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Pyrite from
Cliff Dweller Mine, La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cliff Dweller Mine, La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:378810
Long-form Identifier:1:3:378810:3
GUID (UUID V4):26912e33-4f6d-436a-8935-a55c8af00fe0
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Cashin Mine (Red Chief claim; Titon claim; Angell claim; Horse Shoe claim; Bennie claim; Maud claim; Humboldt claim), La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Black Hat Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Blue Cap Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Vanadium Queen Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
12.8km (7.9 miles) Gray Daun Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
13.0km (8.0 miles) Firefly–Pigmay Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
16.5km (10.2 miles) Henry Clay Mine, Long Park, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
16.6km (10.3 miles) Golden Cycle Mine (Bowen), Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
16.6km (10.3 miles) Barkley; Shattuck - Denn; La Salle, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) Virgin No. 3 Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
References
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Book
GUIDEBOOK FOR THE PARADOX BASIN, UTAH AND COLORADO TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE PARADOX BASIN OVERVIEW RESOURCES...LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) ORE BELT ORE BODIES URANIUM DISTRICTS AND MINING AREAS SLICK ROCK DISTRICT GYPSUM...GYPSUM VALLEY DISTRICT BULL CANYON DISTRICT URAVAN DISTRICT GATEWAY DISTRICT (EASTERN GATEWAY AREA) MC...AREA LA SAL CREEK AREA PARADOX DISTRICT BEAVER AND POLAR MESAS LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) DISTRICT MOAB...MOAB DISTRICT GREEN RIVER DISTRICT THOMPSONS DISTRICT INTER-RIVER REGION RICHARDSON-DEWEY AREA LOWER KANE
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
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
Report (issue)
Uranium-Vanadium Deposits of the Slick Rock District, Colorado U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper...Survey Cover photograph: Burro No. 7 mine, Slick Rock, Colorado. Photograph by Jim Cappa, 2005. Uranium-Vanadium...Slick Rock District, Colorado By Daniel R. Shawe With a section on Appendix on District Production By...INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SLICK ROCK DISTRICT, SAN MIGUEL AND DOLORES COUNTIES, COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Uranium-vanadium deposits of the Slick Rock district, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Journal (issue)
up a substantial portion of the bedrock of Wood County. Although this particular site has not been dated...approximately 0.5 mm high, Schill Quarry, Vesper, Wood County, WI, photo by Dan Behnke. New Finds from Peru...something to talk about. Last year the Chiurucu Mine in Huanuco Department. proAuced the best rhodonitcs...by the Gem & Mineral Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. This was the results...Readers of the Mineral News may recall an editorial of mine in the April, 1990 Mineral News entitled: "Books
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Depositsof this type occurat Salt Valley, SinbadValley, and Paradox Valley;thelargestdeposits areat LisbonValley... iments in southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. Copper-silver deposits are post-Laramide depositsbut...the Paradox basin of southeastern Utah and southwestern Geologyof the LisbonValley Area Colorado(Fig...gs of the Lis- faulted salt anticlines in the Paradox basin of southboncopperdeposits resemble several...several smaller copper easternUtah and southwestern Colorado(Fig. lB). (_+silver)deposits in theParadox basin:forexample
Report (issue)
Forest, and includes the visitor center of the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument (figs. 1 and 2). The...transition zones between the Basin and Range and the Colorado Plateau physiographic and structural provinces...Tmd Tbt Tmh NO QTg RT 1 Tsp H Qa Tba A LA Qt HO VOLCANIC ROCKS OF THE VOLCANIC COMPLEX OF...silica, clays, hydrous sulfates, finely disseminated pyrite, and rare native sulfur. The original sulfataric-type...form crusts that commonly drape cliff faces and line the walls of mine openings with spectacular crystal
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
Book (edition)
atid aeseae eueneSasehr i ia Bdtit _WYOQMING COLORADO _ LADORE 7C CRAIG r3GRANBY 17d KREMMLING...\Wocos ‘ ANTES 15a 9b 20, RICESY. yj ta 15D MONTROSE * Zt FAIRPLAY ca BUENA VISTA Q5b DELTA 2...COEORADORI 2 NEW MEXICO x pec, Inn? UKE) COLORADO TOURS LEGEND NUMBERED TOURS UNNUMBERED TOUR...Gallege COLORADO A Guide to the Highest State WITHDRAWN AWAACK TAY 2 \e Line COLORADO A Guide...Program Projects Administration of the State of Colorado AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES ILLUSTRATED HASTINGS
Report (volume)
and Sids Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, Emery County, Utah UTAH • MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE SAN...AND SIDS MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS, EMERY COUNTY, UTAH Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite image...and Sids Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, Emery County, Utah By SUSAN BARTSCH-WINKLER, ROBERT P. DICKERSON...Mountain (UT-060-023) Wilderness Study Area, Emery County, Utah. CONTENTS Abstract 1 Summary 2 Regional...Acknowledgments 10 Appraisal of identified resources 10 10 Mining history in the San Rafael Swell region 10 Muddy
Report (issue)
Inhabitants. _______________________ Basket Makers and Cliff Dwellers. Piutes, Utes, and Navajos _______ White...rock from Duckett mine_______ Greenstone from Dream mine ________________ Low-grade ore from Dream mine_____________...edge of Elk Plateau; B, Mexican Hat; C, Lime Creek Valley showing erosion surface and vegetation ________...Canyon: A, View looking upstream at junction of Colorado and San Juan Rivers; B, View looking southwest...____ 8. A, Ruins of cliff house, Hovenweep National Monument; B, Ruins of Cliff Dwellers' house, Butler
Journal (issue)
The CUT-OFF you've always SAW wanted! Eden Valley Wood This wood is from a new field. Sliced 3°16...fruits and the like are included here.. These are COLORADO most commonly found in shales and sandstones...the silicified wood of much more recent age in Colorado, Wyoming and other western states is very poorly...has washed out in places and in fact part of a cliff slid down over the road in one spot making it impassable...Obispo. The Chocolate Mountains in the Imperial Valley contain beautiful nedules that are well worth seeking
Journal (issue)
Mexico Sunset... Loren G. Snook of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, won second prize in the November contest with...O F THE DESERT By J U N E LEMERT PAXTON Yucca Valley, California As they roll along o'er prairie wide...Desert Readers BOOKS Death Valley and Its Country, other reviews . . MINING Current news briefs Here and...Bradshaw Trail Gold at La Paz! Eighty-four years ago prospectors poured through the Colorado desert, and Bill...of gold in the gravel along the Colorado river at a place called La Paz, there was feverish excitement
Journal (issue)
was the mass field trip sponsored by the Clark County Gem Collectors of Las Vegas, Nev. , Oct. 7 and...acc2ptancc. rection of the Park Service and the Clark County group, was located at Boulder Beach on the shores...to clear back­ ground. Paul Drury of the Cl9.rk County group had a riker mount with 20 or so cut specimens...offer its services to the various Societies, the county fairs and other organizations ERAL DEPOSITS OF...a photomicrograph of one face of an octahedral pyrite crystal. It was taken with oblique light and greatly
Journal (issue)
CALENDAR March 29-30—Second annual exhibit, Imperial Valley Gem and Mineral society and Imperial Lapidary guild...section, climb of Coso and Maturango peaks, Inyo county. April 5-6—State Mineral Society of Texas, mineral...6—Easter sunrise services, Travertine point, Coachella valley, California. April 6—Easter services, Grand Canyon...show, Sonoita, Arizona. April 7—Second annual Yuma county agricultural fair, Yuma, Arizona. April 7-May 7—"Message...Alamogordo, New Mexico. April 12-13—Indian Wells Valley Stampede and Rodeo, Ridgecrest, Mojave desert,
Journal (issue)
specifically the area includes the Mojave and Colorado deserts of California; southern Nevada including...counties and all but the higher mountains of Clark county; in Arizona the lowest level of Grand Canyon and...man whose work shaped the destiny of Coachella Valley, when Roy W. Nixon, of the government experimental...introduces Bernard G. Johnson, who first envisioned this valley as a date growing center. His enthusiasm for dates...Production meeting of Western mining industry, Shirley-Savoy hotel, Denver, Colorado. Jan. 28-Feb. 28—International
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
unoccupied for 700 years. Stone houses built by the Cliff dweller Indians from about the year one to the great...acre of level ground. No wonder they were called Cliff dwellers. In the language of the geologist, the...leached out and washed away. In the White Canyon district almost all the yellow oxide minerals have been...and the Radium King mine where I am employed has very little oxidation. The mine is at the head of a...specimens of chalcocite, covellite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, and bornite all with a good "count" of uranium
