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Oligonite from
Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Municipality
Classification
Species:Siderite var: Oligonite
Formula:(Fe,Mn)CO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Oligonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:159962
Long-form Identifier:1:3:159962:6
GUID (UUID V4):f01ee9b8-face-4ee4-83de-a7f0ed98732c
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OLIGONITE, A MANGANOSIDERITE LEADVILLE, COLORADO FROM EvaNs B. Mevo aNP Wu. J. O'Lnanv, (ContributionJrom...Cornell U niaersil'y') The specimen, from Leadville, Colorado, described in this paper, came from the Iron...:".---t Frc. 1. Photograph of the specimen of oligonite, a manganosiderite, on chalcopyrite, galena, and...slightly iron stained substance which proves to be oligonite, the central member of the rhodochrosite-siderite...has already been reported from the zinc ores of Leadville by Loughlin.l The carbonate is so finely crystalline
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
178 Beryl-molybdenite deposit of Chaffee Co., Colorado. 131 . ( L a n d e s ) . .. . tJz Beryllium minerals...Mayo, E. B. and O'LearY,W' J' Oligonite, a manganosiderite from Leadville, Colo304 rado.'. Mayville iron...Mayo, E. B, Oligonite, a manganosiderite from Leadville, Colo_ rado... ... .. Oligonite, a manganosiderite...manganosiderite from Colorado. (Mayo, O'Leary).... Optic angle, determination with universal stage. (Dodge).....the Tertiary intrusives of data). . 339 central Colorado 586 Transfer of grains from one liqStatistical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
likely encounter include oligospath, oligon spar, oligonite, oligosiderite, and oligonsiderite, which are...with quartz, from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The composite crystals of siderite...were collected from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, where large cleavage masses to 11 cm on edge and...From the Palermo No. 1 mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, come microcrystals associated with...millerites, the Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York, has produced a fair number of fine siderite
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...minerals of the Great American Rift in New Mexico and Colorado. Great American Rift is the name we use for a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eagle County, Colorado WILLIAM J. WARREN JR. Front Range Minerals P.O. Box 632 Golden, Colorado 80402...wjwmineral@aol.com ED PEDERSEN 11582 Ash Circle Thornton, Colorado 80233 pedersencpg@aol.com 298 ROCKS & MINERALS...MINERALS T he Gilman district, in Eagle County, Colorado, and its premier mineral specimen producer, New...Warren Jr. photo. Figure 2 (above). Index map of Colorado with the location of Gilman and its relationship...to the major mining districts of Leadville and Aspen, the Colorado mineral belt, and the Arkansas Valley-Rio
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)
1.633 [ 1.875 [ 2.89 (Intermediate are oligonite, and manganosiderite) 3.70 Rhodochrosite, MnO...eighttimesout of ten..Purington aosaysthat at Telluride,Colorado, if the associatesof carbonatesare usableat all... et al., The geology and ore deposits of the Leadville Mining district. ß U.S. Geol. Survey, Prof. Paper...asPalache,Charles,Crystallography bf calcitefrom the Lake Superiorcoppermines. Am. Mineralogist 29: 35-48...•7illustrate curved blades of manganosiderite in rugsat Leadville, Colorado.In tiny rugs the cui-vedflat rhombohedrons
Report (issue)
Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961).
Report (issue)
Chemical Composition of Sedimentary Rocks in Colorado, Kansas, Montana Nebraska, North Dakota South Dakota... Chemical Composition of Sedimentary Rocks in Colorado, Kansas, Montana Nebraska, North Dakota South...TABLES Page TABLE 1. Analyses of samples from Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, and...(group B), common- and mixed-rock categories: 2. Colorado._____________________________________________...___----_----_---_ 7. Analyses of samples from Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming, containing
Journal (issue)
Wilson Figure 1. Prospectors traveling to the Colorado gold fields, 1859. Some o f them found gold in...3 - 1 9 8 9 Steve Voynick P.O. Box 1285 Leadville, Colorado 80461 As silver mines go, the Sweet Home...1876 notes: “Rhodochrosite, Sweet Home mine, Park County, very beautiful specimens” (Endlich, 1878). Sweet...“pre-1900” specimens are cited only as “A lm a” or “Colorado,” but certainly originated in the Sweet Home mine...local legend of what had been found. In 1912, a Colorado State Geological Survey bulletin (Patton, Hoskin
Report (volume)
Pa. Colorado Museum of Natural History: Proceedings, vol. 13 (nos. 1-3). Denver, Colo. Colorado Scientific...Proceedings, vol. 13 (nos. 4, 5). Denver, Colo. Colorado School of Mines: Mines Magazine, vols. 23, 24...Colo. Colorado, University of: Studies, vols. 20 (nos. 2-4), 21, 22 (no. 1). Boulder, Colo. Colorado-Wyoming...Phoenix, Ariz. Mining Review, vols. 35, 36. Salt Lake City, Utah. Minnesota Geological Survey: Bulletins...Frederick James. 20. Middle River gold field, Victoria County, Nova Scotia: Canada, Geol. Survey, Summary Kept
Book (edition)
industry may quantities of iron ore from the Lake Superior region to various points on the lower lakes...Lens-shaped . FIG. 316. Arborescent copper. Phoenix Mine, Lake Superior Dis- FIG. nite on trict. York. Mammillary...the "crystal" cave on the island of Put-in-Bay in Lake Erie is a huge geode containing crystals of celestite...recovered from the sands and gravels of a stream or lake, as placer gold. There are also platinum, diamond...shale). In some of the shales of northwestern Colorado and adjacent States the has been detected and
Book
