King Ainsworth Mine group, Portal, California Mining District, Chiricahua Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Colorless, elongated aragonite crystals. Self collected Nov. 11, 2011. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Brown crystal of powellite with clear bladed hemimorphite crystals and sparkly druzy quartz. Self collected March 2012. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Greenish, translucent crystals of sphalerite. Self collected, Nov. 16, 2011. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
White bladed crystals of Hemimorphite with yellowish Powellite and sparkly druzy Quartz, 6cm by 4cm. Self collected March 2012. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Silvery, metallic galena with gray, layered anglesite. Self collected 11-16-2011. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Yellowish Powellite, mostly coated by druzy Quartz and Hemimorphite, 53mm by 65mm. Self collected March 2012. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Colorless, translucent smithsonite with colorless, elongated hemimrophite. Self collected, 11-16-2011. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Yellowish Powellite among clear Hemimorphite crystals, 53mm by 65mm. Self collected March 2012. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Black biotite mica in matrix. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Colorless cerussite crystal. Self collected, Nov. 16, 2011. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Colorless, elongated aragonite crystals. Self collected Nov. 16, 2011. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Clear, bladed clusters of hemimorphite crystals with druzy quartz, 5mm field of view. Collected March 2012. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
White to colorless, botryoidal, translucent opal on matrix. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
White to colorless smithsonite with colorless, bladed hemimorphite crystals. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
White spheres of hydrozincite with serpentine on sphalerite, not visible in this photo. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Colorless to gray smithsonite crystals with colorless, bladed hemimorphite crystals. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
White wollastonite. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Colorless, bladed, elongated hemimorphite crystal cluster with white smithsonite. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Gray, layered anglesite rind below silvery, metallic galena. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Multi colored, natural tarnish on broken surface of chalcopyrite in matrix. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Gray powellite crystals in matrix. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Blue-white Hydrozincite, yellow to orange Calcite, pink Smithsonite under SW UV, 10cm by 5cm. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Colorless quartz crystals with white to colorless calcite crystals. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Green, acicular clusters of malachite. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Light brown, platy clusters of calcite crystals with elongated, colorless aragonite crystals. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Gray, banded anglesite sometimes called woody anglesite. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Colorless smithsonite crystals with minor hemimorphite crystals at upper left. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
White to colorless, platy clusters of calcite crystals. Self collected. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Colorless, elongated, flattened hydrozincite crystals in a pocket of smithsonite. They fluoresce a light blue under SW UV. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Pink clusters of smithsonite crystals. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Whitish, elongated wollastonite clusters with some parts coated black by manganese oxides in quartz. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Black manganese oxides with a black streak, colorless hemimorphite at upper left and some smithsonite. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Brown, elongated tremolite crystals. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Colorless, elongated, flattened hydrozincite crystals in a pocket of smithsonite, quartz and more. They fluoresce a light blue under SW UV. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Gray-black, massive manganese oxides with colorless smithsonite crystals. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Bright yellow, earthy limonite coating quartz in a pocket in dark brown, earthy hematite. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Blue-green rosasite with fibrous inner structure with brown, earthy hematite and an unknown black mineral. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Field of tightly packed, colorless, bladed hemimrophite crystals growing in a fairly typical circular cluster. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Dark brown, earthy hemtite coating quartz crystals. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Colorless, bladed hemimorphite crystal clusters on druzy quartz. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Light brown, platy calcite crystals, some on the aragonite, with elongated, colorless aragonite crystals. Rolf Luetcke specimen and photo.
Dumps from the King Ainsworth Mine Group, NE dumps. The Cochise Mine is not visable but is located at the left side of the rock formation at right, above gray dump. The shaft by the large dump goes in a long ways and branches a few times, not dangerous but no mineralization seen. Dumps had half a dozen minerals easily found but none of ...
Dumps of the Kind Ainsworth Mine Group on the South East side of the group of mines. Shaft is vertical and dangerous. Rolf Luetcke photo from Portal Road, Nov. 16, 2011.
Phil Partington at the King Ainsworth Mine entrance, March 2, 2012.