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Chalcedony from
Colorado - American Mine (West Vein; Trefone Adit; East Vein; American Shaft; Mill Adit; Branch or Collins Vein), Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Colorado - American Mine (West Vein; Trefone Adit; East Vein; American Shaft; Mill Adit; Branch or Collins Vein), Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:490249
Long-form Identifier:1:3:490249:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony
2.2km (1.3 miles) Last Chance Mine (Lower Adit; Kramer Mine; Adit No. 1; Adit No. 2), Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Unnamed Fluorspar Deposit (MRDS - 10087834), Browns Canyon Mining District, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
14.5km (9.0 miles) Unnamed Fluorspar Deposit (MRDS - 10090937), Poncha Springs Area, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
21.7km (13.5 miles) Poncha Pass Claim (3 Claims; Lucky Nos. 1), Poncha Pass Area, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
28.0km (17.4 miles) Trout Creek Lycopsid Fossil Forest, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
33.5km (20.8 miles) Antero Junction, South Park, Park County, Colorado, USA
35.2km (21.9 miles) South Park salt works, Antero Junction, South Park, Park County, Colorado, USA
40.0km (24.9 miles) Buffalo Peaks, Chaffee County, Colorado, USA
45.8km (28.4 miles) Thirtyone Mile Mountain, Guffey Mining District, Park County, Colorado, USA
53.7km (33.4 miles) Garo Deposit (Shirley May Mine; Duvall Discovery), Garo Area, Park County, Colorado, USA
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