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Actinolite from
Birch Creek, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Actinolite
Formula:◻Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Actinolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Birch Creek, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:978537
Long-form Identifier:1:3:978537:3
GUID (UUID V4):3c1b356d-ebbc-4b9b-ab7f-6447feae34ab
Nearest other occurrences of Actinolite
43.6km (27.1 miles) Jackrabbit Mine (Jackrabbit Tungsten Mine; Tungsten City Mine), Tungsten Hills, West Bishop, Bishop Mining District (Tungsten Hills Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California INTRODUCTION I N a previous...Publications of the Division of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Contribution No. 1594...http://petrology.oxfordjournals.org/ at University of California, San Fransisco on March 30, 2015 ABSTRACT QUjQia...from two contact metamorphic aureoles at Birch Creek, California and Marble Canyon, Texas. The pelitic metasediments...metasediments and granitic intrusions of the Birch Creek locality were also analyzed for their O18/O18
Report (volume)
relations. ___________--_-_-_-________--_Birch Creek Schist_________..___________________ ___________--__-___...________ Moose Creek Member___-._-__--_____-_______-_-_-______-___---California Creek Member____ __-_-...__________-____-_______-_----Chute Creek, Mystic Creek, and Sheep Creek Members.___________ Age and origin...Metavolcanic schists and associated rocks south of the Birch Creek Schist. References cited.___________________...foliation along the north side of the arch. The Birch Creek Schist underlies a belt fr-10 miles wide along
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphism, Papoose Flat Pluton, eastern California, USA: implications for -cooling and strain histories...University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, N M 87731, USA (ernail: mwn yman@h ydra .unm.edu) 'Department of...Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 2406 1 , USA ABSTRACT Petrological study of highly strained...the crust. The Papoose Flat pluton of eastern California commonly has been cited in the geological literature...pluton (PIT) is located in the White-Inyo Range of eastern California and is one of several similar-age
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Wyman Formation, BIanco Mountain Quadrangle, California, were analyzed using an electron microprobe....Formation in the Blanco Mountain Quadrangle, White Mountains, California, contain a wide range of plagioclase...was metamorphosed by the emplacement of the Beer Creek pluton (184-151 million years, MeKee and Nash, 1967)...attributed to earlier metamorphism by the Beer Creek pluton or due to burial metamorphism occur outside...studies of Shich and Taylor (1968) on the Beer Creek pluton of similar composition show temperatures
Report (issue)
OF STINE CREEK (Ksc) 11 UPHILL CREEK GRANODIORITE (Kuc) 14 GRANODIORITE OF DAVID CREEK (Kdc) 21... (Kgl, Kgp, Kgb, Kgm, Ktcl, Kog) 23 CLIFFORD CREEK GRANITE (TKc) 38 GRANODIORITE OF CANNIVAN GULCH...Pioneer batholith as they occur in the east Pioneer Mountains. Two intrusive bodies of uncertain petrogenetic...of mafic to silicic. Within the east Pioneer Mountains, this order approximates the order of older to...helping me to map the plutons in the east Pioneer Mountains. I benefitted from thoughtful and thorough reviews
Book
7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
Report (issue)
Grant W. Cashing, and W. D. Menzie Menlo Park, California 1983 This report is preliminary and has not...northwest Circle quadrangle includes the Beaver, White Mountains, Kandik River, and Livengood terranes of Churkin...Tintina fault zone consists of the Circle and Crazy Mountains terranes of Churkin and others (1982). The Circle...in the northern part of the Crazy Mountains and Little Crazy Mountains is dominantly mafic igneous rocks...Crazy Mountains terrane consists of two separated mountain blocks, the east and west Crazy Mountains, which
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
~ ) : • ,- '1-/Challis r--, - qa'wtooth Mountains r i ~ Elmore'~. -C- -J'-,/,_~, ~ l I ...May 199I-the right to collect in the Sawtooth Mountains of south-central Idaho. Although known by a few...across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Figure 3 (below)...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side...CHABAZITE, LEVYNE, PHILLIPSITE, and THOMSONITE. Adams County Alaska mine, Seven Devils district: azurite, grossular
Report (volume)
ANGELES; California--Federal Bldg .• Rrn. 7638, 300 N. Los Angeles St. • MENLO PARK, California--Bldg....Rrn. 8105, 125 South State St. • SAN FRANCISCO, California--Customhouse, Rrn. 504, 555 Battery St. • SPOKANE...Moore and John M. Murphy Molybdenite in the Huron Creek pluton, western Livengood quadrangle, Alaska 54...of the White Mountains terrane: Evidence from U-Pb data of granite boulders in the Fossil Creek Volcanics...reports on Alaska released in 1988 U2 Ellen R. White, compiler Reports about Alaska in non-USGS publications
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...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
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
Report (volume)
gneiss___________________________ 7 4. Fold in white, sugary marble._________________ 8 5. Tor of gr...Photograph of abandoned placer mining property on Uhler Creek..-,___________________-___-____--__--__ 29 PLATE...tributaries, including Walker Fork, Jack Wade Creek, and Chicken Creek. L. M. Prindle did considerable geologic...helpful, especially William Meldrum on Stonehouse Creek; George Robinson at Jack Wade; the late Fred Purdy...Fortyfive Pup; and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Wilkey on Canyon Creek. Mrs. John Fisher, formerly at Chicken, loaned material
Report (volume)
....................................... Cherry Creek group............................................................................ . . Utopia (Birch Creek) district.................................................... 75 Outlying mines in Beaverhead County.................................. 76 Polaris district..................................... Bloody Dick Creek.. ..............................-.----- -- - - .............................. Highland and Moose Creek districts..................................... Location
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated quartz, plagioclase, tourmaline, and actinolite veins are localized along the crest and flanks...Sierrita-Esperanza system, Arizona. E. Ray system, Ray (Mineral Creek) district, Arizona; note that the western edge of...Sierrita-Esperanza system, Arizona. E. Ray system, Ray (Mineral Creek) district, Arizona. F. Kelvin-Riverside district...sodic-calcic alteration. Rocks are bleached bright white. The photo shows an exploration trench in the Albite...with outer K-feldspar envelopes, from the Pinto Creek exposure in the root zone of Miami Inspiration.
