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Pyrite from
El Capitan, Tincup Mining District (Pieplant Mining District), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA



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Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
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Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view El Capitan, Tincup Mining District (Pieplant Mining District), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:663667
Long-form Identifier:1:3:663667:8
GUID (UUID V4):66b56549-8e73-47b7-aafa-38abd4fe0d18
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Report (issue)
Quadrangle, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Geological...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund PAPER 289 Geology and Ore Deposits of...of the Garfield Quadrangle, Colorado By McCLELLAND G. DINGS and CHARLES S. ROBINSON GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...in cooperation with the Colorado State Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mitting Fund. A..._____ _ Faults--------------------------------Tincup-Morning Glim fault zone _____ _ Quartz Creek graben
Report (issue)
Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 3. Colorado By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...deposits and the resources of oxidized zin.c ores in Colorado UNITED STATES· GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...19180xidized zinc deposits of the United States. Part 3. Colorado. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964. vi...Bibliography : p. 88-91. 1. Zinc ores-Colorado. 2. Zinc mines and mining-Colorado. I. Title. (Series) For sale...__ ___ __ __ __ __ __ _____ Kokomo (Ten ~ile) district _______ ._________________________ Breckenridge
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the San Diego River Watershed, Southern California USA Eleanora I. Robbins 1, *, Shannon Quigley-Raymond...University, 5500 Campanile Dr., San Diego, CA 92182-1020, USA The San Diego River Park Foundation, 4891 Pacific...Pacific Highway, Suite 114, San Diego, CA 92110, USA; shannon@sandiegoriver.org City of San Diego, Storm Water...Diego, CA 92123, USA; MLai@sandiego.gov 3826 Elkhorn Blvd., North Highlands, CA 95660, USA; janaefried@yahoo...headwaters, the Temescal Creek tributary emerges from pyrite-bearing metamorphic rocks, and thus exhibits both
Report (issue)
Bull. 259, p. 68,1905; The Ketchikan and Wrangell mining districts, Alaska: 17. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 347...Indeed, were it not for water transportation the mining and quarrying industries in southeastern Alaska...Wright, F. E. and C. W., The Ketchikan and Wrangell mining districts, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 347...Calder 4. Marble bluff north of Dry Pass 5. El Capitan Marble Co. quarry, north of Dry Pass 6. Claims...common in most quarries, and though thin seams of pyrite were observed they do not occur in a quantity detrimental
Report (volume)
BUDDINGTON Prepared in cooperation with the STATE MINING BOARD OF OREGON UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...Mineralized areas and mining districts.____-_--_-----_____-______---_ Bohemia district.._i_-_-__--_---_-...CONTENTS Mineralized areas and mining districts Continued. Bohemia district Continued. Mineral deposits...Veins of quartz and clay minerals_____.__-___._.-__ Pyrite and cherty quartz veins._____________________ Chalcopyrite...and gold-calcite-quartz veins___________ Stibnite-pyrite-quartz veins_______________________ Specularite
Report (issue)
Valley and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas Inyo County, California Chester T. Wrucke, Sherman P. Marsh...Valley and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas Inyo County, California by Chester T. Wrucke, Sherman P. Marsh...Valley and Lower Saline Wilderness Study Areas, Inyo County, California................................ In...117A), California Desert Conservation Area, Inyo County, California. SUMMARY The Saline Valley Wilderness...Wilderness Study Areas. The Bureau of Mines searched mining records and examined mines, prospects, mineral
Report (issue)
_........ _... _. _........... _. Gibbonsville district ________ .. _.... __ ............•.......... _..._............ ____ ...... _.. Elk City district. ____ . _. _.... _..... _...•.• _.......... ____ . ..... ... _.. _......... _. _.. . .. __ . . Dixie district _______________ .. .. _..... _......... _...•..._. _.... __ ... _-_ 95 96 96 98 Buffalo Hump district .... _. ___ . . .... , __ .............. ___ ...... _____ .......... _.... _. ____ Pierce district . ___ . ____ ... ____ ... _.. . ________ . .... .
