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Sunday, July 27, 2025

Secrets in the Shadows: A Mystery at Black Mountain, Colorado

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1894 found Spencer Penrose and his partner Charles Tutt immersed in the Cripple Creek gold rush. They worked tirelessly to extract gold from...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025

Rockhounds and Legends: A Youthful Encounter with Richard M. Pearl

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  By Steven Wade Veatch             The year was 1966, and I was 12 years old. I was a relatively new member of the Colorado Springs Mineral...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Finding Zircons in North Cheyenne Cañon

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By Steven Wade Veatch A long-forgotten Colorado Springs rockhounding memory reawakened for me as I looked at a vintage postcard (figure 1)...
Wednesday, March 5, 2025

A Florissant Fossil for the White City

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  by Steven Wade Veatch   The “Big Stump” at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument, Colorado is one of the larger petrified stumps ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Wicked Cripple Creek District: A Book Review

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Wicked Cripple Creek District . By Jan MacKell Collins. History Press: Charleston, SC. 2024. 176 pages with black and white photographs. Pap...
Thursday, December 12, 2024

A Communion of Discovery

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 Dedicated to Estella Leopold, conservationist. * Melting ice washed gravels down, burying the mammoth—hiding it through the ages. And I fou...
Friday, November 15, 2024

Geological Anomalies: Chalcedony Breccia in a Cinnabar Matrix and the Disappearance of Michigan’s Geology Professor

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 By Steven Wade Veatch Hidden among geological marvels at a mineral show was a cinnabar-bearing chalcedony breccia-specimen (Figure 1). The ...