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Vesuvianite from
Commercial Quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Vesuvianite
Formula:Ca19Fe3+Al4(Al6Mg2)(◻4)◻[Si2O7]4[(SiO4)10]O(OH)9
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Apatite
Chlorite Group
Cuspidine
Foshagite
Hillebrandite
Monticellite
Riversideite
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Calcite5 photos of Vesuvianite associated with Calcite at this locality.
Wollastonite5 photos of Vesuvianite associated with Wollastonite at this locality.
Merwinite5 photos of Vesuvianite associated with Merwinite at this locality.
Hillebrandite3 photos of Vesuvianite associated with Hillebrandite at this locality.
Wayneburnhamite3 photos of Vesuvianite associated with Wayneburnhamite at this locality.
Afwillite3 photos of Vesuvianite associated with Afwillite at this locality.
Monticellite2 photos of Vesuvianite associated with Monticellite at this locality.
Gypsum1 photo of Vesuvianite associated with Gypsum at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Vesuvianite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Commercial Quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:151271
Long-form Identifier:1:3:151271:7
GUID (UUID V4):b7222a7b-4f0a-4440-9bbb-e3b8e29195a8
Nearest other occurrences of Vesuvianite
0.2km (0.1 miles) Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) Wet Weather Quarry, Sky Blue Hill, Crestmore quarries, Crestmore, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
2.9km (1.8 miles) Henshaw Quarry, Bloomington, San Bernardino County, California, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) Jensen Quarry, Jurupa Mountains, Jurupa Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
8.6km (5.3 miles) New City Quarry (Victoria Avenue quarry), Riverside, Riverside County, California, USA
50.1km (31.1 miles) White Knob Quarry, Lucerne Valley, Lucerne Valley Limestone District, San Bernardino County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PARAGENESIS OF THE MINERAL ASSEMBLAGE AT CRESTMORE, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA JonN W. Dalv, CaliJornia Institute...Institute oJ Technology, Posadena,California. INTRODUCTION For more than twenty years the Creslmore locality...This interest was first arousedwhen specimensof blue calcite with monticellite and xanthophyllite were...papers have been published on the mineralogy of Crestmore by A. S. Eakle, W. F. Foshag, A. F. Rogers, and...easternlobe of the Jurupa Mountains about three miles west of Riverside, California. The Jurupa Mountains are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the Crestmore Quarry Riverside, California Curt Forrester Technical Services TXI Riverside Cement...Cement at Crestmore 1500 Rubidoux Blvd. Riverside, California 92502 e-mail: fossil@pe.net The famous Crestmore...Crestmore quarries at Riverside, California have yielded over 200 contact-metamorphic and skarn mineral species...recovered. INTRODUCTION Riverside, California is home to the famous Crestmore quarry, a locality that has...the Crestmore quarry consists of several quarries that include the Wet Weather, Chino, Commercial and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
al FAMOUS MINERAL LOCALITIES: CRESTMORE, RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA Anruun S. Eaxla, (Ini,aersityof...place known as Crestmore is a suburban station situated a Jew miles west of Riverside, and is easily...shipment of the material can be done there. The Riverside Portland Cement Company has its plant here, and...should be obtained to go on the floor of the .quarries but this is freely given by the officials and...hundred feet above the surrounding plain. The south hill, al Kemp, J. F.; The pegmatites: Econ. Geology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Carbonate Rocks Observable in Quarries of Riverside, California, United States S. M. Aleksandrov Vernadsky...Southern California Batholith with carbonate rocks accessible to study in quarries in Riverside, California...com position of the minerals are examined. The Riverside skarn aureoles are compared with other compositionally...Skarnified rocks of Riverside County, California, are exposed in Crestmore, Jensen, North Hill, and New City–Victoria...City–Victoria Avenue quarries, in which these rocks are mined for the needs of the cement industry. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