Report (issue)
Government 1 U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 2 U.S. Geological Survey, Tucson, Arizona SUMMARY...minerals commonly include epidote, chlorite, and actinolite. Scheelite is the dominant ore mineral. Other...Information given includes deposit name; district name; county; pluton name, age, type, average silica content...source(s). Deposits are sorted alphabetically by county. Data sources used in the compilation are listed...Scheelite-bearing skarns in the Sierra Nevada region, California: Contrasts in zoning and mineral compositions
Book (edition)
the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains by Lanny R. Ream L.R. Rerun Publishing P .O....in the field and assistance with the Sawtooth Mountains chapter and specimen identification. Also for...of the micro-size minerals from the Sawtooth Mountains. My appreciation is extended to Norm Radford for...those known from Idaho. Work done on the Sawtooth Mountains locality has provided ten species new to the state.... Blackbird Mining District / 42 3. Sawtooth Mountains / 52 Part 2. Mineral Descriptions A. Acanthite
Report (issue)
eastern Yukon-Tanana region is an area of hills and mountains, largely unglaciated, which lies in east-central...fan deposits are present locally. Thin layers of white or light gray volcanic ash, both air fall and reworked...most of the conglomerate consists of well-rounded white and tan quartz and black chert clasts 2 to 13 cm...have been found locally. Shale found near Napoleon Creek (southeastern Eagle quadrangle) is dark gray and...sandstone, but also include vertical coal seams, white friable tuff, and dark-gray glassy tuff containing
Report (issue)
of the Platoro caldera, southeastern San Juan Mountains, Colo., by P. W. Lipman and T. A. Steven ____...and F. F. Wright___________ Rutile in the Harford County, Md., serpentinite belt, by Norman Herz and L....Valentine________________________ Phosphate occurrences in Nye County and adjacent areas, Nevada, by C. L. Rogers, F...___ ___ Petrology and mineralogy Phlogopite and actinolite in latitic dike rocks, Bingham mining district...Moore_____________________ On-land Mesozoic oceanic crust in California Coast Ranges, by E. H. Bailey, M. C. Blake, Jr
Report (volume)
... 12 Sedimentary rocks.______ ___ _ _ _ Birch Creek schist and associated igneous rocks.______________...valley of Dennison Fork; B, Lower valley of Liberty Creek; C, Upper valley of Dennison Fork, showing broad...______________ 12 4. A, Broad lower valley of George Creek where it joins the Tanana River; B, Mount Fairplay...Panoramic view looking northeast from head of George Creek; B, Valley of Mosquito Fork, looking upstream from...gneiss along ridge top; C, Lower valley of Chicken Creek at its junction with Mosquito Fork-..-- _ _-_ 12
Report (issue)
northern part of the Barker quadrangle, Little Belt Mountains, Mont., by I. J. Witkind 20 Mineralogy and petrology...petrology Composition of jadeitic pyroxene from the California metagraywackes, by R. G. Coleman X-ray determinative...First occurrence of graptolites in the Klamath Mountains, Calif., by Michael Churkin, Jr A proposed revision...rocks in the South Groveland quadrangle, Essex County, Mass., by R. 0. Castle Stratigraphy of the upper...Ordovician, Devonian(?), and Cretaceous(?) rocks, White Mountain area, near McGrath, Alaska, by C. L. Sainsbury
Report (volume)
rocks__-_______-__--____-____-_-___ ______ _ Birch Creek Schist________---_-_-_---______---_-_____-___...metamorphic rocks, most of which are included in the Birch Creek Schist. The metamorphic rocks are intruded by...West Fork vicinity and consists principally of white and pink marble, impure green marble, quartzite...p. 46-47) mapped the rocks of both groups as Birch Creek Schist. In the present report, the first and...and most extensive group is designated as the Birch Creek Schist; the second group is referred to as the
Report (issue)
imply endorsement by the USGS. 1 Menlo Park, California East-Central Alaska Contributors and acknowledgements...(unit sm)........................12 Quartz-chlorHe-white mica schist group (unit ws)..............13 Quartzite.........................................25 Tibbs Creek-Black Mountain area....................................................................33 Jarvis Creek Glacier terrane...................................David Menzie U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025 Contributors and acknowledgments The authors
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Box Elder County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Cache County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
Tungsten Mineralization of the Bishop District California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL Prepared in...in cooperation with the State of California, Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology...Tungsten Mineralization of the Bishop District California By PAUL C. BATEMAN With a section on Gravity...470 Prepared in cooperation with the State of California^ Department of Conservation^ Division of Mines...and Lower Cambrian sedimentary rocks of the White Mountains.-________ Wyman formation__________________________
Report (issue)
Russian Mountains ................ Marshall area ................... Southern Kaiyuh Mountains .........West and J. J. Matzko ................... Hope Creek area ............... Miller-House-Circle Hot Springs...vicinity of reported fluorite occurrences in the Hope Creek and Miller HouseCircle Hot Springs areas of the...float fragment of ferruginous breccia in the Hope Creek area; analysis of samples .obtained in the vicinity...zeunerite-bearing copper lode in the Russian Mountains and two molybdenum lodes along the lower Yukon
 
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