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Smoky Quartz from
Slate Mountain Mine, Slate Mountain, Slate Mountain District, Slate Mountains, El Dorado County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Smoky Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Smoky Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Slate Mountain Mine, Slate Mountain, Slate Mountain District, Slate Mountains, El Dorado County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:135761
Long-form Identifier:1:3:135761:5
GUID (UUID V4):1750a12c-af0e-4586-9298-0baa6fea334d
Nearest other occurrences of Smoky Quartz
7.4km (4.6 miles) Unnamed Quartz-Ti occurrence [1], Big X Mountain, Claussenius, El Dorado County, California, USA
7.7km (4.8 miles) Big X Mountain, Claussenius, El Dorado County, California, USA
14.8km (9.2 miles) BBC Mine, El Dorado County, California, USA
19.8km (12.3 miles) Devil Peak, Ralston Divide Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
45.6km (28.4 miles) Volcano, Volcano Mining District, Amador County, California, USA
80.3km (49.9 miles) Incline Village, Washoe County, Nevada, USA
91.8km (57.0 miles) Prison Hill prospects, Carson City Mining District, Carson City, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
29 December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals are a...fine 6.3-cm-tall wavellite from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas; kevin Brown specimen, Joe...Limestone Company quarry, Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The 2.8 × 2.7 × 1.5-cm specimen...Day Township, Saratoga County, New York; another at Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island; and one...one in Carroll County, New Hampshire. Several important wavellite occurrences are in Pennsylvania (Gordon
Book (edition)
LIBRARY 3 1111 01599 4096 Rocks and Minerals of California THIRD REVISED EDITION NATUREGRAPH PUBLISHERS...LIBRARY GA BAPAEL CALIFORALA Rocks and Minerals of California THIRD REVISED EDITION Color Photographs W...greatly indebted to Dr. Gordon Oakeshott of the California State Division of Mines for his kind examination... Mrs. Eleanor M. Learned, who worked for the California Division of Mines and Geology, for looking over...Lactic ialiv ess Winib baie A wa ar Minerals of California................. 02... OTST TSS IGE Ee a, I RS
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director DIVISION OF MINES...BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1938 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 5478! LIBRARY UNIVERSITY C- CALIFORNIA D:\ViS 1 DIVISION OF...Geologist C A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid...Reid J. Frank Sanborn, District Mining Engineer District Engineer Mining Engineer Mineral Technologist
Report (issue)
M^iajKaMVMtrVMMIMMVW^- 'Vv s > MINERALS Of CALIFORNIA BULl,ETIN N«, 91 issei0 BY rr: ^ ;wIFORNIA...BULLETIN [November, 1922 No. 91 Minerals of California $ BY ARTHUR S. EAKLE, Ph. D. Professor...Mineralogy, University of California COMPLIMENTS OF ^^^foyd Sc, c/iosty GIST CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE...Stephens, Governor of the State of California, Sacramento, California Sir: I have the honor to transmit...upon the minerals of California. This bulletin records our knowledge of California minerals to date,
Report (issue)
Minerals of California By ARTHUR S. EAKLE, MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining...Hon Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of the State of California. Sir: I have the honor to transmit Bureau...of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this date through...Bureau. and Mineralogy of the University of California, with this Eakle has given freely of his time...Minerals Distribution by Counties Bibliography on California Minerals Index to Minerals — 197 204 210 220
Catalog/List
San Mateo, California 94403 U.S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla...HATFiaD GOUDEY 1145 \'/est 31st Avenue San Mateo, California 94403 U.S.A. COMTENTS General Information....c;uoi:ed are F .0. B. San fl,aceo, Cali fornia. California add applicable state sales tax. SHIPPING CHARGES...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered
Report (issue)
Archive in 2012 with funding from University of California, Davis Libraries http://www.archive.org/det...OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By WILLIAM B. CLARK, Mining Geologist California Division of Mines...Mining Geologist California Division of Mines and Geology County Report 2 CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES...1962 UNIYERSITY OF CALIFOI DAVIS STATE OF CALIFORNIA Edmund G. Brown, Governor THE RESOURCES Hugo...MINES AND GEOLOGY Ian Campbell, State Geologist COUNTY REPORT Price $4.00 2 6 1 - CONTENTS ABSTRACT
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE...Letter of Transmittal 5 Map 6 Outline o['. California Preface 7 Introduction 11 Native Elements
Journal (issue)
of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ..................... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M....Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines
Journal (issue)
