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Tourmaline from
Black Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1572429
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1572429:2
GUID (UUID V4):b12fe108-4314-465c-bbc8-8be9e3916bd0
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
14.5km (9.0 miles) ā“˜Many Values pegmatite prospect, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
23.0km (14.3 miles) ā“˜Platt Pegmatite Mine, Big Creek pegmatite District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
68.3km (42.4 miles) ā“˜Hahns Peak Saddle, Hahns Peak Mining District (Columbine Mining District), Routt County, Colorado, USA
93.6km (58.1 miles) ā“˜Huckleberry Mine, Crystal Mountain Pegmatite Mining District (Storm Mountain Mining District), Larimer County, Colorado, USA
95.2km (59.2 miles) ā“˜Pan Claims, Crystal Mountain Pegmatite Mining District (Storm Mountain Mining District), Larimer County, Colorado, USA
97.0km (60.3 miles) ā“˜Calypso Beryl Mine, Crystal Mountain Pegmatite Mining District (Storm Mountain Mining District), Larimer County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
00:52 01 June 2016 Wyoming Mineral Locality Index Figure 1. Index map of Wyoming counties, with exposures...exposures of Precambrian and volcanic rocks. 1 he Wyoming mineral locality index is designed to provide mineral...interesting mineral occurrences in the state of Wyoming. Five publications were used extensively in compiling...view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...1 inch equals 4 miles) of the entire state of Wyoming in book form. The Wwming Atlas and Gazetteer can
Book (edition)
ONYX ā€¢ PERIDOT* ā€¢ ZIRCON ā€¢ CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS ā€¢ AOATI ā€¢ ā€¢ AMETHYST URINE ā€¢ ā€¢...to hunt for Diamonds in the American pearls Black light for your minerals 50 Locations in which... lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^ RUTILE SAPPHIRE 1^ TOURMALINE CRYSTALS TOPAZ CRYSTALS 4 GEM hunter's GUIDE...six or eight different gem as color, its tourmaline may B are, in fact, A blue gem minerals...found many of stones, such as quartz amethyst, tourmaline, beryl, topaz and spodumene. crystals, Areas
Report (issue)
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING Gary B. Glass, Executive Director and State Geologist ADVISORY BOARD...Governor Terry P. Roark,President, University of Wyoming Donald B. Basko, Oil and Gas Supervisor Appointed...Cheyenne, Wyoming. This and other publications available from: The Geological Survey of Wyoming P.O. Box...University Station LaIanlle, Wyoming 82071 (307) 766Ā·2286 Front Cover - Wyoming gold. Gold buttons in the...recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................. Wyoming..................................................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 (volume)
the State lists begin with Alabama and end with Wyoming. Under each State the minerals found there are...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...New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland, State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel
Report (issue)
Mineralization, Southern Wyoming Province Hartville Uplift to Copper Mountain Area, Wyoming July t 9-25, t 989...North Fork Cherry Creek and on Tony Ridge, Bull Camp Peak 1 1/2-minute quadrangle, Wyoming. Leaders: George...Hausel Deputy Directory Theological Survey of Wyoming Box 3008, University Station Laramie, WY 82071...The University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Paul J. Graff Research Associates of Wyoming 2220 East 17th...PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS AND MINERALIZATION, SOUTHERN WYOMING PROVINCE by George L. Snyder 1, W. Dan Hausel2
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Archean Wyoming Province, USA Robert S. Houston Geology Department, Universityof Wyoming, Laramie,... WY 82070, USA (Received October 25, 1990; accepted after revision March 1, 1991 ) ABSTRACT Houston...deposits near plate margins of the Archean Wyoming Province, USA. In: G. Gadl and K. Schulz (Editors), Precambrian...deposits located near the margin of the Archean Wyoming Province can be interpreted in a plate tectonic...southern margin of the Archean Wyoming Province is exposed in southeastern Wyoming where Early Proterozoic island
Book
Mineral Resources ^ OF \ WYOMING Published by The State Board of Immigration Cheyenne, Wyo. I...or 0 iii-ji f iā€˜r^. \ Mineral Resources of Wyoming There are few states in the Union that possess...mineral reĀ¬ sources as vast and varied as those of Wyoming. The late Prof. Knight of the State University...Mountain state with greater posĀ¬ sibilities than Wyoming, or that offers better opportunities for mineral...vania is to-day. Gold Miningā€”Gold mines were first worked at South Pass, Fremont County, in 1867, since which
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE
Report (issue)
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING HORACE D. THOMAS, State Geologist BULLETIN 51 A FIELD GUIDE TO THE...ROCKS AND MINERALS OF WYOMING by William H. Wilson THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING HORACE D. THOMAS,...' 0 MINERALS OF WYOMING By WILLIAM H. WILSO. UN IVERSITY OF WYOMING LARAMIE, WYOMING A GUST, 1965 This...the Department of Geology at the University of Wyoming ( 19 17-631. For more than fift y years his life...life has been devoted toward the understanding of Wyoming geology. but perhaps more important has been his
Book (volume)
Iowa to 3,500ā€™ along the western boundary with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade...the land rises abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi. Black Hills region enclosed by the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne...Cheyenne rivers. These pine covered mountains, higher than the Alleghenies, culminate in Harney Peak...a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore National...huge crystals of sparkling blue Beryl from the Black Hills pegmatites have measured from 18ā€™ to 27ā€™ long
