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Pyrite from
Black Gold Mine (Black Gold group of claims), Las Guijas, Las Guijas Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Gold Mine (Black Gold group of claims), Las Guijas, Las Guijas Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:175482
Long-form Identifier:1:3:175482:7
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
4.3km (2.7 miles) ⓘLas Guijas Mine group (Immense Lode; Grand Lode; General Electric Mine; General Electric group of claims; Obregon claims; Black Gold group), Las Guijas Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
4.6km (2.8 miles) ⓘVindicator Mine group (Stewart-Fernstrom Mine group; Carboloy Mine group; Stewart group of claims), Las Guijas, Las Guijas Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
7.4km (4.6 miles) ⓘNew Colorado Mine, Cerro Colorado Mining District, Cerro Colorado Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
11.2km (6.9 miles) ⓘCerro Colorado Mine (Heintzelman Mine; Silver Queen Mine), Cerro Colorado Mining District, Cerro Colorado Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
12.0km (7.4 miles) ⓘAmado Mine group, Las Guijas Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
17.6km (10.9 miles) ⓘAjax Mine group, San Luis Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
18.2km (11.3 miles) ⓘM.C.M. Mine group (MCM Mine; Guadalupe group), San Luis Mountains, Arivaca Mining District (Las Guijas Mining District), Las Guijas & San Luis Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
19.6km (12.2 miles) ⓘJupiter Mine, Mildred Peak, Baboquivari Mining District, Baboquivari Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
20.3km (12.6 miles) ⓘWhite Hope Quarry, Papago Mining District (Sierrita Mining District), Sierrita Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
20.5km (12.7 miles) ⓘGold Bullion Mine (Banes 1 & 2 claims; Banes claims; Last Chance claim group; Tellurium claim group), Weaver Canyon, Baboquivari Mining District, Baboquivari Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
References
Wilson, E.D. (1941), AZ Bur. of Mines Bull. 148: 39.
Keith, Stanton B. (1974), AZ Bur. of Geol. & Min. Technology, Geol. Survey Br. Bull. 189, Index of Mining Properties in Pima County, AZ: 104 (Table 4)
Keith, Stanton B. (1978) Index of Mining Properties in Yuma County, Arizona. University of Arizona Bulletin 192. Bureau of Geology and Mineral Technology 189pp.
 
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