| Locality type: | Mine |
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| Species: | Aurichalcite |
| Formula: | (Zn,Cu)5(CO3)2(OH)6 |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Aurichalcite data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Continental Chief Mine, Dyer Mountain, Horseshoe District, Mosquito Range, Lake County, Colorado, USA |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 431209 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:431209:3 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | bc81868e-7407-4e30-b219-dcd553271444 |
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| 0.5km (0.3 miles) | ⓘSherman Mine (Sherman tunnel; Leadville Corporation Mine; Day Mines; Hilltop Mine), Upper Iowa Gulch, Lake County, Colorado, USA |
| 2.2km (1.3 miles) | ⓘHill Top Mine, Horseshoe Basin Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA |
| 2.8km (1.7 miles) | ⓘDauntless Mine (Dauntless tunnel), Horseshoe Basin Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA |
| 5.1km (3.2 miles) | ⓘRattling Jack Mine, Yankee Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA |
| 5.1km (3.2 miles) | ⓘJulia Fisk Mine, Iowa Gulch, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA |
| 5.2km (3.2 miles) | ⓘIbex Mine, Breece Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA |
| 5.2km (3.2 miles) | ⓘFirst National Mine, Printer Boy Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA |
| 7.5km (4.6 miles) | ⓘBelgian Mine, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA |
| 65.5km (40.7 miles) | ⓘDoctor Mine, Spring Creek (Spring Gulch), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA |
| 71.1km (44.2 miles) | ⓘSedalia Mine (Sedalia Copper Mine), Sedalia Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA |
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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...__ ___ __ __ __ __ __ _____ Kokomo (Ten ~ile) district _______ ._________________________ Breckenridge |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology and Ore Deposits of the West Slope of the Mosquito Range By CHARLES H. BEHRE, JR. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...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...Deposits of Empire glacier___________ Deposits of Horseshoe glacier_________ Terraces related to glaciation...High-level terraces,_____________________________ "Lake beds".__________________________________ Stratigraphy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cookrob@auburn.edu Aurichalcite Downloaded by [George Mason University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila...Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals. Most of them contain significant copper, and it is...tentatively identified on sight. One such mineral, aurichalcite, is traditionally available from a number of...recommended as a Connoisseur’s Choice topic. Aurichalcite varies from pale green to sky-blue; some specimens...1 and 2, and has a measured density of 3.96. Aurichalcite is monoclinic (2/m) and is pseudo-orthorhombic |  | | Report (issue) | | Carbonate-Hosted Sulfide Deposits of the Central Colorado Mineral Belt DAVID W . BEATY, GARY P . LANDIS...paralle l to host-rock bedding. Black Cloud mine, Leadville district. Sherman-type ore (bottom) in paleokarst...veined with ferroan dolomite. rv1oose mine, North Alma district. Photographs b)' \Villiarn Sacco, Peabody...Carbonate-hosted sulfide deposits of the central Colorado mine ral belt: Introduction, general discussion,...Regional geologic and tectonic setting of the central Colorado mineral belt . . . . Alan R. Wallace Paleozoic |  | | Report (issue) | | AND ORE DEPOSITS OF TILE LEADVILLE MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO BY S. F. EMMONS, J. D. IRVING, AND G. F...High terrace gravel_ 15 Low terrace gravel_ _ 17 "Lake beds"_ 17 Character and distribu17 tion _ Deformation...Mount Zion porphyry_ 50 Other porphyries in Mosquito Range re51 gion _ Age relations of porphyries at...the Iron-Mikado fault 61 Colorado Prince anticline _ group _ 95 61 Mosquito Gulch fold-fault _ Faults...Faults in the eastern part of the district 95 62 Kokomo syncline_ Faults southeast_ of _ Leadville 62 the_ |  | | Report (volume) | | Bulletin 681 THE OXIDIZED ZINC ORES OF LEADVILLE COLORADO BY G. F. LOUGHLIN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING.............................................. Aurichalcite..................................'....................................................... 47 Range in metal content of the ores......................carbonate ore with druses of aurichalcite; B, Photomicrograph showing aurichalcite and calamine filling cavity...ore; C, Photomicrograph of vein of calamine, aurichalcite, and opaline silica in low-grade brown zinc |  | | Report (issue) | | ................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ................Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona .............................. Bisbee (Warren) district, Arizona .......Ely (Robinson) district, Nevada .............................. Leadville district, Colorado ..............Gilman (Red Cliff) district, Colorado ...................... Aspen district, Colorado ................................................. Eureka district, Nevada ............................................. |
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