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Pyrite from
Blue Cap Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Blue Cap Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:548673
Long-form Identifier:1:3:548673:1
GUID (UUID V4):cae7970f-a83d-4cbb-af3c-407c7838d5d5
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.1km (0.1 miles) Black Hat Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Vanadium Queen Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
3.0km (1.9 miles) Gray Daun Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) Firefly–Pigmay Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Cliff Dweller Mine, La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
10.2km (6.3 miles) Cashin Mine (Red Chief claim; Titon claim; Angell claim; Horse Shoe claim; Bennie claim; Maud claim; Humboldt claim), La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
14.1km (8.8 miles) Pandora Mine, La Sal Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
20.2km (12.5 miles) Lisbon Valley Copper Mine, Lisbon Valley Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
20.7km (12.8 miles) Blue Crystal Mine, Lisbon Valley Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
22.1km (13.7 miles) Radon Mine, Lisbon Valley Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the La Sal mining district, Utah: the Vanadium Queen mine, La Sal Creek Canyon, and the Blue Cap mine...mine, Lyon Canyon Creek, San Juan County, Utah. Crystals of postite are thin, golden-yellow, elongated prisms...at the Vanadium Queen mine, better crystals were later found at the Blue Cap mine in the same stratigraphic...natrozippeite, navajoite, paramontroseite, pascoite, pyrite, rossite, selenium, sherwoodite, sulfur, tyuyamunite...aqueous solutions acidified by the breakdown of pyrite mobilize and precipitate secondary vanadate phases
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
H2O, A NEW MINERAL SPECIES FROM THE LA SAL MINING DISTRICT, UTAH: CRYSTAL STRUCTURE AND DESCRIPTIVE MINERALOGY...Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...City, Utah 84108, U.S.A. Barbara NASH Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt...Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, U.S.A. Abstract Postite, Mg(H2O)6Al2(OH)2(H2O)8(V10O28)•13H2O, is a new mineral...Queen mine, La Sal Creek Canyon, and the Blue Cap mine, Lyon Canyon Creek, San Juan County, Utah, U.S
Report (issue)
1793(10) Z=1 X-ray Powder Pattern: Blue Cap mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA. 7.211 (100), 2.968 (50), 2.470...50.85 37.89 11.26 100.00 (1) Blue Cap mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA; average of 4 electron microprobe...vanadium oxides in a post-mining environment. Association: Gypsum, rossite, pyrite, montroseite, magnesiopascoite...magnesiopascoite. Distribution: Blue Cap mine, near La Sal, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Name: Honors Joe Marty...Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, USA, 58610 and 58611. References: (1) Kampf
Report (issue)
7149(8) X-ray Powder Pattern: Blue Cap mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA. 8.571 (100), 7.270 (40), 8.872...2.98 67.35 21.35 100.00 (1) Blue Cap mine, San Juan County, Utah, USA; average of 4 electron microprobe...vanadium oxides in a post-mining environment. Association: Gypsum, rossite, pyrite, montroseite, martyite...Distribution: Blue Cap and Vanadium Queen mines, near La Sal, San Juan County, Utah, USA. Name: As the...Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, USA, 58610 and 58611. References: (1) Kampf
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...mineral species from the Blue Cap mine, near La Sal, San Juan County, Utah, U.S.A., is named for its...its discoverer, Joe Marty, of Salt Lake City, Utah, who is also responsible for the discovery of three other...minerals from the same area. Martyite formed from post-mining leaching and oxidation of V -U oxide replacements...structure, divanadate, volborthite group, Blue Cap mine, Utah. SOMMAIRE La martyite, Zn3(V 207 )(OHho2H20, nouvelle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...mineral species from the Blue Cap mine, near La Sal, San Juan County, Utah, U.S.A., is named as the Mg...of pascoite. Magnesiopascoite formed from post-mining leaching and oxidation of V-U oxide replacements...decavanadate, pascoite group, Blue Cap mine, Utah. SOMMAIRE Nous decrivons la magnesiopascoue, Ca2Mg(V 1002S)oI6H20...de la mine Blue Cap, pres de La Sal, cornte de San Juan, au Utah; il s'agit de l'analogueMg de la pascoite
