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Amethyst from
Amethyst Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Amethyst Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:48634
Long-form Identifier:1:3:48634:3
GUID (UUID V4):42fae31c-4b0e-4fea-bbdc-b6fba3b58546
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
0.2km (0.1 miles) Last Chance Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Happy Thought Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) Park Regent Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Bachelor Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Overholt Lode, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Emperius Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Commodore Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Exchequer Tunnel Occurrence, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) Bulldog Mountain Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Mammoth Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
References
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2014 Creede The last Wild West Silver Mining Camp in Colorado T he Creede mining district, located...and rugged San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Although silver was discovered in the area in...cause much excitement until 1889 when Nicholas C. Creede and his two partners found rich silver ore near...that would later be known as the Amethyst vein system (a.k.a. Amethyst fault system), host to such well-known...well-known mines as the Amethyst, Last Chance, Commodore, and Bachelor. The mining encampment grew from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COLORADO AMETHYST THOMAS C . MICHALSKI U. S. Geological Survey Denver Federal Center Denver, Colorado...E CENTURY, COL­ O R A D O ' S N U M E R O U S amethyst localities have been studied and recorded in geologic...few present-day mineral collectors are aware that Colorado has any significant amethyst occur­ rences....o l d " amethyst localities are, however, still capable of producing fine gemstone and mineral specimens...specimens. Background Amethyst, the purple variety of crystalline quartz, has been admired for centuries because
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver
Journal (issue)
Find your OwnAgate Collecting around Kremmling Colorado Morocco - The Country, The People and...Agates...Mindat.org Agates and Associated Minerals of Creede Colorado By Philip Persson PerssonRareMinerals.com ...information ranging from listing mineral localities, facts about mineral species, photographs of worldwide...to typical reference specimens), photographs of mineral localities (both modern and historical), publication...Copyrights Reserved 2014 - Printed in Denver, Colorado IDA CHAU’S JOURNAL FROM THE 3RD MINDAT INTERNATIONAL
Report (issue)
Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and Base-Metal Ores of the North Amethyst Vein...Vein System, Sari Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER...Alaska-Rm. 101, 4230 University Dr. • LAKEWOOD, Colorado-Federal Center, Bldg. 810 • MENLO PARK, California-Bldg... Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and Base-Metal Ores of the North Amethyst Vein...Vein System, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado By NORA K. FOLEY, STANTON W. CADDEY, CRAIG B.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Microminerals in the Creede Mining District The Amethyst, Commodore No. 5 Mineral County, Colorado Unless otherwise...Mountain Mines C reede is located in southwestern Colorado on the edge of the San Juan Mountains just south...in the Creede district was at the Holy Moses mine high above East Willow Creek, but the district did not...made along West Willow Creek on the Amethyst vein system. The Amethyst and Commodore No. 5 mines are located...West Willow Creek approximately 1.5 miles north of Creede. The Commodore No. 5 ore bins are the first structures
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HISTORY OF FOUR Native Silver Localities 7 in Colorado Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego]...72 Golden, Colorado 80403 All photos by author unless otherwise noted SINCE 1859 COLORADO HAS PRODUCED...metal. Native silver in Colorado has been deposited both as a primary mineral, crystallized directly from...from hydrothermal fluids, and as a secondary mineral, precipitated during the various processes involved...silver specimen producers-Caribou, Ward, Aspen, and Creede. Secondary silver may be the only form of the native
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Although Colorado may be most noted for rhodochrosite or amazonite, the many varieties and associations...a k e w o o d , Colorado 80225 DIANNE L. K I L E 333 S a l e m Street Aurora, Colorado 80011 C O L O...physiography provides a setting for about 750 known mineral species.* Of these, quartz is one of the most desirable...and J. A. Mur­ phy for an update to Minerals of Colorado: A 100-Year Record (Eckel, 1961). 374 ROCKS... Quartz was a familiar gemstone to many early Colorado residents, as documented by an extensive body
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology Contrib Mineral Petrol (1985) 91:171 179 9 Springer-Verlag 1985...paleotemperature indicator in the Amethyst vein system, Creede district, Colorado, USA Duane G. Horton 1 University...University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, USA Abstract. Ordered i!lite/smectite is the most abundant and...Oligocene, epithermal, Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu-Au Amethyst vein system, southwest Colorado. Hydrothermal illite/smectites...with distance from the Amethyst vein. With increasing distance from the vein, percent illite and the
Report (issue)
