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Chrysocolla from
Ibex Mine, Breece Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chrysocolla
Formula:Cu2-xAlx(H2-xSi2O5)(OH)4 · nH2O, x < 1
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Azurite5 photos of Chrysocolla associated with Azurite at this locality.
Malachite5 photos of Chrysocolla associated with Malachite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chrysocolla data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ibex Mine, Breece Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:748238
Long-form Identifier:1:3:748238:0
GUID (UUID V4):ac6af971-4428-44d0-83d9-f8c7f8dca67f
Nearest other occurrences of Chrysocolla
0.5km (0.3 miles) Highland Chief Mine, Yankee Hill, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado, USA
2.5km (1.5 miles) Adelaide Mine, Iron Hill, Lake County, Colorado, USA
5.3km (3.3 miles) Sherman Mine (Sherman tunnel; Leadville Corporation Mine; Day Mines; Hilltop Mine), Upper Iowa Gulch, Lake County, Colorado, USA
12.4km (7.7 miles) Sweet Home Mine, Mount Bross, Alma Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Turquoise Chief Mine (Poor Boy), St. Kevin - Independence, Lake County, Colorado, USA
13.6km (8.4 miles) Josie May Mine, St. Kevin - Independence, Lake County, Colorado, USA
30.6km (19.0 miles) Barney Ford Hill, Breckenridge Mining District, Summit County, Colorado, USA
30.8km (19.1 miles) Dunkin; Juniata; Puzzle; Ouray; Gold Dust; Washington, Breckenridge Mining District, Summit County, Colorado, USA
33.0km (20.5 miles) Tamarack Occurrence, Buena Vista Area, Free Gold Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
33.9km (21.1 miles) Garo Deposit (Shirley May Mine; Duvall Discovery), Garo Area, Park County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur........ .................... ..... ^ B lllii Leadville.................................................SPECIMENS from the collection of the Geology Museum, Colorado School of Mines. See page 242 for a full description... All rights reserved. notes fromthej EDITOR COLORADO-III Here we are with our third special issue devoted...devoted to the mines and minerals of Colorado. As most long-time subscribers know, the first in the series
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....came from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926)...twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with more than 210
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF TILE LEADVILLE MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO BY S. F. EMMONS, J. D. IRVING,...High terrace gravel_ 15 Low terrace gravel_ _ 17 "Lake beds"_ 17 Character and distribu17 tion _ Deformation...Relation to mineralization_31 Geologic age _ 31 Leadville limestone (" Blue " limestone) _ _ 32 Name_ 32...anticline _ Origin of the Iron-Mikado fault 61 Colorado Prince anticline _ group _ 95 61 Mosquito Gulch...Kokomo syncline_ Faults southeast_ of _ Leadville 62 the_ Fryer Hill folds _ 62 district _ 95 Warping and
Report (issue)
SURVEY Geologic setting of the Leadville mining district, Lake County, Colorado by Alan R. Wallace1 Open-File...Government. JDenver, Colorado PREFACE This geologic summary of the Leadville, Colorado, mining district...to the California Gulch Superfund Site in Leadville, Colorado. Under the agreement, the USGS provides expert...regarding the geology and mineral deposits of the Leadville mining district. The report, a summary based upon.................. 15 Pre-mining setting of the Leadville district ....................................
