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Scapolite from
Italian Mountain, Taylor Park, Dorchester Mining District, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:'Scapolite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Scapolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Italian Mountain, Taylor Park, Dorchester Mining District, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:388247
Long-form Identifier:1:3:388247:4
GUID (UUID V4):8fe22e6a-5737-47bf-bed6-09a3d2cae8e8
Nearest other occurrences of Scapolite
73.2km (45.5 miles) Sedalia Mine (Sedalia Copper Mine), Sedalia Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
77.2km (47.9 miles) Cleora No. 2 Prospect, Cleora Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
77.7km (48.3 miles) Calumet Mine (Calumet; Calumet No. 2; Hecla; Hecla No. 2; Calumet Iron Mine; Calumet-Hecla-Smithville Magnetite deposit; Patented Placer claims: Calumet; Hecla-Williamson; Smithville No. 2; CF&I Company Mine), Turret Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
83.6km (51.9 miles) Stockton Mine (Gertrude Vein), Cleora Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
83.9km (52.1 miles) Uncle Andy Prospect, Cleora Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
83.9km (52.1 miles) North Star Claim, Cleora Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
84.0km (52.2 miles) Hub Tunnels Occurrence, Cleora Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
84.1km (52.3 miles) Winnie Claims, Cleora Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
84.2km (52.3 miles) Gypse Queen Mine, Cleora Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
84.6km (52.5 miles) Mute Lode Prospect, Cleora Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Thesis/Dissertation
mineralogic mapping technique in the Italian Mountain area, Colorado Item Type text; Thesis-Reproduction...MINERALOGIC MAPPING TECHNIQUE IN THE ITALIAN MOUNTAIN AREA, COLORADO By Henry Albert Truebe A Thesis submitted... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mining History . .......................................APPENDIX C: DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY OF THE ITALIAN MOUNTAIN AREA . . ............. .....................Location and tectonic setting of the Italian Mountain area in Colorado. . . . . . . . . . : ............
Journal (issue)
England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...67 by M. C. Bandy Minerals of the Italian Mountain area, Colorado .....................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...the dump there. Figure 3. The Chanarcillo mining district. The many dumps do not show up in the picture...picture. This is on the west side of the district, the Veta Descubridora is in the background over the low
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)
ARSENIDES. BISMUTHINITB. From the Rosario Mining District, Sinaloa, Mexico. W. I-I. Melville. Described...mine of the Canadian Copper Company, Sudbury, district of Algoma, Ontario. Specific gravity, 4.541 ~...From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...19 LOLLINGITE. From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400...described in Proc. Colorado Sci. Soc., vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific
Report (issue)
Aspen 15-minute Quadrangle, Pitkin and Gunnison Counties, Colorado By BRUCE BRYANT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...A study of an area at the intersection of the Colorado mineral belt with the west flank of the Sawatch...Aspen 15-Minute quadrangle, Pitkin and Gunnison Counties, Colorado (Geological Survey Professional Paper...Bibliography: p. 123 1. Geology Colorado Aspen region. 2. Mines and mineral resources Colorado Aspen region. I. Title...stratigraphic relations of Cambrian rocks in west-central Colorado in a northwest-southwest section through Aspen
Book
193-256 137-208 129-192 209-264 193-256 [ [ COLORADO-Ill] 177-256 121-184 89-168 1-120 1-88 [ ...177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400 COLORADO-II] 321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400...69-132 65-128 1-64 11 / 1980 20 I 1989 [ COLORADO-I] [ 289-352 385-448 [ AUSTRALlA] 353-504...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
among others, quartz, calcite, vesuvianite, scapolite, talc, wollastonite, and a variety of mem­ bers...Hampshire; and Willimantic, Windham County, and Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Gem-quality epidote...to 35 cm have been found at Eden Mills, Lamoille County, Vermont (a traditionally cited locality more accurately...accurately described as the Belvidere Mountain quarry, Lowell, Orleans County). Epidote crystals to 5 cm have...mines of Chester and from near Norwich, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; various other Massachusetts epidote
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chernushka in the Baikal area, Italian Mountain in Colorado [11], San Bernardino county [12], and the Big Horn...lazurite deposits in Russia occur in the Slyudyanka district, Irkutsk oblast, southwestern Baikal area, and...subsequently rimmed by phlogopite-bearing diopside–scapolite rock, lazurite–amphibole zone, and dedolomitized...part of the High Foothills of the Turkestan– Alai Mountain system in southern Kyrgyzstan. According to Il’inskii...Monte Somma, Vesuvius, Italy [36]; (3) Italian Mountain, Colorado, United States [36]; (4 and 5) Cascade
Report (issue)
_________________ ___. Nevada ___________ Elko County. - ______ ... _ Star mine, Harrison Pass _____... Tuscarora Range _____ _ ._. ________ Humboldt County Golconda manganese-tungsten depositNorth workings...County__-__--__----__-.___-_-__ Barite deposits, Battle Mountain area.. California-Nevada Barite Co. 63 64 64...Lincoln County__-__-----_-----_-----___ Tern Piute district....... __ ___ ... Mineral County____-_______________...naine________________ Mine near Green Talc mine. _____ Nye County ____ _._-___-________-___ Gabbs area __ _____________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lapis lazuli. The words the high altitude prohibits mining at any lapis lazuli in Persian meant "blue stone"...many things. mountain tribe of Tarij of Afghanistan. Here is how Dana describes it: The mining of lapis lazuli...in some varieties in relatively small amount scapolite, plagioclase, orthoclase (microperthite?), apatite...also been found in Gunnison Coun­ ty on Italian Mountain, in Colorado. That mountain is 12,500 feet in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dolomite, quartz, clinozoisite, wollastonite, scapolite, vesuvianite, diopside, and tremolite (Anthony...been collected at Dungannon Township, Hastings County, Ontario. The crystals in the collection are associated...is also found in a skarn at Bancroft, Hastings County, Ontario, as brown-red dodecahedra to approximately...quarries), 428 ROCKS & MINERALS Lowell, Orleans County, Vermont. So well-known is this locality for fine...acquiring it. Grossular from Amherst, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, occurs as greenish-red dodecahedra
Report (volume)
...................... 1. Rocks from Aroostook County..... ^..................'........... 2. Miscellaneous............................... Maryland and the District of Columbia.....................................1. Elliott County dike............................................... 2. Crittenden County dike..................................... 2. Crystal Falls district, Michigan.................................. .................................... 51 7. Mesabi district, Minnesota...................................
