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Chalcocite from
Elephant Butte Mine, Elephant Butte area, Queen Valley, Pinal County, Arizona, 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 Elephant Butte Mine, Elephant Butte area, Queen Valley, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:422152
Long-form Identifier:1:3:422152:4
GUID (UUID V4):bcd7ed14-a0f5-49f9-bf6e-f49d0ca25f06
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
12.1km (7.5 miles) Reymert Mine, Reymert Canyon, Mineral Mountain Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
16.8km (10.5 miles) Magma Mine (Magma Superior Mine; Magma Copper Mine), Superior, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
17.1km (10.6 miles) Lake Superior and Arizona Mine (L.S. & A. Mine; Gold Eagle Mine; Golden Eagle Mine; Superior and Arizona Mine; Vivian shaft; Monarch vein; Queen Creek-Magma Mine; Superior Manganese Mine), Superior, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
17.5km (10.9 miles) Silver King Mine, Comstock Wash, Kings Crown Peak area, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
19.9km (12.4 miles) Belmont Mine (Belmont Copper property; Goodwin Mine; Monte Carlo claim; Smith lease; Doggs Mine; Lone Star Mine), Belmont Canyon, Apache Leap, Superior, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
20.5km (12.7 miles) Grand Pacific Mine (Grand Pacific Copper Company property; Grand Pacific claims; Pacific group; Pacific Mine; Climax; Sandal group), Pacific Canyon, Apache Leap, Superior, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
20.8km (12.9 miles) Resolution deposit, Superior, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
28.0km (17.4 miles) Cactus property (Cactus deposit; Pinto shaft; Arizona National Copper shaft; Hamilton shaft), Pinto Creek, Top of the World, Miami-Inspiration Mining District, Globe-Miami Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
28.2km (17.5 miles) Bronx Mine (Bronx property; Bronx Copper property), Pinto Creek, Top of the World area, Pinal Mountains Mining District, Pinal Mountains, Gila County, Arizona, USA
31.0km (19.3 miles) Castle Dome Mine (Castle Dome deposit; Pinto Valley deposit), Castle Dome area (Castle Dome Mine area; Pinto Valley Mine area), Inspiration, Miami-Inspiration Mining District, Globe-Miami Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Florence to Miami, Arizona Compiled by Stephen M. Richard Guidebook for the Arizona Geological Society...Society Spring Field Trip April 20-21, 1996 Arizona Geological Society P.O. Box 40952 Tucson, AZ 85717 THIS...(POSTON BU1TE) PORPHYRY COPPER DEPOSIT, PINAL COUNTY, ARIzONA. By C. K. HOAG . 9 17 STOP 4. NORMAL FAULTING...FAULTING IN THE WHITFORD CANYON AREA, NORTHWEST O F SUPERIOR, PINAL COUNTY, ARIzONA. B y 1. E. SPENCER AND S...TEAPOT MOUNTAIN QUADRANGLE AND VICINITY, PINAL COUNTY, ARIzONA, BY S. M. RICHARD AND 1. E. SPENCER ...
Report (issue)
Phillips Arizona Department of Mines and Mineral Resourses 1502 West Washington Phoenix, Arizona 85007 .... . 1 Arizona Copper Deposits 1 Figure 1. Map showing copper oxide resources in Arizona 2 Figures...3 Table 1. Arizona copper oxide deposits Cochise County . Coconino County 4 6 Gila County . . . . ....Graham County . . 7 Greenlee County 8 La Paz County. . . 8 Maricopa County 9 Mohave County · 10...10 Navajo County Pima County. . · 11 Yavapai County .. · 11 . . . . 13 . . . . .. . 16 16 Yuma County
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stop was at the King Turquoise Mine in Colorado's famous San Luis Valley. The mines are just south of the...about twelve (12) miles east of Manassa (Conejos County), Colo. The Indians originally discovered the turquoise...* - ^ / stay near one shade. The mine owner's son told us the mine has produced about $27,000 worth of...copper company is also doing exploratory work in the area. The rest of the trip to Albuquerque, N . Mexico...eastern Socorro County, N . Mexico. Mrs. Blanchard char- i^«ÉJ Upper Level of the Blanchard Mine, Bingham
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 10 The Geology and Ore Deposits of Sierra County, New Mexico by GEORGE TOWNSEND HARLEY 1934 New...---------------------------------------------------26 Lake Valley limestone 26 Pennsylvanian system 27 Magdalena...--------------- 37 History of mining in Sierra County ------------------------------------------- 41...--------------------------------- 47 Mineralogy of Sierra County ------------------------------------ 50 Practical...------------------------------- 59 Location and area ----------------------------------------------------
Journal (issue)
(Albian) Mesilla Valley Formation, Cerro de Cristo Rey, southeastern New Mexico, USA Kappus, Eric J. and...Formation, Southern High Plains, Texas and New Mexico, USA Stephen A. Hall and Ronald J. Goble . . . . . . ...dunes at the Mescalero Sands Off-Highway Vehicle area, east of Roswell. The relatively young (Late Pleistocene...(Albian) Mesilla Valley Formation, Cerro de Cristo Rey, southeastern New Mexico, USA Kappus, Eric J.,...Part of the upper Albian succession is the Mesilla Valley Formation, a 65 m thick, dark gray to olive-colored
