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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pollucite
Formula:(Cs,Na)2(Al2Si4O12) · 2H2O
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pollucite 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:1283592
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1283592:2
GUID (UUID V4):5848b5bf-27c6-4cdb-95ee-978a63aa59af
Nearest other occurrences of Pollucite
17.2km (10.7 miles) ⓘHimalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
22.6km (14.0 miles) ⓘUnnamed Pegmatite occurrence, Ranchita, Volcan Mountains, San Diego County, California, USA
31.8km (19.7 miles) ⓘCryo-Genie Mine (Cryogenie Mine; Cindy B-Cryogenie claim; Lost Valley Truck Trail prospect), Warner Springs, Warner Springs Mining District, 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
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
part 2 4-7 Auglaize Junction Report 5-11 US Pollucite Localities 12-19 Chapter Reports 20-25 Our...Joe Marchesani; Jmarch06@comcast.net SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER: Dr. Don Buchanan; dbuch7326@aol.com...Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds...Emeralds Elite (emeraldselite.com) from Little Rock, AR announced on September 12, 2019 that the LKA and...Vol.49, No.4 No. III Page 12 United States Pollucite Localities with Primary Citations Dittrich (2017
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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
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MIAROLITIC GRANITIC PEGMATITES AT THE LITTLE THREE MINE, RAMONA, CALIFORNIA, USA David LONDON§, George B. MORGAN...73019, USA Abstract Miarolitic granitic pegmatites at the Little Three mine property near Ramona, San...San Diego County, California, USA, possess a bulk composition that closely matches that of a hydrous peraluminous...partially cumulate nor hydrothermal in nature. The Little Three pegmatites are, however, sharply zoned. Chemical...dike contain cryolite, arsenides, arsenates, pollucite, and borates, including Cs borate, the latter
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for all or portions of three thin granitic pegmatite dikes in southern California are derived from feldspar...compositions. Feldspar solvus thermometry from these three dikes indicates that their pegmatite-forming melts...Norman, OK 73019, USA 2 Drillinginfo, 440 Louisiana St., Suite 400, Houston, TX 77002, USA characteristic...liquids. We present data for three thin pegmatite dikes from southern California. Assessments of chemical...results are of questionable accuracy. The remaining three studies indicate 13 Contributions to Mineralogy
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2013) invited me to his Little Three pegmatite mine near Ramona, California, to view the last of a string...crystal-filled miarolitic cavities that he had been mining from the main pegmatite dike on the property (see...2012 for additional details of the mine). Spaulding had been mining northward up a steeply dipping portion...80° E. in the 1991 London Pocket, Little Three mine, Ramona, California, after about 100 kilograms of material...cavities packed with clay at the Himalaya and San Diego pegmatites in the nearby Volume 88, November/December
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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, RincĂłn, 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA (email: dlondon@ou.edu) ABSTRACT Pegmatites are...but gigantic crystals of rare minerals such as pollucite. Exploration for pegmatites as sources of economic...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
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cookrob@auburn.edu Beryl, Variety Morganite San Diego County, California O ne of the most popular of all collectible...pegmatites in Southern California. Consequently, in keeping with the California theme of the 2011 Tucson...beryl, so well known from the pegmatites of San Diego County, has been nominated for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...albite from the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 11-cm specimen is in...elbaite from the Stewart mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 5 × 4 × 3.5-cm specimen
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zones enriched in micas of the lepidolite series, pollucite, tantalite-(Fe) and tantalite-(Mn), i.e., super-LCT...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
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Tantalum Mining Corporation of Canada Ltd., Lac du Bonnet, Manitoba ROE OGO, Canada Abstract Three types...tourmaline through beryl, K-feldspar, amblygonite, pollucite, albite, spodumene, and quartz to micas. The most...in part perthitic. Accessory minerals include pollucite, amblygonite, alkali-enriched beryl and pink elbaite...K-feldspar are widespread products of alteration of pollucite (see Part IV, Černý et al. 2012c). The Mesoscopic...– quartz – albite. Late adularian K-feldspar, pollucite, tourmaline, beryl, and amblygonite occur as accessory
