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Diopside from
Birch Creek, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Birch Creek, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:978529
Long-form Identifier:1:3:978529:8
GUID (UUID V4):76d9c81e-7b12-44a1-bd74-8fdb800ae07a
Nearest other occurrences of Diopside
38.8km (24.1 miles) Pickup Mine (Chipmunk Mine), Lookout Mountain, Inyo County, California, USA
58.6km (36.4 miles) Black Rock Mine (Black Rock Tungsten deposit), Black Rock Canyon, Banner Ridge, Chidago Mining District, Benton Range, Mono County, California, USA
60.6km (37.7 miles) Molly Tungstite claims (Blue Grouse Mine), Scheelite, Bishop Mining District (Tungsten Hills Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
60.9km (37.9 miles) Pine Creek Mine (Black Monster Mine; Snow Queen Mine; Pine Creek Tungsten Mine & mill; Pine Creek apt plant; Pine Creek custom mill), Scheelite, Bishop Mining District (Tungsten Hills Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
63.2km (39.3 miles) Reward Mine, Reward, Russ Mining District, Inyo Mts (Inyo Range), Inyo County, California, USA
75.3km (46.8 miles) Scheelore Mine (Scheelore Tungsten deposit; Van Loon Scheelore 8 claims), Mount Baldwin, Mono County, California, USA
80.9km (50.2 miles) Laurel Mountain, Mono County, California, USA
87.6km (54.4 miles) Pappas prospect (Horseshoe No. 1), Mammoth Lakes, Lakes Mining District (Lake Mining District; Mammoth Mining District), Mono County, California, USA
90.9km (56.5 miles) Unnamed Ti occurrence [1], Summit 2347 meters, Nelson Range, Lee Mining District, Inyo County, California, USA
93.0km (57.8 miles) Copper Queen-Lucky Boy Mine (Copper Queen Mine), Summit 2347 meters, Nelson Range, Lee Mining District, Inyo County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California INTRODUCTION I N a previous...Publications of the Division of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Contribution No. 1594...http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/ at University of California, San Fransisco on March 30, 2015 ABSTRACT QUjQia...from two contact metamorphic aureoles at Birch Creek, California and Marble Canyon, Texas. The pelitic metasediments...metasediments and granitic intrusions of the Birch Creek locality were also analyzed for their O18/O18
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphism, Papoose Flat Pluton, eastern California, USA: implications for -cooling and strain histories...University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N M 87731, USA (ernail: mwn yman@h ydra .unm.edu) 'Department of...Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2406 1 , USA ABSTRACT Petrological study of highly strained...the crust. The Papoose Flat pluton of eastern California commonly has been cited in the geological literature...pluton (PIT) is located in the White-Inyo Range of eastern California and is one of several similar-age
Report (issue)
Central Part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California by Paul C. Batemanl/ This report supplements...87-670, Pre-Tertiary bedrock geologic quadrangle, California. It provides expanded shown on the map and interpretations...does not imply endorsement by the USGS. Park, California Note for New Publications of the U.S. Geological...central part of the Sierra Nevada batholith, California, by Paul C. Bateman. This publication supplements...geologic map of the Mariposa 1° by 2° quadrangle, California by providing descriptions and interpretations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
~ ) : • ,- '1-/Challis r--, - qa'wtooth Mountains r i ~ Elmore'~. -C- -J'-,/,_~, ~ l I ...May 199I-the right to collect in the Sawtooth Mountains of south-central Idaho. Although known by a few...across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side...CHABAZITE, LEVYNE, PHILLIPSITE, and THOMSONITE. Adams County Alaska mine, Seven Devils district: azurite, grossular
Report (issue)
Tungsten Mineralization of the Bishop District California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared in...in cooperation with the State of California, Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology...Tungsten Mineralization of the Bishop District California By PAUL C. BATEMAN With a section on Gravity...470 Prepared in cooperation with the State of California^ Department of Conservation^ Division of Mines...and Lower Cambrian sedimentary rocks of the White Mountains.-________ Wyman formation__________________________
Report (volume)
