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Amethyst from
Two Sisters Mine, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Two Sisters Mine, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:491292
Long-form Identifier:1:3:491292:7
GUID (UUID V4):86540391-94e4-47f7-8090-92dfe6d27827
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Industry Background image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the...They are Found zite (201 cts) is from the Oceanview Mine in Southern California; the 0.72-ct benitoite (left...Dallas Gem Mine area, San America’s Royal Gems – Montana and Yogo Sapphires Benito County, California;...is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing Turquoise ite Country, Montana. Photos of gemstones Oregon...Rare and Beautiful American Gemstone and original mine image by Mark Mauthner. Red Beryl – A Very Rare
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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
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different stones. However, this writer has used two different virgin ceramic laps with the proper lubricants...Agate, Pink Moss Agate (18x13mm only), Phantom Amethyst, Aventurine, Blue Aventurine, Goldstone, Blue...collector interested in acquiring a gold specimen or two, fare these days? Hone has the silver pick, or should...oftentimes recently collected from California, Colorado, Brazil, Australia and other locations. Many specimens...out, bite, and loot very closely at abandoned old mine dumps and prospect pits. Make sure that the dumps
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Michigan Correspondents Dudley Blauwet Louisville, Colorado Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Renato Pagano Milan...• Individuals (U.S.): $58 for one year; $106 for two years. (Firstclass mailing available; write to circulation...•Individuals (outside the U.S.): $65 for one year, $120 for two years. (Airmail mailing available; write to circulation...592 March–April 2007 Volume Thirty-eight, Number Two Articles Pink fluorite from an exceptional find
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predecessor organization, the Manhattan Engineer District ; and, to a lesser extent, by staff members of...United States. The pre-1940 history of uranium mining and geology is concerned largely with veins in...Front Range mineral belt of Colorado; the Boulder batholith area, Montana ; the Sierra Ancha region, Arizona...Marysvale district, Utah. All the Western States, including Arizona, California, Colorado~ Idaho, Montana...comments on the history of uranium geology and mining. The other chapters deal principally with pertinent
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. 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...1978 $37.00 - ,• Abstract This two-part report provides an essentially camp I ete 11 st r ng of rad...rad i aaet 1ve occurrences 1n Colorado, with a comprehensive blbi iography and bibliographic cross-indexes
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Cristo Country By JOSEF MUENCH RECREATION: The Colorado River By NELL MURBARGER NATURE TRIP: Baja California...EDMUND C. JAEGER EXPERIENCE: Crossing The Little Colorado By BILLIE WILLIAMS YOST HIGH COUNTRY: The Bucket..."havasu" means "green-blue." Because the water in the creek flowing through their high-walled canyonland has...has a decided turquoise cast to it, the canyon, creek and the falls pictured on the cover all bear the...the United States I took time off between my first two assignments (photographing new cars in Detroit and
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180 Display Cabinet — Campbell . . Page 186 Colorado — Willis Page 190 Minerals of Collecting ...for the mineral collector, prospector, and small mine operator. $4.50. HANDBOOK OF URANIUM MINERALS,...gem was recovered in a gold placer of Josephine county. Accur­ ate records of other reputedly large stones...offered by the fact that the beach sands of Curry County at some points carry diamond. Microscopic size...writer and others in the “black sands” of Curry County. These stones, however, are much too small to be
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Michigan Correspondents Dudley Blauwet Louisville, Colorado Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Renato Pagano Milan...• Individuals (U.S.): $58 for one year; $106 for two years. (Firstclass mailing available; write to circulation...•Individuals (outside the U.S.): $65 for one year, $120 for two years. (Airmail mailing available; write to circulation...E. Wilson The Minh Tien tourmaline mine, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam . . . . .
