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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Smuggler Mine, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:662680
Long-form Identifier:1:3:662680:8
GUID (UUID V4):e1af384c-cf41-4ec9-9d00-ed4a019675b8
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
10.0km (6.2 miles) Burlington Mine, Jamestown, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
10.1km (6.3 miles) Argo Mine, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Blue Jay Mine, Jamestown, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Bueno (Buena Group), Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
11.4km (7.1 miles) Nugget Group, Jamestown Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
13.0km (8.1 miles) Interocean Mine, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
15.2km (9.5 miles) Ingram mine (Valley Forge Occurrence; Critic and Railroad Boy; Sunshine; Three Brothers; Atchison; Belle; Golden Eagle; Melvina; Baron; Richmond), Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
15.3km (9.5 miles) Poorman group, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
16.6km (10.3 miles) Grand Republic Occurrence, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
18.1km (11.3 miles) Katie Mine, Boulder County Tungsten Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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,
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 (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
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... 378 ROBERT S. MOEHLMAN. tion to quartz and sericite immediately adjacent to the veins, and the regional...alteration, consisting of calcite, chlorite, and sericite. The ore deposits vary according to their environment...marked vertical changes in the depths attained by mining, due to hypogenezoning. (f) Zoning has also causedareal
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)
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...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,...Regional geologic and tectonic setting of the central Colorado mineral belt . . . . Alan R. Wallace Paleozoic
Report (issue)
15-minute Quadrangle, Pitkin and Gunnison Counties, Colorado By BRUCE BRYANT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...A study of an area at the intersection of the Colorado mineral belt with the west flank of the Sawatch...Counties, Colorado (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1073) Bibliography: p. 123 1. Geology Colorado Aspen...Aspen region. 2. Mines and mineral resources Colorado Aspen region. I. Title. II. Series: United States...stratigraphic relations of Cambrian rocks in west-central Colorado in a northwest-southwest section through Aspen
Report (issue)
THE ASPEN DISTRICT, COLORADO By ADOLPH INTRODUCTION \ , The Aspen district of Colorado was mapped...well-known monograph.1 With the lapse of 30 years mining in the area surveyed by Spurr has come to a standstill...the United States Geological Survey to visit the district, and he did so in July, 1923. The only topographic...by the writer in the vicinity of the Little Annie mine, or Kichmond Hill. Plate 1 is a composite geologic...descriptions of the recent mining developments in the southern part of the district, the correlation of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AND AT TELLURIDE, MAC•.V.ODE. ORE-DEPOSITION COLORADO. HuRsT. CONTENTS. PAGE. Introduction..................................... 675 676 679 The Smuggler Veha ...........................................INTRODUCTION. The erodedplateauregion of southwestern Colorado,known as the San JuanMountains,embraces within...upperreachesof the San Miguel. In that year the Smuggler veinwasdiscovered anda tonof oreworth$2,ooowaspacked...proportionof copper,lead and zinc producedby the district. Scopeof Investi#ation.--The presentpaperis the
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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1969,The geologyand geochemistry of the Pilot-Smuggler shear zone, Rice Lake area, Manitoba: M.Sc. thesis...high-sensitivitymercury analysesof soils,rocks and air: Inst. Mining Metallurgy Trans., v. 75, sec. B, p. Pioneer):...Introduction MINE, ALTERED SAN SILVERTON JUAN FORMATION DISTRICT, AT THE COLORADO Mayor and Fisher...southwestern Coloradosuggests chimneyoresof the district. The present study deals with vein-relatedwall...currently being done on hydrothermalalterationin the district is in rock alterationwithin the San Juan Formation
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
Report (volume)
Telluride Colorado GEOLOGICAL SU R VEY BULLETIN Prepared in cooperation 'with the Colorado State Geological...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund Board 1112-G Geology and Mineral Deposits...Deposits of the Area South of Telluride Colorado By JOHN S. VHAY CONTRIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY GEOLOGICAL...cooperation with the Colorado State Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund Board UNITED...Suffolk mine and Staatsburg Basin_-_-__------__------26. Map showing property boundaries and mine workings
Report (issue)
predecessor organization, the Manhattan Engineer District ; and, to a lesser extent, by staff members of...United States. The pre-1940 history of uranium mining and geology is concerned largely with veins in...areas as the Front Range mineral belt of Colorado; the Boulder batholith area, Montana ; the Sierra Ancha...Marysvale district, Utah. All the Western States, including Arizona, California, Colorado~ Idaho, Montana...comments on the history of uranium geology and mining. The other chapters deal principally with pertinent
Report (issue)
Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961).
