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Quartz from
Elf Mine, Smithflat, Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Elf Mine, Smithflat, Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:325833
Long-form Identifier:1:3:325833:0
GUID (UUID V4):e5e38343-724a-4029-9e19-e2b57133c6ee
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
0.0km (0.0 miles) North Star Mine [1], Smithflat, Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Hill Mine, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) Grover Cleveland Mine (Lamont), Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Indian Hill Mine, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Sherman Mine, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Gardener Consolidated Mine (Garder Consolidated; Gardener Cons.), Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) Wilfred Mine, Mosquito Camp, Spanish Flat Mining District, East Belt, El Dorado County, California, USA
3.9km (2.4 miles) McKinley Gold Standard Mine, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) Harrison Mine [1], Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
4.1km (2.5 miles) Gold Bug Mine (Silver Pine Mine; Priest Mine; Gold Bug Lode; Hattie Mine), Hangtown Gold Bug Park, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
References
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Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director DIVISION OF MINES...BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1938 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 5478! LIBRARY UNIVERSITY C- CALIFORNIA D:\ViS 1 DIVISION OF...Geologist C A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid...Reid J. Frank Sanborn, District Mining Engineer District Engineer Mining Engineer Mineral Technologist
Report (volume)
the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green...sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully synthesized
Journal (issue)
............................ by B. Birch 5 California The history of crystallized gold in C a lif o...the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California, by Jules Fricot and donated to the California State mineral...Photo by James Patton. See the article on the California State collection beginning on page 81. Copyright...all been unravelled. On Arizona collection. or quartz or even silver. On the subject of the other hand...exotic. virtually all the value of a wulfenite or a quartz crystal. In fact, The only problem posed by gold’s
Journal (volume)
thorough surprise to the Mining and Scientific Press. possessing the colors of Mining and Scientific Press...Press. ESTABLISHED 1S«50. Oldest Mining; Journal on the American Continent. e. No. 220 Market Street ,...in California and Colorado for '95; Our California Delegation in Congress; The Revival of Mining and...and Mining Machinery; "Jumping," 2. MECHANICAL PROGRESS.— A Drill Sharpening Machine; Silver from Silver...Magnetic Map of the Earth, 8. MINING From the Various Counties of California, Nevada and Other Pacific Coast
Journal (issue)
Weber Mamaroneck, N.Y. Articles Collecting gold mining memorabilia......................................by D. J. Mossman The Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California: a modem source of crystallized...... 365 by E. M. Hjerstedt and M. Hjerstedt California g o ld ........................................advertising 602-299-5274 COVER: GOLD crystals on quartz, from Zlatna, Romania. The longest crystal measures...experiences her interest in mining and minerals began to grow. In 1929 she moved to the mining town of Bisbee and
Report (issue)
U, S. A . • • - I • • • • STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN J. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL...176 DECEMBER 1957 MINERAL COMMODITIES . OF CALIFORNIA • GEOLOGIC OCCURRENCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT...Bureau of Mines United States Geological Survey California Institute of Technology • • ( 3 ) • • ...Xatural enYironment of the mineral resources of California, by Olaf P. Jenkins ______________________________________... -1:;3 Quartz crystal ( electronic grade), by Lauren A. Wright __ __ 459 Quartzite and quartz, by William
Book
XBW8 PRINT. Jkmta, rg f'neifan Comstock Mining and Miners by Eliot Lord A reprint of the 1883...Introduction by DAVID F. MYRICK HOWELL-NORTH Berkeley, California 1959 ACKNOWLEDGMENT For the invaluable assistance...Bancroft Library; James de T. Abajian of the California Historical Society in San Francisco; Mr. Gilbert...Mrs. Bobinson and Dr. Evans of the Society of California Pioneers; Bichard H. Dillon of the Sutro Library...and for the use of their collections. COMSTOCK MINING AND MINERS © Copyright 1959 by Howell-North Books
Journal (issue)
Smelten: Selby, California; East Helena, Montana; El Paso, Texas Lead Refineries: Selby, California; Omaha, Nebraska...Newark, New Jersey; Houston, Texas; San Francisco, California; Montreal, Canada Delivery: F. 0 . B. destination...briefs_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ A new Zambian copper mine will be opened by RST at Kalengwa, in the Northwest...a 600.000 ton deposit of copper running 16~. The mine will cost about $4.2-million. The small, but high-grade...profit was realized from silver, lead and zinc mining in Australia. This is a 33% hike over 1964. The
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mountains. Referred to the Committee on Mines and Mining and ordered to be printed. Treasury Department...general idea No official document in any gress of the mining interest on the Pacific slope. department of the...lowing points 1. The origin of gold and silver mining on the Pacific coast and present condition of that... of the placer diggings and quartz lodes. 3. Different systems of mining, machinery used, processes of...waste, and net profits. 4. Population engaged in mining, exclusively and in part, capital and labor employed
Report (issue)
............................................17 Mining and processing ............................................................................19 California ..........................................................................................87 District of Columbia ....................................Geologic sketch map of the Klamath Mountains in California, showing the locations of talc occurrences ....central Sierra Nevada foothills metamorphic belt, California, showing the locations of talc occurrences .
