 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rock crystals occur at many localities. Some over three feet in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry...150 pounds in weight have been found at Pala, California. A fortyfour pound crystal nineteen inches in...quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three feet in length. Haddam Neck, Connecticut, and from...Hampshire, and from Pala, Rincón, and Mesa Grande, California. Amethyst quartz crystals have been found occasionally...occasionally at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, to three inches in length. Other amethyst crystal localities |  | | Book | | ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and Malachite...Inquiries should be addressed to Abbeville Publishing Group, 488 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022. Printed...crystals and their atomic arrangement. There are three basic forms of symmetry: n1irror, rotation, and...contajning a metal and an oxygen-bearing anionic group. For example, calcite is a forn1 of calcium carbonate...materials are presented by mineral species or 1nineral group in an order clustering s.imilar gen1s together. |  | | 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 | | | 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 (issue) | | image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the back of the original...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...the group of sapGems Found in the U.S. State of Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing...Rare and Beautiful American Gemstone and original mine image by Mark Mauthner. Red Beryl – A Very Rare |  | | Book (volume) | | colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...up to the end of 1974. John Sinkankas San Diego, California July, 1975 JOHWSTUPAW.N19,901 Gene ... 5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...are primarily cut as gemological curiosities with little or no regular place in commerce. Coarser gemstones...Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert |  | | Book (edition) | | interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is...information is included on the persons involved in mining the deposits, with dates and other pertinent information...gemological literature in North America. J. s. San Diego, California 1975 Acknowledgments The folio\\ ing |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...crust. Petrologists, who study rocks, recognize three rock classes and within each class a large number...distinct; however many of the differences are of little concern to the general field worker and for that...black rock, containing no quartz but rich in the feldspar minerals pyroxene and olivine. Old basalts with...rocks contain large crystals, often of the feldspar group and are known as porphyries. The individual |  | | Book | | 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...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73 |  | | Book (edition) | | examined by Dr. Harry F. Miller of Oceanside, California, who offered numerous helpful suggestions toward...Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, whose helpful suggestions were also incorporated...studios of 0. D. Smith, Photographer, La Jolla, California, under the personal direction of the author,...McMacken of Ramona, William C. Woynar, San Diego, and William Schneider, Poway, California. Additional...McMacken, Ramona, Carl E. Stentz, Newport Beach, Peter Bancroft, El Cajon, William C. Woynar, San Diego, Norman | | | Book (edition) | | examined by Dr. Harry F. Miller of Oceanside, California, who offered numerous helpful suggestions toward...Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, whose helpful suggestions were also incorporated...studios of O. D. Smith, Photographer, La Jolla, California, under the personal direction of the author...Walters and Elbert H. McMacken of Ramona, William C. Woynar, San Diego, and William Schneider, Poway, Cali-... Walters, Carl E. Stentz, Newport Woynar, San Diego, Norman and Elbert of the following in- H |  | | Book | | copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica... 48 mm, El Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on...from Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Fine crystals were also found in Berezovsk, Ural |  | | Book (edition) | | NosTRAJ'\D R£GlONAL OFFICES: New York, Chicago, San Francisco D. London VAN NOSTRAND Co1v1PANY, LTD...1111ined by Dr. H arry F. l\1iller of Oceanside, California, ,vho offered nu1nerous helpful suggestions to...Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, ,vhose helpful suggestions ,vere also incorporated...studios of O. D. S1nith, Photographer, La Jolla, California, under the personal direction of the author,...Mcl\1acken of Ramona, Williarn C. ,voynar, San Diego, and ,vil1iam Schneider, Po,.vay, California. Additional |  | | Book | | IMPORTANT AND COMMON MINERALS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Part Three 14 14 19 29 31 34 44 53 53 54 55 55 Native elements...in the English language. JOHN SINKANKAS San Diego, California June, 1970 • Introduction Go to any...the interior are both grey and uniform. Take the three pieces with you and show them to someone who knows...told that these are fragments of calcite crystals. Three minerals will be mentioned to you for the second...glassy grains quartz, and the yellowish grains feldspar. The whole specimen is called granite. Limestone |  | | Journal (issue) | | 8 RED CLOUD MINE WULFENITE Rockhounds enjoy the products of this amazing Arizona mine. By Bob Jones...QUARTZ 40 ROCK & GEM KIDS 46 THE BRISTOL COPPER MINE 50 COOL SUMMER ROCKHOUNDING 54 NATIVE AMERICAN... Find jagged quartz crystals at the Wall Street mine. By Robert Beard Regular Columns Field Notes ....Wulfenite from the Red Cloud (photo credit)mine (La Paz County), Arizona, is world famous. (3.9 cm high)...—James Beauchamp via Facebook XRF Excitement A group of Houston Gem & Mineral Society members were privileged |  | | Book | | copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23 x...(5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica...jewelry, electronics. Gold, 411 mm. El Dorado, California. U.S.A. Gold Au CUBIC • • Properties: C...gold found in many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf |  | | Book | | Miguel Hortiguela, LPPO Illustrations: Crowle Art Group Printed in China The publisher gratefully acknowledges...composed ofjust a few minerals; quartz and the feldspar group are the most abundant processes — called biominerals...jewels of nature. Crystals are solids with regular three-dimensional repetitive Biominerals Crystals formed...Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district...crystals found in many volcanic rocks — such as feldspar and leucite — crystallized in a magma chamber |  | | Report (issue) | | U, S. A . • • - I • • • • STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN J. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL...DIVISION OF MINES .. FRA.NCISCO FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO 11 OLAF P. JENKINS, Chief BULLETIN 176...176 DECEMBER 1957 MINERAL COMMODITIES . OF CALIFORNIA • GEOLOGIC OCCURRENCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND...Bureau of Mines United States Geological Survey California Institute of Technology • • ( 3 ) • • ...Xatural enYironment of the mineral resources of California, by Olaf P. Jenkins ______________________________________ |  | | Book | | Synthesis of topaz 35 Crystal structure 36 The OH group and symmetry problems 4 Optical properties 44...indebted. Appreciation is also expressed to Dr J. Arem, USA; Sr Carlos Barbosa, Brazil; Professor J. Cassedanne...Canada; Mr T. Michalski, USA; Mr J. Murphy, USA; Dr F. Pough, USA; Mrs K. Robertson, USA; Dr W. Sersen, Thailand;...Thailand; Mr M. Sonsthagen, USA; A. Theisen, USA; John White, USA; and many others in the trade who assisted...Brazil, Sri Lanka; Jos plateau, Nigeria; Volyn district, Ukraine, and numerous pegmatites throughout the |  | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...historian-collector William J. Brunet set out to trace three ilmenite occurrences mentioned in late 19th-century...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | January 2000 ISSN: 1355-4565 Characterization of a group of experimental Russian hydrothermal synthetic sapphires...Tairus Co., Novosibirsk, Russia, 71 belonged to the group of commercially produced colours, which contain...Peretti, 1999). In the absorption spectra of this group of 71 samples, no bands attributable to Fe3+ were...sapphires contained traces of both chromium and nickel. Three synthetic sapphires with significant iron contents...reddish-violet in incandescent light. Two samples of the group © Gemmological Association and Gem Testing Laboratory |  | | Book | | themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral species...explore for fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in ...produced under ultraviolet light. Deserts were combed, mine dumps searched, and shelves filled with showy fluorescent...fluorescent mineral color remains, but for the growing group of knowledgeable collectors, more is required. The...they represent a significant fluorescent mineral group. To the greatest extent possible, the discussion | | | Book | | themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral species...to explore for fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its...produced under ultraviolet light. Deserts were combed, mine dumps searched, and shelves filled with showy fluorescent...fluorescent mineral color remains, but for the growing group of knowledgeable collectors, more is required. The...they represent a significant fluorescent mineral group. To the greatest extent possible, the discussion |  | | Book (edition) | | Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...to the chemical formula, allegiance to a mineral group, symmetry and crystal structure as well as the strongest...extraterrestrial bodies". Besides minerals with definite three-dimensional atomic structure, the current definition...chemical formula, structure (crystal system, space group, and unit cell dimensions), and at least some other...site occupancy. The Sb members of the tennantite group (2.G) will serve as a good example: tetrahedrite |
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