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Alunite from
Zuni Mine, Anvil Mountain, San Juan County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Alunite
Formula:KAl3(SO4)2(OH)6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Alunite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Zuni Mine, Anvil Mountain, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:291358
Long-form Identifier:1:3:291358:2
GUID (UUID V4):a63e5c14-6220-4875-8acb-6d1b6a698da1
Nearest other occurrences of Alunite
7.6km (4.7 miles) National Belle Mine, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Silver Ledge, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
8.4km (5.2 miles) Genesee Mine (Genesee-Vanderbilt Mine), Ouray County, Colorado, USA
21.8km (13.5 miles) Beartown Mining District (Bear Creek Mining District), San Juan County, Colorado, USA
32.8km (20.4 miles) Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Montezuma County, Colorado, USA
36.0km (22.4 miles) Red Mountain Alunite Deposit, Lake City Mining District, Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
36.7km (22.8 miles) Calico Peak Alunite Deposit, Horse Creek, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
41.6km (25.9 miles) Golden Wonder Mine, Lake City Mining District, Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
42.8km (26.6 miles) Slumgullion Earthflow (Slumgullion mud flow), Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
67.2km (41.8 miles) Bulldog Mountain Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The Zuni Mine Downloaded by [North Carolina State University] at 12:59 07 January 2015 SAN JUAN COUNTY...COUNTY, COLORADO 94 ROCKS & MINERALS WILLIAM P. MOATS 8409 Fairmont Drive NE Albuquerque, New Mexico...87120 ARNOLD G. HAMPSON P. 0. Box 1379 Dolores, Colorado 81323 PAUL F. HLAVA M.S. 0342, P.O. BOX 5800...Mexico 87185 he Zuni mine is located about 3 miles northwest of Silverton in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern...southwestern Colorado and is the type locality for zunyite and guitermanite (now discredited). Both of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PLS. SEPTEMBER 1968 URANIUM EMPLACEMENT IN THE COLORADO PLATEAU (Vice-Presidential Address, Section E...Four hypotheses of uranium emplacement on the Colorado Plateau justify consideration: (1) the hydrothermal...2015 1076 P. F. KERR—URANIUM EMPLACEMENT IN COLORADO PLATEAU Available criteria Absolute-age data...alteration Carbonate emplacement Silicification Alunite Mineral relationships General review Urano-organic...of the Colorado Plateau 3. Uranium mineralization and alteration accompanying faulting 4. Mine adit in
Map
recognized a Guadalupe Mountains district in Otero County, but there is no evidence of mineral deposits in...district is in McLemore and Chenoweth (1989) and by mine in McLemore (1983a). This report accompanies the...district identification numbers, prefixed by DIS, and mine identification numbers, prefixed by NM, are from...mining districts. R ecreation in or around inactive mine sites is extremely dangerous , and can result in...de Niza, who reported of seven cities of gold at Zuni and coined the phrase, “Land of Cibola” or “Land
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 14:12 03 February 2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas...(Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite. Hell Canyon...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve:...stolzite. Wilcox district, S. of Mogollon. Lone Pine mine: emmonsite, khademite, lannonite,* mackayite, poughite...poughite, rajite,* tellurium, wilcoxite.* Sacaton mine, Blue Rock and Bit Spar prospects: fluorite. Volume
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ingmineralswith a spectrumfor zunyitefrom the Colorado-type locality.All of the absorption featuresseenin...Zunyite Kaallnite Pyrophyllite Dickite Sericite Alunite f Gibbsite I I0ø'/o Reflectance Diaspore i...tancespectrafor type-localityzunyite(Zuni mine, SanJuan County,Colo.) comparedwith otherAl(OH)-bearingminerals...wereableto identifyassemblages dominated by illite, alunite,andcalciteonthebasisof absorption features in the...Vein material from the type locality in San Juan County, Colorado (Hillebrand, 1885), and from the East
Report (issue)
Occurrence of Uranium and Vanadium Minerals From the Colorado Plateaus GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1009-B...OCCURRENCE OF URANIUM AND VANADIUM MINERALS FROM THE COLORADO PLATEAUS By A. D. WEEKS and M. E. THOMPSON ABSTRACT...identification and occurrence of uranium minerals of the Colorado Plateaus, contains descriptions of the physical...mineralogic investigation of uranium ores from the Colorado Plateaus. This work is part of a program undertaken...other 13 14 URANIUM AND VANADIUM MINERALS FROM COLORADO PLATEAUS compilations: Gruner and Gardiner's
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lovering's 1941paperon the tungstenoresof BoulderCounty,Colorado(15) led to the recentemphasison hydrothermalargillic...postvolcanicprocesses. In describingthe oresof CusterCounty,Colorado,S. F. Emmons(7) in 1896described kaolincloselyassociated...variousstagesof kaolinization. In the Silverton district of Colorado,Ransome(19) in 1901 referred to kaoliniteas an...an original constituentof the ores in the Red Mountain area. The kaolinoccurredas firm compactmassesintimatelyassociated...hydrothermal alteration seemed evident. In the Zuni mine kaolinite is also associ- ated with pyrite and
Report (volume)
REPORT ECONOMIC GEOLOGT 7 SILVERTON QUADRANGLE, COLORADO FREDERICK RANSOME WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING...Whitman Cross........................... ........ San Juan volcanic area .......................... .......the volcanic area ......... ...........:..... San Juan formation . ...... ...'......--...-.............Silver Lake mine..... . -.-.-..--....-.---..-.-. ....................... 145 145 145 149 Iowa mine ........Royal Tiger mine......................... 159 ......--.....-....-.-....-. Buckeye mine ...........
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 (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...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
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
Report (issue)
LIPMAN and HARALD H. MEHNERT Crystals of Coexisting Alunite and Jarosite, Goldfield, Nevada By WILLIAM J. KEITH...and Harald H. Mehnert (C) Crystals of Coexisting Alunite and Jarosite, Goldfield, Nevada, by William J....Tuffs in Lacustrine and Alluvial Deposits in the Ray-San Manuel Area, Final and Gila Counties, Arizona, by...migmatite, U.S. highway 53, 2.6 km west of St. Louis County road 122 (Arth and Hanson, 1975, p. 332, col. 25)...near the junction of the Echo Trail and St. Louis County highway 23 (Kabustasa Lake 7Vl>-minute Quadrangle)
Report (issue)
MINERAL RESOURCES UNITED STATES POTASH COMPANY, MINE PLANT UNITED STATES POTASH COMPANY, REFINERY BULLETIN...--------------------------------- 48 Guadalupe County ----------------------------------------------...------------------------- 49 McKinley County ------------------------------------------------------------------------...-------------------------------- 63 Bernalillo County ----------------------------------------------...-------------------------- 64 Colfax County --------------------------------------------------------
Report (issue)
with the University of New Mexico, with the State Mine Inspector and with other departments of State Government...------------Tyrone PowELL STACKHOUSE, JR., Coal Mine Operator ____________________________San Antonio...Colo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colorado Cong....................... Congress Contr. ....Nat. Hist., Proc. · Colorado Museum of Natural History, Proceedings. Denver, Colorado. Colo. Sci. Soc.,... Proc. Colorado Scientific Society, Proceedings. Denver, Colorado. Denison Univ. Sci. Lab., BulL Denison
Report (issue)
publication of the petroleum Research company, Denver, colorado, eniitred "Bibriography of geol- ogy theses."...Coal Age. New York City. colo. Geol. Survey Buil.-colorado Georogical survey Builetin. Denver. colo. Min...Magazine. colo. school of Mines Quart.; Thesis-colorado school of Mines Quarterly; Thesis. Golden. colo...Thesis-colorado university studies; Thesis. Boulder. Colo.-W-y9. Ac{. lci Jour.-Colorado-Wyoming...Minerals. Peekskill, N. Y' Rocky Mountain Petrol. Rev.-Rocky Mountain Petroleum Re- view. Denver, Colo
Book (edition)
uranium-vanadium deposits on the vegetation of the Colorado Plateau. H. Cannon L. (1953) Geobotanical...prospecting for uranium on La Ventana Mesa, Sandoval County, New Mexico. .,3d ed. H. C. Dake (1953) The uranium...and J. H. Soule (1955) Uranium ynining on the Colorado Plateau. Jack DeMent and H. C. Dake (1947) Handbook...V. C. Kelley (1955a) Regional tectonics of the Colorado Plateau and relationship to the origin and distribution...currence of uranium and vanadium minerals from the Colorado Plateaus. For maps showing the location of uranium
Catalog/List
Avenue San Mateo, California 94403 U.S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla...AT AL OG HATFiaD GOUDEY 1145 \'/est 31st Avenue San Mateo, California 94403 U.S.A. COMTENTS General...postal money arder. Pr i ces c;uoi:ed are F .0. B. San fl,aceo, Cali fornia. California add applicable state...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered
Catalog/List
tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety AMIANTHUS:Steintal...ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE: French Creek, Pennsylvania, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE SMARAGDITE:Micciano...ADAMITE: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. crystals ADAMITE,variety CUPROAN:Gold Hill, Utah, USA. crystals...AFWILLITE: Crestffiore Quarry, Riverside, California, USA. massive AGRELLITE: KipawQ River, Villodieu Township...ALABANDITE:Tombstone. Arizona, USA. massive ALBERTITE(HYDROC,\RBONl: Prince Albert County. Nova Scotia, massive
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).
