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


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Fluorite
Formula:CaF2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Beryl1 photo of Fluorite associated with Beryl at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fluorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Birch Creek, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:928291
Long-form Identifier:1:3:928291:9
GUID (UUID V4):1a53c2b1-9ef6-4ddb-8b8f-7ff00228acd5
Nearest other occurrences of Fluorite
4.5km (2.8 miles) Waterfall prospect, Cuna Spring, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
11.3km (7.0 miles) Lakeview claim (White Mountains; Burgner-Adams Fluorite deposit; Dirty Weather claim), Index Hill, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
11.9km (7.4 miles) Westgard prospect, Black Mountain, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
25.2km (15.7 miles) Aja Tungsten claims, Sylvania Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
32.2km (20.0 miles) Army prospect (Sorenson prospect), Tule Canyon Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
36.0km (22.4 miles) Sorenson Fluorite Group, Tule Canyon Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
41.8km (25.9 miles) Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
43.2km (26.8 miles) Unnamed placers, Tule Canyon, Tokop Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
49.3km (30.6 miles) Mohawk mine, Red Mountain Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
54.3km (33.7 miles) Bullfrog-George prospect, Gold Point Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tensional features that controlled .depositionof the fluorite are not merely local normal faults but parts of...lineament;IV. Walker Lane-Texaslineament;V. Cherry Creek-DeepCreek-Tintic lineament;VI. 38th parallellineament;VII...States Texas: 1, Christmas Mountains; 2. Eagle Mountains. New Mexico: 3. Fluorite Ridge; 4. CooksPeak; 5...5. Burro Mountains;6. Gila; 7. Mogollon Mountains; 8. Sierra Caballo; 9. Salado-Sierra Cuchillo; 10. Gallinas;...Gallinas; 11. Zuni; 12. Questa (molybdenum,fluorite). Colorado: 13. Wagon Wheel Gap; 14. Poncha Springs;
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 (volume)
mine._______________________________________ Birch Creek district, Idaho__-_______._______________________-__... IV CONTENTS Mine descriptions Continued Deer Creek district, Montana_________________________ Divide...sections of the Trapper no. 1 claim, Beaverhead County, Mont__________________________ In pocket FIQTJEE...Idaho_____ 43. Geologic and index maps of the Birch Creek district, Montana______________ __ ._ 44. Geologic...Montana.. 45. Geologic and index maps of the Deer Creek district, Montana....__________._-__--__----------_---_-_--_
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.
Report (volume)
ANGELES, California--Federal Bldg., Rm. 7638, 300 N. Los Angeles St. • MENLO PARK, California--Bldg. 3...Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. • SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rm. 504, 555 Battery St. • SPOKANE...and Owyhee Breaks Wilderness Study Area, Malheur County, Oregon A line of text is missing from the bottom...and Owyhee Breaks Wilderness Study Areas, Malheur County, Oregon By DEAN B. VANDER MEULEN, VINCENT E. BARLOCK...and Owyhee Breaks wilderness study areas, Malheur County, Oregon I by Dean B. Vander Meulen ... [et al.]
Report (issue)
POSSIBILITIES OF ALASKA* By Helmuth Wedow9 Max G 0 White, and Robert M0 Moxham^ March 1951 Trace Elements........... Nenana district .............. Valdez Creek district ........... Chulitna district ...........01TL? JOB OJTICIAL UG3 01TLY r' Talkeetna Mountains .................. 78 Ghulitna district ........POSSIBILITIES OT ALASKA By Helmut*! Wedcw, Max G. White, and Robert M. Moxham ABSTRACT Summaries of the...Mountain, and the mineralization at Cape and Potato Mountains also favors the presence of uranium. The prospects
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
Report (issue)
............................................ California................................................this report. 11 ALABAMA Adams Gap and Shinbone Creek Roadless Areas Bearce, D. N., 1973, Geology of the...geochemical samples, Adams Gap and Shinbone Creek Roadless Areas, Clay County, Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey OpenFile...resources of Shinbone Creek and Adams Gap RARE II Further Planning Area, Clay County, Alabama: U.S. Bureau...Geologic map of Adams Gap and Shinbone Creek Roadless Areas, Clay County, Alabama: U.S. Geological Survey Miscellaneous
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)
2 INDIAN GROUP PROSPECT 3 SILVER CREEK PROSPECT 4 ROCK CREEK PROSPECT 5 NABESNA MINE 6 ORANGE...HILL 7 CHISANA DISTRICT (we fig. 2) 6 HOPE CREEK AREA (IM fig. 3) 9 MILLER HOUSE-CIRCLE HOT SPRINGS...Group prospect ........... Silver Creek prospect............ Rock Creek prospect.................. Nabesna...Bonanza Creek....................... Summary and conclusions............................. Hope Creek and...areas, byWalterS. West and John J. Matzko..... Hope Creek area......................... Miller House-Circle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
