 | | Report (issue) | | DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 193 California Division of Mines and Geology Sacramento, California...DISTRICTS OF CALIFORNIA Clark Geologist, California Division of Mines & Geology, Sacramento, California...-ounce (troy) cluster of gold on display in the Division of Mines and Geology San Francisco's Ferry Building...an overall guide been written on gold and gold mining of publications have no single report or to... considerable importance are reports on the Mother Lode belt by Knopf and Logan, and reports on the Grass |  | | Journal (issue) | | Paul E. Desautels Pete J. Dunn Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N.H.) Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey...Weber Mamaroneck, N.Y. Articles Collecting gold mining memorabilia........................................... 337 by D. J. Mossman The Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California: a modem source of...2 Wellsic Lane, Rothley Leicestershire LE7 7QB Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills...Susie was born, the daughter of a miner, at Johnson Camp, Arizona Territory, in 1909. Shortly thereafter |  | | Report (issue) | | Front cover top: 5.1 cm high from Eagle's Nest mine in Placer County, Caifornia, USA Collection Marlin...Photo Robert Gambee Below: Crystallized gold from Canada Private collection; Jeff Scovil photo extraLapis...and Bill Birch The Rush for Gold Turns North to Canada and Alaska . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . .P. 74 Dave Ellis The British Gold Rush of 1854 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . .P. 76 Michael P. Cooper Page 58 British Gold: Rare and Collectable . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Report (issue) | | Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 2 California Division of Mines and Geology, Sacramento, California ...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...complex vein system of the historically famous Mother Lode and East Belt and West Belt (fig. 1), large amounts...also been taken from the Grass Valley-Nevada City lode district and from Tertiary river channels and Quaternary |  | | 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 -----------...(to nearest 1,000 ounces) of 25 principal gold-mining districts of the United States-through 1959---...1880-1965 ------------------------Map showing gold-mining districts of Alaska ---------------------------------Graph...Arizona, 1881-1965 -----------------Map showing gold-mining districts of Arizona -------------------------------Graph |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mountain. Sedimentary-rock-hosted mineralization at Mine Mountain is spatially associated with a thrust fault...antimony, mercury and selenium contents are very high. Mine Mountain mineralization shares features with vein...Deposits in the Rhyolite area and at the Gold Bar mine have very low contents of arsenic and mercury compared...eastern Bare Mountain; the Wahmonie district; and Mine Mountain. Contrasts between these four mineralized...Bullfrog mine. D = Daisy mine. GB= Gold Bar mine, GD = Goldspar mine. M = Mary. mine, ML = Mother Lode mine |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | silvery telluride attributed to the Boly Fields mine, Lumpkin County, Georgia, was available for $800...Tucson Gem and Mineral Show. The tiny Boly Fields mine closed about 1845, and, although the locality is...“the Chukotka digger cooperative alone managed to mine more than 3000 nuggets in the gold-producing season...handled by St. Troy Mines and later also by Grizzly Mining, Collector’s Edge, and Earth Resources. Some of...nuggets were sold in conjunction with the commercial mining operation. The first auction he attended was in |  | | Report (volume) | | Photomicrographs showing textural relations of gold and electrum in selected Au-skarn deposits 14 Photomicrographs...complexly zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of garnet...In recent years, a significant proportion of the mining industry's interest has been centered on discovery...rocks of Paleozoic to Tertiary age. Native gold, electrum, pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite... INTRODUCTION Gold exploration efforts of the mining industry in the last few years have centered on |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SHELTON, Departmentof Geology,Universityof Missouri,Columbia,Missouri65211 CHIL-SUPSO, AND JIN-SU CHANG Departmentof...CanadianCordillera,CanadianArchcangreenstone belts, and the Mother Lode district of California. The diversityof host...CretaceousKorean-typedeposits,but major granitesin the mine area are Late Cretaceous-Tertiaryin age; and (3)...1986); (Fig. 2). Metamor- A A' phic rocks in the mine area occur mainly as roof FIG. 2. Geologicmap and...majority of the gold-bearingquartz veins,is in the mine area: a biotite granite and a two-mica composeddominantly |  | | Book | | onepound specimen comes from California's Eureka mine. in Its which * shape was dictated by the rocky... Printed in U.S.A. Published simultaneously