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Actinolite from
Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA


Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:303352
Long-form Identifier:1:3:303352:4
GUID (UUID V4):aaf578cf-6a6f-4a0e-b00b-7cb0c331b2e2
Nearest other occurrences of Actinolite
26.9km (16.7 miles) ⓘBumback Gulch, Twin Mountain, Eight Mile Park Pegmatite Mining District, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
30.8km (19.1 miles) ⓘIsabel Mine, Guffey Mining District (Freshwater Mining District), Fremont County, Colorado, USA
33.6km (20.9 miles) ⓘWest Ranch Deposit (West Deposit), Guffey Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
36.7km (22.8 miles) ⓘMill Gulch Mine, Guffey Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
37.0km (23.0 miles) ⓘBetty Mine (Lone Chimney Mine; Betty Lowe), Guffey Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
38.2km (23.7 miles) ⓘCopper King Mine (Copper Queen Mine), Guffey Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
38.8km (24.1 miles) ⓘJoker Mine (Rocky Mountain Boy Claims Patented Claims), Grape Creek Mining District (Greenhorn Mining District), Fremont County, Colorado, USA
39.1km (24.3 miles) ⓘHorseshoe Mine (School Section Deposit), Grape Creek Mining District (Greenhorn Mining District), Fremont County, Colorado, USA
60.6km (37.7 miles) ⓘVermiculite Mine (MRDS - 10013422), Gem Park complex, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
60.9km (37.8 miles) ⓘCotopaxi Mine (Cotopaxi lode; Gumaer Mine; Fannie lode; Fannie Mill), Mine Gulch, Cotopaxi, Cotopaxi Mining District, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
References
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Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Famous mineral localities: The Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...collection to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Julius Weber was well known in the mineral community...Department of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has placed a high priority on building its micromount...rock and mineral shop on Route 66 near the lead-mining center of Joplin, Missouri. The Mineralogical Record
Journal (issue)
Weather Channel Tuesdays. at 7 PM Featuring the mining operations of the Joe Dorris family, Amanda Adkins...(RMFMS) www.rmfms.org Colorado Federation of Gem & Mineral Societies (CFGMS) Colorado Springs Mineralogical...CSMS Calendar Pg 2 Calumet Iron Mine Pg 3 Colorado Extraterrestrials Pg 6 Pebble Pups Corner Pg...provided by the Fossil Group COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 2 COLORADO April 2013 PICK SPRINGS...6:00 p.m. Lecture: 7:00 p.m. Western Museum of Mining & Industry Fri., April 12, Arvada, CO, North Jeffco
Journal (issue)
Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 July 2015 PICK&PACK Vol 55 ...... Number 6 Inside...Jacobson Topic: Pegmatitic Rare-earth Minerals of Colorado: Species and Identification Refreshments provided...Friends of Mineralogy, Colorado Chapter. Mark has collected rare earth minerals in Colorado, Texas, Wyoming...Minerals of Colorado: Species and Identification Most of the pegmatitic rare-earth minerals in Colorado are found...South Platte district, Jefferson County; St. Peters Dome district, El Paso County, Trout Creek Pass district
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
Book (volume)
...........................................59 Colorado ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ....................................
Journal (issue)
2008 Table of Contents Collecting Minerals in Colorado - Peter Modreski ...........................Pg...Riemvasmaak South Africa 2008 Mining Update .......................... Pg. 20 Colorado Fossil Woods - Frank Daniels.....................................Pg. 28 Chalk Creek Feldspar Field Trip - Justin Zzyzx ...............on collecting minerals in Colorado by Pete Modreski, the informative Colorado petried wood article by...the magazine so you get your very own copy! Colorado Minerals is the theme of the 2008 Denver Gem and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
B.C. Dior. 11. 2.63 2.49 FO Fe as Willow Creek, Ida. Fresh granite I 2.71 1.12 1.15 -- 2...Mine. * Numbers in parenthesesfollowing name of district refer to "References" at the end of the 744...5. Same adjoining Ophir vein'. 8. Yellowknife District, Northwest Territories, Canada (2) Samples were...altered equivalent. Contains ankerite. 13. Willow Creek, Idaho (14) I. Fresh granitlc rock, Silver Wreath...by veins. 14. Idaho Democrat Vein, Wood River District, Idaho (15) A. Fresh granitic country rock: orthoeiase
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Although Colorado may be most noted for rhodochrosite or amazonite, the many varieties and associations...a k e w o o d , Colorado 80225 DIANNE L. K I L E 333 S a l e m Street Aurora, Colorado 80011 C O L O...and J. A. Mur­ phy for an update to Minerals of Colorado: A 100-Year Record (Eckel, 1961). 374 ROCKS... Quartz was a familiar gemstone to many early Colorado residents, as documented by an extensive body...body of literature. The first published list of Colorado mineral localities (in­ cluding quartz) was included
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and...mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and...Acanthite-argentite, Colorado, 307 Actinolite/tremolite, Michigan, 344 Adularia, Michigan 341 “Alaskaite,” Colorado, 307...395 Allanite-(Ce), California, 162 Allophane, Colorado, 307 Almandine, Connecticut, 261 Almandine-spessartine...Almandine-spessartine, California, 160 Alunite, Colorado, 308 Amblygonite-montebrasite,California, 160 Analcime
Book (volume)
...........................................47 Colorado ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
...........................................47 Colorado ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Catalog/List
Albemarle Counly, Virginia ... Custer County, Colorado . Albemarle County, Virginia . Near Mesaba, l\linnesola...York . San Juan County, Colorado Delta, Shasta County, California . Boulder County, Colorado .. .... Newlon... Massachusetts Mt. Shasta, California " Lyon County, Nevada Hillsborough, New Brnnswick Keeseville...Essex County, New York Rochester, New York Split Rock, Minnesota Iron Mountain, near Cripple Creek, Colorado...Rhenish-Prus ia J:asalt. fine-gTained Chaffee County, Colorado Hornblende Basalt. coarse " J-lornblenclc
Journal (issue)
- - - - - - - - - - - Mineral Collections 1n Colorado A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record November-December..."Smithsonian packet," Smoky Hawk claim, Florissant, Colorado. Collected in 2008; Dorris Family collection;...stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Collecting in Colorado The Collections: Mel & Pam Bersch Ryan Bowling Ralph Clark Colorado School of Mines...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North
Catalog/List
enlarged photograph of a piece of Obsidian, from Lake County, Oregon, which shows a Conchoidal fracture. t...name and locality. I MINERALS 5 Price per ACTINOLITE-See Amphibole pound SPECIMENS Lot of 10 Each...metasilicates of calcium, magnesium and iron) Actinolite Xline, fibrous; California or Vermont .........iron, manganese and titanium) Bladed in quartz; Colorado ....... ................ .50 .60 .35 .75 ...vanadate) Rich mass; Colorado. About 40% ....... .1 x 2", .75 6.00 3.00 High grade; Colorado ... . .. .....