Report (volume)
45 45 46 48 49 50 54 55 56 56 56 57 59 59 62 El Capitan ___________ _____ ______ 3 63 4 . CONTENTS...marble was quarried on Ham Island, in the Wrangell district, and worked up into tombstones, which were sold...quarries in the Shakan-Calder region of the Ketchikan district. Although, as this report shows, marble is widely...Bull. 259, p. 68, 1905; The Ketchikan and Wrangell mining districts, Alaska: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull, 347...Bull. 592, pp. 95-107, 1914. 4 Chapin, Theodore, Mining developments in southeastern Alaska: U. S. Geol
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carbonate-HostedGold Depositsat TennesseePass,Colorado DAVID W. BEATY, CanyonResourcesCorporation,14142...Winds Minerals, 11407 North Deer Lane, Parker, Colorado 80134 Abstract Numeroussmallmantodepositsoccurin...TennesseePass,locatedbetween the Gilman andLeadville mining districtsin central Colorado.Thesedepositsare hostedin...oxidizedbut at one time consistedof semimassive pyrite, fine-grainedquartz,zeolite, andnativegold.Mostprimary...stratigraphicallycontrolled alteration (similar to the Gilman district). The TennesseePassdistrictthus may representthe
Report (issue)
California's past gold production. Although gold mining decreased greatly in the years during and following...extractive techniques have rekindled interest in mining this metal in the State. In addition to production...been taken from the Grass Valley-Nevada City lode district and from Tertiary river channels and Quaternary...echelon quartz viens extending for 120 miles through El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Tuolumne, and Mariposa...schist, minor amounts of sulfide minerals, mostly pyrite, and free gold. Many of the world's finest crystalline
Report (issue)
.................................. Ilistory of mining.................................................... ·.......................................... Mining and milling......................................~· CONTENTS. 5 Page. 0HAPTEH. IV.-Mines and mining ....................................................................................•• M.iarni district ................................................. ·............................. · ... · · · . Mining companies and claim groups ...................
Journal (issue)
Portland. Oregon 97201 OVERVIEW OF THE BOHEMIA MINING DISTRICT J. J. Gray, Economic Geologist Oregon Department...first, a field trip guide to the Quartzville mining district, appeared in June 1977. The second, printed...Western Cascade mining areas. This article focuses on the major area, the Bohemia mining district; and a field...published in next month's (June) Ore Bin. The Bohemia district was selected for detailed study in the series...series because it is the largest and most productive mining area in the Western Cascades. All facets of Western
Journal (issue)
STAY· TON DISTRICT, CALIFORNIA ................................................ 401 A PYRITE LOCALITY...Leon B. Bailey 406 TIN DEPOSITS OF NORTHERN LANDER COUNTY, NEVADA 409 CALIFORNJA FIELD TRIP. By Uoyd M. D...ccountries, visited Yosemite National Park in Mariposa county, California, enjoying its unrivaled grandeur and...semi-tropical vegetation. One of these rolling hills was El Capitan, whose rounded summit rose 900 feet above the...grew warmer and greatest depth ( about 2000 feet) at El Portal, while the three story canyon, as a the ice
Book (edition)
to civilization. . . it is clear that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933...Highlights in the history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New...SUBDISTRICTS, CAMPS, ETC. 569 BIBLIOGRAPHY 597 MAP: Mining Districts of New Mexico in pocket II. PREFACE...highlights in the his- New Mexico mineralogy and mining— including a section on the prehistoric utilization...edition, 1892. A. H. Fay (1920) A glossary of the mining and mineral industry. R. E. Grim (1953) Clay
Journal (issue)
outcrops from Poland in eastern Onieda County to Fonda in Montgomery County, and laterally equivalent formations...associated minerals. Calcite, doloite, anthraxolite, pyrite, and marcasite are often found in the avities with...Rock Products quarry in St. Johnsville, Montgomery County the quartz crystals tend to be less clear than...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phon e: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny@mineralnews.com...that the amount available was considerabl~, and mining turned to that mineral. Although much was vem material
Report (issue)
By A. F. BUDDINGTON INTRODUCTION In the Sitka district the continued operation of the Chicagoff and Hirst-Chicagof...installation and operation of a new mill at the Apex-El Nido property in 1924, all on Chichagof Island, have...interest in prospecting for gold ores. In the Juneau district a belt of metamorphic rock, which extends from...on the properties of the Admiralty-Alaska Gold Mining Co. and the Alaska-Dano Co. on Funter Bay and of...quartz that assays low in gold. In the Wrangell district the only property being prospected during 1924
Report (issue)
LODE MINING IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA, 1907. By CHAKLES W. WEIGHT. INTRODUCTION. The mining industry in...copper. These adverse factors have affected the mining interests not only of southeastern Alaska, but...districts and of copper to the south in the Ketchikan district is also noteworthy. Detailed statements of the...character of the ore deposits of the principal mining districts in southeastern Alaska are set forth...Juneau gold belt a and on the Ketchikan and Wrangell mining districts.6 0 Spencer, A. C., The Juneau gold belt:
Journal (issue)
Articles The Defiance mine and vicinity, Cochise County, Arizona ..............203 by J. R. Thompson Slide.......................211 The C. & B. mine, Gila County, Arizona ........................................213 by J. A. Crowley The Grand Reef mine, Graham County, Arizona ..............................219 by R....227 by M. Sprunger The Grey Horse mine, Pinal County, Arizona....................................231...secondary minerals from the Mineral Park mine, Mohave County, Arizona .....................................
