 | | 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...fine, wellcrystallized baryte, galena, sphalerite, and quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on | | | 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...fine, wellcrystallized baryte, galena, sphalerite, and quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on |  | | 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...fine, wellcrystallized baryte, galena, sphalerite, and quartz variety amethyst. Table of Contents 2 Introduc�on | | | 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...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) | | 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...characterizedby abundantfine-grainedsphaleriteand galena,with lessertetrahedrite andminorchloriteandhematite...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY The Creede, Colorado Ore-Forming System: A Summary Model by Philip...held as part of the Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Section of the Geological Society of America Meeting...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Find your OwnAgate Collecting around Kremmling Colorado Morocco - The Country, The People and...Agates...Mindat.org Agates and Associated Minerals of Creede Colorado By Philip Persson PerssonRareMinerals.com ...information ranging from listing mineral localities, facts about mineral species, photographs of worldwide...to typical reference specimens), photographs of mineral localities (both modern and historical), publication...Copyrights Reserved 2014 - Printed in Denver, Colorado IDA CHAU’S JOURNAL FROM THE 3RD MINDAT INTERNATIONAL |  | | 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...Quartz Latite ____________________ _ Bachelor Mountain Rhyolite ____________________ _ Farmers Creek |  | | 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............................................................................ Campbell Mountain rhyolite........................................Comparison with Campbell Mountain rhyolite...................... 40 Mammoth Mountain rhyolite............ |  | Bethke, P. M., Rye, R. O. (1979) Environment of ore deposition in the Creede mining district, San Juan Mountains, Colorado; Part IV, Source of fluids, from oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon isotope studies. Economic Geology, 74 (8) 1832-1851 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.74.8.1832 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ore Depositionin the CreedeMining District, SanJuan Mountains,Colorado' Part IV. Sourceof Fluids from Oxygen...the nearsurface silver-basemetal vein depositsat Creede was measuredby direct analysis of inclusionfluidsin...(number of determinationsgiven in parentheses): Mineral Sphalerite Quartz Illire aDn2o %o -81 to -54 (4)...interstitial waters in the moat surroundingthe Creede caldera. begunin an effortto establish the sources...This studywas Introduction 1832 CREEDEMINING DISTRICT: PART IV 1833 mostof thevein-filling history |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Diego] at 15:26 22 February 2016 - Featured Mineral at the 1994 Denver Show Figure I (above). Pyrite...Pyrite, Alice Glory Hole, Clear Creek County. Cluster of intergrown crystals showing light “cathedral”...specimen. Figure 2 (right). Pyrite, Mountain Spring mine, Rico, Dolores County. Cluster of modified cubes; specimen...PYRITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs by John R. Muntyan...Park City, Utah; Washington State; and numerous Colorado localities. Pyrite crystallizes in the isometric |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MUNTYAN 536 Third Avenue P.O. Box 495 Ouray, Colorado 81427 All photographs by John R. Muntyan of specimens...B ~i~~~~ 1. Mine along West willow Creek, near Creede and across from the Bachelor mine. Photo by author... arite (barium sulfate) is the most important mineral of barium; it is reported from numerous localities...the Rock Candy mine in British Columbia, Canada; and in the United States in Hardin County, Illinois, among...localities. Barite also occurs in many localities in Colorado, where it often forms attractive, wellcrystallized |  | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY Stable Isotope Geochemistry of the Creede, Colorado, Hydrothermal System by Robert O. Rye1 Geoffrey...Juan Volcanic Field symposium, Rocky Mountain GSA, in Boulder, Colorado, May, 1987 (Rye et aL, 1987). Because...mineralization at Creede, some references in this report to other talks in the series or to district geological...of the stable isotope geochemistry of the Creede district now includes nearly 1000 measurements. Most...welldocumented samples from the southern part of the district However, initial work in the Northern Exploration |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Reston, VA 22092, USA ‘Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA (Received October...“metamorphic” ( Alleghany ), and “geothermal” (Creede, Salton Sea) aqueous systems. Br/Cl mol ratios...volatiles; and highest (near that of seawater) at Creede ( 1.5-2.1 X 10m3) and Alleghany ( 1.2-2.4 X 10m3)...mol ratios are lowest (near that of seawater) at Creede ( l-14 X 10e6), possibly because organisms scavenged...alkali-Al-silicate mineral buffers at fluid inclusion trapping temperatures at Creede, and large contributions |  | | Report (issue) | | Epithermal System: A Progress Report from Creede, Colorado by Geoffrey S. Plumlee 1 , Paul B. Barton2...Juan Volcanic Field symposium, Rocky Mountain GSA, in Boulder, Colorado, May, 1987 (Plumlee et al., 1987)...mineralization at Creede, some references in this report to other talks in the series or to district geological...SLIDE LEFT 1 - Schematic representation of the Creede system hydrology, showing where different types...processes in the Creede mineralizing system. The epithermal mineralization at Creede was deposited by |  | | 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....conditions. Association: Acanthite, mckinstryite, galena, sphalerite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, stromeyerite...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 |  | | 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...rhodochrosite, quartz, and sphalerite from Creede, Colorado -- 30 Fluid-inclusion data for quartz from...Figure 1. Map showing location of the Creede mining district and extent of the San Juan volcanic field...relation of the Creede mining district to the La Garita, Bachelor, San Luis, and Creede calderas. 61 |  | | Report (issue) | | organization is carrying on for the direct advancement of mining interests throughout the country than can readily...two parts, the second part comprising papers on mineral fuels. These volumes for 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909...GOLD LODES OF THE CARRVILLE DIS TRICT, TRINITY COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. By DONALD FRANCIS MACDONALD. INTRODUCTION...writer spent 10 days in the Carrville district, Trinity County, Cal., and, incidental to other work,... gathered some data on its mining geology. A paper on the gold gravels x was pub lished, but baggage |  | | 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 |
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