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Riebeckite from
Rosita Hills, Rosita Mining District, Custer County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Hill
Classification
Species:Riebeckite
Formula:◻[Na2][Fe32+Fe23+]Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Riebeckite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rosita Hills, Rosita Mining District, Custer County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:389380
Long-form Identifier:1:3:389380:7
GUID (UUID V4):b7e34c1b-eba1-457e-a6b1-8678e4abcff2
References
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 20 SOCIETY OF' AMERICA MAY, 1935 No.5 COLORADO PEGMATITES KBNNBTU K. Lauons, Unioersity of Kansas...in every county 'of Colorado along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains from Larimer County on the Wyoming...Wyoming line to Custer County in the south-centralpart of the state, and in scatteredpre-Cambrianareas...The pre-Cambrian schists and granites of Larimer County are cut by numerous pegmatite dikesl which have...exhibiting an ore mineral phaseoccur in Boulder County.3JeffersonCounty contains both tourmaline and muscovite
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).
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
soccuron both sidesof the ColoradoPlateau (in Colorado,New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada) and in...Introduction occurrencein a lava flow near Nathrop, Colorado, IN 1884 Whitman Crossdescribedtopaz, A12SiO4F2...and garnet in samplesof lithophysalrhyolite lava Colorado,lessthan4 km westof what would84 years from the...beryllium depositswere discoveredin this same district (Shawe, 1968). Since these early discoveries,Cenozoic...or lithophysal(concentricallylay- the Honeycomb Hills, Utah (Lindsey, 1977). The of thisfeatureare complex
Report (volume)
...................... 1. Rocks from Aroostook County..... ^..................'........... 2. Miscellaneous............................... Maryland and the District of Columbia.....................................1. Elliott County dike............................................... 2. Crittenden County dike..................................... 2. Crystal Falls district, Michigan.................................. .................................... 51 7. Mesabi district, Minnesota...................................
Book (volume)
...........................................59 Colorado ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ....................................
Book (volume)
...........................................47 Colorado ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
...........................................47 Colorado ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Report (volume)
viii-ix. The physical geology of the Grand Canon district, by Clarence E. Button, pp. 47-166, pis. x-xxxvi...of report on geology and mining industry of Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons, pp. 201-290...of'the geology of the Comstock lode and the Wash oe district, by George F. Becker, pp. 291-330, pis. xlvi-xlvii...xviii-xxiii. Abstract of report on'geology of the Eureka district, Nevada, by Arnold Hague, pp. 237-290, pis. xxiv-xxv...ii-xxx. Abstract of a report on the mining geology of the Eureka district, Nevada, by Joseph Story Curtis
Report (volume)
Geophysical Setting of the Colorado Plateau Neogene Uplift and Radial Collapse of the Colorado Plateau-Regional...by Kim R. Sullivan Reevaluation of the Central Colorado Plateau Laccoliths in the Light of New Age Determinations...Lineaments in the Northern Paradox Basin, Utah and Colorado, by Jules D. Friedman Processes of Laccolithic...Regional Tectonic Setting The Petrogenesis of the Colorado Plateau Laccoliths and Their Relationship to Regional...Crustal Extension in the Southeastern Paradox Basin, Colorado, by Marilyn A. Grout and Earl R. Verbeek Relation
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SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas...Southwestern Quadrant Arizoni, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisicna, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas...Location Numbers Arizona Arkansas California Colorado 258 Louis B30 ana HOW TO USE THIS BOOK...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text
Report (volume)
crystalline rocks Maine 1. Rocks from Aroostook County 2. Litchtieldite and associated minerals New lIampshire...rocks New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland, District of Columbia 1. Peridotite and pyroxenite 2. Gabbro...Carolina (ieorgia Kentucky 1. Elliott County (like 2. Crittenden County dike Tennessee Missouri Arkansas Texas...1. Marquette region, Michigan 2. Crystal Falls district, Michigan 3 4 CONTENTS. Analyses-Continued...5. Rocks of Pigeon Point, Minnesota 6. Mesabi district, Minnesota 7. Miscellaneous rocks from Minnesota
Report (volume)
crystalline rocks Maine 1. Rocks from Aroostook 'County 2. Miscellaneous rocks5 v New Hampshire 5 Vermont...rocks New Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland and the District of Columbia 1. Peridotite and pyroxenite 2. Gabbro...Carolina Georgia Kentucky 1.. Elliott County dike 2. Crittenden County dike Tennessee Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma...1. Marquette region, Michigan 2. Crystal Falls district, Michigan 5 3. Keweenaw Point, Michigan 4. Menominee...region 6. Pigeon Point, Minnesota 5 7. Mesabi district, Minnesota 8. Miscellaneous rocks from Minnesota
Report (issue)
