El Dorado County
- El Dorado County – List of Stone Quarries
- El Dorado County Stone Resources (circa 1867) (pdf) – Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the States and Territories West of the Rocky Mountains, by J. Ross Browne, Report to the Committee on Mines and Mining, 40th House of Representatives, Congress, 2nd Session, Ex. Doc. No. 202, 1868.
- El Dorado County Limestone, Marble, & Slate Quarries/Deposits circa 1883 – Historical Souvenir of El Dorado County, California (pdf transcription), by Paolo Sioli, 1883.
- El
Dorado County and the California Slate Industry (up to 1906) –
Excerpts from Slate Deposits and Slate Industry of the United States,
Bulletin No. 275, by T. Nelson Dale with sections by E. C. Eckel,
W. F. Hillerbrand, and A. T. Coons, “Slate Deposits and Industry
of the United States” – California, by Edwin C. Eckel, pp. 56-59, Department
of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Washington: Government
Printing Office, 1906.
- El Dorado County Limestone & Marble Resources (circa 1913) – Included in chapter in “California” (pdf), by G. F. Loughlin, in the Mineral Resources of the United States Calendar Year 1913, Part II. Nonmetals, United States Geological Survey, 1914.
- El
Dorado County Slate Industry (through 1914) – Excerpts from
Slate in the United States, Bulletin 586, by T. Nelson Dale and
Others, United States Geological Survey, Washington: Government Printing
Office, 1914)
- El Dorado
County Mines and Mineral Resources (circa 1915-1916) – Excerpts
from Report XV of the State Mineralogist, Mines and Mineral Resources
of Portions of California, Chapters of State Mineralogist's Report Biennial
Period 1915-1916, Part III. The Counties of El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento,
Yuba, California State Mining Bureau, 1919.
- El
Dorado, County, California, Mineral Resources & Introduction to the
El Dorado County Area of California (circa 1915) – Excerpt
from Sacramento Valley and Foothill Counties of California: An Illustrated
Description of all the Counties Embraced in this Richly Productive Geographical
Subdivision of the Golden State, compiled and edited by Emmett Phillips
and John H. Miller, Published under the direction of The Sacramento Valley
Exposition, J. A. Filcher, Director-in Chief, January, 1915.
- El Dorado
County Mineral Industry (circa 1919) – Excerpt from California
Mineral Production for 1919, Bulletin No. 88, by Walter W. Bradley,
California State Mining Bureau, 1920.
- El Dorado
County Limestone Industry and Limestone Deposits (through 1947) – Excerpts
from “Limestone in California,” by Clarence A. Logan, California
Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 43, No. 3, July 1947, California
Division of Mines, San Francisco, California.
- "The Cool-Cave Valley
Limestone Deposits, El Dorado and Placer Counties, California (circa 1954)"
by William B. Clark, Junior Mining Geologist, California Journal of
Mines and Geology, Vol. 50, Nos. 3 and 4, July-October 1954, California
State Mining Bureau, pp. 439-466.
- El Dorado
County Dimension Stone, Dolomite, Limestone, Slate, and Soapstone (historical
account leading up to circa 1956) – Excerpts from "Mines
and Mineral Resources of El Dorado County, California," California
Journal of Mines and Geology, Vol. 52, No. 4, October 1956, California
Division of Mines.
- Indian Diggings
Marble Quarry Area and Indian Diggings Cemetery, El Dorado County,
California - Visit to the Indian Diggings Cemetery and
Indian Diggings Marble Quarry Area in the summer of 2003. (Use
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