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Agate from
Turtle Mountain, Bell Mountain, San Bernardino County, California, USA


Locality type:Mountain
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Agate
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Agate data
Locality Data:Click here to view Turtle Mountain, Bell Mountain, San Bernardino County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:146253
Long-form Identifier:1:3:146253:1
GUID (UUID V4):14c2eefd-eb6b-428f-841f-a88f74959a0a
Nearest other occurrences of Agate
55.2km (34.3 miles) Opal Mountains Agate Field prospect (Black Mountain; Black Mtn), Opal Mountain, San Bernardino County, California, USA
68.7km (42.7 miles) Alvord Mine, Alvord Peak, Alvord District, Alvord Mountain, San Bernardino County, California, USA
75.8km (47.1 miles) Wide Valley Agate occurrence, Cady Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
76.1km (47.3 miles) Cady Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
81.6km (50.7 miles) Castle Butte, California City, Kern County, California, USA
83.8km (52.1 miles) Unnamed Agate-Quartz occurrence [1], Eagle Crags, San Bernardino County, California, USA
85.9km (53.4 miles) Mojave River Road, Afton Canyon, Afton, Cady Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
89.2km (55.4 miles) Unnamed Agate-Quartz occurrence [2], Robbers Mountain, San Bernardino County, California, USA
92.7km (57.6 miles) Afton Canyon, Afton, Cady Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, USA
98.9km (61.4 miles) Soledad Mountain (Butte Mountain), Mojave, Mojave-Rosamond Mining District (Mojave Mining District), Kern County, California, USA
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T O THAN OILS USED TO FORM IMONLY JAN APR OF CALIFORNIA J A S K your Union Oil Minute Man about the...—Rodeo and horse show, Fillm e, Utah. July 2 —Sevier county fair and rodeo, Ri field, Utah. July 2 —Pioneer...Cavaliers, Flagstaff, Arizona. July 1 —Feast Day of San Buenavenfiesta and corn dance, Cochiti tu P :blo...the Flagstaff Cavaliers, ;staff, Arizona. July -26—San Juan Day, fiesta and ices, Taos pueblo, New Mexico...and California desert nes by Floyd B. Evans, Southwest iseum, Highland Park, Los Anes, California. JULY
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. - : • M By E. A. BRININSTOOL Hollywood, California I'm in my desert fastness—the silent painted...Wilhelm's ''Vagabond House," Thousand Palms Oasis, California. Wilhelm now is serving with U. S. army in France...HOPKINS By S/SGT. MARCUS Z. LYTLE Hollywood, California Newark, New Jersey Here on this arid waste...• • ARIZONA By W. Lou BERKNESS Long Beach, California Only Arizona's sunsets Defy the painter's brush...THE DESERT By SARA V A N ALSTYNE ALLEN Mecca, California God knew That man grows weary Of the turbulence
Report (volume)
Resources of the Turtle Mountains Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California MAY GOVL , DOCLI"A...Resources of the Turtle Mountains Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California By KEITH A. HOWARD...WILDERNESS STUDY AREAS: EASTERN CALIFORNIA DESERT CONSERVATION AREA, CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...resources of the Turtle Mountains Wilderness Study Area, San Bernardino County, California. U.S. Geological...Mines and mineral resources—California--Turtle Mountains Wilderness. 2. Turtle Mountains Wilderness (Calif
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DBfllT 0(1 NUDE MARCH 1 to 9, 1941 IMPERIAL, CALIFORNIA Prizes to Amateur Photographers Every month...trip to include one or more days at the Imperial County Mid-Winter fair —a nine-day exposition of the arts...ADDRESS CONTEST EDITOR DESERT MAGAZINE — EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA Imperial's Mid-Winter fair is not just a carnival...semi-precious stones and minerals found in the Imperial county desert area, on exhibit in the main exposition...grounds. 12th ANNUAL mperial County mid-Winter fair IMPERIAL, CALIFORNIA Admission to the fair grounds
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Mexicali. April 2-12—Tucson Festival. San Xavier CALIFORNIA April 23-May 3—National Orange Show, Fiesta...Fiesta April 1-5—23rd Annual Desert Circus, San Bernardino. de la Placita on 11-12. Palm Springs. April...Desert. NEVADA April 11-12—Lions Club Rodeo, Battle Mountain. April 12-19—World Congress of Flight, Las Vegas...THE Section climb of Potosi Peak near Las Vegas. SAN JUAN RIVER, GRAND April 23-26—Industrial Days, HenderCANYON...NEW MEXICO March 29-April 1—Spring Corn Dances at San Felipe, Cochiti and Santo Domingo pueblos. April
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miles away) they travel over 40 miles of rough mountain road before they reach the paved highway. "We...blind manufacturers. PRODUCTS CORP. Los Angeles, California DESERT DattiL AUG. 31 Dig-N-Dogie Days, annual...Mexico. (3 days) 31 Sierra Club of Southern California takes boat trip on Lake Mead and lower gorge...Russell Hubbard, 2071 Balmer Dr., Los Angeles, California. (3 days) COVER CALENDAR S e p t e m b e r...o e m s 31 SEPT. I Southwest Museum, geles, California, opens hibit of Indian drawings F. Comins. Open
