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Schorl from
Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Schorl
Formula:NaFe32+Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Comments:Occurs as veinlets of hair-like fibers.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Muscovite
Quartz
Scorzalite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Schorl data
Locality Data:Click here to view Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:9841
Long-form Identifier:1:3:9841:0
GUID (UUID V4):f75b052f-78a6-4765-aef6-fa3f4302e4a5
Nearest other occurrences of Schorl
99.4km (61.8 miles) Luning area, Luning, Fitting Mining District, Mineral County, Nevada, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 07:06 06 January 2015 Klamath Cascade Mountains Range I 396 ROCKS & MINERALS Modoc Plateau...Library] at 07:06 06 January 2015 Even though California is known as the “Golden State, ” it could also...the Tourmaline State, or the Colemanite State. California is, in fact, one of the world’s greatest sources...localities, the reader is encouraged to consult the “California Locality Index” (Kampf et al. 1989). The bibliography...great deal from the many publications of the California Division of Mines and Geology. The most valuable
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of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ..................... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...when I first took this job, then-publisher John White offered to buy me a steak dinner if I ever managed...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M.
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Guelph] at 01:09 24 December 2014 Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia B lue minerals are a traditional...well-known locality of this type is, of course, Graves Mountain, Georgia. The occurrence of lazulite in this and...specimens, an attractive lazulite from Graves Mountain has been suggested for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...occurs in shades of azure-blue to sky-blue, bluish-white, yellow-green, blue-green, and green. It has a vitreous...quartz and generally classed as quartzites (Graves Mountain). Lesser occurrences are in quartz and phosphate-rich
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Library] at 00:39 19 January 2015 Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia B lack and nearly black minerals-no...and Namibian schorl, Panasqueira ferberite, and rutile, especially that from Graves Mountain, Georgia. To...aluminous schists; and alpine-type pockets. The Graves Mountain rutile nominated for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...near Waterbury, Vermont; at Poker Hill, Providence County, Rhode Island; and in Essex, Orange, and Warren...cavities in tourmaline from the Pelham asbestos mine (Emerson 1895). Other historical Massachusetts
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ber-D ecem ber 1977 ISSUE! TourmalineGolconda mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil SHOWS Sul/urPerticara, Romagna...U E S t AVETltlB 0)A C L PyromorphiteWheatley mine, Hours: Wed-Sat. 10-5 Sunday 12-5 [evenings by...Beach, CaL 92651 [714]494~7695 Publisher John S. White Division of Mineralogy The Smithsonian Institution...Wilson Mineralogist Circulation Manager Mary Lynn White Associate Editors written content: Richard A. Bideaux...E id a h l M in e ra lo g y o f th e Cham pion Mine, W h ite M o u n ta in s , C a lifo r n ia ....
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view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded... the Rocky Mountains, and furthest to the northwest, the belt basin. The Rocky Mountains contain sedimentary...fourwheel-drive access to remote localities high in the mountains. In mountainous areas, the collecting season can...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal...Beaverhead County, the pegmatites of Jefferson County, and the Snowbird mine in Mineral County continue
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brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was...manufacturer’s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a...collected from waste piles of abandoned mine sites in the mountains of central Colorado. A unit of SRM 2780a...Figure 6 (Right) - Sheet Copper – Flambeau Mine (Rusk County, WI) Figure 2—Dr. Weis’s Personal Memorabilia
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is from Leiper’s quarry at Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Peters 1984). When the spessartine...to 7 cm across occur near Middletown, Middlesex County, and massive spessartine and relatively small crystals...occur with rhodonite in ore of the Betts manganese mine at Plainfield, Massachusetts. Exceptional garnet...localities in Figure 2. A classic Avondale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, spessartine specimen with a major...HUK [OL *PU JPUUH[P4PULYHS:VJPL[` Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Detailed work by Lindsley and Peters
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pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some, such...littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...mistaken for biotite and phlogopite. The streak is white (Anthony et al. 1995). Muscovite is the second most...2012). In the sixteenth century, the Arabs used a white sparkling mineral (assumed to be muscovite) that...in tin-tungsten deposits (such as the Panasquiera mine) and is a constituent of granite, aplite, gneiss
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139) Page 248: Quartz (amethyst variety), Erongo Mountains, Namibia * 5 x 6 x 3 cm Page 251: Calcite, Irai...made dramatically apparent to us as spectacular mountain ranges, erupting volcanoes, earthquakes and even...Serbia ¢ tixex7 cm LEFT: Fluorite, Taihang Shan Mountains, Hebei, China * (Sexes selem 10 | MINERALS:...considered to be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS
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7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
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MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
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including gold. However. except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl...and additions. Mlneral Index by Counties Brule County Elm Creek, IS mi. S. of Chamberlain, near junction...of Pierre Formation: barite (gray roses). Butte County Belle Fourche, 6 mi. W., secs. 23, 24, 25. and...Moreau River: barite* (similar to Elk Creek. Meade County, but smaller), calcite (yellow crystals), gypsum
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the southern end of the Appalachian chain of mountains. These ranges extend into the northeast corner...where Brasstown Bald, a part of the Nantahala Mountains achieve the highest elevation in the state at...in the northwest, where the Lookout and Sand mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily...Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain (about 30% of the state),...1828, one on the Lovelady place near Loudsville in White Co. and the other on the Bear Cr. near Dahlonega
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600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
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600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurrences. These localities have been listed by county; and, strictly for convenience, the list has been...None­ theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful...micromounting PENINSULA Wayne County International Salt C o . mine—Detroit Alpena County National G y p s u m...dolomite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite Eaton County anhydrite, carnallite (r), celestite, dolomite... palygorskite, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite Spurr mine—Imperial Heights (near Michigamme) clinochlore var
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353-416 257-320 321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN Famous mineral...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese
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ama, Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District...District Chalk Mountain mine: calcite, cerussite, chlorargyrite, descloizite, galena, hemimorphite, leadhillite...Figure 4. Quartz, 14.2 cm across, Newbeny Mountains,Clark County. Steve Scott specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Lovelock mine, Churchill County. Figure 2 (bottom). Wulfenite, 1.1 mm high, Chalk Mountain, Churchill...Churchill County. Dan Behnke specimens and photos. Hot Springs Iron meteorite Lake (Mopung Hills) District Various
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commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...prospectors of the last century. Because of the California Forty-Niners, as well as their predecessors...of salt. Although some great mines of Arizona, California, Idaho, and Nevada may havebeen discovered in...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand
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entire metamorphic cycle with peak temperatures of *500°C. Prograde to peak metamorphic rims are homogeneous...authigenic origin (d11B & -3.3%), and prograde to peak metamorphic overgrowth zones (-1.6%). Fe-rich rims...typical for subduction zone metamorphism. Metamorphic peak conditions were estimated to be *470–520°C and 1...Lu–Hf data from garnet and 40Ar/39Ar data from white mica and glaucophane are now available and have...are unaltered and still display their prograde and peak-metamorphic compositions. These observations suggest
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Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA Department of Geological Sciences, University of...discovered in the late 1980s in the Batalha pegmatite mine of the Borborema Province in the state of Paraı́ba...reference material: elbaite #98144, dravite #108796 and schorl #112566 (Dyar et al., 2001). Their d11B values...(1s) Oct 2010 Elbaite #98144 Dravite #108796 Schorl #112566 5 +7.5 1.0146 (0.0008) 5 5 5 10.4...0009) Dec 2010 Elbaite #98144 Dravite #108796 Schorl #112566 10 +7.5 1.0137 (0.0006) 5 5 6 10.4
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world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...(c) = currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite...limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite, siderite Faber lead mine-near Faber cerussite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, argentiferous...topaz, tourmaline, triplite Trueheart pegmatite mine (f)-near Amelia beryl (var. aquamarine), microcline
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
7-cm-high elbaite, with a very dark base that may be schorl, from Chamachu, Stak Nala, Haramosh, Skardu, Baltistan...Pakistan. Fabre Minerals specimen and photo. JOHN S. WHITE PO Box 332 Stewartstown, Pennsylvania 17363 john@jwkustos...Magnesiofoitite Olenite Povondraite Rossmanite Schorl Uvite Vanadiumdravite NaFe3Al6(BO3)3[Si6O18](O... A 17.5-cm-high schorl-elbaite with quartz from the Big Kahuna zone, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San...San Diego County, California. The specimen was in the stock of The Arkenstone when photographed by Jeff
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at 14:35 04 June 2016 New York City, New York County, New York State T he minerals of the garnet group...representative of a garnet from Deshong’s quarry, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, that can barely be considered almandine...found at several mines near Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine, particularly the Standpipe Hill quarry...collected at Mount Apatite near Auburn, Androscoggin County; and the Bumpus quarry, ROCKS & MINERALS 244-253...the Melrose and nearby mines at Stoneham, Oxford County. Phenomenal trapezohedral almandine crystals exhibiting
 
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