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Chalcedony from
Clear Creek claim, Goat Mountain, San Benito County, California, USA


Locality type:Claim
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Cinnabar5 photos of Chalcedony associated with Cinnabar at this locality.
Melanophlogite4 photos of Chalcedony associated with Melanophlogite at this locality.
Edgarbaileyite2 photos of Chalcedony associated with Edgarbaileyite at this locality.
Montroydite2 photos of Chalcedony associated with Montroydite at this locality.
Quartz1 photo of Chalcedony associated with Quartz at this locality.
Eglestonite1 photo of Chalcedony associated with Eglestonite at this locality.
Mercury1 photo of Chalcedony associated with Mercury at this locality.
Wattersite1 photo of Chalcedony associated with Wattersite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Clear Creek claim, Goat Mountain, San Benito County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:173182
Long-form Identifier:1:3:173182:8
GUID (UUID V4):54f3a47f-ba19-45bb-ae4c-75e7aa0c0b04
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony
5.6km (3.5 miles) Picacho Mine (Ramirez Consolidated Mine; Picachos Mine; Los Picachos Mine; Picahotes Mine; Benta Mine; Hernandez Mine; Ramirez Mine; Bonanza Mine), Picacho Peak, San Benito County, California, USA
23.4km (14.5 miles) El Cajon Mine (Clough Mine; Gough Mine; Mathews Mine), Buck Peak, San Benito County, California, USA
34.6km (21.5 miles) Panoche Hills, Fresno County, California, USA
55.0km (34.2 miles) Patriquin Mine (Cholame-Parkfield Mine; Paloma Mining Company; Franciscan Mine; Pitts Mine), Parkfield, Parkfield Mining District, Monterey County, California, USA
78.8km (48.9 miles) Comstock Mine, Pacheco Peak, Stayton Mining District (McLeod Mining District; Panoche Mining District), Santa Clara County, California, USA
86.2km (53.5 miles) Klau Mine (Sierra Morena Mine; Karl Mine; Santa Cruz Mine; Sunderland Mine; Carson Mine), Klau Mine group, Adelaida, Adelaide Mining District (Adelaide Klau Mining District), Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
88.4km (55.0 miles) Cambria Mine (Bank Mine; Red Hill workings; La Trinidad Mine), Cambria, Cambria-Oceanic Mining District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
93.8km (58.3 miles) Black Mountain area, Cambria, Cambria-Oceanic Mining District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
96.2km (59.8 miles) Moonstone Beach, Cambria, Cambria-Oceanic Mining District, Santa Lucia Mts (Santa Lucia Range), San Luis Obispo County, California, USA
References
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Library] at 07:06 06 January 2015 Even though California is known as the “Golden State, ” it could also...the Tourmaline State, or the Colemanite State. California is, in fact, one of the world’s greatest sources...localities, the reader is encouraged to consult the “California Locality Index” (Kampf et al. 1989). The bibliography...great deal from the many publications of the California Division of Mines and Geology. The most valuable...tool for finding information on older mines in California is the Consolidated Index of Publications, Division
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino... 317 by B. Cairncross The Clear Creek mine, San Benito County, California: A unique mercury locality...*Continued on p. 392 Nifontovite from Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...The Sulfur Hole, Calico District, San Bernardino County, California. Axis, volume 1, number 5, pages 1–14...Klein Spitzkoppe is a granite inselberg (“island mountain”) located in southern Damaraland, Namibia, 110
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Mineralogy of The New Idria District San Benito and Fresno Counties, California WILLIAM S. WISE and Downloaded...Geological Sciences University of California Santa Barbara, California 93106 THE NEW IDRIA DISTRICT is...segment of the California Coast Ranges lying between the San Joaquin Valley and the San Andreas fault...one of the more productive mercury deposits in California. Through the approximately I~year life of the...side of the San Joaquin Valleyand in the southern part is bounded on the west by the San Andreas fault
Journal (issue)
