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Chalcopyrite from
Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chalcophyllite4 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Chalcophyllite at this locality.
Langite2 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Langite at this locality.
Chenevixite2 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Chenevixite at this locality.
Brochantite2 photos of Chalcopyrite associated with Brochantite at this locality.
Cornwallite1 photo of Chalcopyrite associated with Cornwallite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:96122
Long-form Identifier:1:3:96122:4
GUID (UUID V4):3482910a-d9ba-4bf4-9624-315f9704b10d
Localities for Chalcopyrite in this Region
Tin Stope, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
6.3km (3.9 miles) Antelope mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
7.3km (4.5 miles) Nevada Superior mine, Antelope Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
15.5km (9.6 miles) Lone Star mine (Haystack mine; Jungo Star mine), Haystack Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
18.6km (11.5 miles) 56 Copper Mine, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
28.8km (17.9 miles) Hycroft Mine, Sulphur, Sulphur Mining District, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
30.2km (18.7 miles) Queen of Sheba Mine (Sheba Mine), Star Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
30.3km (18.8 miles) Iron Forge prospect (Forge Mine), Pershing County, Nevada, USA
30.5km (18.9 miles) Silver Reef Mine, Star Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
30.8km (19.2 miles) Nevada Massachusetts Company, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
30.8km (19.2 miles) Tehama Mine, Star Mining District, Pershing County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Geology of Majuba Hill Pershing County, Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This report concerns work...Commission 1046-1 Geology of Majuba Hill Pershing County, Nevada By ALBERT F. TRITES, Jr., and RALPH...production________________________________________ Mine workings ________________________________________________...pocket] PLATE 7. Geologic map and section of Majuba Hill. 8. Geologic map of surface above Middle adit... Page FIGURE 25. Index map showing location of Majuba Hill___________ 184 in CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...well-known and collected localities, such as Majuba Hill. Many other localities with extensive and unusual...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist
Report (issue)
'<:: ~·-· ,''~;:!~}~~,~~. ;:,~-~ :}:jJI::sfi~ Nevada Mineral-Resource Data: Information Available Through...Geological Survey Mineral Resource Data System Nevada Mineral-Resource Data: Information Available Through...Cataloging in Public~tion Data Sherlock. ~Iaureen G. Nevada mineral-resource data: information available through...Mines and mineral resources--Nevada--Information services. 2. Geology--Nevada--Information services. I....• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Purpose of the Nevada MRDS Data Set • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
Report (issue)
223(8) c = 6.018(8) X-ray Powder Pattern: Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA. 14.3 (100), 4.52 (60), 10.38 (24), 4...50 57.64 17.41 Total 99.50 100.00 (1) Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA; by electron microprobe, average of ten...orebody in rhyolite porphyries and breccias (Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA). Association: Spangolite, chalcophyllite...malachite, azurite, brochantite, chrysocolla (Majuba Hill, Nevada, USA); cyanotrichite, brochantite, lavendulan...lavendulan, mansfieldite–scorodite, chalcopyrite, cornubite (Cap Garonne mine, France); chrysocolla, brochantite
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst
Journal (issue)
Type Localities: NEVADA: steep northeast wall of glory hole, B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt...Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan...Museum. The mineral is named for Curt N. Schuette, a mining geologist who specialized in mercury deposits....H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it...German-American mining engineer. References: RIOTTE, E. N. (1867) Stetefeldit, eine neues mineral von Nevada. Berg-
Report (volume)
