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Dioptase from California, USA

USA
 
  • California
    • Inyo County
      • Inyo Mts (Inyo Range)
        • Kearsarge Mining District [2]
          • Kearsarge
Paul M. Adams (2003) Unusual vanadium minerals from the Green Monster Mine, Inyo County, California. Mineral News, 19, #8.
    • Mono County
      • Benton Range
        • Blind Spring Mining District (Blind Spring Hill Mining District; Benton Mining District)
          • Benton
            • Blind Spring Hill
              • Buscones Peak
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 169
Ransome, Alfred Leslie (1940), General geology and ores of the Blind Spring Hill mining district, Mono County, California, California Journal of Mines and Geology, California Division Mines (Report 36): 36: 141
    • San Bernardino County
      • Clark Mts (Clark Mountain Range)
        • Clark Mountain District (Clark District)
          • Mohawk Hill
[Mineralien Welt 1/93:44]
      • Silver Lake Mining District
        • Silver Lake
          • Silver Lake Mountain
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 169
        • Soda Mountains
          • Baker
            • Otto Mountain
Personally collected by Bruce Kelley, April 2015
EDS analyzed by Bob Housley.
Murdoch, Joseph & Robert W. Webb (1966), Minerals of California, Centennial Volume (1866-1966): California Division Mines & Geology Bulletin 189: 119
          • Zzyzx
mineralsocal.org (2020) https://mineralsocal.org/fieldtrip-information-reports/blue-bell-mine-may-19-2018/
Mills, S.J., Kampf, A.R., Kolitsch, U., Housley, R.M., Raudsepp, M. (2010) The crystal chemistry and crystal structure of kuksite, Pb3Zn3Te6+P2O14, and a note on the crystal structure of yafsoanite, (Ca,Pb)3Zn(TeO6)2. American Mineralogist: 95(7): 933-938.
Kampf, A. R., Rossman, G. R., Housley, R. M. (2009) Plumbophyllite, a new species from the Blue Bell claims near Baker, San Bernardino County, California. American Mineralogist, 94 (8) 1198-1204 doi:10.2138/am.2009.3156
Rocks & Minerals (1985) 60(1): 8.
Pemberton, H. Earl (1983) Minerals of California. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc.
Crowley, Jack A. (1977) Minerals of the Blue Bell mine, San Bernardino County, California. Mineralogical Record: 8: 494-497.
Thorne, Brent (n.d.) Personal communcation.
Collected by and in the collection of Alex Earl
Collected by and in the collection of Alex Earl
Daniel J. Evanich field collected midway inside of main adit of Blue Bell Mine D-site.
 
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