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Sphalerite from
Defender Mine, Pioneer, West Point Mining District, East Belt, Amador County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Defender Mine, Pioneer, West Point Mining District, East Belt, Amador County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:322348
Long-form Identifier:1:3:322348:2
GUID (UUID V4):5b2a37c4-d5bf-4013-baa0-c4060500c252
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
1.1km (0.7 miles) Elkhorn Mine (Haywire Mine), Pioneer, West Point Mining District, East Belt, Amador County, California, USA
3.6km (2.2 miles) Belden Mine, Barton, West Point Mining District, East Belt, Amador County, California, USA
4.1km (2.6 miles) Centennial Mine (New Champion Mine), West Point, West Point Mining District, East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
5.4km (3.4 miles) Blackstone Mine, West Point, West Point Mining District, East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
8.8km (5.5 miles) Tellurium Mine, Pine Grove, Pine Grove Mining District, East Belt, Amador County, California, USA
9.9km (6.1 miles) Pine Grove Unit Mine, Pine Grove, Pine Grove Mining District, East Belt, Amador County, California, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Forest Creek Mine, Wilseyville, West Point Mining District, East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
13.3km (8.2 miles) Golden Shearer Mine (A.V.G. Mine), Railroad Flat, Railroad Flat Mining District, East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
15.2km (9.4 miles) Black Wonder Mine, Fuchs, Blue Mountain Mining District, East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
16.3km (10.1 miles) Boston Mine (Boston Consolidated; Esperanza), Mokelumne Hill, Mokelumne Hill Mining District, East Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
References
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Report (issue)
nomenclature. 1. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction.............deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...in the Sierra Nevada, California (Clark, 1970); Klamath Mountains, California-Oregon (Hotz, 1971); and...likely to be present include pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and arsenopyrite (Berger, 1986). These minerals...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent
Report (issue)
^^titOrpi^ Ir^j, Oiioi ,^irornis ,, STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL...FRANCISCO Chief DECEMBER 144 COPPER IN (In CALIFORNIA Three Parts, Including Outline Geologic Map...States Department of the Interior Department of Mining, Stanford University liCD LIBRARY 1948 : ...Honorable Earl Warren Governor of the State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...herewith Bulletin 144, Copper in California, prepared under the direction of Olaf P. Jenkins, Chief of the
Journal (issue)
involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at the Pomona Fairgrounds Mrs. Kay Robertson...103341/ona Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90064 This year's California Show was held again in Pomona, but luckily in...the variety of minerals occurring in Southern California, there are many excellent field collectors. ...never did get around to the dealers at the north-east end! Which I regret very much. This was a wonderful...stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens
Report (issue)
DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 193 California Division of Mines and Geology Sacramento, California, 1970...By William B. DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA Clark Geologist, California Division of Mines & Geology...Geology, Sacramento, California UNIVERSITY LIBRARY U.C DAVIS '~'^ JUL 'I 'i GOV INFO or"! BULLETIN 193...and gold mining of publications have no single report or to the gold deposits in California. Although...Although on treatise a vast California, there in of the knov/n gold-bearing districts in the state.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1 (above). Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen...(below). Fluorite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9...outwash deposits. The Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district in the extreme southeast corner of the state has...to the mid-1970s were documented with the exact mine or in many cases even the correct subdistrict. In...Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district. This area has been an active mining district from about the middle of
Report (issue)
Page Chapter I — Introduction 9 Location of district geologic Earlier 9 summary Historical 10...Fluorite 25 Calcite 25 Quartz Galena 25 26 Sphalerite 27 Pyrite 29 Chalcopyrite 30 Barite 30...deposits General statement 45 Distribution 45 Mining methods 45 Occurrence 46 Two 46 types of...Oil and bitumen —Origin Chapter IV Chapter V—Mine 64 of the fluorspar deposits 67 data, vein deposits...Reserves and production Hillside 71 72 vein Mine workings Vein walls and included fragments 73
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE...Letter of Transmittal 5 Map 6 Outline o['. California Preface 7 Introduction 11 Native Elements
Report (volume)
silver ores remain at the surface in this old mining district UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE,................................................. Mining history .........................................Colorado Map showing principal mining area of Silver Cliff-Rosita mining district and areas of detailed sampling...element's in galena and sphalerite from the Silver Cliff-Rosita mining district .........................of Oligocene age in the Silver Cliff-Rosita mining district of south-central Colorado discloses that appreciable
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in...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)
M^iajKaMVMtrVMMIMMVW^- 'Vv s > MINERALS Of CALIFORNIA BULl,ETIN N«, 91 issei0 BY rr: ^ ;wIFORNIA...BULLETIN [November, 1922 No. 91 Minerals of California $ BY ARTHUR S. EAKLE, Ph. D. Professor...Mineralogy, University of California COMPLIMENTS OF ^^^foyd Sc, c/iosty GIST CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE...Stephens, Governor of the State of California, Sacramento, California Sir: I have the honor to transmit...upon the minerals of California. This bulletin records our knowledge of California minerals to date,
