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Quartz from
Cougar Mine, Slick Rock Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chalcocite6 photos of Quartz associated with Chalcocite at this locality.
Malachite2 photos of Quartz associated with Malachite at this locality.
Covellite1 photo of Quartz associated with Covellite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cougar Mine, Slick Rock Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:795202
Long-form Identifier:1:3:795202:9
GUID (UUID V4):23ab6dd0-73de-4ac2-82d8-9ea787766545
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
2.0km (1.2 miles) Veta Mad Mine, Slick Rock Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Burro Mine, Slick Rock Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA
17.3km (10.7 miles) Blue Streak Mine, Bull Canyon Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
19.5km (12.1 miles) Wood Mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA
22.0km (13.7 miles) Peanut Mine, Bull Canyon, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
23.0km (14.3 miles) Duggan Adit, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
24.0km (14.9 miles) Jo Dandy Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
24.4km (15.1 miles) J J Mine, Paradox Valley, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
28.1km (17.4 miles) Cashin Mine (Red Chief claim; Titon claim; Angell claim; Horse Shoe claim; Bennie claim; Maud claim; Humboldt claim), La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
28.7km (17.8 miles) Cliff Dweller Mine, La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Uranium-Vanadium Deposits of the Slick Rock District, Colorado U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper...Survey Cover photograph: Burro No. 7 mine, Slick Rock, Colorado. Photograph by Jim Cappa, 2005. Uranium-Vanadium...of the Slick Rock District, Colorado By Daniel R. Shawe With a section on Appendix on District Production...INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SLICK ROCK DISTRICT, SAN MIGUEL AND DOLORES COUNTIES, COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...2011, Uranium-vanadium deposits of the Slick Rock district, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
prevailing temperaturesand pressuresof formation of the Colorado Plateau uranium depositsthe maximum amount of...associated withthe unoxidized orebodiesfrom the Colorado Plateau and was chosen as the best mineral to...care unlessone knowsthe seleniumcontentof the host rock before mineralization. For instance,the uranium...diagenesis or later in sucha host rock to containSe indigenousto the rock and here it would be difficultSodeterminethe...madeto determinewhat impuritiesremained,if any. Quartz and barite were the mostcommonimpurities,and it
Report (issue)
Stratigraphy of Slick Rock District and Vicinity San Miguel and Dolores Counties, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... Stratigraphy of Slick Rock District and Vicinity San Miguel and Dolores Counties, Colorado By DANIEL R....INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SLICK ROCK DISTRICT SAN MIGUEL AND DOLORES COUNTIES, COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...strata of Paleozoic and Mesozoic age underlying the district forms the background for understanding the origin...Black Ledge of the Church Rock Member_______________ Unit 2 of the Church Rock Member._____ Unit 3, or
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
URANIUM-VANADIUM SLICK ROCK DISTRICT, SAN MIGUEL COUNTIES, DANIEL OF THE AND DOLORES COLORADO • R. SHAWE............................................ 402 Rock alteration 404 .................................ABSTRACT Sedimentaryrocks known in the Slick Rock district in southwestern Coloradorange in age from...north part of the district and by the Glade fault zone in the south part of the district. Principal fracture...Epigeneticalteration processes have bleachedlarge volumesof rock and largely destroyedthese minerals. Such alteration'is
Report (volume)
. 234 " y { " ,-t .. .~,:",. I " , COLORADO "or.! _ +, (~ STATE OF .~ :'(' COL~ADO /... BULLETIN 40 RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BlaLlllGRAPHY by James L. Nelson-Moore,...Energy COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESUURCES STATE OF COLORADO DENVER, COLORADO 1978...ete 11 st r ng of rad i aaet 1ve occurrences 1n Colorado, with a comprehensive blbi iography and bibliographic...on the Colorado Plateau sparked several periods of exploratIon that ultimately led to a mining "boom ll
Report (issue)
Occurrence of Uranium and Vanadium Minerals From the Colorado Plateaus GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1009-B...OCCURRENCE OF URANIUM AND VANADIUM MINERALS FROM THE COLORADO PLATEAUS By A. D. WEEKS and M. E. THOMPSON ABSTRACT...identification and occurrence of uranium minerals of the Colorado Plateaus, contains descriptions of the physical...mineralogic investigation of uranium ores from the Colorado Plateaus. This work is part of a program undertaken...other 13 14 URANIUM AND VANADIUM MINERALS FROM COLORADO PLATEAUS compilations: Gruner and Gardiner's
Journal (issue)
Report: Sediment Hosted Vanadium-Uranium of the Colorado Plateau 12 President’s Letter 18 Online Lunch...43 Advertiser Index Maroon Bells, near Aspen, Colorado Picture taken by Stephen Sturm 43 Calendar 11...holidays and a Happy New Year to all my favorite rock-lovers!  This is a bittersweet report for me;...currently have members who are career professionals in mining, » CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 Well Log Digitizing •...busy drilling forty prospective structures in 16 Colorado counties. Over 35 oil companies had opened offices
Report (volume)
Thurston.. ________ ___________ History of fluorspar mining in Utah __ --__-_________--_____--___ Classification...in Indian Peak Range and Monarch claims, Beaver County, by W. R. Thurston. __ ____ _______ _____ _. _______...-----------___ Cougar Spar mine__________________________--_.___-____ Blue Bell mine...-- ____ _____...____-__--___________ Deposits in Star district, Beaver County, by D. C. Cox_ _______________ Description..._____---__.______ Deposits in Thomas Range district, Juab County, by M. H. Staatz, V. R. Wilmarth, andH.
Report (issue)
Purple pit fluorspar pipe, Lost Sheep mine, Spar Mountain, Juab County. CONTENTS Page Dell No. 5 Claim... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Eagle Rock Prospect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...43 Floride Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 Floride No. 1 Mine . . . . ...Floride No.5 Mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Floride No. 13 Mine . . . . . . ..... . . 45 Floride No. 18 Mine ............ ·.......... 45 Fluorine Queen Mine . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Sedimentary Rocks in the Slick Rock District, San Miguel and Dolores Counties, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Sedimentary Rocks in the Slick Rock District, San Miguel and Dolores Counties, Colorado By DANIEL R. SHAWE...INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SLICK ROCK DISTRICT SAN MIGUEL AND DOLORES COUNTIES, COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY..._______________________________________________ Rock names._________________________________________...estimates_______________________________________________________ Rock-forming minerals_______________________________
Book
URANIUM GUIDEBOOK FOR THE PARADOX BASIN, UTAH AND COLORADO TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE PARADOX BASIN OVERVIEW...AND MINING AREAS SLICK ROCK DISTRICT GYPSUM VALLEY DISTRICT BULL CANYON DISTRICT URAVAN DISTRICT GATEWAY...GATEWAY DISTRICT (EASTERN GATEWAY AREA) MC ELMO CREEK DRAINAGE AREA LA SAL CREEK AREA PARADOX DISTRICT BEAVER...VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) DISTRICT MOAB DISTRICT GREEN RIVER DISTRICT THOMPSONS DISTRICT INTER-RIVER REGION...REGION DRY VALLEY DISTRICT COTTONWOOD AND BUTLER WASH AREAS MONTEZUMA CANYON DISTRICT SEVEN-MILE CANYON
Report (issue)
identified resources C6 Mining history C6 Mines, prospects, and mineralized areas C7 Dewey mine area C9 North Pass...area CIO Cougar Hill area Cll Prosperity adits area Cll Goshute Canyon area Cll Eagles Nest mine Cll Oro...Oro del Rey workings Cll Evelyn mine C13 Adits in Goshute Canyon C13 Silver Queen property C13 Miscellaneous...Miscellaneous C13 Economic evaluation C13 Queen of Sheba mine C14 Red Mountain area C15 Gold Bond area C15 Trout...not classified as to deposit type Queen of Sheba mine C33 Resource potential C34 Gold Bond C34 Resource
Report (issue)
THE COUGAR CANYON/TUNNEL SPRING WILDERNESS STUDY AREA, WASHINGTON COUNTY, UTAH, AND LINCOLN COUNTY, NEVADA...the Cougar Canyon/Tunnel Spring Wilderness Study Area (UT-040-123/NV-050-166), Washington County, Utah...Utah, and Lincoln County, Nevada. 11 CONTENTS Summary 1 Abstract 1 Character and setting 1 Identified...of Cougar Canyon/Tunnel Spring Wilderness Study Area, Washington County, Utah, and Lincoln County, Nevada...of Cougar Canyon/Tunnel Spring Wilderness Study Area, Washington County, Utah, and Lincoln County, Nevada
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)
Resources of the Bad Lands Wilderness Study Area, Elko County, Nevada U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1725-A...Resources of the Bad Lands Wilderness Study Area, Elko County, Nevada By BRUCE R. JOHNSON, DONALD H. RICHTER...Lands Wilderness Study Area (NV-010-184), Elko County, Nev. CONTENTS Summary 1 Introduction 3 Previous...identified resources 4 Mining activity 4 Oil, gas, and geothermal activity 4 Mining districts and mineralized...Resources of the Bad Lands Wilderness Study Area, Elko County, Nevada By Bruce R. Johnson, Donald H. Richter
Report (volume)
BALANCED ROCK, guarding The Windows section of Arches National Park. Rock is Slick Rock Member of Entrada...bedded Dewey Bridge Member of the Entrada . White rock in foreground is Navajo Sandstone . La Sal Mounta...arrivals~~ Geographic setting ~ Deposition of the rock materials Bending and breaking of the rocks~ Uplift...How to see the park~ A trip through the park ~~ Colorado River canyon. Headquarters area~. .. Courthouse...Frontispiece. Balanced Rock. 1. Arches National Park. .............. . 2. Rock art in Arches National
Report (volume)
RELATED TO WILDERNESS Mineral Resources of the Cougar Lakes-Mount Aix Study Area, Y akirna and Lewis...States. Geological Survey. Mineral resources of the Cougar Lakes- Mount Aix study area, Yakima and Lewis Counties...and interpretation of aeromagnetic data of the Cougar Lakes- Mount Aix study area, Yakima and Lewis Counties...and mineralized areas, and geochemistry of the Cougar Lakes- Mount Aix study area, Yakima and Lewis Counties.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . (A) Geology of the Cougar Lakes-Mount Aix Study Area, Yakima and Lewis Counties
