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Calcite from
Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ruby Mountain, Nathrop, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:662913
Long-form Identifier:1:3:662913:7
GUID (UUID V4):afade9a7-c38d-49a8-9dd0-97757a379d0f
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
8.4km (5.2 miles) Mount Princeton Hot Spring, Chalk Creek District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
9.5km (5.9 miles) Hortense Hot Spring, Chalk Creek District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
10.0km (6.2 miles) Crystal No. 8 Mine, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
10.9km (6.8 miles) Last Chance Mine (Lower Adit; Kramer Mine; Adit No. 1; Adit No. 2), Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
11.3km (7.0 miles) White King Deposit, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
11.3km (7.0 miles) Blue Stone Deposit, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
11.4km (7.1 miles) Unnamed Graphite Deposit (MRDS - 10013948), Turret Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
11.4km (7.1 miles) Puzzle mine, Poncha Springs, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
11.8km (7.4 miles) Chimney Hill Mine (Morgan Ranch Deposits; Manganese Hill), Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
12.4km (7.7 miles) Snowflake Deposit, Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Deposits of the Poncha Springs NE Quadrangle, Chaffee County,Colorado By RALPH E. VAN ALSTINE With a section... PAPER 626 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Mining Industrial Development Board UNITED...Rhyolitic ash-flow tuff ______________________ _ Nathrop Volcanics _________________________ _ Browns Canyon...Ralph E. Van Alstine and Doak C. Cox _________ _ Colorado-American mine ______________ -_Delay adit and...Poncha Springs NE quadrangle. Geologic map of the Colorado-American fluorspar mine, Browns Canyon district
Report (volume)
the Browns Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Chaffee County, Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1716-C...the San Isabel National Forest, south-central Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1638, p. 40-42...SOUTH-CENTRAL COLORADO Mineral Resources of the Browns Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Chaffee County, Colorado...Area, Chaffee County, Colorado. (Mineral resources of wilderness study areas South-Central Colorado; ch...Mines and mineral resources Colorado Browns Canyon Wilderness. 2. Geology Colorado Browns Canyon Wilderness
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more. "The Glove Mine is located in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, near the little town of Amado, on the...specimen with a pleasing combination of two minerals. COLORADO — "I used to be a regular reader of R&M and a...spectacular, only good representative specimens of Colorado minerals. Half the fun is the trip anyway. No...consists solely of minerals I've found here in Colorado." — letter dated Jan. 10, I960, from Doug Graham...in length. They come from Mt. Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado (altitude of pocket where found over 14
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Two Point claim, Pikes Peak batholith, Teller County. The Collector’s Edge specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Mail Stop 150, Box 25046 Federal Center Denver, Colorado 80225 pmodreski@usgs.gov C olorado is, of course...been written as guides to mineral collecting in Colorado. A classic, which went through three major editions...1951 version with a slightly different title), is Colorado Gem Trails and Mineral Guide, by Pearl (1951,...up-to-date guidebook to the state’s minerals is Colorado Rockhounding, by Voynick (1994). Other published
Book (edition)
MILEAGE L OGS. REVISED EDITION Revised Edition, COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE HICllAHD :--1. PEARL...an extensive ¥em and mineral collecting tour 01 Colorado, revealing the interesting places where Nature...Swallow, Publisher) 2679 South York Street Denver, Colorado 80210 - , =· - ·, BOOKS BY RICHARD M. PEARL...Exploring Rocks, Minerals, Fossils in Colorado America's Mountain: Pikes Peak and the Pikes Peak Region...Atlas of Colorado American Gem Trails Nature As Sculptor: A Geologic Interpretation of Colorado . Scenery
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Pumice 5. 3. II. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. Rhyolite Colorado Mass. Felsite (Aporhyolite) Quartz-Felsite Porphyry...Porphyry South Dakota Rhyolite Porphyry (Nevadite) Colorado Pumiceous Rhyolite 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18...Granite Mass. Binary Granite N. H. Binary Granite Colorado Biotite-Granite R. I. Biotite-Granite Vermont...Sanidine-Trachyte Colorado Trachyte Porphyry S. Dakota 23. Bostonite 27. 28. 29. Phonolite Colorado Leucite-Syenite...Monzonite Colorado Phonolite-Nephelite-Syenite Series: IV. V. Perlite Colorado Vitrophyre Colorado Rhyolite-Granite
Report (volume)
be changed by heat treatment or dyeing. Only the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of...or two of these qualities. The diamond, emerald, ruby, and sapphire are considered precious gems. Some...canary yellow in the diamond; pigeon-blood red in the ruby; cornflower blue in the sapphire; and grass green...price of a gem stone. Such gems as the diamond and ruby are rare, in addition to being beautiful and durable...the deep redpyrope garnet closely resembles the ruby in color, there is no comparison in expense and
Book (edition)
— _ ; COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE ! ■ : ' BOOKS BY RICHARD M. PEARL Colorado Gem Trails...Trails and Mineral Guide Colorado Rocks, Minerals, Fossils America’s Mountain: Pikes Peak and the Pikes...Nature As Sculptor: A Geologic Interpretation of Colorado Scenery Guide to Geologic Literature Popular Gemology...Gemology Mineral Collectors Handbook Colorado Gem Trails The Art of Gem Cutting (With Dr. H. C. Dake)...Dake) * RICHARD M. PEARL ★ COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE ★ SKETCH MAPS BY MIGNON WARDELL PEARL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...to 2000) J oin us for a gemstone tour around Colorado! Our field trip takes us from east to west in...in the same way you may have toured through Colorado on a mineral collecting trip. This route, from the...gemstones are known to occur. We cannot discuss every Colorado gemstone occurrence; rather, this is a general
Journal (issue)
