 | | 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) | | Index Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln] at 20:00 09 April 2015 K NOWN AS THE TREASURE...with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces The state...MICHAEL J. GOBLA 19055 East Bethany Place Aurora, Colorado 80013 gobla@copper.net Unless otherwise noted |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Although Colorado may be most noted for rhodochrosite or amazonite, the many varieties and associations...a k e w o o d , Colorado 80225 DIANNE L. K I L E 333 S a l e m Street Aurora, Colorado 80011 C O L O...and J. A. Mur phy for an update to Minerals of Colorado: A 100-Year Record (Eckel, 1961). 374 ROCKS... Quartz was a familiar gemstone to many early Colorado residents, as documented by an extensive body...body of literature. The first published list of Colorado mineral localities (in cluding quartz) was included |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Vochten & G. Brizzi The Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado .............................M. Kohler & L. Minnaar Garnet Hill, White Pine County, Nevada .........................................Harris Monazite and caldoancylite from the Foote mine, North Carolina by J. S. White & J. E. Nelen 203...(1 inch) on antlerite crystals from the Southwest mine, Bisbee, Arizona. For more information on this recent...85745 CALL FOR PAPERS: FM COLORADO CHAPTER SYMPOSIUM, AUGUST 1988 The Colorado Chapter of the Friends of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralminded public. The well-publicized Butte copper district has been ignored since the writer feels certain...known. Amcnnpijiite: In the Emery Mining district (Powell County) the mineral is found in wellformed...Crevasse Mountain Mining district near Jardine (Park County). At the Kennebec mine in the Crevasse Mountain...Mountain district (see above) small crystals of arsenopyrite are disseminated in schist in the ore. It...encountered in the Jardine mine (see above). Noteworthy is the No. 1 vein of the mine on Mineral Hill. It is |  | | Journal (issue) | | Crystal Peak area north of the town of Florissant in Colorado. In addition to being a prospector, miner, and...including Jerry Hurianek, whose longtime activities in Colorado are documented in t\vo of his unpublished articles...throughout U.S. Forest Service land along Crystal Creek: included among these was the site where the "Museum...(Continued on next page) Only $30 - postpaid in the USA Available exclusively from: Excalibur Mineral Corporation...left Florissant in his later years. he deeded his mining claims to several area rock clubs and private individuals |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Show Figure I (above). Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals...Figure 2 (right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes; specimen...C*O*L*O*R*A*D*O PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs by John R...Park City, Utah; Washington State; and numerous Colorado localities. Pyrite crystallizes in the isometric...Pyrite is the most common sulfide mineral found in Colorado; it is found in a wide variety of occurrences |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | location a~ included at the end of each entry. Adair County Chariton River (40-04-05N 92-4 I -23W). septarian...septarian concretions about 2 miles north of the Macon county line. CALCITE crystals enclosing bundles of acicular...hematite, quartz (Broadhead 1873b, 1877). Audrain County Mexico, in fire clay pits and spoil piles: PYRITE...University Library] at 19:58 29 October 2014 Barton County McKarrow’s coal bank (37-37N 94-28W), 2.5 miles...pyrite, siderite (Broadhead 1873b). Bates County Panther Creek, northwest of Rockville in coal deposits: |  | | Report (issue) | | https://archive.org/details/fluorspardeposito00Oharr COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BOULDER R. D. GEORGE, State...State Geologist BULLETIN 18 FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS COLORADO By HARRY KAMES A. AURAND BROTHERS, STATE...-...- Governor of Colorado GEORGE UNORLING nee ee President University of Colorado VicCTOR Ct A LDERGONG...TRANSMITTAL. State Geological Survey, University of Colorado, April 29, 1920. Governor Oliver H. Shoup, Chairman...honor to transmit herewith Bulletin 18 of the Colorado Geological Survey. Very respectfully, R. D. GEORGE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The last Wild West Silver Mining Camp in Colorado T he Creede mining district, located at a lofty elevation...and rugged San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado. Although silver was discovered in the area in...partners found rich silver ore near East Willow Creek and staked a claim named the Holy Moses (Huston...Willow Creek in veins that would later be known as the Amethyst vein system (a.k.a. Amethyst fault system)...well-known mines as the Amethyst, Last Chance, Commodore, and Bachelor. The mining encampment grew from |  | | Journal (issue) | | on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim, Colorado. Collected by the Dorris family; Tom Spann photo...Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Collected by George Stacy; Jeff Scovil photo. Amethyst, 12 cm, from Collegeville, Pennsylvania. Collected |  | | Journal (issue) | | COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...(rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...hole.” The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes ...World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful |  | | Book (volume) | | the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren, Wilkox, and Lincoln counties. In...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Two Point claim, Pikes Peak batholith, Teller County. The Collector’s Edge specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Mail Stop 150, Box 25046 Federal Center Denver, Colorado 80225 pmodreski@usgs.gov C olorado is, of course...prohibitions on collecting or to private land or mining claims for which permission has been obtained....been written as guides to mineral collecting in Colorado. A classic, which went through three major editions...1951 version with a slightly different title), is Colorado Gem Trails and Mineral Guide, by Pearl (1951, |  | | 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 (issue) | | Sherwood James Madison University, Harrisonburg Alice L. Kraissl Hackensack, Neiv Jersey Dwayne D. Stone...Kelly Bank Mine Richard S. Mitchell Howard R . Freeland 219 A General History of Zinc Mining in Arkansas...stones only. In most instances, stamps depicting mining only (no rocks or minerals) have been excluded...dioptase BOTSWANA CZECHOSLOVAKlA July 1, 1974 1 c amethyst 2 c agate 3 c quartz 4 c niccolite 5 c moss agate...collecting rocks FUI July 15, 1978 4 sh Emperor gold mine and gold ore BRAZIL June 8 1974 40 c sandstone |  | | Journal (issue) | | Sherwood James Madison University, Harrisonburg Alice L. Kraissl Hackensack, Neiv Jersey Dwayne D. Stone...Kelly Bank Mine Richard S. Mitchell Howard R . Freeland 219 A General History of Zinc Mining in Arkansas...stones only. In most instances, stamps depicting mining only (no rocks or minerals) have been excluded...dioptase BOTSWANA CZECHOSLOVAKlA July 1, 1974 1 c amethyst 2 c agate 3 c quartz 4 c niccolite 5 c moss agate...collecting rocks FUI July 15, 1978 4 sh Emperor gold mine and gold ore BRAZIL June 8 1974 40 c sandstone |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ph—phosphorescence xline—crystalline COLORADO—"This chip of "topaz" is from the Colorado Mineral Society's claim at...arCopperas Creek, about one mile west of senopyrite in Darien (Fairfield Co.), Levesque, Cross County, Arkansas...are chunks of galena and widely in the farming district south of quartz, and finally a solid vein of rich...Most Alaskan thundereggs are filled with a good clear patterned agate." — item from Mary E. King, Box...A H O — "This specimen was found in Twin Falls County about 10 miles south of Hagerman, Idaho. These |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Franklin County; at Coventry and Irasburgh, Orleans County; and at Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont... at Keene, and southeast of Hinsdale, Cheshire County, and elsewhere in New Hampshire and is reported...from Haddam, Middletown, and Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. In Rhode Island, rhodonite has been...near Lincoln and at Dyarville, as well as in manganese prospects at Cumberland, Providence County. Downloaded...unusual rhodonite on galena specimen from the North mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia; field |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University.....157 by C. Albertini Sellaite from the Brumado mine ..................................................mineral collectors in Nevada (Clark, Esmeralda, Lincoln and Nye Counties), Utah (Beaver, Iron and Washington...Washington Counties) and Arizona (Mojave County). This region is one of the last American frontiers for the...Route 6, Box 263 Golden, Colorado 80401 n 1 9 0 2 , the well-known mining engineer and authorRickard |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Mineral Society, Waynesboro, heard Harold and Alice Whitten tell of their trip to Texas, and enjoyed... W e regret to note the closing of one of the amethyst collecting areas in Virginia due to misuse of...successful field trip to the Foote Mineral Company Mine at Kings Mountain, N.C., and found spodumene, apatite...Mineral Club, Sayre, reported a visit from the new District Representative, Benjamin Keating, who showed some...Pennsylvania made a trip to that old stand by—French Creek for minerals. 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