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A fragment of Moon rock and a flag of Arizona state which was taken to the Moon and back by Apollo 17 in 1972, on display at the museum. The University of Arizona Mineral Museum (UAMM) is a mineralogy museum located in the Pima County Courthouse in downtown Tucson, Arizona.
The Tucson Gem, Mineral & Fossil Showcase are gem and mineral shows that take place annually in late January and February at multiple locations across the city of Tucson, Arizona. Most of the shows are open to the public, except for certain trade shows which require registration with a business license .
The Tucson artifacts, sometimes called the Tucson Lead Crosses, Tucson Crosses, Silverbell Road artifacts, or Silverbell artifacts, were thirty-one lead objects that Charles E. Manier and his family found in 1924 near Picture Rocks, Arizona, that were initially thought by some to be created by early Mediterranean civilizations that had crossed the Atlantic in the first century, but were later ...
The oldest Proterozoic metamorphic and igneous rocks were intruded with granites and pegmatite between 1.45 and 1.4 billion years ago. The Oracle Granite, near Tucson, the Ruin Granite, close to the Ray-Superior area, and the Zoroaster Granite at the base of the Grand Canyon all contain one to two inch long, pink orthoclase crystals.
– Rocks & Minerals. – (c/o HighBeam Research at Encyclopedia.com.) – January/February 1997 (72:01; January 1, 1997). Arizona's Metallic Resources – Trends and Opportunities 2008 Archived 2014-12-01 at the Wayback Machine – Arizona Department of Mines and Minerals Resources
The mine is located in southern Pima County, southwest of Tucson and west of Green Valley-Sahuarita. Originally developed as an underground mine in 1907, the Sierrita open pit has been in operation since 1959 and is a copper and molybdenum mining complex, operating on a porphyry copper deposit with oxide, secondary sulfide, and primary sulfide ...
Materials to build the border wall have been waiting, and rusting, in one Arizona county since 2021 Laura Strickler and Julia Ainsley and Didi Martinez Updated September 29, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Sentinel Peak is made up of several layers of igneous rock representing various types of volcanic activity, though the mountain itself is not a volcano. It is one of a cluster of outcroppings at the eastern edge of the Tucson Mountains that are primarily the remnants of 20–30 million-year-old lava flows that once extended west towards the Tucson Mountains and east into the Tucson Basin ...