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Sericite from
McAlpine Mine, Peñon Blanco Peak, Coulterville Mining District, Tuolumne County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view McAlpine Mine, Peñon Blanco Peak, Coulterville Mining District, Tuolumne County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:565381
Long-form Identifier:1:3:565381:2
GUID (UUID V4):317a326f-ef6e-4658-9c30-6cfbb4f9ffd7
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
2.5km (1.6 miles) Oro Rico Mine (Penon Blanco Mine), Peñon Blanco Peak, Coulterville, Coulterville Mining District, Mariposa County, California, USA
19.1km (11.9 miles) Akoz Mine (Asposozien Mine; B.A.B. Mine; Radium Mine), Webb Station, West Belt, Mariposa County, California, USA
22.2km (13.8 miles) Blue Moon Mine (Porcupine Mine; Blue Cloud Mine; Red Cloud Mine; Percupine Mine; American Eagle Mine; Bullion Hill Mine), Quartzburg, Hornitos Mining District, West Belt, Mariposa County, California, USA
25.7km (16.0 miles) Harvard Mine (Harvard Mine group; McCann claim; Mooney claim; Pacific claim; Vulture claim; Trio claim; Sobrante claim), Jamestown Mine (Jamestown group), Jamestown, Jamestown District, Tuolumne County, California, USA
32.4km (20.1 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
37.7km (23.4 miles) Tullock Mine (Little John; Brown Mine; Eddie B.), Carson Hill, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
38.1km (23.7 miles) Donnelly Carrier prospect (Donnelly property), Sweetwater Point, Jerseydale Mining District, East Belt, Mariposa County, California, USA
42.1km (26.2 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
42.7km (26.5 miles) Big Seven Mine, Copperopolis, Foothill Copper Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
43.0km (26.7 miles) Angels Mine (Big Mine; Southwell Mine; Fox; Valentine claims: Angels; Beda Blood; Billings; Crystal; Potter; Doctor Hill; Hennessy; McCormick; Minne; Oneida), Angels Camp, Angels Camp Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SeveralGold Mines in the Mother Lode, Tuolumne and Mariposa Counties, California R. H. WEIR, JR.,* ANDD. M. KERRICK...Gold-bearingquartzveinsin the southernpart of the Mother Lode, California,formed from fluidswhich containedSi, K, CO2,...focusedinto permeable fault zones. In the Coulterville district of the Mother Lode, these fluids altered...whichiscrosscut by veinscontaining quartz,dolomite,sericite,sulfides,tellurides,andgold.Texturalrelationships...Alleghanydistrict, Mother Lode, centered on the Coulterville district SierraCounty;however,similardepositsoccurfor
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...1 Mariposa to Coulterville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Coulterville to Chinese Camp.... . . 14 TV QFºo 5-M/43 ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY OF THE MOTHER |*4 EART LODE Gregg Wilkerson
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.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
planesin Precambriangneiss. K-Ar dating of alteration sericite (146-156 m.y.) indicatesa Late Jurassicage for...CanadianArchcangreenstone belts, and the Mother Lode district of California. The diversityof host rocksin these depositsindicatesthat...CretaceousKorean-typedeposits,but major granitesin the mine area are Late Cretaceous-Tertiaryin age; and (3)...1986); (Fig. 2). Metamor- A A' phic rocks in the mine area occur mainly as roof FIG. 2. Geologicmap and...majority of the gold-bearingquartz veins,is in the mine area: a biotite granite and a two-mica composeddominantly
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
Book
7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
Book
British companies are exporting to Europe and the USA although there is stiff competition within Britain... New minerals typically include white mica or sericite which is a very fine-grained form of muscovite...at some quarries can be as high as 90-99%. Slate mining is now only carried out where the vein is narrow...Area Approximately 15 hectares Extraction methods Mining is carried out underground along a narrow vein...Texas, USA. Roofing for hotel, office and shopping centre Kaiser Building, Oakland, California, USA. Paving
Report (Issue volume)
.............................................6 MINING HISTORY .................................................................................... 159 MINE RECORDS ..........................................Plan ..... Titles map DME plan ....... Topo map County map Parish map ∗ Annual Report of the Department...system. Mine Record of old unpublished system recording data on mines and prospects. Australian Mining Standard...Standard. A weekly mining newspaper which commenced about 1883 and lasted through various name changes
Report (issue)
confined to Cornwall, Devon, North Wales and the Lake District. The traditional use for slate is as roofing tiles...North Wales. The largest concerns in the Lake District and in Cornwall have recently amalgamated. About...active in Cornwall, Devon, North Wales and the Lake District. No slate production is now recorded from Scotland...indicated by the volcanic green slates of the Lake District, can also be regarded as symptomatic of unstable...areas. For example, in Snowdonia and the Corris district, slaty cleavage strikes in a persistent south-west