in Canada. School and library distribution by Silver Burdett...Angeles since 1972. He is primarily interested in the mining and milling history of the Americas, Australasia...MINERAL TREASURES 50 3 PROSPECTING FOR THE MOTHER LODE 84 4 THE PEERLESS PLATINUM FAMILY 116 5...inch-high specimen was found in California's famed Mother Lode, which touched off the gold rush of 1849- |  | | Book | | proposition. The total hours spent looking for and mining gold were worth much more than the gold produced...worthless mineral pyrite, or fool's gold. What mining knowledge there was came from·the few foreigners...yet the mining rules adopted were generally so sensible they became the basis for American mining law. The...The right to locate a mining claim and work it until abandon~ ment was fundamental. ·c ivil law was mostly...were often carried out immediately. · · (2) ·· MINING METHODS PRODUCTIO N Gold and California were soon |  | | Report (issue) | | of Docs. no.: I 19.3:1857-G 1. Gold mines and mining—United States. 2. Placer deposits—United States...depositsG G15 Age of the depositsG G15 Placer goldG G15 Lode goldG G17 Genesis of the gold oresG G17 References...Map of California showing principal placer-gold mining areasG G5 Sketch of a typical gold-diving operationG...showing principal placer-gold mining areasG Photograph of hydraulic mining on the North Fork of Harrison...United States G3 G2. Major active 1980's gold placer mining areas of AlaskaG G10 IVI Contents GEOLOGY AND |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | dealing in all aspects of gold geology, metallurgy, mining, and utilization; those interested in delving deeper...silver is typically referred to as the variety electrum. In some unusual deposits, a small amount of copper...collectors are the quartz veins of California’s mother lode. Exceptional masses of crystalline gold, sometimes...specimen was movered from Sonora Mining Corporation’s JIMestown, California, mine in December 1W. It is one...number of specimens attributed to the old “Alabama mine” part of the open pit and, along with other spedmeas |  | | Journal (issue) | | Editors FteteJ.Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum (N.H.) London, England Richard C. Erd US...Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Richard...the "Fricot Nugget," collected in 1865 at the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California, by Jules Fricot and...Harper’s article. John Dysart, Manager of the Reed Gold Mine State Historic Site, sent much additional information...Mineral dealer Simon Harrison and John Fuller of the British Museum (Natural History) researched the site (called |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | peror goldmine, Fiji; and Sacaramb(Nagyag),Ro- or electrum is depositedeither with or following mania. Such... Au-hs Brown and Nesbitt (1984) Hedley, British Columbia Bi, Au, tb, at, hs, pz po, apø Tsumo,Japan...Skarns Darwin, California DawsonCity, mt Yukon, Canada Warren and Peacock (1945), Thompson (1949) Bi-tb-bs...Abbreviations:native elements:As = arsenic,Au -- gold-electrum,Bi -- bismuth,Te -- tellurium; tellurides:at --...(Australia), Commoner (Zimbabwe), and the Abitibi belt (Canada),are not well known. Uncertaintiesexist as to the |  | | Report (issue) | | Terranes Part I Geographic Distribution of Gold Mining Regions and Types of Deposits in the United States...bibliographies. Contents: Geographic distribution of gold mining regions and types of deposits in the United States...Redden and Gregory McN. French. 1. Gold mines and mining United States. 2. Gold deposits United States....CIP CONTENTS Geographic distribution of gold mining regions and types of deposits in the United States...B25 Lode deposits B27 Tenor of ore B29 Mineralogy B29 Molybdenum-copper deposits B30 Banner mine B30 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | magnetite, specularite, chalcopyrite, native gold, electrum, calaverite, and altaite. Gangue minerals include...of the deposit have made it a highly productive mining property (Dong Jianle, written com., 1997). Initial...region since the 1950s. About one-third of China's lode gold deposits, and 45 % of its gold reserves are...be described in detail below. A local government mine was established, and gold production started in...used for defining alkalic complexes in the British Columbia Cordillera (Lueck and Russell, 1994). In the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Leibov (2004) provides a valuable survey of the gold mining districts of Russia, the history of their discovery...Berlin and Paris were presented by the czars. The British Museum holds the collection formed by N. I. Koksharov...formed by George de la Bouglise, a famous French mining engineer, at auction in 1911. Burrage died suddenly...the mining district or city for twenty-eight of the specimens, and the name of an individual mine or river...with silver-colored electrum(?) and brown chlorargyrite in quartz from the mine at Zyryanovsk in the |  | | Report (issue) | | RESOURCES W I T H SPECIAL REFERENCE T O T H E BRITISH E M P I R E P R E PA R E D U N D E R T H E D I...the Mineral Resources Committee, show the chief British Countries of occurrence and production o f metallic...S O U R C E S WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE T O T H E BRITISH EMPIRE MANGANESE O R E S . B y A . H . CURTIs...RESOURCES W I T H SPECIAL REFERENCE T O T H E BRITISH EMPIRE 6';7Is3>:GEack.ocaclAt,su;:?wiy IRRARy...tscrra. NG!/%33 aLDA11- I L _ I Aft PaNi) A 1 BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY II II I I 7802737621 II |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in gold-silver alloys. Analyses of *Now Western Mining Corporation, 5 5 MacDonald Street, Kalgoorlie,...referred to as gold, those with fineness 200-800 as electrum and less than 200 as silver. Historically, fineness...exploration geologist. In 1978 he joined Western Mining Corp. as a senior exploration geologist. In 1988...the Timmins-OchaliBerlin mine, Columbia (Fisher, 1950) and at the O'Brien mine, Quebec (Mills, 1954). However...analyses from 19 major deposits in the Abitibi Belt of Canada reported by Guindon (1982), 44% plot in the fineness |  | Nokleberg, Warren J., Bundtzen, Thomas K., Dawson, Kenneth M., Eremin, Roman A., Goryachev, Nikolai A., Koch, Richard D., Ratkin, Vladimir V., Rozenblum, Ilya S., Shpikerman, Vladimir I., Frolov, Yuri F., Gorodinsky, Mary E., Melnikov, Vladimir D., Ognyanov, Nikolai V., Petrachenko, Eugene D., Pozdeev, Anany I., Ross, Katherina V., Wood, Douglas H., Grybeck, Donald, Khanchuk, Alexander I., Kovbas, Lidiya I., Nekrasov, Ivan Ya., Sidorov, Anatoly A. (1996) Significant metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts for the Russian Far East, Alaska, and the Canadian Cordillera. Open-File Report Vol. 1996 (96-513) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr96513a | Report (issue) | | Significant metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts for the Russian Far...significant metalliferous and selected non-metalliferous lode deposits and placer districts of the Russian Far...summaries of the important features of the significant lode deposits and placer districts along with a summary...references. Data are provided for 1,079 significant lode deposits and 158 significant placer districts of...RUSSIA ALASKA DIVISION OF GEOLOGICAL AND GEOPHYSICAL SURVEYS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA SIGNIFICANT |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | by-productgold, of which the bestknown exampleis the Horne mine at Noranda, Quebec.Their high gold content and coregionality...with greenstone-hosted gold lodes in many Canadian mining districts (Hutchinsonand Burlington, 1984) are...veins,asin the "flow ore body" at the Kerr-Addison mine in Kirkland Lake, Ontario (Bakeret al., 1957; Kishida...stratiform lodes contain concordant beds manydistrictsin Canada,the UnitedStates,Westof massivepyrite as at the...bodiesof massiveauriferouspyrite as at the AgnicoEagle mine in Joutel,Quebec (Barnettet al., 198œ),andthe Dumagamimine |  | | Report (issue) | | MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining Bureau McN. HAMILTON STATE MINERALOGIST F. F...Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this...localities new and quently the The second list ^Mining' State Mineralogist. This known localities...literature of a general nature on the geology and mining industry of the State. bibliography of A. may...The excellent Vodges, Bulletin 30 of the State Mining Bureau, be referred to for such literature. The |  | Roberts, Andrew C., Scott Ercit, T., Criddle, Alan J., Jones, Gary C., Scott Williams, R., Cureton, Forrest F., Jensen, Martin C. (1994) Mcalpineite, Cu3TeO6·H2O, a new mineral from the McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, and from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah. Mineralogical Magazine, 58 (392) 417-424 doi:10.1180/minmag.1994.058.392.07 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, and from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah...Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E8 T. SCOTTERCIT Research Division, Canadian...Canadian Museun of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 6P4 ALAN J. CRIDDLE, GARY C. JONES Department of...Conservation Institute, 1030 Innes Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C8 FORREST F. CURETONII The Cureton Corporation...crusts on white quartz at the long-abandoned McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, U.S.A. Associated |  | | Journal (issue) | | Robert A. Matthews Introduction History The Division of Mines possesses one of the largest and most...the famous men associated with mining in the early days of the Division of Mines , but only a few of these... Small exhibits are maintained at each of the Division of Mines branch offices in Los Angeles, Sacramento...providing for the establishment and maintenance of a Mining Bureau in the city of San Francisco. The first...crvstals are bent and curved. 2 California State Division of Mines (Vol. 12 e MINERAL INFORMATION SERVICE |
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