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

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

Photo: Knut Eldjarn
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.

References

Mineralogical Record (2002): 33: 161.

Mineral List

Alforsite (TL)
Anandite
Bazirite
Benitoite
Bigcreekite (TL)
Biotite
Calcite
Celsian
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


39 entries listed. 37 valid minerals. 9 type localities (valid minerals).

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