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Pitchblende from
North Star Mine, Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Uraninite var: Pitchblende
Formula:UO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pitchblende data
Locality Data:Click here to view North Star Mine, Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:377567
Long-form Identifier:1:3:377567:7
GUID (UUID V4):78b0f3b4-f71b-4579-8d58-f5f3bd39d48c
Nearest other occurrences of Pitchblende
1.0km (0.6 miles) Mena Mine (Hoffmeister Homestead Prospect; Black Judge Shaft), Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Schwartzwalder Mine (Ralston Creek Mine), Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) Aubrey - Ladwig Mine (Aubrey Ladwig Lease; Gary Mine), Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
9.0km (5.6 miles) Cervi Lease Occurrence, Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
10.4km (6.4 miles) Ladwig Group (Ladwig No. 2; Ladwig No. 3; Claims: Ladwig No. 1), Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Union Pacific Shaft Occurrence (Union Pacific Prospect), Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Buckman Property (Golden Gate Canyon Prospect No. 2), Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
10.4km (6.5 miles) Ohman Mine (Nare Lease), Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
11.2km (7.0 miles) Ladwig, Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
15.6km (9.7 miles) German and Belcher, Quartz Hill, Central City Mining District (Central Mining District), Gilpin County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
U rani urn-bearing Area, Ralston Buttes District, Jefferson County, Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...U rani urn-bearing Area, Ralston Buttes District, Jefferson County, Colorado By E.]. YOUNG U.S . GEOLOGICAL...and prospects in the Front Range near Golden, Colorado UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...Schwartzwalder uraniumbearing area, Ralston Buttes district, Jefferson County, Colorado. (Geological Survey bulletin...I. Geology-Colorado-Jefferson County. 2. Uranium mines and mining-Colorado-Jefferson County. 3. Geoch
Report (volume)
Geology of Uranium Deposits in the Front Range, Colorado By P. K. SIMS and D. M. SHERIDAN With sections...-trending faults______________________________ North-northeastward-trending faults_________________________...mines_______________________________________ Boulder CountY----------------------------------~-----------Jamestown...Generalfeatures--------------------------------------Blue Jay mine, by R. U. King__________________________ Fair Day...mine________________________________________ Nations Treasure mine, by R. U. King___________________ Victory group
Report (issue)
U raniurn Deposits of the Ralston Buttes District Jefferson County, Colorado By DOUGLAS M. SHERIDAN, CHARLES...veins on the of the Front Range west of Denver district flank of the geology of a east UNITED STATES...___________________________________ _ Rocks of the district ____________________________ --· __ Precn.mbrian...Jurassic ________ -- ___ - ________________ _ Ralston Creek Formation ___________ _ Morrison Formation...43 43 43 44 45 45 47 49 50 Page Rocks of the district-Continued Laramide intrusive rocks _______________________
Report (issue)
THE GOLDEN GATE CANYON AND RALSTON CREEK AREAS JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO This report concerns work...THE GOLDEN GATE CANYON AND RALSTON CREEK AREAS, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO By J. W. Adams, A. J. Gude...THE GOLDEN GATE CANYON AND RALSTON CREEK AREAS, JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO By J. W..Adams, A. J. Gude..................... Ralston Creek area........................... North Star mine............................ Schwartzwalder mine (Ralston Creek)...... Nigger shaft (Hoffmeister prospect) ....... Literature
Report (volume)
Control of Certain Pitchblende Deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Control of Certain Pitchblende Deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County Colorado By JOHN W. ADAMS...deposit_______-__----_---_---__--___------------Discussion of pitchblende deposition___-____-____-___-__---_--_-_--_Conclusions...and section of the Union Pacific deposit, Jefferson County, Colo__----____----_--_--_--_--_- In pocket...Index map of central Colorado showing location of Golden Gate Canyon and Ralston Creek areas__________________
Report (volume)
the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade pitchblende concentrates were...Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico...Marysvale, Utah; the Schwartzwalder (Ralston Creek) and Los Ochos mines, Colorado; the Early Day and Buckhorn...mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
more extensiveradio- • South Korea: Korean Inst. Mining GeologistsJour., v. 2, p. 73-90. (In Korean with...Geologicstructureand ore depositsof Sangdong scheelitemine: Soc. Mining GeologistsJapan Spec. Issue 3 (IMA-IAGOD Meetings...Mass spectrometric analysisat Queen's Korean Inst. Mining Geologists Jour., v. 4, p. 1-8. (In Korean with...on the geology of Sangdong scheelite mine: Korean Inst. Mining GeologistsJour., v. 3, p. 25-34. (In Korean...thesis,Queen'sUniv., 327 p. the JapaneseIslandsand North American Cordillera: An example of asymmetricalzoning
Report (issue)
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...comments on the history of uranium geology and mining. The other chapters deal principally with pertinent
Report (volume)
Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Mines Special Reports _.......__ ________ Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology...Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal _ , Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta _ Bulletin, Geological...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in...the areas and subjects are listed under States, "Colorado Plateau," "United States," or under a few subject
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
Report (issue)
Occurrence of Uranium and Vanadium Minerals From the Colorado Plateaus GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1009-B...OCCURRENCE OF URANIUM AND VANADIUM MINERALS FROM THE COLORADO PLATEAUS By A. D. WEEKS and M. E. THOMPSON ABSTRACT...identification and occurrence of uranium minerals of the Colorado Plateaus, contains descriptions of the physical...mineralogic investigation of uranium ores from the Colorado Plateaus. This work is part of a program undertaken...other 13 14 URANIUM AND VANADIUM MINERALS FROM COLORADO PLATEAUS compilations: Gruner and Gardiner's
Report (volume)
estimates for uranium-vanadium deposits on the Colorado Plateau, by A. L. Bush and H. K. Stager__ __ ___...Marquette County, Michigan, by R. C. Vickers. --(G) Wall-rock control of certain pitchblende deposits...deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado, by John W. Adams and Frederick Stugard, Jr_________________________...uranium deposits in the Red Desert, SweBtwater County, Wyoming, by Donald G. Wyant, William N. Sharp...in oolitic limestone near I /Tayoworth, Johnson County, Wyoming, by R. R. Guilinger and P. K. Theobald
Report (issue)
localities.................................... North America...........................................byproduct or coproduct of gold mining; and in medium-grained sandstones in the Colorado Plateau, U.S.A. (average...Territories of Canada, for radium and vanadium in Colorado, and for silver in Czechoslovakia. Most discoveries...minerals (pitchblende and uraninite) occur either in extensive bedded deposits of pitchblende in sedimentary...1957), as described by Heinrich (1958) are: (1) Colorado Plateau, including adjoining areas and areas in
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).
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book
individual deposits or districts. (in brackets country, district, deposit reviewed): Adamek P. (Scandinavia), Adams...(South Africa, Namibia), Chenoweth W. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Coste A. (Limousin, France), Cuney M....Grauch R (western USA), Gautier A. (breccia pipe deposits, USA), Halladay Ch.R (eastern USA), Harshman E.N...N. (Wyoming Basins, USA), Hruby J. (CSFR), Kolb S. (Bavaria, W-Germany), Krol W. (Eastern Europe), Matos... N.M., USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Tauchid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
variations have been noted in the gazetteer. Where county boundary lines have been changed since a reference...written, the locality has been listed under the county in which it is found today. A fairly extensive...extensive survey has been made of the geological and mining literature published through 1949 hi compiling the...the standard American and English geological and mining publications have also been reviewed upon the early...Mineralization from the HillSlope. side Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona. U. S. Geological Survey, WASHINGTON
Report (issue)
RADIOACTIVE MINERALS IN PARTS OF THE ALMA DISTRICT PARK COUNTY, COLORADO UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...RADIOACTIVE MINERALS IN PARTS OF THE ALMA DISTRICT, PARK COUNTY, COLORADO By C. T. Pierson and Q. D. Singewald...RADIOACTIVE MINERALS IN PARTS OF THE ALMA DISTRICT, PARK COUNTY, COLORADO By C. T. Pierson and Q. D. Singewald...1. Generalized geologic map of the Alma district, Park County, Colo.................. Inside back cover...cover Figure 1. Index map of Colorado showing location of the Alma disti-2t............................
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...State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G.
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.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 (volume)
............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ............................................. North Carolina. .......................................................... North Dakota......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
Book
18 Chapter 3: Important Mineral Localities • North America ..........................................Gilbert Gautier; Eric Greene, Treasure Mountain Mining; Leonard Himes, Minerals America; Shelley and Dan...Minerals; Rob Lavinsky, Arkenstone; Ross Lillie, North Star Minerals; Tom Loomis, Dakota Matrix Minerals;... and by the early part of the 18th centu ry pitchblende was recognized by the miners as a distinct substance...produced "uranium" powder in 1789 by reducing pitchblende with charcoa l. This p roduct was assumed to
Report (volume)
Bibliography of North American Geology, 1950-1959 PART 2. INDEX VOLUME 3 : A-L GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...BULLETIN 1195 Bibliography of North American Geology, 1950-1959 By RUTH REECE KING, ELISABETH S.... Crossroads: Lyons, P. L., 4. Gilbert H., 10. Colorado, South Silverton area: Expanding horizons: Lay...the future: Just, E. ing: Burwell, E. B., Jr., 4. Mining geology, retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson..., 6. T. B., 2. Magmatic vs. metamorphic source North America, western, paleoof ores: Hawley, J. E., 11
 
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