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Sphalerite from
Mogul Mine, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Galena2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Galena at this locality.
Chalcopyrite2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Chalcopyrite at this locality.
Quartz2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Pyrite2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mogul Mine, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1428377
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1428377:0
GUID (UUID V4):8cd19e65-8008-4cbb-a16a-eaf6fa2c4b4b
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.9km (0.6 miles) Ross Basin (Red Rogers; Bonanza; Canandaiqua; Queen Anne; Columbia; Seven Thirty), Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Eagle Mountain Occurrence, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
0.9km (0.6 miles) Pride of Bonita, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Mountain Queen Mine, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Bonanza, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Sunnyside Mine group, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Ben Franklin Mine, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
2.5km (1.5 miles) Gladstone Mine, Gladstone, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) Alaska Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Mastodon Mine, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SUNNYSIDE MINE EUREKA MINING DISTRICT SAN JUAN COUNTY, COLORADO TOM ROSEMEYER Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427...81427 The Sunnyside mine is Colorado's largest underground gold producer and to date has produced over $150...Silverton, is situated in the rugged San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Nestled in a beautiful alpine...mountain valley at an elevation of 12,240 feet, the mine was originally located on the shores of the now-drained...early 1900s, at the height of mining activity, the sprawling Sunnyside mine complex was a self-contained
Book
193-256 137-208 129-192 209-264 193-256 [ [ COLORADO-Ill] 177-256 121-184 89-168 1-120 1-88 [ ...177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400 COLORADO-II] 321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400...69-132 65-128 1-64 11 / 1980 20 I 1989 [ COLORADO-I] [ 289-352 385-448 [ AUSTRALlA] 353-504...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN
Report (issue)
Ore Deposits of the Eureka and Adjoining Districts San Juan Mountains, Colorado By WILBUR S. BURBANK...with the Colorado State Mining Industrial Development Board A study of part of the western San Juan Mountains...Tertiary volcanic rocks_- ___ - ___________________ _ San Juan Formation ________________ -------Silverton Volcanic...___________________ _ Picayune Formation _______ ------ ______ _ Eureka Tuff ___________________________ _ Burns Formation...___________________ _ Cauldron ring-fault belt ________________ _ Eureka graben ________________________ _ Fault systems
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino.......... 87 by T. Moore T he S ilv e r m in es district, C o u n ty Tipperary, I r e l a n d ...........microthin coating of bomite, 5.7 cm, from the Flam­ beau mine, Ladysmith, Wisconsin. William Larson collection;...Weardale fluorite miniature for $140, a beautiful 79 mine aurichalcite (2.75 inches) for $140, a Zambian libethenite...subject of the 1999 Mineral Symposium. Mexico has a mining specimen collecting history dating back nearly
Report (issue)
1 COUNTY REPORT HYSICAL >ci 8 PHYSICAL •CI. .Lib. IES TN 24 C3 1ERAL RESOURCES OF A34 1 IPINE...IPINE COUNTY, CA! IA -*ci?2®^?^a£~Vfes^A^Gw^i I ver Mou nta i nV-*- Digitized by the Internet...ALPINE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA by WILLIAM B.CLARK With sections on the Zaca gold-silver mine and the...the Leviathan COUNTY REPORT sulfur mine by James R. Evans 8 1977 CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND...2 i DOCS. -US Frontispiece. Typical Alpine County scenery. View looking southeast across Twin Lakes
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)
Geology Vol. 72, 1977, pp. 1285-1320 Sunnyside Mine,EurekaMiningDistrict,SanJuanCounty, Colorado'Geochemistry...The Sunnysidemine, in the Eureka mining district, San Juan County, Colorado, produces700 tons/day of ...northernsideof the Eureka graben,whichformedduring resurgent doming of the San Juan-Uncompahgrecalderasabout...quartz-sulfideores (30%); (III) massivegalena-sphalerite-chalcopyrite-bornite-hema- rite ores(40%); (IV)...valuesof inclusionfluids from quartz, fluorite, sphalerite,and galena range from --96 to --135 per mil during
Report (issue)
91 Geology and Mineral Resources of Rio Arriba County, New Mexico by E D W A R D C . B I N G L E R 1968...NEWMEXICOINSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY............ Creasus mine ........................................ 77 Red Jacket mine ....................Geologic history of the Hopewell district Clara D., Mary E . Steele. Grand Mogul. Little Casino. and Nomepatented... Production of sand and gravel from Rio Arriba County . . 4. Features of sand and gravel sources ..
Report (issue)
SierritaEsperanza copper-molybdenum deposit, Pima County, Arizona, in Jenney, J. P., and Hauck, H. R., eds... 1939, Geology of the Lead Mountain area, Pima County, Arizona [M.S. thesis]: Tucson, University of Arizona..., 1920, The southern section of the Amole mining district: Arizona Bureau of Mines Bulletin 106, p. 19-25...Report on the Loma Prieta mine (copper and molybdenum), Copper Basin, Yavapai County, Arizona: U.S. Geological...mineralization, Bagdad, Arizona: American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical,and Petroleum Engineers Transactions
Report (issue)
Bldg., 2600 corridor, 18th and CSts.,NW. DENVER, Colorado-Federal Bldg., Rm. 169,1961 Stout St. LOS ANGELES...Utah-Federal Bldg., Rm. 8105,125 South State St. SAN FRANCISCO, California-Customhouse, Rm. 504.555 Battery...ROLLA, Missouri-1400 Independence Rd. DENVER, Colorado-Map Distribution, Bldg. 810, Federal Center FAIRBANKS...Replacement Deposits Part I Bald Mountain Gold Mining Region, Northern Black Hills, South Dakota By JAMES...Park City Mining District, Utah By CALVIN S. B ROM FIELD Gold in the Eureka Mining District, Nevada By
Report (issue)
COLORADO STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BOULDER R. D. GEORGE, State Geologist BULLETIN 9 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS...THE BONANZA DISTRICT SAGUACHE COUNTY COLORADO By HORACE B. PATTON 1915 DENVER,COLORADO EAMES BROTHERS...DOI: https://doi.org/10.58783/cgs.b09.vtso7767 Colorado State Geological Survey. Bulletin No. 9, Plate...rnor of Colorado LIVINGSTON FARRAND ______________________ President University of Colorado HowARD C...TRANS:\IITTAL ST.I.TE GEOLOGICAL SuRVEY, UNIVERSITY OF CoLORADO, December 2, 1916. Governor George A. Carlson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
recovered from an interesting array of important mining districts; it is currently available from Mexico...However, the development of numerous gold and silver mining districts in the westem states during the latter...in Colorado mining districts. Sparse though good crystals were found in the early years of mining in...in the Jo Reynolds mine and in smaller though well-formed crystals in the siliceous vein exploited in the...the Nabob mine at Lawson, Clear Creek County. Bastin (1923) reported crystals of pyrargyrite, polybasite
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...enter must be obtained to prevent trespass. Old mine workings are dangerous and entering underground
Journal (issue)
Grice Famous mineral localities: the Mashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire .................................... J. Gauthier & V. T. King The Fat Jack mine, Yavapai County, Arizona .................................Scovill & L. Wagner, Jr. The Monitor-Mogul mining district, Alpine County, California ......................malachite on chrysocolla, from the M ashamba West mine, Shaba, Zaire. Sorbonne collection, Paris: photo...fo r Historic Preservation o f the Sterling Hill Mine, provides the following news on the ongoing efforts
Report (issue)
INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...23 23 24 24 25 26 26 26 26 26 27 28 28 29 Page MINING DISTRICTS ....................................................................... 30 Bernalillo County ............................................................................ 30 Tijeras Canyon District .................................................................................... 30 Catron County ..............................................
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Locatable Mineral Reports for Colorado, South Dakota, and Wyoming provided to the U.S.............................................. 1 COLORADO ..................................................... . . ............ 10 Pike National Forest County of El Paso (Black Forest) Land Exchange Offer ...Exchange Offer ........................... 147 San Juan and Uncompahgre National Forests Jack B. Kelley...Exchange Offer ................... 221 FIGURES COLORADO Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests Pawnee
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production of zinc is enormous...a single zinc mineral, sphalerite. Fortunately for the collector, sphalerite tends to form well-crystallized...Although Colorado boasts an unusually large number of good sphalerite occurrences, the Eagle mine at Gilman...the source of a correspondingly large number of sphalerite specimens. Inasmuch as the minerals of the now-closed...issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice (figs. 1 and 2 ) . Sphalerite is notable for its dodecahedral cleavage, the
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Pasto Bueno, are vein types; others, suchas Mogul, the Kuroko deposits,and Pine Point, are stratiformtypes...rangeof positive•84Svalues. Still others, such as Mogul and Echo Bay, have a very wide range of •S values...apparentlysimilar typesof deposits,such as the stratiform Mogul and Pine Point deposits, havegreatlydifferentsulfurisotopevalues...[--- LATESTAOE.. PAS•'OBUENO PANASQUEIRA DARWIN MOGUL [] BLUEBELL BLACK -- HILLS CORTEZ KUROKO PINE...Darwin, southern California (Rye et al., 1974b): Mogul, Ireland (Greig et al., 1971); Bluebell, British
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Locatable Mineral Reports for Colorado, South Dakota, and Wyoming provided to the U.S.............................................. 1 COLORADO .................................................................. 27 San Isabel and White River National Forests Lake County Land Exchange Offer (Iocmin40)...(Iocmin40) ......................... 36 San Juan National Forest Lindner Ranches Land Exchange Offer (Iocmin46.......... 47 White River National Forest Dillon District Land Exchange Joint Venture (Iocmin38) ......
Report (issue)
on display in the Division of Mines and Geology San Francisco's Ferry Building. Melted down as gold,...an overall guide been written on gold and gold mining of publications have no single report or to...longer district Hulin, respectively. the principal features of each gold-bearing district are described...publications were written on various phases of gold mining. The reports of John Trosk, the first State Geologist...Commissioner of Mineral prepared reports of mine production and gold-mining Bureau, and later now the California
Journal (issue)
EUREKA! Self-Collected Minerals A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record, May-June 2022 EUREKA! U...Supplement to the Mineralogical Record, May- June 2022 EUREKA! Self-Collected Minerals A Supplement to The Mineralogical...on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim, Colorado. Collected by the Dorris family; Tom Spann photo...Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer
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)
mineral derived from the supergene oxidation of sphalerite. It is particularly common in the oxide zones... aragonite, dolomite, anglesite, galena, and sphalerite have been reported. Quartz,goethite, pyrolusite...Bozion 1962) and as an alteration product in sphalerite-bearing pegmatites. Only those localities known...depth. These include the Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the Buckwheat pit, Franklin, New...Chester County, the Ueberroth mine near Bethlehem, and the zinc mines at Friedensville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania;
Report (issue)
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 ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
 
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