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1840s Through about the 1860s - Building Material & Stone Usage in the Mother Lode Region of California. Excerpts from Geologic Guidebook Along Highway 49 - Sierran Gold Belt: The Mother Lode Country, Bulletin 141, Olaf P. Jenkins, Chief, California Division of Mines, San Francisco, California, 1949.(Used with permission, California Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey.)
1856 - The following excerpt is from the 1856, "The Marble-Workers' Handbook": "Marble has been found in Marin County, and in some other parts of California."
1882 - The California Stone and Building Industry in 1882 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1882, J. S. Powell, Director, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1883. Excerpts from the chapters on 1) "Structural Materials" and 2) "The Useful Minerals of the United States."
1883 and 1884 California Stone Industry - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States - Calendar Years 1883 and 1884, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1885.
1885 - The California Stone and Building Industry in 1885 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1885, David T. Day, Geologist, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1887. Excerpts from the chapters on 1) "Structural Materials," by H. S. Sproull; and 2) "Abrasive Materials."
1886 - The California Stone and Building Industry, 1886 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1886, David T. Day, Chief of Division of Mining Statistics and Technology, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1887. Excerpts from the chapter on Structural Materials, by William C. Day.
1898/1899 - Excerpt from Maryland Geological Survey, Vol. II, "A History of the (Maryland) Quarrying Industry," by Edward B. Mathews, 1898:
"The sandstones (of the state of Connecticut), and especially those along the Connecticut River, as at Portland and Cromwell, are very extensively quarried and owing to the ready transportation facilities offered by the river, are extensively utilized in all the Eastern cities, and have even been sent around Cape Horn to San Francisco."
1906 - 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.
1906 - California Structural and Industrial Materials / Building Stones (historical account leading up to circa 1906) The following material on the California stone industry circa 1906 are excerpts from The Structural and Industrial Materials of California, Bulletin No. 38, California, State Mining Bureau, San Francisco, California, 1906.
1908 - The California Stone Industry, 1908 - Excerpts from Mineral Resources of the United States, Calendar Year 1908, Part II - Nonmetallic Products, Department of the Interior, United States Geological Survey, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., 1909. Excerpts from the book are from the chapters on: 1) "Slate," by A. T. Coons; 2) "Stone," by A. T. Coons; 3) part of chapter on "Abrasive Materials," by W. C. Phalen.
1913 -1914 - California Mines and Mineral Resources (circa 1913-1914) - Excerpts from Report XIV of the State Mineralogist - Mines and Mineral Resources of Portions of California, Chapters of State Mineralogist's Report - Biennial Period 1913-1914, San Francisco, California, July, 1915, California State Mining Bureau, San Francisco, California, 1916.
1915 - California Mineral Resources & Introduction to the Sacramento Valley and Foothills Area of California (circa 1915) - Excerpts 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.
1919 - Mineral Industry, California, (As of 1919) (From California Mineral Production for 1919, Bulletin No. 88, by Walter W. Bradley, California State Mining Bureau, 1920)
1939 - California Stone Industry (as of 1939) - Excerpts from The Stone Industries, by Oliver Bowles, New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1939.
1947 - The Mineral Industry of California (As of 1947) - Excerpts from "Annual Report, Division of Mines for the Ninety-Eighth Fiscal Year, July 1, 1946 to June 30, 1947," by Olaf P. Jenkins, Chief, California State Division of Mines. Manuscript submitted for publication December 1947, California State Division of Mines, California Journal of Mines and Geology, pp. Vol. 43, No. 4, October 1947, pp. 389-412. Used with permission, California Department of Conservation, California Geological Survey.)
1947 - Limestone in California (As of 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, pp. 175-357.
1949 - Stone Quarries in the North San Francisco Bay Counties ((historical account as of 1949), excerpts from Geology and Mineral Deposits of an Area North of San Francisco Bay, California: Vacaville, Antioch, Mount Vaca, Carquinez, Mare Island, Sonoma, Santa Rosa, Petaluma, and Point Reyes Quadrangles, Bulletin 149, California State Division of Mines, 1949.
1950 - California Stone Industry (historical account up to circa 1950), excerpts from Geologic Guidebook of the San Francisco Bay Counties, Bulletin 154, California Division of Mines, 1951.
"The Building Stone and Aggregate Industry of the San Francisco Bay Counties," by Mort D. Turner, Assistant Mining Geologist, California State Division of Mines.
"Volcanic Rocks Useful in the San Francisco Bay Area," by C. W. Chesterman, Associate Mining Geologist, California State Division of Mines.
Limestone and The Cement Industry of the San Francisco Bay Counties," by Oliver E. Bowen, Jr., Associate Mining Geologist, California State Division of Mines.
"Old
Lime Kilns Near Olema," by Adan E.
Treganza, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, San
Francisco State College.
1951 - California Mineral Commodities in 1951 (Excerpts from "Mines and Mineral Resources of San Benito County, California," California State Division of Mines, California Journal of Mines and Geology, pp. Vol. 50, No. 1, January 1954, pp. 3-147.)
California Stone & Mineral Industry (as of 1966), excerpts from Geology of Northern California, Bulletin 190, Edgar H. Bailey, Editor, United States Geological Survey, California Division of Mines and Geology, Ferry Building, San Francisco, 1966.
California Stone Industry (historical account and up to 1966), excerpts from Mineral Resources of California, Bulletin 191, California Division of Mines and Geology, San Francisco, California, 1966.
Limestone, Dolomite, and Lime Products, by O. E. Bowen, California Division of Mines and Geology, San Francisco, California.
Figure 34. Principal limestone and dolomite districts in California (Map)
1973 - Limestone & Dolomite Resources of California (as of 1973), excerpts from The Mineral Economics of The Carbonate Rocks: Limestone and Dolomite Resources of California, Bulletin 194, by Oliver E. Bowen, Cliffton H. Gray, Jr., and James R. Evans, California Division of Mines and Geology, Sacramento, 1973.
1994-1996 - Mines and Mineral Producers Active in California, excerpts from Mines and Mineral Producers Active in California (1994-1995), Special Publication 103 (Revised 1996), California Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology, in cooperation with California Department of Conservation, Office of Mine Reclamation.
(1990-1995) Map of California Mineral Producing Localities (1990-1995)
(1995) California Nonfuel Minerals - 1995
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California Nonfuel Minerals - 1995; Total Value $2.7 Billion |
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2000 - California's Non-Fuel Mineral Production 2000, by Susan Kohler, Senior Geologist, California Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology, Sacramento, California. [ PDF]
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