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Chalcocite from
Ibex Mine, Breece Hill, Leadville, Lake 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 Ibex Mine, Breece Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:433676
Long-form Identifier:1:3:433676:1
GUID (UUID V4):0dd7e46c-8b9f-4ecb-90c6-fbe5b2be925c
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Breece Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Venier Mine, Lake County, Colorado, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Penn No. 3 Mine, Lake County, Colorado, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Tucson Mine, Iron Hill, Lake County, Colorado, USA
14.8km (9.2 miles) Dolly Varden Mine (Varden Mine), Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
15.0km (9.3 miles) Moose Mine, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
15.0km (9.3 miles) Climax Mine, Climax, Climax Mining District, Lake County, Colorado, USA
15.8km (9.8 miles) Russia Mine, Mount Lincoln, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
32.9km (20.5 miles) Champion Mine, Gilman, Gilman Mining District (Battle Mountain Mining District; Red Cliff Mining District), Eagle County, Colorado, USA
33.9km (21.1 miles) Garo Deposit (Shirley May Mine; Duvall Discovery), Garo Area, Park County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Bulletin 779 GUIDES TO ORE IN THE LEADVILLE DISTRICT, COLORADO BY G. F. LOUGHLIN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...geology______ __ Guides available and their significance Breece Hill stock Other siliceous rocks_ _ Veins __________...along the most important inclined shafts in the Leadville district__________ ________________ 10 2. Plan...part of the Leadville district_____________ 10 3. Map of stoped ore bodies in Leadville district_______...blanket ore bodies in different parts of the Leadville district____ 16 5. Plan showing Tucson-Maid fault
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF TILE LEADVILLE MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO BY S. F. EMMONS, J. D. IRVING,...High terrace gravel_ 15 Low terrace gravel_ _ 17 "Lake beds"_ 17 Character and distribu17 tion _ Deformation...Relation to mineralization_31 Geologic age _ 31 Leadville limestone (" Blue " limestone) _ _ 32 Name_ 32...anticline _ Origin of the Iron-Mikado fault 61 Colorado Prince anticline _ group _ 95 61 Mosquito Gulch...Kokomo syncline_ Faults southeast_ of _ Leadville 62 the_ Fryer Hill folds _ 62 district _ 95 Warping and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of COLORADO ED RAINES Geology Museum Colorado School of Mines 1310 Maple Street Golden, Colorado 80401...noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...photographer unknown. B etween 1868 and 1922, Colorado produced almost 260 million pounds of copper....came from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926)...twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with more than 210
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(above). Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals showing light...Figure 2 (right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes; specimen...C*O*L*O*R*A*D*O PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs by John R...Park City, Utah; Washington State; and numerous Colorado localities. Pyrite crystallizes in the isometric...Pyrite is the most common sulfide mineral found in Colorado; it is found in a wide variety of occurrences
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur........ .................... ..... ^ B lllii Leadville.................................................SPECIMENS from the collection of the Geology Museum, Colorado School of Mines. See page 242 for a full description... All rights reserved. notes fromthej EDITOR COLORADO-III Here we are with our third special issue devoted...devoted to the mines and minerals of Colorado. As most long-time subscribers know, the first in the series
Report (issue)
Includes the. Leadville, Colorado, mining district. Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Geological...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...High-level terraces,_____________________________ "Lake beds".__________________________________ Stratigraphy...___________ Dyer dolomite member. ___.____-__-_-___ Leadville dolomite------_------_----------__ Weber (?) ...Union syncline___ __________________________ Empire Hill syncline_ _-____-_-__--------_-__ Sheridan transverse
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)
SURVEY Geologic setting of the Leadville mining district, Lake County, Colorado by Alan R. Wallace1 Open-File...Government. JDenver, Colorado PREFACE This geologic summary of the Leadville, Colorado, mining district...to the California Gulch Superfund Site in Leadville, Colorado. Under the agreement, the USGS provides expert...regarding the geology and mineral deposits of the Leadville mining district. The report, a summary based upon.................. 15 Pre-mining setting of the Leadville district ....................................
