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Malachite from
Cliff Dweller Mine, La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Malachite
Formula:Cu2(CO3)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Chalcocite1 photo of Malachite associated with Chalcocite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Malachite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cliff Dweller Mine, La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:683878
Long-form Identifier:1:3:683878:2
GUID (UUID V4):d1257dfe-08a2-456f-bf67-15cd9f5eece0
Nearest other occurrences of Malachite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Cashin Mine (Red Chief claim; Titon claim; Angell claim; Horse Shoe claim; Bennie claim; Maud claim; Humboldt claim), La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
9.4km (5.8 miles) Morning Glory Mines, La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
9.8km (6.1 miles) Sunrise Mine (Patented Claim: Sunrise; MS 16001), La Sal Mining District (Paradox Valley Mining District), Montrose County, Colorado, USA
12.8km (7.9 miles) Gray Daun Mine, La Sal Creek Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) Paradox Belle (Paradox Bell), Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
16.7km (10.3 miles) Jackpot Mine, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
18.5km (11.5 miles) Sinbad Group, Sinbad Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
19.9km (12.4 miles) Peanut Mine, Bull Canyon, Uravan Mining District, Montrose County, Colorado, USA
24.2km (15.0 miles) Unknown Copper (MRDS - 10015097), Lisbon Valley Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
24.3km (15.1 miles) Copper Rivet Mine, Mesa County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Book
GUIDEBOOK FOR THE PARADOX BASIN, UTAH AND COLORADO TABLE OF CONTENTS Page THE PARADOX BASIN OVERVIEW RESOURCES...LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) ORE BELT ORE BODIES URANIUM DISTRICTS AND MINING AREAS SLICK ROCK DISTRICT GYPSUM...GYPSUM VALLEY DISTRICT BULL CANYON DISTRICT URAVAN DISTRICT GATEWAY DISTRICT (EASTERN GATEWAY AREA) MC...AREA LA SAL CREEK AREA PARADOX DISTRICT BEAVER AND POLAR MESAS LISBON VALLEY (BIG INDIAN) DISTRICT MOAB...MOAB DISTRICT GREEN RIVER DISTRICT THOMPSONS DISTRICT INTER-RIVER REGION RICHARDSON-DEWEY AREA LOWER KANE
Report (issue)
Uranium-Vanadium Deposits of the Slick Rock District, Colorado U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper...Survey Cover photograph: Burro No. 7 mine, Slick Rock, Colorado. Photograph by Jim Cappa, 2005. Uranium-Vanadium...Slick Rock District, Colorado By Daniel R. Shawe With a section on Appendix on District Production By...INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SLICK ROCK DISTRICT, SAN MIGUEL AND DOLORES COUNTIES, COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Uranium-vanadium deposits of the Slick Rock district, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Report (volume)
. 234 " y { " ,-t .. .~,:",. I " , COLORADO "or.! _ +, (~ STATE OF .~ :'(' COL~ADO /... BULLETIN 40 RADIOACTIVE MINERAL OCCURRENCES OF COLORADO AND BlaLlllGRAPHY by James L. Nelson-Moore,...Energy COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESUURCES STATE OF COLORADO DENVER, COLORADO 1978...ete 11 st r ng of rad i aaet 1ve occurrences 1n Colorado, with a comprehensive blbi iography and bibliographic...on the Colorado Plateau sparked several periods of exploratIon that ultimately led to a mining "boom ll
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Depositsof this type occurat Salt Valley, SinbadValley, and Paradox Valley;thelargestdeposits areat LisbonValley... iments in southeastern Utah and southwestern Colorado. Copper-silver deposits are post-Laramide depositsbut...the Paradox basin of southeastern Utah and southwestern Geologyof the LisbonValley Area Colorado(Fig...gs of the Lis- faulted salt anticlines in the Paradox basin of southboncopperdeposits resemble several...several smaller copper easternUtah and southwestern Colorado(Fig. lB). (_+silver)deposits in theParadox basin:forexample
