| 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) | Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...fine, wellcrystallized baryte, galena, sphalerite, and quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...fine, wellcrystallized baryte, galena, sphalerite, and quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...fine, wellcrystallized baryte, galena, sphalerite, and quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mountain Mine (or Bulldog Mine) A Legacy Rich In Silver Creede Mining District, Mineral County, Colorado...Colorado, USA By Ken Kucera Fabulous mineral specimens from the rich Bulldog Mountain Mine grace private and...and museum collections the world over. Its mineral wealth is well represented at the Mines Museum of...wide array of habits and mineral associations. Also recovered from the mine was an abundance of fine...fine, wellcrystallized baryte, galena, sphalerite, and quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on | | | 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) | 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...physiography provides a setting for about 750 known mineral species.* Of these, quartz is one of the most desirable...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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | S OF C R E E D E , M I N E R A L C O U N T Y , COLORADO By ARTHUR E. SMITH, JR. 91 18 Concho, Houston...written in recent years on the mineral and rock collecting at Creede. This region has much to offer the...collectors make Creede a stopping point for their Color ado vacations. The region around Creede is said to...mines where the prin cipal collecting is for mineral specimens though some lapidary materials such as...turquoise have been collected. Many who collect at the Creede Mines do not know what minerals to look for and | | | Report (volume) | 718 GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS OF THE ' CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO BY WILLIAM H. EMMONS AND ESPER S. LARSEN................................................. Mining and treatment of ores.......................................................................... Creede formation........................................58 58 59 59 59 59 59 60 CONTENTS. Chapter V. Creede formation...................................................................................... Alpha fault.......................................... | | | Report (issue) | DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The Creede, Colorado Ore-Forming System: A Summary Model by Philip...geochronology, and wallrock alteration in the Creede mining district, Colorado and of studies of the evolution of...still qualitative and still evolving, model of the Creede hydrothermal system. Ores were deposited from a...discovered mineralization in the northern end of the district. The system was dominated by two fortuitiously...evaporation in a playa lake in the moat of the Creede caldera and later diagenesis. Much of the ore lead | | | Report (volume) | Radioactivity in the Metal-Mining Districts of the San Juan Mountains Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY --*_-...Radioactivity in the Metal-Mining Districts of the San Juan Mountains Colorado By C. T. PIERSON, W. F. WEEKS...radioactivity in the metal-mining districts of the San Juan Mountains, Colorado, by C. T. Pierson, W. F..._______________ CeboUa district..______________________________ Upper Uncompahgre district. ______ _________________________...Uranium occurrences___________ ________ __ Bonanza district..____________________ ___________________ General | | | Report (issue) | Oxidized Zinc Deposits of the United States Part 3. Colorado By ALLEN V. HEYL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...deposits and the resources of oxidized zin.c ores in Colorado UNITED STATES· GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON...19180xidized zinc deposits of the United States. Part 3. Colorado. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964. vi...Bibliography : p. 88-91. 1. Zinc ores-Colorado. 2. Zinc mines and mining-Colorado. I. Title. (Series) For sale...__ ___ __ __ __ __ __ _____ Kokomo (Ten ~ile) district _______ ._________________________ Breckenridge | | | Report (issue) | Control of Ore Deposition in the Creede District San Juan Mountains Colorado GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...487 Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Metal Mining Fund Board Geology and Structural Control...Control of Ore Deposition in the Creede District San Juan Mountains Colorado , By THOMAS A. STEVEN and JAMES...487 ·Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado State Metal Mining Fund Board UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT...Fisher Quartz La ti te ___________________________ _ Creede Formation _____________________________ _ Surficial | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Geology, and Mineralogy of the San Juan County, Colorado rooklyn mine, located at an elevation of 11,456...feet at the head of Browns Gulch. San Juan County, Colorado. has been operated sporadically during the...petzite, sphalerite. pyrite. galena. and rhodochrosite were recovered from the mine. Continued mining in 1980...is under lease to a mining consulting firm. and plans are under way to resume mining operations this summer... discovered in 187 1 and named the Little Giant mine. was situated northeast