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Gold from
Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA


Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Comments:Occrrs as exceptional crystals. Several octahedral crystals were found at 3/8 inch (1.0 cm) diameter and a large "sleleton" crystal at 1 by 7/8 inch (2.5 x 2.2 cm).
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:600999
Long-form Identifier:1:3:600999:1
GUID (UUID V4):aaaf3dbe-167f-40b3-8154-84785c908617
Localities for Gold in this Region
Big Spring Placer Mine, Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Dewey and Stocker Mine (Dewey & Stocker; Burt Mine), Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Doherty Mine, Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Dry Hill and Blue Jay Mine (Dry Hill Mine), Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Eva Lode Mine, Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Ferrier Diggings Mine (Johnny Rafael Mine), Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Florida & Tilton placer (Florida), Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Independent Placer Mine (Jenny Lind Mine; New Jersey Mine), Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Marigold Placer Mine, Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Excelsior claim, Mascot placer (Excelsior; Baltimore), Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Three Queens Mine (Four Acres Mine), Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Thundering Bar Placer Mine, Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Unnamed Au Mine [3], Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Washington Mine, Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
West Quartz Mine, Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
0.7km (0.4 miles) ā“˜Excelsior claim, Mascot placer (Excelsior; Baltimore), Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) ā“˜Independent Placer Mine (Jenny Lind Mine; New Jersey Mine), Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) ā“˜Thundering Bar Placer Mine, Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) ā“˜Unnamed Au Mine [3], Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) ā“˜Big Spring Placer Mine, Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
1.6km (1.0 miles) ā“˜Florida & Tilton placer (Florida), Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
2.1km (1.3 miles) ā“˜Eva Lode Mine, Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) ā“˜Doherty Mine, Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
2.3km (1.4 miles) ā“˜Small Hope Mine (Small Hope & Arthur Mine), Smiths Point, Yankee Jims, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
2.5km (1.5 miles) ā“˜West Quartz Mine, Foresthill, Forest Hill Mining District, Placer County, California, USA
References
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Book
the Northern min ing region, including El Dorado Placer a d Nevada Count ies, from 1848 to 1987. iā€œ Ā©S...Norman. Gold, guns & gQallantry Ā¢: 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-ā€”-California--History. II. Title: Gold, guns, and Gallantry...1000 Gold, Guns & Gallantry A collection of true stories from annals of the Northern California gold
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MINE Placer County California Wayne C. Leicht 875 North Coast Highway Laguna Beach, California 92651-1415...more or less consistent source of ļ¬ne crystallized gold specimens, with the exception of recent years during...specimens of crystallized gold in the future. INTRODUCTION Specimens of crystallized gold from what is now known...Bluff Mining District in Placer County. Since that time, substantial numbers of beautiful gold specimens...unprecedented in California. The 16 to 1 mine in Sierra County, the Red Ledge mine in Nevada County (8 claims)
Report (issue)
MINERAL DEPOSITS OF THE COLFAX AND FORESTHILL QUADRANGLES, CALIFORNIA By DEB K. CHANDRA Geologist,...REPORT 67 CALIFORNIA DIVISION OF MINES SAN FRANCISCO, 1961 FERRY BUILDING, STATE OF CALIFORNIA EDMUND...Springs formation Stratigraphic sections at some placer mines Rhyolite tuffs Age of Valley Springs formation...channels __. Economic geology 41 _ Gold placer mines Gold lode mines Chromite Pyrite 41 deposits...and Foresthill quadrangles, In pocket Geologic structure sections across Colfax and Foresthill ..In
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2015 The Canning Gold Collection Figure 1. The best of Canningā€™s New England gold specimens are these...collecting and specialized in gold specimensā€ (Huizing 2005). Canningā€™s gold collection was recently donated...favored titanium minerals and gold, the focus here. ;OL.VSK*VSSLJ[PVU Gold specimens formed only a small...snapshot of his gold display at the 1998 North Shore Rock and Mineral Clubā€™s show came with his gold collection...thumbnails. As received in December 2007, the Canning gold collection consists of about 150 pieces, with the
Report (issue)
River, Carson River, and Truckee River Basins, California-Nevada, and of Gunnison River Basin, Colorado...American River basin, California, Carson River and Truckee River basins, California and Nevada, and Gunnison...River, Carson River, and Truckee River basins, California and Nevada, showing geographic features and hydrologic-basin...River, Carson River, and Truckee River basins, California and Nevada 20 5. U.S. Geological Survey gaging...River, Carson River, and Truckee River basins, California and Nevada 21 6. U.S. Geological Survey stream-gaging
Report (issue)
WATER-QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF THE AMERICAN RIVER, CALIFORNIA By Michael V. Shulters U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...cooperation with the CALIFORNIA STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD, and the CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY...BOARD, CENTRAL VALLEY REGION c I CN Sacramento, California December 1982 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE...Director For additional information write to: District Chief U.S. Geological Survey 2800 Cottage Way...ILLUSTRATIONS Page Map of the American River basin, California, showing location and frequency of sampling,
Book
Y R T N U O C p ā€˜Cor rly Mining Days oF a espace ā€” a = = tad ā€” Oke Seyo Ore Ta Pn ai seis... Downieville aher, Stanley W. ā€” arly mining days gold country i ]A : N , Ā„ 3 a cae NEV A D...Paher Stanley W. Paher has written 2] books about mining camps and ghost towns, which have become established...collaborated with him in writing about California's gold rush. Photography by Ed Cooper An avid photographer...DenDooven. First Printing, 1996 EARLY MINING Days - CALIFORNIA GOLD COUNTRY: THE STORY BEHIND THE SCENERY
Report (issue)
119 . 3 :1857-G Gold in Placer Deposits U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1857-G 90-181 p GEORGIA TECH...ANGELES, California--Federal Bldg., Rm. 7638, 300 N. Los Angeles St. ā€¢ MENLO PARK, California--Bldg. 3...D.C. 20402 South State St. ā€¢ SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rm. 504, 555 Battery St. ā€¢ SPOKANE... Chapter G Gold in Placer Deposits Gold Placers By WARREN YEEND and DANIEL R. SHAWE Gold Deposits in...in the Virginia City-Alder Gulch District, Montana By DANIEL R. SHAWE and KENNETH L. WI ER U.S. GEOLOGICAL
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
andgoldgraincharacteristics arecompatiblewithslatehosted-type, gold-bearing quartzveins. Thelodedeposits, based uponrelationships...LODEsources arepoorlyestablished for a numberof gold- boundexhalative Prichard Formation, (2) the stratigraphic...(4) the gold,respectively (Yeend,1996).Recentexploration in the siblyigneous few and small gold-bearing...still without identified lode sources. One such district in F ..... ā€¢ Montana is the Ninemile, locatedabout...locatedabout 45 km northwestof Missoula (Fig. 1). The district,discovered in 1874,hasproā€¢ā€¢ā€¢' Mā€¢rraā€¢ ' ā€¢Kā€¢IIā€¢o
Report (issue)
September 30, 1 970 Part 11 .-Pacific Slope Basins in California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 661 Index of Surface-Water...September 30, 1 970 Part 11 .-Pacific Slope Basins in California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Washington 1971 CIRCULAR...September 30, 1970 Part 11.-Pacific Slope Basins in California INTRODUCTION This report lists the streamflow...reservoir stations in the Pacific slope basins in California for which records have been or are to be published...publishei in a similar series of water-supply papers. District offices of the Water Resources Division, Geological
Report (issue)
September 30, 1967 Part 11-Pacific Slope Basins in California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR 581 Index of Surface-Water...September 30, 1967 Part 1Ā·1-Pacific Slope Basins in California By H. P. Eisenhuth G E0 L0 G I C A L S U RV...September 30, 1967 Part 11-Pacific Slope Bas1ns in California By H. P. Eisenhuth INTRODUCTION This report...reservoir stations in the Pacific slope basins in California for which records have been or are to be published...records for the State or States within the local district. In addition to the continuous-record gaging stations
Book (edition)
.- ,: --- . :i! __;,;,,~ ā€¢ Ā·. 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 ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢........................................ 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
Report (issue)
August 1975... Isoseismal map for the northern California earthquake of 1 August..... 1975...............the central California earthquake of 3 August 1975.. Isoseismal map for the central California earthquake.............. California....................................................... California Off the coast.............. California....................................................... California Off the coast...PDE; from hypocenters in California above magnitude 3.0, supplied by California Institute of Technology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral (M). economic mineral (M), e.g. M ā€¢s native gold. ) e.g. M is chalcopyrite.) -- Validity T Chem...Cp + Sp + Cx + G1 in Qz + Ch + Cb + Hm + Sx Forest Hill (FH) (Haynes,1983; Smithand Kontak, 1988) 2:M...399F + 0.091 $ lib correctlyclas- localitiesForest Hill, Jumbovein, SouthMountain sifies89 percent of the...lie closeto numbersof samplesfrom localitiesForest Hill and thisboundaryand perhapsare misclassified for...of reasons,includingthe possibilitythat Forest ble 3). Hill, Jumbovein,andWedgeportplutoncouldbe type
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 ----------~-----------------Ā­ Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee
Report (issue)
