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Apatite from
Elkton Mine, Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Elkton Mine, Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:303425
Long-form Identifier:1:3:303425:5
GUID (UUID V4):fc4f3279-6fe8-470f-8203-7d8cd9bd8184
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
0.9km (0.6 miles) Cresson open pit, Cripple Creek, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Granite Mine (Independent Granite), Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
21.0km (13.1 miles) Cameron Cone, Crystal Park, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
21.2km (13.2 miles) Cheyenne Mining District (St. Peters Dome Mining District), El Paso County, Colorado, USA
22.7km (14.1 miles) Stove Mountain Mineral Locality (Cook Stove Mountain Mineral Locality), Cheyenne Mining District (St. Peters Dome Mining District), El Paso County, Colorado, USA
24.4km (15.2 miles) Johnny Feldspar Mine, El Paso Mining District, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
24.5km (15.2 miles) Black Cloud Mine, Teller County, Colorado, USA
28.2km (17.5 miles) Rosemont Mine (East Mine), Micanite Mining District (Currant Creek Mining District), Fremont County, Colorado, USA
28.5km (17.7 miles) Climax Mine (Mine No. 8 U.S. Mica Company; Climax Mica Mine), Micanite Mining District (Currant Creek Mining District), Fremont County, Colorado, USA
28.7km (17.8 miles) Star Girl Mine (Colorado Feldspar Company Mine), Micanite Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
References
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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 (article/letter/editorial)
19 October 2014 Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado I n terms of sheer volume...years: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, and Cripple Creek, Colorado. Although on opposite sides of the globe...globe, they have striking similarities in their mining history and mineralogy, but their geology is seemingly...tellurides associated with coarse native gold. Cripple Creek, on the other hand, has been and continues to...which is sylvanite. A historically significant Cripple Creek sylvanite specimen has been nominated for this
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 (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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...[Ba(UO2)2V2O8⭈5H2O] from the type locality, the Mounana mine, Franceville, Haute Ogooué, Gabon. See the article...“This is the XYZ mine, and these are pretty pictures of the minerals from that mine.” Lou, however, took...chemistry, crystal system, identifying features, and mine of origin—all without notes. From his huge library
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
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (issue)
Mountain region of Wyoming contains few metalliferous mining camps. Moreover, not many of those that have been...other resources. Next to the Grand Encampment district, which yielded a fair amount of copper ore from...from 1898 to 1908, and the South Pass district,, which has a record of producing $450,000 in gold from...production that made it comparable to many camps in Colorado and other Rocky Mountain States. Since 1907, however...upon which a little work is done each summer, the district is practically abandoned. Ore was first discovered
Report (volume)
............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
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)
separate publicationl (A) The Rose Creek Tungsten Mine, Pershing County, Nev., by R. J. Roberta (.published...June 1943)......... (B) Manganese Deposits of the Elkton area, Va., by P. B. King (published in November...Geophysical Surveys in the Ochoco Quicksilver district, Oreg., by E. L. Stephenson (published in October...magnetite-ilmenite deposits, near Lake Sanford, Essex County, N. Y., by J. R. Balsley, Jr. (published in January...(E) Occurrence of manganese in eastern Aroostook County, Maine, by W. S. White (published in December 1943)
Report (volume)
HARDNESS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Front Range Colorado By T. S. LO\'ERING and E. N. GODDARD GEOLOGICAL...cooperation with the Colorado State Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund ~ oopr is...__________________________________________ _ 1 Summary of mining districts---.---------------------Introduction...hornblende gneiss ____________ _ Quartzite at Coal Creek ________________ _ Igneous rocks _____________________________...Quartz diorite and associated hornblendite_ Boulder Creek granite _________________ _ Pikes Peak granite
Report (volume)
Advancement of Science A. I. M. E__.American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Aardrijksk__. Aardrijkskundig...classn_____ classification Co_______. Company, County Coll______ Collections Conini_____ Committee Cominuii____...Direccion Dissert____ Dissertation dist_______ district distrib_____. distribution Div______ division...etc. Mimeo_____. Mimeographed Min_____ Mineral, Mining min. res____ mineral resources ig________ igneous...American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Contributions 122-131; Mining and Metallurgy vols
Report (volume)
