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Covellite from
Twilight Mine, Higgins Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hematite3 photos of Covellite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Malachite2 photos of Covellite associated with Malachite at this locality.
Antlerite1 photo of Covellite associated with Antlerite at this locality.
Lepidocrocite1 photo of Covellite associated with Lepidocrocite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Twilight Mine, Higgins Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:974070
Long-form Identifier:1:3:974070:9
GUID (UUID V4):36dfa3b4-7d3c-4ae2-b410-2d2022e9c110
Nearest other occurrences of Covellite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Higgins Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Cole Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) Junction Mine, Calumet and Arizona group of claims (Calumet and Arizona Mining Company group of claims), Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
3.5km (2.1 miles) Campbell Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
7.5km (4.7 miles) Ivanhoe Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
19.2km (12.0 miles) Unnamed prospect, Cerro Morita, Naco Municipality, Sonora, Mexico
28.7km (17.9 miles) Wellington group, Turquoise Mining District (Courtland-Gleeson Mining District), Cochise County, Arizona, USA
29.6km (18.4 miles) Brunckow Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
30.7km (19.1 miles) San Diego Mine, Tombstone Extension Mines, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) Gallagher Vanadium & Rare Minerals Corp Mine, Tombstone Mining District, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
References
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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...Society President, Ralph Stegen (Vice President, Mine-Site Exploration, Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp...for granting us access to the company property in Bisbee. On this trip, we will visit one of Arizona’s most
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...Society President, Ralph Stegen (Vice President, Mine-Site Exploration, Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp...for granting us access to the company property in Bisbee. On this trip, we will visit one of Arizona’s most
Journal (issue)
THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ! RIZONA~VI CONTENTS Arizona-VI (Introduction) ............. ... ................ 483 W. E. Wilson The Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona ............ .. ........... ............... .. ........ 484 W. E. Wilson The Arizona Silver Belt; Silver King to McMillenville .................. ..... 507 L. Presmyk The Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona ............................. ......531 W. E. Wilson & M. Hay The Carlota Mine, Gila County, Arizona ............................. .. ..
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Bisbee! Wm ,' .\ V> s K * *SKE» •\v ¥*• S\* 'W , 4 .v - N ■ST. -•••,> • ■% SW 'VARIZONA-III ^-^v...The Mineralogical Record P. O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 g_ g — —^ affiliated with the Friends of...September-October 1981 Arizona-m famous mineral localities: Bidee, Arizona by Richard W. Graeme a...Record Third in a series id four issues devoted to Arizona published bimonthly by the Mineralogical Record...B-2120 Schoten COVER: AZURITE on malachite from Bisbee, about 6 inches tall. William Larson specimen;
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metasomaticreplacementof sphaleriteby chalcociteand covellite. This chalcocite replacement develops a pseudoeutecticdesignin...mineralsbut in this casethe galenawas collectedin a mine and the covellitewas madeto replace it in the laboratory...therefore, forced into a more or lessuncertain"twilight" zone lying betweenundoubted hypogenedepositionand...chalcopyrite and chalcocite,synthetically. Some covellite, also developedsynthetically, seems to be an intermediate...between claalcopyriteand chalcocite. Compare with covellite, natural, as in Fig. •o. Temp., 9ø0•ooø C.; Time
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region, Arizona ; and the Marysvale district, Utah. All the Western States, including Arizona, California...Radium lode-was first found in the South Terras mine in 1873 (Robertson and Dines, 1929, p. 147). Penrose...of ore was sold up to 1907 from the South Terra.s mine and that about 576 tons of uranium ores was produced...also was known to occur in the Leyden Coal mine~ Jefferson County, Colo., as early as 1875 (Berthoud, 1875...in the conterminous United States is to the Rajah mine, known earlier as the Copper Prince ( Briiyn, 1955
Report (volume)
and reserves..___________________________________ Mine descriptions.._________________________________________...Snowdrift claim...________________________________ Twilight claim______________________________ Devore cl...Idaho________________________________________ Singiser mine._______________________________________ Birch Creek...176 178 178 180 181 183 183 183 IV CONTENTS Mine descriptions Continued Deer Creek district, Mon...sections of the Trapper no. 1 claim, Beaverhead County, Mont__________________________ In pocket FIQTJEE
