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Sphalerite from
Ibex Mine, Breece Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Smithsonite4 photos of Sphalerite associated with Smithsonite at this locality.
Pyrite4 photos of Sphalerite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ibex Mine, Breece Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:222149
Long-form Identifier:1:3:222149:6
GUID (UUID V4):1052ebc7-6ca2-4550-b337-a8f7f31383e2
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Garbutt Mine, Breece Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Big Four Mine, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Garibaldi Tunnel, Lake County, Colorado, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Chautauquan, Lake County, Colorado, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Resurrection Mine (Diamond shaft), Evans Gulch, Lake County, Colorado, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Julia Fisk Mine, Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Moyer Mine, Iron Hill, Lake County, Colorado, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) First National Mine, Printer Boy Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Black Cloud Mine (Resurrection Mine 0080650339; Yak Tunnel; Leadville Unit; Irene Shaft), Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Iron Hill, Lake County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralogy of Selected Occurrences in Central Colorado and the San Juans Downloaded by [University of...Inc. 1441 W. Forty-sixth Avenue Suite 14 Denver, Colorado 80211-2338 P art one of this article (July/August...218-239, 280) dealt with the discovery of gold in Colorado and the mining history and geology/mineralogy...and California Gulch. THE CENTRAL COLORADO MINERAL BELT LAKE COUNTY 3,396,000 ounces, 1860-1 990 (Davis...and Streufert 1990) California Gulch and the Leadville Gold Belt In the spring of 1860, a small party
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur........ .................... ..... ^ B lllii Leadville.................................................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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
view of the Wolftone mine, Carbonate Hill, Leadville mining district. The mine was located in 1876 and...i t e Localities in the Central Portion of the Colorado Mineral Belt TOM ROSEMEYER PO Box 369 Magdalena...specimen is from the Wolftone mine and was originally part of a historical Leadville collection that was acquired...Montana, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. Colorado descloizite occurred in two distinct and...the Uravan mineral belt, located in southwestern Colorado near the Utah border, descloizite occurred in
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF TILE LEADVILLE MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO BY S. F. EMMONS, J. D. IRVING,...High terrace gravel_ 15 Low terrace gravel_ _ 17 "Lake beds"_ 17 Character and distribu17 tion _ Deformation...Relation to mineralization_31 Geologic age _ 31 Leadville limestone (" Blue " limestone) _ _ 32 Name_ 32...anticline _ Origin of the Iron-Mikado fault 61 Colorado Prince anticline _ group _ 95 61 Mosquito Gulch...Kokomo syncline_ Faults southeast_ of _ Leadville 62 the_ Fryer Hill folds _ 62 district _ 95 Warping and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(above). Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals showing light...Figure 2 (right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes; specimen...C*O*L*O*R*A*D*O PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs by John R...Park City, Utah; Washington State; and numerous Colorado localities. Pyrite crystallizes in the isometric...Pyrite is the most common sulfide mineral found in Colorado; it is found in a wide variety of occurrences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DEPOSITS IN AND ADJOINING THE LEADVILLE DISTRICT, G. F. LOUGHLIN COLORADO. • AND CHAS. H. BEHRE, JR.......................................... the Leadville district :2:2I .......................... ........................... :23• Continental Chief mine ............................... :23• Other mines...:244 Comparisonwith certain other districts in Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, and Utah ...................Loughlin, G. F.: Geology and Ore Deposits of the Leadville Mining District. U.S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper
Report (issue)
Includes the. Leadville, Colorado, mining district. Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Geological...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...High-level terraces,_____________________________ "Lake beds".__________________________________ Stratigraphy...___________ Dyer dolomite member. ___.____-__-_-___ Leadville dolomite------_------_----------__ Weber (?) ...Union syncline___ __________________________ Empire Hill syncline_ _-____-_-__--------_-__ Sheridan transverse
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of COLORADO ED RAINES Geology Museum Colorado School of Mines 1310 Maple Street Golden, Colorado 80401...noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...photographer unknown. B etween 1868 and 1922, Colorado produced almost 260 million pounds of copper....came from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926)...twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with more than 210
Report (issue)
SURVEY Geologic setting of the Leadville mining district, Lake County, Colorado by Alan R. Wallace1 Open-File...Government. JDenver, Colorado PREFACE This geologic summary of the Leadville, Colorado, mining district...to the California Gulch Superfund Site in Leadville, Colorado. Under the agreement, the USGS provides expert...regarding the geology and mineral deposits of the Leadville mining district. The report, a summary based upon.................. 15 Pre-mining setting of the Leadville district ....................................
