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Rutile from
Clear Creek area, Picacho Peak, San Benito County, California, USA


Locality type:Area
Classification
Species:Rutile
Formula:TiO2
Comments:In high-grade tectonic blocks of eclogite from New Idria serpentinite body.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rutile data
Locality Data:Click here to view Clear Creek area, Picacho Peak, San Benito County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:314467
Long-form Identifier:1:3:314467:1
GUID (UUID V4):3c794752-272a-4666-899e-ba2a81eebf22
References
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Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino... 317 by B. Cairncross The Clear Creek mine, San Benito County, California: A unique mercury locality...*Continued on p. 392 Nifontovite from Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...The Sulfur Hole, Calico District, San Bernardino County, California. Axis, volume 1, number 5, pages 1–14...coastal harbor town of Swakopmund. The mountain peak is 1,580 meters above sea level. Approximately 12
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
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Jadeite Deposits of the Clear Creek Area, New Idria District, San Benito County, California1 U.S. Geological...Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, U.S.A. by R. G. COLEMAN WITH ONE PLATE INTRODUCTION studies...suggest a genesis. Jadeite was first recorded in this area by Mielenz (1939) as small grains within quartz-albite-jadeite...boulders collected by Bolander (1950) along Clear Creek. This discovery aroused considerable interest...were derived from outcrops along the slopes of Clear Creek. A preliminary mineralogical description was
Book
^ '“ P r . . . I West Orange SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY 9048 00992838 7 257989 R q549...q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T 5 w! balJ E...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
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
equilibria in calc-silicate hornfels, Lervis and Clark County, Montana. Amer. Mineral,. 51, 402421. Purnnt, E...--(1964b) Inclusions in the Acme Quarry, Elbert County, Georgia. Ga. Acad.. Sci Bull.22,32-37. Swrrzrn...found in place during the short period when the area was examined. We concluded from the distribution...)-(zoisite) Albite-quartz mica-(clinozoisite)-(rutile) Quartz albite-white Opticat properties.Although...albite with accessorywhite mica, analcite, and rare rutile, zoisite,and quartz. In the specimenswe examined
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...mineral exhibit in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966)...Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines and Geology Francisco
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American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA Abstract: Jadeitite-bearing serpentinite-matrix...Dominican Republic), circum-Pacific (Japan, Western USA, and Papua New Guinea), Alpine-Himalayan (Italy,...xenoliths in kimberlitic pipes in the Colorado Plateau (USA). The oldest occurrences of jadeitite are Early Paleozoic...and updated petrographical data from the Japan, California, and Guatemala are also included for the review...Considering these worldwide occurrences, it is clear that serpentinite exhumation and mélange formation
Book
granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...pressure either locally or extending over a large area, it is said to be metamorphosed. There will be alteration...of sophisticated testing methods it has become clear that many minerals fall into groups, the members...mineralogists studied more and more specimens it became clear that many showed characteristic external shapes...Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
blocks. Based on textural evidence, particularly clear from cathodoluminescence studies, nearly all jadeitite...studies of jadeitite at Clear Creek in the New Idria serpentinite body of California (Coleman, 1961), and...or some literature include the Westland (Muddy Creek, Otago, New Zealand; Cooper, 1995); the Livingstone...garnet, magnetite, chromite, graphite, apatite, rutile, pyrite, datolite, vesuvianite, prehnite, talc...Kotelnikov, 1991 Omi and Kotaki Rivers, Itoigawa area, Niigata Prefecture, Japan Iwao, 1953; ShidĂŽ, 1958;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Planetary Physics, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024 Mineral Parageneses in Franciscan...Franciscan Metamorphic Rocks, Panoche Pass, California Abstract: Approximately 33 square miles of Franciscan...Panoche Pass in the Diablo Range of the central California Coast Ranges were mapped at an initial scale...1:12,000. Serpentinitc intrusions present in the area are not mantled by metasomatic glaucophane schist...Serpentinite Panoche Formation Quien Sabe Volcanics San Benito Gravels 880 881 883 883 884 884 884 885 886
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
distribution of these boulders is confined to an area that is downstream from an outcrop of a serpentinite...Famous examples include Myanmar (Bleeck, 1908), California (Coleman, 1961), and Guatemala (Harlow, 1994)...with inclusions of quartz, phengite, garnet, and rutile within eclogitic mica schists taken from the western...eastern part and west in the western part of the study area. The serpentinites occur either as serpentinite...schist includes glaucophane/crossite, hematite, and rutile in addition to the above minerals (Nishiyama, 1989)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
scapolite, calcite, clinozoisite{paragonite, apatite, rutile and hematite. The association of very jadeite-rich...and contains primary almandinefomphacite (J&8Aca)*rutile. The eclogitic rocks are similar to those described...described from glaucophane schist terranes of California and elsewhere The mineral paragenesesand element...address: U, S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. 1320 1321 ECLOGITE FROM COLOMBIA been inferred...margin of the Guajira Peninsula (Fig. 1). In this area the eclogitesare abundant constituents of the conglomerateand
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
eclogites from glaucophane schist terrains in California and New Caledonia now permit comparisons among...physical properties of pyroxenes 4. Eclogite, Ward Creek 5. Eclogite, Junction School 492 from eclogites...physical constants of gar7. Eclogite band, Ward Creek 493 nets from eclogites 498 8. Triangular diagram...glaucophane schists and associated eclogites in California (Coleman and Lee, 1962; 1963; Lee and others...have participated in field conferences on the California eclogites and glaucophane schists. ECLOGITE NOMENCLATURE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
subduction complexes (Dominican Republic, and California, USA) Received: 1 September 1994 / Accepted: 21...Dominican Republic, and the Franciscan Complex, California, USA. In some of these eclogites, fluid inclusions...amphibolites of the Catalina Schist, southern California. An external source for such fluids is suggested...Washington, DC 20560, USA Present address: Department of Physics and Geology, California State University...801 West Monte Vista Avenue, Turlock, CA 95380, USA Editorial responsibility: J. Touret their homogeneous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Itoigawa-Ohmi district. Jadeitites and eclogites in this area are thought to be tectonic inclusions in serpentinite-matrix...Sr-rich minerals in albitite rocks from the study area (Sakai and Akai, 1994). Coexisting Barich and Ba-poor...Chromitites were also found as boulders in the studied area (Yamane et al., 1988; Tsujimori, 2004). The Itoigawa-Ohmi...(2005) examined jadeitite-albitite rocks in the study area and have not identiÂźed albitite as a core in jadeitite...products of jadeitite. Jadeitites in the studied area are divided into several types based on differences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
semi–translucent varieties of jadeitites in the Itoigawa–Omi area led to the designation of jadeitite as the national...boulders in the Kotaki–gawa River in the Itoigawa– Omi area of the Hida Mountains (HDM, an eastern portion of...jadeitite boulders have also been conïŹrmed in the area and the Happou ultramaïŹc body in the HDM (Chihara...titanite–bearing or rutile–bearing mineral assemblages further separate rutile– bearing jadeitite from rutile–free jadeitite...exposed along the Hida–Gaien belt. The Itoigawa–Omi area is an important occurrence of Japanese jadeitite
Book (edition)
reference of its kind ever assembled. Thorough, clear, and, above all, easily read and understood, GEMSTO1'ES...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...gemological literature in North America. J. s. San Diego, California 1975 Acknowledgments The folio\\ ing...for a number of color photographs of remarkable California specimens. Paul L. Broughton was kind enough...FAMILY GEMSTONES IV RARE AND UNUSUAL GEMSTONES Rutile, Anatase, Pollucite, Axinite, Microlite, Apatite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305 J. WOODEN, United States Geological Survey...Survey, 345 Middlefield Road, Menlo Park, California 94025 AND T. MIYAMOTO Downloaded by [Johns Hopkins...of high-pressure minerals, including jadeite and rutile; such an occurrence indicates that the zircon crystallized...minor amounts of grossular (nearly pure), and trace rutile and zircon. The jadeite-rich matrix is heterogeneous... Jadeite contains rare grossular, zircon, and rutile as tiny inclusions (< 0.1 mm). Some secondary omphacites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
amphibolite unit of the Catalina Schist, southern California. Blocks and matrix alike were affectedby a high-Z...fluids derived from subduction complex of southern California. These rocks suchmagmas(Exley, 1980).Exley (1980)concludedthat...REE in the rocks residein the accessoryminerals rutile, sphene,garnet, apatite, zircon, zoisite, and (in...is systematically enriched with respectto Ti in rutile and sphenefrom migmatites, compared to counterparts...a relatively late stage. For instance, veins of rutile grains, up to 2 cm long and bearingfluid inclusions
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024-5192, USA Keywords Zircon  Jadeite  Hydrothermal  Oxygen...isotopes  SIMS  Greece  Japan  Guatemala  California Abstract Jadeitites form from hydrothermal fluids...zone, Guatemala; and the Franciscan Complex, California. In the Osayama jadeitite, two texturally contrasting...University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706-1692, USA Present Address: B. Fu (&)  C. Paton School of Earth...(2010) 159:769–780 in the Franciscan Complex, California (Coleman 1961; Tsujimori et al. 2007). Despite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
jadeitite from the New Idria serpentinite body, California: Constraints on slabderived fluid and fluid-rock...jadeitite from the New Idria serpentinite body, California: Constraints on slab-derived fluid and fluid-rock...jadeitite from the New Idria serpentinite body, California: Constraints on slab-derived fluid and fluid-rock...jadeitite from the New Idria serpentinite diapir, California, which is regarded as direct precipitates from...blocks in mélange in the Franciscan Complex of California record infiltration of high Ύ7Li external fluids
Book (volume)
colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...unique coverage of American gemstones. Thorough, clear, and, above all, easily read and understood, GEMSTONES...up to the end of 1974. John Sinkankas San Diego, California July, 1975 JOHWSTUPAW.N19,901 Gene ...the Southern Onyx and Marble Company of San Diego, California, furnished information and a photograph...photograph on the calcite onyx deposits of Baja California. Owen H. Perry of Marine Minerals, Inc., formerly of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024–5192, USA Jadeitite, known as ‘hisui’ in Japan, has been esteemed...Sierra del Convento (Cuba); IR, Iran; RSJC, Rio San Juan Complex (Dominican Republic); MNV, Monviso (Italy)...jadeitite from the Kotaki–gawa River of the Itoigawa area was published in 1939 by Yoshinori Kawano of Tohoku...Itoigawa–Omi area and the Wakasa area; violet–color variations are not limited to the Itoigawa–Omi area (Figs...Myanmar jadeitite. Blue jadeitite in the Itoigawa– Omi area (Figs. 5d–5f ) has a similar appearance to some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
without detectible impurity phases. No evidence of peak-splitting in the mid-composition range. as reported...vein in serpentinite at Clear Creek, near New Idria, San Benito Co:, California (COLEMAN,1961) closely...omphacite from a kyanite eclogite of the Hohe Tauern area, Austria (HOLLAND, 1979b). was also investigated...was separated in heavy liquids and the remaining rutile and talc impurities hand-picked out. Again, the...Guatemala, T = Hohe Tauern, Austria. NI = New Idria, California. Uncertainties in determinations somewhat smaller
 
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