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Sphalerite from
Zuni Mine, Anvil Mountain, San Juan 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 Zuni Mine, Anvil Mountain, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:291378
Long-form Identifier:1:3:291378:0
GUID (UUID V4):fee4a9da-d737-4074-9619-cab943bb8f50
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
2.3km (1.4 miles) Mayday Mine, Anvil Mountain, Silverton, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) May Day Mine, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) Brooklyn Mine, Brown's Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) Boston, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) North Star Mine (Sultan Mine; North Star-Sultan), Sultan Mountain, Silverton, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Belcer Mine (Belcher), Sultan Mountain, Silverton, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
4.9km (3.0 miles) Empire group, Sultan Mountain, Silverton, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
5.2km (3.3 miles) Mighty Monarch Mine, Kendall Mountain, Silverton, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) Henrietta Mine (Lark), San Juan County, Colorado, USA
5.5km (3.4 miles) Graham Mine (Crevice; Kansas City Adits), Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Zuni Mine Downloaded by [North Carolina State University] at 12:59 07 January 2015 SAN JUAN COUNTY...COUNTY, COLORADO 94 ROCKS & MINERALS WILLIAM P. MOATS 8409 Fairmont Drive NE Albuquerque, New Mexico...87120 ARNOLD G. HAMPSON P. 0. Box 1379 Dolores, Colorado 81323 PAUL F. HLAVA M.S. 0342, P.O. BOX 5800...Mexico 87185 he Zuni mine is located about 3 miles northwest of Silverton in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern...southwestern Colorado and is the type locality for zunyite and guitermanite (now discredited). Both of
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...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 14:12 03 February 2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas...(Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite. Hell Canyon...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve:...stolzite. Wilcox district, S. of Mogollon. Lone Pine mine: emmonsite, khademite, lannonite,* mackayite, poughite...poughite, rajite,* tellurium, wilcoxite.* Sacaton mine, Blue Rock and Bit Spar prospects: fluorite. Volume
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 07:53 01 January 2015 Bournonite Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China T here are certain...clearly the most prolific being the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan Province. (Additional locality information...and is often associated with pyrite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, stibnite, boulangerite, zinkenite...Hawk mine, Blue Hill, Maine; New York City, New York; an unspecified locality in Chester County, Pennsylvania;...Cofer deposit in the Mineral district of Louisa County, Virginia, where it occurs with tetrahedrite; and
Report (volume)
REPORT ECONOMIC GEOLOGT 7 SILVERTON QUADRANGLE, COLORADO FREDERICK RANSOME WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING...Whitman Cross........................... ........ San Juan volcanic area .......................... .......the volcanic area ......... ...........:..... San Juan formation . ...... ...'......--...-.............Silver Lake mine..... . -.-.-..--....-.---..-.-. ....................... 145 145 145 149 Iowa mine ........Royal Tiger mine......................... 159 ......--.....-....-.-....-. Buckeye mine ...........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PLS. SEPTEMBER 1968 URANIUM EMPLACEMENT IN THE COLORADO PLATEAU (Vice-Presidential Address, Section E...Four hypotheses of uranium emplacement on the Colorado Plateau justify consideration: (1) the hydrothermal...2015 1076 P. F. KERR—URANIUM EMPLACEMENT IN COLORADO PLATEAU Available criteria Absolute-age data...of the Colorado Plateau 3. Uranium mineralization and alteration accompanying faulting 4. Mine adit in...Figure 12. Schematic diagram of alteration, Temple Mountain collapse 1085 13. Spherical cavities in sulfide
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
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)
JanuaryEebruary: Cerussite and fluorite, Blanchard mine, Socorro County, New Mexico. Peter J. Modreski photo. MarchlApril:...MarchlApril: Wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona. Vienna Natural History Museum specimen, 0. Medenbach...Medenbach photo. May/June: Legrandite, Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural Science...chalcopyrite, and quartz, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil... NovemberDecember: Silver, Bulldog mine, Mineral County, Colorado. F. John Barlow specimen, Malcomb Hjerstedt
Book (edition)
uranium-vanadium deposits on the vegetation of the Colorado Plateau. H. Cannon L. (1953) Geobotanical...prospecting for uranium on La Ventana Mesa, Sandoval County, New Mexico. .,3d ed. H. C. Dake (1953) The uranium...and J. H. Soule (1955) Uranium ynining on the Colorado Plateau. Jack DeMent and H. C. Dake (1947) Handbook...V. C. Kelley (1955a) Regional tectonics of the Colorado Plateau and relationship to the origin and distribution...currence of uranium and vanadium minerals from the Colorado Plateaus. For maps showing the location of uranium
Report (issue)
................................ 30 Bernalillo County ..................................................................................... 30 Catron County ..................................................................................... 32 Chaves County ..................................................................................... 33 Colfax County ..................................................................... 34 35 36 37 38 39 Curry County ..............................................
