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Silver from
Alpha Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Silver
Formula:Ag
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Silver data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alpha Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:378419
Long-form Identifier:1:3:378419:8
GUID (UUID V4):f0b7273f-c3e3-4e82-83e4-fecf202eff41
Nearest other occurrences of Silver
0.2km (0.1 miles) Corsair Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Kreutzer Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Bulldog Mountain Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
3.0km (1.8 miles) Windy Gulch, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) Exchequer Tunnel Occurrence, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Bachelor Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) Commodore Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) Emperius Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) Mammoth Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
4.9km (3.0 miles) Last Chance Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and Base-Metal Ores of the North Amethyst...Amethyst Vein System, Sari Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Alaska-Rm. 101, 4230 University Dr. • LAKEWOOD, Colorado-Federal Center, Bldg. 810 • MENLO PARK, California-Bldg...Mississippi-Bldg. 3101 Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and Base-Metal Ores of the...Amethyst Vein System, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado By NORA K. FOLEY, STANTON W. CADDEY, CRAIG
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...native silver in a wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an... 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar”
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...native silver in a wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an... 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar”
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...native silver in a wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an... 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar”
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...native silver in a wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an... 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar”
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2014 Creede The last Wild West Silver Mining Camp in Colorado T he Creede mining district, located...rugged San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Although silver was discovered in the area in 1876, it...until 1889 when Nicholas C. Creede and his two partners found rich silver ore near East Willow Creek and...the area. It was not long before additional rich silver ore was found along West Willow Creek in veins...Amethyst, Last Chance, Commodore, and Bachelor. The mining encampment grew from a small settlement to a town
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.......................................................................... Creede formation........................................58 58 59 59 59 59 59 60 CONTENTS. Chapter V. Creede formation...................................................................................... Alpha fault..........................................
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...Fisher Quartz La ti te ___________________________ _ Creede Formation _____________________________ _ Surficial
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...physiography provides a setting for about 750 known mineral species.* Of these, quartz is one of the most desirable...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
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...mines where the prin­ cipal collecting is for mineral specimens though some lapidary materials such as...turquoise have been collected. Many who collect at the Creede Mines do not know what minerals to look for and
Report (issue)
organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...two parts, the second part comprising papers on mineral fuels. These volumes for 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909... GOLD AND SILVER. NOTES ON THE GOLD LODES OF THE CARRVILLE DIS­ TRICT, TRINITY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA....writer spent 10 days in the Carrville district, Trinity County, Cal., and, incidental to other work,... gathered some data on its mining geology. A paper on the gold gravels x was pub­ lished, but baggage
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Depositsin the SanJuanVolcanicField, Southwestern Colorado LeadIsotopeEvidence B. R. DOE,T. A. STEVEN,M....other deposits (Summitville, Jasper, Red Mountain district) have values of 2ø•Pb/•ø4Pbsimilar to those of...have lead isotopiccompositions that are portant mining districts. Studies of lead in the as- more radiogenicthan...VOLCANIC: 38ø• I IO Silver ,sa Io I •Co•ez I I .. Antonito COLORADO NEW MEXICO L 0 100...KILOMETERS Fro. 1. Index map of southxvestern Colorado, showing the outline of the San Juan volcanic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGY, AND HISTORY OF FOUR Native Silver Localities 7 in Colorado Downloaded by [University of California...72 Golden, Colorado 80403 All photos by author unless otherwise noted SINCE 1859 COLORADO HAS PRODUCED...threequarters of a billion ounces of silver. Most of this production has come from silver-bearing minerals rather...native metal. Native silver in Colorado has been deposited both as a primary mineral, crystallized directly...directly from hydrothermal fluids, and as a secondary mineral, precipitated during the various processes involved
