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Gold from
Sharp Mine, Five Mile Terrace, Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Sharp Mine, Five Mile Terrace, Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:326424
Long-form Identifier:1:3:326424:9
GUID (UUID V4):91fd874e-59ad-40cd-a4eb-3e89ee030fe1
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
1.0km (0.7 miles) Maple Leaf placer (Blakely), Five Mile Terrace, Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Myers Placer Mine, Camino, Newtown Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
2.3km (1.5 miles) One Spot Mine (Sailor Jack), Camino, Newtown Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
2.8km (1.7 miles) Fort Jim Placer (Fort Jim Consolidated), Old Fort Jim, Newtown Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Fossati (Nicolas Fossati; Tunnel), Camino, Newtown Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Sailor Jack Placer Mine, Newtown (Dogtown), Newtown Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
3.2km (2.0 miles) Benfeldt Rogers claim (John Benfeldt claim; Benfeldt; Rogers), Smithflat, Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Elbert Property Placer Mine, Newtown (Dogtown), Newtown Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Herrin Property Placer Mine (Herrin Prop.), Newtown (Dogtown), Newtown Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
3.3km (2.0 miles) Try Again Mine (Last Chance Mine), Texas Hill, Placerville (Hangtown), Placerville Mining District, El Dorado County, California, USA
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Field Trip Notes
Q E S5 W63 1994 EART ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY OF THE MOTHER LODE 1994 Gregg Wilkerson...| LIBRARY UNIVERSITY or California … • * * ** ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY º OF THE MOTHER...Field Trip Program Mother Lode '94 Bakersfield District Office Bureau of Land Managmement 3801 Pegasus...55 Plymouth to Placerville . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Placerville to Auburn. . .... . . 14 TV QFºo 5-M/43 ROADSIDE GEOLOGY AND MINING HISTORY OF THE MOTHER |*4 EART LODE Gregg Wilkerson
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C3 A3 NO. 193 C.2 GOLD DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 193 California Division of Mines and...Geology Sacramento, California, 1970 GOLD By William B. DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA Clark Geologist...Geologist, California Division of Mines & Geology, Sacramento, California UNIVERSITY LIBRARY U.C DAVIS '~'^...though Nugget. This 201 -ounce (troy) cluster of gold on display in the Division of Mines and Geology...Geology San Francisco's Ferry Building. Melted down as gold, it would be worth tome seven or eight The Fricof
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IgtmmtSlTY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University...University of California, Davis Libraries http://archive.org/details/reportofstatemin15cali CALIFORNIA STATE...STATE MINING BUREAU FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO ^LETCHER HAMILTON State Mineralogist [December, 1917...PORTIONS OF CALIFORNIA Chapters of State Mineralogist's Report Biennial Period 1915-1916 CALIFORNIA STATE...OFFICE SACRAMENTO 19 19 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY Cr CALIFORNIA Da v I S CONTENTS. Page Administrative
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Box Six Sausalito, • California __.I IN BOX SIX SAUSALITO CALIFORNIA s__J ... The late nineteenth...and drama to the Gold Rush of California. People the world over were reinfected by mining fever, Including...Californians who had not yet recovered from the gold epidemic. Some decamped immediately for Africa;...in their own back yards. Here in California, though no paying mine was discovered, a considerable number...much as $5,000 were recovered from the hydraulic gold mines of the Mother Lode. Although this figure was
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Geologic Setting of Gold Occurrences in the Big Canyon Area, El Dorado County, California By ROBERT L. EARHART...Geologic setting of gold occurrences in the Big Canyon area, El Dorado County, California. (U.S. Geological...Supt. of Docs. No.: I 19.3:1576 1. Gold areas California El Dorado County. QE75.B9 no. 1576 557.3 s [553...alteration 9 Gold occurrences 10 Big Canyon mine and related occurrences 10 Vandalia mine 12 Conclusions... Geologic Setting of Gold Occurrences in the Big Canyon Area, El Dorado County, California By Robert L. Earhart
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annal s of the Northern min ing region, including El Dorado Placer a d Nevada Count ies, from 1848 to 1987...Norman. Gold, guns & gQallantry ¢: a collection of true stories from annals of the northern California gold...gold mining. region, including El Dorado, Placer, Mi and Nevada Counties, from 1848 / by Norman Mcleod...0-9618678-0=9' (pbk. ) 1. I. Gold Title. miners-—-California--History. II. Title: Gold, guns, and Gallantry...1000 Gold, Guns & Gallantry A collection of true stories from annals of the Northern California gold
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES CALIFORNIA IOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY Volume... FERRY BUILDmG. SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA ^J STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN J. KNIGHT. Governor ...1956 CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY Price $1.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSliY OF CALIFORNIA Da VIS...VIS NO. 1 STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN J. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DeWitt...several thousand books and journals on geology, mining, mineralogy, chemistry, metaland related subjects
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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
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1 COUNTY REPORT HYSICAL >ci 8 PHYSICAL •CI. .Lib. IES TN 24 C3 1ERAL RESOURCES OF A34 1 IPINE...IPINE COUNTY, CA! IA -*ci?2®^?^a£~Vfes^A^Gw^i I ver Mou nta i nV-*- Digitized by the Internet...Archive in 2012 with funding from University of California, Davis Libraries http://www.archive.org/det...ALPINE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA by WILLIAM B.CLARK With sections on the Zaca gold-silver mine and the...the Leviathan COUNTY REPORT sulfur mine by James R. Evans 8 1977 CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES AND
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19% Century Lake Tahoe & Western Nevada Mining Districts By The people who lived and made the region...region s history. 19h Century Books I EL DORADO COUNTY LIB 00905 ill 6407 >be Rave Reviews for The...black and white photos that bring early Northern California to life. Sidebars on each page give fascinating...hours read- Iam a lifelong resident of Northern California, and I learned from ing the writings of those...illustrated . . .” Auburn Journal El Dorado County Library 345 Fair Lane Placerville, CA 95667 GOLDEN QUEST
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Ws TN 24 C3 A3 STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES MINERAL RESOURCES AND MINERAL...DAVIS IJBRARV UWIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN, Governor DEPARTMENT...FR-\NCISCO BULLETIN II JULY 142 THE COUNTIES OF CALIFORNIA MINERAL RESOURCES AND MINERAL PRODUCTION DURING...Honorable Earl Warren Governor of the State of California Dear Sir : have the honor to transmit herewith...summary of the mineral resources of each and every county in the state. For the first time all the essential
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.- ,: --- . :i! __;,;,,~ • ·. I ..' - ros I Gold Prospectors Ass ociation of America P. 0. Box 891509...- Temecula, CA 92589 (909) 699-4749 - 1994 Mining Guide TABLE OF CONTENTS INrRoDUCI'ION ••••••••........................................ AR 1-3 California .................................................... . 1994 Mining Guide INTRODUCTION IMPORTANT - PLEAsE READ! The 1994 GPM Mining Guide is designed...listed from north to south), directions and mining commen ts; gold-producing areas, general prospecting regulations
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crystal to the Roentgen ray (SELF-PRINT) for five minutes, OF KUNZITE and then CRYSTAL. laying...and Ornamental Stones of California Issued California State by the Mining Bureau Francisco. Ferry...growing of the output care Kunz, A.M., No. California,” Stones of of which this Bulletin treats is...to F. George Bureau: Mining Ornamental the Honorable and California, of State the of the...have report, again department. Bureau is California, of this Museum from their mines, I of the
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Archive in 2012 with funding from University of California, Davis Libraries http://archive.org/details...org/details/californiajourna40cali STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION OF MINES... 40 State Mineralogist JANUARY 1944 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...MINERALOGIST'S REPORT XL 33963 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS 1 DIVISION OF MINES EXECUTIVE AND...Chief Geologist Logan, District Mining Engineer W. Burling Tucker, District Mining Engineer Reid J. Sampson
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Minerals of California By ARTHUR S. EAKLE, MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining Bureau...Hon Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of the State of California. Sir: I have the honor to transmit Bureau...Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this date...Bureau. and Mineralogy of the University of California, with this Eakle has given freely of his time...Minerals Distribution by Counties Bibliography on California Minerals Index to Minerals — 197 204 210 220
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and Geochemistry of Gold Deposits of the Big Canyon Area, El Dorado County, California AVAILABILITY OF...ANGELES, California--Federal Bldg., Rm. 7638, 300 N. Los Angeles St. • MENLO PARK, California--Bldg. 3...Rm. 8105, 125 South State St. • SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rm. 504, 555 Battery St. • SPOKANE...and Geochemistry of Gold Deposits of the Big Canyon Area, El Dorado County, California By J. THOMAS NASH...of geology and geochemistry of two types of lode gold deposits in metamorphic rocks and their similarities
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after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...mineral specimens to be donated in his name to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Friends...geologic setting and mineralogy of the mine site. The Harding mine catalog will provide researchers and...citations on the Harding mine and information about other collections of Harding mine specimens. The museum
 
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