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)
Includes the. Leadville, Colorado, mining district. Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Geological...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...High-level terraces,_____________________________ "Lake beds".__________________________________ Stratigraphy...___________ Dyer dolomite member. ___.____-__-_-___ Leadville dolomite------_------_----------__ Weber (?) ...Union syncline___ __________________________ Empire Hill syncline_ _-____-_-__--------_-__ Sheridan transverse
Report (issue)
155(3) Z=2 X-ray Powder Pattern: Sterling Hill, New Jersey, USA. 3.104 (100), 6.60 (86), 3.288 (75), 3.296...Total 100.75 100.00 (1) Pulaski Co., Virginia, USA. (2) Zn4 Si2 O7 (OH)2 ² H2 O: Occurrence: deposits...calcite, aurichalcite, rosasite, hydrozincite, chrysocolla. Distribution: Only a few localities for ¯ne...Freiberg and Altenberg, Saxony. In the Sa Duchessa mine, Oridda district, Sardinia, Italy. Large crystals...Tchah Kuh, Esfahan, Iran. In the USA, at Franklin and Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals....including the Harborside mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, and the Lubec lead mine and prospects at Pembroke...Washington County. It has also been found at the old lead mines at Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut;...Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the old Gorham (Mascot mine), Coos County, New Hampshire; as...iron mine at Andover, and as an accessory mineral at Franklin and Sterling Hill, Sussex County, New Jersey;
Journal (issue)
Kosnar R.A., Berg111anT. L·oro 111cris1alh del Colorado, U.S.A. (111)........... pag. 2-l I Orfa,ufi P...GR. Coli. e fo10 Giancarlo Brizzi. ADVISE TO OUR USA AND CANADA SUBSCRIBERS: The circulation agents for...MINERALOGICAL RECORD P.O. BOX 35565, TUCSON. ARIZONA 85740, USA. Please state thc purpose of your payment and your...perpuovi luoghi di ritrova :E E O ini abbonamenti": MINE Sode Verla GmbH • Postfach 405 • D- E' uscito...Lucky Knoch a Tonasket. Okanogan County nello stato di Washington (USA). Al nuovo minerale é stato dato
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
certain mineral species. For instance, azurite, chrysocolla, and turquoise bring to mind vivid images of...depth. These include the Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the Buckwheat pit, Franklin, New...Chester County, the Ueberroth mine near Bethlehem, and the zinc mines at Friedensville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania;...Shenandoah Counties, and the Austinville district, Wythe County, Virginia; and the zinc occurrences in Claiborne...district), Marion County, Arkansas (Richards 1993). and the Hill lead mine, Hardin County, Illinois, are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Technological University] at 01:12 30 May 2016 Touissit Mine, Oujda, Morocco This unusual specimen consists...MINERALS was found in June 1988 at shaft 9, Touissit mine, Oujda, Morocco, and purchased there by Victor Yount...Pseudomorphs of galena, mimetite, cerussite, chrysocolla, and smithsonite after anglesite, and also anglesite...Foster iron mine, Putnam County, and at the old Rossie lead mines in St. Lawrence County, New York. In...Journal ( 1814) as occurring at Loudville, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, an identification confirmed on
Report (volume)
Bulletin 681 THE OXIDIZED ZINC ORES OF LEADVILLE COLORADO BY G. F. LOUGHLIN WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT..................................... 54 Carbonate Hill ore bodies........................................bodies in workings of Western Mining Co., Carbonate Hill...................................................Plan and sections of lead-silver stopes in Belgian mine............ 4. Diagrams illustrating relations of...bodies to lead carbonate stopes in the Oro La Plata mine..................... 5. Plan and sections showing
Catalog/List
$50. 00. 7. CALAVERITE Cresson mine, Cripple Creek, Teller Co., Colorado. Select silvery-gray fiattened...with fluorite. 3x4" $85. 8. CASSITERITE Siglo XX mine, Llalla.gua., Bolivia, Choice lustrous jet-black...ia brown quartz matrix. 2½x4½" $75. 00. 11. CHRYSOCOLLA Live Oak Plt, Inspiration, Gila Co. ,Arizona... 3x3:xl¼" $35. 00. 12. COPPER and SILVER Seneca mine, HouP-ton, Michtga.n. Chotce bronze metallic irregular...$20. 00. 18. KRENNERITE Cresson mine, Cripple Creek, Teller Co., Colorado. Lustrous silvery metallic 1 to
