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Sphalerite from
Patton, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA


Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Patton, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:608854
Long-form Identifier:1:3:608854:5
GUID (UUID V4):dadeff9c-ec46-437a-9417-20a4358b887e
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Red Jacket, Idaho Springs, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) Calvin, Idaho Springs Mining District (Virginia Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Hudson Tunnel, Idaho Springs Mining District (Virginia Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) East Lake Occurrence, Idaho Springs Mining District (Virginia Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Crystal, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Bullion mine, Idaho Springs Mining District (Virginia Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Idaho Tunnel, Central City Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Boreas, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Little Emma Tunnel, Idaho Springs Mining District (Virginia Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Fairmount (Shafter), Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
References
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Home rhodochrosite specimen mine, Alma District, Central Colorado: the porphyry molybdenum–fluorine connection...quartz– sphalerite–tetrahedrite–rhodochrosite–fluorite in the Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Colorado were...Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1516 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401, USA e-mail: pbartos@mines...edu D. Misantoni Colorado Calumet Company Inc., P.O. Box 1169, Golden, CO 80402, USA molybdenite; and...located within the Alma mining district in the Mosquito Range of Central Colorado approximately 6 km northwest
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Home rhodochrosite specimen mine, Alma District, Central Colorado: the porphyry molybdenum–fluorine connection...quartz– sphalerite–tetrahedrite–rhodochrosite–fluorite in the Sweet Home Mine, Alma District, Colorado were...Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 1516 Illinois Street, Golden, CO 80401, USA e-mail: pbartos@mines...edu D. Misantoni Colorado Calumet Company Inc., P.O. Box 1169, Golden, CO 80402, USA molybdenite; and...located within the Alma mining district in the Mosquito Range of Central Colorado approximately 6 km northwest
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Deposits Central Part of the Front Range Mineral Belt Colorado By P. K. SIMS and others GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...______________________________ _ History of uranium mining and production ____________ _ Geologic setting...__________ - ___ - ________ -----------Central City district _____________________ ------Quartz Hill-upper... _ West Flack mine __________________ _ ~ercer County mine ______________ -German and Belcher mines ______________... VI Mine descriptions-C~:mtinued Lawson-Dumont-Fall River district, by C. C. Hawley and F. B. Moore
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Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of...especially Fischer and others, 1946). MINERALS OF COLORADO: A 100-YEAR RECORD By EDWIN B. EcKEL ABSTRACT
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R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...SPECIMENS from the collection of the Geology Museum, Colorado School of Mines. See page 242 for a full description... All rights reserved. notes fromthej EDITOR COLORADO-III Here we are with our third special issue devoted...devoted to the mines and minerals of Colorado. As most long-time subscribers know, the first in the series...about $200 on the out-of-print market. The second Colorado issue was vol. 10, number 6 (1979), and we still
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1902. Minneapolis, Minn. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Transactions, vols. 31 and 32, 1902...Canada. Canadian Mining Institute: Journal, vol. 5, 1902! Ottawa, Canada, Canadian Mining Review, vol. 21...nos. 2 and 3, 1902. Cincinnati, Ohio. . ' Colorado Mining Bureau: Bulletin, no". 5; Eeport, 1902. Denver...1, 1902. Chapel Hill, N. 0. ' Engineering and Mining Journal, vols. 73 and 74, 1902. New York,-N. Y...Institution of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vol. 10, 1902. London, England. Institution of Mining Engineers:
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AND ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY OF THE SUMMITVILLE, COLORADO ACID-SULFATE MINERAL DEPOSIT By J.E. Gray1 ,......... 29 INTRODUCTION The Summitville mining district has received considerable attention recently...environmental problems related to mining activities. Summitville Consolidated Mining Company, Inc. (SCMCI), a...Summitville during the period from 1986 to 1992. Although mining ceased in the fall of 1991, heap leaching continued...environmental impacts resulting from the abandoned mining operations. Of short term concern is the presence
