A pegmatite occurrence/quarry located in the NW¼NE¼ sec. 31, T4S, R2W, SBM, 4 miles E of Nuevo, 15 miles south of Riverside.
A granodiorite pegmatite worked for clear massive quartz during WW2. Still occasionally worked for lapidary material, mainly asterated rose quartz and asterated smoky quartz.
References
Dykes, Leland H. (1933) Occurrence of monazite in a granodiorite pegmatite in Riverside County, California. (abstract) Geological Society of America Bulletin 44: 161.
Melhase, John (1936a), A new occurrence of rare-earth minerals in California: Mineralogist: 4(1): 11.
Bradley, W.W. (1939), Thirty-fifth report of the State Mineralogist: California Division Mines Report 35: 207.
Wahlstrom, E.E. (1939), Graphic granite: American Mineralogist: 24: 681-698.
Fisher, Daniel Jerome (1944), Some southern California pegmatites: unpublished manuscript, USGS: 34.
Rocks & Minerals (1944): 19: 2.
Murdoch, Joseph (1946), Nuevite, a new rare-earth mineral from California (abstract): Geological Society of America Bulletin: 57: 1219.
Murdoch, Joseph (1951c), Notes on California minerals: nuevite = samarskite; trona, and hanksite; Gaylussite: American Mineralogist: 36: 358-361.
Patchick, Paul F. (1960), A rare-earth pegmatite near Nuevo, California: Rocks & Minerals: 35: 323-327.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 103, 105, 166, 177, 183, 251, 271, 315, 326, 367, 389, 390, 392.
Seaman (1976), Pegmatite Minerals of the World.
Mineralogical Record (1976): 7: 182.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 150, 180, 318, 319, 348, 380, 429, 462.
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