 | | 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; |  | | Report (issue) | | 10)Σ=4.84
(H2O)4(AsO3OH)2.31(AsO4)1.69. (2) Mapimí, Mexico; by electron microprobe, average of five points...sainfeldite-miguelromeroite series.
Occurrence: A rare post-mine low-temperature reaction product of carbonate gangue...zone of an arsenic-rich base metal deposit (Mapimí, Mexico); on a single specimen from a
metamorphosed...ogdensburgite, arseniosiderite, chalcophanite, adamite, Fe-Mn oxides (Mapimí, Mexico);
manganoan calcite...Large crystals at the Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. In the Veta Negra
mine, Pampa Larga district |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Debar, Algeria. (2) BaFe3(AsO4)2(OH)5. (3) Clara mine, Germany; no analysis given;
said to correspond...Association: Beudantite, carminite, scorodite, arseniosiderite, stibiconite, goethite, quartz.
Distribution:...Senator mine, 20 km south-southwest of Kutahya, Turkey. In the Ojuela mine,
Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. From...the Black Forest, at the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, the Anton mine,
Heubachtal, near Schiltach, and |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | secondoccurrenceof ogdensburgite,at the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, has yielded material superior to...that found at the type locality, the Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg,New Jersey. At Mapimi, ogdensburgiteoccurs...blades up to I mm in length, associatedwith arseniosiderite,adamite, chalcophanite, and villyaellenite...diffraction on a specimen from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango,'Mexico, in close association with villyaellenite...Ogdensburgite has been identified at the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, on a single specimen. This specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral carminite was first described from the Luise Mine, at Horhausen, near Neuweid, Rhineland, Germany...Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, were collected on a small dump near the North Shaft of the Ojuela Mine, in the...pockets of arseniosiderite and small areas of dussertite and carminite. The ores of the Ojuela Mine are replacement...length in cavities in either scorodite or arseniosiderite. They are dark carmine red in color and highly...is almost always intimately associated with arseniosiderite and dussertite and is the rarest of the arsenates |  | | 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 .............
Communication........
A Word to the Wise .............
Jade in Mexico.........................
Manto and Chimney Deposits...Eulalia District.......
21
El Potosi Mine.............
21
San Antonio Mine.......
22
Cusihuiriachic District.....
Minerals of Ojuela Mine .... .
Velardena District........................
Durango ............... |  | | Report (issue) | | Powder Pattern: San Judas Chimney, Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.
3.234 (100), 3.074 (68), 2.973...96
100.00
(1) San Judas Chimney, Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico; average of 5 electron microprobe...arsenic-rich base metal deposits.
Association: Arseniosiderite, ogdensburgite, chalcophanite, adamite.
Distribution:...San Judas Chimney, Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico [TL]. At the
Veta Negra mine, Tierra Amarilla,...Sussex
County, New Jersey, USA; and at the Gozaisho mine, Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture, Honshu, Japan.
Name: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ADAMITE FROM THE OJUELA MINE, MAPIMI, MEXICO* Menv E. MnosBl wrrn Norns oN rHE Occunnpwce sv Dew E...described from a new locality, the Oiuela mine at Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. A chemical analysis is given together...Chile Mte. Valerio, Italy GoId Hill, Utah Mapimi, Mexico Thasos, Turkey Laurium, Greece Laurium, Greece...correlations could be ADAMITE FROM MAPIMI, r+J -t MEXICO established.Laspeyres (1878) has shown that the...9J E F . X* UlH dN ADAMITE FROM MAPIMI, MEXICO 453 Oprrcar Pnopnnrtps The optical properties |  | | Report (issue) | | total Mn as MnO, H2 O by difference. (2) Ojuela mine,
Mexico; by electron microprobe, total Fe as Fe2...arsenic-rich polymetallic hydrothermal ore deposit
(Ojuela mine, Mexico).
Association: Parasymplesite, köttigite...villyaellenite, arseniosiderite,
chalcophanite, adamite, Fe–Mn oxides (Ojuela mine, Mexico).
Distribution:...New Jersey, USA. In the Ojuela mine, Mapimı́,
Durango, Mexico. At the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | described from a second locality, the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango,
Mexico. Measurement of several crystals...new speciesfrom the Fior de Pefla mine,
Lampazos, Nuevo Leon, Mexico by Drugman and Hey (1932). Their...ble.The new occurrenceat the Ojuela mine, near Mapimi, Durango,
Mexico, produced a relatively large number...up to
60 mm in length.
The legranditeat the Ojuela mine occursin cavitiesin a hard, compact
limonite...Foshag (1934).
Typical of many in northern Mexico, the Ojuela mine is a replacement
depositin a fracture system |  | | Report (issue) | | •
Ca2 Fe3+
3 O2 (AsO4 )3 3H2 O
Arseniosiderite
c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1
Crystal...12
a = 17.76(4)
X-ray Powder Pattern: Mapimı́, Mexico.
8.84 (10), 2.772 (8), 5.62 (5), 2.945 (5), 3.28...40
(2)
45.94
31.92
Total
100.57
(1) Mapimı́, Mexico. (2) Ca2 Fe3 O2 (AsO4 )3 • 3H2 O.
100.00
As2...from the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall; in the
Huckworthy Bridge mine, Sampford Spiney, Devon...Devon. From the Kamariza mine, Laurium, Greece.
At Tsumeb, Namibia. In the USA, from Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg |  | | Report (issue) | | 12.285(1)
Z=8
X-ray Powder Pattern: Mapimı́, Mexico.