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production. Date Festival to Stage "Arabian Nights" E COUNTY and the Coachella Valley desert area w roll out...attend the 1952 Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival at the county fairgrounds at Indio. California...lumber products. The exhibition of minerals and mining, under the supervision of Omar Kcrschncr of Indio...Mesa, Arizona. February 10—Dons Club Trek to Cave Creek, from Phoenix, Arizona. February 10 -- Bandollero...Arizona. February 10—Tad Nichols' film on "San luan-Colorado Adventure." Desert Museum, Palm Springs. February
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fear, He floats, with ageless, silent grace. Soon two more join him in the fun. O'er peaks too steep for...stopping to think Until I met the golden eyes Of two indignant dragonflies. DESERT MAGAZINE DESERT...Championship Meet, Reno, Nevada. Feb. 16-24—Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival, Indio, California...JAEGER GHOST TOWN Only the Sidewalk Remains at Gold Creek By NELL MURBARGER CLOSE-UPS About those who write...FRAIZER NEWS From here and there on the desert MINING Current news of desert mines URANIUM Latest developments
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committing to paper. Below is a sketch of these two, necessarily intertwined stories—of Kay and of her...Katherine Loewi) was born in the palazzo; of two sisters who later were born there as well, one died young...which Kay’s earliest memories derive. She and her sisters went to a school for the children of the small...private teachers instructed the sisters in French and English, the other two of the four languages which...Kay at this time was with him in Paris, since the two were completing together their last and greatest
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stop was at the Yuma Mine near Tucson. This mine opened originally as a gold mine, was mined in World...vanadium. Here luck or just good prospecting uncovered two nice vugs which yielded many fine specimens of vanadinite...about five miles to an old mine which had recent­ ly been worked for scheelite. Two days of collecting produced...Naco back into the States. The Old Bridal Chamber Mine at Lake Valley, New Mexico produced some splendid...limestone. At Mapimi, Durango, Mexico in t11e Ojuela Mine some wonderful collecting was done. Hemin1orphite
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cover comes to us from Pruett Press, Boulder, Colorado. This firm has released a 1976 calendar featuring... SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6.50 per year. $12.00 for two years in U.S. and possessions. Foreign postage 75...inch saws. These pieces or nodules will weigh up to two lbs. Because of our large volume purchase of these...beautiful hand-finished cabochons are available In two sizes. Our introductory price Is only . . . 30x40mm...is priced at only . . . $.85 per lb. BLACK SPIDER MINE TURQUOISE - All ring size stones, mostly of a medium
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oz.) . . . . • . . . . . 25.00 Gahnite, Franklin. Two l 1/4" xis. in paral lel position, green. 2x 1 ¼...Sylvanite, Colorado. Minutely xld. in rock . 2x2 ........... .. . .•. . . • 3.50 Altaite, Colorado. W . Tellurium...attractive. . ............ . 10.00 Ge ntftite, Wood's Mine. Pa. With Zaratite coating rock. 3x2. . ...... ...6 A RECENT FORMATION OF CALCITE IN AN ABANDONED MINE. By A lbert L. K idu·e/1 .........................COLLECTI NG NEAR TURRET, COLORADO. By Gu; B. Ellenneier ............16 TWO WORLD WARS HA VE ORA WN H
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California, Arizona, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. You hive started something...them to bring some of their rocks along and kill two birds with one stone. Anyone who wishes may display...SCIENCE INDIAN CRAFTS LOST MINES POETRY GEMS NEWS MINING LANDMARK CONTEST EOBBY TBAVEL EOOKS CONTRIBUTORS...including gold-embossed loose leaf binder $3.00 Two years, including binders for both years 5.00 You...wild desert between the great mountain and the Colorado river a five year old Navajo boy clung to his
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who snowshoed her way to Nome; and many more. A Mine of Her Own tells the definitive story of America's...prospectors. They reveled in the excitement of the mining booms and took pride in surviving in the world...the women who helped shape the modern West. A Mine of Her Own Digitized by the Internet Archive in...https://archive.org/details/mineofherownwome00zanj A Mine of Her Own Won1en Prospectors in the Alnerican West...Publication Data Zanjani, Sally Springmeyer, 1937A mine of her own : women prospectors in the American West
