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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Lepidolite' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Albite
Microlite Group
Muscovite
Quartz
Tourmaline
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Elbaite30 photos of Lepidolite associated with Elbaite at this locality.
Quartz18 photos of Lepidolite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Cleavelandite15 photos of Lepidolite associated with Cleavelandite at this locality.
Morganite13 photos of Lepidolite associated with Morganite at this locality.
Microcline6 photos of Lepidolite associated with Microcline at this locality.
Tourmaline6 photos of Lepidolite associated with Tourmaline at this locality.
Watermelon Tourmaline4 photos of Lepidolite associated with Watermelon Tourmaline at this locality.
Indicolite3 photos of Lepidolite associated with Indicolite at this locality.
Albite1 photo of Lepidolite associated with Albite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Lepidolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tourmaline King Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:6903
Long-form Identifier:1:3:6903:8
GUID (UUID V4):12cc5f89-7cb5-49d8-b19b-b6a7a57be237
Nearest other occurrences of Lepidolite
0.0km (0.0 miles) Ed Fletcher Jr. Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Tourmaline Queen Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) Homestake prospect, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) Gem Star Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) North Douglass prospect, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Little Joe adit, Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Little Joe No. 2 adit, Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Mission Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.5km (1.0 miles) Alvarado Mine, Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
References
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Gem and rare-element pegmatites of southern California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Fisher History of the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . ...tourmalines discovered at the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California, by Ed Swoboda and Bill Larson...web site at www.wmtucson.com DANBURITE – Aurora Mine, Charcas, SanLuis Potosi, Mexico When in Tucson
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Mines and Minerals of the California Pegmatite Province Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University]... Southern JESSE FISHER PO Box 77774 San Francisco, California 94107 jef520@comcast.net F Unless otherwise...MINERALS or much of the past century, the Southern California pegmatite province has been the source of some...producing spectacular specimens of multicolored tourmaline, the region’s pegmatites have also been the source...spodumene now known as kunzite. Since the beginning of mining in the late nineteenth century, production from
Report (issue)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN. Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES WARREN T. HANNUM, Director...Director DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING. SAN FRANCISCO OLAF P. 11 JENKINS. Chief SPECIAL REPORT 7-A...LITHIUM-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By RICHARD H. JAHNS and LAUREN...Archive in 2012 with funding from University of California, Davis Libraries http://archive.org/details...LITHIUM-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA! By Richard H. Jahns* and Lauren
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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....et kunzite(cristal 10 x 6 cm) dans quartz avec tourmaline (gangue 11 x 10 cm) de Laura Do Urucum,Bresil...Jesse FISHER 380 PennsylvaniaAvenue- San Francisco- CA 94107- USA (Traduitde l'anglaispar J. GALVIER)...evidence,et ceci dans les pegmatitesdu districtde Pala. D'autrespegmatites d'interet existentegalementdans
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interview: Gail and Jim Spann (USA) Tourmaline Queen Mine, California, USA Tomasz PRASZKIER In our Collector...collectors who are ... INTRODUCTION The Tourmaline Queen Mine is one of the most famous localities among...For over 100 years the mine has produced hundreds of kilograms of gem tourmaline crystals and a huge amount...Among many pockets the “blue-cap” find made the mine so famous. Some collectors believe it is the most...extensive descriptions of history and geology of the mine which were used to compile this text. The most important
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
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Background image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the back of...of American Gems worked ledge. Kunzite and gem tourmaline American Gemstones – What They Are and (in the...from the Oceanview Mine in Southern California; the 0.72-ct benitoite (left California Gems – More Than...Dallas Gem Mine area, San America’s Royal Gems – Montana and Yogo Sapphires Benito County, California; the...U.S. State of Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing Turquoise ite Country, Montana
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laying it upon the photographic plate Bulletin San Francisco, No. 37. June, 1905. Gems, Jewelers’...of California Issued California State by the Mining Bureau Francisco. Ferry Building, San Lewis...growing of the output care Kunz, A.M., No. California,” Stones of of which this Bulletin treats is...to F. George Bureau: Mining Ornamental the Honorable and California, of State the of the...have report, again department. Bureau is California, of this Museum from their mines, I of the
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in two new occurrences, Pala Chief and Elizabeth R composite dikes, California Adriana Heimann 1 & Jason...aplites of the Pala Chief and Elizabeth R layered pegmatite-aplite dikes, Pala District, California, and the...finegrained plagioclase + quartz + muscovite +/− black tourmaline and thin laminations defined by concentrations...contents in gahnite are high (36.7–39.5 wt.% ZnO for Pala Chief, 37.2–40.2 wt.% ZnO for Elizabeth R), the...27858, USA 2 Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA incompatible
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(41/i in. ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and...page 233. Page 2: Gemstone crystals including tourmaline, aquamarine, emerald, morganite, heliodor, topaz...Willian, Boyce Thompson, founder of the Newmont Mining Corporation, along with an endowment that enables...and wille1nite, a zinc silicate, is nan1ed after King Wille1n Frederik of the Netherlands. The chart below...1BSi,O,5(OH) 163 Beryl Be1Al 2Si 6O18 164- 171 Tourmaline group (see gems also) Elbaite Na(Li,Al)iAli BO3)3Si
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extraLapis English No. 3: Tourmaline Publisher Lapis International, LLC; East Hampton, CT Concept &...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...render­ ing of elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard...Eberhard Equit, 1993 extraLapis English No. 3 Tourmaline A Gemstone Spectrum Contributions by Brian C. Cook...Francis, Maximilian Glas, Robert E. Kane, Vandall T. King, John I. Koivula, Ole V. Petersen, Alfredo Petrov
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