 | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Librarian Curtis P. Schuh Founder John Sampson White SeptemberâOctober Volume Thirty-three, Number Five...Articles Gem and rare-element pegmatites of southern California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Fisher History of the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....tourmalines discovered at the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California, by Ed Swoboda and Bill Larson |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | August 2013 California Connection MARK MAUTHNER 1737 San Pablo Drive San Marcos, California 92078 mmauthner@gmail...F. Kunz inspecting the darkest color of a Pala Chief mine kunzite crystal. Note where original has had...resides. It is from the Pala Chief mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Figure 1c (above center)...Spodumene (kunzite), Pala Chief mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. This image was published...Jewelerâs Materials and Ornamental Stones of California with the caption: âKUNZITE. Crystal No. 1. Phosphorescing |  | | Report (issue) | | STATE OF CALIFORNIA EARL WARREN. Governor DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES WARREN T. HANNUM, Director...Director DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING. SAN FRANCISCO OLAF P. 11 JENKINS. Chief SPECIAL REPORT 7-A...LITHIUM-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By RICHARD H. JAHNS and LAUREN...Archive in 2012 with funding from University of California, Davis Libraries http://archive.org/details...LITHIUM-BEARING PEGMATITES OF THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA! By Richard H. Jahns* and Lauren |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mines and Minerals of the California Pegmatite Province Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University]... Southern JESSE FISHER PO Box 77774 San Francisco, California 94107 jef520@comcast.net F Unless otherwise...MINERALS or much of the past century, the Southern California pegmatite province has been the source of some...spodumene now known as kunzite. Since the beginning of mining in the late nineteenth century, production from...of the gem and specimen market. High points of mining activity occurred during the first decade of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 issueâs Connoisseurâs...crystal on albite from the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 11-cm specimen...elbaite from the Stewart mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 5 Ă 4 Ă 3.5-cm specimen |  | | Report (issue) | | laying it upon the photographic plate Bulletin San Francisco, No. 37. June, 1905. Gems, Jewelersâ...of California Issued California State by the Mining Bureau Francisco. Ferry Building, San Lewis...growing of the output care Kunz, A.M., No. California,â Stones of of which this Bulletin treats is...to F. George Bureau: Mining Ornamental the Honorable and California, of State the of the...have report, again department. Bureau is California, of this Museum from their mines, I of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and namibite from the Pala pegrnatite district, San Diego Co., California, USA Eugene E. Foord THE 100... intruded into various units of the Southern California Batholith, are known to contain bismuth minerals...cores of a number of dykes in the Pala district, San Diego Co., California: native bismuth, bismuthinite...Little Three pegmatite-aplite dyke in the Ramona district, contains minor amounts of native bismuth, beyerite...1989). The Himalaya dyke system in the Mesa Grande district contains bismuth, bismutite, pucherite and beyerite |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Katerina Mine Pala District, San Diego County, California Jesse Fisher 380 Pennsylvania A venue San Francisco...Francisco, California 94107 Introduction - The Katerina Mine (also known as the Katrina or the Catherina...Catherina Mine) is located on a Li-Be-Phosphate enriched pegmatite-aplite dike system low on the southern slope...slope or Hiriart Mountain, the eastern-most of four hills which make up the Pala pegmatite district in north-central...north-central San Diego County, California. First discovered during the "Gem Rush''that occurred in San Diego |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | ou sur rendez-vous Elbaite - 7,1 cm de largeur Mine Hima/aya,Mesa Grande,Californie,U.S.A. Coll. : 8...Scovil âą Barite surfluorite Crista/: 4 x 3 x 0,4 cm Mine de /'Ave/lan, Var Coll. : G. Mari Photo : l.-D....Jesse FISHER 380 PennsylvaniaAvenue- San Francisco- CA 94107- USA (Traduitde l'anglaispar J. GALVIER)...evidence,et ceci dans les pegmatitesdu districtde Pala. D'autrespegmatites d'interet existentegalementdans...des monts San Jacinto, dans le centre du comte de Riverside,traversele comte de San Diego et se prolongejusqu'a |  | | Book | | GEOLOGY OF THE ELSINORE FAULT ZONE SAN ·DIEGO REGION âą , . San Diego Association of Geologists South... GEOLOGY OF THE ELSINORE FAULT ZONE SAN DIEGO REGION San Diego Association of Geologists South Coast...Elsinore Fault Zone San Diego Region Geology of the Elsinore Fault Zone. San Diego Region Copyright ©...