Chlorargyrite from
Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA

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Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA

Chlorargyrite, etc.

Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA

Chlorargyrite, etc.

Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA

Chlorargyrite, etc.

Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA

Chlorargyrite, etc.

Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA

Chlorargyrite, etc.

Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA

Chlorargyrite, etc.

Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA

Chlorargyrite, etc.

Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA

Classification
Locality type:	Mine
Species:	Chlorargyrite
Formula:	AgCl
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cerussite	7
Chrysocolla	5
Wulfenite	1
Malachite	1
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Chlorargyrite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
Photo Gallery	View Gallery (4 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:	178105
Long-form Identifier:	1:3:178105:2
GUID (UUID V4):	0
Nearest other occurrences of Chlorargyrite

5.0km (3.1 miles)	ⓘ Verde Queen Mine, Copper Camp, Hilton (Lead Mountain), Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
5.3km (3.3 miles)	ⓘ Red Cloud Mine, Hilton Mines, Copper Camp, Hilton (Lead Mountain), Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
17.3km (10.7 miles)	ⓘ Omega Mine, Monument Mountain, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
19.1km (11.9 miles)	ⓘ Blue Jay Mine, Blue Jay-Good Friday Mines, Sycamore Canyon, Helvetia, Helvetia-Rosemont Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
20.9km (13.0 miles)	ⓘ Greaterville Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
21.4km (13.3 miles)	ⓘ Hancock Mine, Greaterville, Greaterville Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
24.7km (15.4 miles)	ⓘ Conglomerate Mine (Anderson Mine; Snyder Mine; Silver Moon; Sonoita; Reese; Colossa; Aurum; A.W.A.; Anderson prospect), Fish Canyon, Greaterville, Greaterville Mining District, Pima County, Arizona, USA
34.7km (21.6 miles)	ⓘ Philadelphia Mine (Philadelphia prospect), Anaconda Mine group, Temporal Gulch, Wrightson Mining District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
36.7km (22.8 miles)	ⓘ Tiajuana Mine (Tiajuana prospect; Tia Juana Mine; Santa Cruz claim; Santa Maria claim), Josephine Canyon, Tyndall Mining District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
40.4km (25.1 miles)	ⓘ Silver Sally prospect, Toluachi group of claims (Toluachi group; Bonanza tunnel; Tennantite claim), Salero area, Tyndall Mining District, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA
References
Schrader & Hill (1915), Mineral deposits of the Santa Rita and Patagonia Mountains, AZ, USGS Bull. 582:142-147 *Schrader, Frank Charles (1917) The geologic distribution and genesis of the metals in the Santa Rita-Patagonia mountains, Arizona. Economic Geology, 12 (3) 237-269 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.12.3.237* Wilson, E.D. (1951): 52-53 *Wilson, E.D. (1951, July) Arizona Zinc and Lead Deposits - Part II. University of Arizona Bulletin* 158. Arizona Bureau of Mines Galbraith, F.W. & D.J. Brennan (1959), Minerals of AZ: 42, 64 Keith, Stanton B. (1974), AZ Bur. of Geol. & Min. Technology, Geol. Survey Br. Bull. 189, Index of Mining Properties in Pima County, AZ: 119 (Table 4) Anthony, John W.; Williams, Sidney A.; Bideaux, Richard A.; Grant, Raymond W. (1995) Mineralogy of Arizona (3rd ed.). University of Arizona Press.pages 169, 262 (n.d.) ADMMR Mines Database, Arizona Geological Survey.**

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Chlorargyrite from Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA

Chlorargyrite from
Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA