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Chalcedony from
Afton Canyon, Afton, Cady Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA


Locality type:Canyon
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite4 photos of Chalcedony associated with Calcite at this locality.
Agate1 photo of Chalcedony associated with Agate at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Afton Canyon, Afton, Cady Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (4 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:157883
Long-form Identifier:1:3:157883:6
GUID (UUID V4):d23f4b6f-6c86-41c6-a4a4-df163547f891
Localities for Chalcedony in this Region
Mojave River Road, Afton Canyon, Afton, Cady Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony
6.9km (4.3 miles) Mojave River Road, Afton Canyon, Afton, Cady Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
18.0km (11.2 miles) Cady Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
18.5km (11.5 miles) Wide Valley Agate occurrence, Cady Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
23.1km (14.4 miles) B-Site, Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
23.1km (14.4 miles) C-Site, Blue Bell Mine, Zzyzx, Soda Mountains, Silver Lake Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
31.2km (19.4 miles) Alvord Mine, Alvord Peak, Alvord District, Alvord Mountain, San Bernardino County, California, USA
43.7km (27.1 miles) Black Raven prospect (Lankin; Newberry), Newberry Springs, Newberry Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
59.3km (36.9 miles) Calico District (Daggett District; Calico-Daggett area), Calico Mts (Calico Hills), San Bernardino County, California, USA
63.8km (39.6 miles) Barium Queen Mine, Mitchel Range, Barstow Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
65.6km (40.7 miles) Chalcedony Pseudomorphs occurrence, Mud Hills (Strontium Hills), Barstow Mining District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
References
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Book (edition)
A Field Guide to the Most Important Areas in California. by DAROLD J. HENRY, A.B., M.S. FIRST E D1T...AROLD J. HENRY 1781 Fleming Street P omona, California 2 GEM TRAIL JOURNAL Table of Contents FOREWORD...FOSSIL HUNTER SONOMA COUNTY HUMBOLDT COUNTY CARPENTERIA FOSSILS SAN MATEO COUNTY FOSSILS SANTA BARBARA...MONTEREY COUNTY SAN BENITO JADEITE CINNABAR LOCALITY DARWIN MINERALS . BAKER'S DOZEN RED ROCK CANYON AND LAST...LAST CHANCE CANYON KERN COUNTY DRY LAICOUNTY ONYX DEPOSIT WILDROSE CANYON . . . . . BROWN
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on collecting. by DAROLD J. HENRY Author of California Gem Trails, Gem Trail Journal, The Rock Collector's...naturalist, a miner­ alogist, and an educator in California schools as well as a writer of many articles... Gordon, 1810 E. Anaheim Street, Long Beach, California No portions of this book may be reproduced in... I l ti CALIFORNIA GEM TRAILS TABLE OF CONTENTS * FOREWORD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA....................................... WARNER MOUNTAINS.................................... * 3 NORTHERN BORDER LOCALITY
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Areas in California . By DAROLD J . HENRY, Assoc. Prof. Mt. San Anton io College Pomona, California SECOND...1850 E. Pacific Coast Highway, Long Beach 6, California No portions of this book moy be reproduced in...NORTHER:-J CALIFORNIA SONO J\IA OUN TY ANTA RO A . H Ui\IDOLOT O NTY GARl3ERV I LLE: SAN BEN ITO COUN...JADEIT E: S AN BEN IT O JADE SKETCH . J\IONTEREY COUNTY i\fON TEREY NEPHRITF. S IU,TCH PARKPIELO DISTRICT...ONYX INYO COUNTY ONYX DEPOSIT SKET CH DEATH VALLEY . TIN MOUNTAIN . . BAD\VATER ARTIST CANYON TRAIL CANYON
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in Canon Rio de las Anima.s (Afton Canyon) in the Mojave Desert, California. Photo by Jerry Strong. I...$2.00 Published By G E M B O O K S MENTONE CALIFORNIA 92359 Copyright @ 1966 by Gembooks T A B...Chalfant Valley Petroglyphs 9 Cerro Gordo 9 Sacatar Canyon 10 Carthage Creek 11 Deep Springs Crystals 11 Crystal...Sheep Springs 18 Crystals Near Cinco 19 El Paso Mountains 20 Ricardo Basalt 20 Cowden Opal Mine 20 Hidden...19) Red Rock Canyon Area 22 Dry Falls and Roaring Ridge 22 Buried Petrified Forest 23 Canyon View Wood 23
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SHOP 74-425 Highway 111 at Deep Canyon Road Palm Desert, California STORE HOURS: 10:00-3:00 MONDAY THRU...desert day. Photo by Josef Muench, Santa Barbara, California. 8 Bill Jennings CRIME STOP ON THE DESERT...DESERT 16 Albert U. Millspaugh NEVADA'S COLD MOUNTAINS(S) 20 Betty Shannon RETRACING THE TONOPAH &...TIDEWATER RAILROAD 24 Bob and Ana Cook MISSION SAN XAVIER DEL BAC 28 Howard Neal MOPAH SPRING 30...ADVERTISING OFFICES: 74-425 Highway 111, Palm Desert, California 92260. Telephone Area Code 714 346-8144 listed
