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K Feldspar from
Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'K Feldspar' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view K Feldspar data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:548921
Long-form Identifier:1:3:548921:3
GUID (UUID V4):1e0c8a3b-462f-4b9c-827f-dab5c5cc451a
Nearest other occurrences of K Feldspar
0.1km (0.1 miles) Detroit City Mine, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
53.3km (33.1 miles) Northern View (Rose of Sharon), Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
55.2km (34.3 miles) Sherman Mountain, Silver Plume, Georgetown District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
55.3km (34.3 miles) Urad mine, Dailey Mining District (Jones Pass Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
55.3km (34.4 miles) Georgetown-Silver Plume Mining District (Griffith Mining District; Silver Plume Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
55.7km (34.6 miles) Henderson Mine, Dailey Mining District (Jones Pass Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
58.6km (36.4 miles) Katydid Mine (Rogers Publishing Company Mine), Wilkerson Pass Area, Park County, Colorado, USA
62.7km (39.0 miles) Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
64.2km (39.9 miles) Invincible (Baltimore; Brighton; Silver Link; Blackwood; Alpine; Roca; Brownell; Frelland; Lance; Mint; Mammoth; Belle Creole; Ariadne; Diamond Mt.; Miller; Cecil; Falcon; Harrisburg; C. M. Welch), Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
68.3km (42.4 miles) Italian Mountain, Taylor Park, Dorchester Mining District, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE The Sweet Home rhodochrosite specimen mine, Alma District, Central Colorado: the porphyry molybdenum–fluorine...rhodochrosite–fluorite in the Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Colorado were originally mined for silver...For the last 13 years up until 2004, however, the mine has produced world-class rhodochrosite specimens...at the Sweet Home operation have revolutionized the minerals specimen industry. The Sweet Home deposit...the nearby area; (4) a small pegmatite within the mine with an age (25.9±0.3 Ma) coincident with mineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE The Sweet Home rhodochrosite specimen mine, Alma District, Central Colorado: the porphyry molybdenum–fluorine...rhodochrosite–fluorite in the Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Colorado were originally mined for silver...For the last 13 years up until 2004, however, the mine has produced world-class rhodochrosite specimens...at the Sweet Home operation have revolutionized the minerals specimen industry. The Sweet Home deposit...the nearby area; (4) a small pegmatite within the mine with an age (25.9±0.3 Ma) coincident with mineralization
Journal (issue)
E-mail: leicht@kristalle.com T he Sw e e t H ome Park C o u n t y , C o l o r a d o This publication...Leonard Beach, whose undying faith in the Sweet Home Mine made it all happen. M in e FRONTISPIECE:... found in the Good Luck Pocket, Sweet Home mine, in 1992. Sweet Home Rhodo, Inc. specimen; photo by Harold...u n t y , C o l o r a d o by Thomas Moore Bryan K. Lees Karen J. Wenrich Steve Voynick Jack A. Murphy... found in the Good Luck Pocket, Sweet Home mine, in 1992. Sweet Home Rhode. Inc. specimen; photo by Harold
Journal (issue)
Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan What’s new in Colorado minerals? ...................................... Kosnar Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..........................................333 by R. A. Kosnar Famous mineral localities: Mount A n tero ............................ 339 by M.... I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349 by J. A. Murphy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
A geochemical study of the Sweet Home Mine, Colorado Mineral Belt, USA: hydrothermal fluid evolution...fluorite–rhodochrosite mineralization at the Sweet Home Mine occurred coeval with the final stage of magmatic...Geosciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA T. Pettke Institute of Geological Sciences, University...Switzerland D. Misantoni Colorado Calumet Company Inc., P.O. Box 1169, Golden, CO 80402, USA al assemblage was...in quartz demonstrate that fluids from the Sweet Home Mine are enriched in incompatible elements but have
Journal (issue)
Newsletter Micromineralogy of the Leiser Ray Mine, San Bernardino County, California Paul M. Adams 126 South Helberta...Avenue #2 Redondo Beach, CA 90277 The Leiser Ray Mine is located in Sections 15 & 22, Tl IN, R 18E, about...eastern San Bernar- dino County, Cali fornia. It was part of the Camp Signal District and has been known by...Louisiana-California. Fred Leiser was the mine manager for the Louisiana-California Mining Company (C!oudman, et al,...Leiser Ray Mine was the only deposit worked primarily for vanadium in San Bernardino County, but produco
Journal (issue)
hint of danger. This specimen is from the Sao Pedro mine in Minas Gerais (Saucui, Malacacheta Dist., Teofilo...Leatherman reGULAr coLUmnS ECO-FRIENDLY JEWELER A Gold Mine in Your Studio tips for collecting precious metal...Gollar Mine Non Access In the April Rock & Gem, I was pleased to find an article on the Gollar mine in Missouri;...contacted my former advisor about access to the Gollar mine. Apparently, some time after I left the state, a...3-5—FARMINGTON, NEW MEXICO: Annual show; San Juan County Gem & Mineral Society, Farmington Civic Center;
Journal (issue)
hint of danger. This specimen is from the Sao Pedro mine in Minas Gerais (Saucui, Malacacheta Dist., Teofilo...Leatherman reGULAr coLUmnS ECO-FRIENDLY JEWELER A Gold Mine in Your Studio tips for collecting precious metal...Gollar Mine Non Access In the April Rock & Gem, I was pleased to find an article on the Gollar mine in Missouri;...contacted my former advisor about access to the Gollar mine. Apparently, some time after I left the state, a...3-5—FARMINGTON, NEW MEXICO: Annual show; San Juan County Gem & Mineral Society, Farmington Civic Center;
Report (issue)
Denver, Colorado, USA © 2011 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 • Denver, CO 80211 • USA Phone 1.303...America Photo Credits Cover: Topaz, 3.5 cm tall Capao Mine, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil Max and Jon Sigerman...Occurrence MIKE MENZIES 22. Topaz from Utah's Maynard Mine RYAN BOWLING 26. Volodarsk-Volynski PETER LYCKBERG...Topaz ALFREDO PETROV & JOHN RAKOVAN 34. Colorful Colorado DAVID W. BUNK 42. Mongolian Topaz: The Gorkhi...DUDLEY BLAUWET 58. Zimbabwe Blue Topaz: St. Anne's Mine JAN KANIS 60. Brazil: The Land of Topaz DIETMAR
Journal (issue)
Collector's New A Field Trip to the Krystal Tips Mine Petersen Mountain, Washoe Co., Nevada Kenneth L...the site of the Krystal Tips Mine, about 10 a.m. Foster Hallman, the mine owner/operator pulled up rig...long steep trip up the 4-wheel drive road to the mine. I had come with John Miatech and John Salzbach...the hill to the mine. Foster had sta rted a new trench in the lower east side of the mine and had been working...There were a number of displays of Colorado minerals and with Colorado gemstones (the theme for 2002). T
Journal (issue)
Jan/Feb 2024 Vol.99, No.1 ROCKS MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems...Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM Consulting Editors Joel...Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology...University, Russia Mark Mauthner, Graz, Au5tria Peter K. M. Megaw, Tucson, AZ Peter J.Modreski U.S. Geological...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut
Journal (issue)
England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...paragenesis of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ...............25046, M .S. 905 Denver Federal Center Denver, Colorado 80225 In recent decades the science of mineralogy... 905 Box 25046 Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225 Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona...plus an interesting range o f rare species. The mine, first opened in 1903, continues to produce fine
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...to miniature size) from the Eagle’s Nest mine in Placer County, California (half of them with quartz matrix)...Richard Rice, a lifetime resident of Washington County, Oregon, was a retired logging contractor. With...specimens, the extraordinary “Alma Rose” rhodochrosite specimen from the Sweet Home mine (pictured in vol. 24...O. Box 3443, Station “D ” Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K IP 6P4 Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore Road Beaconsfield
Report (issue)
Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961).