Book (volume)
Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area around the confluence of the Loup River with the...jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...wood). CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all
Book (volume)
ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel...jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine
Book (volume)
ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel...jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; d Coal City, on area mine
Book
region, which includes western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, southern Cicam part of southern Colorado, and...southeastern Arizona and southwestern New Mexico were the Mogollon people; in the Four Corners area (where...states of Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet) and in the Rio Grande Valley of New 3 Mexico was...upon harvesting the utmost from a harsh land. In Arizona, the Hohokam peoples created a culture based upon...prospered. In the Four Corners area and in the upper Rio Grande Valley, the Mesa Verde, the Gran Chaco
Book
Rock-Hunter's Range Guide Petrified Forest Trails Arizona Gem Trails and the Colorado Desert of California...Petrified Wood 131 Characteristics of Agates; Opal, Queen of the Gems; Petrified Wood; Commonly Occurring...Minerals in L.\merica Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida...archaeologists working in the remote Lake Rudolf area of Africa's Kenya found shaped stone implements...the most ancient of all Egyptian burials, in the Valley of the Royal Tombs at Abydos west of the ancient
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region, which includes vvestern T exas, ew 1exico, Arizona, southern C alifornia, part of sou thern Colorado...southeastern Arizona and southwestern New 1\1:exico were the Mogollon people; in the Four Corners area (where...states of U tah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico meet) and in the Rio Grande Valley of New 3 Mexico was...upon harvesting the ut1nost from a harsh land. In Arizona, the H ohokam peoples created a culture based upon...prospered. In the Four Corners area and in the upper Rio Grande Valley, the Mesa Verde, the Gran Chaco
Report (issue)
.... : . .............. - ........ .. . . T~os County, by L. C. Graton and W ..Lindgren ..... .........·::-; : : :. ::.·.i?:5.•.:...,. .... Black.Copper mine ........ ............. ~ ... .. . .... ·.........._ •• __ • ~. _·_: :: . . __ . _•... __ •Jay Hawk mine ........... ~ ........ .. ........ . .. .. . ..... :· ......... _._ . ......... . Golden Treasure mine ..... ... ·.....·... : . . . . . . . . . . . . __.............. . . . Bitter Creek and Independence mine ........-............ .... ..... : .- -~ . •: .
Report (volume)
deposition. Every such interruption in deposition in any area produces there what geologists term an unconformity... ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE 25. A, Desert plain, western Arizona; B, Pictographs near Sacaton, Ariz____________...__-__-_--_-_-______ 26. A, Dates in Salt River Valley, Ariz.; B, Cotton field, Salt River Valley____... A, Desert of Salt River Valley, Ariz.; B, Irrigating in Salt River Valley..__________________________...Calif____ 37. A, Irrigating date palms, Imperial Valley, Calif.; B, Cotton in Imperial Valley_________
Report (issue)
---- Santa Fe B. H. KINNEY, Manager Kinney Coal Mine ---------------------------- Tokay J. M. SULLY,...examinations of properties scattered over as great an area as the state of New Mexico could have been accomplished...with the University of New Mexico, with the State Mine Inspector and with other departments of State Government...Wel-formed, deep violet crystals occur at the Galena King mine. On the Bowman and Holt claims the fluorite is green...of the deposits described except the Great Eagle mine in the Telegraph Mountains where some specimens
Report (issue)
RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY COUNTY REPORT 1 i y 1966... Front cover: The exceedingly varied terrain of Kern County is shown by the brown section— from McKittrick...the far west (left side), through the San Joaquin Valley in the vicinity of Bakersfield, to the majestic...Sierra Nevada and Owens Peak (highest point in the county); on the east (right side) is the sharp descent...Rhodes. MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By BENNIE W. TROXEL, mining geologist
Journal (volume)
Abbontiakoon Mines, Ltd., company report Abosso mine. West Africa Acacia Mining Co., Colorado 270, ...prevention . . . Queen Co.'s mine, Arizona Accident Gold Mining Co., Subil mine, French Gulch, Rules...Accidents, coal-mine in United States Compensation for Workingmen's compensation Acid mine water Acidity...Irvinebank Editorial. Tramway, one-rope Tramway, Saline Valley Salt Co., California . . . . . . Aerolites...Co., Colorado Mine, Victor, Colorado, electric mine-signal system.. 49 Olancho county, Honduras. Akin
Report (issue)