Report (issue)
Wilderness looking northeast from Leopold Vista, Catron County, N.Mex. (1) Nabours Mountain, (2) Wilcox Peak,...INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FEDERAL CENTER. DENVER. COLORADO 80225 Mineral Resources -Wilderness Studies December...INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FE"DF.:RAL CENTER. DENVER. COLORADO 80225 Minera) Resources--Wilderness Studies December...graben on the Bursum dome-------------- 136 Gila Cliff Dwellings caldera----------------------- 137 Fa...investigations------------------------------------ 242 Mining history and production------------------------------
Journal (issue)
departure from the high Pajarito Plateau. Like the cliff men before us, we stare in awe a t t h i s m i g...Talus House, Cone House, and caves of the north cliff wall, Bandelier National Monument. PUEBLO PANORAMAS...primitive architecture and fascinating modes of cliff-dweller living at Frijoles Canyon in northern New Mexico...more pretentious sites at Pueblo Bonito and the cliff cities on Mesa Verde. DESERT MAGAZINE DESERT...Twentynine Palms, Calif. Nov. 9-12 — Eighth Annual Death Valley, California, Encampment. (See page 20.) Nov. 10-11—Rodeo
Journal (issue)
trip to include one or more days at the Imperial County Mid-Winter fair —a nine-day exposition of the arts...America. P Paved highways lead to the Imperial valley, desert flowers will be in blossom, and perhaps...canyons or rare mineral fields to be found on the Colorado desert. Pictures submitted in the February contest...Brawley, Calexico, Imperial and other Imperial valley towns located conveniently close to the fair grounds...COLLECTORS The Rockhound fraternity in Imperial valley will have a colorful array of the semi-precious
Journal (issue)
Baines stories and such novels as "Arizona" and "Valley of the Sun," has "gone desert" in recent years...H o g a n of the Kinlichini By JOHN HANSEN 5 MINING Q u e s t for Gold in Henry M o u n t a i n s...A m a t e u r G e m Cutter, b y LELANDE QUICK MINING Briefs from the desert region COMMENT Just Between...light of a million smiles. He had stood in a purple valley, By the side of a salty spring. He had lived a...Service Company Yermo, California I looked around my valley small Just at the break of day And saw great mountains
Report (issue)
___ -- ______ --------- _- _-Crossings of the Colorado _____________________________________________...--------------------Gl€m Canyon group of Paria Valley and westward ___________________________________________________...____________________________ -_- ____ _ Halls Creek Valley _________________________________________ ·___...·_____________________________________ _ Escalante Valley _______________________________ . ____________...________________________________________________ _ Paria Valley ____________________·__________ :.. ~ _____ - _______
Journal (volume)
4000 Salt Lake 3VHA ‫مم‬ • THE JOHNNIE MINING & MILLING COMPANY. - Illustrated . E rn lectre...POINT GLOBE MINING COMPANY . - Illustrated .. ‫ سر‬/ SerT 19 CE W E VI op HE SALT LAKE LA G N NI RE...GOES ON FOREVER The Mine & Smelter Supply Co. SALT LAKE CITY , UTAH 2. THE MINING REVIEW , SALT LAKE... IN the latter part of 1908 the Pioche Golden Mining Co., of Pioche, Nev ., bought of one g ofPrince...gThis week we sold to the Gold and Silver Prince Mining Company , bwhedosythe samepeople) of Pioche, Nev
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . Little Colorado Valley........... San Juan Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . Moenkopi of the Little Colorado Valley......................... Topographic expression...features..... . . . . . . Moenkopi of the SanJuan Valley. . Stratigraphy....... . . . . . . . . . . Lithologic................. De Chelly sandstone of Monument Valley......................... Structure, texture, and...21 Major divisions of the Jurassic............ 22 La Plata group.......................... 22 Distribution
Book (edition)
a vein, although it gives a company the right to mine, should not be taken as justification for barbaric...conscience and good will, or as stockholders to encourage mine operators to arrange for specimen preservation in...it matters little how a mining company might arrange this. Ideally, the mine could collect and sell specimens...thereby make more profits for the stockholders. If the mine owners consider this too trivial, they can close...supervision in a profit-sharing agreement when the mine is not working. Surely with goodwill and understanding
 
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