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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Clay minerals' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Clay minerals 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:687886
Long-form Identifier:1:3:687886:3
GUID (UUID V4):41475ec7-09e3-41d4-9370-f3af3a12acca
Nearest other occurrences of Clay minerals
15.0km (9.3 miles) Mack Mine (John Mac mine; Mac mine; San Luis Rey claim), Rincon Mountain, Rincon, Rincon Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
16.2km (10.1 miles) Coyote diggings, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
16.9km (10.5 miles) Lookout Mine (Hercules group; Lookout prospect; Upper Hercules mine), Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
21.0km (13.1 miles) Carmelita Mine (Big Spring mine; Blue Gem claim; Crest Gem mine; Elinor deposit; Elinor mine; Estudillo mine; French Pete mine; MS 6130; Peter Cabat mine), Chihuahua Valley, Warner Springs Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
30.8km (19.1 miles) Oceanview Mine (Oceanview adits; new Oceanview workings), Elizabeth R. Mine (Hazel W. claim), Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
31.2km (19.4 miles) Gem Star Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
32.1km (19.9 miles) Tourmaline Queen Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
32.4km (20.1 miles) Ed Fletcher Jr. Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
32.4km (20.2 miles) Tourmaline King Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
32.9km (20.4 miles) Morris Clay deposit, Escondido, 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...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 (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogy and paragenesis of pegmatites from San Diego County, California. He will also be remembered for his...contributions to the study of niobium-tantalum-tin minerals in pegmatites. Gene enjoyed practical jokes, having...Gene was born at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California, November 20, 1946. Gene, a RH-factor baby, had...top left) 1. Gene with a gem-quality rubellite specimen from the Pala district, spring 1991. 2. Gene Foord...friend George Ashley at Hiriart Mountain, San Diego County, California, 1986. 3. Gene in Jackson, Wyoming,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Temperatures and duration of crystallization within gem-bearing cavities of granitic pegmatites David London...Temperatures and duration of crystallization within gem-bearing cavities of granitic pegmatites, LITHOS(2020)...TEMPERATURES AND DURATION OF CRYSTALLIZATION WITHIN GEM-BEA RING CAVITIES OF GRANITIC PEGMATITES David London... University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 USA * Corresponding author. ABSTRACT of Crystallization...granitic pegmatites begins with the primary igneous minerals – feldspars, ro quartz, micas, and lesser others
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... and crushed and broken stone, by F. Harold Clay, by Weber George B. Jr. and Roy M. Kepner ...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?
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
portal of the San Diego Tourmaline mine, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County, California, during 1986...Association Meeting field trip. 202 ROCKS & MINERALS Foordite, (Sn2+,Pb)(Nb,Ta),06, was named for...of granitic pegmatites and niobium-tantalum-tin minerals. THE DEATH OF EUGENE FOORD on 8 January 1998,...community worldwide. Dr. Foord was born in Berkeley, California, 20 November 1946, to Beth and Del Foord. He...of the Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County, California, and its gem 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...Smithsonian Institution Peter G. Embrey Curator of Minerals The British Museum (Natural History) Richard C...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 .........
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...all, of the new influences have been beneficial. Minerals can now be more completely studied than ever before...should know how to identify a large number of minerals from hand specimen only. Granted, it takes years
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
Book
Orange SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY 9048 00992838 7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA...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...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
Book
PEMBERTON, H.E. MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pegmatites: ART Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego] at 03:56 02 March 2016 What TOURMALINE...SCIENTISTS ABOUT THE GEOLOGIC ENVIRONMENTS OF THE MINERALS THEY ACQUIRE AND SEEK. In these articles, the...the finest mineral specimens and gem materials are obtained. The minerals chosen will be those that presently...tourmaline, the most common of the boron-rich minerals. Dr. David London is a Stubbman-Drace Presidential...Garnet Ledge dike, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. Varieties of elbaite: (c) rubellite
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
Book
Brief descriptive note, as in "What's New in Minerals?" p Photograph or other illustration q Quantitative...353-416 257-320 321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986...Symposium: silver (chairman R. W. Graeme) 25:69-76 New minerals recently approved (abstracts: by J. A. Mandarino)...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
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)...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...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75
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
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...University of Nebraska recognized this problem in his Minerals and Gemstones of Nebraska (1971),- in which he
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 23:09 04 August 2017...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
Book (edition)
Oak Tree Press Co., Ltd., P.O. Box 34, Brickfield Hill, Sydney 2000, N.S.W. Distributed in the United Kingdom...thought of collecting the many beautiful abundant minerals in nature? Has the task of identification seemed...introduction to identifying the more colorful minerals, and is intended to make your collecting more...specific information in respect to the pictured minerals can be related. Any of the descriptive terms used...in rocks. Since the rocks are made up of minerals, the minerals themselves are of prime im- portance.
by Oak Tree Press Co. Ltd P.O. Box 34, Brickfield Hill, Sydney 2000, N.S.W Distributed in the United Kingdom...thought of collecting the many beautiful abundant minerals in nature? Has the task of identification seemed...introduction to identifying the more colorful minerals, and is intended to make your collecting more...specific information in respect to the pictured minerals can be related. Any of the descriptive terms used...in rocks. Since the rocks are made up of minerals, the minerals themselves are of prime im¬ portance. Basically
Report (issue)
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
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia.................................................. 440 by W. E. Wilson What's new in Minerals? ...............................................chalcopyrite, from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and...change in recent performance involved the rare minerals. In the past, a new discovery of a rare species
Catalog/List
Geology ..... . Petroleum Geology ..... . Mining and Mining Engineering . Prospecting and Fluorescence...VANADINITE specimen from the Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona GLOBES AND ATLASES .........TESTING SET ..... . 80 MINERAL INDEX limited to minerals found under different mineral headings in the...light. The Ojuela mine is one of Mexico's largest producers of beautiful speci­ men minerals for collectors...AFWILLlTE Hydrous calcium hydroxy-silicate. California Riverside County, Crestmore. White prismatic crystalline
Journal (issue)
1979 $3 SAM DIEGO FREEWAY 14051 p a c if ic COAST HIGHWAY Gold-Nevado Co. California Hours: Tues-Sar... 323 by B. L. Muntyan What’s new in Colorado minerals? ...................................... 329 by... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ...................................................................... 339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ........................smoky quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen;
Book (volume)
Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to hill ridges, increasing steadily in elev. From 1,000’...those in Maine and Southern California for their production of gems and minerals. The pegmatites are off...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...have measured from 18’ to 27’ long. In addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals, Topaz and Tourmaline add...437 South Dakota The commercial production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead
 
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