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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Spessartineⓘ47 photos of Albite associated with Spessartine at this locality.
Schorlⓘ19 photos of Albite associated with Schorl at this locality.
Quartzⓘ9 photos of Albite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Smoky Quartzⓘ5 photos of Albite associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Muscoviteⓘ5 photos of Albite associated with Muscovite at this locality.
Topazⓘ4 photos of Albite associated with Topaz at this locality.
Berylⓘ1 photo of Albite associated with Beryl at this locality.
Cleavelanditeⓘ1 photo of Albite associated with Cleavelandite at this locality.
Boromuscoviteⓘ1 photo of Albite associated with Boromuscovite at this locality.
Lepidoliteⓘ1 photo of Albite associated with Lepidolite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite 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:324
Long-form Identifier:1:3:324:7
GUID (UUID V4):3a88c400-f2ee-4f46-a925-8422e8654ecb
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
0.0km (0.0 miles) ⓘLittle Three Mine area, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘHercules Mine (Beryl claim; Hercules claim; Hercules group; Hercules prospect), Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘSunrise claim (Black Panther prospect), Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.4km (0.2 miles) ⓘLookout Mine (Hercules group; Lookout prospect; Upper Hercules mine), Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘEquestrian prospect, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘSurprise Mine, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.8km (0.5 miles) ⓘApollo Lode claim, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.0km (0.6 miles) ⓘCoyote diggings, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘA.B.C. Mine (ABC Mine; Daggett & MacIntosh; Daggett group), Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.9km (1.2 miles) ⓘProspect Mine, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...cooling history, field diffusion, Little Three mine, Ramona, California. Introduction The coarse grain-size
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
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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
Journal (issue)
paragenesis 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...l e T h r e e M Ramona in e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord...80225 Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
Report (issue)
laying it upon the photographic plate Bulletin San Francisco, No. 37. June, 1905. Gems, Jewelers’...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
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Pala Chief and Elizabeth R composite dikes, California Adriana Heimann 1 & Jason A. Yonts 1 & Michael...Elizabeth R layered pegmatite-aplite dikes, Pala District, California, and the significance for felsic melt evolution...27858, USA 2 Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA incompatible...Gahnite . Aplite . California . Elizabeth R . Pala Chief . Zoning . Evolution . Pala District Introduction...pegmatite-aplite dikes from the Pala District of the Southern California Pegmatite Province. Gahnite has not
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Crystallization of the Little Three layered pegmatite-aplite dike, Ramona District, California Received: 24 March...currently is little concensus as to how such dikes form. The Little Three dike near Ramona, California, is representative...100 East Boyd Street, SEC 810 Norman, OK 73019, USA; Fax: (405) 325-3140; e-mail: gmorgan@ou.edu Editorial...investigation of the Little Three pegmatite-aplite dike from the Ramona district, California, feldspar compositions...along the foot wall enough to produce predominantly albite-quartz aplites, then the corresponding upward addition
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 07:06 06 January 2015 Even though California is known as the “Golden State, ” it could also...the Tourmaline State, or the Colemanite State. California is, in fact, one of the world’s greatest sources...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 USA * Corresponding author. ABSTRACT of Crystallization...glassy, non-perthitic rims on K-feldspar with radial albite of cleavelandite habit on the K-feldspar surfaces...with cooling and time. These can be recognized as three stages of crystallization in order: (1) primary...tourmaline, spodumene, topaz, and garnet offer little insight into their temperatures of crystallization...viable geothermometer if it can be shown that coeval albite and K-feldspar preserve their original compositions
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namibite from the Pala pegrnatite district, San Diego Co., California, USA Eugene E. Foord THE 100 Ma complex... intruded into various units of the Southern California Batholith, are known to contain bismuth minerals...of a number of dykes in the Pala district, San Diego Co., California: native bismuth, bismuthinite, bismite...bismutite, and beyerite. The Little Three pegmatite-aplite dyke in the Ramona district, contains minor amounts...1989). The Himalaya dyke system in the Mesa Grande district contains bismuth, bismutite, pucherite and beyerite
