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Galena from
Mountain Top Mine, Governor Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Tetrahedrite Subgroup2 photos of Galena associated with Tetrahedrite Subgroup at this locality.
Sphalerite1 photo of Galena associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mountain Top Mine, Governor Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:490820
Long-form Identifier:1:3:490820:3
GUID (UUID V4):8b15a449-59df-4299-a591-02e27abe9219
Nearest other occurrences of Galena
0.4km (0.2 miles) Terrible Mine, Governor Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Virginius Mine, Governor Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Smuggler Vein, Smuggler Union Mine, Marshall Basin, Telluride Mining District, Colorado, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Smuggler Union Mine, Marshall Basin, Telluride Mining District, Colorado, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Eldorado Mine, Yankee Boy Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Atlas Mine, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
2.2km (1.3 miles) Yankee Boy Mine, Yankee Boy Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Revenue Mine, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Wheel of Fortune Mine, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
3.1km (1.9 miles) Fortuna Mine, Telluride Mining District, Colorado, USA
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Book (edition)
Tourist as well. All of the 19 Rock Forma­ tions at Ouray, dating from the Pre-Cambrian to the Cenozoic Eras...Report of 1S80 relating to the growing Mining Industry at Ouray is printed in its entirety. Many historic...Survey, Tom Rosemeyer, Chief Engineer, Camp Bird Mine and Miss Margaret B. Allen, M.A. of Orange, New...Introduction to Mineral Collecting at Ouray................ The Minerals at Ouray.............................................................................. Galena...............................................
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'Scope 1 OURAY Eldorado mine IfXCamp Bird mine TEIXURTOE 'TMdarado mine q Eureka Red Mountain Pass Downloaded...Bird Mine Road P . O . Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 Tom Rosemeyer is the owner of Red Mountain Explora­...Explora­ tion and has mined and collected minerals in Colorado for the past twenty years. Microminerals of the...the San Juan Mountains, Southwestern Colorado WELCOME TO -THROUGH THE 'SCOPE," a column devoted to news...in ex­ ploration and mining in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado for Ihe past twenty years
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Radioactivity in the Metal-Mining Districts of the San Juan Mountains Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY --*_-...Radioactivity in the Metal-Mining Districts of the San Juan Mountains Colorado By C. T. PIERSON, W. F. WEEKS...radioactivity in the metal-mining districts of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, by C. T. Pierson, W. F..._______________ CeboUa district..______________________________ Upper Uncompahgre district. ______ _________________________...localities ____________ _________________ Red Mountain district____________________________________ Introductory
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org/details/coloradoitsgolds1880foss 77 Colorado Gold and Silver Mines, FARMS AND STOCK RANGES...r^HIS volume, as its name implies, is devoted to Colorado. Its con¬ tents are descriptive, statistical...interests. devoted to the mines. Part fourth is As mining is Colorado’s main industry and source of wealth...could make them. The narrative of gold and silver mining possesses enough of romance and adventure to interest...general reader, and the descriptions of mines, and of mining and milling, together with statements of requisite
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sOO0Ofoss Colorado LITHO BY WALSWORTH PUB. CO., INC., MARCELINE, MO. Colorado GOLD AND FARMS...Denver, of all other McMahon, unpublished Mining District, in reproduction. map Colo. places Albuquerque...Albuquerque, NM of Leadville a map of Territorial Colorado c. 1876, and a woodcut engraving Bird’s Eye View...scock G. York, Includes indexes. 1. Colorado. 2. Colorado. is Waele. Mines and mineral resources--...DressOne. MEXIC ies 35 Publisher’s Preface Colorado! The very name (which means “‘colored red’’) conjures
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THE ! UNCOMPAHGRE PRIMITIVE AREA, "OT TTHWESTERN COLORADO - c-t SURVEY BULLETIN 1391-E Mineral Resources...Primitive Area, San Juan Mountains, Southwestern Colorado By T. A. STEVEN, P. W. LIPMAN, F. S. FISHER, U...primitive area, San Juan Mountains, southwestern Colorado. (Studies related to wilderness primitive areas)...I 19.3-.1391-E 1. Mines and mineral resources Colorado San Juan Mountains. I. Steven, Thomas August,...Primitive Area, San Juan Mountains, southwestern Colorado, and some adjoining national forest lands that
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Mineral Resources of the Uncompahgre Primitive Area Colorado By R. P. FISCHER and R. G. LUEDKE, U.S. GEOLOGICAL...mineral survey in the Uncompahgre primitive area, Colorado. The area discussed in the report corresponds...______ Ouray area____j______________________-.__________________ Mount Sneff els-Red Mountain Creek area...______________________________________ Engineer Mountain-Red Mountain Creek area._______________ Wetterhorn Peak-Henson...and R. G. Raabe_____.__..___ Claim coverage and mine workings._____________________________ Patented
Report (issue)
SILVER ENRICHMENT IN THE SAN JUAN MOUNTAINS, COLORADO. By EDSON S. BASTIN. INTRODUCTION. The following...made in the study of a particular topic in one district would aid in the study of the same topic in the...regional report, it must be remembered that for each district only such information could be used as was readily...work in the encouragement which they offer to deep mining, irrespective of more purely scientific results...through duties incident to the war. In the work near Ouray the writer was accompanied by Chase Palmer, chemist
