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Chrysocolla from
Big Creek Mine, Big Creek pegmatite District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chrysocolla
Formula:Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Copper1 photo of Chrysocolla associated with Copper at this locality.
Cuprite1 photo of Chrysocolla associated with Cuprite at this locality.
Malachite1 photo of Chrysocolla associated with Malachite at this locality.
Chalcocite1 photo of Chrysocolla associated with Chalcocite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Chrysocolla associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysocolla data
Locality Data:Click here to view Big Creek Mine, Big Creek pegmatite District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:797058
Long-form Identifier:1:3:797058:0
GUID (UUID V4):bd3378c8-a0d8-4630-9d87-5a101841d91f
Nearest other occurrences of Chrysocolla
0.0km (0.0 miles) Big Creek Mine, Encampment Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
21.9km (13.6 miles) New Rambler mine (Rambler Mine; Holmes Mine; Electrolytic Mine; Great Rambler Mine), New Rambler Mining District, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
22.0km (13.7 miles) Badger Occurrence, Northgate Mining District, Jackson County, Colorado, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Broadway Mine, Encampment Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
23.1km (14.3 miles) Lake Creek Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
31.2km (19.4 miles) Columbine Mine, Centennial Ridge Mining District (La Plata Mining District), Albany County, Wyoming, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) Empire Mine (Schnitzler), Centennial Ridge Mining District (La Plata Mining District), Albany County, Wyoming, USA
32.1km (20.0 miles) Cliff Mine, Centennial Ridge Mining District (La Plata Mining District), Albany County, Wyoming, USA
33.0km (20.5 miles) Kings Canyon (Pinkham Canyon Mine), Northgate Mining District, Jackson County, Colorado, USA
33.1km (20.6 miles) Kentucky Derby Mine, Centennial Ridge Mining District (La Plata Mining District), Albany County, Wyoming, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
00:52 01 June 2016 Wyoming Mineral Locality Index Figure 1. Index map of Wyoming counties, with exposures...exposures of Precambrian and volcanic rocks. 1 he Wyoming mineral locality index is designed to provide mineral...interesting mineral occurrences in the state of Wyoming. Five publications were used extensively in compiling...view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...1 inch equals 4 miles) of the entire state of Wyoming in book form. The Wwming Atlas and Gazetteer can
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side...PHILLIPSITE, and THOMSONITE. Adams County Alaska mine, Seven Devils district: azurite, grossular, malachite... Arkansas mine, Seven Devils district: grossular. Blue Jacket claim, Seven Devils district, about 4 miles...and stilbite. Copper Bo~' mine, Seven Devils district: epidote. Helena mine (reportedly just northwest
Report (issue)
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING Gary B. Glass, Executive Director and State Geologist ADVISORY BOARD...Governor Terry P. Roark,President, University of Wyoming Donald B. Basko, Oil and Gas Supervisor Appointed...Cheyenne, Wyoming. This and other publications available from: The Geological Survey of Wyoming P.O. Box...University Station LaIanlle, Wyoming 82071 (307) 766·2286 Front Cover - Wyoming gold. Gold buttons in the...recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................. Wyoming..................................................Samuel, Map of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming, with full descriptions of mineral resources, etc...See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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;
Report (volume)
the State lists begin with Alabama and end with Wyoming. Under each State the minerals found there are...Wisconsin.........Prof. W. 0. Hotchkiss, Madison. Wyoming.........Mr. C. E. Jamison, Cheyenne. Those members...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
Book
commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation,
Book (edition)
Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains by...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
Book (volume)
pans. Many other gem crystal species occur in pegmatite exposures, such as Aquamarine, Beryl, some Ruby-red...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Book (volume)
600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk...Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite,...scheelite, vanadinite, wulfenite Corral Canyon District Various mines and prospects: anatase, rutile,...Quartz, 14.2 cm across, Newbeny Mountains,Clark County. Steve Scott specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...Clinotyrolite spray, 3.4 mm across, Lovelock mine, Churchill County. Figure 2 (bottom). Wulfenite, 1.1 mm high
Book
