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Quartz from
Tinhorn Mine, Gold Creek, Kittitas County, Washington, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tinhorn Mine, Gold Creek, Kittitas County, Washington, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1434152
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1434152:4
GUID (UUID V4):687f090b-75dc-43d5-90b9-34b3ccb29091
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
1.3km (0.8 miles) ā“˜Giant Mine, Gold Creek, Kittitas County, Washington, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) ā“˜Esther and Louisa Mine, Gold Creek, Kittitas County, Washington, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) ā“˜Commonwealth Prospect, Snoqualmie Mining District, King County, Washington, USA
4.7km (2.9 miles) ā“˜Porter Claim, Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River, Snoqualmie Mining District, King County, Washington, USA
4.9km (3.0 miles) ā“˜Condor-Hemlock Mine, Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River, Snoqualmie Mining District, King County, Washington, USA
5.4km (3.4 miles) ā“˜Puffball claim, Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River, Snoqualmie Mining District, King County, Washington, USA
5.4km (3.4 miles) ā“˜Copper Queen Prospect, Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River, Snoqualmie Mining District, King County, Washington, USA
6.2km (3.9 miles) ā“˜Hardscrabble Creek, Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River, Snoqualmie Mining District, King County, Washington, USA
6.3km (3.9 miles) ā“˜Spruce Ridge, Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River, Snoqualmie Mining District, King County, Washington, USA
6.6km (4.1 miles) ā“˜Little Kachess Lake Claim, Mineral Creek, Kittitas County, Washington, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Lakes Study Area, Chelan, King, and Kittitas Counties, Washington By J. L. Gualtieri and George C. Simmons...forest lands in the Alpine Lakes study area, Washington, that may be considered for wilderness designation...the crest of the Cascade Range in west-central Washington. CONTENTS Page Summary, by J. L. Gualtieri...Deception Creek fault zone Area east of Deception Creek fault zone Area west of the Deception Creek fault...Anomalous area Continued Gold Creek-Delate Creek area Lemah Creek-Snoqualmie River-Gold Lake area Chain Lakes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the "porphyry" type and occurs in a body of quartz monzonite that has been intruded by smaller masses...strongly mineralized by hypogenesolutionsas the quartz monzonite,and in them the chalcocitezone is thin...porphyry is less pervious to ground water than the quartz monzonite. INTRODUCTION THE CopperCitiesdisseminated... copperdepositin the Globe-Miamidistrict, Gila County,Ariz. is on the southflank of SleepingBeautyMountain...relationshipto the copper depositare Lost Gulch quartz monzoniteand the granite porphyry. These rocks
Report (volume)
Area and Additions, Chelan, King, and Kittitas Counties, Washington By U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY and U.S. BUREAU...E UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1989 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR DONALD PAUL...area and additions, Chelan, King, and Kittitas counties, Washington. (Studies related to wilderness-study...of the Alpine Lakes study area and additions, Washington I by J. L. Gualtieri and George C. Simmons -...of the Alpine Lakes study area and additions, Washington I by W.E. Davis - Mineral deposits of the Alpine
Report (issue)
Ā· UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1962 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...deposits of the Globe-Miami district, Arizona. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1962. v, 150 p. illus...of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Washington 25, D .C. I CONTENTS Page Page Abstract ...__________________ _ Granodiorite in Gold Gulch _________________ _ Lost Gulch quartz monzonite_ . .: _____________...History of development______________ Rocks exposed in mine area _______ -_Structure ______________ __________
Journal (issue)
Article - M. Nelson, Grand Canyon Mining: Orphan Mine and Halotrichite 16 Presidential Matters 20 ...[Zn3(AsO4)2 Ā· 8H2O]. The specimen came from the Ojuela Mine, MapimĆ­, MapimĆ­ Municipality, Durango, Mexico. ...boundaries in the 1980 Mount St. Helens (MSH), Washington, and 1914-1917 Mount Lassen, California, eruptions...everyone had so much fun in 2020, the Sublette County Rock Hounds have graciously stepped up to host...beautiful park-like setting that can be accessed along County Road 20 and 20D east of US Highway 550. A once
Book (edition)
Jeannie Martin Men and women have hunted and prized gold more than any other metal through thousands of years... The dramatic and often surprising searches for gold and the life in the picturesque towns that grew...increasingly popular. Fact reads like fiction in Gold! And Where They Found It, which tells the history...book is particularly valuable because it covers gold discoveries throughout America instead of only the...features. One is a section on how you can pan for gold. There is a list of the basic tools, directions
Report (issue)
i-S , -SSK .S' //^.v, S"'--Ā«^ Creek , (3033 .C.049 CM19 C"55 | I i 3 sjL O ...The claims are on the Portage Creek side of the divide along Portage Creek road. Commodities: Main: Au...Au Other: Ore minerals: Gold Gangue minerals: Geologic description: The 88 Group occurrence appears to...coarse porphyritic granite. Both lode and placer gold is found at these claims (Vetter, 1995). Wiltse...hornblende and magnetite. Gold mineralization occurs within heavily Fe-oxide stained, quartz-filled greisen zones
Book (edition)
McDonald Co\Ā·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...was drafted after a fourth-grade class at Copper Creek Elementary School had the idea and reached out to...gemandmineralmuseum.arizona.edu) is located in the old Pima County Courthouse building at 115 North Church Avenue...historic Polly Rosenbaum building at 1502 W. Washington Street, Phoenix, home of the former Arizona Mining...Stones ofNorth America. He lists garnet, olivine, quartz, turquoise, azurite, malachite, and petrified wood
Report (volume)
GOLD PLACERS OF THE CIRCLE DISTRICT, ALASKA- Past, Present, and Future U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Upper/eft Hydraulic mining of North Fork of Harrison Creek, 1980. This was the last hydraulic mining operation...mining on Eagle Creek in July 1988. Right Panning for heavy minerals along Ketchem Creek. CORRECTION...pattern used within the map area for unit TKg. Gold Placers of the Circle District, AlaskaPast, Present...Government UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1991 For sale by the Books and Open-File Reports
Journal (issue)
monument on the 30th, sponsored by San Bernardino county chamber of commerce. APRIL 30ā€”Seventh annual wildflower...30-MAY 14ā€”"It's Apple Blossom Time" in San Juan county, New Mexico. Apple Blossom dance and other festivities...and rodeo at Las Vegas, Nevada. MAY 12 ā€” Duchesne county musical festival at Duchesne, Utah. MAY 12-14ā€”First...we'll soon be stopping for lunch at Cliff canyon creek. You'll get a rest from your pack, a long drink...unaffected charm of her personality. But these words of mine fall may be gained from her report of Christflat
Journal (issue)
that Mitchell has written another series of lost mine articles, to be published in DESERT and later to...Mexico. Some two dozen of Mitchell's earlier lost mine tales of California, Arizona and New Mexico appeared...canyon. There was a little stream of water in the creek, but it was running a liquid about the color and...deserted, in a shallow cave 100 feet above the creek. Also there were the crumbling walls of what may...found boulders of it flecked with tiny vugs of quartz crystals, or perhaps calcite. In midafternoon the
Book
where no maps were available. In southern Yuma County he even discovered and named a whole new range...mention are the mapping in southern Yuma County, studies on gold lode and placer deposits, work on the structural...but the most common rock is of granodiorite to quartz monzonite composition. Super- tion to the large...vein and bed replacements typified in the Magma mine at Superior, Arizona, and the host of small basemetal...Descriptive Geology GEOLOGY OF THE NEW CORNELIA MINE, AJO, ARIZONA 128 . by D. W. Dixon, Phelps Dodge
Journal (volume)
hoist and office. The reopening of the old G win mine in Calaveras proposed by the Mining and Scientii-io...Spanish mine is also included putilisiied in the issues of October 31st and November county is an event... shaft, and putting ing properties in Nevada county. There was, when they took charge, up a 40-stamp...and pumping depth and the rig on the ductions mine. stamps Twenty were added late works tons...authorities, and it is believed by the com- water of the mine. There are five pumps operated from this. There
Book
Butte, Montana, in r 8 72, after its significant gold placers had been exhausted and it had not yet attained...Senator from :J\1ontana and a prominent citizen, mine owner and publisher in Butte for many successful...Charles H enderson, once sheriff of Silver Bow County; Ben E. Stack, whose memories of Butte date back...Butte, Montana, in 1872, after its insignificant gold placers had been exhausted and it had not yet attained... 176 The internationally 'famous Minnie Healey Mine, "the source of almost every crime known to man
Book
) ā€”History. 3. Gold mines and miningā€”Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)ā€”History. 4. Gold mines and miningā€”Amargosa...MoreE Lost THAN FOUND Los Chaguanosos The Trail to Gold ā€œInto the Jaws of Hellā€ A Hard Lesson Gunsight Silver...Borax Bonanza GOLD AND GAS The Montgomery Brothers Bullfrog! Mysterious Scott Heart of Gold A Copper Frenzy...Indians and horse thieves, lost argonauts and lost mine hunters, prospectors and promoters, miners and millionaires...the illusionsā€”the illusions of a shortcut to the gold diggings that lured the forty-niners, of inescapable
Book
