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Illite from
Cougar Mine, Slick Rock Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Illite
Formula:K0.65Al2.0[Al0.65Si3.35O10](OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Illite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cougar Mine, Slick Rock Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:795190
Long-form Identifier:1:3:795190:9
GUID (UUID V4):d9bbabde-2f5e-43e4-8dca-11ce9acf9a05
Nearest other occurrences of Illite
32.7km (20.3 miles) Mi Vida Mine, Lisbon Valley Mining District, San Juan County, Utah, USA
76.8km (47.7 miles) Placerville Mining District, Lower San Miguel Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA
83.0km (51.6 miles) Calico Peak Alunite Deposit, Horse Creek, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
84.1km (52.3 miles) Carpenter Mine, Lower San Miguel Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado, USA
90.1km (56.0 miles) Silver Creek Molybdenum deposit, Silver Creek, Rico Mining District (Pioneer Mining District), Rico Mountains, Dolores County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...of the Slick Rock District, Colorado By Daniel R. Shawe With a section on Appendix on District Production...INVESTIGATIONS IN THE SLICK ROCK DISTRICT, SAN MIGUEL AND DOLORES COUNTIES, COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...2011, Uranium-vanadium deposits of the Slick Rock district, Colorado: U.S. Geological Survey Professional
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
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ve yielded significant production in only one district, Battle Mountain (Copper Canyonand CopperBasin)...Deposits associatedwith volcanic rocks C. Pre-late Mining Districts 1. Disaster 2. National 3. Gold Basin... Bullion(Tenabo) Tuscarora i ß 15. Shon 16. Rock Cr 55a. Gold Acres 56. Willard i idas ß 57...1. Index map of north-centralNevada showinggold mining areas. 50 MILES I 16 ROBERTS, RADTKE,AND COATS...many • An exception to this pattern is the Ely district, which contains porphyry copper deposits; the
Book
individual deposits or districts. (in brackets country, district, deposit reviewed): Adamek P. (Scandinavia), Adams...(South Africa, Namibia), Chenoweth W. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Coste A. (Limousin, France), Cuney M....Grauch R (western USA), Gautier A. (breccia pipe deposits, USA), Halladay Ch.R (eastern USA), Harshman E.N...N. (Wyoming Basins, USA), Hruby J. (CSFR), Kolb S. (Bavaria, W-Germany), Krol W. (Eastern Europe), Matos... N.M., USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado Plateau, USA), Tauchid
Report (issue)
____________________________________ _ History of mining and production ________________ _ General description...States. FIGURE 1. Map showing location of uranium-mining districts in West-Central United States-------------------------2...--8. Cross sections of roll ore bodies of the Colorado Plateau region_________________________________________...size in sandstone beds of Triassic age in the Colorado Plateau region__ 10. Histogram showing the percentage...deposits in sandstone beds of Triassic age in the Colorado Plateau region_______________________________
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 San Francisco District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... • . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Marysvale District . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Sheep Rock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....the Marysvale-Pioche mineral belt: 1) the San Francisco district, 2) the southern Wah Wah Mountains, Shauntie...Hills and Black Mountains and 3) the Marysvale district. A locality from each of these areas was studied
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA 927 E 7th St, Moscow, ID 83843, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article...have proposed that hydrothermally altered country rock is assimilated into a shallow magma chamber producing...Webster Physical Sciences 1228, Pullman, WA 991642812, USA. Tel.: + 1 509 991 0698. E-mail address: geoentoptics@wsu...the Columbia–Snake River large igneous province. Rock type locations from the USGS Geologic Maps of US...Laboratory at Washington State University. Whole rock major and trace element data were collected using
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
