 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | HISTORY OF FOUR Native Silver Localities 7 in Colorado Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego]...72 Golden, Colorado 80403 All photos by author unless otherwise noted SINCE 1859 COLORADO HAS PRODUCED...rather than the native metal. Native silver in Colorado has been deposited both as a primary mineral,...native silver specimen producers-Caribou, Ward, Aspen, and Creede. Secondary silver may be the only form...first two of these occurrences. On the other hand, Aspen and Creede (especially) have produced both primary |  | | Report (issue) | | CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR GEOLOGY ASPEN MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO WITH ATLAS JOSIAH EDWARD SFURR SAMUEL..._ Cretaceous series 41 Dakota formation ; Colorado formation 42 43 . Pre-Cretaceous uncomformity...formation xvii _ 53 _ 54 _ 54 Aspen special map Aspen Mountain 56 v CONTENTS. vi CHAPTER...descriptive geology Continued. Page. Aspen special map Continued. Aspen Mountain Continued. 5(3 Folding...Folding.- 58 Faulting Resume of structure on Aspen Mountain... Smuggler Mountain Resume of structure |  | | Report (issue) | | OBSERVATIONS ON THE RICH SILVER ORES OF ASPEN, COLORADO. By EDSON S. BASTIN. INTRODUCTION. In September...the famous old silver camp of Aspen, in Pitkin County, southwestern Colorado, to obtain samples of the rich...enrichment and on the quality of mine waters are here recorded. Two analyses of mine waters were made by Chase...accounts of the general geologic features of the district the reader is referred to the wellknown reports...problem of the origin of the rich silver ores of Aspen, with full recognition of the desirability of amplifying |  | | 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....from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).... During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | monoelinie form and similar compositions: polybasite, 8(Ag,Cu)2.(Sb,As)uSa, and peareeite, 8(Ag,Cu)2S.As2S.~...and varying amounts in both minerals, and in polybasite there may also be substantial replacement of... Although most of the specific properties of polybasite and pearceite are known (Dana, 7th edition, 1944...minerals was offered by some sharply crystallized polybasite from British Columbia, kindly sent to us by Professor... M. H. Frohberg. 1. Polybasite, Highland Bell mine, BeaverdeU, Greenwood mining division, British Columbia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurring together) from the Calumet and Hecla mine. Excepment in the oxide zones of a variety of metal...Copper Falls mine, associations and include those containing other silver minerals, Keweenaw County. barite...major Acton mine, York County, the Deer collections. One state that is draped in a silIsle mine, and the...the Sullivan mine ver-lined history is Colorado, with a pro(King and Foord 1994). Silver duction of more...more than 750 million ounces to occurred in a mine about a mile its credit. Fine wire- and crystallized-silver |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | no other group of minerals has more associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great...recovered as a byproduct of low-grade copper and lead mining. This fact, coupled with the historically low price...copper were the first). The earliest known siIver mining occurred in Cappadocia in Asia Minor and is dated...probably reflects the fact that the earliest silver mining amounted to gathering the metal in its native state...silverware trade (Grimwade 1985). The other great silver-mining center of ancient times was Spain. The earliest |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | solutions formed by surface waters, like those of mine waters, mostly find their way to the point where...before it is redeposited. In the Gold H ill (Rowan county, North Carolina) specimens the copper sulphide...Such deposits have been found in the Copper Queen mine near Bisbee, Arizona, and at Butte, Montana. Douglas...feldspathic rocks a t the copper basin, Yavapai county, Arizona.§ On exposure to the air an insoluble...Geology of lead and zinc d istrict of Cherokee county, Kansas, 1884, p. 34. + Am. Jour. Sci., vol. xlii |  | | Journal (issue) | | - - - - - - - - - - - Mineral Collections 1n Colorado A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record November-December..."Smithsonian packet," Smoky Hawk claim, Florissant, Colorado. Collected in 2008; Dorris Family collection;...certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This special...Collecting in Colorado The Collections: Mel & Pam Bersch Ryan Bowling Ralph Clark Colorado School of Mines...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Jackson counties, in Oregon, in the vicinity of the district in which tbe wellknown nickel silicate has been...of the county in which it has been discovered. B. H. B. Polyloasite and Tennantite from Aspen, Colorado...15--l8;1.