 | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado .............................M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .........................................Harris Monazite and caldoancylite from the Foote mine, North Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203...(1 inch) on antlerite crystals from the Southwest mine, Bisbee, Arizona. For more information on this recent...85745 CALL FOR PAPERS: FM COLORADO CHAPTER SYMPOSIUM, AUGUST 1988 The Colorado Chapter of the Friends of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Denver Show Figure I (above). Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals...specimen. Figure 2 (right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes;... C*O*L*O*R*A*D*O PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs...photographs by John R. Muntyan PYRITE, IRON SULFIDE, one of Nature’s most common minerals, is found in deposits...foreign localities. In the United States, fine pyrite specimens have been found at Butte, Montana; Park |  | | Journal (issue) | | COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...among the finest in the world. The best of Butte pyrite compares with the best anywhere. Handsome specimens...(rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...hole.” The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes ...World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | exceptionof the Climax depositwhere tin, tungstenand pyrite are recovered,stockworkores produceonly molybdenum...(eastern) Oregon-Idaho-(western) Montana, (4) Colorado-NewMexico, (5) Nevada-southern California,and...Questa) and in the Interior Belt of BritishColumbia(Alice (B.C. Molybdenum), EndakoandBossMountain). The geologichistory...(t.p.d.)x BritishColumbia 1967 46,000,000 Mine Alice (B. C. Molybdenum) 8,000 Company British Columbia...British Columbia,Canada (Noranda Subsidiary) Urad- Colorado 13,000,000 5,000 303,000,000 30,000 American |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | International University] at 22:16 23 December 2014 Gold mining is not romantic, it is dirty, and it is very hard...played out on a daily basis in opening the Colorado mining frontier, however, are very much the stuff...generation had seen an Colorado showing the Colorado mineral belt and the location of the mining districts discussed...1940; Elliot West 1997, verbal com.). scope of this mining economy. There simply was no other ecoThe initial...of 1858 were nomic force to compare with that of mining during the first all made along streams on the |  | | Report (issue) | | deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...the ore. Sulfides likely to be present include pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and arsenopyrite (Berger,...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent...in gold-quartz mines in the Meguma Group, that pyrite is the most abundant sulfide in mines California... Pyrrhotite appears to be been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015 K NOWN AS THE TREASURE...with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces The state...MICHAEL J. GOBLA 19055 East Bethany Place Aurora, Colorado 80013 gobla@copper.net Unless otherwise noted |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |  | | Report (issue) | | recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirwin district . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....City) district .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16 Stinkingwater district . . ...Sunlight district . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18 22 Mine and... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • .. 37 Goose Creek area . . . . _ __ . . . _ .. . _ __ . _ . _ . . |  | | Report (issue) | | SURV Department of Natural Resources Denver, Colorado/ 2009 NOa COVER CREDITS Design: Larry Scott...collection, Colorado Historical Society (see page 16) ISBN: 978-1-884216-23-7 Colorado Geological Survey...koom?/ 15 Denver, CO. 80203 (303) 866-2611 Colorado Geological Survey Information Series 33 GOLD...GOLD PANNING AND PLACERING 622.342 P238 IN COLORADO How AND WHERE =e Drawings and maps drafted by...Digital version recompiled by Larry Scott —— COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Harris D. Sherman |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | among the finest in the world. The best of Butte pyrite compares with the best anywhere. Handsome specimens...(rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...hole.” The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes ...World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful |  | | 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 (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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | locations. Certainly such common minerals as quartz, pyrite, garnet and others occur in crystal form at a great...mineralminded public. The well-publicized Butte copper district has been ignored since the writer feels certain...known. Amcnnpijiite: In the Emery Mining district (Powell County) the mineral is found in wellformed...Crevasse Mountain Mining district near Jardine (Park County). At the Kennebec mine in the Crevasse Mountain...Mountain district (see above) small crystals of arsenopyrite are disseminated in schist in the ore. It |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gold nugget, 7.67 troy ounces, Fairbanks mining region, Alaska, USA. Donated in 1977 by Arthur Sexaur. University...the most obvious limiting features, it becomes clear that many historically important gold masses should...nugget, approximately 89 troy ounces, Ganes Creek, Iditarod district, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough, Alaska. This nugget...United States Alaska, Bear Creek near Hope Alaska, Brooks Range Alaska, Caribou Creek near Kantishna 1905...Gilmore Creek 1912 nugget 24.8 ounces Alaska, Ganes Creek 1985 nugget Alaska, Ganes Creek 2004 |  | | Report (issue) | | 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...Area (CO-030-217), Ouray and Hinsdale Counties, Colorado. SUMMARY The western San Juan Mountains, including...volcanic field that covered much of south-central Colorado during Oligocene and Miocene time. The earliest...Mountains between the towns of Ouray and Lake City, Colorado (fig. 1). The study area is adjacent to the Big |  | | Report (issue) | | https://archive.org/details/fluorspardeposito00Oharr COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BOULDER R. D. GEORGE, State...State Geologist BULLETIN 18 FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS COLORADO By HARRY KAMES A. AURAND BROTHERS, STATE...-...- Governor of Colorado GEORGE UNORLING nee ee President University of Colorado VicCTOR Ct A LDERGONG...TRANSMITTAL. State Geological Survey, University of Colorado, April 29, 1920. Governor Oliver H. Shoup, Chairman...honor to transmit herewith Bulletin 18 of the Colorado Geological Survey. Very respectfully, R. D. GEORGE |  | | 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) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Locatable Mineral Reports for Colorado, South Dakota, and Wyoming provided to the U.S.............................................. 1 COLORADO ................................................San Isabel and White River National Forests Lake County Land Exchange Offer (Iocmin40) ......................... 47 White River National Forest Dillon District Land Exchange Joint Venture (Iocmin38) ......................... 138 FIGURES OR ATTACHMENTS COLORADO Pike National Forests Shepard and Associates Land |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Although Colorado may be most noted for rhodochrosite or amazonite, the many varieties and associations...a k e w o o d , Colorado 80225 DIANNE L. K I L E 333 S a l e m Street Aurora, Colorado 80011 C O L O...and J. A. Mur phy for an update to Minerals of Colorado: A 100-Year Record (Eckel, 1961). 374 ROCKS... Quartz was a familiar gemstone to many early Colorado residents, as documented by an extensive body...body of literature. The first published list of Colorado mineral localities (in cluding quartz) was included |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 05:52 29 January 2015 FRENCH CREEK IRON MINE, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA M any minerals described...ore mineral of copper. Fortunately for both the mining industry and the collector, chalcopyrite forms...specimens. One such locality is the French Creek iron mine, Chester County, Pennsylvania, an occurrence worthy...are known, as are copper, chalcocite, bornite, pyrite, tetrahedrite, and even calcite pseudomorphs after...throughout the world in diverse locales such as the Colorado Rockies, the Peruvian and Bolivian Andes, and |  | | Report (issue) | | AND CLAY MINERALOGY OF THE CHIEFTAIN MINE, DINOSAUR RIDGE, PATCH MINE, AND OTHER LOCALITIES ALONG THE FRONT...FRONT RANGE FROM DENVER TO BOULDER, COLORADO Clay Minerals Society 39th Annual Meeting and Field Trip...Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-413 Denver, Colorado 2002 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GALE A........................ 11 The clay industry in Colorado ..................................... 13 Rubey..................................... 18 Chieftain mine ............................................... |  | | Journal (issue) | | Crystal Peak area north of the town of Florissant in Colorado. In addition to being a prospector, miner, and...including Jerry Hurianek, whose longtime activities in Colorado are documented in t\vo of his unpublished articles...humor was evident when he salted our hole with pyrite to see if we would spot it. (Continues on page...throughout U.S. Forest Service land along Crystal Creek: included among these was the site where the "Museum...(Continued on next page) Only $30 - postpaid in the USA Available exclusively from: Excalibur Mineral Corporation |  | | Report (issue) | | PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF GILPIN COUNTY, COLORADO. By EDSON S. BASTIN and JAMES M. HiLL.1 INTRODUCTION...the economic geology of Gilpin County and adjacent portions of Clear Creek and Boulder counties, Colo.,...for information concerning this important mining district. The area considered lies 30 to 35 miles west...Kocky Mountains. It is the oldest lode-mining region in Colorado, and its discovery in 1859 was the occasion...productive portions of Gilpin County and small adjacent parts of Boulder and Clear Creek counties, all within |
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Alice Glory Hole, Alice Mine, Alice Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA