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Sphalerite from
Moore Mine, Duncan Hill, Auburn, Ophir Mining District (Auburn Mining District; Duncan Hill Mining District), Placer 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 Moore Mine, Duncan Hill, Auburn, Ophir Mining District (Auburn Mining District; Duncan Hill Mining District), Placer County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:331073
Long-form Identifier:1:3:331073:1
GUID (UUID V4):20494880-3c5b-46ea-8700-b1a4c4f27dbc
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Unnamed Zn occurrence [1], Duncan Hill, Auburn, Ophir Mining District (Auburn Mining District; Duncan Hill Mining District), Placer County, California, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Eclipse Consolidated Mine (Eclipse Mine; Morning Star claim), Auburn, Ophir Mining District (Auburn Mining District; Duncan Hill Mining District), Placer County, California, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Hathaway Mine (Buttes Mine), Ophir, Ophir Mining District (Auburn Mining District; Duncan Hill Mining District), Placer County, California, USA
2.2km (1.3 miles) Ophir Mining District (Auburn Mining District; Duncan Hill Mining District), Placer County, California, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) Gold Blossom Mine (Gold Blossom shaft; Gold Blossom vein; Marion lode; Ohio claim; Back Action claim; Gold Blossom No. 2 claim), Ophir, Ophir Mining District (Auburn Mining District; Duncan Hill Mining District), Placer County, California, USA
6.8km (4.2 miles) Chicago Mine (Falls Creek Mine; Auburn-Chicago Mine), Penryn (Stewart's Flat), Penryn Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
13.3km (8.3 miles) Big Buzzard Mine (Darrington Ranch; Buzzard; Hercules), Flagstaff Hill, Salmon Falls Mining District (Flagstaff Hill area), El Dorado County, California, USA
16.7km (10.4 miles) Valley View Mine (Whiskey Hill Mine; Whiskey diggings; Whislcey Diggings; Harpening Kilaga Springs; Harpending Mine; Bonanza [?]), Kilaga Springs, Wheatland Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
19.2km (11.9 miles) Sutter's Mill meteorite, Sutter Mill Bar and River (Old Sutter Mill site), Coloma, Coloma Mining District, West Belt, El Dorado County, California, USA
24.0km (14.9 miles) Funny Bug Mine (Pendelco Mine), Gold Hill, Shingle Springs Mining District, West Belt, El Dorado County, California, USA
References
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Report (issue)
Economic Geologists Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California February, 1984 Open-File Report 84-169 This...Menlo Park, California 2 California Division of Mines and Geology, Sacramento, California INTRODUCTION...California's past gold production. Although gold mining decreased greatly in the years during and following...extractive techniques have rekindled interest in mining this metal in the State. In addition to production...been taken from the Grass Valley-Nevada City lode district and from Tertiary river channels and Quaternary
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 (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,
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)
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
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...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....North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks
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...Altaville to Mokelumne Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Mokelumne Hill to Plymouth. . . . ....75 Placerville to Auburn. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Auburn to North San Juan.
Report (volume)
............................................ California....................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
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...object shown here actual size. Pho'o by Mary Hill. FOREWORD This bulletin number is is an overall...and gold mining of publications have no single report or to the gold deposits in California. Although
Report (issue)
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
Report (issue)
OF THE STOCKTON 7 1/2-MINUTE. QUADRANGLE, TOOELE COUNTY, UTAH By Edwin W. Tooker1 and RJ. Roberts2 Open-File...Menlo Park, California 2 Consultant, Reno, Nevada (formerly USGS, Menlo Park, California) 1992 TABLE......................................... 13 Eagle Hill rhyolite porphyry ..................... . . .13...Canyon area of the Ophir mining district............ 15 Stockton mining district.......................map of the Stockton 7 1/2-min.quadrangle, Tooele County, Utah Figure 1. Location of the Stockton quadrangle
Report (issue)
description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~-----------------­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County --
Book (volume)
..........................................49 California ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ..................................Co. Mining Districts ............................................................22 Arizona County Map.........................23 Arizona – Cochise Co. Mining Districts ....................................
Report (issue)
Control the Location of Base- and Precious-Metal Mining Districts in the Oquirrh Mountains, Utah by Edwin...INTERIOR U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Menlo Park, California CONTENTS Page Abstract.......................Structural and Stratigraphic Characteristics of Mining Districts in the Oquirrh Mountains ..............(West Mountain) mining district ................ .14 Mercur (Camp Floyd) Mining District ................. 20 Ophir Mining District.................................. .27 Stockton (Rush Valley) Mining District
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COOK Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 cookrob@auburn.edu...[Universite Laval] at 20:02 10 July 2014 Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia F or mineral collectors...specimens include Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey, and Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. The recent...Department of Geology and Geography at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. He welcomes suggestions for...pyroxmangite, and sulfides such as galena and sphalerite. There is an interesting variety of reported
Book (volume)
..........................................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...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow
Book (volume)
..........................................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...well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a bed deposit⎯yellow
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA. DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director DIVISION OF MINES...BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1936 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...FERRY RUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 0373 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OP< CALIFORNIA DAVIS 1 DIVISION OF MINES...Logan, District Mining Engineer McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer...Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas. V. Averill, District Mining
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...to travel extensively from Maine to Southern California, and from Washington’s Pacific Shores to Key...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I COAL CITY, St. Clair Co. Sphalerite COLUMBIANA
Book (volume)
Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to hill ridges, increasing steadily in elev. From 1,000’...dikes ranking with those in Maine and Southern California for their production of gems and minerals. The...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides
Report (issue)
LODE MINING IN THE QUARTZBURG AND GRIMES PASS PORPHYRY BELT, BOISE BASIN, IDAHO. By E. L. JONES, Jr....considered advisable because of the recent important mining developments along this belt and because of frequent...the Boise Basin as a whole. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. The mining men of the Boise Basin extended many courtesies...Boise Basin are shown by mine symbols and numbers. i Lindgren, Waldemar, The mining districts of the Idaho...LOCATION. The Boise Basin, which lies in Boise County, Idaho, is an intermontane depression near the
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 (volume)
nos. 1, 2. Boston, Mass. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 121-132; Transactions...Mineralogist, vol. 2. Philadelphia, Pa. American Mining Congress: Report of Proceedings, 19th Annual Session...American Paleontology, nos. 28-30. Ithaca, N. Y. California Academy of Sciences: Proceedings, 4th ser., vol...Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 72-75. San Francisco, Cal. California, .University...Summary report for 1916. Ottawa, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Monthly Bulletin, nos. 57-68;. Transactions
Report (volume)
~w.. ·~ ~ t ). ""' . 'r v.·,,.,. . ... Placer Gold Deposits of Nevada By MAUREEN G. JOHNSON ...lists of annotated references pertaining to the placer districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...--------------------------- 1 History of placer mining in Nevada_____________________________________... Holy Cross district..-----------------------------------------------2. Jessup district.. ____________...------------------------_-------_ 3. Sand Springs district----------------------------------------------
Report (issue)
----_ ---__-___----._._-_- ---- --__-.__ . Gold Hill.---_-_-----------------_-------------_-Mayflower..._--__._-____.....__...____._.___.__..___ Mineral Mining Co__________________________________________ Missouri...porphyry, Gold Hill mine; B, Rhyolite porphyry, Gold Hill mine; C, Granite porphyry, Belshazzar mine. ._ __ _...______________ 250 43. Composite level map of the Gold Hill mine.______________ In pocket 44. Geologic maps of...of the 250, 400, and 700 levels, Gold Hill mine In pocket in IV CONTENTS Page PLATE 45. Diagrammatic
 
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