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Chalcedony from
Silver Leaf, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA


Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Silver Leaf, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:665149
Long-form Identifier:1:3:665149:7
GUID (UUID V4):31c2ebad-7f2d-4292-a504-b0e3799ff3c9
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony
5.3km (3.3 miles) Diamond Joe tunnel, Idaho Springs, Lawson Mining District (Dumont Mining District; Montana Mining District), Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) Little Topsy, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) Martha E. Mine, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
7.6km (4.7 miles) Silver Ring (Silverine), Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Silver Link, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
7.8km (4.8 miles) Eclipse Mine, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
7.8km (4.9 miles) Muscovite, Lamartine Mining District, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) German and Belcher, Quartz Hill, Central City Mining District (Central Mining District), Gilpin County, Colorado, USA
8.3km (5.2 miles) Rocky & Stoney, Chicago Creek, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
8.6km (5.3 miles) Cape Brenton, Chicago Creek, Clear Creek County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALOGY, AND HISTORY OF FOUR Native Silver Localities 7 in Colorado Downloaded by [University of California...72 Golden, Colorado 80403 All photos by author unless otherwise noted SINCE 1859 COLORADO HAS PRODUCED...threequarters of a billion ounces of silver. Most of this production has come from silver-bearing minerals rather...rather than the native metal. Native silver in Colorado has been deposited both as a primary mineral, crystallized...well-known native silver specimen producers-Caribou, Ward, Aspen, and Creede. Secondary silver may be the only
Journal (issue)
Jim Landon ROCK & GEM KIDS 46 THE DENVER DOME Colorado minerals built the state capitol. 50 By Steve...expansion, especially Eleanor Krimmel, from the USA, whose generous donations really put us over the...geode butterfly by Linda L. Burns, of Las Animas, Colorado, published as the May 2017 Lapidary of the Month...southeastern Colorado ironstone cake. A clear quartz crystal found near Florissant, Colorado, served as...the Carver is almost endless, including white, clear, beige, yellow, orange, red, purple eye agate,
Report (issue)
and Ore Deposits of the Chicago Creek Area Clear Creek County Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...and Ore Deposits of the Chicago Creek Area Clear Creek County Colorado By J. E. HARRISON and J. D. WELLS...and ore deposits of the Chicago Creek area, Clear Creek County, Colorado, by J. E. Harrison and J. D. Wells...Geology Colorado Clear Creek Co. 2. Ore deposits Colorado Clear Creek Co. 3. Petrology Colorado Clear Creek..._---_-__-_--__________-____________--. History of the district-______________________________ General geology
Book
milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please...naumanite, sylvanite, teilurobismuth, umangite, silver j. COMMON QUARTZ-SULPHIDE VEINS Quartz, galena
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
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Clear Lake deposit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . Rock exposures (chalcedony, zeolites, etc.) . . . . . . . . Copper Creek deposit . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . , ... , . . . . . . . . . . . . Silver Lake deposits................................ Loon... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Silver Islet mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Edward and Porphyry Islands copper................. Silver Harbour deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Maryland; Professor Richard Pearl of Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Professor Jack Hanahan of Belmont...pile of gravel on the roadside lives in a palace. clear For the purpose of this book, a gem material is...easily discernible quartz crystals surrounded by chalcedony that is crystalline only to the eye of the microscope...a quality closely allied to fracture pattern; chalcedony and jasper, because of their cryptocrystalline
Report (issue)
1 D E J •LEGEND- MEXICO -^ Mining O Division Boundaries. Mining Division Offices. (6) PREFACE...a part of the Fourth Annual Report of the State Mining Bureau, by Henry G. Hanks, who was then State Mineralogist...''Minerals of California," of the California State Mining Bureau. In the thirty years which had elapsed since...published as Bulletin 91 of the California State Mining Bureau. Many additional species were included,...commercial borates. Lawsonite, first found in Marin county in 1895, has proved to be of great petrographic
Journal (issue)
Death Valley 30 MINING Current news of desert mines 31 URANIUM Progress of the mining boom 32 LAPIDARY...they were deposited. Scientists acclaim the Nye County discovery the best yet found in the world. By NELL...Union Canyon, in the Shoshone Mountains of Nye County, Nevada. The question of who first discovered the...settled to the satisfaction of everyone. Early mining prospectors in the BerlinGrantsville area are said...functioned, even earlier, as a store in the old mining camp of Tone. This shed was being utilized as a
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...glasses are available /^shapes, but the ordinary clear welders glasses are inexpensive and they also shield...Center. Geological Survey. Federal Center. Denver. Colorado 80225. Index sheets from which the condition...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic
Journal (issue)
the U.S.A. 02 0 74470 02033 2 Made in the USA! by Barranca Diamond DIAMOND 7” TRIM SAW MK-1503...H Scan for Video Scan for Video MADE IN USA MADE IN USA Barranca Diamond Products • 1315 Storm Parkway... Best Prices Grit 6" 8" 60 12.95 16.95 Made in USA. 80, 100 11.95 15.95 Nickel Bond including & Wheels...Machine - 6 inch 895 00 complete Made in USA Our made in USA wheels will last you 3-4 times longer than...efort, and slowly other deposits of tin as well as silver and lead were found. In the area known as Dundas
Journal (issue)
