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Quartz from
Gopher Mine, Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), 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 Gopher Mine, Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:323981
Long-form Identifier:1:3:323981:0
GUID (UUID V4):352fcff1-b524-4642-9821-0700db9699f4
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.0km (0.0 miles) Rising Star Mine, Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) Our Flag et al Mine, Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) Rising Sun Mine, Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Norwegian Mine, Tuttletown, Tuttletown Mining District, Tuolumne County, California, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Alta Mine [1], Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
1.5km (1.0 miles) Ariola Mine, Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Chileno Mine (Chilena), Carrington group (Bluett; Bluett and McCoddle; Stenchfield; Street Extension; Pine Tree; Last Chance A), Tuttletown, Tuttletown Mining District, Tuolumne County, California, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Calaveras Consolidated Mine (Santa Cruz claim; Ivanhoe claim; Mexican claim; Relief claim; Stevens and Brown claim), Carson Hill Gold Mining Company Mines (Carson Hill Mines), Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Thompson Hill group (Gillis claim; Alta claim), Tuttletown, Tuttletown Mining District, Tuolumne County, California, USA
2.0km (1.3 miles) Atlas and Soldiers Gulch Mine (Walters Mine; Atlas claim; Soldiers Gulch claim), Tuttletown, Tuttletown Mining District, Tuolumne County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
of the Western Sierra Nevada Metamorphic Belt, California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 410 Prepared...Prepared in cooperation with the State of California, Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and...of the Western Sierra Nevada Metamorphic Belt, California By LORIN D. CLARK GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...410 Prepared in cooperation with the State of California, Department of Conservation, Division of Mines...of the western Sierra Nevada metamorp4ic belt, California. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1964. iv
Book (edition)
een .. 1vers A History of Early Calav~ras County, California SECOND EDITION 0. Henry Mace Digitized... I een 1vers A History of Early Calaveras County, California SECOND EDITION 0. Henry Mace Paul...Paul Groh Press Murphys, California (~opyrighr 1991, 199.3, 2002 by(). Henry l\1ace ,-\11 rights reserYc...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
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
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...object shown here actual size. Pho'o by Mary Hill. FOREWORD This bulletin number is is an overall...and gold mining of publications have no single report or to the gold deposits in California. Although
Report (issue)
Wallrocks of the Central Sierra Nevada Batholith, California: A Collage of Accreted Tectono-Stratigraphic... Wallrocks of the Central Sierra Nevada Batholith, California: A Collage of Accreted Tectono-Stratigraphic...Wallrocks of the central Sierra Nevada batholith, California. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 1255)................................... Evidence for Melones fault .................... Critical differences...terranes, central and southern Sierra Nevada, California ............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Western Sierra Nevada Foothills Metamorphic Belt, California: A Critical Review a Cameron A. Snow & Hannah...Western Sierra Nevada Foothills Metamorphic Belt, California: A Critical Review, International Geology Review...Western Sierra Nevada Foothills Metamorphic Belt, California: A Critical Review CAMERON A. SNOW1 AND HANNAH...Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, California 94305 Downloaded by [University of Tennessee...Northern Sierra terrane, Feather River terrane, Calaveras Complex, Jura-Triassic arc belt, and Middle–Late
Report (issue)
and Grade-Tonnage Information on Low-Sulfide Au-Quartz Veins by James D. Bliss and Gail M. Jones Open-File...nomenclature. 1. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction.............mineralogy of deposits classifed as lowsulfide Au-quartz veins were compiled for deposits found throughout...deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...tabulation have characteristics of low-sulfide Au-quartz veins as described in Berger (1986). These deposits
Report (issue)
Lake Quadrangles, Butte and Plumas Counties, California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 731...Lake Quadrangles, Butte and Plumas Counties, California By ANNA HIETANEN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL............................................. 6 Calaveras Formation ......................................correlation of metamorphic rocks southwest of the Melones fault ................................................................... 39 Hornblende-biotite quartz diorite ............................ 40 Hornblende
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
Report (issue)
Seismological Society of America, San Francisco, California, March 1991. This guidebook is available for...NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: San Francisco to the Sierra Nevada Editors DORIS SLOAN University of California, Berkeley...and DAVID L. WAGNER Division of Mines and California Department Geology of Conservation OF MINES...DEPOS GEOLOGIC EXCURSIONS C\j IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Geological Setting of the San Francisco Bay...Pinole C9j Geology Prieta Area. of Sonoma County. of the Berkeley Hills. Regional Shoreline.
