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Calcite from
Ransom Mine, Eureka, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluoriteⓘ1 photo of Calcite associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ransom Mine, Eureka, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:423613
Long-form Identifier:1:3:423613:9
GUID (UUID V4):43bd65cf-8a83-4a2c-88c5-14f11d128b90
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
2.5km (1.5 miles) ⓘTom Moore Lode, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
4.5km (2.8 miles) ⓘSunnyside Mine group, Bonita Peak, Gladstone, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
5.4km (3.4 miles) ⓘSilver Ledge, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
5.9km (3.7 miles) ⓘHematite Gulch, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
6.4km (4.0 miles) ⓘRidgway Mine, Galena Mountain, Howardsville, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) ⓘBonanza, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) ⓘAdelia Occurrence, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
8.0km (5.0 miles) ⓘGold Nugget, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) ⓘOsceola Mine, Cunningham Gulch, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
8.5km (5.3 miles) ⓘPride of the West Mine, Cunningham Gulch, Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Recent Collecting Activity in SAN JUAN COUNTY, COLORADO B A R B A R A and J O H N M U N T Y A N 6978...6978 Wapiti Court Boulder, Colorado 80301 Photographs by the authors; specimens from the authors' collection...material has been obtained from a number of San Juan County mines and prospects during the last decade...almost ceased. COLORADO S A N J U A N C O U N T Y L I E S in southwestern Colorado. Some of the state's...vicinity of Silverton, the principal town in the county. The American Tunnel, located just north of town
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
0.75 inch on edge, from the Henderson mine, Clear Creek County. Figure 2 (right). Green fluorite encrusted...Mountain Wilderness area near Columbine Lake, La Plata County; largest crystal measures 1.25 inches on edge;... FLUORITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs by John R...locations in Mexico; in Elmwood, Smith County, Tennessee, and in Hardin County, Illinois, in the United States;...eastern Russia. It also occurs in many localities in Colorado, where it is found in colors ranging from pale
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...ocated in southwestern Colorado and covering over 31,000 square kilometers, the San Juans are some of the...not until the last 25 years of the 1800s that the San Juans began revealing the extent of their mineral...In 1896 world-renowned mining engineer Thomas ''T.A." Rickard called the San Juans one of Colorado's
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
02:13 13 March 2015 CALAVERITE Cripple Creek, Colorado W ith the exception of native gold and electrum...Cripple Creek district, essentially subsequent to the development of all other Colorado gold districts...suggested for this issue, much of which is devoted to Colorado minerals. Calaverite is a yellowish to silver-white...Analyses of calaverite from the Kirkland Lake district, Ontario, Canada, show up to several tenths of...1995). Calaverite is known from the Star mine in Montgomery County, North Carolina, where it occurs rarely
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...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
Other Paper
RIVER ABOVE EUREKA E^«^.|3lt- f 4 ^ JIM HERRON, BRUCE STOVER AND PAUL KRABACHER COLORADO DIVISION OF...REPORT ANIMAS RIVER ABOVE EUREKA JIM HERRON, BRUCE STOVER AND PAUL KRABACHER COLORADO DIVISION OF MINERALS...Baseline Data Collection Water Quality Sampling Mine Waste Sampling Watershed Chemistry Upper Animas...Passive Treatment Subsurface Hydrologic Controls Mine Site Characterization Animas River Headwaters and...Lucky Jack Mine Site Little Chief Mine Early Bird Crosscut Site London Mine Site Ben Butler Mine Prairie
Book
Minerals in the United States I '' : JAY ELLIS RANSOM / $ 5.95 and quickly informative.”— “Practical... that Ransom it’s possible still stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim?...author book Jay in this of popular the Ellis Ransom, Rock-huntefs Range Guide, tells everything you...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification
Catalog/List
AND ZINC DEPOSITS IN GOODSPRINGS (Yellow Pine) DISTRICT, NEVADA DC: GPO USGS Bull 1010, 1954. 9” X 6”...UPPER CRETACEOUS AND TERTIARY ROCKS EAST CENTRAL SAN JUAN BASIN NEW MEXICO DC: GPO USGS PP 552, 1967. 11...Bastin, E.S. GEOLOGY OF THE PITCHBLENDE ORES OF COLORADO DC: GPO USGS PP 90A, 1914. 11 œ” X 9 Œ”, pp 5...deposits all located in the Quartz Hill District in Gilpin County Colorado. Also describes other deposits in...surrounding the city of Leadville in Lake County, Colorado. $40.00 12. Bell, Patrick & David Wright ROCKS
Journal (issue)
vacation season, Phoenix, Arizona. Oct. 1—Santa Cruz County Fair and Rodeo, Sonoita, Arizona. Oct. 1-7—Annual...association annual conference, Las Vegas. Oct. 5-8—Graham County Fair, Safford, Arizona. Oct. 6-8—Tri-State Fair...Cochise County Fair, Douglas, Arizona. Oct. 7-8—Mass field trip sponsored by the Clark County Gem Collectors...gathering, Roswell, New Mexico. Oct. 18-23—Pima County Fair, Tucson, Arizona. Oct. 19-21 — Grand Chapter...Arizona. Oct. 20-22—Gem and Mineral show sponsored by San Gorgonio Mineral and Gem society, at Cherry Festival
Journal (issue)
MAGAZINE DESERT CALENDAR Oct. 28-31 — International Mining Days, El Paso, Texas. Oct. 31-Nov. 1 — Nevada Day...Western Homecoming, Silver City, N. M. Nov. 8-9—Colorado River Roundup, Parker, Arizona. Nov. 10-11—Annual...- s e a m e d Butte a t Bouse 10 By JAY ELLIS RANSOM 13 POETRY Desert Rat, a n d other p o e m s...FICTION Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley LOST MINE Life o n the Desert, b y S E W A R D DESERT QUIZ...LETTERS Comment from Desert's r e a d e r s 23 MINING Current n e w s of desert m i n e s 26 NEWS
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)
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).
