| Locality type: | Creek |
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| Species: | Quartz var: Chalcedony |
| Formula: | SiO2 |
| Colour: | Blue |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
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| Agate | ⓘ6 photos of Chalcedony associated with Agate at this locality. |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Chalcedony data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Houselog Creek, Saguache County, Colorado, USA |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (7 photos) |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 491283 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:491283:5 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 9e736269-23c5-4822-a508-4c9c7887a6a9 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony |
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| 26.6km (16.5 miles) | ⓘLa Garita, Saguache County, Colorado, USA |
| 32.2km (20.0 miles) | ⓘDel Norte Thunder Egg beds, Saguache County, Colorado, USA |
| 47.0km (29.2 miles) | ⓘThornburg Mine (Los Ochos claims; Los Ochos Mine; Thornburg No. 1 Mine; T-1 Mine), Cochetopa Mining District (Cochetopa Creek Mining District), Saguache County, Colorado, USA |
| 50.4km (31.3 miles) | ⓘColorado Fluorspar Company Mine, Wagon Wheel Gap, Mineral County, Colorado, USA |
| 50.5km (31.4 miles) | ⓘAmethyst Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA |
| 50.6km (31.4 miles) | ⓘPoncha Pass Claim (3 Claims; Lucky Nos. 1), Poncha Pass Area, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA |
| 50.6km (31.5 miles) | ⓘCommodore Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA |
| 50.7km (31.5 miles) | ⓘLast Chance Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA |
| 50.8km (31.6 miles) | ⓘBachelor Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA |
| 51.9km (32.2 miles) | ⓘBulldog Mountain Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA |
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 | | 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...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...body of literature. The first published list of Colorado mineral localities (in cluding quartz) was included |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | October 2014 from the Del Norte Area, Saguache County, Colorado DANIEL E. KILE U.S. Geological Survey...Survey 3215 Marine Street, Suite E-127 Boulder, Colorado 80303 dekile@usgs.gov Figure 1. View of the Del Norte...late 1800s, the thunder-egg beds near Del Norte, Colorado, have provided the collector in recent times with...Brown (1957), they are typically enclosed in chalcedony, which comprises the interior of spherical nodules...denhitic growths that occur between bands of chalcedony, such as those found in Montana “moss” agate |  | | Book (volume) | | 56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...members. Searches could be confined to terrains and creek beds that expose vil Preface types of rocks...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...James D. Lindberg, Las Cruces, NM; Jack Lowell, Colorado Gem & Mineral Co., Tempe, AZ; Steven & Lorna Lukinuk |
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Houselog Creek, Saguache County, Colorado, USA