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Liebigite from
Pitch Mine, Saguache County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Liebigite
Formula:Ca2(UO2)(CO3)3 · 11H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Liebigite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Pitch Mine, Saguache County, Colorado, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:456764
Long-form Identifier:1:3:456764:6
GUID (UUID V4):a14eb801-2b0f-48f9-97cd-e60f585f3d50
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...was about 270 tU. In Argentina the Sierra Pintada mine had been in standby status since 1999 and was expected...recovered from mine rehabilitation activities; small amounts were likewise recovered during mine remediation...very small amount was produced in Hungary during mine reclamation. Romania produced about 90 tU. In the
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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33 limonite 37 linarite 59, 60 orthite 88 liebigite 53 liroconite 74 lithiophilite 65 ludwigite...suppliers are, in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California)...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...Tonopah. It is also found in the silver districts Colorado, and at Butte, Montana. Sphalerite, ZnS: at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MYSTERIOUS GREEN URANIUM-BEARING MINERAL FROM ELIÁŠ MINE....., NOT LEAVING IN PEACE THEIR LIVES. STORIES...help provided by cpt. J. Vajdák, Massapequa, N.Y., USA, and S. Vrána, Czech Geological Survey, Prague. ...Pb207 Pb208 Mine, locality, sample Pb206/Pb204 Pb207/Pb204 Pb208/Pb204 Bratrství, 1. máj mine Bratrství...level of the Rovnost mine. In 1924, the spring Curie at the 12th level of re-opened mine Svornost was brought...was encountered in 1928 at the same level of this mine and in 1952 the springs Evangelist and Prokop were
Report (volume)
_____________________ Mine descriptions________________________________________________ Box No. 4 mine._________...mine__________________________________________ Betty mine.__________________________________________________...mine____________________________________________ Hardy Fee mine-___________-_-_--___________-______-------- Guides...The cooperation of mine owners and operators was helpful in sampling and in mine studies. PREVIOUS WORK...readily mappable. South of the Buttes, in Converse County (pi. 2), the boundary is less easily mapped because
tinzenite91 opal, precious 32, 33 libethinite 65, 65 liebigite 53 limonite 37 opal, wood 32, 33 rutile 33,...suppliers are, in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California)...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...Tonopah. It is also found in the silver districts of Colorado, and at Butte, Montana. Sphalerite, ZnS: isometric
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104 leudte 76, 109, 11 l libeth inite 65, 65 liebigite 53 limonite 37 linarite 59, 60 liroconite 74 lithiophilite...59 zippeite 62 zircon 77, 78, 78 zoisite 88 THE MINE LKINGDOM All physical bodies in Nature can be...or slightly rotated Vitreous. Like glass 3 THE MINE Class I: native ·elements Chemical elernents found...especially near Ki1nberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimber/ite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Pren1ier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to
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mining; and in medium-grained sandstones in the Colorado Plateau, U.S.A. (average grade 0.2 percent U30g)...Territories of Canada, for radium and vanadium in Colorado, and for silver in Czechoslovakia. Most discoveries...1957), as described by Heinrich (1958) are: (1) Colorado Plateau, including adjoining areas and areas in...Frome, South Australia; Arlit area, Niger; and Colorado Plateau, U.S.A.), or gulf-type basins (e.g., Texas)...belts (e.g., Spain, France, Bohemian Massive, and Colorado Rockies); (4) in late magmatic differentiates
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softvva re, using data files from the Boulder, Colorado; Pau la Piilonen, Candian Museum of An1erican...vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...Saskatchewan, is the world's largest high-grade uraniu1n mine. The ore from that ,nine is crushed and treated...to start production at the Talvivaara Ni-Zn-Cu-Co mine, ,vhere bio-heap leaching is used to extract metals...Production is expected to grow when the Four Mile ISL mine comes on strea1n, and planned expansion of Olympic
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such areas as the Front Range mineral belt of Colorado; the Boulder batholith area, Montana ; the Sierra...Western States, including Arizona, California, Colorado~ Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, and FRANK...for uranium deposits, by the zoic rocks of the Colorado Plateau, are characterized lack of definite data...Radium lode-was first found in the South Terras mine in 1873 (Robertson and Dines, 1929, p. 147). Penrose...of ore was sold up to 1907 from the South Terra.s mine and that about 576 tons of uranium ores was produced
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 (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 by J. A...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
