Mineral Species Gallery
Aragonite
Aragonite, as a post-mining "bird's nest" form, 2200 level Campbell Mine. 21 cm X 19,7 cm. Graeme collection Photo by Richard Graeme IV.
Aragonite, as copper tinted, bluish acicular crystal with minor tan dolomite on light green, conichalcite-tinted calcite. 7 level Southwest Mine, 10 cm wide. Graeme collection Photo by Richard Graeme IV.
Aragonite, as white to colorless crystals with minor tan dolomite 7 level Southwest Mine. Specimen – 1 cm Graeme collection
Aragonite (post-mining) stained by copper Specimen - 11.5cm 1 crosscut 1300 level Cole Shaft Graeme collection Doug Graeme photo
Aragonite, as a copper-tinted anthodite speleothems associate with rosasite and with a partial, later coating of calcite. Specimen - 13 cm. tall, 81 crosscut, 6 level, Southwest Mine. Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Aragonite with minor tan dolomite 21 cm. 7 level Southwest Mine, Richard Graeme III photo
Aragonite, as white to colorless crystals with minor tan dolomite 7 level Southwest Mine. Specimen – 12 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo
Aurichalcite
Aurichalcite, as acicular crystals on altered limestone. 5 level, Southwest Mine, View - 11.8 cm., Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Aurichalcite with calcite and iron-tinted aragonite. 9.5 cm, 6 level, Southwest Mine, Graeme collection Graeme photo.
Botryoidal aurichalcite 5cm 6th level Southwest mine Doug Graeme photo
Azurite
Azurite, as a lining of a goethite, boxwork vug with brilliant tufts of malachite to one cm. Specimen – 6.5 cm Tunnel level, Higgins Mine Graeme collection Richard Graeme III photo
Azurite, as thin stalactites to 1.2 cm., on goethite. This specimen was sold by the noted mineral dealer, A. E. Foote C-1890. In spite of the contemporary labeling of the Copper Queen Mines as the source, the specimen was almost certainly mined from the nearby Czar Mine. Specimen – 10.1 cm Czar Mine. Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Azurite, as 3 cm. crystal with malachite and calcite on chalcocite. Sacramento Mine, Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Azurite, as a coliform mass with malachite, Spray Mine. Specimen – 20 cm., Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Azurite with malachite and quartz, Note; The quartz is present as residual chert fragments from the replaced Martin limestone.12 cm. Holbrook Mine, Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Azurite Holbrook Mine view 8 cm Photo Doug Graeme
Azurite, as epitaxial overgrowths on malachite pseudomorphs after azurite, Gardner Mine, longest specimen – 5 cm., Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Azurite, as spheres to 2 cm., Holbrook Extension, Lavender Pit Mine, Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo
Bornite
Bornite, as a fracture-filling in massive pyrite/chalcopyrite, Junction Mine. View – 3.4 cm, 8 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Calcite
Calcite, as hematite-tinted loops of rhombohedral crystals 7 level, Southwest Mine. Specimen - 4.5 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Calcite 7th level Southwest mine 5.5 cm Graeme Collection Douglas Graeme photo
Calcite, as a copper tinted stalactite with calcite helictites, 100 level, Holbrook Mine. Specimen – 74 cm Graeme collection Douglas Graeme photo.
Calcite, as a series of eccentric loops of colorless to white calcite on a single, elongated calcite rhomb. Specimen – 10 cm., 7 level, Southwest Mine. Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Calcite, as pseudohexagonal, colorless crystals, some of which have include goethite phantoms, all on a mixture of goethite and unidentified manganese oxides. Specimen – 11 cm., 2566 level, Campbell Mine. Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Calcite as complex crystals, with rhombahedral calcite on goethite. View - 22 cm, 2566 level, Campbell Mine, Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Calcite as a spiral-shaped, intergrowth of rhombahedral crystals with local goethite staining, specimen 21 cm tall, 8 level Southwest Mine, Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Butterfly Calcite, as an elongated butterfly-twin 7 level, Southwest Mine Specimen - 9.5 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo
Cerussite
Cerussite, as twinned crystals to 7 mm on azurite and malachite pseudos of azurite. 105-C stope, 1900 level, Campbell Mine, Graeme collection. Richard Graeme IV photo.
Chalcocite
Chalcocite, as massive, hypogene material with pyrite and minor bornite 39A stope, 1300 level, Cole Mine. View - 7 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme III photo
Chalcocite, as crystals to 5 mm on pyrite and bornite Campbell Mine View 4.4 cm Graeme specimen Richard Graeme IVphoto.
Chalcopyrite
Chalcopyrite with an irregular vein of pyrite and quartz, very much like the chalcopyrite shown in the photograph above. The pyrite veinlet was intruded into the massive chalcopyrite. Campbell Mine. Specimen 4 cm. Graeme collection.
Connellite
Copper
Connellite, as blue sprays of tightly intergrown crystals in massive cuprite with atacamite and goethite. This mode of occurrence is the most common for connellite found at Bisbee, 110 stope, 700 level, Cole Mine. Specimen – 4.3 cm Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Connellite crystals to 4 mm. with atacamite and light green Spertinite in cuprite, 14 stope, 5 level, Southwest Mine, View - 1.8 cm., Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Copper, as a spongy mass with malachite and minor elemental silver, Holbrook Mine Specimen – 13 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme III photo.
Copper, as later, small, arborescent crystal clusters on large (6 cm.) spinel twin copper crystals. Specimen – 9.5 cm. tall, 2200 level, Campbell Mine. Douglas Graeme photo.
Copper, as large, elongated crystals on copper, all with a thin veneer of cuprite. Specimen – 14.5 cm. tall, 26-K stope, 1300 level, Cole Mine. Richard Graeme III photo.
Copper, as unusual branching crystals with minor cuprite on the uppermost portion. The specimen was more-or-less in this orientation when found. Specimen – 15.5 cm., 26-K stope, 1300 level, Cole Mine. Douglas Graeme photo.
Copper with minor cuprite as a thin coating, Czar Mine Specimen – 13 cm., Graeme collection, Douglas Graeme photo
Covellite
Covellite, as indigo-colored replacement lenses in massive chalcopyrite, Holbrook Extension, Lavender Pit Mine. Polished specimen – 13.4 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo
Cuprite
Cuprite, as the variety chalcotrichite on copper with minor goethite Cole Mine, Specimen 9.8 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo
Cuprite, as the variety chalcotrichite on goethite, The cuprite formed as a replacement of delafossite, as indicated by the relic, tabular plates on the specimen. 400 level, Czar Mine. Specimen – 11 cm, Graeme collection, Richard Graeme III photo.
Cuprite coated by Malachite on Goethite and Hematite Czar mine Cuprite Crystal 1cm Graeme collection Photo: Richard Graeme Iv
Cuprite, as the variety chalcotrichite with auriferous copper. 1100 level, Cole Mine View 2.2 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme III photo.
Cuprite on atacamite, 14 stope, 5 level, Southwest Mine, View – 3. 4 cm., Graeme collection, Douglas Graeme photo.
Cuprite, as tiny crystals coating copper, Cole Mine, Specimen 9.5 cm., Graeme collection, Richard Graeme III photo.
Epsomite
Post-mining epsomite growing on the floor of 19XC between 104XC & 65XC 3rd level Southwest mine. Photo Doug Graeme
Ferricopiapite
Flourite
Post-mining ferricopiapite forming on tunnel wall, with unidentified white powdery mineral Queen Tunnel Photo Doug Graeme
Fluorite crystal in massive quartz Bisbee Queen mine View 3cm Graeme collection Photo: Richard Graeme IV
Fluorite Concentrator Tunnel View 4.5cm Graeme collection Photo: Richard Graeme IV
Fluorite with Quartz Concentrator Tunnel View 5 cm Graeme collection Photo: Richard Graeme IV
Garnet
Azurite overgrowing garnet crystals. Cole mine specimen 8 cm Graeme collection
Garnet Cole mine specimen 9 cm Graeme collection
Geothite
Geothite stalactites coated with calcite 81crosscut 6 level Southwest mine. 26 cm height Photo Doug Graeme
Goethite , as pseudomorphs after calcite, with minor malachite, Copper Prince Mine, view 3.5 cm. Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Goethite, as boxwork material with malachite and azurite, Czar Mine Specimen – 7.4 cm Graeme collection Douglas Graeme photo.
Goethite, as closely spaced to intergrown stalactites with bright acicular malachite, Czar Mine Specimen – 14.4 cm Graeme collection Douglas Graeme photo.
Goethite, as iridescent material, Shattuck Mine, View - 4.3 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme III photo.
Gold
Gold in quartz, Gold Gulch, Warren Mining District (Bisbee). View - 3.9 cm. Graeme collection, Douglas Graeme photo.
Gold, as flakes on bornite and quartz 39A stope, 1300 level, Cole Mine View – 2.3 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme III photo
Gold, as foil-like flakes on and in slickensided hematite fault gouge with minor quartz. Shattuck Mine. View – 3.9 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Gold, as massive material in a hematite-rich silica breccia Shattuck Mine Specimen – 10.3 cm U.S. Museum of Natural History collection Richard Graeme III photo
Gold, as wire-like crystals on quartz Shattuck Mine Specimen – 4.7 cm Bisbee Mining and Historical Museum collection Richard Graeme III photo
Gypsum
Gypsum ram's horn 6th level Southwest mine specimen 8 cm Graeme collection Douglas Graeme photo
Gypsum on Malachite Dallas Mine view 3 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV Photo
Halotrichite
Hematite
In situ silky halotrichite, Fe2+Al2(SO4)4.22H2O, on massive siliceous pyrite. 1600 level, Campbell mine, View – 50 cm. Graeme collection.
Jarosite
Hematite, as hard, botryoidal material with calcite, 600 level Shattuck Mine Specimen – 9.2 cm Graeme collection Douglas Graeme photo.
