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Stephanite from
Saxon Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Stephanite
Formula:Ag5SbS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Stephanite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Saxon Mine, Poughkeepsie Gulch, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:766521
Long-form Identifier:1:3:766521:9
GUID (UUID V4):74d6d344-61e9-4efa-8865-03d1082d33b9
Nearest other occurrences of Stephanite
1.3km (0.8 miles) Red Rogers Occurrence, Eureka Mining District, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
5.1km (3.2 miles) Mammoth, Mineral Point, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
5.3km (3.3 miles) Annie Wood, Mineral Point, San Juan County, Colorado, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Palmetto Mine (Chimney Corner; MS 496), Galena Mining District (Henson Creek Mining District), Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Union Mine, Bear Creek, Ouray Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
9.9km (6.2 miles) Dolly Varden Mine (Varden Belle Mine; Patented Claim: Dolly Varden; MS 172), Galena Mining District (Henson Creek Mining District), Hinsdale County, Colorado, USA
11.3km (7.0 miles) Wheel of Fortune Mine, Sneffels Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
12.3km (7.6 miles) Ouray Mining District, Ouray County, Colorado, USA
13.1km (8.1 miles) Smuggler Union Mine, Marshall Basin, Telluride Mining District, Colorado, USA
13.2km (8.2 miles) Smuggler Vein, Smuggler Union Mine, Marshall Basin, Telluride Mining District, Colorado, USA
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Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan What’s new in Colorado minerals? ...................................... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ......................................................... 339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John
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Gkologim-in-charge. CATALOGUE OF MINERALS FOUND IN COLORADO. BY • F. M. ENDLICH. [EXTRACTED FROM THE TENTH...been adopted. tar as practicable, analyses of Colorado minerals have been given. They will aid examination...of the catalogue. systematic enumeration of the Colorado mineral species and references to the publications...Endlich, S. IN COLORADO. X. D. The continuous development of mineral resources of Colorado is productive...Geological .Report for PS75. Now, the survey of Colorado is completed, many additions of species new to
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was shown to be acanthite. Thus, the famous Ophir mine was born. For a time, the Comstock lode furnished...hot and wet. Square-set stoping was developed to mine bonanza orebodies more than 100 feet wide and subsequently...great silver mines of the Front Range and the San Juan Mountains were developed. From the standpoint...kilograms (1 metric ton) was found at the Smuggler mine. Pearceite was a principal ore in the district,...directly to the smelter. The legal machinations of mine owners at Aspen set an important precedent in mining
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
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Marvin Hanner Additions to the Ore Mineralogy of Colorado.................................................by Donald Grybeck Crystallized Minerals of the Colorado Mineral Belt....................................had achieved considerable fame, and the right to mine diopside was obtained that year by G eorge L. English...thereafter. In 1971 both the land and the right to mine diopside were purchased by the present owners, Schuyler...Alveum, R obert Dow, and G eorge Robinson. T he mine is now being worked interm ittently each year for
Report (volume)
REPORT ECONOMIC GEOLOGT 7 SILVERTON QUADRANGLE, COLORADO FREDERICK RANSOME WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING...Whitman Cross........................... ........ San Juan volcanic area .......................... .......the volcanic area ......... ...........:..... San Juan formation . ...... ...'......--...-.............Silver Lake mine..... . -.-.-..--....-.---..-.-. ....................... 145 145 145 149 Iowa mine ........Royal Tiger mine......................... 159 ......--.....-....-.-....-. Buckeye mine ...........
