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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Feldspar Group' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Feldspar Group data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tourmaline Queen Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1017225
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1017225:4
GUID (UUID V4):c904366a-ae51-4d11-89e7-d6e721842db3
Localities for Feldspar Group in this Region
Queen Extension prospects, Tourmaline Queen Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Feldspar Group
0.1km (0.1 miles) Queen Extension prospects, Tourmaline Queen Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) Emerald prospects, Tourmaline King Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.3km (0.2 miles) Pala King prospect, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) Tourmaline King Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.5km (0.3 miles) White Cloud Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.6km (0.3 miles) Pala View Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) North Star Mine, Green Cabin Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.9km (0.5 miles) Gem Star Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.2km (0.7 miles) Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
References
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Journal (issue)
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...the group of sapGems Found in the U.S. State of Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing
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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...Inquiries should be addressed to Abbeville Publishing Group, 488 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022. Printed...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 (edition)
interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...and quanz, from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing...drawing by W. E. Wilson. Courte5J: Pala Pr&perties lnternatiunal, Inc. F RO. Tl!>PI£CE GEMSTONES of...'- NoSTRA.'-D Rrn,'HOLD AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia V.-\..'-...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is
Book (volume)
colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand...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 -...Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert
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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...Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia 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
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^ '“ 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 ...Ontario Publishing M1P Van Nostrand Reinhold 17 Queen Street 2E7, Canada Australia Pty. Ltd. Mitcham...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch
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and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...GERMANY }& GEORGE HOLLOWAY, collector, Northridge, California, U.S. A. }e CORNELIUS HURLBUT, Professor, Harvard...LEIPER (deceased), Editor, Lapidary Journal, San Diego, California, U.S. A. Je ORLOV LEONIDOVICH, Secretary...JOHN SINKANKAS, author and collector, San Diego, California, U.S. A. ¥e H. A. STALDER, Curator, National...wholesale jeweler and collector, Los Angeles, California, U.S. A. ¥ RALPH TOWNSEND, Curator, Geological
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and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...GERMANY ¥~ GEORGE HOLLOWAY, collector, Northridge, California, U.S. A. Je CORNELIUS HURLBUT, Professor, Harvard...LEIPER (deceased), Editor, Lapidary Journal, San Diego, California, U.S. A. %e ORLOV LEONIDOVICH, Secretary...FRANCE SINKANKAS, author and collector, San Diego, California, U. 8. A. Je H. A. STALDER, Curator, National...whole- sale jeweler and collector, Los Angeles, California, U.S. A, Je RALPH TOWNSEND, Curator, Geological
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and Collecting Hazards A Third Dimension Map of Mining Locations The Gallery List of Plates The Plates...Germany ^ GEORGE HOLLOWAY, collector, Northridge, California, u. S. A. jc CORNELIUS hurlbut, Professor, Harvard...leiper (deceased), Editor. Lapidary Journal, San Diego, California, u. s. a. ^ orlov Leonidovich, Secretary...^ JOHN sinkankas, author and collector, San Diego, California, u. s. a. ^ h. a. stalder, Curator, National...whole­ sale jeweler and collector, Los Angeles, California, u. S. A. ^ RALPH townsend, Curator, Geological
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dominate. These are quartz and the silicate groups feldspar, feldspathoids (minerals with compo- sition...the feldspars but not actually members of the feldspar group), pyroxenes, amphiboles, micas and olivine...quartz feldspars feldspathoids members of the feldspar group leucite, sodalite, nepheline, cancrinite Mafic...members of the pyroxene group members of the amphibole group members of the mica group micas The mineralogist...always check in a specimen to see if quartz or feldspar are present and how much there is of pyroxene
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ARIZONA-V] 265-352 257-320 353-400 321-384 TOURMALINE ] 327--438 439-508 225-288 289-352 353-416...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
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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
Journal (issue)
issue also: Collector interview: Wendell Wilson (USA) Huge pocket from Sakangyi, Myanmar Tomasz PRASZKIER...with the printers ... Gem topaz from the Sakangyi mine, Myanmar; 5.1 cm high. M. Zinn collection. INTRODUCTION...Huge quartz crystals in the big pocket in Sakangyi mine, Myanmar. New sperrylites from Canada Bradley S...exposures. The Broken Hammer zone is a platinum group element-copper-nickel deposit, located in the Sudbury...currently being considered for mine development by Wallbridge Mining Company Limited. It’s interesting
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8 PAGE Tracing the Story of Gems PAGE 80 Tourmaline PAGE 88 18 Zircon& What1a Rridot Gem? PAGE...Glossary PAGE PAGE 2 0 2 1 1 8 ReadingList PAGE Feldspar PAGE 126 2 0 4 Index PAGE 2 0 6 II hese...for many of the large fine gems, particularly a group of sapphires donated u1 1927. George F. Baker, a...India, described diamond mines there, observed mining practices, and reported gems' virtues-he flatly... W H A T I S Minerals are said to form a group if they share the same crystal structure-the atoms
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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
Report (issue)
STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES MINERAL COMMODITIES OF CALIFORNIA Bulletin 156...156 1950 DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING. SAN FRANCISCO r^ ^\ n^ p \/ THE PRO FILE COPYy THE...OFFICE LOS ANGELES / PLEASE RETURN STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN. Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL...DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO OLAF P. JENKINS. Chiei SAN FRANCISCO BULLETIN 11 AUGUST...AUGUST 156 1950 MINERAL COMMODITIES OF CALIFORNIA GEOLOGIC OCCURRENCE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. AND UTILIZATION
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...Elbert H. McMacken of Ramona, William C. Woynar, San Diego, and William Schneider, Poway, Cali- fornia.... Walters, Carl E. Stentz, Newport Woynar, San Diego, Norman and Elbert of the following in- H
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,...Ramona, William C. Woynar, San Diego, and William Schneider, Poway, California. Additional photographs were... William C. Woynar, San Diego, Norman and Violet Dawson, San Marcos, California, and many other outstanding
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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 The Garnet Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 The National...its pages. JOHN SAMPSON WHITE This impressive group of emerald-green beryl crystals was found at Hiddenite...interlocking crystals of the minerals quartz and feldspar and, possibly, even a micagroup mineral. The individual...rock unit may constitute the bulk of an entire mountain range or an entire layer that continues for hundreds...polishing. This exqu1s1te piece is carved of tourmaline, gem-quality elbaite from Mozambique. A gemstone
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a2 38 40 42 Collecting Minerals The Garnet: Group: The National Mineral Collection Je esi de “aye...its pages. JOHN SAMPSON WHITE This impressive group of emerald-green beryl crystals was found at Hiddenite...interlocking crystals of the minerals quartz and feldspar and, possibly, even a micagroup mineral. The individual...rock unit may constitute the bulk of an entire mountain range or an entire layer that continues for hundreds...piece is carved elbaite from Mozambique. of tourmaline, gem-quality A gemstone is always the product
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 ______________________________________
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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
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,...Ramona, Williarn C. ,voynar, San Diego, and ,vil1iam Schneider, Po,.vay, California. Additional photographs
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been an indefatigable researcher and collector of mining history. Among his specialties may be mentioned...fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining history led him to...to purchase the mine in order to form a living museum so that it would remain accessible to the mineralogical...mineralogical community. Through his efforts, the Sterling mine has been declared a national historic landmark....a story to tell concerning Maine's minerals and mining history. The ranks of invited contributors have
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...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...complicated compositions, e.g. the amphibole, mica, tourmaline, labuntsovite, eudialyte, and several other groups:
 
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