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Sphalerite from
Dixie Mine, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Dixie Mine, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:664803
Long-form Identifier:1:3:664803:9
GUID (UUID V4):c1254807-06d0-46d2-a10d-49903e5b944c
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.1km (0.1 miles) ā“˜South American, Chicago Creek, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.1km (0.1 miles) ā“˜Silver Horn, Chicago Creek, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.1km (0.1 miles) ā“˜C. Tyrol, Chicago Creek, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) ā“˜Little Florence, Chicago Creek, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) ā“˜Evergreen, Chicago Creek, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) ā“˜Sulitelma, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) ā“˜Chicago, Black Eagle Group, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) ā“˜Rhoda, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) ā“˜Humboldt et al Claims, Cascade, Chicago Creek, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) ā“˜Big Flat, Chicago Creek, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
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and Ore Deposits of the Chicago Creek Area Clear Creek County Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...and Ore Deposits of the Chicago Creek Area Clear Creek County Colorado By J. E. HARRISON and J. D. WELLS...and ore deposits of the Chicago Creek area, Clear Creek County, Colorado, by J. E. Harrison and J. D. Wells...Geology Colorado Clear Creek Co. 2. Ore deposits Colorado Clear Creek Co. 3. Petrology Colorado Clear Creek..._---_-__-_--__________-____________--. History of the district-______________________________ General geology
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Front Range Mineral Belt Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties. Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared...Front Range Mineral Belt Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties, Colorado By E. W. TOOKER GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Front Kange mineral belt, Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties, Colorado. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off...belt, Gilpin and Clear Creek Counties, Colorado. 1963. (Card 2) 1. Geology Colorado Front Range. 2. Petrology...Petrology Colorado Front Range. 3. Ore deposits Colorado. 4. Mineralogy Colorado Front Range. 5. Metamorphism
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International University] at 22:16 23 December 2014 Gold mining is not romantic, it is dirty, and it is very hard...played out on a daily basis in opening the Colorado mining frontier, however, are very much the stuff...generation had seen an Colorado showing the Colorado mineral belt and the location of the mining districts discussed...1940; Elliot West 1997, verbal com.). scope of this mining economy. There simply was no other ecoThe initial...of 1858 were nomic force to compare with that of mining during the first all made along streams on the
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JUAN COUNTY, COLORADO B A R B A R A and J O H N M U N T Y A N 6978 Wapiti Court Boulder, Colorado 80301...material has been obtained from a number of San Juan County mines and prospects during the last decade, in...almost ceased. COLORADO S A N J U A N C O U N T Y L I E S in southwestern Colorado. Some of the state's...principal town in the county. The American Tunnel, located just north of town along Cement Creek at Gladstone...of the Sunnyside mine complex and has been the major source of specimens in the county. Most museums and
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Deposits Central Part of the Front Range Mineral Belt Colorado By P. K. SIMS and others GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...______________________________ _ History of uranium mining and production ____________ _ Geologic setting...__________ - ___ - ________ -----------Central City district _____________________ ------Quartz Hill-upper...____________________________ _ West Flack mine __________________ _ ~ercer County mine ______________ -German and Belcher...Iron mine, by A. A. Drake, Jr ___________ _ Jefferson-Calhoun vein _________________ _ Kirk mine ____
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designate the papers for advance publication] (A) Some mining districts of eastern Oregon, by James Gilluly,...deposits of the Takilma-Waldo district, Oreg., including the Blue Creek district, by Philip J. Shenon________...Shenon________ (C) The Climax molybdenum deposit, Colorado, by B. S. Butler and J. W. Vanderwilt, with a section...ILLUSTRATIONS PLATE 1. Index map showing location of mining districts in eastern Oregon. 8 2. Topographic and...and geologic map of the Mormon Basin mining district, Baker and Malheur Counties, Oreg _ 32 3. Geologic
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Idaho County, Idaho IDA H 0 Mineral Resources of the Gospel-Hump Wilderness, Idaho County, Idaho...resources of the Gospel-Hump Wilderness, Idaho County, Idaho I by Karen Lund, Leon E. Esparza. p. em...Wilderness in the Nezperce National Forest, Idaho County, Idaho. The area was established as a wilderness...Acknowledgments 6 7 Appraisal of identified resources Mining and exploration history 7 7 Appraisal of examined...potential of the Gospel-Hump Wilderness, Idaho County, Idaho FIGURES 1. 2. Index map showing location
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specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality...across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side
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Photographs January/February: Galena, Tri-State district, Kansas. Smithsonian Institution specimen; Chip...photo. March/April: Quartz, Middleville, Herkimer County, New York. John C. Medici specimen and photo. May/June:...May/June: Turgite, Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. Ronald E. Bentley specimen and photo. July/August:...July/August: Quartz, H. deLinde No. 4 mine, High Peak, Montgomery County, Arkansas. Private collection; Ronald...Bentley photo. September/October: Barite, Otero County, Colorado. Dan and Dianne Kile specimen; John Muntyan
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan Whatā€™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...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
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maximum depths, target areas, and overall lengths of mine workings for use in environmental assessment. The...target area of 160 hectares (fig. 8). Depth of mining in known deposits range from 31 to 915 m. The geometric... Eighty percent of the deposits have subsurface mine workings lengths between 1,100 and 5,900 m (fig...reported, or, in the case of zinc, possibly avoided in mining. Descriptions are commonly incomplete. Nearly all...veins have been a favored target for smallscale mining and can occur in large numbers scattered over a
