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Malachite from
Big Creek Mine, Encampment Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Big Creek Mine, Encampment Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1573994
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1573994:8
GUID (UUID V4):bb6efe25-fce2-4382-8151-2ef0b8f4bcb5
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Big Creek Mine, Big Creek pegmatite District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
17.1km (10.6 miles) Golden Key, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
21.3km (13.2 miles) Douglas Mine (Morning Star claims 1868 & 1871; Douglas Gold and Copper Company), Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
21.6km (13.4 miles) Blanche mine, New Rambler Mining District, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
22.0km (13.6 miles) New Rambler mine (Rambler Mine; Holmes Mine; Electrolytic Mine; Great Rambler Mine), New Rambler Mining District, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
22.0km (13.7 miles) Badger Occurrence, Northgate Mining District, Jackson County, Colorado, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Broadway Mine, Encampment Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
22.6km (14.1 miles) Independence Mine (Mammoth Mine), Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
23.1km (14.3 miles) Lake Creek Mine, Keystone Mining District - Douglas Creek Mining District, Medicine Bow Mountains, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
23.4km (14.6 miles) Cascade Mine, Encampment Mining District, Carbon County, Wyoming, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
00:52 01 June 2016 Wyoming Mineral Locality Index Figure 1. Index map of Wyoming counties, with exposures...exposures of Precambrian and volcanic rocks. 1 he Wyoming mineral locality index is designed to provide mineral...interesting mineral occurrences in the state of Wyoming. Five publications were used extensively in compiling...view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...1 inch equals 4 miles) of the entire state of Wyoming in book form. The Wwming Atlas and Gazetteer can
Report (issue)
THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING Gary B. Glass, Executive Director and State Geologist ADVISORY BOARD...Governor Terry P. Roark,President, University of Wyoming Donald B. Basko, Oil and Gas Supervisor Appointed...Cheyenne, Wyoming. This and other publications available from: The Geological Survey of Wyoming P.O. Box...University Station LaIanlle, Wyoming 82071 (307) 766·2286 Front Cover - Wyoming gold. Gold buttons in the...recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button
Report (issue)
WYOMING STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Ronald C. Surdam, State Geologist GUIDE TO PROSPECTING AND ROCK HUNTING...HUNTING IN WYOMING by W. Dan Hausel Information Pamphlet 11 LARAMIE, WYOMING 2004 WYOMING STATE GEOLOGICAL...Freudenthal, Governor Randi S. Martinsen, University of Wyoming Don J. Likwartz, Oil and Gas Supervisor Ronald...Assistant This and other publications available from: Wyoming State Geological Survey P.O. Box 1347 Laramie,...use this publication should contact the Editor, Wyoming State Geological Survey at (307) 766-2286. TTY
Report (volume)
resources-Colorado--Jackson County. 2. Mines and mineral resources-Colorado-Routt County. 3. Geology-Colorado--Jackson...Geology-Colorado--Jackson County. 4. GeologyColorado--Routt County. I. Patten, Lowell L. II. Daniels, Jeffrey J. III...by George L. Snyder ....................... . (B) Mine appraisal, by Lowell L. Patten ...................Range . . . . . . 3. Photograph of Gilpin Lake to Big Agnes Mountain . . . . . 107-109. Maps showing: 107...Walden, Colorado, immediately south of the Colorado-Wyoming State line. Almost all of this wilderness area
Report (volume)
....................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................. Wyoming..................................................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
Report (volume)
the State lists begin with Alabama and end with Wyoming. Under each State the minerals found there are...it helpful to refer to 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 of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Wisconsin.........Prof. W. 0. Hotchkiss, Madison. Wyoming.........Mr. C. E. Jamison, Cheyenne. Those members
Report (issue)
By WALTER HARVEY WEED. INTRODUCTION. Copper mining in the United States has had a marvelously rapid...greatest individual increase that of the Copper Queen mine at Bisbee, Ariz. The following table shows the production...550,000 700, 000 10,000 814,035,719 "Salt Lake Mining Review, Annual Review number, January, 1906. The...Stevens, Horace J., Mining World, Jan. 27, 1905; and information furnished the writer by mine owners and managers...is shown in PI. III. The Butte, Mont., copper district is the greatest silver-producing camp of the entire
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Report (issue)
National Forest RARE II and Wilderness lands in Wyoming Compiled by Myra K. Vaag 1 and Kristine K. Wise......................................... Hideout Creek (2-025)................................................................................... Horse Creek Mesa (2-027).............................................................................. Piney Creek (2-029)................................................. Rock Creek (2-032)................................................ Grommund Creek (2-033)....