© 2003 by the San Diego Association of Geologists (SDAG) and South Coast Geological Society (SCGS) Individual...and inquiries to: SDAG P.O. Box 1911 26 San Diego, California 92 159- 11 26 w. w. w.sandiegogeologists |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Library] at 07:06 06 January 2015 Even though California is known as the âGolden State, â it could also...the Tourmaline State, or the Colemanite State. California is, in fact, one of the worldâs greatest sources...localities, the reader is encouraged to consult the âCalifornia Locality Indexâ (Kampf et al. 1989). The bibliography...great deal from the many publications of the California Division of Mines and Geology. The most valuable...mines in California is the Consolidated Index of Publications, Division of Mines and State Mining Bureau |  | | Journal (issue) | | Background image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the back of...from the Oceanview Mine in Southern California; the 0.72-ct benitoite (left California Gems â More Than...Dallas Gem Mine area, San Americaâs Royal Gems â Montana and Yogo Sapphires Benito County, California; the...U.S. State of Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing Turquoise ite Country, Montana...Rare and Beautiful American Gemstone and original mine image by Mark Mauthner. Red Beryl â A Very Rare |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | typically pale colored in some shade of grayish-white or pale yellowish-green. It exhibits good ( 110)...vary from 1.648 to 1.679. Spodumene exhibits a white streak and is typically DI: Robert B. Cook, an...microscopic alteration products as micas and the mica-albite mixture known as âcymatolite.â Spodumene does not...commercial lithium sources such as the Foote mine at Kings Mountain, North Carolina; the giant crystal-bearing...the Black Hills, South Dakota; the Harding mine in Taos County, New Mexico; the enormous Bernic Lake pegmatite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gemstones of California Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 05:46 04 February 2015 MICHAEL GRAY...GRAY P. 0. Box 727 Missoula, Montana 59806 CALIFORNIA 1s HUGE-the third largest state in the United States...Imagine, as a field collector, being able to go mining virtually any month of the year-the deserts in...amethysts just hours away from your home. That is California. The focus of this article covers only the facetable...facetable, transparent materials found in California. It would take another article to describe the stateâs |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...elements manganese, sodium, lithium, and cesium and is white, gray, or pink. Aquamarine is most commonly found...Antero in central Colorado. and project into the white quartz core. The portion of beryl enclosed by the...suFounded by graphic granite.) Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the cavity walls...Figure 3. Aquamarine (4.1 cm long), Mack mine, Rincon, California. Bill Larsen specimen; Jeffrey Scovil |  | | Journal (issue) | | Evans Jr & J. S. White, Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California..................vanadium-containing minerals see the article by Evans and White in this issue. For more on the Mounana occurrence...classified ads). Prices are as follows for black & white ads: Full page $550 Vi page $275 l/3 page $185 V*...article âon the chondrodite from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Brewster, New York.â Two of the plates show 21...November). Tht museum features fossil, gemstone, mining and mineral exhibits, with about 1800 mineral specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | interview: Gail and Jim Spann (USA) Tourmaline Queen Mine, California, USA Tomasz PRASZKIER In our Collector...collectors who are ... INTRODUCTION The Tourmaline Queen Mine is one of the most famous localities among mineral...mineral collectors. For over 100 years the mine has produced hundreds of kilograms of gem tourmaline crystals...Among many pockets the âblue-capâ find made the mine so famous. Some collectors believe it is the most...extensive descriptions of history and geology of the mine which were used to compile this text. The most important |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1 in shades of grey, as registered on black and white panchromatic film, without filter; their actual...SPECTROSCOPIC EXAMINATION As a paradox one could say that white light is a light full of colours, as it consists...instrument which spreads and analyses that visible white light in the form of a coloured ribbon of light...photographic paper will be seen to have remained white under the opaque specimen and to have turned more...depicts one of three diamonds in which a dense white cloud of particles was observed ; these being less |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | magnetite-series and ilmeniteseries granitic rocks. Mining Geol., 27, 293-305. Kwak, T.A.P. and Jackson, P...gedrite, set in a very fine-grained polygonal quartz-albite matrix, also containing fine-grained biotite flakes...a very fine-grained (0.05 mm) polygonal quartz-albite matrix, subsilicic sodium gedrite forms up to 4...in subparallel patches and streaks. Quartz and albite further occur as mm-sized pseudomorphs after phenocrysts...feldspar. The albite phenocrysts, for one part twinned according to the Carlsbad-albite law and for another |  | | Report (issue) | | ] \ I ^,_|^_g|gâgy. 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...mineral exhibit in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966)...Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines and Geology Francisco |  | | Journal (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ...after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...Smithsonian Institution. He succeeds Mr. John S. White, who retired in July of this year. Dr. Post joined...to be donated in his name to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Friends and admirers |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITES AT DOBRĂ VODA, CZECH REPUBLIC, AND PALA, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A. MILAN NOVĂK§ Department of Mineralogy...Czech Republic, and the White Queen mine, Pala, San Diego County, California. Zoned crystals consist...associated with quartz, cookeite, albite and apatite at DobrĂĄ Voda, and with albite, quartz, K-feldspar, beryl...beryl, and muscovite at the White Queen mine. Chemical compositions of foitite and associated Fe-poor to...Fe-rich elbaite with 1.0â1.3 Fe apfu at the White Queen mine. The second stage involves formation of foitite |
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White Queen Mine, Hiriart Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA