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Zoisite from
San Diego County, California, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Zoisite
Formula:(CaCa)(AlAlAl)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH)
Comments:Occurs in boulders of sausserite gabbro in the San Onofre Breccia.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Actinolite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zoisite data
Locality Data:Click here to view San Diego County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:677007
Long-form Identifier:1:3:677007:5
GUID (UUID V4):446653fc-9775-4573-870d-57f49cbb1a9d
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
District, San Diego County, California Jesse Fisher 380 Pennsylvania A venue San Francisco, California 94107...pegmatite district in north-central San Diego County, California. First discovered during the "Gem Rush''that...Rush''that occurred in San Diego County during the first decade of the 20th centu, the Katerina Mine was...the numerous pegmatite districts in southern California and has been the source of many spectacular specimens...the Katerina are the Vandenberg, White Queen, and San Pedro mines, all of which have historically produced
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 1952 136 SUPPLEMENT DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO...FRANCISCO 1952 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA SUPPLEMENT TO BULLETIN By Joseph Murdoch • and Robert W. Webb 136...Bulletin 136 and Supplement No. 1 Descriptions of California minerals and mineral localities Bibliography...Bulletin 136, the current revision of Minerals of California was published, it was planned to issue, from...inspection and use. The amount of new literature on California minerals, and the number of new-found occurrences
Report (issue)
fvpplement to MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA For 1955 Through 1957 California Division of Mines Supplement...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA For 1955 through 1957 By JOSEPh t^4Ara^ % University of California, Los Ange...WEBB University of California, Santa (Barbara with INDEX TO MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA ARRANGED BY COUNTIES...ELIZABETH COLLINS California Division of Mines Supplement to Bulletin 173 California Division of Mines... LIBRARY LWIVERSITY OF CAUPORNI/. T~» A T7-TO San Francisco, 1960 OF ^^S^ !^< EDMUND G. BROWN
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORBICULAR GABBRO-DIORITE FROM DAVIE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA.' GENERAL STATEMENT. SPHEROIDAL or orbicular...Gabbro Diorite at Dehesa, San Diego county, California," The University of California Publications, Bulletin...orbiculardioriteat RattlesnakeBar, El Doradocounty, California;the granite from Clark's Peak, Medicine Bow Range...Ontario; and the orbieulargabbroat Dehesa, San Diego county, California. The nodules of spheroidalrocks are...in the field an orbicular gabbro-dioritein Davie county,3and later to study, microscopically,thin sections
Book
high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and Malachite...SILICATES: SOROSILICATES OR PYROSILICATES 158- 161 Zoisite Ca1AliSiO,li(OH) 158 3 Ep1dote Cai(Fe '.Al}i(SiO...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
Report (issue)
Minerals of California By ARTHUR S. EAKLE, MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining...Hon Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of the State of California. Sir: I have the honor to transmit Bureau...of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this date through...Bureau. and Mineralogy of the University of California, with this Eakle has given freely of his time...Minerals Distribution by Counties Bibliography on California Minerals Index to Minerals — 197 204 210 220
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz crystals from the Himalaya mine in San Diego County, California. On the other hand, black-and-white...beryl in an article on the pegmatites of Delaware County, Pennsylvania, remind us how fortunate we are to...York State as well as on wavellite from Jackson County, Wisconsin. Another article takes the reader on...and their lifelong work on the pegmatites of San Diego County. The mineral rynersonite was named in honor...suggests that, though this blue gem-variety of zoisite is potentially brilliant, its “lack of hardness
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...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)
1978.] 512 J.Oemm., 1979, XVI, 8 BLUISH-GREEN ZOISITE FROM MERELANI, TANZANIA By Dr K. SCHMETZER and...Since the first publication on the blue variety of zoisite, called tanzanite, from Merelani, Tanzania (Bank...crystal structure of zoisite (Hurlbut 1969). The absorption spectra of this blue zoisite have led various...ions (Schmetzer 1978). The colour change of the zoisite crystals from Merelani through heat treatment to...reddish-purple blue blue yellowish-brown blue Green zoisite from Longido in Tanzania, which is coloured by
Report (issue)
M^iajKaMVMtrVMMIMMVW^- 'Vv s > MINERALS Of CALIFORNIA BULl,ETIN N«, 91 issei0 BY rr: ^ ;wIFORNIA...;wIFORNIA STATE Mii^ix^v BtmiiAU FERRY BUILDING - SAN FRANOSCC im^ ibiiiiiiliiii .III— Bb^aa^Aai^^A...FERRY BUILDIN(;. MININC; BUREAU SAN FRANCISCO FLETCHER HAMILTON San Francisco] State Mineralogi8l ...BULLETIN [November, 1922 No. 91 Minerals of California $ BY ARTHUR S. EAKLE, Ph. D. Professor...Mineralogy, University of California COMPLIMENTS OF ^^^foyd Sc, c/iosty GIST CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1901). Minerals from Leona Heights, Alameda County, California: CaliJ. Unio. Pubs., Dept. Geology,Bul,l...l9l-217, illus. (1903). Spodumene from San Diego County, California: Cali.J. Uni.zt.Pubs., Dept. Geol'ogy...(lN)S) . The tourmaline localities of southern California: Seience, 19,26G268 (1904)Crystallography of...southern California [abs.l: Science,3l' 51G517, (1910). Albite from lawsonite schist, Marin County, California:...Geol. Suntey Bull.490' 93, (1911). Axinite from California: U. S. Geot SurzteyBul'l.49O,37-47, (1911);with