Book (volume)
although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.āŽÆcone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rareāŽÆDiamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Toddā€™s...Toddā€™s Ford, a mineral depositāŽÆHematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark gray to black nodulesāŽÆflint. CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS
Book (volume)
although excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.āŽÆcone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rareāŽÆDiamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Toddā€™s...Toddā€™s Ford, a mineral depositāŽÆHematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark gray to black nodulesāŽÆflint. CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS
Report (volume)
Bulletin 626 THE ATLANTIC GOLI) DISTRICT AND THE NORTH LARAMIE MOUNTAINS PAPERS BY ARTHUR C. SPENCER...................... The Atlantic gold district, Fremont County, Wyo........................... Introduction........................ Geology of the Atlantic district......................................... Rocks...Magnetite schists in the northern part of the district.............. 16 Distribution and general character........................ General outlook for lode mining.................................... Planning of
Book
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 'ā€˜Schoolmarmā€ 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
Book (volume)
Erica and. Harol d Van I [iL Albuquerque, Wyoming 6400 Library Academy Albuquerque 87109 N.M. N_E...Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange...(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(including the Black Hills) of North America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas...2, pp. 104-105, 1907. la Reid, A. Mclntosh, The mining fields of Morina, Mt. Claude, and Lorinna: Tasmania...pp. 300-311. t6 Dolmage, Victor, Finlay River district, British Columbia:' Canad'ian l[i'n. TH E AM...San Diego, California, world famous for their tourmaline crystals and lithium minerals, are of Mesozoic...A. L Genesis of mica pegmatite deposits, Latah County, Idaho: , Econ. Geology,vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 41-58
Report (volume)
all red stones: spinel, ruby, garnet, and rose tourmaline; the term "sapphire," to lapis lazuli and other...beauty of irregularly colored stones, such as tourmaline. UNIT OF WEIGHT The carat, meaning one-fifth...from the liquid, and heating it; this produced black bands. Today the same effect is achieved by first...dikes contain a variety of gem stones, such as tourmaline, beryl (emerald, aquamarine), spodumene (kunzite...colorless, pale yellow or pale brown; also gray and black, rarely green, blue, or pink. Crystal form: Isometric
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"ā€”DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...thickness; mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted...south prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles
Book
position of igneous rocks. Anyone who walks in the mountains will be familiar with the natural processes going...often are arrested there. At the Eldorado sapphire mine in MonĀ¬ tana the action of a million years is readily...such minerals as quartz, feldspar, mica, garnet, tourmaline, magnetite, zircon, gold, platinum, topaz, beryl...the middle Northwest one can see bands of almost black substance between layers of sedimentary rock. This...intrudes a sloping bed of limestone. As the Yogo mine has been worked at various times in the past hundred
Book (volume)
Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout... most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing gravels in Montana is beginning...c1ystals, many of facet-grade, found in the Wah Wah Mountains of Utah are to be mined by conventional open-pit
Book
ARIZONA-V] 265-352 257-320 353-400 321-384 TOURMALINE ] 327--438 439-508 225-288 289-352 353-416...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Connedistrict, Maine Topsham district, Maine Grafton district, New Hampshire Greenfield...Middletown district, Connecticut Southern Black Hills district, South Dakota Crystal Mountain district, Colorado...Colorado Clear Creek district, Colorado Bunkerville district, Arizona/Nevada Bently district, Nevada O Pegmatite...albite, green beryl, columbite, muscovite, and black tourmaline (Seybert, 1824; Webster, 1820). This was not...minerals are quartz, plagioclase, orthoclase(?), black tourmaline, garnet (almandine?), muscovite, biotite,
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such... *' ^ *D * D } '<&*=> 4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet...32 materials in their full natural color 58 7 Black light for your minerals 59 8 Judging quality and...Thousands of amateurs go out each year into the mountains and deserts of North America to collect a great...IOLITE SPHALERITE RUBY i^b TOPAZ CRYSTALS TOURMALINE CRYSTALS (CroĀ»$-$Ā«ction ot righl) ^ \b7 CHRYSOBERYL
Report (issue)
SOUTH DAKOTA Nils Boe, Governor MINERALOGY OF THE BLACK HILLS by WILLARD LINCOLN ROBERTS Research Associate...contributions to our know ledge of the "Mineralogy of the Black Hills" PREFACE This volume is historically the...the third to describe the mineralogy of the Black Hills, South Dakota. The first was Samuel Scott's map...and forty-page folder in 1897. "Minerals of the Black Hills" by Victor Ziegler followed in 1914 as Bulletin...occurrences and the literature of the minerals of the Black Hills and a laboratory mineralogist with X-ray,
 
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