978-0-9836323-2-0 Publisher Lithographie, Ltd. Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria A. Staebler © 2012...Lithographic, Ltd. PO Box 11613 • Denver, CO 80211 • USA Phone: 1.303.495.5521 • Fax: 1.303.482.1238 W\\w...of America PHOTO CREDITS Cover: Quartz variety amethyst, 10.5 cm tall Goboboseb Mountains, Erongo Region...collection, Jeff Scovil photo Title (facing) Page Amethyst mouse with gold tail, 130 grams, 6.3 cm wide Carved...Brazilian amethyst Private collection, Robert Weldon photo © 2009 GIA Page 2 Quartz variety amethyst, 3.5
Report (issue)
RECENT MINING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO By ESPEK S. LAKSEN ABSTRACT The Creede district...greater part of this output came from the great Amethyst vein, which lies along a major fault. Nearly all...all of the ore was mined from parts of the vein that were enriched by surface solutions and were above the...the Nelson tunnel. Production from this vein practically ceased about a decade ago. Extensive prospecting...opened a good ore body in the western branch of the Amethyst fault at its south end, and several small but
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...Fisher Quartz La ti te ___________________________ _ Creede Formation _____________________________ _ Surficial
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......................................................................... Amethyst mill.......................................................................................... Creede formation........................................58 58 59 59 59 59 59 60 CONTENTS. Chapter V. Creede formation.....................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
InclusionStudyof the SouthernAmethyst Vein System,Creede Mining District, Colorado RICHARD W. ROBINSON* AND DAVID...andfluid inclusionstudies.Mineralizationoccursas vein fillingsand disseminations confinedto areas of high...severalothervein systems in the district,occurin the southernAmethyst vein system. The paragenesis is divided...paragenesis of the oresin the Creede district. Analysisof fluid inclusionsin stage2 vein quartz showedthat averagehomogenization...lower to upperlevelsof the mine. Inclusionsin stage2 quartzfrom the lower mine levelshad an averageTh =
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
S OF C R E E D E , M I N E R A L C O U N T Y , COLORADO By ARTHUR E. SMITH, JR. 91 18 Concho, Houston...written in recent years on the mineral and rock collecting at Creede. This region has much to offer the...collectors make Creede a stopping point for their Color­ ado vacations. The region around Creede is said to...collecting is for mineral specimens though some lapidary materials such as sowbelly agate, amethyst, chrysoprase...turquoise have been collected. Many who collect at the Creede Mines do not know what minerals to look for and
Report (issue)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The Creede, Colorado Ore-Forming System: A Summary Model by Philip...geochronology, and wallrock alteration in the Creede mining district, Colorado and of studies of the evolution of...still qualitative and still evolving, model of the Creede hydrothermal system. Ores were deposited from a...discovered mineralization in the northern end of the district. The system was dominated by two fortuitiously...evaporation in a playa lake in the moat of the Creede caldera and later diagenesis. Much of the ore lead
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum of Nature and Science 2001 Colorado Boulevard Denver, Colorado 80205-5798 jmurphy @ dmns.org PETER...Survey MS 150, Box 25046 Federal Center Denver, Colorado 80225-0046 pmodresk @ usgs.gov Unless otherwise...to 2000) J oin us for a gemstone tour around Colorado! Our field trip takes us from east to west in...the same way you may have toured through Colorado on a mineral collecting trip. This route, from the plains...gemstones are known to occur. We cannot discuss every Colorado gemstone occurrence; rather, this is a general
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ore Depositionin the CreedeMining District, SanJuan Mountains,Colorado' Part IV. Sourceof Fluids from Oxygen...formation of the nearsurface silver-basemetal vein depositsat Creede was measuredby direct analysis of inclusionfluidsin...(number of determinationsgiven in parentheses): Mineral Sphalerite Quartz Illire aDn2o %o -81 to -54 (4)...suggestthat waters from three coexistingreservoirsfed the vein system alternatelyandepisodically duringvein formation...waters. We propose that the quartzfluidsenteredthe vein systemfrom reservoirs beneath the mountainous areasto
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
Journal (issue)
ISSUE 06 • JUNE 2020 CAPTIVATED BY CREEDE Evolution of a Silver-Mining Boomtown METAMORPHIC INDEX MINERALS... 50 NO. 06 • JUNE 2020 10 SILVER MINING SURVIVOR Creede Colorado Navigates Economic Transition While...20 SOUTHWEST SUMMER Exploring San Juan Mountain Mining History 50 FIELD TRIP FOCUS Making Memories and...Serras-Herman REGULAR COLUMNS Witness to Morocco’s Modern Mining Rush Field Notes ...............................about the Polka Dot Mine in Central Oregon, information about connecting with the mine via Facebook was
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zoningof the BulldogMountainVein System,Creede District, Colorado GEOFFREY S. PLUMI U.S.GeologicalSurvey...BulldogMountainveinsystem,Creededistrict,Colorado,isoneof fourmajorepithermal vein systems fromwhichthe bulk of the...distributionwithin the vein system;someof thesestagesare alsostrongly zonedwithin the vein system.StageA wasdominatedby...ts were deposited in modestamountsthroughoutthe vein system.Thiscomplexassemblage markedthe transitionto...ngpatternsacross the central and southern Creede district. The complexvariationsin mineralassemblages
 
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