Minerals of Bisbee

Five Polished specimens from Bisbee's Mines Top Row, Azurite and Malachite, Holbrook Mine Azurite, Lavender Pit, Holbrook Extension Bottom Row Azurite, Junction Mine Malachite, Czar Mine These pieces area resting on a polished copper-stained calcite from the 4th level of the Southwest Mine

Alunite on Azurite Holbrook mine Bisbee, Az

Azurite Holbrook mine Bisbee, Az

Rosasite pseudomorphs after Azurite with Hemimorphite “A” level Uncle Sam mine

Azurite Holbrook mine Bisbee, AZ

Malachite, Holbrook extension Lavender pit, Bisbee, Az. Weighs about 8 lbs from our grandfather's collection, Lawrence Banks.

Malachite pseudomorph after Azurite 1300 level Campbell mine Bisbee, Az

Aragonite (post-mining) 1 crosscut 1300 level Cole Shaft

Minerals Fluorescencing with short wave UV. Inside the stope visited in at Queen Mine Tour, Bisbee, Arizona . Area approximately 1 meter square Sphalerite (yellow) Calcite (red) Hydrozincite (blue-white)

Gold on Hematite stained Quartz 400 level Shattuck Mine

In the center is a specimen of Azurite from the Sacramento mine .

Octahedral Cuprite on Delafossite Irish Mag mine

Sepiolite Southwest mine, collected 80ft above the 7th level. Bisbee, Arizona

A Hematite from the 600 level and a Shattuckite (blue-gray) from the 200 level of the Shattuck Mine

A polished calcite from the 5th level of the Southwest Mine