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Monazite from
Little Three Mine, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Monazite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:REE(PO4)
Comments:Reported by Schaller (1916) and Sinkankas (personal communication to Gene Foord, 1987)
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Monazite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Little Three Mine, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:7843
Long-form Identifier:1:3:7843:6
GUID (UUID V4):c49acba7-886f-46d6-a304-8c106a1c7f5b
Nearest other occurrences of Monazite
17.1km (10.6 miles) Green Ledge Mine (Green Ledge dike), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
17.2km (10.7 miles) Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
17.4km (10.8 miles) Woodson Mountain, Poway, San Diego County, California, USA
28.2km (17.5 miles) Descanso, Laguna Mountains, San Diego County, California, USA
45.2km (28.1 miles) Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
47.1km (29.2 miles) Bird Rock claim (Bird Rock deposit; W. M. Keenan), Lawson Peak, Los Terrenitos, Laguna Mountains, San Diego County, California, USA
49.9km (31.0 miles) Pacific Mine (Arthur Clay Star Number 1; Standard Sanitary; Pacific Mine Campo; Pacific Sanitary Porcelain Company; Stell; Pacific Feldspar claim), Hauser Canyon, Campo, San Diego County, California, USA
56.2km (34.9 miles) Williamson Mine (Coahuila Brave claim; Williamson Silica Mine), Cahuilla Mountain, Cahuilla Mining District, Riverside County, California, USA
74.3km (46.2 miles) Hemet Magnesite Mine (Hemet Magnesite property), Winchester, Menifee Mining District (Auld Mining District), Riverside County, California, USA
86.7km (53.9 miles) Southern Pacific Silica Quarry (Southern Pacific deposit; Nuevo Mine; Southern Pacific Quarry; S.P. Silica Quarry; S.P. Mine; Nuevo Quarry), Nuevo, Lakeview Mountains, Riverside County, California, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 07:06 06 January 2015 Even though California is known as the “Golden State, ” it could also...the Tourmaline State, or the Colemanite State. California is, in fact, one of the world’s greatest sources...localities, the reader is encouraged to consult the “California Locality Index” (Kampf et al. 1989). The bibliography...great deal from the many publications of the California Division of Mines and Geology. The most valuable...mines in California is the Consolidated Index of Publications, Division of Mines and State Mining Bureau
Journal (issue)
Jan/Feb 2024 Vol.99, No.1 ROCKS MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems...Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro, NM Consulting Editors Joel...Kampf, l.A. County Museum of Natural History, CA Virgil W. Lueth, New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology...$76 for one year, $124 for two years, 5186 for three years (includes online access). An institutional...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Volume Thirty-three, Number Five 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...web site at www.wmtucson.com DANBURITE – Aurora Mine, Charcas, SanLuis Potosi, Mexico When in Tucson
Journal (issue)
paragenesis of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............... 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...l e T h r e e M Ramona in e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord...80225 Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
Report (issue)
Archive in 2012 with funding from University of California, Davis Libraries http://www.archive.org/det...MINERAL RESOURCES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By F. HAROLD WEBER JR., California Division of Mines...Stewart COUNTY REPORT California Division of Mines Ferry Building, LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS...DAVIS San 3 and Geology Francisco, 1963 ^ OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA EDMUND G. BROWN, Governor J?...CAMPBELL, Director AND GEOLOGY State Geologist COUNTY REPORT ^ Price $8.00 3 CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
materials scientist who recently retired after twenty-three years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is now...Muscovite crystals forming a 10-cm rosette, Jose Pinto mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Table 3. Interlayer-deficient...spectacular recent find of muscovite was at the Jose Pinto mine, where more than a ton of beautifully crystallized...(manganoan) varieties are found at the Harding mine, Taos County, New Mexico (Jahns and Ewing 1977). Fuchsite...forms huge crystals. At Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal district, Russia, it forms large, dark red-brown (but surprisingly
Journal (issue)
Brendan M. Laurs, and Marcelo de Oliveira Bernardes Mining activities for these vivid cuprian elbaites are...pg. 261 Spessartine Garnet from Ramona, San Diego County, California Brendan M. Laurs and Kimberly Knox...on amethyst, citrine, and ametrine from the Anahí mine, Bolivia • “Copal” resin from Madagascar • Iolite...Rock” cabochons • Tourmaline from Warner Springs, California • Synthetic topaz • Exhibits, announcements,...Mary L. Johnson Carlsbad, California George Rossman Pasadena, California John Emmett Brush Prairie
Journal (issue)
ou sur rendez-vous Elbaite - 7,1 cm de largeur Mine Hima/aya,Mesa Grande,Californie,U.S.A. Coll. : 8...Scovil • Barite surfluorite Crista/: 4 x 3 x 0,4 cm Mine de /'Ave/lan, Var Coll. : G. Mari Photo : l.-D....de crichtonitede differenteslocalitesalpineset monazite,xenotime, allanitedes Alpesfran\'.aises. Contacter...Jesse FISHER 380 PennsylvaniaAvenue- San Francisco- CA 94107- USA (Traduitde l'anglaispar J. GALVIER)...exploitations teltes qu'Himalaya,TourmalineQueen au Little Three se trouvent aujourd'hui dans les collections