Ser.; Mineral Technology Ser.-University of Arizona, Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin, Geological Series;...site, a report on a cultural level in Sandoval County, N. M.: Texas Jour. Science, v 4, n l, pp 32-37...Albright, J. l. L (and Bauer, R. M., J.). Pecos Valley "diamonds" [quartz crystals]: Rocks and Min- pp...and gas possibilities of the basins of the Sierra County region, in Guidebook of south-central New Mexico:...geologic map of the Capitan quadrangle, Lincoln County, New Mexico, in Guidebook of the Capitan-Carrizozo-Chupadera
Book (edition)
prospecting for uranium on La Ventana Mesa, Sandoval County, New Mexico. .,3d ed. H. C. Dake (1953) The uranium...and the counare arranged alphabetically; within a county the districts are also given in alphabetical order...camps, and synonyms, together with the name of the county in which the district is located. In perusing the...radioactive occurrences in the United States; Part 1: Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. D. S. Turner (1954) Bibliography...375 Nevada V. P. Gianella F. W. S. G. 225 Arizona Pennsylvania Idaho 190 Maryland C. 170 Wyoming
Report (issue)
________________________ ____________ _ Location of the area ________________________ _ Relief _____________...Alteration in the northern area __ _-' ___ ~ ___ Alteration in the southern area ______ ____ _ Silicification...______ Nitt mine ___ . _ ______ · ---- -··---~--- ---- -----Graphic-Waldo or Ozark mine ___ ~ -------_____...Juanita mine ________ __________ . -· __ _ __ _ _ __ _ South Juanita (Juanita Extension) mine .______...tunneL ___________ .. _______ ______ _ Woodland mine __ ___ ______________ __ ___ .. ___ _ Cavern and
Report (volume)
863 GEOLOGY OF THE SALT VALLEY ANTICLINE AND ADJACENT AREAS GRAND COUNTY, UTAH BY C. H. DANE UNITED...structure______-___-___-__---__--__-----___-_-_____ Salt Valley anticline.__-------_-_-_____---_---_____________..._-.._---_-___Cache Valley graben________-_..___________________________ Elephant Buttefolds__:------...______________ Relation of the structure of the area to the regional structure_________ Intrusive relations...ILLTJSTKATIONS Pago PLATE 1. Geologic map of the Salt Valley anticline and adjacent areas.-----------------
Report (issue)
West was due to the discovery of gold in Santa Fe County at the base of the Ortiz Mountains, in the year...inception in this primary gold camp, in Santa .Fe County. Among the first stamp mills constructed in the...celebrated Ortiz mine in Santa Fe County; one at the gold camp of Pinos Altos in Grant County; and one at...at the Aztec mine at the head of Ute Creek on Baldy Mountain, in Colfax County. The first experiments in...Oro, constituting what is now known as the Ortiz mine. In the Los Cerrillos district, a few miles west
Book
Jr., photographer Title page photograph: Goblin Valley State Park Courtesy of Utah Di ision of Parks and...Travel Council (Frank Jensen, photographer) Monument Valley :'.\"a\·ajoTribal Park, courtesy of Utah Travel...(unknown photographer) Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, courtesy of Utah Travel Council (Frank Jensen,...other parks such as Capitol Reef, Dinosaur, Goblin Valley, and Snow Canyon are equal in geologic majesty...recreation area in Utah, as well as ten state parks, the only designated "geological area" in Utah, and
Report (issue)
----------------- 15 The Geography of Dona Ana County--------------------------------------------- 18...------------------------------------------------Lake Valley limestone (Mississippian) -----------------------Magdalena...PART II. AN OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY OF DONA ANA COUNTY ----------------------------------------------...------------------------------------------- 166 Lake Valley limestone (Mississippian) ------------------166...PART II. AN OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY OF DONA ANA COUNTY—Continued Pre-Tertiary rocks--Continued Paleozoic
Report (volume)
16, nos. 2-4. Boston, Mass. Arizona Bureau of Mines (University of Arizona Bulletin): Bulletin no. 119...Maryland Geological Survey: Kent County; Queen Anne's County; Talbot County. Baltimore, Md. Mazama, vol....6. Carbonic flora of Butler's Landing [Johnson County, Iowa] (abstract):.' Pan-Am. Geologist, vol. 46...the Illinoian drift margin in southeastern Owen County, Indiana: Indiana Acad. Sci.. Proc.,. vol. 35,...William M. 12. The minerals of the intermediate zone, Butte, Montana: Econ. Geology,, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 695-707
Report (issue)
QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota CARL HAYDEN, Arizona GEORGE McGOVERN, South Dakota GAYLORD NELSON, Wisconsin...------------------------------------- 145 Lake Valley ----------------------------------------------...--------------------- 14.5 Silver City area ----------------------------------------------------------...------------------------------------ 154 Grant County ----------------------------------------------...------------------------- 155 Socorro County ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 
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