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Copper from
Mammoth Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copper
Formula:Cu
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copper data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mammoth Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:378502
Long-form Identifier:1:3:378502:7
GUID (UUID V4):9d9d0955-d130-4fdb-921e-501600ab84f3
Nearest other occurrences of Copper
0.5km (0.3 miles) Homestake claim, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Bulldog Mountain Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
49.1km (30.5 miles) Ocean Wave Mine, Lake City, Lake City Mining District, Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
51.1km (31.7 miles) Excelsior Mine (Patented Claim: Excelsior; MS 5184), Galena Mining District (Henson Creek Mining District), Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
53.8km (33.5 miles) Good Hope Mine (Mammoth Good Hope Mine; Mammoth-Good Hope Mine; Mammoth Chimney Mine), Vulcan, Vulcan Mining District (Cebolla Mining District; Domingo Mining District), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
54.0km (33.6 miles) Vulcan Mine, Vulcan Mining District (Cebolla Mining District; Domingo Mining District), Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
56.2km (34.9 miles) Tom Moore Lode, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
60.2km (37.4 miles) Uncompahgre Chief Occurrence, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
60.5km (37.6 miles) Sunnyside Extension Mine (Gold Prince Mine), Gladstone, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
61.3km (38.1 miles) Sunnyside Mine group, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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
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........................................Campbell Mountain rhyolite...................... 40 Mammoth Mountain rhyolite................................58 58 59 59 59 59 59 60 CONTENTS. Chapter V. Creede formation.....................................
Report (issue)
Part 1. General geology. Part 2. Utah. Part 3. Colorado. 0 Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States...gold-bearing oxidized zinc and zinc-lead ores in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California______________ 3...deposits in the Eastern and Central States, and in Colorado and Utah_______________ m A-2 7 22 OXIDIZED...not the only recoverable metal. Lead, vanadium, copper, silver, gold and, in places, molybdenum, antimony... A-2 OXIDIZED ZINC DEPOSITS OF THE UNITED STATES copper ores are included. Most of the ore was produced
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 LODES OF THE CARRVILLE DIS­ TRICT, TRINITY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. By DONALD FRANCIS MACDONALD. INTRODUCTION...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
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
Report (issue)
RECENT MINING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO By ESPEK S. LAKSEN ABSTRACT The Creede district...the Equity mine, which follows a reverse fault in the extreme northern part of the district. Silver in...are rich in silver. Some of the tuff beds of the Creede formation are partly altered to bentonite, and...by Emmons and Larsen 1 on the Creede district was completed, the district has produced over $5,000,000...detailed to the work and spent about 10 days in the district in the summer of 192T and 3 days in August, 1928
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University Library] at 21:23 23 November 2014 Flagg Mineral Foundation PHILIP D. RICHARDSon 3340 east Mountain...Rusack. All mineral photos taken by Jeff Scovil of Arizona specimens in the Flagg Mineral Foundation collection...(fiftieth) anniversary of the formation of the Flagg Mineral Foundation, named after Arthur Leonard Flagg and...a geological field technician and is the Flagg Mineral Foundation vice-chairman. A field collector of...practicing Arizona mining engineer, an accomplished author, and an Arizona mineral locality aficionado
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...Farmers Creek Rhyolite ________________________ _ Mammoth Mountain Rhyolite ___________________ _ Rhyolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when most green acicular copper minerals...originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times...Blanchard mine has been selected for this issue. Brochantite, a simple hydrated sulfate of copper with the...and can be contacted at the addresses above. 48 copper deposits found in arid regions. Common accessory...containing copper sulfides at depth. It occurs sparingly at the old Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts
Report (issue)
weights-ofevidence analysis in northeast Washington —2. Mineral databases by D.E. Boleneus1 Open-File Report 99-384...Digital mineral databases are necessary to carry out weights-of-evidence modeling of mineral resources...Introduction Digital mineral databases were necessary to perform spatial modeling of mineral resources and to...to investigate mineral potential in Northeastern. The spatial modeling was performed using weights-ofevidence...information system and requires all digital data. Four mineral database themes necessary for the spatial modeling
Report (issue)
of the San Juan Volcanic Field, Southwestern Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 958 •...of the San Juan Volcanic Field, Southwestern Colorado By THOMAS A. STEVEN and PETER W. LIPMAN GEOLOGICAL...Calderas of the San Juan volcanic field, southwestern Colorado. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 958) Bibliography:...16:958 1. Calderas-Colorado-San Juan Mountains. 2. Volcanic ash, tuff, etc.-Colorado-San Juan Mountains...................... ....... ... ....... .. .. Mammoth Mountain(?) caldera ..... ..... .. ...........
