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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Spodumene var: Kunzite
Formula:LiAlSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Elbaite2 photos of Kunzite associated with Elbaite at this locality.
Lepidolite2 photos of Kunzite associated with Lepidolite at this locality.
Cleavelandite2 photos of Kunzite associated with Cleavelandite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Kunzite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (6 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:217890
Long-form Identifier:1:3:217890:5
GUID (UUID V4):2071c8cb-200d-4bcf-96ce-e13d9b2e3176
Localities for Kunzite in this Region
Little Joe No. 2 adit, Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Kunzite
0.2km (0.2 miles) Little Joe No. 2 adit, Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) Butterfly prospect, Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.2km (0.8 miles) Chief Extension prospects, Pala Chief Mine (Chief mine; MS 6452; Salmons mine), Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Pala Chief Mine (Chief mine; MS 6452; Salmons mine), Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.4km (0.8 miles) Elizabeth R. Mine (Hazel W. claim), Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Oceanview Mine (Oceanview adits; new Oceanview workings), Elizabeth R. Mine (Hazel W. claim), Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Oceanview Mine (MS 6452; MS 6848; Ocean View Mine), Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Upper Elizabeth R. Mine (Elizabeth R. Mine [original]), Oceanview Mine (MS 6452; MS 6848; Ocean View mine), Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.5km (0.9 miles) Tourmaline King Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) Anita Mine (MS 6859), Hiriart Mountain (Hariat Mtn; Harriot Mtn; Heriart Mtn; Heriot Mtn; Hiriat Hill), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...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...web site at www.wmtucson.com DANBURITE – Aurora Mine, Charcas, SanLuis Potosi, Mexico When in Tucson
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...producing spectacular specimens of multicolored tourmaline, the region’s pegmatites have also been the source...variety of spodumene now known as kunzite. Since the beginning of mining in the late nineteenth century
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 (issue)
ou sur rendez-vous Elbaite - 7,1 cm de largeur Mine Hima/aya,Mesa Grande,Californie,U.S.A. Coll. : 8...Scovil • Barite surfluorite Crista/: 4 x 3 x 0,4 cm Mine de /'Ave/lan, Var Coll. : G. Mari Photo : l.-D....CherlovaiaGora, Russie et kunzite(cristal 10 x 6 cm) dans quartz avec tourmaline (gangue 11 x 10 cm) de...Jesse FISHER 380 PennsylvaniaAvenue- San Francisco- CA 94107- USA (Traduitde l'anglaispar J. GALVIER)...source la plus importanted'elbaite,de morganite,de kunzite et d'autres minerauxtypiquementpegmatitiquesen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The History of Kunzite and the Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University] at 20:15 13 August 2013...2013 California Connection MARK MAUTHNER 1737 San Pablo Drive San Marcos, California 92078 mmauthner@gmail...Kunz inspecting the darkest color of a Pala Chief mine kunzite crystal. Note where original has had a...purple tinge added to highlight and colorize the kunzite crystal. Mark Mauthner photo of original photo...(above left). This is the 16.6 × 10.6-cm spodumene (kunzite) crystal that George F. Kunz is seen holding in
Journal (issue)
Recent Find of Kunzite at the Historic Katerina Mine Pala District, San Diego County, California Jesse Fisher...Pennsylvania A venue San Francisco, California 94107 Introduction - The Katerina Mine (also known as the...the Katrina or the Catherina Mine) is located on a Li-Be-Phosphate enriched pegmatite-aplite dike system...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
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 issue’s Connoisseur’s...albite from the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 11-cm specimen is...associated elbaite from the Stewart mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 5 × 4 × 3.5-cm specimen
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 state’s
Journal (issue)
Background image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the back of...Near view of American Gems worked ledge. Kunzite and gem tourmaline American Gemstones – What They Are and...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...U.S. State of Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing Turquoise ite Country, Montana
Report (issue)
minutes, OF KUNZITE and then CRYSTAL. laying it upon the photographic plate Bulletin San Francisco...of California Issued California State by the Mining Bureau Francisco. Ferry Building, San Lewis...growing of the output care Kunz, A.M., No. California,” 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)
11:29 01 January 2015 Oceanview mine in California’s Pala district is producing some of the mineral...area is famous. MARK MAUTHnER 137 San Pablo Drive San Marcos, California 92078 mmauthner@gmail.com All...RECENT FINDS AT THE Oceanview Mine PALA DISTRICT SAN DIEGO COUNTY CALIFORNIA T he first major success...success at the Oceanview mine came with the discovery of the 49er Pocket in 2007 (Mauthner 2008). After gleaning...Oceanview mine. Figure 2 (above). Elbaite, to 3.7 cm long, Big Kahuna Pocket, Oceanview mine. Oceanview
