Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA

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Baryte : BaSO₄
	Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA 2.1 cm wide crystal. Photographed by Karl Volkman. In the Collection of Donald Volkman
© Don Volkman 2004	Photo ID: 20709 View Count: 365
Baryte : BaSO₄, Quartz : SiO₂
	Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA Small barite crystals on quartz matrix. Specimen is 3cm high. Photographed by Karl Volkman. In the collection of Donald Volkman
© Don Volkman 2004	Photo ID: 20710 View Count: 350
Baryte : BaSO₄
	Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA Barite with diamond shaped phantom. Alan Goldstein specimen (#7214) and photo. FOV = 1 cm
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Baryte : BaSO₄
	Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA 3.5 x 2.3 x 1.4 cm. The Black Cloud mine is well known for its sulfide specimens, but it has also produced some of the classic "golden" Baryte for which the Leadville Mining District is renowned. Here we have a fine example with layered, curved, "chisel"-shaped, gemmy, somewhat lustrous, bladed golden Barite crystals. This specimen is at least 30 ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 221160 View Count: 41
Baryte : BaSO₄
	Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA Baryte. Specimen is from the collection of Bengie Kuhling, Ouray, Colorado. Scale at bottom of image is an inch with a rule at one cm.
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Baryte : BaSO₄
	Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA 3.0 x 1.8 x 1.4 cm. This specimen is at least 30 years old, and possibly older as it resembles other Black Cloud Barytes that I have seen which were found in the 1960s and 1970s. This area has produced some of the finest Barytes from Colorado. The Black Cloud mine is well known for it's sulfide specimens, but it has also produced some of the ...
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 237647 View Count: 24
Galena : PbS, Pyrite : FeS₂, Quartz : SiO₂
	Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA Cluster of small galena cubes with pyrite and quartz. Central cube is 3mm across. Photographed by, and in the collection of Karl Volkman
© Karl Volkman	Photo ID: 8559 View Count: 463
Galena : PbS
	Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA 19.9 x 12.5 x 5.5 cm. Now here is a rich old Colorado classic - a very large plate of sharp galena crystals, from the collection of Dave Stoudt. The display side of this Leadville classic is completely covered with crystals to 1.4 cm on edge, with a "brushed steel" look about them.
© Rob Lavinsky	Photo ID: 167843 View Count: 97
Galena : PbS
	Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA Width of field is 15 mm. Collection of Jesse Crawford. Equipment: Nikon D-100 digital camera using a reversed 55mm macro lens.
© 2008 Jesse Crawford	Photo ID: 180248 View Count: 70
Galena : PbS, Dolomite : CaMg(CO₃)₂, Sphalerite : (Zn,Fe²⁺)S
	Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Leadville District, Lake Co., Colorado, USA Galena in melted, partially skeletal cubes, with dolomite and 2 mm rosettes of sphalerite. 266 stope, 1250 level. Collected by Dave Bunk. Obtained in 1992. Alan Goldstein specimen (4284) and photo.
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