HARLOW, D.LITT., AND J. A. WILLIAMSON, D.LIT. THE GOLD RUSHES THE PIONEER HISTORIES Edited by F. T. Harlow...AGE OF DRAKE J. A. WILLIAMSON, M.A., D.LIT. THE GOLD RUSHES W. P. MORRELL, M.A., D.PHIL. In Preparation...DISCOVERERS OF AMERICA J. N. L. BAKER, M.A., B.LITT. THE GOLD RUSHES hy W. P. MORRELL M.A., D.PHIL. READER...WILLIAMSON August 1940 VI T AUTHORā€™S PREFACE he gold rushes of the last century produced much writing;...though mining engineers have written books upon the gold mines of the world, there seems to be no book in
Book
HARLOW, D.LITT., AND J. A. WILLIAMSON, D.LIT. THE GOLD RUSHES THE PIONEER HISTORIES Edited by F. T. Harlow...AGE OF DRAKE J. A. WILLIAMSON, M.A., D.LIT. THE GOLD RUSHES W. P. MORRELL, M.A., D.PHIL. In Preparation...DISCOVERERS OF AMERICA J. N. L. BAKER, M.A., B.LITT. THE GOLD RUSHES hy W. P. MORRELL M.A., D.PHIL. READER...WILLIAMSON August 1940 VI T AUTHORā€™S PREFACE he gold rushes of the last century produced much writing;...though mining engineers have written books upon the gold mines of the world, there seems to be no book in
Book
The Alaskan Gold Fields By Sam C Dunham amma idan By Sam C. Dunham Gold Fields Foreword...Number 1. Originally published as The Alaskan Gold Fields and the Opportunities They Offer for Capital... 297-425. The Cover ā€” Paying the bill in gold dust. Gold, at $17 an ounce, was the only medium of exchange...A. Photographs courtesy of the University of Washington Historical Photograph Collection. Contents...the Alaskan gold fields is one of the classics of gold rush literature. 6 The Alaskan Gold Fields (Reprinted
Report (issue)
is the Wholesale Agent to the Trade outside the County of London. 1916. Price One Shilling. ii TO...waste-product has often become the most valuable asset of a mine under changed conditions as regards de,mand. Tin-mines...2.-0re-dressing plant of the Gunnislake Glitters Mine 26 A2 ,\. , ... I 'l CHA.Pļæ½L'ER I. TUNGSTEN...the base metals when employed in the refining of gold."* Distribution of the Ores. CornĀ·wall produces...o:f wolļæ½ram were collected 1n four years fro1n one mine. The granite of the * Thorpe, ' Dictionary of Applied
Journal (issue)
fluorite crystal group, 7 cm, from the Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Marty Zinn collection;...province, department of Huanuco Huanzala mine Mercedes mine Chiurucu mine Uchucchacua district, Dos de mayo...mayo province, department of Huanuco Hercules mine, Ticapampa district, Recuay and Aija provinces, department...Carrion province, department of Pasco Colquijirca mine, Cerro de Pasco province, department of Pasco Atacocha...Huarochiri province, department of Lima Santa Rita mine, Morochocha district, Yauli province, department
Book (edition)
Clara G. Woody Woody knows the history of Gila County and is well acquainted many of whom she personally...James Monroe Patton of Clifton. In Coconino County Mr. and Mrs. William Corey contributed their efforts...old maps were made at the National Archives in Washington and shipped to the editor. Thanks are due to...under the section on Navajo County. Entries are given alphabetically by county. For Adair Wash: Adair Wash.../niydlz/ ng hi King /kit]/ oa o fowl low/ Oak Creek /owk kriyk/ Otis /owtis/ o lol Pedro /peydro/
Journal (volume)
Morley, Associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and Director of the School of American Research...Habig, O. F. M., kindly sent me photostats from Washington of a study by Fr. Otto Maas, in which the author...re- siding in the Sulphur Bluff area of what 7 County. John and Josiah Gregg, sons of now Hopkins Harman...brothers, married George Gammon and lived in Sullivan County, Tennessee. 11. Destruction of records during and...eldest son was Nathan Gregg who settled in Lawrence County, Alabama, in the period : 1821-1823. 14 Nathan
Book
or Murder? Gold Rushes and Mining Camps of the Early American West (with his wife) GOLD RUSHES AND...most o[ the miners ncvc1Ā· found more than enough gold or silver to buy cheap food and clothes and keep...camp and at last to the Yukon, but found no pot of gold. SoliĀ­ tary and unloved they persevered from rush...Chapter THE GOLD RUSHES I. FACT OR FICTION: TIIE BLEND OF HISTORY AND LEGEND 2. GoLD: W11AT 3. ... T11E CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH 4. TIIE OVERLAND JOURNEY 5. OĀ·111ER GOLD RUSHES 1T Is AND vV1-1ERE IT
Journal (volume)
Caetani and E. By G. Burt 3 The Amalgamation of Gold-Ores. By Thomas T. Eeah, The Eelative Merits of...Work. By Frederick T. Williams, Cost-Accounts of Gold-Mining Operations. By Thomas H. Sheldon, A Eefcrence-Scbeme...W. Bateson, Notes on Southern Nevada and Tiiyo County, California. By H. H, Taft, . . lieries. By...Method of Mining Kaolin. By Albert K. Ledoux, .319 Gold-Dredging in the Urals, with Notes on Dredging in...February, 1907.) BLOW ERANK LYMAN A. A. ....Washington, D. C. New York, N. Y. ..San Eeancisco, Cal.
Report (issue)
or any other cultural features (city, village, county, township, crossroad, and railroad siding) are...of flowing water which locally may be called a creek, run, river, branch, bayou, or fork. See page xxv...this column are as follows: County (4th column)ā€”This is the name of the county in which the listed entity...place, feature, or area lies in more than one county, the county listed is the one in which the center of...in the case of a stream, valley, or arroyo, the county listed is the one in which the feature's mouth
 
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