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constructed from the bits and pieces exposed in the Colorado mineral belt and the San Juan volcanic field....matching the exposed mineralized rocks of a mining district with corresponding parts of a model (Briggs...Steven, 1971) of the southern San Juan Mountains of Colorado. The Model The porphyry-metal edifice 2 is an...showing the parts of edifices exposed in the Crater Creek Platoro caldera area field. -3- of the'San Juan...and the principal site of argentiferous galena-sphalerite veins. Albite, calcite, chlorite, epidote, and
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Bulletin, vol. 44. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 61-72; Transactions,... 147-264. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, no. 64. San Francisco, Cal. California...Transactions, vol. 9, pts. 2, 3. Toronto, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Quarterly Bulletin, nos. 18-20; Journal... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY, 1912. 7 Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 33. Toronto and Montreal, Canada... New York. Colorado College Publications: Science series, vol. 12, nos. 10, 11. Colorado Springs, Colo
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GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE BONANZA MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO BY W. S. BURBANK WITH A SECTION ON HISTORY...HENDERSON Prepared in cooperation with the COLORADO METAL MINING FUND UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...Geography _ ______________ ___-__-__ Situation of the district _ _ _________________ Topographic features. ....Previous geologic and topographic work in the district. ____ ___________._-__-______--__. Field work..._ Relation to ore deposits ____________ Brewer Creek latite-_---___-________-__ Distribution and stratigraphic
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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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Bulletin, vol. 45. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, UOS. 73-84; Transactions,...4th ser., vols. 35, 36. New Haven, Conn. American Mining Congress: Papers and Addresses, 15th Ann. Session;... 265-454. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau : Bulletin, no. 63. San Francisco, Cal....Transactions, vol. 10, pt. 1. Toronto, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Quarterly Bulletin, no. 22; Journal...General Index, vols. 1-10. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 34. Toronto and Montreal. Canada
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Data File MD001 Site name(s): Unnamed (in Sischu Creek valley) Site type: Occurrence ARDFno.: MD001 Latitude:...description and accuracy: Occurence is located in Sischu Creek valley at an approximate elevation of 1,000 feet...isolated knob one mile (1.6 km) south of Sischu Creek at an elevation of 2,000 feet (609 m) in Section...oriented ridge 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Sischu Creek at an elevation of 1,350 feet (411 m) in Section... Alaska Resource Data File MD006 Site name(s): Our Creek Site type: Occurrence ARDFno.: MD006 Latitude: 63
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'Scope Colorado DENVER Figure 1. Location map for the Sweet Home mine, Park County, Colorado (modified...Microminerals of the SWEET HOME MINE Alma, Park County, Colorado M A R K and K A R E N V E N D L 1136 Kemman...Illinois 60526 ROBERT STOUFER P.O. Box 1884 Ouray, Colorado 81427 T he Sweet Home mine has long been world...the town of Alma, Park County, Colorado. The mine is part of the Alma mining dis­ trict, which is located...the Mosquito Range opposite the Leadville mining district and the Climax mine. History Prospecting in
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ALONG THE FRONT RANGE FROM DENVER TO BOULDER, COLORADO Clay Minerals Society 39th Annual Meeting and...Geological Survey Open-File Report 02-413 Denver, Colorado 2002 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GALE A........................ 11 The clay industry in Colorado ..................................... 13 Rubey............... 47 Idaho Springs and Central City mining districts ....................... 47 Argo mill.......................... 67 Nederland; mining in Boulder County .............................. 67 Boulder
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Bulletin nos. 26, 27; Museum Paper no. 7; County Report no. 1 (Clay County). Montgomery, Ala. Alberta, Scientific...Geologists: Bulletin, vols. 7, 8. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Transactions, vols...Mineralogist, vols. 8, 9. Menasha, Wis. American Mining Congress: Reports of 25th and 26th Annual Conventions...nos. 1-28. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos 91-93. San Francisco, Calif...vols. 37, 38. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 25, 26; Monthly