Catalog/List
Iron Pyrite; Leadville, Colorado Pyrite Amazonite, Florissant, Colorado Crocidolite Chrysocolla, Globe, Arizom...Hou1Zhton Co., Michigan Carnotite, Montrose Co., Colorado Quartz var. Agale, blue, polished, Uruguay Quartz...Mammoth, Arizona. Pyrargyrite, crystallized, Samson Mine, Harz, Germany Cuprite on Native Copper, very fine... Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Native Silver...Silver, Aspen, Colo., Mollie Gib­ son Mine, one of the greatest Silver Mines ever discovered. Native
Report (issue)
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Report (volume)
Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of...especially Fischer and others, 1946). MINERALS OF COLORADO: A 100-YEAR RECORD By EDWIN B. EcKEL ABSTRACT
Book (edition)
by Oak Tree Press Co. Ltd P.O. Box 34, Brickfield Hill, Sydney 2000, N.S.W Distributed in the United Kingdom...Yorke Peninsula, and in New South Wales at Broken Hill. In U.S.S.R. very fine crystals at Turnisk in Perm...dendritic masses with pitchblende at Great Bear Lake. Also with native copper as cavity-fillings in basalt...Peninsula, Michigan. Found in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in...Norway. In Australia, silver is found at Broken Hill in New South Wales. Mexico has been a big producer
Journal (issue)
Montana’s capital city, is partnering with The Carter County Museum in Ekalaka – dinosaur fossils from within...MARCH 2020 3 VOL. 50 NO. 03 • MARCH 2020 50 chrysocolla 58 10 for the love of lapis The Saga of Afghan...Tradition And ‘Living the Dream’ at Wild Turkey Mine 20 cherishing chert A Mother Rock for the Ages...Leaf gold atop matrix mined in Clear Creek County, Colorado; Banded Iron Formation (BIF) chert mined near... OR8, 9, 10 SACRAMENTO, CA MAY ........... SALT LAKE CITY, UT ........... EUGENE, OR ________________________________
Journal (issue)
on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim, Colorado. Collected by the Dorris family; Tom Spann photo...Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini
Report (issue)
Carbonate-Hosted Sulfide Deposits of the Central Colorado Mineral Belt DAVID W . BEATY, GARY P . LANDIS...LANDIS, AND TOMMY B. THOMPSON, EDITORS Leadville-type ore Sherman-type ore TH E ECON0t-11C GEOLOGY PUBLIS...Geology, 91-A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 Leadville-type ore (top) with rod-textured pyrite in a matrix...paralle l to host-rock bedding. Black Cloud mine, Leadville district. Sherman-type ore (bottom) in paleokarst...cemented or veined with ferroan dolomite. rv1oose mine, North Alma district. Photographs b)' \Villiarn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Linarite Mammoth–St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona O f the blue minerals, azurite...the mill. So it has been at places such as Broken Hill, New South Wales, where linarite’s legacy is primarily...cerussite, anglesite, leadhillite, hemimorphite, and chrysocolla. Linarite is rare in the eastern United States...occurrences including the Cape Rosier mine at Brooksville, Hancock County, where it was found with smithsonite...include Kendall Head at Eastport and the Preble Hill or Jones mine at Garland (King and Foord 1994). It is known
Report (issue)
Collection Rock samples were collected from outcrops or mine dumps in the vicinity of the sample location maps...Dug way 12. Gold Hill SALT LAKE CITY 13. Notch Peak 14. Confusion Range UL4H LAKE Sevier DELTA //...Zimbelman, D.R., Arbogast, B.F., Hageman, Phil, Hill, R.H., Fey, D.L., and Bullock, J.H., Jr., 1991,...reported in Zimbelman and others (1991). SAMPLE NO. MINE/ PROSPECT Pt ppb Pd ppb Rh ppb Ru Ir ppb ppb...7DH5281A 7DH5282B 7DH5283B DRUM MINE DRUM MINE DRUM MINE DRUM MINE DRUM MINE PORPHYRY PORPHYRY COPPERRHEAD
Book (volume)
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Book (volume)
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Journal (issue)
Speaking 3 T5I California Convention 4 Yogo Sapphire Mine Reopened 4 Alpha Counters 5 Berkeley Cass iter ite...States. YOGO SAPPHIRE MINE REOPENED A REOPEN INC OF THE FAMED YOGO~ 'SAPP H I RE MINE, IN THE LITTLE BELT...scheduled TO BEGIN THIS MONTH, UNDER NEW OPERATORS. THE MINE HAS BEEN IDLE SINCE 1929, AFTER HAVING PRODUCED...Mountains The Yogo mine has the distinction of being the only lode vein SAPPHIRE MINE IN THE WORLD, SINCE... HAS BEEN FOUND IN ONE MINE IN THE CRIPPLE CREEK DISTRICT IN CENtral Colorado, as reported to us by D
 
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