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29th Nov 2016 14:27 UTCJamison K. Brizendine 🌟 Expert

I have been uploading photographs of mineral specimens from the Cleveland Natural History Museum collection. One of these I would like to upload is an enargite that was labeled as coming from the "Hampton Mine, Russel Gulch, Colorado". This locality is not on Mindat...

I found a paper by Sims et al. (1963, 146) that describes the Hampton Mine as being on the north side of the lower Russell Gulch, which is a short distance above the confluence with Willis Gulch. The following minerals reported from here according to the paper and another reference (Bastin and Hill, 1917) show galena, sphalerite, tennantite, enargite and quartz. So the locality does "exist"...

Could a manager move this page as a sublocality of this page: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3628.html ? Afterwards I can add the Hampton Mine with the references I found and the photograph that I took. I don't think I have a high enough access to make a sublocality change.

Also, Willis Gulch (http://www.mindat.org/loc-26809.html) , according to the paper is not part of the Quartz Hill Area, so it should be removed as a sublocality from there.

Finally, "Russel" should be changed to "Russell", that is a typographical error.

References Cited:

Bastin, E.S., and Hill, J.M. (1917) Economic geology of Gilpin County and adjacent parts of Clear Creek and Boulder Counties, Colorado. United States Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 94: 1-379

Sims, P.K., Drake, A.A., and Tooker, E.W. (1963) Economic geology of the Central City District, Gilpin County, Colorado. United States Department of the Interior: United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 359: 1-241

9th Dec 2016 16:23 UTCUwe Kolitsch Manager

"Could a manager move this page as a sublocality of this page: http://www.mindat.org/loc-3628.html ? "

You can do it yourself:

Just change

Lower Russel Gulch, Gilpin Co., Colorado, USA

to

Lower Russel Gulch, Central City District, Gilpin Co., Colorado, USA