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M. Moreau, F. Tona The Pandanus Creek uranium mine, Northern Territory, Australia ......... 77 B...Schwartzwalder uranium deposit, Front Range, Colorado, USA ........................................ 159...genesis of uranium deposits at the Pitch Mine, Saguache County, Colorado ..................................ONickcl A longitudinal section of the Jaduguda Mine. in biotitc schists, chlorite-biotite schists...Russian literature, U.S. Department of Energy (Colorado) Publication (1980) 114 pp. (19) 20 KAZDAN,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
small, soft, thin, sixsided plates, implanted on pitch-blende, in compact spherical or flocculent masses...acid. At a rcd heat it becomes orange-red like liebigite, and gives off carbonic anhydride and water, to
Book
mid-1957, of vvhich 70% is in New Mexico, 16% in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and 8% in Wyo1ning. These...siliceous and Ruoritic types, and the oxidized Colorado Plateau deposits are desc1ibed vvith those that...origin, e.g., Blind River, \i\litwatersrand, and Colorado Plateau. The writer has attempted to present equitably.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colorado Plateau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (volume)
Tree deposit, San Rafael Swell, Utah 5 Maybell, Colorado 5 Palangana salt dome, Texas 5 Poison Basin, Wyoming...of the Grants area, New Mexico 9 Rifle Creek, Colorado 9 Shirley Basin, Wyoming 10 White Canyon, Utah...associations with petroliferous materials 10 Anderson mine, Date Creek Basin, Arizona 10 Cameron, Arizona 10...Orphan mine, Grand Canyon, Arizona 12 Tallahassee Creek, Colorado 12 Uravan mineral belt, Colorado 12 Geology...certain uranium districts of Wyoming and northern Colorado, especially in the Gas Hills district, Wyoming
Catalog/List
aupplied. Usually; the ■ine ~e ■ountain range, county and state will be furnished with speci■ens. PRIES:...Champion Mine Utah Crystal Peak,CO Four Peaks Horseshoe Dam Spain Maine Carter Mine,NC Champion Mine Grants..."Roses11 Hartse! !,CO Juanita Hi,NH Mexico Weldon Mine Norman, OK BARYIOCACIIE Hasive xln with Hausmanite...Rare langban ,SwNJt.o f.ngland Grant, New Hexic Colorado Cave of Be 11 s Wash. l'ass, WA Mexico California...Morado hi le ·san Manuel Hine 'Niaca, Mexico 79 Mine St. Hilaire UJuela MI, He Chef Mire Cerro Gordo
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so as to be distinc tive. Found only in Benito County, Cali fornia, the mineral is reported to fluo resce...equally good speci mens. The agate from Sweetwater County, Wyoming, exemplifies the uranium-acti vated quartz...from the 1400 foot level, number two vein, Eldorado Mine, Great Bear Lake, Canada. Pitchblende has a high...brown zircons from Henderson County, North Carolina, and Placer County, Calif., have an orange-brown...soon cease. This may be expected for obviously no mine is inexhaustible. With this in mind, we may expect
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instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified 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
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Livers Lambert, Boulder, Colorado. Typography by Argent Associates, Boulder, Colorado. 549!.125 QBI93-652...interest themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral...explore for fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in ...produced under ultraviolet light. Deserts were combed, mine dumps searched, and shelves filled with showy fluorescent...thanks are due to Peter Modreski of Littleton, Colorado; Dick and Mardy Zimmermann Arizona; Roy Parsons
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states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...copper ores, and at Butte, Montana, as well as Colorado, Arizona and Idaho. In Canada it occurs at Cobalt...Corocoro, Bolivia, and at Cananea, Mexico. In the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area...area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico. Treatment...and from Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. In the USA gold is often obtained by individual prospectors
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Livers Lambert, Boulder, Colorado. Typography by Argent Associates, Boulder, Colorado. Contents Preface...interest themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral...to explore for fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its...produced under ultraviolet light. Deserts were combed, mine dumps searched, and shelves filled with showy fluorescent...thanks are due to Peter Modreski of Littleton, Colorado; Dick and Mardy Zimmermann of Mesa, Arizona;
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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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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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chemist and mineralogist; student of Torbern Bergman; mine owner and mineral analyst; trained J. J. Berzelius...the Miller index for defining crystal faces. liebigite, Justus von Liebig (1803-1873), German chemist;...Canada, rynersonite, Rynerson family of San Diego County, California, sicklerite, Sickler family of Pala...Cebolla Creek, Gunnison County, Colorado, doloresite, Dolores River in Colorado, elbaite, Island of Elba...Moneta, in the Caribbean Sea. scawtite, Scawt Hill, County Antrim, Ireland. vesuvianite, Mount Vesuvius, Italy
 
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