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Old City Quarry (City Quarry), North Hill, Fairmont Park, Crestmore Quarries, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, USA

Spinel
Old City Quarry, North Hill, Fairmont Park, Crestmore Quarries, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, USA

Photo: Jasun McAvoy
A former municipal quarry located in sec. 14, T2S, R5W, SBM.

References

Rogers, Austin Flint (1912b), Notes on rare minerals from California: Columbia University, School of Mines Quarterly: 33: 378.

Rogers, Austin Flint (1918b), An American occurrence of periclase and its bearing on the origin and history of calcite brucite rocks: American Journal of Science, 4th. Series: 46: 581-586.

Eakle, Arthur Starr (1920), Vonsenite; a preliminary note on a new mineral from Riverside, California: American Mineralogist: 5: 141-143.

Melhase, John (1935c), Some garnet localities of California: Mineralogist: 3(11): 23.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 92, 115, 137, 176, 195, 285, 312, 345, 383.

Vlisidid, A.C. and Schaller, W.T. (1974) The identity of paigeite with vonsenite, and chemical analysis of vonsenite, ludwigite and hulsite. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Monatshefte 1974(3-4): 95-105.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 70, 145, 146, 236, 460, 507.

Mineral List

'Axinite'
Brucite
Chondrodite
Epidote
'Garnet'
Periclase
Prehnite
Pyrrhotite
Spinel
Vonsenite (TL)


10 entries listed. 8 valid minerals. 1 type locality (valid mineral).

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