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Tourmaline from
San Diego County, California, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz102 photos of Tourmaline associated with Quartz at this locality.
Lepidolite67 photos of Tourmaline associated with Lepidolite at this locality.
Cleavelandite46 photos of Tourmaline associated with Cleavelandite at this locality.
Albite38 photos of Tourmaline associated with Albite at this locality.
Morganite26 photos of Tourmaline associated with Morganite at this locality.
Microcline18 photos of Tourmaline associated with Microcline at this locality.
Smoky Quartz14 photos of Tourmaline associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Muscovite10 photos of Tourmaline associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Rubellite9 photos of Tourmaline associated with Rubellite at this locality.
Cookeite8 photos of Tourmaline associated with Cookeite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view San Diego County, California, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:162759
Long-form Identifier:1:3:162759:6
GUID (UUID V4):14891940-f4a6-43fc-b9a7-90a03b1f56ed
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopes in tourmaline as indicators of the crystallization process in the San Diego County pegmatites...pegmatites, California, USA Jennifer S. MALONEY1,4 , Peter I. NABELEK1, *, Mona-Liza C. SIRBESCU2 and Ralf HALAMA3...Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA *Corresponding author, e-mail: nabelekp@missouri...MI 48859, USA 3 Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA 4 Current... 363 N. Sam Houston Parkway, Houston, TX 77060, USA 5 Current address: Institut für Geowissenschaften
Journal (issue)
image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the back of the original...of American Gems worked ledge. Kunzite and gem tourmaline American Gemstones – What They Are and (in the...Oceanview Mine in Southern California; the 0.72-ct benitoite (left California Gems – More Than a Century-Old...Mine area, San America’s Royal Gems – Montana and Yogo Sapphires Benito County, California; the group...Daniel Bronfen, Brazil Evan Caplan, USA Rocco Gay, Italy Sushil Goyal, USA Shahina Hatta, Hong Kong Dwarka
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogy and paragenesis of pegmatites from San Diego County, California. He will also be remembered for his...Gene was born at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California, November 20, 1946. Gene, a RH-factor baby, had...friend George Ashley at Hiriart Mountain, San Diego County, California, 1986. 3. Gene in Jackson, Wyoming,...with an ore bucket at the San Diego Tourmaline Mine, San Diego County, California in 1974. 5. Boris Schmakin...lifted). 6. Gene at the Little Three Mine, Ramona, California in 1989. 790 SIMMONS AND WEBBER: MEMORIAL OF
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydrothermal conditions in pegmatites from San Diego County, California Elizabeth M. Gammel1,* and Peter I....ultimately understand why some pegmatites in the San Diego County pegmatite district contain abundant, gem-quality...pockets were acidic and promoted the growth of tourmaline and other minerals that are stable in acidic...fluids. Keywords: Pegmatite; Li; B; F; San Diego County, California; pocket minerals Introduction Granitic...and Ercit 2005). B promotes crystallization of tourmaline, including the schorl and elbaite varieties.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pala Chief and Elizabeth R composite dikes, California Adriana Heimann 1 & Jason A. Yonts 1 & Michael...layered pegmatite-aplite dikes, Pala District, California, and the significance for felsic melt evolution...finegrained plagioclase + quartz + muscovite +/− black tourmaline and thin laminations defined by concentrations...27858, USA 2 Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA incompatible...pegmatite-aplite. Keywords Gahnite . Aplite . California . Elizabeth R . Pala Chief . Zoning . Evolution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITES AT THE LITTLE THREE MINE, RAMONA, CALIFORNIA, USA David LONDON§, George B. MORGAN VI, Kerry A...Boyd Street, Room 710 SEC, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA Abstract Miarolitic granitic pegmatites at the Little...Three mine property near Ramona, San Diego County, California, USA, possess a bulk composition that closely...granitic liquid that is saturated with respect to tourmaline at a temperature of ~450°C. As such, the pegmatites... field diffusion, Little Three mine, Ramona, California. Introduction The coarse grain-size and complex
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mines and Minerals of the California Pegmatite Province Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University]... Southern JESSE FISHER PO Box 77774 San Francisco, California 94107 jef520@comcast.net F Unless otherwise...MINERALS or much of the past century, the Southern California pegmatite province has been the source of some...producing spectacular specimens of multicolored tourmaline, the region’s pegmatites have also been the source...few mines that have, including the Himalaya, Tourmaline Queen, Little Three, Pala Chief, and White Queen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA e-mail: nabelekp@missouri.edu M.-L. C. Sirbescu Department...University, 314 Brooks Hall, Mount Pleasant, MI 48859, USA Keywords Granite  Pegmatite  H2O  Undercooling...other plutons. For example, in the San Diego County of California, USA, Li–Cs–Ta-type (LCT) pegmatites occur...pegmatites. In the Black Hills of South Dakota, USA, granite pegmatites occur as sheets within schists...occur only in some pegmatite districts, as in San Diego County, where sheets have intruded impermeable granitic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 USA * Corresponding author. ABSTRACT of Crystallization...principal sources of gem materials of beryl, tourmaline, topaz, spessartine, spodumene, quartz, and others...feldspars with accessory ur amounts of micas, tourmaline, spodumene, garnet, beryl, and others. In clay-packed...overgrowths on the common species and varieties of tourmaline, beryl, spodumene, topaz, and quartz. Lepidolite...Pre-proof The principal gem varieties of beryl, tourmaline, spodumene, topaz, and garnet offer little insight
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Gem and rare-element pegmatites of southern California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Fisher History of the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . ...tourmalines discovered at the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California, by Ed Swoboda and Bill Larson...REBORN! The Mineralogical Society of Southern California has held a Gem & Mineral show annually for the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gemstones of California Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 05:46 04 February 2015 MICHAEL GRAY...GRAY P. 0. Box 727 Missoula, Montana 59806 CALIFORNIA 1s HUGE-the third largest state in the United States...amethysts just hours away from your home. That is California. The focus of this article covers only the facetable...facetable, transparent materials found in California. It would take another article to describe the state’s...it in 1907 in San Benito County believed that they had found sapphire. Lapidaries in San Francisco noted
Journal (issue)
reports notes are given on the effect of dust on tourmaline, an emerald with a subsidiary crystal protruding...d e of the important source of sphene in Baja California, and Macon Co., the source of rhodolite garnet...and others where different minerals, such as tourmaline and hiddenite, have been mistaken for emerald...hiddenite in pegmatite, looks m u c h more like tourmaline in quartz. T h e illustrations of inclusions...jewellery. S.P. 273 COMMON GEMS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By PAUL WILLARD JOHNSON With photographs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
photo. May/June: Tourmaline on quartz, Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History...History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and EricaVan Pelt photo. July/August: Amethyst and calcite...mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and...Colorado, 307 Albite, California, 160; Witwatersrand, 395 Allanite-(Ce), California, 162 Allophane, Colorado...Almandine-spessartine, California, 160 Alunite, Colorado, 308 Amblygonite-montebrasite,California, 160 Analcime
Journal (issue)
(officially part of Evesham Township in Burlington County) wa s apparently named for the marl that commonly...Monmouth County (Marlboro loca litic ), through Burlington County, Camden County and G loucester County to...near a rural road that wa the junction of a three-county j urisdictional line. Adding to this confusion...Leans specimens that were labeled as Burlington County! The age of the ferrostrunzitc specimens in the...ington Counties. T he creek crossed over from one county to the other throug h a c ul vert. Collecti ng
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
shallow level pegmatite-aplite dikes, San Diego County, California KAREN L. WEBBER,1,* WILLIAM B. SIMMONS...and Mesa Grande Pegmatite Districts, San Diego County, California are typically thin, sheet-like composite...Thermal modeling was performed for four dikes in San Diego County including the 1 m thick Himalaya dike, the...such as the 10 cm long Himalaya hanging wall tourmaline crystals may have been on the order of 10–5 cm/s...miarolitic cavities of the pegmatites. The presence of tourmaline and/or lepidolite throughout these dikes suggests
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
