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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Greifensteinite
Formula:Ca2Fe52+Be4(PO4)6(OH)4 · 6H2O
Comments:Found by microscope examination of a large piece of purple phosphosiderite purchased from Gems of Pala in Jan 2018, also associated with yellow stewartite. Analyzed by Bob Housley and myself at Caltech Raman spectroscopy lab.
Habit:mostly feathery milky tan masses, the best few microscopic crystals were flat monoclinic translucent tan, ~100µm in size
Colour:tan, milky tan
Abundance at site:Extremely Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Raman Spectroscopy
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Greifensteinite 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:1260562
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1260562:2
GUID (UUID V4):cf32477b-5f04-4414-b272-5ad3a1f496a1
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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
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Bishop copper prospect near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...770-973-3632, E-mail: jcgray@gsu.edu Southern California Chapter Visit our website at www.mineralsocal...BISHOP COPPER PROSPECT near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia Henry Barwood Route 3, Box 144 Auburn
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Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...complicated compositions, e.g. the amphibole, mica, tourmaline, labuntsovite, eudialyte, and several other groups:...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada
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long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted
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Institute/NASA-Ames Research Center, Mountain View, California 94043, U.S.A. 1 Abstract Phosphate minerals...Grande du Norte, Brazil Baviere, Germany Tip Top Mine, Custer Co., South Dakota Serra Branca pegmatite...Brazil Big Fish River, Yukon, Canada Les Moulins Mine, Saint-Luc, Anniviers Valley, Wallis, Switzerland..., South Dakota Helen Beryl Mine, Custer Co., South Dakota Bull Moose Mine, near Custer, Custer Co., South...Germany Messel, Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany Cigana Mine, Galileia, Brazil Mina Colavi, Saavedra Prov., PotosĂ­
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premier sandbox, but I could also make sure the mine would remain open to mineral enthusiasts for years...maintained the notoriety acquired by the Palermo No. I mine. Its impact on the nation, and in some respects...different species - several of them unique to the mine - Palermo has earned a reputation that makes it...tiny borough of North Groton, New Hampshire, the mine, although now privately owned and no longer commercially...people who worked at or were associated with the mine, presents an intriguing and enlightening perspective
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is difficult to access because of the complex mountain relief, including sheer walls of a troughshaped...granite pegmatite near the Piauí river, Itinga county, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Associated minerals are:...(and correspond to zanazziite) or Ferich (greifensteinite and/or ruifrancoite). Its colour is brown,...known (respectively, roscherite, zanazziite, greifensteinite and ruifrancoite), as well as two triclinic...granite pegmatite near the Piauí river, Itinga county, Minas Gerais, Brazil (16°36'47"S and 41°45'55"W)
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Lavrion, Greece (6) and Cu-poor adamite from Ojuela mine, Mexico (7) IR spectra of acid salts (silicates...abbreviations are used in this chapter: Mt. mountain Co. county IR infrared D density Dmeas measured density...Locality: Boron Open Pit, Boron, Kern Co., California, USA. Description: Colourless crystal from the association...Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey, USA (type locality). Description: Pink massive aggregate...Arsenato-Borates Sussexite 29 Mn2+BO2(OH) Locality: Gonzen mine, Sargans, St. Gallen, Switzerland. Description:
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a world leader in the production of e0pper. the mining areas of Cornwall and Devon became important producers...player in world zinc produ.:tion. Th· development of mining tin particular during the 18th and 19th centuries)...continue unabated despite there n '" being , ·~- link mining acti,·ity in Britain or Ireland. My original intention...onNewMinerals,Nomenclature andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto ...with older fluorite specimens from Weardale in County Durham being a case in point. Many of these specimens
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much biased by science with too little sense of mine for beauty) will keep his memory and work, alive...so as to render mining of these rare-element pegmatites feasible. The traditional mining of pegmatitic...aplitic rocks. In light of more than 1000 years of mining and an intensive study of the deeper parts of the...deposits in the region are not very promising and mining in Germany is obviously a profession of the past...mineralogists and become an operational target for mining geologists. In an idealistic transect through the
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HEIDELBERG • LONDON • NEW YORK • OXFORD PARIS • SAN DIEGO • SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Elsevier...OX5 1GB, UK 225 Wyman Street, Waltham, MA 02451, USA Copyright # 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved...been manufactured by CHAIXMECA (France), REYNOLDS (USA), and LINKAM (UK), of which only the last company...instance, superdense CO2 fluid inclusions in quartz-tourmaline and quartz-stibnite hydrothermal veins of the...14a) is a Cambrian marble from the Luc-Yen mining district in Vietnam, which is one of the most important
 
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