Report (issue)
Region of the Ione Formation (Eocene), Central California: Stratigraphy, Paleogeography, and Relation to...of the Ione Formation in central and northern California. ........................... 30 Figure 2. Areal...General stratigraphic column for western Amador County, California........................................ 35...as both detrital grains and authigenic cement. Quartz is abundant, mostly as angular grains. Heavy mineral...place in the evolution of geologic terranes in California, has been much discussed in the pertinent specialized
Report (issue)
OTIS SMITH, DIRECTOR OF THE SIERRA NEVADA OF CALIFORNIA : I I / BY WALDEMAR - LINDGREN OFFICE ......... __ . _. _. _........... ~. '- ....... . Mining debris ............................. _.... ___..... ________ . . _. __ .-. ; ... __ Quantity of mining debris, by G. K. Gilbert ...•..... _._ .............. ____ . _......................... . The Calaveras skull, by J. M. BoutwelL ................. _....gravels-Continued. Flora of the auriferous gravels of California, by F.' H. Knowlton ...................... .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
..................................... 419 The District more particularly described.....................Whitney showed in his report on the geology of California, and added confirmation in his work on the auriferous...Groups.—By detailed examination of the rocks of one district within the-range and comparison with those of...westward around the southern end of the val­ ley of California, and coalesces with the Coast range. At its northern...rocks pass be­ neath the lavas of the Lassen peak district; for that mountain and the lava field stretching
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)
^^titOrpi^ Ir^j, Oiioi ,^irornis ,, STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL...FRANCISCO Chief DECEMBER 144 COPPER IN (In CALIFORNIA Three Parts, Including Outline Geologic Map...States Department of the Interior Department of Mining, Stanford University liCD LIBRARY 1948 : ...Honorable Earl Warren Governor of the State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...herewith Bulletin 144, Copper in California, prepared under the direction of Olaf P. Jenkins, Chief of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
first officially recorded discovery of copper in California was made by state geologist Dr. J.B. Trask (1851-54)...nearly every county in the State—the first near a place then called Round Tent, Nevada County. Little attention...they did little or nothing to pro­ mote copper mining. Gold In the summer of 1855 attention was again...by the discovery of ore at Hope Valley, Amador County, by an old prospector called Uncle Billy Rodgers...the same time prosspectors operating in Eldorado County found a large body of green and blue copper carbonates
Report (issue)
of the Western Sierra Nevada ~etamorphic Belt, California r;EOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL repared in...the Western Sierra Nevada Metamorphic Belt, California By LORIN D. CLARK GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...PAPER 923 Prepared in cooperation with the California Division of Mines and Geology UNITED STATES...of the western Sierra Nevada metamorphic belt, California. (Geological Survey Professional Paper 923) Bibliography:...Metamorphic. 4. Geology-Sierra Nevada Mountains. I. California. Division of Mines and Geology. II. Title. III
Journal (issue)
photos. Fascinating pictorial accounts of the gold mining towns of the Old West—and the men who worked them...history when some 200,000 persons sought gold in California. New, complete edition only $3.95. TALES THE...POSTPAID Box 1318 Palm Desert, California92260 California residents please add 5% state sales tax OLD...National Monument. Photo by Howard Neal, Arcadia, California. 8 Russ Mills TRADE BEADS OF THE NORTHWEST...monthly. Second class postage paid at Palm Desert, California and at additional mailing offices under Act of
Report (issue)
05428 8494 LjJ I en S5 ^s CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU. Henry G. Hanks, State Mineralogist...his Excellency George Stoneman, Governor of California: you the fourth annual Sir I have the honor...to submit report of the State Mineralogist of California, in compliance with section three of an Act of...provide for the establishment and maintenance of a Mining Bureau," approved April 16, 1880. to : I have...Mineralogist feels it his duty to warn the people of California of the danger of destruction by fire of the now
Journal (issue)
Newsletter Minerals near Tateville, Pulaski County, l(entucky Alan Goldstein 1607 Washington Blvd...interesting roadcul on US 27 near Tatevillc, Pulaski County, Kentucky. II lies about three hours southeast...the finest siegenite specimens seen from this district since the early I 970s were collected. A number...large pocket was intersected during the course of mining; this pocket was said lo be at least 5 feet high...Editor Gopher Valley Quarry closed The following lelter was received from the owner of the Gopher Valley
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
Report (issue)
METAMORPHIC BELT Of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA •VI PETE WILSON. Governor STATE OF CALIFORNIA 1 >k'N- DOUGLAS THE...Processes, and Petrogenesis," University of California, Davis, available for September 9-15, 1992....Jurassic Smartville Complex, northern Sierra Nevada. California; crosspolarized light, field of view is 0.9 by...of NORTHERN CALIFORNIA of the 1992 Editors PETER SCHIFFMAN University of California, Davis and DAVID...AND GEOLOGY California 801 K street Sacramento, CA 95814 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS OCT 5
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>*»> BRITL 622. 09794. C128 c. 1 CALIFORNIA MINERS # CALIFORNIA MINES AND MINERALS 3 T153 DODEETEO...(:()Mi>A.\v \.\i:isi'll California Mines and Minerals PUBLISHED BY THE California Miners' Association under... Secretary for the California Meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers SAN FRANCISCO...SOUVENIE OF THEIR VISIT TO Tins ,\IIXI>ff; CALIFORNIA SEPTEMBER AND OCTOHEK 1809. K 6k 2 Kntered...spirited enough to look citizens after their county interests, prepared from the Secretary's all
Report (issue)
GOLD PLACERS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No, 92 ISSUIDBYTfSE CALIFORNIA STATE MINING BUREAU FERRY BUILDING...http://www.archive.org/details/bulletin92cali CALIFORNIA STATK MINING BUREAU FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO LLOYD... No. 92 GOLD PLACERS OF CALIFORNIA BY CHARLES SCOTT HALEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE FRANK...points proved in same. Chapter I. Control of Mining Debris History of problem and efforts to solve...valleys. Future benefits to be derived. II. Placer Mining Methods Methods of liandling- and commercial exploitation
 
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