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Muscovite from
Ajax Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ajax Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1001171
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1001171:3
GUID (UUID V4):57a5c794-8ac7-4f9d-bc8a-e4b61834c174
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
16.4km (10.2 miles) Pikes Peak, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
21.8km (13.6 miles) Sentinel rock (Specimen rock), Pikes Peak, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
21.9km (13.6 miles) Specimen Rock, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Deadmans Canyon pegmatite, Deadmans Canyon (Dead Man's Gulch), El Paso County, Colorado, USA
22.8km (14.2 miles) Hunter's Run, Crystal Park, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
22.9km (14.2 miles) Carbonate King mine, Guffey Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
23.3km (14.5 miles) Johnny Feldspar Mine, El Paso Mining District, El Paso County, Colorado, USA
25.5km (15.9 miles) Black Cloud Mine, Teller County, Colorado, USA
29.0km (18.0 miles) Rosemont Mine (East Mine), Micanite Mining District (Currant Creek Mining District), Fremont County, Colorado, USA
29.4km (18.3 miles) Climax Mine (Mine No. 8 U.S. Mica Company; Climax Mica Mine), Micanite Mining District (Currant Creek Mining District), Fremont County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Famous mineral localities: The Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...[Ba(UO2)2V2O8⭈5H2O] from the type locality, the Mounana mine, Franceville, Haute Ogooué, Gabon. See the article...“This is the XYZ mine, and these are pretty pictures of the minerals from that mine.” Lou, however, took...chemistry, crystal system, identifying features, and mine of origin—all without notes. From his huge library
Catalog/List
7. E:. 9. 10. 11. 12. Camp Bird mine, Ouray Co., Colorado Choice rich brassy-golden 5x5 to 5x7 ~n...section. 2xl-3/4xl/2" $85.00 Idarado mine, Ouray Co., Colorado Choice golden thin polished slice in pale...Weight: 39 g. 2x3-3/4xl/8" $ 150.00 Caribou mine, Ouray Co., Colorado Superb rich orassy-golåen fine grained...211 g. 3-1/4x2··1/4xl-1/2" $ 350.00 Golden Crown mine, Hunboldt Co., Nevada Select bright golden elongated...62 g. l-l/2xl-3/4xl-1/4'' $ 50.00 Bestand Belcher mine, Virginia City, Nevada Thin golden 1 mmveins and
Report (issue)
GEO LOGY AND GOLD DEPOSITS OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT, COLORADO BY \V ALDEl\;IAR LINDGREN A:'\D ... . . . . . . . First geological survey of the district .............................. _• . . . . . ..................... Geological structure of the district ............... _................... __ .. _....• _. _•••• _••• _. _••• ___ . ____ 43 43 Cripple Creek granite ... ----.-----------------.----- _____________..._____________ . _. __ ... __ •.. Spring Creek granite ......•...•... _... __ . _____ •• _.• _• _•. ___
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...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
Report (volume)
PROGRESS GEOLOGICAL RESURVEY OF THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT, COLORADO BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN AND FREDERICK..... ...:......................_...._....... 8 Mining and metallurgy ....................................^...... 11 First geological survey of the district ................................... Modifications............................. 32 Future of the district.................................................preliminary report on a "Resurvey of the Cripple Creek district of Colorado," by Messrs. Waldemar Lindgren and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
onthe Genesis of Au-TeDeposits at CrippleCreek,Colorado KAREND. KELLEY, • U.S.Geological Survey, DenverFederalCenter...Denver,Colorado 80225 SAMUEL B. ROMBERGER, Department of Geology andGeological Engineering, Colorado School...School of Mines,Golden, Colorado 80401 DAVID W. BEATY, Chevron Petroleum Technology Company, P.O.Box446...Stop913,Denver,Colorado 80225 HOLLYj. STEIN, Department of EarthResources, Colorado StateUniversity...StateUniversity, FortCollins, Colorado 80523 AND TOMMY B. THOMPSON Department of Geological Sciences, University of
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
Report (issue)
which the potassium occurs .hi the mineral muscovite, the muscovite will tend to collect in the finer material...CONTEIBUTIONS TO ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 1915, PAKT I. For each district aro given the amount of ore available and the...publication from which they were taken. BINGHAM DISTRICT, UTAH. B, C, D, Mineralized monzonite porphyry...J. M. Bout-well from British tunnel, Last Chance mine, and described in Professional Paper 38, page 178...orthoclase, muscovite, rutile, and quartz. F, Light ore; contains quartz, orthoclase, muscovite, rutile,
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the Front Range Colorado By T. S. LO\'ERING and E. N. GODDARD GEOLOGICAL...cooperation with the Colorado State Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund ~ oopr is...__________________________________________ _ 1 Summary of mining districts---.---------------------Introduction...hornblende gneiss ____________ _ Quartzite at Coal Creek ________________ _ Igneous rocks _____________________________...Quartz diorite and associated hornblendite_ Boulder Creek granite _________________ _ Pikes Peak granite
Report (issue)
BULLETIN 71 Mineral Resources of Taos County, New Mexico by JOHN H. SCHILLING Description of mineral...INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING 8c TECHNOLOGY................................... 11 HISTORY OF MINING .................................................Primero and Canada Pinabete............. Cabresto Creek ................................................................. 34 Prospects south of Cabresto Creek, opposite the Hornet prospect .................
