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SWEET HOME MINE" 1998 Special Edition! RARE & OOP!!
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The Sweet Home Mine" Mineralogical Record Special Edition - July-August 1998 (Vol 29 Number 4) The Sweet Home Mine is situated in the Alma mining district in Park County, Colorado. It is located near timberline in Buckskin Gulch on the southern slope of Mount Bross, 4.5 miles of Alma. The Sweet Home Mine is known around the world for the Museam quality Rhodochrosite Crystal formations that have been recovered t over the past century. They are found now else! Collectors and museums the world over have bid against each other for some of the Specimens pictured in this Special Edition of the Mineralogical Record. The history of the mine is fascinating and is well chronicled in book. " The mine produced a marginal amount of silver, its veins being rich but narrow and erratic. However, miners discovered rhodochrosite as a gangue mineral in the mine, and these were present both in common massive forms and as well-developed, deeply colored, euhedral crystals."
Great Condition and Out of Print!! Killer Photos, 193 pages. No Rips or Stains! The photos are Breathtaking and the Whole story of the Sweet Home mine is really nice. Now out of print and very scarce. Please allow $4.50 for Shipping with Delivery Confirmation. Insurance is optional. Good Luck Bidding!! The Sweet Home Mine [Colorado]............Contents: Title Page number(s) Foreward 5 Wendell E. Wilson Preface 9 Bryan K. Lees The Sweet Home Mine [Colorado], 1873-1989 11-20 Steve Voynick New Operations at the Sweet Home Mine [Colorado], 1990-1997 21-100 Thomas P. Moore Geology of the Sweet Home Mine and Alma District [Colorado] 101-114 Dean Misantoni, Miles L. Silberman & Bryan K. Lees Minerals of the Sweet Home Mine [Colorado] 115-122 Jack Murphy & James F. Hurlbut Sweet Home [Colorado] Rhodochrosite-- What Makes it so Cherry Red? 123-127 Karen J. Wenrich Ancient Fluids at the Sweet Home mine [Colorado] 127-132 T. James Reynolds Crystal Chemistry of Minerals from the Sweet Home Mine [Colorado] 132-143 Karen J. Wenrich & Regina Aumente-Modreski The Application of Ground-Penetrating Radar to Mineral Specimen Mining 145-150 Bryan K. Lees References 151-153 
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