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Lookout Mine (Hercules group; Lookout prospect; Upper Hercules mine), Ramona, Ramona District, San Diego Co., California, USA

Photo: 2004 SDMC
Latitude: 33°3'37"N
Longitude: 116°47'27"W
Setting:
The Lookout mine is situated 7.4 km (4.6 miles) ENE of Ramona, and joins the Hercules mine on the northeast.

History:
A claim to the pegmatite deposit was first made by Samuel G. Ingle and Harry Titus, of San Diego, and Mr. Pray, of Escondido; in July, 1903.

Note: Work in progress to update this entry including more historic and modern development data, mineral species, references etc.

References

Kunz, George Frederick (1905a), Gems, jewelers’ materials, and ornamental stones of California: California Division Mines Bulletin 37, 171 pp.: 148-149.

Merrill, F. J. H. (1914), Geology and Mineral Resources of San Diego and Imperial Counties: Gems, Lithia Minerals. California State Mining Bureau, San Francisco, Cal. California State Printing Office, December. Chapter 1: 63, 72.

Weber, F. H., Jr. (1963a), Mines and mineral resources of San Diego County, California. California Division of Mines and Geology County Report 3, p. 106; 309 pp.: Pl. 5.

Murdoch, Joseph & Webb, Robert W. (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 195.

Pemberton, H. Earl (1983), Minerals of California: 455 (map 13-4).

Mineral List

Albite
var: Cleavelandite
'Albite-Anorthite Series'
Almandine
'Almandine-Spessartine Series'
Beryl
var: Aquamarine
Biotite
'Clay'
Clinozoisite
Cookeite
Elbaite
'Elbaite-Schorl Series'
'Feldspar Group'
'Garnet'
Grossular
var: Hessonite ?

Kaolinite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Lepidolite
'Manganese Oxides'
'Mica Group'
Microcline
Montmorillonite
Muscovite
Orthoclase
'Perthite'
Quartz
Quartz
var: Smoky Quartz

Schorl
Spessartine
Stibiotantalite
Tantalite
'Tourmaline'


33 entries listed. 16 valid minerals.

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