Report (issue)
deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent... Pyrrhotite appears to be been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills...(Malcolm, 1912), galena was widely considered by mine operators to be correlated with better gold grades...was described in a carbonate quartz veinlet in one mine in the Mother Lode system (Knopf, 1929). Method
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).
Book (volume)
...........................................59 Colorado ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ....................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits (Central zone, Galore Creek—Micko et al., 2014; Southwest zone, Galore Creek—Byrne and Tosdal, 2014;...comprehensive overview of mineralization in the Lorraine district (Devine et al., 2014). Four contributions document...research collaboration between CODES and Newcrest Mining Ltd. (Harris et al., 2014), and the University...t contained Au and 7 Mt contained Cu; Newcrest Mining Ltd., 2013). Some alkalic porphyry deposits also...the Quesnel and Stikine Terrane, including Galore Creek, Lorraine, Mount Milligan, Mount Polley, and Copper
Report (issue)
General Geology of Central Cochise County By JAMES GILLULY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER ...diorite___________________ Albite granite west of Ajax Hill, Tombstone.... Minor granitic mass north of...Canyons.____________________________ Granite in Ash Creek Ridge._____________ Intrusive rocks younger than...Prompter fault-.__-__-_________ Ajax Hill horst.______________ Ajax Hill fault.______________ Horquilla...Area east of Bronco Hill_____________ Area west of Ajax Hill horst _________ Interpretation of structural
Journal (issue)
KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com... Gressman tom.gressman@minrec.org The Tintic District: Juab and Utah Counties, Utah...................COVER: CLINOCLASE, 3.9 cm, from the Mammoth mine, Tintic District, Utah. Rock Currier collection; Jeff Scovil...sample of a pascoite group mineral at a mine in Grand County, Utah. Died, Alex Earl, 26 Jayson Alexander...over the American West. A trip to the Blue Bell mine near Baker, California, in 2016 was particularly
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...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...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...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Report (issue)
Bldg., 2600 corridor, 18th and CSts.,NW. DENVER, Colorado-Federal Bldg., Rm. 169,1961 Stout St. LOS ANGELES...ROLLA, Missouri-1400 Independence Rd. DENVER, Colorado-Map Distribution, Bldg. 810, Federal Center FAIRBANKS...Replacement Deposits Part II Gold in the Tintic Mining District, Utah By HALT. MORRIS Gold Deposits in the...Bird Mining Districts, San Juan Mountains, Colorado By FREDERICKS. FISHER Gold in the Alma Mining District...District, Colorado By DANIEL R. SHAWE Precious Metals in the Leadville Mining District, Colorado By TOMMY
Report (volume)
............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Book
productive and barren terrain. Part III: Local and Mine Scale Exploration — geochemical responses around...AND COMMODITY SELECTION OTHER OPTIONS purchase of mine, prospect, etc. acquisition of regional scale geological...EXPLORATION SELECTION OF REGION SELECTION OF DISTRICT o o o t> o o [ 1 reconnaissance exploration...of magnitude: region: greater than 5000 km2 ; district: 500-5000 km 2 ; area: 5—50 km 2 ; target: less...using existing knowledge. For example, in a known mining area a particular lithological structural unit
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, and from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah I ANDREW...Cureton Corporation, P.O. Box 85445, Tucson, Arizona, USA. 85754-5445 AND MARTIN C. JENSEN Mackay School of...of Mines, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA. 89557-0047 Abstract Mcalpineite, ideally CuaTeO6...McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.A. Associated nonmetallic phases are muscovite (mariposite)...been identified at the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah, U.S.A., where it occurs as interstitial
Report (volume)
Geological Society of CIM as VOLUME 46 by the OF MINING, METALLURGY SPECIAL CANADIAN INSTITUTE NORTHWEST...PETROLEUM COPYRIGHT © 1995 BY CANADIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING, METALLURGY AND PETROLEUM Suite 1210, 3400 de Maisonneuve...and 1970s were decades of mineral exploration and mine development unprecedented in the northwestern Cordillera...the world. The modern era of copper-molybdenum mining in British Columbia dawned in 1954 when Bethlehem...the 30 years since the opening of the Bethlehem mine in late 1962, porphyry mines in British Columbia
Report (issue)
Photo on title page: Lake Fork valley from Frazer mine, Twining Fairview Mountain at right NEW MEXICO...Director A Division of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology Stirling A. Colgate, President ...110 RIO HONDO DISTRICT 110 Geology, mineralization, production 111 RED RIVER DISTRICT 111 General geology...Questa mine 119 ELIZABETHTOWN-BALDY DISTRICT 120 Hematite Creek district 121 West Moreno district 121 Elizabethtown-Baldy...Mexico and Colorado 5—Modal analyses of Tertiary granites 6—Chemical analyses of Questa mine stock 7—Correlation
 
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