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San Benito Co., California, USA

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Actinolite
Aegirine
Agardite-(La)
Agardite-(Y)
Albite
var: Cleavelandite
Almandine
'Almandine-Pyrope Series'
Alunogen
Analcime
Anatase
Andradite
var: Demantoid
var: Melanite
var: Topazolite
Anilite
Anthophyllite
Antigorite
'Apatite'
Aragonite
Arsenopyrite
Artinite
'Asbestos'
Aurivilliusite (TL)
Baddeleyite
Banalsite
Baotite
Bario-orthojoaquinite (TL)
Barioperovskite (TL)
Baryte
Beidellite
Bementite
Benitoite (TL)
'Bentonite'
Brochantite
Brucite
Calcite
Calomel
Carpathite
Celestine
Cervantite
Chalcanthite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
'Chert'
'Chlorite Group'
Chromite
Chrysocolla
Chrysotile
Cinnabar
'Clay'
Clearcreekite (TL)
Clinochlore
var: Chromian Clinochlore
Clinochlore
var: Pennine

'Clinopyroxene Subgroup'
Clinozoisite
Coalingite (TL)
Copper
Covellite
'Crossite'
Cymrite
Datolite
Deanesmithite (TL)
Deerite
Desautelsite
Diadochite
Digenite
Diopside
Djurleite
Dolomite
Donharrisite
Dypingite
Edgarbaileyite (TL)
Edoylerite (TL)
Eglestonite
Epidote
Epsomite
Eskolaite
'Feldspar Group'
'Ferro-Actinolite-Tremolite Series
var: Nephrite'

Ferro-hornblende
Fluorapatite
var: Strontian Apatite
Fluorstrophite
Fresnoite
Galena
'Garnet'
Gianellaite
Glaucophane
Goethite
'Grossular-Hibschite Series'
Grunerite
Gypsum
Halotrichite
Hanawaltite (TL)
Hematite
'Hornblende'
Howieite
Huntite
Hydromagnesite
Hydrotalcite
Idrialite
Ilmenite
Jadeite
Jarosite
Joaquinite-(Ce) (TL)
Jonesite (TL)
Kaolinite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Koninckite
Lawsonite
Libethenite
Lizardite
Magnesiochromite
Magnesioferrite
Magnesio-hornblende
Magnesite
var: Ferroan Magnesite
Magnetite
Malachite
Marcasite
Melanophlogite
Melanterite
Mercury
Metacinnabar
var: Onofrite
Millerite
Molybdenite
Montmorillonite
Montroydite
Morimotoite
Mosesite
Mountkeithite
Muscovite
Natrolite
Népouite
Neptunite
Nesquehonite
Nimite
Nissonite (TL)
Omphacite
Opal
var: Diatomite
Orthoclase
Orthojoaquinite-(Ce) (TL)
Pecoraite
Pectolite
Perovskite
Peterbaylissite (TL)
'Phengite'
Pokrovskite
Prehnite
Pseudomalachite
'Psilomelane'
'Pumpellyite'
Pumpellyite-(Fe2+)
Pumpellyite-(Mg)
Pyrite
Pyroaurite
Pyrolusite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
var: Amethyst
var: Chalcedony
var: Jasper
Reevesite
Rhodochrosite
Riebeckite
Rozenite
Rutile
Schorlomite
Schuetteite
Sénarmontite
Sepiolite
Sérandite
'Serpentine Group'
'var: Marmolite'
Silver
Spinel
'Stevensite'
Stibnite
Stilpnomelane
Strontiojoaquinite (TL)
Sulphur
Szymańskiite (TL)
Talc
Taramellite
Tedhadleyite (TL)
Terlinguaite
Thomsonite-Ca
Tiemannite
Titanite
Titantaramellite
Todorokite
'Tourmaline'
Tremolite
Turquoise
'Unnamed (Ba Titanate)'
'Unnamed (Ba Titanate II)'
Uvarovite
Valentinite
Vasilyevite (TL)
Vermiculite
Vesuvianite
var: Cerian Vesuvianite
Vivianite
Volborthite
Voltaite
Wattersite (TL)
Witherite
Wollastonite
'Zaratite'
Zircon


221 entries listed. 175 valid minerals. 20 type localities (valid minerals).

