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Chalcocite from
Evening Star, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Prospect
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Evening Star, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:432807
Long-form Identifier:1:3:432807:0
GUID (UUID V4):95a9392b-3b3e-4647-83eb-ff35c4ff0c46
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
9.9km (6.1 miles) Lady Bug Occurrence, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) Queen Mine, Ward Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
16.4km (10.2 miles) Bankers Lode Claim, Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
18.1km (11.3 miles) Unnamed Cu Prospect (MRDS - 10087812), Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
20.2km (12.5 miles) Blue Bird Mine, Grand Island Area, Caribou Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
20.7km (12.9 miles) North Star Mine, Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
21.4km (13.3 miles) Mena Mine (Hoffmeister Homestead Prospect; Black Judge Shaft), Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
22.8km (14.2 miles) Schwartzwalder Mine (Ralston Creek Mine), Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
25.9km (16.1 miles) Evergreen Mine (Gold Standard; Nancy Lee), Apex Mining District (Kingston Mining District; Pine Mining District), Gilpin County, Colorado, USA
30.0km (18.6 miles) Wood Mine (E. Calhoun), Willis Gulch, Quartz Hill, Central City Mining District (Central Mining District), Gilpin County, Colorado, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection. An ideal and...titled “The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the JulylAugust 2001...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...under the district name. District names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite...Buttes: see The Buttes. Centennial (La Plata) gold district, 27 miles W of Laramie on State 130 to Centennial
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 (edition)
Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones Collection...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SUNLIGHT MINING ,REGION, PARK COUNTY, WYOMING. WILLARD H. PARSONS. ABSTRACT. The Sunlight mining region...chalcopyrite,galena,and tetrahedritewith pocketyvaluesin gold and silver. The gangue is essentially carbonatesand...and above them successively,chalcopyrite-pyrite-gold,chalcopyrite, galena, and galena-silver veins in...deposits .................................... Complex gold-silver-tungstendeposit ....................... ...835 ORE DEPOSITS OF SUNLIGHT MINING REGION. Chalcopyrite-pyrite-gold veins .......................
Report (issue)
Wyoming 82071 (307) 766·2286 Front Cover - Wyoming gold. Gold buttons in the prospector's pan were recovered...by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button in the...the lower left is approximately ',4 inch. (Gold photographed by Alan J. VerPloeg; drawing by Phyllis A... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirwin district . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....City) district .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16 Stinkingwater district . .
Report (issue)
URANIUM AND COPPER DEPOSITS IN PARTS OF NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, UTAH IDAHO, AND WYOMING By Garland B. Gott and...URANIUM AND COPPER DEPOSITS IN PARTS OF NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, UTAH, IDAHO, AND WYOMING By Garland B. Gott and...URANIUM AND COPPER DEPOSITS IN PARTS OF NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, UTAH, IDAHO, AND WYOMING CONTENTS Page Abstract...Springs district. .............. Zuni Mountain and Scholle districts .... Pintada-Pastura district. ........... Tecolote district . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Guadalupita district. ..............