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$315/three years, (Canada) $180/ one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...Brett Kosnar & Family David E. Ellis (2012-2018) Juan Fernandez-Buelga (2016-2017) Matt Zukowski Alex... Moore7 The Schneeberg District in the famous Saxon Erzgebirge of Germany has been a source of mineral...to the mid-20th centuries, the mines around the Saxon town of Schneeberg have yielded excellent specimens...1877 "find of the century" in the Weisser Hirsch mine; many fine specimens of gangue species-these are
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Singleton & Sue Wearden (2016) Keith F. Compton (2016) Juan Fernandez-Buelga (2016–2017) Cynthia C. Payne (bequeathed)...world-class specimens of pyrargyrite, dyscrasite, stephanite and other silver minerals as well as wonderful...finest specimens of pyrargyrite, dyscrasite, stephanite, löllingite, silver, antimony and arsenic, and...samsonite emerged from just two pockets in the Samson mine. St. Andreasberg is also known for its fine specimens...in the St. Andreasberg District’s renowned Samson mine ceased in 1910, but in 1950 the Samson Pit Mining
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Urals and Altai, USSR; Ajo and Bisbee, Arizona, USA;; localities in Bolivia and Chile; the African ‘Copper...‘Copper Belt’ in Zaire and Zambia; and in Bura-Bura Mine, Australia. Sedimentary copper is found in schists...on the southern shore of Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Of a similar origin is copper found in Langban,... Sweden, and Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, USA. Copper is used extensively in metallurgy (in the manufacture...component of copper in Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Silver in the free state (disseminated) is found
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Urals and Altai, USSR; Ajo and Bisbee, Arizona, USA; localities in Bolivia and Chile; the African 'Copper...'Copper Belt' in Zaire and Zambia; and in Bura-Bura Mine, Australia. Sedimentary copper is found in schists...on the southern shore of Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Of a similar origin is copper found in Langban,... Sweden, and Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, USA. Copper is used extensively in metallurgy (in the manufacture...component of copper in Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Silver in the free state (disseminated) is found
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tetrahedrite crystals; from the Home Sweet Home mine near Alma, Colorado. Found in 1965, it is considered by many...known as k1111zire; from the Pala Chief mine, San Diego County, California. Found shortly after the tum...Mathesius (1504-1565), a Saxon clergyman, and Johannes Kentmann (1518-1574), a Saxon physician. Kent­ mann's...were absorbed, including the collec­ tion of San Diego County, Californja, minerals assembled by David P...the finest pieces ever recovered from the Tsumeb mine in Namibia; the \\"orldwide tourmaline collection
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sOO0Ofoss Colorado LITHO BY WALSWORTH PUB. CO., INC., MARCELINE, MO. Colorado GOLD AND FARMS...Albuquerque, NM of Leadville a map of Territorial Colorado c. 1876, and a woodcut engraving Bird’s Eye View...scock G. York, Includes indexes. 1. Colorado. 2. Colorado. is Waele. Mines and mineral resources--...DressOne. MEXIC ies 35 Publisher’s Preface Colorado! The very name (which means “‘colored red’’) conjures.... including people. Ah, yes! Call it Colorful Colorado, the Centennial State, the Midland Empire, the
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Urals and Altai, USSR; Ajo and Bisbee, Arizona, USA; localities in Bolivia and Chile; the African 'Copper...'Copper Belt' in Zaire and Zambia; and in Bura-Bura Mine, Australia. Sedimentary copper is found in schists...on the southern shore of Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Of a similar origin is copper found in Langban,... Sweden, and Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, USA. Copper is used extensively in metallurgy (in the manufacture...component of copper in Lake Superior, Michigan, USA. Silver in the free state (disseminated) is found
Report (volume)
William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
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............................................. Colorado.................................................especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee,...minerals and rocks, their occurrence and uses: Colorado State Geol. Survey Bull. 6, 1913. 8 USEFUL...Nashville, Tenn. California____.Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (issue)
QlJADRANGLE (TOGETHER 'VITH THE EMPIRE DISTRICT) COLORADo· BY JOSIAH E. SPURR AND GEORGE H. GARREY WITH..................._.......... . Distribution in Colorado ................................................Boulder County.............. . . . . . . . . . . . ......... . ....... . 103 Ores in Gilpin County ........................... . 103 Orcs in Clear Creek County ............................ . 103 Ores from the.......................................... . 110 San Juan region ......................................
