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Orthoclase from
Adelaide Mine, Iron Hill, Lake County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Adelaide Mine, Iron Hill, Lake County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:746483
Long-form Identifier:1:3:746483:6
GUID (UUID V4):1a0374dc-a507-4c6d-80f0-be4ea7fcafdb
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
1.3km (0.8 miles) ā“˜Breece Iron Mine, Breece Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) ā“˜Florence Mine, Printer Boy Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) ā“˜Evans Gulch, Lake County, Colorado, USA
7.5km (4.7 miles) ā“˜Mosquito Pass, Lake County, Colorado, USA
12.1km (7.5 miles) ā“˜Orthoclase occurrence, Lake County, Colorado, USA
14.7km (9.2 miles) ā“˜Fremont Pass, Lake County, Colorado, USA
15.9km (9.9 miles) ā“˜Climax Mine, Climax, Climax Mining District, Lake County, Colorado, USA
20.2km (12.5 miles) ā“˜North Star Mountain, Summit County, Colorado, USA
54.0km (33.6 miles) ā“˜Italian Mountain, Taylor Park, Dorchester Mining District, Gunnison County, Colorado, USA
67.5km (41.9 miles) ā“˜West Maroon Pass Area, Pitkin County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
ARTICLES: Chalcophanite from the Mou'nt Stewart Mine Leadville, NSW. England, B.M. 1ļæ½):9-11 Definition...Nickel, E. 1(2):27 Minerals from. tļæ½ Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia. Beyer, B. and...Elliott, P. 2(2):57-70 The minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania. Haupt, J., Bottrill, R. and Sorrell,...granites at Lake Boga, Wycheproof and Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Birch, W.D. 2(2):47-50 Post-mine sulphates...Great Australia Mine. Day, B. and . Beyer, B. 1(1):23-28 Part 2 - The Mount Cobalt Mine. Day, B. and Beyer
Report (issue)
from ā€œ Mount Lyndhurst,ā€ ā€œLeigh Creek,ā€ ā€œAvondale Mineā€; all these are in the Leigh Creek District, and...H. Walcott, Melbourne; L. K. Ward, B.A., B.E., Adelaide. To my former assistant, Mr. M. Aurousseau, B...Mount Shamrock Mine. Ihid., No. 168, 1901. 34. On the Mount Biggenden Gold and Bismuth Mine and Paradise...Mineral 9 42b. The.Einasleigli Freehold Copper Mine, North Queensland. GeoL Suru. Qā€™land, Publication...Junr.) The Walhalla 43. or Thomson River Copper Mine. Bull. Geol. Surv. Viet., 20, 1906. Bartley
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index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act...referred to as Glamorgan. The new counties and county boroughs brought in by the Lieutenancies Act of...Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R
Journal (issue)
cm, from the 1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of...collection, John Chapman photo. ā€¢ 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia. George Stacey collection, Jeff...Scovil photo. Middle row from left: ā€¢ 2.3 cm, Kintore mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia. Aloe Family collection;...Australian Museum was opened to the public in Adelaide in 1856; the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery...country. The lead-zinc-silver deposits found at Broken Hill in the early 1880s are still being mined today and
Report (volume)
4:14: NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN HUMBOLDT COUNTY, NEYADA BY FREDERICK LESLIE RANSOME WASHINGTON................................... Humboldt Queen mine.................................................................................... 41 Ryepatch mine .............................................................................................. Orthoclase............................................'...exposed on the slope of a small hill north of the Humboldt Queen mine............................. 3.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petrologic Framework for Iron Oxide Ā± Apatite Ā± Rare Earth Element and Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposits...Francois Mountains Terrane, Southeast Missouri, USA Warren C. Day,1,ā€  John F. Slack,2 Robert A. Ayuso...Denver Federal Center, Mail Stop 973, Lakewood, Colorado 80225 2 U.S. 3 Missouri Geological Survey, National...associated iron oxide Ā± apatite (IOA) Ā± rare earth element, iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG), and iron-rich sedimentary...Francois Mountains terrane of southeast Missouri, USA. The St. Francois Mountains terrane lies along the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
localities. EUROPE LANGBAN, near Filipstadt, Sweden -Iron and manganese ore deposit. Here occur many species...Zinnwald: cassiterite xIs, wolframite, zinnwaldite-iron lithium mica named by Heidinger, 1845. Some well...name. WIELICZKA, near Krakow, Poland, oldest salt mine in Europe, beautiful large halite xls, anhydrate...beautiful axinite xIs, epidote. Fine twin quartz xIs, mine Gardett, Dauphine Isere. ROCKS AND MINERALS LIMOGES...Italy. In granite quarries occur quartz xIs, orthoclase xIs, fluorite, bavenite (berylium silicate)
Report (issue)
