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Augite from
Buffalo Peaks, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Peak
Classification
Species:Augite
Formula:(CaxMgyFez)(Mgy1Fez1)Si2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Augite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Buffalo Peaks, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:435747
Long-form Identifier:1:3:435747:6
GUID (UUID V4):f54d2271-228b-4e71-a669-7486b1791985
Nearest other occurrences of Augite
39.1km (24.3 miles) South Park Basalt (2), South Park, Park County, Colorado, USA
42.0km (26.1 miles) Calumet Mine (Calumet; Calumet No. 2; Hecla; Hecla No. 2; Calumet Iron Mine; Calumet-Hecla-Smithville Magnetite deposit; Patented Placer claims: Calumet; Hecla-Williamson; Smithville No. 2; CF&I Company Mine), Turret Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
55.9km (34.8 miles) Boulder Lake, Gold Brick Mining District, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
79.5km (49.4 miles) Amethyst carbonatite, McClure Mountain Complex, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
86.3km (53.7 miles) Georgetown-Silver Plume Mining District (Griffith Mining District; Silver Plume Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
87.6km (54.5 miles) Road Gulch, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
92.6km (57.5 miles) Iron Mountain, Iron Mountain complex, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
94.3km (58.6 miles) Iron Mountain Mine (Iron Mountain Deposit; Iron Mountain Titaniferous Magnetite Deposit), McClure Mountain Complex, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
94.7km (58.8 miles) Vermiculite Mine (MRDS - 10013422), Gem Park complex, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
The Buffalo Peaks Andesite of Central Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1405-F The Buffalo Peaks...Peaks Andesite of Central Colorado By GEORGE F. SANDERS, JR., GLENN R. SCOTT, and CHARLES W. NAESER CONTRIBUTIONS...Publication Data Sanders, George F. The Buffalo Peaks Andesite of central Colorado. (Contributions to stratigraphy)...: I 19.3:1405-F 1. Andesite Colorado Park Co. 2. Andesite Colorado Chaffee Co. 3. AndesiteColorado Lake.......................... Description of the Buffalo Peaks Andesite...................................
Book
.3 COLORADO. of COLORADO. J. S. l GEORGETOWN, COLO. GEORGETOWN COURIER PRINT. 1887. 3 Bancroft...From a mineralogical point of view the wealth of Colorado exceeds that of In the metallic minerals almost...to in the following pages Proceedings of the Colorado Scientific Society. Proceedings of the Academy...the U. S. Geological Survey. J. GEORGETOWN, COLORADO, January, 1887. S. RANDALL. : MINERALS...gravel of streams and in veins. The veins of Gilpin County are especially noteworthy for the amount of gold
Report (issue)
Deposits of the Poncha Springs NE Quadrangle, Chaffee County,Colorado By RALPH E. VAN ALSTINE With a section... PAPER 626 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Mining Industrial Development Board UNITED...Ralph E. Van Alstine and Doak C. Cox _________ _ Colorado-American mine ______________ -_Delay adit and...Poncha Springs NE quadrangle. Geologic map of the Colorado-American fluorspar mine, Browns Canyon district...district. Geologic map of underground workings, Colorado-American fluorspar mine. Longitudinal section showing
Report (volume)
the Geology and Mining Industry of L eadville, Colorado, by S . F. _ Emmons, pp. 201-290, plates 44 and...WHITl\1AN ORO WITII A GEOLOGICAL SKETCH OF BUFFALO PEAK COLORADO BY ',F. GEOLOGIST [~ E~1MO~S Cn ARGE...a brief sketch by myself of the geology of Buffalo Peaks. The material from which it has been prepared...from Buffil>lo Peaks, which, at first glance, appeared to be most characteristic augite-andesites, were...of these rocks to the closely·allied so-called augite-andesites, Mr. Cross has obtained results which
Report (issue)
Memoir 33 GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF SOUTH PARK, COLORADO BY J. T . STARK, J. H. JOHNSON, C. H. BEHRE,.... . .. . . ......................... . 101 Buffalo Peaks andesite ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Fipre ~P 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Map of central Colorado and South Park.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...pre-Pennsylvanian Paleozoic formations of the Mosquito Range, Colorado.... . . . .. .. .. . . . ... .. . . .. . .. ....Fault pattern of the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado. . ..... .... . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . 137
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, into Orange county, Virginia. As early as 1839, W. B. Rogers || called...white feldspar. It was in a specimen from Culpeper county, Virginia, near the southern end of this Triassic...BROWN— COMPOSITION OF TRA P. railroad in Culpeper county, Virginia, about two miles north’ of Rapidan station...able to distinguish triclinic feldspar, diallagic augite, hypersthene, biotite, apatite and occasional quartz...structure of the holocrystalline varieties of the augite-porphyrites, shading sometimes into the former
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
repeated Fouqu6’s experiment of fusing nepheiine and augite ; but no melanite was obtained. The decomposition...that an apparently typical augite-andesite from the Buffalo Peaks, Colorado, cont ains hypersthene as...inrestigation of the Buffalo Peaks rocks induced him to examine carefully a series of European augite-andesites...structurally with B. H. B. the hypersthene of the Buffalo Peaks rocks. Chemical Composition of t h e Phonolites
Report (volume)
_____________ Volcanic rocks from California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, and Wyoming_____________.__...samples of some volcanic rocks from California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, and Wyoming.______ in 71...2 ppm selenium. Of 52 samples from California, Colorado, Idaho, New Mexico, and Wyoming, only 6 contained...geologic literature Sample locality Colorado: Delta County _ Fremont County. Do........ ........ Do Idaho:..."Caracol" ..... (?) (?) (?) (?) .1 .1 .1 .1 County. County. Mexico: Ash . -do Tuff and brecci a. Do
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
that the same feature occurred in the so-called augite-andesites of Hungary and Santorin, and seeing further...constituents of the Cheviot rock resembled those of the augite-andesites above mentioned, I came to the conclusion...in both cases was the same, and also that it was augite. In the former conclusion I still think I was right...apparently normal augite-andesites of the most typical variety, occurring at the Buffalo Peaks in South Park...Park, Colorado, the writer found that a large part of the pyroxenic constituent possessed the crystalline
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
especially by Prof. Fouque.13 (2) The lava of Buffalo Peaks, Colorado, for the description of which we are indebted...two pyroxenes, namely, ferriferous enstatite and augite, the former being present in greatest quantity;...0-64) 1-5 ... ( 1-00) Glass Felspars Enstatite Augite Magnetite The estimate made by Eetgers, which...contain the same minerals, felspar, enstatite, augite, and magnetite; the analyses of which yield very...illustrated by the following table:— Buffalo Rock of Santorin Peaks lava. dykes. 56-6 ... 51-8 20-1 ..