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES WARREN T. HANNUM, Director...1949 Number CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY LIBRARY iWIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Davis 1 STATE... STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES Wakren T Hannum, Director...Third Floor, Ferry Building, San Francisco 11 District Offices West First Street, Los Angeles 12 631...thousand books and scientific journals on geology, mining, mineralogy, chemistry, metallurgy, and related
Book (edition)
interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E. Wilson...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is...information is included on the persons involved in mining the deposits, with dates and other pertinent information...literature in North America. J. s. San Diego, California 1975 Acknowledgments The folio\\ ing persons
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
region" of his inferred largely unexposed, Lake District batholith. The latter must be composite, as exposed...most samples contain abundant very fine-grained sericite. All samples are traversed by thin quartz, quartz-feldspar...correlate with mild hornfelsing by part of the Lake District batholith. 5. Comparison with other time scales...for the Stockdale Rhyolite of the English Lake District and a revised mid-Palaeozoic timescale, J. Geol...Bull. 77 (1966) 1 0 7 5 1088. A.N. Halliday, A. McAlpine and J.G. Mitchell, The age of the Hoy Lavas, Orkney
Journal (volume)
THESALT LAKE 689388 W G E N I I V N E I R M ... MINING REVIEW Table of Contents , Page 24 Index To Advertisers...SALT LAKE CITY , UTAH Il f 2 THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW , APRIL 15, 1915. Products of the Experience...attention than to OTHERBRANCH the Engineering and Mining Trade.BUSINESS Carrying a dowe full line give in...engineering practice . Write forour new Catalog L. MINE & SMELTER SUPPLY CO., Agents REVERE RUBBER CO....KANSAS CITY. MO . Glant Belting THE SALT LAKE MINING REVIEW , APRIL 15, 1915. 3 Built for underground
Book (edition)
Resource Reviews Series editor John Slack, Reston, VA, USA More information about this series at http://www...from Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Iran and the USA, including new maps and sections and additional colour...suggestions for the target generation teams of mining v vi companies exploring for world-class gold...Kanowna Belle Gold Mines in Kalgoorlie, PT North Mining Indonesia in Jakarta, TU Bergakademie Freiberg... 6.4.3 Bingham Copper-Molybdenum Deposit, Utah, USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals...occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 23 24 25- U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:...one of highly siliceous slates, phyllites, and sericite 20- Here the rocks The metasedimentary rocks...deposits. 21 This belt passes through Gaston County. Tin veins in pegmatite and placer deposits derived...Halifax County. Tungsten occurs in North Carolina in two principal localities, in Cabarrus County associated
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Bishop copper prospect near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...770-973-3632, E-mail: jcgray@gsu.edu Southern California Chapter Visit our website at www.mineralsocal...BISHOP COPPER PROSPECT near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia Henry Barwood Route 3, Box 144 Auburn
Report (volume)
with low-amplitude flexural-slip folding, Greene County, southwest Pennsylvania, by J. B. Roen Significance...within the Frontier Formation, northwestern Carbon County, Wyo., by E. A. Merewether and W. A. Cobban Elemental...water Nitrogen content of ground water in Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., by G. E. Kimmel . . . . . ...neighbouring parts of the United States: Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Spec. Vol. 8, p. 149-170. Buddington...Paleozoic oceanic crust in the upper Chulitna district, west-central Alaska Range, in Geological Survey
Report (issue)
with low-amplitude flexural-slip folding, Greene County, southwest Pennsylvania, by J. B. Roen Significance...within the Frontier Formation, northwestern Carbon County, Wyo., by E. A. Merewether and W. A. Cobban Elemental...water Nitrogen content of ground water in Kings County, Long Island, N.Y., by G. E. Kimmel . . . . . ...neighbouring parts of the United States: Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Spec. Vol. 8, p. 149-170. Buddington...Paleozoic oceanic crust in the upper Chulitna district, west-central Alaska Range, in Geological Survey
Report (Issue volume)
orebodies suitable for underground or open cut mining. The Clarence-Moreton Basin and associated underlying...SEDIMENTS ...................................... 34 MINING HISTORY ........................................................................ 53 The Wongabah mine (TO2) ........................................................................ 53 The Silver King mine (PF1) ............................................................................. 53 The Dunlop Mine (PF4) .........................................
Report (issue)
Geophysical and Geologic Studies in Southern Mecklenburg County and Vicinity, North Carolina 'and South Carolina... GEOPHYSICAL AND GEOLOGIC STUDIES IN SOUTHERN MECKLENBURG COUNTY AND VICINITY NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA...and Carolina slate belts in southern Mecklenburg County and vicinity to help interpret geology, lithology...Index and cultural maps of southern Mecklenburg County and vicinity, North Carolina and South Carolina...of some gabbroic rocks of southern Mecklenburg County and vicinity 8. 15 Modal diagram and classification
Journal (volume)
Resumption of Activities at the Howell Mine BY WILL C. HIGGINS The Howell Mining Company, of Salt Lake City, is...property in the South Fork The property of the Howell Mining Com of Big Cottonwood canyon, about twentyfive...the great Cardiff mine, its near to the discovery of the property of the Howell Mining Company, of the...-roots. The discovery of the Howell reads al district has been not most like a romance . ed for its...ment and operation , the richest portion of and mining activities were inaugurated in Utah the Big a
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...ecord Articles Rare sulfosalts from the Van Silver mine, British C olum bia...............................Balacko Famous mineral localities: The Brownley Hill mine, Alston Moor, Cumbria, England....................COVER: ATACAMITE in GYPSUM, 6.8 cm, from the Lily mine, lea, Peru. Irv Brown collection; Jeff Scovil photo...British Columbia the Silver Tunnel o f the Van Silver mine has produced hundreds o f rare and beautiful crystal
Book
(Toti, his field companion) by naming a 5000 meter peak “Pico Toti,” as, while climbing it together, she...Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Barry P. Kohn School of Earth Sciences, University...Department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA Kyoungwon Min Department of Geological Sciences,... University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Santiago Noriega Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad...Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA Pedro A. Restrepo-Pace Oilsearch Limited, Sydney
Report (issue)
Occurrences east of Sudbury Falcon Mine Wanup quarry Elizabeth Mine Wahnapitei occurrences MacDonald occurrence...quarry Vermilion River placer deposits Moose Mountain Mine Nickel-copper mines west of Sudbury High Falls Road...occurrence McMillan Mine Wallace Mine Sheguiandah quarry Shakespeare Mine Massey Mine Hermina Mine Elliot Lake...Bi-Ore Mine Pater Mine Pronto Mine Jasper conglomerate occurrences, Highway 546 Glagoma Mine Cheney Mine...Mine Gould Mine Havilah Mine Rock Lake Mine Bruce Mines copper mines Stobie Mine Jasper conglomerate
Journal (volume)
MAR1 v* 1950 STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY...off California and Mexico 7 Geology Along the Electra and West Point Tunnels, Amador County, California...23 County, California Geology of the Placerita Oil Field, Perlite Deposits in Sonoma County, Mines... Los Angeles County, California of California Sonoma County, 43 81 83 California of the State...FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO _ 143 STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
 
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