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.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.3.2. Albite–lepidolite units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
05:07 04 June 2016 \ Los Angeles County j San Bernardino County ..I. ...............................Riverside County I J Jb3 %$*6 Orange Cahuilla Mt X Mt X Mesa Grande X Ramona San Diego County : ’...[University of Exeter] at 05:07 04 June 2016 0 Imperial County h 30 Figure 7 (above). Location map showing Cahuilla...and other major pegmatite districts in Southern California. Map by William W. Besse. Figure 8 (above right)...Dike claim, Cahuilla Mountain, Riverside County, California. Map by William W. Besse. Figure 9 (right)
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...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 × 4 × 3.5-cm specimen
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
is from Leiper’s quarry at Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Peters 1984). When the spessartine...commonly associated minerals are beryl, apatite, albite, muscovite, potassic feldspar, and quartz in the...spessartine masses to 2 cm across occur in blocky albite in the Keith quarry at Auburn, Maine. Analyses...to 7 cm across occur near Middletown, Middlesex County, and massive spessartine and relatively small crystals...occur with rhodonite in ore of the Betts manganese mine at Plainfield, Massachusetts. Exceptional garnet
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)
Brendan M. Laurs, and Marcelo de Oliveira Bernardes Mining activities for these vivid cuprian elbaites are...pg. 261 Spessartine Garnet from Ramona, San Diego County, California Brendan M. Laurs and Kimberly Knox...on amethyst, citrine, and ametrine from the Anahí mine, Bolivia • “Copal” resin from Madagascar • Iolite...Rock” cabochons • Tourmaline from Warner Springs, California • Synthetic topaz • Exhibits, announcements,...Mary L. Johnson Carlsbad, California George Rossman Pasadena, California John Emmett Brush Prairie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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...Coke-cansized green tourmaline crystal with topaz and albite around its base (fig. 8-16 of London 2008). As...80° E. in the 1991 London Pocket, Little Three mine, Ramona, California, after about 100 kilograms of material
Journal (issue)
Mineralsfrom the MidstateQuarry Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas...mmlong, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, photo by the author. Middle& PolarUrals...Russian • __., helicopter to fly further north to the mining village of Neroika. We spent our next 11 days in...the purest quartz in the world. At the height of mining, it employed some 240 workers and their families...equipment, and weather conditions add to the problem. Mining at Neroika is done in drifts cut into the mountainside
Report (issue)
pages of “California and Nevada on the website”—almost entirely California, in fact, with a little bit of...here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California, the star of the show...Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California. Ex Bryant Harris...=========================== Also from the Little Three pegmatite, Dave has very good miniature to small-cabinet...elbaite, morganite and aquamarine beryl, spessartine, albite, microcline…even axinite and hambergite, all from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
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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....Jesse FISHER 380 PennsylvaniaAvenue- San Francisco- CA 94107- USA (Traduitde l'anglaispar J. GALVIER)...exploitations teltes qu'Himalaya,TourmalineQueen au Little Three se trouvent aujourd'hui dans les collections...des monts San Jacinto, dans le centre du comte de Riverside,traversele comte de San Diego et se prolongejusqu'a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
very gemmy beryls, variety heliodor, from the huge mine complex at Volodarsk-Volynskii, Zhytomyr Oblast...produced from pegmatite No. 521 alone at the Ukraine mine, so excellent examples of both of these crystals...productive—is the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California (London et al. 2012)...evidence making this scenario highly Figure 3. Albite cast of a spessartine crystal that has been mostly...The form of a trapezohedron can be seen in the albite. David London photo taken at the 2012 Tucson Gem
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 2. Golden muscovite crystals, to 3 cm, on albite, Galileia, Brazil. T Taxonomy of the Mica Group...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
 
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