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Chalcocite from
Virginia Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, 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 Virginia Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:230062
Long-form Identifier:1:3:230062:7
GUID (UUID V4):a30a303b-2935-4ed6-af49-bf415eaeff9d
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
1.8km (1.1 miles) Liberty Bell Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Burro Chief Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Surprise Claim, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Emma Mine, Tyrone Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Ohio Mine, Deadman Canyon-California Gulch-Whitewater Canyon Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) Little Rock Mine, Deadman Canyon-California Gulch-Whitewater Canyon Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) Bolton Mine, West Burro Mountains, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Austin-Amazon Mine, Burro Peak, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Beasley Shaft, Beasley Property (Knucky and Cosgrove), Deadman Canyon-California Gulch-Whitewater Canyon Area, Burro Mountains Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
8.3km (5.1 miles) Combination Mine, White Signal Mining District, Grant County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 39 The Metal Resources of New Mexico and Their Economic Features Through 1954 A revision of...RESOURCES NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE...INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY E. J. Workman, President STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES Alvin...THE HONORABLE EDWIN L. MECHEM………...Governor of New Mexico MRS. GEORGIA L. LUSK ......................Superintendent...Dealing With the Geology and Mineral Resources of New Mexico ............................................
Report (issue)
NEAR THE BURRO MOUNTAINS, GRANT COUNTY, NEW MEXICO. By SIDNEY PAIGE. LOCATION. The Burro Mountains lie near...near and southwest of Silver City, Grant County, N. Mex. Silver City is reached by a spur of the Atchison...likewise passes through Deming. TOPOGRAPHY. The Burro Mountains consist of two distinct mountain masses, the...carved, sloping, gravel plain. The Little Burro Mountains rise out of this dissected expanse of semiconsolidated...conical mass of the Big. Burros. The Little Burro Mountains trend northwest and southeast, are about 8
Report (issue)
mines, and prospects of the Tyrone stock and vicinity, Grant County, New Mexico By D. C. Hedlund 1 Open-File................. Porphyry copper deposits of the Tyrone stock....................... Precious- and base-metal...of the quartz-pyrite veins of the White Signal district............................... Quartz-molybdenite.... Quartz-pyrite veins, including White Signal district............... Silver-lead-manganese oxide veins...mines, and prospects of the Tyrone stock and vicinity, Grant County, New Mexico.........................
Report (issue)
83 New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...of Western Grant County, New Mexico by Elliot Gillerman NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...TECHNOLOGY KENNETH W. FoRD, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES FRANK E. & KoTTLOWSKI, MINERAL RESOURCES...REGENTS Ex Officio Jerry Apodaca, Governor of New Mexico Leonard DeLayo, Superintendent of Public Instruction...PATRICIA E. CANDELARIA, Secretary JAMES M. ROBERTSON, Mining Geologist RoNALD J. RoMAN, Chief Research Metallurgist
Report (issue)
PROFESSIONAL PAPER 122 COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE TYRONE DISTRICT, NEW MEXICO BY SIDNEY PAIGE • I . ' : i~ ~ t...Professional Paper 122 COPPER DEPOSITS OF THE TYRONE DISTRICT, NE'W MEXICO BY • .SIDNEY PATGE .· WASHINGTON................................ . Position of the area ............................. ·........................................... . Geology of the Tyrone district ..................................................................... . Faultingin the Tyrone district .................................. ·......
Report (volume)
The economic geology of Carson camp, Hinsdale County, Colo., by E. S. Larsen..........................Geologic relation of ore deposits in the Elkhorn Mountains, Mont., by R. W. Stone..........................geology of the Ramsey, Talapoosa, and White Horse mining districts, in Lyon and Washoe counties, Nev., by...Metalliferous ore deposits near the Burro Mountains, Grant County, N. Mex., by Sidney Paige............... Lead and zinc deposits in the Metaline mining district, northeastern Washington, by Howland Bancroft
Journal (issue)
................ 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................... 5...5 by W. E. Wilson Minerals first described from New M ex ico ...................................... 9...Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico ............................................ 13 by R. B. Gibbs The Stephenson-Bennett mine ..................................................mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...................................
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...Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland
Book
MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40 MADIASIMA...MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna B. Kennedy...Kennedy [aN VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATl TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE Copyright © 1983...Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing...minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia .......................................... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. ...................................................... Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia..............................................
Report (issue)
OF NEW MEXICO FAYETTE A. JONES, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 1 THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO BY FAYETTE... ALBRIGHT & NEW ANDERSON. ALBUQUERQUE. MEXICO PRINTERS NEW • BINDERS MEXICO STATE SCHOOL...SCHOOL OF MINES MINERAL RESOURCES SURVEY OF NEW MEXICO FAYETTE A. M. B. JONES, DIRECTOR DONAHUE...MINERAL RESOURCES OF NEW MEXICO BY FAYETTE A. JONES 1915 SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO ÜBRIdMr A ANDERSON...Board by Authority of the of Regents of the New Mexico State School of Mines LETTER To OF TRANSMITTAL
Book (edition)
org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1
Report (volume)
depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...enrichment_ Deep-seated metasornatic development of chalcocite and covelliteSources of the sulphur of secondary...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami..._ 219 Santa Rita, New Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________...Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico __________________ 224 Nacozari, Mexico. ____________________________ 225 Ajo
Report (issue)
OR PROFE SIONAL PAPER 68 THE ORE DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXI.CO BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN, LOUIS C. GRATON AND...PRQ)tESSIONAL PAPER 68 T·H E ORE DEPOSITS O.F NEW MEXICO.. . . ., .,· ;,.: BY WALDEMAR LINpGREN,........ . J,5 Historical sketch of mining and smelting in New Mexico....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....... : . .............. - ........ .. . . T~os County, by L. C. Graton and W ..Lindgren ..... ................. . . , ... -.. . Rio Hondo. (Twining) district . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...................
