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Sphalerite from
Shelley Mine, Mosquito Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Shelley Mine, Mosquito Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:379396
Long-form Identifier:1:3:379396:1
GUID (UUID V4):0f8d7fc6-6c3e-48e9-b3b1-7cf567cc0699
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.0km (0.0 miles) ⓘBuckskin Joe Mine (Buckskin Joe; Phillips Mine), Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) ⓘCriterion Mine, Alma, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) ⓘCleaner; Criterion; Caroline Occurrence (Bates Lode), Buckskin Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) ⓘHock Hocking Mine (Hock Hock), Alma, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) ⓘDetroit City Mine, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
3.6km (2.3 miles) ⓘSweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) ⓘLondon Mine, London Mountain, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
5.7km (3.6 miles) ⓘTanner Boy Mine, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
5.8km (3.6 miles) ⓘKite Lake, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) ⓘWyandotte Mine, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CRYSTALLIZATION SPHALERITE FROM THE COEUR D'ALENE R. G. ARNOLD, OF PYRRHOTITE HIGHLAND-SURPRISE DISTRICT, IDAHO...No. 8 AND MINE, AND V. C. FRYKLUND ABSTRACT The ore bodiesof the Highland-Surprise Mine are replacementsalong...series(Precambrian). Pyrite, arsenopyrite,pyrrhotite, sphalerite,chalcopyrite,and galenaare the chief metallic...formation were estimatedfor pyrrhotite-pyrite and sphalerite-pyrrhotiteassemblages containedin the steeplydipping...twenty-threepyrrhotite,eight pyrite, thirteen sphalerite,and two galenasampleswere determined. Partition
Report (Issue volume)
continents and large regions. Conflicts between mining and other uses, such as recreation and urbanization...this value is from the Cornwall mine, but the ore body of the Grace mine near Morgantown appears to be...Q The Friedensville zinc mine in type F is clearly the third largest mine in the state after Cornwall...type. The Gap nickel mine and the chromite deposits of the State Line district follow at $5-7 million...Valley Cashtown Orrtana Carr Hill Fairfield (Mell's mine) McNair farm Fairfield SW Jacks Mtn. Tunnel Hill
Journal (issue)
violet-red spessartines come from Colorado and Maine. San Diego County, CA, has been the main spessartine...members, Please join our October speaker, Professor Shelley Jaye, for dinner at the Olive Garden on October...2001. Spessartine garnet from Ramona, San Diego County, CA. Gems and Gemology 37(4). Mindat. 2016. Spessartine...below. October 24 Program Please join Professor Shelley Jaye for a fascinating exploration of the geologic...trips along the corridor, here’s your chance! Shelley began her exploration of the geosciences at a community
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mineral localities: the Leadhills-Wanlockhead district, S cotland......................................A C L E MI L E T U C S O N . ARIZONA 8 5 7 0 5 . USA 602 888-6015 Wanted to Buy or Exchange CRYSTAL...Hagendorf Minerals 969 Downing, Apt. 509 Denver, Colorado 80218 Tel. (303) 861-7973 By Appointment Only...blood-red rutile, a transparent yellow tetrahedron of sphalerite showing the combination of positive and negative...Purported locality: the Dome Rock Mountains, Yuma County, Arizona. (Harvard specimens #106489 and #106070
Report (Issue volume)
......... 49. Other fire clay processed at the mine: quantity ..... .. ............ .... .. .......... 31 18 53. Plastic fire clay processed at the mine: value................................................. 19 54. Flint fire clay processed at the mine: value 32 18. Other clay mined: average value...ton.... 19 55. Other fire clay processed at the mine: value 32 19. Shale mined: average value per ton.... . 21 59. Plastic fire clay processed at the mine: average value per ton.........................