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
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THE LOS BURROS DISTRICT, MONTEREY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. By JAMES M. HILL. INTRODUCTION. The following...prospects of the Los Burros district, in the southwestern part of Monterey County, Calif., are based on observations...properties and the caretaker at the Buclimo mine. The district lies on the west side of the rugged Coast...Coast Range, near the south line of Monterey County, in Tps. 23 and 24 S., R. 25 E. Mount Diablo meridian...Most of the prospects are confined to the drainage basin of Willow Creek and the headwaters of Alder Creek
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Opbir-Burroughs, HILL anp NEVADAVILLE. Mercer County. ; ; California, First Nat’] Burroughs and Kansas...ae American Hilae Ss POSEN 1% xiS LEA Colorado GOLD AND FARMS SILVER AND Peet tt Ae STOCK...HIS volume, as its name implies, is devoted to Colorado. tents are descriptive, statistical, and historical...part information A devoted to the mines. As mining is Colorado’s main industry and source of wealth...could make them. The narrative of gold and silver mining and possesses enough of romance : lays from
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es MC =) a oS MINING 147 AND MINERAL OPERATIONS IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN STATES A VISITOR GUIDE...States. Bureau of Mines. Mining and mineral operations in the Rocky Mountain States; a visitor guide,...and nonmetallics. Stable and economic domestic mining, mineral, metal, and mineral reclamation industries...enjoy your experiences. This pamphlet, a guide to mining and mineral operations that may be observed or...aid tourists and students who are interested in mining. Some may wish to study our Nation’s romantic past;
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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
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SURV Department of Natural Resources Denver, Colorado/ 2009 NOa COVER CREDITS Design: Larry Scott...Library, Western History Department Independence Mountain placer location map (page 73) Back cover: U.S...collection, Colorado Historical Society (see page 16) ISBN: 978-1-884216-23-7 Colorado Geological Survey...koom?/ 15 Denver, CO. 80203 (303) 866-2611 Colorado Geological Survey Information Series 33 GOLD...GOLD PANNING AND PLACERING 622.342 P238 IN COLORADO How AND WHERE =e Drawings and maps drafted by
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atid aeseae eueneSasehr i ia Bdtit _WYOQMING COLORADO _ LADORE 7C CRAIG r3GRANBY 17d KREMMLING...COEORADORI 2 NEW MEXICO x pec, Inn? UKE) COLORADO TOURS LEGEND NUMBERED TOURS UNNUMBERED TOUR...Gallege COLORADO A Guide to the Highest State WITHDRAWN AWAACK TAY 2 \e Line COLORADO A Guide...Program Projects Administration of the State of Colorado AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES ILLUSTRATED HASTINGS...Note About the New Edition This revision of Colorado, A Guide to the Highest State, brings abundant
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GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Locatable Mineral Reports for Colorado, South Dakota, and Wyoming provided to the U.S.............................................. 1 COLORADO ................................................San Isabel and White River National Forests Lake County Land Exchange Offer (Iocmin40) ......................... 47 White River National Forest Dillon District Land Exchange Joint Venture (Iocmin38) ......................... 138 FIGURES OR ATTACHMENTS COLORADO Pike National Forests Shepard and Associates Land
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Garita Wilderness, San uan Mountains, Sout iwestern Colorado By THOMAS A. STEVEN, U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, and...Garita Wilderness, San Juan Mountains, southwestern Colorado. (Studies related to wilderness wilderness areas)...no.: 119.3:1420 1. Mines and mineral resources Colorado La Garita Wilderness. I. Bieniewski, Carl L.,...a mineral survey of the La Garita Wilderness, Colorado. CONTENTS Page Summary............................................................ Sky City mine area ..........................................
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long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
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........... Copper deposits of the White Mesa district, Ariz., by J. M. Hill............ Survey publications...the Dome district, Idaho, by J. B. Umpleby.... The Yellow Pine mining district, Clark County, Nev., by...Page. Notes on the Quaternary lakes of the Great Basin, with special reference to the deposition of potash...sulphate in the Carrizo Plain, San Luis Obispo County, Cal., by U.S. Gale............................................. 428 Borate deposits in Ventura County, Cal., by H. S. Gale.................. 434 Potash
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Director Published in the Central Region, Denver, Colorado Manuscript approved for publication November 4...sessions at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section, Geological Society of America, Sun Valley...1988), and on December 7, 1989, at the Northwest Mining Association 95th Annual Convention and Trade Show...the Mineral Hill and Warm Springs mining districts, Blaine County, Idaho: Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology...Deposits in the Lake Creek Mineralized Area, Blaine County, South-Central Idaho By Bradford R. Burton and
 
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