 | | 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 museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver | | | 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 museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver |  | | 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 museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver | | | 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 museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2014 Creede The last Wild West Silver Mining Camp in Colorado T he Creede mining district, located...and rugged San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Although silver was discovered in the area in...cause much excitement until 1889 when Nicholas C. Creede and his two partners found rich silver ore near...that would later be known as the Amethyst vein system (a.k.a. Amethyst fault system), host to such well-known...well-known mines as the Amethyst, Last Chance, Commodore, and Bachelor. The mining encampment grew from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | HISTORY OF FOUR Native Silver Localities 7 in Colorado Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego]...72 Golden, Colorado 80403 All photos by author unless otherwise noted SINCE 1859 COLORADO HAS PRODUCED...metal. Native silver in Colorado has been deposited both as a primary mineral, crystallized directly from...from hydrothermal fluids, and as a secondary mineral, precipitated during the various processes involved...silver specimen producers-Caribou, Ward, Aspen, and Creede. Secondary silver may be the only form of the native |  | Foley, Nora K., Caddey, Stanton W., Byington, Craig B., Vardiman, David M. (1993) Mineralogy, mineral chemistry, and paragenesis of gold, silver, and base-metal ores of the North Amethyst vein system, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado. Professional Paper 1537. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp1537 | Report (issue) | | Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and Base-Metal Ores of the North Amethyst Vein...Vein System, Sari Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Alaska-Rm. 101, 4230 University Dr. • LAKEWOOD, Colorado-Federal Center, Bldg. 810 • MENLO PARK, California-Bldg... Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and Base-Metal Ores of the North Amethyst Vein...Vein System, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado By NORA K. FOLEY, STANTON W. CADDEY, CRAIG B. |  | | 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...in the Creede district was at the Holy Moses mine high above East Willow Creek, but the district did not...made along West Willow Creek on the Amethyst vein system. The Amethyst and Commodore No. 5 mines are located...West Willow Creek approximately 1.5 miles north of Creede. The Commodore No. 5 ore bins are the first structures |  | | Journal (issue) | | Find your OwnAgate Collecting around Kremmling Colorado Morocco - The Country, The People and...Agates...Mindat.org Agates and Associated Minerals of Creede Colorado By Philip Persson PerssonRareMinerals.com ...information ranging from listing mineral localities, facts about mineral species, photographs of worldwide...to typical reference specimens), photographs of mineral localities (both modern and historical), publication...Copyrights Reserved 2014 - Printed in Denver, Colorado IDA CHAU’S JOURNAL FROM THE 3RD MINDAT INTERNATIONAL |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Zoningof the BulldogMountainVein System,Creede District, Colorado GEOFFREY S. PLUMI U.S.GeologicalSurvey...BulldogMountainveinsystem,Creededistrict,Colorado,isoneof fourmajorepithermal vein systems fromwhichthe bulk of the...distributionwithin the vein system;someof thesestagesare alsostrongly zonedwithin the vein system.StageA wasdominatedby...ts were deposited in modestamountsthroughoutthe vein system.Thiscomplexassemblage markedthe transitionto...ngpatternsacross the central and southern Creede district. The complexvariationsin mineralassemblages |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of COLORADO ED RAINES Geology Museum Colorado School of Mines 1310 Maple Street Golden, Colorado 80401...noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...photographer unknown. B etween 1868 and 1922, Colorado produced almost 260 million pounds of copper....from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).... During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with |  | | Journal (issue) | | ISSUE 06 • JUNE 2020 CAPTIVATED BY CREEDE Evolution of a Silver-Mining Boomtown METAMORPHIC INDEX MINERALS... 50 NO. 06 • JUNE 2020 10 SILVER MINING SURVIVOR Creede Colorado Navigates Economic Transition While...20 SOUTHWEST SUMMER Exploring San Juan Mountain Mining History 50 FIELD TRIP FOCUS Making Memories and...Serras-Herman REGULAR COLUMNS Witness to Morocco’s Modern Mining Rush Field Notes ...............................about the Polka Dot Mine in Central Oregon, information about connecting with the mine via Facebook was |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | InclusionStudyof the SouthernAmethyst Vein System,Creede Mining District, Colorado RICHARD W. ROBINSON* AND DAVID...andfluid inclusionstudies.Mineralizationoccursas vein fillingsand disseminations confinedto areas of high...severalothervein systems in the district,occurin the southernAmethyst vein system. The paragenesis is divided...includequartz,galena, tetrahedrite, covellite, acanthite, and native silver. Disseminatedmineralization...paragenesis of the oresin the Creede district. Analysisof fluid inclusionsin stage2 vein quartz showedthat averagehomogenization |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the When pure, the mineral is simply elemental silver (Ag). However, it Andean mineral theme of the 2003...Tbctypically contains variable amounts son Gem and Mineral Show, an excepof Au and Hg and, less commonly,...have been described from a notable Andean silver mineral localities, and the mineralogy of variety of localities...untarreplaced by various silver halides, ruby silvers, acanthite, and stephanite are known. Similarly, silver has... occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal |  | | Book | | 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...American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Colorado...resources—Colorado. 