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Kunzite from Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA

USA
 
  • California
    • San Diego County
Mason, Anita (1976) The World of Rocks and Minerals. Larousse & Co., Inc., New York.
        • Pala
          • Chief Mountain
Merrill, F. J. H. 1914. Geology and Mineral Resources of San Diego and Imperial Counties: Gems, Lithia Minerals. California State Mining Bureau, San Francisco, Cal. California State Printing Office. Chapter 1, p. 69.
Jesse Fisher (2011) Mines and Minerals of the Southern California Pegmatite Province. Rocks & Minerals 86:14-34.
Mauthner, M. H. F. (2011), Recent Finds at the Oceanview Mine, Pala District, San Diego County, California. Rocks & Minerals 86(1): 41-47.
Personally collected
personal collections (Reed, Mauthner)
Jesse Fisher (2011) Mines and Minerals of the Southern California Pegmatite Province. Rocks & Minerals 86:14-34.
Mason, Anita (1976) The World of Rocks and Minerals. Larousse & Co., Inc., New York.
Kunz, George F. (1905) Gems, Jewelers' Materials, and Ornamental Stones of California. Bulletin 37 (2nd ed.) California State Mining Bureau
126-127.
Hapeman, Jeffrey R. (2011)
          • Hiriart Mountain (Hariat Mtn; Harriot Mtn; Heriart Mtn; Heriot Mtn; Hiriat Hill)
Cook, R. B. (1997). Connoisseur's Choice: Spodumene var. Kunzite, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Rocks & Minerals, 72(5), 340-343.
Christopher N. Wentzell
Jesse Fisher (2011) Mines and Minerals of the Southern California Pegmatite Province. Rocks & Minerals 86:14-34.
Rocks & Min.: 23:517.
Mason, Anita (1976) The World of Rocks and Minerals. Larousse & Co., Inc., New York.
Weber, F. Harold Jr. (1963) Geology and mineral resources of San Diego County, California. County Report 3. California Division of Mines and Geology
Kunz, George F. (1905) Gems, Jewelers' Materials, and Ornamental Stones of California. Bulletin 37 (2nd ed.) California State Mining Bureau
Kunz, George F. (1905) Gems, Jewelers' Materials, and Ornamental Stones of California. Bulletin 37 (2nd ed.) California State Mining Bureau
          • Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn)
Merrill, F.J.H. (1914) Geology and Mineral Resources of San Diego and Imperial Counties: Gems, Lithia Minerals. California State Mining Bureau, San Francisco, Cal. California State Printing Office, December. Chapter 1: 61-110.
Sheppard, J. B. (2008), History of the surface prospects and underground mining developments made along the northern portion of the Stewart pegmatite
personal communication with Scott L. Ritchie, San Diego Mining Company (SDMC). June/July.
Tucker, W. B., Reed, C. H. (1939), Los Angeles Field District - Mineral Resources of San Diego County. California Journal of Mines and Geology, quarterly chapter of State Mineralogist's Report 35
January: p. 37-40, Illus., maps.
 
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