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“schorl” on albite, 16.8 × 16.0 × 14.3 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Joe Budd photo, courtesy...colorless beryl variety goshenite from the Tanco mine, Bernic Lake, Manitoba, 6.2 × 4.0 × 4.8 cm; David...pegmatite dike from near Palomar Mountain, San Diego County, California. Note that beryl occurs at the margin... the 1991 London Pocket at the Little Three mine, Ramona, California (3 × 2 × 1 meters), displaying a...Black Hills, SD, USA beryl 91 Staatz et al. (1963) Tin Mountain Black Hills, SD, USA complex Li spodumene
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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 (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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dlondon@ou.edu Part 5 Reading Pegmatites What POLLUCITE Says T his is the fifth of several articles...in which they form. The series continues with pollucite. Dr. David London is a Stubbman-Drace Presidential...were it not for finds of euhedral crystals of pollucite in miarolitic pegmatites of Afghanistan and Pakistan...melt to the point of crystallizing pollucite. As such, pollucite represents the final and ultimate step...Earth is more refined than a pollucite-bearing pegmatite. Systematics Pollucite is almost always a colorless
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
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elbaite, from pegmatite at Antsogombato, Betafo District, Madagascar. Named after David London. PHOTO :...East Boyd Street, Room 710 SEC, Norman, OK 73019, USA E-mail: dlondon@ou.edu; gmorgan@ou.edu E LEMENTS...exotic minerals. The silicate melt was left to be little more than a source of components for the fluid...than 1 vol% of known bodies in a given pegmatite district. For example, Page et al. (1953) found that only...pegmatite bodies in the Black Hills, North Dakota (USA), were beryl-bearing, and only seven were lithium-rich
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
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
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.................... 211 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA LOCALITIES. 9. San Jacinto Mts. CLUB AND SOCIETY NOTES...of ROCKS AND MIN• ERALS, Mr. Wm. C. Chandler, of San Jose, Calif., offered a suggestion for increasing...Papers", which is printed on another page. The last three sentences of this paragraph read : "In the meantime...Stadium Building Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California By LELANDE QUICK One of the saddest moments...to any discerning visitor at the three shows held in the last three years that all members displaying
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA Received 18 March 2003; accepted 9 September 2004...Geological Society of America National Meeting, San Diego, CA) told me: bAll I ever learned about pegmatites...(1999) found that feldspars from the Little Three pegmatite, California, record temperatures of 425 8C at...gemproducing pegmatites from Afghanistan and California contain spodumene+quartz, which constrains these...Lumpkin, 1990). The gem-bearing Little Three dike (2 m thick), Ramona, CA, appears to have cooled to its
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inventory of mineral type localities at which more than three new mineral species were discovered (nearly 200...present inventory of type localities where more than three new mineral species were discovered (data are as...locations) can belong to one and the same ore district, massif, and formation, or can be located very...Esperanza, Durango, Mexico; but the atlas refers to three populated localities La #13a_evseev_en_0802:#13a_evseev_en_0802...localities Abbreviations: (Dst.) district, area; (Co.) county; (m.) mine; (Mf.) massif; (Q.) quarry; (N)
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aluminosilicates, ~ 1% of phosphates, 0.4% beryl, 0.6% pollucite, and 0.5% of tourmaline (Stilling et al., 2006);...6% 10% 5% 16% 8% 7% Beryl Petalite Rubicline Pollucite Tourmaline Topaz Spessartine Mn-columbite Mn-tantalite...(Evensen et al., 1999), petalite (Stewart, 1978), pollucite (London et al., 1998); tourmaline (Wolf and London...solubility-saturation surface for beryl in granitic melts of three compositions: metaluminous haplogranite, peraluminous...loss of Cs from melt. In the Little Three pegmatite, Ramona, California, a plot of K/Cs versus position
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...creamy white crystals of primary montebrasite, Tanco mine, Bernic Lake, Manitoba; Petr Černý photo, 1988.
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THE PULSIFER GRANITIC PEGMATITE, POLAND, MAINE, USA M I C H AE L A. W IS E Department of Mineral Sciences...Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 20560, USA Abstract—A new occurrence of berthierine has been...quantities. Damyanov and Vassileva (2001) distinguished three genetic types of berthierine (marine, non-marine...columbite-tantalite, cassiterite, spodumene, lepidolite and pollucite (Wise and Francis, 1992). The Pulsifer pegmatite...Crystallization of berthierine from granitic pegmatite, Maine, USA seam’. The pockets are the primary source for gem-
 
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