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Sphalerite from
Torpedo, 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 Torpedo, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:608961
Long-form Identifier:1:3:608961:0
GUID (UUID V4):6ed1d7e9-f0d2-4d3e-b80d-c85effb9dee1
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Gold Medal, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.0km (0.0 miles) Tropic Shaft, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.0km (0.0 miles) French Flag, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.0km (0.0 miles) Mary Mine, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Tom Boy (Treasure Vault; John Paul Jones; Edna Fannie; Golden Treasure), Idaho Springs Mining District (Virginia Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Nonpareil Mine, Idaho Springs Mining District (Virginia Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Happy Easter (Queen Elizabeth), Idaho Springs Mining District (Virginia Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Edgar Miami Tunnel Entrance, Idaho Springs Mining District (Virginia Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Edgarine mine, Idaho Springs Mining District (Virginia Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Esmeralda, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Geology of the Idaho Springs District Clear Creek and Gilpin Counties, Colorado GEOLOGICAL (=) I o 00...of the Idaho Springs District Clear Creek and -i ;i ?i Gilpin Counties, Colorado By ROBERT H. MOENCH and...____ Mines and prospects in the Idaho Springs district ________________ Previous studies.___________..._________ __________________________________ Sphalerite. _________.__ -_______---_-_-____________'___-_--Galena...pocket] PLATE 1. Map of the Idaho Springs district, Colorado, showing location of mines and distribution
Report (issue)
----------------- 15 The Geography of Dona Ana County--------------------------------------------- 18...--------------------- 122 4 . Deposits in the Torpedo-Bennett fault zone ------- 124 Distribution --...PART II. AN OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY OF DONA ANA COUNTY ----------------------------------------------...PART II. AN OUTLINE OF THE GEOLOGY OF DONA ANA COUNTY—Continued Pre-Tertiary rocks--Continued Paleozoic...RESOURCES OF DONA ANA COUNTY ----------------------------------------------- 185 Mining districts -------
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains)...Mountains), NE of Albuquerque: schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena...malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve: quartz (chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood:...Park, SW of Reserve: labradorite. Taylor Creek Tin district, Black Range. Adobe Ranch: cassiterite, hematite
Report (volume)
............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ......................................... 139 144 146 153 158 163 169 . 172 174 Montana..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
Report (issue)
LEAD ZUfC JLHD COBPER DEPOSITS Of THE OROUt DISTRICT, NBW MEXICO ( With a Supplement on Occurrence of...Ercelsior rhyol1te laccolith................ Along the Torpedo-Bennett fault zone................... Copper Buckle...Memphis........................................... Torpedo........................................... 13...mine............................................. Torpedo &lne............................................. 14. 15* Figure 1. Geologic map of the Organ District. Geologic map of Kerrinac-Llttle Buok area (with
Journal (issue)
Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 Lazard Cahn Honorary President October 2018...Steven Veatch Topic: The Greater Alma Mining District: A Colorado Mining Legend Please note: Members whose...OCTOBER PROGRAM The Greater Alma Mining District: A Colorado Mining Legend By Steven Wade Veatch The...The first gold strike in Park County, Colorado was on the eastern slope of the Mosquito Range in the northwest...northwest part of the county at Buckskin Gulch in 1859—the same year the “Pikes Peak or Bust” gold rush
Report (volume)
Organ Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Dona Ana County, New Mexico U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1735-D...Organ Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Dona Ana County, New Mexico By STEVE LUDINGTON, WILLIAM F. HANNA...Organ Mountains Wilderness Study Area, Dona Ana County, New Mexico. (Mineral resources of wilderness study...Mountains Wilderness Study Area (NM-03G-074), Dona Ana County, New Mexico. CONTENTS Summary Dl Abstract Dl...Survey D4 Appraisal of identified resources D4 Mining and mineral-exploration history D4 Mines, prospects
Report (issue)
INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...23 23 24 24 25 26 26 26 26 26 27 28 28 29 Page MINING DISTRICTS ....................................................................... 30 Bernalillo County ............................................................................ 30 Tijeras Canyon District .................................................................................... 30 Catron County ..............................................