Report (issue)
Bldg., 2600 corridor, 18th and CSts.,NW. DENVER, Colorado-Federal Bldg., Rm. 169,1961 Stout St. LOS ANGELES...Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125 South State...ROLLA, Missouri-1400 Independence Rd. DENVER, Colorado-Map Distribution, Bldg. 810, Federal Center FAIRBANKS...Juan Mountains, Colorado By FREDERICKS. FISHER Gold in the Alma Mining District, Colorado By DANIEL R.... SHAWE Precious Metals in the Leadville Mining District, Colorado By TOMMY B. THOMPSON Part I is Chapter
Book
MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40...MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna...Mines and minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index...index. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Colorado. 2. Mines and mineral resources—New Mexico. I. Kennedy, Marrianna...enter must be obtained to prevent trespass. Old mine workings are dangerous and entering underground
Report (issue)
Carbonate-Hosted Sulfide Deposits of the Central Colorado Mineral Belt DAVID W . BEATY, GARY P . LANDIS...LANDIS, AND TOMMY B. THOMPSON, EDITORS Leadville-type ore Sherman-type ore TH E ECON0t-11C GEOLOGY PUBLIS...Geology, 91-A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 Leadville-type ore (top) with rod-textured pyrite in a matrix...paralle l to host-rock bedding. Black Cloud mine, Leadville district. Sherman-type ore (bottom) in paleokarst...fragments (dark gray), white tabular barite. green sphalerite , and pyrite aggregates in a light hrownis11-gray
Report (volume)
Bulletin 681 THE OXIDIZED ZINC ORES OF LEADVILLE COLORADO BY G. F. LOUGHLIN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT..................................... 54 Carbonate Hill ore bodies........................................bodies in workings of Western Mining Co., Carbonate Hill...................................................Plan and sections of lead-silver stopes in Belgian mine............ 4. Diagrams illustrating relations of...bodies to lead carbonate stopes in the Oro La Plata mine..................... 5. Plan and sections showing
Journal (issue)
Kosnar R.A., Berg111anT. L·oro 111cris1alh del Colorado, U.S.A. (111)........... pag. 2-l I Orfa,ufi P...GR. Coli. e fo10 Giancarlo Brizzi. ADVISE TO OUR USA AND CANADA SUBSCRIBERS: The circulation agents for...MINERALOGICAL RECORD P.O. BOX 35565, TUCSON. ARIZONA 85740, USA. Please state thc purpose of your payment and your...perpuovi luoghi di ritrova :E E O ini abbonamenti": MINE Sode Verla GmbH • Postfach 405 • D- E' uscito...Lucky Knoch a Tonasket. Okanogan County nello stato di Washington (USA). Al nuovo minerale é stato dato
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
Report (issue)
155(3) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Sterling Hill, New Jersey, USA. 3.104 (100), 6.60 (86), 3.288 (75), 3.296...Total 100.75 100.00 (1) Pulaski Co., Virginia, USA. (2) Zn4 Si2 O7 (OH)2 ² H2 O: Occurrence: deposits...zinc-bearing mineral Association: Smithsonite, sphalerite, galena, cerussite, anglesite, calcite, aurichalcite...Freiberg and Altenberg, Saxony. In the Sa Duchessa mine, Oridda district, Sardinia, Italy. Large crystals...Tchah Kuh, Esfahan, Iran. In the USA, at Franklin and Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey;
Journal (issue)
Kizer N ew Year’s resolutions—did you make one? Mine was to do the things I have been putting off for...sites. Such locations include Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey; Mt. St. Hilaire, Quebec; as well as.............................. 3 Legendary Leadville, Colorado ...........................................BACKBENDER'S GAZETTE T FEBRUARY 2015 Legendary Leadville, Colorado by Dr. Nathalie Brandes Professor of Geosciences...Houston Gem & Mineral Society he rocks around Leadville, Colorado host one of the largest lead-zincsilver deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral derived from the supergene oxidation of sphalerite. It is particularly common in the oxide zones... aragonite, dolomite, anglesite, galena, and sphalerite have been reported. Quartz,goethite, pyrolusite...Bozion 1962) and as an alteration product in sphalerite-bearing pegmatites. Only those localities known...depth. These include the Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the Buckwheat pit, Franklin, New...Chester County, the Ueberroth mine near Bethlehem, and the zinc mines at Friedensville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania;
