80 OUNCES of SILVER in Slabs from the Bulldog Mountain Mine | Creede Mining District | Colorado | 8K

Описание: Take an 8K macro tour through a cabinet display of high-grade silver ore from the Bulldog Mountain Mine in the Creede District of Colorado. Filmed on a Panasonic S1RII, this video moves slowly across multiple large slabs and vein slices, showing native silver intergrown with dark acanthite, pale baryte, purple amethyst, and green fluorite. You can pause and study the delicate silver dendrites, banded barite layers, and subtle zoning in ultra-high resolution.

The Bulldog Mountain Mine sits high above Creede and was one of the last great silver producers in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. Developed in the late twentieth century, it became the flagship modern operation of the district, extracting bonanza-grade Ag-Pb-Zn veins from deep levels beneath the old camp. For collectors, Bulldog ore is now prized both as a link between classic nineteenth-century Creede and modern underground mining, and as one of the few sources of truly specimen-grade silver slabs from a major U.S. mine.

Geologically, Bulldog is part of a low-sulfidation epithermal vein system emplaced into Tertiary volcanic rocks. Hydrothermal fluids rising through steep fractures deposited banded barite, quartz, fluorite, and sulfides, with silver concentrated as acanthite and native metal along specific stages of vein filling. In these slabs you can read that history in cross-section: rhythmic barite–quartz banding, later silver-rich streaks, replacement textures, and pockets where silver forms dense, almost metallic “clouds” against the lighter gangue.

This collection video brings several of those stories together in one place: nearly solid silver–acanthite plates, barite-rich slices with fine dendritic silver, amethystine quartz hosting scattered silver grains, and mixed slabs that could have been pulled straight from the heart of a modern stope. If you are into silver camps, ore petrography, or just the aesthetic of polished vein slabs, this is a satisfying watch from start to finish.

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