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Sphalerite from
Smuggler Mine, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Smuggler Mine, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:662682
Long-form Identifier:1:3:662682:2
GUID (UUID V4):1f2bf20f-d716-4506-a843-8706abcd9ba6
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
7.2km (4.5 miles) Longfellow, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
8.0km (4.9 miles) King Wilhelm mine, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
8.0km (5.0 miles) Golden Age, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
8.1km (5.0 miles) Rip Van Dam, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
8.7km (5.4 miles) Gold Cross Mine, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
9.1km (5.7 miles) Orion (Orion Tunnel; Orion & Saddle No. 6 Fluorspar Mine), Central Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Argo Mine, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Buckhorn Mine, Jamestown, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Emmett Mine, Jamestown, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Blue Jay Mine, Jamestown, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
References
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Report (issue)
oresofo0000kell Telluride Ores of Boulder County, Colorado The Memoir Series of The Geological...America, Inc. Memoir 109 Telluride Ores of Boulder County, Colorado WILLIAM C. KELLY EpwINn N. GODDARD Department...SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INC. Colorado Building, P.O. Box 1719 Boulder, Colorado 80302 Printed in the United...assembling a representative collection of the Boulder ores. Dr. T. S. Lovering of the U.S. Geological...and numerous ore samples were donated by local mining men, particularly Fred Dopp, H. M. Williamson,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HISTORY OF FOUR Native Silver Localities 7 in Colorado Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego]...72 Golden, Colorado 80403 All photos by author unless otherwise noted SINCE 1859 COLORADO HAS PRODUCED...rather than the native metal. Native silver in Colorado has been deposited both as a primary mineral,...across, Up to Date mine, Bald Mountain, Caribou area, Grand Island district, Boulder County. Specimen owner...(Front Range, central, and San Juan Mountains) of Colorado mineral belt. Some representations of mineral
Report (issue)
tellurium-bearing precious metal veins. Mineral Group: Sphalerite group. Association: Altaite, calaverite, krennerite...chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, pyrrhotite, tetrahedrite–tennantite. Distribution: In the USA, in Colorado, at...at the Good Hope mine, Vulcan, Gunnison Co.; in the La Plata district, La Plata Co.; and at the Keystone...Lion, Smuggler, and Ellen mines, Boulder Co. [TL]; from the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek district, Teller...California, at the Norwegian mine, near Tuttletown, and the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne Co.; in Nevada, at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October 2014 PART 1 Downloaded...Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October 2014 A Historical...Historical Overview of t h e District and the Smuggler Union and Associated Mines and Veins of Marshall Basin... Inc. 1441 West 46th Avenue, Suite 14 Denver, Colorado 80211 n 1875 Co\orado was still a territory awaiting...Soptemberl0ctob.r 2000 319 Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October
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Discovery, Mining History, Geology, and Specimen Mineralogy of Selected Occurrences in Central Colorado and...Inc. 1441 W. Forty-sixth Avenue Suite 14 Denver, Colorado 80211-2338 P art one of this article (July/August...of gold in Colorado and the mining history and geology/mineralogy of the Front Range mining districts...and California Gulch. THE CENTRAL COLORADO MINERAL BELT LAKE COUNTY 3,396,000 ounces, 1860-1 990 (Davis...7 by 2.5 cm (8.5 ounces), Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County. Harvard Mineralogical Museum specimen
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of COLORADO ED RAINES Geology Museum Colorado School of Mines 1310 Maple Street Golden, Colorado 80401...noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...photographer unknown. B etween 1868 and 1922, Colorado produced almost 260 million pounds of copper....from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).... During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with
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..._ Quartz diorite and associated hornblendite_ Boulder Creek granite _________________ _ Pikes Peak granite...Pre-Cambrian deposits _________________________ _ Mine descriptions __________________________ _ 39 39
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Inc. 1441 West 46th Avenue, Suite 14 Denver, Colorado 80211 eraines@ Icolorado.net The Great Irony...house. Photo hy Uycrs, CB.1904. courtcs\ Ouraj County Historical Society. Volume 75, November/December...campaign (Nevins Figure 2. Map of the Telluride district showing the principal veins, adits, and shafts...to Ed Raines, who researches Colorado ‘s geology, mineralogy, and mining history, is part owner of FRS...historic preservation efforts in the Leadville mining district. Downloaded by [UZH Hauptbibliothek / Zentralbibliothek
Journal (issue)
Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan What’s new in Colorado minerals? ...................................... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349 by J. A...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
Report (issue)
The Triangle of Colorado Mountains of Minerals Contributors David W. Bunk, Robert B. Cook, Don Earnest... Contents PAGE4 PAGE 10 4 The San Juan Triangle of Colorado Ho for the San Juans! by Duane A. Smith, Mark...and Karen A. Vendl L ocated in southwestern Colorado and covering over 31,000 square kilometers, the...zinc, tungsten, and copper. In 1896 world-renowned mining engineer Thomas ''T.A." Rickard called the San...San Juans one of Colorado's four great mining regions along with Leadville, Cripple Creek, and Central City
Report (issue)
Carbonate-Hosted Sulfide Deposits of the Central Colorado Mineral Belt DAVID W . BEATY, GARY P . LANDIS...paralle l to host-rock bedding. Black Cloud mine, Leadville district. Sherman-type ore (bottom) in paleokarst...fragments (dark gray), white tabular barite. green sphalerite , and pyrite aggregates in a light hrownis11-gray...veined with ferroan dolomite. rv1oose mine, North Alma district. Photographs b)' \Villiarn Sacco, Peabody...Carbonate-hosted sulfide deposits of the central Colorado mine ral belt: Introduction, general discussion,
Book
Gkologim-in-charge. CATALOGUE OF MINERALS FOUND IN COLORADO. BY • F. M. ENDLICH. [EXTRACTED FROM THE TENTH...been adopted. tar as practicable, analyses of Colorado minerals have been given. They will aid examination...of the catalogue. systematic enumeration of the Colorado mineral species and references to the publications...Endlich, S. IN COLORADO. X. D. The continuous development of mineral resources of Colorado is productive...Geological .Report for PS75. Now, the survey of Colorado is completed, many additions of species new to
Report (issue)
OBSERVATIONS ON THE RICH SILVER ORES OF ASPEN, COLORADO. By EDSON S. BASTIN. INTRODUCTION. In September...old silver camp of Aspen, in Pitkin County, southwestern Colorado, to obtain samples of the rich silver...enrichment and on the quality of mine waters are here recorded. Two analyses of mine waters were made by Chase...accounts of the general geologic features of the district the reader is referred to the wellknown reports...intruded 1 Spurr, J. E., Geology of the Aspen mining district, Colo. : U. S. Geol. Survey Mon. 31, 1898;
Report (issue)
Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 3. Colorado By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...deposits and the resources of oxidized zin.c ores in Colorado UNITED STATES· GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...19180xidized zinc deposits of the United States. Part 3. Colorado. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964. vi...Bibliography : p. 88-91. 1. Zinc ores-Colorado. 2. Zinc mines and mining-Colorado. I. Title. (Series) For sale...__ ___ __ __ __ __ __ _____ Kokomo (Ten ~ile) district _______ ._________________________ Breckenridge
Journal (issue)
- - - - - - - - - - - Mineral Collections 1n Colorado A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record November-December..."Smithsonian packet," Smoky Hawk claim, Florissant, Colorado. Collected in 2008; Dorris Family collection;...certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This special...Collecting in Colorado The Collections: Mel & Pam Bersch Ryan Bowling Ralph Clark Colorado School of Mines...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
International University] at 22:16 23 December 2014 Gold mining is not romantic, it is dirty, and it is very hard...played out on a daily basis in opening the Colorado mining frontier, however, are very much the stuff...generation had seen an Colorado showing the Colorado mineral belt and the location of the mining districts discussed...1940; Elliot West 1997, verbal com.). scope of this mining economy. There simply was no other ecoThe initial...of 1858 were nomic force to compare with that of mining during the first all made along streams on the
