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Sylvanite from
Elkton Mine, Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sylvanite
Formula:AgAuTe4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sylvanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Elkton Mine, Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:303656
Long-form Identifier:1:3:303656:3
GUID (UUID V4):ac8b439e-49fd-4813-af97-bda6950ea1de
Nearest other occurrences of Sylvanite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Doctor Mine (Jackpot Mine), Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Cresson open pit, Cripple Creek, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine (Cresson Mine), Eclipse Gulch, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Gold Dollar Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Mabel M Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Blue Bird Mine, Bull Hill, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Granite Mine (Independent Granite), Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) El Paso Mine, Cripple Creek, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.5km (1.0 miles) Portland Mine (Portland No. 1), Cripple Creek, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.5km (1.0 miles) Last Dollar Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
edu Sylvanite Downloaded by [The Aga Khan University] at 23:14 19 October 2014 Vindicator Mine, Cripple...Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado I n terms of sheer volume of production, two major goldtelluride...years: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, and Cripple Creek, Colorado. Although on opposite sides of the globe...globe, they have striking similarities in their mining history and mineralogy, but their geology is seemingly...tellurides associated with coarse native gold. Cripple Creek, on the other hand, has been and continues to
Book
Cities of Gold History of the Victor Cripple Creek Mining District by Brian Levine 7 j i : { i...OF GOLD History and Tales of the Cripple Creek-Victor Mining District By Brian H. Levine 1981 Copyright...Typesetting and layout by Prepress Advertising Denver, Colorado Special regards and gratitude... O.J. Seiden...Chicago-Victor Gold Mining Company) Alice Ashley (Proprietor of Ye Olde Bottle Shop, Victor, Colorado) Ed...Ed Hunter (Head Mining Engineer for Texasgulf in the Cripple CreekVictor Mining District) Jim Keener (Editor
Report (issue)
GEO LOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT, COLORADO BY \V ALDEl\;IAR LINDGREN A:'\D ... . . . . . . . First geological survey of the district .............................. _• . . . . . ..................... Geological structure of the district ............... _................... __ .. _....• _. _•••• _••• _. _••• ___ . ____ 43 43 Cripple Creek granite ... ----.-----------------.----- _____________..._____________ . _. __ ... __ •.. Spring Creek granite ......•...•... _... __ . _____ •• _.• _• _•. ___
Report (volume)
PROGRESS GEOLOGICAL RESURVEY OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT, COLORADO BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN AND FREDERICK..... ...:......................_...._....... 8 Mining and metallurgy ....................................^...... 11 First geological survey of the district ................................... Modifications............................. 32 Future of the district.................................................preliminary report on a "Resurvey of the Cripple Creek district of Colorado," by Messrs. Waldemar Lindgren and
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Levine SY2YGY GOLD MINING CO. Dealers in historical Colorado gold and silver mining materials P.O. Box...Box 210 Cripple Creek, CO 80813 USA (719) 689-2155 January 27, 1993 ranee Gunderson 921 Milwaukee Denver...printed of CRIPPIE CREEK GOID. I have literally thousands of Colorado and cripple creek mining stock certificates...You will have to be IOC>re specific in what mining district you are looking for, what year, what property...what you are considering sperrling. My average Cripple Creek stock certificate is priced at $100 arrl up;
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Famous mineral localities: The Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...[Ba(UO2)2V2O8⭈5H2O] from the type locality, the Mounana mine, Franceville, Haute Ogooué, Gabon. See the article...“This is the XYZ mine, and these are pretty pictures of the minerals from that mine.” Lou, however, took...chemistry, crystal system, identifying features, and mine of origin—all without notes. From his huge library
Report (volume)
Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of...especially Fischer and others, 1946). MINERALS OF COLORADO: A 100-YEAR RECORD By EDWIN B. EcKEL ABSTRACT
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COLORADO'S HISTORIC MINING DISTRICTS ¢ LAURA ROSSETTER ys FULCRUM PUBLISHING GOLDEN, COLORADO @ Copyright...Rossetter, Laura. Mountain biking Colorado’s historic mining districts /Laura Rossetter. p. cm. Includes bibliographical...terrain cycling —Colorado—Guide-books. 2. Bicycle touring— Colorado — Guide-books. 3. Colorado — Description...Fulcrum Publishing 350 Indiana Street Golden, Colorado 80401 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS titer t COLORADOTAREAIMIAD...re Eee Perret re eae eee 1 Rides ‘AroundGripple Creek oe ek eect et ecto ee cess: 3 ee Goldi@amp Roa reese
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (volume)
............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...SPECIMENS from the collection of the Geology Museum, Colorado School of Mines. See page 242 for a full description... All rights reserved. notes fromthej EDITOR COLORADO-III Here we are with our third special issue devoted...devoted to the mines and minerals of Colorado. As most long-time subscribers know, the first in the series...about $200 on the out-of-print market. The second Colorado issue was vol. 10, number 6 (1979), and we still
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Front Range Colorado By T. S. LO\'ERING and E. N. GODDARD GEOLOGICAL...cooperation with the Colorado State Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund ~ oopr is...__________________________________________ _ 1 Summary of mining districts---.---------------------Introduction...hornblende gneiss ____________ _ Quartzite at Coal Creek ________________ _ Igneous rocks _____________________________...Quartz diorite and associated hornblendite_ Boulder Creek granite _________________ _ Pikes Peak granite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Stanislaus Mine, Calaveras County, California. The material from Cripple Creek, Colorado, analysed by...the crystals were probably trlclinie and near sylvanite in their angles and axial ratios. Better material...a fine suite of specimens from the Cripple Creek District, Colorado. Conspicuous among these are numerous...come from the Midget Mine, Gold Hill; one from a specimen fi'om the Doctor Jackpot Mine, Raven Hill, and...crystals came from the same mine; four isolated crystals came from the Victor l~line, Bull Hill; and eight