faceting & lapidary needs! Lapidary Equipment• Silver & Gold Filled Wire & Sheet• Jewelry Making Equipment•...Seattle, WA 98101 •·, .. • NW Federation Show King County Fairgrounds Enumclaw, WA August 31, Sept 1 & 2...Kenneth H. Rohn VISITUSON THEINTERNET Cripple Creek Turquoise 48 There's gold in that there turquoise...it together with hard silver solder to make a small tube. "Solder a small silver piece to the open end...end of the tube to form a cap. Trim the excess silver, then file the edges smooth. "Now. make the necklace
Book (edition)
Meteorites Metals Radioactive Minerals Gems Fossil Fuels Mining Collecting as a Hobby RICHARD M. PEARL $1.95 ...Richard M. Pearl, Associate Professor of Geology, Colorado Co1lege, is the author of H ow to Know the Minerals...environment. This book bas been written to make clear the answers to 1001 questions pertaining to the...AND ROCKS 221 XIII THE FOSSIL FUELS 246 XIV MINING AND MILLING xv WATER RESOURCES XI XVI 272...salt before blasting Rolling sheet of sterling silver Agatized \\'Ood, Petrified Forest National Monument
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...6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph by J...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
Journal (issue)
with pure limpid black or rose colored quartz or chalcedony, and occasionally containing calc spar, and mingled...many of which are hollow spheres of quartz or chalcedony with their interior cavity lined with beautiful...is generally crystalline, with a thin crust of chalcedony coat ing the exterior surface. Some have been...Keokuk limestone is to be seen ; geologically, Lee County appears thus : Alluvium. Drift or Boulder .. Coal...mamillary and botryoidal forms of chalcedony. In Des Moines County geological aspect is somewhat changed
Book (edition)
environment. This book has been written to make clear the answers to 1001 questions pertaining to the...AND ROCKS 221 XIII THE FOSSIL FUELS 246 XIV MINING AND MILLING 263 XV WATER RESOURCES 272 MINERAL...from the Alaska mine in Colorado, cubanite from Cuba, kernite from Kern County in California, aragonite...Arabic "powder of the mine" because it came from a silver mine. Perhaps the worst blunder in naming any mineral...remarkably complete and authoritative treatise on mining, metallurgy, and minerals, which was published
Book
are available 1n many !\ Shapes. but the ordinary clear welders glasses are 1nexpens1ve and they also shield...Center Geological Survey Federal Center Denver Colorado 80225 Index sheets from wh ich the precise maps...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...could think of. With increasing technical skil l, mining and shaping of minerals became increasingly important...containing pieces of copper sometimes bits of native silver, zeollte. calcite. and quartz crystals, and' masses
Report (issue)
3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph by J...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
Report (issue)
association with silver and gold at the Jewel and other mines in the Greenwood Mining Division (R. Bell.../14, 82 K / 3 Argentite has b een found at the Silver King Mine , Toad Mountain, about 5 miles south...Surv . Can ., Ann. Rept. , IX, 27A). At the Slocan mining camp , argentite is present as a primary min eral...in ores from the Capello, Wilmer, Black Grouse, Silver Glance, Boomerang, Howard Fraction and Meteor properties...Hewitt Mine, and as films associ ated w ith nativ e silver coating joint fractures at the Molly Hughes, Comstock
Report (volume)
................................ 50 History of mining............................................................................ 54 Condition of the mining industry.................................................................. 56 Nespelem (Moses) district............................................. ............................... 58 Production and mining conditions. ................................. 59...Metalliferous deposits Continued. Nespelem (Moses) district Continued. Mines and prospects Continued. Replacement
Journal (issue)
quarrying for build ing and road m iterials, in mining for the precious metals and the various 178 THE...River and Cooper's Creek; the latter in the more pleasant plains of the central district. The sapphire digger...powerful fascination. The center of the sapphire mining industry is in the Leichardt divi sion, on the...and the Nogoa, Belyando and Barcoo rivers. The district is tranversed by the central railroad system,...and Withersfield are within 12 miles of Retreat Creek, the chief resort of the sapphire workers. - Other
Report (issue)
change without notice Cover illustration Native silver, Castle-Trethewey mine, Gowganda. The specimen...37 39 39 Cobalt district Cobalt district silver mines Road log to the Cobalt district mines Townsite mine...mine Mines along Coleman Road and Hound Chute Road Silver Queen mine Princess mine McKinley-Darragh mine...Timiskaming mine Cochrane mine Lumsden mine Silver-Miller (Pan Silver) mine Christopher (Columbus) mine Victory...Horn (Cross Lake O’Brien) mine Smith Cobalt mine Silver Cliff mine Mines along Highway 567, south of Cobalt
Book
Department of Geological Sciences Duluth MN 55812-2496 USA grapp@d.umn.edu ISBN: 978-3-540-78593-4 e-ISBN:.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Outcrops, Mining, and Quarrying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 7.3 Silver (Ag) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 9.11 Gold and Silver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...quartzite, Boulder Lake Reservoir, St. Louis County, Minnesota, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
........................................ Apple Creek Formation................................................................................ Lawson Creek Formation.................................................. Carbonate rocks in the Bayhorse mining district................................................... Basal dolomite of Bayhorse Creek....................................................................................... Upper carbonate of Cash Creek................................................
Report (issue)
8494 LjJ I en S5 ^s CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU. Henry G. Hanks, State Mineralogist. ...provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Mining Bureau," approved April 16, 1880. to : I have...For the past year, satisfactory progress The Mining Bureau Museum floor. and thoroughly still ...abroad which cannol be The publications of the Mining Bureau should be sold supplied. at actual cost—...there are a large number of pamphlets, circulars, mining companies' reports, proceedings of societies, etc
 
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