Hematite after pyrite In Morita formation. Evening sun claim View - 5cm Graeme collection Photo Doug Graeme
Massive Jarosite Southwest mine Specimen 6.5cm Graeme collection Douglas Graeme photo
Malachite with a wide, undulating horizontal band reflecting a solution level with malachite deposition, which indicates the stalactites had been submerged at some point. The malachite stalactites are almost completely encrusted with small malachite pseudomorphs after azurite. Azurite, as a few, unaltered crystals of the same morphology are scattered about on the malachite above the solution level, suggesting that the CO2 levels of the open space were higher than in the solutions.
A polished section of malachite that is 1" to 1.5" thick. The underside has a minor amount of an unidentified Mn oxide Czar mine Specimen - 15 X 11 cm Graeme Collection Photo Richard Graeme
Malachite, as a stalactitic group with a velvet-like surface. Minor amounts of an unidentified, brown manganese oxide are present as remnants of the supergene alteration of the hosting manganese-rich Martin limestone, Cole Mine Specimen – 7 cm, cm Graeme collection Douglas Graeme photo.
Malachite, as a pseudomorph after an azurite “rose” form, with minor azurite as a very limited, second generation overgrowth. Specimen-4.5 cm., Czar Mine, Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Malachite, as pseudomorphs after copper on calcite and all on goethite. Specimen – 9.3 cm., 26-K stope, 1300 level, Cole Mine. Graeme collection, Douglas Graeme photo.
Malachite, as a pseudomorph after a doubly terminated azurite crystal, 1300 level, Campbell Mine, Specimen 9 cm., Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Malachite, as a replacement of copper with a later, partial overgrowth by lighter green, zincian-malachite, 26-K stope, 1300 level, Cole Mine, Specimen - 8.5 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Malachite, as acicular crystals on azurite, 200 level, Czar Mine Specimen – 12.5 cm. Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Malachite, as stalactites and botryoidal material, with minor azurite, Czar Mine, Specimen 19 cm., Graeme collection, Richard Graeme IV photo.
Malachite
Miersite
Miersite, as a bright yellow, 2 mm tetrahedral crystal on atacamite. 14 stope, 5 level Southwest Mine Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Nantokite
Nantokite, as colorless to white crystals on cuprite with atacamite 14 stope, 5 level Southwest Mine. Specimen – 3 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme III photo.
Nordstrandite
Pyrite
Nordstrandite as a friable crust on azurite and malachite Specimen 21.5 cm Holbrook Mine Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo
Quartz
Pyrite pyritohedron Specimen 3.81cm x 3.81cm 1200 level Cole mine Graeme Collection Doug Graeme photo
Pyrite in talc Specimen 5.08 cm x 3.8 cm 73 crosscut at 151 crosscut in drift 1400 level Cole mine Graeme collection Doug Graeme photo
Quartz Junction mine view 2cm Photo Doug Graeme
Quartz, as epimorph cast of large calcite crystals, 2200 level, Campbell Mine. Specimen 19 cm., Graeme collection, Richard Graeme III photo.
Rhodochrosite
Rhodochrosite, as pale pink crystals with alabandite lining a vug in massive pyrite and minor sphalerite, 2300 level Junction Mine. View 4.3 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Rosasite
Rosasite, as a partial replacement of malachite pseudomorphs after azurite with some hemimorphite and minor goethite as epimorph cast after calcite, all on spongy goethite. A level, Uncle Sam Mine View-3.2 cm, Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo
Siderite
Silver
Siderite, as epimorph cast after calcite. Specimen – 8 cm Holbrook Extension, Lavender Pit Mine. Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Silver, as thin foil-like patches with cerussite, quartz and hematite on/in chalcocite 1800 level, Campbell Mine. View – 7.0 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Silver, as subparallel, small crystallin sheets in a carbonate-rich fault gouge with rosasite and malachite Cole Mine. Specimen – 8.8 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Silver, as a crust of tiny crystals overgrown on copper with minor malachite, Holbrook Mine View – 1.1 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme III photo.
Smithsonite
Smithsonite, as rice-grain size crystals on azurite, 141 F stope 1200 level Cole Mine view 2.2 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme III photo
Smithsonite, as rice-grain size crystals on azurite, 141 F stope 1200 level Cole Mine, view 2.2 cm, Graeme collection, Richard Graeme III photo
Turquoise
Turquoise, as a nugget-like mass with minor quartz, Lavender Pit Mine. Specimen 3 cm, Graeme collection Douglas Graeme photo.
Turquoise in Glance conglomerate 11.5 cm Lavender pit Graeme collection Doug Graeme photo
Turquoise in Glance conglomerate Specimen 7 cm Lavender pit Doug Graeme photo
Wulfenite
Wulfenite, as a 1.1 cm, multi-zoned crystal with calcite, malachite and azurite in a hematite vug. Cole Mine Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Wulfenite, as colorless crystals with minor brochantite on corroded galena, Cole Mine, Specimen - 8 cm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo.
Torbernite
Torbernite on Azurite 770 level Junction mine largest crystal 5mm Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV photo
Variscite
Variscite 1200 level Cole mine Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV
Variscite 1200 level Cole mine Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV
Variscite 1200 level Cole mine Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV
Variscite Holbrook extension Lavender pit Graeme collection Richard Graeme IV Photo