Report (volume)
Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle,
Book
granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...metamorphism. Fine crystals of vesuvianite, garnet, scapolite and spinel can be found in altered limestones...Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology...crystal form. Other crystals Wulfenite (Arizona, USA) 29 may show lesser symmetry on a scale at the...collectors or students should get hold of geological and mining maps and records of visits made by others. Few
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Michigan Correspondents Dudley Blauwet Louisville, Colorado Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten...Department Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles, California...presented to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County by his children. A century ago Bisbee, Arizona...Arizona was a boom town. This was the heyday of mining, when Bisbee was the world’s largest producer of copper
Book (edition)
and often gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level for the ist to States contain...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...the mother rock. In general, the United States mountain them. is divided geologically into the areas...the east and west, and the plains between The mountain regions in the east from Maine down through...recent perhaps because of the decline in placer mining for gold in made dis- faces helps to distinguish
Journal (issue)
gem areas have dried up as there is very little mining activity and practically nothing coming through...519 Fig. 4. Young and old female members of the mining family washing the gravel. Fig. 5. A group of...near the railway line to Chieng Mai. The actual mining areas are: Wang Chin, 50km from Den Chai at 17°54'N...the town of Kantaralak, 14°40'N. 104°40,E. The mining area is at Kor Sa Ad nearby. We were also told...the Blue John variety of fluorite in the Peak District of Derbyshire. Historical notes are included and
Journal (issue)
, and D. R. Cook Hyalite from the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina ................................available. 1 4 2 2 N. HANCOCK, SUITES 1, 2 & 3, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. 8 0 9 0 3 The Mineralogical Record...additions to our thumbnail stock; locations—Bolivia, Colorado, Europe, South Africa. NEW f r e e ca ta lo g...Foote Mineral Company spodumene mine, near Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and from the Dunton Gem mine...Bavaria, Germany (1) Blue Chihuahua mine, San Diego County, 57-59% California (2) 67-80% Poland, Maine (3)
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...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
Book (edition)
interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...information is included on the persons involved in mining the deposits, with dates and other pertinent information...Augelite, Scheelite, Diopside, Tremolite, Augite, Scapolite, Tugtupite, Hemimorphite, Legrandite, Danburite...Miners at Crystal Peak, Colorado 30. Pegmatite pocket, Crystal Peak, Colorado 31. Spodumene, Pala Chief
Report (volume)
crystalline rocks Maine 1. Rocks from Aroostook 'County 2. Miscellaneous rocks5 v New Hampshire 5 Vermont...rocks New Jersey Pennsylvania Maryland and the District of Columbia 1. Peridotite and pyroxenite 2. Gabbro...Carolina Georgia Kentucky 1.. Elliott County dike 2. Crittenden County dike Tennessee Missouri Arkansas Oklahoma...1. Marquette region, Michigan 2. Crystal Falls district, Michigan 5 3. Keweenaw Point, Michigan 4. Menominee...region 6. Pigeon Point, Minnesota 5 7. Mesabi district, Minnesota 8. Miscellaneous rocks from Minnesota
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mapping of dolomite-, diopside-, phlogopite-, and scapolite-rich domains in LHG metacarbonate sequences using...and medium yellow corundum (sapphire) occurs in scapolite-rich calc-silicate rock at 44 localities within...property near Kimmirut (Belley et al., 2017). The scapolite, which fluoresces yellow in ultraviolet light...K-feldspar; (2) retrograde phlogopite, oligoclase, scapolite, and calcite; and (3) 5 subsequent retrograde...phlogopite, pargasite, diopside, forsterite, scapolite, and/or pyrrhotite. The spinels vary in color
Journal (issue)
Washington, D.C. 20560, U.S.A. INTRODUCTION Scapolite is a group name applied to a solid solution series...for intermediate compositions, but since the scapolite group is a two-member series, the gemmologist...composition. PREVIOUS WORK For an overview of gem scapolite, the reader is referred to Webster (1975). Scapolites...Mozambique. For a more detailed explanation of scapolite chemistry, the reader is referred to the work...complex ionic substitutions prevalent in most scapolite. The refractive indices of this uniaxial negative
Book (volume)
56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Dosen ONN/ QBI96-40247 Trade Distribution by Mountain Press Publishing Company P.O. Box 2399, Missoula...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout
Journal (issue)
various proportions with crystalline calcite and scapolite. This blue mineral was named lasurit by Brögger... N. von Koksharov is found in the Lake Baikal district. Its analysis is given below. Si02 A1203 FeO MgO...with pegmatites of upper Proterozoic age. (k) Scapolite : An isomorphous series of variable composition...2 5 as end members. Tschermak includes common scapolite and missonite (including dipyre) as intermediates...transparent. Note 1. T h e variety of common scapolite from the Sludyanka river is termed glaucolith
 
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