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Pyrite from
Bulldog Mountain Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Acanthite5 photos of Pyrite associated with Acanthite at this locality.
Arsenpolybasite4 photos of Pyrite associated with Arsenpolybasite at this locality.
Proustite-Pyrargyrite Series4 photos of Pyrite associated with Proustite-Pyrargyrite Series at this locality.
Native Amalgam4 photos of Pyrite associated with Native Amalgam at this locality.
Gold4 photos of Pyrite associated with Gold at this locality.
Silver1 photo of Pyrite associated with Silver at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Pyrite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bulldog Mountain Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:50699
Long-form Identifier:1:3:50699:3
GUID (UUID V4):6a0cec56-e932-46a4-b22c-bff6aeda57ab
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
1.4km (0.9 miles) Commodore Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Bachelor Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Monon Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.5km (1.5 miles) Corsair Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Last Chance Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Alpha Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) Amethyst Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
3.0km (1.8 miles) Kreutzer Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Solomon Mine, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) Happy Thought Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Bulldog Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral...Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine...private and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine... 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar”
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Bulldog Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral...Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine...private and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine... 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar”
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Bulldog Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral...Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine...private and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine... 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar”
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Bulldog Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral...Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine...private and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine... 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar”
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Microminerals in the Creede Mining District The Amethyst, Commodore No. 5 Mineral County, Colorado Unless otherwise...his collection & Bulldog Mountain Mines C reede is located in southwestern Colorado on the edge of the...in the Creede district was at the Holy Moses mine high above East Willow Creek, but the district did not...West Willow Creek approximately 1.5 miles north of Creede. The Commodore No. 5 ore bins are the first structures...Commodore mine perched on the mountainside. The Amethyst mine is north of the Commodore mine, and most
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...Amethyst, Last Chance, Commodore, and Bachelor. The mining encampment grew from a small settlement to a town...gravitated to mining boom towns. In 1890 the settlement was unofficially named Creede (Mumey 1949) in
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)
Zoningof the BulldogMountainVein System,Creede District, Colorado GEOFFREY S. PLUMI U.S.GeologicalSurvey... The BulldogMountainveinsystem,Creededistrict,Colorado,isoneof fourmajorepithermal vein systems fromwhichthe...eralizationstageshave been identifiedalongthe Bulldog Mountainveinsystem,eachwith a characteristic suiteof...ngpatternsacross the central and southern Creede district. The complexvariationsin mineralassemblages...systems(Amethyst,Bulldog Mountain,OH; seefig. 1, FoleyandAyuso,1994) in the Creede district from which the
Report (issue)
Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and Base-Metal Ores of the North Amethyst...Amethyst Vein System, Sari Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Alaska-Rm. 101, 4230 University Dr. • LAKEWOOD, Colorado-Federal Center, Bldg. 810 • MENLO PARK, California-Bldg...SPACE CENTER, Mississippi-Bldg. 3101 Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and...Amethyst Vein System, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado By NORA K. FOLEY, STANTON W. CADDEY, CRAIG
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
Report (issue)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The Creede, Colorado Ore-Forming System: A Summary Model by Philip...held as part of the Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America Meeting...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
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC RESULTS OF THE CREEDE CALDERA CONTINENTAL SCIENTIFIC DRILLING PROGRAM...94-260-G 2001 STABLE ISOTOPE GEOCHEMISTRY OF THE CREEDE FORMATION AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF FLUIDS...RESPONSIBLE FOR HYDROTHERMAL VEIN MINERALS IN THE CREEDE MINING DISTRICT By Robert O. Rye U.S. Geological Survey...epithermal silver and base-metal ores of the Creede mining district first proposed by Bethke and Rye (1979)...circulated deeply, rose in the northern part of the district, and mixed with overlying meteoric waters along
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)
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...Quartz Latite ____________________ _ Bachelor Mountain Rhyolite ____________________ _ Farmers Creek
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ore Depositionin the CreedeMining District, SanJuan Mountains,Colorado' Part IV. Sourceof Fluids from Oxygen...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)...interstitial waters in the moat surroundingthe Creede caldera. begunin an effortto establish the sources...This studywas Introduction 1832 CREEDEMINING DISTRICT: PART IV 1833 mostof thevein-filling history
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
February 2016 - Featured Mineral at the 1994 Denver Show Figure I (above). Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear...Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals showing light “cathedral” striations: specimen 3 by...specimen. Figure 2 (right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes;...C*O*L*O*R*A*D*O PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs by...by John R. Muntyan PYRITE, IRON SULFIDE, one of Nature’s most common minerals, is found in deposits all
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.......................................................................... Creede formation............................................................................ Campbell Mountain rhyolite........................................Comparison with Campbell Mountain rhyolite...................... 40 Mammoth Mountain rhyolite............
