 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the Bulldog Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral...Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine...private and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine... 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar” | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the Bulldog Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral...Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine...private and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine... 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar” |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the Bulldog Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral...Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine...private and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine... 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar” | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the Bulldog Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral...Mineral County, Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine...private and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine... 5 Loca�on Views of Creede 6 Rich Silver Legacy of the Bulldog Mountain Mine 7 “Close, But No Cigar” |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2014 Creede The last Wild West Silver Mining Camp in Colorado T he Creede mining district, located...and rugged San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Although silver was discovered in the area in...cause much excitement until 1889 when Nicholas C. Creede and his two partners found rich silver ore near...Amethyst, Last Chance, Commodore, and Bachelor. The mining encampment grew from a small settlement to a town...gravitated to mining boom towns. In 1890 the settlement was unofficially named Creede (Mumey 1949) in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Microminerals in the Creede Mining District The Amethyst, Commodore No. 5 Mineral County, Colorado Unless otherwise...his collection & Bulldog Mountain Mines C reede is located in southwestern Colorado on the edge of the...in the Creede district was at the Holy Moses mine high above East Willow Creek, but the district did not...West Willow Creek approximately 1.5 miles north of Creede. The Commodore No. 5 ore bins are the first structures...Commodore mine perched on the mountainside. The Amethyst mine is north of the Commodore mine, and most |  | | 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...metal. Native silver in Colorado has been deposited both as a primary mineral, crystallized directly from...from hydrothermal fluids, and as a secondary mineral, precipitated during the various processes involved...silver specimen producers-Caribou, Ward, Aspen, and Creede. Secondary silver may be the only form of the native |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Zoningof the BulldogMountainVein System,Creede District, Colorado GEOFFREY S. PLUMI U.S.GeologicalSurvey... The BulldogMountainveinsystem,Creededistrict,Colorado,isoneof fourmajorepithermal vein systems fromwhichthe...eralizationstageshave been identifiedalongthe Bulldog Mountainveinsystem,eachwith a characteristic suiteof...complexassemblages containingchalcopyrite,tetrahedrite, polybasite,bornite,pyrargyrite,anda varietyof othersulfidesandsulfosalts...ngpatternsacross the central and southern Creede district. The complexvariationsin mineralassemblages |  | Foley, Nora K., Caddey, Stanton W., Byington, Craig B., Vardiman, David M. (1993) Mineralogy, mineral chemistry, and paragenesis of gold, silver, and base-metal ores of the North Amethyst vein system, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado. Professional Paper 1537. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp1537 | Report (issue) | | Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and Base-Metal Ores of the North Amethyst...Amethyst Vein System, Sari Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Alaska-Rm. 101, 4230 University Dr. • LAKEWOOD, Colorado-Federal Center, Bldg. 810 • MENLO PARK, California-Bldg...SPACE CENTER, Mississippi-Bldg. 3101 Mineralogy, Mineral Chemistry, and Paragenesis of Gold, Silver, and...Amethyst Vein System, San Juan Mountains, Mineral County, Colorado By NORA K. FOLEY, STANTON W. CADDEY, CRAIG |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | distribution and historical importance as an ore mineral of silver, well-crystallized specimens of pyrargyrite...recovered from an interesting array of important mining districts; it is currently available from Mexico...amounts up to several percent. Pynte, acanthite, polybasite, and silver pseudomorphs after pyrargyrite are...occurring as an important if not dominant ore mineral in some deposits. It is certainly more widespread...acanthite, tetrahedrite, stephanite, miargyrite, polybasite, silver, calcite, dolomite, and quartz. There |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | acanthite paramorph after argentite from the Rayes