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Malachite from
Copper Queen Mine, Queen Hill, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Comments:Magnificent specimens.
Habit:Botryoidal, mamillary, masses, sometimes banded with azurite.
Quality for species:Excellent - world class for species or very significant. (!!)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Azurite
Chalcoalumite
Limonite
Paramelaconite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Azurite241
Calcite42
Cuprite28
Chalcoalumite26
Goethite11
Limonite9
Native Copper9
Brochantite6
Chrysocolla5
Connellite4
Spangolite4
Gibbsite3
Wulfenite2
Paramelaconite2
Aurichalcite2
Hoganite2
Tenorite1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Copper Queen Mine, Queen Hill, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (56 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:7389
Long-form Identifier:1:3:7389:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Malachite in this Region
Czar Mine, Copper Queen Mine, Queen Hill, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Holbrook Mine, Copper Queen Mine, Queen Hill, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Southwest Mine, Hendricks Gulch, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Czar Mine, Copper Queen Mine, Queen Hill, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Hendricks Mine, Hendricks Gulch, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Sacramento Pit, Sacramento Hill, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Twilight Mine, Higgins Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Holbrook Mine, Copper Queen Mine, Queen Hill, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Shattuck Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Irish Mag Mine, Calumet and Arizona group of claims, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Lavender Pit, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Lowell Mine, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
No. 1 Arizona State Bureau of Mines Bulletin CHARLES F. WILLIS, Director Directory of Arizona Minerals...THE University of Arizona TUCSON, ARIZONA 1915-16 DIRECTORY (Compiled OF ARIZONA MINERALS from...Tombstone district, Cochise County; Gila County, at Lost Gulch Mine, near Globe; Mohave County, in Mineral Park;;...Pima County, in Mammouth Mine, Schulty; Yavapai County, in ores of Bradshaw Mountains; Yuma County, in... Mohave County, in pre-Cambrian granite gneiss in Chloride, Mineral Park, and Stockton Hill districts;
Book (edition)
MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA,FOURTHEDITION V TI e a o_ of li rizo RAYMOND W. GRANT RONALD B. GIBBS HARVEY...CALLAHAN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON f -- The University of Arizona Press www.uapress.arizona...arizona.edu © 2022 by The Arizona Board of Regents All rights reserYed. Published 2022 ISBN-13: 978-0-8165-4358-8...McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...Grant, Raymond \X'.,author. Title: Mineralogy of Arizona/ Raymond W. Grant [and 4 others] ; maps and illustrations
Book (volume)
THE MINERALOGY OF BISBEE, ARIZONA THE GEOLOGY AND MINERALOGY VOLUME 1 RICHARD W. GRAEME III RICHARD W...W. GRAEME IV DOUGLAS L. GRAEME COPPER CZAR PUBLISHING BISBEE International Standard Book Number 978-0-578-74897-9...the United States of America Copyright © 2020 by COPPER CZAR PUBLISHING All rights reserved No part of...permission. For information: Copper Czar Publishing Post Office Box 4272 Bisbee, Arizona 85603 ii COPYRIGHT... COPYRIGHT © 2020 by Copper Czar Publishing P. O. Box 4272 Bisbee, AZ 85603 USA AUTHORS: Richard W. Graeme III
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
un executive editor of Rocks & Minerals, al. Malachite is also well known as loosely coherent aggregates...excellent review article on the morphology of malachite, which includes a comprehensive discussion of...treatment of this aspect of malachite mineralogy. Malachite is basic copper carbonate with the formula...extent of substitution for copper in the mineral’s structure is uncertain. Malachite pseudomorphs after a variety...known are malachite after azurite, copper, and cuprite; less commonly reported are malachite after atacamite
Book
2012 by Lithographie POBox11613,Denver,CO80211 USA All rights reserved. No part of this book may be...Wulienite, 5 cm wide; Jobes stope, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, Arizona Mark Hay collection, Jeff Scovil photo...Frontispiece Azurite on malachite, 5 cm tall; Morenci Mine, Greenlee County, Arizona Stan Esbenshadecollection...JesseLa Plante photo Left Copper twin, 16.4 cm tall; Ray Mine, Pinal County, Arizona Paul S. Harter collection...calcite, 9.7 cm tall; Mineral Park, Mohave County, Arizona EvanJones collection, Jeff Scovil photo Pageix
Book (edition)
OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian...by Ed Over. Chip Clark photo. MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA THIRD EDITION W. Anthony Joh n Sidney A. Williams...of Arizona Press / Tucson The University of Arizona Press Copyright © 1977, 1982, 1995 Arizona Board...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mineralogy of Arizona / John W. Anthony . . [et al.] ;Wendell E. Wilson...0-8165-1555-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Minerals—Arizona. QE375-5-A6M56 I. Anthony, John W. (John Williams)
