Pacific Limestone Products Quarry (Kalkar Quarry), Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Co., California, USA

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A former limestone quarry located in the SW¼ sec. 11, T11S, R2W, MDM, 0.9 km (2,900 feet) SSW of Santa Cruz.

References

Gross, Eugene Bischoff & John E.N. Wainwright (1964), Barium-tin-titanium silicate having the benitoite structure (abstract): Geological Society of America, Cordilleran Section Meeting Program, Seattle, March 1964: 36.

Gross, E.B., Wainwright, J.E.N., and Evans, B.W. (1965) Pabstite, the tin analogue of benitoite. American Mineralogist: 50: 1164-1169.

Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 59, 77, 87, 105, 106, 112, 122, 183, 188, 208, 232, 242, 259, 283, 325, 347, 359.

Gross, E.B., Chesterman, C.W., Dunning, G.E., and Cooper, J.F. (1967) Mineralogy of the Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz, California. California Division Mines and Geol. Special Report 92: 3-10.

Pabst, Adolf (1978) Zur morphologie des taramellits. Tschermaks Mineralogische und Petrographische Mitteilungen: 25: 245-256.

Gross, E.B., Chesterman, C.W., Dunning, G.E., and Cooper, J.F. (1967) Mineralogy of the Kalkar quarry, Santa Cruz, California. California Division Mines and Geol. Special Report 92: 3-10; Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California; Van Nostrand Reinholt Press: 138; 51, 65, 70, 73, 77, 81, 86, 91, 93, 100, 105, 131, 132, 134, 136, 137, 138 (map 3-14), 146, 176, 184, 212, 216, 222, 228, 234, 267, 272, 288, 317, 321, 350, 365, 387, 399, 424, 429, 435, 459, 466, 467, 476, 504.

Dunning, G.E. and Cooper, J.F. (1986): Mineralogy of the Kalkar Quarry, Santa Cruz, California. Mineralogical Record, 17(5), 315-326.

Mineral List

Actinolite Adamite 'Allanite' Amesite Andradite Annabergite var: Magnesian Annabergite Antigorite Aragonite Arseniosiderite Arsenopyrite Azurite Baryte Biotite Bismuth Boulangerite Brucite Calcite Cassiterite Celsian Cerussite

Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Chondrodite Copiapite Coronadite Covellite Diopside Dravite Epsomite Fluorapatite Forsterite Franckeite Galena Gersdorffite Goethite Graphite Greenockite Gypsum Hörnesite Huntite Jamesonite

Kermesite Kornelite Limonite Löllingite var: Cobaltian Löllingite Malachite Meionite Melanterite Meneghinite Molybdenite Muscovite Népouite Oxyplumboroméite Pabstite (TL) Phlogopite Powellite Pyrite Pyrolusite Pyrrhotite Quartz var: Amethyst

Roméite Group var: Stibiconite Rozenite Scorodite Sepiolite Sphalerite Stannite Stibnite Symplesite Talc Taramellite Tetrahedrite Titanite Titantaramellite (TL) 'Tourmaline' Tremolite Uraninite Witherite Woodruffite Wulfenite

82 entries listed. 73 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).