been prepared. The prosperity of the Mining Bureau, and the growth and progress of the State
Report (issue)
1 D E J •LEGEND- MEXICO -^ Mining O Division Boundaries. Mining Division Offices. (6) PREFACE...a part of the Fourth Annual Report of the State Mining Bureau, by Henry G. Hanks, who was then State Mineralogist...''Minerals of California," of the California State Mining Bureau. In the thirty years which had elapsed since...published as Bulletin 91 of the California State Mining Bureau. Many additional species were included,...commercial borates. Lawsonite, first found in Marin county in 1895, has proved to be of great petrographic
 
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