Journal (issue)
up a substantial portion of the bedrock of Wood County. Although this particular site has not been dated...approximately 0.5 mm high, Schill Quarry, Vesper, Wood County, WI, photo by Dan Behnke. New Finds from Peru...something to talk about. Last year the Chiurucu Mine in Huanuco Department. proAuced the best rhodonitcs...by the Gem & Mineral Council of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. This was the results...Readers of the Mineral News may recall an editorial of mine in the April, 1990 Mineral News entitled: "Books
Report (volume)
and Sids Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, Emery County, Utah UTAH • MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE SAN...AND SIDS MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS, EMERY COUNTY, UTAH Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite image...and Sids Mountain Wilderness Study Areas, Emery County, Utah By SUSAN BARTSCH-WINKLER, ROBERT P. DICKERSON...Mountain (UT-060-023) Wilderness Study Area, Emery County, Utah. CONTENTS Abstract 1 Summary 2 Regional...Acknowledgments 10 Appraisal of identified resources 10 10 Mining history in the San Rafael Swell region 10 Muddy
Journal (issue)
Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 Maynard Bixby - Part 2 Mining Expert, Mineral Dealer and Sharp Shooter Mark Ivan...story of her exploits in the woods of Rappahannock County, Virginia, follows.—Editor) This past winter I...(Continued from page 1) In May 1902, the Salt Lake Mining Review announced the publication of Bixby’s ‘Catalogue...the Salt Lake Mining Review became more frequent. In April 1903, the Salt Lake Mining Review (1903) noted...Palmer of Colorado Springs had purchased Maynard Bixby’s Cliff Dwellers Collection for Colorado College
Book (edition)
atid aeseae eueneSasehr i ia Bdtit _WYOQMING COLORADO _ LADORE 7C CRAIG r3GRANBY 17d KREMMLING...\Wocos ‘ ANTES 15a 9b 20, RICESY. yj ta 15D MONTROSE * Zt FAIRPLAY ca BUENA VISTA Q5b DELTA 2...COEORADORI 2 NEW MEXICO x pec, Inn? UKE) COLORADO TOURS LEGEND NUMBERED TOURS UNNUMBERED TOUR...Gallege COLORADO A Guide to the Highest State WITHDRAWN AWAACK TAY 2 \e Line COLORADO A Guide...Program Projects Administration of the State of Colorado AMERICAN GUIDE SERIES ILLUSTRATED HASTINGS
Report (volume)
Geophysical Union.. Transactions, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers _..._ American Journal...Mines Special Reports _.......__ ________ Colorado Mining Association publications . Economic Geology...Geology. _ . _ ___... Engineering and Mining Journal _ , Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta _ Bulletin, Geological...of Sedimentary Petrology_...__._ Mines Magazine Mining Engineering ........___..._...._____ Advances in...the areas and subjects are listed under States, "Colorado Plateau," "United States," or under a few subject
Journal (issue)
The CUT-OFF you've always SAW wanted! Eden Valley Wood This wood is from a new field. Sliced 3°16...fruits and the like are included here.. These are COLORADO most commonly found in shales and sandstones...the silicified wood of much more recent age in Colorado, Wyoming and other western states is very poorly...has washed out in places and in fact part of a cliff slid down over the road in one spot making it impassable...Obispo. The Chocolate Mountains in the Imperial Valley contain beautiful nedules that are well worth seeking
Report (issue)