mine, Guanajuato, Mexico. Francis Benjamin specimen,...1878); the Baker quarry near Billmeyer, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where it occurs as an alteration...Hill occurrence in Davidson County, and the McMakin mine in Cabarrus County (Genth 1891); and mines of...of the Virgilina district, Halifax County, Virginia (Dietrich 1990). The great silver occurrences of the...locally abundant acanthite. Many mines of the Colorado mineral belt contained important amounts of acanthite |  | | Report (issue) | | Jalpaite Ag3 CuS2 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Tetragonal. Point Group:...743(1) Z=8 X-ray Powder Pattern: Boulder Co., Colorado, USA. 2.345 (100), 2.794 (90), 2.740 (80), 2.422...100.00 (1) Jalpa, Mexico. (2) Silver Plume, Colorado, USA; average of four analyses, S by difference....sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, stromeyerite, polybasite, pearceite, tetrahedrite–tennantite, silver....La Leonora mine, Jalpa, Zacatecas [TL], and at La Mesa, Chihuahua. In the USA, in Colorado, at the Payrock |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isère, France...Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals,...Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. A Acanthite, Colorado, 442; Utah |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | † LAURENT BAILLY, AND JEAN-PIERRE MILÉSI BRGM-Mineral Resources Department 3, avenue Claude Guillemin...related to post-depositional alteration of primary mineral parageneses. Both deposits are characterized by...a-pyrite–polybasite-pearceite–tennantite-tetrahedrite–electrum. Minerals of the polybasite-pearceite...West Java, Indonesia, and Nazareño, ShilaPaula district, southern Perú, in order to examine the spatial...distribution and stability of the primary ore mineral assemblages and, more particularly, to ascertain |  | | Book | | MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40...MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna...American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Colorado...resources—Colorado. 2. Mines and mineral resources—New Mexico. I. Kennedy, Marrianna B. II. Title. III. Title: Great...possible steps should be taken to preserve our mineral heritage, whether in physical form as irreplaceable |  | | Journal (issue) | | Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.....................in Colorado minerals? ...................................... 329 by R. A. Kosnar Famous mineral localities:...Home mine .................................................. 333 by R. A. Kosnar Famous mineral localities:...339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349 by J. A............373 by E. E. Foord and R. F. Martin Mineral collecting at the Sunnyside & Idarado m in e s |  | 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). |  | Fuerstenau, Maruice C., Palmer, Bruce R. - Eds. (1983) Gold, Silver, Uranium, and Coal - Geology, Mining, Extraction and the Environment. The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, Inc., New York. | Book | | ON GOLD, SILVER, URANIUM, AND COAL GEOLOGY, MINING, EXTRACTION AND THE ENVIRONMENT Editors Maurice...Dakota Published by The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers, Inc. New... Copyright © 1983 by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers, Inc....significant advances that have occurred in the geology, mining, and extraction of gold, silver, uranium, and coal...Homestake Mine. AS TU A torcal UNG ater Peecornet te? ee ERS ea est ORO ater SO Bead Silver Mining in Western |  | | Book | | l JJ 1atYON RALPH Moore's COMPENDIUM of Mineral Discoveries -------~►►--.•.... -~~1---------- ...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...crystals and in themselves are never of interest to mineral collectors. However, unusual discoveries in the |  | | Book | | INTRODUCTION 1.1. Mineral Deposit versus Orebody 1.2. Styles of Mineralization and Morphology of Mineral Deposits...Distribution of Mineral Deposits 1.3. Understanding Mineral Deposits CHAPTER 2. FORMATION OF MINERAL DEPOSITS...49 54 56 73 89 92 CHAPTER 3. INTERPRETATION OF MINERAL DEPOSITS - I 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Geologic Setting...124 131 142 147 CHAPTER 4. INTERPRETATION OF MINERAL DEPOSITS - II 4.1. Stable Isotopes 4.2. Sulfur... A Comprehensive Example: The Cree de District, Colorado, USA 4.11. Summary 4.12. Recommended Reading |  | | Report (issue) | | UNITED STATES MINERAL RESOURCES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 820 UNITED STATES MINERAL RESOURCES...Washington, D.C. 20402 FOREWORD Minerals and mineral fuels are literally the cornerstones of modern...comforts of life in the United States today. Most mineral resources are nonrenewable, for the deposits from...course, many mineral products can be recycled. Because of our dependence on minerals and mineral fuels, the...economically. As a part of our response to the Mining and Mineral Policy Act of 1970, the Geological Survey |
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