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Rock Crystal from
Portland Mine, The Amphitheater, Ouray Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Rock Crystal
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rock Crystal data
Locality Data:Click here to view Portland Mine, The Amphitheater, Ouray Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:491263
Long-form Identifier:1:3:491263:7
GUID (UUID V4):be8b2d36-b1a1-4501-99d3-5e7801976908
Nearest other occurrences of Rock Crystal
23.3km (14.5 miles) Lackawanna Mine (Osceola Mine), Kendall Mountain, Silverton, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
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Although Colorado may be most noted for rhodochrosite or amazonite, the many varieties and associations...associations of quartz found throughout the state rank it as one of the premier worldwide localities for that...a k e w o o d , Colorado 80225 DIANNE L. K I L E 333 S a l e m Street Aurora, Colorado 80011 C O L O...metamorphic rocks to high plains composed of sediments. The elevation ranges from 3,350 to 14,431 feet above...hundred mountain peaks exceed­ ing 11,000 feet, the average elevation is above 6,800 feet. This diversity
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[714]494-7695 PyRESC AVE1KJB CPACX affiliated with the Friends of Mineralogy lv|ineralogical RccorcT publisher...Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan What’s new in Colorado minerals? ......................................A. Kosnar Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ................................................. 339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ................................
Report (volume)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTI8 SMITH, DIRECTOR BULLETIN 585...585 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES COMPILED BY SAMUEL SANFORD AND RALPH W. STONE WASHINGTON...GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1914 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES. Compiled by SAMUEL SANFORD and RALPH...By EDWARD W. PARKEH. The final chapters of two of the earlier volumes of the Geological Survey's annual...Resources of the United States" (the volumes for 1882 and 1887) consist of lists of the useful minerals
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THE MINERALOGICAL INDEX VOLUMES I-XXV RECORD THE MINERALOGICAL INDEX RECORD VOLUMES 1-:XXV... Clopton Wendell E. Wilson THE MINERALOGICAL TUCSON 1995 RECORD The Mineralogical Record Index, Volumes...Volumes 1-XXV Copyright © 1996 by the Mineralogical Record, Inc. P.O. Box 35565, Tucson, AZ 85740 All...retrieval-without written permission from the copyright holder is strictly prohibited. The Mineralogical Record name... Printed in the United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PREFACE The end of 1994 marked
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH...SMITH, Director Bulletin 624 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES**-^ COMPILED BY FRANK C. SCHRADER................................................ Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ....................................310 313 326 333 337 342 349 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES. Compiled by FRANK C. SCHRADER, EALPH
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Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...A summary of the first 100 years of published knowledge) including the chief occurrences of 445 mineral...WASHINGTON : 1961 'UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR CECIL D. ANDRUS, Secretary GEOLOGICAL...printing 1961 Second printing 1978 For sale by the Branch of Distribution, U.S. Geological Survey, 1200...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________
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OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. \V. POWELL, DIRECTOR USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED...RESOURCES OF THE UNITED STATES CALENDAR YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS...GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 18 8 8 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE STATES. UNITED A PARTIAL LIST OF ORES, MINERALS...Albert Williams, Jr. The following lists are based upon those published in the volume of Mineral Resources...pages 6G4-775, and very closely follow the form then adopted. The design is to show, in as compact and
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PUBLISHED MONTHLY Contents for Aug ust, 1948 CHJPS FROM THE QUARRY ·········································......................687 ADDITIONS To THE MINERALS OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND' VIONITY By Dr. Titus...CITY. By T ho1na.I W. Fl11hr ......698 THE OLD SAILOR ON THE NUMBERS RACKET. By Timber Hitch ..........UNIQUE UNDERGROUND LABORATORY ........703 THE OURAY, COLORADO, AREA. By Karl H11dson ....................FRIEDENSVILLE ZINC MINE. By Cha.I. A . Tho,na.I ..............................705 RELIGION AND THE MINERALOGIST
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A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 2014 Fourth...Fourth Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page Preface..............................................59 Colorado .........................................................389 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Page Ohio ...............
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EUREKA! Self-Collected Minerals A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record, May-June 2022 EUREKA! U Self-Collected...Introduction and Epilog by Wendell Wilson A Supplement to the Mineralogical Record, May- June 2022 EUREKA! Self-Collected...Self-Collected Minerals A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record May-June 2022 Volume 53, number 3 Publisher...Circulation Manager: Christi Cramer Published by The Mineralogical Record, Inc., © 2022 5347 N. Ridge...85749 Softcover: $40 plus shipping Order through The Bookstore at www.MineralogicalRecord.com Front cover:
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Downloaded by [The University of Manchester Library] at 23:52 19 November 2014 A Tour JACK A. MURPHY...Museum of Nature and Science 2001 Colorado Boulevard Denver, Colorado 80205-5798 jmurphy @ dmns.org PETER...Survey MS 150, Box 25046 Federal Center Denver, Colorado 80225-0046 pmodresk @ usgs.gov Unless otherwise...noted, all photos by Jack Thompson of specimens from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS; DMNH prior...gemstone tour around Colorado! Our field trip takes us from east to west in the same way you may have
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A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 1996 Second...Second Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page Preface..............................................47 Colorado .........................................................333 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Ohio ....................
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A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 2005 Third Edition...Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page Preface..............................................47 Colorado .........................................................333 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Page Ohio ...............
