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Chalcopyrite from
Freiberg Mine, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Freiberg Mine, Gold Hill Mining District, Boulder County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:492749
Long-form Identifier:1:3:492749:5
GUID (UUID V4):c0de662d-9cd0-451d-974f-d06cde40a05e
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pohwatp@si.edu Siderite Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province, PotosĂ­ Department...1. Gemmy siderite from Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla district, Sud Chichas Province, PotosĂ­ Department...Figure 2. Siderite with quartz, from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut. The composite crystals...of siderite were collected from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, where large cleavage masses to...(fig. 2). From the Palermo No. 1 mine, North Groton, Grafton County, New Hampshire, come microcrystals
Catalog/List
the western states. Colorado and Nevada were his favorites because of their mining and coin minting history...the university, Kevin delved into mineralogy and mining history, and began to update his mineral collection...country as well as exploring scores of abandoned mining towns from California to New Mexico to Montana...and in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin...and amethyst in Creede, Colorado, azurite and malachite in Jerome, Arizona, gold in Wickenburg, Arizona
Book (edition)
OX5 1 GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA Copyright © 2015, 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved...University, Calcutta - 700 032, India TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute of Mineralogy, Department of Economic...Economic Geology, Brennhausgasse 14, D-09596 Freiberg, Germany Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden...Average Hardness Soft minerals, such as galena or gold, are very difficult to polish without any scratches;...certain degree of bending, while some metals, such as gold, may be deformed into very thin sheets. The term
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
05:52 29 January 2015 FRENCH CREEK IRON MINE, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA M any minerals described...mineral, chalcopyrite, the dominant primary ore mineral of copper. Fortunately for both the mining industry...industry and the collector, chalcopyrite forms under a wide variety of geologic conditions and, consequently...exceptional with respect to the parent species, chalcopyrite. However, at one time several American localities...exceptional chalcopyrite specimens. One such locality is the French Creek iron mine, Chester County, Pennsylvania
Journal (issue)
Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com
Journal (issue)
1992 Volume Twenty-three, Number Three ® Articles Gold in South Africa ..................................C. R. Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County, Iowa ............. 231 by P. L. Garvin &...Sevillano The geosc_ience collections of the Freiberg Mining Academy .....................................in the still open underground workings of the Gem mine. He encountered an open pocket containing well formed...substantial quantities of candy for the children in the mining camps he would visit. He would typically stop in
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KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...................3 by W. E. Wilson The Keweenaw County Fissure Mines.............................................13 by C. J. Stefano The Cliff Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan.................................C. J. Stefano & P. Persson The Central Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan.................................Persson & C. J. Stefano The Copper Falls Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan............................85
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visually impaired, soap stone carving, lectures, gold panning, etc. Don't pin me in the number, but it...SHOW 4 Locations - TUCSON APRIL 25 - 27, 2008 COLORADO MINERAL FOSSIL SHOW Holiday Inn - Denver Central...SEPTEMBER10 - 14, 2008 COLORADO MINERAL The Best J1inerals & Fossilsin Tucson! COLORADO FOSSIL EXPO Plaza...Mineral News and beat next year's price increase! Freiberg, a Silver Tow November 2007 The y Karl Russ...good fortune isiting the old and famous mining town of Freiberg, Saxony, thanks largely to the effort and
