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Sphalerite from
Oregon Mine, Nederland, Boulder County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Oregon Mine, Nederland, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:148243
Long-form Identifier:1:3:148243:0
GUID (UUID V4):21f1d1bb-bc29-4cd5-ad8a-724943fad5c4
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
3.7km (2.3 miles) Cross Mine, Boulder County Tungsten Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
5.4km (3.3 miles) Wood Mountain Group, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) Copper King Mine (Yeager's Mine), Gold Hill, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) St. Louis Mine, Grand Island Area, Caribou Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
6.1km (3.8 miles) Magnolia Vein, Kekionga Mine, Magnolia Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) Logan & Sunbeam Occurrence, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
7.0km (4.3 miles) Yellow Pine, Sugarloaf Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
7.3km (4.5 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
7.3km (4.5 miles) Bettig mine, Boulder County Tungsten Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Corning Tunnel (Cold Spring; Alamakee; St. Joe; Blackhawk; Cash Occurrence), Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Boulder County Tungsten District Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Geology and Ore Deposits of the Boulder County Tungsten District Colorado By T. S. LOVERING and OGDEN TWETO...with the State of Colorado through the Colorado Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund..._____ Age_ __________________________________ Boulder Creek granite and related rocks. ____ Distribution...Future of the district.-__-__.-.____-__ _______ Mine descriptions._______________________ _______ Beaver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
19 October 2014 Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado I n terms of sheer volume...Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, and Cripple Creek, Colorado. Although on opposite sides of the globe, they...ROCKS & MINERALS the Golden Circle mine at Sorrento and the Cline mine at Hancock, Maine, and from a vaguely...vaguely described locality near Monroe, Fairfield County, Connecticut. A compilation of telluride mineral...Consolidated mine at Dahlonega, Lumpkin County, Georgia; the Barite Hill gold mine in McCormick County, South
Journal (volume)
on some Microminerals from the Ohio pit, Baraga County, Michigan Al Falster 920 McIntosh Wausau, Wl 54401... i The Ohio pit in Baraga County, Michigan, is an old open-pit iron mine. In vugs and cavities of the...minerals can be collected. Due to the fact that the mine has been abandoned for several years, the lower...in crystals up to 5 mm in maximum dimension. Sphalerite is less abundant than pyrite but occurs occasionally...dimension. Chalcopyrite is about as abundant as sphalerite, it occurs as shiny or tarnished crystals up
Catalog/List
DRIVE, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 95127 HALITE - Kern County, California (cavernous crystals) GEM ROUGH & SLABS...fl. yellow-green. ARAGONITE 3X4 - Sam Benito County, Califo.fnia - White needles groTdrting in radiating...Ilo $2, 3 X 3 $2.75, 4 X 5 $4.50 San Benito County, California - Greenish hexagonal plates (look like...$2.75, 2X3 $3.50, 3X4 $4.50 - Sa.n Benito County, California - A newl}. discovered mineral from... 3 X 3 $2.75 GARNET PffilANITE - Sam Benito County, California - Small shiny black xls. growing on
Journal (issue)
Happen Here! A Visit to the Shin-Otani Manganese Mine, Japan Alfredo Petrov alfredopetrov@earthlink.net...small of a hole in the ground merits being called.a mine. None of these mines is in operation anymore, but...show in April mentioned that a nearby manganese mine was now a museum open for underground tourism, I...one. So in May I paid a visit to the Shin-Otani mine in the Tanba mining district. This manganese mining...construction along Missouri highway 61 in Lewis County Missouri or at fee collecting sites around the
Report (issue)
--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --...-----------------------------Pima County -------------------------------Pinal County -------------------------------Santa...-------Santa Cruz County --------------------------'ravapai County -----------------------------'ruma
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
02:13 13 March 2015 CALAVERITE Cripple Creek, Colorado W ith the exception of native gold and electrum...essentially subsequent to the development of all other Colorado gold districts. Unlike most gold deposits, weathering...suggested for this issue, much of which is devoted to Colorado minerals. Calaverite is a yellowish to silver-white...arsenopyrite, tennantite, pyrite, stibnite, and sphalerite. Gold tellurides in general are of exceedingly...1995). Calaverite is known from the Star mine in Montgomery County, North Carolina, where it occurs rarely
Report (volume)
Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut..... .Prof. William...Oberlb Oklahoma........Prof. D. W. Ohern, Norman. Oregon............Prof. A. J. Collier, Eugene. Pennsylvania...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Book (volume)
...........................................59 Colorado ...........................................................................................398 Oregon ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ..........................................
Report (volume)
............................................. Colorado............................................................................................... Oregon. ................................................from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;...minerals and rocks, their occurrence and uses: Colorado State Geol. Survey Bull. 6, 1913. 8 USEFUL...2, 1914. Mitchell, John Graham, Minerals of Oregon: Oregon Univ. Bull., new ser., vol. 13, No. 3, 1915
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
old mine there (the Lucky Cuss) hoping for another strike. I brought back some rocks from the mine—sending...managed to break apart the smaller section of the boulder to get a few nice specimens. Just could not break...advertise in R&M. It makes beautiful cabs."—on label. COLORADO — "Many copper minerals of bright color suitable...displays are to be found on the dumps of the Evergreen Mine, at Apex, (Gilpin Co.), Colo. The ghost town is...or by road from Hiway between Central City and Nederland. Minerals to be found on dumps are: malachite
Report (volume)
important were those in the Central City district, Colorado, from which about 300 tons of high-grade pitchblende...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 Mountains...deposits in the Dripping Spring quartzite, Gila County, Ariz. According to Nininger (1954, p. 43), as
Catalog/List
Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular crystals in...iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline mass ....sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls imbedded in syenite CROSSITE...Sodium iron silicate California San Benito County, Gem mine Compact blue-gray mass with natrolite ...
Report (volume)
....................................... 48 Sphalerite...........:....................................Wedge-shaped ferberite crystals from "Crow patent," Nederland, Colo.; B, Crystallized ferberite with elongated...elongated rhombic crystal faces, from Nugget mine, Gilpin County, Colo.-................... II. A, Wedge-shaped...Hoosier mine, Nederland, Colo.; B, Cuboid ferberite crystals from Georgia A. mine, Nederland. Colo.....Nugget mine, Gilpin County, Colo.............................. IV. A, Hiibnerite from Birdie mine, Butte
Report (issue)
geographic coordinates and, where applicable, by county and section, township, and range. Both published...nickel-plus-copper in the deposit. The Gap mine (Pennsylvania) and the San Julian mine (California),are examples of...deposits varies widely. Some, like the Bluebird mine (Arizona), are small deposits containing 16 mostly...mostly only cobalt minerals. At the Standard mine (Oregon), the , cobalt minerals are associated with...manganese oxides. Lateritic deposits at Riddle, Oregon, and at Cle Elum, Washington, are examples. Cobalt
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 (issue)
scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Traw collection. Barite, 7 cm, from Lookout Point, Oregon. Aaron and Jade Wieting collection. (center row...in the Pacific Northwest; that is, the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska and the Canadian Provinces...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal
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)
AMERICA, CORDILLERAN SECTION MEETING AT CORVALLIS, OREGON, MARCH 20-21, 1980 Edited by Miles L. Silbennan...Geological Society of America at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon. These papers and abstracts...for gold deposition, Alleghany district, Sierra County, California, 26 McMillan, W. J., and Johan, Z....mineralization of the Washougal mining district, Skamania County, Washington, 15 Shreiner, Alexander, Jr., and Suemnicht...origin of some of the vein deposits, Bunker Hill mine, Couer d'Alene district, Idaho, 23 Yeend, Warren
Book (volume)
...........................................47 Colorado ...........................................................................................340 Oregon .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a
Book (volume)
...........................................47 Colorado ...........................................................................................340 Oregon .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOCIALIST REPUBLICS species. The specimen was from Boulder County. A short note suggested coloradoite. An x-ray...America Memoir #109, Telluride Ores of Boulder County, Colorado, p 80, where they state, "Coloradoite...(Joachimstal), Czechoslovakia. 3 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Colorado Hessite A very challenging unknown was received...quartz, gold, and other Mineral Specimens from Colorado Mines: 1978 The following information was provided..."Creede: The Homestake Mining Company's Bull Dog Silver Mine is still producing highgrade silver ore although
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Front Range Colorado By T. S. LO\'ERING and E. N. GODDARD GEOLOGICAL...in cooperation with the Colorado State Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund ~ oopr..._ Quartz diorite and associated hornblendite_ Boulder Creek granite _________________ _ Pikes Peak granite...Pre-Cambrian deposits _________________________ _ Mine descriptions __________________________ _ 39 39...disseminations_ Cotopaxi mine _____________________ _ Copper deposits in Jefferson County __ _ F. M.D. property
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $6.00 Minerals from the Eagle Mine Gilman, Colorado Bob Werner werner@lcturboney.com After submit1ing...submit1ing the article, Silver Orefrom the Eagle Mine, (Mineral News, Vol. 35, No. I), I thought there...locality that is now closed "forever". The Eagle Mine (fig. I, right) is well known to collectors for...reached the market during its operation. The Eagle Mine was Colorado's largest zinc and copper producer...adjacent local mines into one operation. The Eagle Mine was accessed by the Wilkesbarre shaft and the Newhouse
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the order, named: pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, bismuth minerals, pyrrhotite,...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...a studyof assaysof ore from theGeorgeGold-Copper Mine of Stewart,BritishColumbia, showsthat gold is associated
 
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