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Benjaminite from
American Nettie Mine, Gold Hill, Ouray Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Benjaminite
Formula:Ag3Bi7S12
Comments:Validity of benjaminite published in https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/pp1753/pp1753.pdf
Formerly questioned without explanation.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Benjaminite data
Locality Data:Click here to view American Nettie Mine, Gold Hill, Ouray Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:664578
Long-form Identifier:1:3:664578:6
GUID (UUID V4):457e6e81-a94d-4936-9a9a-9fbf8263663a
Nearest other occurrences of Benjaminite
11.2km (6.9 miles) Old Lout Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Deposits of the Uncompahgre (Ouray) Mining District, Southwestern Colorado Professional Paper 1753 U.S...western San Juan Mountains region of southwestern Colorado. In the foreground is a broad, gently south-sloping...flat-bottomed, glacier-carved valley. The town of Ouray (about 7,800 feet altitude), just visible through...Dollar Highway” south of Ouray, parallels the Uncompahgre River valley to connect Ouray with Montrose to the...and other canyons and mountain passes to connect Ouray with Silverton and Durango to the south. The many
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........................ Contact of the dolomitic Ouray limestone andLeadvillelimestone. Contact of Leadville...-_--______--__-__--__-_-__--__--__-____Area south of the Ouray fault._______-_______________-______' Deposits associated...fissures.___-____-__-__--_--___-_ Area north of the Ouray fault...........____________________ Suggestions
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
Book
tes MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At ... RO2AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna...Walker. Mines and minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes...Includes index. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Colorado. 2. Mines and mineral resources—New Mexico. I. Kennedy...Kennedy, Marrianna B. II. Title. III. Title: Great American Rift. TN24.C6H74 ISBN 0-442-28038-6 §53’.09788
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)
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).
Book
[ [ 23 I 1992 [ 65-128 65-136 65-128 1-96 GOLD-II] 1-112 MMEE•] 25 I 1994 1-80 ARIZONA-I] ...193-256 137-208 129-192 209-264 193-256 [ [ COLORADO-Ill] 177-256 121-184 89-168 1-120 1-88 [ ...337--400 COLORADO-II] 321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400 257-336 [ 257-320 [ [ GOLD-I ] 321--412...69-132 65-128 1-64 11 / 1980 20 I 1989 [ COLORADO-I] [ 289-352 385-448 [ AUSTRALlA] 353-504...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the La Plata District Colorado By EDWIN B. ECKEL with sections by J. S. WILLIAMS...cooperation with the Colorado State Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund UNITED STATES...the Animas River. _ _ _ Lithology in La Plata district _ _______ Permian system____________________________...part of district -_ _. ..____'_ Northwestern part of district--------Southern part of district. ______...region as a whole __________________ La Plata district _ . ___ _ ____-____ _ 22 23 23 24 24 26 26 26
 
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