Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

Mummeite

Acapulco adit, Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

Acapulco Adit. Prismatic 0.4 mm long crystal with Quartz. Collected and ID’d by Bart Cannon and part of a single small piece that he found. Robert Meyer specimen and photo.

© 2004 Robert O. Meyer

Alaskaite

Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

Lead-grey mass of "alaskaite", which is a mixture of minerals like gustavite, pavonite, tetrahedrite and others (?) (cf. Thompson, 1950).

© Uwe Haubenreisser

Mummeite, Aikinite

Acapulco adit, Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

Microscopic inclusions of mummeite in mounted and polished section with aikinite. Full microprobe analysis by Bart Cannon (#50802a) - see child photo. Part of the type material collected by Bart Cannon in 1984, and purchased from him in 2008.

© Andrew Hodgson

Rhodochrosite, Quartz

Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

5.1 x 2.0 x 0.7 cm. Mineral specimens of any type are very rare from this most obscure San Juan County Mine. This elegant combination features scattered clusters of tiny, flattened, pastel-pink rhodochrosite rhombs attached to both sides of a very aesthetic pristine floater cluster of intergrown quartz crystals. The large compound crystal is ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

Rhodochrosite, Quartz

Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

5.1 x 2.0 x 0.7 cm. Mineral specimens of any type are very rare from this most obscure San Juan County Mine. This elegant combination features scattered clusters of tiny, flattened, pastel-pink rhodochrosite rhombs attached to both sides of a very aesthetic pristine floater cluster of intergrown quartz crystals. The large compound crystal is ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

Mummeite, Aikinite

Acapulco adit, Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

Full microprobe analysis by Bart Cannon (#50802a) of type material of mummeite.

© Andrew Hodgson

Mummeite, Aikinite

Acapulco adit, Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

Label for part of the type material collected by Bart Cannon in 1984, and purchased from him in 2008.

© Andrew Hodgson

Mummeite

Acapulco adit, Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

Acapulco Adit. Prismatic 0.4 mm long crystal with Quartz. Collected and ID’d by Bart Cannon and part of a single small piece that he found. Robert Meyer specimen and photo.

© 2004 Robert O. Meyer

Alaskaite

Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

Lead-grey mass of "alaskaite", which is a mixture of minerals like gustavite, pavonite, tetrahedrite and others (?) (cf. Thompson, 1950).

© Uwe Haubenreisser

Mummeite, Aikinite

Acapulco adit, Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

Microscopic inclusions of mummeite in mounted and polished section with aikinite. Full microprobe analysis by Bart Cannon (#50802a) - see child photo. Part of the type material collected by Bart Cannon in 1984, and purchased from him in 2008.

© Andrew Hodgson

Rhodochrosite, Quartz

Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

5.1 x 2.0 x 0.7 cm. Mineral specimens of any type are very rare from this most obscure San Juan County Mine. This elegant combination features scattered clusters of tiny, flattened, pastel-pink rhodochrosite rhombs attached to both sides of a very aesthetic pristine floater cluster of intergrown quartz crystals. The large compound crystal is ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

Rhodochrosite, Quartz

Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

5.1 x 2.0 x 0.7 cm. Mineral specimens of any type are very rare from this most obscure San Juan County Mine. This elegant combination features scattered clusters of tiny, flattened, pastel-pink rhodochrosite rhombs attached to both sides of a very aesthetic pristine floater cluster of intergrown quartz crystals. The large compound crystal is ...

© Rob Lavinsky & MineralAuctions.com

Mummeite, Aikinite

Acapulco adit, Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

Full microprobe analysis by Bart Cannon (#50802a) of type material of mummeite.

© Andrew Hodgson

Mummeite, Aikinite

Acapulco adit, Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA

Label for part of the type material collected by Bart Cannon in 1984, and purchased from him in 2008.

© Andrew Hodgson