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Cerussite from
Silent Friend, Quartz Creek Mining District, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA


Classification
Species:Cerussite
Formula:PbCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cerussite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Silent Friend, Quartz Creek Mining District, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:375795
Long-form Identifier:1:3:375795:6
GUID (UUID V4):f072a9af-6161-402b-aab4-032e6a4b0f97
Nearest other occurrences of Cerussite
6.2km (3.8 miles) Ida May mine, Gold Hill Cumberland Pass, Quartz Creek Mining District, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles) Napoleon Occurrence, Tincup Mining District (Pieplant Mining District), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) El Capitan, Tincup Mining District (Pieplant Mining District), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Blistered Horn Tunnel, Tincup Mining District (Pieplant Mining District), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Deacon, Tincup Mining District (Pieplant Mining District), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
8.0km (5.0 miles) Sacramento, Gold Brick Mining District, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
8.7km (5.4 miles) Tincup Mine, Tincup Mining District (Pieplant Mining District), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) Drew, Tincup Mining District (Pieplant Mining District), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) Indiana, Tincup Mining District (Pieplant Mining District), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) Silver Cup, Tincup Mining District (Pieplant Mining District), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 3. Colorado By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...deposits and the resources of oxidized zin.c ores in Colorado UNITED STATES· GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...19180xidized zinc deposits of the United States. Part 3. Colorado. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964. vi...Bibliography : p. 88-91. 1. Zinc ores-Colorado. 2. Zinc mines and mining-Colorado. I. Title. (Series) For sale..._________ Rifle Creek district_ _ _ _____________ _ ___ ____ __ ________ __ __ __ Clear Creek County_____
Report (issue)
Quadrangle, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Geological...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund PAPER 289 Geology and Ore Deposits of...of the Garfield Quadrangle, Colorado By McCLELLAND G. DINGS and CHARLES S. ROBINSON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...in cooperation with the Colorado State Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mitting Fund. A...________________ _ Quartz-mica schist _____________ _ Quartz-hornblende schist _______ _ Quartz-hornblende gneiss
Report (volume)
Deposits Of the Lawson-DumontFall River District Clear Creek County Colorado By C. C. HAWLEY and FRANK BAKER...of the general geology and ore deposits of the district which forms the northwestern part of the important...gneiss.________________________________________ Quartz gneiss_ _ _ __ ____ _____ ____________ ______ __...---------------Quartz diorite gneiss and related rocks_ _ ___ ___ ___________ Quartz diorite _____________...-------_______ Biotite-quartz monzonite porphyry______________________ Biotite-quartz latite porphyry___
Book (edition)
Tell from Gold, and from Diamond All the Pyrites Quartz to How — — — Minerals Grouped According Useful...Bituminous Coal — Ore — Brown Coal — Celestine —Cerussite Pyrites — Copper — — — — — Copper Glance...of ENGINEERING STATES Mining EDITOR AND PH. OF Statistics; THE MINING AUTHOR JOURNAL; OF ...Then, again, the are valuable, been sunk in mining mon How metals. to of iron, zinc the rarest...ACCORDING GROUPED common thin THE JACK - KNIFE QUARTZ SPECI- KEY. COLOR. FIRST not WITH A MINERALS
Report (issue)
PROSPECTS, LAWSON-DUMONT-FALL RIVER DISTRICT, CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, COLORADO By C. C. Hawley and Frank Baker...Mine descriptions « Lawson area, north of Clear Creek Larger mines in the Red Elephant group Boulder Nest-Free...prospects tabular summary Lawson area, south of Clear Creek Larger mines American Sisters mine--Bellevue-Hudson...51 Contents Page Lawson area, south of Clear Creek Continued Other mines Climax tunnel Cymric tunnel--...prospects tabular summaryDumont area, north of Clear Creek« Larger mines- - , , , Albro mine « « . Hiawatha
Report (issue)
the. Leadville, Colorado, mining district. Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Geological...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...__________________ Silver Plume(?) granite__ _______ _________ Quartz-mica diorite_____________________ 1 1 I 1 2 2...__ Iowa Gulch porphyry _______-__-__-_-___-___ Quartz diorite porphyry. ________-_-_-_---___ Age relations...Quaternary (?) igneous rocks____ _______ Little Union quartz latite_------_---------__Rhyolite and rhyolite