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael...group, 13 cm, w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection;...York; the Helvetia district, Arizona; O ntario’s Grenville Province; the Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York;...Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin Island; the fluorite mines of Madoc, Ontario;
Report (issue)
] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF... Chief BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia,...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...JenlCalifornia, Chief of the Division of Mines. Minerals of California is one of the Division's
Book
^ '“ P r . . . I West Orange SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY 9048 00992838 7 257989 R q549...q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T 5 w! balJ E...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch
Book
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...Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. L35 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold...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
Report (issue)
88-91. 1. Zinc ores-Colorado. 2. Zinc mines and mining-Colorado. I. Title. (Series) For sale by the Superintendent...__ ___ __ __ __ __ __ _____ Kokomo (Ten ~ile) district _______ ._________________________ Breckenridge... Leadville (California) district_______________________________ ~osquito Range district, including some..._______________ _____ __ __ ____ ____ __ __ _ 87 Spar district _________________________._ __ ____ __ __ ____...known oxidized zinc deposits in Leadville mining district, Colorado. 3. Oxidized zinc deposits of the
Report (volume)
FLUORSPAR AREAS IN HARDIN COUNTY ILLINOIS Part 1. GEOLOGY OF THE CAVE IN ROCK DISTRICT Part 2. AN EXPLORATORY...GEOPHYSICAL SUEVEY OF FLUOKSPAE AEEAS IN HABDIN COUNTY ILLINOIS PART 1. GEOLOGY OF THE GATE IN BOCK DISTEICT..._________ Part 1. Geology of the Cave in Rock district, by. L. W. Currier, with the collaboration of...________-_---___-_ Importance of Cave in Rock district._____----____-____-__-__-___ Geologic features...evidences of faulting east of mapped area. Fluorspar deposits of the district--..------------ ._-----_____
Report (volume)
BANCROFT INCLUDING A SECTION ON THE REPUBLIC MINING DISTRICT BY WALDEMAR LINDGREN AND HOWLAND BANCROFT....... History of mining activity.............................................. Mining and metallurgy....................................... Methods of mining................................................... The mining districts and ore deposits....................................... Stevens County.............................................. Metaline district..............................................
Report (issue)
pyrrhotite-pyrite deposits in 11 crystalline rocks west of the Blue Ridge. 12 complex ores of gold, copper...along the borders of a granite body in Halifax 18 County. 19 and Vanoe Counties. 20- Tungsten minerals...occur with sulfides in vein|j deposits in Cabarrus County. 21 22 23 24 25- U. S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE:...characteristics of the rocks. 17 The provinces are, from east to west, the Coastal Plain, in which no 18 metallic...highly dissected mountain plateau bounded on the east by 22 the Blue Ridge Mountains which rise as a
Journal (issue)
recent history of the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district. I had wanted to hold this gathering since the...pulling out. That was the death-knell for fluorite mining in the United States, the e~d of 163 year-long...quartz, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. 2 Mineral News The 9th Maine Mineral...Tovey gave detailed insight into the mining at the Wise fluorite mine, Westmoreland, New Hampshire. The...The Rocks and Minerals article (Vol. 65) on the mine does not adequately convey the beauty of the fluorites
Book (volume)
..........................................49 California ...........................................................................................525 West Virginia ........................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map
Book
stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...address Harper 6 Row, Publishers, Incorporated, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y. * FIRST EDITION... An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K 4 I CONTENTS
Book (volume)
..........................................39 California ...........................................................................................429 West Virginia .........................................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
Book (volume)
..........................................39 California ...........................................................................................431 West Virginia .........................................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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
left). Fluorite, Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England. This transparent...(center left). Fluorite, Dow Scar level, Hilton mine, near Appleby, Scordale, Cumbria, England. This...conditions, Rosiclare level, Denton mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois. The specimen is 8...attributed to the Lead Hill area, Cave-in-Rock district, Hardin County, Illinois, and is 5.5 cm. Ross Lillie specimen...San Francisco, California 94107 jef520@comcast.net ROSS LILLIE 7249 Woodlore Drive West Bloomfield, Michigan
Journal (volume)
A STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES v CALIFORNIA IOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY ...Fiscal Year, July 1, 1952, to June 30, 1953..- California Mineral Commodities in 1951 Mines and Mineral...FRANCISC6 CALIFORNIA*- DAVIS California 149 California OF MlNE&siTY of AV,S RY I ( 59 Amador County...County, IRY BUILDING, 9 LIBRARY STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT. Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL...11 1954 CALIFORNIA IOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY Price $1.00 No. 1 STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN
 
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