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Pyrite from
Leadville Mining District, Lake County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mining District
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Sphalerite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Leadville Mining District, Lake County, Colorado, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (4 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:491952
Long-form Identifier:1:3:491952:0
GUID (UUID V4):9a0e6905-7439-4f92-b3d7-b44356162bc9
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
SURVEY Geologic setting of the Leadville mining district, Lake County, Colorado by Alan R. Wallace1 Open-File...JDenver, Colorado PREFACE This geologic summary of the Leadville, Colorado, mining district is part...to the California Gulch Superfund Site in Leadville, Colorado. Under the agreement, the USGS provides expert...the geology and mineral deposits of the Leadville mining district. The report, a summary based upon the.............................. 1 Brief history of mining ..............................................
Report (issue)
of river and lake sediments, upper Arkansas River basin, Twin Lakes to Pueblo, Colorado by S.E. Church................................................. Mining History and Production ................................................................ Chaffee County .................................................................................. Custer County .......................................................Fremont County .............................................................................. Lake County
Report (issue)
WATER IN THE VICINITY OF THE LEADVILLE DRAINAGE TUNNEL, LAKE COUNTY, COLORADO By John T. Turk and 0. James...with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation Lakewood, Colorado November 1979 For sale by: Open-File Services...Discharge ............................... Effects of Leadville drainage tunnel on ground-water conditions. ....interactions. ............... Effects of the Leadville drainage tunnel on the ore deposits ........ Summary...area of Leadville drainage tunnel Hydrograph of water level in well near station 6+34 of Leadville drainage
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF TILE LEADVILLE MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO BY S. F. EMMONS, J. D. IRVING,...High terrace gravel_ 15 Low terrace gravel_ _ 17 "Lake beds"_ 17 Character and distribu17 tion _ Deformation...Relation to mineralization_31 Geologic age _ 31 Leadville limestone (" Blue " limestone) _ _ 32 Name_ 32...anticline _ Origin of the Iron-Mikado fault 61 Colorado Prince anticline _ group _ 95 61 Mosquito Gulch...eastern part of the district 95 62 Kokomo syncline_ Faults southeast_ of _ Leadville 62 the_ Fryer Hill
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2014 MINE LEADVILLE MINING DISTRICT, LAKE COUNTY, COLORADO T he Leadville mining district, whose history...publications, is one of the most famous silver mining camps in the United States. For an in-depth study...study of the ore deposits and mineralogy of the district, the reader is referred to Emmons, Irving, and...and Shannon and Shannon (1985). The fortunes of mining made several individuals millionaires, mostly from...silver during the life of the Leadville camp. Possibly the most famous Leadville millionaire and “silver king”
Report (issue)
Bldg., 2600 corridor, 18th and CSts.,NW. DENVER, Colorado-Federal Bldg., Rm. 169,1961 Stout St. LOS ANGELES...Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125 South State...ROLLA, Missouri-1400 Independence Rd. DENVER, Colorado-Map Distribution, Bldg. 810, Federal Center FAIRBANKS...Replacement Deposits Part II Gold in the Tintic Mining District, Utah By HALT. MORRIS Gold Deposits in the...Bird Mining Districts, San Juan Mountains, Colorado By FREDERICKS. FISHER Gold in the Alma Mining District
Report (issue)
stream and lake sediments, and cores from the upper Arkansas River drainage: Effects of mining at Leadville^Colorado...Leadville^Colorado on heavy-metal concentrations in the Arkansas River by S. E. Church1 with contributions...sediments from the continental divide south to the Leadville area, Co. 210Pb geochronology studies of a core...of a fourth core from lower Crystal Lake, a glacial moraine lake in the Arkansas River flood plain south...Concentrations of selected metals from uncontaminated pre-mining sediments and soils, upper Arkansas River drainage
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Besse. Collecting Microminerals in Leadville, Lake County, Colorado All photographs by the author of specimens...Arkansas; and several localities in Colorado, particularly the town of Leadville. In the late 1960s through the...numerous trips to Colorado, and I usually had some time to check the many dumps east of Leadville. I soon realized...most of the dump material was from the more recent mining and that most, if not all, was from the sulfide...headframe on an abandoned shaft, July 1981, Leadville district. Volume 81, September/October 2006 383
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Denver Show Figure I (above). Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals...specimen. Figure 2 (right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes;... C*O*L*O*R*A*D*O PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs...photographs by John R. Muntyan PYRITE, IRON SULFIDE, one of Nature’s most common minerals, is found in deposits...foreign localities. In the United States, fine pyrite specimens have been found at Butte, Montana; Park
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DEPOSITS IN AND ADJOINING THE LEADVILLE DISTRICT, G. F. LOUGHLIN COLORADO. • AND CHAS. H. BEHRE, JR..................................... the Leadville district :2:2I .......................... Pyrometasomaticand............................... :239 Weston Pass district ................................. :240 Structural...:244 Comparisonwith certain other districts in Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, and Utah ...................State Geological Survey Board, and the Colo. Metal Mining Fund. 2 Emraons, S. F., Irving, J. D., and Loughlin
Book
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
Report (issue)
Carbonate-Hosted Sulfide Deposits of the Central Colorado Mineral Belt DAVID W . BEATY, GARY P . LANDIS...LANDIS, AND TOMMY B. THOMPSON, EDITORS Leadville-type ore Sherman-type ore TH E ECON0t-11C GEOLOGY PUBLIS...Station, New Haven, CT 06520 Leadville-type ore (top) with rod-textured pyrite in a matrix of marmatite with...fi]J fractures and partiall y replace pyrite rods. Finer pyrite layers in lowe r third of picture are...l to host-rock bedding. Black Cloud mine, Leadville district. Sherman-type ore (bottom) in paleokarst
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur........ .................... ..... ^ B lllii Leadville.................................................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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cream-colored calcite, lightly sprinkled with small pyrite crystals, 3 by 3.25 inches; a floater specimen...Fremont County. C-O-L-O-R-A-O-O CALCITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427...Tennessee; the Viburnum Trend district, southeastern Missouri; the Tri-State district (Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma);...Russia. Calcite also occurs at many localities in Colorado. Further, the state is the source of calcite as...marble (from the Yule quarry at Marble in Gunnison County) that has been used for many of the great monuments
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
'Scope Colorado DENVER Figure 1. Location map for the Sweet Home mine, Park County, Colorado (modified...Microminerals of the SWEET HOME MINE Alma, Park County, Colorado M A R K and K A R E N V E N D L 1136 Kemman...Illinois 60526 ROBERT STOUFER P.O. Box 1884 Ouray, Colorado 81427 T he Sweet Home mine has long been world...the town of Alma, Park County, Colorado. The mine is part of the Alma mining dis­ trict, which is located...slope of the Mosquito Range opposite the Leadville mining district and the Climax mine. History Prospecting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen, Jeff...September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals, Inc., specimen...Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. A Acanthite, Colorado, 442; Utah...Cochabamba, Bolivia, 119; Connecticut, 158 Anglesite, Colorado, 442; Montana, 27; Utah, 57 Vo l u m e 8 3 Anhydrite
Journal (issue)
........................... 3 Legendary Leadville, Colorado ...........................................BACKBENDER'S GAZETTE T FEBRUARY 2015 Legendary Leadville, Colorado by Dr. Nathalie Brandes Professor of Geosciences...Houston Gem & Mineral Society he rocks around Leadville, Colorado host one of the largest lead-zincsilver deposits...rich deposits. Leadville, Colorado in November 2013. Photo by P. Brandes Leadville is located on the...fir (Wallace, 1993). The oldest rocks in the Leadville area are Proterozoic (1.7 Ga) granite that is
Report (issue)
Features as Related to Geology in the Leadville 30-Minute Quadrangle, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Features as Related to Geology in the Leadville 30-Minute Quadrangle, Colorado By OGDEN TWETO and J. E. CASE...geophysical data on the most productive part of the Colorado mineral belt UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...anomaly map and sections of the Leadville 30-minute quadrangle, central Colorado.... ---------------------...pocket 2. Aeromagnetic map and profiles of the Leadville 30-minute quadrangle ________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
No. 7 SILICIFICATION SACRAMENTO IN DIS- COLORADO. • ROBERT D. BUTLER AND QUENTIN D. SINGEWALD... districts lie near the Alma and Leadville districts, Colorado. Paleozoic sedimentary rocks intrudedby...processesare discussed. The ores mainly contain pyrite, sphalerite,galena, tennantite, and argentite in...s. Following the precedentestablishedfor the Leadville region, non-baritic oresin the central zone of...of the London gold-quartz veins from the Alma district is highly important but no significantdata pertainingto
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Discovery, Mining History, Geology, and Specimen Mineralogy of Selected Occurrences in Central Colorado and...Inc. 1441 W. Forty-sixth Avenue Suite 14 Denver, Colorado 80211-2338 P art one of this article (July/August...of gold in Colorado and the mining history and geology/mineralogy of the Front Range mining districts...and California Gulch. THE CENTRAL COLORADO MINERAL BELT LAKE COUNTY 3,396,000 ounces, 1860-1 990 (Davis...and Streufert 1990) California Gulch and the Leadville Gold Belt In the spring of 1860, a small party
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SILVER AND BISMUTH-BEARING LEADVILLE. E. P. CHAPMAN GALENA FROM • AND R. E. STEVENS. IN A study...of the Greenbackore body in the Leadville mining district, Colorado,during •93o and •93•, several minerals...are aware, have neverbeenreportedfrom the Leadville district. Some of these mineralsproved difficultof...specimencontainsas inclusionsperhaps5 per cent. pyrite and less than • per cent.eachof sphaleriteand chalcopyrite...about one mile east of Leadville, Colorado, in the California Mining District. In some respectsit resemblesa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wyoming(33) and the Gas Hills District,Wyoming (88). In the AmbrosiaLake District, New Mexico,the primaryore...INDIGENOUS ROCK OPENINGS ABOVE AN UNCONFORNiITY District or mine Capitol Reef, Utah Elk Ridge, Utah...Shirley Basin, Wyo. Gas Hills, Wyoming Ambrosia Lake, N.M. Blind River, Ontario Buchans, Nfid. Keweenaw...The principalganguemineral is barite, but quartz, pyrite, calcite,and fluorite are also present. The bulk...tabular sulfide ore shoots in altered (sericite,pyrite, quartz,chlorite) andesite-dacite tuff, volcanicconglomerate
Report (volume)
San Isabel National Forest, South-Ce tral Colorado COLORADO An Assessment of the Mineral Resource...the San Isabel National Forest, South-Central Colorado By Richard B. Taylor, Rebecca j. Stoneman, and...structures 12 Mineral resources-Locatable minerals 12 Mining and exploration history 12 Metals 13 Industrial...the San Isabel National Forest, south-central Colorado Mineral resource potential map of the San Isabel...Isabel National Forest, south-central Colorado FIGURES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14.
Report (issue)
Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology 1983 by Atnerican Geological Institute Colorado Geological Survey...Resources Denver, Colorado I 1987 Information Series 21 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF COLORADO GEOLOGY 1983...Geological Institute Colorado Geological Survey Department of Natural Resources Denver, Colorado 1987 The Colorado...opportunity employer. ii BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF COLORADO GEOLOGY SERIALS LIST AAPG Bullett n. [Tulsa... New York, NY: Society of Mining Engineers of American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of COLORADO ED RAINES Geology Museum Colorado School of Mines 1310 Maple Street Golden, Colorado 80401...Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection, photographer...photographer unknown. B etween 1868 and 1922, Colorado produced almost 260 million pounds of copper. Nearly 100...came from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926)...During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with more
 
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