Book
.3 COLORADO. of COLORADO. J. S. l GEORGETOWN, COLO. GEORGETOWN COURIER PRINT. 1887. 3 Bancroft...From a mineralogical point of view the wealth of Colorado exceeds that of In the metallic minerals almost...to in the following pages Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society. Proceedings of the Academy...the U. S. Geological Survey. J. GEORGETOWN, COLORADO, January, 1887. S. RANDALL. : MINERALS...gravel of streams and in veins. The veins of Gilpin County are especially noteworthy for the amount of gold
Report (issue)
Deposits Central Part of the Front Range Mineral Belt Colorado By P. K. SIMS and others GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...______________________________ _ History of uranium mining and production ____________ _ Geologic setting...________ -----------Central City district _____________________ ------Quartz Hill-upper Russell Gulch area... _ West Flack mine __________________ _ ~ercer County mine ______________ -German and Belcher mines ______________...descriptions-C~:mtinued Lawson-Dumont-Fall River district, by C. C. Hawley and F. B. Moore _____________________________
Report (volume)
important were those in the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade...Utah; the Schwartzwalder (Ralston Creek) and Los Ochos mines, Colorado; the Early Day and Buckhorn claims...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as...areas in Saxony; the Beaverlodge district, Canada; the Cornwall district, England; the Guarda and adjacent...States except for some in the Central City district, Colorado were discovered since the mid-1940's. The
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outstripping all others in the Mississippi valley. Lead mining was begun as much as 170 years ago, and has continued...prediction was ventured by Prof. Whitney that the lead mining of Missouri was a thing of the past, and that the...explorations have revealed new fields, or improvements in mining or metallurgical processes have made previously...respects are the facts of zinc production. The mining of these ores does not, however, date much more...suffered much from the vicissitudes of the early mining. The production grew rapidly from its beginning
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...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
Book (edition)
sOO0Ofoss Colorado LITHO BY WALSWORTH PUB. CO., INC., MARCELINE, MO. Colorado GOLD AND FARMS...Denver, of all other McMahon, unpublished Mining District, in reproduction. map Colo. places Albuquerque...Albuquerque, NM of Leadville a map of Territorial Colorado c. 1876, and a woodcut engraving Bird’s Eye View...scock G. York, Includes indexes. 1. Colorado. 2. Colorado. is Waele. Mines and mineral resources--...DressOne. MEXIC ies 35 Publisher’s Preface Colorado! The very name (which means “‘colored red’’) conjures
Report (issue)
Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button in the lower... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirwin district . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....City) district .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16 Stinkingwater district . . ... .. .. . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunlight district . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • .. 37 Goose Creek area . . . . _ __ . . . _ .. . _ __ . _ . _ . .
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF TILE LEADVILLE MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO BY S. F. EMMONS, J. D. IRVING, AND G...anticline _ Origin of the Iron-Mikado fault 61 Colorado Prince anticline _ group _ 95 61 Mosquito Gulch...fold-fault _ Faults in the eastern part of the district 95 62 Kokomo syncline_ Faults southeast_ of _..._ Leadville 62 the_ Fryer Hill folds _ 62 district _ 95 Warping and drag along normal faults, _ _ _ 96...Area bounded by Weston, Colorado Prince, 105 Wolf tone mine _ 74 Silent Friend, and Winnie-Luema faults_
Report (volume)
. 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
Book (edition)
org/details/coloradoitsgolds1880foss 77 Colorado Gold and Silver Mines, FARMS AND STOCK RANGES...r^HIS volume, as its name implies, is devoted to Colorado. Its con¬ tents are descriptive, statistical...interests. devoted to the mines. Part fourth is As mining is Colorado’s main industry and source of wealth...could make them. The narrative of gold and silver mining possesses enough of romance and adventure to interest...general reader, and the descriptions of mines, and of mining and milling, together with statements of requisite
