2024 IDEAS

RENT JEEP

TRY INFLATABLE RAFT WITH ENGINE FOR EEL RIVER

 

 

UPPER SODA CREEK

 

SALMON CREEK HULL MOUNTAIN

 

OUTLET CREEK

 

COVELO EEL RIVER

 

COFFEE CREEK

 

SALMON RIVER HIGHWAY 93

 

VAN DUZEN RIVER & MAD RIVER

 

TENMILE CREEK, RATTLESNAKE CREEK, EEL RIVER

 

UPPER TRINITY RIVER ABOVE LAKE

 

THOMAS CREEK - BURRIS CREEK

 

 

 

CALIFORNIA MINDAT

HUMBOLDT COUNTY MINDAT

 

DEL NORTE COUNTY MINDAT

 

TRINITY COUNTY MINDAT

 

SISKYOU COUNTY MINDAT

LIMESTONE BLUFFS

 

TEHAMA COUNTY MINDAT

Tuscan Springs (Tuscan Mineral Springs)

Aragonite, Borax, Cristobalite, Sassolite

A borate occurrence at the springs near the mouth of the Pit River

BURRIS CREEK - BLACK BUTTE RESERVOIR

 

LAKE COUNTY MINDAT

 

MODOC COUNTY MINDAT

 

SONOMA COUNTY MINDAT

 

 

MENDOCINO MINDAT

Rockhounding Map

Mendocino County, California Mines
Mines and mineral resources of Mendocino County 

Laytonville Quarry, Laytonville

Albite, Apatite, Aragonite, Calcite, Clinozoisite, Garnet Group, Kutnohorite, Talc, Titanite,Tremolite

Layton Quarry Rockhounding

Rosenhahnite occurrence, Russian River, Cloverdale area

Albite, Aragonite, Calcite, Datolite, Diopside, Laumontite, Opal, Pectolite, Rosenhahnite, Xonotlite

An occurrence of Rosenhahnite (type locality) 2.9 miles SSE of Pieta, along the E bank of the Russian River near Highway 101, 5 miles N of Cloverdale. NOTE: The TL of Rosenhahnite should be Pieta since that town is closer by ½ than Cloverdale, which is in another county as well. Mineralization is found in Franciscan rocks in the Russian River.

SYKE ROCK, COVELO ROAD

Large Zoisite crystals 7.8 to 11.8 inches long have been found there

Clinozoisite?


Titanite

Vesuvianite

Zoisite

EEL RIVER AT HEARST

 Occidental Prospect

Near Pieta

Mercury, Serpintine Group

GOLD in Mendocino County on Mindat 

Anderson Valley placer

Cinnabar, Copper, Gold, Iridium, Platinum, Zircon

Hendy Woods State Park has river access

Navarro River

RED MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT

 

DRIVE HIGHWAY 162 FROM LONGVALE TO DOS RIOS TO COVELO

CONTINUE TO MENDOCINO PASS ROAD & PAST BLACK BUTTE RIVER RANCH & EEL RIVER CAMPGROUND

 

CALIFORNIA MINDAT
Mines in the Western United States – Western Mining History
CALIFORNIA MINES - WESTERN MINING HISTORY
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - Tiger Minerals
 California Minerals - Marin Minerals
California Crystal Collection
Idrialite California Locations List

 

Zircon California Locations List

 

 Atolia Mining District
Red Rock Canyon prospects - SEE KERN COUNTY

 

 INYO COUNTY MINDAT

BAGDAD-CHASE MINE

Barite, Calcite, Cerussite, Hedyphane, Inyoite, Mimetite, Opal var Hyalite, Sphalerite, Wulfenite  

 LEISER RAY MINE NEAR TUNGSTEN FLAT

ANGELSITE, CALCITE, CERUSSITE, GYPSUM, LEADHILLITE, MIMETITE, PYROMORPHITE, SPHALERITE, VANADANITE

 

 

 

MENDOCINO MINDAT

Rockhounding Map
Mendocino County, California Mines
Mines and mineral resources of Mendocino County 
 

Laytonville Quarry, Laytonville

Albite, Apatite, Aragonite, Calcite, Clinozoisite, Garnet Group, Kutnohorite, Talc, Titanite,Tremolite

Layton Quarry Rockhounding

Rosenhahnite occurrence, Russian River, Cloverdale area

Albite, Aragonite, Calcite, Datolite, Diopside, Laumontite, Opal, Pectolite, Rosenhahnite, Xonotlite

An occurrence of Rosenhahnite (type locality) 2.9 miles SSE of Pieta, along the E bank of the Russian River near Highway 101, 5 miles N of Cloverdale. NOTE: The TL of Rosenhahnite should be Pieta since that town is closer by ½ than Cloverdale, which is in another county as well. Mineralization is found in Franciscan rocks in the Russian River.

SYKE ROCK, COVELO ROAD

Large Zoisite crystals 7.8 to 11.8 inches long have been found there

Clinozoisite?


Titanite

Vesuvianite

Zoisite

EEL RIVER AT HEARST

 Occidental Prospect

Near Pieta

Mercury, Serpintine Group

GOLD in Mendocino County on Mindat 

Anderson Valley placer

Cinnabar, Copper, Gold, Iridium, Platinum, Zircon

Hendy Woods State Park has river access

Navarro River

RED MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT

 

DRIVE HIGHWAY 162 FROM LONGVALE TO DOS RIOS TO COVELO

CONTINUE TO MENDOCINO PASS ROAD & PAST BLACK BUTTE RIVER RANCH & EEL RIVER CAMPGROUND

LAKE COUNTY MINDAT

RED ELEPHANT

 

SULPHUR CREEK MINING DISTRICT

 

RED MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT

 

WIDE AWAKE MINE: Forgotten Relic of California’s Once Vital Mercury Mining Industry

 

Dry Creek Mines near Middletown

Chicago Mine, Castle Rock Springs, East Mayacmas District, Mayacmas Mts

Calcite, Cinnabar, Magnesite, Mercury, Quartz

A former Hg mine located 2.9 km (9,500 feet) SSE of Castle Rock Springs.

Mercury-bearing carbonate veins and narrow seams of cinnabar and native mercury within a shear zone in silica-carbonate altered serpentinite along a fault that separates serpentinite from sandstone.

Wall Street Mine, Castle Rock Springs, East Mayacamas Mining District, Lake Co

Cinnabar, Glaucophane, Mercury, Quartz

Look around Buck Rock

Helen Mine, Castle Rock Springs, East Mayacamas Mining District, Lake Co

Aragonite, Cinnabar, Epsomite, Idrialite, 'Limonite', Marcasite, Mercury, Metacinnabar,
Opal, Pyrite, Tiemannite

Research Mine, Castle Rock Springs

Idrialite, Cinnabar, Pyrite

 

Highway 20 Locations East of Clear Lake

Abbott Mine and Turkey Run mines were cleaned up

Abbott Mine

 

WHITE ELEPHANT MINE, HOWARD SPRINGS, BIG CANYON ROAD SW OF CLEAR LAKE

Mercury

Mineralization is hosted in serpentinite.

 

Skull Mountain Manganese Deposits

 

 

 

COLUSA COUNTY MINDAT
Colusa County, California Mines - Western Mining History
 
 Skull Mountain Manganese Deposits
 
SULPHUR CREEK MINING DISTRICT
WIDE AWAKE MINE: Forgotten Relic of California’s Once Vital Mercury Mining Industry
 

 

NAPA COUNTY MINDAT
NAPA COUNTY, CALIFONIA MINES

Borges Quarry, Lombard, Napa County

Dolomite, Melanophlogite, Opal Chalcedony

Andalusia Mine
McLaughlin Mine (Manhattan Mine) area

KERN COUNTY MINDAT

 Red Rock Canyon prospects 


Analcime, Calcite, 'HeulandIte', Mesolite, Mordenite, Natrolite, Opal, '
Phillipsite Subgroup',

'Stilbite Subgroup', Thomsonite-Ca, Ulexite

Phillipsite Subgroup is Phillipsite-Ca, Phillipsite-K, Phillipsite-Na and Harmotome also belongs to this subgroup.

Stilbite Subgroup is Barrerite - Stilbite-Ca - Stilbite-Na - Stellerite series.

Good Enough Mine - Alta Sierra - Greenhorn District
 Lucky Hit Mine - Alta Sierra-Greenhorn District
 Major Mine - Alta Sierra - Greenhorn District

Tungsten Hill Group, Havila, Clear Creek District

Scheelite, Wollastonite

Tripolli Mine

Scheelite

Havilah mines list

No See Um prospect

Scheelite

 

MONO COUNTY MINDAT

Long Chance & Vanelmart Mine Banner Ridge, Chidago Mining District

Anglesite, Stolzite

 

 INYO COUNTY MINDAT
LEE MINE

Fresno County

Benson-McMurty Mine (Rabbit's Foot Mine), Cats Head Mountain, Fresno Co.

Scheelite

 

ALPINE COUNTY MINDAT

Alpine Mine, Stevens Peak, Hope Valley Mining District, Alpine Co.

Powellite, Scheelite

Cal-Pine Mine, Burnside Lake, Hawkins Peak, Hope Valley Mining District, Alpine Co.

Garnet group, Scheelite

Snod Grass Mine (Snodgrass Creek prospect), Mineral Mountain, Silver King District, Alpine Co.

Scheelite, Quartz

Alhambra Mine (Allumbra Mine; Wolframite Mine), Stevens Peak, Hope Valley Mining District, Alpine Co.

Scheelite

 

SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY MINDAT
SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFONIA MINES

 

GOLD LOCATIONS IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY

Avawatz Mts

Dan Henrie Mine (Dan Henry Mine), Shadow Mountain

GOLD Quartz

 

ROCK CORRAL, LANDERS, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY 

BALANCED ROCK MINE, RATTLESNAKE MOUNTAIN, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY

  BAGDAD-CHASE MINE

Barite, Calcite, Cerussite, Hedyphane, Inyoite, Mimetite, Opal var Hyalite, Sphalerite, Wulfenite

 
 

 

SAN DIEGO MINDAT
Tule Mountain, Jacumba Mining District

Crystal Gem Mine (Old School Mine), Tule Mountain

 

BEAUTY MOUNTAIN WILDERNESS

Pawnee Mine

Scheelite

Ware Mine has produced the largest blue Topaz crystals ever found in San Diego County

 

Easy Group near road to Pawnee

Scheelite

Teuscher prospect (Beauty Mountain Tungsten Mines)

Scheelite

Macaboy claim

GOLD

 

Metal Mountain Mine, Live Oak Springs area, In-Ko-Pah Mts

 

Cerussite, Scheelite, Sphalerite, Tremolite

GOLD

 
 
 
 

 

SHASTA COUNTY MINDAT
REDDING GOLD COLLECTING
 
 
 

 

GOLD in California

The gold is there because, 400 million years ago, California was at the bottom of the sea. Underwater volcanoes spewed out minerals rich in gold, which were later carried into rivers.

 

 

 

SONOMA MINDAT

 

West Mayacamas Mining District

A Mercury mining area in the NE corner of Sonoma County, covering a mineralizaed zone about 20 miles long and 2 miles wide. The area trends NW along the border with Lake County. 

 

WESTERN MINES INTERACTIVE MAP

 

IDRIALITE LOCATIONS

 

 

 

SAN BENITO COUNTY

HYDRA SPRINGS

GLAUCOPHANE RIDGE

 

SAN LUIS OBISPO

ADELAIDA

CUYAMA RIVER