ORE DEPOSITS OF TILE LEADVILLE MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO BY S. F. EMMONS, J. D. IRVING, AND G. F. LOUGIILIN...High terrace gravel_ 15 Low terrace gravel_ _ 17 "Lake beds"_ 17 Character and distribu17 tion _ Deformation...fault _ 88 56 011ie Reed pipe_ Iron-Mikado group_ 88 57 Josie pipe _ 89 Iron fault _ 58 Eureka pipe_ Mikado...Age_ Emmet fault _ 93 60 Chapter 5. Structure _ Adelaide fault _ 93 60 Folding _ Ulster-Newton fault_ 94..._94 61 Mike anticline _ Origin of the Iron-Mikado fault 61 Colorado Prince anticline _ group _ 95 61 Mosquito
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold mines at Grass Valley, Nevada Co., Calif. COLORADO-The following item was sent in by Pat Fancher...coarse xline galena has been found in the Aleo lead mine in Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., III. INDIANAā€”Slender...13, Kans. "This petrified wood came from Barber County, Kansas. I am not sure of its exact location but...Ouachita Parish, La. 122 MAINEā€”Small white xls (orthoclase) associated with sonite, and vesuvianite have...imprints of fern leaves at an abandoned oil shale mine southeast of the city."ā€”note sent in by A/2C Lawrence
Journal (issue)
discoveries in the granites at Lake Boga, Wycheproof and Pyramid Hill, Victoria W. D. Birch ........................ 51 Minerals from the Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia B. Beyer & P....of interesting mineral discoveries in the western USA. FRANCIS COLLECTION WEB SITES The Mineralogical...Mineralogy, South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South AusĀ­ tralia, 5000. Please help preserve...first theme issue of AJM, which will be on Broken Hill. The planned highlight is a feature on the minerals
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DR. J. S. Pacific Railroad Reports, and Ives' Colorado Expe dition Report. PACIFIC RAILROAD ExPLor ATIONS...steatite at Petaluma. ALABASTER. In Los Angeles County. Specimen in cabinet of the author, received from...from Mr. Tyson, of Arizona. ANDALUSITE. Mariposa County.ā€”In the drift of the Chowchillas River, near the...colored are abundant in the pebbly drift along the Colorado River. Small but very smoothly worn specimens...may be picked up on the shores of Lake Tahoe. ARSENIC. Monterey County, at the Alisal mines, twenty-five
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MINERAL COLLECTING LOCALITIES OF THE BROKEN HILL DISTRICT I. R. PLIMER Dr Ian Plimer is a lecturer in...College of the University of New South Wales at Broken Hill First published 1977 Copyright o 1977 I.R. Plimer...by Typecraft Pty Ltd, Adelaide Printed in Hong Kong PREFACE The Broken Hill area is well known not...collecting mineral and rock specimens from the Broken Hill district and it is my purpose to guide the collector...time scale for the Broken Hill district Frontispiece Geology of the Broken Hill district 9 Mineral deposits
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at Glen Osmond a few miles from Adelaide, and the colonyā€™s first mine, the Wheal Gawler, began operations...after which the importance of copper declined and iron took over as the most valuable mineral resource...was made in 1846 at the Victoria Mine, near Castambul, east of Adelaide. At present the Stateā€™s mineral...salt, copper, opal and most important of all, the iron ores of the Middleback Ranges on Eyre Peninsula...smelting and fabricating facilities. The first pig iron was produced in 1873 from a charcoal-fired furnace
Report (Issue volume)
Executive, Resources and Energy, DMITRE, GPO Box 1264, Adelaide SA 5001. First published 1993 Digital version.............17 Basement inliers of the southern Adelaide Geosyncline ............18 Arunta Block ...................................................19 Adelaide Geosyncline .........................................................................42 Hopeful Hill Basalt. ..........................................South Lake Gabbro .....................................................................42 Lake Harris
Report (issue)
an Exploration Tool, Gold Run District, Hunboldt County, Nevada By 101 J. A. Erdman , T. M. Cookro ,...ILLUSTRATIONS Figure 1. Location of the Great Basin-Colorado Plateau sagebrush semidesert type in the western...The Gold Run mining district, also known as the Adelaide mining district, lies in the foothills on the...several traverses in the Gold Run district, Humboldt County, Nevada, suggest that the gold content alone may...semi-desert that occupies much of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau of western North America. The asiatic
Journal (issue)
ISSUE #1 Adelaide Mine 2010 Tomasz PRASZKIER & Adam WRIGHT INTRODUCTION The Adelaide Mine, located in...specimens have been found in the history of the mine ā€“ in 1970ā€™s, 1990ā€™s and then again in 2010! The...terms of crocoite specimens ā€“ Adelaide and Red Lead. The Adelaide mine however, produces much bigger...specimens. HISTORY OF THE ADELAIDE MINE The deposit mined recently at the Adelaide mine was discovered in 1887...Mtn, USA Read on page 7 R. Scott WERSCHKY Editors: Tomasz Praszkier (Poland) Scott Werschky (USA) J
