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Esquire No. 7 claim, Big Creek, Rush Creek deposit, Big Creek-Rush Creek District, Fresno Co., California, USA

Latitude: 36°55'0"N
Longitude: 119°14'42"W
Mineralization is barium silicates formed in quartz-sanbornite rock by contact metamorphism of a migmatite adjoining Cretaceous granodorite pluton.

Mineral List

Alforsite (TL)
Anandite
Bazirite
Benitoite
Bigcreekite (TL)
'Biotite'
Calcite
Celsian
Cerchiaraite-(Al) (TL)
Cerchiaraite-(Fe) (TL)
Chalcopyrite
Diopside
Fencooperite
Ferroericssonite (TL)
Fluorapatite
Fresnoite (TL)
Galena
Gillespite
Kampfite
Macdonaldite (TL)
Molybdenite
Muirite (TL)
Pellyite
Powellite
Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Sanbornite
Scheelite
Sphalerite
Titantaramellite (TL)
Tobermorite
'Tourmaline'
Traskite
Tremolite
Uraninite
Uvarovite
Verplanckite (TL)
Walstromite (TL)
Witherite
Wollastonite


41 entries listed. 39 valid minerals. 11 type localities (valid minerals).

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References

Matthews, Robert Alfred & John T. Alfors (1962), Sanbornite from Rush Creek, Fresno County: California Division Mines & Geology Mineral Information Service: 15(6): 1-3.

Alfors, J. T., M. C. Stinson, R. A. Matthews & A. Pabst (1965), Seven new barium minerals from eastern Fresno County, California: American Mineralogist: 50: 314-340.

American Mineralogist (1981): 66: 1050-1053.

Alfors, J. T. & Pabst, A. (1984): Titanian taramellites in western North America, American Mineralogist: 69: 358-373.

Canadian Mineralogist (2001): 39:1053-1058.

Canadian Mineralogist (2001): 39: 761-768.

Mineralogical Record (2002): 33: 161.

Kampf, A. R., Roberts, A. C., Venance, K. E., Dunning, G. E. and Walstrom, R. E. (2010) Ferroericssonite, IMA 2010-025. CNMNC Newsletter, August 2010, page 799; Mineralogical Magazine: 74: 797-800.

Kampf, A.R., Roberts, A.C., Venance, K.E., Dunning, G.E., Robert E. Walstrom, R.E. (2011): Ferroericssonite, The Fe2+ analogue of ericssonite, from Eastern Fresno County, California, U.S.A. Canadian Mineralogist, 49, 587-594.

Kampf, A. R., Roberts, A. C., Venance, K. E., Dunning, G. E. and Walstrom, R. E. (2012): Cerchiaraite-(Al), IMA 2012-011. CNMNC Newsletter No. 13, June 2012, page 815, Mineralogical Magazine: 76: 807-817.

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