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Amethyst from
Mammoth Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mammoth Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:378504
Long-form Identifier:1:3:378504:1
GUID (UUID V4):f8db99ef-43ed-49f1-b78a-7802ce1ad604
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
1.3km (0.8 miles) Exchequer Tunnel Occurrence, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Commodore Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Emperius Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Bachelor Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Overholt Lode, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Bulldog Mountain Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Amethyst Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Last Chance Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) Happy Thought Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
4.1km (2.6 miles) Park Regent Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Index of the Geology of the Creede Mining District and Vicinity Colorado By Daniel O. Hayba and Constance...bibliography and index of the geology of the Creede mining district and vicinity was prepared in support of...conjunction with the proposed deep drilling program at Creede. It was our intent to include in this compilation...geology of the Creede district. Thus, references range from papers dealing entirely with Creede to those which...smaJJ amount of data relevant to some aspect of Creede geology. Even abstracts of talks, which were later
Report (issue)
Control of Ore Deposition in the Creede District San Juan Mountains Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...487 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Metal Mining Fund Board Geology and Structural Control...Control of Ore Deposition in the Creede District San Juan Mountains Colorado , By THOMAS A. STEVEN and JAMES...487 ·Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Metal Mining Fund Board UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Farmers Creek Rhyolite ________________________ _ Mammoth Mountain Rhyolite ___________________ _ Rhyolite
Report (volume)
718 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ' CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS AND ESPER S. LARSEN................................................. Mining and treatment of ores......................................................................... Amethyst mill.......................................................................................... Creede formation........................................Campbell Mountain rhyolite...................... 40 Mammoth Mountain rhyolite.............................
Report (issue)
RECENT MINING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO By ESPEK S. LAKSEN ABSTRACT The Creede district...greater part of this output came from the great Amethyst vein, which lies along a major fault. Nearly all...opened a good ore body in the western branch of the Amethyst fault at its south end, and several small but...veins have been worked in the hanging wall of the Amethyst vein. These veins have produced metal to the value...the Equity mine, which follows a reverse fault in the extreme northern part of the district. Silver in
Report (issue)
organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...two parts, the second part comprising papers on mineral fuels. These volumes for 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909...GOLD LODES OF THE CARRVILLE DIS­ TRICT, TRINITY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. By DONALD FRANCIS MACDONALD. INTRODUCTION...writer spent 10 days in the Carrville district, Trinity County, Cal., and, incidental to other work,... gathered some data on its mining geology. A paper on the gold gravels x was pub­ lished, but baggage
Thesis/Dissertation
TDfl SbQ AEEAL GEOLOGY OF 0?HS CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO. By ' X ESEBR S* H B LARSEIT. S...Approved: The Areal Geology of The Greede Mining District, Esper 3. Larson. COKTEIIT3 Chapter I...11 General conditions 11 Humphreys mill 13 Amethyst mill 15 Solomon mill 16 Hidge mill 16 Bibliography...volcanic series 22 Lower division Upper division The Creede formation The llacXenzie 26 .'-.fountain quartz...Megascopic Microscopic Weathering and outcrops Creede Formation Chapter V. Name, general nature, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Environmentof Ore Depositionin the CreedeMining District, San Juan Mountains,Colorado'I. Geologic, Hydrologic...STEVEN AND GORDON P. EATON Abstract The Creede mining district in the central San Juan Mountains of southwestern...suggestthat a local stock was emplacedbeneath the Creede district in earliest Miocene time, about 24.6 m.y. ago...the zone just outsidethe topographicwall of the Creede caldera near where faults cutting the rigid, brittle...studiesby Edwin Roedderandlight- TaE Creedemining district,in the central San Juan Mountains of southwesternColorado
Report (issue)
FIELD, SOUTHWESTERN COLORADO By Peter W. Lipman, and David A. Sawyer Denver, Colorado [Open-File Report...stratigraphic nomenclagure for volcanic rocks near Creede -- ______ -- .__._. .. .--(oversize) ABSTRACT...Tuff erupted at 27.60 Ma; a small remnant of the Creede caldera from which the Snowshoe Mountain Tuff erupted...of the economically important Creede silver-lead-zinc mining district is contained within the San Luis...contains much of the economically important Creede mining district (Steven and Ratte, 1965), intersecting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology Contrib Mineral Petrol (1985) 91:171 179 9 Springer-Verlag 1985...paleotemperature indicator in the Amethyst vein system, Creede district, Colorado, USA Duane G. Horton 1 University...University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA Abstract. Ordered i!lite/smectite is the most abundant and...Oligocene, epithermal, Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu-Au Amethyst vein system, southwest Colorado. Hydrothermal illite/smectites...illite/smectite vary smoothly with distance from the Amethyst vein. With increasing distance from the vein,