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Activities? To name a few: all-year hunting of mountain lion and predators; all-year fishing on Lake Powell;...near Palm Desert, California are in sharp contrast to the snow-covered peaks of the San Jacinto Mountains...Desert. Photo by David Muench, Santa Barbara, California. ROCK ART IN JOSHUA TREE DATE FESTIVAL by Van...ADVERTISING OFFICES: 74-109 Larrea St., Palm Desert, California 92260. Telephone Area Code 714 346-8144. Listed...monthly. Second class postage paid at Palm Desert, California and at additional mailing offices under Act of
Book (volume)
THE SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...The Southwestern Quadrant Arizoni, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisicna, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...Mineral Location Numbers Arizona Arkansas California Colorado 258 Louis B30 ana HOW TO USE...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text
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and county. and the many maps included book contain such specific details as farm roads, mountain paths...Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl ^"^ Agate ** Jade Amethyst nq -* % Gem Hunter's...color, as in emeralds; their pattern, as in moss agate; or their play of eral color, as in opals. Fashion... such as agate and jasper, are described as cryptocrystal- line. For example, an agate nodule may...cat's- more but inexhaustibly various patterns of agate and jasper. So typical are their patterns that
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home were came to California." full of them). "We spent our honeymoon on the mountain tops of Benguet,...Limited or Argonaut in Los Angeles. Go via El Paso, San Antonio and Houston. Continue from New Orleans to...bulletin telling where to see them. BflflUl L £ California CHAMBER OF COMMERCE The DESERT MAGAZINE DESERT...chairman. 5 Woman's club flower show at Needles, California. Annual White Sands Playday for 4,000 children...Side trips to Inscription House ruins, Navajo mountain, Colorado river. W . E. (Andy) Andrews, leader
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MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...included contain such specific details as farm roads, mountain paths, stretches of stream beds, and easily identifiable...Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl *"» Agate ** Jade =p Amethyst ^ X ) y ' £f h % ^...Johnson, of Napa, California; Norman and Betty Lemkau of Castro Valley, California; Herbert V. Corbett...and Washington beaches, the Mojave desert of California and the Sonoran desert of Arizona, the lake beaches
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Anima.s (Afton Canyon) in the Mojave Desert, California. Photo by Jerry Strong. I DESErt TGEM TrtAJLS...$2.00 Published By G E M B O O K S MENTONE CALIFORNIA 92359 Copyright @ 1966 by Gembooks T A B...Gem Claim Volcanic Hills Montezuma Silver Peak Agate C O N T E N T S 6 6 7 7 7 8 8 CAL I F ORN I A...Tecopa Opal Soda Mountains Copper Toltec Mine Clark Mountain Afton Canyon (Canon Rio de las Animas) Hanging..."Chapinite" Rainbow Basin Fossils Jasp-agate Hill Black Canyon -- Opal Mountain Boron Kramer Hills Castle Butte
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The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller...Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct)...red-orange spessartine garnet (16.62 ct), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct)...Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink kunzite (26.61 ct), Pala, California. NECKLACE...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75
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your September issue ert along, telling of the Turtle Moun- common meeting place for hardrock tain rock...had more might lead to tragedy. Yucca Valley, California time to spend there. Right now we The second...Little • • • modern versions of the lost Pegleg San Bernardino Mountains in Joshua gold deal with the facts...Monument recently. timers knew them. Pomona, California Storm water had washed out much of the trail...state We suspect that John D. MitchDesert Center, California troopers were sent there—with guns. ell got his
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20 years of age, a junior at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has lived at Kingman 14 years...November number of Desert Magazine will be MRS. WHITE MOUNTAIN SMITH'S biographical sketch of Lorenzo Hubbell...says DAVID LAVENDER, "but my few trips into the California deserts have awakened a zest to see more of them...is a free lance writer now residing at Ojai, California, and has packed a wide experience into his 30...association, Salt Lake City, Utah. 12-13 Needles, California Water carnival, municipal playground on Lake
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Sh prock, New Mexico. Sept. 3 -Oct. 3—Yavapai county fair, Pr scott, Arizona. Oct. 2 —Lake Mead regatta...at Aztec sp ings, 10.5 miles south of Dagge t, California. Oct. 13 —Seventh annual New Mexico ra ich day...5-17—Luna county fair and Sh :riffs Posse rodeo, Deming, N< w Mexico. Oct. 15-17—Greenlee county fair and...international po ver boat regatta, Desert Beach, California. Oct. 1( 17—Formal opening of Desert Magazine's...come. Palm Desert, California. Oct. 16 17—Eleventh annual Pioneer da s and California Centennial eel ;bration
Report (issue)
Bentonite Clay Kaolin C lay Gypsum Silica Sand Agate Future Mineral Potential Alumina Amber Asbestos...of Manitoba's mining industry. Mines in the Turtle Mountain area of southwest Manitoba produced small amounts...separated in turn by broad gentle valleys. Turtle Mountain, on the border with North Dakota, is an erosional...Manitoba Lowlands or First Prairie Lavel - - - Turtle Mountain-_ f) / / { \ \ Acid and Basic Crystalline...structural grain and were involved in the Kenoran mountain building that ended approximately 2.5 billion
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printed." 1633 EAST WALNUT STREET ; • PASADENA 4. CALIFORNIA. OPEN ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY ONLY (>:JOAM-5:3O...pueblo, New Mexico. Aug. 2-5—Sanpitch Pow Wow and County fair, Manti, Utah. Aug. A—Summer Corn dance and... 10—Corn dance and feast day at Picuris pueblo (San Lorenzo); Corn dances at Laguna and Acomita pueblos;...Ceremonial, Gallup, New Mexico. Aug. 11-12—Millard County fair and Days of the Old West, Deseret, Utah. Aug...dance, Zia pueblo, New Mexico. Aug. 17-19—Cache County fair, Logan, Utah. Aug. 17-30—Western Navajo Arts
Book (edition)
Corinne More TEN ROCI( TRIPS NEAR NEEDLES, CALIFORNIA FIRST EDITION, MARCH, 1965 by MAGGIE McSHAN...Needles,California,January.1971 Distributed By McSHAN 'S GEM SHOP BOX 22 NEEDLES, CALIFORNIA 92363...and CORINNE on Ten Rock Trips near Needles, California Located beside the Colorado River, in The Beautiful...bright red, pink and yellow, are found. All the agate and quartz pebbles are worn smooth, as if tossed...not of gem quality. 11 MOABI PEAKS ROSES N t TURTLE MTS c,:, '-4J ....., c:, '-4J '-4J ~ ,_ c:
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic...glittering calcite or quartz Often these can be California, in in Southwestern Maine, around the town...of Paris, and the rugged area north and east of San Diego, several years. stuff filled cloth and
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
Journal (issue)
1940 ANNIVERSARY NUMBER 25 CENTS Glendale, California Dear Mr. Henderson: I have been immensely interested...was a good story. H. E. W . WILSON. Inglewood, California Dear Editor: We all enjoy the Desert Magazine...Moorpark, California Dear Sir: In your September number Louise Eaton in her Turtle mountain story expressed...our deserts! GEORGE H. MERRIKEN. Los Angeles, California Dear Sirs: Please don't have any more Phainopeplas...His wife is mousegrey. —R. H. • • • Sacramento, California Dear Mr. Henderson: In glancing over the "Letters"
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IOATOUTE CHLORASTROUTEI 2 AMYGDAlOID MINE DUMPS 3 AGATE HARBOR (AGATES THOMSONITE ON BEACH\ )l MUD VLAKE...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...town of Pans. and the rugged area north and east of San Diego Cal1forn1a, have long astonished collectors...bound to discover marvelous walks in beautiful mountain country. filled with delightful views, and there...many climates th e best season to prospect on a mountain side is in the spring, when snow and ice have
Book (volume)
The Bowers Museurn of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller...red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62 et), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rho...Kern Cowny, California; octagonal seep cut violetish pink kunzite (26.61 et), Pala, California. NECKLACE...blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75 diainonds...pay. Some years ago I recommended to a large California amateur mineral and gemstone organisation that
Report (volume)
............................................ California................................................mineralogic reports, especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota,...Bulletin, 1912. Eakle, A. S., Minerals of California: California State Min. Bur. Bull. 67, 1914. George...Nashville, Tenn. California____.Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers, Stanford University...Palo Alto. Prof. Arthur S. Eakle, University of California,- Berkeley. Colorado_____Prof. R. D. George,
 
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