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Locality Name:
Ripsey Hill Area, Ripsey District, Tortilla Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA


mindat Locality ID: 207923
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-207923.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Ripsey Hill Area, Ripsey District, Tortilla Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA": 13
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 12

Number of Child Localities: 12
Child Localities:
Alma Group (Copper King MS 2881 Patented Claim; Alma MS 2881 Patented Claim)
Copper Hill Group (Wood-Owensby Claims; Arizona Pacific Copper Co. Claims; Barbarossa Claims; Scorpion Claims; Javelina Claims; Powder Pot; Crosier Peak Property; Copper Basin Group)
Crow Claims
Deen Mine (Pay Day Mine; Junction Mine)
Florence Mine (Florence Lead Silver Mine)
Hackberry Mine
New Dawn Claims
Ripsey Wash
Roaring Gulch Property (Ray Verde Property; Claim MS 4219; Kullman-McCool Lessee Property)
Silver Queen Mine
Unnamed Copper Prospect (54)
Wooley Mine (Wooley Property)

Latitude: 32°59'52"N
Longitude: 110°58'28"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 32.997777777778,-110.97444444444
AThis mineral is Anthropogenic.
GThis mineral is directly dated.
BThis mineral is reported as having this age.
YThis mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
OThis mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
RThe age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
PThe age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al As C Ca Cl Cr Cu F Fe H K Mo O P Pb S Si Zn 

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: 

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality: 
AllophaneApatiteAragoniteBaryteCalciteChalcopyriteClayCorundumFluoriteIranite
MalachiteMicaMiniumNonePhenakitePyriteQuartzRocksaltScheeliteSphalerite
Tetrahedrite

23 IMA Minerals at location:
Anglesite  (*)Calcite  (*)Cerussite  (*)Chalcocite  (*)Chalcopyrite  (*)
Chrysocolla  (*)Fluorite  (*)Galena  (*)Hematite  (*)Hemihedrite  (*)
Malachite  (*)Mimetite  (*)Minium  (*)Muscovite  (*)Phoenicochroite  (*)
Pyrite  (*)Quartz  (*)Siderite  (*)Sphalerite  (*)Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)
Vauquelinite  (*)Willemite  (*)Wulfenite  (*)
Mineral nameStructural GroupsIMA FormulaMax Age (Ma)Min Age (Ma)# of Sublocalities containing mineralLOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids# of localities containing mineral
Anglesite  (*)BarytePb(SO4)11463532734
Calcite  (*)CalciteCa(CO3)2146353,14635727770
Cerussite  (*)AragonitePb(CO3)11463534979
Chalcocite  (*)NoneCu2S3146355,146360,1463615707
Chalcopyrite  (*)ChalcopyriteCuFeS23146355,146357,14636127198
Chrysocolla  (*)Allophane(Cu2-xAlx)H2-xSi2O5(OH)4·nH2O2146352,1463613531
Fluorite  (*)FluoriteCaF22146355,1463609617
Galena  (*)RocksaltPbS2146353,14635724243
Hematite  (*)CorundumFe2O33146353,146359,14636114640
Hemihedrite  (*)IraniteZnPb10(CrO4)6(SiO4)2(OH)2114635314
Malachite  (*)MalachiteCu2(CO3)(OH)23146352,146360,14636112537
Mimetite  (*)ApatitePb5(AsO4)3Cl11463531107
Minium  (*)MiniumPb2+2Pb4+O41146353247
Muscovite  (*)Mica ClayKAl2(Si3Al)O10(OH)23146351,146355,14635917380
Phoenicochroite  (*)NonePb2O(CrO4)114635335
Pyrite  (*)PyriteFeS23146353,146355,14636039462
Quartz  (*)QuartzSiO2114635361156
Siderite  (*)CalciteFe(CO3)11463536417
Sphalerite  (*)SphaleriteZnS2146353,14635721482
Tennantite-(Fe)  (*)TetrahedriteCu6(Cu4Fe2)As4S1311463531803
Vauquelinite  (*)NoneCuPb2(CrO4)(PO4)(OH)114635363
Willemite  (*)PhenakiteZn2SiO41146353303
Wulfenite  (*)ScheelitePbMoO411463531655


No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.
SampleSource LocalityReference URL
R140133Florence Mine (Florence Lead Silver Mine), Ripsey Hill Area, Ripsey District, Tortilla Mts, Pinal Co., Arizona, USAhttps://rruff.info/R140133

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