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KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...2023 Articles The Bairendaba Deposit, Keshiketen District, Inner Mongolia, China................................363 by C. J. Stefano The Nakhlak Mine, Anarak District, Esfahan Province, Iran...................only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...(deceased) Peter L. Via (deceased) SENIOR FELLOWS Gold Level Scott A. Rudolph (2022) Gail & Jim Spann
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SHINKOLOBWE MINE, Host rock 1. Formational Name Mineral association I. Major Metallic Minerals Mine series...series J. Petrography Co-Ni sulfides Pyrite Chalcopyrite BELGIAN CONGO. Paragenesis Stage A Quartz with...copper Pitchblende or uraninite thin-bedded Native gold (in cubes). Geologic age 610 to 676 X 10e yrs...Pyrite Siderite 2. Co-Ni Calcite Chlorite 3. Chalcopyrite sulfides Talc Staœ½ D Dolomite or siderite...oligodasealbite, with pitchblende Sphalerite Chalcopyrite Pyrite Cobalt and nickel sulfides, arsenides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
no other group of minerals has more associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great...from hundreds of localities worldwide, and unlike gold, silver is quite a reactive element, forming more...recovered as a byproduct of low-grade copper and lead mining. This fact, coupled with the historically low price...utilized by humans (gold and copper were the first). The earliest known siIver mining occurred in Cappadocia...was rarer than gold. This probably reflects the fact that the earliest silver mining amounted to gathering
Journal (issue)
to: 7413 N. Mowry Place Tucson, AZ 85741 Articles Gold in South Africa ..................................C. R. Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County,Iowa ..................... 231 by P. L. Garvin...Sevillano The geoscience collections of the Freiberg Mining Academy .....................................in the still open underground workings of the Gem mine. He encountered an open pocket containing well formed...substantial quantities of candy for the children in the mining camps he would visit. He would typically stop in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
aikinite, gersdorfite, linarite, crocoite, native gold, vanadinite, caledonite, pyrophilite, fuchsite....native silver, arsen, hormotone, analcime, desmin. FREIBERG, Saxony, Germany, old famous mineral, classic... var. of tetrahedrite occurs in Freiberg region. SW of the Freiberg deposit is found locality Zinnwald:...name. WIELICZKA, near Krakow, Poland, oldest salt mine in Europe, beautiful large halite xls, anhydrate...beautiful axinite xIs, epidote. Fine twin quartz xIs, mine Gardett, Dauphine Isere. ROCKS AND MINERALS LIMOGES
Report (issue)
oresofo0000kell Telluride Ores of Boulder County, Colorado The Memoir Series of The Geological...America, Inc. Memoir 109 Telluride Ores of Boulder County, Colorado WILLIAM C. KELLY EpwINn N. GODDARD Department...SOCIETY OF AMERICA, INC. Colorado Building, P.O. Box 1719 Boulder, Colorado 80302 Printed in the United...assembling a representative collection of the Boulder ores. Dr. T. S. Lovering of the U.S. Geological...and numerous ore samples were donated by local mining men, particularly Fred Dopp, H. M. Williamson,
Journal (issue)
Page 7 By Prof. Jens Göetze TU Bergakademie Freiberg Page 19 25 Page Page 33 Page 35 Find your...your OwnAgate Collecting around Kremmling Colorado Morocco - The Country, The People and...Agates By...Mindat.org Agates and Associated Minerals of Creede Colorado By Philip Persson PerssonRareMinerals.com Mindat...Copyrights Reserved 2014 - Printed in Denver, Colorado IDA CHAU’S JOURNAL FROM THE 3RD MINDAT INTERNATIONAL...crystals. June 3rd & 4th, we drove to nearby Ivato, a gold locality. In the evening we visited the famous Ranomafana
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
National University] at 06:43 31 December 2014 mine in Colorado, and they found virtually the entire series...most important ores of silver, as noted for Broken Hill, Australia (Birch 1999). It is commonly found in...veins where it is associated with, among others, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, acanthite, bornite...pseudomorph collector there are examples of chalcopyrite, cuprite, covellite, pyrite, bournonite, and...tetrahedrite and pyrite specimen from the Anchor mine, Park City, Utah. The specimen was in the stock
Book (volume)