anthropogenic factors influencing mercury speciation in mine wastes: an EXAFS spectroscopy study— Christopher...and J. William Carey Iron-rich precipitates in a mine drainage environment: Influence of pH on mineralogy—Enver...weathered sulfides and manganoan carbonates in mine waste-rock dumps, with implications for heavy-metal fixation—Gi...Kierran Maher, Frank C. Ramos, Zhaoshan Chang, Miguel Gaspar, and Lawrence D. Meinert Experimental study...2003 3 He/4He ratios in well gases in the Kinki district, SW Japan: Surface appearance of slab-derived
Report (issue)
P. Leeman ........... 155 Chapter 4-Volcanic Rock Groups, Snake River Plain ........................ . 213 Cenozoic Stratigraphy of Western Owyhee County, Idaho, by E. B. Ekren, D. H. McIntyre, E. H. Bennett... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237 The Cougar Point by Bill Bonnichsen Tuff; Southwestern and... . . . . .. Pre-Cougar Point Tuff Volcanic Rocks Near the Idaho-Nevada Owyhee County, Idaho, by John...of Tertiary-Quaternary Volcanic Rocks in Caribou County, Idaho, by D. W. Fiesinger, W. D. Perkins, and
Report (issue)
Geochemistry and Mineralogy of the Colorado Plateau Uranium Ores Compiled by ROBERT M. GARRELS and ESPER...provided an unequaled opportunity to investigate the Colorado Plateau uranium ores. This volume summarizes the...uranium deposits than those represented on the Colorado Plateau. The general patterns of the oxidation...Introduction. 1 Part 1. Geologic setting of the Colorado Plateau ores, by Alice D. Weeks and R. M. Garrels________...Garrels________ 2. Characteristics of the host rock, by Robert A. Cadigan _________________________________
Report (issue)
Mountains...................................... Southern San Francisco Mountains and adjacent areas.............of the quadrangle. This bend was named the Black Rock Offset by Crosby (1973, p. 31-32), who ascribed...through the central Wah Wah Mountains, the southern San Francisco Mountains-Shauntie Hills area, to the northern...(Lemmon and others, 1973), through the southern San Francisco Mountains-Beaver Lake Mountains, Rocky...western part of the quadrangle where the contrasting rock types are interlayered (Abbott and others, 1983)
Book (volume)
A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds
Report (issue)
has caused a transformation in the 1Md to the 2M illite polymorph. This transformation is completed at...of Hietanen (1963, 1967, 1968). The predominant rock is a crudely foliated or massive, cream white metaquartzite... cross-polars, from the junction of Quartz and Cougar Creeks); (e) Chevron-folded sillimanite-biotite...by Ross (1970) at 366 meters. The characteristic rock is a white, thick-bedded metaquartzite composed...(1973) at 1,520 meters thick. The characteristic rock is a quartz-oligoclase gneiss with closely spaced
Report (volume)
Early, Middle, and Late, and fo'!' epochs. Informal rock terms lover 1 middle 1 and upper may be used where...of all words used in forming the names of formal rock-stratigraphic units be capitalized. The Commission's...or "late", as used by an author with the age of rock units, is changed to "lower" or "upper." The age...74, Ph miles east of Dutchtown, Cape Girardeau County, Mo. Type section cut by northtrending fault with...stream in NEIA sec. 33, T. 16 N., R. 14 E, Wayne County. Named after village of Abington, about 3 miles
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the landscape, the cliffs and canyons, and the odd rock formations-in a word, the geology-that leaves them...PALEONTOLOGY OF DINOSAUR NATIONAL MONUMENT, UTAH-COLORADO by Joe D. Gregson and Dan J.Chure 155 .......covering more than 83 million acres in 49 States, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico...extends from nearby Thousand Lakes Mountain to the Colorado River (now Lake Powell). Capitol Reef National...exposure of large expanses of bare rock, while the deep canvons of the Colorado and Green Rivers reveal 300
Report (issue)
62. The Ordovician-Silurian contact in Dubuque County, Iowa, by J. W. Whitlow and C. E. Brown________________...Ohio Creek Formation (Paleocene) in west-central Colorado, by D. L. Gaskill and L. H. Godwin-----------.... Tertiary volcanic stratigraphy in the western San Juan Mountains, Colo., by R. G. Luedke and W. S....and Hesse Quartzite on Chilhowee Mountain, Blount County, Tenn., by R. A. Laurence and A. R. Palmer----...Paleotemperature inferences from Late Miocene mollusks in the San Luis Obispo-Bakersfield area, California, by W. 0
