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Golinsky Mine (Little Backbone Mine; Backbone Mine; Golinski Mine), Mammoth Butte, Backbone District, West Shasta Copper - Zinc District, Klamath Mts, Shasta Co., California, USA


List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
Chalcocite2.BA.05Cu2S
Pyrite2.EB.05aFeS2
Tennantite ?2.GB.05(Cu,Ag,Fe,Zn)12As4S13
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
Quartz4.DA.05SiO2
Group 9 - Silicates
Muscovite
var: Sericite
9.EC.15KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2


5 entries listed. 5 valid minerals.

References

Eric, J.C. (1948), Tabulation of Copper Deposits in California in: Copper in California: California Division of Mines Bulletin 144: 197-387.

Kinkel, Arthur Rudolph, Jr. & Hall, W.E. (1952) Geology of the Mammoth mine, Shasta County, California. California Division of Mines and Geology Special Report 28, 15 pp.: 8.

Kinkel, Arthur Rudolph, Jr., Wayne E. Hall & J.P. Albers (1956) Geology and base metal deposits of west Shasta copper-zinc district, Shasta County, California: USGS PP 285, 156 pp.: 88, 114-116.

Clawson, R. F. (1969), Squaw Creek Copper Investigation: California Department of Water Resources Memoir Report, 29 p.

Moore, Lyman (1970), Copper Resources and Production of West Shasta Mining District, U.S. Bureau of Mines Report 85.

Lydon, Philip Andrew and O’Brien, J.C. (1974) Mines and mineral resources of Shasta County, California. California Division of Mines and Geology County Report 6, 154 pp.: 106.

Hillman, C.T., Schumacher, O. and Gosling, B. (1977), The West Shasta County California, U.S. Bureau of Mines MAS Report, 40 pp.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 135.

University of California, Berkeley (1988), Mining Waste Study, Final Report (July, 1988), 416 pp.: 207-213.

USGS (2005), Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS): U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia, loc. file ID #10077555 & 10189472.

U.S. Bureau of Mines, Minerals Availability System (MAS) file ID #0060890237.

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