Report (issue)
-------------------------------- 36 Bernalillo County ----------------------------------------------...---------------------------------- 39 Blackbird mine -----------------------------------------------...------------------------------------ 42 Catron County ----------------------------------------------...-------------------------------- 44 Huckleberry mine -----------------------------------------------...------------------------------------ 46 Sacaton mine -----------------------------------------------
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)
ALLOTT, Colorado LEN B. JORDAN, Idaho MILWARD L. SIMPSON, Wyoming PETER H. DOMINICK, Colorado JERRY T...----------------------------------------- 103 San Juan Basin-------------------------------------------------------...-------------------------------------------------------------- 105 Zuni field -----------------------------------------...-------------------------------------------- 109 West edge of San Juan Basin --------------------------------- 1 1 0...----------------------------------- 112 Datil Mountain field -------------------------------------------------------
Report (issue)
transgressive-regressive shoreline in the southern San Juan Basin. Several stops are planned to look at these...knowledge of the Late Cretaceous in the southern San Juan Basin and outlying areas. Many people have helped...economic importance elsewhere in the southern San Juan Basin, are present in the area and both contain...and Santa Fe) Railroad. 1.6 36.00 Bridge over Rio San Jose. Valley cut in Chinle Formation. 3.6 39.60 Note...Mount Taylor but small vents near eastern edge of Zuni Mountains 1012 mi southwest of highway. 1.0 63.70
Report (issue)
with the University of New Mexico, with the State Mine Inspector and with other departments of State Government...------------Tyrone PowELL STACKHOUSE, JR., Coal Mine Operator ____________________________San Antonio...Colo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colorado Cong....................... Congress Contr. ....Nat. Hist., Proc. · Colorado Museum of Natural History, Proceedings. Denver, Colorado. Colo. Sci. Soc.,... Proc. Colorado Scientific Society, Proceedings. Denver, Colorado. Denison Univ. Sci. Lab., BulL Denison
Report (issue)
for the mining of uranium ore. In western San Juan County, on the eastern flanks of the Carrizo Mountains...Morrison formation. On the southern rim of the San Juan Basin in Valencia and McKinley Counties, carnotite...Cretaceous age. Farther south in the Zuni Mountains of Valencia County joint coatings in pre-Cambrian granites...two deposits, one in the San Acacia or San Lorenzo district in Socorro County and the other in the Scholle...Scholle district in Torrance County, had been reported. The former deposit consists of autunite, torbernite
Journal (issue)
Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Volume 71 • No. 10 • October 2022 The Rocky Mountain Association...through innovation OUTCROP Newsletter of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists 1999 Broadway • Suite...730 • Denver, CO 80202 • 720-672-9898 The Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists (RMAG) is a nonprofit...Outcrop is a monthly publication of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Danielle Robinson danielle... -._ . - lr:t' ~' ........ ·. •• . Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Powder River Basin
Report (issue)
areas of Texas and Colorado Prepared for the Geological Society of America Rocky Mountain and South-Central...after the joint annual meeting of the GSA Rocky Mountain and South-Central Sections in Albuquerque, New...neotectonic evolution along the margin of the Colorado Plateau and Rio Grande rift, northern New Mexico...Cenozoic magmatism and tectonics of the southeastern Colorado Plateau, New Mexico (three days), for which field...at intersection of Loop 375 (Woodrow Bean Trans-Mountain Road) and FM 3255 (North—South Freeway). Proceed
Report (issue)
guettardite, zinkenite, tsugaruite, kirkiite, enargite, sphalerite, galena. Distribution: From the Lengenbach quarry...district, Västerbotten, Sweden. In the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England. In Japan, from the...In the USA, at the Zuni mine and Brobdingnag prospect, near Silverton, San Juan Co., Colorado; in the...the Keystone mine, Birmingham, Blair Co., Pennsylvania; and in the Balmat-Edwards mine, Balmat, St. Lawrence...East Pacific Rise (21◦ N) and on Axial Seamount, Juan de Fuca Ridge, northeast Pacific Ocean. Name: Honors
Report (volume)
............................................. Colorado.................................................especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee,...minerals and rocks, their occurrence and uses: Colorado State Geol. Survey Bull. 6, 1913. 8 USEFUL...Nashville, Tenn. California____.Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Map
byproduct of copper, zinc, or lead production. County District Estimated production (Troy ounces) Gold...vein; placer Sandoval Cochiti 42,000 210,000 San Miguel Willow Creek* 178,300 6,200,000 Santa...USBM Minerals Yearbooks Bernalillo County dera Group. Catron County 3. Mogollon 362,225 (365,000) 4...1910 Ag, Cu, Pb (W) D,A Cibola County 5. Zuni Mountains Colfax County 6. Cimmaroncito (100) monzonite...derived from the lode deposits. Dona Ana County 8. Black Mountain (600) Ag, Cu (Ba) M, E Veins in Precambrian
Report (issue)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. A sbestos ore Lead ore, Balmat mine, N . Y. Chromite-chromium ore, Washington Zinc ore...Peninsula, Mich. 10. Porphyry molybdenum ore, Colorado 11 . Zinc ore, Edwards , N . Y. 12. Manganese...not yet discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once they are discovered........................................ Crystal Mountain......................................................................................... Spor Mountain..............................................
Book
.3 COLORADO. of COLORADO. J. S. l GEORGETOWN, COLO. GEORGETOWN COURIER PRINT. 1887. 3 Bancroft...From a mineralogical point of view the wealth of Colorado exceeds that of In the metallic minerals almost...to in the following pages Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society. Proceedings of the Academy...the U. S. Geological Survey. J. GEORGETOWN, COLORADO, January, 1887. S. RANDALL. : MINERALS...gravel of streams and in veins. The veins of Gilpin County are especially noteworthy for the amount of gold
Report (volume)
William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
 
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