Journal (volume)
LIBRARY Call No. D >PxL GU A. OS SOD? lEODIID California State Library 7 s VOLUME LXXIV. Nn IQAA...Nevada w^.- *HKI£K UOLXuVKH fKK ANNUM. 2, 1897. Mining Legislation. 'City. \\\'-- Bloffle Copies. ...The Champion Mining Company's properties near The Committee on Legislation of the California Nevada City...hand the proposed well equipped and well managed California mines. bills for presentation to the State Legislature...The reopening of the old G win mine in Calaveras proposed by the Mining and Scientii-io Pkess and A 10-stamp
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Arkansas..........Dr. A. H. Purdue, Nashville, Tenn. California........Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Report (issue)
Geological Survey editorial standards. Menlo Park, California 1985 Bedded/stratiform barite deposits: geologic...in Alaska, and 7 deposits are listed in Texas, California, Arkansas, and Washington. The remainder of the...the economic ore is 50-95% barite and contains quartz, calcite, clay and organic matter as the chief...Kara-gaili in eastern Kazakhstan and in the Kara Kala district in Turkmen (Brobst, 1970). In Asia, additional...Cretaceous porphyritic tuff beds in the Chaeryong-gang district in North Korea. Other stratiform barite occurrences
Book (volume)
..........................................39 California .............................................................................458 Appendix B - Quartz Family Gemstones ................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...includes granites, schists (mica, garnet, graphite, quartz), and gneisses, as well as numerous granite pegmatites...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced
Book (volume)
..........................................39 California .............................................................................460 Appendix B - Quartz Family Gemstones ................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...includes granites, schists (mica, garnet, graphite, quartz), and gneisses, as well as numerous granite pegmatites...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced
Journal (issue)
OF CALIFORNIA'S PIONEER-TOWNS, GHOST-TOWNS AND MINING-CAMPS compiled by B. V. Terry. More than 400 place...white road map with northern California on one side and Southern California on the other. $2.95. TRAVEL...Kern County. Map No. 2 covers the Opal Mountain and Black Canyon areas in San Bernardino County. Map...Map No. 4 is on the Randsburg - El Paso Mountains area. All are on 16x17-inch parchment paper. $1.00 per...color, excellent illustrations, $7.95. LOWER CALIFORNIA GUIDE BOOK by Gerhard and Gulick. The authors
Report (volume)
............................................ California....................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
Journal (issue)
1—Elko county fair and Nevada stat^ livestock show. Aug. 29-Sept. 1^-Nevada rodeo and Humboldt county fair...Aug. 30-Sept. 1—Dig-N-Dogie Days rodeo and Mohave county fair, Kingman, Arizonja. Aug. 30-Sept. 1—Sierra...celebration for oldtimers of Owens Valley, Bishop, California. Volume 10 DESERT TORTOISE. P h o t o g r a...y Fred R a g s d a l e , Los A n g e l e s , California. CALENDAR S e p t e m b e r e v e n t s on...Mexico. NATURE Livestock Sept. 12-14—YaVapai county fair, Prescott, Arizona. Sept. 12-18—National
Journal (issue)
drawn down sharply, a one-third boost in Free Woi·ld mine production will mean a big surplus. Even larger...JaAl!S ·91 al1Je1nn 'Sl wn,ua1as ·t1 ap!lO wn,wpeo 'El wnme1u ·z1 IIP!XO WO!PUI • I I wn,wpeo ·01 a}...output is expected by mid-1967, under a $16.6-million mine and mill expansion. Pima- 50% owned by Cyprus Mines...25', each by Union Oil Co. of California and Utah Construction & Mining- will up present ore output of...tpd to 30,000 tpd at its Tucson, Ariz., open-pit mine. Annual copper content will reach 60,000 tons.
Journal (issue)
$6.00 Scheelite and Powellite from the Oriole Mine Near Minerva, White Pine Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer...1(right): The portal of main haulage adit of the Oriole Mine shows some collapsing timbering but is otherwise...negotiable. Once inside the adit, the condition of the mine is solid and easily passable. Author's image. Calcite... Excalibur Mineral Corp. specimens. 2 Oriole Mine Scheelite & Powellite (Continued from page I) Bob...scheelite underground at the Oriole Mine was our first foray. The mine itselflies on the western edge of
Report (volume)
Clay County. Macon County. Jackson County. Transylvania County. Swain County. Haywood County. Buncombe...Buncombe County . Madison County. Yancey County. Mitchell County . Watauga County . Wilkes County. Ashe County...County . Alleghany County . Physiography and ecology of the peridotites. 28 28 29 32 34 35 36 38 42 46...region, Clay County, North Carolina. Elf dunite. Elf amphibole-peridotite. Elf troctolite. Elf amphibolite...amphibolite. Elf gabbro. Shooting Creek dunite. Thumping Creek hypersthenite. 66 66 66 67 68 69 H H 12 8 CONTENTS
Journal (issue)
Weelclv Price Authority Published by Engineering and Mining Journal Sine• 1930 A McGRAW•HILL PUBLICATION VoL...Japanese producers are seeking export business. Mitsui Mining and Smelting initiated the drop August 1. There...tin ore has been found at the Great Adventure tin mine - operated by Metals Exploration N.L. More drilling...drilling operations are scheduled before any actual mining is carried out Carmet Co. will raise tungsten carbide...deposits at Sove near Ulefoss in the Telemark district for twelve years. Commercial production began
Journal (issue)
Oil has finally succeeded in selling its Cordero mine. New ldria \vas the buyer. And in other markets...1960. Washington's largest underground lead-zinc mine is operating at only 67% total capacity because...underway at Spokane National Mines, at Beaverhead County, Monl Production has been coming from several of...of its mines. The Yugoslavian asbestos mine atBosansko Petrovo Selo in Bosnia will be expanded and modernized...mill. In addition, Micro's uranium-vanadium ore mining operations will continue. Bids for the GSA graphite
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Diamond M Tourmaline fQl Ruby, O Sapphire Quartz crystal 'y^ Garnet — Azu rite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...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
Journal (issue)
LANDON CO. P.O. BOX 4265, JOSHUA 148 TREE, CALIFORNIA Editors Memo Pad nat n be s I ! fit of those...enrougn the gen ty of Joseph '‘ ¢ , “oe se } nas a I . el ; } . ‘ a : | fy , aE . ‘ . " | ‘ . a ' hoblhy ....near El Dorado Springs ma reek bed. To investigate th Route 82 one mile north and east of El Dorado Springs...excellent tip n how t learn the correct names of minera el SUPPORT!! Earth Science Subscribe Today 150 by...g1 s were nte« ca itions and changed t lartzite e mine} erteda t vas ce The cla ericit The fossils were
 
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