 | | Book | | iX^*y^Kwn iVK^i v^sL ASPEN ASPEN The History of a Silver-Mining Town, 1879-1893 MALCOLM J. ROHRBOUGH...ion Data Rohrbough, Malcolm J. Aspen: the history of a silver-mining town, 1879-1893. Bibliography: p...Includes index. 1. Aspen (Colo.)—History. 2. Silver mines and mining—Colorado—Aspen—History. I. Title...Peter with respect and love Acknowledgments Mining starts out as an individual prospector with basic...of talent, judgment, and luck. The history of a mining town is remarkably parallel in its many variations |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALOGY, AND HISTORY OF FOUR Native Silver Localities 7 in Colorado Downloaded by [University of California...72 Golden, Colorado 80403 All photos by author unless otherwise noted SINCE 1859 COLORADO HAS PRODUCED...threequarters of a billion ounces of silver. Most of this production has come from silver-bearing minerals rather...rather than the native metal. Native silver in Colorado has been deposited both as a primary mineral, crystallized...well-known native silver specimen producers-Caribou, Ward, Aspen, and Creede. Secondary silver may be the only |  | | Report (issue) | | CHARLES D. WALCOTT, DIRECTOR GEOLOGY ASPEN MINING DISTRICT, COLORADO WITH ATLAS JOSIAH EDWARD SFURR SAMUEL..._ Cretaceous series 41 Dakota formation ; Colorado formation 42 43 . Pre-Cretaceous uncomformity...formation xvii _ 53 _ 54 _ 54 Aspen special map Aspen Mountain 56 v CONTENTS. vi CHAPTER...descriptive geology Continued. Page. Aspen special map Continued. Aspen Mountain Continued. 5(3 Folding...Folding.- 58 Faulting Resume of structure on Aspen Mountain... Smuggler Mountain Resume of structure |  | | Report (issue) | | OBSERVATIONS ON THE RICH SILVER ORES OF ASPEN, COLORADO. By EDSON S. BASTIN. INTRODUCTION. In September...visit to the famous old silver camp of Aspen, in Pitkin County, southwestern Colorado, to obtain samples of...rich silver ores for microscopic study. Systematic studies of the distribution of the rich silver ores...enrichment and on the quality of mine waters are here recorded. Two analyses of mine waters were made by Chase...accounts of the general geologic features of the district the reader is referred to the wellknown reports |  | | Report (volume) | | The Geologic Story of the Aspen Region Frontispiece. The setting of Aspen. View south from slope of...of Red Mountain across the Roaring Fork Valley and up Maroon Creek (right) and Castle Creek (left). Mountains...Mountains left to right are: Aspen Mountain, Hayden Peak, Highland Peak, Pyramid Peak, and Siever Mountain...Butte in foreground. The Geologic Story of the Aspen Region Mines, Glaciers and Rocks By BRUCE BRYANT...Publication Data Bryant, Bruce. The geologic story of the Aspen region. (U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin ; 1603) |  | | Report (issue) | | COLORADO GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BOULDER R. D. GEOqGE, State Geologi.t BULLETIN 22 MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE...oozi5137 EAME"S BROS, STATE PRINTERS FOR COLORADO DENVER. COLORADO GEOLOGICAL B O A R D His Excellency...Shoup George Norlin Governor of Colorado President University of Colorado Victor C. Aldersox.. Charles...TRANSMITTAL State Geological Survey, Uxiversity of Colorado, October 28, 1920. Governor Oliver H. Shoup. Chairman...honor to transmit herewith Bulletin 22 of the Colorado Geological Survey. Very respectfully, R. D. George |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology of the Aspen 15-minute Ouadrangle JL VSi^r \«/ 0EOLOOICAJ. SURVEY PROFESSIONAL P^PER Geology... Geology of the Aspen 15-minute Quadrangle, Pitkin and Gunnison Counties, Colorado By BRUCE BRYANT GEOLOGICAL...A study of an area at the intersection of the Colorado mineral belt with the west flank of the Sawatch...1930Geology of the Aspen 15-Minute quadrangle, Pitkin and Gunnison Counties, Colorado (Geological Survey... 123 1. Geology Colorado Aspen region. 2. Mines and mineral resources Colorado Aspen region. I. Title |  | | 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 (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 (article/letter/editorial) | | Sylacauga, Talladega Co., Ala. ARIZONA—The old Yuma mine, famous for its wonderful specimens of vanadinite...vanadinite and wulfenite, is located in Pima County, Ariz., about 15 miles N . W . of Tucson. Although abandoned...am sending some wulfenite xls from the old Yuma mine in the Tucson Mts. These xls range anywhere from...single xls. This mine quit working about 1920 and was mainly a gold, silver, and lead mine." ARKANSAS—Billy...Creek bridge. I was unable to enter the titanium mine, so did not get any rutile. I finally was able to |  | | Book | | 0 Trail @ Gold & Silver Timberline Books Stephen J. Leonard and Thomas J. Noel, editors The Beast...Tenderfoot in Colorado, R. B. Townshend The Trail of Gold and Silver: Mining in Colorado, 1859–2009, Duane...Duane A. Smith 0 Trail @ Gold & Silver Mining in Colorado, 1859–2009 Duane A. Smith U n i v e r s...fellow Cub fans, and mining historians. © 2009 by the University Press of Colorado Published by the University...University Press of Colorado 5589 Arapahoe Avenue, Suite 206C Boulder, Colorado 80303 All rights reserved |  | | Report (volume) | | Forest and the Dillon Ranger District of the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Forest and the Dillon Ranger District of the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado By MARGO I. TOTH, ANNA B....Forest and the Dillon Ranger District of the Arapaho National Forest, Colorado / by Margo I. Toth ... [et...mineral resources Colorado White River National Forest. 