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Amethyst from
Alice Glory Hole, Alice Mine, Alice Mining District (Yankee Mining District; Lincoln Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA


Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Alice Glory Hole, Alice Mine, Alice Mining District (Yankee Mining District; Lincoln Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:659338
Long-form Identifier:1:3:659338:4
GUID (UUID V4):1d16bbc2-6f61-47f5-aad2-d1601fc5e26f
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
0.0km (0.0 miles) Alice Mine, Alice Mining District (Yankee Mining District; Lincoln Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
6.0km (3.7 miles) Red Elephant (Commodore Tunnel), Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
10.9km (6.8 miles) Nevadaville, Nevada Gulch, Gilpin County, Colorado, USA
11.7km (7.3 miles) Dixie Mine, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
30.5km (19.0 miles) Mena Mine (Hoffmeister Homestead Prospect; Black Judge Shaft), Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
32.2km (20.0 miles) Schwartzwalder Mine (Ralston Creek Mine), Ralston Buttes Mining District, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA
70.4km (43.7 miles) Eagle Mine, Gilman, Gilman Mining District (Battle Mountain Mining District; Red Cliff Mining District), Eagle County, Colorado, USA
References
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of COLORADO ED RAINES Geology Museum Colorado School of Mines 1310 Maple Street Golden, Colorado 80401...noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...photographer unknown. B etween 1868 and 1922, Colorado produced almost 260 million pounds of copper....from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).... During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with
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Show Figure I (above). Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals...Figure 2 (right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes; specimen...C*O*L*O*R*A*D*O PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs by John R...Park City, Utah; Washington State; and numerous Colorado localities. Pyrite crystallizes in the isometric...Pyrite is the most common sulfide mineral found in Colorado; it is found in a wide variety of occurrences
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R. Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado .............................M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .........................................Harris Monazite and caldoancylite from the Foote mine, North Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203...(1 inch) on antlerite crystals from the Southwest mine, Bisbee, Arizona. For more information on this recent...85745 CALL FOR PAPERS: FM COLORADO CHAPTER SYMPOSIUM, AUGUST 1988 The Colorado Chapter of the Friends of
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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...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...body of literature. The first published list of Colorado mineral localities (in­ cluding quartz) was included
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193-256 137-208 129-192 209-264 193-256 [ [ COLORADO-Ill] 177-256 121-184 89-168 1-120 1-88 [ ...177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400 COLORADO-II] 321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400...69-132 65-128 1-64 11 / 1980 20 I 1989 [ COLORADO-I] [ 289-352 385-448 [ AUSTRALlA] 353-504...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN
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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
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CLASSIC COLORADO PORTFOLIO MINERALS: BARBARA L . MUNTYAN 6978 Mapiti Court Boulder, Colorado 80301 COLORADO...COLORADO IS ONE OF THE MOST HIGHL Y MINERALIZED states in the Union. Not only is it known for the variety...found in Colorado occur in extraordinarily large and beautiful crystals. Some of the best Colorado specimens...rather common species from a number of famous Colorado locales. There were literally dozens of other...Shares of Colorado. Figure 1 (left): Hematite after siderite, quartz, Lake George, Park County, Colorado
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- - - - - - - - - - - Mineral Collections 1n Colorado A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record November-December..."Smithsonian packet," Smoky Hawk claim, Florissant, Colorado. Collected in 2008; Dorris Family collection;...certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This special...Collecting in Colorado The Collections: Mel & Pam Bersch Ryan Bowling Ralph Clark Colorado School of Mines...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North
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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
 
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