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Chalcocite from
Bisbee Mine, Angels Camp, Angels Camp Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bisbee Mine, Angels Camp, Angels Camp Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:901975
Long-form Identifier:1:3:901975:1
GUID (UUID V4):102d6861-661c-43e1-8181-f2aa0f6b17c1
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
17.3km (10.7 miles) Collier Mine (Blood Mine; Sandwich Mine), Murphys, Murphys Mining District (Esmeralda Mining District; Sperry Mining District), East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
20.0km (12.4 miles) Quail Hill Mine (Eagle Mine; Eagle Copper and Silver Mine), Telegraph City, Foothill Copper Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
21.9km (13.6 miles) Star & Excelsior Mine (Star Mine; Excelsior Mine), Telegraph City, Foothill Copper Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
32.9km (20.5 miles) Penn Mine (Happy Jack; West Constellation; Satellite; Big Satellite; Hinkcley; Blue Jay; Meteor; Hecla; Little Satellite; Copper Hill; Penn Chemical Works; Campo Seco), Campo Seco, Campo Seco Mining District, Foothill Copper Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
39.8km (24.7 miles) Oak Hill Mine (Olsen Mine), Buzzard Point, Tuolumne County, California, USA
41.3km (25.7 miles) Newton Mine (Newton Copper Mine; Jackson Mine), Sunnybrook, Pardee Mining District, Amador County, California, USA
59.6km (37.0 miles) Copper Hill Mine (Cosumnes Mine; Hobo Mine; Jackass shaft), Four Corners, Amador County, California, USA
60.0km (37.3 miles) Cosumnes Copper Mine, Fair Play, Fairplay Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
60.7km (37.7 miles) La Victoria Mine, Williams Peak, Hunter Valley Mining District, West Belt, Mariposa County, California, USA
62.2km (38.6 miles) Blue Moon Mine (Porcupine Mine; Blue Cloud Mine; Red Cloud Mine; Percupine Mine; American Eagle Mine; Bullion Hill Mine), Quartzburg, Hornitos Mining District, West Belt, Mariposa County, California, USA
References
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Archive in 2012 with funding from University of California, Davis Libraries http://www.archive.org/det...RESOURCES OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By WILLIAM B. CLARK, Mining Geologist California Division of...LYDON, Mining Geologist California Division of Mines and Geology County Report 2 CALIFORNIA DIVISION...1962 UNIYERSITY OF CALIFOI DAVIS STATE OF CALIFORNIA Edmund G. Brown, Governor THE RESOURCES Hugo...MINES AND GEOLOGY Ian Campbell, State Geologist COUNTY REPORT Price $4.00 2 6 1 - CONTENTS ABSTRACT
Book (edition)
McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral
Report (volume)
............................................ California....................................................................................... 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
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By WALTER HARVEY WEED. INTRODUCTION. Copper mining in the United States has had a marvelously rapid...individual increase that of the Copper Queen mine at Bisbee, Ariz. The following table shows the production...550,000 700, 000 10,000 814,035,719 "Salt Lake Mining Review, Annual Review number, January, 1906. The...Stevens, Horace J., Mining World, Jan. 27, 1905; and information furnished the writer by mine owners and managers...III. The Butte, Mont., copper district is the greatest silver-producing camp of the entire world, its production
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Wilson Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Friends of Mineralogy COVER: COPPER from the Ray mine, Arizona. The specimen is 3 inches wide, and was...article beginning on page 311 for more on the Ray mine. n o te s fr o m t h c j EDITOR ARIZONA This
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.................... 72 by R. Barnes and M. Hay Camp Verde evaporites .................................by D. Jones The minerals of Malpais Hill, Pinal County, Arizona..............................109 by R...by W. Hunt Famous mineral localities: the Hilltop mine ..........................................121 by...by D. K. Miller and W. E. Wilson The Silver Bill mine, Gleeson, Arizona ................................years ago. Evidence of their work in the form of mining artifacts occasionally turns up, and in one instance
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Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • ...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART
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UNDERGROUND 10 Winter visitors enjoy underground mine tours, mineral museums, and limestone caverns. By... Rock & Gem Winter Visitors Enjoy Underground Mine Tours, Mineral Museums and Limestone Caves Story...copper mineral you might see on the Copper Queen mine tour. 12 rockngem.com Scottsdale is invaded by...involves minerals? Fortunately, there are underground mine tours, mineral museums, and limestone caves to be...be visited! Two of Arizona’s more famous mining towns, Bisbee and Tombstone, offer underground trips for
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to 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 of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Arkansas..........Dr. A. H. Purdue, Nashville, Tenn. California........Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART
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Mojave Deserts, southern Arizona and southeastern California, United States, and northern Sonora, Mexico By......... 15 ROAD LOGS FOR FIELD TRIPS Historic mining camps of southeastern Arizona-A road log with geologic...Geology of the gold placers in the Greaterville District, Arizona By I...eslie J. Cox ...................porphyry copper deposit, Silver Bell Mountains, Pima County, Arizona By Spencer R. Titley ....... ...........in the San Manuel and Mammoth Districts, Pinal County, Arizona By Eric R. Force and William R. Dickinson
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Bisbee! Wm ,' .\ V> s K * *SKE» •\v ¥*• S\* 'W , 4 .v - N ■ST. -•••,> • ■% SW 'VARIZONA-III ^-^v...B-2120 Schoten COVER: AZURITE on malachite from Bisbee, about 6 inches tall. William Larson specimen;...for azurite, malachite and other copper minerals, Bisbee has produced more than 200 different mineral species...years ago. B Introduction Bisbee is located in the Warren mining district of Cochise Coun­ ty, Arizona...common in the areas surrounding the town. Active mining began late in 1877 and continued with only minor
Book
353-416 257-320 321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986...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...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
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decide whether a certain metalliferous deposit or district should be included or not. The problem was also...other forms) since 1935 is reviewed. New sulfur mining and recovery projects in the United States and...chemical properties of sulfur, the geology and mining operations of the salt-dome sulfur deposits, the...sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration and...Swager, W. L. , and Sullivan, J. D. , 1951, Sulphur: Mining Engineering, vol. 3. , pp. 403409. The history
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of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined in the...his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a member of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...noted for computer applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and
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Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined in the...his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a men1ber of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...noted for con1puter applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and
Report (issue)
INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY., ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin 187...research and provide information about exploration. mining. and metallurgical processes that are needed in...Technology Branch J. Brent Hiskey Assistant Director Mining and Mineral Resources Researchlns~tute Orlo E...Affirmative Action Employer. INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist... Cover photo: Bird's-eye view of the Sacramento Pit, Bisbee, Arizona, circa 1920The present-day Lavender Pit
Report (issue)
and Butler, G. M.-Arizona lode gold mines and mining: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 137, 1934...Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 148, 1941. Apache County 2: 17 Gregory, H. E.-Geology Prof. Paper 93, 1917...Survey Cochise County 3:04 Ransome, F. L.-The geology and ore deposits of the Bisbee quadrangle, Arizona:...Tombstone district, Arizona: Univ. Ariz., Ariz. Bur. Mines Bull. 143, 1938. Gila County 4:03 Ransome...Ransome, F. L.-Geology of the Globe copper district, Arizona: U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 12, 1903. 4:19
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Featured at the 1997 Tucson Show Downloaded by [California Institute of Technology] at 04:25 12 June 2016...Clifton-Morenci, Globe-Miami, Superior, Ray, Jerome, and Bisbee were, and are, among the largest copper camps in...Arizona Special Collections). Downloaded by [California Institute of Technology] at 04:25 12 June 2016...72, JanuarylFebruary 1997 11 Downloaded by [California Institute of Technology] at 04:25 12 June 2016...2016 Figure 3. The New Cornelia pit in 1976. The mine shown in figure 1 was located on the volcanic stock
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
Report (issue)
of the Arizona Geological society, society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., and the U. s...We also want to thank collectively, all of the mining companies and staff who graciously allowed us to... CONTENTS: Roadlog from Tucson to Tombstone to Bisbee to Douglas Geology Map of Cananea-Nacorzari Area...Agua Prieta to La Caridad Mine Geologic Summary of the Nacorzari Mining District Maps of Southern Arizona...to Cananea General geology of the Cananea Mining District, with plans and sections Map showing principal
Report (issue)
in Bulletin 140. Lode deposits Cochise County-Warren (Bisbee) and Turquoise districts, with ores of copper...silver, and lead. Tombstone district, with lead-silver ores. Pearce district, with silver ores. Dragoon...Dragoon Mountains, Manzoro district. Dos Cabezas Mountains, Dos Cabezas and Teviston districts. Huachuca Mountains...Mountains. Swisshelm Mountains. Gila County-Globe-Miami district, with ores of copper and silver. Dripping...Mountains, Barnes district, with ores of copper, lead, and silver. Payson district. Graham County-Galiuro Mountains
Journal (volume)
1 . Weekly { 18. Cento a Copy LOS ANGELES , CALIFORNIA , MARCH 1 , 1913 . Cheaper Coal Is Easily to...almost any . coast . where in the feed and fuel district . One remedy seems close at hand the vast coal...Santa Fe about 1,800,000,000 tons . At ton for mining it and it is retailed in the rate the coal is being...$ 15 a ton which represents the and Southern California at a compara difference from the time it is mined...producers to a helpful dissertation on coal lands mine coal extensively where a market which locators and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
atacamite, brochantite, chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite, tetrahedrite. chalcophyllite, gypsum, libethenite...Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick...Jersey; the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania;...workings of the copper mines at Ducktown, Polk County, and the zinc deposits of eastern and central Tennessee;...Gossan Lead district in Carroll and Grayson Counties, and mines of the Virgilina district, Charlotte County
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......... 15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ........................................ 29 B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ..................................Alexander The Morenci and Metcalf mines, . Gila County, Arizona ........................................& W. E. Wilson Mineral collecting at the Magma mine, . . Superior, Arizona ..........................Presmyk & M. Hay Treasures of the Magma mine, Pinal County, Arizona ...............................
 
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