................. Majuba Hill mine workings............................ The Majuba fault............... Plate 9. Geologic map. and section of Majuba Hill, Nevada.................................. In pocket...pocket 10. Geologic map and sections of the Majuba Hill mine............................... In pocket Figure...location of Majuba Hill, Nevada................................ 40 III TIN DEPOSIT AT MA.JUBA HILL, PERSHING...PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA By Ward C. Smith and V. P. Gianella ABSTRACT The tin and copper deposits at Majuba
Report (issue)
Radioactive Deposits of Nevada GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLET l]N ^1 0 0 9 - C A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GEOLOGY...GEOLOGY OF URANIUM RADIOACTIVE DEPOSITS OF NEVADA By T. G. LOVERING ABSTRACT Thirty-five occurrences...occurrences of radioactive rocks had been reported from Nevada prior to 1952. Twenty-five of these had been investigated...Monster mine, which shipped 5 tons of ore to Marysvale, Utah, during 1951; the Majuba Hill mine; the Stalin's...prospect; and the West Willys claim in the Washington district. No estimate has been made of thorium reserves
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 03:41 01 August 2012 Olivenite TSUMEB MINE, TSUMEB, OSHIKOTO REGION, NAMIBIA H ydrothermal...mineralogy by copper-bearing sulfide minerals such as chalcopyrite. When these deposits are exposed to oxygen and...from the worldfamous Tsumeb mine in Namibia, where attempts at specimen mining have taken place in recent...Southampton University. A consultant geochemist in the mining industry, he is also an avid collector of micromounts...Mountain states. In the copper mines of Houghton County, Michigan, where primary arsenides have provided
Journal (issue)
Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 The Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada A Source of Superb Secondary Copper...(phroth@sunrise.ch) Introduction Since the 1950’s, the Majuba Hill Mine has been recognized by the mineral collecting...minerals from the Majuba Hill Mine. Spherical aggregates of arthurite crystals from Majuba Hill. FOV 3.8 mm...Evanich photo. History The Majuba Hill Mine, located in Pershing County, Nevada, was first located in 1907...1907 by A.J. McCauley of Imlay, Nevada. No work of importance was undertaken until 1914, when the property
Journal (issue)
at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...City cuts right through the middle of the Mining District. (Continued on page 2) The Moravian Territorial...km2), but with a rich and world- famous history of mining and associated mineralogy. In the city of Brno...Chlorargyrite, on and impregnating Sandstone, Silver Reef District, Washington Co., UT, 6 x 5 x 3 cm. Author’s specimen...Sandstone. Figure 3: Geologic map of the Mining District showing the outcrops of the Springdale Sandstone
Report (issue)
Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast California...Ludington3 Open-File Report 96-712 1996 1 Reno, Nevada 89557 2 Denver, Colorado 80228 3 Menlo Park, California...Canada 7 U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Winnemucca, Nevada 89445 This report is preliminary and has not been...Study Areas and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource...of mineral deposits present in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nev. and
Report (volume)
(A) Tungsten resources of the Blue Wing district, Lemhl County, Idaho, by Eugene Callaghan and D; M. Lemmon...Some quicksilver prospects in adjacent parts of Nevada, California, and Oregon, by C. P. Ross (published............... (C) Tin deposit at Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada, by W. C. Smith and V. P. Gianella...(D) Nickel-gold deposit near Mount Vernon, Skagit County, Washington, by S. W. Hobbs and W. T. Pecora (published............. (E) Tungsten deposits in the Sierra Nevada near Bishop, California, a preliminary report,
Report (issue)
hydrothermal mineral deposits, commonly of post-mine origin; may occur in slags. Association: Brochantite...wroewolfeite, aurichalcite, azurite, malachite, chalcopyrite. Distribution: Numerous minor localities. From...Drakewalls mine, Gunnislake, and the Fowey Consols mine, Tywardreath. Large crystals in the Penrhiw mine, Ystumtuen...Wales. At the Muckross mine, Co. Kerry, Ireland. In France, in the Salsigne mine, 15 km north of Carcassone...In the USA, in the Yellow Pine mine, Crisman, Boulder Co., Colorado, and at the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...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
Catalog/List