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 07:06 06 January 2015 Even though California is known as the “Golden State, ” it could also...the Benitoite State, the Tourmaline State, or the Colemanite State. California is, in fact, one of the...localities, the reader is encouraged to consult the “California Locality Index” (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
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...of several sections, by R. M. Stewart COUNTY REPORT California Division of Mines Ferry Building,...UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS San 3 and Geology Francisco, 1963 ^ OF STATE OF CALIFORNIA EDMUND G...CAMPBELL, Director AND GEOLOGY State Geologist COUNTY REPORT ^ Price $8.00 3 CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT
Journal (issue)
Abstracts POUGH (F. H . ) . The Jacobina amethyst mine in Brazil. J o u r n . , 1969, 22, 10, p. 1306....colour. Hard-rock digging techniques are used, as the mine lies in solid rock. It is privately owned. S.P....reports notes are given on the effect of dust on tourmaline, an emerald with a subsidiary crystal protruding...h e result of x-ray and isotope irradiation of kunzite and morganite is mentioned. Trapiche emeralds are...Application of goniometry to gemmology. Journ. Mining Coll., Akita Univ., Ser. A, Vol. V, No. 3, 1-21
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 1952 136 SUPPLEMENT DIVISION OF MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO...FRANCISCO 1952 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA SUPPLEMENT TO BULLETIN By Joseph Murdoch • and Robert W. Webb 136...Bulletin 136 and Supplement No. 1 Descriptions of California minerals and mineral localities Bibliography...Bulletin 136, the current revision of Minerals of California was published, it was planned to issue, from...inspection and use. The amount of new literature on California minerals, and the number of new-found occurrences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in two new occurrences, Pala Chief and Elizabeth R composite dikes, California Adriana Heimann 1 & Jason...aplites of the Pala Chief and Elizabeth R layered pegmatite-aplite dikes, Pala District, California, and the...finegrained plagioclase + quartz + muscovite +/− black tourmaline and thin laminations defined by concentrations...contents in gahnite are high (36.7–39.5 wt.% ZnO for Pala Chief, 37.2–40.2 wt.% ZnO for Elizabeth R), the...27858, USA 2 Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA incompatible
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
Book
(41/i in. ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and...crystals including tourmaline, aquamarine, emerald, morganite, heliodor, topaz, kunzite, spodumenc and citrine...Willian, Boyce Thompson, founder of the Newmont Mining Corporation, along with an endowment that enables...1BSi,O,5(OH) 163 Beryl Be1Al 2Si 6O18 164- 171 Tourmaline group (see gems also) Elbaite Na(Li,Al)iAli BO3)3Si...Octahedral Diamond Crystal in Kimber lite Premier Mine, Kimberley, South Africa On loan from Mrs Charles
Book
GEOLOGY OF THE ELSINORE FAULT ZONE SAN ·DIEGO REGION • , . 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 (issue)
of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ..................... 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...crocoite; w e’ve made our apologies to Bill Larson of Pala International who, thank goodness, has a good sense...Ramona in e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey
Journal (issue)
colurnn) Carrollite-Eric Long collection, p. 187; Kunzite-Gary and Rosemany White collection, page 295; Malachite-Don...from Naica, Mexico---Stephen Blyskal and Sigrid Stewart collection; Pyromorphite-Carol & Karl Waming collection...Allred Michael Biavati Steve Blyskal & Sigrid Stewart Paul Bordovsky Dave & Marcie Bristol Kevin & Mark...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the
Report (issue)
Minerals of California By ARTHUR S. EAKLE, MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining Bureau...Hon Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of the State of California. Sir: I have the honor to transmit Bureau...Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this date...Bureau. and Mineralogy of the University of California, with this Eakle has given freely of his time...Minerals Distribution by Counties Bibliography on California Minerals Index to Minerals — 197 204 210 220
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
Journal (issue)
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...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk)
Book (volume)
THE SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...The Southwestern Quadrant Arizoni, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisicna, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...Mineral Location Numbers Arizona Arkansas California Colorado 258 Louis B30 ana HOW TO USE...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text
 
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