the Minister of Mines for 1917. Victoria, B. C. California Academy of Sciences: Proceedings, 4th ser., vol...13; vol. 8, nos. i-7. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 76-78, 82...Preliminary report, nos. 3-5. San Francisco, Calif. California, University of, Department of Geology: Bulletin...Maryland Geological Survey: vol.. 10; Anne Aruiidel. County. Baltimore, Md. Mazama, vol. 5; no. 3.. Poutkind...Bulletin no. 12, Rapid City, S. Dak. Southern California Academy of Sciences: Bulletin, vol. 17, pts.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wyman Formation, BIanco Mountain Quadrangle, California, were analyzed using an electron microprobe....Formation in the Blanco Mountain Quadrangle, White Mountains, California, contain a wide range of plagioclase...was metamorphosed by the emplacement of the Beer Creek pluton (184-151 million years, MeKee and Nash, 1967)...attributed to earlier metamorphism by the Beer Creek pluton or due to burial metamorphism occur outside...studies of Shich and Taylor (1968) on the Beer Creek pluton of similar composition show temperatures
Report (issue)
Professional Paper 110 A GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE OF THE INYO RANGE -AND THE EASTERN SLOPE OF THE .~OUTHERN SIERRA...KNOPF ·WITH A SECTION ON THE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE INYO RANGE BY EDWIN KIRK WASHINGTON GOVERNl\IENT PRINTING·... Owens Valley ........................... . The Inyo Range .............. ~ ........ . The Sierra Nevada... . Mississippian series ..............·.... . 'White Pine shale ......... : ..·... . Pennsylvanian series...42 Page. Geology-Continued. Stratigraphy of the Inyo Range, by Edwin Kirk-Continued. Carboniferous system-Continued
Report (volume)
....................................... Cherry Creek group............................................................................ . . Utopia (Birch Creek) district.................................................... 75 Outlying mines in Beaverhead County.................................. 76 Polaris district..................................... Bloody Dick Creek.. ..............................-.----- -- - - .............................. Highland and Moose Creek districts..................................... Location
Report (issue)
OF STINE CREEK (Ksc) 11 UPHILL CREEK GRANODIORITE (Kuc) 14 GRANODIORITE OF DAVID CREEK (Kdc) 21... (Kgl, Kgp, Kgb, Kgm, Ktcl, Kog) 23 CLIFFORD CREEK GRANITE (TKc) 38 GRANODIORITE OF CANNIVAN GULCH...Pioneer batholith as they occur in the east Pioneer Mountains. Two intrusive bodies of uncertain petrogenetic...of mafic to silicic. Within the east Pioneer Mountains, this order approximates the order of older to...helping me to map the plutons in the east Pioneer Mountains. I benefitted from thoughtful and thorough reviews
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
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...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
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
Report (issue)
Reactor Complex AVH axial volcanic highland BC Birch Creek BLR Big Lost River CB charge balance CEC...underlying the Northeast and Southeast INL Areas. Birch Creek (BC), the Big Lost River (BLR), and groundwater... Medicin e Lodge C reek 113°15' Beaverhead Mountains Blue Dome IDAHO ESRP Heise k ree INL ch...ive r st EXPLANATION Land cover and use for mountains Grassland Pasture, hay Evergreen forest Cultivated...Idaho and includes the southern part of the Birch Creek (BC) valley and the ESRP at and south of the
Report (volume)
gneiss___________________________ 7 4. Fold in white, sugary marble._________________ 8 5. Tor of gr...Photograph of abandoned placer mining property on Uhler Creek..-,___________________-___-____--__--__ 29 PLATE...tributaries, including Walker Fork, Jack Wade Creek, and Chicken Creek. L. M. Prindle did considerable geologic...helpful, especially William Meldrum on Stonehouse Creek; George Robinson at Jack Wade; the late Fred Purdy...Fortyfive Pup; and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wilkey on Canyon Creek. Mrs. John Fisher, formerly at Chicken, loaned material
Book (edition)
the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains by Lanny R. Ream L.R. Rerun Publishing P .O....in the field and assistance with the Sawtooth Mountains chapter and specimen identification. Also for...of the micro-size minerals from the Sawtooth Mountains. My appreciation is extended to Norm Radford for...those known from Idaho. Work done on the Sawtooth Mountains locality has provided ten species new to the state.... Blackbird Mining District / 42 3. Sawtooth Mountains / 52 Part 2. Mineral Descriptions A. Acanthite
Report (volume)
ANGELES; California--Federal Bldg .• Rrn. 7638, 300 N. Los Angeles St. • MENLO PARK, California--Bldg....Rrn. 8105, 125 South State St. • SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rrn. 504, 555 Battery St. • SPOKANE...Moore and John M. Murphy Molybdenite in the Huron Creek pluton, western Livengood quadrangle, Alaska 54...of the White Mountains terrane: Evidence from U-Pb data of granite boulders in the Fossil Creek Volcanics...reports on Alaska released in 1988 U2 Ellen R. White, compiler Reports about Alaska in non-USGS publications
Report (issue)
QUADRANGLE AND ADJACENT BROWN1 S LAKE AREA, BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, MONTANA A preliminary report by W^ B* Myers ...the NWi of the ^£S:^^A^^^ quadrangle, Beaverhead County; ^^^^^^f^r^^Maatwaa... ": . .-. . In pocket tc...QUADRANGLE AND ADJACENT BROWN1 S LAKE AREA, BEAVERHEAD COUNTY, -,' *; MONTANA A preliminary report by W, B....,_ mapped area is largely within the Pioneer Mountains & V* -v ' ., ;:W but piedmont slopes facing tne...Rattlesnake Creek, the southernmost, flows southeast to the Beaverhead River* Birch Creek and Willow Creek in
Report (issue)
northern part of the Barker quadrangle, Little Belt Mountains, Mont., by I. J. Witkind 20 Mineralogy and petrology...petrology Composition of jadeitic pyroxene from the California metagraywackes, by R. G. Coleman X-ray determinative...First occurrence of graptolites in the Klamath Mountains, Calif., by Michael Churkin, Jr A proposed revision...rocks in the South Groveland quadrangle, Essex County, Mass., by R. 0. Castle Stratigraphy of the upper...Ordovician, Devonian(?), and Cretaceous(?) rocks, White Mountain area, near McGrath, Alaska, by C. L. Sainsbury
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director DIVISION OF MINES...BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1938 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 5478! LIBRARY UNIVERSITY C- CALIFORNIA D:\ViS 1 DIVISION OF...Development and Mining Activity in Southern « California during the year 1937 Geologic Branch Current...Gold and Petroleum in California Special Articles Gem Minerals of California Lapidary Art 7 7 7
Report (volume)
........................................... Birch Creek schist................................................................ 53 53 54 54 54 55 Birch Creek schist.................................................................................... Birch Creek district.......................................5 Gold in the Circle quadrangle Continued. Birch Creek district Continued. Page. Placers................. 60 Deadwood Creek.............................................. 60 Boulder Creek................
Report (volume)
rocks___________________________________________ Birch Creek schist and associated meta-igneous rocks.-.-_...system_____---__--------------------------_--Fossil Creek volcanics.___.____.__-___-__._------___.__ Silurian...terraces at head of Woodchopper Creek; B, Falls in South Fork of Birch Creek....._......_._..._....... 4... A, VaUey of Fortymile River at mouth of Steel Creek; B, Contorted schist on ridge north of Mosquito...pre-Middle Ordovician rocks, East Fork of Willow Creek, White Mountains.________________________ 27 50 51 74
Report (volume)
________________________________________ Steele Creek-First Chance Creek area_____-___-_-___-__--_----_ Spruce... Scheelite prospects between Steele Creek and First Chance Creek, Fairbanks district. FIGURE 24. Index...areas: the Gilmore Dome area and Steele Creek-First Chance Creek area in the southern part of the district... and Columbia prospects in the Steele Creek-First Chance Creek area are only in the prospect stage of...Gilmore Dome lodes and those of the Steele Creek-First Chance Creek area lie along the southern part. The
Report (volume)
rocks__-_______-__--____-____-_-___ ______ _ Birch Creek Schist________---_-_-_---______---_-_____-___...metamorphic rocks, most of which are included in the Birch Creek Schist. The metamorphic rocks are intruded by...West Fork vicinity and consists principally of white and pink marble, impure green marble, quartzite...p. 46-47) mapped the rocks of both groups as Birch Creek Schist. In the present report, the first and...and most extensive group is designated as the Birch Creek Schist; the second group is referred to as the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the synelinorium. However, common occurrence of diopside in calcareous sedimentary lithologies within the...Peninsular Ranges of southern California and northern Baja California. - - Geology, 8, 861--868, 8 Figs...& Busn~E, J.: The batholith belt of southern California and western Mexico. - - Pacific Geol., 8, 73---78...Emplacement of the Little Chief Stock, Panamint Range, California. - - Geol. Soc. Am. Bull., 85, 1535~1546, 8 Figs...forcible emplacement of Birch Creek Pluton, southern White Mountains, California. - - Geol. Soc. Am. BuU
 
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