ADVERTISING OFFICES: 74-109 Larrea St., Palm Desert, California 92260. Telephone Area Code 714 346-8144. Listed...monthly. Second class postage paid at Palm Desert. California and at additional mailing offices under Act of...Co. 1 6 2 3 8 Lakewood Boulevard BELLFLOWER, CALIFORNIA 90706 M Tut Tour I n Sing with tfcess ENTION...located southeast of Holtville in Imperial County, California. This plant is projected to reduce salinity...issue has two recreation areas featured, one in California and the other in Utah. Water Ford's Room to Spare
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
Book
7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
Report (issue)
C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Silicates Quartz (Rock Crystal) (Amethyst) (Green quartz) (Cairngorm) (Blue quartz) (Rose quartz) (Star...(Star quartz) (Chalcedony) (Agate) (Prase) ' (Onyx) (Jasper) (Opal) Tridymitc Qf-Christobalitc Phcnakirc Olivine...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning
Book
AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely
Journal (volume)
t/ciettceA Digitized by the Internet Archive in California 2011 with funding from Academy of Sciences...Want me from equally prevent others from a district of such magnitude and interis so great, and... its from the want of an accurate arises mountains, extremely is Sketch of the rivers, bays,...enumerate. its these, the southernmost is the district and parish of Sleat, a of moderate and irregular...elevation, terminating in the high group of mountains which approaches the main land, and which, in
Report (issue)
3i University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection. Photograph...Vavis The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper MINERAL CATALOG 91 121...Hen1in1orphite Azurile Barite, N1eikJe Mine Barite, '\forthun1berland Mine Bante, Rosebud t1ine Barile v;ith...inclusions Bolt½'OOdite Calcite, Meikle Mine Calcite, Getchell Mine Callaghanite Cassiterite and Hema tile
Report (issue)
31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph... The Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with Conichalcite Gold, Round Mountain Mine...Mine Quartz, Lovelock area Acanthite Grossular, Nightingale district Quartz epimorph after Calcite Agardite
Book (edition)
an entrance.] The horizontal entrance to a mine. An oxyd Alkali, and taste, having an acrid...part of the coal secalled also carboniferous Mountain limestone. ries ; limestone. Muffle, 317. Nacreous...Capable of combining with oxygen. Xt Containing quartz as Quartzose. a principal ingredient. . Oxydating...Silicate, 74. Consisting of, or containing silex, or quartz. Siliceous. Chequered. quered.) Silky, 56....aggregates. ores are minerals, while granite rock, slate, clay and the This compound character is like, are
Journal (issue)
Patricia A. Pierkowski 44 ROSES IN THE TURTLE MOUNTAINS 47 LET THE ANTS DO YOUR COLLECTING Find them...find in ant hills by J. R. Macdonald FEATURES QUARTZ - ADVERTISING MGR. ART DIRECTOR JEAN HAMMOND...Federation CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES 0111~1"1 KING OF THE MOUNTAIN A collector's...from Hallelujah Junction , California. Three inches long. Grizzley Ridge quartz with chlorite Inclusions...Saddle area. Exhibits gwindel twinning. Another quartz from the Paradise , Lime Saddle area. This one
Book
of the Ali-Mirsa-Kuh mountains near Nishapur, Iran and in the Kara Tube mountains near Samarkand (Eichholz...Saxony in Germany. Numerous deposits in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah were...rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals include...include witherite, quartz, fluorapatite and sanbornite Optical Constants: e = 1.694, ill = 1.696; Uniaxial...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in
Book
Elizabeth’s pelican brooch Mysticism and medicine Quartz Treasure chambers of Augustus II Surface luster...surface. Sedimentary rock Sandstone usually contains quartz but other minerals can also be present. This example...Metamorphic rock The component minerals of gneiss— mainly quartz and feldspar—tend to separate out into distinct...such as quartz and tourmaline. Tectosilicates Tectosilicates include lazurite (above), opal, quartz varieties...Orthoclase 7 Cuts glass Scratches glass very easily Quartz 8 Topaz 9 Corundum (sapphire) 10 0 1000 2000
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...right) topaz, Thomas Mountains, Utah; (lower /eft) rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower...(lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower right, center) mimetite, Tsiimehb, Namibia;...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD
Book (edition)
Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...right) topaz, Thomas Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower...Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...Calcite 4 Fluorite 5 Apatite 6 7 8 9 10 Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond In a few descriptions we...crystallize with right- or left-handed forms (e.g., quartz). epitaxy Overgrowth of one crystal on another
Book (edition)
Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...Calcjte 4 Fluorite 5 Apatite 6 Orthoclase 7 8 9 10 Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond In a few descriptions we...crystallize with right- or left-handed forms (e.g., quartz). epitaxy Overgrowth of one crystal on another...(4) fluorite, (5) apatite, (6) orthoclase, (7) quartz, (8) topaz, (9) corundum, (10) diamond. monochromatic...sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated
 
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