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Pyrrhotite from
Atlantic Cable Mine, Rico, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Atlantic Cable Mine, Rico, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:355058
Long-form Identifier:1:3:355058:8
GUID (UUID V4):1c2a6551-7647-4253-bbfc-b520f503c39a
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
2.2km (1.4 miles) Rico Argentine Mine, Silver Creek, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Blaine tunnel (Rico Argentine Mine), Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
40.7km (25.3 miles) Camp Bird Mine, Imogene Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
43.6km (27.1 miles) Sunnyside Mine group, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Rico District, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 723...723 Geology and Ore Deposits of the Rico District, Colorado By EDWIN T. McKNIGHT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ...------------------------------------Location and geography of district -----------History --------------------------...-------------Middle and Upper ( ?) Pennsylvanian Series_ Rico Formation ---------------------Permian System -...n fault ----- - ---------------------FauUs of Dolores Mountain and vicinity --Faults of Deadwood Gulch
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
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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
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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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............................................. 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
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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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YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
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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...2. Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces...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
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. 234 " y { " ,-t .. .~,:",. I " , COLORADO "or.! _ +, (~ STATE OF .~ :'(' COL~ADO /... BULLETIN 40 RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BlaLlllGRAPHY by James L. Nelson-Moore,...Energy COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESUURCES STATE OF COLORADO DENVER, COLORADO 1978...ete 11 st r ng of rad i aaet 1ve occurrences 1n Colorado, with a comprehensive blbi iography and bibliographic...on the Colorado Plateau sparked several periods of exploratIon that ultimately led to a mining "boom ll
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Bingham, Utah, Mining Black Sand Page. Abbott, James W A Visit to Ely, Nevada Mining at Bingham, Utah...Greenwater District Ditto Ditto Ditto Abyssinia, Minerals In The Requirements of Modern Mining 70S 52...Charles [64 James W. 82 431 114 Nelll 815 District, British W Columbia, The 783 431 795 736 241...Tube-Mill Lining Forbes Rlckard 511 17 The Boundary District The Mineral Output of. In 1906 Broken Hill, Acid...Proprietary Mine, He Treatment at G. D. Del prat Brown, Walter 8 A Filing System for Mining Engineers llucke
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Exposition.* G. Dodd, the superintendent of the mining departof the Union Iron Works, it will readily...mountain and Gopher Ridge, in Cala- ; veras county, Cal., lies Salt Spring val- Through this trough-like...greatly varying size. The gold-bearing quartz of the district is associated with these dykes, usually constituting...is that of the building and head frame at that mine. An electric plant is stalled at La Grange...contemplation at this mine. Works, •Cut copyrlghleil by the Union Ii'on S. F. vi- m 1 Mining and Scientific
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- .... - .... -- .............. - ... - ... 80 Colorado formation ....................................... _. _. _______ . _______ _ 93 Granodiorite at Cable. ____ .. ____ .. . _. . ___ . _.... ______ ... _........................................... . 144 Cable Mountain anticline_ .............................._............... _. 148 Faults on the flanks of Cable Mountain .... _................... _........ ·........................... . ............ . 154 Pyrrhotite ............................ . ........... ~
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f.p. for for:v -" ...THE EN. N o GI "RNAL MINE NI'N NG G. J ou VOLUN/1E JANUARY TO LXIII. ...YORPQ. : - . - ". • : THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. VOLUME LXIII. JANUARY TO JULY, 1897...Aluminum, Prices of.................. 565 Accident Mine, Colo.......... 97 63, 159 Aluminum Reduction, Gooch's...118 Alabama Industrial and Scientific Amador Queen Mine, Cal..... ...... 263 Acetylene Gas, Conner's Pat... Doddridge's Pat...... 487 "Alabama, Johns Coal Mine. 74 Amalgamating Process, FischerAcetylene Gas,
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HISTORY OF MINING IN NEWFOUNDLAND 1 1 Mineral Exports. 7 THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ANO THE MINING INDUSTRY... 15 Prospecting . . . . • . . . . • 1G The Mining Law of Newfoundland (By C.K.Howse). Labrador. Taxation...Howse) Geological Features • Description of Veins. Mining Practice. Milling Practice. Power . • . . Poss1b111t1es...Poss1b111t1es •. Wabana Iron Mines. . • Geological Features Mining Practice Quarries . . . • . . Limestone . . • ... Manuela. Salt • . . • . Sulphur (Pyrite and Pyrrhotite) Lockport . . . • . . • • Pilleys Island . .
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machines, ventilating apparatus, emery wheels, mining and milling machinery. Particis being given to...employ a large foroe of skilled workmen. a Mining and Scientific Press. through the rotten boards...and Salt- habitants, nearly all of whom follow mining for an occupation. From Huatajia it is about peter...Juan."J [Written Huatajia, is the most productive mining-camp In my last letter (page 448 of Dec. 14tb)...— [Jan. I, 18J0 of Roseburg, has opened a coal mine, located fourteen miles west of this place, that
Report (issue)
" ; ^,- • ^... -'--' . CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU. Henry G. FIFTH Hanks, State Mineralogist...provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Mining Bureau," approved April 16, 1880. I have the honor... REPORT. The Act creating the California State Mining- Bureau, approvides for an annual report by the...statistical information in reference to mines and mining as shall be deemed important." In obedience to...Mineralogist, has been prepared. The prosperity of the Mining Bureau, and the growth and progress of the State
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ahead of any thing yet found on this ridge. This mine has also been explored and equipped in a very superior...City, Sierra county, to be thankful for a good deal. The telegraph for the Bald Mountain mine maintains...eters A — To drift mining, a method by which hydrau- ready achieved mining operations are sometimes...supplemented, the remarks in an article on hydraulic mining last week may be largely applied; this branch olfcthe...very rich min- and 25° below. ing region, the mountains being full of iron, On our coast on that date
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of Alfred Brile, superintendent of the Kentucky Mining and Smelting Company, we have the following report...and the Hartsfeld Portable Smelting Furnace and Mining Co., Newport, Ky. The latter-named company will...sufficient to store $60,000,000. THE Young America quartz mine of Sierra City has become a solid dividend payer...We note in the North San Juan Times, of Nevada county, that a hydraulic gravel elevator is soon to be...well-known North Bloomfield Gravel Mining Company, at North Bloomfield, Nevada county, this State. We have interviewed
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C-/ "- *^' f -> y/ AJo - Six ;x The Mining Magazine Edited by T. A. RICKARD. I yy.^^- PUBLISHED...Correspondence Applied Science Arizona Copper in Arizona, Mining in Arsenic and Saieiy (p.'.)... Report P. B....Mines Report... Bantjes Consolidated Barraniia Mining and Exploration Bathurst, h\ H W. BischotT Report...T. Lane Mining in Nicaragua Caucasus Copper Report Central Chile Copper Report Central Mining & Investment...Report...... Globe & Phoenix 114 388 (P-t) Mining Block 10 Hill Block 14 Hill Geology Report Report
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SMITH, DIRECTOR 408 A RECONNAISSANCE OF SOME MINING GAMPS IN ELKO, UNDER, AND EUREKA COUNTIES, NEVADA............................. Mountain ranges and mining districts................................................................ Midas or Gold Circle district........................................ Location...geology............................................. Mine descriptions......................................44 44 45 46 47* 47 47 47 48 48 48 48 49 50 Rex mine..................:.............................
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-- - I I I --- I I - 201 6503 Printed In USA 11 'iT""H"f ·r,r ""'"'TT OO,L 3 0239 87330474...17 17 19 20 21 21 22 O RES, PRODUCTI ON, AND MINING 23 Elements and Ores Formation of Ores Metals...Lead Arsenic Cadmium Other Metals Land Use for Mining Activities Air Quality and Air Pollution 309 310...resources and energy sources. In them I discuss mining, milling and other preparatory techniques, then...additions to reserves are more likely from known mining areas and less li kely from similar areas of little
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69 69 69 69 69 70 70 70 70 70 70 71 History of mining, by V. C. Heikes.__________________ The first prospectors...Cotton wood area. _________ Regulations governing mining locations____________ Early shipments and experiments...Electric power________________________________ Mining-_______________________________________ Milling...____ Big Cottonwood district.________________________ Little Cottonwood district.______________________..._________________________________ American Fork district._________________________ Ore deposits, by B.
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STATES By A. K. Lobeck RANGES GREAT BASIN COLORADO PLATEAU SOUTHERN ROCKII \ Allegheny Plateau...Lakes and swamps, or marshes 17 Igneous 20 Mountains 13. The ocean: A. General features 14 The ocean:...the surface of the earth and the origin of the mountains, valleys, and plains. A biological branch (paleontology)...of these materials is indicated by the fact that mining and allied activities now represent one of the...much of its surface to be covered by lofty mountains, wide plains, and very large pits which resemble
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H. BROOKS__________________ DEVELOPMENT OF THE MINING INDUSTRY, BY ALFRED H. BROOKS_____ Foreword __...13 J9 24 28 Growth of mining from 1902 to 1904___________________ 31 Mining developments in 1905-6_...maps__________,______________:_ 334 The future of the mining industry______________________ 135 DESCRIPTION...The gold placers_________________ ._'__________ Mining development ________________________..___ Distribution...________ General geology _ ___________________________ Mining developments ___ __________________.._____ General
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WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC REGION The Geology of North America The Western North Atlantic Region . ...samples from the cruise leg, site and depth North Atlantic Ocean basin. All are lithofacies in the western...oldest strata cored to date in the western North Atlantic basin. Formation, lower continental rise off...Fine-grained, distal turbidites were 1 1 North Atlantic basin at this time; the panel shows the upper...of North America Volume M The Western North Atlantic Region Edited by Peter R. Vogt Naval Research
 
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