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Albite from
New Melones Dam, West Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA


Locality type:Dam
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Habit:euhedral twinned crystals - microscopic up to 2 cm
Colour:colorless
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Axinite-(Fe)23 photos of Albite associated with Axinite-(Fe) at this locality.
Actinolite14 photos of Albite associated with Actinolite at this locality.
Epidote6 photos of Albite associated with Epidote at this locality.
Chlorite Group2 photos of Albite associated with Chlorite Group at this locality.
Byssolite2 photos of Albite associated with Byssolite at this locality.
Palygorskite1 photo of Albite associated with Palygorskite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view New Melones Dam, West Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (7 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:135727
Long-form Identifier:1:3:135727:1
GUID (UUID V4):57930ff1-2349-4728-9371-8e3e93749880
Localities for Albite in this Region
Moccasin, New Melones Dam, West Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
0.1km (0.0 miles) New Melones Dam, Calaveras County, California, USA
6.7km (4.2 miles) Chileno Mine (Chilena), Carrington group (Bluett; Bluett and McCoddle; Stenchfield; Street Extension; Pine Tree; Last Chance A), Tuttletown, Tuttletown Mining District, Tuolumne County, California, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Norwegian Mine, Tuttletown, Tuttletown Mining District, Tuolumne County, California, USA
8.2km (5.1 miles) Stanislaus Mine, Carson Hill Gold Mining Company Mines (Carson Hill Mines), Melones, Carson Hill Mining District (Melones Mining District), Calaveras County, California, USA
13.5km (8.4 miles) Utica Mine (Brown Mine; Brown claim; Little Nugget claim; Washington claim; Utica claim; Confidence claim; Stickle claim; Raspberry claim; Dead Horse claim; Jackson claim), Angels Camp, Angels Camp Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
14.2km (8.8 miles) Angels Mine (Big Mine; Southwell Mine; Fox; Valentine claims: Angels; Beda Blood; Billings; Crystal; Potter; Doctor Hill; Hennessy; McCormick; Minne; Oneida), Angels Camp, Angels Camp Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) McAlpine Mine, Peñon Blanco Peak, Coulterville Mining District, Tuolumne County, California, USA
33.8km (21.0 miles) Oro Rico Mine (Penon Blanco Mine), Peñon Blanco Peak, Coulterville, Coulterville Mining District, Mariposa County, California, USA
41.7km (25.9 miles) Gwin Mine (Paloma Mine; Gwin Extension No. 1 Mine), Paloma, Paloma Mining District, Calaveras County, California, USA
42.2km (26.2 miles) Campo Seco, Campo Seco Mining District, Foothill Copper Belt, Calaveras County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125-2500, U.S.A. ABSTRACT...powdered NMR sample. The pegmatitic and metamorphic albite samples are transparent, but contain variable (40–280...band height in the region of inBrought to you by | New York University Bobst Library Technical Services...(wt% oxide) 0.03 Fe2O3 0.02 FeO albite (cleavelandite) GRR1608 albite (cleavelandite) Ab99.6An0.2Or0...1984 Minas Gerais, Brazil; pegmatite GRR1609 albite (cleavelandite) Ab98.8An0.5Or0.7 <0.01 Fe2O3
Journal (issue)
Ferroaxinite from New Melones Lake, Calaveras County, California, a remarkable new locality................................................ 258 What’s new in minerals? ......................................NOTES The satellite mineral show in Detroit is at a new location this year: the Holiday Inn in Troy, Michigan...Eidahl, 26, of a cerebral aneurism in Fallbrook, California, while unloading newly mined tourmaline specimens...Sierra Nevada Mineral Co. (Nev.) Silvy’s Rock Barn (New York) South American Minerals (Ark.) Stonecraft (Indiana)
Journal (issue)
mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............................101 by E. E.... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...to slip away. New students are not being taught old and useful techniques along with new ones; they view...and advancements in the last 25 years or so. Many new instrumental techniques have been introduced to all
Catalog/List
£8.50 i", A/7. ADULARIA/SPHENE/EPIDOTE/CHLORITE/ALBITE. St Gothard. Ticino, Switzerland. Excellent example...green prismatic and brown xtls plus, minor, pearly Albite and, at specimens rear, dark-green Chloritic xtl...obsidian-like, fragments and some minor matrix. £3.00 ALBITE. Morenho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Lustrous surfaced...attractive as a teaching sample. 4x3.5x2", £8.50 ALBITE/LEPIDOLITE. Pederneira, Minas Gerais. Brazil. Charming...lilac Mica crystals at edge. 3x3x2", £15.00 A/12. ALBITE/MORION/BERYL. VC Quarries, Isle of Lundy, Bristol
Journal (issue)
left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp photo. Iolite...for allowing a “doorway” to be opened to the left (west) of this byssolite region. Across the top of this...October 26, 1972—A bright, clear day. We worked the new pocket very carefully, by hand, and extracted a large...tourmaline and a great deal of granular and crystalline albite, most of it snow white and very pretty. Enlarged...pinacoid termination. We carefully scraped the albite away from the crystal and left it in place temporarily
Book
Books Ltd. PO. Box 1338, Ellicott Station Buffalo, New York 14205 66 Leek Crescent Richmond Hill, Ontario...destroyed in these changing conditions. In the process, new minerals and rocks are formed. RIGHT: Malachite...be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS... where particles are cemented together to form new rocks. These are form from the bodies of once-living
Journal (issue)
Chairmen: Midlands Branch: D. Morgan, F.G.A. North-West Branch: l. Knight, F.G.A. South Yorkshire & District...XVIII No. 8 October 1983 IDENTIFICATION OF THE NEW SYNTHETIC AND TREATED SAPPHIRES By Professor Dr E... F.G.A. Meggen, Switzerland. The fact that the new techniques of synthesis are now being applied to...and Knischka in synthesizing rubies. Although the new synthetic sapphires have not yet reached the market...market in such overwhelming quantities as those new synthetic rubies, it is nevertheless high time for gemmologists
Report (issue)
not imply endorsement by the USGS. Menlo Park, California 1988 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...Earthquake potential estimates for regions of the U.S. west of 100|W. 2. Earthquake potential estimates for...collection and analysis experiments in areas of California capable of great earthquakes, where large populations...southern California, concentrating on the southern San Andreas fault from Parkfield, California to the...in central California, concentrating on the San Andreas fault north of Parkfield, California..........
Report (issue)
not imply endorsement by the USGS. Menlo Park, California 1986 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...Earthquake potential estimates for regions of the U.S. west of 100 W. 2. Earthquake potential estimates for...collection and analysis experiments in areas of California capable of great earthquakes, where large populations...southern California, concentrating on the southern San Andreas fault from Parkfield, California to the...in central California, concentrating on the San Andreas fault north of Parkfield, California........ Objective
Book (volume)
The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller...GROUP. Green fluorite (121.39 ct), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 ct), Illinois; square...Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct)...red-orange spessartine garnet (16.62 ct), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct)...Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink kunzite (26.61 ct), Pala, California. NECKLACE
Book (volume)
The Bowers Museurn of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller...GROUP. Green fluorite (121.39 et), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 et), Illinois; sqmu·e...red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62 et), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rho...Kern Cowny, California; octagonal seep cut violetish pink kunzite (26.61 et), Pala, California. NECKLACE...blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75 diainonds
Journal (issue)
northern Pakistan • Pyrope-almandine from Ethiopia • New ruby and pink sapphire deposit in Kenya • Faceted...Australia Thomas M. Moses New York, New York G. Robert Crowningshield New York, New York Alan Jobbins Caterham...Pasadena, California John Emmett Brush Prairie, Washington Mary L. Johnson Carlsbad, California Kenneth...Scarratt New York, New York Emmanuel Fritsch Nantes, France Anthony R. Kampf Los Angeles, California James...James E. Shigley Carlsbad, California Henry A. Hänni Basel, Switzerland Robert E. Kane Helena, Montana
Book (edition)
Dana’s New| Mineralogy | Eighth Edition Richard V. Gaines H. Catherine W. Skinner Eugene E. Foord Brian...Mason Abraham Rosenzweig i DANA’S NEW MINERALOGY DANA’S NEW MINERALOGY The System of Mineralogy...ROCHESTER, NEW YORK And with Illustrations by ERIC DOWTY SHAPE SOFTWARE JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. NEW YORK...Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158-0012. This publication is designed...ation Data Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 Dana’s new mineralogy: the System of mineralogy of James Dwight
Journal (issue)
Axiniter - materiale fra Bourg d 'Oi sans eller New Melones Dam kan slet ikke felge med - og da der er tale...ling: Jan Morten. Hagebakken Foro: STEIN/ O.T. The new Olympic Ice Hockey Hall in Gj~vik is build into a...Gjevlk area and which processes the rocks at the new rock cavern have been trough. Regional metamorphosis...pressure areas (Bard, 1986). - Precipitation of new min er als. The original mineralogy in a rock may...unstable when temperature and/or pressure increases. New minerals form at the expense of older. The following
Book
Minerals, Larry & Lois Costigan Costigan's Minerals West, Brian & Michele Costigan June Culp Zeitner Forrest...treasures to a new international audience, and their often isolated curators found a new stage and meeting...exchange ideas with fellow professionals and an eager new population of enthusiasts. And even those collectors...like those put on by the Schortmann brothers in New York City, but such events were very commercial and...could be accommodated by the Society at the Pirna County Fairgrounds and later at the Tucson Convention
 
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