Southwest Mine
Hendricks Gulch, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
Southwest Mine is a former mine near Bisbee, famous for its Calcites.
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The mine primarily exploited copper, lead, gold, zinc and silver. The main minerals extracted were sphalerite, silver, and bornite, although there are dumps full of calcite, pyrite and quartz at the site.
Calcite from the site forms fantastic stalactites, stalagmites and ‘cave popcorn’.
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If you are interested in other classic American locales we may have stock from the following locales.
American locales
Arizona
- Southwest Mine, Hendricks Gulch, Bisbee, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
- Total Wreck Mine, Cienega Creek, The Narrows, Empire Mining District, Empire Mountains, Pima County, Arizona, USA
- Monterey formation, San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
- New Melones Dam, West Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
- Salton Sea, Imperial County, California, USA
- Green River Formation (spanning areas of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.)
- Lake George, Park County, Colorado, USA
- Stoneham, Weld County, Colorado, USA
- Anacondas Yerington open pit, Yerington, Yerington Mining District, Singatse Range, Lyon County, Nevada, USA
- Hat lease, Goldfield Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
- Virgin Valley, Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
- Cedar Hill Quarry, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Pottsville Formation, St. Clair, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, USA
- Iron Mountain, Pinto Iron Mining District, Iron Springs Mining District, Iron County, Utah, USA
- Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA
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