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79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA

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79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA

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79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA

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79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA

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79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA

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79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA

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79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA

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79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA

Quartz

79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA

Quartz

79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA

Classification
Locality type:	Mine
Species:	Quartz
Formula:	SiO₂
Comments:	Occurs throughout the ore zone. As crystals filling druses and cavities; stringers and replacements in limestone and rhyolite porphyry; and massive silica bodies. The latest hypogene mineral.
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hemimorphite	11
Wulfenite	11
Limonite	5
Aurichalcite	5
Malachite	5
Chrysocolla	5
Calcite	4
Hematite	4
Goethite	2
Clay	1
Plattnerite	1
Liudongshengite	1
Chalcophanite	1
Smithsonite	1
Cerussite	1
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:	Click here to view 79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
Photo Gallery	View Gallery (7 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:	22671
Long-form Identifier:	1:3:22671:4
GUID (UUID V4):	0
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz

1.0km (0.6 miles)	ⓘ Finch Mine, Keystone Gulch, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
3.0km (1.8 miles)	ⓘ Gold-Copper Mines Co. Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles)	ⓘ Curtin Mine (Humphrey Mine), Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles)	ⓘ Premier property (Premier group; Santa Monica Camp; Santa Montica Camp), Christmas, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles)	ⓘ Christmas Mine, Christmas, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
7.8km (4.8 miles)	ⓘ C and B Mine (C & B Mine; Vanadium Mine), Christmas, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA
9.9km (6.2 miles)	ⓘ Grey Horse Mine, Riverside, Riverside Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
11.5km (7.2 miles)	ⓘ Two Queens Mine (Bromide No. 1 claim), Old Mill, Saddle Mountain Mining District, The Tablelands Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
11.8km (7.4 miles)	ⓘ Adjust Mine (Adjust group; Mellor claims; Little Treasure Mine; Blue Bird vein; Silver Cross claims; Laurence Mine; Old Odell), Lee Mountain area, Saddle Mountain Mining District, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
12.0km (7.4 miles)	ⓘ Winkelman Silica Mine (Copper Basin group; Silver King; Babbit claims; Winkelman Silica property), Crozier Peak area, Cottonwood Mining District, Tortilla Mountains, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
References
Arizona Department of Mineral Resources 79 Mine file Ross, Clyde P. (1925a) Ore deposits of the Saddle Mountain and Banner Mining Districts, Arizona. USGS Bull. 771. *Wilson, E.D. (1951, July) Arizona Zinc and Lead Deposits - Part II. University of Arizona Bulletin* 158. Arizona Bureau of Mines Keith, Stanley B. (1972) Mineralogy and Paragenesis of the 79 Mine Lead-Zinc-Copper Deposit [Arizona]. The Mineralogical Record, 3 (6) 247-264** Yang, Hexiong, Gibbs, Ronald B., Schwenk, Cody, Xie, Xiande, Gu, Xiangping, Downs, Robert T., Evans, Stanley H. (2021) Liudongshengite, Zn₄Cr₂(OH)₁₂(CO₃)·3H₂O, a new mineral of the hydrotalcite supergroup, from the 79 mine, Gila County, Arizona, USA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 59 (4) 763-769 doi:10.3749/canmin.2000101

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Quartz from 79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA

Quartz from
79 Mine, Chilito, Hayden area, Banner Mining District, Gila County, Arizona, USA