2008 Table of Contents Collecting Minerals in Colorado - Peter Modreski ...........................Pg...Mining Update .......................... Pg. 20 Colorado Fossil Woods - Frank Daniels ...................on collecting minerals in Colorado by Pete Modreski, the informative Colorado petrified wood article by...the magazine so you get your very own copy! Colorado Minerals is the theme of the 2008 Denver Gem and...from the vicinity of Pikes Peak itself, Stove Mountain and Sentinel and Specimen Rocks; Crystal Park;
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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
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garnet from the Topopah Spring Tuff at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, USA R. J. MOSCATI* AND C. A. JOHNSON U.S...Federal Center, Box 25046, MS 963, Denver, CO 80225, USA [Received 20 January 2014; Accepted 10 April 2014;...Spring Tuff of the Paintbrush Group from Yucca Mountain, in southern Nevada. The Miocene-age Topopah Spring...not found in the Topopah Spring Tuff at Yucca Mountain. Based on their occurrence only in lithophysae...recognized low-temperature stage (generally 50 70ºC) of calcite, quartz and opal secondary mineralization, formed
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? ......................................339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349 by J. A...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John...Natural History for conceiving the idea of a second Colorado issue and for helping a great deal in bringing
Book (edition)
and often gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level for the ist to States contain..."scratched" scratch was Many which is area, Wet is calcite, a pocket knife blade tests, make sure that...KYANITE LAZULITE t^^*l IDOCRASE lOLITE k:^ RUBY /^^ RUTILE SAPPHIRE 1^ TOURMALINE CRYSTALS ...the mother rock. In general, the United States mountain them. is divided geologically into the areas...the east and west, and the plains between The mountain regions in the east from Maine down through
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERAL COLLECTING BY CAMPER IN COLORADO By LAWRENCE AND HARRIETTE SCHOPPEE 9 Greenbrier St., Springfield...investigating such a claim? We took our Camper to Colorado and now that state rivals Canada in our list of...campgrounds are available, and many new sites in Colorado are being opened every year. Our sleeping bags...described in Professor Richard M. Pearl's book, "Colorado Gem Trails and Mineral Guide." As in any other...before starting to collect in Colorado. Traveling from Massachusetts to Colorado is a trip in itself but don't
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Although Colorado may be most noted for rhodochrosite or amazonite, the many varieties and associations...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...above sea level; with more than eight hundred mountain peaks exceed­ ing 11,000 feet, the average elevation...and J. A. Mur­ phy for an update to Minerals of Colorado: A 100-Year Record (Eckel, 1961). 374 ROCKS... Quartz was a familiar gemstone to many early Colorado residents, as documented by an extensive body
Journal (issue)
- - - - - - - - - - - Mineral Collections 1n Colorado A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record November-December..."Smithsonian packet," Smoky Hawk claim, Florissant, Colorado. Collected in 2008; Dorris Family collection;...certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This special supplement...Collecting in Colorado The Collections: Mel & Pam Bersch Ryan Bowling Ralph Clark Colorado School of Mines...Thompson George Witters Martin Zinn III and Colorado in the :Mineralogical Record Supplement to The
Journal (issue)
Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 Lazard Cahn Honorary President February 2020...of the Western Museum of Mining & Industry in Colorado Springs. He is currently working on a study of...gold mines. COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 2 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 80901-0002 February...Denver Mining Club weekly meeting, Martin Palkovic, Colorado Geological Survey, Cretaceous Sedimentary Bedrock...ReturnFlows to the Arkansas River, Southeastern Colorado. Golden Corral Buffet & Grill, 3677 South Santa
Book (volume)
SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas...Southwestern Quadrant Arizoni, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisicna, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas...Location Numbers Arizona Arkansas California Colorado 258 Louis B30 ana HOW TO USE THIS BOOK...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text
Report (issue)
Denver, Colorado, USA © 2011 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 11613 • Denver, CO 80211 • USA Phone 1.303...Topaz ALFREDO PETROV & JOHN RAKOVAN 34. Colorful Colorado DAVID W. BUNK 42. Mongolian Topaz: The Gorkhi...and quartz, 5.3 cm tall Sawtooth Mountains, Boise County, Idaho shown under longwave ultraviolet light (left)...Province, Afghanistan; San Diego County, California, and Thomas Range, Utah, USA Associated Species: In topaz...topaz, after Foord et al., 1990 (Jefferson County) Colorado pegmatites, which formed under low water conditions
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).
Journal (issue)
Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado ................................185 by T....M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .........................................banded rhodochrosite from Catamarca, Argentina; ruby in green zoisite from Tanzania; petrified wood;...85745 CALL FOR PAPERS: FM COLORADO CHAPTER SYMPOSIUM, AUGUST 1988 The Colorado Chapter of the Friends of...Precious Metal Deposits” ir August, 1988, at the Colorado School of Mines campus in Golden Papers concerning
Report (volume)
minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that by some unusual...A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
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Connecticut, USA © 2008 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 263 • East Hampton, CT 06424 • USA Phone 1.860...diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul Stahl specimen Jeff Scovil...a/bite from the Little Three Mine in San Diego County, California; 6. 6 cm tall; Bryant Harris specimen...from the deposits around Emerald Creek in Latah County, Idaho, is brought about by inclusions of microscopic...Goldmanite Ca3Vt(Si04)3 Schorlomite from Bou-Agrao Mountain in the High Atlas Mountains, Khenifra Province
 
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