| Fisher, Jesse, Foord, Eugene E., Bricker, Garth A. (1998) The Geology, Mineralogy, and History of the Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Rocks & Minerals, 73 (3) 156-180 doi:10.1080/00357529809603033 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | kande, San Diego Eountg, Ealifiornia 7 Los Angeles County II ,J - r J--4 ‘*- \ Orange County f ... San Bernardino Coun -----. I--L-L--- \,-. 1 Cahuilla Mt. X x Thomas Mt- L-. JESSE FISHEK 380...380 Pennsylvania Ave. San Francisco, California 94107 EUGENE E. FOOKD M.S.905, U.S. Geological Survey Box...80225 GARTH A. BRICKER 410 East Elder Fallbrook, California 92028 T he Himalaya mine has been the largest...XMesaGrande X Ramona Or\ San Diego County I lmpris ! Count) I .San Diego -- J I I I J-----I--- | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | the outer zones of pegmatite bodies. Primary fluorapatite also appears at the contact, particularly in...Red Ace LCT granitic pegmatite, in Wisconsin, fluorapatite shows the expected pattern of decreasing Ca...chilled against the country rocks. Crystals of fluorapatite are prominent near the outer contact, become...way in the intermediate zone to Mn-enriched fluorapatite. At the core margin, pods of phosphate minerals...phosphate groups. Such pods typically are devoid of fluorapatite and other Ca-bearing phosphates. In the case | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold...mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and...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...Robert Kampf (b. 1948), D. Leicht, 126-28 Apatite, California, 162 Aragonite, Missouri, 227; Utah, 244 Archduke | | | Book | high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and Malachite... 117-134 Brazilianite NaAli{PO,,)z(OH), 117 Fluorapatite Ca 5(PO,)l 118- 120 Pyromorphite Pb5(PO4 )3CI...Native Gold Empire-Star Mines, Grass Valley, California 18.8 cm (7½ in.) across .~ ... C g ro ...29 Native Gold Sheet on Quartz El Dorado County; California 30 5 cm (2 In.) high Native Gold "Latticework"...across Native Copper in Calcite Hancock, Houghton County, Michigan 12 cm (4% in.) across 37 38 Native | | | Catalog/List | specimen. East to China, home of a seemingly sured fluorapatite. Rubellite Tourmaline on Cleavelandite Malkhan...historical tourmaline discoveries in Brazil, California and the Himalayas.” —(2019). The Malkhan District...only a few examples discovered. Asia 25 Fluorapatite (bi-color) with Cleavelandite Dara-e-Pech pegmatite...Kunar, Afghanistan 6 cm tall x 7 cm wide 26 Fluorapatite is found in several colors, purple being the...bicolor like this piece is extremely rare. This fluorapatite was found in 2021 in a small pocket with less | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mines and Minerals of the California Pegmatite Province Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University]... Southern JESSE FISHER PO Box 77774 San Francisco, California 94107 jef520@comcast.net F Unless otherwise...MINERALS or much of the past century, the Southern California pegmatite province has been the source of some...numerous articles on the pegmatites of Southern California and the mines and minerals of Northern England...Figure 1 (top left page). The Fano mine workings and San Jacinto Mountains, January 1997. Figure 2 (bottom | | | Journal (issue) | Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............................101 by E... 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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 663 S. Rancho Santa Fe Road Apartment 615 San Marcos, California 92078 mmauthner@gmail.com Gemological...of America Museum 5345 Armada Drive Carlsbad, California 92008 terri.ottaway@gia.edu H istorically,...Ottaway is curator at the GIA Museum in Carlsbad, California. Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln]...Lincoln] at 19:55 09 April 2015 Figure 2. Fluorapatite, crystal 4 cm across, stone 12.35 carats, Kenya...pleochroic yellow-blue (yellowish overall) cat’s-eye fluorapatite from the Taita Mountains, Kenya (north of Umba | | | Journal (issue) | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur..........................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 Harold and...of America, 1660 Steward Street, Santa Monica, California 90404.) Several noteworthy articles on tourmaline...the Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, California (by E. E. Foord) [1977, vol. 8, no. 6, p. 461-474 | | | 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...REBORN! The Mineralogical Society of Southern California has held a Gem & Mineral show annually for the | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 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...from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This is typical of the specimens...Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Barbara Muntyan specimen, Jeff Scovil...localities are the pegmatites around Newry in Oxford County. Newry muscovite crystals in the collection exhibit | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Fluorapatite Downloaded by [New York University] at 14:16...have chosen fluorapatite as the Connoisseur's Choice mineral for this issue. Fluorapatite is a member...the most familiar of which are the phosphates fluorapatite, chlorapatite, and hydroxylapatite. Other apatite-group...members of the apatite group vary considerably. Fluorapatite (calcium fluorophosphate) occurs in several...optics. Fluorapatite is often fluorescent and phosphorescent. The modes of origin of fluorapatite span a | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | pictured here (fig. 12) is a good example. The fluorapatite from Panasqueira (fig. 13) has both size and...and celestine, 17 cm high, Cumberland mine, Smith County, Tennessee. Steve Neely specimen. Volume 95, January/February...13. Smithsonite with hemimorphite, 7.8 cm high, San Antonio mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scott...Beaver County, Utah. Scott Rudolph specimen. 16 ROCKS & MINERALS Figure 16. Fluorapatite with arsenopyrite...cm wide, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Marty Zinn specimen. Volume 95, January/February | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | March/April: Millerite on dolomite, Leadwood, St. Francois County, Missouri. Glenn Williams specimen, Terry Huizing...quartz, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Wayne Sorensen specimen, Jeff Scovil...July/August: Barite, Black Cloud mine, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...NovembedDecember: Hematite, Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin. F. John Barlow specimen, M. Hjerstedt...Allanite, Missouri, 96 Almandine-spessartine, California, 171 Alpine Minerals: A Review of the Most Famous | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | significant gem production is in San Diego County of southern California. In a review paper Wise and Francis...Maine's most famous pegmatite mineral is purple fluorapatite. Highly faceted gemmy crystals were discovered...crystals were made there in 1966 and 1967. Purple fluorapatite also occurs in pockets at several other pegmatites...compendium on Maine's minerals. 17 Figure 5. Fluorapatite from the Pulsifer Qaurry , Auburn , Maine. Gemstones...Gemological Institute of America in Carlsbad , California and will be included in the inaugural installation | | Thompson, Woodrow B., Bearss, Gene T., Falster, Alexander U., Simmons, William B., Nizamoff, Jams W. (2000) The Estes Quarry, Cumberland County, Maine: A New Pegmatite Mineral Locality. Rocks & Minerals, 75 (6) 408-418 doi:10.1080/00357520009605667 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | located on Route 5 in West Baldwin, Cumberland County, Maine (fig. 1). It is on the western flank of...to that of the Brown Derby pegmatite in Gunnison County, Colorado (Hanley et al. 1950; Staatz and Trites...“Amethyst Discovery on Deer Hill, Stow, Oxford County, Maine” and appeared in the January/February 1994...to that of pegmatites of the Pala district in California described by Webber et al. (1997, 1999). It is...opposite side of the pluton from the famous Oxford County pegmatite field described by Francis et al. (1993) | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | accepted abstracts follow. THE GARNET LINE IN OXFORD COUNTY, MAINE, PEGMATITES. M. M. Felch, W. B. Simmons...intermediate and core zones in many of the Oxford County, Maine, pegmatites. This study primarily focuses...pegmatites, similar to the model proposed for the San Diego County pegmatites (Webber et al. 1997, 1999). The...shallow level pegmatite-aplite dikes, San Diego County, California. American Mineralogist 84:708–17. Downloaded...IN MIAROLITIC CAVITIES IN ALKALI DIKES, AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. L. E. Kearns1, R. Rothenberg2, T. Tucker3 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York. Jeffrey B. Fast specimen and photo....Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals, Inc., specimen...Treasure Chest Pocket, Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. Lisa Bennett specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Albert Ordway (1935–2007), D. Leicht, 178 Albite, California, 292 Alumopharmacosiderite, Utah, 452 Alunite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | responses. Apatite is more precisely called fluorapatite, a member of a group of some eighteen different...following discussion, it should be understood that fluorapatite is intended. Although fluorapatite's ideal formula...analysis (Cruft, IngameUs, and Muysson 1965) of a fluorapatite specimen from Otter Lake, Ontario, Canada, gives...Harding mine in Taos County, New Mexico; the Midnight Owl mine in Yavapai County, Arizona; and the Himalaya...Himalaya mine in San Diego County, California. Fluorescing apatite is also found in some pegmatites of | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 2000 Lakeshore Drive, New Orleans, Louisiana 70148, USA Brendan M. LAURS Gemological Institute of America...Mouawad Campus, 5345 Armada Drive, Carlsbad, California 92008, USA Abstract Yellow to yellow-green tourmaline...(Muva) and a the United States (Himalaya mine, California), and have determined the chemical composition...minerals, hambergite, petalite, stilbite and fluorapatite (Zagorsky et al. 1999, 2005). Yellow tourmaline...analyzed sample is unknown. Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California, United States The Himalaya dike system | | | Journal (issue) | twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...row, from left: Fluorapatite, 2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian...5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino County, California (#1869). Jerry Cone photo. Aurichalcite...sphalerite, 20 cm, from the Elmwood mine, Smith County, Tennessee. Paul Bordovsky photo. Wire silver...silver, 7.5 cm, from the Hongda mine, Lingqiu County, Shanxi, China. Paul Bordovsky photo. Calcite, 9 cm, | | Ertl, A., Rossman, G. R., Hughes, J. M., London, D., Wang, Y., O'Leary, J. A., Dyar, M. D., Prowatke, S., Ludwig, T., Tillmanns, E. (2010) Tourmaline of the elbaite-schorl series from the Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, California: A detailed investigation. American Mineralogist, 95 (1) 24-40 doi:10.2138/am.2010.3271 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | elbaite-schorl series from the Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, California: A detailed investigation AndreAs ertl,1,* GeorGe...and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125-2500, U.S.A. 3 Office...from gem pockets in the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California, including a strongly color-zoned crystal...tourmaline was discovered on the San Diego property, and in 1904, the San Diego Tourmaline Mining Company was...Fisher et al. (1998) further described beryl, fluorapatite, manganocolumbite-manganotantalite, stibioc | | | Journal (issue) | 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...extendsfrom the San Jacinto Mountainsin central Riverside County southwardthroughSan Diego County,into the Baja...14 separatepegmatite districtsin Riversideand San Diego counties. The total number of individualpegmatiteswithin | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Copyright 0 1996Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016.7037/96$15.00 + .oO Pergamon...Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside CA, 92521, USA (Received October 31, 1995; accepted...the miarolitic Belo Horizonte #1 pegmatite in the San Jacinto district, and Himalaya pegmatite dike system...system in the Mesa Grande district of southern California. These analyses are the first inclusion volatile...pegmatite (Taylor et al., 1993, 1994) from southern California. The growth of natural minerals from a melt | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Wulfenite, 12 cm wide, Defiance mine, Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona; Joe and Susan Kielbaso specimen. The...cm wide, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California; Martin Zinn specimen. So I am a sucker...Figure 13. Gold, 4 cm wide, Round Mountain mine, Nye County, Nevada; Alan Day specimen. The crystallization...at 09:03 02 January 2015 Figure 14 (above). Fluorapatite, quartz, and pyrite, 6.1 cm wide, Panasqueira...Benitoite, 3.2 cm high, Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California; Martin Zinn specimen. Pictured is the |
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