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Elbaite from
Cota Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Elbaite
Formula:Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Elbaite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Cota Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:560922
Long-form Identifier:1:3:560922:2
GUID (UUID V4):cd6764d1-7186-4e58-a9b1-7c0d80965d74
Nearest other occurrences of Elbaite
0.4km (0.2 miles) Payne Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Green Ledge Mine (Green Ledge dike), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Mesa Grande Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Trask Mine, San Diego Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Braye Mine (Bray Lode prospect; MS 4633), Himalaya Mine (Himalaya dikes; Himalaya pegmatite), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) San Diego Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Trail Mine, Mesa Grande, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
13.7km (8.5 miles) Maple Lode Mine (Maple claim), Aguanga Mountain, Oak Grove, Aguanga Mountain Mining District (Smith Mountain Mining District), San Diego County, California, USA
13.8km (8.6 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)
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino... Number Five Articles Gem and rare-element pegmatites of southern California . . . . . . . . . . . ... History of the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...$150 for one year. *Continued on p. 455 COVER: ELBAITE on quartz, 20 cm, one of the famous “blue cap”...discovered at the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California, by Ed Swoboda and Bill Larson. 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...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
Report (issue)
International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...and ink render­ ing of elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...Maximilian Glas ............ 62 • Inclusions in Elbaite Crystals .......... 64 John I. Koivula • If Icarus...this crown was not a ruby, but a tourmaline. The gem in this crown is now the oldest known important tourmaline
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 (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 ..........
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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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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...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73
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Nature & Science NATIVE GOLD in Alaska ROCK & GEM KIDS New Hampshire’s Rockhound Symbols FIELD TRIPS:...Fluorescent Rocks in Arizona Gold Panning in Northern California RG_Blue_cover_0114.indd 2 12/3/13 1:15 PM full...Eagle’s Nest mine in Placer County, California. It is currently on display in the Lyda Hill Hall of Gems...James A. Miller Riverbed panning in Northern California Pietersite....................................pseudomorph by Bob Jones regular columns Rock & Gem Kids........................................... 38
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
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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...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
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STAINLESS STEEL CABBING UNIT This machine is made in the USA for Kingsley North. Features an all stainless steel...44, Number 02 February 2014 FEATURES The Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall at the Perot Musem of Nature...collections. This beryl (var. albite) from Gilgit District, Pakistan, is in the collection of Marc Weill................ 12 Part II: Spotlight on the Lyda Hill Gems and Minerals Hall by Bob Jones Black Bay Opal...site by Robert Beard by James A. Miller Rock & Gem Kids......................................... 36
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The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission... CONTENTS • Foreword lX Preface Xl Important Mining Districts 1 Discovery and Developments in Mexico...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in Mexico, which produce fine mineral... x I Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors. It is the hope
Book (edition)
interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...unique and valuable reference by every collector, gem cutter, miner, geologist, mineralogist, jeweler,...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is...information is included on the persons involved in mining the deposits, with dates and other pertinent information
Book (volume)
colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...contains all the basic information about the exciting gem resources of our continent. In careful, accurate...gemologists will find the latest and most accurate gem-identification data under each species. Finally,...unique and valuable reference by every collector, gem cutter, miner, geologist, mineralogist, jeweler,...up to the end of 1974. John Sinkankas San Diego, California July, 1975 JOHWSTUPAW.N19,901 Gene
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crystal with calcite, 6.5 cm, from the Cosq uez mine, Colombia; found in 1998. Scott Rudolph collection...(deceased) Peter L. Via Salim Edde Daniel Trinchillo Lyda Hill Scott A. Rudolph Daniel J. Record Gail & Jim Spann............................................... 22 Mine Exploitation (or not) Today ................................................................. 28 Mining Methods .........................................said to be the world's third most valuable precious gem, after diamond and ruby. Despite this fact, the finest
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notes and compressed on to the major sources gem materials. a colossal (Continued on amount back...Biblical Other The and and Beryl in Indian Gem Lore, Modern Europe Lapidaries, 24 Early Lapidaries...According 14. World Sources of Ore and to Gem Beryl Color, 327 Immersion Fluids for Afghanistan...intertwined with that of mankind. John Sinkankas San Diego, California October, XIV 1981 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS... searches were encouraged University of California, important no and facilitated Scripps Institution
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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
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by Firefly Books Ltd 66 Leek Crescent Richmond Hill, Ontario Illustrator: James L4B McKinnon, 1H1... Simple pebbles on a beach in Puget Sound, Washington, USA, tell a story. The product of different volcanoes...laid down sea during have been time. In Valley, USA, that were beneath the an earlier era uplifted and...kgs uenecle Meet ial eCni cor _ Odessa Crater, USA. TAMU ter te mel feel ee eae ried to the surface...by volcanic eruptions. mom ee LU ON eee erce Cota INSIDE EARTH Beta aurea eae Uae rg can be studied
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Journal of Gemmology THE GEMMOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION AND GEM TESTING LABORATORY OF GREAT BRITAIN OFFICERS AND... R Cavey, FGA The Gemmological Association and Gem Testing Laboratory ofGreat Britain 27 Greville Street...having gained their Diploma in Gemmology or the Gem Diamond Diploma (FGA or DGA) may now apply for use...Association and Gem Testing Laboratory of Great Britain • 2 7 GREVILLE STREET, (SAFFRON HILL ENTRANCE), LONDON...America, Santa Santa Monica, Monica, California, California, USA USA Gemological Abstract principal principal
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much biased by science with too little sense of mine for beauty) will keep his memory and work, alive...so as to render mining of these rare-element pegmatites feasible. The traditional mining of pegmatitic...aplitic rocks. In light of more than 1000 years of mining and an intensive study of the deeper parts of the...deposits in the region are not very promising and mining in Germany is obviously a profession of the past...mineralogists and become an operational target for mining geologists. In an idealistic transect through the
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Strashimir Borisov Strashimirov, University of Mining and Geology “St. Ivan Rilski” (BG), Nada Vasković...(Croatia) (Hungary) (Slovakia) (Greece) (Hungary) (USA) (Hungary) (Egypt) (Austria) (Romania) (Hungary)...(Hungary) (Hungary) (Hungary) (Croatia) (UK) (Slovakia) (USA) (Austria) (Romania) (Slovakia) (China) (Germany)...(Germany) (Poland) (Italy) (Czech Republic) (Romania/USA) (Germany) (Hungary) (Russia) (Czech Republic) (Japan)............................................1 AM11 Gem materials: Origins, properties, and new analytical
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