Report (volume)
From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400 at 14.5°, corrected...described in Proc. Colorado Sci. Soc., vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific...impurities. From the Missouri mine, Halls Valley, Park County, Colo. Analyses, by Hillebrand, of three different...From the Brobdignag mine, Red Mountain, San Juan County, Colo. Specific gravity, 5.21 at 18°. Analyzed
Report (issue)
Geology in the Leadville 30-Minute Quadrangle, Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 726-C...Geology in the Leadville 30-Minute Quadrangle, Colorado By OGDEN TWETO and J. E. CASE GEOPHYSICAL FIELD...geophysical data on the most productive part of the Colorado mineral belt UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...of the Leadville 30-minute quadrangle, central Colorado.... -----------------------------------------...____________ ln pocket FIGURE 1. Index map of Colorado __________________________________________________
Report (volume)
XII. Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado, with atlas, by Samuel Franklin Emmons. 1886....on Silver Cliff and Ten-Mile Mining Districts, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons. Flora of the Dakota Group, by..."Whitman Cross, with a Geological Sketch of Buffalo Peaks, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons. 1883. 8°. 42pp. 2 pi...meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, N.Y., to Bradford County, Pa., by Henry S. Williams. 1884....cents. 16. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 86 pp.
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)
A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hyperstbene from the hypersthene andesite of Buffalo Peaks (Hillebrand). Bulletin of the U.S. Geological...for by supposing an admixture of hypersthene and augite in the material submitted to analysis. I incline...pleochroism of the hypersthene in any monoclinic augite. I would therefore ask, with Mr. Whitman Cross...it is not possible that the strongly-pleochroic "augite" extracted by Herr Oebbeke' from an andesite from...with a non-pleochroic or differently pleochroic augite. I I I . — O N ACCUMULATION AND DENUDATION, AND
Report (volume)
...................... 1. Rocks from Aroostook County..... ^..................'........... 2. Miscellaneous...1. Elliott County dike............................................... 2. Crittenden County dike...................... 86 87 90 90 92 93 93 94 95 95 Colorado.................................................................... 99 99 100 103 104 4. Buffalo Peaks. ................................................................................. 3. Colfax County................ I.............................
Report (volume)
XII.' Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado, -with atlas, by Samuel Franklin Emmons. 1886...on Silver Cliff and Ten-Mile Mining Districts, Colorado, by«Sy]% Emmons. The Glacial Lake Agassiz, by...Whitman Cross, witha Geological Sketch of Buffalo Peaks, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons. 1883. 8°. 42 pp. 2 pi...meridian of 76° 30', from TomplCounty, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania., by Henry S. Williams...cents. 1G. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 86pp. 3
Report (volume)
...................... 1. Eocks from Aroostook County I............................. 19 19 2. Litchfieldite...56 1. Elliott County dike........................................ 56 2. Crittenden County dike.......................................... 134 135 137 Colorado ......................... ^.................................................. 141 147 4. Buffalo Peaks .................................................................................. 3. Colfax County.......".......................................
Report (issue)
15-Minute Quadrangle, Eagle and Summit Counties, Colorado By OGDEN TWETO and THOMAS S. LOVERING G E 0 L...PAPER 9 56 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado Mining Industrial Development Board Geology of...and Mississippian Systems ........ .. ........ . Chaffee Group .................................. . Parting.... . . . . In pocket Index map of west-central Colorado showing geographic setting of the Minturn quadrangle...Minturn quadrangle to major structural features and Colorado mineral belt ............... , 70 Geologic sketch
Report (issue)
composition of the rocks of the Rosita Volcano, Colorado. Harker ...062 .07~ . 085 .080 . 079 Blowing Rock, Watauga County, N.C. Fichtelgebirge, Bavarht .............. Crystal......... Montgomery County, N.C ............ Granitite ............. Eldorado County, C11l .................... ~....... Rhyolite .............. Plumas County, Cal .................. (73. 0) Pitchstone ...... Monte 1\Ienone ....................... Plumas County, Cal .................. ll!adison Plateau, Yellowstone
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...minerals of the Great American Rift in New Mexico and Colorado. Great American Rift is the name we use for a
Report (volume)
............................................. Colorado.................................................especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee,...minerals and rocks, their occurrence and uses: Colorado State Geol. Survey Bull. 6, 1913. 8 USEFUL...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Report (volume)
XLT. Geology and Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado, with atlas, by Samuel Franklin Emmons. 1886....on Silver Clitt'and Ten-Mile Mining Districts, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons. The Glacial Lake Agassiz, by...Whitman Cross, with a Geological Sketch of Buffalo Peaks, Colorado, by S.F. Emmons. 1883. 8°. 42pp. 2 pi....meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S. Williams...cents. 16. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 86pp. 3
 
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