Stove Mountain This location's collecting and accessibility status is currently unknown, so please ask for permission locally before doing any digging or collecting.

General Info This location, located northwest of Cheyenne Mountain, is also called Cookstove Mountain.

Minerals Click on the image(s) below to see a picture of that mineral from this location. Amazonite Bastnäsite-(Ce) - Often occuring as a reddish-brown rind covering grayish-buff colored fluocerite-(Ce). The crystals usually develop parallel growths and they can be associated with hematite pseudomorphs of siderite, columbite, microcline, smoky quartz and maybe thorite. Columbite - Columbite has not been verified at Stove Mountain, but Eckel believes that it was found at this location or at Crystal Park (Raines). An old report says that it occurs on or penetrating amazonite or zircon (variety cyrtolite). Fergusonite - Reported to be found somewhere along Gold Camp Rd. near Stove Mountain. Genthelvite - Raines mentions a few reports of this mineral from this location (or nearby). One was a distorted dodecahedron to 5.5 cm; another was a 2.5 cm modified tetrahedron. Associated minerals are microcline, smoky quartz, brown zircon, biotite, bastnasite, danalite and limonite after siderite. Goethite - "Onegite", goethite-quartz intergrowths, have been reported at this location, according to Raines. Goethite after Siderite Hematite - Rosettes of hematite discs have been found on smoky quartz crystals. Phenakite - Gross and Heinrich said that phenakite is rare from this area (Raines). Quartz - "Onegite", goethite-quartz intergrowths, have been reported at this location, according to Raines. Thorite - Clusters of brick-red crystals were found by Adams along Gold Camp Rd (Raines). Zircon - Opaque, chocolate-brown to cinnamon-brown to metallic black colored crystals. Other Notable Minerals Allanite, Amethyst, Ancylite, Barite, Bertrandite, Beryl, Biotite, Cassiterite, Chlorite, Cleavelandite, Cyrtolite, Danalite, Euxenite, Fayalite, Fluocerite-(Ce), Fluorite, Gadolinite, Microcline, Microlite, Molybdenite, Monazite, Rutile, Samarskite, Siderite, Smoky Quartz, Topaz, Xenotime, Yttrotantalite-(Y) Field Trip Reports Sorry, no trip reports for this location yet.

References E. Raines, 2001, "Rocks & Minerals" (Vol. 76, September/October, pgs. 298-325) Please see the reference(s) mentioned above for directions to the site if specific instructions are not given on this page.

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