Report (issue)
SURVEY Stable Isotope Geochemistry of the Creede, Colorado, Hydrothermal System by Robert O. Rye1 Geoffrey...Juan Volcanic Field symposium, Rocky Mountain GSA, in Boulder, Colorado, May, 1987 (Rye et aL, 1987). Because...mineralization at Creede, some references in this report to other talks in the series or to district geological...of the stable isotope geochemistry of the Creede district now includes nearly 1000 measurements. Most...welldocumented samples from the southern part of the district However, initial work in the Northern Exploration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MUNTYAN 536 Third Avenue P.O. Box 495 Ouray, Colorado 81427 All photographs by John R. Muntyan of specimens...B ~i~~~~ 1. Mine along West willow Creek, near Creede and across from the Bachelor mine. Photo by author... arite (barium sulfate) is the most important mineral of barium; it is reported from numerous localities...the Rock Candy mine in British Columbia, Canada; and in the United States in Hardin County, Illinois, among...localities. Barite also occurs in many localities in Colorado, where it often forms attractive, wellcrystallized
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isère, France...Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals,...Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. A Acanthite, Colorado, 442; Utah
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Reston, VA 22092, USA ‘Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA (Received October...“metamorphic” ( Alleghany ), and “geothermal” (Creede, Salton Sea) aqueous systems. Br/Cl mol ratios...volatiles; and highest (near that of seawater) at Creede ( 1.5-2.1 X 10m3) and Alleghany ( 1.2-2.4 X 10m3)...mol ratios are lowest (near that of seawater) at Creede ( l-14 X 10e6), possibly because organisms scavenged...alkali-Al-silicate mineral buffers at fluid inclusion trapping temperatures at Creede, and large contributions
Report (issue)
Epithermal System: A Progress Report from Creede, Colorado by Geoffrey S. Plumlee 1 , Paul B. Barton2...Juan Volcanic Field symposium, Rocky Mountain GSA, in Boulder, Colorado, May, 1987 (Plumlee et al., 1987)...mineralization at Creede, some references in this report to other talks in the series or to district geological...SLIDE LEFT 1 - Schematic representation of the Creede system hydrology, showing where different types...processes in the Creede mineralizing system. The epithermal mineralization at Creede was deposited by
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
Report (issue)
Jalpaite Ag3 CuS2 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Tetragonal. Point Group:...743(1) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Boulder Co., Colorado, USA. 2.345 (100), 2.794 (90), 2.740 (80), 2.422...100.00 (1) Jalpa, Mexico. (2) Silver Plume, Colorado, USA; average of four analyses, S by difference....Association: Acanthite, mckinstryite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, stromeyerite, polybasite, pearceite...La Leonora mine, Jalpa, Zacatecas [TL], and at La Mesa, Chihuahua. In the USA, in Colorado, at the Payrock
Report (issue)
Fluid-inclusion data on samples from Creede, Colorado, in relation to mineral paragenesis By Terri L. Woods... Previous fluid-inclusion work on samples from Creede -- 6 Nature and limitations of the fluid-inclusion...rhodochrosite, quartz, and sphalerite from Creede, Colorado -- 30 Fluid-inclusion data for quartz from...Figure 1. Map showing location of the Creede mining district and extent of the San Juan volcanic field...relation of the Creede mining district to the La Garita, Bachelor, San Luis, and Creede calderas. 61
 
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