Report (issue)
WS481 Garnet Sphalerite HS136 Sphalerite S102-7 Sphalerite S102-8 Sphalerite S26-34 Sphalerite S26-35 Sphene...Siderophyllite Sillimanite Smaragdite Sodium Spessartine Sphalerite Spodumene Staurolite Stilbite Strontianite Sulfur...absorptions in the spectra from relatively dry Colorado are really quite small in comparison. Placing...(Mg,Fe+2 ) 5Si8022 (OH) 2 COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Colorado ORIGINAL_DONOR: Hunt and Salibury Collection ...COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Floestenthal Tyrol, Austria ORIGINAL_DONOR: Colorado School of Mines CURRENT_SAMPLE_LOCATION: USGS
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
Report (Issue volume)
man-hours devoted to specific mine operations during the year 5. Mine or mine-plant equipment modernized...ownership of the mines of limestone and dolomite mining companies in Pennsylvania supplying data for use...derived primarily from reporting forms fiL:d by mining companies with the Pittsburgh office of the U....all aspects of the present limestone and dolomite mining industry of Pennsylvania. INTRODUCTION The preceding...hand, provides information relative to the present mining industry now utilizing Pennsylvania's limestone
Report (issue)
Site Number, Site Name ...................... 6 County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude .........location ( county, state, quadrangle, latitude, and longitude) 2. deposit size (occurrence type - mine, prospect...south and east to west. The most prevalent name of a mine or prospect which was used in reference descriptions...category. Where multiple names have been given to one mine or prospect site, generally the most recent name...stream, or town. County, State, Quadrangle, Latitude, Longitude Information in the county, state, quadrangle
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Denver, CO 80211 303-477-6897 (by appointment) Colorado & W orldwide Specimens The Crystal Group George...Road Colorado Springs, CO 80906 719-634-0635 (By Appt. Only) Amazonite & Smoky Quartz Fine Colorado Minerals...Minerals Genesis Epoch Mel & Pam Bersch 248 Little Park Rd. Grand Junction, CO 81503 970-242-3134 (call...1686 So. 21st Street Colorado Springs, CO 80904 719-442-6630 Producing Colorado Amazonite & Smoky Quartz
Report (issue)
16. 17. 18. Historic open pit of the Haile Gold Mine, South Carolina .......................................... 20 iii Tables 1. 2. The Haile Gold Mine reserve and resource estimates ...................A. Ayuso Invited paper for a Special Session on Mining in the United States at the 2012 Prospectors &... Haile Gold Mine, South Carolina Figure 1. Historic open pit of the Haile Gold Mine, South Carolina...the open pit of the Haile deposit of Lancaster County, South Carolina, which produced approximately 50
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California......................................3 cm, from the "Tree Root Pocket," Pikes Peak, Colorado. Bryan Lees specimen; photo by Harold and Erica...70, in Denver, Colorado. Henry Pohs was well known to every serious collector of mining antiques and memorabilia...the first book on the subject: Early Underground Mine Lamps', it became the “bible” of lamp collecting
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...chalcopyrite, galena, hedenbergite, m anganaxinite, sphalerite and other minerals. T h e mines are still in...tours for collectors are permitted by the friendly mine management, and visitors have even been allowed...Valley. It serves as the center of a very active mining area; a narrow-gauge railway for hauling ore passes...(The name simply means “most distant or remote mining tow n”) HISTORY The area around Dal’negorsk was
Report (issue)
Wilderness looking northeast from Leopold Vista, Catron County, N.Mex. (1) Nabours Mountain, (2) Wilcox Peak,...INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FEDERAL CENTER. DENVER. COLORADO 80225 Mineral Resources -Wilderness Studies December...INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FE"DF.:RAL CENTER. DENVER. COLORADO 80225 Minera) Resources--Wilderness Studies December...Geological Survey Library, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, California be made at requestor‱s expense. 94025...press release, the copy is expected to be in Menlo Park within a week or less, and can be ordered at·any
Report (volume)
the quadrangle are timber and chromite; chromite mining is profitable only during wartime. Vacation resorts...press). The volcanic rocks in the Patrick Creek-Shelley Creek area and the Craigs Creek-Coon Creek area...in excellent exposures along the West Fork of Shelley Creek; at the latter locality well-formed pillows...spilites of the Olympic Peninsula were studied by Park (1946). The spilitic rocks of the Gasquet quadrangle...and andesitic lava formed albitized andesite. As Park (1946, pp. 318-320) has pointed out, only during
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(e.g. Hubbard, I969; Ransom and Phillips, i969; Shelley, I969) it appears that few petrologists would dispute...Rock names refer to rock units in the Broken Hill 'mine sequence'. SHORT COMMUNICATIONS 73I The myrmekite...M.) and PHILLIPS(E. R.), 1969. Ibid. 54, 984. SHELLEY(D.), 1969. Ibid. 54, 982. WIDENFALK(L.), I969....Alacr~in polymetallic veins in the Pampa Larga mining district (27 ~ 36' S. ; 7~ xI' W.), near Copiap6, Atacama...confirmed by X-ray and electron microprobe study. This district is the only wellknown locality for native arsenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
process. DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2017.081.021. sphalerite and/or galena, suggesting that chalcopyrite is...Cd:Zn ratios in co-crystallizing chalcopyrite and sphalerite are typically approximately equal. Any distinct...Winderbaum et al., 2012; Belousov et al., 2016), or sphalerite and galena (e.g. Bethke and Barton, 1971; Blackburn...Cd:Zn ratio in chalcopyrite (and co-existing sphalerite) may assist in determining if physiochemical...1984), the Kidd Creek mine, Ontario, Canada (Cabri et al., 1985), the Bottino Mine, Italy (MoggiCecchi
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1974). The ma- Rico de Potosiand anotherAg-Zn-Pb mine in a volcanic jor antimonydepositsin Bolivia (Fig...SbCrudeOre Extractedfromthe district,reservesfor one orebody("bolson"in Spanish) Kharma Mine measuring20 X 65 m...tonsof Sb. The Kharmadepositis worked by drift mining by the CompaniaA. Roempler-Gutierrez.The percent...rtedinto a morpho- tion like that at the Kharma mine has been detected. This logical depressionby the...the argillaceouscountryrocks. Framboidalpyrite, sphalerite,chalcopyrite,andgalena Mineralogyand chemistryofore
Report (issue)
.pdf. Cover. Underground photo of the Skuterud Mine in Norway showing pink secondary erythrite (a hydrated..............................................F10 Mining Methods..............................................................................F13 Typical Mine Life..........................................................................................F16 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................F18 Mine Closure........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
exhalation-sedimentary massive sulfide deposits in the Tongling district, Anhui Province—Xu Wenyi, Hou Zengqian, Yang Zhusen...Navrotsky, and Peter C. Burns Compositional zoning in sphalerite crystals—Francesco Di Benedetto, Gian Piero Bernardini...the waste rocks of the abandoned Seobo tungsten mine, Korea—Pyeong-koo Lee, Min-Ju Kang, Sang-Hoon Choi...Cu2HgPb22Sb28S64(O,S)2, a new sulfosalt from Buca della Vena mine, Apuan Alps: Definition and crystal structure—P...from the Perry Pit, Mariposa mine, Terlingua mining district, Brewster County, Texas, U.S.A.—A.C. Roberts
Journal (issue)
England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA Steven R. Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor...by R. Z. Kothavala Rare minerals of the Kombat mine, Namibia ................................ 421 by....439 by S. Petrussenko Minerals of the Beltana mine, Puttapa, South A ustralia 449 by P. Elliot Columns...boundary. Bill Smith 1731 Daphne Street Broomfield, Colorado 80020 M id w e s t D ea ler s M C G em ini Minerals...ichigan 49930 (906) 482-9560 Michigan native copper; mine owner; wholesale, retail 411 Museum o f Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Berger 1993; Dill 1994) and numerous smallscale mining operations scattered across the Cordillera Oriental...these Sb deposits are also abundant in gold. The Sb mining districts in Europe and South America are both...the position of the working area, geology and Sb mining sites in the Bolivian Andes. a Geotectonic outline...to Ahlfeld and Schneider-Scherbina (1964); b Sb mining sites of the Cordillera Occidental referred to...the position of the working area, geology and Sb mining sites in the Western Carpathians. a Geotectonic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Australia Anita Parbhakar-Fox Transforming the Mining Value Chain (TMVC) ARC Industrial Transformation...leach materials remaining at abandoned or historic mine sites may represent a potential source of contamination...including pyrite, galena, arsenopyrite and minor sphalerite. Characterization of spent heap leach materials...repository of potentially hazardous waste may remain on mine sites after closure. Characterisation of waste rock...tailings materials at historic, legacy or abandoned mine sites is commonly undertaken as these are recognised
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract The Haopinggou deposit in the Xiong’ershan district, southern margin of the North China Craton, comprises...430074, Hubei Province, China 3 Transforming the Mining Value Chain, CODES, University of Tasmania, Private...alteration features, they are rarely found in the same district (e.g., Leach et al. 1988; Groves et al. 1995)...Within this metallogenic belt, the Xiong’ershan district (Fig. 1) contains numerous auriferous quartz-sulfide...the Xiayu ore field, west of the Xiong’ershan district (Fig. 2; Chen and Guo 1994; Chen et al. 2004;
Report (volume)
Wilderness looking northeast from Leopold Vista, Catron County, N. Sheridan Gulch, (5) Sheridan Mountain, (6)...Little Dry Creek, (12) Haystack Mountain, (13) Shelley Peak, (14) Bursum caldera, which passes through... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mining history and production . . . . . . . . . . . ....Mogollon mining district, samples 1-42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilcox mining district . ...(Brock Canyon) mining district, samples 475-494... Sapillo (Meerschaum) mining district, samples 502-506
 
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