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mid-1957, of vvhich 70% is in New Mexico, 16% in Colorado, Utah, and Arizona, and 8% in Wyo1ning. These...doubtless the U.S.S.R., likewise established uranium mining industries. These efforts in the Reid and in the...siliceous and Ruoritic types, and the oxidized Colorado Plateau deposits are desc1ibed vvith those that...origin, e.g., Blind River, \i\litwatersrand, and Colorado Plateau. The writer has attempted to present equitably.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Colorado Plateau . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
indicate annotation of thesis title by addition of county. Capitalization of terms in revised abstracts was...particular to Mis s Edith Rich, and to the Natrona County Library, for procuring theses. Many university...WARD OWEN, 1951, Cambrian diabase flow in [Utah County], central Utah: Brigham Young Univ. M. S. thesis...Compass, v. 29, no. I, p. ~·-IO, geo1. map. On the San Rafael Swell basal Chinle siltstones and mudstones...the 2M over 1M mica polymorph. Megascopically the rock appears to be a felsite, dark dull red to purple
Report (issue)
the Poncha Springs NE Quadrangle, Chaffee County,Colorado By RALPH E. VAN ALSTINE With a section on ... 626 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Mining Industrial Development Board UNITED STATES...Van Alstine and Doak C. Cox _________ _ Colorado-American mine ______________ -_Delay adit and Lloyd shaft...--_-----_Manganese Hill and Chimney Hill mines_Last Chance mine _________________ -_-_Other fluorspar deposits ________... Geologic map of the Colorado-American fluorspar mine, Browns Canyon district. Geologic map of underground
Report (volume)
Oil and gas fields Popular and elementary geology Rock ·descriptions Entries Subject, area, or individual...by. name of ·field Papers written for the layman Rock names and areas; restricted to new or unusual rocks...and foreign geological surveys Systems Chemical rock- or mineral-forming systems; alphabetically by formula... Jr. Minnesota, Fillmore County: Pederson, C. A. New Jersey, Dover district, magnetite: Sims, P. K.,...geology. Iron, Dover district, magnetite: Sims, P. K., 1. Iron. New Jersey, Dover district, magnetite: Sims
Report (volume)
Crossroads: Lyons, P. L., 4. Gilbert H., 10. Colorado, South Silverton area: Expanding horizons: Lay...the future: Just, E. ing: Burwell, E. B., Jr., 4. Mining geology, retrospect and Index fossils: Stephenson..., 11. D. J. Rocky Mtn. geosyncline in Canada: Colorado Plateau: Wengerd, Warren; P. S., 4. S. A., 6.... Landform interpretation, stereoSearch for new mining districts: Nolan, T. B., 1. pairs: Powers, W. E...described. Div. Mines, 1; Jenkins, O. P., Choctaw County, Highway 17 area: 3. Toulmin, L. D., Jr., 3. Minor:
Journal (issue)
along which a representative sequence of Tertiary rock units can be best studied. The guidebook consists...rocks (figure 2). The sequence exposed here contains rock units that are correlative with lithologically simi...hqut ... Forma tion St U , tone of Abu volcanic rock . Nutucc . Spencer Fo .... ulon "T"jon" ... "DOIOe"3...occur as amygdules in the basalt. The predominant rock type of the lower unit is amygdaloidal dark greenishgray...montmorillonite-illite or montmorillonite is the principal clay mineral in the graded beds, illite is the predominant
Report (issue)
INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation...Acknowledgment -Mining districts Commodities Production Descriptions of mining districts . Alder district-Aura district...district -Beaver district Black Mountain district Bootstrap district Burner district Burns Basin district--...-Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district Cornucopia...Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide district
Report (issue)
western half of the quadrangle. Currently, several mining companies are exploring for precious metals in...in the quadrangle, and a new bulk-minable gold mine has recently opened. The quadrangle contains the famous...optics and electronics) from the Apex mine in the Tutsagubet district. Deposits of uranium, coal, and oil...reflect the first-order crustal boundary between the Colorado Plateau and the Basin and Range provinces, which...caldera complex.... Detailed study of the Escalante district....................... Pattern and displacement
 
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