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. . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ...after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...his name to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Friends and admirers of Al who would like...comptroller of the fund), 625 Market Street, Suite 802, San Francisco, CA 94105. Checks should be made payable...addressed to Charles I. Trantham, 324 W. 41st Avenue, San Mateo, CA 94403 (415-345-6228). HARDING PEGMATITE
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R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Islet Famous mineral localities: the Silver Islet mine, O n ta rio ............... 49 by W. E. Wilson ...photo © SILVER crystals, 3.3 by 4.5 cm, from the mine, Kongsberg, Norway. (See the this issue.) Keith...silver mines at all in Asia. He does mention a silver mine in Macedonia that used to yield a talent of the...January-February, 1986 Figure 2. Interior of a German silver mine, 1830s. Photo Deutsches Museum, Miinchen. hillside
Report (issue)
Geology and Ore Deposits of the La Plata District Colorado By EDWIN B. ECKEL with sections by J. S. WILLIAMS...m cooperation with the Colorado State Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund UNITED...Late geologic history. ___ _____ ____ _-__.____ San Juan region as a whole __________________ La Plata..._____________ Bonnie Girl___________-_____-" Boren Gulch group_ __________ Brown Bear, by E. N. Goddard....____ 98 ___. ________ 99 Deposits near the Century mine. __---_-._-_______ 101 Charlerie ___ __________
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minerals with a Saxon type-locality are named. Similarly, the next chapter describes Saxon geoscientists...special case of discredited minerals named after Saxon persons. The final chapter wraps things up with...type specimens and the IMA status of minerals with Saxon type-localites). Erzgebirge is richly illustrated...classic collectible species (such as pyromorphite, stephanite, polybasite, erythrite, schorl, (hydroxy)herderite...his increasing engineering and mine planning responsibilities at the mine before, during, and after Mission
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
simple—how many ounces of gold have come out of the Haile mine? There are good records, of course, several sets...many photographs of historical personages and the mine itself, a map, and a number of graphs and charts...written and, from my peripheral position of Haile mine observation, quite factual. For those interested...minerals with a Saxon type-locality are named. Similarly, the next chapter describes Saxon geoscientists...special case of discredited minerals named after Saxon persons. The final chapter wraps things up with
Book (edition)
Opbir-Burroughs, HILL anp NEVADAVILLE. Mercer County. ; ; California, First Nat’] Burroughs and Kansas...ae American Hilae Ss POSEN 1% xiS LEA Colorado GOLD AND FARMS SILVER AND Peet tt Ae STOCK...HIS volume, as its name implies, is devoted to Colorado. tents are descriptive, statistical, and historical...compendium f useful and general information concerning Colorado, and trusts this book will meet the present requirements...Denver and Rio Grande Pleasure Resorts, and the San Juan....... 42-54 EUSEMREM OLOUTGOUNE CN Serer tee
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the most important occurrence being the Eldorado mine, whose output to date has been about 432,000 ounces...argentite, wolframite, and electrum, with, probably, stephanite and argyrodite. The betahypogene minerals are...such minerals as pyrargyrite, polybasite, and stephanite in a primary zone is unusual. While not pretending...journalistic horror, " hypersensitive." Surely Anglo-Saxon, or, at worst, good Latin terms can be found for
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Gilpin county, Colorado 5 Cornwall, England 9 Joachimsthal, Bohemia Carnotite in Colorado and Utah...and the ores chemically treated. Gilpin County, The Colorado. following description of the pitchblende...pitchblende deposits Quartz hill, Gilpin county, Colorado, is taken from a paper by Forbes Rickard appearing...defined northeast-southwest trend. much altered mine workings intersect. have a without Similarly,...under the same ownership they are worked as one mine. The pitchblende vein, as previously noted, accompanied
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Mineralogical Record P. 0. Box 1656 Carson City, NV 89702, USA N. Bariand 90/91; British Museum (NH) London 110/111...Acanthite Manganite Hematite Skutterudite Zinckenite Stephanite Aragonite (var. Tarnowitzite) Rhodochrosite Witherite...(Ocna defier), Banat, Romania Vllb San Benito Co., California, USA Vllb Altyn Tyube, Kirgizia, USSR Vllb...particularly interesting collection of miners' lamps and mine surveying instruments. Ancient and mediaeval mining...worn by mine officials of Saxony on ceremonial occasions. A special attraction is a model mine, 20m below
 
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