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Quartz from
Cook Mine, La Honda Park, Murphys Mining District (Esmeralda Mining District; Sperry Mining District), East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cook Mine, La Honda Park, Murphys Mining District (Esmeralda Mining District; Sperry Mining District), East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:323708
Long-form Identifier:1:3:323708:3
GUID (UUID V4):e78fde54-96e4-410a-92c7-b879a52c28d4
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
2.2km (1.3 miles) Lee Mine, Angels Camp, Angels Camp Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Clifton Ranch Mine, La Honda Park, Murphys Mining District (Esmeralda Mining District; Sperry Mining District), East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Isabel Mine, Vallecito, Vallecito Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Mount Nebo Mine (Mt Nebo Mine), Vallecito, Vallecito Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Haywood & Carpenter Mine (Hayward and Carpenter), Altaville, Angels Camp Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Airola Mine (Airola deposit), Angels Camp area, Calaveras County, California, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Fritz Mine, Altaville, Angels Camp Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
3.4km (2.1 miles) Smythe Mine, Vallecito, Vallecito Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Maltman Mine (Perlina), Angels Camp, Angels Camp Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) Utica Mine (Brown Mine; Brown claim; Little Nugget claim; Washington claim; Utica claim; Confidence claim; Stickle claim; Raspberry claim; Dead Horse claim; Jackson claim), Angels Camp, Angels Camp Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (edition)
een .. 1vers A History of Early Calav~ras County, California SECOND EDITION 0. Henry Mace Digitized...of Early Calaveras County, California SECOND EDITION 0. Henry Mace Paul Groh Press Murphys, California...feature in the C~alaYcras Enterprise San ,\ndrcas, California CoYcr: Pro...a portion of their lives to the history of Calaveras County, including: Judge J A. Smith, 1880 - 1962...1 2. Government on the Move State capitols and county seats. 4 3; The Sad Legacy of the Gold Rush (Part
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold nugget, 7.67 troy ounces, Fairbanks mining region, Alaska, USA. Donated in 1977 by Arthur Sexaur. University...Robert Cook photo. The Occurrence and Characteristics of GOLD NUGGETS AND MASSES ROBERT B. COOK Department...it exceeds a certain minimum size Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rock & Minerals, is a professor...approximately 89 troy ounces, Ganes Creek, Iditarod district, Yukon-Koyukuk Borough, Alaska. This nugget shows...by alluvial action. Doug Clark specimen, Robert Cook photo. grain of wheat or gave other unrealistically
Report (issue)
Archive in 2012 with funding from University of California, Davis Libraries http://www.archive.org/det...RESOURCES OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By WILLIAM B. CLARK, Mining Geologist California Division of...LYDON, Mining Geologist California Division of Mines and Geology County Report 2 CALIFORNIA DIVISION...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
Book
History and Humanities Calaveras Gold The Impact of Mining on a Mother Lode County        .   ...Limbaugh, Ronald H. Calaveras gold : the impact of mining on a mother lode county / Ronald H. Limbaugh...(hardcover : alk. paper) . Gold mines and miningCaliforniaCalaveras County— History—th century. I. Fuller...Placer Era  : The Beginnings of Lode Mining, – : Mining Society in the Early Years  : Ancillary...Industries  : Preparing for Modern Mining  : Lode Mining in the Golden Years : The Unstable Twenties
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director DIVISION OF MINES...BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1936 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...FERRY RUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 0373 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OP< CALIFORNIA DAVIS 1 DIVISION OF MINES...Logan, District Mining Engineer McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer...Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas. V. Averill, District Mining
Report (issue)
DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 193 California Division of Mines and Geology Sacramento, California, 1970...By William B. DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA Clark Geologist, California Division of Mines & Geology...Geology, Sacramento, California UNIVERSITY LIBRARY U.C DAVIS '~'^ JUL 'I 'i GOV INFO or"! BULLETIN 193...and gold mining of publications have no single report or to the gold deposits in California. Although...Although on treatise a vast California, there in of the knov/n gold-bearing districts in the state.