vols. 3, 4, 5, nos. 1, 2. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 145-156; Transactions...nos. 1-9. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 85-88; Preliminary report... 1-6, vol. 34, nos. 1-9. Ottawa, Out. Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 81-104; Transactions...Transactions, vols. 21, 22. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vols. 40, 41. Toronto and Montreal, Canada...New York. Colorado Geological Survey: Bulletins 11, 15, 17-19, 23, 24. Denver, Colo. Colorado School of
Report (issue)
one sense it comprises the so-called Rockwood district and may be considered to extend as far southward...ore is invariably left for roofs or pillars in mining operations, and much is necessarily impossible...Appalachians, ROCKWOOD DISTRICT. i LOCATION AND EXTENT. The Rockwood district lies in the Tennessee River...about 10 miles. The area is principally in Roane County. Ore has been mined in many places along the west...underlying the river bed near the mouth of White Creek is a strip of Clinton (Rockwood) formation about
Journal (issue)
removes it from a shovel being shipped to another mine, there are apt to be some good performance reasons...operations: 4 ZA Plants) New Castle, Del., Denver, Mining and Excavating eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ...cable for the job WIRE NOVEMBER, 1951 [World Mining Section—1} AND CABLE ] Close-up of automatic...3579 to MINING {World Mining WORLD, Section—2} 71 Colur i St., Seattle 4, Wa MINING WORLD...1951 ‘World Mining Section Nozreo Norladwide a network of engineering the mining industry organization
Journal (volume)
f.p. for for:v -" ...THE EN. N o GI "RNAL MINE NI'N NG G. J ou VOLUN/1E JANUARY TO LXIII. ...YORPQ. : - . - ". • : THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL. VOLUME LXIII. JANUARY TO JULY, 1897...Aluminum, Prices of.................. 565 Accident Mine, Colo.......... 97 63, 159 Aluminum Reduction, Gooch's...118 Alabama Industrial and Scientific Amador Queen Mine, Cal..... ...... 263 Acetylene Gas, Conner's Pat... Doddridge's Pat...... 487 "Alabama, Johns Coal Mine. 74 Amalgamating Process, FischerAcetylene Gas,
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nonfuel industrial rocks and minerals and zinc-lead mining. Preliminary figures for nonfuel mineral production..."Virginia aplite," and was one of three States mining vermiculite. Major industrial mineral resources...Prince William County at the Cedar Run mine about 200 yards from the Fauquier County line. The barite...age. The mine was last operated in 1903, when 1500 tons of ore were produced. Barite mining in Campbell...available XX Not applicable Production as measured by mine shipments, sales, or marketable production (including
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comes when one learns that such minerals as mica, apatite, sphene, zircon, fluroite and corundum are associated...often are arrested there. At the Eldorado sapphire mine in Mon¬ tana the action of a million years is readily...intrudes a sloping bed of limestone. As the Yogo mine has been worked at various times in the past hundred...Again, some of the best specimens from Emerald Creek in Idaho have been found by indi¬ viduals standing...famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in
Report (volume)
................................ Cartersville district.................................................................................. Cave Spring district.................................................region................................ Batesville district.................................................................................. 132 Butte district.................................................................................... Leadville district..............................................
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STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY A. S. FURCRON, Director THE GEOLOGICAL...herewith Bulletin 80 of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology entitled, "PaleozoicPrecambrian Appalachian...and James W. Smith Georgia Department of Mines, Mining and Geology Atlanta, Georgia 30334 In cooperation...Sequatchie Formation in the valley of West Chickamauga Creek, and conformably by the Inman Formation in Lookout...project between the Georgia Department of Mines, Mining and Geology and the Tennessee Division of Geology
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westward into a structural basin in the adjacent Elkton quadrangle, whereas to the east the Fisher formation...report on the Eocene stratigraphy of western Oregon. Mining methods and a summary of the geology of the quicksilver...edge of the area, on the Umpqua River and on Elk Creek. About three-fourths of the map area is drained...along the west edge of the area. At the town of Elkton, about 4 miles west of the area mapped, the Umpqua...the Umpqua River in the Anlauf Drain area is Elk Creek, which rises in the southeastern part of the area
Report (issue)
C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Rockbridgeite Phosphuranylite Apatite Series (Collophanc) Carbonate-apatite (Ostcolite) (Phosphorite) Fluorapatite...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com­ mon rock-making materials
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