Journal (issue)
Marvin Hanner Additions to the Ore Mineralogy of Colorado.................................................by Donald Grybeck Crystallized Minerals of the Colorado Mineral Belt....................................had achieved considerable fame, and the right to mine diopside was obtained that year by G eorge L. English...thereafter. In 1971 both the land and the right to mine diopside were purchased by the present owners, Schuyler...Alveum, R obert Dow, and G eorge Robinson. T he mine is now being worked interm ittently each year for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen was found in a Joplin, Missouri, district mine in the late 1800s and was donated to the Carnegie...Included might have been a marvelous galena, sphalerite, or calcite specimen exhibiting gigantic, beautifully...crystal morphology and color were recovered from a mine in the Joplin area. The best known of these specimens...Hancock County, Maine. Small, well-formed hemimorphite crystals were once found at the old lead mine southeast...Loudville mine, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. The zinc deposits of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Technological University] at 01:12 30 May 2016 Touissit Mine, Oujda, Morocco This unusual specimen consists...MINERALS was found in June 1988 at shaft 9, Touissit mine, Oujda, Morocco, and purchased there by Victor Yount...Foster iron mine, Putnam County, and at the old Rossie lead mines in St. Lawrence County, New York. In...Journal ( 1814) as occurring at Loudville, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, an identification confirmed on...at the Wheatley mines near Phoenixville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. Elsewhere in Pennsylvania it was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alabama 36849-5305 SCHEELITE CAMP BIRD MINE, OURAY COUNTY, COLORADO I n keeping with the theme of the...specimens have been pro­ duced. The Boriana mine in Mohave County, Arizona, has fur­ nished orange euhedral...section of the famous Camp Bird mine near Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. A complete description of this...associated quartz, calcite, hiibnerite, pyrite, sphalerite, galena, and chalcopyrite. Many of the better...of Ronal E. Bentley (1948-1995). Cohen mine in Cochise County. Good specimens containing generally smaller
Report (issue)
Elba, Italy; remainder 0.04% SiO2 . (2) Mill Close mine, Derbyshire, England. (3) Gladhammar, Sweden. (4)... Association: Pyrrhotite, marcasite, galena, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, many other sulfides...Aktchitao, Kazakhstan. In the USA, in the Ibex mine, Leadville, Lake Co., Colorado; in Illinois, as “suns”...Randolph Co.; very large crystals from the Santo Niño mine, near Duquesne, Santa Cruz Co., Arizona. In Pennsylvania...Creek mines, Chester Co., and in the Carleton talc mine, Chester, Windsor Co., Vermont. From Butte, Silver
Catalog/List
aX¾"to ¾x¾"cogwheel crystals 6. fibrous on sphalerite. 2½x3½" $ 75 • OO BROCHANTITE Cluquicamata...$50. 00. 7. CALAVERITE Cresson mine, Cripple Creek, Teller Co., Colorado. Select silvery-gray fiattened...with fluorite. 3x4" $85. 8. CASSITERITE Siglo XX mine, Llalla.gua., Bolivia, Choice lustrous jet-black... 3x3:xl¼" $35. 00. 12. COPPER and SILVER Seneca mine, HouP-ton, Michtga.n. Chotce bronze metallic irregular...$20. 00. 18. KRENNERITE Cresson mine, Cripple Creek, Teller Co., Colorado. Lustrous silvery metallic 1 to
Journal (issue)
Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan What’s new in Colorado minerals? ...................................... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349 by J. A...quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo
 
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