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Cuprite from
Desert Mine, Ellsworth Mining District, Granite Wash Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Cuprite
Formula:Cu2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cuprite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Desert Mine, Ellsworth Mining District, Granite Wash Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:522337
Long-form Identifier:1:3:522337:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Cuprite
9.0km (5.6 miles) ⓘYuma Mine, Ellsworth Mining District, Granite Wash Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
25.6km (15.9 miles) ⓘCritic Mine, Wenden, Cunningham Pass Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
25.7km (16.0 miles) ⓘCentroid Mine group, Cunningham Pass Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
26.6km (16.5 miles) ⓘLittle Giant Mine groups, Cunningham Pass Mining District, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
57.8km (35.9 miles) ⓘPlanet Mine, Planet Mine group, Planet, Santa Maria Mining District (Planet Mining District; Swansea Mining District; Bill Williams Mining District), Buckskin Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
63.4km (39.4 miles) ⓘArizona McGinnis Mine, Cienega Mining District, Buckskin Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona, USA
98.2km (61.0 miles) ⓘBruce Mine, Bagdad, Eureka Mining District, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
99.7km (61.9 miles) ⓘMammoth Mine (Hubbard Mine), Eureka Mining District, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
References
MRDS database Dep. ID file #10027677, MRDS ID #M003794.
 
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