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Wet Weather Quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Riverside Co., California, USA

Ref.: McConnell, Duncan (1937) The substitution of SiO4- and SO4-groups for PO4-groups in the apatite structure; ellastadite, the end-member. American Mineralogist: 22: 977-986.

Woodford, A.O., Crippen, R.A., and Garner, K.B. (1941) Section Across Commercial Quarry, Crestmore, California. American Mineralogist: 26: 352-381.

Forrester, Curt (2004) Large Clintonite Crystals from the Crestmore Quarry Riverside, California. Mineralogical Record: July/August, 2004.

Exceptionally clear intrusive relationships, and the only example of the sharp segregation of the contact minerals into distinctive zones, were to be seen on the south wall of this quarry in the group (Am.Min.: 26: 352-381).

This quarry was deepened and extended from 1940 until 1954.





Map Reference: 34°1'N , 117°23'W

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Mineral List:
Albite
var: Oligoclase

Andradite
Brucite
Chalcopyrite
Chondrodite
'Crestmoreite'
Diopside
'Ellestadite'
Gehlenite
Graphite
Hillebrandite
Hydromagnesite
'Hydrotroilite'
Limonite
Merwinite (TL)
Microcline
Monticellite
Nekoite (TL)
Spurrite
Tobermorite
Vesuvianite
Wollastonite


22 entries listed. 17 valid minerals. 2 type localities (valid minerals).

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