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Front Range Colorado By T. S. LO\'ERING and E. N. GODDARD GEOLOGICAL...cooperation with the Colorado State Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund ~ oopr is...__________________________________________ _ 1 Summary of mining districts---.---------------------Introduction...Quartzite at Coal Creek ________________ _ Igneous rocks _____________________________ _ Quartz monzonite gneiss...gneissic aplite ________ _ Quartz diorite and associated hornblendite_ Boulder Creek granite _________________
Book
Nathaniel P. Hill in the early 1860s Central City, Colorado, in 1864 Inside the smelter built by James E...smelter at Saints John built by the Boston Silver Mining Association August R. Meyer in 1871 Leadville:...144 146 162 162 164 194 233 Map The Mining Region of Colorado xli-xlil Preface THE MOUNTAINS AND...headframes that reach upward to the sky stand as silent witnesses to the vitality of men who once wrested...thousand small enterprises working ores in isolated mining camps to one composed of several large, integrated
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FERRY, Govern(lr, and the members of the State Mining Bureau of Washington: GENTLEMEN_.: I have the...approved by him, with the cooperation of the state mining bureau, I , as state geologist, completed the neces11ary...GEOL OGIS T OF TL4SHINGTON. tenance of a state mining bureau are at once at an end, and may in no way...laboring · under a stigma attached to both the mining bureau and this office by reuon of events of a...(18) J4. ST.&TE county, in Western Waehington, and also along some of
Report (issue)
thorium or rare-earths minerals_ Brannerite-bearing quartz or siliceous veins _______ _ Davidite-bearing veins...predecessor organization, the Manhattan Engineer District ; and, to a lesser extent, by staff members of...United States. The pre-1940 history of uranium mining and geology is concerned largely with veins in...such areas as the Front Range mineral belt of Colorado; the Boulder batholith area, Montana ; the Sierra...Marysvale district, Utah. All the Western States, including Arizona, California, Colorado~ Idaho, Montana
Report (issue)
Economic Geology of the ·central City District .Gilpin County, Colorado By PAUL K. SIMS, A. A. DRAKE, ]R....Economic geology of the Central City district, Gilpin County, Colorado, by Paul K. Sims, A.A. Drake,. Jr...Central City district, Gilpin County, Colorado. 1963. (Card 2) 1. Geology, Economic-Colorado-Central City...City district. 2. Ore-deposits-Colorado-Central City district. 3. Mines and mineral re. sources-Colorado-Central...sources-Colorado-Central City district. I. Drake, Avery Ala, 1927joint author. II. Tooker, Edwin Wilson, 1923- joint
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PISTOLS i !?' A J.-. N ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by ...present authentic infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive...United States Geological Survey in 1912. Plan. “Mining Districts and Mineral Resources of Nevada”, as...parts:—one on mining districts and the other on mineral resources. The section on mining districts is...but gives more extended descriptions and includes mining as well as geological information. The map which
Report (volume)
Hydraulic TurbinpM MILWAUKEE, Metallurgical Machinery Mining Machinery Perforated Oil l-:imini-- Metals I'liiiiliini:...are getting the most in service from Worthington mining equipment — :the most from the standpoint of first...power consumption. Worthington meets needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from...Mills PUMPS, COMPRESSORS, OIL AND GAS ENGINES, MINING AND SMELTING MACHINERY CTON m "The Paramount...books cover practically all dead as well as live mining shares. Made in the following sizes: \QUAUTY
Report (volume)
so successful. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. Mining Machinery Dept. OFFICES For Canadian MILWAUKEE...service from Superior Jaw Crusher Worthington mining equipment the from the standpoint of first cost...most wear, Worthington meets the needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from...Mills PUMPS, COMPRESSORS, OIL AND GAS ENGINES, MINING AND SMELTING MACHINERY CTON JOHN D. RYAN, ...OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ANACONDA COPPER MINING Co., WHOSE BUTTE MlNES YIELD 10% OF THE
Journal (volume)
Nevada w^.- *HKI£K UOLXuVKH fKK ANNUM. 2, 1897. Mining Legislation. 'City. \\\'-- Bloffle Copies. ...for keeping the streams dredged. The Champion Mining Company's properties near The Committee on Legislation...the old G win mine in Calaveras proposed by the Mining and Scientii-io Pkess and A 10-stamp mill on the...putilisiied in the issues of October 31st and November county is an event worthy of special note. It has in the... shaft, and putting ing properties in Nevada county. There was, when they took charge, up a 40-stamp
 
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