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University.....157 by C. Albertini Sellaite from the Brumado mine ..................................................Iron and Washington Counties) and Arizona (Mojave County). This region is one of the last American frontiers...Route 6, Box 263 Golden, Colorado 80401 n 1 9 0 2 , the well-known mining engineer and authorRickard...started on a ride among the mining districts of the San Juan, in southwestern Colorado. We left Ouray early
Report (issue)
SILVER ENRICHMENT IN THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO. By EDSON S. BASTIN. INTRODUCTION. The following...made in the study of a particular topic in one district would aid in the study of the same topic in the...regional report, it must be remembered that for each district only such information could be used as was readily...work in the encouragement which they offer to deep mining, irrespective of more purely scientific results...Fred Carroll, of the Atlas mine, Ouray; Mr. F. G. Farish, of the Humboldt mine, ^iear Telluride; Mr. L.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
\Vnshington ; Telluride, Colorado ; Elmoro, Colorado. WALLM A P S : b. Tintic Mining rcgion, Utah. C. Absaroka...Telluride Mining District, Colorado. f. Mother Lodc Mining District,, California. f Tenmile Mining District...District, Colorado. K. Trinidad Coal Ficld, Elmoro Folio, Colorado. h. Estillville and Hristol Folios, Tennesscc...Basin. i. Monograph on the Crystal Falls Iron District of Michigan. tii. Monograph on the Illinois Glacial...Topographical and Geological Maps of Allegheny County, Maryland. Exhibited by thc MAHYLAXD GEOLOGICAL
Report (issue)
Bldg., 2600 corridor, 18th and CSts.,NW. DENVER, Colorado-Federal Bldg., Rm. 169,1961 Stout St. LOS ANGELES...ROLLA, Missouri-1400 Independence Rd. DENVER, Colorado-Map Distribution, Bldg. 810, Federal Center FAIRBANKS...Part II Geology and Gold Deposits of the Oatman District, Northwestern Arizona By ED DEWITT, JON P. THORSON...Marysville Mining District, Montana By JAMES W. WHIPPLE Gold Deposits of the Boulder County Gold District...District, Colorado By JAMES A. SAUNDERS Part I is Chapter H U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1857 GEOLOGY
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORE DEPOSITION' SOUTH OF OURAY, COLORADO. PART ROBERT TABLE I. S. MOEHLMAN. OF CONTENTS. Abstract...paperis concerned with an area in part of that district includingmany of the principal producers. The...marked vertical changes in the depths attained by mining, due to hypogenezoning. (f) Zoning has also causedareal...including hematite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, and sphalerite. Then, the bulk of the quartz was deposited,...period of mineralization. The ore depositsof the district are classifiedas leptothermal,a division proposedby
Report (volume)
................... (A) The Candelaria silver district, Nev., by Adolph Knopf (published Jan. 20, 1922)......................... (B) Colemanite in Clark County, Nev., by L.F. Noble (published Feb. 23,1922) (C)...1922)............... (H) Peridotite dikes in Scott County, Ark., by H. D. Miser and C. S. Ross (published.......... (I) Diamond-bearing peridotite in Pike County, Ark., by H. D. Miser and C. S. Ross (published.................... (J) The Los Burros district, Monterey County, Calif., by J. M. Hill (published April
Book
MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40...MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna...Mines and minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index...index. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Colorado. 2. Mines and mineral resources—New Mexico. I. Kennedy, Marrianna...enter must be obtained to prevent trespass. Old mine workings are dangerous and entering underground
Book (edition)
Windham Report of 1S80 relating to the growing Mining Industry at Ouray is printed in its entirety. Many...Survey, Tom Rosemeyer, Chief Engineer, Camp Bird Mine and Miss Margaret B. Allen, M.A. of Orange, New............................................... Sphalerite................................................Ouray and the Camp Bird Mine; Past, Present. Future The Windham Report of Mining in Ouray in 1880 . . The...The Mineralogy at the Camp Bird Mine................... Glossary' Including Notes On Geology’ ......
 
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