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KDES-FM-STEREO 105 611 South Palm Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, California 92262 Phone (714) 325-1211 WILLIAM...MONUMENT TUNNEL TO OBLIVION DEATH VALLEY'S TITUS CANYON GOLD IN CENTRAL PARK! THE COVER: Containing as...Holbrook. Photograph by Robert F. Campbell, Concord, California. THE PECULIAR PECCARY AGATE IN THE ALVORD HILLS...ADVERTISING OFFICES: 74-109 Larrea St., Palm Desert, California 92260. Telephone Area Code 714 346-8144. Listed...monthly. Second class postage paid at Palm Desert, California and at additional mailing offices under Act of
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— the agate. Lelande Quick La Jolla (San Diego), California Vll Acknowledgments After book a...collecting in several states, par- ticularly in California. To refresh been made my memory and to ...Boyer of La Jolla, California. Lelande Quick La Jolla (San Diego), California IX Contents Preface...and quartz the favorite gem- tention to other chalcedony gems The agate also. is gem of America....form of chalcedony. known how not is among the popular impression rockhounds that chalcedony agate
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crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are famous for Lava known...crystal and a cut specimen of kunzite. Found in California, kunzite lilac or Diamond in matrix. Rough...River country of Utah or the far southern part of California, is no place for a human being in the summer;...material that cannot be taken away. Some of the California thunder egg localities have been ravaged who...found in the United way from North Carolina to California and from Wisconsin. Some are found in the rock
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Wilcla Boyer of La Jolla, California. AFTER A 1 Lt::LANDJ:: Qu1cK La Jolla (San Dicg;o), (ialifor11ia...p op11lar impression amon g rockhot1nds that chalcedony is a form of agate, ust1ally a term t1 sed specifically...the reverse js tr11e, for agate is a forn1 of chalcedony. It is n ot kno,vn how this word (pronot1nced...jasper, or conglomeratio11 of cemented pebbles in chalcedony, and is called pudding stone in the gem trade...snuff bottle with streamers of milky quartz in chalcedony. Cutting through the ends of the streamers giver
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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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THE SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...The Southwestern Quadrant Arizoni, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisicna, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...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...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text
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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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ROADSIDE 4% JrEoLocy or SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARTHUR GIBBS SYLVESTER AND ELIZABETH O’ BLACK GANS IGagsine... IGagsine ~%_ JEOLOGY of SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARTHUR GIBBS SYLVESTER ILLUSTRATED BY ELIZABETH O’BLACK...based on the 2010 Geologic Map of California, published by the California Geological Survey, and on maps...Elizabeth, 1971- Title: Roadside geology of southern California / Arthur Gibbs Sylvester and Elizabeth O’Black...paper) Subjects: LCSH: Geology—California, Southern—Guidebooks. | California, Southern—Guidebooks. Classification:
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OCTOBER, 1971 , 50j Desert Magazine Book Shop CALIFORNIA by David Muench and Ray Atkeson. Two of the West's...vibrations of the oceans, lakes, mountains and deserts of California. Their photographic presentations...is the story of the 1906 stampede to the Black Mountains and how $30,000,000 disappeared. Paperback, historic...material, 86 pages $2.50. TRAVEL GUIDES TO BAJA CALIFORNIA by Ken and Caroline Bates. Published the Editors...companion piece to Gerhard and Gulick's Lower California Handbook and Cliff Cross's Baja by Road, Airplane
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together a selection of 52 of their trips through California taken from their Happy Wanderer travel shows...Guide to the Sierra San Pedro Martir and Sierra Juarez of upper Baja California. Paper, $2.95. ALL OF...ORDER (Not Each Book) for handling and mailing California residents add 5 percent sales tax, regardless...order to Desert Magazine Book Shop, Palm Desert, California 92260. Sorry, but we cannot accept charges or...HISTORIC SPOTS IN CALIFORNIA Revised by William N. Abeloe. Only complete guide to California landmarks with
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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...thousands of amateurs venture every year into the mountains and deserts of North America, they enjoy not only...and the Grand Canyon, the Oregon and Washington beaches, the Mojave desert of California and the Sonoran...up during a stroll on a beach or a hike in the mountains first aroused their interest. earth sciences
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enthusiastic research in the field of Carmel, California, where her chief occupation just now is experimenting...of California, during those excursions when she loads NINA PAUL SHUMWAY of Coachella, California, has...Palm Springs — On Indian Avenue. Just 813 N. Palm Canyon Dr. Ph. 5353 South of Indian Mineral Springs continued...their moonlight hike; camp at mouth of Tahquitz canyon. W. E. "Andy" Andrews, leader. Miss Betty Bole...6 Buffalo dance at Taos pueblo; Eagle dance at San Ildefonso pueblo. 7-9 American National Livestock
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ENCLOSING TOURMALINE (Tourmalinated Quartz) Jefferson County, Montana •) ROCKS and Edited and Publlahed...THE MOJAVE By W. SCOTT LEWIS Tourists entering California by way of the Union Pacific from Salt Lake City...with barren mountains, and wish it didn't take so long to reach the orange groves of the San Gabriel Valley...walked into the Monagan & Murphy Bank at Needles, California, and deposited. $57,000 in gold which they said...prospecting in the beautiful Cascade Mountains, in Deschutes County, Oregon, by chance I ran across a deposit
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...a THE MOST FAVORABLE CONDITIONS Summer is mountains, for hunting minerals is recommended for trips...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic...glittering calcite or quartz Often these can be California, in in Southwestern Maine, around the town
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fall Summer Is recommended for trips to the high mountains when the heat makes collecting ,n caves and rock...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...town of Pans. and the rugged area north and east of San Diego Cal1forn1a, have long astonished collectors...war He also practically tore th e heart out of mountains to get stones for his temples, pyramids, and obelisks...pits, such as the enormous copper mine at Bingham Canyon, Utah, althoug h here some tunnels, known to miners
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ROBERT M. GEOLOGY OF CALIFORNIA 79 r793 HILLSDALE BRANC0 San Mateo Public Library San Mateo, CA 94402 “Questions...“Questions Answered" Geology of California Cover Illustration: Dome This monolith of granite stood...Nevada was formed. Half Dome is one of the famous mountains of North America. (Photo by Spence Air Photos...courtesy of Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles.) Half Frontpiece in Yosemite...Geography, University of California, Los Angeles.) * > Geology of California Robert M. Norris, Professor
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Voynick By Bob Jones 20 SOUTHWEST SUMMER Exploring San Juan Mountain Mining History 50 FIELD TRIP FOCUS...elevation of 8,850 feet in southwest Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, a relatively young range of 14,000-foot-high...after the Laramide Orogeny had uplifted the Rocky Mountains 65 million years ago. Following the Laramide uplift...lengthy period of intense volcanism built the San Juan Mountains. Some 26 million years ago, a small volcano...S U RV I VOR solidified into massive veins of chalcedony, banded agate, amethystine quartz, native silver
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ADVERTISING OFFICES: 74-109 Larrea St., Palm Desert, California 92260. Telephone Area Code 714 346-8144. Listed...monthly. Second class postage paid at Palm Desert. California and at additional mailing offices under Act of...Co. 1 6 2 3 8 Lakewood Boulevard BELLFLOWER, CALIFORNIA 90706 M Tut Tour I n Sing with tfcess ENTION...located southeast of Holtville in Imperial County, California. This plant is projected to reduce salinity...issue has two recreation areas featured, one in California and the other in Utah. Water Ford's Room to Spare
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T O THAN OILS USED TO FORM IMONLY JAN APR OF CALIFORNIA J A S K your Union Oil Minute Man about the...—Rodeo and horse show, Fillm e, Utah. July 2 —Sevier county fair and rodeo, Ri field, Utah. July 2 —Pioneer...1 —Summer visitors' tour, Oak ;ek, Call o' the Canyon, Montela Castle, sponsored by the Flagst f Cavaliers...Cavaliers, Flagstaff, Arizona. July 1 —Feast Day of San Buenavenfiesta and corn dance, Cochiti tu P :blo...the Flagstaff Cavaliers, ;staff, Arizona. July -26—San Juan Day, fiesta and ices, Taos pueblo, New Mexico
 
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