Pegmatite Pocket
Carmelita Mine, Chihuahua Valley, Warner Springs Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Looking northwest and up dip along the pegmatite exposure once offered by the now backfilled and reclaimed trench. Typically, these pockets contained varying amounts of citrine and smoky quartz, albite, microcline and quartz associations, tantalite, cassiterite, pink elbaite, green to grey to purple lepidolite, grayish green fluorapatite, and some ...
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