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Floyd Oles 26 COLLECTING AT THE STEWART LITHIA MINE A fee location in California by James R. Mitchell...svsTEM - INTRODUCTORY PRICE $299.95 COMPlETE WITH TWO DIAMOND WIRE BL.ADES (Plus $4.95 Shipping Cost) ...the left side. You'll be amazed ho,v fast these two wheels ( one coarse and one fine) can g rind your...Perldot Axlnlte Llmonlte Pseudomorph Concretion Amethyst GROUP No. 3 - flOCKI a ROCK FORMING MINERALS ...beach or in the mountains, it has been a habit of mine to kick any strange branch or rock that is in my
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WILFRED C. EYLES THE ENCHANTED PUEBLO BAYFIELD, COLORADO PE Di C1 St G: 0 FI N "l A: v, 111 A...···························-······· I.As CmSPAS MINE, SONORA, MEXlCO ........................... ......of quiries have been received regarding the the District of Columbia, to whom a trip - did the Editor have...interesting t9 a mineralogist for he is likely to see but two minerals coal, which disappears in the steamer's...garnet as distinct as, a Colo. Pyrite, and we see two-inch lustrous cubes of Bixbyite modified with octa~
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wildcats mate with female house cats. We know of two offspring from such a union. These kittens are tame...Arizona Snow Bowl, Flagstaff, Ariz. March 11—Maricopa County Sheriff's Posse Rodeo, Phoenix, Arizona. March...17-18—Sierra Club Hike to Split Mountain and Fish Creek Wash from Ocotillo Wells, Calif. March 17-18 — Jeep...Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico. March 21-25—Maricopa County Fair, Mesa, Arizona. Miniature Parade on 21st;... California, Desert Museum field trip to Falls Creek Canyon. March 24-25 — Dons Club trek to Grand Canyon
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January, 1965 This Month's Cover Ruins at Red Cloud Mine (Story page 12) By JACK PEPPER 4 Books for DESERT...here is an account of the amusements of Nevada's mining frontier from 1850 to 1864. Brimming with anecdotes...describes the lives and zona, California, Nevada, Colorado, times of Lola Monte/, Cattle Kate, New Mexico...depicts the onceelegant Bunker Hill residential district ol Los Angeles. Author-artist Politi drew from...once-booming turous tourists. 139 pages, cardboard cover. mining towns, stage stations, army posts, mar$2.95. May
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· as a joint program of the Manhattan Engineer District and its successor, the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission...a great deal of satisfaction on the part of our two groups that this volume is presented to the public...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...------Uranium deposits of the Boulder batholith, Montana, by George E. Becraft___________________________
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atid aeseae eueneSasehr i ia Bdtit _WYOQMING COLORADO _ LADORE 7C CRAIG r3GRANBY 17d KREMMLING...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...Note About the New Edition This revision of Colorado, A Guide to the Highest State, brings abundant
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calendar, p ublished by Pruitt Press, Boulder, Colorado. Harold and Erica Van Pelt, wellknown photographers...U.S. funds. ©~&[?IT@LJ@~~@ A Dwl•lon Of Remona Mining & Mtg. Corp. Mall - 6- MAY 1977 505 Elm StrNt...then bonded to a thin piece of sheet metal to which two bolts had been attached. The bolts hold it to the...pattern around it. The outer necklace in Fig. 4 has amethyst and sterling silver melon beads with an old silver...place in questions is the old copper and gypsum mining camp of Ludwig, Nevada. Ludwig is located on the
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SUBSCRIPTION A.ATES: $6.50 per year, $12.00 for two years in U.S. end possessions. Foreign postage 75...inch saws. These pieces or nodules will weigh up to two lbs. Because of our large volume purchase of these...beautiful hand-finished cabochons are available in two sizes. Our introductory price is only . . . 30x40mm...is priced at only . . . $.85 per lb. BLACK SPIDER MINE TURQUOISE - All ring size stones, mostly of a medium...ALL MATERIALS ARE PRE-SIZED AND TUMBLE-READYI Amethyst. Australia. light color .....................
 
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