Last Dollar Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller Co., Colorado, USA

A 3 mm crystal of Calaverite on quartz from the Last Dollar mine, Cripple Creek, Colorado, USA,. Specimen and photo: Knut Eldjarn.

© Knut Eldjarn

View under crossed polars of a complex aggregate of tellurides filling a cavity in quartz (hexagonal cross sections). Hessite (hs), exhibiting orange to slate blue anisotropy, fills in around platy calaverite (clv) exhibiting yellowish to gray anisotropy. Areas with a brownish tinge suggest krennerite, however a distinct yellow color and uniform ...

© Ben Schumer

Sylvanite in quartz. FOV 1.5mm. Associated minerals, not in the photograph, include, fluorite and pyrite. Label from Dr. Wilke (Germany). Brent Thorne specimen and photograph.

© Brent Thorne 2015

The Last Dollar gold Mine, Cripple Creek, in 1909. Vintage real photo postcard, photographer H. & H., Cripple Creek. The card was sent on 28 December, 11.30 AM, 1911 from Cripple Creek to Naumburg a. Saale, Germany. G. Grundmann collection.

© H. & H., Cripple Creek

The Last Dollar Mine, Bull Hill, ca. 1905. Vintage picture postcard, published by W. A. Loper, Cripple Creek, Colo. G. Grundmann collection.

© W. A. Loper, Cripple Creek, Colo.