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Orthoclase from
Tourmaline King Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Orthoclase
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Orthoclase data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tourmaline King Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:540003
Long-form Identifier:1:3:540003:4
GUID (UUID V4):0b2679f0-1f93-4eee-a48b-e4edd6112d3d
Nearest other occurrences of Orthoclase
0.4km (0.3 miles) Tourmaline Queen Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Upper Salmons View prospect, Pala Chief Mine (Chief mine; MS 6452; Salmons mine), Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.7km (1.1 miles) Lower Salmons View prospect, Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Pala Douglass Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
3.5km (2.2 miles) Katerina Mine (Ashley mine; Caterina mine; Catherin mine; Catherina mine; Katrina mine), Hiriart Mountain (Hariat Mtn; Harriot Mtn; Heriart Mtn; Heriot Mtn; Hiriat Hill), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
3.7km (2.3 miles) White Queen Mine (Queen mine; White Queen prospect), Hiriart Mountain (Hariat Mtn; Harriot Mtn; Heriart Mtn; Heriot Mtn; Hiriat Hill), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
3.8km (2.4 miles) Hiriart Mine (MS 5391), Hiriart Mountain (Hariat Mtn; Harriot Mtn; Heriart Mtn; Heriot Mtn; Hiriat Hill), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
4.3km (2.7 miles) El Molino Mine (El Molino pegmatite; MS 5391), Hiriart Mountain (Hariat Mtn; Harriot Mtn; Heriart Mtn; Heriot Mtn; Hiriat Hill), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
18.0km (11.2 miles) Mack Mine (John Mac mine; Mac mine; San Luis Rey claim), Rincon Mountain, Rincon, Rincon Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
References
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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...web site at www.wmtucson.com DANBURITE – Aurora Mine, Charcas, SanLuis Potosi, Mexico When in Tucson
Report (issue)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN. Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES WARREN T. HANNUM, Director...Director DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING. SAN FRANCISCO OLAF P. 11 JENKINS. Chief SPECIAL REPORT 7-A...LITHIUM-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By RICHARD H. JAHNS and LAUREN...Archive in 2012 with funding from University of California, Davis Libraries http://archive.org/details...LITHIUM-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA! By Richard H. Jahns* and Lauren
Report (issue)
laying it upon the photographic plate Bulletin San Francisco, No. 37. June, 1905. Gems, Jewelers’...of California Issued California State by the Mining Bureau Francisco. Ferry Building, San Lewis...growing of the output care Kunz, A.M., No. California,” Stones of of which this Bulletin treats is...to F. George Bureau: Mining Ornamental the Honorable and California, of State the of the...have report, again department. Bureau is California, of this Museum from their mines, I of the
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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...crocoite; w e’ve made our apologies to Bill Larson of Pala International who, thank goodness, has a good sense...Ramona in e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey
Book (volume)
THE SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma... Also by Allan W. Eckert Bayou Backwaters The King Snake Blue Jacket The Owls of North America The...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
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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
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pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some, such...littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...collected in 1988 by Chris Lehman. Vandall King specimen and photo. layers is weak. Polytypes are a kind of...in tin-tungsten deposits (such as the Panasquiera mine) and is a constituent of granite, aplite, gneiss...pegmatites of the New England region. From Maine, King and Foord (1994, p. 246) note that “Muscovite is
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I. Hopkins E. H. Rutland, Ph.D. R. Webster D. N. King J. M. McWilliatn D. G. Kent D. J. Ewing W. Stern...Abstracts POUGH (F. H . ) . The Jacobina amethyst mine in Brazil. J o u r n . , 1969, 22, 10, p. 1306....colour. Hard-rock digging techniques are used, as the mine lies in solid rock. It is privately owned. S.P....reports notes are given on the effect of dust on tourmaline, an emerald with a subsidiary crystal protruding...Application of goniometry to gemmology. Journ. Mining Coll., Akita Univ., Ser. A, Vol. V, No. 3, 1-21
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The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller...Ramona, California; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct), Montana; light yellow orthoclase feldspar...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
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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...interest in science led him to the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (Michigan Tech) in Houghton, where
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colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand...up to the end of 1974. John Sinkankas San Diego, California July, 1975 JOHWSTUPAW.N19,901 Gene ... 5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert
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Leicht KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...Society, supported gem and mineral shows around the county as a museum exhibitor and speaker, and served on... He started his own company, Phoenix Mineral & Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley...TRINCHILLO | w w w. FineMineral.com Tourmaline Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil. 19.5 cm Fine Minerals International
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and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...GERMANY }& GEORGE HOLLOWAY, collector, Northridge, California, U.S. A. }e CORNELIUS HURLBUT, Professor, Harvard...LEIPER (deceased), Editor, Lapidary Journal, San Diego, California, U.S. A. Je ORLOV LEONIDOVICH, Secretary...JOHN SINKANKAS, author and collector, San Diego, California, U.S. A. ¥e H. A. STALDER, Curator, National...wholesale jeweler and collector, Los Angeles, California, U.S. A. ¥ RALPH TOWNSEND, Curator, Geological
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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...Francis, Maximilian Glas, Robert E. Kane, Vandall T. King, John I. Koivula, Ole V. Petersen, Alfredo Petrov...AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline - History in Brief ....
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............................................ California....................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
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Fluorescence | New Finds at the Tourmaline King Mine, Pala, California, USA | A New Amber Imitation: Amber-Epoxy...Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Edward Boehm RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA Maggie Campbell Pedersen...Emmett Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA Emmanuel Fritsch University of Nantes, France Alan...Mary L. Johnson Mary Johnson Consulting, San Diego, California, USA Stefanos Karampelas Laboratoire Français...Shigley Gemological Institute of America, Carlsbad, California Christopher P. Smith American Gemological Laboratories
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...H. Purdue, Nashville, Tenn. California........Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (volume)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT. Director DIVISION OF MINES...MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO WALTER Vol. 35 W. BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1939 No...No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER OF STATE MINERALOGIST'S REPORT XXXY STATE...MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 70803 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS 1 DIVISION...Logan, District Mining Engineer O. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer
 
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