 | | Journal (issue) | | our website! March Meeting Program: Maine’s Tourmaline Pegmatites details on page 14 In this issue...Watermelon, and so is watermelon tourmaline. Watermelon tourmaline is a particular, informal form of...members, No in-person social events for now! Tourmaline is a large family of minerals; in fact, it is...people, especially mineral collectors, think of tourmaline, they see elbaite in their mind’s eye, usually...example the Smithsonian’s beautiful “Candelabra” from Pala, CA. It features three large pink elbaite crystals |  | | Book | | (41/i in. ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and...page 233. Page 2: Gemstone crystals including tourmaline, aquamarine, emerald, morganite, heliodor, topaz...Willian, Boyce Thompson, founder of the Newmont Mining Corporation, along with an endowment that enables...1BSi,O,5(OH) 163 Beryl Be1Al 2Si 6O18 164- 171 Tourmaline group (see gems also) Elbaite Na(Li,Al)iAli BO3)3Si...Octahedral Diamond Crystal in Kimber lite Premier Mine, Kimberley, South Africa On loan from Mrs Charles |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | by [University of California, San Diego] at 03:56 02 March 2016 What TOURMALINE Says T HIS IS THE...in which they form. The series continues with tourmaline, the most common of the boron-rich minerals....(facing page). Species, varieties, and habits of tourmaline: (a) left: schorl, 20 cm, Minas Gerais, Brazil...Garnet Ledge dike, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. Varieties of elbaite: (c) rubellite...rubellite, 10 cm, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, California, found by Ralph Potter in 1958, William Larson |  | | Report (issue) | | extraLapis English No. 3: Tourmaline Publisher Lapis International, LLC; East Hampton, CT Concept &...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993 extraLapis English No. 3 Tourmaline A Gemstone...AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline - History in Brief .......Mineralogy of the Tourmaline Group . . . 10 Species by Species - The Minerals of the Tourmaline Group ..... |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jan/Feb 2024 Vol.99, No.1 ROCKS MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems...Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM Consulting Editors Joel...Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology...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) |  | | Book | | Madagascar (Sorbonne collection) 0.08 inch. B Tourmaline, ltatiaia, Conseilheiro Pena, Governador Valadares...pages: A Tourmaline, Minas Gerais, Brazil (4.2 inches) B Tourmaline, Queen Mine, San Diego County, California...either completely or largely unknown: beryl, tourmaline, euclase, tanzanite, tsavorite, sinhalite, etc...of pegmatites, with a high content of beryl, tourmaline, topaz, etc. - or be deposited by solutions:...80-81 Topaz ................... . 38-39-40-41 Tourmaline ............... . 42-43-44-45 46-4 7-48-49 |  | | 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)...Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...328 History Toramalli, a short history of the tourmaline grou p ....................... 331 by F. Benesch...Benesch and B. Wohrmann Mineralogy The tourmaline group: a resume........................................P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline.......................................................................413 by A. M. Bassett California Recent work at the Himalaya m in e ......... | | | Book (volume) | | The Bowers Museurn of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller...Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange...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 |  | | Book | | copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica... 48 mm, El Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on...from Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Fine crystals were also found in Berezovsk, Ural |  | | Book | | 8 PAGE Tracing the Story of Gems PAGE 80 Tourmaline PAGE 88 18 Zircon& What1a Rridot Gem? PAGE...India, described diamond mines there, observed mining practices, and reported gems' virtues-he flatly... CUBIC-DIAMOND AND GARNET TRIGONALELBAITE (TOURMALINE) HEXAGONAL-BERYL TETRAGONAL-ZIRCON MONOCLINIC-ORTHOCLASE...can be (Opposite) Gemstone cn;stals including tourmaline, aquamarine, morganite, heliodor, topaz, kunzite...deeply colored when viewed down the prism axis. Tourmaline gems can have two different colors, depending |  | | Book | | copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23 x...(5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica...jewelry, electronics. Gold, 411 mm. El Dorado, California. U.S.A. Gold Au CUBIC • • Properties: C...gold found in many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf |  | | Journal (issue) | | Petersburg University specimens **- St.-Petersburg Mining Museum specimens 2 W o r l d of Stones. Ng 1 I...(admixture of Cr''). Height 7cm. b. Polychromatic tourmaline. 5. Fine zoned crystals. a. Synthetic quartz...the authors of this article, was opened in the Mining Museum of St. Petersburg not long ago and another...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...popularity in the world, while it is the leader in the USA. Recently, well known jewelry stones have been joined |  | | Book | | Topaz 190 218 Tortoise Shell 195 196 218 Tourmaline 201 219 Tsavorite 224 Onicolo Onyx 158...178 Pleonaste 204 204 Sodalite Variscite Verdelite Smithsonite (Bonamite) We 224 Venus Hair Stone...prehistoric tombs has yielded bone and shell parures. The mining of and common uses for ornamental stones have been...minerals were densely con- centrated. This type of mine was very at- tractive, since it avoided the need...collection using gravity were necessary. Underground mining techniques had little relevance to the gathering |  | | Book (edition) | | Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...complicated compositions, e.g. the amphibole, mica, tourmaline, labuntsovite, eudialyte, and several other groups:...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada |  | | Book (volume) | | been an indefatigable researcher and collector of mining history. Among his specialties may be mentioned...fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining history led him to...to purchase the mine in order to form a living museum so that it would remain accessible to the mineralogical...mineralogical community. Through his efforts, the Sterling mine has been declared a national historic landmark....a story to tell concerning Maine's minerals and mining history. The ranks of invited contributors have |  | | Book | | crystals as aquamarine, morganite, and golden beryl; tourmaline (boron, lithium) in various shades of green,...source to settle as mud. FIG. 2.2. Removing gem tourmaline crystals from a pegmatite cavity at Newry, Maine...resulted in the largest find of high-quality gem tourmaline on record. When compacted, it becomes a...minerals diamond, zircon, corundum, garnet, tourmaline, chrysoberyl, spinel, topaz, and andalusite...comes from a silver mine in Argentina and rhodonite from the famous Broken Hill mine in Australia. Fluorite |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | Sharon Cisneros: Minerological Research Co., San Jose, California. Andrew M. Clark: Dept. of Mineralogy, Natural...Currier: Jewel Tunnel Imports, Baldwin Park, California. Stanley Dyl: Seaman Mineralogical Museum, Michigan...Canada. Richard C. Erd: U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, California. Howard T. Evans: U.S.G.S., Reston, Virginia...Claren N. (‘‘Si’’) and Ann Frazier: Berkeley, California. Carl Francis: Mineralogical Museum, Harvard...Paris, France. Legrand A. Gould: Pebble Beach, California. George E. Harlow: Dept. of Min. Sci., American | | | Book | | rystals as aquamarine, morganite, and golden beryl; tourmaline (boron, lithium) in various shades of green,...aventurine felds~ar. FIG. 2.2. Removing gem tourmaline crystals from a pegmatite cavity at Newry, Maina...resulted in the largest find of high-quality gem tourmaline on record. glomerate. Sedimentary Rocks Any...gem minerals diamond, zircon, corundum, garnet, tourmaline, chrysoberyl, FIG. 2.3. Washing gem gravels...comes from a silver mine in Argentina and rhodonite from the famous Broken Hill mine in Australia. Fluorite |
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