Report (volume)
ultimately led to a mining "boom ll in the 1950 IS. Since I ts meager start at Roc Creek In IS61, the Uravan...the Tallahassee Creek distrIct in Fremont County. Uranium, recoverable by solution mining of Upper Cretaceous...evaluated In Weld County. VBlntype uran I urn occurrence 5 are typ I fled in Je f farson County by the Schwartzwal...Schwartzwal der Mi ne, the largest uranium mine In Colorado. Part 2 contains in the bibliography of approximately...occurrences In the state, with cross-Indexes by county, host rock, and the special categoriesof "Front
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Fisher History of the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...the famous “blue cap” tourmalines discovered at the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California...web site at www.wmtucson.com DANBURITE – Aurora Mine, Charcas, SanLuis Potosi, Mexico When in Tucson...contacted the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County to ask whether the Museum and its Gem and Mineral
Journal (issue)
Topaz- Barry and Beth Kitt collection, page 150; Blue Topaz-Lyda Hili collection, page 126. (right colurnn)...Aquamarine-Wally Mann collection, page 193. (rniddle colurnn) Blue Halite-Thad and Barbara Dunbar collection, page...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the interaction of organic matter with oxidizing pyrite and marcasite. Ammoniomagnesiovoltaite forms crusts...selvages. Beryl, molibdenite, wolframite, cassiterite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite...associated with xenotime-(Y), calcioancylite-(Nd), and La-dominant calcioancylite. Atelisite-(Y) forms transparent...TlPb4(Sb7As2)S9S18, a new mineral species from the Monte Arsiccio mine: occurrence and crystal structure. Canadian Mineralogist...TlPb4(Sb7As2)S9S18, is a new mineral found in the barite–pyrite–iron oxides deposit of Monte Arsiccio, near Sant’Anna
Journal (issue)
Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root
Journal (issue)
Industry Background image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the...They are Found zite (201 cts) is from the Oceanview Mine in Southern California; the 0.72-ct benitoite (left...More Than a Century-Old Legacy blue) is from the Dallas Gem Mine area, San America’s Royal Gems – Montana...Montana and Yogo Sapphires Benito County, California; the group of sapGems Found in the U.S. State of Maine...Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing Turquoise ite Country, Montana. Photos of gemstones
Journal (issue)
MINING WORLD CATALOG, SURVEY & DIRECTORY NUMBER Blue Pages Pink Section Yellow Pages DIRECTORY INDEX...EQUIPMENT Metals and Minerals Review Aluminum BLUE RIBBON for 1960 pages 56-62 2 MACHINERY COMPANIES...231-26] > 68 United States Mining in 1960 State-by-state report from and MINING to zinc Alaska to Wyoming...Shipments by mines for 1958, 1959, 1960 B96 Open Pit Mine Production ef 3 Technological ; Advances Tons...Tons mined and stripped & 99 Underground Mine Production from 1955 through 1960 > 101 Geology and
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s...fine minerals on DVD wilensky Fluorite, Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Wilensky Fine Minerals...Clifford. Bryan Swoboda (Ed Swoboda’s son), of Blue-Cap Productions, agreed to produce a DVD video review...within a skarn complex on privately owned patented mining claims which cover the mountain’s top, upper sides
Book (edition)
MINE andtheir LOCALITIES JAN H. BERNARD AND JAROSLAV HYRSL INERALS DESCRIBED SINCE 2004 MINERALS...dist., China Fluomatromicrolite, x 25111111, Naipa mine, Mozambique Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As...Santa Rosa mine, Chile Back cover photo: Ho/fertile on hematite, 5 111111, Starvation Canyon, Utah Page I:...piment pseudomo,phs after realga,; 75 mm, Palomo mine, Pen, Page 3: Stepite on arsenic, 45 111111,Jachymov...province prefecture county departement departamento district municipio Saint
Journal (issue)
Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection;...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...(upper right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff...5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado; Karl Warning collection; Jeff Scovil...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California 90007, U.S.A. 2 Department...University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, U.S.A. 5 5199 E. Silver Oak Road, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108...(IMA 2019-002) occurring in low-temperature, post-mining, secondary mineral assemblages at the Burro, Packrat...polyoxocation, crystal structure, Packrat mine, Burro mine, West Sunday mine, Colorado Introduction Millions...Deposits in the Uravan Mineral Belt of Colorado and Utah have been a rich source of uranium and vanadium
Journal (issue)
Golden Topaz, 3.5 inches, from Katlang, Mardan District, Pakistan; Freilich Collection. OPENING SPREAD:...Pyromorphite from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho; Wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Arizona; Calcite and Fluorite...Fluorite from the Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway;...Norway; Powellite from Nasik, India; Blue Topaz from the Ural Mountains, Russia; Devilline from the Czech Republic;...in Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from the Brumado mine, Brazil; Elbaite from Nuristan
Book
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
Journal (issue)
"barbote's eye" (ball-curved micas), "iron cross" (pyrite twins), "Manchurian nut" (complex plagioclase twins)...Petersburg University specimens **- St.-Petersburg Mining Museum specimens 2 W o r l d of Stones. Ng 1 I...crystals. Primary subindividuals on crystalfaces. a. Pyrite. b. Nickel-ammonium sulphate. Dimension 4 cm. 8...the authors of this article, was opened in the Mining Museum of St. Petersburg not long ago and another...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...City, Utah 84108, U.S.A. Barbara NASH Department of Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah, Salt...Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, U.S.A. Abstract Gunterite, Na4(H2O)16(H2V10O28)•6H2O, is a new mineral species...species from the West Sunday mine, Slick Rock district, San Miguel County, Colorado, U.S.A. Crystals of gunterite...crystal structure, West Sunday mine, Slick Rock district, Colorado. Sommaire La gunterite, Na4(H2O)16(H2V10O28)•6H2O
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orange-yellow), β = 1.749(5) (dark blue-green), γ = 1.751(2) (dark green-blue), 2V = 15(5)°, positive sign...Hephaistosite, TlPb2Cl5, a new thallium mineral species from La Fossa crater, Vulcano, Aeolian Islands, Italy. Can...in a high temperature fumarole at the rim of the La Fossa crater. Associated minerals are bismuthinite...vanadium oxides caused by groundwater in a post-mining environment. It forms tabular to equant to prismatic...Magnesiopascoite is from the Blue Cap mine, near La Sal, San Juan County, Utah, U.S.A. The mineral was named
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead... . . . . . . . . .89 by W. E. Wilson The Palomo mine, Huancavelica Department, Peru . . . . . . . . ...White Ca-Mg-Fe-rich rhodonite from the Morro da Mina mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil . ....BaCa2(CO3)2F2, a new mineral species from the Kirovskii mine, Khibiny, Kola Peninsula, Russia . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3.5 cm, from the Mashamba West mine, atanga, Republic of the Congo. Rob Lavinsky (The
Journal (issue)
ou sur rendez-vous Elbaite - 7,1 cm de largeur Mine Hima/aya,Mesa Grande,Californie,U.S.A. Coll. : 8...Scovil • Barite surfluorite Crista/: 4 x 3 x 0,4 cm Mine de /'Ave/lan, Var Coll. : G. Mari Photo : l.-D....FRruus,VAR par Daniel GOL Fondateuret directeurde la publication Louis-DorniniqueBAYLE E-mail : baylelrm@wanadoo...numero de la revue: 60' CALENDRIER DETACHABLE EN PAGES CENfRALES La visite, l'exploration ou la decouverte...mines - galeries - ha/des - etc.. .) decrits dans la revue, ne peut en aucun cas s'effectuer sans l'accord
Report (issue)
International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...ranging from nearly colorless through green, red, blue, brown and black. Acceptance of this variability...and tourmaline (all colors other than black and blue). Rubellite was consid­ ered a sub-species of tourmaline
 
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