Journal (issue)
the 2016 PNWFM Symposium, Great US Copper Localities: Butte, Bisbee and the Upper Peninsula. By Bob Meyer...first case, featuring Minerals from the Historic Copper Mines of Butte Montana. The 42nd Annual Symposium... to the symposium theme, Great US Copper Localities: Butte, Bisbee and the Upper Peninsula. PNWFM recognizes...first was entitled “Minerals from the Historic Copper Mines of Butte, Montana” and featured 38 specimens...by a mass of crystalline pyrite from the Leonard Mine and ex from the Claude D. Huber collection; a lustrous
Book
The Warren (Bisbee) Mining District Cochise County, Arizona Ralph J. Stegen Ernest Wright Donald G.... Bryant Arizona Geological Society Spring Field Trip April 30, 2005 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK... Welcome to the Arizona Geological Society Spring 2005 field trip to Bisbee, Arizona. We are grateful...Society President, Ralph Stegen (Vice President, Mine-Site Exploration, Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp...with Ernest Wright (Phelps Dodge Mining Co., Copper Queen Branch) and Donald Bryant (Denver, Colorado)
Report (issue)
The Warren (Bisbee) Mining District Cochise County, Arizona Ralph J. Stegen Ernest Wright Donald G.... Bryant Arizona Geological Society Spring Field Trip April 30, 2005 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY BLANK... Welcome to the Arizona Geological Society Spring 2005 field trip to Bisbee, Arizona. We are grateful...Society President, Ralph Stegen (Vice President, Mine-Site Exploration, Phelps Dodge Exploration Corp...with Ernest Wright (Phelps Dodge Mining Co., Copper Queen Branch) and Donald Bryant (Denver, Colorado)
Journal (issue)
RECORD, MAY-JUNE 2013 Mineral Collections in Arizona A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record May-June...Mineralogical Record, Inc. P.O. Box 30730, Tucson, Arizona 85751 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...Backcover (above) Stock certificate for the Rowley Copper Mines Company (1914) Dick Morris collection (below)...Renaissance-style Depot in Tucson Courtesy of the Arizona Historical Society This special supplement was
Journal (issue)
THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ! RIZONA~VI CONTENTS Arizona-VI (Introduction) ............. ... ................ 483 W. E. Wilson The Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona ............ .. ........... ............... .. ........ 484 W. E. Wilson The Arizona Silver Belt; Silver King to McMillenville .................. ..... 507 L. Presmyk The Flux Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona ............................. ......531 W. E. Wilson & M. Hay The Carlota Mine, Gila County, Arizona ............................. .. ..
Book (edition)
/BRA PY Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were...Peter Kresam and Richard Graeme . Mineralogy of Arizona John W. Anthony, Sidney A. Williams, and Richard...Richard A. Bideaux AN THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors... JoHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the University of Arizona, where he rose
Book (edition)
~J.RY Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee. These old workings were...Richard A. Bideaux THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA PRESS TUCSON, ARIZONA About the Authors . .. JOHN W. ANTHONY...M.S. degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. Following...mineralogist with the Arizona Bureau of Mines, he joined the faculty of the Uni~ersity of Arizona, where he rose...Gem and Mineral Society, and the University of Arizona. SIDNEY A. WILLIAMS has authored or co-authored
Journal (issue)
Bisbee! Wm ,' .\ V> s K * *SKE» •\v ¥*• S\* 'W , 4 .v - N ■ST. -•••,> • ■% SW 'VARIZONA-III ^-^v...The Mineralogical Record P. O. Box 35565 Tucson, Arizona 85740 g_ g — —^ affiliated with the Friends of...September-October 1981 Arizona-m famous mineral localities: Bidee, Arizona by Richard W. Graeme a...Record Third in a series id four issues devoted to Arizona published bimonthly by the Mineralogical Record...16-bus 1 B-2120 Schoten COVER: AZURITE on malachite from Bisbee, about 6 inches tall. William Larson specimen;
Report (issue)
Residents of Arizona MINERALS OF ARIZONA by Frederic W. Galbraith and Daniel J. Brennan THE ARIZONA BUREAU...UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA TUCSON FOREWORD As a service about mineral matters in Arizona, the Arizona Bureau of...University of Arizona, is pleased to reprint the long-standing booklet on MINERALS OF ARIZONA. This basic...Dr. Frederic W. Galbraith, as a bulletin of the Arizona Bureau of Mines. It has moved through several editions...released in its Fourth Edition as Bulletin 181, Arizona Bureau of Mines. The comprehensive coverage of
Journal (issue)
Record, lnc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping; Hardcover:...Kunzite-Gary and Rosemany White collection, page 295; Malachite-Don and Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle...Rhodochrosite- Marc & Janis Countiss collection, page 76; Copper-Paul Bordovsky collection, page 33; Elbaite-Jeremy...204; Cerussite-Joe Budd collection, page 63; Malachite-Tim & Holly Smith collection, page 244. (right...mineral localities like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many
Report (issue)
itty nf l\rt~nttU iullrtttt ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS OF ARIZONA By FREDERIC W. GALBRAITH Second...(Revised) ARIZONA BUREAU OF MINES, GEOLOGICAL BULLETIN NO. 153 One dollar (Free to residents of Arizona) PUBLISHED...PUBLISHED BY lIlniul'r.lluy nf Arizuna TUCSON. ARIZONA SERIES No. 17, TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION...bulletin will be forwarded to the Arizona Bureau of Mines, University of Arizona, Tucson. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS... ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This description of the minerals of Arizona has been largely compiled from publications and manuscripts
Book
theBook I 1 . Bisbee, nestled in narrow gorges of the Mule Mountains of southeastern Arizona, represents...visitors having knowledge of mineralogy, Bisbee represents copper minerals in their most magnificent forms-crystallized...forms-crystallized azurite, soft, velvety malachite, ruby-red cuprite, and more than two hundred lesser...the world. To the student of American history, Bisbee represents the emergence of industrialism in the...difficult to find and just as difficult to follow. Bisbee became synonymous with paternalism-a "White Man's
Journal (issue)
50th Anniversary Issue! Arizona ineralogical Record January-February 2020 ❖ Volume 51 Number 1 ❖ $40...$40 THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD ARIZONA-VII . . . . Arizona-VII (Introduction) .................................................... 5 W. E. Wilson Arizona Wulfenite in the News, 1877–1940 .................... 15 W. E. Wilson The Piedmont mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ........................................ 29 B. L. Muntyan The San Manuel mine, Pinal County, Arizona ....................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals. Most...Most of them contain significant copper, and it is often a good guess that blue crystals on gossany matrix...a relatively large possible number of secondary copper minerals. Some are quite rare, others are common...Aurichalcite is a carbonate-hydroxide of zinc and copper with the formula (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6. Some analyses...oxide zones of deposits containing primary zinc and copper sulfides. Although generally considered to be a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nebraska, Lincoln] at 07:52 28 December 2014 Arizona Mineral Classics A rizona contains a wealth of...mineral chemistry will see copper minerals well represented among the Arizona classics listed in tables...Wallace (1997) listed 163 different copper minerals found in Arizona. Sixty-one percent of the classic...classic minerals listed in table 2 contain copper as an Dr. Ken Bladh, a professor of geology at Wittenberg...advanced degrees in geology from the University of Arizona and collected personally at many of the classic
Journal (issue)
January–February, 2020 Mineral Collections in Arizona-II A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record January-February...Record, Inc. 5347 N. Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover: $25 plus shipping Hardcover: $60...Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...wulfenite became the official State Mineral of Arizona by Alexander G. Schauss A Fat Jack Adventure by...COLLECTIONS Erika Brown Mineralogical Society of Arizona Members Wyatt Busby Tom Moore Mark Candee Dick
Journal (issue)
Record Inc., 6349 N. Orange Tree Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85740 The Mineralogical Record Inc. Is a non-profit...Volume Fourteen, Number Five ARIZONA- V Articles Lost mines of Arizona ................................Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona 283 by W. J. Thomas and R. B. Gibbs Famous...R. A. Bideaux Famous mineral localities: the Ray mine ..................................................Allgood and C. Williams Black dioptase from Tiger, Arizona ..............................................
Report (issue)
837 c = 9.932 Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Bisbee, Arizona, USA. 2.490 (vs), 1.575 (s), 1.251 (s), 2.050...(1) 81.80 (2) 84.12 15.88 100.00 2+ (1) Bisbee, Arizona, USA; by electrolytic determination of total...hydrothermal copper deposits. Association: Cuprite, tenorite, connellite, malachite, goethite (Bisbee, Arizona...Arizona, USA); cuprite, tenorite, chrysocolla, malachite, plancheite, dioptase, atacamite (Algomah mine, Michigan...Michigan, USA). Distribution: From the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona, and at the Algomah
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
basic carbonate of copper having the formula Cu,(OH),(CO,),. Pseudomorphs of malachite after azurite are...converse is apparently quite unusual. Pseudomorphs of copper, chalcocite, jarosite, atacamite, willemite, smithsonite...contain primary copper minerals at depth. It is almost invariably associated with malachite and commonly...with a variety of iron oxides and other secondary copper minerals such as cuprite, tenorite, chrysocolla...chrysocolla, brochantite, antlerite, atacamite, native copper, and chalcocite. Although the primary deposits from
 
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