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Article: Sylvanite: Vindicator mine, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado.(mineral deposits information)
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- Rocks & Minerals
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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In terms of sheer volume of production, two major gold-telluride districts have been developed during the past 120 years: Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, and Cripple Creek, Colorado. Although on opposite sides of the globe, they have striking similarities in their mining history and mineralogy, but their geology is seemingly quite different. Kalgoorlie is known for its rather clunky though rich specimens of essentially massive gold tellurides associated with coarse native gold. Cripple Creek, on the other hand, has been and continues to be a source of well-crystallized gold-tellurides, one of the most important of which is sylvanite. A historically significant Cripple Creek ...
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Article: Hills of Cripple Creek still rich.(Spotlight)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);
September 6, 2007 ;
700+ words
... ... cowboying. While herding cattle for Cripple Creek ranch owners Horace Bennett and Julius ... hillsides and the rocky trickle called Cripple Creek were already notorious for crippling ... knowledgeable mining engineers, staking out Cripple Creek's first mine on Tenderfoot Hill in ...
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