| Locality type: | Pit |
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| Species: | Celestine |
| Formula: | SrSO4 |
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| Validity: | Believed Valid |
| Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data: |
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| Creedite | ⓘ4 photos of Celestine associated with Creedite at this locality. |
| Rhodochrosite | ⓘ2 photos of Celestine associated with Rhodochrosite at this locality. |
| Data |
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| Mineral Data: | Click here to view Celestine data |
| Locality Data: | Click here to view Cresson open pit, Cripple Creek, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA |
| Photo Gallery | View Gallery (2 photos) |
| Data Identifiers |
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| Mindat Occurrence Record ID: | 303473 |
| Long-form Identifier: | 1:3:303473:6 |
| GUID (UUID V4): | 6526d595-6b21-482c-a932-e9ca7e31dca8 |
| Nearest other occurrences of Celestine |
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| 0.1km (0.1 miles) | ⓘCripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine (Cresson Mine), Eclipse Gulch, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA |
| 0.9km (0.6 miles) | ⓘElkton Mine, Victor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA |
| 1.4km (0.9 miles) | ⓘVindicator Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA |
| 1.5km (0.9 miles) | ⓘGolden Cycle Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA |
| 2.0km (1.2 miles) | ⓘVictor, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA |
| 2.1km (1.3 miles) | ⓘIronclad Mine, Globe Hill, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA |
| 3.4km (2.1 miles) | ⓘSangre de Cristo mine, Cripple Creek, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA |
| 3.7km (2.3 miles) | ⓘMolly Kathleen Mine, Cripple Creek, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA |
| 18.2km (11.3 miles) | ⓘGarden Park, Fremont County, Colorado, USA |
| 26.7km (16.6 miles) | ⓘRed Rock Canyon, Garden of the Gods and vicinity, El Paso County, Colorado, USA |
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 | | Journal (issue) | | 494-7695 . . . 494-5155 . . . FAX (949) 494-0402 Open Thurs.-Sat. 10-5, Sunday 12-5. (Closed Mon.-Tues...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Famous mineral localities: The Cripple Creek Mining District, Colorado . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...collection to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Julius Weber was well known in the mineral community...Department of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County has placed a high priority on building its micromount |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | December 2014 Creedite Cresson Mine, Cripple Creek Teller County, Colorado M uch has been written...pigeonhole suggests that mineral-rich states, such as Colorado, should be similarly blessed with a variety of...dig deeper to uncover other minerals linked to a Colorado type-locality. The relatively rare, though at...peculiar mineral in the Colorado Rockies, but during the past decade two more Colorado localities have produced...produced excellent specimens of the mineral. A fine Colorado creedite specimen has been fittingly suggested |  | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted |
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Cresson open pit, Cripple Creek, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA