Photos of Bisbee
Minerals
Cochise College
Photos of Bisbee
Minerals
Geology Home Page
Hall of Minerals
Roger Weller, geology instructor (
wellerr@cochise.edu
)
banded, gem-quality azurite
Bisbee, Arizona
is a world-famous location of copper-related minerals.
index of Bisbee minerals
number of photos:
530
last edited: 4/11/17
| aragonite (4) | copper (54) | rhodochrosite (1) |
| aurichalcite (5) | cuprite (37) | shattuckite (1) |
| azurite (109) | galena (2) | siderite (7) |
| azurite-malachite (20) | goethite (2) | travertine (5) |
| bornite (7) | gold (1) |
turgite (13) |
| brochantite (6) | gypsum (8) | turquoise (23) |
| calcite (85) | hematite (4) | variscite (3) |
| cerussite (3) | hydrohetaerolite (1) | wulfenite (2) |
| chalcanthite (1) | malachite (97) | |
| chalcoalumite (4) | manganese oxides (3) | |
| chalcocite (1) | pyrite (2) | |
| chrysocolla (8) | pyrolusite (3) | |
| quartz (7) | ||
Photos are copyright free for non-commercial educational uses.
Just credit
photos to R.Weller/Cochise College.
other Cochise College websites related to Bisbee
Brief Overview on Geology of Bisbee and the Mule Mountains
Virtual Tour of the Bisbee Copper Queen Mine
Views
of Bisbee
Geology Maps
Views of Historic Bisbee
bibliographies
Bisbee
Minerals
Bisbee Geology
Bisbee Mining
online documents
Geology and Ore
Deposits of the Bisbee, Arizona Quadrangle
by F.L. Ransome, 1904, U.S.G.S. Professional Paper No.21, 168 pages
Geology of the
Warren Mining District
by Y.S Bonillas, J.B. Tenney, E.M
Feuchre and Leon Feuchre,
1919, A.I.M.E. Trans, 67 pages
Stoping in the Calcumet and Arizona Mines
by Philip D. Wilson, 1916, A.I.M.E.
Trans., 19 pages
articles written by students
The
Special Relationship between Azurite and Malachite-
Jesse
Smith (Fall 2005)
The
Worries of a Bisbee Copper Miner-
Maria
Ramos (Spring 2006)
Phelps
Dodge Corporation-
Robert Hardy
(Fall 2007)
History
of One of Bisbee's Families-
Gina Thursby (Spring 2008)
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