Localities in this Region

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References

Angel, Myron (1890), Kern, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare Counties: California Journal of Mines and Geology, California Mining Bureau (Report 10): 10: 219-226, 345-348, 515-517, 567-585, 595-599, 728-733.

Angel, Myron (1890), Kern, Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Tulare Counties: California Journal of Mines and Geology, California Mining Bureau (Report 10): 10: 219-226, 345-348, 515-517, 567-585, 595-599, 728-733.

Preston, E.B. (1893), Amador, Butte, Calaveras, El Dorado, Lassen, Monterey, Plumas, San Benito, Sierra, Tuolumne Counties, also Salton Lake: California Mining Bureau. Report 11: 139-178, 200-209, 241-242, 259-262, 323-333, 370-373, 387-393, 400-419, 493-513.

Fairbanks, Harold W. (1894), Geology of northern Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey and San Benito Counties: California Mining Bureau. Report 12: 493-526.

Bradley, W.M. (1909), On the analysis of the mineral neptunite from San Benito County, California: American Journal of Science, 4th. Series: 28: 15-16; Zeitschr. Kristallographie, band 46: 516-517 (1909).

Bradley, W.W. & C.A. Logan (1919), San Benito County: California Mining Bureau. Report 15: 616-673.

Laizure, Clyde McK (1926), Marin, San Benito, Santa Cruz, and Sonoma Counties: California Journal of Mines and Geology, California Mining Bureau (Report 22): 22: 68-93, 217-247, 314-365.

Mielenz, R.C. (1936), Geology of the southwestern part of San Benito County, California Univ. Calif., Berkeley, unpublished thesis, 59 pp.

Wilson, I.F. (1943), Geology of the San Benito quadrangle, California: California Division Mines Report 39: 183-270.

Yates, Robert G. & Lowell S. Hilpert (1945), Quicksilver deposits of central San Benito and northwestern Fresno Counties, California: California Division of Mines Report 41: 11-35.

Allen, John E. (1946), Geology of the San Juan Bautista quadrangle, California: California Division Mines Bulletin 133; [(abstract) Geological Society of America Bulletin 56: 1143].

Eckel, Edwin Butt & W.B. Myers (1946), Quicksilver deposits of the New Idria district, San Benito and Fresno Counties, California: California Division Mines Report 42: 81-124

Averill, Charles V. (1947b), Mines and mineral resources of San Benito County: California Journal of Mines and Geology, California Division Mines (Report 43): 43(1): 41-60.

Pabst, Adolf (1951), Minerals of the serpentine area in San Benito County, California Rocks & Minerals: 26: 478-485.

Yoder, Hatten S., Jr. & Charles W. Chesterman (1951), Jadeite of San Benito County, California. California Division of Mines, Special Report 10-C.

Coleman, R.G. (1956), Jadeite from San Benito County, California: Gems & Gemology: 8: 331-334.

Bowen, O.E., Jr. & C.H. Gray, Jr. (1959), Geology and economic possibilities of the limestone and dolomite deposits of the northern Gabilan Range, California: California Department of Natural Resources, Division of Mines & Geology Special Report 56.

Coleman, R.G. (1961), Jadeite deposits of the Clear Creek area, New Idria District, San Benito County, California: Journal of Petrology: 2: 209-247.

Moller, W.P. (1965) Minerals of southern San Benito County, California. Gems and Minerals: 331: 28-32.

Mumpton, F.A. Jaffe, H.W., and Thompson, C.S. (1965) Coalingite, a new mineral from the New Idria serpentinite, Fresno and San Benito counties, California. American Mineralogist: 50: 1893-1913.

Cisneros, S.L., R.E. Witkowski & D.L. Oswald (1977), Artinite from San Benito County, California: Mineralogical Record: 7: 457-460.

Crook, W.W. & S.G. Oswald (1979), New data on cerian vesuvianite from San Benito County, California: American Mineralogist: 64: 367-368.

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