Minerals of Creede, Colorado

 

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  • Silver (sawed) with barite
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    A solid mass of native silver from the Bulldog mine, Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Chalcopyrite with sphalerite
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Dull, brassy chalcopyrite crystals on resinous brown to darker brown sphalerite. Some of the sphalerite exhibits twinning according to the spinel law, some of which has a polysynthetic habit. This mineral specimen is from the Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Quartz, variety amethyst on barite
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Light purple amethyst crystals covering and replacing barite. Mineral specimen is from the Bulldog mine, Bulldog vein, Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Pyrite
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Mineral specimen represents one single pyritohedral crystal and is from the Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Cerussite
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Intergrowth of white, cyclically twinned crystals from the Bulldog mine, Bulldog vein, Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Silver minerals in petrified wood
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Mineral specimen is from the Monkeymeyer mine, Creede mining district, Colorado. Petrified wood found in the Monkeymeyer sandstone unit of the Creede formation contained sufficient silver mineralization to be ore. Mr. Monkeymeyer operated a small mine and the sandstone unit was named for him.

  • Barite with micro pyromorphite crystals
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Intergrowth of colorless blades of barite with a few scattered microcrystals of pyromorphite. Mineral specimen is from Bulldog mine, Bulldog vein, Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Barite with quartz
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Off-white bladed crystals with minor iron oxide staining. Mineral specimen is from the Bulldog mine, Bulldog vein, Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Sphalerite stalactites
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Stalactitic growth of sphalerite from the Bulldog mine, Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Silver (in jar)
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Jar of leaf/spangle silver from the Bulldog mine, Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Silver
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Branching arborescent growth of silver crystals from the Bulldog mine, Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Silver (wires)
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    This mineral specimen is from the Creede mining district, Mineral County, Colorado, and shows a mass of silver wires with quartz.

  • Sphalerite on galena
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Mineral specimen is from the Commodore mine, Amethyst vein system, Creede mining district, Colorado. Some of the sphalerite exhibits twinning according to the spinel law, some of which has a polysynthetic habit.

  • Galena
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Bright gray, partly skeletal crystal from the Bulldog mine, Bulldog vein, Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Sphalerite with galena, quartz variety amethyst, and minor hematite
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Mineral specimen is from the Commodore mine, Amethyst vein system, Creede mining district, Colorado. Some of the sphalerite exhibits twinning according to the spinel law, some of which has a polysynthetic habit. The galena crystals are, at least in part, skeletal with a stairstep arrangement of the cubic form.

  • Quartz, variety amethyst
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Quartz, variety amethyst from the Amethyst vein, Creede mining district, Colorado, forming a vug in amethyst vein material.

  • Silver in chalcedony nodule, in banded chalcedony and amethyst ("sowbelly agate")
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Cut slab polished on both sides ; one of six slices cut from the same piece of “sowbelly”. Mineral specimen is from the Last Chance mine ("Chance cave", 700' level), Amethyst vein, Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Quartz, variety amethyst with quartz variety chalcedony; carved sowbelly agate sphere
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Polished sowbelly agate sphere (quartz variety amethyst with quartz variety chalcedony) from the Last Chance mine, amethyst vein, Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Galena with very thin coating of hematite
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Grey crystals of galena with a thin reddish coating from the Amethyst mine, Amethyst vein, Creede mining district, Colorado.

  • Silver wire
    Raines, Ed; Mines Museum of Earth Science
    Silver wire from the Bulldog mine, Bulldog vein (9360 level), Creede mining district, Colorado.

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