Report (volume)
Radioactivity in the Metal-Mining Districts of the San Juan Mountains Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY --*_-...Radioactivity in the Metal-Mining Districts of the San Juan Mountains Colorado By C. T. PIERSON, W. F. WEEKS...radioactivity in the metal-mining districts of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, by C. T. Pierson, W. F..._______________ CeboUa district..______________________________ Upper Uncompahgre district. ______ _________________________...Uranium occurrences___________ ________ __ Bonanza district..____________________ ___________________ General
Report (issue)
Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 3. Colorado By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...deposits and the resources of oxidized zin.c ores in Colorado UNITED STATES· GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...19180xidized zinc deposits of the United States. Part 3. Colorado. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964. vi...Bibliography : p. 88-91. 1. Zinc ores-Colorado. 2. Zinc mines and mining-Colorado. I. Title. (Series) For sale...County___________________________________________ Georgetown-Silver Plume district____________________________ Jefferson
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)
Scalemodelecaltydomessery Clay, GRISEMSMS wate Gn GOaNe MininG Districts vce oh with RApIAL ae TE ee PRE...Detwieccnmpasinsmancialip hits mamryt cetera MINING DISTRICTS, ASSOCIATED WITH CA NTICEINES eerie...0000eeceescececscdbeen structural map, or Rico; Colorado, .district: . ..+.5. ssw Fea ive Res five voles ow...cureieunertiae ote teers 12 Plan. and section of Sunlight district, Wyoming, 16 4, tires sheik aes ........02+2...Mexico Aenea SmmSCLUCLUTAlEMaprOrsOllyentons district ColoLadoum Ole Generalusectionsthroupheoilyentonidistricte
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology, and Mineralogy of the San Juan County, Colorado rooklyn mine, located at an elevation of 11,456...feet at the head of Browns Gulch. San Juan County, Colorado. has been operated sporadically during the...and rhodochrosite were recovered from the mine. Continued mining in 1980 produced an array of exotic minerals...is under lease to a mining consulting firm. and plans are under way to resume mining operations this summer... discovered in 187 1 and named the Little Giant mine. was situated northeast of Arrastra Creek Gulch
Report (issue)
RECENT MINING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO By ESPEK S. LAKSEN ABSTRACT The Creede district...produced over $43,000,000 worth of metal, mostly silver. By far the greater part of this output came from...produced 756,400 ounces of silver. Some ore has been developed in the Equity mine, which follows a reverse...fault in the extreme northern part of the district. Silver in amounts sufficient to stimulate extensive...remains in this tuff are rich in silver. Some of the tuff beds of the Creede formation are partly altered
Thesis/Dissertation
TDfl SbQ AEEAL GEOLOGY OF 0?HS CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO. By ' X ESEBR S* H B LARSEIT. S...Approved: The Areal Geology of The Greede Mining District, Esper 3. Larson. COKTEIIT3 Chapter I...volcanic series 22 Lower division Upper division The Creede formation The llacXenzie 26 .'-.fountain quartz...Megascopic Microscopic Weathering and outcrops Creede Formation Chapter V. Name, general nature, and...v" A/ T ^.iivi'i.iijXi Equity Fault. ~ T- re Mine poiti^, ) Fault block of Mammoth Mountain. Bulldog
Journal (issue)
ISSUE 06 • JUNE 2020 CAPTIVATED BY CREEDE Evolution of a Silver-Mining Boomtown METAMORPHIC INDEX MINERALS... VOL. 50 NO. 06 • JUNE 2020 10 SILVER MINING SURVIVOR Creede Colorado Navigates Economic Transition While...20 SOUTHWEST SUMMER Exploring San Juan Mountain Mining History 50 FIELD TRIP FOCUS Making Memories and...Serras-Herman REGULAR COLUMNS Witness to Morocco’s Modern Mining Rush Field Notes ...............................about the Polka Dot Mine in Central Oregon, information about connecting with the mine via Facebook was
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
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 (volume)
... GOLD AND SILVER: Notes on the gold lodes of the Carrville district, Trinity County, Cal., by D. F...preliminary report on the geology and ore deposits of Creede, Colo., by W. H, Emmons and E. S. Larsen.........account of the ore deposits of the Loon Creek district, Idaho, byJ. B.Umpleby................................................. Notes on the Antelope district, Nev., by F. C. Schrader................... Notes...Mountains, Grand County, Utah, by J. M. Hill. Survey publications on gold and silver.................
Report (volume)
Lead-Alpha Age Determinations of Accessory Minerals of Igneous Rocks (1953-1957) GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ...the permission of the Commission 1097-B Lead-Alpha Age Determinations of Accessory Minerals of Igneous...in the tabulation____________________--__ Lead-alpha age determinations of accessory minerals.__________________...68 69 140 145 STUDIES IN GEOCHRONOLOGY LEAD-ALPHA AGE DETERMINATIONS OF ACCESSOR? MINERALS OF IGNEOUS...ABSTRACT The U.S. Geological Survey completed lead-alpha age determinations of accessory minerals from about
 
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