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Pyrite from
Mint Mine, Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mint Mine, Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:661944
Long-form Identifier:1:3:661944:2
GUID (UUID V4):ea785164-bde1-40fa-b764-34c454524bd1
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.1km (0.0 miles) Cashier Mine, Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.1km (0.1 miles) Jackpot Mine, Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Gold Bug, Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Harrison Mine, Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Empire City mine, Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Oro Cash Mine (Oro Cash Tunnel), Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Golden Chariot Mine, Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Silver Mountain Occurrence, Silver Mountain Ore Zone, Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) Gold Dirt Mine, Silver Mountain Ore Zone, Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Gold Fissure Mine, Silver Mountain Ore Zone, Upper Union Mining District (Empire Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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 _______________________
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
Report (issue)
5.1 cm high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin Zinn; photo Jeff...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 (issue)
GEORGETOWN QlJADRANGLE (TOGETHER 'VITH THE EMPIRE DISTRICT) COLORADo· BY JOSIAH E. SPURR AND GEORGE H...................._.......... . Distribution in Colorado ................................................. 98 Character of veins between Georgetown and Empire. 98 The Georgetown quadrangle a part of a larger...Boulder County.............. . . . . . . . . . . . ......... . ....... . 103 Ores in Gilpin County ............................... . 103 Orcs in Clear Creek County ............................ . 103 Ores from
Report (volume)
----------------Introduction History of placer mining in Arizona ----------~-------'----------------Purpose...- -------- - --- ----------------------Cochise County ____ __ ___ l. Dos Cabezas and Tevis1ton districts...Courtland-Gleeson district (Turquoise district) --------------------3. Bisbee-Warren district (Gold Gulch placer)...-----------------------4. Huachuca placers (Hereford or Hartford district) -----------------Other d~tricb -------------...5. California district ---------------------------------------------6. Pearce district -------------
Report (issue)
organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...Pisgah........ ...... N.C.-S.C..... 148 Joplin district...... Mo.-Kans .... 476 149 Penobscot Bay ...Washington County, Pennsylvania, by F. G. Clapp. No. 304. Oil and gas fields of Greene County, Pennsylvania...Preliminary report on the Santa Maria oil district, Santa Barbara County, California, by Ralph Arnold and Robert...and oil resources of the Summerland district, Santa Barbara County, California, by Ralph Arnold. No. 322
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany County. John Taylor collection...and Grace Dyck and wus titled “The Sunrise Iron Mine near Hartville, Wyoming”; it appeared in the MaylJune...titled “The Copper Mountain Pegmatite District, Freniont County, Wyoming” and was in the JulylAugust 2001...most notable ones. The localities are listed by county and then in alphabeticnl order. Where numerous...under the district name. District names are from Hausel (1986). Localities by County Albany County Allanite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
International University] at 22:16 23 December 2014 Gold mining is not romantic, it is dirty, and it is very hard...played out on a daily basis in opening the Colorado mining frontier, however, are very much the stuff...generation had seen an Colorado showing the Colorado mineral belt and the location of the mining districts discussed...1940; Elliot West 1997, verbal com.). scope of this mining economy. There simply was no other ecoThe initial...of 1858 were nomic force to compare with that of mining during the first all made along streams on the
Report (issue)
Arrington Mine Carolina Slate 'Belt 25 27 2 Gold Hill Mine 28 Placer ~lXlsits 2 Howie Mine 29 !me...me Del"'sits 2 Reed Mine 31 S<>urces and Prtxluction 5 Silver Hill Mine 31 World Sources and...Production 5 Phoenix Mine 33 United States Sources and Production 5 Hoover Hill Mine 33 Mineralogy and...Gardner Hill Mine 33 Uses 7 Fentress Mine 34 Prices 8 Mining Methc:xis 9 Rudisil Mine 34 OJ:>en-Pit...OJ:>en-Pit Mining 9 St. Catherine Mine 35 Underground Mining 9 Capps Mine 35 9 Kings Mountain Belt
Book
MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40...MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna...Mines and minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index...index. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Colorado. 2. Mines and mineral resources—New Mexico. I. Kennedy, Marrianna...enter must be obtained to prevent trespass. Old mine workings are dangerous and entering underground
Report (issue)
. THE . · MINERAL INDUSTRY OF THE JBRITISH ·, EMPIRE·. AND ~FOREIGN COlJNTRIES · • •' I I • l ...• .. • THE MINERAL INDUSTRY OF THE · BRITISH EMPIRE AND FOR.EIGN COUNTRIES • . ~ ,- S ~I . • -WAR...volumes on the Mineral Resources of the British Empire and Foreign Countries constituting the Annual Mineral...and other information relative to the ., British Empire and to certain of the more important Foreign Countries...due to the war in the . publications relating to mining and metallurgical statistics. Labour, health and
Report (edition)
2 Uses 3 Mining Methods and Recovery 3 Gold in North Carolina 5 History of Mining 5 Production...12 Portis Mine 14 Other Mines 14 Carolina Slate Belt 15 Gold Hill Mine 20 Howie Mine 21 Reed...Reed Mine 21 Other Mines Charlotte Belt 22 23 Rudisil Mine 23 Gardner Hill Mine 24 Fentress Mine...Mountain Mine Other Mines 25 25 25 South Mountain Belt 27 Mills Property 27 Sprouse Mine 27 Vein...Mountain Mine 29 Other Mines 29 Western Belt 29 Fontana Copper Mine 29 Ore Knob Mine 29 Boylston
Report (issue)
recovered by Dean Farris from mine dump waste in the Gold Hill district. The actual diameter of the button... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kirwin district . . . . . . , . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....City) district .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 16 Stinkingwater district . . ...Sunlight district . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. 18 22 Mine and... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • .. 37 Goose Creek area . . . . _ __ . . . _ .. . _ __ . _ . _ . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
secondary phosphate minerals. Although some pegmatite mining for feldspar still continues (Jacobson 1994). the...except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most mining in the area peaked in...and fewer chances to obtain any. However, some mining, mineral exploration, and mineral collecting continues...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl...rwetit tirtii-lejbr Rocks & Minerals w w titled “Mint w l s (ftiit> Ettu Pe
Report (issue)
PROSPECTS, LAWSON-DUMONT-FALL RIVER DISTRICT, CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, COLORADO By C. C. Hawley and Frank Baker...Production References cited Mine descriptions « Lawson area, north of Clear Creek Larger mines in the Red...ClevelandC?) mine Flat Iron vein Mines east of Red Elephant Hill Central America (Tinker) mine-Comstock vein...Dexter mine i Johnson group Last Chance mine « r Little Giant mine Little Superior (Jack Rabbit) mine Orient...Orient mine Panama group ; Young America vein Mines west of Red Elephant Hill Amboy mine Girard mine Kanawha
Report (volume)
REPORT ECONOMIC GEOLOGT 7 SILVERTON QUADRANGLE, COLORADO FREDERICK RANSOME WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING.................../................:. Methods of mining and treatment of ores....-....--. ...... ........Silver Lake mine..... . -.-.-..--....-.---..-.-. ....................... 145 145 145 149 Iowa mine ........Royal Tiger mine......................... 159 ......--.....-....-.-....-. Buckeye mine ...............-- ......................... 160 Titusville. mine ... .........--.--..-.---...-..-...............
Report (issue)
C E S WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE T O T H E BRITISH EMPIRE MANGANESE O R E S . B y A . H . CURTIs, B . A...RESOURCES W I T H SPECIAL REFERENCE T O T H E BRITISH EMPIRE 6';7Is3>:GEack.ocaclAt,su;:?wiy IRRARy xywoTH...Kingdom and elsewhere in the Empire. Important minerals from within the Empire are exhibited in the respective...respecting supplies of minerals, especially within the Empire, new methods of usage and other commercial developments...particularly in the British Empire. N o attempt has been made to give details of mining or metallurgical processes
Report (issue)
" ; ^,- • ^... -'--' . CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU. Henry G. FIFTH Hanks, State Mineralogist...provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Mining Bureau," approved April 16, 1880. I have the honor... REPORT. The Act creating the California State Mining- Bureau, approvides for an annual report by the...statistical information in reference to mines and mining as shall be deemed important." In obedience to...Mineralogist, has been prepared. The prosperity of the Mining Bureau, and the growth and progress of the State
Report (volume)
4=78 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS NEAR LAKE CITY, COLORADO BY JOHN DUER IRVING AND HOWLAND BANCROFT WASHINGTON........................................ Official mining districts........................................................................... Lake City district.................................................................... Ore deposits of Lake City district....................................... The lodes...formed at all depths............................... Pyrite...............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October 2014 PART 1 Downloaded...Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October 2014 A Historical...Historical Overview of t h e District and the Smuggler Union and Associated Mines and Veins of Marshall Basin... Inc. 1441 West 46th Avenue, Suite 14 Denver, Colorado 80211 n 1875 Co\orado was still a territory awaiting...Soptemberl0ctob.r 2000 319 Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October
Report (issue)
embodies the results of a rapid reconnaissance of the mining districts in the Sawtooth quadrangle, in Blaine..."Alturas County" in the reports of the Bureau of the Mint.1 Later reports-by the Director of the Mint do not...metals in the United States: Kept. Director of the Mint, 1881-1884, inclusive. 221 222 CONTRIBUTIONS...widely. A trail up Boise River branches to the old mining camps of Vienna, Sawtooth, and Carrietown. Washington...Salmon River. A branch from it also leads up Boulder Creek canyon to the deposits in Boulder Basin. HISTORY
Report (issue)
BETWEEN SECTIONS 6 AND 7 OF THE ABOVE TOWNSHIP. CREEK. THE MISLABELED GULCH SHOULD BE THE NORTH FORK...AND IN ALL EARLIER LITERATURE ON THE RUBY BASIN DISTRICT. COLOR KEY FOR ALL MAPS IN THIS REPORT Rock....... 45 Mining Districts ....................... 49 4.1 Bald Mountain Mining District ............Bald Mountain District ....... 49 4.13. Geology of the Bald Mountain Mining District ... 51 ......Further Prospecting ........ 96 Carbonate Mining District ................ 97 4.21 Introduction 97
Report (issue)
Deposits of the Uncompahgre (Ouray) Mining District, Southwestern Colorado Professional Paper 1753 U.S. Department...western San Juan Mountains region of southwestern Colorado. In the foreground is a broad, gently south-sloping...confluence of the Uncompahgre River and Canyon Creek valleys and is almost surrounded by mountains towering...prospects that constitute the Uncompahgre mining district are located mostly within the cliffy slopes...Deposits of the Uncompahgre (Ouray) Mining District, Southwestern Colorado By Wilbur S. Burbank and Robert
Report (volume)
History of mining _ ____..________________ Production ______________________________________ Mining districts...Tertiary lake beds _ _ Ore deposits _ ____ United Verde mine _ ___ _ _ _ Location ____ _ ___________ _______...copper Smelting operations________________________ Mine water_____________________________ Geology____...deposit ______________________ United Verde Extension Mining Co_________________ Location and history ____________________... CONTENTS V Detailed descriptions Continued. Verde district Continued. Page Jerome-Verde Development Co 88
Book (volume)
the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union Road St. Louis, Missouri 63125 first printing December..............................................59 Colorado ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map
 
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