 | | Journal (issue) | | Mexico ineralogical Record September-October 2003 ❖ Volume 34 Number 5 ❖ $20 Wayne & Dona Leicht,...Van Pelt, Los Angles Mexico Special Issue II The Ojuela Mine Preface to Mexico-II1............................................................... 24 Mapimí District Geology .................................... 32 Sidebar: First Discovery of Adamite at Ojuela................................ 43 Sidebar: Purple...find in the San Judas chimney, Level 6, of the Ojuela mine. Houston Museum of Natural Science collection; |  | | Journal (issue) | | cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Conichalcite Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb Otjikoto Region, Namibia A n article appeared...olivenite, clinoclase, chenevixite, libethenite, brochantite, malachite, azurite, and jarosite (Palache, Berman...Conichalcite on malachite, 10.5 cm across, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. Fine spherules...green crusts of fibrous spheres at the Cap Garonne mine, Le Pradet, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France...chrysocolla and cuprite has come from the Clara mine, Oberwolfach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Conichalcite |  | | Report (issue) | | elbaite, amethyst, Tsumeb minerals, and Sweet Home mine minerals. Also scattered on these pages are items...==================================== work as a mine supervisor at Boron) for what turned out, by the...“presence.” Stolzite, 3 cm, from the Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Ex-Minette...distinctive blue fluorite on quartz from the Huanggang mine, Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia, China. These... Fluorite on quartz, 15 cm, from the Huanggang mine, Kèshíkèténg Banner, Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia |  | | Report (issue) | | evenings… Clinoatacamite, 5.6 cm, from the Lily mine near Pisco, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru...clinoatacamite in the Lily mine, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru. In 1998 this copper mine began giving up...that the included crystals once thought to be brochantite are atacamite whereas the crystals once thought...and he landed the two superb miniatures of Lily mine clinoatacamite now offered on his site (trinityminerals...in arsenic from the 1991 find in the Tellerhäuser mine near Pöhla, western Erzgebirge, Upper Saxony, Germany |  | | Thesis/Dissertation | | The mineralogy of the Mapimí mining district, Durango, Mexico Item Type text; Dissertation-Reproduction...MINERALOGY OF THE MAPIMl' MINING DISTRICT, DURANGO, MEXICO by Victor Joseph Hoffmann A Dissertation...Mineralogy of the Mapimi Mining District,______ Durango, Mexico______________________________ be accepted...samples from the mines and offered information on the mine locations and their access. Mr. Salvador Davila...Smithsonian Institution from both the collections of Ojuela mine specimens obtained by Foshag in 1934 and from |  | | Journal (issue) | | row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | -52 -57 -87 -157 -165 -166 -167 -241 BROCHANTITE BROCHANTITE CARNOTITE CELESTITE CELESTITE CERUSSITE...Landes, France Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico A t a c a m a...Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona...Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona...Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Chessy, France with Uranophane and Mangan-Apatite, Ruggles Mine, Grafton |  | | Book | | K FIELD GUIDE to the GEMS and MINERALS of MEXICO (Exclusive of Baja California) A guide to the...Information............ Driving in Mexico................... Trailcring in Mexico ............. 5 6 6 7 8 8........ A Word to the Wise ............. Jade in Mexico......................... Manto and Chimney Deposits...Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine............. San Antonio Mine....... Cusihuiriachic District....... Minerals of Ojuela Mine .... . Velardena District........................ Durango ............... |  | | Journal (issue) | | Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...time collection,” he said, “collected by a former mine superintendent over a period of many years. Nearly |  | | Catalog/List | | ADAMITE A basic arsenate of zinc Mexico Durango, Mapimi, Mina Ojuela ~enish-gray to reddish-brown crystalled...limonit'e ...................... . Mexico Durango, Mapimi, Mina Ojuela White to very pale yellow sheave-like...on limonite .................. . Mexico Durango, Mapimi, Mina Ojuela ~lliant lime-yellow prismatic orthorhombic....... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro crystals on limonite gossen...silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on monzonite . |  | | Journal (issue) | | by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................Martino & A. Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California......................................... 376 New Mexico Symposium 2019 by C. J. Stefano .................387 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Brochantite Downloaded by [Orta Dogu Teknik Universitesi]...Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when most green...acicular copper minerals were routinely labeled brochantite, a seemingly inexhaustible supply of such specimens...was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times. The level... and although the once implied abundance of brochantite may be burned permanently into the minds of older |  | | Journal (issue) | | with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...enough, just across the border to the south is Mexico, rieb in active mines where miners are gathering...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite |  | | Report (issue) | | = 5.82–5.84 Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Higgins mine, Bisbee, Arizona, USA. 2.84 (10), 2.59 (10), 3.14...00 (1) Hinojosa de Córdoba, Spain. (2) Higgins mine, Bisbee, Arizona, USA; by electron microprobe, H2...olivenite, clinoclase, libethenite, chenevixite, brochantite, malachite, azurite, jarosite, “limonite”. Distribution:...the Gold Hill mine, Tooele Co., Utah; from Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona; in the Bristol mine, Lincoln Co...Empire-Nevada mine, Yerington, Lyon Co., Nevada. From the Ojuela mine, Mapimı́, Durango, Mexico. At Collahuasi |  | | Catalog/List | | 50x25x35nun. i\ la,. .£95. 3) AURICHALCITE. Ochrycraig Mine, Llangynog, Powys, Wales. Cavities in ironstainccl...50x30x I 8111111. £ 15. 5) C..-\ LCITE. Carrock Mine, Mosedale, Cumbria. A group of about 15 sharp hexagon:il...50x40x30mm. £45. <> C.\ LCITE and Mr\RCASITE. Pare Mine, Llanrwst, Gwynedd, North Wales. Nice intcrgrown...8) CASSITERITE. Robinsons Section, South Crafty Mine, Pool, Cornwall. An intergrown mass or black cassitcritc...£20. 9) CASSJTERlTE. North Lode, WalkJiam United Mine, Whitchurch, Devon. Small quartz veinlet in tourmaline |  | | Catalog/List | | 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Mina Ojuela,Mapimi, Durango,Mexico pale green terminated ¼11 to ½" radiating...·minated modified (B) 3/4x1 11 $4.50. ANDORITE ltos mine, Oruro, Bolivia Superb silvery-gray metallic modified...section BARITE Select quartz on dense Himmelsfu,·st mine, F1·eiberg, Saxony, Germany irregular gray metal...to 3 mm fragments. 3/ 4 11 capsule New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima Co., Arizona bright blue crystallized...termination. ¼x¼xl½11 $12.50. BISMUTH IN ITE East Pool mine, Cornwall, England Dark gray elongated fibrous 2 | | | Catalog/List | | 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. Mina Ojuela,Mapimi, Durango,Mexico pale green terminated ¼11 to ½" radiating...·minated modified (B) 3/4x1 11 $4.50. ANDORITE ltos mine, Oruro, Bolivia Superb silvery-gray metallic modified...section BARITE Select quartz on dense Himmelsfu,·st mine, F1·eiberg, Saxony, Germany irregular gray metal...to 3 mm fragments. 