2. Mines and mineral resources Colorado Arapaho National...National Forest. 3. Geology Colorado White River National Forest. 4. Geology Colorado Arapaho National Forest |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology S ilver was one of the first metals to silver has the highest-known reflectivity of visible light...used by humans, with records Silver crystallizes in the isometof silver mines dating back at least six...the When pure, the mineral is simply elemental silver (Ag). However, it Andean mineral theme of the 2003...excepof Au and Hg and, less commonly, tional Peruvian silver has been selected as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...Choice. Figure 1. An unusually aesthetic 8.3-cm silver As, Sb, Bi, Pt, and Cu in solid soluAdditional |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | November7, 1946.] HESE two minerals are analogous silver compounds with similar pseudo-hexagonal monoelinie...similar compositions: polybasite, 8(Ag,Cu)2.(Sb,As)uSa, and peareeite, 8(Ag,Cu)2S.As2S.~. Cu replaces Ag...Frohberg. 1. Polybasite, Highland Bell mine, BeaverdeU, Greenwood mining division, British Columbia (UT, R...crystals up to 10 ram. wide. 2. Polybasite, Keeley mine, South Lorrain, Ontario (ROM, M 14781). Boxwork...arsenides. 4. Polybasite, Yankee Boy mine, Ouray County, Colorado (QU); isolated dull hexagonal plates |  | | Report (issue) | | Smith. Director Professional Paper 138 MINING IN COLORADO A HISTORY OF DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTJON...location, area, and organization of the mining counties of Colorado _________________________ _ Adams County_-..._____________________ _ Alamosa County __________________________ _ Arapahoe County _________________________...Archuleta County _________________________ _ Baca CountY-----------------------------Boulder CountY------...CountY----------------------~----Chaffee County _____________________·______ _ Clear Creek County _______________________ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the company $10,000. One lot of cent Itreas of silver-bearing veins, but the camp de five tons yielded...development. perly. In the language of mining circles, all Aspen The Anaconda, with a capital of $1,000...stoC!k mines are" big' propol'itions." Once the Aspen stocks now being quoted (though but IiLtie offered)...surface, with millions of tons in in the vicinity of Aspen, showing a widening of that sight. The ore is low...vely silver-bearing region. found which. the management says, will yielo a handSan Miguel County, with |  | | Report (volume) | | Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of...especially Fischer and others, 1946). MINERALS OF COLORADO: A 100-YEAR RECORD By EDWIN B. EcKEL ABSTRACT |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | TERRY From antiqbi@, the quest for silver and, more recently, for silver minerals has M e n expbrers, conquerors...beautiful herringbone plates from Batopilas. Silver and silver-bearing minerals are part of the nobility...more associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great wars. Silver is said to have...turn lead to silver (both of these myths are partially true!). To the mineral collector, silver minerals...unlike gold, silver is quite a reactive element, forming more than one hundred different silver-bearing minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ent of m any ore deposits, espe cially those of silver and of copper, masses of rich sulphide ore are...solutions formed by surface waters, like those of mine waters, mostly find their way to the point where...before it is redeposited. In the Gold H ill (Rowan county, North Carolina) specimens the copper sulphide...all its v a lu able m etals, including gold and silver, as it is well known th a t ferric sulphate dissolves...Such deposits have been found in the Copper Queen mine near Bisbee, Arizona, and at Butte, Montana. Douglas |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fever have been observed in the case ounce of silver. Already many of the least favorably situated...Granite Mountain Mining Company, of Montana (whiCh yielded 2,905,158 ounces of silver in 1891), produces...of Aspen and the San Juan district of Colorado, and the Park City mines of Utah, produce silver for...than 50 cents per ounce. The famous Mollie Gibson mine of Aspen, Col., produced the monument, shown...disease which runs a more or over 2,000,000 ounces of silver up to December 31 1891 has been approved by a committee |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | 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). |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | JanuaryIFebruary: Pyromorphite, Les Barlow, A., 98 Farges mine, Correze Province, France; Barnes, J. H., see Media...July/August: Silver, Mollie Gibson mine, Bertrandite, New Hampshire, 161 Pitkin County, Colorado; specimen...Smithsonite, Kelly Russell, 396-99 mine, Magdalena district, Socorro County, New Mexico; Ron Gibbs specimen...Bismuth, South Dakota, 383 tite, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah; Bolt, E., see Spotlight on Juniors Martin... R. P. tribute, 10-11 Richards, 179-82 Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum, California, graphite, 114 Phoenix |  | | Book (volume) | | ...........................................59 Colorado ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts .................................... |
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Mollie Gibson Mine, Aspen, Aspen Mining District, Pitkin County, Colorado, USA