Report (issue)
ore deposits of the East Shasta copper-zinc district, Shasta County, California: U.S. Geological Survey...H., 1972, Geology and mineral deposits of Esmeralda County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology...p. Allsman, P.T., 1940, Reconnaissance of gold mining districts in the Black Hills, South Dakota: U.S...Nutt Wilderness Study Area (AZ-020-024), Mohave County, Arizona: U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Land Assessment...Plumas County, California; Venture 63: San Francisco, Calif., American Exploration and Mining Co., unpaginated
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Arkansas..........Dr. A. H. Purdue, Nashville, Tenn. California........Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (volume)
............................................ California....................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Field Trip Notes
Q E S5 W63 1994 EART ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY OF THE MOTHER LODE 1994 Gregg Wilkerson...| LIBRARY UNIVERSITY or California … • * * ** ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY º OF THE MOTHER...Field Trip Program Mother Lode '94 Bakersfield District Office Bureau of Land Managmement 3801 Pegasus.... . . 14 TV QFºo 5-M/43 ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY OF THE MOTHER |*4 EART LODE Gregg Wilkerson...field guide follows, with minor modifications, California Division of Mines and Geology Bullet in 141 which
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...Alaska -----------------------------------------Cook Inlet-Susitna region --------------------Copper...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee
Book (edition)
YEAR 1687"—DAVID T. DAY, CHIEF OF THE DIVISION OF MINING STATISTICS AND TECHNOLOGY WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...and consump tion, or better and cheaper means of mining, extraction, and convey ance to market, may in...correspondence has been carried on with geologists, mining engineers, and other local authorities, and various...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to
Report (issue)
decide whether a certain metalliferous deposit or district should be included or not. The problem was also...other forms) since 1935 is reviewed. New sulfur mining and recovery projects in the United States and...chemical properties of sulfur, the geology and mining operations of the salt-dome sulfur deposits, the...sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration and...Swager, W. L. , and Sullivan, J. D. , 1951, Sulphur: Mining Engineering, vol. 3. , pp. 403409. The history
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
C O NNOI S S EUR' SCHOICE ROBERT B. COOK Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn...23:14 19 October 2014 Vindicator Mine, Cripple Creek, Teller County, Colorado I n terms of sheer volume...globe, they have striking similarities in their mining history and mineralogy, but their geology is seemingly...reported from unconfirmed occurrences at Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals, is a professor...ROCKS & MINERALS the Golden Circle mine at Sorrento and the Cline mine at Hancock, Maine, and from a vaguely
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
*65560::,<9:*/60*, ROBERT B. COOK Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama...late discovery of the phenomenal Cripple Creek district, essentially subsequent to the development of...was featured in a previous Connoisseur’s Choice (Cook 2005), and its sibling, calaverite, has rightly...occurrences have been described. Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals, is a professor...Analyses of calaverite from the Kirkland Lake district, Ontario, Canada, show up to several tenths of
Report (issue)
2 3 Tucson, AZ 85719, Reston, VA 20192, Menlo Park, CA 94025 1998 2 CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ........environmental and other hazards that result from mining operations can be limited to these largest deposits...more thorough literature search, public filings of mining companies, archival and other sources. Each of...case, records usually give data for an entire district or some other aggregation of deposits. As a result...Deposits are also located by mining district, county, and latitude-longitude. District names and definitions
Book
Mining and Mineral Operations In the Pacific Gy BS. alae ih if Br pedal Center on 50, OC-521: LPO...is ——— ee O ae SS ot a - By oh Zz ai! MINING AND MINERAL OPERATIONS IN THE PACIFIC STATES A...cataloged as follows: United States. Bureau of Mines. Mining and mineral operations in the Pacific States:...524 0h ae eee Alaska, by Alfred L. Service California, by Donald Irving and Williams Kernsthseses ...and nonmetallics. Stable and economic domestic mining, mineral, metal, and mineral reclamation industries
Book (edition)
TOWNS & MINING CAMP SITES . ol % \ AND WHERE THEY FOUND IT A GUIDE TO GHOST TOWNS & MINING CAMP...that reading about and visiting Ghost Towns and mining camp sites are becoming increasingly popular. Fact...the history of both the famous and little-known mining booms. This book is particularly valuable because...most important and interesting Ghost Towns and mining camps, giving specific directions to help you reach...including maps, historic and modern photographs of mining towns, sketches, and pictures of those who became
Book (edition)
Science and Mechanics publishing 4^0 company East Ohio Street Chicago 11, Illinois Copyright 1951...gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized
Journal (issue)
England Richard C. Erd US. Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann............................... by B. Birch 5 California The history of crystallized gold in C a lif o...the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California, by Jules Fricot and donated to the California State mineral...Photo by James Patton. See the article on the California State collection beginning on page 81. Copyright...all been unravelled. On Arizona collection. or quartz or even silver. On the subject of the other hand
Book
353-416 257-320 321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
symbol to promote outstanding aspects of their county or state. Approval is usually not difficult because...ALABAMA: Star Blue Quartz Alabama State Senator Don Hale proposed that star blue quartz be named the state...29 March 1990 through Act No. 90-203. Star blue quartz is found only in a 32 × 80-kilometer rectangular...least 1966. Fist-sized nuggets of anhedral blue quartz with an opalescent or waxy luster have been found...roadcuts, roadside ditches, and farmer’s plowed fields (Cook and Smith 1982). The opportunity to collect such
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in...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 (article/letter/editorial)
NEST MINE Placer County California Wayne C. Leicht 875 North Coast Highway Laguna Beach, California 92651-1415...(949) 494-5155; e-mail: leicht@kristalle.com Robert Cook Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University...Alabama 36849-5305 Since 1982, the Eagle’s Nest mine has been a more or less consistent source of fine...litigation instead of production. At present, the mine is in full production with the expectation that...gold from what is now known as the Eagle’s Nest mine first came to the attention of the mineral collecting
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
 
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