 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2014 Creede The last Wild West Silver Mining Camp in Colorado T he Creede mining district, located...and rugged San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Although silver was discovered in the area in...cause much excitement until 1889 when Nicholas C. Creede and his two partners found rich silver ore near...that would later be known as the Amethyst vein system (a.k.a. Amethyst fault system), host to such well-known...well-known mines as the Amethyst, Last Chance, Commodore, and Bachelor. The mining encampment grew from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...wellcrystallized baryte, galena, sphalerite, and quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...wellcrystallized baryte, galena, sphalerite, and quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...wellcrystallized baryte, galena, sphalerite, and quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...wellcrystallized baryte, galena, sphalerite, and quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on |  | | Report (issue) | | DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The Creede, Colorado Ore-Forming System: A Summary Model by Philip...geochronology, and wallrock alteration in the Creede mining district, Colorado and of studies of the evolution of...still qualitative and still evolving, model of the Creede hydrothermal system. Ores were deposited from a...discovered mineralization in the northern end of the district. The system was dominated by two fortuitiously...evaporation in a playa lake in the moat of the Creede caldera and later diagenesis. Much of the ore lead |  | | Report (issue) | | Index of the Geology of the Creede Mining District and Vicinity Colorado By Daniel O. Hayba and Constance...bibliography and index of the geology of the Creede mining district and vicinity was prepared in support of...conjunction with the proposed deep drilling program at Creede. It was our intent to include in this compilation...geology of the Creede district. Thus, references range from papers dealing entirely with Creede to those which...smaJJ amount of data relevant to some aspect of Creede geology. Even abstracts of talks, which were later |  | Foley, Nora K., Caddey, Stanton W., Byington, Craig B., Vardiman, David M. (1993) Mineralogy, mineral chemistry, and paragenesis of gold, silver, and base-metal ores of the North Amethyst vein system, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado. Professional Paper 1537. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp1537 | Report (issue) | | Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and Base-Metal Ores of the North Amethyst Vein...Vein System, Sari Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Alaska-Rm. 101, 4230 University Dr. • LAKEWOOD, Colorado-Federal Center, Bldg. 810 • MENLO PARK, California-Bldg... Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and Base-Metal Ores of the North Amethyst Vein...Vein System, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado By NORA K. FOLEY, STANTON W. CADDEY, CRAIG B. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | HISTORY OF FOUR Native Silver Localities 7 in Colorado Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego]...72 Golden, Colorado 80403 All photos by author unless otherwise noted SINCE 1859 COLORADO HAS PRODUCED...metal. Native silver in Colorado has been deposited both as a primary mineral, crystallized directly from...from hydrothermal fluids, and as a secondary mineral, precipitated during the various processes involved...silver specimen producers-Caribou, Ward, Aspen, and Creede. Secondary silver may be the only form of the native |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at 13:31 09 June 2016 Colorado boasts numerous localities where fine sphalerite specimens have been found...phalerite, (Zn,Fe)S, can be one of the more desirable mineral species for collectors and museums alike. One...reported from numerous localities worldwide. Fine sphalerite specimens, for example, have been found at Elmwood...Elmwood, Tennessee; the mines of the Tri-State district of Missouri-OklaDownloaded by [University of Nebraska...We1I-crystaIIized examples of sphalerite also occur at many localities in Colorado, in shades of amber, emerald- |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | COLORADO AMETHYST THOMAS C . MICHALSKI U. S. Geological Survey Denver Federal Center Denver, Colorado...E CENTURY, COL O R A D O ' S N U M E R O U S amethyst localities have been studied and recorded in geologic...few present-day mineral collectors are aware that Colorado has any significant amethyst occur rences....o l d " amethyst localities are, however, still capable of producing fine gemstone and mineral specimens...specimens. Background Amethyst, the purple variety of crystalline quartz, has been admired for centuries because |  | | Report (volume) | | 718 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ' CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS AND ESPER S. LARSEN................................................. Mining and treatment of ores......................................................................... Amethyst mill.......................................................................................... Creede formation........................................58 58 59 59 59 59 59 60 CONTENTS. Chapter V. Creede formation..................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology Contrib Mineral Petrol (1985) 91:171 179 9 Springer-Verlag 1985...paleotemperature indicator in the Amethyst vein system, Creede district, Colorado, USA Duane G. Horton 1 University...University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA Abstract. Ordered i!lite/smectite is the most abundant and...Oligocene, epithermal, Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu-Au Amethyst vein system, southwest Colorado. Hydrothermal illite/smectites...with distance from the Amethyst vein. With increasing distance from the vein, percent illite and the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Ore Deposition in the Creede Mining District, San Juan Mountains, Colorado: Part VI. Maximum Duration...Duration for Mineralization of the OH Vein WAYNE R. CAMPBELL AND PAUL B. BARTON† U.S. Geological Survey, Mail...single sphalerite crystals from the epithermal silver-lead-zinc deposit in the OH vein at Creede, Colorado...the electron