2. Mines and mineral resources—New Mexico. I. Kennedy, Marrianna B. II. Title. III. Title: Great...possible steps should be taken to preserve our mineral heritage, whether in physical form as irreplaceable |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | September/October: Silver crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado; Dave Bunk specimen...Symposium: Contributed Papers in Specimen Mineralogy Acanthite, Nevada, 514 Actinolite, Quebec, 498 Adamite,...162 Almandine, British Columbia, 32; Nunavut, 31 Amethyst, British Columbia, 39; Nova Scotia, 39; Ontario...499 Anglesite, Colorado, 413; Nevada, 515 Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B...Mistaken Identities, A. L. Guth, 456–58 Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum, 280 Arkansas, wavellite, 346–50 Arseniosiderite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.....................in Colorado minerals? ...................................... 329 by R. A. Kosnar Famous mineral localities:...Home mine .................................................. 333 by R. A. Kosnar Famous mineral localities:...339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349 by J. A............373 by E. E. Foord and R. F. Martin Mineral collecting at the Sunnyside & Idarado m in e s |  | | Journal (issue) | | the U.S.A. 07 0 74470 02033 2 3 STAND-OUT MINERAL SOURCES 2 www.rockngem.com Ultra Tec.idml 2 ...Mountains. By Tim Miller 34 THE TALE OF A TOURIST MINE A new life for Colorado’s Last Chance. 34 By Steve...Cover This bournonite specimen from the Herodsfoot mine (Lanreath, Cornwall, England) is a really fine example...what has long been considered a world classic mineral. (Jeff Scovil photo/Bob Jones specimen) Rock &...Benitoite Mine Update I’d like to clarify some information about the California State Gem mine and about |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | August 2013 BARBARA L. MUNTYAN P.O. Box 495 Ouray, Colorado 8 I427 hodochrosite, a manganese carbonate with...with the formula Mn2+C0,, i s one of the mineral species most desired by collectors and museums alike...alike. Although not larly common mineral, it is neverthealess re orted from localities worldwide. Rhodochrosite...Rhodochrosite has also been found in many localities in Colorado, particularly in the mines of the San luan Mountains...it i s one of the most recognized and coveted Colorado minerals. partiY DO e the presence of a mix |  | | Report (volume) | | Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge) including the chief occurrences of 445 mineral species UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE..._______________ Source minerals of Colorado's mineral industry________________________ Minerals first...______ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________ Mineral localities and how...them ____________________________ ~ _ Noteworthy mineral localities__ __ __ ____________ __ __ ___ ______ |  | | Report (issue) | | The Triangle of Colorado Mountains of Minerals Contributors David W. Bunk, Robert B. Cook, Don Earnest... Contents PAGE4 PAGE 10 4 The San Juan Triangle of Colorado Ho for the San Juans! by Duane A. Smith, Mark...and Karen A. Vendl L ocated in southwestern Colorado and covering over 31,000 square kilometers, the...San Juans began revealing the extent of their mineral wealth. In addition to gold and silver, the region...zinc, tungsten, and copper. In 1896 world-renowned mining engineer Thomas ''T.A." Rickard called the San |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MultistageVein Ores of the Lake City District, Western San Juan Mountains,Colorado John,• F. SL^CK U.S. Geological...Polymetallic vein ores of the Lake City district, in the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado,have prod...crustification,vugs) is widespread. •[ultiple periodsof mineral depositionin the veins are documentedby coinpoundstructuresin...regional preore propylitization. Two distinct mineral suites have been recognizedin the veins, an older...the north side of the Lake City caldera, witere vein minerals include' pyrite' unzonedgreen or yellowsphalerite(--%0 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Collections in A RIZONA A SUPPLEMENT TO THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD RIZONA- II Mineral Collections...Mineralogical Record, January–February, 2020 Mineral Collections in Arizona-II A Supplement to The...Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...cover: (above) Stock certificate for the Silver King Mining Company (1878) Dick Morris collection (below) Stock...Stock Certificate for The Total Wreck Mining & Milling Company (1881) Dick Morris collection This special |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Collections in the PACIFIC NORTHWEST Organized by Don Newsome With an Introduction by Wendell...Mineralogical Record, September–October 2019 Mineral Collections in the Pacific Northwest A Supplement...scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...noted) (top row, from left) Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection...collection and photo. Amethyst scepter, 17 cm, from Petersen Mountain, Nevada; Brianna and Brendan Traw |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..........191 by W. E. Wilson The Port Radium district, Northwest Territories, Canada .................Chamberlain, G. W. Robinson & R. P. Richards Famous mineral localities: the Ouro Preto topaz mines ..........Voynick* P.O. Box 1285 Leadville, Colorado 80461 If you’re a mineral collector, you know what it’s like...typically abraded specimens you’ve found in the old mine dumps. And you’ve probably looked long and hard...Everyone has heard repeated warnings about entering old mine workings. But, face it, those deep, open shafts |
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