| | Report (volume) | localities in California where diamonds have been found are: Smith River, Del Norte County; Trinity River...River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville and Webber Hill, El Dorado...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great | | | Book | Northwestern University; John Melhase, Berkeley, California; E. Mitchell Gunnell, University of Missouri;...of Natural History; WilHam Pitts, Sunny \^le, California; D. H. Newland, New York State Museum; Prof....the School of Mines at Columbia for one Prairie Creek in gold. in With this capital Why Know Quartz...well-developed quartz crystals found in Herkimer County, New York. Again the terms "Medfordite" and ""Oregonite"...warrant a local name. The orbicular jasper of California is sometimes called "Egyptian jasper." Then there | | | Book | talus slope in the Antelope Valley in Southern California where the rock fragments seemed to have a rich...Again, some of the best specimens from Emerald Creek in Idaho have been found by indi¬ viduals standing...famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...beds on the west slopes of the Sierra Nevada in California and a few scattered stones have been located...than the yellow and red stones. Beryl occurs in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Maine |
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