layered pegmatite-aplite dike, Ramona District, California Received: 24 March 1998 / Accepted: 10 March...dikes form. The Little Three dike near Ramona, California, is representative of such zoned bodies in this...near the base of the graphic pegmatite zone. Tourmaline, garnet, biotite, and muscovite show no changes...separate magma injections. The chemistries of tourmaline, garnet, and micas, however, preclude conventional...100 East Boyd Street, SEC 810 Norman, OK 73019, USA; Fax: (405) 325-3140; e-mail: gmorgan@ou.edu Editorial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dike complex, Mesa Grande dis­ trict, San Diego County, California; also found at Mengo, Uganda. The Nb-dominant...as in other gem-bearing pegmatites within San Diego County, and in recognition of their lifelong interest...went to California where he dressed tools at several mines and ran shops in Colton, California, Las Cruces...only three, the family moved to River­ side, California, where William opened a blacksmith shop. (Years...(Years later they located in Palm City, California.) Young Fred grew up in an atmosphere in which old prospectors
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 07:06 06 January 2015 Even though California is known as the “Golden State, ” it could also...the Benitoite State, the Tourmaline State, or the Colemanite State. California is, in fact, one of the...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...tool for finding information on older mines in California is the Consolidated Index of Publications, Division
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Application to the Cryo-Genie Pegmatite, San Diego County, California, USA Mona-Liza C. Sirbescu a,⁎, Elizabeth...Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859, USA Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Section 3.3...Polytechnic and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, USA. 0009-2541/$ – see front matter © 2013 Elsevier B...http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2013.01.014 tourmaline [Na(Fe, Mg, Li, Al)3Al6(BO3)3(Si6O18)(OH)4],
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cookrob@auburn.edu Beryl, Variety Morganite San Diego County, California O ne of the most popular of all collectible...pegmatites in Southern California. Consequently, in keeping with the California theme of the 2011 Tucson...beryl, so well known from the pegmatites of San Diego County, has been nominated for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 11-cm specimen is in the Bob and...from the Stewart mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 5 × 4 × 3.5-cm specimen is in the
Journal (issue)
I. Jacobson, Denver, CO Anthony R. Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth,...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)...Celebrating Pegmatites Robert B. Cook 10 Southern California Pegmatite Gems Mark Mauthner 16 The Pegmatite...Brazil: At the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Carl A. Francis and Aaron Celestian 89 Who's
Report (issue)
Archive in 2012 with funding from University of California, Davis Libraries http://www.archive.org/det...MINERAL RESOURCES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By F. HAROLD WEBER JR., California Division of Mines...Stewart COUNTY REPORT California Division of Mines Ferry Building, LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS...DAVIS San 3 and Geology Francisco, 1963 ^ OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA EDMUND G. BROWN, Governor J?...CAMPBELL, Director AND GEOLOGY State Geologist COUNTY REPORT ^ Price $8.00 3 CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
kande, San Diego Eountg, Ealifiornia 7 Los Angeles County II ,J - r J--4 ‘*- \ Orange County f ... San Bernardino Coun -----. I--L-L--- \,-. 1 Cahuilla Mt. X x Thomas Mt- L-. JESSE FISHEK 380...380 Pennsylvania Ave. San Francisco, California 94107 EUGENE E. FOOKD M.S.905, U.S. Geological Survey Box...80225 GARTH A. BRICKER 410 East Elder Fallbrook, California 92028 T he Himalaya mine has been the largest...been estimated at more than 100 metric tons of tourmaline and other specimen materials (Foord et al. 1991)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from the Pala pegrnatite district, San Diego Co., California, USA Eugene E. Foord THE 100 Ma complex... intruded into various units of the Southern California Batholith, are known to contain bismuth minerals...number of dykes in the Pala district, San Diego Co., California: native bismuth, bismuthinite, bismite...Box 25046 Denver Federal Center, Denver, CO 80225, USA material was recovered. Electron-microprobe analyses...quartz-rich pegmatite in the Stewart mine on Tourmaline Queen Mountain. Three polymorphs of BiVO4 are
Book
GEOLOGY OF THE ELSINORE FAULT ZONE SAN ·DIEGO REGION • , . San Diego Association of Geologists South... GEOLOGY OF THE ELSINORE FAULT ZONE SAN DIEGO REGION San Diego Association of Geologists South Coast...Elsinore Fault Zone San Diego Region Geology of the Elsinore Fault Zone. San Diego Region Copyright ©...© 2003 by the San Diego Association of Geologists (SDAG) and South Coast Geological Society (SCGS) Individual...and inquiries to: SDAG P.O. Box 1911 26 San Diego, California 92 159- 11 26 w. w. w.sandiegogeologists
 
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