Colorado Rockhounding

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Edition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-02-01
Publisher(s): Mountain Pr
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Summary

Your complete guide to the state's rich and varied mineral, gemstone, and fossil sources. In Colorado, rockhounds may pick agate and petrified wood from the vast Great Plains, follow dinosaur tracks on hogback ridges, pan gold in mountain streams, hunt g

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction ix
PART ONE: COLLECTING IN COLORADO 1(46)
Geology of Colorado
3(4)
Mining, Digging & Collecting: A History
7(27)
The Gold Fields
8(4)
The Colorado Mineral Belt
12(4)
The Pegmatite Belt
16(3)
The Piceance Creek Basin: Oil Shale Country
19(5)
The Uravan Mineral Belt
24(5)
The ``Boneyards'' and Fossil Fields
29(5)
Collecting Legality, Safety & Responsibility
34(13)
PART TWO: COLLECTING LOCALITIES & RELATED SITES OF INTEREST 47(286)
Alamosa County
49(3)
Boulder County
52(5)
Chaffee County
57(15)
Clear Creek County
72(4)
Conejos County
76(4)
Costilla County
80(2)
Custer County
82(3)
Delta County
85(3)
Denver City and County
88(4)
Dolores County
92(4)
Douglas County
96(5)
Eagle County
101(5)
Elbert County
106(2)
El Paso County
108(9)
Fremont County
117(7)
Garfield & Rio Blanco County
124(8)
Gilpin County
132(5)
Grand County
137(7)
Gunnison County
144(13)
Hinsdale County
157(3)
Jackson County
160(3)
Jefferson County
163(11)
Lake County
174(10)
La Plata County
184(3)
Larimer County
187(8)
Las Animas County
195(5)
Lincoln, Cheyenne, Kit Carson & Yuma Counties
200(4)
Logan & Sedgwick Counties
204(2)
Mesa County
206(16)
Mineral County
222(11)
Moffat County
233(15)
Montezuma County
248(5)
Montrose County
253(3)
Ouray County
256(4)
Park County
260(8)
Prowers & Bent Counties
268(3)
Pueblo & Otero Counties
271(6)
Rio Grande County
277(6)
Routt County
283(4)
Saguache County
287(10)
San Juan County
297(3)
San Miguel County
300(6)
Summit County
306(7)
Teller County
313(14)
Weld County
327(6)
Colorado Mineral Guide 333(20)
Glossary 353(6)
References 359(6)
Index 365(7)
About the Author 372

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