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Opal from
Hortense Hot Spring, Chalk Creek District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Spring
Classification
Species:Opal
Formula:SiO2 · nH2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Opal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hortense Hot Spring, Chalk Creek District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:316616
Long-form Identifier:1:3:316616:1
GUID (UUID V4):503dfca1-b452-446f-9f33-0911ec925ac5
Nearest other occurrences of Opal
1.1km (0.7 miles) Mount Princeton Hot Spring, Chalk Creek District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
12.6km (7.8 miles) White King Deposit, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
12.7km (7.9 miles) Buena Vista, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
12.7km (7.9 miles) Blue Stone Deposit, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) Chimney Hill Mine (Morgan Ranch Deposits; Manganese Hill), Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
12.9km (8.0 miles) Puzzle mine, Poncha Springs, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
13.0km (8.1 miles) Last Chance Mine (Lower Adit; Kramer Mine; Adit No. 1; Adit No. 2), Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
13.5km (8.4 miles) Snowflake Deposit, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
14.6km (9.1 miles) 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
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wrrrreu N. Suent, U.S. Geological Suroey, Denrser, Colorado 80225 Abstract "Chlorine-free schairerite" was...constituent of white sublimate formed at Hortense Hot Spring, Colorado, was found by W. N. Sharp in 1970 to...high temperature. In Colorado, kogarkoite formed at 83"C or less in hot-spring sublimate, and its principal...principal associates are calcite, fluorite and opal. Kogarkoite is monoclinic, space grottp PL/m or P2';...With the recentdiscoveryof kogarkoite(Na3SOf ) in Colorado and verification of a find in Russia.the naturally
Report (issue)
.......................................... 81 Colorado.............................................<...contents are listed for all vapor-dominated and hot-water systems with estimated reservoir temperatures...name of the geotherraal field, the principal hot spring, or a nearby geographic feature which identifies...geographic location of the spring, well, or field is given by state, county, latitude, longitude, the...War ing Number. and Waring Figure. The figure and spring or well number assigned to the system by Waring
Report (issue)
Extensive zeolitization associated with hot springs in central Colorado, by W. N. Sharp____________________________...in the Tertiary San Luis-Upper Arkansas graben, Colorado, by R. E. Van Alstine_____ 43 Geophysics Calculated...and density logs, Nevada Test Site and Hot Creek Valley, Nyo County, Nev., by D. L. HealeY-------------...studies of the Trinidad quadrangle, south-central Colorado, by M. D. Kleinkopf, D. L. Peterson, and R. B...Whole-rock Rb-Sr age of the Pikes Peak batholith, Colorado, by C. E. Hedge ______________ - __________ ---
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Company's spodumene mine at Kings Mountain, Cleveland County, North Carolina, have a IO.OI67, c I4"2452 /k;...ser. 3, 10, 385. A mixture of ~ nontronite and ~ opal-cristobalite. Not to be confused with the Chloropal...crystals from the Betty Jo claim, Ely, White Pine County, Nevada, have a 8-9Io, b 6.oi7, c 7"734 A,/3 111...phosphates in the Tip Top pegmatite, Custer, Custer County, South Dakota, have a 14-94 , b 7"I4, c 9'93 A...massif, Kola Peninsula, U.S.S.R., and Hortense Hot Spring, Colorado, are identical with synthetic 12~Na
Book (edition)
File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl...Sun,. \ler111011t, I . 484. (TL} Derby. Vermont. USA. G. Brush ( 1 862) Amer. J. Sci. 34. 2 1 6. classed...muscovite and albite. (TL) Goshen. Massachusells. USA. Named from cxy1..cxoC · shining' . from its silvery
Book
NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM CAPE TOWN Published in the USA by Oxford University Press, New York 2 Filmset...(Akatoreite). Orange-brown sheaves of prisms from Akatore Creek, Dunedin, New Zealand, are anorthic, a 8-344, b...[2Mn0.Si02]. Named from the locality, Alleghany County, North Carolina. [M.A., 5, 50.] 13th List [Wales;...cassiterite and quartz from near Arandis, Swakopmund district, South-West Africa. Named from the locality. [M...Name for ‘a type of ore, discovered in Yavapai county ... on a claim known at the time as the Sumner’
Book
variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. / Photo by Ken Mayer Production...organic geochemistry. Green River Formation, Uinta County, Utah, U.S.A. Trudell, L.C. (1970): Lithologic...Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. McDonald, AM. & Chao, G.Y. (1994):...Abernathy, operator of the Fumerole mine, Emery County, Utah, U.S.A., who found the first braunite. Mount...(1989): Mineral. J. 14, 279. Flores mine, Huanuni District, Oruru, Bolivia. Agardite-(La) (La,Ca)Cu¢(AsO4)3(OH)6°3H20
Book
Enterprises, PO Box 213, Livermore, California, 94551, USA. Because of space limitations, only a subset of the...Hidden Valley Road, Kingsport, Tennessee, 37663, USA. The authors appreciate the advice and kind assistance...City, Nevada, USA; Peter Embrey, London, England; Jessie Hardman, Long Beach, California, USA; and Barbara...Barbara Nichols, Livermore, California, USA. All of these colleagues made helpful comments and substantive...Enterprises PC Box 213 Livermore California 94551 USA Elemental Table “Element” Aluminum Amide Ammonium
 
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