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Amblygonite from
Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Amblygonite
Formula:LiAl(PO4)F
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amblygonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:613357
Long-form Identifier:1:3:613357:3
GUID (UUID V4):c1b91768-179d-4511-8764-87a0fd6e97be
Nearest other occurrences of Amblygonite
14.4km (8.9 miles) Victor Mine (Big Buck mine; Big Buck prospect), Rincon Mountain, Rincon, Rincon Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
27.1km (16.8 miles) Pala Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
28.8km (17.9 miles) Hiriart Mountain (Hariat Mtn; Harriot Mtn; Heriart Mtn; Heriot Mtn; Hiriat Hill), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
28.9km (17.9 miles) White Queen Mine, Hiriart Mountain (Hariat Mtn; Harriot Mtn; Heriart Mtn; Heriot Mtn; Hiriat Hill), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
29.0km (18.0 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
31.0km (19.2 miles) Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
32.1km (19.9 miles) Royal Mine (Lithium Queen claim; Pandora deposit; Royal deposit; Thursday claim), Rodriguez Canyon, Banner Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
32.2km (20.0 miles) Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
39.7km (24.7 miles) Lithia Dike Mine (Lithia Dyke claim), Cahuilla Mountain, Cahuilla Mining District, Riverside County, California, USA
43.8km (27.2 miles) Fano Mine (Big Pink claim; Fano-Simmons Mine; Little Blue claim; MS 4800; Simmons Mine), Little Cahuilla Mountain, Cahuilla Mining District, Riverside County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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... George Kunz, in the he has exercised ance, Gem and the use Industry complete, and to our
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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...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
Journal (issue)
Your Biggest Specimen is BIG? A Record Sterling Hill Museum Monster Heads to China! Tony Nikischer Collectors...therein lies a story. Some time ago, the Sterling Hill Mining Museum (www. terlinghillminingmuseum.org) was...often hosted in fluorescent calcite, the Sterling Mine, along with its neighboring deposit at Franklin...Sterl ing crew wou ld pick small boulders from the mine dumps with their on-site Kubota, and fill small...Bill Kroft, president and CEO of the Sterling Hill Mining Museum, was contacted by the Taiwanese buyer's
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Joe Marchesani; Jmarch06@comcast.net SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER: Dr. Don Buchanan; dbuch7326@aol.com...Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds................................... 2 Independence Mine, ......................................................................................... 2 California ............................................................................................ 2 Himalaya pegmatite,...................................
Journal (issue)
Jan/Feb 2024 Vol.99, No.1 ROCKS MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems...Francis Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro...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)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
italics are listed in the table), the phosphates amblygonite-montebrasite and lithiophilitetriphylite, several...lithium minerals cited in the text. Species Amblygonite Bikitaite Elbaite Eucryptite Holmquistite Lepidolite...of most occurrences (12.5 × 8 cm) from the Tanco mine, Bernic Lake, Manitoba. (c) A large crystal of muscovite...miarolitic cavity (16 × 12 × 12 cm), Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, California; the yellow arrow shows the direction...from the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, California; yellow to green crystal from the Little Three mine, Ramona
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zapot pegmatite, Gillis Range, Mineral Co., Nevada, USA. Named in honor of W.B. Simmons. The sample is 1...2113/gselements.8.4.281 P egmatites are sources of gem-quality crystals of beryl, tourmaline, topaz, spodumene...discovered in Africa and Asia. Most high-quality gem minerals occur in miarolitic cavities found near...pegmatites and ultramafic host rocks. The most important gem-bearing granitic pegmatites formed at shallow levels...cavities in some pegmatites have produced tons of gem crystals valued in excess of $50 million. KEYWORDS
Book
) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and Malachite...endure wear. To resist being scratched, the ideal gem n1ust be hard; to resist being broken, it must be...that help determine the quality or suitability of a gem are transparency, clarity, and the evenness and depth...retain their hierarchical position by beginning the gem section in this book. However, we have grouped 13...the nan1e of the gem. The captions give sizes in both centin1eters and inches. Gem weights are given
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
crystallization process in the San Diego County pegmatites, California, USA Jennifer S. MALONEY1,4 , Peter...Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA *Corresponding author, e-mail: nabelekp@missouri...MI 48859, USA 3 Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA 4 Current... 363 N. Sam Houston Parkway, Houston, TX 77060, USA 5 Current address: Institut für Geowissenschaften...lithium-cesium-tantalum-type pegmatite dikes of San Diego County, California, USA, tourmaline is the main reservoir
Journal (issue)
THE GEMMOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN GEM MOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN SAINT DUNSTAN'S...of precious stones is a source of worry for the gem jeweller. A n actual case is described here, with...other than those of the usual commercial scale for gem diamonds, which includes colourless stones to those...N G There is no point whatsoever in irradiating gem diamonds of good original colour as this would probably...for a gemstone variety although by no means all gem materials show definite absorption bands. There are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