Inhabitants. _______________________ Basket Makers and Cliff Dwellers. Piutes, Utes, and Navajos _______ White...rock from Duckett mine_______ Greenstone from Dream mine ________________ Low-grade ore from Dream mine_____________...edge of Elk Plateau; B, Mexican Hat; C, Lime Creek Valley showing erosion surface and vegetation ________...Canyon: A, View looking upstream at junction of Colorado and San Juan Rivers; B, View looking southwest...____ 8. A, Ruins of cliff house, Hovenweep National Monument; B, Ruins of Cliff Dwellers' house, Butler
Journal (issue)
CALENDAR March 29-30—Second annual exhibit, Imperial Valley Gem and Mineral society and Imperial Lapidary guild...section, climb of Coso and Maturango peaks, Inyo county. April 5-6—State Mineral Society of Texas, mineral...6—Easter sunrise services, Travertine point, Coachella valley, California. April 6—Easter services, Grand Canyon...show, Sonoita, Arizona. April 7—Second annual Yuma county agricultural fair, Yuma, Arizona. April 7-May 7—"Message...Alamogordo, New Mexico. April 12-13—Indian Wells Valley Stampede and Rodeo, Ridgecrest, Mojave desert,
Report (issue)
LAKE CITY, UTAH THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF UINTAH COUNTY by ROBERT G. PRUITT, JR. Bulletin 71 June, 1961...Your Attention To RS-90 GEOLOGIC MAP OF UINTAH COUNTY, (IN TWO PARTS) By G. E. and B. R. UNTERMANN UTAH...to the Customer ERRATA For THE MINE,RAL SOURCES OF UINTAH COUNTY Bulletin 71 Of The Utah Geological...phosphate reserved). THE MINERAL RESOURCES OF UINTAH COUNTY by Robert G. Pruitt, Jr. Bulletin 71 June, 1961...Oil-Shale Deposits of Uintah County •••••.••••••.••••.•••••••••••••• 57 Mining and Retorting Oil-Shale •••
Journal (issue)
in March, 1946, in mock search for Lost Dutchman mine. Photographer Edmond Read, Glendale, California...CREED OF THE DESERT By J U N E LEMERT PAXTON Yucca Valley, California The SculptoPtarved the distant rocks...the Desert 27 HOBBY Gems a n d Minerals 33 MINING Current n e w s briefs 40 CONTEST Rules for...Mexico state fair, Albuquerque. Oct. 3-5—Grand County fair, Moab, Utah. Oct. 4—Annual fiesta, Ranchos...Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. Oct. 4-6—Navajo County fair, and Northern Arizona Cattlemen's rodeo, Holbrook
Journal (issue)
specifically the area includes the Mojave and Colorado deserts of California; southern Nevada including...counties and all but the higher mountains of Clark county; in Arizona the lowest level of Grand Canyon and...man whose work shaped the destiny of Coachella Valley, when Roy W. Nixon, of the government experimental...introduces Bernard G. Johnson, who first envisioned this valley as a date growing center. His enthusiasm for dates...Production meeting of Western mining industry, Shirley-Savoy hotel, Denver, Colorado. Jan. 28-Feb. 28—International
Journal (issue)
—Rodeo and horse show, Fillm e, Utah. July 2 —Sevier county fair and rodeo, Ri field, Utah. July 2 —Pioneer...e r d e By RICHARD VAN VALKENBURGH TRAVEL LOST MINE CONTEST PERSONALITY 5 W h e r e Wild Buffalo R...20 21 O n Turtle Mountain Trails LETTERS BOTANY MINING NEWS DESERT QUIZ HOBBY LAPIDARY COMMENT BOOKS ...Wind-devils were twisting up from the Santa Cruz valley as we traveled west from Tucson, on Highway 84...Robles ranch and Three Points in the upper Altar valley. Turning left and south on the graded Sasabe road
Journal (issue)
was the mass field trip sponsored by the Clark County Gem Collectors of Las Vegas, Nev. , Oct. 7 and...acc2ptancc. rection of the Park Service and the Clark County group, was located at Boulder Beach on the shores...to clear back­ ground. Paul Drury of the Cl9.rk County group had a riker mount with 20 or so cut specimens...offer its services to the various Societies, the county fairs and other organizations ERAL DEPOSITS OF...available for the a s k i n g . The new edition of the La pidary Cata log will be coming out within the next
Journal (issue)