River Formation of Wyoming and Searles Lake of California being the exceptions. This neglect is unfortunate...reconciled in local orographic deserts, where high mountains provide a rain shadow for the basin floors and...hilS"alow, flat floor, which is surrounded by mountains, providing considerable topographic gradients...form of perennial springs at the foot of the mountains or the toes o f the alluvial fans. In the absence...Death Valley, California) and a sulfate­ poor branch (Bristol Dry Lake, Cadiz Lake, California). In many
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
Report (issue)
i-S , -SSK .S' //^.v, S"'--«^ Creek , (3033 .C.049 CM19 C"55 | I i 3 sjL O ...The claims are on the Portage Creek side of the divide along Portage Creek road. Commodities: Main: Au...approximately 2000 feet of ditch exposure along the Portage Creek road. The mineralization occurs within heavily Fe-oxide...Resource Data File CI002 Site name(s): Bachelor Creek Site type: Mine ARDFno.: CI002 Latitude: 65.491...059 Location description and accuracy: Bachelor Creek can be accessed via a 4-wheel drive road from the
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 (issue)
RECONNAISSANCE FOR URANIUM IN ALASKA, 1951 By M.G. White, W. S. West, G. E. Tolbert, A. E. Nelson, and J...RECONNAISSANCE FOR URANIUM IN ALASKA, 1951 By M.G. White, W. S. West, G. E. Tolbert, A. E. Nelson, and J... CONTENTS Page Part 1. --Seward Peninsula, by Max G. White and Walter S. West Abstract . . . . . . . . . ....ALASKA, 1951 PART 1. --SEWARD PENINSULA By Max G. White and Walter S. West the mountain, zeunerite is disseminated...District Locality Designation on figure l Charley Creek bismuth prospect ------- -------York -------Koyuk
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)
....................................... 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
Book
King; and the state reports of R. H. Stretch, A. F. White, and H. R. Whitehill. In 1909, E. E. Stuart, Inspector...the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains” (for 1866), Wash­ ington, Government Printing...Ore Deposits of Southwestern Nevada and Eastern California”, USGS B 285 (1906) 53-73. Ball 30S -----------...Reconnaissance in Southwestern Nevada and Eastern California”, USGS B 308 (1907). Bancroft Bancroft, H. PI...-------- “Some Mining Districts in Northeastern California and North­ western Nevada”, USGS B 594 (1915)
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)
Quadrangl West Crazy ^Mountains Area North of Tintina East Crazy Mountains Fault Zone 1. Deposits...commonly accompanied by any of the following: fluorite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, wolframite...quartz and mica, commonly accompanied by topaz, fluorite, tourmaline, feldspar, and ore minerals (Scherba...marcasite, magnetite, barite, calcite, dolomite, fluorite, and quartz. Ore textures and mineral zonation:...amounts depending upon the degree of alteration. Fluorite occurs in veinlets or vugs in some samples and
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 (issue)
carbonate rocks and are rare east of the Rocky Mountains. Saprolitic accumulations of smithsonite and hemimorphite...__ _ Nevada2------------~--------------------California _________________________________ _ Idaho2 _...Alaska.. a Includes 550 tons from Davis, Murray County, Okla. 'Production to 1934 only. PART 1. GENERAL...zinc deposits in Colorado, Utah, Nevada, and California. (See also Heyl and Bozion, 1960.) DISTRIBUTION...districts, and the general region of the Rocky Mountains and Basin and Range province. They are uncommon
Report (issue)
. . Alabama ........ . Adams Gap and Shinbone Creek Roadless Areas, Alabama, by T . L. Klein and Donald...Donald K. Harrison Big Sandy, West Elliotts Creek, and Reed Brake Roadless Areas, Alabama, by Sam H. Patterson...E. Williams ...... . ............. . Dragoon Mountains Roadless Area, Arizona, by Harald Drewes and T...Ratte and John P. Briggs ...... - .... . Kanab Creek Roadle s Area, Arizona, by George H. Billingsley...Huff and R. G. Raabe ............. 27 West Clear Creek Roadless Area, Arizona, by George E. Ulrich and
Report (issue)
Russian Mountains ................ Marshall area ................... Southern Kaiyuh Mountains .........West and J. J. Matzko ................... Hope Creek area ............... Miller-House-Circle Hot Springs...Nelchina area ................... 13 Fortymile fluorite occurrences... .'13 Summary and conclusions ....minerals in the vicinity of reported fluorite occurrences in the Hope Creek and Miller HouseCircle Hot Springs...in the Hope Creek area; analysis of samples .obtained in the vicinity of the other fluorite occurrences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINERALIZATION AT THE IMA MINE, BLUE WING DISTRICT, LEMHI COUNTY, IDAHO.* ALFRED L. ANDERSON. CONTENTS. PAGE ...of quartz, the veins also contain microcline, fluorite, muscovite, sericite, rhodochrosite,siderite,... and calcite,the microcline,muscovite,and fluorite occurringnear the granite, * Presented before the...in the Blue Wing district in southeasternLemhi County,Idaho, and until recentlyone of the leadingproducers...Umpleby,J. B., Geologyand ore depositsof Lemhi County,Idaho: U.S. Geol. Survey Bull. 528, pp. 73-74,
 
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