River, New York City, N.Y. ; at the Dake mine, Mitchell County, North Carolina; with tysonite in Cheyenne...Springs, Colorado; and with rutile in Alexander County, North Carolina. MONAZITE, is essentially a phosphate...Park no. 2 mine near Penland and in crystals to one and one half inches in size at the Dake mine in Mitchell...Mitchell County. It occurs also in crystals at the Ray mine near Burnsville and the Ramsey mine near Toledo...Toledo in Yancy County, North Carolina. Large masses of Monazite occurred at the Flat Rock mine in Mitchell
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phosphatemineralsat the Stewart Pegmatite, Pala District,lSan Diego County, California J,c,MssE. Stncr,svr exo GonooN...pegmatitesin the Pala pegmatitedistrict, San Diego County, California. At the Stewart pegmatite, lithiophilite...upperintermediate,microcline-quartz zone while spodumeneand amblygonite are found in the quartz core. The sequenceof...a century the granitic pegmatitesof southern California have been a well-known source of gemstones and...1951; Sinkankas,1957; Foord, 1976').ln addition to gem material, some of thesepegmatites contain interesting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
F)(BOt] from the Little Three mine, near Ramona, San Diego County, California, disciosed that the minerai...Hambergite from a second California localitl., the Himalaya mine near Mesa Grande, contains 0.2 per cent...Anjanabanoana, Madagascar, and the Little Three mine, California, follow: Madagascar-BeO 53.6, 8z0136.0, HrO...orthorhombic,a:9.76+O.Ol, b:12.23+O-01' c:4.43*0.01 A. California-BeO 529,82Ot36.6, HrO 6.7,F 6 0, O=F 2.5, sum...recentlY in California and Czechoslovakia. A chemical analysis of hambergite from the Little Three mine, San
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and the green or Brazilian emerald variety. The gem tourmalines are found most commonly in pockets or...tourmaline crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other...Dakota. A black crystal from Micaville, Randolph county, Alabama, was 10 inches in diameter and from 3...length. Other crystals have been noted at the Baer mine near Orange, New Hampshire, to 10 inches in diameter...pegmatite of Fremont county, Colorado. ROCKS AND MINERALS Maine, Connecticut, and California are noted for
Report (issue)
Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 28 New England Gem Beryl Bruce Jarnot Page 16 Bazzite of the Alps Stefan...Page 32 Beryl from the Pegmatites of Southern California Jesse Fisher Page 20 Discovery Stoppaniite Fabio...William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 49 Gem Beryl from Russia and Ukraine Peter Lyckberg Friedrich...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
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 (article/letter/editorial)
81MINERALS dletown-Portland, Connecticut, pegmatite district. They are found in South Glastonbury, about 5...includes one of the largest quarries of the entire district, the Howe No. 1. Access is through a trail system...system that follows old carriage roads, mine roads, and pipeline rightsof-way. During the spring and early...specimens are included: the Simpson quarry, known for gem beryl (aquamarine); and the Hollister quarry, known...lithium pegmatite minerals. Minerals found in the district include albite, allanite, almandine, autunite
Report (issue)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN. Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES WARREN T. HANNUM, Director...BUILDING. SAN FRANCISCO OLAF P. 11 JENKINS. Chief SPECIAL REPORT 7-A 5AN FRANCISCO JUNE GEM- AND LITHIUM-BEARING...LITHIUM-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By RICHARD H. JAHNS and LAUREN...University of California, Davis Libraries http://archive.org/details/gemlithiumbearin07jahn GEM- AND LITHIUM-BEARING...LITHIUM-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA! By Richard H. Jahns* and Lauren
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Five Tourrmline-1 the first special issue in the Gem Minerals Series Introduction Notes from the Editor....................365 by C. A. Francis Pakistan Gem pegmatites of the Shingus-Dusso area, Gilgit, Pakistan............413 by A. M. Bassett California Recent work at the Himalaya m in e ..........................lepidolite, mined recently at the Himalaya mine, Pala, California. William Larson collection; photo by
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 (article/letter/editorial)
History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., USA With 4 Figures Received October 19, 1993; accepted... low-pressure petalite, phosphorus-enriched amblygonite and fluorine-rich lepidolite subtypes of orogenic...subtype (London, 1984). The relatively rare amblygonite subtype is indicative of high #PFO 2 ± NaLi_...Auburn, Maine Greenlaw quarry, Auburn, Maine Chandler mine, Raymond, New Hampshire White Rocks, Middletown...MexicoSan Diego mine, Mesa Grande, California Stewart mine, Pala, California Stewart mine, Pala, California
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
invited me to his Little Three pegmatite mine near Ramona, California, to view the last of a string of crystal-filled...crystal-filled miarolitic cavities that he had been mining from the main pegmatite dike on the property (see...2012 for additional details of the mine). Spaulding had been mining northward up a steeply dipping portion...in the 1991 London Pocket, Little Three mine, Ramona, California, after about 100 kilograms of material...crystal-filled cavities packed with clay at the Himalaya and San Diego pegmatites in the nearby Volume 88, November/December
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
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involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at the Pomona Fairgrounds Mrs. Kay Robertson...103341/ona Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90064 This year's California Show was held again in Pomona, but luckily in...the variety of minerals occurring in Southern California, there are many excellent field collectors. ...stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites
 
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