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Oriental Mine (Alta Mine), 16 to 1 Mine (Sixteen-to-One Mine; Original Sixteen-to-One Mine), Alleghany, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz21 photos of Gold associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Oriental Mine (Alta Mine), 16 to 1 Mine (Sixteen-to-One Mine; Original Sixteen-to-One Mine), Alleghany, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (10 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:103050
Long-form Identifier:1:3:103050:1
GUID (UUID V4):48074521-3e93-4523-8f7c-b05d1d43791b
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
0.3km (0.2 miles) French Ravine placer, Alleghany, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Oasis Mine, Mack House, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Scotia & Alice Consolidated Mine (Scotia & Alice Cons.; Scotia and Alice Cons.; Scotia vein; Alice vein; Del Norte), Mack House, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Golden Fraction Mine, Mack House, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) Ophir Mine, 16 to 1 Mine (Sixteen-to-One Mine; Original Sixteen-to-One Mine), Alleghany, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Moonshine Mine, Mack House, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Frances D Mine, Mack House, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Spoohn Mine (Spoon Mine), Alleghany, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Del Norte & Scotia Mine, Alleghany, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Kenton Mine (Kenton Annex; King Solomon Mine), Mack House, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Professional Paper 172 GOLD QUARTZ VEINS OF THE ALLEGHANY DISTRICT CALIFORNIA BY HENRY G. FERGUSON AND...of the report. _____________________________ Part 1. Geology. ___--------___- _----^--_ --------Introduction...ribution ______________________________ Relation to country rock___________________ Size and structure...-_-_-___---Beidellite.. ___ _ 1 3 3 3 3 3 5 5 6 6 6 7 7 8 10 11 11 11 12 12 13 14 15 16 16 17 17 17 18 18 19 19...____ _ ____ .._____.. Quartz, chalcedony, and opal Gold. ___________ _ ---____-_-__--_-_. Final stage--
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2176-2199 Gold Quartz Veins and AuriferousGranite at the Oriental Mine, AlleghanyDistrict, California RAYMONDM...the three fissureveins at the Oriental mine, Alleghanydistrict,California,containsmallhigh-gradeore sh...contain an averageof 0.2 ouncesof gold per ton. In the veinsmost native gold is associated with arsenopyrite...mineralization,when mosthydrothermalalterationand gold depositionin granite probablyoccurred,temperatureswere...equivalent NaC1 contentsof fluid inclusions suggest that gold may havebeencomplexedwith sulfuror arsenic,ratherthan
 
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