Book (edition)
Windham Report of 1S80 relating to the growing Mining Industry at Ouray is printed in its entirety. Many............................................... Sphalerite................................................Mine; Past, Present. Future The Windham Report of Mining in Ouray in 1880 . . The Mineralogy at the Camp...(Insert) A Guide to Mineral Collecting at Ouray, Colorado with Notes as to the History and Geology By Ervan...Childers, Bruno Zanett, Ralph Stebbins, all of Ouray, Colorado; Margaret B. Allen, M.A., Orange, New Jersey;
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Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I COAL CITY, St. Clair Co. Sphalerite COLUMBIANA, Shelby...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...Northern Arizona Agate, (in Kuibab limestone) BIG BUG CREEK, Yavapai Co. Onyx Marble BLACK MOUNTAINS, E. Slopo
Report (issue)
INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING Sc TECHNOLOGY............................................... 7 Mining .......................................................................... Petaca mining district, Rio Arriba County ...................................25 25 25 Page Other occurrences, Rio Arriba County ............................................................................... 26 Bromide mining district ..........................................
Report (issue)
is the production during the the present Mining largest single industry and horticulture. more...development. that the ment of the in Santa Fe initial County in the year 1828. before the and thirty production...years retarded should impulse received was mining Slope regions, materially fact, however, Great...United its S. entire mineral 1914 aggregated mining industry by the U. increase an The non-metallic...California before the find on Cherry Creek in Colorado. The the discovery beginning of placer
Report (issue)
present year, 1915, will approximate $20,000,000. Mining is thus seen to be, by far, the largest single...aggregated an excess of $19,000,000, making the mining industry supreme in the State. Historically, New...comprehended. Although New Mexico is the cradle of the mining industry in the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Slope...West was due to the discovery of gold in Santa Fe County at the base of the Ortiz Mountains, in the year...and thirty years before the find on Cherry Creek in Colorado. The discovery of placer gold in New Mexico
Report (issue)
GEORGETOWN QlJADRANGLE (TOGETHER 'VITH THE EMPIRE DISTRICT) COLORADo· BY JOSIAH E. SPURR AND GEORGE H. GARREY..................._.......... . Distribution in Colorado ................................................Boulder County.............. . . . . . . . . . . . ......... . ....... . 103 Ores in Gilpin County ............................... . 103 Orcs in Clear Creek County ............................ . 103 Ores from...Argentine to the Tenmile district .. : ............... . 104 Ores of the Tenmile 'district .................
Book (edition)
States to civilization. . . it is clear that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson...Highlights in the history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New...SUBDISTRICTS, CAMPS, ETC. 569 BIBLIOGRAPHY 597 MAP: Mining Districts of New Mexico in pocket II. PREFACE...highlights in the his- New Mexico mineralogy and mining— including a section on the prehistoric utilization...edition, 1892. A. H. Fay (1920) A glossary of the mining and mineral industry. R. E. Grim (1953) Clay
Book
Macmillan Company many cuts; to the Engineering and Mining Journal and the Canadian Geological Survey for...Ores of gold, 52. ical 62. district, Pacific Cordilleran Placer mining, 84. Sierra 77. field, distribution...Geographical distribution, 114-122. district, Cordilleran district, 117. of extraction, 122-123. 114... 153. 145. Bingham, Utah, 154. The Alaskan district, 155. Geological horizon, 157. Methods of extraction...Appalachian district, replacement deposits, 201. Residual limonites, 202. Gossan Lake Superior district, 204-210
Report (issue)
By WALTER HARVEY WEED. INTRODUCTION. Copper mining in the United States has had a marvelously rapid...550,000 700, 000 10,000 814,035,719 "Salt Lake Mining Review, Annual Review number, January, 1906. The...Min. Jour., April 28, 1906; Stevens, Horace J., Mining World, Jan. 27, 1905; and information furnished...State. Gold. Ounces^. 109, 968 47, 563 44, 400 Montana (Bufcte) .......... 24, 727 4,137 3,288 Appalachian...is shown in PI. III. The Butte, Mont., copper district is the greatest silver-producing camp of the entire
Report (issue)
high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin Zinn; photo Jeff Scovil...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...Lapis International, LLC East Hampton, Connecticut USA Collection 'Alan Table of Contents What Is Gold...First Gold Rush: Gold Fever in the Southeastern USA . . . . . . . .P. 16 R. Chris Tacker California and.... . . . . . . . . .P. 86 Ed Raines Colorado Gold-Gold in Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (volume)
so successful. Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. Mining Machinery Dept. OFFICES For Canadian MILWAUKEE...service from Superior Jaw Crusher Worthington mining equipment the from the standpoint of first cost...most wear, Worthington meets the needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from...Mills PUMPS, COMPRESSORS, OIL AND GAS ENGINES, MINING AND SMELTING MACHINERY CTON JOHN D. RYAN, ...OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE ANACONDA COPPER MINING Co., WHOSE BUTTE MlNES YIELD 10% OF THE
Journal (issue)
....................... 2 A short history of mining in New Mexico ...................................DeMouthe Famous mineral localities: The Magdalena district, Kelly, New Mexico .............................Hammond Famous mineral localities: The Hansonberg district, Bingham, New Mexico ...........................Foord Fluorite from the Pine Canyon deposit, Grant County, New Mexico .....................................Hanson Ilmenite expitaxial on bixbyite from Sierra County, New Mexico ..................................
Report (volume)
Hydraulic TurbinpM MILWAUKEE, Metallurgical Machinery Mining Machinery Perforated Oil l-:imini-- Metals I'liiiiliini:...are getting the most in service from Worthington mining equipment — :the most from the standpoint of first...power consumption. Worthington meets needs of the mining industries with a complete line of products, from...Mills PUMPS, COMPRESSORS, OIL AND GAS ENGINES, MINING AND SMELTING MACHINERY CTON m "The Paramount...books cover practically all dead as well as live mining shares. Made in the following sizes: \QUAUTY
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cripple Creek and other alkaline-related gold deposits in the southern Rocky Mountains, USA: in¯uence...Ma), with deposits restricted spatially to the Colorado mineral belt (CMB). Other alkaline igneous rocks...Rocky Mountain front southward, from Cripple Creek in Colorado through New Mexico. All of these deposits...The largest deposits in the belt include Cripple Creek and those in the CMB. The most important factor...subduction-modi®ed subcontinental lithosphere. However, Cripple Creek alkaline rocks and older Laramide alkaline rocks
Report (volume)
Geologists: Bulletin, vols. 5, 6. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Transactions, vols. 65-67. New York...Mineralogist, vols. 6, 7. Menasha, Wis. American Mining Congress: Reports of 23d and 24th Annual Conventions...vol. 11. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 89, 90. San Francisco, Calif...Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Transactions, vols. 23, 24. Montreal, Quebec. Canadian Mining Journal...York. Colorado College Publications, Science ser., vol. 12, no. 16. Colorado Springs, Colo. Colorado Geological
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Geologists: Bulletin, vol. 2. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 133-144; Transactions...nos. i-7. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 76-78, 82, S3; Preliminary...Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 69-80. Ottawa, Out. Canadian Mining Journal, vol...Pittsburgh, Pa. Coal Age, vols. 13, 14. New York. Colorado School of Mines: Magazine, vol. 8; Quarterly,...34, nos. 1-3. Chapel Hill, N. Cl Engineering and Mining Journal, vols.. 105, 106. New York. Engineers'
 
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