Book (edition)
Resource Reviews Series editor John Slack, Reston, VA, USA More information about this series at http://www...recognition of an association of such rocks with iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposits, intrusion-related... 6.4.2 Bingham Copper-Molybdenum Deposit, Utah, USA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4... . . . . 6.4.4 Cripple Creek Gold Deposit, Colorado, USA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.5.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7.2 Iron-Oxide Copper-Gold (IOCG) Deposits and Potassic Igneous
Journal (issue)
complex base-metal assemblage from the Sterling mine, New Jersey ......................................mineral localities: The French Creek mine, St. Peters, Chester County, Pennsylvania.......................Dickinson Famous mineral localities: The Burra Burra mine, Burra, South Australia ..........................Saddle-shaped rhodochrosite crystals from the Foote mine, North Carolina ..................................number of institutions already, including the Colorado School of Mines and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Book (edition)
Bingham Copper Deposit, Utah, USA . Twin Buttes Copper Deposit, Arizona, USA Chilean Andes . Postcollisional...Characteristics Andacollo, Chile . Bingham, Utah, USA . Choquelimpie, Chile . Emperor, Vitu Levu, Fiji...Wales, Australia Grasberg, Indonesia . Kirkland Lake, Superior Province, Canada . Ladolam, Lihir Island...Northern Territory, Australia . Twin Buttes, Arizona, USA . Wiluna, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia ...century by Iddings (1895), who described some orthoclase-bearing basalts from the Yellowstone Park, Wyoming
Book (edition)
Deposit, Utah, USA . EI Indio Gold Deposit, Chile . Twin Buttes Copper Deposit, Arizona, USA Postcollisional...Utah, USA . Cadia, New South Wales, Australia Choquelimpie, Chile . Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA Dinkidi...Wales, Australia Grasberg, Indonesia . Kirkland Lake, Superior Province, Canada Ladolam, Lihir Island...Summitville, Colorado, USA. Tom's Gully, Northern Territory, Australia Twin Buttes, Arizona, USA . Wiluna...Philippines (Cooke et al. 1996), Cripple Creek, USA (Thompson 1992), and Emperor, Fiji (Anderson and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
v. 100, pp. 1657ā€“1661 EXPRESS LETTER URANIUM IN IRON OXIDE-COPPER-GOLD (IOCG) SYSTEMS MURRAY W. HITZMANā€ ...Geology and Geological Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401 AND RICK K. VALENTA Fronteer...Columbia, Canada V6E 3X1 Abstract The Olympic Dam iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposit is currently the...Selwyn, Osborne, Mt. Elliot, Eloise, and Prominent Hill, Australia; Candelaria and Manto Verde, Chile; Sossego...metal content of the deposits is highly variable. Iron oxides are the dominant mineral gangue. The deposits
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mineral collection. se rs eee 7 ar oltre) LAKe sho 363.8 oe saline 3 re Campus eTTTT 16.2... ENGLAND Ā„& E. M. GUNNELL, collector, Denver, Colorado, U. S. A. \ HENRI HANSON, photographer and collector...stood atop the ā€œmotherā€ mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal
Journal (issue)
scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Forsterite, 2 cm, from St. Johnā€™s Island, Egypt. Ray Hill collection; Michael Bainbridge photo. Topaz, 4 cm...Sean Finneson (WA) Greg & Nancy Hendricks (OR) Ray Hill (WA) Alex Homenuke (BC) Bob Jackson (WA) Dave Leppert...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal
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many that are still in operation, such as Broken Hill in New South Wales and the Deccan Plateau zeolite-producing...The Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Iyo Province, Ehime Prefecture, Island of Shikoku Ashio Mine, Shimotsuke Province...Prefecture, Honshu The Obira Mine, Bungo Province, Oita Prefecture, Kyushu; The Toroku Mine, Hyuga Province, Miyazaki...Miyazaki Prefecture, Kyushu Otome Mine, Suisho Pass, Kurobera, Kai Province, Yamanashi Prefecture, Honshu...Sri Lanka (Ceylon) al ot Zircon Tourmaline Orthoclase, Variety Moonstone Sinhalite Taafeite References
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogy and rare-earth element (re)mobilization in iron-oxide copper gold systems from South Australia:...School of Physical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia School of Chemical Engineering...University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia...Australia Adelaide Microscopy, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia [Received 4 February...from the Cu-Au skarn at Hillside within the same iron-oxide copper-gold (IOCG) province, South Australia
 
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