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Marcasite from
Defender Mine, Pioneer, West Point Mining District, East Belt, Amador County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Marcasite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Pyrrhotite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Marcasite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Defender Mine, Pioneer, West Point Mining District, East Belt, Amador County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:668342
Long-form Identifier:1:3:668342:9
GUID (UUID V4):293453b8-46c9-4b5b-a3de-96085925fdf2
Nearest other occurrences of Marcasite
5.1km (3.1 miles) West Point, West Point Mining District, East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Forest Creek Mine, Wilseyville, West Point Mining District, East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
20.9km (13.0 miles) Oneida Mine, Martell, Jackson-Plymouth Mining District, Amador County, California, USA
43.9km (27.3 miles) Densmore & Young America Mine (Densmore Mine), Columbia, Columbia Mining District, East Belt, Tuolumne County, California, USA
56.3km (35.0 miles) Whitto Mine (Draper Mine; Drapier Mine), Soulsbyville, Soulsbyville & Confidence Mining District, East Belt, Tuolumne County, California, USA
56.7km (35.2 miles) Black Oak Mine (Black Oak group; Black Oak claim; Live Oak claim; White Oak; Carra claim; Carra Fraction claim), Soulsbyville, Soulsbyville & Confidence Mining District, East Belt, Tuolumne County, California, USA
56.8km (35.3 miles) Dreisam Mine, Arastraville, Soulsbyville & Confidence Mining District, East Belt, Tuolumne County, California, USA
56.9km (35.3 miles) Louisiana Mine (Louisiana group; Louisiana claim; Parker and Mason claim; Lebiation claim), Soulsbyville, Soulsbyville & Confidence Mining District, East Belt, Tuolumne County, California, USA
70.8km (44.0 miles) Hathaway Mine (Buttes Mine), Ophir, Ophir Mining District (Auburn Mining District; Duncan Hill Mining District), Placer County, California, USA
84.2km (52.3 miles) Leviathan Mine, Leviathan Peak, Monitor - Mogul Mining District, Alpine County, California, USA
References
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nomenclature. 1. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction.............deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...in the Sierra Nevada, California (Clark, 1970); Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon (Hotz, 1971); and...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent...pyrite is the most abundant sulfide in mines California. Junner (1921) made the same mines in Victoria
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Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5 ....outwash deposits. The Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district in the extreme southeast corner of the state has...to the mid-1970s were documented with the exact mine or in many cases even the correct subdistrict. In...Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district. This area has been an active mining district from about the middle of
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
Report (issue)
Page Chapter I — Introduction 9 Location of district geologic Earlier 9 summary Historical 10...deposits General statement 45 Distribution 45 Mining methods 45 Occurrence 46 Two 46 types of...Chalcopyrite 63 Marcasite 63 62 Oil and bitumen —Origin Chapter IV Chapter V—Mine 64 of the fluorspar...Reserves and production Hillside 71 72 vein Mine workings Vein walls and included fragments 73 ...Blue Diggings vein . . . . 75 76 76 in Daisy mine 77 Argo Vein 77 Daisy vein Production 78 Dimmick
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael...group, 13 cm, w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection;...York; the Helvetia district, Arizona; O ntario’s Grenville Province; the Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York;...Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin Island; the fluorite mines of Madoc, Ontario;
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.
