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| 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...that would later be known as the Amethyst vein system (a.k.a. Amethyst fault system), host to such well-known...well-known mines as the Amethyst, Last Chance, Commodore, and Bachelor. The mining encampment grew from |
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| Microminerals in the Creede Mining District The Amethyst, Commodore No. 5 Mineral County, Colorado Unless otherwise...Mountain Mines C reede is located in southwestern Colorado on the edge of the San Juan Mountains just south...in the Creede district was at the Holy Moses mine high above East Willow Creek, but the district did not...along West Willow Creek on the Amethyst vein system. The Amethyst and Commodore No. 5 mines are located on...Creek approximately 1.5 miles north of Creede. The Commodore No. 5 ore bins are the first structures |
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| S OF C R E E D E , M I N E R A L C O U N T Y , COLORADO By ARTHUR E. SMITH, JR. 91 18 Concho, Houston...written in recent years on the mineral and rock collecting at Creede. This region has much to offer the...collectors make Creede a stopping point for their Color ado vacations. The region around Creede is said to...collecting is for mineral specimens though some lapidary materials such as sowbelly agate, amethyst, chrysoprase...turquoise have been collected. Many who collect at the Creede Mines do not know what minerals to look for and |
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| RECENT MINING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO By ESPEK S. LAKSEN ABSTRACT The Creede district...greater part of this output came from the great Amethyst vein, which lies along a major fault. Nearly all...all of the ore was mined from parts of the vein that were enriched by surface solutions and were above the...the Nelson tunnel. Production from this vein practically ceased about a decade ago. Extensive prospecting...opened a good ore body in the western branch of the Amethyst fault at its south end, and several small but |
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| 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...Fisher Quartz La ti te ___________________________ _ Creede Formation _____________________________ _ Surficial |
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| 718 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ' CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS AND ESPER S. LARSEN................................................. Mining and treatment of ores......................................................................... Amethyst mill.......................................................................................... Creede formation........................................58 58 59 59 59 59 59 60 CONTENTS. Chapter V. Creede formation..................................... |
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| InclusionStudyof the SouthernAmethyst Vein System,Creede Mining District, Colorado RICHARD W. ROBINSON* AND DAVID...andfluid inclusionstudies.Mineralizationoccursas vein fillingsand disseminations confinedto areas of high...severalothervein systems in the district,occurin the southernAmethyst vein system. The paragenesis is divided...paragenesis of the oresin the Creede district. Analysisof fluid inclusionsin stage2 vein quartz showedthat averagehomogenization...lower to upperlevelsof the mine. Inclusionsin stage2 quartzfrom the lower mine levelshad an averageTh = |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver |
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| Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver |
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| Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver |
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| Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver |
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| COLORADO AMETHYST THOMAS C . MICHALSKI U. S. Geological Survey Denver Federal Center Denver, Colorado...E CENTURY, COL O R A D O ' S N U M E R O U S amethyst localities have been studied and recorded in geologic...few present-day mineral collectors are aware that Colorado has any significant amethyst occur rences....o l d " amethyst localities are, however, still capable of producing fine gemstone and mineral specimens...specimens. Background Amethyst, the purple variety of crystalline quartz, has been admired for centuries because |
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| Mineralogical Almanac 4:79), the Serebryanaya tetrahedrite vein is silver rich. Going over my show notes from past...past years, I also note that a Czech mineral consortium had a specimen of Dalnegorsk tetrahedrite for...Pohwat Collection Manager (Minerals) Department of Mineral Sciences National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian...Washington, DC CREEDE KUDOS Thank you for publishing Tom Rosemeyer’s article on Creede (September/ October...support institutions presenting the minerals of Colorado to the general public. Although we live on and |
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| Ore Depositionin the CreedeMining District, SanJuan Mountains,Colorado' Part IV. Sourceof Fluids from Oxygen...formation of 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)...suggestthat waters from three coexistingreservoirsfed the vein system alternatelyandepisodically duringvein formation...waters. We propose that the quartzfluidsenteredthe vein systemfrom reservoirs beneath the mountainous areasto |
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| Radioactivity in the Metal-Mining Districts of the San Juan Mountains Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY --*_-...Radioactivity in the Metal-Mining Districts of the San Juan Mountains Colorado By C. T. PIERSON, W. F. WEEKS...radioactivity in the metal-mining districts of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, by C. T. Pierson, W. F..._______________ CeboUa district..______________________________ Upper Uncompahgre district. ______ _________________________...Uranium occurrences___________ ________ __ Bonanza district..____________________ ___________________ General |
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| Mineralogical Almanac 4:79), the Serebryanaya tetrahedrite vein is silver rich. Going over my show notes from past...past years, I also note that a Czech mineral consortium had a specimen of Dalnegorsk tetrahedrite for...Pohwat Collection Manager (Minerals) Department of Mineral Sciences National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian...Washington, DC CREEDE KUDOS Thank you for publishing Tom Rosemeyer’s article on Creede (September/ October...support institutions presenting the minerals of Colorado to the general public. Although we live on and |
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| Mineralogical Almanac 4:79), the Serebryanaya tetrahedrite vein is silver rich. Going over my show notes from past...past years, I also note that a Czech mineral consortium had a specimen of Dalnegorsk tetrahedrite for...Pohwat Collection Manager (Minerals) Department of Mineral Sciences National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian...Washington, DC CREEDE KUDOS Thank you for publishing Tom Rosemeyer’s article on Creede (September/ October...support institutions presenting the minerals of Colorado to the general public. Although we live on and |
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| Page (A) The New World or Cooke City mining district, Park County, Mont., by T. S. Levering__________..._________________ (B) Recent mining developments in the Creede district, Colo., by E. S. Larsen.____...Shirley, and Seminoe iron-ore deposits, Carbon County, Wyo., by T. S. Lovering*..._____:__..___..._____...geologic map and sections of the New World mining district, Mont. Wyo___-______--___--___________ 2. Cooke...______________ 6. Correlation diagram of the New World mining district and surrounding region____________________________________ |
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| 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 |
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| ISSUE 06 • JUNE 2020 CAPTIVATED BY CREEDE Evolution of a Silver-Mining Boomtown METAMORPHIC INDEX MINERALS... 50 NO. 06 • JUNE 2020 10 SILVER MINING SURVIVOR Creede Colorado Navigates Economic Transition While...20 SOUTHWEST SUMMER Exploring San Juan Mountain Mining History 50 FIELD TRIP FOCUS Making Memories and...Serras-Herman REGULAR COLUMNS Witness to Morocco’s Modern Mining Rush Field Notes ...............................about the Polka Dot Mine in Central Oregon, information about connecting with the mine via Facebook was |
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| 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...physiography provides a setting for about 750 known mineral species.* Of these, quartz is one of the most desirable...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 |
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| TDfl SbQ AEEAL GEOLOGY OF 0?HS CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO. By ' X ESEBR S* H B LARSEIT. S...Approved: The Areal Geology of The Greede Mining District, Esper 3. Larson. COKTEIIT3 Chapter I...11 General conditions 11 Humphreys mill 13 Amethyst mill 15 Solomon mill 16 Hidge mill 16 Bibliography...volcanic series 22 Lower division Upper division The Creede formation The llacXenzie 26 .'-.fountain quartz...Megascopic Microscopic Weathering and outcrops Creede Formation Chapter V. Name, general nature, and |
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| Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isère, France...Jeff Scovil photo. March/April: Quartz, variety amethyst, Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico. Martin Zinn specimen...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, |
Commodore Mine, Amethyst vein, Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado, USA