Colorado mineral belt from Durango to Boulder

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Fine minerals or common ores?

 

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Fine minerals or common ores?

Long video, fine minerals with a strong emphasis on placer gold depositis. Many rhodochrosite crystals, rhodochrosite and galena, rhodochrosite with malachite or qaurtz, rhodochrosite with crystalized gypsum (selenite), pink rhodochrosite etc. Yellow Flourite, Quartz Amethyst, Pyrite, dolomitee crystals, crystalized silver from Aspen, Creedite, native wire silver quartz and acanthite, crystalline plates of gold, golden barite crystals, manganoan calcite, iridescent covellite crystals, etc., etc. Past and present mining, along with lots of ski-town ski resort history and interesting photos which to me makes the post relevant to the site (PugSki) ... somehow Neil Young's environmentalism song After The Gold Rush seemed fitting