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
Report (volume)
1420 Mineral Resources of the La Garita Wilderness, San uan Mountains, Sout iwestern Colorado By THOMAS... SURVEY BULLETIN 1420 An evaluation of the mineral potential of the area UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Garita Wilderness, San Juan Mountains, southwestern Colorado. (Studies related to wilderness wilderness areas)...Supt.ofDocs.no.: 119.3:1420 1. Mines and mineral resources Colorado La Garita Wilderness. I. Bieniewski,...survey these wilderness areas to determine the mineral values, if any, that may be present. The act also
Report (issue)
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Book
authoritative published archives of data for the mineral collector and specimen-oriented mineralogist that...fl. Fluorescent, or fluoresces H History of Mineral Collecting (vol. 25, no. 6) All dimensional notations...Phosphates; 24/#2, Greenland; and 25/#6, The History of Mineral Collecting) are paginated independently, but following...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
Report (volume)
Radioactivity in the Metal-Mining Districts of the San Juan Mountains Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY --*_-...Radioactivity in the Metal-Mining Districts of the San Juan Mountains Colorado By C. T. PIERSON, W. F. WEEKS...radioactivity in the metal-mining districts of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, by C. T. Pierson, W. F..._______________ CeboUa district..______________________________ Upper Uncompahgre district. ______ _________________________...Uranium occurrences___________ ________ __ Bonanza district..____________________ ___________________ General
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization at Creede. The age of the youngestvolcanicrocks exposedin the district, the Fisher Quartz...were erupted through the ring-fracture zone of the Creede caldera after the caldera had been resurgentlydomed...the epithermalsilverbasemetal ores in the Creede mining district. This paper reportson the potassium-argon... to about 5 m.y. or younger. Mineralization at Creede took place adjacent to the northernmargin of the...the complex volcanic-tectonichistory of the Creede district. The age data are critical in developinga model
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
Report (issue)
Fluid-inclusion data on samples from Creede, Colorado, in relation to mineral paragenesis By Terri L. Woods... Previous fluid-inclusion work on samples from Creede -- 6 Nature and limitations of the fluid-inclusion...sphalerite from Creede, Colorado -- 30 Fluid-inclusion data for quartz from the southern Amethyst vein from...Figure 1. Map showing location of the Creede mining district and extent of the San Juan volcanic field...relation of the Creede mining district to the La Garita, Bachelor, San Luis, and Creede calderas. 61
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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Book (edition)
CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • • AMETHYST URINE • • BERYL MOONSTONE CITRINE GEM...materials have been found 58 119 Glossary of mineral terms 173 Sources of information 175 Books...by buying from the large stocks advertised by mineral supply houses. It's fun and profitable 1 Perhaps...from rocks, which are mixmres of minerals. Each mineral has physical characteristics peculiar to itself...gem and rare enough stand stone material, a mineral must be beautito be worth keeping, and hard enough
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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
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Report (issue)
industries other than stock raising, farming, and mining. There are few towns and no large cities. Railroads...mapping near 1 Burchard, B. F., U. S. Geol. Survey Mineral Resources, 1913, pt. 2, pp. 1358-1359, 1914. 2..."Burchard, B. F., and others, U. S. Geol. Survey Mineral Resources, 1913, pt. 2, pp. 1376-1387, 1914. 237...region considered extends from Stanley, Ouster County, Idaho, about in latitude 44° 15' N., longitude...to a point 40 miles below Salmon, the county seat of Lemhi County. (See fig. 28.) The region is one of
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.......................................... xi Mineral Locations by State Alabama .................................................................59 Colorado ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map
Report (volume)
Notes on the gold lodes of the Carrville district, Trinity County, Cal., by D. F. MacDpnald...............preliminary report on the geology and ore deposits of Creede, Colo., by W. H, Emmons and E. S. Larsen.........account of the ore deposits of the Loon Creek district, Idaho, byJ. B.Umpleby................................................. Notes on the Antelope district, Nev., by F. C. Schrader................... Notes...Notes on the northern La Sal Mountains, Grand County, Utah, by J. M. Hill. Survey publications on gold
 
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