microprobe in 2-µm steps on banded sphalerite formed early in the paragenetic history yields...yields a maximum duration of less than ~10,000 yr. Sphalerite from a solution unconformity in a position midway |  | | Report (issue) | | Fluid-inclusion data on samples from Creede, Colorado, in relation to mineral paragenesis By Terri L. Woods... Previous fluid-inclusion work on samples from Creede -- 6 Nature and limitations of the fluid-inclusion...relation to detailed stratigraphic studies on sphalerite -- 17 Speculations on the causes of observed...fluorite, rhodochrosite, quartz, and sphalerite from Creede, Colorado -- 30 Fluid-inclusion data for quartz...quartz from the southern Amethyst vein from Robinson (1981, Table 2) 52 ILLUSTRATIONS (Figure captions |  | | Report (issue) | | Control of Ore Deposition in the Creede District San Juan Mountains Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...487 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Metal Mining Fund Board Geology and Structural Control...Control of Ore Deposition in the Creede District San Juan Mountains Colorado , By THOMAS A. STEVEN and JAMES...487 ·Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Metal Mining Fund Board UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Shallow Creek Quartz Latite ____________________ _ Bachelor Mountain Rhyolite ____________________ _ Farmers |  | | Report (issue) | | RECENT MINING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO By ESPEK S. LAKSEN ABSTRACT The Creede district...greater part of this output came from the great Amethyst vein, which lies along a major fault. Nearly all...all of the ore was mined from parts of the vein that were enriched by surface solutions and were above the...the Nelson tunnel. Production from this vein practically ceased about a decade ago. Extensive prospecting...opened a good ore body in the western branch of the Amethyst fault at its south end, and several small but |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MUNTYAN 536 Third Avenue P.O. Box 495 Ouray, Colorado 81427 All photographs by John R. Muntyan of specimens...B ~i~~~~ 1. Mine along West willow Creek, near Creede and across from the Bachelor mine. Photo by author... arite (barium sulfate) is the most important mineral of barium; it is reported from numerous localities...the Rock Candy mine in British Columbia, Canada; and in the United States in Hardin County, Illinois, among...localities. Barite also occurs in many localities in Colorado, where it often forms attractive, wellcrystallized |  | | Report (volume) | | Page (A) The New World or Cooke City mining district, Park County, Mont., by T. S. Levering__________..._________________ (B) Recent mining developments in the Creede district, Colo., by E. S. Larsen.____...Shirley, and Seminoe iron-ore deposits, Carbon County, Wyo., by T. S. Lovering*..._____:__..___..._____...geologic map and sections of the New World mining district, Mont. Wyo___-______--___--___________ 2. Cooke...______________ 6. Correlation diagram of the New World mining district and surrounding region____________________________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | S OF C R E E D E , M I N E R A L C O U N T Y , COLORADO By ARTHUR E. SMITH, JR. 91 18 Concho, Houston...written in recent years on the mineral and rock collecting at Creede. This region has much to offer the...collectors make Creede a stopping point for their Color ado vacations. The region around Creede is said to...collecting is for mineral specimens though some lapidary materials such as sowbelly agate, amethyst, chrysoprase...turquoise have been collected. Many who collect at the Creede Mines do not know what minerals to look for and |  | | Report (volume) | | 1420 Mineral Resources of the La Garita Wilderness, San uan Mountains, Sout iwestern Colorado By THOMAS... SURVEY BULLETIN 1420 An evaluation of the mineral potential of the area UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Garita Wilderness, San Juan Mountains, southwestern Colorado. (Studies related to wilderness wilderness areas)...Supt.ofDocs.no.: 119.3:1420 1. Mines and mineral resources Colorado La Garita Wilderness. I. Bieniewski,...survey these wilderness areas to determine the mineral values, if any, that may be present. The act also |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Microminerals in the Creede Mining District The Amethyst, Commodore No. 5 Mineral County, Colorado Unless otherwise...Mountain Mines C reede is located in southwestern Colorado on the edge of the San Juan Mountains just south...in the Creede district was at the Holy Moses mine high above East Willow Creek, but the district did not...made along West Willow Creek on the Amethyst vein system. The Amethyst and Commodore No. 5 mines are located...West Willow Creek approximately 1.5 miles north of Creede. The Commodore No. 5 ore bins are the first structures |  | | Journal (issue) | | Find your OwnAgate Collecting around Kremmling Colorado Morocco - The Country, The People and...Agates...Mindat.org Agates and Associated Minerals of Creede Colorado By Philip Persson PerssonRareMinerals.com ...information ranging from listing mineral localities, facts about mineral species, photographs of worldwide...to typical reference specimens), photographs of mineral localities (both modern and historical), publication...Copyrights Reserved 2014 - Printed in Denver, Colorado IDA CHAU’S JOURNAL FROM THE 3RD MINDAT INTERNATIONAL |  | | 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...American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Colorado...resources—Colorado. 2. Mines and mineral resources—New Mexico. I. Kennedy, Marrianna B. II. Title. III. Title: Great...possible steps should be taken to preserve our mineral heritage, whether in physical form as irreplaceable |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Diego] at 15:26 22 February 2016 - Featured Mineral at the 1994 Denver Show Figure I (above). Pyrite...Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals showing light “cathedral”...Figure 2 (right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes; specimen...PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs by John R. Muntyan...Park City, Utah; Washington State; and numerous Colorado localities. Pyrite crystallizes in the isometric |
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Bachelor Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA