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Zircon from
Emerald Creek, Latah County, Idaho, USA


Locality type:Creek
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Almandine1 photo of Zircon associated with Almandine at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Emerald Creek, Latah County, Idaho, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:969706
Long-form Identifier:1:3:969706:5
GUID (UUID V4):b8503b10-6010-4a39-8732-ee14eb97688f
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
4.2km (2.6 miles) Idaho Garnet Abrasive placer, Shoshone County, Idaho, USA
10.3km (6.4 miles) Mizpah Mine, Hoodoo Mining District, Hoodoo Mountains, Latah County, Idaho, USA
43.8km (27.2 miles) Teakean Butte Occurrence, Teakean Butte Area, Clearwater County, Idaho, USA
82.3km (51.2 miles) Clarkston placer, Clarkston, Asotin County, Washington, USA
84.3km (52.4 miles) Musselshell Creek Placer, Weippe Mining District (Musselshell Mining District), Clearwater County, Idaho, USA
86.6km (53.8 miles) Snake River placer, Clarkston, Asotin County, Washington, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book
MINERALS^ of Idaho with field trip j& maps by John A.fl£.jkwith Gem Minerals of Idaho, designed for...for beginners and for those collectors visiting Idaho for the first time, is a guide to some of the...open and collecting. garnet diggings of Latah County and the Spencer Opal Mine, charge a digging...mineral-forming forces than makes Idaho a gem hunter's para- has experienced more Idaho," a fact that dise. L... usually six to ten percent. GEM MINERALS OF IDAHO 44 pin-fire white opals are valuable and those
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1944 C O N T R IB U T IO N S TO T H E GEOLOGY OF LATAH C O U N TY , ID A H O BY EDWARD L. TULLIS CONTENTS...on August 5, 2015 132 TULLIS— GEOLOGY OF LATAH COUNTY, IDAHO Tertiary extrusive rocks..................Figure Page 1. Map of the southwestern cornerof Latah County............................................................. 2. Map of igneous intrusions of Latah C ounty............................................................... 6. Geologic map of Latah County, Idaho.........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
r------' .--. !i i , i ' i Boundary '---~ IDAHO Bonner_j l--;~u:d{ene\, I , L~ Coeur'cI'Alene...its pyromorphite, Idaho also boasts many other mineral species. ( :\.. -~:/ Idaho <....: (_ ", I...Power i..r v. ) 't,.,. 1. r': ~ Caribou Idaho 83816-2043 , • c-vz..J. '. 2",_J'-1 '\ o, ...INDEX BRIEFLY DESCRIBES the mineral localities in Idaho; all known localities that may have produced well-crystallized...localities for minerals that were first discovered in Idaho. Unfortunately for the field collector, most of
Journal (issue)
by Judy and Bob Schuster on “Garnets and Emerald Creek, Idaho.” It will include a general discussion on...field. They will then move on to Idaho and the famous Emerald Creek location – its peculiar geology,...special techniques are employed for collecting at Emerald Creek, with many photos and tips. Be sure to join...Garnets and much more, by Judy & Bob Schuster. Emerald Creek, with many photos and tips. Some very unique...December are out of control! Garnets & Emerald Creek, Idaho This presentation is a general discussion
Report (issue)
Connecticut, USA © 2008 by Lithographie, LLC P.O. Box 263 • East Hampton, CT 06424 • USA Phone 1.860...diopside; 7.1 cm tall Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Richmond County, Quebec, Canada Paul Stahl specimen Jeff Scovil...a/bite from the Little Three Mine in San Diego County, California; 6. 6 cm tall; Bryant Harris specimen...almandine-pyrope from the deposits around Emerald Creek in Latah County, Idaho, is brought about by inclusions...specks) in the Entrada Sandstone, Laguna, Valencia County, New Mexico; field of view 8 mm Hans Jurgen Wilke
Book (edition)
Idaho Minerals The complete Reference and Guide to the Minerals of Idaho Lanny R. Ream 1!11, ) a...PISTOLS Idaho Minerals Idaho Minerals The Complete Reference and Guide to the Minerals of Idaho with Special...Rerun Publishing P .O. Box 2043 Coeur d'Ale ne, Idaho 83814 Copyright © 1989 by L.R. Ream Publishing...R Ream Publishing P.O. Box 2043 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814 (208) 667-0453 To those collectors who are...information and specimens available to others. vi IDAHO MINERALS Acknowledgements A book of this magnitude
Journal (volume)
on some Microminerals from the Ohio pit, Baraga County, Michigan Al Falster 920 McIntosh Wausau, Wl 54401...54401 I I r i The Ohio pit in Baraga County, Michigan, is an old open-pit iron mine. In vugs and cavities...AUSTRALIA, GERMANY RUSSIA, NORWAY, ITALY, NEW ZEALAND, USA & MEXICO Write for free list. Dealer prices available...MINERAL NEWS, P 0. Box 1154, Coeur d' Alene , Idaho 83814 USA. Information in this newsletter may not be...to Mineral Neva P.O. Box 1 1 54 Coeur d Alene, Idaho 838 1 4 U.S.A. ■ Phone 208-667-0453 i l£i Index
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Next day we drove through Twin Falls and Boise, Idaho, and then headed north on Highway 15 up the Payette...by high water. Just a mile or so south of Banks, Idaho, in a Forest Service camp ground, is a very large...load the Chevy. I bought a gold pan at Cascade, Idaho, to replace the one I had forgotten to bring along...of New Meadows, Idaho, Little Goose Creek flows down from the north into Goose Creek. If you go up Little...Little Goose Creek any distance, and pan the gravel of the creek bed, you can find almost anything in
Journal (issue)
Ferguson FIELD TRIPS 6 EMERALD CREEK TODAY Garnet collecting in Idaho by Earl Spendlove 10 NEW...crystals in the eastern U.S. by Andy Maslowski Another Idaho collecting location by Kenneth H. Rohn JACK R....SOCIETIES Officers Ed Romack. President 655 8th Street, Idaho Falls, 10 83401 Caroll Oillon. v,ce President 909...administration building on PeeWee Gulch in the Emerald Creek Gamet Area. As we walked toward the building...stones. Star garnets are found only in northern Idaho and in India. The effect is called "asterism," meaning
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
optical and transmission electron microscopy of Idaho star garnet indicate a co-precipitation origin....of star garnet in metapelitic schist from Emerald Creek, Idaho (West et al., 2005) were attributed to the...in star garnet from metapelitic schist of Emerald Creek, Idaho, which is the same locality studied by Guinel...gravels of the Emerald Creek area, northern Idaho, is the state gemstone of Idaho, USA. The garnet is...2005). SAMPLES AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS Idaho star garnet Ten Idaho 4-ray star garnet rough crystals and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
optical microscopy and TEM study on rutile needles in Idaho star garnet (an unusual form of garnet, almost certainly...not UHP garnet) from a metapelitic schist of Emerald Creek, and found that rutile needles are predominantly...microstructures as well as a diamond inclusion identified in zircon (Song et al., 2005b) indicate that the Lüliangshan...overprinting; serpentinization. SHRIMP U–Pb dating of zoned zircon gives three discrete groups of ages (Song et al...garnet in metapelitic schist from Emerald Creek, Latah County, Idaho, — — Guinel & Norton (2006) reported
Book
learns that such minerals as mica, apatite, sphene, zircon, fluroite and corundum are associated with light-colored...are rubies and sapphires, diamonds, spinel and zircon. The rockhound will soon learn that gravel beds...feldspar, mica, garnet, tourmaline, magnetite, zircon, gold, platinum, topaz, beryl, ruby and sapphire...Again, some of the best specimens from Emerald Creek in Idaho have been found by indi¬ viduals standing...famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ROCKS AND MINERALS Garnet Sand f r o m Emerald Creek, Idaho Downloaded by [University of Florida] at... reads: "Recently made a field trip to the Emerald Creek garnet locality and secured a nice lot of garnets...small almandites and of garnet sand found at Emerald Creek, a tributary of St. Marie River, some 5 miles...miles up the stream near Fernwood (Benewah Co.), Idaho. This is a commercial dredging proposition, and the...location is another locality on a tributary of Emerald Creek where garnets up to an inch are found in a mica
Report (issue)
&;- ... . '"' of the ,.. MINING INDUSTRY OF IDAHO for 1957 GEORGE A. McDOWELL - , Inspector of Mines... 58th Annual Report of the MINING INDUSTRY OF IDAHO for 1957 GEORGE A. McDOWELL EDWARD A. BUSH -...ROBERT E. SMYLIE Governor, State of Idaho Chairman, Board of Control Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology LETTER...EXCELLENCY, THE HONORABLE ROBERT E. SMYLIE, Governor of Idaho. SIR: With the permission of the Director of Administration...Administration under Section 59-601 and Section 47-111, Idaho Code, I have the honor to transmit herewith the
Report (issue)
S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2007 Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Cretaceous and Paleogene Strata...S. Geological Survey in Alaska, 2007 Detrital Zircon Geochronology of Cretaceous and Paleogene Strata... A., Bradley, D., and Trop, J., 2009, Detrital zircon geochronology of Cretaceous and Paleogene strata...southern Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, that was sampled for zircon geochronology studies. III Contents Abstract...------------------- 13 Sandstone of the Canyon Creek Area—Valanginian to Hauterivian----------------------------
Book (volume)
Montana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar (25.03 ct), Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...members. Searches could be confined to terrains and creek beds that expose vil Preface types of rocks...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache
Journal (issue)
Publishing, 3619 W. Fairway Drive, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 83815. Lanny R. Ream, Editor. Periodicals postage...postage (USPS 751-150) paid at Coeur d'Afene, Idaho Postmaster send address changes to: Mineral News P.O...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...Fifties, i.e. chiastolite crystals from Madera County, CA. They used to be very common, almost ubiquitous...far from Manhattan, NV, from the Twin Creek Mine, Humboldt County, NV. The crystals are about 3/g to 5/g
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
‘inferior’-meaning hardness inferior to that of zircon, with which it had long been confused under the...state gem of New York, Connecticut (grossular), and Idaho (star garnet); and the state mineral of Connecticut... Figure 3: Almandine, 3 cm. Avondale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. John Medici specimen and photo....effect, a result of oriented inclusions. Emerald Creek, Idaho, is probably the best-known locality for...uvarovite crystal, 0.8 mm, near Jacksonville, Tuolumne County, California. Dan Behnke specimen tahedral crystals
Book (volume)
beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...Kasolite, Quartz crystals, Mica, Tourmaline and Zircon (reddish brown crystals);  W 14 mi. on US 16 to
Report (issue)
Johnson, Chair Baker City Ronald K. Culbertson Myrtle Creek Donald A. Haagensen Portland STATE GEOLOGIST Donald...Principal deposits of industrial minerals in Idaho Earl H. Bennett, Idaho Geological Survey. and Samuel W. McNary...private companies and variow. federal. l>tatc. and county agcn c ic~ . ru\ llcd l>tone. al mo~t exc lu ~...and pa' ing bricks from clays mined in Klamath County and several other western counti e~. X X X X...Limc~tonc and '>hale County by Ash Grove Cement We~t. The shale and ~omc uf
Book (volume)
guide to more than 1,000 specific locations in Idaho, lowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska...Virginia VOLUME 3: THE NORTHWESTERN QUANDRANT Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska...TREASURES VOLUME ep The Northwestern Quadrant Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska...Principal Abbreviations and Mineral Location Numbers Idaho lowa Kansas Minnesota Missouri Montana Nebraska...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl ^"^ Agate ** Jade Amethyst nq -* %...intersect at right angles. The crystals, such as zircon, commonly have a square cross-section. The hexagonal... TYPICAL CRYSTAL FORMS <^ bi ^P CHIASTOLITE BERYL EMERALD FELDSPAR EPIDOTE ^?^ (& \ ^^ GARNET KYANITE... (^h /&> ^& \b^ ^ VESUVIANITE WILLEMITE ZIRCON CRYSTALS How 10 / gem to identify minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1998, 2002). Recent U\Pb zircon (SHRIMP) data indicate the S-type Emerald Creek Microgranite and Mount...Alto, Wangetti, Tinaroo, Mount Formartine, Emerald Creek) have been recognised (Bultitude and Champion...nodules. Other accessory minerals include ubiquitous zircon, apatite (as euhedral inclusions in most minerals...Ma (Supplementary Table 2). A more recent U\Pb zircon (SHRIMP) age of 275 ± 5 Ma has been reported for...and Champion, 1992). Other accessories include zircon, apatite (mostly euhedral small grains but locally
Report (issue)
FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE ‘MINING INDUSTRY. of IDAHO FOR THE YEAR ARTHUR CAMPBELL Inspector of Mines...REPORT OF THE MINING INDUSTRY of IDAHO FOR THE YEAR 19 2476 IDAHO AND PRODUCED COPPER IN GOLD,...Governor of Idaho. Williams, Sir: In compliance with the provisions of Section 46111, Idaho Code Annotated...Conditions in Idaho Accidents, Description Fatal Accidents Silver Price Made Law Phosphate, Idaho Has Large...(Morning Mine) Gem Collectors, Work At Own Mine Idaho Mining Association Hopes and Fears, by C. J. Strike
Book (edition)
from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...Microlite, Apatite, Lazulite-Scorzalite, Cassiterite, Zircon, Algodonite and Domeykite, Rhodochrosite, W illemite...Mounce diamond crystal 5. Gibson's Ruby mine, Cowee Creek, North Carolina 6. Corundum Hill, North Carolina...Views of opal mines, Spencer, Idaho 24. Nodules bearing opal, Spencer, Idaho 25. Drawing of hyalite opal...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and
 
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