Report (issue)
MINERAL-RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF LUNA COUNTY, NEW MEXICO Virginia T. McLemore, Kelly Donahue, Michael...New Mexico State Land Office 1 SUMMARY Luna County, in southwestern New Mexico (Fig. 1) is not well...metals and nonmetals have been produced from the county from 1876 to 2000. Much of this production has...collecting) that are found in 16 mining districts in the county. The Cooke’s Peak district ranks 5th in lead production...dominant force in much of the state, but not in Luna County for some 30 more years. Metals were first discovered
Report (issue)
acknowledgments____-________ General geographic setting of the Colorado Plateau.__ Pre-Cambrian basement rocks._______________________...Duchesne River formation _____________________ San Juan Basin_________________________________ Animas...zones) _____________________________________ Wasatch (San Jose) formation, .(and Tiffany beds)_ Mogollon Rim...Deposits in adjoining areas_---_---_---_----__-_-_ San Juan Mountains-_________________________ Rio Grande...Parunuweap formation_______._ Southern part of the Colorado Plateau. ___________ Bidahochi formation ____
Report (volume)
-.....-..--...................._............. Alunite...----....--.--.....------.....-...._-- .--.-....Bulletin 61. COVELLITE. From the East Greyrock mine, Butte, Mont. Collected by G. W. Tower. Analysis...[BULL. 220. POLYDYMITE. A massive ore from the mine of the Canadian Copper Company, Sudbury, district...Another nickel-iron sulphide, from the Worthington mine, SauTt branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 25...STROMEYERITE. From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis
Book (edition)
(Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar
Report (issue)
W. T. Schaller, Afwillite NMNH 95237 Dutoitspan Mine, Kimber¬ ley, South Africa Dutoitspan Ammonioborite...Geological Survey, 1950) Trinity Anemousite County, California. Contributions to Mineral¬ (discredited...Vonsen, 1920) NMNH 106112 from the Hillside Mine, Yavapai County, Ari¬ L. G. Berry, 1947. Composition and...Aluminocopiapite Utah NMNH K. J. Murata, Trinity County, California M. C. Bandy, 1938. Utah. J. M. Axelrod...Aluminocopiapite NMNH 93834 Island Mountain, Mountain, from Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona (L. J. Cabri, 1976)
Report (issue)
mineral deposits of the Lost River and Brooks Mountain region, Seward Peninsula: Bull. 345, pp. 268-271... 1909. The geology and ore deposits of Copper Mountain and-Kasaan Peninsula: Prof. Paper 87, pp. 85-108...501-509, 1907. BUTLER, B. S., and GALE, H. S., Alunite, a newly discovered deposit near Marysvale,' Utah:... 230 OUR MINERAL SUPPLIES. LARSEN, E. S., Alunite in the San Cristobal quadrangle, Colo.: Bull. 530, pp...pp. 179183, 1913. LOUGHLIN, G. F., Recent alunite developments near Marysvale and Beaver, Utah: Bull
 
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