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Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 Lazard Cahn Honorary President Sept 2020 “Pick...Details Inside COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 2 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 80901-0002 Sep...Pete Modreski) SUSPENDED Van Tuyl Lecture Series, Colorado School of Mines, Iron Ores in North America –...on. POSTPONED Symposium on Water and Energy in Colorado, to be held in Ricketson Auditorium, Denver Museum...Museum of Nature and Science. Cosponsored by the Colorado Scientific Society, Denver Museum of Nature &
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The Triangle of Colorado Mountains of Minerals Contributors David W. Bunk, Robert B. Cook, Don Earnest...McWilliams ara L. Muntyan, Jack A. Murphy, Horace B. Patton Rosemeyer, Duane A: Smith, Gloria A. Staebler oufer... Contents PAGE4 PAGE 10 4 The San Juan Triangle of Colorado Ho for the San Juans! by Duane A. Smith, Mark...and Karen A. Vendl L ocated in southwestern Colorado and covering over 31,000 square kilometers, the...zinc, tungsten, and copper. In 1896 world-renowned mining engineer Thomas ''T.A." Rickard called the San
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altered areas within the upper Alamosa River Basin, Colorado by Dana J. Bove1 Open-File Report 94-224 This...imply endorsement by the U.S. Government. Denver, Colorado 1994 CONTENTS Page Abstract. ......................................... 5 Iron Creek, Alum Creek, Bitter Creek (IABC) basins .............. 5 Jasper...Iron-Alum-Bitter Creek basins (IABC) and the Jasper area, are essentially undisturbed by mining or exploration...characterize background sites adjacent to the Summitville mining area. Rocks within the upper Alamosa River basin
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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).
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nos. 1, 2. Boston, Mass. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 121-132; Transactions...Mineralogist, vol. 2. Philadelphia, Pa. American Mining Congress: Report of Proceedings, 19th Annual Session...nos. 1-9. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 72-75. San Francisco, Cal...Summary report for 1916. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 57-68;. Transactions...Transactions, vols. 19, 20. Ottawa, Ont. ' Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 38. Toronto and Montreal, Canada
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desert [abstract and discussion] ; by Andrew C. Lawson........................................................ 392 Sculpturing of rock by wind in the Colorado Plateau province : by Herbert E. Gregory........the Coal Creek batholith and its bearing on some other features of the geology of the Colorado front range...Occurrence of flow-breccias in Colorado [abstract and discussion ] ; by Horace B. Patton.........................a portion of the Santa Ynez Kiver district, Santa Bar­ bara County, California [abstract] ; by W. S.
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Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 3. Colorado By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...deposits and the resources of oxidized zin.c ores in Colorado UNITED STATES· GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...19180xidized zinc deposits of the United States. Part 3. Colorado. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964. vi...Bibliography : p. 88-91. 1. Zinc ores-Colorado. 2. Zinc mines and mining-Colorado. I. Title. (Series) For sale..._________ Rifle Creek district_ _ _ _____________ _ ___ ____ __ ________ __ __ __ Clear Creek County_____
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buildings at Kennecott, Alaska. The Kennecott district Cu-Ag mines in the Wrangell Mountains were some...to 1938. See deposit description for Kennecott district (number 30 for southern Alaska). Copyrighted drawing...Department of Geology, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana Helen L. Foster, U.S. Geological Survey...San Francisco, California Brian K. Jones, Bear Creek Mining, Kennecott Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska Ian...Department of Geology, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana Christopher D. Maars, Anaconda Minerals
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and Ore Deposits ofthe Summitville District San Juan Mountains Colorado By THOMAS A. STEVEN and JAMES C...PAPER 343 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado Metal Mining Fund Board UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING...and intrusive rocks. Quartz latites east of Park Creek.____ Quartz latites underlying Cropsy Ridge . Quartz...the Summitville district and surrounding areas. Geologic map of the Summitville district, and section showing...Mountains, showing the location of the Summitville district._____________________ 2. View looking north across
 
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