of Arrastra Creek Gulch | | | 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 | | | Report (issue) | Fluid-inclusion data on samples from Creede, Colorado, in relation to mineral paragenesis By Terri L. Woods... Previous fluid-inclusion work on samples from Creede -- 6 Nature and limitations of the fluid-inclusion...relation to detailed stratigraphic studies on sphalerite -- 17 Speculations on the causes of observed...fluorite, rhodochrosite, quartz, and sphalerite from Creede, Colorado -- 30 Fluid-inclusion data for quartz...Figure 1. Map showing location of the Creede mining district and extent of the San Juan volcanic field | | Driscoll, Rhonda L., Hageman, Phillip L., Benzel, William M., Diehl, Sharon F., Morman, Suzette, Choate, LaDonna M., Lowers, Heather (2014) Assessment of the geoavailability of trace elements from selected zinc minerals. Open-File Report Vol. 2014 (2013-1309) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20131309 | Report (issue) | ........................................... 3 Mineral Descriptions and a Brief Discussion of the Franz................................. 9 Sulfide Mineral—Sphalerite (ZnS)................................................................... 9 Sphalerite Specimen—Creede, Colorado ...................................... 31 Comparison of Bulk Chemistry for Two Sphalerite Samples .......................................Procedure and Results of Metal Toxicity for Five Zinc Mineral Concentrates Using MetPLATE™.. 60 Introduction | | Doe, B. R., Steven, T. A., Delevaux, M. H., Stacey, J. S., Lipman, P. W., Fisher, F. S. (1979) Genesis of ore deposits in the San Juan volcanic field, southwestern Colorado; lead isotope evidence. Economic Geology, 74 (1) 1-26 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.74.1.1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Depositsin the SanJuanVolcanicField, Southwestern Colorado LeadIsotopeEvidence B. R. DOE,T. A. STEVEN,M....other deposits (Summitville, Jasper, Red Mountain district) have values of 2ø•Pb/•ø4Pbsimilar to those of...have lead isotopiccompositions that are portant mining districts. Studies of lead in the as- more radiogenicthan...Antonito COLORADO NEW MEXICO L 0 100 KILOMETERS Fro. 1. Index map of southxvestern Colorado, showing...been applied specificallyto the ores in the Creede district by Bethke et al. (1973) and by Stevenand Eaton | | | 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 | | | Report (issue) | AND MINING WASTES NOTES FROM A WORKSHOP PRESENTED AT THE INTERNATIONAL LAND RECLAMATION AND MINE DRAINAGE... Predicting Water Contamination from Metal Mines and Mining Wastes O^ggg^C. Kathleen S. Smith, Ph.D. Geoffrey...80225 Workshop 2 International Land Reclamation and Mine Drainage Conference and the Third International... Predicting Water Contamination from Metal Mines and Mining Wastes FOREWORD This report contains copies of...presented at the International Land Reclamation and Mine Drainage Conference and the Third International | | | Report (issue) | Scalemodelecaltydomessery Clay, GRISEMSMS wate Gn GOaNe MininG Districts vce oh with RApIAL ae TE ee PRE...Detwieccnmpasinsmancialip hits mamryt cetera MINING DISTRICTS, ASSOCIATED WITH CA NTICEINES eerie...0000eeceescececscdbeen structural map, or Rico; Colorado, .district: . ..+.5. ssw Fea ive Res five voles ow...cureieunertiae ote teers 12 Plan. and section of Sunlight district, Wyoming, 16 4, tires sheik aes ........02+2...Mexico Aenea SmmSCLUCLUTAlEMaprOrsOllyentons district ColoLadoum Ole Generalusectionsthroupheoilyentonidistricte | | | 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 | | | Report (issue) | Goldfield-type vs. Creede-type epithermal deposits. Distinctive characteristics; Goldfield-type & Creede-type deposits...Complex. SW-NE cross section, Summitville mining district, Colorado. After Steven and Ratte, 1960. Schematic...section of large sphalerite crystal from locality NJP-X, OH vein, Creede, Colorado. Fluid inclusion homogenization...locality NJP-X, OH vein, Creede, Colorado. Longitudinal section, OH vein, Creede, Colorado showing distribution...fluid inclusions in quartz crystal, OH vein, Creede, Colorado. Courtesy, N. Foley. Fluid inclusion homogenization | | | Journal (issue) | material from the Environmental problems caused by mining and abstraction activities for industrial minerals...Center Inc., 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA, stating the ISSN 0943-0105, the volume, and the...Dept. 333 Meadowlands Parkway Secaucus, NJ 07094, USA North America. Recommended annual subscrip- tion...Secaucus, Tel. (201) Fax (201) All other NJ 07094, USA 348-4033, Telex 0023-125 994, 348-4505 countries...International, 300 N. Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106, USA Production PRODUserv Springer GmbH & Co. Produktions-Gesellschaft | | | Report (issue) | RECENT MINING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CREEDE DISTRICT, COLORADO By ESPEK S. LAKSEN ABSTRACT The Creede district...the Equity mine, which follows a reverse fault in the extreme northern part of the district. Silver in...are rich in silver. Some of the tuff beds of the Creede formation are partly altered to bentonite, and...by Emmons and Larsen 1 on the Creede district was completed, the district has produced over $5,000,000...detailed to the work and spent about 10 days in the district in the summer of 192T and 3 days in August, 1928 |
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