3.20 (10), 2.580 (9), 2.929 (8), 1.799 (8), 3...00
(1) Ojuela mine, Mapimı́, Mexico; estimated impurity cerussite 5%. (2) Pira Inferida
mine, Sardinia...Association: Beudantite, scorodite, dussertite, arseniosiderite, bayldonite, mimetite, cerussite,
anglesite...Germany, from the Louise iron mine, near Horhausen, and in the Schöne
Aussicht mine, near Dernbach, Westerwald;...Merkur mine, Ems, Rhineland-Palatinate. In
England, from Caldbeck Fells, and in the Wanthwaite mine, St |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Scovil
M
ining began in Mexico more than four hundred years
ago! As a result, Mexico has been a prolific...1960s. European
museums received specimens from Mexico as early as the late
sixteenth century, but it...American museums began to acquire
specimens from Mexico. The Harvard collection is probably
typical of...no strong connection to Mexico and its
mines. A precious opal from the Iris mine in Queretaro (fig. 1)...offered as
a general introduction to the minerals of Mexico, the theme of
the 1999 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1988
End-membervillyaellenite from Mapimi, Durango, Mexico: Descriptive mineralogy,
crystal structure...secondoccurrenceof villyaellenite, at the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico,
has yielded the nearly pure end...cm in length, associatedwith ogdensburgite,
arseniosiderite,adamite, and chalcophanite. Crystals are elongate...member, is describedherefrom the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico.
* presentaddress:
Bayerisches
Forschungsinstitut...specimen
collectedin 1981from a sectionof the Ojuela mine known
as the San Judas Department. The villyaellenite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mn5(H2O)4(AsO3OH)2(AsO4)2,
from the Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico, is described as a new species corresponding...96.266(2)°,
V = 1624.4(2) Å3, Z = 4. At the Ojuela mine, miguelromeroite occurs as a compact spray of...heritage.
Miguelromeroite also occurs at the Veta Negra mine, Tierra Amarilla, Copiapó Province, Chile, at
Sterling...Gozaisho mine, Iwaki, Fukushima
Prefecture, Honshu Island, Japan. Some material from the Gozaisho mine may...redefinition, crystal structure, cation
ordering, Mapimi (Mexico), Sainte-Marie aux Mines (France)
IntRoductIon |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | South Africa
brucec@uj.ac.za
TSUMCORITE
Tsumeb Mine, Namibia
I
t is fitting that Tsumeb should have...development, growth, and ultimate closure of the
mine in 1996.
Tsumeb Corporation Limited (TCL) was founded...World War II, when the Tsumeb mine was put up
for sale. Prior to this the mine was owned by Otavi Minen–...Eisenbahn–Gesellschaft (OMEG). TCL operated the
mine until 1988 when it was acquired by Gold Fields South...(söhngeite is named
in his honor) worked at the Tsumeb mine, and his two publications (Söhnge 1967, 2001) give |  | | Report (issue) | | 034–17.036
Z=3
X-ray Powder Pattern: Washington mine, Montana, USA.
3.078 (100), 2.865 (80), 2.290 (70)...31.36
7.59
Total
[100.00]
100.00
(1) Washington mine, Montana, USA; by electron microprobe, H2 O by difference...Carminite, scorodite, mimetite, dussertite, arseniosiderite, pharmacosiderite,
olivenite, bayldonite, duftite... In Germany, at the Louise mine, Horhausen, and the
Schöne Aussicht mine, near Dernbach, Rhineland-Palatinate;...Reichenbach, near Bensheim,
Hesse; from the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, and elsewhere in the Black Forest |  | | Report (issue) | | smithsonite, mimetite, scorodite, anglesite, arseniosiderite, beaverite,
beudantite, carminite, ludlockite...mimetite, smithsonite, goethite, quartz (Puttapa mine, Australia).
Distribution: From Tsumeb, Namibia...In Germany, from the Michael
mine, Weiler, near Lahr, and the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest;...the Rappold
mine and a dump on the Roter Berg, Schneeberg, Saxony. In Mexico, from Mina Ojuela, Mapimı́...Mapimı́,
Durango; at Las Animas, near Benjamin Hill, Sonora. In the USA, from the Richmond-Sitting
Bull mine |  | | Report (issue) | | 61
(2)
49.79
34.60
15.61
Total
100.00
(1) Kiura mine, Japan. (2) FeAsO4 • 2H2 O.
100.00
As2 O5
Fe2...Pharmacosiderite, beudantite, carminite, dussertite, arseniosiderite, adamite,
austinite, vivianite, iron oxides...Germany, from Schwarzenberg, Saxony, and in the Clara mine,
near Oberwolfach, Black Forest. At Hornı́ Slavkov...Pereira, Minas Gerais, Brazil. In Mexico,
large crystals from the El Cobre mine, Aranzazú, Concepción del...del Oro, Zacatecas, and in the
Ojuela mine, Mapimı́, Durango. In the USA, in Utah, an ore mineral at Gold |  | | Book | |
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This boo i...i.. is deJicated tu the people of Mexico
and to the three people who directly affected me and this project |  | | 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 | | | Book | | anc
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ISBN 0-442-27285-5
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ARSENDPYRJTE:
M187. Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico; (a) lustrous grou~ ·f xl~ to .. ~~. no matrix...Chrysocollc': 2.6. 2x1-$5.00
AUTUNITE:M95. Oaybreak Mine, Spokane, Washington;
(a) 4 xls & grou;:.is, 1-1...yellow tabular xls to 3.5 cm, rich
MB5. Rock Candy Mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada; (a) translucent...terminati ~n; 3.4x·:. 3x0. 7-$10.00
~fl'lapid, Ourango, Mexico; ( a) nice pale bl uish tabular xls to 2. 2 cm...Calcite & limonite:
4x4.2x2.2-$8.50
MD327. Magna Mine, Superior, Arizona;
(a) showy; sharp black tabular |
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Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico