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Fluorite from
Puzzle mine, Poncha Springs, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Puzzle mine, Poncha Springs, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:301405
Long-form Identifier:1:3:301405:9
GUID (UUID V4):5a7c7024-0dac-40d4-b06d-d700708be54a
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ā“˜Blue Stone Deposit, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) ā“˜White King Deposit, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) ā“˜Chimney Hill Mine (Morgan Ranch Deposits; Manganese Hill), Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
0.7km (0.5 miles) ā“˜Last Chance Mine (Lower Adit; Kramer Mine; Adit No. 1; Adit No. 2), Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) ā“˜Snowflake Deposit, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) ā“˜Colorado - American Mine (West Vein; Trefone Adit; East Vein; American Shaft; Mill Adit; Branch or Collins Vein), Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) ā“˜Alderman deposit, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) ā“˜Unnamed Fluorspar Deposit (1), Poncha Springs Area, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) ā“˜Unnamed Fluorspar Deposit (2), Poncha Springs Area, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) ā“˜Hortense Hot Spring, Chalk Creek District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Mineral Deposits of the Poncha Springs NE Quadrangle, Chaffee County,Colorado By RALPH E. VAN ALSTINE... 626 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Mining Industrial Development Board UNITED STATES...Nathrop Volcanics _________________________ _ Browns Canyon Formation _________________ _ Dry Union Formation...Van Alstine and Doak C. Cox _________ _ Colorado-American mine ______________ -_Delay adit and Lloyd shaft...--_-----_Manganese Hill and Chimney Hill mines_Last Chance mine _________________ -_-_Other fluorspar deposits ________
Report (issue)
Index of the Geology of the Creede Mining District and Vicinity Colorado By Daniel O. Hayba and Constance...bibliography and index of the geology of the Creede mining district and vicinity was prepared in support of the...information pertaining to the geology of the Creede district. Thus, references range from papers dealing entirely...also PALEONTOLOGY and PALEOENVIRONMENT) GEOLOGY, District GEOLOGY, Regional GEOMORPHOLOGY GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS...Stable and Radiogenic MAPS MINERAL DEPOSITS, Creede district (see also FLUID INCLUSIONS; ISOTOPES; and ALTERATION)
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)
limestone or dolomite. It is a useful ore guide in many mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE........... Characteristics of jasperoid in major mining districts of the United States ..................................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ................Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona .............................. Bisbee (Warren) district, Arizona .......Ely (Robinson) district, Nevada .............................. Leadville district, Colorado ...........
Journal (issue)
Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan Whatā€™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...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
Report (issue)
Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961).
Book (edition)
plutonic suite granite OADSIDE ā€œ%_ JrEoLocy of COLORADO SECOND EDITION Halka Chronic and Felicie Williams...ion Data Chronic, Halka. Roadside geology of Colorado.ā€”2nd ed. /Halka Chronic and Felicie Williams....0-87842-447-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Geologyā€”Colorado. 2. Roadsā€”Colorado. I. Williams, Felicie, 1953- II. Title...NEW os Ā°Ā° of and Roads Geology Roadside of Colorado. sections =: S S Can Black Durango NP Verde...Historyā€”The Underlying Theme Comingto Terms 4 4 Colorado through the Ages 9 The Final Touch = 17 Gold
Journal (issue)
Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 ā€” Lazard Cahn ā€” Honorary President ā€œPick & Packā€...Feature Article - M. Nelson, Trip Report: Sublette County Rockhoundsā€™ Gem and Mineral Show 2021 7-13 Pebble...article - B. Elick, Fluorite: Mineral of the Month at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry 15 Classifieds...2020. Join us! COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 2 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 80901-0002 Oct...Amazonite-Smoky Quartz Locality, Teller and Park Counties, Colorado (1873-1986), by Mark Ivan Jacobson. All are welcome
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...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...about $200 on the out-of-print market. The second Colorado issue was vol. 10, number 6 (1979), and we still
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Microminerals in the Creede Mining District The Amethyst, Commodore No. 5 Mineral County, Colorado Unless otherwise...Mountain Mines C reede is located in southwestern Colorado on the edge of the San Juan Mountains just south...townsite was further north in East Willow Creek Canyon near the confluence with West Willow Creek. A disastrous...the Creede district was at the Holy Moses mine high above East Willow Creek, but the district did not prosper...structures one encounters when traveling north up the canyon. The road rejoins the creek level near the Commodore
Report (volume)
Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Mines Special Reports _.......__ ________ Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology...Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal _ , Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta _ Bulletin, Geological...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in...the areas and subjects are listed under States, "Colorado Plateau," "United States," or under a few subject
Report (volume)
Colo. H Atomic Energy Commission, Hot Springs Suboffice, Hot Springs, S. Dak. IM Idaho Bureau of Mines and...of the Shinarump No. 1 uranium mine, Seven Mile Canyon area, Grand County, Utah: TEI-287, Jan. 11, 1954...Results of exploration at the Old Leyden coal mine, Jefferson County, Colo.: TEM-292, Mar. 30, 1953. D, GJ....N., The pegmatites of the Errington-Thiel mine, Elko County, Nevada: TEI-71, Dec. 28, 1949. Office of...Ridge, and West End claims near Clancy, Jefferson County, Mont.: TEM-31, Oct. 19, 1951. D, SL, T. (332,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The last Wild West Silver Mining Camp in Colorado T he Creede mining district, located at a lofty elevation...and rugged San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Although silver was discovered in the area in...Amethyst, Last Chance, Commodore, and Bachelor. The mining encampment grew from a small settlement to a town...assortment of Wild West characters who gravitated to mining boom towns. In 1890 the settlement was unofficially...into one of the last notorious Wild West silver mining camps that brought fortune to some and financial
Journal (issue)
Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 October 2014 PICK&PACK Vol 54 ....... Number 8...Skin Pocket Pg 5 Pebble Pups Corner Pg 7 Old Colorado City History Center Pg 8 New Magazineā€”American...Illinois and Kentucky have some of the worldā€™s best fluorite crystals. Minnesota has a banded iron formation...Brummett Creek, Brown County, Indiana. Continued on Page 3 COLORADO SPRINGS October 2014 MINERALOGICAL...MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 2 COLORADO PICK SPRINGS, & PACKCOLORADO 80901-0002 www.csms.us Page 1 CSMS Calendar
Report (volume)
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...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)
about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is...in California recently I visited the Los Angeles County Museum in Los Angeles to see the famous collection...in Los Angeles can walk across the lawn to the County Museum for another thrillā€”the display of some of...loganberries. Alas, almost no localities are mentioned." COLORADOā€”Some months ago we received a letter from Carl...collecting he did in Colorado during the summer of 1957. "I was working in Colorado during my summer vacation
Book
mid-1957, of vvhich 70% is in New Mexico, 16% in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and 8% in Wyo1ning. These...doubtless the U.S.S.R., likewise established uranium mining industries. These efforts in the Reid and in the...siliceous and Ruoritic types, and the oxidized Colorado Plateau deposits are desc1ibed vvith those that...origin, e.g., Blind River, \i\litwatersrand, and Colorado Plateau. The writer has attempted to present equitably...................................... . Calcite-Fluorite-Apatite Vein-Dikes ..........................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine, wellcrystallized baryte...of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 ā€œClose, But No Cigarā€ 7 The Homestake Mining Company 8 ā€œPirateā€™s Treasure...Paradise 11 Mineralogy and Paragenesis Bulldog Mountain Mine 11 Six Stages of Mineralizaļæ½on 18 Minerals Overview
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine, wellcrystallized baryte...of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 ā€œClose, But No Cigarā€ 7 The Homestake Mining Company 8 ā€œPirateā€™s Treasure...Paradise 11 Mineralogy and Paragenesis Bulldog Mountain Mine 11 Six Stages of Mineralizaļæ½on 18 Minerals Overview
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine, wellcrystallized baryte...of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 ā€œClose, But No Cigarā€ 7 The Homestake Mining Company 8 ā€œPirateā€™s Treasure...Paradise 11 Mineralogy and Paragenesis Bulldog Mountain Mine 11 Six Stages of Mineralizaļæ½on 18 Minerals Overview
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine, wellcrystallized baryte...of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 ā€œClose, But No Cigarā€ 7 The Homestake Mining Company 8 ā€œPirateā€™s Treasure...Paradise 11 Mineralogy and Paragenesis Bulldog Mountain Mine 11 Six Stages of Mineralizaļæ½on 18 Minerals Overview
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
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
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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
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Petrified Forest Trails Arizona Gem Trails and the Colorado Desert of California High Tension (A Biography)...\merica Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least
 
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