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...iijXi Equity Fault. ~ T- re Mine poiti^, ) Fault block of Mammoth Mountain. Bulldog Mountain fault
Report (issue)
Volcanic Rocks Associated With the Creede Caldera San Juan Mountains Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...PAPER 524-H Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado Mining Industrial Development Board ASH FLOWS AND...\VITH THE CREEDE CALDERA SAN JUAN MOUNTA~NS COLORADO I I I R esu rgent dome of the Creede caldera....Volcanic Rocks Associated With the Creede Caldera San Juan Mountains Colorado By JAMES C. RATTE and THOMAS...PAPER 524-H Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado Mining Industrial Development Board UNITED STATES
Journal (issue)
KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...Mineralogical Record The International Magazine for Mineral Collectors VOLU ME 55 • NUMBER 2 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief... Gressman tom.gressman@minrec.org The Tintic District: Juab and Utah Counties, Utah...................COVER: CLINOCLASE, 3.9 cm, from the Mammoth mine, Tintic District, Utah. Rock Currier collection; Jeff...Collector & Dealer Biographies • Mineral Artists • Antiquarian Mineral Literature Bio-bibliography This
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COPPER-BEARING Minerals of COLORADO ED RAINES Geology Museum Colorado School of Mines 1310 Maple Street...Street Golden, Colorado 80401 eraines@mines.edu Downloaded by [Brown University] at 16:38 03 September...noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,... etween 1868 and 1922, Colorado produced almost 260 million pounds of copper. Nearly 100 million pounds...from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
acanthite paramorph after argentite from the Rayes mine, Guanajuato, Mexico. Francis Benjamin specimen,...1878); the Baker quarry near Billmeyer, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where it occurs as an alteration...Hill occurrence in Davidson County, and the McMakin mine in Cabarrus County (Genth 1891); and mines of...of the Virgilina district, Halifax County, Virginia (Dietrich 1990). The great silver occurrences of the...locally abundant acanthite. Many mines of the Colorado mineral belt contained important amounts of acanthite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arizona T Type Minerals here are about 880 mineral species reported from Arizona. Of these, 72 are...discovered at Ajoite, Na3Cu2+ 20 the New Cornelia mine that is located in the town of Ajo (Schaller and...discovered the mineral (Axelrod et al. 1951). The type locality is the Hillside mine in Yavapai County. The Hillside...Hillside mine was mainly a zinc producer but is the type locality for four uranium minerals. Antlerite...for the discovery 3 locality, the Antler mine, Mohave County (Hillebrand 1889). Apachite, Cu2+ Si10O29•
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)
~iguel County, Colo., by F. W. Cater_ 129. A Pleistocene section at Leonards Cut, Burke County, N.C.,...in a volcanic sequence related to the Creede caldera, Colorado, by J. C. Ratte and T. A. Steven ___ ...geochemical prospecting data from the Rocky Range, Beaver County, Utah, by J. J. Connor and A. T. ~iesch_______...part of the Smyrna ~ills quadrangle, Aroostook County, ~aine, by Louis Pavlides and F. C. CanneY----...geology 146. Geologic setting of the Spar City district, San Juan ~ountains, Colo., by T. A. Steven ___
Book (edition)
McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...in Arizona 4 Arizona State Symbols 7 Public Mineral Collections in Arizona 8 1. Gemstones and Lapidary...Arizona Mineral Occurrences 51 4. Arizona Mineral Districts Appendix A: Maps of Arizona Mineral Districts...many people who have supplied information about mineral occurrences, provided valuable review, and assisted...photography: Arizona Mineral Minions John Callahan Earth Science Museum John Ebner Flagg Mineral Foundation Mark
Book
authoritative published archives of data for the mineral collector and specimen-oriented mineralogist that...etc. T Tsumeb (vol. 8, no. 3) M y Michigan Copper Country (vol. 23, no. 2) Co. Company G Greenland...fl. Fluorescent, or fluoresces H History of Mineral Collecting (vol. 25, no. 6) All dimensional notations...Michigan Copper Country; 23/#4, Yukon Phosphates; 24/#2, Greenland; and 25/#6, The History of Mineral Collecting)...193-256 137-208 129-192 209-264 193-256 [ [ COLORADO-Ill] 177-256 121-184 89-168 1-120 1-88 [
Report (issue)
Series 30 Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology, 1984-1989 Colorado Geological Survey Department of...Resources Denver, Colorado 1990 Information Series 30 Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology, 1984-1989...Institute under contract to the Colorado Geological Survey Colorado Geological Survey Department of...of Natural Resources Denver, Colorado 1990 ii FOREWORD In recognition of the need to more effectively...published literature on the state's geology, the Colorado Geological Survey is pleased to release Information
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Center, Denver, Colorado 8022) Volcanic History of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, as Indicated by...which covers about 25,000 km2 in southwestern Colorado and is well known through the studies of Larsen...Generalized geologic map of the San Juan volcanic field, Colorado, showing sample localities (keyed to Tables 2-5)...CR, Creede caldera; BC, Bachelor caldera; SL, San Luis caldera; LG, La Garita caldera; MA, Mammoth caldera...or THE EASTERN and CENTRAL SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO (WITH MEAN AGES OF DATED UNITS) 2333 younger
Book (edition)
Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...Published with the assistance ofthe Tucson Gem and Mineral Society The University of Ariwna Press / Tucson..."Published with the assistance of the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society." Includes bibliographical references and...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING AND MINERALOGY The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona...22 NOTABLE ARIZONA MINERAL DEPOSITS Porphyry Copper Deposits 57 Porphyry-Copper-Related and Other Hydrothermal
Report (issue)
industries other than stock raising, farming, and mining. There are few towns and no large cities. Railroads...mapping near 1 Burchard, B. F., U. S. Geol. Survey Mineral Resources, 1913, pt. 2, pp. 1358-1359, 1914. 2..."Burchard, B. F., and others, U. S. Geol. Survey Mineral Resources, 1913, pt. 2, pp. 1376-1387, 1914. 237...region considered extends from Stanley, Ouster County, Idaho, about in latitude 44° 15' N., longitude...to a point 40 miles below Salmon, the county seat of Lemhi County. (See fig. 28.) The region is one of
 
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