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Polybasite from
Eldorado Mine, Yankee Boy Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Polybasite
Formula:[Ag6Sb2S7][Ag9CuS4]
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Polybasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Eldorado Mine, Yankee Boy Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:63701
Long-form Identifier:1:3:63701:7
GUID (UUID V4):cb5e1f7c-396c-4d3a-bee9-6e334b253688
Nearest other occurrences of Polybasite
0.3km (0.2 miles) Yankee Boy Mine, Yankee Boy Basin, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Smuggler Vein, Smuggler Union Mine, Marshall Basin, Telluride Mining District, Colorado, USA
8.4km (5.2 miles) Mineral Farm Mine, Canyon Creek, Ouray Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
10.5km (6.5 miles) Zanett Tunnel, The Amphitheater, Ouray Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
11.6km (7.2 miles) Portland Mine, The Amphitheater, Ouray Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) News Boy Mine, Paquin Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
12.5km (7.8 miles) Calliope Mine, Paquin Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
12.7km (7.9 miles) Senorita Mine, Paquin Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
27.1km (16.9 miles) Animas Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
27.3km (16.9 miles) Buffalo Boy Mine, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 20:52 13 January 2015 Mineralogy of the Eldorado Mine YA N K E E B O Y B A S I N , O U R AY C O U...rapidly acquired. The English language version, Eldorado, is usually the way it appears in print. Prospectors...the name, as almost every major mining camp had a vein, claim, or mine with that name. This article details...mineralogy of the Eldorado mine in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado, one of the many mines...The Eldorado mine is located about 8.6 miles southwest of Ouray, Colorado, near the head of Yankee Boy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Through the 'Scope 1 OURAY Eldorado mine IfXCamp Bird mine TEIXURTOE 'TMdarado mine q Eureka Red Mountain...TOM ROSEMEYER 1632 Camp Bird Mine Road P . O . Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81427 Tom Rosemeyer is the owner...Explora­ tion and has mined and collected minerals in Colorado for the past twenty years. Microminerals of the...the San Juan Mountains, Southwestern Colorado WELCOME TO -THROUGH THE 'SCOPE," a column devoted to news...in ex­ ploration and mining in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado for Ihe past twenty years
Book (edition)
Tourist as well. All of the 19 Rock Forma­ tions at Ouray, dating from the Pre-Cambrian to the Cenozoic Eras...Report of 1S80 relating to the growing Mining Industry at Ouray is printed in its entirety. Many historic...Survey, Tom Rosemeyer, Chief Engineer, Camp Bird Mine and Miss Margaret B. Allen, M.A. of Orange, New...Introduction to Mineral Collecting at Ouray................ The Minerals at Ouray............................................................................ Polybasite.............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Polybasite Downloaded by [Northeastern University] at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa...typically included in this rather informal family is polybasite, a relatively common silver ore mineral that...as fine specimens. Although the most familiar polybasite localities are in Mexico, exceptionally fine...have been available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping...Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice specimen. Polybasite is typically
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metals Mine ,; Pilot Mine , ; ,-e Grizzly Bear Mine ~ Silver Link Mine ~ Mountain Monarch Mine o TOM...Bird Mine Road P.O. Box 586 Ouray, Colorado 81421 Telluride ~ Oyama Mine ,-e Titusville Mine Downloaded...Mineralogy of the San Juan Mountains o , Southwestern Colorado Unless otherwise noted, mineral photography by..."Microminerals of the San Juan Mountains, Southwestern Colorado" (Rosemeyer 1989) was the topic of the first Through...discoveries. Pilot Mine Yankee Boy Basin is located approximately 8 miles southwest of Ouray and in the 18705
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
photo March/April: Fluorite, Dow Scar vein, Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria, England; Jesse Fisher specimen...May/June: Uvite, Powers farm, Pierrepont, St. Lawrence County, New York; Steven C. Chamberlain specimen, Michael...albite, Kestral Pocket, Smoky Hawk mine, Teller County, Colorado; Martin Zinn specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...September/October: Gold and quartz, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California; Scott Rudolph specimen...Girona specimen, Joan Rosell photo A Acanthite, Colorado, 423 Actinolite, New York, 221, 454 Adularia,
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimens, are either inaccessible or are in closed mining districts, or are closed for political reasons...City-D~Lamar Mining Dlstricts / J\. I,' -r-, - L..... ~ rl.. kl \ , 50 I 100 I Miles old mining and...scientific significance. In this index, the better known mining districts that have produced many high-quality...across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side
Journal (issue)
Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan What’s new in Colorado minerals? ...................................... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349 by J. A...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
Report (volume)
............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ....................................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...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Journal (issue)
Articles Native gold from the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne County, California...............................Baranda Some pegmatite minerals from the Zomba district, Malawi ........................................Adularia from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland .......................................visiting the Blanchard mine or other mines in the Hansonburg mining district near Bingham, New Mexico...signed in at Bingham for entry to the Blanchard mine area for surface collecting. Underground collecting
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to 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 of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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 --
Journal (issue)
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
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...production of environmental protection equipment. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...to Nevada in 1929 and was actively involved in mining in the state and the western U.S. for the rest
Book
PISTOLS i !?' A J.-. N ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by ...present authentic infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive...United States Geological Survey in 1912. Plan. “Mining Districts and Mineral Resources of Nevada”, as...parts:—one on mining districts and the other on mineral resources. The section on mining districts is...but gives more extended descriptions and includes mining as well as geological information. The map which
Report (issue)
Deposits of the Uncompahgre (Ouray) Mining District, Southwestern Colorado Professional Paper 1753 U.S...western San Juan Mountains region of southwestern Colorado. In the foreground is a broad, gently south-sloping...flat-bottomed, glacier-carved valley. The town of Ouray (about 7,800 feet altitude), just visible through...Dollar Highway” south of Ouray, parallels the Uncompahgre River valley to connect Ouray with Montrose to the...and other canyons and mountain passes to connect Ouray with Silverton and Durango to the south. The many
Report (issue)
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).
Report (issue)
Smith. Director Professional Paper 138 MINING IN COLORADO A HISTORY OF DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTJON...location, area, and organization of the mining counties of Colorado _________________________ _ Adams County_-..._____________________ _ Alamosa County __________________________ _ Arapahoe County _________________________...Archuleta County _________________________ _ Baca CountY-----------------------------Boulder CountY------...CountY----------------------~----Chaffee County _____________________·______ _ Clear Creek County _______________________
Report (issue)
3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...percent of the state. Nevada's public lands offer mining, livestock grazing, wild horse viewing, .scenic...Road and Geologic Tours in th<' Las Vegas Area. Mining and the discovery, identification, and development...Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal...Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more...more than 750 million ounces to occurred in a mine about a mile its credit. Fine wire- and crystallized-silver
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGY OF THE COUNTRY WEST OF SINOIA, LOMAGUNDI DISTRICT. By A. J. C. MOLYNEUX, F.G.S. Southern Rhodesia... The gold-bearing rock, commonly known as the Eldorado conglomerate, is of uncertain origin, and the...copper, the most important occurrence being the Eldorado mine, whose output to date has been about 432,000...relations of the ores of the wellknown silver-producing mining area of Tonopah, Nevada. The author's conclusions...blende, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, pyrargyrite, polybasite, argentite, wolframite, and electrum, with, probably
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting
Journal (issue)
85740 602-297-6709 Articles The Iron Cap mine, Graham County, A rizona..................................discoveries in Ouray County, Colorado ............... 89 by B. & J. Muntyan Anatase on quartz from Ouray County...County, Colorado ........................ 103 by T. Rosemeyer, E. Raines & R. Stoufer Departments Notes...Finds made in Arizona (the Iron Cap mine) and in Ouray County, Colorado, are described in three articles...huge i show organized by Herb Duke at the Pima County Fairgrounds. Following the advertising section
Book (edition)
Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District and the Blackbird Mining District, and to Ben Sheppard for reviewing...reviewing the chapter on the Blackbird Mining District. Those who contributed photographs, or specimens...or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a
 
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