Report (volume)
important were those in the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade...Silver Cliff mine, Wyoming; the Jesse D No. 1 and No. 2 claims, Utah; and the Merry Widow mine, New Mexico...Schwartzwalder (Ralston Creek) and Los Ochos mines, Colorado; the Early Day and Buckhorn claims, Nevada; the...mines, Washington; the W. Wilson mine, Montana; the White King mine, Oregon; the deposits in the Pryor...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
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...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’ .........(Insert) A Guide to Mineral Collecting at Ouray, Colorado with Notes as to the History and Geology By Ervan
Report (volume)
of the Leadville 1°X2° quadrangle, west-central Colorado : summary and discussion I by Alan R. Wallace...Radioactive dating-Colorado-Leadville Region. 2. Geology, Stratigraphic. 3. Geology-Colorado-Leadville Region...Appendix E. Geochronologic data listed by mining district .. ........... ............. .......... .....geochronology samples, Leadville 1°X2 o quadrangle, Colorado. III IV CONTENTS FIGURES 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6...of the Leadville 1°X2° quadrangle, west-central Colorado........................ 2 Map showing major geologic
Report (volume)
of the Indian Peaks Study Area, k Boulder and Grand Counties, Colorado By ROBERT C. PEARSON, U.S. GEOLOGICAL...national forest lands in the Indian Peak study area, Colorado, that are being considered for wilderness designation...of the Indian Peaks study area, Boulder and Grand Counties, Colorado. (Studies related to wilderness)...mineral resources Colorado Boulder Co. 2. Mines and mineral resourcesColorado Grand County. I. United States...gneiss " Granitic gneiss Gneissic granodiorite Boulder Creek Granodiorite - Pocrmofifo Jrcglllatll/c
Report (volume)
ORE DEPOSITION IN THE UNCOMPAHGRE DISTRICT OURAY COUNTY, COLORADO WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR PROSPECTING BY...Prepared in cooperation with the COLORADO METAL MINING FUND AND THE COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BOARD Contributions...Structure map and sections of the Uncompahgre district..-.-54. Types of structural control of ore de..._____ FIGURE 32. Index map of the Uncompahgre district and western San Juan Mountains. _____________...CONTROL OF ORE DEPOSITION IN THE UNCOMPAHGRE DISTRICT, OURAY COUNTY, COLO. WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR PROSPECTING
Journal (issue)
Marvin Hanner Additions to the Ore Mineralogy of Colorado.................................................by Donald Grybeck Crystallized Minerals of the Colorado Mineral Belt....................................had achieved considerable fame, and the right to mine diopside was obtained that year by G eorge L. English...thereafter. In 1971 both the land and the right to mine diopside were purchased by the present owners, Schuyler...Alveum, R obert Dow, and G eorge Robinson. T he mine is now being worked interm ittently each year for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MOUNTAINS, COLORADO, AS SHOWN AT THE DUNMORE MINE, V. C. KELLEY OURAY AND COUNTY, CASWELL COLORADO. • SILVER...pebble dikes. An assemblageconsistingof quartz, -sericite,kaolin, and pyrite appears. to be of early Tertiary...is nearly vertical in the vicinity of the Dunmore mine, but to the east on the Connieand Mountain Monarch...the top and near the exposed lower beds. (Dunmore Mine locality) ............. 1300 An additionalthicknessof...consistalmostentirely of the alterationproductsquartz, kaolin, sericite,and .oCross, Whitman, Howe, Ernest, Irving, J
 
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