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Although overshadowed by diamond and the "big three" (emerald, sapphire, and ruby), topaz is nevertheless...Location map of major topaz deposits. 1. San Diego County, California pegmatites; 2. western U.S. topaz rhyolite...rhyolite belt (includes some pegmatites); 3. Mason County, Texas; 4. topaz rhyolite belt of Mexico; 5. Appalachian...of Cornwall, England, and France; 9. Erzgebirge district, Saxony, Germany; 10. Volyn and Kiev pegmatite...Gilgit pegmatite district and Katlang, Pakistan; 13. Tin granites of Jos plateau district, Nigeria; 14.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the location of the ternary feldspar solvus at three temperatures, and of the cotectic. The point z marks...anorthite, P-anorthite: primitive anorthite. There are three solvi; from left to right, Peristerite, Bøggild...relative depletion in lithium, cesium and tantalum, three elements that are enriched in granitic pegmatites...Fe2+ and Mg in the Anjanabonoina pocket; these three cations generally behave coherently in other contexts...fluorite and members of the samarskite, fergusonite, monazite, xenotime, gadolinite, allanite, and bastnäsite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...individual parts, they have received surprisingly little investigation as a whole; that is, as rocks, through...aplite 2 cm b 2 cm Fig. 1. Graphic granite, Ramona, California. (a) Viewed perpendicular to the a-axis direction...Manebach twin planes. Swamp dike, Little Three mine, Ramona, California (USA). Pegmatites share textural...pegmatite from near Palomar Mountain, San Diego County, California, shows typical zonation and texture
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 (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...BRICKER 410 East Elder Fallbrook, California 92028 T he Himalaya mine has been the largest producer of...include specimens from this mine. Since it was first claimed in 1898, mine production has been highly
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
Report (issue)
Page 32 Beryl from the Pegmatites of Southern California Jesse Fisher Page 20 Discovery Stoppaniite Fabio...studies in 1811, during A.G. Werner's time at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony (Germany). From 1826...miners. He was also the gemstone inspector for the mining authority. Breithaupt's legacy is 500 publications...descriptions. T he above is a postcard of the School of Mining in Feiberg, Saxony printed for the 1991 Breithaupt...from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient
Journal (issue)
involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at the Pomona Fairgrounds Mrs. Kay Robertson...103341/ona Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90064 This year's California Show was held again in Pomona, but luckily in...the variety of minerals occurring in Southern California, there are many excellent field collectors. ...Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens, that were already...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites
Book
GEOLOGY OF THE ELSINORE FAULT ZONE SAN ·DIEGO REGION • , . San Diego Association of Geologists South... GEOLOGY OF THE ELSINORE FAULT ZONE SAN DIEGO REGION San Diego Association of Geologists South Coast...Elsinore Fault Zone San Diego Region Geology of the Elsinore Fault Zone. San Diego Region Copyright ©...© 2003 by the San Diego Association of Geologists (SDAG) and South Coast Geological Society (SCGS) Individual...and inquiries to: SDAG P.O. Box 1911 26 San Diego, California 92 159- 11 26 w. w. w.sandiegogeologists
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA (email: dlondon@ou.edu) ABSTRACT Pegmatites are...igneous rocks themselves, which consist mostly of three principal mineral components in or close to their...carries implications for resource assessment. A little-known but important feature of pegmatites is that...proposed that Li-rich pegmatites of the Black Hills district, South Dakota, might be unrelated to the Harney...trench, and coring program conducted in Colorado (USA) during WWII generated modal analyses of 1,803 pegmatites
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of most occurrences (12.5 × 8 cm) from the Tanco mine, Bernic Lake, Manitoba. (c) A large crystal of muscovite...cavity (16 × 12 × 12 cm), Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, California; the yellow arrow shows the direction...Polychrome elbaite: three crystals with green and pink to red zonation from the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande,... California; yellow to green crystal from the Little Three mine, Ramona, California. The tallest Himalaya...other igneous rocks. The rare-earth phosphates monazite and xenotime are present as rare accessory phases
Journal (issue)
Anderson and Payne, diamonds should be classified into three main groups, according to the colour of their ultraviolet...been identified by x-ray techniques, and a further three are completely new as diamond inclusions. T h e... brackets. T h e photograph in Plate V I depicts one of three diamonds in which a dense white cloud of particles...particles was observed ; these being less than three microns in diameter. T h e shape of the cloud is here...was badly damaged. Working upon the theory that a little more wouldn't do any h a r m , we heated to red
Report (Issue volume)
LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS GtULlAil pplement 2 to INERALS OF CALIFORNIA r 1958 through 1961...1961 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS SEP 1 5 1PM Ui=JKAKY STATE OF CALIFORNIA THE RESOURCES AGENCY...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA For 1958 Through 1961' By JOSEPH MulbodH ^%^j; \> University of California, Los...Supplement 2 California Division of Mines Ferry Building, LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF TAI tkoomt, San to Bulletin...Francisco, 1964 of' .STATE )5#MUND ^^^ OF CALIFORNIA G. BROWN, Governor PIhe resources agency FISJHER/
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEM-Bearing Granitic Pegmatite-Aplite Dikes, San Diego Co., California Bruce E. Taylor I *, Eugene E. F o o r...Geology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA aAbteilung Geochemie, Mineralogisches Institut... granitic pegmatite-aplite dikes in southern California have been known for gem-quality minerals and...(6D .... = - 9 0 to - 1 3 0 ) in the Mesa Grande district crystallized in the presence of, or exchanged...Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, CA95616, USA ** Present address: Stop 905, Branch
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
J O H N SINKANKAS 5372 Van Nuys Court San Diego, California 92109 T H E D E S O L A T E W A S T E S...plumes of debris at the mouths of over one hundred mine openings. Imbedded solidly in mica schist, the treasure...and, similarly, in the gem gravels of the Mogok district of Burma. Emeralds, especially, were known to...withstood the ravages of time. It is probable that mining for emerald commenced as early as twenty-five hundred...very small, rather dull colored, and thus excited little interest. In the 1960s, and continuing since Today
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
 
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