2) - idiomorphic crystal (9 mm); Thomas Range (USA) Text by Rudolf Dud'a and Lubos Rejl Revision of...mountain areas, rocky river and brook beds, rockbound lake and sea coasts, caves, erosion furrows originating...in sedimentary deposits in Texas and Louisiana (USA), Tarnobrzeg region and Mach6w (Poland), Karakum...California (USA). Perfect crystals have come from Sicily (Italy), (Poland) and (the USA). Individual...(437) • Occurrence: common; Clay region in Alabama (USA); Harz (GDR), FRG, Botogol deposit (USSR); metamorphic
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abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Clear Creek co., and at Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite...California, in fine crystals in talc near Wenatchee Lake, Chelan co., Washington, also at Sulzer, Prince
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2) — idiomorphic crystal (9 mm); Thomas Range (USA) Text by Rudolf Duda and Luboé Rej Revision of the...mountain areas, rocky river and brook beds, rockbound lake and sea coasts, caves, erosion furrows originating...in sedimentary deposits in Texas and Louisiana (USA), Tarnobrzeg region and Machow (Poland), Karakum...California (USA). Perfect crystals have come from Sicily (Italy), (Poland) and (the USA). Individual...(437) e Occurrence: common; Clay region in Alabama (USA); Harz (GDR), FRG, Botogol deposit (USSR); metamorphic
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Verde Valley, Yavapai County, Arizona. In Nevada along the Virgin River in Clark County, and in distorted...distorted crystals from Humboldt County. From Borax Lake, San Bernardino County, California. In the Permian basin...Salt Lake, Utah. In Canada, an important deposit of salt lies along the eastern shores of Lake Huron...include Leadville, Colorado; Lake Valley, near Silver City, New Mexico; Tombstone, Cochise County, Arizona;...in the Calico and Barstow mines, San Bernardino County, California. A mass of cerargyrite weighing over
Book (edition)
quantities of iron ore (about 80,000,000 tons) from the Lake Superior region to various points on the lower lakes...color and spherical triangular outline. San Diego County, California. Fia. 308. Agate. Brazil. and sharply...page 307). Fic. 332. Aborescent copper. Mine, Lake Superior district. Phoenix Fig. 333. stone. Dendritic...the “crystal” cave on the island of Put-in-Bay in Lake Erie is a huge geode containing crystals of celestite...recovered from the sands and gravels of a stream or lake, we refer to it as placer gold. There are also platinum
Book
Netherlands. Special regulations for readers in the USA — This publication has been registered with the Copyright...made in the USA. All other copyright questions, including photocopying outside of the USA, should be referred...granites as in many other regions of the world (Colorado Mineral Belt, Great Basin, W. Rumania, etc.)....These rocks are virtually unmineralized. NORTH LAKE BALKHASH (PRIBALKHASH) REGION, KAZAKHSTAN, U.S.S...levels, in the roof 1022 100 km Fig. 28-7. North Lake Balkhash (Kazakhstan) late Paleozoic mineralized
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Netherlands. Special regulations for readers in the USA — This publication has been registered w i t h the...made in the USA. A l l other copyright questions, including photocopying outside of the USA, should be...granites as in many other regions of the world (Colorado Mineral Belt, Great Basin, W. Rumania, etc.)·...These rocks are virtually unmineralized. NORTH LAKE BALKHASH (PRIBALKHASH) REGION, KAZAKHSTAN, U.S.S...levels, in the roof 1022 100 km Fig. 28-7. North Lake Balkhash (Kazakhstan) late Paleozoic mineralized
Book (edition)
quantities of iron ore (about 90,000,000 tons) fro1n the Lake Superior region to various points on the lo"'er...discovered in the Great Bear Lake and Blind River regions in Canada, in the Colorado Plateau, and else,vhere...outline. San Fig. 308. AgaLe. Brazil. Diego County, California. In allochromatic minerals the color... Froni so1ne of the shales of northl'l·estern Colorado and adjacent states oil is recovered, and in several...the "crystal" cave on the island of Put-in-Bay in Lake 11 E rie is a huge geode containing crystals of
Book (volume)
in the Grenville series of Ontario. In Renfrew County, Ontario, corundum is erratically distributed through...1957. Origin of the corundum deposits of Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada. Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer., vol....corundum deposits in the Buck Creek pendotite. Clay County, North Carolina. U.S. Geol. Surv., Bull. 948E,...minerals of Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey. U.S. Geol. Surv., Prof, paper 180...perovskites from Crestmore and from San Benito County, California (Murdoch, 1951). A loparite from a
Book
milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please...minerals, usually as encrustations. 1. EVAPORITE LAKE DEPOSITS Epsomite, gay-lussite, trona, thermonatrite
Book (edition)
Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere nee Not to...Sagtiache Co1tntr Publlc I...ibran' Saguache, Colorado ~ VANNOSTRAND REINHOLD ~ - - - - N e w York...Cal and Kerith Graeber Cureton Mineral Company Colorado School of Mines cw Charles and Marcelle Weber...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M
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Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For Reference Not to...Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD New York ...Cal and Kerith Graeber Cureton Mineral Company Colorado School of Mines Charles and Marcelle Weber Dan...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous
Report (volume)
cientifica Circular Classe classification Company, County Collections Committee Communications Comparative...Publications vols. 4-8 (no. 2). Cleveland, Ohio. Colorado Mining Association Mining Year Book, 1934-35,... 1935-36, 1937, 1939. Denver, Colo. Colorado Museum of Natural History: Popular Series no. 3; Proceedings...Proceedings vols. 1317 (no. 1). Denver, Colo. Colorado School of Mines: Mines Magazine vols. 19-24; Quarterly...Golden, Colo. Colorado Scientific Society Proceedings vols. 12-14 (no. 2). Denver, Colo. Colorado University:
 
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