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...Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. L35 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold...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
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in Plumose County, Arizona. N o one knows better than we do that there is no such county in Arizona and...(almost black) compact limestone. Burtwo west One and gray CALIFORNIA — Col. Clarence M. Jenni, 3129 Chadwick...'laminated quartz'.It is the white milky quartz of the district and a black sphalerite in alternate bands each...star in the white quartz. Though it resembles marcasite in structure it was demonstrated by Ransom to... I was talking to a rockhound group once and a mining engineer who was present continually interupted
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involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at the Pomona Fairgrounds Mrs. Kay Robertson...103341/ona Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90064 This year's California Show was held again in Pomona, but luckily in...the variety of minerals occurring in Southern California, there are many excellent field collectors. ...never did get around to the dealers at the north-east end! Which I regret very much. This was a wonderful...stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens
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^ '“ P r . . . I West Orange SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY 9048 00992838 7 257989 R q549...q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T 5 w! balJ E...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch
Report (volume)
FLUORSPAR AREAS IN HARDIN COUNTY ILLINOIS Part 1. GEOLOGY OF THE CAVE IN ROCK DISTRICT Part 2. AN EXPLORATORY...GEOPHYSICAL SUEVEY OF FLUOKSPAE AEEAS IN HABDIN COUNTY ILLINOIS PART 1. GEOLOGY OF THE GATE IN BOCK DISTEICT..._________ Part 1. Geology of the Cave in Rock district, by. L. W. Currier, with the collaboration of...________-_---___-_ Importance of Cave in Rock district._____----____-____-__-__-___ Geologic features...evidences of faulting east of mapped area. Fluorspar deposits of the district--..------------ ._-----_____
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)
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)
] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF... Chief BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia,...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...JenlCalifornia, Chief of the Division of Mines. Minerals of California is one of the Division's
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stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...address Harper 6 Row, Publishers, Incorporated, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y. * FIRST EDITION... An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K 4 I CONTENTS
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..........................................49 California ...........................................................................................525 West Virginia ........................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map
Report (issue)
Geological Survey Division Natural Resources Building 615 East Peabody Drive Champaign, IL 61820 Eva B. Kisvarsanyi...Geological Survey Division Natural Resources Building 615 East Peabody Drive Champaign, IL 61820 Paul E. Gerdemann...importance. The Sn-W-Ag deposits in the Silver Mine District are in granite. The Iron Mountain and Pilot...of the Southeast Missouri Lead District, including the Old Lead Belt and the Viburnum Trend, occur along...impermeable Cambrian Davis Shale" The Illinois basin, east and northeast of the Ozark dome, contains Paleozoic
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..........................................39 California ...........................................................................................429 West Virginia .........................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham
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..........................................39 California ...........................................................................................431 West Virginia .........................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham
Report (issue)
88-91. 1. Zinc ores-Colorado. 2. Zinc mines and mining-Colorado. I. Title. (Series) For sale by the Superintendent...__ ___ __ __ __ __ __ _____ Kokomo (Ten ~ile) district _______ ._________________________ Breckenridge... Leadville (California) district_______________________________ ~osquito Range district, including some..._______________ _____ __ __ ____ ____ __ __ _ 87 Spar district _________________________._ __ ____ __ __ ____...known oxidized zinc deposits in Leadville mining district, Colorado. 3. Oxidized zinc deposits of the
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
Journal (volume)
A STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES v CALIFORNIA IOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY ...Fiscal Year, July 1, 1952, to June 30, 1953..- California Mineral Commodities in 1951 Mines and Mineral...FRANCISC6 CALIFORNIA*- DAVIS California 149 California OF MlNE&siTY of AV,S RY I ( 59 Amador County...County, IRY BUILDING, 9 LIBRARY STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT. Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL...11 1954 CALIFORNIA IOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY Price $1.00 No. 1 STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN
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left). Fluorite, Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England. This transparent...(center left). Fluorite, Dow Scar level, Hilton mine, near Appleby, Scordale, Cumbria, England. This...conditions, Rosiclare level, Denton mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois. The specimen is 8...attributed to the Lead Hill area, Cave-in-Rock district, Hardin County, Illinois, and is 5.5 cm. Ross Lillie specimen...San Francisco, California 94107 jef520@comcast.net ROSS LILLIE 7249 Woodlore Drive West Bloomfield, Michigan
Report (volume)
Alaska--4230 University Dr., Rm. 101 ANCHORAGE, Alaska--605 West 4th Ave., Rm G-84 DENVER, Colorado--Federal Bldg...Colorado-- Federal Center, Bldg. 810 MENLO PARK, California--Bldg. 3, Rm. 3128,345 Middlefield Rd. • RESTON... Rm. 8105,125 South State St. SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rm. 504, 555 Battery St. SPOKANE...SPOKANE, Washington--U.S. Courthouse, Rm. 678, West 920 Riverside Ave. WASHINGTON, D.C.--U.S. Department of...eastern Canada and for carbonate-hosted zinc in east Tennessee. As the older ideas have been replaced
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[ EQD? lEDOT^b RARY. ^ California State Library /?£«^tiW.. AUG. ..1.8.92.. CLe/iSrM'io-nii' afc...pump. It may be placed at any con- venient point on the river-bank a long diatanoe Frank A. HoDtkngton...having a cylinder fixed to it. This la tween tbia point and that of no throw, the made to act as an ecoentrlo...at the same time the aeotion muat be end to a point near one at any time without the maaide on the opposite...power If the cylinder la chine. moved ao that the point where the abaft is in mechanism the feed from the
 
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