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Calaverite from
Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA


Classification
Species:Calaverite
Formula:AuTe2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorite1 photo of Calaverite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Gold1 photo of Calaverite associated with Gold at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calaverite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:668026
Long-form Identifier:1:3:668026:8
GUID (UUID V4):8d6c77d6-0d19-4034-a8d6-891448eb0655
Localities for Calaverite in this Region
Elkton Mine, Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
Gold Coin Mine (Granite Mine), Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
Victor Mine, Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Calaverite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Gold Coin Mine (Granite Mine), Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Strong Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Granite Mine (Independent Granite), Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Independence Mine (Stratton Independence Mine), Cripple Creek, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Ajax Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Portland Mine (Portland No. 1), Cripple Creek, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Modoc Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Golden Cycle Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Last Dollar Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Moose Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 02:13 13 March 2015 CALAVERITE Cripple Creek, Colorado W ith the exception of native gold...gold and electrum, the gold telluride calaverite may well be the most important gold ore mineral. Its...phenomenal Cripple Creek district, essentially subsequent to the development of all other Colorado gold districts...sibling, calaverite, has rightly been suggested for this issue, much of which is devoted to Colorado minerals...minerals. Calaverite is a yellowish to silver-white, metallic mineral that is most often seen in small, deeply
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 Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...collection to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Julius Weber was well known in the mineral community...Department of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has placed a high priority on building its micromount...rock and mineral shop on Route 66 near the lead-mining center of Joplin, Missouri. The Mineralogical Record
Journal (issue)
Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 Lazard Cahn Honorary President “Pick & Pack” Vol...Courtesy Douglas County Libraries Archives & Local History, no. 1997.011.0678.0001. COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL...MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 2 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 80901-0002 June 2021 CSMS Pick & Pack CSMS...by Steven Wade Veatch at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry (WMMI), Cost: $5 - Members of WMMI...information and to reserve your space. June 18-20: Victor Gem & Mineral Show July 23-25: Fairplay Gem, Mineral
Journal (issue)
Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 Lazard Cahn Honorary President “Pick & Pack” Vol...Courtesy Douglas County Libraries Archives & Local History, no. 1997.011.0678.0001. COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL...MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 2 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 80901-0002 June 2021 CSMS Pick & Pack CSMS...by Steven Wade Veatch at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry (WMMI), Cost: $5 - Members of WMMI...information and to reserve your space. June 18-20: Victor Gem & Mineral Show July 23-25: Fairplay Gem, Mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineralized Veins and Brecciasof the Cripple Creek District, Colorado TOMMY B. THOMPSON, ALAN D. TBIPPEL...quartz-fluorite-pyrite-hematiterutile, (4) quartz-pyrite-rutile-calaverite-acanthite, and(5) quartz-fluorite-dolomite. The...southwest-striking palcovalley immediatelysouth of Victor (Tobey, 1969; Wobus et al., 1976)thatapSINCE the1891discovery...ofgoldintheCrippleCreek pears to have headed on the Cripple Creek volcanic district,almost21 milliontroy ounceshavebee...localizedwithin brec- positsin the immediateCripple Creek district.Ash cia bodies.A reconnaissance geochemical
Book
Cities of Gold History of the Victor Cripple Creek Mining District by Brian Levine 7 j i : { i...OF GOLD History and Tales of the Cripple Creek-Victor Mining District By Brian H. Levine 1981 Copyright...Typesetting and layout by Prepress Advertising Denver, Colorado Special regards and gratitude... O.J. Seiden...Chicago-Victor Gold Mining Company) Alice Ashley (Proprietor of Ye Olde Bottle Shop, Victor, Colorado) Ed...Ed Hunter (Head Mining Engineer for Texasgulf in the Cripple CreekVictor Mining District) Jim Keener (Editor
Report (issue)
GEO LOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT, COLORADO BY \V ALDEl\;IAR LINDGREN A:'\D ... . . . . . . . First geological survey of the district .............................. _• . . . . . ..................... Geological structure of the district ............... _................... __ .. _....• _. _•••• _••• _. _••• ___ . ____ 43 43 Cripple Creek granite ... ----.-----------------.----- _____________..._____________ . _. __ ... __ •.. Spring Creek granite ......•...•... _... __ . _____ •• _.• _• _•. ___
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...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...about $200 on the out-of-print market. The second Colorado issue was vol. 10, number 6 (1979), and we still
Journal (issue)
Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 Lazard Cahn Honorary President November 2019...Pups Corner Pg Board of Directors “EXPLORING COLORADO GEOLOGY” Pg 6 9 Pebble Pups Corner Brad’s Bench...NOVEMBER PROGRAM Mike Nelson (left) has authored the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society’s Geology Blog as...understanding of minerals that can be found in Colorado. Thank you for your continued and dedicated contributions...newsletter! COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 2 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 80901-0002 November
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
processes in alkaline epithermal districts, Cripple Creek, Colorado Manuel Keith, Daniel J. Smith, Keiran Doyle...processes in alkaline epithermal districts, Cripple Creek, Colorado, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2020)...processes in alkaline epithermal districts, Cripple Creek, Colorado Manuel Keitha, b, c *, Daniel J. Smithc...Mines, Penryn, TR10 9FE, UK Mining Corporation, Victor, CO 80860, USA *Corresponding author: GeoZentrum...sub-class of low-sulfidation epithermal deposits. Cripple Creek represents an example for a world-class low-sulfidation
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 (volume)
PROGRESS GEOLOGICAL RESURVEY OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT, COLORADO BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN AND FREDERICK..... ...:......................_...._....... 8 Mining and metallurgy ....................................^...... 11 First geological survey of the district ................................... Modifications............................. 32 Future of the district.................................................preliminary report on a "Resurvey of the Cripple Creek district of Colorado," by Messrs. Waldemar Lindgren and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
....... 1574 1574 1574 1574 1575 1575 1577 Calaverite determinative curve ...........................AuTe2-AuAgTe4join .................... 1579 1581 Calaverite solvus curve ..................................gold-silvertellurides... 1597 Natural occurrences of calaverite,krennerite,and sylvanite ............. 1598 Natural...•T%-sylvanite; Ags_,•T%-sylvanite-tellurium; and sylvanite-calaverite-tellurium. The isothermalsectionat 300ø C shows...diffractionstudywas made. Crystallographic data for calaverite(C•ha-C2/m),for krennerite(C•,4Pma), andfor sylvanite(C•h•-P2/c)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NATURALLY OCCURRING T E L L U R I D E OF GOLD.' BY VICTOR L E S H E R . Received lanuary 6, i g m . T HE...American Chemical Society 1 Baskerville 356 VICTOR L E S H E K and 110 chemical compound of gold...pure tellurium and gold has been called “calaverite. ” Calaverite is a silver-white minerai. frequently...One specimen calaverite, Abe Lincoln Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado. One specimen calaverite, Little May...May Mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado. One specimen calaverite, Porcupine Mine, Cripple Creek, Colo. Five specimens
Journal (issue)
Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 September 2014 PICK&PACK Vol 54 ....... Number...Pebble Pups Corner Pg 7 Pebble Pups Conserve Cripple Creek Pg 7 Earth Science Scholars serve as Rangers...On the way down from Colorado Springs I traveled east from Pueblo on the Colorado Piedmont (mostly Pierre...actually carried water into Kansas. Of course, Colorado is now in the “Monsoon Season” and rain had been...small mesas. the redbeds visitors see here in Colorado; however, they have eroded Note gypsum caprock
Journal (issue)
Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 March 2016 PICK&PACK Vol 56 ...... Number 2...Turquoise Inside this Issue: CSMS Calendar Pg 2 Mining Ephemera Pg 2 Other Events Pg 3 Willard W....geoscientist. His family came to the Cripple Creek and Victor Gold Mining District in the early 1890s where they...Veatch lives in Florissant, Colorado. Steven Veatch, a life member of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society...Societies member regions. Veatch has organized the Colorado Springs and Lake George groups into the Pikes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WYOMING NATRONA COUNTY ROCKHOUND CLUB 1765 W. 75th St., Casper, Wyo. Greetings from the Headquarters...Peterson, secretary 81 Pine Rock Springs, Wyoming COLORADO COLLEGE MUSEUM ADDS GOLD COLLECTION By RICHARD...numbering more than sixty choice specimens of Cripple Creek gold ores, has been cleaned, sorted, and transferred...glass-enclosed cabinet at the Colorado College Museum in Palmer Hall, Colorado Springs, Colo., it is announced...specimens of such important goldbearing minerals as calaverite, sylvanite, and native gold. They are contained
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COLORADO, 1958 By J. KENNETH FISHER Downloaded by [Purdue University Libraries] at 15:37 09 August 2017...in being able to spend some time again in cool Colorado, nineteen days in July. Our trip went from home...meadow to I had been to Buena Vista three or the mining area was the piece-de-resisfour times, but had...figures refer to the "south" opening: the entire mining area was perhaps 500 by 200 feet. The "north" opening..., operators of the mine at Gilman, operate in Colorado on the same Dark Age principles that they did
Book
Levine SY2YGY GOLD MINING CO. Dealers in historical Colorado gold and silver mining materials P.O. Box...Box 210 Cripple Creek, CO 80813 USA (719) 689-2155 January 27, 1993 ranee Gunderson 921 Milwaukee Denver...printed of CRIPPIE CREEK GOID. I have literally thousands of Colorado and cripple creek mining stock certificates...You will have to be IOC>re specific in what mining district you are looking for, what year, what property...what you are considering sperrling. My average Cripple Creek stock certificate is priced at $100 arrl up;
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)
Weber Mamaroneck, N.Y. Articles Collecting gold mining memorabilia.......................................... 337 by D. J. Mossman The Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California: a modem source of crystallized...experiences her interest in mining and minerals began to grow. In 1929 she moved to the mining town of Bisbee and...part o f his business, and was well known for his mining ventures in Mex­ ico (particularly the San Francisco...Record, November-December, 1982 Collecting Gold Mining Memorabilia by Wendell E. Wilson P.O . Box 35565
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Association will be held at the Swift River Valley District School in Roxbury Village, Maine—on Route 17—on...Society, Independence, Mo., meets at the Jackson County Library on the last Tuesday of the month. Sam Pierce...MINERALS DES MOINES '62 277 WYOMING NATRONA COUNTY ROCKHOUND CLUB 1765 W. 75th St., Casper, Wyo. Greetings...Peterson, secretary 81 Pine Rock Springs, Wyoming COLORADO COLLEGE MUSEUM ADDS GOLD COLLECTION By RICHARD...numbering more than sixty choice specimens of Cripple Creek gold ores, has been cleaned, sorted, and transferred
Journal (issue)
Los Angeles County Museum Acquires Outstanding Micromount Collection Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...year, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County acquired the remarkable combined micromount collections...rattlesnakes only kill nine people per year in the USA, which has a population 4,000 times that of Amami... Neither of my two books on Japanese manganese mining had anything to say about the Yamato mine. Inquiries...any of the miners still alive? Well, the original mining company was from Kyushu and had brought its own
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
onthe Genesis of Au-TeDeposits at CrippleCreek,Colorado KAREND. KELLEY, • U.S.Geological Survey, DenverFederalCenter...Denver,Colorado 80225 SAMUEL B. ROMBERGER, Department of Geology andGeological Engineering, Colorado School...School of Mines,Golden, Colorado 80401 DAVID W. BEATY, Chevron Petroleum Technology Company, P.O.Box446...Stop913,Denver,Colorado 80225 HOLLYj. STEIN, Department of EarthResources, Colorado StateUniversity...StateUniversity, FortCollins, Colorado 80523 AND TOMMY B. THOMPSON Department of Geological Sciences, University of
Journal (issue)
Carolina). Chalcedony after interstices from Chester County, Pa., has been described by Vaux, G., 1935] ...Nevada Cerussite after Fremontite. Canion City, Colorado Delafossite after Copper (?). Bisbee, Arizona...general discussion). 4Rinne, F., 1928, 'Festschrift Victor Goldschmidt,' Heidelberg, pp. 213-220; also West...Calcite after Aragonite Fort Collins, Larimer Co., Colorado, 20264, 6821 (II, C 1). These are sometimes erroneously...m(110) only. Calcite after Gypsum: II, C 2 Little Colorado River, near Cameron, Arizona, 20441. lenticular
 
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