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Galena from
Gold Canyon Mine, Plumbago, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA



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Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
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Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gold Canyon Mine, Plumbago, Alleghany Mining District (Forest Mining District), Sierra County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:333738
Long-form Identifier:1:3:333738:7
GUID (UUID V4):cb95f35d-d7d4-4a55-b083-cf9857472c0d
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Report (issue)
LODE DEPOSITS OF THE ALLEGHANY DISTEICT, CALIFORNIA. By HENRY G. FERGUSON. TOPOGRAPHY AND LOCATION.... The mines of the Alleghany district, in the southwestern part of Sierra County, Cal. (fig. 47), are...of which may contain as much as $100,000 a ton in gold, the apparently capricious distribution of the small...within a short distance of the small towns of Alleghany and Forest. The northern boundary of the Colfax quadrangle...quadrangle, within which the district lies, is about a mile north of Forest. The region has the topography
Report (issue)
Professional Paper 172 GOLD QUARTZ VEINS OF THE ALLEGHANY DISTRICT CALIFORNIA BY HENRY G. FERGUSON AND...Bedrock series " _ _______--___-______---__ Blue Canyon formation. _ _____________ Tightner formation ...____ _ ____ .._____.. Quartz, chalcedony, and opal Gold. ___________ _ ---____-_-__--_-_. Final stage--...________ Summary. _ _ _ _ _ _ ___________________ Mine descriptions. __--__.-_-__-_________ Mines of Oregon...Oregon Creek drainage basin Brush Creek mine----_---------Finan prospect. ________________ Kate Hardy
Report (issue)
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
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)
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....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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)
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 (volume)
...................................... GOLD AND SILVER: Gold placers on Wind and Bighorn rivers, Wyo...................... Lode deposits of the Alleghany district, Cal., by H. G. Ferguson (published August.............................. The Rochester mining district, Nev., by F. C. Schrader (published December29............ COPPER: Notes on the Unaweep copper district, Colo., by B. S. Butler (published MarchlG, 1914)...................... The Grand Gulch mining region, Mohave County, Ariz., by J. M. Hill (published June
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
Report (volume)
·~ ~ t ). ""' . 'r v.·,,.,. . ... Placer Gold Deposits of Nevada By MAUREEN G. JOHNSON GEOLOGICAL...------------------------ 1 History of placer mining in Nevada_____________________________________... Holy Cross district..-----------------------------------------------2. Jessup district.. ____________...------------------------_-------_ 3. Sand Springs district----------------------------------------------... Eldorado Canyon district..-----------------------------------------5. Gold Butte district----------
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 ....................................
Book
PISTOLS i !?' A J.-. N ; 'jxt . 1 — \ MINING DISTRICTS and MINERAL RESOURCES of NEVADA by ...present authentic infor­ mation concerning the mining districts and mineral resources of Nevada. No comprehensive...United States Geological Survey in 1912. Plan. “Mining Districts and Mineral Resources of Nevada”, as...parts:—one on mining districts and the other on mineral resources. The section on mining districts is...but gives more extended descriptions and includes mining as well as geological information. The map which
Report (issue)
Principal Gold-Producing Districts of the United States By A. H. KOSCHMANN and M. H. BERGENDAHL GEOLOGICAL...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
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...ROCK-HUNTER'S RANGE GUIDE ARIZONA GEM TRAILS PETRIFIED FOREST TRAILS A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals HOW...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book (volume)
Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods
Book
Guide Petrified Forest Trails Arizona Gem Trails and the Colorado Desert of California High Tension (A...in L.\merica Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia...Check of Common Minerals Common Fluorescent Minerals Gold Panning Values Colors and Symbols on a Geologic...possible by Howard and Hazel Michael, of Y reka, California, who opened their home and rock museum to me...bodies. At a time when Neolithic man was picking up gold and copper nuggets to be hammered into ornaments
Book
Unraveling The Legends & The History Of The Lost Mine, Lost City, And The Lost Mission By Robert Edward...America. ............. 26 Cañada Del Oro– The Canyon Of Gold ................................................... 39 From La Ventaña, You Can See The Lost Mine ............................................................ 53 1882: Pueblo Viejo Voting At The Canyon Del Oro .................................................................... 79 How The Spanish Mining Story Unfolds ................................
Report (issue)
wu OUTLINE OF NEVADA MINING HISTORY— Joseph V: Tingley a RobertC.Horton _ Francis C. Lincoln 3 . ...Publication of this new edition of “Outline of Nevada Mining History” was made — possible with the assistance...07 Uet a vA. | B13L40 —S OUTLINE OF NEVADA MINING HISTORY Joseph V. Tingley Robert C. Horton Francis...THE MINING HISTORY OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, by Francis Church Lincoln, 1924 Reese River district 14...14 White Pine district 14 Trinity district 16 Candelaria district 16 First bullion production 16 First
Report (volume)
SMITH, Director ' Bulletin 648 NOTES ON SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN EASTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL.................................................. Gold veins.............................................Clark County.......................................................'.. Gold Butte mining district.................... Lincoln mine........................................ Bennett mine.........................granite and gneiss............................. Gold Butte Mining Co................................. New Era
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expressed for the courtesies extended by the Washoe County and University of Nevada libraries. The staff is...States Department of Agriculture; G. H. Hansen, District Agent of the Biological Survey; Louise Lewers...principal of the Winhemucca School District; George P. Annand, district judge, Ely; Lester Mills, instructor...First NEVADANS Oe WILDERNESS TO MopERN STATE MINING AND MINING JARGON RANCHING AND STocK GROWING STOCK JARGON...Section c. Fernley to Reno Section d. Reno to California Line JES 115 . , Elko—Jiggs—Harrison Pass—Ruby
Report (issue)
W. W., Mineral resources of southwestern Alaska [gold and copper]: Bull. 379, pp. 147-152, 1909. 50c....mineral resources of parts of the Alaska Peninsula [gold and copper]: Bull. 467, pp. 125-131, 1911. BANCROFT...Reconnaissance of the ore deposits in northern Yuma County, Ariz.: Bull. 451, 130 pp., 1911. 30c. -. The ore...H., Geology and ore deposits of the Park City district, Utah: Prof. Paper 77, 231 pp., 1912. BROOKS,...The mineral deposits of Alaska and the Alaskan mining industry in 1913: Bull. 592, pp. 1-74, 1914. 413
Report (volume)
........................ 5 5 Distribution of mining districts.................................................................................... California........................................................................ PART II. Catalogue of mining districts, by J. M. Hill..................................................... Classification of mining districts................................................. California, northern counties....................................... California, southern counties
Journal (volume)
1 . Weekly { 18. Cento a Copy LOS ANGELES , CALIFORNIA , MARCH 1 , 1913 . Cheaper Coal Is Easily to...almost any . coast . where in the feed and fuel district . One remedy seems close at hand the vast coal...Santa Fe about 1,800,000,000 tons . At ton for mining it and it is retailed in the rate the coal is being...$ 15 a ton which represents the and Southern California at a compara difference from the time it is mined...producers to a helpful dissertation on coal lands mine coal extensively where a market which locators and
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES RICHARD SACHSE, Director DIVISION OF MINES FERRY...BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1940 No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER...FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 85005 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY Of CALIFORNIA DAVIS ] DIVISION OF MINES...A. Logan, District Mining Engineer C. Jenkins, Chief Geologist McK. Laizure, District W. Burling...Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer District Sampson, Assistant Mining Engineer District Engineer Chas
 
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