-At the Mollie Gibson mine, one o€ the most prodiictive mines in Colorado, the most abundant...abundant silver mineral is polybasite, which occms massive with greyish-black colour and irregular fractui-e...massive polybasite is not a pure miireral, as at first sight it appears to be. Some of the polybasite crystals |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October 2014 PART 1 Downloaded...Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October 2014 A Historical...Historical Overview of t h e District and the Smuggler Union and Associated Mines and Veins of Marshall Basin... Inc. 1441 West 46th Avenue, Suite 14 Denver, Colorado 80211 n 1875 Co\orado was still a territory awaiting...Soptemberl0ctob.r 2000 319 Downloaded by [University of Colorado - Health Science Library] at 05:32 11 October |  | Collins, Donley S., Cobban, Robert R., Foord, Eugene E., Murphy, Jack A. (1989) Bibliography for update and revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado -- a 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel, Part A - Paper copy --Bibliography data file disks. Open-File Report Vol. 1989 (89-206) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr89206a | Report (issue) | | Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961). |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Report (issue) | | Smith. Director Professional Paper 138 MINING IN COLORADO A HISTORY OF DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTJON...location, area, and organization of the mining counties of Colorado _________________________ _ Adams County_-..._____________________ _ Alamosa County __________________________ _ Arapahoe County _________________________...Archuleta County _________________________ _ Baca CountY-----------------------------Boulder CountY------...CountY----------------------~----Chaffee County _____________________·______ _ Clear Creek County _______________________ |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 by J. A...10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by John |  | | Report (volume) | | precipitation of the metalo........ Composition of mine waters............................................of sulphide enrichment Continued. Composition of mine waters Continued. Discussion of analyses Continued...on depth..................... Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions....... Oxidation....................................... Review of mining districts...................................................................... Burro Mountain district, N. Mex...................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | n n e n . Die Polybasite von Durango, Freiberg in Sachsen, Pribram, der Two Sisters Mine bei Georgetown...Georgetown, der Yankee Boy Mine bei Ouray, der Sheridan Mine bei Telluride in Colorado und vom Comstock Lode...Àrsenpolybasit ( P e a r c e ï t ) von der Mollie Gibson Mine, Aspen, Colorado, mitgetheilt. Das letztere Material...Àrsenpolybasit hingelenkt, welcher auf der Drumlummon Mine, Marysville, Lewis und Clarke Co., Montana, aufgefunden...wurde von Herrn R. F. Β a y l i s s von der Montana Mining Co. an Herrn R i e h . P e a r c e zur Untersuchung |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................59 Colorado ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts .................................... |  | | Report (issue) | | Carbonate-Hosted Sulfide Deposits of the Central Colorado Mineral Belt DAVID W . BEATY, GARY P . LANDIS...paralle l to host-rock bedding. Black Cloud mine, Leadville district. Sherman-type ore (bottom) in paleokarst...veined with ferroan dolomite. rv1oose mine, North Alma district. Photographs b)' \Villiarn Sacco, Peabody...Carbonate-hosted sulfide deposits of the central Colorado mine ral belt: Introduction, general discussion,...Regional geologic and tectonic setting of the central Colorado mineral belt . . . . Alan R. Wallace Paleozoic |  | | Report (volume) | | depth__________ Precipitates from mine waters under superficial conditions_ Composition of mine waters of the Jopliu-region___________...Arizona__________________________ 208 Note on the Bisbee district, Arizona, by F. L. Ransome_ 209 Globe and Miami...Mexico____________________ 22J Burro Mountain district, New Mexico_____________ 222 , Cananea, Mexico...__ 233 Shasta County, California______ _ __ 234 Snowstorm lode, Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho__ _ 235...235 Encampment district, Wyoming_____________;___ 236 Ducktown, Tennessee______________________ Gossan |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................47 Colorado ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................47 Colorado ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy |  | | Catalog/List | | Petrified Iron Pyrite; Leadville, Colorado Pyrite Amazonite, Florissant, Colorado Crocidolite Chrysocolla, Globe...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...Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Native Silver, Aspen, Colo...Colo., Mollie Gib son Mine, one of the greatest Silver Mines ever discovered. Native Gold in Calcite, Golden |
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