COLLECTING (1951) AT CRESTMORE, CALIFORNIA By PAUL F. PATCHICK University of California at Los Angeles The...locality in California, if not in the whole western United States, is at Crestmore near Riverside, 50 miles...which is on U. S. Highway 70-99, the limestone quarries represent the third most highly mineralized region...Vermland, Sweden and the Franklin district, in Sussex County, New Jersey, are able to rival Crestmore's vast...been published concerning the Riverside Cement Company properties at Crestmore, beginning with those by Eakle
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SILICATE FROM CRESTMORE, CALIFORNIA1 Anrnun S. Earr.n, [Jniaersity of Califo,rnia The Riverside Portland Cement...crystalline limestone at Crestmore, has transferred most of its operations to a hill, lying further west,...original quarries have been practically deserted. The old Commercial quarry on Sky Blue Hill where the...the north side of the hill at what is locally known as the Wet Weather quarry, and there was a large...of this quarry last May, when visited by the writer. Brown and vellow vesuvianite and light blue calcite
Report (issue)
Properties: Transparent to translucent. Color: Sky-blue. Streak: White. Luster: Vitreous to resinous....855(5) ε = 1.875(5) Pleochroism: E = sky-blue; O = light sky-blue. Absorption: E > O, weak. Cell Data:...X-ray Powder Pattern: Commercial quarry, Crestmore, Riverside County, California, USA. 3.086 (100), 2.734...Total 97.60 100.00 (1) Commercial quarry, Crestmore, Riverside County, California, USA; average of 6 electron...metasomatic mineral on fracture surfaces in vesuvianite/wollastonite rock. Association: Whelanite, cerussite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
polysome: The Mn-free analog of ganomalite from Crestmore, California Anthony R. Kampf1,*, Robert M. Housley2...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, U.S.A. 2 Division...and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, U.S.A. 1 Abstract...new mineral from the Commercial quarry, Crestmore, Riverside County, California, where it occurs as a...fracture surfaces in vesuvianite/wollastonite rock. Wayneburnhamite crystals are sky-blue hexagonal tablets
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
AT CRESTMORE, CALIFORNIA BY C. WAYNE BURKHAM ABSTRACT The contact-metamorphic rocks at Crestmore, California...quartz dioritic intrusive rocks of the southern California batholith. Both bodies, which are very similar...porphyry, which was injected into the upper or Sky Blue marble unit, is nearly all contaminated as a result...numerous complex mineral assemblages for which Crestmore is famous. Several lines of evidence indicate...the contact-metamorphic mineral assemblages at Crestmore and their zonation are largely the compositionally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
limestone capping the granodiorite at Crestmore, ne&r Riverside, California, furnishes an excellent illustration...rhombohedral cleavage masses, some having a rich blue color. The Iocalized character of the metamorphism...the daily blasting of the quarry face bringing to light bands or zones of blue calcite, each with its distinctive...apparently the same occurrence was not repeated. The blue calcite, xanthophyllite, monticellite, wilkeite...after the Jurupa Mountains, of which the Crestmore Hills are a part, is from the Commercial quarry and, like
Report (issue)
Optical Properties: Translucent. Color: Pale blue. Streak: Pale blue. Luster: Vitreous. Optical Class: Biaxial...= 64(1)° Pleochroism: Weak: X = Y = pale blue, Z = light blue. Absorption: X = Y < Z. Orientation: X =...Bawana mine, Rocky mining district, Beaver County, Utah, USA. 3.013 (100), 6.79 (52), 2.802 (45), 2.522...Bawana mine, Rocky mining district, Beaver County, Utah, USA; electron microprobe analysis supplemented...wayneburnhamite, vesuvianite, wollastonite, grossular, cerussite, nasonite (Crestmore). Distribution:
Journal (issue)
mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............................101 by E. E.... 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...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M....Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
Journal (issue)
Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA Steven R. Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann........ 421 by P. J. Dunn Graphite from Crestmore, California ..........................................alone it is merely a collection of globs of bright blue dots, perhaps like a pointillist painting. This...specimens Natural History Museum o f Los Angeles County C urator (mineralogy): Dr. A nthony R. K am pf...volum e 22, N ovem ber-D ecem ber, 19 Sterling Hill Mining Museum Curators: Robert Hauck Richard Hauck
Report (issue)