Report (issue)
which are situated in the Palmetto mining district, in Santa ' Cruz County, about 10 miles north of the Mexican...here described occurs in the wall rock of the Evening Star prospect, belonging to the 3 R group of copper...copper mines, in which deposits of rich chalcocite ore have recently been discovered. Here the altered granite...well as its alumina content. The rock from the Evening Star prospect was found by chemical test to contain...On alunite and diaspora from the Rosita Hills, Colorado: Am. Jour; Sci., 3d ser., vol. 41,1891, pp. 466-475;
Journal (issue)
malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen market...MineralCorp. specimenand image. Bibliogra-phy of Colorado Mining History Fig. 3: A close-upview (about 15x)...drawn from an unpublished worldwide bibliography of mining history records and Art's comprehensive private...engaged in underground mining might not be aware of. With the rapid development of mining in the west during...various state mining bureaus. Foremost among these was the high number of serious mining accidents, many
Book (volume)
Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to hill ridges, increasing steadily in elev. From 1,000’...The commercial production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc...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
Report (volume)
BUDDINGTON Prepared in cooperation with the STATE MINING BOARD OF OREGON UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...Mineralized areas and mining districts.____-_--_-----_____-______---_ Bohemia district.._i_-_-__--_---_-...CONTENTS Mineralized areas and mining districts Continued. Bohemia district Continued. Mineral deposits..._____ Base-metal veins with variable amounts of gold _______ Veins of quartz and clay minerals_____.__-___...Chalcopyrite and quartz veins__.____-__.___--__-__. Gold-quartz and gold-calcite-quartz veins___________ Stibnite-pyrite-quartz
Report (issue)
INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY., ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin 187...research and provide information about exploration. mining. and metallurgical processes that are needed in...Technology Branch J. Brent Hiskey Assistant Director Mining and Mineral Resources Researchlns~tute Orlo E...Affirmative Action Employer. INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist...still produce copper. The Warren (Bisbee) mining district, which includes this mine, yielded 167,242
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...Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut..... .Prof. William...North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF TILE LEADVILLE MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO BY S. F. EMMONS, J. D. IRVING, AND G...anticline _ Origin of the Iron-Mikado fault 61 Colorado Prince anticline _ group _ 95 61 Mosquito Gulch...part of the district 95 62 Kokomo syncline_ Faults southeast_ of _ Leadville 62 the_ Fryer Hill folds _ 62...62 district _ 95 Warping and drag along normal faults, _ _ _ 96 62 Origin of folds and faults _ Faults...Tucson-Maid fault _ 103 66 and Mike faults _ Iron Hill _ 103 66 Tucson mine _ Area between Iron and Adelaide
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 (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael...important localities at DeKalb, New York; the Helvetia district, Arizona; O ntario’s Grenville Province; the Sterling...40242-3539 T he Illinois-K entucky flu o rite district has been fa m o u s fo r fluorite and associated...w o f beautiful minerals fro m this am a zin g district has fin a lly come to an end, but specimens today
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...SPECIMENS from the collection of the Geology Museum, Colorado School of Mines. See page 242 for a full description... All rights reserved. notes fromthej EDITOR COLORADO-III Here we are with our third special issue devoted...devoted to the mines and minerals of Colorado. As most long-time subscribers know, the first in the series...about $200 on the out-of-print market. The second Colorado issue was vol. 10, number 6 (1979), and we still
Report (volume)
............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ....................................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...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Report (issue)
COPPER IN SHASTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.0 By L. C. GRATON. INTRODUCTION. LOCATION. Shasta County lies just south...and western boundaries of the State. The Shasta County copper region is a somewhat ill-defined area lying...lying near the middle of the western half of the county, 80 to 100 miles east of the Pacific and at about...50' north latitude. Next to. the Lake Superior district of Michigan it is areally the largest copper region...statement of the salient features of the Shasta County copper region aad of some of the general conclusions
Book
.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... GEORGETOWN, COLORADO, January, 1887. S. RANDALL. : MINERALS OF SOLORADO, GOLD. the octahedron...shapes, in scales and rolled Color various shades of gold-yellow, sometimes inclining to silmasses. ver-white
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
during the course of regular geolog•ic studiesin mining districtsby membersof the United StatesGeological...situated in the Palmetto min- ing district in Santa Cruz County about IO miles north of the Mexican...alunite occurs in the wall rock of the Even- ing Star prospectbelongingto the T•hree-Rgroupof coppermines...owing t,otheir recentlyd,iscovereddepositsof rich chalcocite ore, are attracting considerableattention. Here...ARIZONA AND NEVADA. 755 The rock from the Evening Star prospectwas found by chemicaltest to containmuch
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
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MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40...MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna...Mines and minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index...index. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Colorado. 2. Mines and mineral resources—New Mexico. I. Kennedy, Marrianna...minerals of the Great American Rift in New Mexico and Colorado. Great American Rift is the name we use for a
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fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...Deposits 63 The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St...Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - • Vll... Apache County 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437,438 Gila County 439 Graham County 440 Greenlee
Report (issue)
fluorspar pipe, Lost Sheep mine, Spar Mountain, Juab County. CONTENTS Page Dell No. 5 Claim . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Evening Star Prospect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 West Tintic District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....History of Fluorspar Mining in Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Beaver County . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Bradshaw District . . . . . . . . . . .'. . . . . . . . . . . .
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his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a member of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...noted for computer applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and...2. Porphyry Copper-Related Deposits The Bisbee District The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger Lee Le 2A
 
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