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Limonite from
King Turquoise Mine, Manassa, Conejos County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Limonite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Limonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view King Turquoise Mine, Manassa, Conejos County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:493276
Long-form Identifier:1:3:493276:5
GUID (UUID V4):9fc9d9a8-653d-4bbd-89c7-3aa272aa7a66
Nearest other occurrences of Limonite
53.6km (33.3 miles) Unnamed prospect, Lower Cabresto Creek, Cabresto Creek, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
54.8km (34.1 miles) Hornet prospect (Weary Willie prospect ?), Cabresto Creek, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
54.8km (34.1 miles) Hornet prospect, Questa, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
55.5km (34.5 miles) Gray Hawk prospect (McDonald prospect), Questa, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
56.7km (35.3 miles) Log Cabin Canyon prospect (Fibbs-Nogle prospect; Steve's prospect ?), Questa, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
56.8km (35.3 miles) Horner prospect, Questa, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
57.1km (35.5 miles) Questa Molybdenum Mine (Questa Mine; Moly Mine; R and S Mine), Questa, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
57.2km (35.5 miles) Hanosh prospect, Questa, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
57.3km (35.6 miles) BJB prospects (Wilde prospects; Goat Hill Gulch prospects), Questa, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
57.5km (35.7 miles) Unnamed prospects, Spring Gulch, Questa, Taos County, New Mexico, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bluff, in S/E San Juan County, is in S/E Utah. Downloaded by [JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY] at 18:54 25 August...From Tulta, Okla. George A. "Rocky" Evans, 510 King St., Belvidere, IH., 61008, sent in the following...quartz (colorless but stained brown by limonite) plus dark brown limonite which gives the sand its color. "From...New Mexico."—on label. Tulsa, in western Tulsa County, is in N/E Oklahoma. Beach Sand From Cape Breton...England. TURQUOISE AND WAVELLITE FROM KING TURQUOISE MINE By RICHARD M. PEARL Colorado College Colorado Springs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
were on the road. Our first stop was at the King Turquoise Mine in Colorado's famous San Luis Valley. The...miles east of Manassa (Conejos County), Colo. The Indians originally discovered the turquoise, and it has...has been worked off and on since. The turquoise is different here, because it comes in many shades of blue...shade. The mine owner's son told us the mine has produced about $27,000 worth of turquoise over the years...eastern Socorro County, N . Mexico. Mrs. Blanchard char- i^«ÉJ Upper Level of the Blanchard Mine, Bingham
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Creek Sand From Iowa Bingham, in southern Somerset County, "I am sending you a sand sample from a small creek...Buchanan County line in Lucas County in N / W Ohio. Sand From Recapture Pocket, Utah Black Hawk County (west...Utah. It is a fantastic place. The floor of the County of N / E Iowa. If gold is present in the creek...sils are found in this area, but I found uranium mine halfway down one wall." none in the sand."—sent...no ROCKS AND MINERALS Bluff, in S/E San Juan County, is in S/E Utah. Downloaded by [Stockholm University
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...in the same way you may have toured through Colorado on a mineral collecting trip. This route, from the...gemstones are known to occur. We cannot discuss every Colorado gemstone occurrence; rather, this is a general
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bill Cole 408 Dickinson, Chillicothe, Mo. TURQUOISE Turquoise is a gemstone which has become very popular...general public when made up into the beautiful Turquoise and Silver jewelry of Indian design and workmanship...which is sold extensively in the Western States. Turquoise is a gem whose quality and price vary as much...controlling factor in its value. As a mineral, the Turquoise is chiefly a Hydrous Copper-Aluminum Phosphate...material considerably. The specific gravity of Turquoise varies wtih the water content from 2.52 to 2.85
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of COLORADO ED RAINES Geology Museum Colorado School of Mines 1310 Maple Street Golden, Colorado 80401...noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...photographer unknown. B etween 1868 and 1922, Colorado produced almost 260 million pounds of copper....with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926). During the twentieth century...mined (Beaty, Landis, and Thompson 1990). Total Colorado production prior to 1958 reached 585 million pounds
Report (volume)
Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals are a traditional...3-cm-tall wavellite from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas; kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd photo...Limestone Company quarry, Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The 2.8 × 2.7 × 1.5-cm specimen...found with iron phosphates in certain ecomonic “limonite” deposits and in some productive sedimentary phosphate...includes such species as crandallite, variscite, turquoise, and the apatite group. Wavellite is a well-known
Book (volume)
SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas... Also by Allan W. Eckert Bayou Backwaters The King Snake Blue Jacket The Owls of North America The...Southwestern Quadrant Arizoni, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisicna, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas...Location Numbers Arizona Arkansas California Colorado 258 Louis B30 ana HOW TO USE THIS BOOK...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible
Journal (issue)
JASPER ORBS: Formation of Unique Features Turquoise Mining ROCK & GEM • Vol. 49 No. 06 • U.S. $5.99...Enigmatic Phenomenon (Part I) 18 North Star Turquoise Joe Dehmer New, Natural and Native American...The Cover Turquoise rough recently extracted from the North Star Mine in Cripple Creek, Colorado; a specimen...started in 1894 underground at the United Verde mine. The fire seems to have started spontaneously when... For an interesting description of this unusual mine ire event and its resulting products, there is a
Journal (issue)
PARADISE ’Burtis Blue’ A New Strike of Turquoise in Colorado Ancient Greece Fossils, Minerals and History...with lepidolite (5.2 cm high) is from the Jonas mine in Conselheiro Pena (Minas Gerais). (Jeff Scovil...minerals by Bob Jones Colorado’s Burtis Blue Turquoise ........... 18 a new strike at cripple creek by...retail show; LLD Productions; Holiday Inn-Orange County Airport; 2726 S. Grand Ave.; Fri. 10-6, Sat. 10-6...elbaite and the beryls, along with non-gem The Jonas mine, near Conselheiro Pena, produced huge quantities
Report (issue)
Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961).
Journal (issue)
Famous mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah .....................................Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado .........................................33 by B. Cairncross The Jan Coetzee copper mine, Namaqualand, South Africa .......................California Santa Barbara, California 93106 The Gold Hill mine in western Utah has long been an important locality...o f this old mine. INTRODUCTION The Gold Hill mine is located in western Tooele County, Utah, in the
Book (edition)
from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is...Horensky, W. D. Hudson, Dr. J. Ingersoll, Dr. E. A. King, Jeffrey J. Kunzeman, Tom Kurupas, M. G. Laberge...cut gem 4. Mounce diamond crystal 5. Gibson's Ruby mine, Cowee Creek, North Carolina 6. Corundum Hill, North...Eldorado Bar, Montana 8. W. D. Baltzley 9. Ellis mine pocket, Hiddenite, North Carolina 10. View of American
Book
the press; I. bourne, William of Melbourne, King, Sir original Watkins, the Honorable and ...{ln colour) . . . 360 Collection. Rough Turquoise {ln colour ) . 390 Australia of Shakespeare...being deities in of Lady natural reverenced Turquoise prayer, of 11 as praise, Hebrew Opener...the son Bible), THE 28 MAGIC SCIENCE AND King of all Egypt, and the month Thoth began the Egyptian...ancient a part a can graphically rendered by King tical: A Sard is put the the have this species
 
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