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Proustite from
Golden Fleece Mine, Lake City, Lake City Mining District, Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Proustite
Formula:Ag3AsS3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Proustite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Golden Fleece Mine, Lake City, Lake City Mining District, Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:305117
Long-form Identifier:1:3:305117:7
GUID (UUID V4):8e73da47-edf4-479f-9c89-9957ee09d2bb
Nearest other occurrences of Proustite
24.6km (15.3 miles) Ben Butler Occurrence, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
25.5km (15.9 miles) Red Cloud, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
26.5km (16.5 miles) Ridgway Mine, Galena Mountain, Howardsville, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
29.1km (18.1 miles) Buffalo Boy Mine, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
30.5km (19.0 miles) Equity Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
34.6km (21.5 miles) Bulldog Mountain Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
34.9km (21.7 miles) Robinson Mine, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
35.3km (21.9 miles) Yankee Girl Mine, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
36.1km (22.4 miles) Red Mountain, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
38.6km (24.0 miles) Zuni Mine, Anvil Mountain, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
References
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Report (volume)
BULLETIN 4=78 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS NEAR LAKE CITY, COLORADO BY JOHN DUER IRVING AND HOWLAND BANCROFT........................................ Official mining districts.............................................. Hinsdale volcanic series........................................... Lake City district............................................ ^......... Hinsdale volcanic series......................................................... Ore deposits of Lake City district....................................... The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MultistageVein Ores of the Lake City District, Western San Juan Mountains,Colorado John,• F. SL^CK U.S. Geological...Polymetallic vein ores of the Lake City district, in the western San Juan Mountains, Colorado,have producedapproximately$12...northeast,and east sides of the 22.5-m.v.-old Lake City caldera. The veins,typically0.5 to 1.5 m wide...fractures and faults outside the ring fault of the Lake City caldera and within the moat area of the older...fracturesand faultsexclusivelyon the north side of the Lake City caldera, witere vein minerals include' pyrite'
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
[Northeastern University] at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers...species, and the two most familiar ruby silvers, proustite and pyrargyrite, have been covered previously...have been available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping...this year’s Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, a Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...of the more interesting Colorado occurrences include mines of Clear Creek County, particularly in the Georgetown
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
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For August, 1935 __ __ ,,. PAe& The Boulder, Colorado, Tungsten Area. By Ronald L. Ives ........ 113............................. 12 3 Lake City Mining District, Colorado. By David Seaman ........... 124...The Boulder, Colorado, Tungsten Area By RONALD L. IVES Since the early days of placer mining mation is pre-Cambrian...pre-Cambrian, with three, in Colorado, those who panned the and possibly four mineralizations, the creeks...remainder FeWO, .... Ferberite hlgh country of Boulder County, Color20-80 % Mn WO., ado, near the town of Nederland
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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)
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
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COVER Volume 44, Number 04 April 2014 FEATURES Lake Superior agates are a large part of the displays...Agate and Geological Interpretive Center in Moose Lake. This beautifully banded specimen from a Minnesota...Minnesota Minerals and Agates............ 12 A Moose Lake museum highlights rare rocks by Bill Vossler Birthstones...GEM & MINERAL SHOW - SPRING Holiday Inn - Orange County Airport, 2726 S. Grand Ave., SANTA ANA, CA 92705...Show Hours: Fri. & Sat. 10 - 6 • Sun. 10 - 5 Colorado Topaz Photo by Jeff Scovil© 2014 West Coast
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Eureka and Adjoining Districts San Juan Mountains, Colorado By WILBUR S. BURBANK and ROBERT G. LUEDKE GEOLOGICAL... 535 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Mining Industrial Development Board A study of...-- __ ----- _--Exploration and mining ____________________________ _ Lake Emma-Ross Basin area ____________________...Juan, San Miguel, and Hinsdale Counties. 2. Geologic map of the Eureka district and adjoining areas. 3...sections of the Eureka district and adjoining areas, San Juan, Ouray, and Hinsdale Counties, and explanation
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Wilderness Study Area, western San Juan Mountains, Colorado* by Ken Hon, Dana J. Bove, and V. J. S. Grauch...S. Geological Survey, Federal Center, Denver, Colorado, 80225 STUDIES RELATED TO WILDERNESS Bureau...Wilderness Study Area (CO-030-217), Ouray and Hinsdale Counties, Colorado. SUMMARY The western San Juan Mountains...volcanic field that covered much of south-central Colorado during Oligocene and Miocene time. The earliest...coalesced and nested calderas that extends from Lake City to Silverton. The main stage of caldera-forming
