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Molybdenite from
Henderson Mine, Dailey Mining District (Jones Pass Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Molybdenite
Formula:MoS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz14 photos of Molybdenite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Rhodochrosite11 photos of Molybdenite associated with Rhodochrosite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Molybdenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Henderson Mine, Dailey Mining District (Jones Pass Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (8 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:354884
Long-form Identifier:1:3:354884:4
GUID (UUID V4):e26d36bb-d0da-4ca7-af7f-e9a0c49651e7
Nearest other occurrences of Molybdenite
2.1km (1.3 miles) Unknown Molybdenum - Silver Occurrence (MRDS - 10091459), Dailey Mining District (Jones Pass Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Urad mine, Dailey Mining District (Jones Pass Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) Puzzler Occurrence, Dailey Mining District (Jones Pass Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
3.6km (2.3 miles) Unknown Molybdenum Occurrence (MRDS - 10018157), Dailey Mining District (Jones Pass Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
11.5km (7.2 miles) Iron Creek Occurrence, La Plata Mining District (California Mining District), Grand County, Colorado, USA
18.6km (11.6 miles) Lenawee Mine, Keystone Area, Summit County, Colorado, USA
19.3km (12.0 miles) Elida (American Eagle; Lincoln; Ohio Bell; Climax; Capitol; Senator; Blue Ridge; Mayflower; Cymric; Hamilton; Andrew Lowe; East Murray Crosscut; 4-C), Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
24.4km (15.2 miles) Clifford Mine, York Gulch, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
24.5km (15.2 miles) Maple Leaf (Clifford Occurrence), Fall River, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
24.5km (15.2 miles) Unknown Molybdenum Occurrence (MRDS - 10018266), Fall River, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ClearCreekCounty,Colorado,with a Sectionon a Comparison of TheseDepositswith Thoseat Climax, Colorado STEWARTR...Hendersonstockworkmolybdeniteorebodiesat Red Mountain, Clear Creek County,Colorado,are relatedto a rhyolitic subvolcaniccenterof...within a mile of the north-northeast-trendingBerthoud Pass fault. This fault is the major structural element...Complex;the rest was in the Sih-er Plmne Granite. The Urad mine, now worked out, producedabout 14 million tons of...remarkablysimilar in many respectsto thoseat Climax, Colorado, but there are some notable differences. The abundance
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology Vol. 99, pp. 3–37 Henderson Porphyry Molybdenum System, Colorado: I. Sequence and Abundance...Stanford, California 94305-2115 Abstract At Henderson, Colorado, 12 rhyolitic stocks of Oligocene age crystallized...tops are 1 km below the surface of Red Mountain: Henderson (oldest), Seriate, and Vasquez (deepest and youngest)...(quartz-fluorite) and intense potassic (quartz-K-feldspar-molybdenite) assemblages developed in numerous cycles, each...emplacement of a stock and deposition of molybdenite. Molybdenite occurs without pyrite mostly in the high-temperature
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(eastern) Oregon-Idaho-(western) Montana, (4) Colorado-NewMexico, (5) Nevada-southern California,and...productivedepositsare locatedin the southernRockyMountains(Urad-Henderson,Climax and Questa) and in the Interior Belt of...Rate (t.p.d.)x BritishColumbia 1967 46,000,000 Mine Alice (B. C. Molybdenum) 8,000 Company British...British Columbia,Canada (Noranda Subsidiary) Urad- Colorado 13,000,000 5,000 303,000,000 30,000 American...New York, N.Y., U.S. A. 19672 (1975) Henderson Climax Colorado 1918 400,000,000a 42,000 American
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY A bibliography of stockwork molybdenite deposits and related topics (with emphasis on...computer sorting A bibliography of stockwork molybdenite deposits and related topics (with emphasis on...citations brings together references on stockwork molybdenite deposits and related topics in a format that...world's molybdenite is produced from "stockwork" (Clark, 1972) deposits 1n which molybdenite is either...either the major product (as at Climax and Henderson, Colorado, and Questa, New Mexico), or is a co- or byproduct
Report (issue)
Unconsolidated Deposits ...................... Colorado Mineral Belt ................................................................. Hahns Peak Mining District ...................................... Cam............................................... Henderson-Urad Molybdenum Area ...........................Bear Creek-Lone Pine Creek Anomalous Area .......................... Red Canyon-Crystal Mining District...Beaver Creek Area (Farwell Mining District) ........................... Dailey (Atlantic) Mining District
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Seedorff, 1988; Carten et al., 1988a, 1993). At Henderson, Colorado, differences in the intensity of mineralization...addressed for the Goat Hill orebody of the Questa mine, New Mexico. † Corresponding author: email, p_s_ross@hotmail...orebody at Questa, by contrast, a highly unusual molybdenite-mineralized breccia has a subhorizontal elongated...Regional Geology The Questa mine is located in north-central New Mexico, USA, in the Taos Range of the...the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. In the mine vicinity, the Tertiary Latir volcanic field overlies a Proterozoic
Book
Molybdenum Mine STEPHEN M. VOYNICK Climax The History of Colorado's Climax Molybdenum Mine Stephen M...will benefit the National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum, Leadville, Colorado. Publication of this photographs...Stephen M. Climax the history of Colorado's Climax Mine / Stephen M. Voynick. : p. Molybdenum cm. Includes...(pbk.) 1. Climax Mine (Colo.)-History. 2. Molybdenum mines and mining-Colorado-Leadville Region-History...and effort dedication, helped build the Climax Mine. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 http://archive
Report (issue)
constructed from the bits and pieces exposed in the Colorado mineral belt and the San Juan volcanic field....exploration. The latent deposits are two stockwork molybdenite deposits (porphyry-molybdenum) and one or two...matching the exposed mineralized rocks of a mining district with corresponding parts of a model (Briggs...Steven, 1971) of the southern San Juan Mountains of Colorado. The Model The porphyry-metal edifice 2 is an...showing the parts of edifices exposed in the Crater Creek Platoro caldera area field. -3- of the'San Juan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
polymetallic Au-Ag vein deposit in the Central City district, Colorado: Mineral paragenesis and pyrite trace element...polymetallic AuAg vein deposit in the Central City district, Colorado: Mineral paragenesis and pyrite trace element...polymetallic Au-Ag vein deposit in the Central City district, Colorado: Mineral paragenesis and pyrite trace element...Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1516 Illinois Street, Golden...submitted to Ore Geology Reviews 1 ABSTRACT The Colorado Mineral Belt is a ~500 km long segment of calc-alkaline
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EconomicGeology Vol. 76, 1981, pp. 874-897 Granite Molybdenite Systems FELIX E. MUTSCHLER, ERNESTG. WRIGHT,*...developchemicalfingerprintsto the pluton(Thompson Creek),marginalannularbodrecognizedifferent alterationassemblages...model for molybdenitedepositsasso- (Little Boulder Creek and Cannivan). Granodiorite ciatedwith graniticsourcerocks...molybdenitesystems. A Petrologic Classification of Stockwork Molybdenite Systems In terms of sourcerock chemistry, orebody...molybdenumwasconcentrated.Thesetwo groups-- Granite molybdenite systems herereferredto asgranodiorite molybdenitesystems
Report (volume)
--------------------------- Rowley or Reliance mine, by J. A. ~acKallor_____________ PimaCountY----...claims_______________________________________ Pinal County _________________________ ------- ______ -----__...-----__ Santa Cruz CountY---------------------------------------Santo Ni:iio mine, by D. H. Kupfer__...____ Yavapai CountY----------------------------------------------Copper Basin district _______ ------...--------------__ Commercial mine ______ ------------------------------__ Copper Hill mine __________ --------
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).
Report (issue)
................................. 3 Rocky Bar District—43 ................................................................................. 3 Devil’s Creek Prospect—46 .......................................................... 4 Liver Peak (a.k.a. Goat Creek)—4 .................................................................................... 7 Spring Creek—36 ......................................................................................... 8 Henderson Gulch—11 ....................................