Report (issue)
Bldg., 2600 corridor, 18th and CSts.,NW. DENVER, Colorado-Federal Bldg., Rm. 169,1961 Stout St. LOS ANGELES...Center, Rm. 1C402,12201 Sunrise Valley Dr. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125 South State...ROLLA, Missouri-1400 Independence Rd. DENVER, Colorado-Map Distribution, Bldg. 810, Federal Center FAIRBANKS...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
Catalog/List
lxl-3/4" to 1-1/2x2-3/4" $ 10.00 BOLEITE Amelia mine, Boleo, Baja California, Choice bright blue single...to lxl-1/2" 5 Specimens $ 10.00 CROCOITE Red Lead mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia Bright orange-red crystalline...to 2 mm crystals scattered an and in dark gray chalcocite matrix. (A) 1/2x3/4" to lxl" 4 Specimens $ 5...8 mm, 1 Spec.$12.50 1 to 2 mm 1 oz. GAYLUSSITE Lake Amboseli, Kenya Choice pale gray elongated skeletal...2x10 mm 10 Specimens $ 7.50 KALIBORITE Enrique mine, Sallent, Spain Choice pure white granular micro
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)
University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 COPPER RAY MINE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA Downloaded by [University of Regina]...pseudomorphs after cuprite, aragonite, azurite, calcite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, chalcanthite, antlerite, and even...coppers.” It is frequently associated with silver, chalcocite, cuprite, malachite, azurite, tenorite, and a...shaft, arborescent groups from the Copper Queen mine, and even postmining growths on old timbers in the...include the New Cornelia pit, Pima County, and the Ray mine in Pinal County. Masses and sheets of crystalline
Report (volume)
Bulletin 681 THE OXIDIZED ZINC ORES OF LEADVILLE COLORADO BY G. F. LOUGHLIN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT..................................... 54 Carbonate Hill ore bodies........................................bodies in workings of Western Mining Co., Carbonate Hill...................................................Plan and sections of lead-silver stopes in Belgian mine............ 4. Diagrams illustrating relations of...bodies to lead carbonate stopes in the Oro La Plata mine..................... 5. Plan and sections showing
Report (issue)
Carbonate-Hosted Sulfide Deposits of the Central Colorado Mineral Belt DAVID W . BEATY, GARY P . LANDIS...LANDIS, AND TOMMY B. THOMPSON, EDITORS Leadville-type ore Sherman-type ore TH E ECON0t-11C GEOLOGY PUBLIS...Geology, 91-A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 Leadville-type ore (top) with rod-textured pyrite in a matrix...paralle l to host-rock bedding. Black Cloud mine, Leadville district. Sherman-type ore (bottom) in paleokarst...cemented or veined with ferroan dolomite. rv1oose mine, North Alma district. Photographs b)' \Villiarn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ph-phosphorescence fl-fluorescence A friend of mine, Harry Roberson, 5019 E. Virginia, Phoenix, Ariz...Goethite (still called limonite by some), hematite, chalcocite, and others have all been found faithfully replacing...not now on the market, come from the Orlandini tin mine, Ubina, Llallagua, Bolivia, where perfect octahedrons...beds of Illinois. Heading far west we come to Colorado, which has yielded the finest assortment of pyrites...largest are the cubes of the Ibex mine, Leadville and Climax, Colorado. Bingham Canyon, Utah boasts five
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (issue)
Marvin Hanner Additions to the Ore Mineralogy of Colorado.................................................by Donald Grybeck Crystallized Minerals of the Colorado Mineral Belt....................................had achieved considerable fame, and the right to mine diopside was obtained that year by G eorge L. English...thereafter. In 1971 both the land and the right to mine diopside were purchased by the present owners, Schuyler...Alveum, R obert Dow, and G eorge Robinson. T he mine is now being worked interm ittently each year for
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...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Butler on the most profitable fissurevein in the Leadville District, although disagreeingwith someof his...suggestedthe theory.that in this portion of the Leadville district mineralization occurred distinct from...reached. The exceedinglyrich gold depositsin the Ibex or Little Johnny and other properties are thus accountedfor...basethe theory, with the exception of those in the Ibex property, in which the gold-bearing fissureveins...Boehmer containsa generalizedsectionthrough the Ibex property well illustrativeof ProfessorButler's conclusions
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...quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo
Report (issue)
Smith. Director Professional Paper 138 MINING IN COLORADO A HISTORY OF DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTJON...area, and organization of the mining counties of Colorado _________________________ _ Adams County_- __..._____________________ _ Alamosa County __________________________ _ Arapahoe County _________________________...Archuleta County _________________________ _ Baca CountY-----------------------------Boulder CountY------...CountY----------------------~----Chaffee County _____________________·______ _ Clear Creek County _______________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
concerning its property in Bisbee and Nacozari; to the Ibex Gold Mining Co., which permitted the publication...publication of information concerning its property in Leadville; and to the United States Geological Survey, which...answeredfor the other. THE PILARES DEPOSIT. The Pilares mine, Sonora, Mexico, occupiesa body of rock which has...and the andesite is known in detail within the mine and can be usedas a marker to indicateany subsidencewhichmay...a strikingfact that the mine,evennear the surfacewhereenrichedby chalcocite, has yieldedlittle ore of
Book (volume)
...........................................59 Colorado ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ..................................................................45 Arizona – Yuma Co. Hull Mine Site Map ......................................
Book (volume)
...........................................47 Colorado ................................................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...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
...........................................47 Colorado ................................................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...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
 
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