 | | Report (issue) | | Index of the Geology of the Creede Mining District and Vicinity Colorado By Daniel O. Hayba and Constance...bibliography and index of the geology of the Creede mining district and vicinity was prepared in support of...conjunction with the proposed deep drilling program at Creede. It was our intent to include in this compilation...geology of the Creede district. Thus, references range from papers dealing entirely with Creede to those which...smaJJ amount of data relevant to some aspect of Creede geology. Even abstracts of talks, which were later |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens...private and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum...best-known specimens are native silver in a wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered...Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close...Homestake Mining Company 8 “Pirate’s Treasure Chest, Only Much Larger!” 9 Almost Solid Silver - The Legendary | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens...private and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum...best-known specimens are native silver in a wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered...Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close...Homestake Mining Company 8 “Pirate’s Treasure Chest, Only Much Larger!” 9 Almost Solid Silver - The Legendary |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens...private and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum...best-known specimens are native silver in a wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered...Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close...Homestake Mining Company 8 “Pirate’s Treasure Chest, Only Much Larger!” 9 Almost Solid Silver - The Legendary | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens...private and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum...best-known specimens are native silver in a wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered...Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close...Homestake Mining Company 8 “Pirate’s Treasure Chest, Only Much Larger!” 9 Almost Solid Silver - The Legendary |  | | Journal (issue) | | Find your OwnAgate Collecting around Kremmling Colorado Morocco - The Country, The People and...Agates...Mindat.org Agates and Associated Minerals of Creede Colorado By Philip Persson PerssonRareMinerals.com ...information ranging from listing mineral localities, facts about mineral species, photographs of worldwide...to typical reference specimens), photographs of mineral localities (both modern and historical), publication...Copyrights Reserved 2014 - Printed in Denver, Colorado IDA CHAU’S JOURNAL FROM THE 3RD MINDAT INTERNATIONAL |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2014 Creede The last Wild West Silver Mining Camp in Colorado T he Creede mining district, located...rugged San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Although silver was discovered in the area in 1876, it...until 1889 when Nicholas C. Creede and his two partners found rich silver ore near East Willow Creek and...the area. It was not long before additional rich silver ore was found along West Willow Creek in veins...Amethyst, Last Chance, Commodore, and Bachelor. The mining encampment grew from a small settlement to a town |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALOGY, AND HISTORY OF FOUR Native Silver Localities 7 in Colorado Downloaded by [University of California...72 Golden, Colorado 80403 All photos by author unless otherwise noted SINCE 1859 COLORADO HAS PRODUCED...threequarters of a billion ounces of silver. Most of this production has come from silver-bearing minerals rather...native metal. Native silver in Colorado has been deposited both as a primary mineral, crystallized directly...directly from hydrothermal fluids, and as a secondary mineral, precipitated during the various processes involved |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | S OF C R E E D E , M I N E R A L C O U N T Y , COLORADO By ARTHUR E. SMITH, JR. 91 18 Concho, Houston...written in recent years on the mineral and rock collecting at Creede. This region has much to offer the...collectors make Creede a stopping point for their Color ado vacations. The region around Creede is said to...mines where the prin cipal collecting is for mineral specimens though some lapidary materials such as...turquoise have been collected. Many who collect at the Creede Mines do not know what minerals to look for and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | COLORADO AMETHYST THOMAS C . MICHALSKI U. S. Geological Survey Denver Federal Center Denver, Colorado...collectors. Indeed, few present-day mineral collectors are aware that Colorado has any significant amethyst... still capable of producing fine gemstone and mineral specimens. Background Amethyst, the purple variety...is due to Fe 0 within the lat tice structure. Mineral-forming solutions at temperatures below 285 °C...restricted conditions necessary for its formation, Colorado has many occurrences of this unique variety of |  | Heald-Wetlaufer, Pamela, Hayba, Daniel O., Foley, Nora K., Goss, J.A. (1983) Comparative anatomy of epithermal precious- and base-metal districts hosted by volcanic rocks: A talk presented at the GAC/MSC/GGU Joint Annual Meeting, May 11-13, 1983, Victoria, British Columbia. Open-File Report Vol. 1983 (83-710) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr83710 | Report (issue) | | Nev., are characterized by a highly sulfidized mineral assemblage, advanced argillic alteration, and ore...subgroups: Ag- and base-metal-rich deposits (e.g., Creede, Colo.), and Au-rich, base-metal-poor deposits...precious and base metals 9 Ore from the Creede district, Col. 10 Typical alteration zoning for the...deposition. 16 6 180-6D diagram for the Creede district, Col. (modified from Bethke and Rye, 1979)...ranges from fluid inclusion studies for the Colqui district, Peru (from Kamilli and Ohmoto, 1977). 19 Temperature |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Microminerals in the Creede Mining District The Amethyst, Commodore No. 5 Mineral County, Colorado Unless otherwise...Mountain Mines C reede is located in southwestern Colorado on the edge of the San Juan Mountains just south...(Huston 2005). The initial discovery of silver ore in the Creede district was at the Holy Moses mine high above...above East Willow Creek, but the district did not prosper until additional discoveries were made along...West Willow Creek approximately 1.5 miles north of Creede. The Commodore No. 5 ore bins are the first structures |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 13:31 09 June 2016 Colorado boasts numerous localities where fine sphalerite...phalerite, (Zn,Fe)S, can be one of the more desirable mineral species for collectors and museums alike. One...Elmwood, Tennessee; the mines of the Tri-State district of Missouri-OklaDownloaded by [University of Nebraska...of sphalerite also occur at many localities in Colorado, in shades of amber, emerald- or lime-green,...Muntyan, former director of the Ouray County Museum in Ouray, Colorado, is a frequent contributor to Rocks |  | Foley, Nora K., Caddey, Stanton W., Byington, Craig B., Vardiman, David M. (1993) Mineralogy, mineral chemistry, and paragenesis of gold, silver, and base-metal ores of the North Amethyst vein system, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado. Professional Paper 1537. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp1537 | Report (issue) | | Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and Base-Metal Ores of the North Amethyst...Amethyst Vein System, Sari Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Alaska-Rm. 101, 4230 University Dr. • LAKEWOOD, Colorado-Federal Center, Bldg. 810 • MENLO PARK, California-Bldg...Mississippi-Bldg. 3101 Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and Base-Metal Ores of the...Amethyst Vein System, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado By NORA K. FOLEY, STANTON W. CADDEY, CRAIG |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | deposition andemplacement of the host rock, size of the district,temperaturesof mineraldeposition,chemicalcomposition...asericitetype (Creede,Colorado;RoundMountain,Nevada).Bothtypeshavegold-richand silver-richsubsets. Basemetalcontentsin...ivided into Two Types,with SelectedReferences District Selected references Acid-sulfatetype Ransome(1901)...Adularia-sericitetype LakeCity I, CO• Colqui,Peru2 Eureka, COs Creede, CO Irving andBancroft(1911) Slack (1980) Petersenand...Bonnichsen(1983) Lindgren (1900) Tonopah, NV Comstock, NV Silver City, ID De Lamar, ID Round Mtn., NV Pansze |  | | Report (issue) | | Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology 1983 by Atnerican Geological Institute Colorado Geological Survey...Resources Denver, Colorado I 1987 Information Series 21 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF COLORADO GEOLOGY 1983...Geological Institute Colorado Geological Survey Department of Natural Resources Denver, Colorado 1987 The Colorado...opportunity employer. ii BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF COLORADO GEOLOGY SERIALS LIST AAPG Bullett n. [Tulsa...the Mineral Industry. New York, NY: Society of Mining Engineers of American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Mina Potosí Santa Domingo, Santa Eulalia district, Municipio de Aquiles Serdán, Chihuahua, Mexico...photo. Creedite Colorado Fluorspar Company Mine Wagon Wheel Gap Mineral County, Colorado C MARK IVAN...during the summer 1714 S. Clarkson Street Denver, Colorado 80210 markivanjacobson@gmail.com of 1915 by Larsen...springs just south of the Wagon Wheel Gap, Mineral County, Colorado. Wagon Wheel Gap is located 13 kilometers...kilometers southeast of the still-active silver-mining town of Creede, with the mine an additional 4 kilometers |  | | Report (issue) | | DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The Creede, Colorado Ore-Forming System: A Summary Model by Philip...geochronology, and wallrock alteration in the Creede mining district, Colorado and of studies of the evolution of...still qualitative and still evolving, model of the Creede hydrothermal system. Ores were deposited from a...discovered mineralization in the northern end of the district. The system was dominated by two fortuitiously...evaporation in a playa lake in the moat of the Creede caldera and later diagenesis. Much of the ore lead |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology Contrib Mineral Petrol (1985) 91:171 179 9 Springer-Verlag 1985...indicator in the Amethyst vein system, Creede district, Colorado, USA Duane G. Horton 1 University of Illinois...Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA Abstract. Ordered i!lite/smectite is the most abundant and widespread...Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu-Au Amethyst vein system, southwest Colorado. Hydrothermal illite/smectites exhibit all Reichweke...epithermal vein deposit in the Creede mining district, southwestern Colorado. Evidence is presented to show |  | | Report (volume) | | 1420 Mineral Resources of the La Garita Wilderness, San uan Mountains, Sout iwestern Colorado By THOMAS... SURVEY BULLETIN 1420 An evaluation of the mineral potential of the area UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Garita Wilderness, San Juan Mountains, southwestern Colorado. (Studies related to wilderness wilderness areas)...Supt.ofDocs.no.: 119.3:1420 1. Mines and mineral resources Colorado La Garita Wilderness. I. Bieniewski,...survey these wilderness areas to determine the mineral values, if any, that may be present. The act also |  | | Journal (issue) | | ISSUE 06 • JUNE 2020 CAPTIVATED BY CREEDE Evolution of a Silver-Mining Boomtown METAMORPHIC INDEX MINERALS... VOL. 50 NO. 06 • JUNE 2020 10 SILVER MINING SURVIVOR Creede Colorado Navigates Economic Transition While...20 SOUTHWEST SUMMER Exploring San Juan Mountain Mining History 50 FIELD TRIP FOCUS Making Memories and...Serras-Herman REGULAR COLUMNS Witness to Morocco’s Modern Mining Rush Field Notes ...............................Hollow mines. Between those two and other flume mining adventures in western North Carolina, my family |  | | Report (volume) | | Radioactivity in the Metal-Mining Districts of the San Juan Mountains Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY --*_-...Radioactivity in the Metal-Mining Districts of the San Juan Mountains Colorado By C. T. PIERSON, W. F. WEEKS...radioactivity in the metal-mining districts of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, by C. T. Pierson, W. F..._______________ CeboUa district..______________________________ Upper Uncompahgre district. ______ _________________________...Uranium occurrences___________ ________ __ Bonanza district..____________________ ___________________ General |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MUNTYAN 536 Third Avenue P.O. Box 495 Ouray, Colorado 81427 All photographs by John R. Muntyan of specimens...B ~i~~~~ 1. Mine along West willow Creek, near Creede and across from the Bachelor mine. Photo by author... arite (barium sulfate) is the most important mineral of barium; it is reported from numerous localities...Hardin County, Illinois, among other localities. Barite also occurs in many localities in Colorado, where...wellcrystallized crystal groups. Colors reported for Colorado barite range from sky-blue to snowwhite to golden |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Diego] at 15:26 22 February 2016 - Featured Mineral at the 1994 Denver Show Figure I (above). Pyrite...Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals showing light “cathedral”...(right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes; specimen 2 by 2 inches;...PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs by John R. Muntyan...Park City, Utah; Washington State; and numerous Colorado localities. Pyrite crystallizes in the isometric |  | Bethke, P. M., Rye, R. O. (1979) Environment of ore deposition in the Creede mining district, San Juan Mountains, Colorado; Part IV, Source of fluids, from oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon isotope studies. Economic Geology, 74 (8) 1832-1851 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.74.8.1832 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ore Depositionin the CreedeMining District, SanJuan Mountains,Colorado' Part IV. Sourceof Fluids from Oxygen...responsiblefor formation of the nearsurface silver-basemetal vein depositsat Creede was measuredby direct analysis...(number of determinationsgiven in parentheses): Mineral Sphalerite Quartz Illire aDn2o %o -81 to -54 (4)...interstitial waters in the moat surroundingthe Creede caldera. begunin an effortto establish the sources...Creededistrict has depositionof the middleTertiary silver-base metal oresof the Creedeminingdistrictare examined |
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