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Stanislaus Mine, Calaveras County, California. The material from Cripple Creek, Colorado, analysed by...the crystals were probably trlclinie and near sylvanite in their angles and axial ratios. Better material...a fine suite of specimens from the Cripple Creek District, Colorado. Conspicuous among these are numerous...come from the Midget Mine, Gold Hill; one from a specimen fi'om the Doctor Jackpot Mine, Raven Hill, and...crystals came from the same mine; four isolated crystals came from the Victor l~line, Bull Hill; and eight
Journal (issue)
FORGET * By F. W. Libbey ** Introduction Gold mining was originally the mainstay of the economy of southern...best only a token of its past. Not only is gold mining as an industry dead, but its history and the knowledge...blow to gold mining. Shutdowns, always a serious operating matter in an underground mine because of the...the price of gold remained the same. Thus gold mining was effectively killed. The following outline of...of events in the rise and fall of gold mining insouthwestern Oregon is here recorded - almost as an obituary
Journal (issue)
LEST WE FORGET By F. W. Libbey* Introduction Gold mining was originally the mainstay of the economy of southern...best only a token of its past. Not only is gold mining as an industry dead, but its history and the knowledge...blow to gold mining. Shutdowns, always a serious operating matter in an underground mine because of the...the price of gold remained the same. Thus gold mining was effectively killed. The following outline of...of events in the rise and fall of gold mining insouthwestern Oregon is here recorded - almost as an obituary
Report (issue)
Smith. Director Professional Paper 138 MINING IN COLORADO A HISTORY OF DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTJON...location, area, and organization of the mining counties of Colorado _________________________ _ Adams County_-..._____________________ _ Alamosa County __________________________ _ Arapahoe County _________________________...Archuleta County _________________________ _ Baca CountY-----------------------------Boulder CountY------...CountY----------------------~----Chaffee County _____________________·______ _ Clear Creek County _______________________
Report (volume)
CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR A GAZE~?TEER OF COLORADO BY HEN.R Y GANNETT WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING... _A GAZETTEER OF COLORADO. By HENRY ' GANNET,T. GENERAL DESCRIPTION. Colorado is_situated about midway...GAZETTEER OF COLORADO. through the Park Range on its way to join Green River, forming the Colorado. Middle...Mexico, the San Juan flo wing westward to the Colorado, and many branches of Gran9. and Gunnison rivers...plateau region is drained entirely by tributaries of Colorado River. The higher of these plateaus are well watered
Journal (volume)
f.p. for for:v -" ...THE EN. N o GI "RNAL MINE NI'N NG G. J ou VOLUN/1E JANUARY TO LXIII. ...YORPQ. : - . - ". • : THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. VOLUME LXIII. JANUARY TO JULY, 1897...Aluminum, Prices of.................. 565 Accident Mine, Colo.......... 97 63, 159 Aluminum Reduction, Gooch's...118 Alabama Industrial and Scientific Amador Queen Mine, Cal..... ...... 263 Acetylene Gas, Conner's Pat... Doddridge's Pat...... 487 "Alabama, Johns Coal Mine. 74 Amalgamating Process, FischerAcetylene Gas,
Report (volume)
California. THE MINES HANDBOOK, 1922 MACHINERY FOR MINE • MILL SMELTER Embodying recent developments...Hydraulic TurbinpM MILWAUKEE, Metallurgical Machinery Mining Machinery Perforated Oil l-:imini-- Metals I'liiiiliini:...are getting the most in service from Worthington mining equipment — :the most from the standpoint of first...power consumption. Worthington meets needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from...Compressor NEW YORK Crushing Rolls Air Compressors Mine Pumps Ball Mills Blast Furnaces Oil Engines Screens
Journal (volume)
Exposition.* G. Dodd, the superintendent of the mining departof the Union Iron Works, it will readily...mountain and Gopher Ridge, in Cala- ; veras county, Cal., lies Salt Spring val- Through this trough-like...greatly varying size. The gold-bearing quartz of the district is associated with these dykes, usually constituting...is that of the building and head frame at that mine. An electric plant is stalled at La Grange...contemplation at this mine. Works, •Cut copyrlghleil by the Union Ii'on S. F. vi- m 1 Mining and Scientific
Report (volume)
so successful. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. Mining Machinery Dept. OFFICES For Canadian MILWAUKEE...Canada THE MINES HANDBOOK Meeting tbe Needs of Mine and Smelter Hundreds of plants on both American...service from Superior Jaw Crusher Worthington mining equipment the from the standpoint of first cost...most wear, Worthington meets the needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from...(all types) Crushers Crushing Rolls NEW YORK Mine Pumps Oil Engines Sampling Machinery Screens Stamp
Report (issue)
C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...ocllingite Marcasite Arsenopyrite Molybdenite Sylvanite VVittichcnite Tetrahedrite Tennantite Gcocronite...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com­ mon rock-making materials
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Macmillan Company many cuts; to the Engineering and Mining Journal and the Canadian Geological Survey for...Age I ore of deposits, 18-20. constitutes a mine?, 20-23. CHAPTER II Origin op Ore Deposits 24-51...Ores of gold, 52. ical 62. district, Pacific Cordilleran Placer mining, 84. Sierra 77. field, distribution...Geographical distribution, 114-122. district, Cordilleran district, 117. of extraction, 122-123. 114... 153. 145. Bingham, Utah, 154. The Alaskan district, 155. Geological horizon, 157. Methods of extraction
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stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
 
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