Report (issue)
GEO LOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT, COLORADO BY \V ALDEl\;IAR LINDGREN A:'\D ... . . . . . . . First geological survey of the district .............................. _• . . . . . ..................... Geological structure of the district ............... _................... __ .. _....• _. _•••• _••• _. _••• ___ . ____ 43 43 Cripple Creek granite ... ----.-----------------.----- _____________..._____________ . _. __ ... __ •.. Spring Creek granite ......•...•... _... __ . _____ •• _.• _• _•. ___
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
are interesting specimens. Centreville is in Bibb County, in the central part of Alabama. Near Odenville...reads: "This is Tiger—mining community of about 1,200 in southeastern Pinal County which probably will...will become a ghost town when the Saint Anthony Mining and Development Company shuts down its lead-zinc mine...Coast Co. borax mine at Boron, Kern Co., Calif. COLORADO — Nice, white, compact fibrous masses of aragonite...quarried in New Castle Co., Del., at Jeane's, on Pike Creek. If any collector 595 has visited the locality
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? ......................................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...Natural History for conceiving the idea of a second Colorado issue and for helping a great deal in bringing
Catalog/List
on line indicated by italic numerals below: ACTINOLITE-Scc Amphibolc AEGIRINE-AUGITE-Sce Pyroxene AGATE-Sec...iron, manganese and titanium) Bladed in quartz; Colorado . . . . . . . . . . : . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . 6 Xis, choice blue-gray terminated ; Colorado, 1/e • x t • to 1 X 2½' at .25, .35, .50 Xled...Rich mass; Colorado, 1 x 2 ', 1 . 00. . . . . ...... . ... . . .163 High Grade; Colorado, 1 x 2 ', .8.... . 155 /11 sandstone, lean commercial grade; Colorado .. . . .. . 90 NO TE: Carnotitc is prohibited
Journal (issue)
Nicolet, in 1634. He did not visit the copper district however. In 1666–7 Claude Allouez gave the first...crystals of martite which I had collected in Millard county. The largest group, which was sent to an Eastern...orpiments appears to be over, since a hundred men mining night and day 200 tons of ore at the Mercur Mine...visit the largegneiss quarries at Lenni, Delaware County, Pennsyl vania. Boarding the train at Wilmington...we reached our destination. This was the Green's Creek Garnet Mine, which lay directly in our path. These
Journal (issue)
Los Angeles County Museum Acquires Outstanding Micromount Collection Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...year, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County acquired the remarkable combined micromount collections...rattlesnakes only kill nine people per year in the USA, which has a population 4,000 times that of Amami... Neither of my two books on Japanese manganese mining had anything to say about the Yamato mine. Inquiries...any of the miners still alive? Well, the original mining company was from Kyushu and had brought its own
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium and the...pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8
Catalog/List
Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J lJaed gold...the cover of each bm,. Cat. Mtd. Unntd. No. ACTINOLITE, Tavetsch, S\/itzerland. Pale green acicular...ith ether alpine cleft minerals on gn2iss. 942 ACTINOLITE ( variety BYSSOL.ITE), Sandefjord, Nornay. Pale...feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless to light green...785 ADAMITE (CUPRIAN),MohawkMine, San Bernardino County, California. Nicely spaced transparent jade green
Report (issue)
folder in 1897. "Minerals of the Black Hills" by Victor Ziegler followed in 1914 as Bulletin 10 of the...Professor Edwin H . Oshier, Head of the Department of Mining Engineering, made the photographs included in this...Geological Survey in Washington, D. C., or Denver, Colorado, or from the Department of Geology and Geological...Group (Cummingtonite) (Grunerite) (Tremolite) (Actinolite) (Hornblende) (Glaucophane) (Holmquistite) (Arfvedsonite)...prospects in the lower Ludlow lignites. Harding County: 1. Abemathyite has been identified as a component
Report (issue)
MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining Bureau McN. HAMILTON STATE MINERALOGIST F. F...Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this...localities new and quently the The second list ^Mining' State Mineralogist. This known localities...literature of a general nature on the geology and mining industry of the State. bibliography of A. may...The excellent Vodges, Bulletin 30 of the State Mining Bureau, be referred to for such literature. The
 
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