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Dorleska Mine, Cariboo Lake, Coffee District (Coffee Creek District), Trinity Co., California, USA

Latitude: 41°3'29"N
Longitude: 122°54'30"W
A former Au-Ag-Pb mine located in secs. 17 & 20, T37N, R9W, MDM.

Mineralization is hosted in lamprophyre, serpentinite, and schist.

Production data are found in: MacDonald (1912).

References

Hershey, Oscar H. (1899), The upper Coffee Creek mining district, California: Mining & Scientific Press: 79: 689.

Osborne, H.Z. (1903), The Dorleska gold mine: Mining and Scientific Press: 7: 252.

Stines, Norman S. (1907), The geology of the Coffee Creek mining district, California: Mining and Scientific Press: 95: 25-26.

MacDonald, Donald Francis (1913), Notes on the gold lodes of the Carrville district, Trinity County, California: USGS Bulletin 530D: 34.

Logan, Clarence August (1926), El Dorado, Shasta and Trinity Counties: California Journal of Mines and Geology, California Mining Bureau. (Report 22): 18.

Averill, Charles V. (1941), Mineral resources of Trinity and Humboldt Counties: California Journal of Mines and Geology, California Division Mines (Report 37): 37(1): 33.

Palache, Charles, Harry Berman & Clifford Frondel (1944), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana Yale University 1837-1892, Volume I: Elements, Sulfides, Sulfosalts, Oxides. John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York. 7th edition, revised and enlarged, 834pp.: 169.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 276, 286, 357.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 64, 109, 110.

Mineral List

Galena
Gold
Heazlewoodite
Hessite
Nagyágite
Petzite
Pyrite
Quartz
'Serpentine Group'
Sylvanite


10 entries listed. 9 valid minerals.

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