Report (issue)
FlatsSilverton Planning Units, San Juan Volcanic Province, Colorado by E. F. Weiland, J. W. Lindemann, R. A. Connors...FLATS-SILVERTON PLANNING UNITS SAN JUAN VOLCANIC PROVINCE, COLORADO Prepared for: United States Bureau of Land Management...Research Inc. 1626 Cole Blvd., Suite 120 Golden, Colorado 80401 September 26, 1980 BARRINGER RESEARCH...American Flats-Silverton Planning Units in southwest Colorado (fig. 1). Barringer Research Incorporated conducted...San Juan Mountains, between Silverton and Lake City, Colorado (fig. 1). The study was done to further assess
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Thomssen Mineral Exploration Consultants Carson City, NV photography: Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Behnke Famous mineral localities: the Corrego Frio mine and vicinity, Minas Gerais, Brazil ...............Person-other—Other persons such as miners, field assistants, mine managers, etc. Place —Used when a mineral is named...Czechoslovakia France Germany Japan Italy Mexico Namibia USSR USA Zaire Total Total number of species during 5-year
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,of commerci,alimportance. MINE WATERS. A studyof the 'behaviorof mine watersis essentialin an in-... 420. $6Rickard, T. A., "The Enterprise Mine, Rico, Colorado," Trans. A•n. Inst. Min. Eng., vol. 26,...have no effect comparableto ferrous sulphate. Since mine waters in the deeperzonesbecomealkaline, it is pertinent...hundredsof feet belowthe water level as at Aspen, Colorado. •lrgentite. Argentire and the sulphosalts, not...relatively insoluble,the presenceof carbonatesin mine waters may tend to delay the formation of secondary
Report (issue)
The Triangle of Colorado Mountains of Minerals Contributors David W. Bunk, Robert B. Cook, Don Earnest... Contents PAGE4 PAGE 10 4 The San Juan Triangle of Colorado Ho for the San Juans! by Duane A. Smith, Mark...and Karen A. Vendl L ocated in southwestern Colorado and covering over 31,000 square kilometers, the...zinc, tungsten, and copper. In 1896 world-renowned mining engineer Thomas ''T.A." Rickard called the San...Colorado's four great mining regions along with Leadville, Cripple Creek, and Central City (Smith, 1996). The
Report (volume)
REPORT ECONOMIC GEOLOGT 7 SILVERTON QUADRANGLE, COLORADO FREDERICK RANSOME WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING.................../................:. Methods of mining and treatment of ores....-....--. ...... ........................ ...... ....... Lodes of Silver Lake Basin... ..................... ...................Silver Lake mine..... . -.-.-..--....-.---..-.-. ....................... 145 145 145 149 Iowa mine ......Royal Tiger mine......................... 159 ......--.....-....-.-....-. Buckeye mine ...........
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of COLORADO ED RAINES Geology Museum Colorado School of Mines 1310 Maple Street Golden, Colorado 80401...noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...photographer unknown. B etween 1868 and 1922, Colorado produced almost 260 million pounds of copper....from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).... During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with
Report (volume)
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...A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...Indianapolis. Iowa.............. Prof. George F. Kay, Iowa City. Kansas............Prof. Erasmus Haworth, University
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 (issue)
Richard W. Thomssen Mineral Expl. Consultants Carson City, NV ( * O Vice President Mary Lynn Michela Secretary-...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...W. Thomssen L Book sales P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, NV 89702 702-883-2598 Special second class postage...SPECIMENS from the collection of the Geology Museum, Colorado School of Mines. See page 242 for a full description... All rights reserved. notes fromthej EDITOR COLORADO-III Here we are with our third special issue devoted
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a great many legends, such as Jason and the Golden Fleece, Gaulish gold for Caesar, the gold of the Rhine...before our very eyes, as a result of deposits in sea, lake and river water, often under the influence of biological...varied shapes, particularly the hexagonal prisms (proustite, dioptase). Each crystal system has a corresponding...Marcasite Gold Native Gold Silver Native Silver Proustite Arsenic Orpiment - Realgar . . Antimony - Mercury...lepidolite, kl/nzite, colored tourmalines, etc. Golden beryl (yellow-brown) derives its colorfrom iron
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 ....................................
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
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...........................................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
Journal (issue)
Marvin Hanner Additions to the Ore Mineralogy of Colorado.................................................by Donald Grybeck Crystallized Minerals of the Colorado Mineral Belt....................................had achieved considerable fame, and the right to mine diopside was obtained that year by G eorge L. English...thereafter. In 1971 both the land and the right to mine diopside were purchased by the present owners, Schuyler...Alveum, R obert Dow, and G eorge Robinson. T he mine is now being worked interm ittently each year for
 
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