Book
193-256 137-208 129-192 209-264 193-256 [ [ COLORADO-Ill] 177-256 121-184 89-168 1-120 1-88 [ ...177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400 COLORADO-II] 321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400...69-132 65-128 1-64 11 / 1980 20 I 1989 [ COLORADO-I] [ 289-352 385-448 [ AUSTRALlA] 353-504...of the] FM-TGMS-MSA Wulfenite Symposium (chairman: K. Wenrich) 21:98100 Abstracts of the FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium...(chairman: K. Wenrich) 22:65-69 [Abstracts of the] FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Garnet (chairman: K. J. Wenrich)
Journal (issue)
England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA Steven R. Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor...Articles History and minerals of The Geysers, Sonoma County, California .....................................the Wessels mine, South Africa ............365 by J. Gutzmer & B. Cairncross The Parker mine, Notre Dame...ite and q u artz, from the G uskak m ine, P ed ch , K unar, A fg h an istan . T he beryl c ry sta l is 14...1852 to the 1920’s, is located in northern Sonoma County about 145 km north of San Fran­ cisco, California
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...from the C en ten n ia l Eureka m in e, T intic district, Juab C ounty, U ta h ..........................eral lo ca litie s o f the N orthern A reas, P a k is ta n ............................................published, a sample article (the recent Red Cloud mine article— click on the specimen photos and blow them...family, which had owned and operated the Las Chispas mine near Arizpe, Sonora. The family sent Schmitter a
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Famous mineral localities: The Castle D om e district, Yuma County, A r iz o n a ................... 437 by...Mandarino & /. D. Grice Microminerals: Identifying u n k n o w n s...........................................on matrix, 12 cm, from the Elura lead-zinc-silver mine, No. 1 Level, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia...probably noticed about the previous issue on the Sweet Home mine was the peel-off temporary cover. The story
Journal (issue)
W EB : h t t p / / w w w .k ris ta lle .c o m E - m a il : l e i c h t ^ k r i s t a l l e . c o m Editor...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Rossman Orpiment from the Twin Creeks mine, Humboldt County, N e v a d a ............................................ 311 by B. K. Lees The Purple Passion mine, Yavapai County, A rizona...................Stanislaus County, C alifornia 333 by G. E. Dunning Brookite from Hale Creek, Trinity County, California
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...................................... 51 Chairman: K. Wenrich W hat's n e w in m in erals D en v er S h...group, 13 cm, w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection;...year at the age o f 84. The collection has found a home at the Australian M useum in Sydney, where a lavish
Book
as a full professor of mineralogy at his alma mater, the mining academy at Freiberg. In 1815, he published...(Umwandlung mit Austausch von Stoffen); e.g., feldspar altered to cassiterite. In 1855, Gustav Georg...been erroneously described as pseudomorphs after feldspar or calcite. Polyhedroid is the preferred term...local equilibria defined by a Lippmann the product, K(Br,Cl), appears milky, due to the development of þ...fringes are produced by a reference rim was a Br-rich K(Br,Cl) phase and gradually beam, which is inclined
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long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Robinson, 2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of...discoveries in the famous alkaline pegmatites of Mount Malosa in the late 2000s include specimens showing...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Journal (issue)
Jean COWMAN & Philip PERSSON Tribute Pocket, CO, USA Mineral photography: James Elliott INTRODUCTION...of specimen mining in Pederneira, many exceptional pockets have been discovered. The mine is renowned...One of the most remarkable pockets found at the mine was the Afghan Pocket, collected in 2001; it did...crystal from the Tribute Pocket, Agnus Dei claim, Colorado, USA. HISTORY: DISCOVERY AND RE-DISCOVERY Topaz...cm” Continued on page 6 Pederneira Mine (Brazil) The Pederneira Mine is one of the most important sources
Journal (issue)
CR IPP LE CR EE K! Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...mineral localities: The Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....[Ba(UO2)2V2O8⭈5H2O] from the type locality, the Mounana mine, Franceville, Haute Ogooué, Gabon. See the article...at one of their micromounting sessions at Weber’s home in Mamaroneck, New York. Clicking on the article
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Three May-June 2001 S12 T 7 ^ y ^ \T M[ I ]A K I JI/^TV A I \ S c Iv TT yl / \l T 7 l Wayne...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Large barite crystals from the Elandsrand gold mine, South A fr ic a .................................Benitoite, Gold L.A. County Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Museum, Himalaya mine $10 (Brazil), Bosch...Pit (PA-MD), Mcguinnessite v Pereta Mine (Italy), Cetine Mine (Italy) v Mineral Fraud, LeadhillsWanlockhead
 
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