SURVEY GEOLOGIC AND GRADE-VOLUME DATA ON 330 GOLD PLACER DEPOSITS By G. J. Orris and J. D. Bliss Open-File...editorial standards Menlo Park, California 1985 INTRODUCTION Placer deposits account for a large portion...portion of the total production of gold. If fossil placers such as the Witwatersrand are included, more...the world's gold has been produced from placer deposits (Boyle, 1979). and volumes, gold Information...production and reserve grades source, fineness, mining methods, other economic commodities and general
Report (issue)
"Whatever is gold does not glitter. A gentle radiance belongs to the Friedrich Nietzsche, The Wanderer...cm high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin Zinn; photo Jeff Scovil...photo Left: A wall of gold bricks in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's gold vault Photo Robert Gambee...Crystallized gold from Canada Private collection; Jeff Scovil photo extraLapis English No. 5 Gold The Noble...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint
Journal (issue)
copy 25Ā¢ CALIFORNIA GEOLOGY January 1973 THE OF PUBLICATION A CALIFORNIA CALIFORNIA Ā° RONALD...RONALD REAGAN GOVERNOR STATE OF CALIFORNIA NORMAN B. deenane: JR. SECRETARY THE RESOURCES AGENCY OF DIVISION... Punter DIRECTOR DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION CALIFORNIA GEOLOGY is designed to report on the progress...OF MINES AND GEOLOGY California Geology staff of earth science in California, and to inform the public...sciences of interest and Editor-in-chief: Mary R. Hill concern to their lives and livelihood. It also
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PapuaNew Guinea Abstract An unusualsphericalform of gold is describedfrom a numberof widely distributedsites:...Lakekamugold field of PapuaNew Guinea,the Naraguta placer tin mine in Nigeria, French Creek in British Columbia...characterizedby a microcrystallitestructure,variable gold contentsfrom site to site, and significantamountsof...interpretedeither way.Whenever they are found during a gold explorationprogram,the geologistshouldsuspectthat...man-mademelt droplets. Introduction MANYformsof gold havebeen describedin the literature (Fisher, 1945a
Journal (issue)
MUSEUM CHATOYANT PIETERSITE Nature & Science NATIVE GOLD in Alaska ROCK & GEM KIDS New Hampshireā€™s Rockhound...com Fluorescent Rocks in Arizona Gold Panning in Northern California RG_Blue_cover_0114.indd 2 12/3/13...crystallized gold specimen comes from the Eagleā€™s Nest mine in Placer County, California. It is currently...currently on display in the Lyda Hill Hall of Gems and Minerals at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science...by Ed Winbourne by Bob Jones Quest for Native Gold................................ 20 A collecting
Journal (issue)
enthusiastically guided primarily by Jim Hutchings, Foresthill, CA who put the most hours in, with the help...EDITOR: Beth Heesacker, 4145 NW Heesacker Rd., Forest Grove, OR 97116, heesacker@coho.net NATIONAL BOARD...Joe Marchesani; Jmarch06@comcast.net SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER: Dr. Don Buchanan; dbuch7326@aol.com...went to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for their ā€œForm and Functionā€ display with biological...put on a nice enjoyable meeting. The Southern California Chapter had their symposium and field trip also
Catalog/List
prevailing practice in mining and metallurgyā€. $50.00 3. Allen, W.W. & R.B. Avery CALIFORNIA GOLD BOOK ā€“ First...materials. $30.00 6. Barton, D.B. ESSAYS IN CORNISH MINING HISTORY (2 Vol) Truro: Pub by author, 1968. 8...Very good. A collection of 12 essays on Cornish mining in two volumes. Includes the Cornish miner in fact...the west of England; some characters in Cornish mining; arsenic production in west Cornwall, seven more...SUPERIOR MILLING PRACTICE Houghton: College of Mining & Tech, 1955. 9 Ā¼ā€ X 6ā€, pp xiv + 137 with 14
Journal (issue)
Resources Agency A PUBLICATION THE CALIFORNIA DIVISION. wears \ CALIFORNIA : OLOGY NORMAN 8. LIVERMORE,...Mines ond Geology California Geology staff Editor - in - chie/: ā€˜Mary R. Hill Trinda L. Bedrossian...1416 Ninth Sweet, ā€˜Secramento 95814 Los Angeles District Office: 1065 Junipare Sere Building, 107 South...Ninth Srmet, ā€˜Secramanto 95814 ā€˜Son Francisco District OMice: 2022 Ferry Building, Sen Francisco 94111...94111 SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT SACRAMENTO. CALIFORNIA. RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED. 26 Number 5 COVERS
Book (edition)
LIBRARY 3 1111 01599 4096 Rocks and Minerals of California THIRD REVISED EDITION NATUREGRAPH PUBLISHERS...LIBRARY GA BAPAEL CALIFORALA Rocks and Minerals of California THIRD REVISED EDITION Color Photographs W...greatly indebted to Dr. Gordon Oakeshott of the California State Division of Mines for his kind examination... Mrs. Eleanor M. Learned, who worked for the California Division of Mines and Geology, for looking over...Lactic ialiv ess Winib baie A wa ar Minerals of California................. 02... OTST TSS IGE Ee a, I RS
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.............. 38 A drive through New Mexicoā€™s mining history by Steve Voynick The Mineral Legacy of...Media, Inc., 3585 Maple St., Ste. 232, Ventura, California 93003-3517, telephone (805) 644-3824. Periodicals...Wholesale Prices Delia Stone, FL www.deliastone.com Gold Medal Prize Winner Metal Clay Jewelry-Making Contest...MARCH 2014 1-2ā€”ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA: Annual show; Monrovia Rockhounds; LA County Arboretum, 301 S. Baldwin... glass, lampwork, and polymer beads, silver and gold findings, pearls, Swarovski crystals, tools, books
 
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