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Chalcedony from
Castle Butte, California City, Kern County, California, USA


Locality type:Table/Butte
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Castle Butte, California City, Kern County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1081010
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1081010:5
GUID (UUID V4):25b8b1a9-e02d-4fcb-ae2e-efd3ed8a9b8e
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony
31.0km (19.3 miles) Red Rock Canyon prospects, Ricardo, El Paso Mountains District, Kern County, California, USA
31.8km (19.8 miles) Soledad Mountain (Butte Mountain), Mojave, Mojave-Rosamond Mining District (Mojave Mining District), Kern County, California, USA
34.9km (21.7 miles) Unspecified Chalcedony occurrence(s) [1], Last Chance Canyon, El Paso Mountains District, Kern County, California, USA
37.7km (23.4 miles) Gem Hill, Rosamond Hills, Rosamond, Mojave-Rosamond Mining District (Mojave Mining District), Kern County, California, USA
38.4km (23.9 miles) Horse Canyon Agate Beds (Cache Creek), Sugarloaf Mountain, Loraine Mining District, Kern County, California, USA
42.4km (26.3 miles) Rainbow Ridge, Goler Heights, El Paso Mountains District, Kern County, California, USA
61.9km (38.5 miles) Opal Mountains Agate Field prospect (Black Mountain; Black Mtn), Opal Mountain, San Bernardino County, California, USA
70.4km (43.7 miles) Pedry Mine (San Antonio Mine; Pedry deposit; Golden Witch Mine; Golden Witch deposit), Mount General (Mt General), Hinkley, Barstow Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
73.6km (45.8 miles) Unnamed Agate-Quartz occurrence [2], Robbers Mountain, San Bernardino County, California, USA
77.8km (48.3 miles) Collecting Site Mine, Antelope Valley, Acton, Acton Mining District, Los Angeles County, California, USA
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THE SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...The Southwestern Quadrant Arizoni, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisicna, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...treasured friend, Frank A. Greene, Jr. of Coal City, Illinois | ae a nem ee as - @ lan aus...Mineral Location Numbers Arizona Arkansas California Colorado 258 Louis B30 ana HOW TO USE...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible
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..... Boron Travertine..................... Castle Butte Petrified Palm................. Victorville...Francisquito Gold.................................. Lonely Butte Petrified Reed..................... Four Corners...roses, 3") Aragonite is reportedly found here 2) Chalcedony DESCRIPTION OF MATERIAL T) Sagenite occurs as...jewelry. ! 2) Chalcedony roses. EQUIPMENT NEEDED Small, white rosettes of chalcedony. Rock pick HOW...you can find pieces suitable for cutting. The chalcedony roses are spread over this same general area
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describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...Kemp of Chicago, Illinois, Marcus Daly Pruett of Butte, Montana, Walter Wright of the Prospectors Shop...nodule may contain a center of surrounded by chalcedony easily discernible quartz crystals that crystalline...mass. Tenacity is a quality closely allied chalcedony and jasper, because of their makeup, are tougher...Dakota, liquid in the solidifying dike. and California are world-famous gem sources. igneous material
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..........................................49 California ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map ..........................................
