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Copiapite from
Eagle Mine, Gilman, Gilman Mining District (Battle Mountain Mining District; Red Cliff Mining District), Eagle County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Copiapite
Formula:Fe2+Fe43+(SO4)6(OH)2 · 20H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Copiapite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Eagle Mine, Gilman, Gilman Mining District (Battle Mountain Mining District; Red Cliff Mining District), Eagle County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:434741
Long-form Identifier:1:3:434741:5
GUID (UUID V4):1c603547-0c07-4371-84f0-371914791dfa
Nearest other occurrences of Copiapite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Gilman Mining District (Battle Mountain Mining District; Red Cliff Mining District), Eagle County, Colorado, USA
6.8km (4.2 miles) Ground Hog Mine, Battle Mountain, Gilman Mining District (Battle Mountain Mining District; Red Cliff Mining District), Eagle County, Colorado, USA
78.0km (48.5 miles) Prompt Pay Mine, Central City Mining District (Central Mining District), Gilpin County, Colorado, USA
78.4km (48.7 miles) Topeka Mine, Central City Mining District (Central Mining District), Gilpin County, Colorado, USA
78.6km (48.8 miles) Forfar Mine, Central City Mining District (Central Mining District), Gilpin County, Colorado, USA
79.6km (49.5 miles) Patch Mine (Glory Hole Mine), Central City Mining District (Central Mining District), Gilpin County, Colorado, USA
80.3km (49.9 miles) Kokomo Mine, Central City Mining District (Central Mining District), Gilpin County, Colorado, USA
82.2km (51.1 miles) Gregory Mine, Eureka Mining District, Gilpin County, Colorado, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
January 2015 Minerals of the Gilman District and Eagle Mine Eagle County, Colorado WILLIAM J. WARREN JR. Front...632 Golden, Colorado 80402 wjwmineral@aol.com ED PEDERSEN 11582 Ash Circle Thornton, Colorado 80233 pedersencpg@aol...298 ROCKS & MINERALS T he Gilman district, in Eagle County, Colorado, and its premier mineral specimen...Company’s Eagle mine, are located about 120 kilometers west-southwest of Denver. The Gilman district was originally...known as the Battle Mountain district and was later referred to as the Red Cliff district. Much of the
Report (issue)
Ore Deposits of the Oilman District, Eagle County, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Study made in cooperation...cooperation with the Colorado Mining Industrial Development Board PROFESSIONAL PAPER 1017 Ore Deposits...Deposits of the Oilman District, Eagle County, Colorado By THOMAS S. LOVERING, OGDEN TWETO, and T. G. LOVERING... 1017 Study made in cooperation with the Colorado Mining Industrial Development Board Description of...geologic setting of a mining district that is the leading source of zinc in Colorado and an important source
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...Acanthite-argentite, Colorado, 307 Actinolite/tremolite, Michigan, 344 Adularia, Michigan 341 “Alaskaite,” Colorado, 307...395 Allanite-(Ce), California, 162 Allophane, Colorado, 307 Almandine, Connecticut, 261 Almandine-spessartine
Report (volume)
Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of...especially Fischer and others, 1946). MINERALS OF COLORADO: A 100-YEAR RECORD By EDWIN B. EcKEL ABSTRACT
Book (volume)
...........................................59 Colorado ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ....................................
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...Mines and minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index...index. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Colorado. 2. Mines and mineral resources—New Mexico. I. Kennedy, Marrianna...enter must be obtained to prevent trespass. Old mine workings are dangerous and entering underground
Book (volume)
...........................................47 Colorado ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...sandstone⎯red ocher. (Such deposits were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL...nearby exposures, deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the
Book (volume)
...........................................47 Colorado ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...sandstone⎯red ocher. (Such deposits were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL...nearby exposures, deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...in the Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point...of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden...described in Anderson (1994). The most widespread mining in Kentucky is coal. More than 7.4 billion tons
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochemistry of Arsenic in the Southern Mother Lode Gold District a a Kaye S. Savage , Dennis K. Bird & Roger...Geochemistry of Arsenic in the Southern Mother Lode Gold District, International Geology Review, 42:5, 385-415,...Geochemistry of Arsenic in the Southern Mother Lode Gold District KAYE S. SAVAGE, DENNIS K. BIRD, Department of...University] at 06:37 12 December 2014 Abstract Gold mining activity in the Sierra Nevada foothills, both recently...Mother Lode Gold Dis­ trict: mineralized outcrops and mine waste rock (overburden); mill tailings submerged
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Index of Publications, Division of Mines and State Mining Bureau, 1880-1943 (Bradley 1945). Northern Provinces...found in the area around Glass Mountain near the ModocSiskiyou county line. Also of minor importance...deposits of southeastern Oregon into northern Modoc County. Ultramafic rocks, largely altered to serpentine... Trinity River, Trinity County at the High Plateau mine in Del Norte County, and kammererite (clinochlore)...(clinochlore), as at the Veta Grande mine in Siskiyou County. The ultramafics also host occurrences of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains)...schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite...subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve:...Reserve: quartz (chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
collecting. Although Texas is not known for its mining industry, be­ cause of its large oil and gas exploration...Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan in 1938. The Terlingua mining district...minerals. Mining here was contin­ uous from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991)...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...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...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
several counties. In addition, the TriState zinchead mining area, active for more than one hundred years, extends...as the Picher district, which is in the Oklahoma portion of the TriState. This district has probably produced...locality is the copper mineral outcrops in the Permian red beds. Joe Lobell’s (1986) article describes one group...October 2014 Mineral Index by Counties Alfalfa County Carmen, 2 mi. NE of Carmen, 1 .1 mi. W of Highway...Permian-age Crisfield Sandstone: malachite. Adair County Bunch, near Bunch, secs.l.5, 16, T.14N, R.24E:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
settlement was initially spurred by the lead-zinc mining in its southwest comer, a heritage preserved by...several new localities, including the Flambeau copper mine near Ladysmith (Rosemeyer 1999, the Vulcan Materials...Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and the Wausau area (Falster 1987)...marcasite. A major mining district, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district, was in these rocks...barite, and copper minerals were found. Mining in this district ceased in the late 1970s. A branch of the
Report (issue)
said to have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small...Counties of California: Minerals and mineral lists Mining Districts of California Unvalidated entries in...The bibliography has been updated and expanded. County lists published by Collins (1) pp. 40-64, in Murdoch...resulting from references to the geographic term ''Mining District," especially in the pre-1920 literature. Widespread...rhyolite locality in Alameda County and the lawsonite type locality Marin County, which have been completely
Report (volume)
....................'................. 106 Copiapite ................................................ARSENIDES. BISMUTHINITB. From the Rosario Mining District, Sinaloa, Mexico. W. I-I. Melville. Described...Bulletin 61. COVELLITE. From the East Greyrock mine, Butte, Mont. Collected by G. W. Tower. Analysis...A massive ore from the mine of the Canadian Copper Company, Sudbury, district of Algoma, Ontario. Specific...Another nickel-iron sulphide, from the Worthington mine, SauTt branch of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 25
Book
T. J. Bornhorst, P. Brandes, R. Clark (Cliffs Mining Services Co.), B. C. Cornilsen, R. V. Dietrich...helpful suggestions throughout the project; to Ashton Mining of Canada, Inc. and Crystal Exploration, Inc.,...APPENDIX I: MICHIGAN MUSEUMS AND EXHIBITS FEATURING MINING, MINERALS, ROCKS, AND FOSSILS .......................243 APPENDIX II: MINERAL SPECIES LISTED BY COUNTY ...............................248 ABOUT THE AUTHORS...three major periods of crustal deformation and mountain building and to at least three or four additional
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exposures, such as Aquamarine, Beryl, some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...production of environmental protection equipment. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...to Nevada in 1929 and was actively involved in mining in the state and the western U.S. for the rest
Report (issue)
read Vonsen. p. 46. T'nder anatase, San Benito County, add, at end of sentence, 136. They do Louderhack...30 E... M.n., read p. 89." Under cerussite. Inyo County (1) for sec. U,. T. sec. IJ,, T. 6 S., R. 30 E...erytlirite. add Tuolumne County: erijthrite 189. arscnopyrite in the Josephine mine, Logan (16), p. p. 1...Lake County, Bradford oecurence sliould bo li.sted as 2. p. 210. !^^onazite, Itiverside County, reference... Fisher (1 ) p. 1 'i'/. p. 2M. Powellite, Kern County, 2, under Wiese and I'age, reference should read
 
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