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Calcite from
Atlantic Cable Mine, Rico, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hematite1 photo of Calcite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Atlantic Cable Mine, Rico, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:285511
Long-form Identifier:1:3:285511:0
GUID (UUID V4):6eba80b1-5242-4211-9d74-77a31de3b127
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
0.9km (0.6 miles) Iron Clad Mine, Expectation Mountain, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Jones Mine (St. Louis claim), Expectation Mountain, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Enterprise Mine, Newman Hill, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Yellow Jacket Mine, Telescope Mountain, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Mountain Springs Mine (Rico Argentine), C.H.C. Hill, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Rico Argentine Mine, Silver Creek, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Silver Creek Molybdenum deposit, Silver Creek, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Blaine tunnel (Rico Argentine Mine), Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) A. B. G. Mine (Amy; Esmerelda; F.V.G.; Burns Group; Nagara), Lone Cone Mining District (Dunton Mining District), Dolores County, Colorado, USA
18.2km (11.3 miles) Missouri Girl Deposit (Green Frog), Bear Creek Mining District, Montezuma County, Colorado, USA
References
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Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...............171 J. M. Shannon and G. C. Shannon Rico ..................................................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
Book
\‘ ' , TEIE ORE DEPOSITS ‘ \ or THE i RICO MOUNTAINS, comRAno BY FREDERKH§LESLHQRANSOME ¢ EXTRACT...OFFICE E ‘ THE ORE DEPOSITS OF THE RICO MOUNTAINS COLORADO B \' FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME 229 98939............................................ . . Calcite .................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . _ . _ . Future of the district . _ . . . . . . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . ....Hill and Dolores Mountain . _ . . . . . _ . . . _ . . _ . . . _ . . . . . . . Enterprise mine . . . .
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Rico District, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 723...723 Geology and Ore Deposits of the Rico District, Colorado By EDWIN T. McKNIGHT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ...------------------------------------Location and geography of district -----------History --------------------------...-------------Middle and Upper ( ?) Pennsylvanian Series_ Rico Formation ---------------------Permian System -...n fault ----- - ---------------------FauUs of Dolores Mountain and vicinity --Faults of Deadwood Gulch
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
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 (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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193-256 137-208 129-192 209-264 193-256 [ [ COLORADO-Ill] 177-256 121-184 89-168 1-120 1-88 [ ...177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400 COLORADO-II] 321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400...69-132 65-128 1-64 11 / 1980 20 I 1989 [ COLORADO-I] [ 289-352 385-448 [ AUSTRALlA] 353-504...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
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PorphyryMolybdenumMineralizationin the RicoMiningDistrict,Colorado PETER B. LARSON Department of Geology,Washington...99164-2812 Abstract The Rico miningdistrict,westernSanJuanMountains,Colorado,containsepithermal veindeposits...sedimentaryrocksthat havebeen uplifted into the Rico dome,whichis coredby a horstof Precambriangreenstoneand...1985; Brooks et al., 1986; The Ricominingdistrict,Colorado,containsa diverseassemblage of hydrothermalmineraldeposits...vein formationat Ca- mineralization in the Rico district, and to look for sapalca,Peru. Minor magmatic
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...widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by reason of some
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—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...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
Report (volume)
. 234 " y { " ,-t .. .~,:",. I " , COLORADO "or.! _ +, (~ STATE OF .~ :'(' COL~ADO /... BULLETIN 40 RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BlaLlllGRAPHY by James L. Nelson-Moore,...Energy COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESUURCES STATE OF COLORADO DENVER, COLORADO 1978...ete 11 st r ng of rad i aaet 1ve occurrences 1n Colorado, with a comprehensive blbi iography and bibliographic...on the Colorado Plateau sparked several periods of exploratIon that ultimately led to a mining "boom ll
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...rocks and gentle terrain where crystals of barite, calcite, and gypsum are found along with petrified wood...MICHAEL J. GOBLA 19055 East Bethany Place Aurora, Colorado 80013 gobla@copper.net Unless otherwise noted
Journal (volume)
Bingham, Utah, Mining Black Sand Page. Abbott, James W A Visit to Ely, Nevada Mining at Bingham, Utah...Greenwater District Ditto Ditto Ditto Abyssinia, Minerals In The Requirements of Modern Mining 70S 52...Charles [64 James W. 82 431 114 Nelll 815 District, British W Columbia, The 783 431 795 736 241...Tube-Mill Lining Forbes Rlckard 511 17 The Boundary District The Mineral Output of. In 1906 Broken Hill, Acid...Proprietary Mine, He Treatment at G. D. Del prat Brown, Walter 8 A Filing System for Mining Engineers llucke
Book (edition)
OCEAN Stratigraphy Continental Shelf and Adjacent Atlantic NEW ENGLAND APPALACHIAN Divisions of Rocks ...STRUCTURAL TERMINOLOGY Pied- Orogenic History ATLANTIC COASTAL PLAIN Extent Exercises of Folded and...Province XI Western Eugeosyncline APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS Extent PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION Uplifts...the Yukon British Thrust-Faulted Appalachian Mountains EDITOR'S and Columbia British of Orogenic...Basin Uinta Mountains Definition of Belts of Regional Uplift in Late Cenozoic COLORADO AND NEW MEXICO
Report (issue)
" ; ^,- • ^... -'--' . CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU. Henry G. FIFTH Hanks, State Mineralogist...provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Mining Bureau," approved April 16, 1880. I have the honor... REPORT. The Act creating the California State Mining- Bureau, approvides for an annual report by the...statistical information in reference to mines and mining as shall be deemed important." In obedience to...Mineralogist, has been prepared. The prosperity of the Mining Bureau, and the growth and progress of the State
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 (issue)
- .... - .... -- .............. - ... - ... 80 Colorado formation ....................................... _. _. _______ . _______ _ 93 Granodiorite at Cable. ____ .. ____ .. . _. . ___ . _.... ______ ... _........................................... . 144 Cable Mountain anticline_ .............................._............... _. 148 Faults on the flanks of Cable Mountain .... _................... _........ ·....... .' .............................. -_... . Calcite group ... ...................... , ...........
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,
Journal (issue)
Copper rontier Development of Michigan's Cliff Mine ( 1845-1870) by Paul Chrastina Introduction About...Copper Frontier: Development of Michigan's Cliff Mine (1845-1870) ................................. 17...Houghton ...........................26 Historical Mining Certificates ..................28 Trail of Mineral...America's first great mining boom, the Keweenaw cop­ per rush of the 1840's. Early Copper Mining The presence...follows the course of a large vein of copper and calcite, and was worked at least 6,500 years ago, when
Report (volume)
SMITH, DIRECTOR 408 A RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME MINING GAMPS IN ELKO, UNDER, AND EUREKA COUNTIES, NEVADA............................. Mountain ranges and mining districts................................................................ Midas or Gold Circle district........................................ Location...geology............................................. Mine descriptions......................................44 44 45 46 47* 47 47 47 48 48 48 48 49 50 Rex mine..................:.............................
Journal (volume)
machines, ventilating apparatus, emery wheels, mining and milling machinery. Particis being given to...employ a large foroe of skilled workmen. a Mining and Scientific Press. through the rotten boards...and Salt- habitants, nearly all of whom follow mining for an occupation. From Huatajia it is about peter...Juan."J [Written Huatajia, is the most productive mining-camp In my last letter (page 448 of Dec. 14tb)...— [Jan. I, 18J0 of Roseburg, has opened a coal mine, located fourteen miles west of this place, that
Journal (volume)
raya it never receives the of the ann. — — Mining and Scientific Press. Mineral and Other Resources...the Press by Jambs H. CaosBMAN.J Providence Mining District, SUaated on Providence MoDDtain, haa been subdivided...respectively as the Trojan, the Gold Bait and the Arrow Mining Districts. Providence Mountain haa been previously...South is develsylvania. The General Custer is a gold mine developed oping in an industrial way very rapidly...The Gold Belt Mining District, the collection of information regarding the foron is district, Providence
Journal (volume)
have Mining and Scientific Press. The Miners' Association of Nevada Co. At the recent Mining Convention...crops Is Illimitable^ while the area for profitable mining Is very limited the world over. This and other...this, the Government should protect and foster the mining industry. It ia and with any State organization...the mines proaperlty that would quickly place the mining coantles on their former important level in every...dams, barriers and catchment basins, hydraulic mining may be resumed the debris therefrom restrained
Journal (volume)
view of the Pay-rock tramway Silver Plume, Colorado, built on this system, The syetom of transportiDg...moved it will require more larger quantities are mine by loading every third ascending help. This upper...as 1. have a sliding movement, to tighten the cable without cutting and splicing the rope. A number...these Huson patent tramways are in use in various mining districts, for transport- ing ore, supplies,...also, some of them carrying the men to and from the mine or mill. In mountainous districts they are invaluable
 
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