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Kunzite from
Beebe Hole Mine, Tule Mountain (Mount Tule; Tulley Mountain), Jacumba, San Diego County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Spodumene var: Kunzite
Formula:LiAlSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kunzite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Beebe Hole Mine, Tule Mountain (Mount Tule; Tulley Mountain), Jacumba, San Diego County, California, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (11 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:257415
Long-form Identifier:1:3:257415:8
GUID (UUID V4):b09a9e61-5d86-4a69-ba59-ae8c6d3ec751
Nearest other occurrences of Kunzite
0.1km (0.0 miles) Pack Rat Mine, Tule Mountain (Mount Tule; Tulley Mountain), Jacumba, San Diego County, California, USA
76.3km (47.4 miles) Cryo-Genie Mine (Cryogenie Mine; Cindy B-Cryogenie claim; Lost Valley Truck Trail prospect), Warner Springs, Warner Springs Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
89.8km (55.8 miles) Victor Mine (Big Buck mine; Big Buck prospect), Rincon Mountain, Rincon, Rincon Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
McCain Valley Wilderness Study Areas, San Diego County, California U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1711-B...(CA-060-024B) Wilderness Study Area, San Diego County, California and for the Carrizo Gorge/Eastern McCain...(CA-060-025A) Wilderness Study Area, San Diego County, California. CONTENTS Summary Bl Abstract 1...McCain Valley Wilderness Study Areas, San Diego County, California B2 Map showing generalized geology of...Sawtooth Mountains Wilderness Study Area, San Diego County, California 4 Map showing mineral resource potential
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...lavender-colored gem variety of spodumene now known as kunzite. Since the beginning of mining in the late nineteenth...the “Blue Cap” elbaites from the Tourmaline Queen mine, have become iconic. Jesse Fisher, who has a master’s
Report (issue)
evenings… Clinoatacamite, 5.6 cm, from the Lily mine near Pisco, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru...clinoatacamite in the Lily mine, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru. In 1998 this copper mine began giving up...and he landed the two superb miniatures of Lily mine clinoatacamite now offered on his site (trinityminerals...Jaroslav Hyršl. Zirconolite, 1.2 cm, from Kyauk Tha Mountain, Mogok district, Myanmar. Trinity Minerals specimen;...(CaZrTi2O7), from an alluvial deposit near Kyauk Tha Mountain, Mogok district, Mandalay Division, Myanmar (Burma)
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... History of the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...discovered at the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California, by Ed Swoboda and Bill Larson. The...web site at www.wmtucson.com DANBURITE – Aurora Mine, Charcas, SanLuis Potosi, Mexico When in Tucson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The History of Kunzite and the Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University] at 20:15 13 August 2013...2013 California Connection MARK MAUTHNER 1737 San Pablo Drive San Marcos, California 92078 mmauthner@gmail...inspecting the darkest color of a Pala Chief mine kunzite crystal. Note where original has had a purple...purple tinge added to highlight and colorize the kunzite crystal. Mark Mauthner photo of original photo,...(above left). This is the 16.6 × 10.6-cm spodumene (kunzite) crystal that George F. Kunz is seen holding in
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fallbrook, California T he rural “village” of Fallbrook in northern San Diego County, California, has arguably...emphasizes tourmalines and other minerals of San Diego County, as well as the rich min36 ROCKS & MINERALS...large, gemmy kunzite specimen from the Oceanview mine of the Pala district of San Diego County (fig. 3)....consists of special mineral exhibits for the San Diego County Fair, the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, and...Mineral Society 123 W. Alvarado Street Fallbrook, California 92028 benitobandito@aol.com Downloaded by [National
Report (issue)
best of the classic smithsonites from the old Kelly mine in New Mexico. Associations of aurichalcite, kipushite...come from a recent find in Sounion mine #6 (also known as the Exi mine, “Exi” being Greek for “six”) in...$130). Cu-rich smithsonite, 2.7 cm, from Sounion mine #6, Laurium district, Attika, Greece. Greek Rocks...=============== The same discovery in Sounion mine #6 has also produced larger specimens which show... calcite and hemimorphite, 5.5 cm, from Sounion mine #6, Laurium district, Attika, Greece. Greek Rocks
Journal (issue)
ou sur rendez-vous Elbaite - 7,1 cm de largeur Mine Hima/aya,Mesa Grande,Californie,U.S.A. Coll. : 8...Scovil • Barite surfluorite Crista/: 4 x 3 x 0,4 cm Mine de /'Ave/lan, Var Coll. : G. Mari Photo : l.-D....quartz(geode15 x 15 cm) de CherlovaiaGora, Russie et kunzite(cristal 10 x 6 cm) dans quartz avec tourmaline...Jesse FISHER 380 PennsylvaniaAvenue- San Francisco- CA 94107- USA (Traduitde l'anglaispar J. GALVIER)...source la plus importanted'elbaite,de morganite,de kunzite et d'autres minerauxtypiquementpegmatitiquesen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...tool for finding information on older mines in California is the Consolidated Index of Publications, Division
Report (issue)
Page 11 Pezzottaite Federico Pezzatta Page 26 Mount Antero: The Peak of Colorado Beryl Collecting Mark...Page 32 Beryl from the Pegmatites of Southern California Jesse Fisher Page 20 Discovery Stoppaniite Fabio...from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient...in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced...crystals to lengths of 3 meters, as have those at Tin Mountain, South Dakota. 4m: Beryl crystals have reached
Journal (issue)
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...Ramona in e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey...Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
Journal (issue)
image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the back of the original...words: Near view of American Gems worked ledge. Kunzite and gem tourmaline American Gemstones – What They...from the Oceanview Mine in Southern California; the 0.72-ct benitoite (left California Gems – More Than...Dallas Gem Mine area, San America’s Royal Gems – Montana and Yogo Sapphires Benito County, California; the...U.S. State of Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing Turquoise ite Country, Montana
Journal (issue)
Jan/Feb 2024 Vol.99, No.1 ROCKS MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems...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
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...100-year history of the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County collection;...Benitoite Gem mine will note the portion of the story devoted to the 1935 visit to the mine by collecting...(Brown) and William P. Moller Sr. in Santa Barbara, California. Bill, The Mineralogical Record, volume 39, January–February
Journal (issue)
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...in e ra l fro m th e B e n ito ite G em M in e , San B e n ito C o u n ty, C a lif o r n ia ............lf Pabst, Jam es R. H in th o rn e Artinite fro m San B e n ito C o u n ty , C a lifo r n ia ............ike S y s te m , M e sa G ra n d e D is tric t, San D ie g o C o u n ty , C a lifo r n ia ..........
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
appeared relatively recently from the 2nd Sovetskiy mine, Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kray. It was represented...the Herkimer Dololmite deposit in New York state, USA. Next by the number of specimens is vivianite, (29)...One of the big crystals was donated by W.Larson, USA, (Photos 2 and 3). This hematite was collected from...the gem collection. One is from Burma, a W.Larson, USA, donation, and another from India, location unknown...the great deposits in the Mojave Desert of California, USA. Corundum acquisitions include a set of synthetic
Book (volume)
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)...ct), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless...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
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
Book
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...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...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
Journal (issue)
Africa." They appear to be not only from the am e mine. but the sa me occurrence, and both came from th...different l evels. etc. Mr. Agozzino told me the mine is closed now, referring to Pimbi. Whe re are tanley...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-659-3035 Email: lanny@mineralnews.com...w as in o ne of the Beach Cities in Los Angeles County, who had huge quantities of V illa Ahumada descloizites...magnification to see them. I remember I paid $2.00 for mine, and was iold by friends that I had vastly overpaid
Book
long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Amity (Chamberlain and Robinson, 2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district...discoveries in the famous alkaline pegmatites of Mount Malosa in the late 2000s include specimens showing...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Journal (volume)
Pictures Ltd 4871 S. Dudley St., Littleton CO 80123, USA phone/fax (303) 9042726 phone/fax (7095) 2033574...pegmatites uncovered by underground minings of Kirovskii mine at Mt. Kukisvumchorr. For the first time natrokomarovite...vertical position of microscope table in the glass with hole, in which mineral grains and solution were placed...cm in size, which was colleted from the core of hole at the depth nearly 100 m from day surface, are...(Saukov, 1926) were described. Studying TyuyaMun mine, A.E. Fersman (1928) broached a geochemistry of
 
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