Report (issue)
present year, 1915, will approximate $20,000,000. Mining is thus seen to be, by far, the largest single...aggregated an excess of $19,000,000, making the mining industry supreme in the State. Historically, New...comprehended. Although New Mexico is the cradle of the mining industry in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Slope...West was due to the discovery of gold in Santa Fe County at the base of the Ortiz Mountains, in the year...thirty years before the find on Cherry Creek in Colorado. The discovery of placer gold in New Mexico marks
Report (volume)
Notes on the gold lodes of the Carrville district, Trinity County, Cal., by D. F. MacDpnald...............account of the ore deposits of the Loon Creek district, Idaho, byJ. B.Umpleby................................................. Notes on the Antelope district, Nev., by F. C. Schrader................... Notes...Notes on the northern La Sal Mountains, Grand County, Utah, by J. M. Hill. Survey publications on gold............... COPPER: The Turquoise copper-mining district, Ariz., by F. L. Ransome........... Survey
Report (issue)
Carbonate-Hosted Sulfide Deposits of the Central Colorado Mineral Belt DAVID W . BEATY, GARY P . LANDIS...06520 Leadville-type ore (top) with rod-textured pyrite in a matrix of marmatite with minor gale na and...fi]J fractures and partiall y replace pyrite rods. Finer pyrite layers in lowe r third of picture are...host-rock bedding. Black Cloud mine, Leadville district. Sherman-type ore (bottom) in paleokarst breccia...gray), white tabular barite. green sphalerite , and pyrite aggregates in a light hrownis11-gray dolomite sand
Report (issue)
LODE MINING IN SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA. By CHARLES W. WRIGHT. INTRODUCTION. The results of the developments...The Ketchikan district, the most active in these advances, is now an established mining center. In the...the Juneau district considerable progress has been made, though much looked-for development did not materialize...materialize. Mining interest in the Sitka district was renewed by the discoveries and successful explorations...mines are given in the separate reports 6 on each district. CHEOTjOGY. Only those few geologic facts can
Book
9. A Natural Dam Across Yosemite Valley: The El Capitan Moraine 121 10. Cracks in the Earth: The Fissures...day in Yosemite. Whether they are inching up El Capitan or strolling though a grassy meadow, people are...world-renowned features such as Half Dome, Yosemite Falls, El Capitan, and Vernal Fall. Whether they realize it or...that covered the continental interior, including Colorado, much of New Mexico and Utah, and parts of Arizona...form layers that are easily recognizable today in Colorado and other states of the interior continent. —lllustration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formed during a marine regression due to oxidising pyrite as the water-table was lowered. In summary, proximal...age of 17.0 + 0.3 Ma (Cohen et al. 2008). From El Capitan (15 km southeast of Tindarey Creek headwaters...+ 0.2 Ma from near Wilga Tank (8 km south of El Capitan: Figure 1). At Bye Hill lavas erupted through...weathered leucitite over 6 m of hyaloclastite. In the El Capitan and Wilga Tank areas leucitite flows issued from...09 October 2014 evidence of flow inflation at El Capitan and Bye Hill (Gonzalez 2001; Glanville 2003;
Report (volume)
Theodore Chapin.___ _________ Notes on history of mining development- _____-______----__--____ Geography...distribution________________________________ Ketchikan district.._______________________________________ Vicinity..._ Page 45 49 49 52 57 59 60 66 68 68 Juneau district..... ____________--___-____-_-. Schistose greenstone...rocks-___________________________________ Southern Ketchikan district, by Theodore Chapin_______. 88 90 90 94 94 94...division________________________________-_-___ Juneau district _ _____________________________________ Seymour
 
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