Journal (issue)
cement plant under construction near Durkee. Baker County (see page 58) . Plant is scheduled for completion...industry in 1978 - - - - - - - Petroleum source rock tests on two central Or egon wells Depar tment announces...Len Ramp, Resident Geologist, and N.V. Peterson, District Geologist, Grants Pass Office Oregon Department...construction materials, especially cement. At least 20 mining and exploration companies were involved in exploration...uranium discovery near McDermitt in southern Malheur County. Table 1 summarizes Oregon's mineral production
Journal (issue)
Mineralogist magazine, and Richard M. Pearl, well known Colorado gemologist, are responsible for this third edition...cutting; typical home lapidary shop; how to cut star quartz; drilling holes; coloring agates (Idar method)...four boats at Green River, Wyoming, to run the Colorado river rapids. Two months and 12 days later the...Stone made to and through the watershed of the Colorado river to continue his exploration and study of...conclusions of others as to the geology of the Colorado river canyon. Hence the book, CANYON COUNTRY,
Report (volume)
Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Mines Special Reports _.......__ ________ Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology...Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal _ , Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta _ Bulletin, Geological...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in...the areas and subjects are listed under States, "Colorado Plateau," "United States," or under a few subject
Report (volume)
Undifferentiated Paleozoic(?) sedimentary rocks.__-----_-.--__ Quartz monzonite__---__--___-----_---_----_-_-----------Tertiary...Creek tuff___...__---..-_..-.._--_.__.___-....-.._ Cougar Point welded tuff.......-__._-.----.-.-__---..-...deposits.--------___--._-___--.--___.--_-____.--_ Rock glaciers.------------------.----..----_-__----__-... The Jarbidge quadrangle in Elko County, Nevada, and Owyhee County, Idaho, is an area of rugged mountains...have been intruded by biotite quartz monzonite and hornblende-biotite quartz diorite of Cretaceous age and
Report (volume)
the Jarbidge Wilderness and Adjacent Areas, Elko County, Nevada By R. R. COATS, R. C. GREEN, and L. D....Wilderness and certain adjacent study areas, Elko County, Nevada. CONTENTS Page Summary ___________...----------------------------------Colluvium and rock glaciers_______________________________________...-----------------------------------------------Mining claims ---------------------------------------...-----------------------------------------------Cougar Peak area-------------------------------------
Report (volume)
Sheep Creek West Wilderness Study Areas, Owyhee County, Idaho U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1720-B...Sheep Creek West Wilderness Study Areas, Owyhee County, Idaho By VIKI A. LAWRENCE, DAVID H. MclNTYRE,...Sheep Creek West Wilderness Study Areas, Ovvyhee County, Idaho. (Mineral resources of wilderness study...West (ID-111-036A) Wilderness Study Area, Owyhee County, Idaho. CONTENTS Summary 1 Introduction 3 Investigations...Geological Survey 4 Appraisal of identified resources 4 Mining and exploration history 4 Mines, prospects, and
Report (issue)
____________________________________ _ History of mining and production ________________ _ General description...States. FIGURE 1. Map showing location of uranium-mining districts in West-Central United States-------------------------2...--8. Cross sections of roll ore bodies of the Colorado Plateau region_________________________________________...size in sandstone beds of Triassic age in the Colorado Plateau region__ 10. Histogram showing the percentage...deposits in sandstone beds of Triassic age in the Colorado Plateau region_______________________________
Journal (issue)
Glory" The Hills of Home" (Illustrated) $ 7.50 4.00 San Jacinto Sunrise" Sands of Time Oasis of M a r a "... Here were men blasting a railroad out of solid rock, Big Billy the kindhearted madam, a world's first...element the first few trips south of Ensenada or San Felipe and it RIVERSIDE COUNTY'S LARGEST 4-WHEEL-DRIVE...will need in a far larger area than merely San Diego County. It is a guide to the back country of the...operates the oldest backpacking shop in the San Diego County area. Not all the hikes are very strenuous
 
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