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Areal .Geology of the ,,. Western Mojave Desert California .. GEOLOGICAL b SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER... Areal Geology of the Western· Moj.ave Desert California By TI-IOMAS W. DIBBLEE, ]R. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY... AREAL GEOLOGY OF THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT CALIFORNIA .,. Aerial view looking nol'thwest o,·er the...central areas ______________________ _ Antelope Butte, Rosamond, and Mojave areas __ Gem Hill Formation..._ Bissell Formation ______________________ _ Castle Butte, Boron, and Kramer Hills areas __ _ Unnamed
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............................................ California................................................mineralogic reports, especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota,...Bulletin, 1912. Eakle, A. S., Minerals of California: California State Min. Bur. Bull. 67, 1914. George...Palo Alto. Prof. Arthur S. Eakle, University of California,- Berkeley. Colorado_____Prof. R. D. George,...Indianapolis. Iowa___ __Prof. George F. Kay, Iowa City. Kansas_____Prof. Erasmus Haworth, Lawrence. Kentucky____Mr
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..........................................39 California ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a
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..........................................39 California ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a
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Anima.s (Afton Canyon) in the Mojave Desert, California. Photo by Jerry Strong. I DESErt TGEM TrtAJLS...$2.00 Published By G E M B O O K S MENTONE CALIFORNIA 92359 Copyright @ 1966 by Gembooks T A B...Mountain Boron Kramer Hills Castle Butte -- Boron Dry Lakes Lonely Butte Gem Hill Verde Antique Quarry...Mucbacho Mountains 79 76 76 77 A R I Z ON A Castle Dome Area Kofa Fire Agate Crystal Hill, Cibola...with a notice of claim must be erected and in California, six boundary markers must be put up. A "discovery"
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MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Johnson, of Napa, California; Norman and Betty Lemkau of Castro Valley, California; Herbert V. Corbett...and Washington beaches, the Mojave desert of California and the Sonoran desert of Arizona, the lake beaches...tourmaline by the bushel basketful in Maine and California; emerald in North Carolina, a big diamond or...easily discernible quartz crystals surrounded by chalcedony that is crystalline only to the eye of the microscope
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Leicht KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle...of a pascoite group mineral at a mine in Grand County, Utah. Died, Alex Earl, 26 Jayson Alexander (“Alex”)...the Mineral Collectors of Utah club in Salt Lake City shortly thereafter and quickly fell in with the...West. A trip to the Blue Bell mine near Baker, California, in 2016 was particularly influential in solidifying...then had partnered with Tyler Bennett, a Salt Lake City silversmith, to create beryl jewelry, and when we
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LIBRARY 3 1111 01599 4096 Rocks and Minerals of California THIRD REVISED EDITION NATUREGRAPH PUBLISHERS...LIBRARY GA BAPAEL CALIFORALA Rocks and Minerals of California THIRD REVISED EDITION Color Photographs W...greatly indebted to Dr. Gordon Oakeshott of the California State Division of Mines for his kind examination... Mrs. Eleanor M. Learned, who worked for the California Division of Mines and Geology, for looking over...Lactic ialiv ess Winib baie A wa ar Minerals of California................. 02... OTST TSS IGE Ee a, I RS
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colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...to the end of 1974. John Sinkankas San Diego, California July, 1975 JOHWSTUPAW.N19,901 Gene ay Derek...Southern Onyx and Marble Company of San Diego, California, furnished information and a photograph on the...the calcite onyx deposits of Baja California. Owen H. Perry of Marine Minerals, Inc., formerly of Helena...was also supplied by Dowse’s Agate Shop, Salt Lake City, Utah, by William J. Bingham of St. Paul, Minnesota
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LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive...RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND GEOLOGY COUNTY REPORT 1 i y... Front cover: The exceedingly varied terrain of Kern County is shown by the brown section— from McKittrick...Sierra Nevada and Owens Peak (highest point in the county); on the east (right side) is the sharp descent...RESOURCES OF KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By BENNIE W. TROXEL, mining geologist California Division of
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Vincenzo de Michele. curator of mineralogy at the City Museum of Natural History in M ilan , wrote : •...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...underground. At the other great copper center, Butte, Montana. former underground mines have been opened...such as th e c ryptoc rystalline quartz known as chalcedony, filled with c rystals of the same mineral and...complex habits exist. One form gets its name from the city in Germany; the other from an Italian source Beyond
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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
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Quadrangles California By T. W. DIBBLEE, JR. GEOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DESERTS GEOLOGICAL...Generalized geologic map of the Mojave Desert region, California, showing geologic setting of the Willow Springs...FIGURE 5. Index map of Mojave Desert and vicinity, California, showing location of area mapped.___________...SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DESERTS GEOLOGY OF THE WILLOW SPRINGS AND ROSAMOND QUADRANGLES, CALIFORNIA By T. W...metamorphic rocks in the 141 142 GEOLOGY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA DESERTS Tehachapi Mountains. The sequence of
 
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