BY DR. RICHARD Professor of Geology and Freiberg Mining BECK Economic Geology Academy Translated...Institution of Mining Engineers (England) Member American ; Member Institute of Mining and Metallurgy;...Washington Academy of Science, etc., etc. Institute of Mining Engineers; WITH 272 FIGURES AND A MAP FIRST...ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL 1905 Copyright, 1905, by THE ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL EPIGENETIC...' This Kupferschiefer is cases. lean in this district, carrying only 1.4% of copper, and no silver,
Journal (issue)
(deceased) Peter L. Via Salim Edde Daniel Trinchillo Lyda Hill Scott A. Rudolph Daniel J. Record Gail & Jim Spann...May–June, 2017 Contents The St. Andreasberg Mining District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany.......................... 302 History 1487–1624: Mining Begins in the Oxidation Zone ................................. 315 Modernization and the End of Mining ................................... 317 Collecting...working in the lode” (Simonin, 1869). The Mining District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany
Book
and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...Paris ^ F* HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, east Germany ^ GEORGE HOLLOWAY, collector, Northridge...Sydney, AUSTRALIA ^ M. dusterud, Museum Manager, Mining Museum, Kongsberg, NORWAY ^ PAUL fraenkel, collector...London, England ^ e. m. gunnell, collector, Denver, Colorado, u. s. A. ^ HENRI HANSON, photographer and collector...but selection was by quality, not locality. The Mining Location Map on pages 24 and 25 indicates the country
Journal (issue)
$315/three years, (Canada) $180/ one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...(2009-2018) Mark Hay & Mary Ellen Dirlam (2016-2018) Lyda Hill Martin Zinn (2010-2018) Scott A. Rudolph Steven...September-October, 2018 Ctontento The Schneeberg Mining District, Western Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany ........(1716). The engraving depicts various historical mining scenes at Schneeberg including the famous 1477... Wilson6 and Thomas P. Moore7 The Schneeberg District in the famous Saxon Erzgebirge of Germany has
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at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...City cuts right through the middle of the Mining District. (Continued on page 2) The Moravian Territorial...km2), but with a rich and world- famous history of mining and associated mineralogy. In the city of Brno...Chlorargyrite, on and impregnating Sandstone, Silver Reef District, Washington Co., UT, 6 x 5 x 3 cm. Author’s specimen...Sandstone. Figure 3: Geologic map of the Mining District showing the outcrops of the Springdale Sandstone
Book (volume)
up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in... read 99.72. 345 23, down for Goat Hill read Great Hill. 80 read 81 3313 Colusite,for Cu3(Sn,Te...pageite read paigeite. for Algoma district read Sudbury District. in the left Itand figure in the
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l0/#2 Jeffrey mine (Quebec), Alpine Rodingites, Fluorite (Germany) $7 v.l0/#3 Taewha mine (Korea) Japan...(famous for Topaz, Red Beryl, etc) $7 v.l0/#6 Colorado-II Issue Locality Index, Amazonite, Mt. Antero...Cassirer Memoirs (part II) $7 v.l l/#2 Red Cloud mine (NM), Malachite (Australia, Uraninite, Kornerupine...Nealite, Sperrylite, Mullica Hill $7 v.ll/#6 Broken Hill (Zambia), Cruziero mine (Brazii), Caplan Interview...Zeolites $7 Enio (Brazil), Urubu (Brazil), Rock Candy mine (BC), Muddy creek (CO) $7 v.l2/#3 Pribram (Czecho
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Buffalo, New York 14205 66 Leek Crescent Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 1H1 Design and Layout: Joseph Gisini/PageWave...to be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...Madagascar e(2x23x3em Quartz, Mount Ida, Arkansas, USA ° 14x 15 x 10 cm Corundum, Mozambique * 17 x 11
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and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...Paris 4 F. HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, EAST GERMANY }& GEORGE HOLLOWAY, collector, Northridge...Sydney, AUSTRALIA Ye M. DUSTERUD, Museum Manager, Mining Museum, Kongsberg, NORWAY }& PAUL FRAENKEL, collector... ENGLAND ÂĄ& E. M. GUNNELL, collector, Denver, Colorado, U. S. A. \ HENRI HANSON, photographer and collector...but selection was by quality, not locality. The Mining Location Map on pages 24 and 25 indicates the country
 
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