fvpplement to MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA For 1955 Through 1957 California Division of Mines Supplement...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA For 1955 through 1957 By JOSEPh t^4Ara^ % University of California, Los Ange...WEBB University of California, Santa (Barbara with INDEX TO MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA ARRANGED BY COUNTIES...ELIZABETH COLLINS California Division of Mines Supplement to Bulletin 173 California Division of Mines....^rice$1.00 173 SUPPLEMENT TO MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA FOR 1955 THROUGH 1957 By JOSEPH MURDOCH and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CALCIUM MAGNESIUM ORTHOSILICATE FROI\{ CRESTMORE, CALIFORNIA ESPER S. LAR,SEN AND WILIJIAM F. I,OSNEG...the contact metamorphic zone at Crestmore, near Riverside, California, thought at first to be monticellite...metamorphic limestone in the quarries at Crestmore, ne&r Riverside, california. Boulders made up of the minerals...at times been common on the quarry floor, but their position on the quarry face has not been determined...merwinite was, as far as known, at the Wet 'weather Quarry, and its amount there was measurablein tons. A
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines
Report (issue)
] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF... Chief BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia,...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...JenlCalifornia, Chief of the Division of Mines. Minerals of California is one of the Division's
Report (issue)
M^iajKaMVMtrVMMIMMVW^- 'Vv s > MINERALS Of CALIFORNIA BULl,ETIN N«, 91 issei0 BY rr: ^ ;wIFORNIA...BULLETIN [November, 1922 No. 91 Minerals of California $ BY ARTHUR S. EAKLE, Ph. D. Professor...Mineralogy, University of California COMPLIMENTS OF ^^^foyd Sc, c/iosty GIST CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE...Stephens, Governor of the State of California, Sacramento, California Sir: I have the honor to transmit...upon the minerals of California. This bulletin records our knowledge of California minerals to date,
Book
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
Book
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
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE...Letter of Transmittal 5 Map 6 Outline o['. California Preface 7 Introduction 11 Native Elements
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
has given an analysis of the mineral from Pine County. The writer is indebted to the Minnesota School...SILICATE FROM CRESTMORE, CALIFORNIA1 Anrnun S. Earr.n, [Jniaersity of Califo,rnia The Riverside Portland Cement...crystalline limestone at Crestmore, has transferred most of its operations to a hill, lying further west,...original quarries have been practically deserted. The old Commercial quarry on Sky Blue Hill where the...the north side of the hill at what is locally known as the Wet Weather quarry, and there was a large
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PERICLASE FROM CRESTMORE NEAR RIVERSIDE, CALIFORNIA,* WITH A LIST OF MINERALS FROM THIS LOCATITY AusrrN...the United States is Crestmore, near Riverside, California. Here the Riverside Portland Cement Company...Conn., have furnished more new minerals than Crestmore. Appended to this article will be found a bibliography...mineralogy of Crestmore. Article 3 by Professor A. S. Eakle of the University of California contains the...the best general account of the Crestmore minerals. Periclaseor isometric magnesium oxide was first found
Report (issue)
Minerals of California By ARTHUR S. EAKLE, MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining...Hon Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of the State of California. Sir: I have the honor to transmit Bureau...of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this date through...Bureau. and Mineralogy of the University of California, with this Eakle has given freely of his time...Minerals Distribution by Counties Bibliography on California Minerals Index to Minerals — 197 204 210 220
Book (edition)
ice, every blood red glow, every touch of green, blue, gold or royal purple. Gem stones have been the...FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE WILLEMITE ZIRCON CRYSTALS Crystal forms 5...fortifi- material by rely on color sapphires blue. all six or eight different gem as color, ... its tourmaline may B are, in fact, A blue gem minerals. turn up even two or three colors... crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are famous for Lava known
 
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