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Johnston & E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . ...Pezzotta Famous mineral localities: The Lord Brassy mine, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....reprints, book sales, shows) P.O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 520-297-6709 • FAX: 520-544-0815 E-mail:...AZ 85741. Periodicals postage paid at Tucson, Arizona and additional mailing offices. POSTMASTER: Send
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Roc Creek, in the Paradox district of Montrose County, Colorado. Within the Paradox Basin, there are...mining. When the high-grade ores at Shinkolobwe mine in Zaire (formerly Belgium Congo) were brought into...i CORTEZ 1" = 20 miles \ I COLORADO UTAH ARIZONA new PARADOX BASIN URANIUM DISTRICTS PLATE 1 ...high-grade blackish uranium ores at his Mi Vida Mine in the Big Indian district, Utah. This discovery...Lisbon Valley mill located adjacent to the Lisbon mine. It has a 700 tpd capacity. Ores have a low vanadium
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Abstract The recently discovered Offset Zone of the Mine Block Intrusion of the Lac des Iles Complex hosts...Sciences, Duke University, Box 90227, Durham, NC 27708, USA e-mail: boudreau@duke.edu L. Djon : A. Tchalikian...alteration. Introduction The palladium orebodies of the Mine Block Intrusion (MBI) of the Lac des Iles Complex...selective upgrading of the highgrade rocks. Recent mine development has found mineralized rock with little...Gomwe (2011) describe the Roby (and the nearby Twilight zone) as consisting of apparently magmatic heterolithic
Report (volume)
vol. 12, pp. 223-240. Davenport, Iowa. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 5, nos...Washington, D. C. West Virginia Geological Survey: County Reports, Pleasants, Wood, and Ritchie Counties;...occurrence of the ore body at the City of Cobalt mine. Canadian Min. Inst., Jour., vol. 12, pp. 414-417...bodies. 23. Equipment and methods at the Hecla mine [Cceur d'Alene district, Idaho]. Eng. and Min. Jour...444, p. 13. Two areas of oil prospecting in Lyon County, western Nevada. U. S. Geol. Survey, Bull. 381
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R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Behnke Famous mineral localities: the Corrego Frio mine and vicinity, Minas Gerais, Brazil ...............Monfalcone Special second class postage Paid at Tucson, Arizona, and additional offices. POSTMASTER: send address...Record Inc., 6349 N. Orange Tree Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85740 Copyright 1983 ® by the Mineralogical Record...Person-other—Other persons such as miners, field assistants, mine managers, etc. Place —Used when a mineral is named
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colleagues. This influence extended well into his twilight years as Newberry Professor Emeritus at Columbia...Geology of Texaco's Hobson Uranium Deposit, Karnes County, Texas. H.M. Dahl and C.A. Callender. . . . ....and Iron Mineralization in Pegmatite at the Bemco Mine Prospect, Cranberry Lake, New Jersey. A.H. Vassiliou...Dolostones Adjacent to Mineralized Breccias (Coy Mine, Mascot-Jefferson City District) and Non-Mineralized...Ore Bodies of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. (Abstract) R.W. Metsger.........
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BMS branch meeting BMS SE Branch Meeting Cononish Mine - Scolgold Resources Update More Mining News - South...new address - Treetops, Kilgobinet, Nr Dungarvan, County Waterford, Ireland. Tel: 00353 5843636 Mobile:...display. Roy Starkey will be talking on " Herodsfoot Mine and Boumonite", and on Saturday afternoon there...studies began. Harry had some material from Sandbed Mine that needed its identification confirmed. Lots of...opencul above Sandbeds Mine. Type specimen was probably mined at Pim Hill Mine, Shrewsbury but the ore
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Pictures in Patterns and Textures www.rockngem.com ARIZONA AMETHYST Purple Gems from Four Peaks red_cover_0314...their collections. This legrand­ite from the Ojuela mine (Mapimi, Durango) measures 5.6 cm high. (Jeff Scovil...February and March by Kenneth H. Rohn Four Peaks, Arizona, Amethyst............... 28 Purple gems at 7,000...part of the rock-collecting scene in the Tucson, Arizona, area for many years. She was present for the first...she took geology courses at the University of Arizona and could identify almost any mineral you presented
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Lukachukai in the far northeastern corner of the Arizona reservation to serve any of his tribesmen who might...lonely, haunting call, That plays on the harps of twilight With nostalgic rise and fall. But with the last...costumes are authentic, the sashes are Hopi-made; the Arizona Hopis make most of the sashes for their New Mexico...RECREATION ENTERPRISE P.O. BOX218 WHITERIVER, ARIZONA DEPARTMENTS: Poem of the Month 3 Hard Rock...South Dakota spiritedly trading with others from Arizona or Oklahoma for the wares in which each tribe specializes