3/ 4 11 capsule New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima Co., Arizona bright blue crystallized...termination. ¼x¼xl½11 $12.50. BISMUTH IN ITE East Pool mine, Cornwall, England Dark gray elongated fibrous 2 |  | | Journal (issue) | | KHURSHEED DINSHAW NEVADA PATENT MINE 34 United States’ only active azurite mine. STUART “TATE” WILSON Regular...Azuritecredit) with Malachite,. (photo Milpillas Mine, Mexico : ARKENSTONE specimen now in the Jeff Kremer...of Tiffany Stone are no longer available from the mine at Delta Utah, even though the beryl content is...Founder Mexican miners working underground at Ojuela mine circa 1908. Note safety equipment of the day...have Mexico become a reliable source of mineral specimen wealth – and periodic surprises. Mexico is a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Weeks (now known as the Hams-Weeks) pegmatite mine (Smith and Bearss 1991). I dug and collected minerals...summer 1999 I happened to be going past the HamsWeeks mine entrance and noticed, across from it, a fairly new...and Other Micromineralsfrom the Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico ’’ and appeared in the MarcWApril2001...corporation. Eventually operations moved down the hill to mine for mica in the pegmatites. Morrill writes that...but small amounts of blasting wire found in the mine dumps are evidence that some work was done after |  | | Catalog/List | | 140x90x20mm. £18. 3. ANTIMONITE. Xikuangshan Mine, Hunan, China. A single lead grey lustrous xl 110x9x7mn...4. APATITE AND SIDERITE ON QUARTZ. Panasqueria Mine, Beira-Beixa, Portugal, An impressive display specimen... 5. AURICHALCITE AND HEMIMORPHITE. Tecoma Hill Mine, Lucin District, Box Elder Co., Utah, USA. Beautiful...70x5Ox15mm; £24. 6. AURICHALCITE. Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. A 30x25mm cavity in gossan matrix showing...50x50x40ram. £28. 7., BARITE. Wilsons Stope, Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria. An interesting "hedgehog" group |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2016 Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Red Dome Mine, Queensland, Australia...familiar with porphyry copper deposits of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah. Many of the world’s finest specimens...after tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite, antlerite, brochantite, atacamite, delafossite, and malachite are reported...formerly found in beautiful specimens” at the McGinn mine in Mecklenburg County and at several of the copper...Minor chalcotrichite is reported from the Clark mine, and octahedral cuprite crystals to 7 mm and cuprite-included |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystals on matrix, 17.2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, collected in 1978. Private collection and photographer...Show and Riverpark Inn Rhodochrosite, Sweet Home Mine, USA, 10 cm Photo: Malte Sickinger MARCUS BUDIL...budil-minerals.com Chrysocolla on Malachite Mashamba West Mine Democratic Republic of Congo 26 cm - Joe Budd Photo...mineral shows worldwide! Rhodochrosite - Sweet Home Mine, Colorado - 13cm | Brazilianite - Minas Gerais,...from the Hotazel mine emerged onto the international market. The N’Chwaning I mine, opened in 1972, yielded |  | | Catalog/List | | times. SEPTEMBER 1976 1. ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Specimen A - Select, lustrous, translucent... 13. AZURITE. Conce~cion del oro, Zacatecas, Mexico. Select, bright blue, well formed crystbls to 5...thick. £13.00. BISMUTHINITE. George & Charlotte Mine, Tavistock Hamlets, Devon. Rich, silvery grey, bladed...veinstuff. IpHxl" , £1.50. BISMUTHINITE. Patino Mine, Uncia, Potosi Dist., Bolivia. Choice, very rich...cavities. lixl-!;-". £4.50. 14.'/ BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Clusters of tarnished Bornite |  | | Catalog/List | | MUS=MUSEUM(lOOmm +) 1. ADAMITE.Mina Ojuela,Mapimi,Durango,Mexico. Superb,large, colourful cabinet display...is fluorescent. MUS,L85. 2. ADAMITE. Kameriza Mine,Laurium,Attica,Greece. Goethite fragment vith aggregates... SC,L6. 3, AGARDITE(CALCIAN).Penberthy Crofts Mine,St Hilary,Cornvall ■ Tvo specimens. Specimen A-boxed...xtls and thin crusts. SC,L8. ~- AGARDITE-Y. Clara Mine,Rankachtal,BLack Forest,Germany. 3 boxed specimens...deeper blue. SC,L9. 6. ALSTONITE. Brownley Hill Mine,Nenthead,Cumbria. Six specimens. Specimen A-matrix |
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Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico