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Biotite from
Surprise Mine, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Surprise Mine, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:561416
Long-form Identifier:1:3:561416:5
GUID (UUID V4):1e681509-ad8d-41f4-b468-3153da91cdd1
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
0.6km (0.4 miles) Little Three Mine, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.7km (0.4 miles) Hercules Mine (Beryl claim; Hercules claim; Hercules group; Hercules prospect), Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Lookout Mine (Hercules group; Lookout prospect; Upper Hercules mine), Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.9km (1.1 miles) A.B.C. Mine (ABC Mine; Daggett & MacIntosh; Daggett group), Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
16.9km (10.5 miles) Rose Quartz Mine (Patton lode; Patten lode; Powers group; Crystal Quartz; White Quartz; Sante Fe Gem), Mesa Grande, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
17.7km (11.0 miles) Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
18.2km (11.3 miles) El Capitan Quarry, Lakeside, San Diego County, California, USA
19.5km (12.1 miles) Helvetia Mine, Julian, Julian Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
27.2km (16.9 miles) Clark Mine, Rincon Mountain, Rincon, Rincon Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
27.4km (17.0 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 (article/letter/editorial)
California Blue Mine Yucca Valley San Bernardino County California Downloaded by [Heriot-Watt University]...photo. Sacramento San Francisco CA LIF OR A New NI A Los Angeles San Diego Palm Springs Twentynine...Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base CA Blue Mine X Yucca Valley Gem Pegmatite Landers Joshua tree MICHAEL...MICHAEL P. HUNERLACH 148 Kettle Rock Court Folsom, California 95630 mphunerlach@comcast.net Twentynine Palms...showing general location of the California Blue mine in Southern California. T he discovery in 2006 of
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
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...l e T h r e e M Ramona in e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord...80225 Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
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
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
Report (issue)
Page 32 Beryl from the Pegmatites of Southern California Jesse Fisher Page 20 Discovery Stoppaniite Fabio...studies in 1811, during A.G. Werner's time at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony (Germany). From 1826...miners. He was also the gemstone inspector for the mining authority. Breithaupt's legacy is 500 publications...descriptions. T he above is a postcard of the School of Mining in Feiberg, Saxony printed for the 1991 Breithaupt...from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient
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Brendan M. Laurs, and Marcelo de Oliveira Bernardes Mining activities for these vivid cuprian elbaites are...pg. 261 Spessartine Garnet from Ramona, San Diego County, California Brendan M. Laurs and Kimberly Knox...on amethyst, citrine, and ametrine from the Anahí mine, Bolivia • “Copal” resin from Madagascar • Iolite...Rock” cabochons • Tourmaline from Warner Springs, California • Synthetic topaz • Exhibits, announcements,...Mary L. Johnson Carlsbad, California George Rossman Pasadena, California John Emmett Brush Prairie
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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....Jesse FISHER 380 PennsylvaniaAvenue- San Francisco- CA 94107- USA (Traduitde l'anglaispar J. GALVIER)...des monts San Jacinto, dans le centre du comte de Riverside,traversele comte de San Diego et se prolongejusqu'a...districtspegmatitiquesdistincts repartisdans les comtes de San Diego et de Riverside.Le nombre total de corps individuels
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 1952 136 SUPPLEMENT DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO...FRANCISCO 1952 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA SUPPLEMENT TO BULLETIN By Joseph Murdoch • and Robert W. Webb 136...Bulletin 136 and Supplement No. 1 Descriptions of California minerals and mineral localities Bibliography...Bulletin 136, the current revision of Minerals of California was published, it was planned to issue, from...inspection and use. The amount of new literature on California minerals, and the number of new-found occurrences
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
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^ '“ 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
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...Mineralogist OIAF GEOLOGIC BFL^NCH Ferry Building, San Francisco San Francisco P. JENKINS Chief Geologist ...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE
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MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in...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
Report (issue)
] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF...DIVISION Director OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO OLAF San Francisco P. 11 JENKINS, Chief BULLETIN...BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia, Los Angek...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith
Report (issue)
fvpplement to MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA For 1955 Through 1957 California Division of Mines Supplement...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA For 1955 through 1957 By JOSEPh t^4Ara^ % University of California, Los Ange...WEBB University of California, Santa (Barbara with INDEX TO MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA ARRANGED BY COUNTIES...ELIZABETH COLLINS California Division of Mines Supplement to Bulletin 173 California Division of Mines... LIBRARY LWIVERSITY OF CAUPORNI/. T~» A T7-TO San Francisco, 1960 OF ^^S^ !^< EDMUND G. BROWN
Journal (issue)
.................... 211 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCALITIES. 9. San Jacinto Mts. CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES...of ROCKS AND MIN• ERALS, Mr. Wm. C. Chandler, of San Jose, Calif., offered a suggestion for increasing...Stadium Building Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California By LELANDE QUICK One of the saddest moments... at fer ap ID· k>- Cases of cabochons of California materials. Part of the exhibit of Albert Hake...White Horse Ranch to the Blitzen Valley, (Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces
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M^iajKaMVMtrVMMIMMVW^- 'Vv s > MINERALS Of CALIFORNIA BULl,ETIN N«, 91 issei0 BY rr: ^ ;wIFORNIA...;wIFORNIA STATE Mii^ix^v BtmiiAU FERRY BUILDING - SAN FRANOSCC im^ ibiiiiiiliiii .III— Bb^aa^Aai^^A...FERRY BUILDIN(;. MININC; BUREAU SAN FRANCISCO FLETCHER HAMILTON San Francisco] State Mineralogi8l ...BULLETIN [November, 1922 No. 91 Minerals of California $ BY ARTHUR S. EAKLE, Ph. D. Professor...Mineralogy, University of California COMPLIMENTS OF ^^^foyd Sc, c/iosty GIST CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE
Journal (issue)
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....Application of goniometry to gemmology. Journ. Mining Coll., Akita Univ., Ser. A, Vol. V, No. 3, 1-21...d e of the important source of sphene in Baja California, and Macon Co., the source of rhodolite garnet...jewellery. S.P. 273 COMMON GEMS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By PAUL WILLARD JOHNSON With photographs
Journal (issue)
image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the back of the original...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... State of Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing Turquoise ite Country, Montana...Rare and Beautiful American Gemstone and original mine image by Mark Mauthner. Red Beryl – A Very Rare
Report (issue)
Minerals of California By ARTHUR S. EAKLE, MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining Bureau...Hon Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of the State of California. Sir: I have the honor to transmit Bureau...Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this date...Bureau. and Mineralogy of the University of California, with this Eakle has given freely of his time...Minerals Distribution by Counties Bibliography on California Minerals Index to Minerals — 197 204 210 220
Book (volume)
colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...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...the Southern Onyx and Marble Company of San Diego, California, furnished information and a photograph
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Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...Colorado, 307 Albite, California, 160; Witwatersrand, 395 Allanite-(Ce), California, 162 Allophane, Colorado...Almandine-spessartine, California, 160 Alunite, Colorado, 308 Amblygonite-montebrasite,California, 160 Analcime
Book
characteristic spectrum Almandine; Austria, Brazil, USA, India, Sri Lanka Andradite; USSR (demantoid), Switzerland...Burma, Malagasy Republic, Sri Lanka, USA Uvarovite; Finland, Poland, USA, USSR Chapter 1 The history of...modern as our own; of information on important mining and trade centres; of insights into ancient marketing...the Bronze Age have been found in graves near the mining source (Ball, 1950, p. 53). Furthermore, necklaces...ancient mine sites from Greek and Roman authors who were not in the gem trade. Fictional mine sources
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Edgarbaileyite, the first known silicate of mercury, from California and Texas .....................................Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline, biotite and albite-antiperthite crystals in calcite-cored...in some way to minerals and mining. Antique photos, mineral labels, mining stock certificates, early correspondence...Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course...overall light smoky shade, and one from Saline County, Arkansas, failed to turn color at all. Crystals
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...(16.62 ct), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado;...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
 
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