Journal (volume)
Interest Operations on Kramer Hill . By Will C. Higgins 15 17 Recent Progress at the Alta Tunnel .: By...Show The Prospector and His Burro . By: Will C. Higgins . Electric Furnace in Iron and Steel Industry...Chester Brown . TOT 10. 191 .. ;19 will c. Higgins. By W. 13 18 19 19 20 21 21 Items May 30 ,...Equipment of the Baghouse on 27 By Will C. Higgins . 28 the Metallurgy of Lead. 29 32 . Coal Notes...Superior to Expand By Letson Safety and Economy in Mine Ventilation . The Prosperting Spirit . Editorial
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Refining the Classification Using McCreedy West Mine and Podolsky Project Case Studies 163-180 C.E.G...Dyke, Zimbabwe - Case Study of the Hartley Platinum Mine A.H. Wilson, R.T. Brown 409-429 20. The Platinova...REFINING THE CLASSIFICATION: USING McCREEDY WEST MINE, AND PODOLSKY PROJECT CASE STUDIES C.E.G. Farrow...Ore North Roby Ore Breccia Ore Geology of the Twilight Zone Baker Zone DISCUSSION 369 376 377 379 380...DYKE, ZIMBABWE – CASE STUDY OF THE HARTLEY PLATINUM MINE A.H. Wilson, R.T. Brown INTRODUCTION EXPLORATION
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.............................................. Bisbee group............................................................,..................... American mine...................................................................................... Silver King mine.............................................. Eighth...................................... Copper King mine............................................ King......................................... King 400 mine................................................
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Alaska, by Bruce R. Johnson and Arthur L. Kimball . Arizona . . . . . . . . . . . .................. ... .... . ... . Arnold Mesa Roadless Area, Arizona, by Edward W. Wolfe and Robert A. McColly . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . .... Blue Range Wilderness, Arizona and ew Mexico. by James C. Ratte and R. G. Raabe... . . . ............. . Chiricahua Wilderness, Arizona, by Harald Drewes and Frank E. Williams ................... . Dragoon Mountains Roadless Area, Arizona, by Harald Drewes and T . J . Kreidler .......
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Club Travelcade to Miami mines, from Phoenix. Arizona. Feb. 11-12—Fifth Annual Silver Spur Rodeo, sponsored...of commerce, Yuma, Arizona. Feb. 11-12—Arizona Snow Bowl carnival. Flagstaff, Arizona. Volume 13 COVER...carnival, Williams, Arizona. FIELD TRIP Feb. 14-15—Missionary district of Arizona of Episcopal church...church. Flagstaff, Arizona. 3 . . . . 4 5 By JAY ELLIS RANSOM 12 QUIZ Test your desert knowledge 16...Taos pueblo. New Mexico. Feb. 17-22 — Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival. Arabian Nights
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duration but plans to return to the desert and her Arizona mining claims as soon as the war is over and gold...cut in this rock near the mouth oj Keams Canyon, Arizona. and make a permanent record of all such names...oases and water-holes in the desert—in California, Arizona, Nevada and Utah. It was in a little valley in...land that is greying in the mists of a lonely twilight. Wind stirs bleakly through the bushes and the...where it holds high festival, particularly in Arizona, one of its everyday names is Golden Hills, which
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of San Juan National Forest and vicinity showing county boundaries ......................................63. 64. CONTENTS Geologic map of the Graysill mine area in the Graysill vanadium-uranium mining district...and milling caused renewed activity in the major mine-mill complexes in and near the San Juan National...quartzite and slates. Area around the Centennial mine near Elk Park is favorable. G. Creede epithermal...of San Juan National Forest and vicinity showing county boundaries. 10 I 15 I 20 I 25MILES I (')
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"We have been thinking of annexing New Mexico, Arizona and Utah anyway. We must do something to keep ahead...doubt it. I have studied Navajos near the Utah-Arizona line who had never seen a paleface until I came...found in Grand Canyon and in House Range in Millard County. THE CRUST BENDS DOWNWARD, the waters come. Southern...shoreline roughly paralleling Highway 91 from the Arizona border north. Although later Chapter III seas were...VACflTlOH PARADISE! Write for FREE Brochure San Juan County Commission Monticello Utah Peoph (continued)
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31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...COLOR PLATES (following page 242) Gold, Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with...with Conichalcite Gold, Round Mountain Mine Quartz, Lovelock area Acanthite Grossular, Nightingale
 
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