S2 , a new mineral from the Clear Creek claim, San Benito County, California ............. 471 by R. C...Leonard Bourget 1636 11th Street Santa Monica, California 90404 Tel: (213) 450-6556 FAX: (213) 450-2201...Suite 306, 6331 FairIT1:ont Ave. El Cerrito, California 94530 Cal Graeber Minerals Cal and Kerith Graeber...Graeber P.O. Box 47 Fallbrook, California 92028 Tel: (619) 723-9292 By Appointment Only The Gemmary Rare...John and Dolores Kassionas P.O. Box 578 Alviso, California 95002 Tel: (408) 263-7784 Galas Minerals Chris
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
665-670. new mineral speciesfrom the Clear Creek claim, San Benito County,California.Can. Mineral.,37,787-793...Brownley Hill mine at pect pit near the former Clear Creek Hg mine, New Idria Nenthead, Cumbria, England... Also found on specimens district, San Benito County, California. The new name is from the Smallcleugh...Hgr2+Cr6+OoSr, a new mineral from the Clear Creek claim, San Benito County, California. Mineral. Record, 24, 47 l-47...Mineral., corroded cinnabar associated with quartz, chalcedony, 77, p. 613 (1992).D.A.v. magnesite,and severalother
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353-416 257-320 321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...18:65-74 Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain area [Georgia and Alabama] (by J.B. Gordon, Jr
Journal (issue)
Hg3+Cr6+0 4S2, a new mineral from the Clear Creek claim, San Benito County, C alifornia......................Leonard Bourget 1636 11th Street Santa Monica, California 90404 Tel: (213) 450-6556 FAX: (213) 450-2201...Frazier Suite 306, 6331 Fairmont Ave. El Cerrito, California 94530 Cal Graeber Minerals Cal and Kerith Graeber...Graeber P.O. Box 47 Fallbrook, California 92028 Tel: (619) 723-9292 By A ppointm ent Only The Gemmary...John and Dolores Kassionas P.O. Box 578 Alviso, California 95002 Tel: (408) 263-7784 Galas Minerals Chris
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subhedral crystals to 1 mm in a quartz vein from Ankang County, Shaanxi Province, China. Ideal formula Ba(Ti,V...pleochroism; reflectance data are given. Named for the County in which the type locality is situated. Antimonselite...mine, found in human secretions. Graham County, Arizona, USA. PbA1F3(OH)2. Baumhauerite-2a. A. Pring...Dc~c. 5.31 g/cm3. Reflectance data are clusters of clear blue, prismatic crystals, to given; bireflectant...basalts from the Goble district, Columbia County, Oregon, USA. (Ca,Na)ll(Fe,A1,Si)980192-70H20. Zeolite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cleavage in a vug from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County, Arizona, associated with grandreefite, pseudograndreefite...o other members of the cancrinite group is not clear (Amer. Min. 73,927). Cassedanneite. F. Cesbron,...osumilite group, from a lamproite at Moon Canyon, Utah, USA. Composition K(Mg,Fe2+)gFe3+[Si~2030]; related to...up to 5ram across in fractures in quartz and chalcedony in Orthorhombic, a 15.104, b 6.891, c 5.806A...for translucent wine and amethystine coloured chalcedony pebbles from Dmeas. 6.88; Dcalc. 7.002. Optically
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Hg4+1Hg+2Cr+6Oe, a new mineral from the Clear Creek claim, San Benito County, California ............269 by A. C. Roberts...his life). He specialized in minerals from the California Coast Ranges; these constituted about 80-90%...quarry in Mendocino County, California. He brought the minerals to Bill Nisson (California Division of Mines...area to be responsible for (as, for example, a county or state museum), but there would be no particular...by participating in it? Let me make it perfectly clear that I am supportive of mineral specimen marketing
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Edgarbaileyite, the first known silicate of mercury, from California and Texas .....................................Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course...found in low-grade metamorphic rocks produced by mountain building. The crucial characteristic of the environment... ORIGIN OF FADEN STRUCTURE During episodes of mountain building in which the dominant tec­ tonic forces...Crack-healing quartz Lines indicate c-axis direction I Clear quartz overgrowths on the faden 7 Redrawn with