Report (issue)
COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BOULDER R. D. GEOqGE, State Geologi.t BULLETIN 22 MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE...oozi5137 EAME"S BROS, STATE PRINTERS FOR COLORADO DENVER. COLORADO GEOLOGICAL B O A R D His Excellency...Shoup George Norlin Governor of Colorado President University of Colorado Victor C. Aldersox.. Charles...TRANSMITTAL State Geological Survey, Uxiversity of Colorado, October 28, 1920. Governor Oliver H. Shoup. Chairman...honor to transmit herewith Bulletin 22 of the Colorado Geological Survey. Very respectfully, R. D. George
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sweet Home rhodochrosite specimen mine, Alma District, Central Colorado: the porphyry molybdenum–fluorine...hrosite–fluorite in the Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Colorado were originally mined for silver starting...For the last 13 years up until 2004, however, the mine has produced world-class rhodochrosite specimens...local quartz–molybdenite veins in the nearby area; (4) a small pegmatite within the mine with an age (25...Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1516 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401, USA e-mail: pbartos@mines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sweet Home rhodochrosite specimen mine, Alma District, Central Colorado: the porphyry molybdenum–fluorine...hrosite–fluorite in the Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Colorado were originally mined for silver starting...For the last 13 years up until 2004, however, the mine has produced world-class rhodochrosite specimens...local quartz–molybdenite veins in the nearby area; (4) a small pegmatite within the mine with an age (25...Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1516 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401, USA e-mail: pbartos@mines
Report (issue)
Ore Deposits of the· Kokomo-Tenmile District, Colorado By M. H. BERGENDAHL and A. H. KOSCHMANN . I...PAPER 652 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado Mining Industrial Development Board .. 1\ UNITED...bodies--------------------------------Magnetite-garnet-molybdenite deposits ___________ _ 1 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 8 8...ores-----------------------------Mine descriptions----------------------------------Wilfley-Kimberly mine __ --------________________...Consolidated mine, Eldorado and Wilson mines, Felicia Grace mine, and Champion (New York) mine----------
Report (issue)
CIRCULAR 704 Molybdenite in the Montezuma District of Central Colorado Molybdenite in the Montezuma...Montezuma District of Central Colorado By George J. Neuerburg, Theodore Botinelly, and John R. Watterson GEOLOGICAL...--------···· Mineralogy and distribution of molybdenite............ 1 1 1 1 11 Page Mineralogy and...·----------····-----Distribution of molybdenite in the district....... SummarY-----·------·--·------...Index map of central and western Colorado, showing the Montezuma district in relation to the 2. 3. 4. 5
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs January/February: Galena, Tri-State district, Kansas. Smithsonian Institution specimen; Chip...photo. March/April: Quartz, Middleville, Herkimer County, New York. John C. Medici specimen and photo. May/June:...May/June: Turgite, Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. Ronald E. Bentley specimen and photo. July/August:...July/August: Quartz, H. deLinde No. 4 mine, High Peak, Montgomery County, Arkansas. Private collection; Ronald...Bentley photo. September/October: Barite, Otero County, Colorado. Dan and Dianne Kile specimen; John Muntyan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology Vol. 99, pp. 39–72 Henderson Porphyry Molybdenum System, Colorado: II. Decoupling of Introduction...hydrothermal mineral assemblages developed at Henderson, Colorado, as 12 rhyolitic stocks of Oligocene age...associated with sericite-pyrite alteration at Henderson were unusually saline (mostly 29–36 wt % NaCl...assemblages that formed above intrusive centers at Henderson resemble assemblages in other Climax-type porphyry...in common with either suite of assemblages at Henderson. Introduction GEOCHEMICAL investigations provide
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...Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces The state...MICHAEL J. GOBLA 19055 East Bethany Place Aurora, Colorado 80013 gobla@copper.net Unless otherwise noted...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded
Journal (issue)
l)elamar Gold Mine, Lincoln County, Utah Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com The Delamar Gold Mine (fig.I) is...part of Lincoln Co., in southeastem Nevada. The mine is significant for a couple ofreasons. First, it...discovery was made in the northern part of the District by brothers John and Alvin Ferguson, farmers in...later, 1892, John Ferguson discovered the Magnolia Mine a short distance to the south. The silver camp of...Helene was platted next to the Magnolia Mine and the District was originally named after the Ferguson's
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure I (above). Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals showing...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hydrothermal Features in the Henderson Porphyry MolybdenumDeposit, Colorado RICHARDB. CARTEN,*ENNISP. GERAGHTY...mineralizedintrusions,e.g., nine principal levels in the mine. Level plans and major and trace element chemistryof...al., 1976). Urad porphyryhosts the much larger Henderson deposit that is estimatedgeologicallyto contain800...include Depth ofemplacement Intrusions in the Urad-Henderson systemhave been rotated southeast,15ø to 25 ø...may have occurred along the Tertiary-age Woods Creek fault or a reactivatedportion of the Precambrian-age
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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