Report (issue)
* Radioactive Deposits < in New Mexico GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN This report concerns work done on...DEPOSITS OF NEW MEXICO COMPILED BY T. G. LOVERING ABSTRACT Forty-five areas of radioactivity in New Mexico...deposits in northwestern New Mexico seem to be the most promising for the mining of uranium ore. In western...western San Juan County, on the eastern flanks of the Carrizo Mountains uplift, carnotite ore has been taken...Cretaceous age. Farther south in the Zuni Mountains of Valencia County joint coatings in pre-Cambrian granites
Map
resource map 24 Mining Districts and Prospect Areas in New Mexico by Virginia T. McLemore edited by...Shari Kelley New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources A division of New Mexico Institute of...of Mining and Technology Socorro, New Mexico 2017 Mining Districts and Prospect Areas of New Mexico by...by Virginia T. McLemore Shari A. Kelley (editor) Copyright © 2017 New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral...and State Geologist Mining Districts and Prospect Areas in New Mexico by Virginia T. McLemore edited by
Book (volume)
............................................288 New Hampshire .....................................................................................307 New Jersey .....................................................................................315 New Mexico ...........................................................................................329 New York.........................................................................................499 Virginia .............................................
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF NEW MEXICO FAYETTE A. JONES, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 1 THE M I N E RAL RESOURCES OF N E W MEXICO BY FAYETTE...FAYETTE A. JONES 1915 SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO ALBRIGHT & ANDERSON, PRINTERS-BINDERS, ALBUQUERQUE Published... Published by Authority of the Board of Regents of the New Mexico State School of Mines L E T T E R OF TRANSMITTAL...Governor, Santa Fe, New Mexico. DEAR SIR: On behalf of the Board of Regents of the New Mexico State School...Resources Survey, entitled "The Mineral Resources of New Mexico," which I trust may prove of some value to the
Journal (issue)
Minerals 1998: What's New Dan Weinrich www.danweinrich.com China One of the exciting new finds from China...specimens belong. A more recent find involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at...more than the kids, and hopefully may have started new "collecting families." 2 Mineral News I found...years ago in Denver; the other, about tin size, were new. They were water clear with deep reddish/purplish...(Geoprime Minerals) had stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had
Map
New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources Resource Map 15 March 1986 Silver and gold occurrences...occurrences in New Mexico by Robert M. North and Virginia T. Mclemore New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources...Resources, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 Abstract Anomalous amounts of silver and/or gold have been identified...identified in 153 mining districts or prospect areas of New Mexico. Production from most of these occurrences...200,000 ounces of silver. Silver and gold in New Mexico occur in 14 distinct types of deposits ranging
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia...near the water table, the secondary sulfides chalcocite and covellite. This is particularly well known...familiar with porphyry copper deposits of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Many of the world’s finest specimens...Schuyler, Sommerville, and Flemington copper mines, New Jersey, where at one time cuprite was found locally...copper; prospects at Ladenton, Rockland County, New York; Cheshire, New Haven, Connecticut; the South Mountain
Report (issue)
ASHLEY SCHMITT "As !look back on four decades in mining geology I am impressed by the magnitude of the...geologists who developed the art and science of mining geology into a leading factor in the unprecedented...detailed ore deposit studies to the exploration for new mines. Our generation, in 1. Presented to the Arizona...their concepts of applied ore deposition with the new techniques of geochemistry and geophysics. vi ...1926. His thesis work in the Parral District of Chihauhua, Mexico, (1931) and other investigations in
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...channels of trade, transportation and consumption, new utilizations, and recent discoveries, have, to a...most part, have been progressive. In addition to new finds of valuable deposits, many of the occurrences...has therefore seemed advisable to pre sent such new information as may bring the whole subject more nearly...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in
Report (issue)
Arizona, in Final County. About it centers the present activity of the Pioneer district, in which the first...first mining locations, the Silver Queen and Silver King, were recorded in 1875. In a straight line Superior... , The group of rough hills and mountains within which the district lies has no generally recognized...although certain parts, such as the Superstition Mountains, have received distinctive 'appellations. It constitutes...notes are the result of only two days spent in the district, a time obviously too short for a thorough investigation
Report (volume)
precipitation of the metalo........ Composition of mine waters............................................of sulphide enrichment Continued. Composition of mine waters Continued. Discussion of analyses Continued...on depth..................... Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions....... Oxidation...little or no chalcocite .............................. Copper deposits with shallow chalcocite zones.............. Copper deposits with moderately deep chalcocite zones.................. Copper deposits with
 
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