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Leucophosphite from
Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Leucophosphite
Formula:KFe23+(PO4)2(OH) · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Leucophosphite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:710176
Long-form Identifier:1:3:710176:2
GUID (UUID V4):85cd84e5-9ab6-4083-8e1c-d18f8ba8048f
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
phosphatemineralsat the Stewart Pegmatite, Pala District,lSan Diego County, California J,c,MssE. Stncr,svr...pegmatitesin the Pala pegmatitedistrict, San Diego County, California. At the Stewart pegmatite, lithiophilite...sequencerepresent supergene weathering products. The Stewart pegmatite crystallized from a highlydiflerentiatedgranitic...loss at the shallow depths of formation of the Stewart pegmatite.Under theseconditions,there was little...a century the granitic pegmatitesof southern California have been a well-known source of gemstones and
Journal (issue)
fine collection of Mr. John Parnau of Stockton, California. Mr. Parnau has been very actively collecting...nn Frazier 1724 U niversity Ave. ā€¢ Berkeley, California 94703 ā€¢ 415-TH3-7564 o superb minerals Ā© f...at hand for ready reference. John S. White Jr. paLa properues iNTerNanoNaL. in c . Edward Swoboda ā€”...or call for appointment Tourmaline Tourmaline Queen Mine Pala, California NEW ACQUISITIONS: RUTILE...Georgia BENITOITE from San Benito Co., California NEPTUNITE from San Benito Co., California VANADINITE from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TOPOGRAPHICAL EUROPE Norway (Norge) Dopma Mtn., Trondheim, titanomagnetite, 265 Sweden (Sverige) Aln6...Aln6 lsland, titanomagnetite, 265 Brattfors mine, Nordmarks Odalffalt, Viirmland, manganhumite, katoptrite...Gutter, Brook, Hampshire, glauconite, 373 Mill Close mine, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, corundophilite, I7I Seathwaite... 373 Turf Pits mine, Grassington, Yorkshire, spencerite, I76 Cornwall Botallack mine, digenite, I72 Carn...Just, Land's End, epidote, axinite, hornblende, tourmaline, 427 Crowns Rock, St. Just, Land's End, garnet
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand...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
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^ 'ā€œ 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 ...Ontario Publishing M1P Van Nostrand Reinhold 17 Queen Street 2E7, Canada Australia Pty. Ltd. Mitcham...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch
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)...Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange...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
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
Report (issue)
W. T. Schaller, Afwillite NMNH 95237 Dutoitspan Mine, KimberĀ¬ ley, South Africa Dutoitspan Ammonioborite...Cadesky Vein, Hi-Ho L. J. Cabri, D. C. Harris, J. Stewart and L. A. Clark, M. Andersonite 1970. Allargentum...Geological Survey, 1950) Trinity Anemousite County, California. Contributions to MineralĀ¬ (discredited...Vonsen, 1920) NMNH 106112 from the Hillside Mine, Yavapai County, AriĀ¬ L. G. Berry, 1947. Composition and...Aluminocopiapite Utah NMNH K. J. Murata, Trinity County, California M. C. Bandy, 1938. Utah. J. M. Axelrod
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
St. Just aureole, Cornwall, 427 Alice Mary copper mine, W. Australia, lavendulan, 369 Alkali feldspar,...breakdown product of staurolite from Donegal, 237 Auburn mine, Michigan, stilpnomelane, 36I and M37 Augite, Turkey...anal., opt., sp. gr., X-ray, I79 Bali Low copper mine, Capricorn Range, W. Australia, lavendulan, 369... Larne, Co. Antrim, tobermorite, 229 Bambollita mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, tlapallite, 183 Ban...Pembrokeshire, 8 I Bingham, Utah, tobermorite, 229 Binny mine, Kondapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India, chromite, bronzite
Book (volume)
The Bowers Museurn of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller...Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange...red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62 et), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rho...Kern Cowny, California; octagonal seep cut violetish pink kunzite (26.61 et), Pala, California. NECKLACE...blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75 diainonds
Report (issue)
= 96.0ā—¦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA. 8.63(10), 2.749 (6), 5.61 (5), 1.623 (5)...38.45 Total 100.6 100.00 (1) Tip Top mine, South Dakota, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as Fe2...ferrisicklerite, leucophosphite, jahnsite, montgomeryite, collinsite, hureĢaulite (Tip Top mine, South Dakota...Dakota, USA); carbonate-fluorapatite, calcite, dolomite, quartz, clay minerals (Khoa Rang Kai, Thailand)...Distribution: In the USA, from the Tip Top mine, 8.5 km southwest of Custer, and the White Elephant mine, near Pringle
Report (issue)
425ā€“5.428 X-ray Powder Pattern: 7U7 Ranch, Arizona, USA. 9.63 (100), 2.905 (36), 4.82 (28), 3.263 (23), 3...Total 100.19 100.00 3+ 3+ (1) 7U7 Ranch, Arizona, USA; corresponding to (Mn2+ 0.82 Mg0.12 Ca0.06 )Ī£=1.00...pegmatites. Association: Triplite, strengite, leucophosphite, hureĢaulite, lithiophilite, stewartite, sicklerite...Distribution: In the USA, from the 7U7 Ranch, 40 km west of Hillside, Bagdad district, Yavapai Co., Arizona;...Coosa Co., Alabama; at the Stewart Lithia mine, Pala, San Diego Co., California; from the White Elephant
Report (issue)
19.28 Total 100.41 99.40 100.00 (1) Kalterborn mine, Germany. (2) The Kreuzberg, Germany; average of...shells. Association: Triphylite, barbosalite, leucophosphite, laueite, hureĢaulite, strengite, turquoise...in small amounts. In Germany, from the Kalterborn mine, near Eiserfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia; on the...pegmatite, near Guarda, Portugal. From the LeveaĢˆniemi mine, near Kiruna, Sweden. In the Bomi Hill Caves, Liberia...South Africa. In the Alto Ligonha district, Mozambique. In the USA, from the Palermo #1 and Fletcher
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite on the 7-U-7 Ranch, west of Hillside, Bagdad district, Arizona. The formula was determined to be Mn5Mn6...for bermanite from the Williams propert)r' Coosa County, Alabama, was used to refine the unit cell dimensions...bermanite from the Williams pegmatite property, Coosa County, Alabama' Specific gravity was determined by suspensionof...mineral l1), leucophosphite (#3), hureaulite ({6)' and' other phosphates. Stewart Mine, Pala, Calif . with...barbasalite-frondelite rock. Williams prospect, Coosa County, Alabama (Leavens & Simpson, in prep.). Intimately
Book
what was probably one of the earliest hard-rock mining operations in the world. A necklase with a turquois...Saxony in Germany. Numerous deposits in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah were...rather convoluted account of the prospecting and mining of this mineral (Pliny, 38:33): "It [cal/aina,...rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals include...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in
Book
radiating structure. Opposite: gold on quartz from California. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 7 THE MINERAL KINGDOM...states of Guanajuato and Chihuahua, Mexico. In the USA silver occurs at Keweenaw, Michigan, in association...the USA copper is found in abundance in the Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine...from South Africa, Above: Gold on quartz from California. Such a specimen would command very high prices...Another fine example of gold on quartz, also from California gold is found in Rhodesia, Egypt and Ghana.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
coupled with Na, K or Ca in, e.g., cyrilovite, leucophosphite or mitridatite. Where Mn2+ becomes oxidized...Microbeam Analysis ā€“ 1985. San Francisco Press, San Francisco, California (104-106). R OBERTS, A.C.,...McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, and from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah. Mineral...phosphate minerals at the Stewart pegmatite, Pala District, San Diego County, California. Am. Mineral. 70, 395-408...structure of tsumcorite, a new mineral from the Tsumeb mine, S.W. Africa. Acta Crystallogr. B29, 2789-2794.
Book (edition)
Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...and Second Editions PART 2 HISTORY OF ARIZONA MINING The Prehistoric Period 20 Arizona Under Spanish...Deposits The Bisbee District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St.... Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S:...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 ā€œMine Fireā€ Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART
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ARIZONA-V] 265-352 257-320 353-400 321-384 TOURMALINE ] 327--438 439-508 225-288 289-352 353-416...353-416 257-320 321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [...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...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298
Book (edition)
McDonald Co\Ā·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral
Journal (issue)
A vivianite occurrence in Contra Costa County,California ... 337 by C. B. DeWitt Essay: minerals...Moore Phosphate minerals from the Leveaniemi iron mine, Svappavaara, Sweden .............................Niedermayr Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain a r e a 355 by J. B. Gordon, Jr. & C. L. Hollabaugh...Hollabaugh Laueite from Hagendorf-Siid andthe Palermo mine ................. 363 by L. C. Pitman New data...localities: The Phoenixville lead-silver mines, Chester County, Pennsylvania ................................
Book (edition)
Mineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen tnine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably...his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a men1ber of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...noted for con1puter applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and
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Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...his co-authors. A graduate of Michigan College of Mining and Technology (now Michigan Technological University)...a member of the faculty of Michigan College of Mining and Technology for three years, leaving that position...noted for computer applications in geology and mining engineering. The authors and publisher express...permission to reproduce the Map and Index of Arizona Mining Districts. Carleton B. Moore, Peter R. Busek, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
entrance and arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob...(1878) reported 95 mineral species, Meyers and Stewart (1956) reported 250, and Cares (1990) has modified...large scale, there has been enough prospecting and mining activity to uncover many important mineral localities...collector. Prospecting, granite quarrying, and mining probably peaked before the turn of the twentieth...pegmatite prospecting and mining were revived during World War II, with some mining continuing into the early
Journal (issue)
Terry Szenics Chromian Alumohydrocalcite from California, and Knipovichite Discredited..................St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Arizona. A photomicrograph by Vi Frazier of Point Arena, California. This was...color) for the crystal specimen quality of the San Diego County materials - both old and new. As usual, the...actionā€ will probably be in ā€™76. Why not join us? paLa propemes iNTerNauoNaL, in c . Announcing an exciting...operations from the Amelia mine, Boleo copper district, Santa Rosalia, Baja California Sur, Mexico. SINGLE CRYSTALS
 
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