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... 136 Diamond, 8.2 carats, from Black Sands Creek, Beechworth, Victoria. The stone was collected circa...Production Co. P. 0. Box 39100 Lafayette, LA. 70593 California, USA This n otable Australian pegmatite locality...Hedland to the sheep stations surrounding the Cattlin Creek pegmatite field,near Ravensthorpe in the south....(November to April), no water flows in the rivers and creek beds. Daytime temperatures reach 30 to 40 °C with...winter Oune-August), water sometimes flows in the creek beds. Daytime temperatures reach 1520°C with night-time
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proves that they are human also. Before any editors claim that errors do not occur in their journals, let...Poudrette Quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. Occurrence: A single crystal (coated...meters on the southern slope of the Vasilikon mountain chain, 2.5 km WSW of Apikia, Andros Island, Cyclades...Cl Locality: The Anticline prospect, on Mineral Claim 84, on the Ashburton Downs pastoral lease, 11.2...192 ·70H2 O . Locality: Above a cliff along Goble Creek, on the south side of Neer Road, approximately 50
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$384/three years, (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...serving as the General Manager of gold mines in California, New Mexico and Nome, Alaska, as well as of a...for the Golden Queen Mining Company (Mojave, California), followed by Vice President and Head of Operations...prominent California mineralogist and field-collector, was born on January 13, 1937 in San Jose, California...a machinist at Hendy Iron Works in Sunnyvale, California, during World War II, and later worked as a printer
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variety amethyst, sceptre habit, Denny Mountain, King County, Washington, U.S.A. / Photo by Ken Mayer...accurate sources and public-service announcements clear explanations of the name in The Canadian of each...organic geochemistry. Green River Formation, Uinta County, Utah, U.S.A. Trudell, L.C. (1970): Lithologic...Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada. McDonald, AM. & Chao, G.Y. (1994):...Abernathy, operator of the Fumerole mine, Emery County, Utah, U.S.A., who found the first braunite. Mount
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$315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...structures including the headframes of the San Joaquin, San Aquilino and San Teodoro shafts, the former mineralogy...19th centuries and highlighting the old 80-meter San Andrés shaft with its preserved horse-powered winch...sentenced to forced labor in the underground mines. The San Rafael Mining Hospital. The hospital, constructed...rates of illness and death among the miners. The San Rafael Hospital was the most advanced medical facility
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File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...tal if req uired grammatically , if the name has clear Germanic origins o r i f a specific index en t ry...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl...Sun,. \ler111011t, I . 484. (TL} Derby. Vermont. USA. G. Brush ( 1 862) Amer. J. Sci. 34. 2 1 6. classed
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Sharon Cisneros: Minerological Research Co., San Jose, California. Andrew M. Clark: Dept. of Mineralogy, Natural...Currier: Jewel Tunnel Imports, Baldwin Park, California. Stanley Dyl: Seaman Mineralogical Museum, Michigan...Canada. Richard C. Erd: U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, California. Howard T. Evans: U.S.G.S., Reston, Virginia...Claren N. (‘‘Si’’) and Ann Frazier: Berkeley, California. Carl Francis: Mineralogical Museum, Harvard...Paris, France. Legrand A. Gould: Pebble Beach, California. George E. Harlow: Dept. of Min. Sci., American
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rosenhahnite Ca3(H2Si3O10) from Russian River basin, California, USA (d). The spectra were obtained by N.V. Chukanov...South Dakota, USA (b), and garyansellite [nominally, Mg2Fe3+(PO4) (OH)·2H2O] from Rapid Creek area, Yukon...single-crystal FTIR spectrum of pollucite from Maine, USA shows that this mineral also contains CO2 molecules...minerals. In melanophlogite from Mt. Hamilton, California, USA the occupancy factor of the CH4 site in the...zirconosilicate or as carbonatosilicate. Mountain County Infrared Density Measured density Calculated
 
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