Annual Imperial County Fair, County Fair Grounds, Imperial, California. March 3-6—Pima County Fair, Tucson...Chandler, Arizona. March 5—All-day trip to Asbestos Mine in Pinyon Flats. Meet at Palm Springs Desert Museum...Annual International Desert Cavalcade of Imperial Valley at Calexico, California. Pageant, parades, festivities...Gorgeous Flowering Season Is Forecast HUMOR LOST GOLD MINING LETTERS NEWS DESERT QUIZ LAPIDARY HOBBY COMMENT...report for March 26 Hard Rock Shorty of Death Valley 27 'Pegleg Smith' of 1949 28 Current News of
Report (issue)
___ -- ______ --------- _- _-Crossings of the Colorado _____________________________________________...--------------------Gl€m Canyon group of Paria Valley and westward ___________________________________________________...____________________________ -_- ____ _ Halls Creek Valley _________________________________________ ·___...·_____________________________________ _ Escalante Valley _______________________________ . ____________...________________________________________________ _ Paria Valley ____________________·__________ :.. ~ _____ - _______
Book (edition)
a vein, although it gives a company the right to mine, should not be taken as justification for barbaric...conscience and good will, or as stockholders to encourage mine operators to arrange for specimen preservation in...it matters little how a mining company might arrange this. Ideally, the mine could collect and sell specimens...thereby make more profits for the stockholders. If the mine owners consider this too trivial, they can close...supervision in a profit-sharing agreement when the mine is not working. Surely with goodwill and understanding
Report (issue)
Wilderness looking northeast from Leopold Vista, Catron County, N.Mex. (1) Nabours Mountain, (2) Wilcox Peak,...INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FEDERAL CENTER. DENVER. COLORADO 80225 Mineral Resources -Wilderness Studies December...INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY FE"DF.:RAL CENTER. DENVER. COLORADO 80225 Minera) Resources--Wilderness Studies December...graben on the Bursum dome-------------- 136 Gila Cliff Dwellings caldera----------------------- 137 Fa...investigations------------------------------------ 242 Mining history and production------------------------------
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . Little Colorado Valley........... San Juan Valley. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . Moenkopi of the Little Colorado Valley......................... Topographic expression...features..... . . . . . . Moenkopi of the SanJuan Valley. . Stratigraphy....... . . . . . . . . . . Lithologic................. De Chelly sandstone of Monument Valley......................... Structure, texture, and...21 Major divisions of the Jurassic............ 22 La Plata group.......................... 22 Distribution
Journal (issue)
illustrator, into the Vallecitos area of the western Colorado desert. He will tell Desert readers about his...gullible person; no one has sold trie wild cat mining stock and I do not bet on the horses." A map will...CREED OF THE DESERT By J U N E LEMERT PAXTON Yucca Valley, California The cloudburst struck the canyon deep...Prospects With a Camera By CORA L. KEAGLE 18 MINING Current news briefs 22 LETTERS Comment from...of New Mexico and Texas is a tributary of the Colorado river. True..False 3—University of New Mexico
Journal (volume)
4000 Salt Lake 3VHA ‫مم‬ • THE JOHNNIE MINING & MILLING COMPANY. - Illustrated . E rn lectre...POINT GLOBE MINING COMPANY . - Illustrated .. ‫ سر‬/ SerT 19 CE W E VI op HE SALT LAKE LA G N NI RE...GOES ON FOREVER The Mine & Smelter Supply Co. SALT LAKE CITY , UTAH 2. THE MINING REVIEW , SALT LAKE... IN the latter part of 1908 the Pioche Golden Mining Co., of Pioche, Nev ., bought of one g ofPrince...gThis week we sold to the Gold and Silver Prince Mining Company , bwhedosythe samepeople) of Pioche, Nev
 
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