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

Located near Benton.

Blind Spring Hill is composed of granite that has been cut by a series of faults in which solutions deposited ores of lead, copper and silver.

Mineral List

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Anglesite
Azurite
Caledonite
Cerussite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Chrysocolla
Covellite
Cuproroméite (TL)
Galena
Limonite
Linarite
Malachite
Massicot
Mimetite
Minium
Oxyplumboroméite
Pyrargyrite
Pyrite
Pyromorphite
Quartz
Siderite
Silver
Sphalerite
Stephanite
Stibnite
Tetrahedrite
Wulfenite


38 entries listed. 27 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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References

Arents, Albert (1867), Notes on partzite: Engineering & Mining Journal: 4: 162.

Whiting, H.A. (1888), Mono County, California: California Mining Bureau. Report 8: 392.

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

Sampson, Reid J. (1940), Mineral resources of Mono County: California Mining Bureau. Report 36: 140.

Palache, C., Berman, H., & Frondel, C. (1951), The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and Edward Salisbury Dana, Yale University 1837-1892, Volume II: 631.

Mineralogical Magazine (1953): 30: 100.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 129, 132, 161, 244, 300, 339, 388.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 99.

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