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Samarskite-(Y) from
California Mine, Devils Head Pegmatite Mining District, Douglas County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Samarskite-(Y)
Formula:YFe3+Nb2O8
Confirmation
Validity:Unconfirmed/Questioned
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Samarskite-(Y) data
Locality Data:Click here to view California Mine, Devils Head Pegmatite Mining District, Douglas County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:491781
Long-form Identifier:1:3:491781:6
GUID (UUID V4):db402f83-60e6-4d14-816f-97163c27a7f2
Nearest other occurrences of Samarskite-(Y)
16.6km (10.3 miles) Little Patsy pegmatite, South Platte Pegmatite Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
24.3km (15.1 miles) Butterfield pegmatites, South Platte Pegmatite Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
43.6km (27.1 miles) Black Cloud Mine, Teller County, Colorado, USA
45.6km (28.3 miles) Burroughs Mine (Traut-Rudin-Anderson Pegmatite; Sunrise Peak Mine), Clear Creek pegmatite Province, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
50.1km (31.1 miles) Katydid Mine (Rogers Publishing Company Mine), Wilkerson Pass Area, Park County, Colorado, USA
52.5km (32.6 miles) Roscoe Beryl Mine (Roscoe pegmatite), Clear Creek pegmatite Province, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
53.1km (33.0 miles) Pikes Peak, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
54.1km (33.6 miles) Centennial Cone pegmatite (K. L. Green Ranch), Centennial Cone, Clear Creek pegmatite Province, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
55.1km (34.2 miles) Grover Mine (Grover pegmatite; Windsor), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
94.5km (58.7 miles) Eight Mile Park, Eight Mile Park Pegmatite Mining District, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
northeasterly-trending continentul Figure 2. Geologic map of the Colorado Front Range showing the Precambrian metamorphic...Karistrom 1978; Lanthier 1978). Farther south in Colorado, sediments accumulated in decper-water rocks formed...Survey into “Early, Middle, and Late” Eras. In Colorado we because of the subsequent folding and overthrusting...subduction zone and possibly the creation Era in Colorado and Wyoming of a volcanic island arc. Carpenter...perhaps be the Phillipine island arc, and Jack Colorado show two major rock groups with different ages
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(No. 5) Bearss, G., The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hamp441-512 Nov./Dec. (No...Batholith, Okanogan County, Washington, 450-459 January/February: Azurite, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona;...Yttrium Mineralizaspecimen and photo. tion in a Pegmatite in Bethlehem, S. M. MayIJune: Vivianite, Rapid...Autunite, Daybreak mine, Boggs, R. C., R. M., see Who’s Who in Mineral Names Spokane County, Washington; Dr...smoky Bravoite, Washington, 318 quartz, Teller County, Colorado; Rock H. Currier specimen, Harold and Erica
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
Report (issue)
_______ 2008 annual meeting – Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina ______...Society (CGS) 2008 Field trip Spruce Pine Mining District North Carolina Co-leaders Alex Glover Operations..._______ 2008 annual meeting – Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina ______...Georgia, Athens (Saturday – Stop 2: Spruce Pine Pegmatite Petrogenesis) Jim Stroud, Marion Wiggins and Jeff..._______ 2008 annual meeting – Spruce Pine Mining District: Little Switzerland, North Carolina ______
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatites are located in the Middletown pegmatite district of Connecticut and are hosted by Ordovician...been referred to as samarskite. Material of this nature from the Spinelli pegmatite was found in a small...small pod near the western edge of the pegmatite. Subhedral to anhedral masses to 2 inches in size have...columbite. Samarskite-group minerals have the general formula ABO,, where the A-site = Y+HREE, Fe2+,...A-site chemistry. They include Y-dominant samarskite-(Y), Ca-dominant cal- REE+Y Calciosamarskite lshikawaite
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...ELBAITE crystal, 7.3 cm, from the Alto Ligonha district, Mozambique. American M useum of Natural History...MADAGASCAR The Anjanabonoina pegmatite, 20:191-200 MALAWI Zomba district, 25:29-35, 38 MOROCCO Bou-Azzer...Bou-Azzer, 9:69-73 Toussit mine, 11:59-61, 15:347-350 NAMIBIA Kombat mine, 22:421-425 Tsumeb (special issue...Museum for Tsumeb, 10:116-118 The Onganja mining district, 27:85-97 The Otavi Mountain Land, 28:109-130
Report (issue)
(Y, Fe3+, U)(Nb, Ta)O4 Samarskite-(Y) c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data:...Norway. In the USA, at Glastonbury, Hartford Co., Connecticut; in the Mitchell pegmatite, Bedford Co.,...Riverside Co., California; at the Addey claims, along Texas Creek, Fremont Co., Colorado; and in the New...New Year’s Eve mine, Sierrita Mountains, Pima Co., Arizona. At Divina de Uba, near Belo Horizonte, Minas...(Zaire). In Japan, especially in the Ishikawa district, Fukushima Prefecture. Many other localities are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Little Falls dolostone at exposures in Herkimer County, New Y o r k , and elsewhere. Despite their popularity...these Herkimer diamonds is an unsolved puzzle. A n y theory of origin must be consistent with two long-...MINERALS FROM A P E G M A T I T E IN FLORENCE C O U N T Y , W I S C O N S I N . A. U. Falster and Wm. B. Sim­...Investigation of a complexly zoned, Li-rich pegmatite in Florence County, Wisconsin, has revealed an unusual...unusual phosphate assemblage. The pegmatite exhibits a striking partitioning of Mn and Fe along its length.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
JanuaryFebruary: Wulfenite and mimetite. San Francisco mine, Sonora. Mexico. Shirley Fiske specimen, Jeff Scovil...Scovil photo. March/April: Gold, Mystery wind mine, California. Pacific Mineral Museum specimen, Mark Mauthner...calcite, Southwest orebody, White Pine mine, Ontonagon County, Michigan. Lance Hampel specimen, Jeff...Sphalerite with pyrite and calcite, Portland mine, Ouray County, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan specimen, Jeff Scovil...SeptemberlOctober: Calcite with hematite inclusions, Lei Ping mine, Guiyang, Hunan Province, China. Werner Lieber specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dale, N. C. 1924. The box-vein of Lyomdale, Lewk County, New York. New York State Museum Bulletin 251:134-48...collecting may be possible. INVESTIGATION OF A PEGMATITE LOCALITY IN EAST MORRIS, CONNECTICUT. R. C. Huff...Connecticut, just off Route 109, there is an old pegmatite quarry known locally chiefly for its occasional...crystals of exceptional quality. This is a simple pegmatite locality similar to a number of small quarries...section of a 1.6cm graphite sphere from Sussex County, New Jersey, showing a radial texture and smooth
Show/Event (guide)
and B.J. Flyer. 2:00 T h e Red Lake mine—the richest gold mine in the world, right here in Ontario by...Morefield pegmatite, Amelia, Virginia by L. E. Kearns and B. S. Martin. 4:00 M i n e r a l o g y of the...C r y s t a l morphology of barite occurring in the Cartersville Mining District, Bartow County, Georgia... A new site for gadolinite-(Y) in Wisconsin: The Keller Lake pegmatite by T W Buchholz, A. U. Falster...h e d r a l faces on grossular from Inyo County, California by V. T King. 2 5:00 T w i n n e d datolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
303-319 (2014) DOI : 10.3749/canmin.52.2.303 SAMARSKITE-GROUP MINERALS AND ALTERATION PRODUCTS: AN EXAMPLE... Borna 9, Poland Abstract Ishikawaite and samarskite-(Y) are indicators of an NYF signature in the mildly...zero-valent-dominant pyrochlores and microlites enriched in U+Th, Y+REE, or Ca. Low-temperature hydrothermal fluids were...enrichment in Pb and Bi. Keywords: ishikawaite, samarskite-(Y), pyrochlores, mixed NYF+LCT pegmatites, Piława...Introduction The Samarskite Group Minerals (SGM) are commonly used as indicators of NYF (Nb-Y-F) signature
Book (edition)
Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
Book (edition)
Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite...from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near...Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite from the Grandview mine, Coconino County. A few of the additional...sandstone uranium deposits on the Colorado Plateau. Coconino County: near Tuba City (Anthony et aI., 2000)...sulfide found with other copper sulfides. Greenlee County: found in the supergene alteration zone at Morenci
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the “Poudrette” alkaline pegmatite dyke, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. Grice, J...of secondary minerals at the Spring Creek copper mine, on the flank of Mount Remarkable, near Wilmington...crystallography. Found in nodules in the El Peñón granitic pegmatite, Nevados de Palermo, Salta Province, Argentina...quartz – feldspar – tourmaline rock in an abandoned mine at Sierra Gorda, near Antofagasta, Chile. Schlüter... National Forest Route 9, eastern Fresno County, California, U.S.A. Basciano, L.C. et al. (2001): Can
Journal (issue)
on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim, Colorado. Collected by the Dorris family; Tom Spann photo...Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer...left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp photo...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
promising forgotten locations is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. This...81MINERALS dletown-Portland, Connecticut, pegmatite district. They are found in South Glastonbury, about...includes one of the largest quarries of the entire district, the Howe No. 1. Access is through a trail system...system that follows old carriage roads, mine roads, and pipeline rightsof-way. During the spring and early...quarry, known for lithium pegmatite minerals. Minerals found in the district include albite, allanite
Book
Gilbert Gautier; Eric Greene, Treasure Mountain Mining; Leonard Himes, Minerals America; Shelley and Dan...silicate mineral, tho rite (ThSiO4 ), found in a pegmatite on an island in Langesund Fjord, southern Norway...uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...statistical "snapshot" of worldwide uranium mining activities and reserves, representing data that are believed
Book
to be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...a fracture, producing such forms as aegirine pegmatite. As well, hot hydrothermal fluids often carry...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17 x 11
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Published online April 2010 Preservation of the samarskite structure in a metamict ABO4 mineral: a key to...original samarskite structure were identified in a metamict ABO4 mineral from Beinmyr pegmatite, Norway...of the sample confirmed the affiliation to the samarskite group giving the general formula (REE0.322Ca0...well related to the orthorhombic low-temperature samarskite modification with cell parameters a ¼ 5.68(1)...experimental temperatures. At 800  C a high-temperature samarskite phase (s.g. P2/c) co-crystallised, with an increase
Journal (issue)
recently near scenic Lake Tahoe on the Nevada/California border. Within a zone about I 000 meters long...granodiorite lo ally expose very obvious and significant pegmatite dikes full of pink microcline and abundant rnilh...determined that there exists a broad zone of pegmatite mineralization which strikes northwesterly and...dike-like bodies here. (Continues on page 6) Colorado MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW GEM e MINERAL SHOW APRIL...hotel room rates typically double during the event (mine going from a standard $99 a night to an unwarranted
Report (issue)
Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Mineral and Water Resources of New...of Mines SOCORRO1977 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Cibutus R. HOLMES. Acting President...Admin. Secretary I RicitARD R. CHAVEZ. Assistant Head. Petroleum RUBEN A. CRESPIN. Laboratory Technician.... Director, &M.—Pub. Other ROBERT W. EVEI.ETH, Mining Engineer K. BABF.TTE FARIS. X-ray Lab Manager ROUSSEAU...RENAULT, Senior Geologist JAMES NI. ROBERTSON. Mining Geologist GuE . rritEN H. ROYBAL, Coal Geologist
Report (volume)
occurrences in Lemhi County______________________ Camas district, Blaine County__________________________ Rustler...__ __ ________ __ ____ __ __ ___ Coeur d'Alene district, Shoshone County_________________ Crescent mi...mine_____________________________________ Galena mine ____________________ -----_____________ 11 11 11...13 14 14 15 15 Bon~er CountY---------------------------------------Pegmatite occurrences___________...County________________________________________ Latah County------ ____________________________ .. ______ O
Book
is a fue l for reactors to produce electricity, mining operati ons. Robert Lau f presents here a highly...The treatment of historical details makes for highl y classic localities. Uraniun, and Lhorium mineralogy...softvva re, using data files from the Boulder, Colorado; Pau la Piilonen, Candian Museum of An1erican...structures in three dimensions for a richer Mountain Mining; Leonard Himes and Michael Jacob, appreciation...Czech Republic) and elsewhere in the Erzgebirge district. Those n1ines had been \VOrked for silver and
Book (edition)
Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...Strunz since 1941 (Strunz and Nickel 2001): • Subsidim-y anions (OH,F,O) are positioned before the complex...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada
 
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