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as a petrogenetic indicator: Keno Hill Ag-Pb-Zn District, Yukon, Canada R. O. SACK1,*, J. V. G. LYNCH2...University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195-1310, USA Shell Canada Limited, P.O. Box 100, Station M, Calgary...99164-2812, USA 2 ABSTR ACT Fahlores [~(Cu,Ag)10(Zn,Fe)2Sb4S13] from the Keno Hill mining district, central...quartzite, where they occur in association with sphalerite, pyrargyrite, galena and siderite. Fahlores exhibit...equilibrium with pyrargyrite, miargyrite and sphalerite in the simple system Ag2S-Cu2S-ZnS-FeS-Sb 2S3
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cement plant under construction near Durkee. Baker County (see page 58) . Plant is scheduled for completion...Len Ramp, Resident Geologist, and N.V. Peterson, District Geologist, Grants Pass Office Oregon Department...construction materials, especially cement. At least 20 mining and exploration companies were involved in exploration...uranium discovery near McDermitt in southern Malheur County. Table 1 summarizes Oregon's mineral production...500. Figure 1 shows the location of places where mining and mineral exploration occurred during 1978. Point
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description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------Ā­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
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ALABAMAā€”Arbacoochee, a tiny town in southern Cleburne County of N / E Alabama, was famous over 100 years ago...Mountain district, Alpine Co., Calif. COLORADO-"Prof. Richard M. Pearl of Colorado College, Colorado Springs...quartz from the Mica Lode, Royal Gorge District, (Fremont Co. ), Colorado. The garnet ranges in size from tiny...AND MINERALS finding of the first uvarovite in Colorado will interest you. Thank You"ā€”Note dated March...George Robertson, Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs, Colorado. CONNECTICUT-"Enclosed are a few almandite
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omitted from locality information. Where lot and district numbers are given, it is necessary to use topographic...Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville districtā€”between the State Sanitarium and the...pitā€”east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line: kaolinite (Martin and Stafford, 1972). Cheatham...propertyā€”Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8
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the State. In line with a project begun by the Colorado Friends of Mineralogy in 1976, the list is intended...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...(c) = currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite...Faber lead mine-near Faber cerussite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, argentiferous galena, sphalerite, pyromorphite
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27 32 Illustrations Figure 1. Location map of mining districts in the Reno 1Ā° x 2Ā° quadrangle, Nevada...Table 1. Table 2. Table 3. Known production from mining districts in the Reno 1Ā° x 2Ā° quadrangle, Nevada.............. Occurrences of mineral deposits in mining districts of the Reno 1Ā° x 2Ā° quadrangle, Nevada...for 4 years. This report is a review of the known mining districts within the Reno quadrangle, as well as...starting point for those interested in previous mining and research efforts within the Reno quadrangle
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gypsum, libethenite, calcite, barite, chrysocolla, sphalerite, cerussite, pyrite, and even wood and bone. Azurite...Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick...Jersey; the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania;...workings of the copper mines at Ducktown, Polk County, and the zinc deposits of eastern and central Tennessee;...Gossan Lead district in Carroll and Grayson Counties, and mines of the Virgilina district, Charlotte County
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quadrangle, Nevada, with indexing by county, commodity, mine name, mining district, and selected major topics ...Table 3 is a listing of references by mine and mining district names. Finally, Table 4 indexes the references...in the Winnemucca 1Ā° by 2Ā° quadrangle, Nevada. COUNTY REFERENCES Elko 39,40,86,87,88,160a,179,180...884 Hilltop 838d Horse Canyon 200,610 Maggie Creek 273,1503 McCoy Iron 603 Mercur (Utah) 392,506...Canyon 751,809,838c,1135,1138,1496,1497 Rose Creek 959 Round Mountain 746,I62a,1309 Saddle Prospect
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collecting. Although Texas is not known for its mining industry, beĀ­ cause of its large oil and gas exploration...Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan in 1938. The Terlingua mining district...minerals. Mining here was continĀ­ uous from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991)...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? ā€” ā€” ā€” ā€” best occurrence
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the state. In line with a project begun by the Colorado Friends of Mineralogy in 1976, the list is intended...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...(c) = currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarryā€”Alberene amphiboie asbestos
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12 Anthony, W., 12 Arizona: Mammoth, St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Arizona, 5; Minerals Named for Persons Associated...195 Bideauxite, 12 Bideaux, R. A . , 12 Biotite, Colorado, 244 Bitumen, Illinois, 69 Bixbyite, Utah, 163...Advertisements: 39, 83, 135, 179, 231, 274 Clevelandite, Colorado, 244 Clinohedrite, New Jersey, 210 Collections.... , 257 Colorado: chrysoberyl, 52; Denver Museum of Natural History, 58; Clear Creek County, 241 Coming...Hoover, 148 Dick, A . B . , 257 Dickite, 257 Dixie mine, Virginia, 21 Downeyite, 73 Downey, W. F . ,
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TETRAHEDRITEā€“FREIBERGITE SOLID SOLUTION, KENO HILL Agā€“Pbā€“Zn DISTRICT, YUKONā€ BY J.V. GREGORY LYNCH RICHARD O. SACKĀ§...tetrahedriteā€“freibergite solid solution, Keno Hill Agā€“Pbā€“Zn district, Yukonā€, Lynch (1989) documented east-to-west...such occurrences. Tetrahedrite coexists with sphalerite and galena in a siderite gangue and records its...mines and from the pyrargyrite-bearing Lucky Queen mine and adjacent Shamrock and Porcupine mines to the...increasing Feā€“Zn partitioning between tetrahedrite and sphalerite with cooling (e.g., Sack & Loucks 1985, Oā€™Leary
 
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