Journal (issue)
WASHINGTON November 2, 2013 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Clark County P. U. D. Building 1200 Fort Vancouver Way Vancouver...to see and enjoy. 5:00 pm Dinner will be at the County Buffet in Vancouver. Please join us if you can...ultra-thin hairs that were found at Starvation Creek to the short, rather chunky one that have come from...“Filiform ilmenite crystals from Lemolo Lake, Douglas County, Oregon”, N. Jb. Miner. Abh. 187/1, 97-99 (2010)...on pg 227, in Rare Sulfosalts from the Van Silver Mine, British Columbia.; Mineralogical Record, vol 31
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...thickness; mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted...south prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles
Book (edition)
Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk...Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite,...scheelite, vanadinite, wulfenite Corral Canyon District Various mines and prospects: anatase, rutile,...Quartz, 14.2 cm across, Newbeny Mountains,Clark County. Steve Scott specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...Clinotyrolite spray, 3.4 mm across, Lovelock mine, Churchill County. Figure 2 (bottom). Wulfenite, 1.1 mm high
Report (volume)
MINES With a section on the THUNDER MOUNTAIN DISTRICT By B. F. LEONARD, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, and...______________________ Salmon River district ____________________________ Chamberlain district _____________________________..._______ Edwardsburg district _____________________________ Ramey Ridge district ____________________________...________ Big Creek district ______________________________ Middle Fork district _____________________________..._______ Monumental Creek district _________________________ Marble Creek district ____________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Postcard view of the Waukon iron mine, Allamakee County, cia. 1912. John Taylor collection. ARTHUR...Unfortunately. with today’s environmental laws and mine and quarry regulations. the prolific collecting...Iowa Geological Survey. Localities by County Allamakee County Lansing, Lansing lead mines = Captain...goethite, hematite (Garvin 1998). Waukon, Mineral Creek = Clem Byrnes farm and New Galena, 9 mi. N of Waukon...W 1/4 sec. 13, T. 99 N., R. 6 W.; along Mineral Creek valley; breccia zones and solution vugs in Ordovician-age
Report (issue)
published information, field investigations, and mining company data. 2 ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS REPORT...resources Mining districts Gibbonsville Mining District Indian Creek Mining District Mineral Hill Mining District...Mackinaw Mining District Blackbird Mining District Wilson Creek Mining District Yellowjacket Mining District...Range Mining District Eureka Mining District Carmen Creek Mining District Eldorado Mining District Pratt...Pratt Creek Mining District McDevitt Mining District Junction Mining District Texas Mining District Spring
Journal (issue)
Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations...Fig. 3 steep slopes along the coulees of Meeting Creek and the Battle River in the vicinity of Donalda...Museum, but they have been found in the Meeting Creek coulee. A common geological horizon, the Upper Cretaceous...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...approximate triangle formed between Donalda, Meeting Creek and Rosalind. The occurrence of quartz crystals
Book (volume)
Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N
Book
Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Appendixes 615 I Gemstone and Mineral Essentials...purely ornamental objets d'art out of turquoise, malachite, lapis lazuli, rock crystal, onyx, and agate,...of commercial mining is also long, beginning with the Kenya opal mines of 4000 B.C. Mining began with gemstones...gemstones, instead of metallic ores, and mining for turquoise was enormously extended throughout the...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book
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...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
Report (volume)
BUIJLETIN 528 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS 1 OF LEMHI COUNTY, IDAHO BY JOSEPH B. UMPLEBY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and animal life....................----.-----.....Mining......................................................................... 74 Mineralogy of Lemhi County ores....................................... 74...... Future of mining in Lemhi County.......................................... Mining districts of Lemhi...Lemhi County.......................................... Scheme of treatment...........................
Report (issue)
Reconnaissance Geology of Western Mineral County Montana By ROBERT E. WALLACE and JOHN W. HOSTERMAN ...geologic structure and mineralogy of western Mineral County, Mont., as determined by a 'series of traverses...similar to those of the rich Coeur d'Alene mining district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,...___-_-______________Tamarack Creek fault_______------__________.____________ Silver Creek fault_____.__-___._______________...fault____.___-_-_---______-_-__-_______-___ Placer Creek fault-------_------_---_--____-_-_-______---_The
 
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