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Illite from
Camp Bird Mine, Imogene Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Illite
Formula:K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Illite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Camp Bird Mine, Imogene Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:293064
Long-form Identifier:1:3:293064:0
GUID (UUID V4):c752e476-5d3f-4a6e-9192-9eebc2df7668
Nearest other occurrences of Illite
8.2km (5.1 miles) Longfellow Mine, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
22.2km (13.8 miles) Carpenter Mine, Lower San Miguel Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA
28.9km (17.9 miles) Placerville Mining District, Lower San Miguel Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA
39.0km (24.2 miles) Silver Creek Molybdenum deposit, Silver Creek, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
43.1km (26.8 miles) Calico Peak Alunite Deposit, Horse Creek, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
70.1km (43.5 miles) Bulldog Mountain Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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...Tintic Mining District, Utah By HALT. MORRIS Gold Deposits in the Sneffels-Telluride and Camp Bird Mining...Juan Mountains, Colorado By FREDERICKS. FISHER Gold in the Alma Mining District, Colorado By DANIEL R....SHAWE Precious Metals in the Leadville Mining District, Colorado By TOMMY B. THOMPSON Part I is Chapter
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
inches; a floater specimen, Cross vein, Idarado mine, Ouray and San Miguel countries. Figure 2 (right). Cluster...Fremont County. C-O-L-O-R-A-O-O CALCITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427...Tennessee; the Viburnum Trend district, southeastern Missouri; the Tri-State district (Missouri-Kansas-Oklahoma);...Russia. Calcite also occurs at many localities in Colorado. Further, the state is the source of calcite as...marble (from the Yule quarry at Marble in Gunnison County) that has been used for many of the great monuments
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
0.75 inch on edge, from the Henderson mine, Clear Creek County. Figure 2 (right). Green fluorite encrusted...Mountain Wilderness area near Columbine Lake, La Plata County; largest crystal measures 1.25 inches on edge;...C*O*L*O*R*A*D*O FLUORITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs by John...locations in Mexico; in Elmwood, Smith County, Tennessee, and in Hardin County, Illinois, in the United States;...eastern Russia. It also occurs in many localities in Colorado, where it is found in colors ranging from pale
Report (issue)
Wilderness Study Area, western San Juan Mountains, Colorado* by Ken Hon, Dana J. Bove, and V. J. S. Grauch...S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado, 80225 STUDIES RELATED TO WILDERNESS Bureau...Wilderness Study Area (CO-030-217), Ouray and Hinsdale Counties, Colorado. SUMMARY The western San Juan...volcanic field that covered much of south-central Colorado during Oligocene and Miocene time. The earliest...Juan Mountains between the towns of Ouray and Lake City, Colorado (fig. 1). The study area is adjacent
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zones the principal clay minerals, kaolinite and illite, become more abundant. Aggregate birefringence...particle size appear to increase. Specific types of illite also develop. Mixtures of 1M and 2Mi mica polymorphs...and 350° C. at 15,000 p.s.i. water pressure. The illite at Temple Mountain which contains the 2Mi polymorph...hthology Weathering Extent of argillization Status of "illite" and mica polymorphs . . . Mica polymorphs at Temple...Keys, 1957) has been published. An examinamining district, Utah, began in 1954. It has tion of the alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zinc, and vanadium appear more abundant in the mining area away from the collapse. Small particles of...montroseite, the primary vanadium oxide, in the mining area. The distribution of supergene oxidation minerals...centers of uranium mineralization elsewhere on the Colorado Plateau. CONTENTS TEXT Introduction Acknowledgments...Mountain mining district 713 6. Distribution of urano-organic ore, Temple Mountain mining district 714 7...INTRODUCTION Temple Mountain first became an important mining area during the epoch of radium exploration, about
Report (volume)
Uranium Deposits of the Temple Mountain District Emery County, Utah By C. C. HAWLEY, D. G. WYANT, and..._______________________________________ History of mining operations and production._____________________..._____________________------__------___---__---Calyx 8 mine.....____--________---_____-----__-. North Mesa 1...mines__--_--_-_____--___----__--__ Camp Bird 12 group____-______-___________________ Camp Bird 7 mine______________...Geologic map a,nd sections of the Temple Mountain district. 2. Sections showing approximate distribution
Report (volume)
Potential and Geology of the San Juan National Forest, Colorado Edited by Richard E. Van Loenen and Anthony B...potential and geology of the San Juan National Forest, Colorado I edited by Richard E. Van Loenen and Anthony...: I 19.3.2127 1. Mines and mineral resources--Colorado-San Juan National Forest. I. Van Loenen, Richard...famous mining districts, such as those at Rico and La Plata, but there is no significant mining being...the Forest that overlaps the energy-rich San Juan Basin. • It is not implied that any commodities, leasable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Suite202, Lakewood,Colorado80226 Abstract Quiruvilca district Cu-Pb-Zn-Agveins have producedover 8 million tons...stratovolcanocomplex. The district has four broadly concentricmineralogiczones from district center to edgeswhich...andstibnite.All veins,regardlessof zonal positionin the district, share the samefour grossparageneticstages:pyrite...alterationhalosenclosingveinsincreasewith depth and toward the district center. Correlationbetweenparageneticstagesof...increasedlaterally away from the center of the district and to have decreasedin time at any one spotin
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 --
Report (issue)
Series 30 Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology, 1984-1989 Colorado Geological Survey Department of...Resources Denver, Colorado 1990 Information Series 30 Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology, 1984-1989...Institute under contract to the Colorado Geological Survey Colorado Geological Survey Department of...of Natural Resources Denver, Colorado 1990 ii FOREWORD In recognition of the need to more effectively...published literature on the state's geology, the Colorado Geological Survey is pleased to release Information
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assemblages (quartz-kaolinite-pyrite ‹ alunite ‹ illite) occur throughout the core of the Peak Hill deposit...chlorite-smectite, illite and ankerite, and a narrow discontinuous zone of argillic (quartz-illite-pyrite) alteration...assemblage, through phyllic assemblages (muscovite/illite-pyrite ‹ paragonite) to a pyrophyllite-pyrite ‹...smectite illite ‹ ankerite quartz-illite-pyrite quartz-kaolinite-pyrite ‹ alunite ‹ illite? chlorit...chlorite-illite-``intergrade vermiculite'' muscovite/illite-pyrite ‹ paragonite pyrophyllite-pyrite ‹ diaspore
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Report (volume)
And Ore Deposits of The San Rafael Swell Emery County, Utah By C. C. HAWLEY, R. C. ROBECK, and H. B....____________________ Altered Monitor Butte Member in the Delta mine area_ Altered Monitor Butte or Temple Mountain Members...district_____________ Descriptions of selected mines and mine areas___________________ Temple Mountain distri...Southeast flank_________________________________ Delta mine area___________________________________ Delta m...mine__________________________________ Blue Bird prospect______________________________ Page 58 58 60
Journal (issue)
is very gratifying at the old abandoned tun~sten mine in to them to see the many old friends at T rumbull...from two Greek words from a new locality, Benton County, to meaning ,·ay and stone, as the mineral is Oregon...specimen at- Sea, (hence its name) at the Parys mine tracted considerable interest as it was the where...rtAlbite, a feldspar, is a silicate of alHam, Wolfe County, Quebec Province, lt, uminum and sodium. It gets...veins in arht allusion to its common white color. g illite. its Sunstone is a variety containing n umerApatite:
Report (issue)
Geological of America, Boulder, INC. Place Colorado Printed in the United States by Edwards Inc...8137-1131-2 Published THE GEOLOGICAL Society Card Colorado Michigan Soctety 80301 48104 The publication...no OIL ORO OIG ZoZ 292 Boulder County Tellurides .... 294 Boulder County Tungsten ...... eeoeeesee 296...e@eeeeeeoe 323 COLORADO PLATEAU (COLORADO-UTAH-NEW MEXICO-ARIZONA) ... 323 A. Rifle area, Colorado «0s... 323...323 B. Uravan District, Colorado 324 Cope tick Rock DIsEEIcL sCoLoradO) sietss) 0001010016 «06 324 DeeGkante
Journal (issue)
Sutherland Minerals of the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ......................Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory ..............................subscribers who wanted a source for books relating to mining and mineralogy. This July the Book Department celebrated...teacher of languages. In 1836 he was appointed “Mine and Quarry Agent and Geologist” to the South Australian...by far the most highly developed metalliferous mining industry, lead and copper mainly, but also gold
Journal (issue)
. Ley The Sm okey Bear quartz claim s, Lincoln County, N ew M exico ...................................find a pegmatite a “half-mile” from the Palermo mine, in New Hampshire. It was originally identified...removal or partial change of some reference points (mine dumps, for example), or all simple reference points...matter of public record and may be found in the county zoning offices. The accurate property boundaries...It may already have a grid, especially if it’s a mining property. If so, always use the one that already
Book
Bagby US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA William Bagby received a Ph.D. in Earth Science from...rocks in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico. His mining industry experience includes porphyry copper exploration...Berger US Geological Survey, Spokane, Washington, USA Byron Berger has been involved in exploration for...volcanic-rock-related epithermal deposits in the Western Great Basin and Pacific Northwestern United States. Administratively...served as an Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado, and Chief, Branch of Geochemistry in the USGS
Book
long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely characterized...sharp, snow-white, earthy rosettes of tabular "illite" pseudocrystals to 2 cm which are pseudomorphs...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Report (issue)
OF THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT'S WINNEMUCCA DISTRICT AND SURPRISE RESOURCE AREA, NORTHWEST NEVADA AND...the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, an area covering 13...Conservation Area), and the impact of mine dewatering on drainage basin groundwater resources (for example...example, the Humboldt River drainage basin). Primary objectives of this assessment include 1) identifying areas...part of their Resource Management Plan for the District/Resource Area or for other planning units such
Book
22092 573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute...Location 1 Montgomery County quartz deposits................. Other Montgomery County quartz mines.......... 2 Garland County quartz deposits......................... Miller Mountain Quartz Mine................... Ron Coleman Quartz Mine................................... Saline County quartz deposits...........Sandstone Quarry, Pulaski County....... 4 Granite Mountain, Pulaski County..................... 5 Dug
 
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