Rocks; Minerals Found in Igneous Rocks; Granite Pegmatite Gems and Minerals; Hydrothermal Mineral Deposits;...Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Appendixes 615 I Gemstone and Mineral Essentials...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...rock hunter thrills to a find of malachite, chrysocolla, jade, or rhodonite. Today, of course, there...and abandoned, one is also sure to find extensive mine dumps sloping steeply down from the shaft or tunnel
Book (volume)
..........................................442 Wyoming .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
..........................................444 Wyoming .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
Kimball Co. where it overlooks both Colorado and Wyoming. The subsurface rock strata of the entire state...to the high, arid sagebrush plains of eastern Wyoming, disclosing spectacular bedrock formations. Northwestern...Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming line is good rock hunting country, especially along...of the Pine Ridge Escarpment and along Whiteclay Creek near the Sioux Indian community of the same name...and breaks in the hills along the Minnechaduza Creek and the Niobrara, as well as all tributary canyons
Report (volume)
occurrences in Lemhi County______________________ Camas district, Blaine County__________________________ Rustler...__ __ ________ __ ____ __ __ ___ Coeur d'Alene district, Shoshone County_________________ Crescent mi...mine_____________________________________ Galena mine ____________________ -----_____________ 11 11 11...13 14 14 15 15 Bon~er CountY---------------------------------------Pegmatite occurrences___________...County________________________________________ Latah County------ ____________________________ .. ______ O
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph... The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...COLOR PLATES (following page 242) Gold, Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with...Round Mountain Mine Quartz, Lovelock area Acanthite Grossular, Nightingale district Quartz epimorph
Catalog/List
on limonite ....... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro crystals on...Copper aluminum silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on...silicate CLEAVELANDITE Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine #2 Lustrous white twin xl groups, minor muscovite...ALTAITE Lead telluride • Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Brilliant metallic tin white cleavable mass...magnesium silicate Canada Heath Lake, Smallwood mine ~e, light brown prismatic crystalline aggregate
Journal (issue)
paragenesis of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ...............plus an interesting range o f rare species. The mine, first opened in 1903, continues to produce fine...Three mine is one of several mines located on the Little Three property in the Ramona district, San Diego...Diego County, California. This mine, strictly speaking, is developed in the Little Three main dike, one...one of five major pegmatite dikes on the property. All five dikes have been mined for gem-quality and
Book
On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
Book (edition)
thickness; mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted...south prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles...miles. Down to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...crystal 'y^ Garnet — Azu rite, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl *"» Agate **...Maine and California; emerald in North Carolina, a big diamond or two in Arkansas, opal in Idaho, and so...chemical nature. Some are elements, such as diamond (carbon); oxides, such as corundum (aluminum oxide); carbonates...of the gem-rich areas known as pegmatites. A pegmatite is a dike of exceptionally coarse quartz and feldspar
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...crystal ^J^ Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl ^"^ Agate **...nature. Some are elements, such as diamond (carbon); oxides, such as corundum (alu- minum oxide);...spodumene, and apatite in cavities in the dike. Such pegmatite dikes in Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire, North...minerals. The action of air, water, and dissolved carbon dioxide changes the chemical creates character
Report (issue)
3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91 121...Hen1in1orphite Azurile Barite, N1eikJe Mine Barite, '\forthun1berland Mine Bante, Rosebud t1ine Barile v;ith...inclusions Bolt½'OOdite Calcite, Meikle Mine Calcite, Getchell Mine Callaghanite Cassiterite and Hema tile
Journal (issue)
Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations...Fig. 3 steep slopes along the coulees of Meeting Creek and the Battle River in the vicinity of Donalda...Museum, but they have been found in the Meeting Creek coulee. A common geological horizon, the Upper Cretaceous...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...approximate triangle formed between Donalda, Meeting Creek and Rosalind. The occurrence of quartz crystals
 
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