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Blind Spring District (Blind Spring Hill District; Benton District), Benton Range, Mono Co., California, USA

A Ag-Pb-Cu mining area located in T2S, R32E, MDM, near Benton.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Acanthite
Anglesite
Azurite
Bornite
Calcite
Caledonite
Cerussite
Cervantite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chlorargyrite
Chrysocolla
Covellite
Cuproroméite (TL)
Diopside
Dioptase ?
Epidote
Galena
var: Argentiferous Galena
'Garnet'
Gold
Grossular
Hematite
Jarosite
Kermesite
Limonite
Linarite
Magnetite
Malachite
Massicot
Mimetite
Minium
Molybdenite
Nontronite ?
Opal
var: Opal-AN

Oxyplumboroméite
Powellite
Pyrargyrite
Pyrite
Pyromorphite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Scheelite
Siderite
Silver
Sphalerite
Stephanite
Stibnite
Stromeyerite
Tetrahedrite
Wulfenite


64 entries listed. 47 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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References

Arents, Albert (1867), Notes on partzite: Engineering & Mining Journal: 4: 362.

Loew, Oscar (1875), Investigation of mineralogical and agricultural conditions: US Geographic Surveys W 100th. Meridian Report 1875, part 3: 654, 657.

Hoffman, W.J. (1878), On the mineralogy of Nevada: US Geological & Geographical Survey of the Territories, vol. IV, art. XXXI: 732, 737.

Hanks, Henry Garber (1884), Fourth report of the State Mineralogist: California Mining Bureau. Report 4, 410 pp. (includes catalog of minerals of California pp. 63-410), and miscellaneous observations on mineral products): 75.

Whiting, H.A. (1888), Mono County, California: California Mining Bureau. Report 8: 378.

Fairbanks, Harold W. (1896), The mineral deposits of eastern California: American Geologist: 17: 144-158; […Mining Scientific Press: 73: 480-481, 501 (1896)]: 151.

Eakle, Arthur Starr & R.P. McLaughlin (1919), Mono County: California Mining Bureau. Report 15: 141.

Bradley, W.W. (1940), Thirty-sixth report of the State Mineralogist: California Division Mines Report 36: 191.

Ransome, Alfred Leslie (1940), General geology and ores of the Blind Spring Hill mining district, Mono County, California: California Division Mines Report 36: 141-142, 171, 172, 189, 190, 192.

Sampson, Reid J. (1940), Mineral resources of Mono County: California Mining Bureau. Report 36: 172, 189, 190.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 75, 84, 111, 119, 124, 126, 127, 190, 235, 257, 266, 305, 347, 354, 544.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 46, 97, 103, 108, 134, 140, 184, 212, 225-226, 231, 300.

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