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Chalcocite from
Sylvanite Mine, Beartown Mining District (Bear Creek Mining District), San Juan County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sylvanite Mine, Beartown Mining District (Bear Creek Mining District), San Juan County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:380792
Long-form Identifier:1:3:380792:7
GUID (UUID V4):ba0903f3-b7f4-4fd3-9ab9-d76a0165c1a4
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Kankakee Mine (Pure Gold; Iron Mask; Aurum; Oro; Tunnel Site; Golden Age; Extension; Lake View; Iron King; Crusader Gold Mine; Chance; Gold Coin; Bullion; Unpatented Claims: Kankakee), Beartown Mining District (Bear Creek Mining District), San Juan County, Colorado, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Gold Bug Mine (Patented Claims: Gold Bug; MS 11619a; Gold Bug Mill Site; MS 11691b; Repeal; MS 11691a; Gold Nugget; MS 11691a), Beartown Mining District (Bear Creek Mining District), San Juan County, Colorado, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Robinson Mine (Patented Claims: Robertson; MS 12224; MS 12224: Scott), Beartown Mining District (Bear Creek Mining District), San Juan County, Colorado, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Good Hope Mine (Patented Claims: Good Hope; MS 7764; Wonder; MS 7764), Beartown Mining District (Bear Creek Mining District), San Juan County, Colorado, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) Beartown Mining District (Bear Creek Mining District), San Juan County, Colorado, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Golden Shear Mine (Patented Claim: Bonita; MS 11327), Beartown Mining District (Bear Creek Mining District), San Juan County, Colorado, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Little May Mine, Beartown Mining District (Bear Creek Mining District), San Juan County, Colorado, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Summit Mine, Beartown Mining District (Bear Creek Mining District), San Juan County, Colorado, USA
17.3km (10.8 miles) Kittimac Mine, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
25.8km (16.0 miles) Silver Reef Group (Shy Claims; Silverreef Mine; Three Jacks Group; Mary Murphy Mine; Chance Group; Red Bird Group), Runlett Peak-Cave Basin Area, La Plata County, Colorado, USA
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microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains)...schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite...(Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve: quartz...(chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite, gold, hematite
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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
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to civilization. . . it is clear that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933...Highlights in the history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New...SUBDISTRICTS, CAMPS, ETC. 569 BIBLIOGRAPHY 597 MAP: Mining Districts of New Mexico in pocket II. PREFACE...highlights in the his- New Mexico mineralogy and mining— including a section on the prehistoric utilization...edition, 1892. A. H. Fay (1920) A glossary of the mining and mineral industry. R. E. Grim (1953) Clay
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SUNLIGHT MINING ,REGION, PARK COUNTY, WYOMING. WILLARD H. PARSONS. ABSTRACT. The Sunlight mining region.... 846 847 848 835 ORE DEPOSITS OF SUNLIGHT MINING REGION. Chalcopyrite-pyrite-gold veins .........849 849 849 852 INTRODUCTION. TnF, Sunlight mining region is in the heart of the northern Absaroka...Mountains in the Shoshone National Forest, Pa.rk County,Wyoming. Its ore depositsoccurin the cirquebasins...at the headwatersof variousbranchesof Sunlight Creek and the North Fork of the ShoshoneRiver, about six
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...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
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...William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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
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INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...23 23 24 24 25 26 26 26 26 26 27 28 28 29 Page MINING DISTRICTS ....................................................................... 30 Bernalillo County ............................................................................ 30 Tijeras Canyon District .................................................................................... 30 Catron County ..............................................
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Art, see Robinson, S. Austinite, 367 Azurite: Colorado, 106; Wyoming, 167 Downloaded by [University...July/August: Pyrite, quartz, and galena, Camp Bird mine, Ouray, Colorado. Barbara Muntyan specimen, John Muntyan...November/December: Gold on quartz, Eagle's Nest mine, Placer County, California. Wayne and Dona Leicht specimen...Mineralogical Symposium Acanthite, 25 Actinolite, Colorado, 302 Aegirine, Arkansas, 181 Aguilarite, 27 Albite...Minas Gerais, 313 Alforsite, 367 Allanite-(Ce), Colorado, 301 Alpine-Cleft Mineralization at Pedreira Atalaia
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with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces The state...MICHAEL J. GOBLA 19055 East Bethany Place Aurora, Colorado 80013 gobla@copper.net Unless otherwise noted...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded
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...... ·- ......... . J,5 Historical sketch of mining and smelting in New Mexico....... . . . . . . ....... : . .............. - ........ .. . . T~os County, by L. C. Graton and W ..Lindgren ..... ................. . . , ... -.. . Rio Hondo. (Twining) district . . . . . . . . . . . . . ......................::.:::.::: ::: :::: :: ':::: :: ::::. Red River district. ..................•......... -~ . . ...........·::-; : : :. ::.·.i?:5.•.:...,. .... Black.Copper mine ........ ............. ~ ... .. . .... ·.......
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INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING Sc TECHNOLOGY............................................... 7 Mining .......................................................................... Petaca mining district, Rio Arriba County ...................................25 25 25 Page Other occurrences, Rio Arriba County ............................................................................... 26 Bromide mining district ..........................................
Report (issue)
is the production during the the present Mining largest single industry and horticulture. more...development. that the ment of the in Santa Fe initial County in the year 1828. before the and thirty production...years retarded should impulse received was mining Slope regions, materially fact, however, Great...United its S. entire mineral 1914 aggregated mining industry by the U. increase an The non-metallic...California before the find on Cherry Creek in Colorado. The the discovery beginning of placer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the tellurides are unusually interesting to the mining geologist and the prospector, as compounds of gold...(Transylvania), Kalgoorlie (Western Australia), Cripple Creek (Colorado), and Kirkland Lake (Ontario), and all of these...Kalgoorli'e by Stillwell (1931), those of Cripple Creek by Genth (1868, 1877), Penfield & Ford (1902), and...calaverite, krennerite); gold and silver (petzite, sylvanite); silver (hessite,empressite); copper (weissite...severalspectacularspecimensof ore from the Robb-Montbray Mine, Montbray Township, Quebec; to Dr. M. H. Frohberg
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____________________________...River _. _ _ _ _ Beds mapped as Rico along Junction Creek and its tributaries..__________ Localities in the...Marl member and Bilk Creek sandstone member _________________________ Junction Creek sandstone__--_---__---___
Report (volume)
Mineral Resources of the San Juan Primitive Area, Colorado By T. A. STEVEN and L. J. SCHMITT, JR., U...mineral survey of the San Juan and the Upper Rio Grande primitive areas, Colorado. The area discussed in...wilderness status. It is not identical with the San Juan and the Upper Rio Grande Primitive Areas as defined...was studied is referred to in this report as the San Juan primitive area. This bulletin is one of a series...3-A)______-_--Needle Creek drainage (table 3-B)_________-_--------_Johnson Creek-Grizzly Gulch area (table
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Tourmaline on quartz, Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History specimen...Pelt photo. MarcWApril: Beryl and calcite, La Pita mine, Maripi Boyacii, Columbia. Cal Graeber, Leonard...Quartz (amethyst), near Badger Creek, north of Coaldale, Fremont County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff...(Herkimer “diamonds’’), Treasure Mountain Diamond mine, near Little Falls, New York. Uli Bahmann specimen...SepteniberlOctober: Gold, Smuggler Union mine, Telluride district, Colorado. Colorado School of Mines Museum specimen
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gold were associated in the EnterprjseMine, Rico, Colorado,but no detailsof the occurrencewere given. Bastin4...JamesA. Noblefor the resultsof yearsof work in the mine and laboratory. Noble'sresultsin generalagree with...in magnetite. In someof the outlyingparts of the mine there is no closerelationbetweengold and arsenopyrite...associations of native gold. In the Bridge River district Cairnesx4 found free gold commonwith acicularcrystalsof...a studyof assaysof ore from theGeorgeGold-Copper Mine of Stewart,BritishColumbia, showsthat gold is associated
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present year, 1915, will approximate $20,000,000. Mining is thus seen to be, by far, the largest single...aggregated an excess of $19,000,000, making the mining industry supreme in the State. Historically, New...comprehended. Although New Mexico is the cradle of the mining industry in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Slope...West was due to the discovery of gold in Santa Fe County at the base of the Ortiz Mountains, in the year...and thirty years before the find on Cherry Creek in Colorado. The discovery of placer gold in New Mexico
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
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organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily........ 932 Hague, A.; Weed, National Park; no mining W. H.; . Iddings, permitted. J.P. Lindgren, W.... No. 38. Economic geology of the Bingharn mining district, Utah, by J. M. Boutwell, Arthur Keith, and...Tonopah mining district, Nevada, by J. E. Spurr. No. 43. Copper deposits of Clifton-Morenei district, Arizona...Ulrich. * Folios: No. 120. Silverton quadrangle, Colorado, by Whitman Cross, Ernest Howe, and F. L. Ransome
Report (issue)
MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining Bureau McN. HAMILTON STATE MINERALOGIST F. F...Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this...localities new and quently the The second list ^Mining' State Mineralogist. This known localities...the great This bibliography includes with which bear directly on the minerals amount of literature...literature of a general nature on the geology and mining industry of the State. bibliography of A. may W. The
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Weber by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (see February 2005 Mineral News - Ed.). Between...noted for the mounted specimens acquired by the LA County Museum, the collection provides a solid reference...to see botryogen crystals from Mina Sta. Elena (San Juan. Argentina). The crystals are up to 3-4 cm long...unpublished 'skorpionite' from the new Skorpion Mine near Rosh Pinah in Southwest Namibia were offered...or tarbuttite. Skorpion Mine is expected to become the world's largest zinc mine, covering 15% of our zinc
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 --
 
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