 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2014 Creede The last Wild West Silver Mining Camp in Colorado T he Creede mining district, located...and rugged San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Although silver was discovered in the area in...cause much excitement until 1889 when Nicholas C. Creede and his two partners found rich silver ore near...Amethyst, Last Chance, Commodore, and Bachelor. The mining encampment grew from a small settlement to a town...gravitated to mining boom towns. In 1890 the settlement was unofficially named Creede (Mumey 1949) in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Microminerals in the Creede Mining District The Amethyst, Commodore No. 5 Mineral County, Colorado Unless otherwise...his collection & Bulldog Mountain Mines C reede is located in southwestern Colorado on the edge of the...in the Creede district was at the Holy Moses mine high above East Willow Creek, but the district did not...West Willow Creek approximately 1.5 miles north of Creede. The Commodore No. 5 ore bins are the first structures...Commodore mine perched on the mountainside. The Amethyst mine is north of the Commodore mine, and most |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Zoningof the BulldogMountainVein System,Creede District, Colorado GEOFFREY S. PLUMI U.S.GeologicalSurvey... The BulldogMountainveinsystem,Creededistrict,Colorado,isoneof fourmajorepithermal vein systems fromwhichthe...eralizationstageshave been identifiedalongthe Bulldog Mountainveinsystem,eachwith a characteristic suiteof...ngpatternsacross the central and southern Creede district. The complexvariationsin mineralassemblages...systems(Amethyst,Bulldog Mountain,OH; seefig. 1, FoleyandAyuso,1994) in the Creede district from which the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isère, France...Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals,...Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. A Acanthite, Colorado, 442; Utah |  | | Journal (issue) | | Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.....................in Colorado minerals? ...................................... 329 by R. A. Kosnar Famous mineral localities:...Home mine .................................................. 333 by R. A. Kosnar Famous mineral localities:...339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349 by J. A............373 by E. E. Foord and R. F. Martin Mineral collecting at the Sunnyside & Idarado m in e s |  | | Book | | l JJ 1atYON RALPH Moore's COMPENDIUM of Mineral Discoveries -------~►►--.•.... -~~1---------- ...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...crystals and in themselves are never of interest to mineral collectors. However, unusual discoveries in the |
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