Book
E ‘ THE ORE DEPOSITS OF THE RICO MOUNTAINS COLORADO B \' FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME 229 98939 CONTENTS............................................ . . Calcite .................................................. . . . . . . . . . . . _ . _ . Future of the district . _ . . . . . . . . _ . . . . . . . . . . . ...._ . . . _ . . _ . . . _ . . . . . . . Enterprise mine . . . . . _ . . . _ . . . . _ . _ . _ . . . . ....the northwesterly lodes . . . . . . . . Rico-Aspen mine . . . . . . . _ . . . . . _ . . . . . . . . _ .
Journal (issue)
Foster, Chairman. CONTEST October 17-25—Graham County Fair at Safford, Arizona. October 18-24—Southwestern...Stones in the Bradshaws EXPERIENCE By JAY ELLIS RANSOM 17 Prizes for Photographers . 21 Life on the...FICTION By ROBERT N. CARLILE LETTERS NEWS CLOSE-UPS MINING 22 Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 23 Comment...the international border below Yuma, Arizona, or San Diego, California, and at two intermediate points... Mexicali, San Felipe or San Luis." I had gone to Santiago A. Campbell, the consul in San Diego, to inquire
Journal (issue)
By HELEN K. BURBANK San Bernardino, California Your home is just a desert shack Far beyond the dripping...sides. ‱ ‱ ‱ TRYST By IDA F. COMBESI Denver, Colorado I know cool nights on desert land With emerald...Observatory Library. June 1-3—Kids' Rodeo, Otero County Fairgrounds, Alamogordo, N. M. June 1-15—Second...after Vespers, La Loma, Taos, New Mexico. June 13—San Antonio Corn Dance, Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. Cordoba...will celebrate Feast of San Antonio de Padua. Fiesta at Sandia; Dance at San lldefonso. June 15—Junior
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Mineralogical Research Co., 15840 E. Alta Vista Way San Jose, CA 95127. A list of other dealers in back issues...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...devoted to the mines and minerals of Colorado. As most long-time subscribers know, the first in the series
Book (volume)
Ramona, California; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct), Montana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar...(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...NECKLACE. Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout
Journal (issue)
Marvin Hanner Additions to the Ore Mineralogy of Colorado.................................................by Donald Grybeck Crystallized Minerals of the Colorado Mineral Belt....................................he crys­ tals occur with trem olite, quartz and calcite in talc-filled pockets that have developed along...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
Journal (issue)
California. May 1 — Fiesta and Spring Corn Dance, San Felipe Indian Pueblo. New Mexico. May 1-2—Eastern...GrUSTIVE O. LARSON Harquahala Bonanza, by JAY ELLIS RANSOM . MYSTERY Discovery of Hermit Camp Fails to Solve...Junior Livestock Show, Spanish Fork, Utah. LOST MINE May 8-10 — Lone Pine Stampede, Lone Pine, California... Las Vegas, Nevada. May 15—San Isidro Fiesta and Blessing of Fields, San Isidro Pueblo, New Mexico. May... Nevada. May 17—Quarter Horse Show, Santa Cruz County Fair and Rodeo Association, Sonoita, Arizona. May
Report (volume)
nos. 1-8. Boston, Mass. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 109-120; Transactions...Mineralogist, vol. 1. Philadelphia, Pa. American Mining Congress: Report of Proceedings, 18th Annual Session...6, nos. 1-7. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, no. 71. San Francisco, Cal...Summary report for 1915. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 45-56; Transactions...Transactions, vol. 18. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 37. Toronto and Montreal, Canada. Canadian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1 (above). Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5 ....outwash deposits. The Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district in the extreme southeast corner of the state has...to the mid-1970s were documented with the exact mine or in many cases even the correct subdistrict. In...Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district. This area has been an active mining district from about the middle of
Report (issue)
COLORADO STATE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BOULDER R. D. GEORGE, State Geologist BULLETIN 9 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS...THE BONANZA DISTRICT SAGUACHE COUNTY COLORADO By HORACE B. PATTON 1915 DENVER,COLORADO EAMES BROTHERS...DOI: https://doi.org/10.58783/cgs.b09.vtso7767 Colorado State Geological Survey. Bulletin No. 9, Plate...rnor of Colorado LIVINGSTON FARRAND ______________________ President University of Colorado HowARD C...TRANS:\IITTAL ST.I.TE GEOLOGICAL SuRVEY, UNIVERSITY OF CoLORADO, December 2, 1916. Governor George A. Carlson
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.ï‚ŸSelenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...ï‚Ÿgray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.ï‚Ÿpetrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
Report (volume)
M.E., Mining Geology Geophysics Div. Ann. Mtg., Abs. Tech. PapersAmerican Institute of Mining and Metallurgical...Metallurgical Engineers, · Mining Geology Geophysics Division Annual Meeting, Abstracts of Technical Papers...New York. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers Transactions. New York...Bulletin; Mineral Information Service; Special Report. San Francisco, Calif. Calif. Jour. Mines and Geology-California...Mines and Geology. San Francisco, Calif. Calif. Oil Fields-California Oil Fields. San Francisco, Calif
Book (volume)
ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
 
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