S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...on feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless to...crystals on \/ad. 104 ADAMITE, Quartz Mountain, Nevada. Pale blue to colorless nearly equant crystals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CLINOCLASITE FROM MAJUBA HILL, VrNcnNr P. GraNnrr6 NEVADA Llniaersily of Neaad,a,Reno, Nettada. ...copper arsenate, has been known to be present at Majuba Hill for many years,l but good crystals were rare...Professor Charles Palache for further study. Majuba Hill (erroneouslydesignatedMajuba Mountain, on the...the Antelope Mountains, a northern continuation of the Trinity Range in Pershing County, Nevada. It lies...250feet. The primary ore consistslargely of chalcopyrite,arsenopyrite,and pyrite, with minor amounts
Journal (issue)
page 2) Fig. 1: Metatorbemite specimen from Grant County, NM in the collection of the New Mexico Bureau...old stone house foundation in Baltic, Houghton County, Michigan. The chunk was buried about 8 inches...Miniere du haul Katanga's Shinkolobwe .. radium .. mine. Other sources of radium soon developed on the Colorado...-The discovery of uranium ore in the White Signal District, Grant Co.. M, was made by A.A. Leach, a geo logist...Phelps Dodge Corporation at their Tyrone, NM copper mine, in 1918. Two uranium minerals were recognized.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Preliminary note about the minerals of the Taubenleck Mine (Bletterbach Gorge, BZ, Italy) • Paolo Ferretti1...describes the minerals found at the Taubenleck Mine, a mining site dated between XV and XVI century and located...of the Bletterbach Gorge (Aldino, BZ). The old mining site is located at the coal levels rich in Cu and...identification of 15 new mineral for the Taubenleck Mine has enriched the list of mineralogical species of...Wopfner & Drake-Brockman (2017) Calcopirite (Chalcopyrite) CuFeS2 Wopfner & Drake-Brockman (2017) Covellite
Report (issue)
c = 6.439(3) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Clara mine, Germany. 3.03 (10), 6.09 (9), 2.83 (9), 4.41 (8)...(Fowey Consols mine, England); barite, fluorite, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite (Clara mine, Germany). Distribution:...unknown locality Cornwall. In Germany, at the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest; from Waldstein...Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria; at the Krufter Ofen volcano, Eifel district. In the Ilı́maussaq intrusion, Greenland. At Mont...At Iron Hill, Powderhorn district, Gunnison Co., Colorado, and in the Majuba Hill mine, Antelope district
Journal (issue)
Allingbam Court .Haverstock Hill London l\1W3 2AH 12A Allingham Court Haverstock Hill London NW3 2AH CONTENTS...localities when I lived in South Africa was an old tin mine by the name of Stavoren in what used to be called...similarities also springs to mind, and that is Majuba Hill, in Nevada. So as I went through the specimens in...recovered from the Mutue Fides mine, but at the adjacent Stavoren mine, it seems that tin recovery was...are of interest to collectors. Gorland is an old mine with a chequered history because, like Stavoren
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...ALONG THE 1-80 CORRIDOR, RENO TO BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA R. Cuffney, R. Atkinson and R. Buffa Revised 1990...north-south ranges of central and northeastern Nevada (Fig. I). These belts, or their extensions, contain...vast majority of precious metal deposits found in Nevada to date. Our trip begins in the Walker Lane mineral
Catalog/List
co.uk 1. CAROLLITE (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Mashamba Mine, Zaire, Africa. Two modified bright octahedral crystals...matrix. £60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...TOURMALINE ON COOKEITE (6cm x 5cm x 3cm) Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Chalky...calcite £15 7. MALACHITE (5cm x 3cm x 3cm) Musonoie Mine, Zaire. Crystalline mass of fibrous dark to pale...5cm. £55 11. AZURITE (3.5cm x 1.5cm x 1cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Dark inky blue azurite crystal
Journal (issue)
Hemimorphite & Rosasite From the Alice Mine, Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer Excalibur Mineral...lot of material from the Alice Mine, near Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada. The deposit had been worked as...unknownolive greenelongatedneedlesfrom the Alice Mine provedto be molydofomacite, as evidencedby Mo>CrEDSanalysis...of the Big Mike Mine in the mouth of Panther Canyon, Tobin Range, Pershing Co., Nevada. The Big Mike copper...ore body. The primary ore consisted mainly of chalcopyrite, CuFeS 2 , and bornite, Cu5FeS4 , with minor
 
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