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


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Epidote
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlFe3+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Epidote data
Locality Data:Click here to view Birch Creek, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:978550
Long-form Identifier:1:3:978550:2
GUID (UUID V4):214ca6bc-0753-4e8d-b1c0-91849a8d0905
Nearest other occurrences of Epidote
18.6km (11.5 miles) Gray Eagle Mine, Black Canyon Spring, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) R & R claims, Black Canyon Spring, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
19.5km (12.1 miles) Mirage-Mariposa Mine (Wooley Mine; Golden Mirage & Mariposa claims; Golden Mirage Mine; R&R claims), Black Canyon Spring, White Mountains, Inyo County, California, USA
28.1km (17.4 miles) Four Aces mine, Sylvania Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
32.1km (19.9 miles) Buckshot Mine (Shannon Creek Mine), Keough Hot Springs, Bishop Mining District (Tungsten Hills Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
32.5km (20.2 miles) Bishop Concentrate and Cleaning Company Mine (Bishop Tungsten Mines mill), Keough Hot Springs, Bishop Mining District (Tungsten Hills Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
33.1km (20.6 miles) Copper Stack Claims, Windypah Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
33.5km (20.8 miles) Marble Mine (Shannon Creek Tungsten; Kelso Tungsten Mine), Piper Peak, Inyo County, California, USA
34.9km (21.7 miles) Coyote Range (Coyote Front Range), Bishop, Bishop Mining District (Tungsten Hills Mining District), Inyo County, California, USA
35.9km (22.3 miles) Cucomungo Mine, Tule Canyon Mining District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Complex, 40 39 Mount Barcroft Area, Eastern California: Ar/ Ar Geochronologic Study of Hornblende and...Complex, 40 39 Mount Barcroft Area, Eastern California: Ar/ Ar Geochronologic Study of Hornblende and...Magmatic Arc Complex, Mount Barcroft Area, Eastern California: 40Ar/39Ar Geochronologic Study of Hornblende...University, Stanford, California 94305-2115 Abstract The central and southern White Mountains constitute a well-exposed...samples from the Barcroft pluton, a single McAfee Creek-type aplite, 7 mafic dikes/metadikes, and two Andrews
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
College, San Diego, California MARK DELISLE Texaco Geophysical, Ba^ersfield, California JR MORGAN Dept. Geology...of investigation Study areas Owlshead Peak White Mountains Vermont-New Hampshire Experiments with color...Peak study, California 2. Sample location and description, White Mountains study, California 3. Sample...and locality map for Owlshead Peak study area, California 879 881 881 882 882 884 888 889 892 897 900... Index and locality map of the White Mountain study area, California 887 5. Index map of Vermont-New
Report (issue)
Central Part of the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California by Paul C. Batemanl/ This report supplements...87-670, Pre-Tertiary bedrock geologic quadrangle, California. It provides expanded shown on the map and interpretations...does not imply endorsement by the USGS. Park, California Note for New Publications of the U.S. Geological...central part of the Sierra Nevada batholith, California, by Paul C. Bateman. This publication supplements...geologic map of the Mariposa 1° by 2° quadrangle, California by providing descriptions and interpretations
Report (issue)
Fractionation in a Part of the White Mountains, Mono and Inyo Counties, California GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...Fractionation in a Part of the White Mountains, Mono and Inyo Counties, California By DENIS E. MARCHAND EROSION...weathering and erosion ______ 380 Map of east-central California and adjacent part of Nevada, indicating location...showing part of the upland surface in the White Mountains __________________ __________ 381 Map of generalized...generalized topography of a part of the southern White Mountains _________________ __ _ 381 Photograph showing
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)
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
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
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)
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
Report (volume)
Lake Canyon Wilderness Study Areas, Inyo and Kern Counties, California U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...Wilderness Study Areas, Inyoand Kern Counties, California By MICHAEL F. DIGGLES, ROBERT E. TUCKER, and...Lake Canyon Wilderness study areas, Inyo and Kern Counties, California (U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin...3:1708-B 1. Gold ores California Owens Peak Wilderness. 2. Gold ores California Little Lake Canyon Wilderness...Wilderness. 3. Tungsten ores California Owens Peak Wilderness. 4. Tungsten ores California Little Lake Canyon Wilderness
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 (issue)
Professional Paper 110 A GEOLOGIC RECONNAISSANCE OF THE INYO RANGE -AND THE EASTERN SLOPE OF THE .~OUTHERN SIERRA...KNOPF ·WITH A SECTION ON THE STRATIGRAPHY OF THE INYO RANGE BY EDWIN KIRK WASHINGTON GOVERNl\IENT PRINTING·... Owens Valley ........................... . The Inyo Range .............. ~ ........ . The Sierra Nevada... . Mississippian series ..............·.... . 'White Pine shale ......... : ..·... . Pennsylvanian series...42 Page. Geology-Continued. Stratigraphy of the Inyo Range, by Edwin Kirk-Continued. Carboniferous system-Continued
Report (volume)
........................................... Birch Creek schist.........................................Tourrnaline granite.................................... Epidote granite................................................................. 53 53 54 54 54 55 Birch Creek schist.................................................................................... Birch Creek district.......................................5 Gold in the Circle quadrangle Continued. Birch Creek district Continued. Page. Placers...........
Report (issue)
the Chalk Hills Formation south of Oreana, Owyhee County, Idaho .................................... 2....Miocene lacustrine rocks near Harney Lake, Harney County, Oregon ..................... 3. Photograph of...the Chalk Hills Formation south of Oreana, Owyhee County, Idaho, along the southwestern margin of the western...volcaniclastic unit east of Harney Lake, Harney County, Oregon (fig. 2). These two lacustrine deposits...disaggregated with the fingers. Altered silicic tephra is white, yellow, or light brown, relatively hard, and dull
Report (chapter)
Emplacement of the Joshua Flat-Beer Creek Pluton (White Inyo Mountains, California): a story of multiple material...Flat-Beer Creek Pluton (JBP) in the White Inyo Mountains, California, is part of the Inyo batholith...Marble Canyon Diorite-Joshua Flat Monzonite-Beer Creek Granodiorite as nested diapirs. In the Marble Canyon...between the Joshua Flat Monzonite and the Beer Creek Granodiorite. Fabrics in the contact aureole document...of intrusion during the emplacement of the Beer Creek Granodiorite into the already existing magma chamber
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
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
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)
that some gold-bearing quartz veins occur in the mountains. BULLETIN 480 U. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PLATE...ROCKS =^^\V^^^ffi 1 Porcupine placers 2 Nugget Creek placers 3 Kensington mino 4 Johnson mine 6 Comet...prospect 12 Montana Basin prospects 13 McGinnia Creek prospects 14. Wagner prospect 15 ' JuaTpa Placer...Juneau mine 18 Alaska Perseverance mino 19 Sheep Creek mine 20 Treadwell group of mines 21 Alaska Treasure...cut by granitic intrusive rocks. The Chugach Mountains, which form the coastal barrier north of Controller
Report (volume)
BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL ...BULLETIN 594 SOME MINING DISTRICTS IN NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWESTERN NEVADA BY JAMES M. HILL WASHINGTON...2 27 30 Mining districts 2 Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal 2 30 30 Location and accessibility 2 History...Mining districts—Continued. Hayden Hill, Lassen County, Cal.—Continued. Ore deposits—Continued.2 Valuable...of the shoots Milling High Grade district, Modoc County, Cal Location History of mining Accessibilty Previous
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)
... 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 (volume)
rocks___________________________________________ Birch Creek schist and associated meta-igneous rocks.-.-_...system_____---__--------------------------_--Fossil Creek volcanics.___.____.__-___-__._------___.__ Silurian...terraces at head of Woodchopper Creek; B, Falls in South Fork of Birch Creek....._......_._..._....... 4... A, VaUey of Fortymile River at mouth of Steel Creek; B, Contorted schist on ridge north of Mosquito...pre-Middle Ordovician rocks, East Fork of Willow Creek, White Mountains.________________________ 27 50 51 74
Report (issue)
._------_------_-_-----_-_---------_-__--_. Birch Creek schist----_-__---_--_-_---___--_-----_______-_Paleozoic...Tanana and Kuskokwim lowlands, and the Kuskokwim Mountains. Schists of Precambrian age crop out in the northern...and Mesozoic age are exposed in the Kuskokwim Mountains, where little is known of their distribution and... D. E. White made a detailed survey of the antimony deposit on Stampede Creek in 1941 (White, 1942)....northern foothills on the southeast, the Kuskokwim Mountains on the northwest, and a broad intervening lowland
 
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