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...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 (issue)
illus. This laboratory has examined several blue zoisite crystals, one of which weighed more than 1100 carats...d e of the important source of sphene in Baja California, and Macon Co., the source of rhodolite garnet...jewellery. S.P. 273 COMMON GEMS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By PAUL WILLARD JOHNSON With photographs...gem minerals. In the 4,258 square miles of the county more than 140 different minerals have reportedly...States" is justly deserved, for no other U . S . county has the profusion, variety and quality of gems
Book
^ '“ 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 ...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Scott Rudolph specimen. Figure 14. Zoisite, variety tanzanite, 6.1 cm wide, Arusha, Merelani district...high, Violet claims, Wah Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah. Scott Rudolph specimen. 16   ROCKS & MINERALS...cm wide, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Marty Zinn specimen. Volume 95, January/February
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...Mineralogist OIAF GEOLOGIC BFL^NCH Ferry Building, San Francisco San Francisco P. JENKINS Chief Geologist ...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE
Report (issue)
] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF...DIVISION Director OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO OLAF San Francisco P. 11 JENKINS, Chief BULLETIN...BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia, Los Angek...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith
Journal (issue)
Mine, San Diego County, California Kenneth L. Gochenour 2670 East Walnut St. #B Tustin, California 92780...mine near Warner Springs in northern San Diego County, California. The crystals were found at a depth...specimen will soon find its home the Los Angles County Museum of Natural History. Another , rge crystal...in the Hams-Weeks Pegmatite, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d 'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny@mineralnew s.com
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and was cut into fine gems. Noted from Pala, California; Mt. Antero, Colorado; some localities in Chester...Lode pegmatite near the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Common in the pegmatites of Yavapai... Grossularite is found in the Ben Nevis Mine on San Augustin Peak, Organ Mountains, New Mexico; in Connecticut...Pennsylvania; and especially in San Diego and Riverside Counties, California, where gem quality crystals...Mountain in the Crested Butte region of Gunnison County, Colorado, in good gem crystals. ANDRADITE, calcium-iron
Journal (issue)
image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the back of the original...Oceanview Mine in Southern California; the 0.72-ct benitoite (left California Gems – More Than a Century-Old...Mine area, San America’s Royal Gems – Montana and Yogo Sapphires Benito County, California; the group...Daniel Bronfen, Brazil Evan Caplan, USA Rocco Gay, Italy Sushil Goyal, USA Shahina Hatta, Hong Kong Dwarka...Thailand Immediate Past President Benjamin Hackman, USA Chief Executive Officer Gary Roskin ICA General Manager
Journal (issue)
ROCKNGEM.COM VOL. 50 NO. 12 • DECEMBER 2020 10 ZOISITE A Massive Mineral Marked by ChristmasLike Color...notice. On The Cover A massive plate of ruby-in-zoisite, measuring almost 11 inches across, courtesy Heritage...995 00 complete Free shipping in continent USA Made in USA Grit Sizes 60 to 200,000 1.0" hole with...with 3/4", 5/8" & 1/2" bushings Our made in USA soft wheels will last you 3-4 times longer than imported...Y B Y B O B J O N E S I t is hard to believe zoisite is a massive mineral that makes lovely Christmas
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...pocket, Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Slice is 36 mm in diameter, cut perpendicular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(manganoan) varieties are found at the Harding mine, Taos County, New Mexico (Jahns and Ewing 1977). Fuchsite is...localities. At the Stewart pegmatite in Pala, California, compact lepidolite masses containing small,...are found at the Little Three mine near Ramona, California, associated with orange spessartine and white...and fluorite. A classic association from El Paso County, Colorado, is well-crystallized zinnwaldite with...the 50:50 composition. The Morefield mine, Amelia County, Virginia, has produced many excellent large crystals
Journal (issue)
largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection; self-collected...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil...5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado; Karl Warning collection; Jeff Scovil...Steve SmaJe collection. Joe Budd photo. Tanzanite zoisite, 6 cm, Merelani Hills, Arusha, Tanzania. Ex Steve...COLLECTION Pyrite on quartz, 11 cm, Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington. Ex Bruce Oreck collection. Joe Budd
Journal (issue)
in the Gien Rose Limestone formation of Lampasas County. Lampasas celestine first became well known among... HI STORY_....,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _......., J COUNTY MAp o, '1~AAa M'Al.t.OFM.11.ES An 1870 map of...Barber's Hili salt dome at Mont Belview, Chambers County, on the Texas Gulf coast, small but sharp tetrahedral...Mountain and near Kingsland in Llano County. A northeastem Gillespie County locality known as Amethyst Hili...row (from left): Smoky quartz, 5.5 cm, from Llano County; Bill Morgenstern photo. Calcite, 5.8 cm, from
 
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