Rock Name: Locality: Donor: Aplite Boulder County, Colorado Ward's Scientific Catalogue Number: W-101...Donor: Rhyolite Pennsylvania Hill near Rosita, Custer County, Colorado Smithsonian Catalogue Number: NMNH...Cross, 1896, Geology of Silver Cliff and the Rosita Hills in 17th Ann. Rept. USGS, pt. II, p. 296-297...Locality: Donor: Diorite Near Azusa, Los Angeles County, California Ward's Scientific Catalogue Number:...Granodiorite Locality: Donor: St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota Ward's Scientific Catalogue Number:
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Report (volume)
anonymous papers, placed at the end of Part I Co. county cos. · counties CORPORATE AUTHORS. Am G American...Miners' Association Cal St :M Bur California State Mining Bureau Can G S Canada, Geological Survey Can :M...Adams (F D), 18 Federal Government, relation to the mining industry: Hayes, 06 Fossil insects: Cockerell,...to geology: Davis ( W M), 12a Geologic bases of mining law: De Kalb, 10 Geologic basis for artesian prediction:...relations: Branner, 90a; relations to successful mining: Winslow, 9lc Geological work in the Southwest:
Book (edition)
a mineral was discovered (benitoite, San Benito County, California), or dedicated to a scholar (dolomite...from the Keweenaw measuring Peninsula (Lake USA) where masses weighing up to 400 metric tons and...Arizona (USA) and in the manganese skarns of Langban (Sweden) and Franklin, New Jersey (USA). Dendrites...(Australia) and Redbeds, Colorado (USA). The largest blocks are from Aspen, Colorado balt, (USA), where one weighing...electronics because of its very high conductivity. In the USA and some other countries it is still used as currency
Book (edition)
of little use in life. mineralogy owe much to mining, and should give Something in A rational system...pegmatite, Washington Part of the Mendota vein, Colorado The system magnesia-silica Sympathetic variation...surface of the rock was thoroughlv explored in mining operations, and Joseph Barren reports that it was... R. van Hise of the granite dykes of the Black Hills in distances. white quartz, Dakota. The core...Sorby's methods to the J. granites of the Lake District of England, came to the conclusion that eruptive
Journal (issue)
suffic ient size and qual ity to make them worth mining commerci ally. In Treasures of the Earth we will...producer of gold, which accounrs for two-thirds of its mining rovenue. Another major resource are diamonds, which...as many other minerals. Since it began diamond mining in the 1970s, Australia has become the world's...(Mexico). In the USA, there are large quantities of acanthite at Leadville (Colorado) and in the Comstock...cumrningtonite, glaucophane, grunerite, hornblende and riebeckite. THE CUT As the finer examples of actinolite
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uccessor in interest, the American Institute oC Mining and M etallurgical Engineers has made a grant from...attended his efforts- not the spectacular success of a mining executive, but the more lasting success in the...spontaneous movement arose among geologists and mining engineers to express in some appropriate fashion...Board of Directors of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers elected him to H onorary...that would touch wider circles, was desirable. The Mining Geology Committee of the A.I.M.E. undertook to
Book (edition)
use in life. Petrology and mineralogy owe much to mining, and should give something in - V PLAT~: hand...Koniakowsky Hill, Russia ... 40. Dun Mountain district, New Zealand 41. Map of the Bushveld complex,...surface of the rock was thoroughly explored in mining operations, and Joseph Barrell reports that it...compose the base of Ben y Gloe, and occupy a wide district to the i ERUPTIVE OR IGNEOUS ROCKS 6 south... R. van Hise of the granite dykes of the Black Hills in South Dakota. " The core rock is a great batholith
Book
Petrified Forest Trails Arizona Gem Trails and the Colorado Desert of California High Tension (A Biography)...\merica Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...many outdoors-minded people began to tramp the hills in search of raw materials that could be turned
Report (issue)
7, 8, II. 4. 3. 3), the phonolite of the Black Hills (Nos. 10 and 11, I. 6. 1. 4), the essexite of Salem...Hillebrand's analyses of the rocks of the Leucite Hills, in which everything possibly present has been determined...New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, :Maryland, District. of Columbia, Virginia, Kentucky, North Cn.rolina...Montana, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, Idaho, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona. Pacific Coast: Alaska...country is omitted if the State, province, or district is given and is well known, though it is inserted
Journal (volume)
South Africa; and Maine and other regions of the USA. Minor deposits of rose quartz can also be found...in Afghanistan , India, Pakistan, China, Montana, USA, and Norway. • • TWo 19th-centurv brooches set with...at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, USA. • A Burmese ruby in calcite, a common mineral....conifer trees, which are (or were) living things. Mining for minerals is tricky and it can be dangerous...the silver produced today is a byproduct of lead mining. ◄ Example of natural silver - silver threads on
Report (issue)
· as a joint program of the Manhattan Engineer District and its successor, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission...the Central City district and adjoining areas, Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties, ·Colorado, by Paul K. Sims...deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado, by John W. Adams and Frederick Stugard, J...to pitchblende-bearing veins at Marysvale, Piute County, Utah, by George W. Walker and Frank W. Osterwald...of the Los Ochos uranium deposit, Saguache County, Colorado, by R. C. Derzay _·- _______ ____ __ __ _------------
 
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