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Series 30 Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology, 1984-1989 Colorado Geological Survey Department of...Resources Denver, Colorado 1990 Information Series 30 Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology, 1984-1989...Compiled by the American Geological Institute under contract to the Colorado Geological Survey Colorado Geological...Denver, Colorado 1990 ii FOREWORD In recognition of the need to more effectively utilize the immense...store of published literature on the state's geology, the Colorado Geological Survey is pleased to release
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ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES ^H&fofe ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE UNITED STATES BY HEINRICH...PROFESSOR OF ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY LONDON: MACMILLAN & 1907 All rights.../tJLASS A XXc„ No, Copybight, 1905, 1907, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. Set New up and electrotyped... PREFACE The following work on the Economic Geology of the United States covers essentially the ground...ground which is gone over in the elementary course in this subject in Cornell University, but it is hoped that
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OPERATIONAL, AND ECONOMIC REVIEW OF UTAH'S MINING INDUSTRY By Utah Mining Association 918 Kearns Building Salt...1955 WALTER M. HORNE Assi•tant Manager FOREWORD The need for this book became apparent when a survey...give Utah citizens an account of their mining industry. Most of the available publications were found to...to be useful to other than those active in the industry. The non-technical material available was generally...segments of mining activity. We have attempted in the following pages to discuss mining in all phases
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over eighty years has been the reliable source for geological material for the science teacher, mineralogist...diamond crystal Ward’s will supply it. Ward’s knows what the teacher requires for teaching the geological...#443 MINERAL, ROCK AND FOSSIL COLLECTIONS 27 pages of collections useful in the teaching mineralogy...individual mineral specimens suitable for the collector or the museum exhibit. #451 MINERAL SUPPLIES...ESTABLISHMENT, Beechwood 9, NEW YORK INC. Station THE EARTH SCIENCE — DIGEST DO,atetiOO,#0 0,0OO,0
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DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations: xI—crystal fl—fluoresces xled—crystallized ph—phosphoresces...trailer and we went to the northern part of our state on a hunting trip. My husband and the boys hunt deer and...hunt rocks. The place that we go to is about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested...pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is around 7,000 ft. with the San Francisco peaks standing at over...has a lot of limestone outcroppings but most of the area is covered with volcanic cinder. On former trips
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Boars Reduced sectional view through the earth, which is only one of the many drawings included on this one...representation of our solar system, I have hung it on the wall of my room to look often at it, It should, in...my opinion, be made accessible to all schools in the country.’—Sincerely yours, A, EINSTEIN, AR RIE FS...PS IS ALS FB PLAS AS AAA AB RS FLAG REGIA BRIAR “The drawing is excellent and informative, You certainly...“I have never before seen the various features of the solar system and the earth shown so skillfully
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BULLETIN 95 V v v, UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR J. A. Krug, Secretary GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...MARJORIE HOOKER, and RUTH REECE DUNAVEN INTRODUCTION The bibliography of North American geology, including...and mineralogy, for the years 1946 and 1947, lists publications on the geology of the Continent of North...and adjacent islands and on Panama, the Hawaiian Islands, and the Island of Guam. It includes textbooks...publications. .The papers, with full title and medium of publication, are listed under the names of their
Catalog/List
ACQUISITIONS 1. Addison, J. deWolf ARTS AND CRAFTS IN THE MIDDLE AGES Boston: Page & Co, 1908. 8 ¼” X 6”,...Nicety illustrated French text describing the pegmatites in the former Belgian Congo. Rich in cassiterite...an unprecedented wealth of material on alluvial mining, alchemy, silver refining, smelting, surveying...nitric acid making and hundreds of other phases of the medieval art of metallurgy”. $50.00 4. Alfonso, X...reproductions of the leaves of the only known illuminated manuscript of the famous work by the learned Alfonso
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mineral sale: The Dohrmann Collection 7 by L. H. Conklin Famous mineral localities: the Gillette quarry... . . . . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . ....Gradowski & W W. Kubiak SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT Minerals of the Houston Museum of Natural Science .................. .. . . . . . . . . .. by P.]. Dunn Notes from the Editor ............................................ACANTHITE after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum
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Pegmatite Minerals of the United States David M . Seaman American Museum of Natural History, N e w Y...Silicates ( 107 ) from the pegmatites at QUARTZ, silica, Si02, is an essential mineral in the granite pegmatites...up the greater bulk of the mass of pegmatite material. Many masses are found in the cores in the center...these cores are of pink or the rose quartz variety. Rock crystals, or the colorless quartz crystals,...quartz crystals in the cavities of druses which occur in many pegmatites. Amethyst, the purple colored variety
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from Brazil and a guide to species nomenclature for the herderite/hydroxyl-herderite series ...............Leavens and W. E. Wilson The collector’s library, part II: minerals of the United States ..............Smith, Jr., and D. R. Cook Hyalite from the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina ........................ Jr., and W. J. Furbish Departments Notes from the editor ............................................address The Mineralogical Record P.O. Box 783 Bowie, Maryland 20715 published bimonthly by the Mineralogical
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work else good. The author gives a thorough study of the history of ore deposits from the time of Aristotle...Aristotle to the transition of modern views. $20.00 2. Anderson, A.L. EPITHERMAL MINERALIZATION AT THE LAST CHANCE...CHANCE AND HORNSILVER MINES, LAVA CREEK DISTRICT, BUTTE COUNTY, IDAHO Denver: GSA Bull 58, 1947. 9 ¾”...highlymineralized lead, silver, zinc district located north of Craters of the Moon National Monument. $20.00...Creasey GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE JEROME AREA YAVAPAI COUNTY, ARIZONA DC: GPO USGS PP 308, 1958
 
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