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Elbaite from
San Diego Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Elbaite
Formula:Na(Li1.5Al1.5)Al6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3(OH)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz1 photo of Elbaite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Elbaite data
Locality Data:Click here to view San Diego Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (5 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:37815
Long-form Identifier:1:3:37815:0
GUID (UUID V4):e24f4cac-06ce-4739-9d27-59283f350fa6
Localities for Elbaite in this Region
Trask Mine, San Diego Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Elbaite
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘTrask Mine, San Diego Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.2km (0.1 miles) ⓘHimalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.4km (0.3 miles) ⓘMesa Grande Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
0.6km (0.4 miles) ⓘBraye Mine (Bray Lode prospect; MS 4633), Himalaya Mine (Himalaya dikes; Himalaya pegmatite), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) ⓘCota Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.1km (0.7 miles) ⓘGreen Ledge Mine (Green Ledge dike), Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) ⓘPayne Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) ⓘTrail Mine, Mesa Grande, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
13.0km (8.1 miles) ⓘMaple Lode Mine (Maple claim), Aguanga Mountain, Oak Grove, Aguanga Mountain Mining District (Smith Mountain Mining District), San Diego County, California, USA
13.9km (8.7 miles) ⓘMountain Lily Mine (Emeralite No. 2 claim; Gem Mine No. 1 claim; Ware mine), Aguanga Mountain, Oak Grove, Aguanga Mountain Mining District (Smith Mountain Mining District), San Diego County, California, USA
References
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino... Number Five Articles Gem and rare-element pegmatites of southern California . . . . . . . . . . . ... History of the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...$150 for one year. *Continued on p. 455 COVER: ELBAITE on quartz, 20 cm, one of the famous “blue cap”...discovered at the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California, by Ed Swoboda and Bill Larson. The
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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...of a variety of gem and rareelement minerals, along with considerable amounts of gem and lapidary material...lavender-colored gem variety of spodumene now known as kunzite. Since the beginning of mining in the late
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the ba a la j Mllle, Mesa kande, San Diego Eountg, Ealifiornia 7 Los Angeles County II ,J - r J--4...J--4 ‘*- \ Orange County f San Bernardino Coun -----. I--L-L--- \,-. 1 Cahuilla Mt. X x Thomas... JESSE FISHEK 380 Pennsylvania Ave. San Francisco, California 94107 EUGENE E. FOOKD M.S.905, U.S. Geological...BRICKER 410 East Elder Fallbrook, California 92028 T he Himalaya mine has been the largest producer of...years ago, and it ranks among the most productive gem pegmatites in the world. Virtually all major mineral
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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...Ramona in e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey...Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences
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- ou sur rendez-vous Elbaite - 7,1 cm de largeur Mine Hima/aya,Mesa Grande,Californie,U.S.A. Coll....Scovil ‱ Barite surfluorite Crista/: 4 x 3 x 0,4 cm Mine de /'Ave/lan, Var Coll. : G. Mari Photo : l.-D....RichardDALE,Cochabamba,Bolivie DavidI. GREEN,Manchester,Grande-Bretagne DermotHENRY,Melbourne,Australie Laszl6...ans. Nous avons, nous aussi, ressenti une tres grande satisfaction durant l'elaboration, etalee sur pres...interventions, porter les debats a un niveau de grande qualite. Dans ce court resume, nous allons tenter
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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
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R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Five Tourrmline-1 the first special issue in the Gem Minerals Series Introduction Notes from the Editor....................365 by C. A. Francis Pakistan Gem pegmatites of the Shingus-Dusso area, Gilgit, Pakistan..........................413 by A. M. Bassett California Recent work at the Himalaya m in e ............lepidolite, mined recently at the Himalaya mine, Pala, California. William Larson collection; photo by Harold
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cookrob@auburn.edu Beryl, Variety Morganite San Diego County, California O ne of the most popular of all collectible...Its wide variation in color, particularly in the gem varieties, its tendency to form exceptionally perfect...collections that have been displayed at national gem and mineral shows in recent years. From a historical...Southern California. Consequently, in keeping with the California theme of the 2011 Tucson Gem and Mineral...beryl, so well known from the pegmatites of San Diego County, has been nominated for this issue’s Connoisseur’s
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Jan/Feb 2024 Vol.99, No.1 ROCKS MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems...Francis Maine Mineral & Gem Museum, ME John Rakovan New Mexico Institute of Mining & Technology, Socorro...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)
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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................................... 2 Independence Mine, ......................................................................................... 2 California ................................................................................. 3 Little Three Mine,...............................................
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image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the back of the original...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...the U.S. State of Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing Turquoise ite Country, Montana
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 (article/letter/editorial)
Tourmaline of the elbaite-schorl series from the Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, California: A detailed investigation...and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125-2500, U.S.A. 3 Office...on tourmalines from gem pockets in the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California, including a strongly...grayish-yellow, intermediate zone is Mn-rich “fluor-elbaite” that contains a relatively high Mn content with...with ~6 wt% MnO. The nearly colorless “fluor-elbaite” rim has the highest Li content of all zones. There
Book
) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and Malachite...endure wear. To resist being scratched, the ideal gem n1ust be hard; to resist being broken, it must be...that help determine the quality or suitability of a gem are transparency, clarity, and the evenness and depth...retain their hierarchical position by beginning the gem section in this book. However, we have grouped 13...the nan1e of the gem. The captions give sizes in both centin1eters and inches. Gem weights are given
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GRANITIC PEGMATITES AT THE LITTLE THREE MINE, RAMONA, CALIFORNIA, USA David LONDON§, George B. MORGAN VI,...Oklahoma 73019, USA Abstract Miarolitic granitic pegmatites at the Little Three mine property near Ramona...Ramona, San Diego County, California, USA, possess a bulk composition that closely matches that of a hydrous...history, field diffusion, Little Three mine, Ramona, California. Introduction The coarse grain-size and...dike section from the Little Three mine, Ramona, California, USA, to derive the modal mineralogy and
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and Planetary Sciences,California Institute of Technology,Pasadena,California 9 I 125, U.S.A. Ansrn-lcr...Ansrn-lcr The optical spectraof elbaite tourmalines subjectedto large, controlled dosesof gamma radiation...radiation levels in tourmaline pockets in southern California pegmatiteshave been used to compute the dosesthat...In this paper we considerthe coloration ofpink elbaite. Bershov et al. (1969), Nassau (1975), and others...Jahns's(1954) description ofa typical southern California granitic pegmatite. The crystal was modeled as
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Temperatures and duration of crystallization within gem-bearing cavities of granitic pegmatites David London...Temperatures and duration of crystallization within gem-bearing cavities of granitic pegmatites, LITHOS(2020)...TEMPERATURES AND DURATION OF CRYSTALLIZATION WITHIN GEM-BEA RING CAVITIES OF GRANITIC PEGMATITES David London... University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 USA * Corresponding author. ABSTRACT of Crystallization...carbonates, and finally dense clay. The euhedral and gem-quality crystals for which many pegmatites are mined
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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...Soares et al. 2007; Beurlen et al. 2014), as well as gem-quality minerals (e.g., Soares et al. 2007; Beurlen
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crystallization process in the San Diego County pegmatites, California, USA Jennifer S. MALONEY1,4 , Peter...Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211, USA *Corresponding author, e-mail: nabelekp@missouri...MI 48859, USA 3 Department of Geology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA 4 Current... 363 N. Sam Houston Parkway, Houston, TX 77060, USA 5 Current address: Institut fĂŒr Geowissenschaften...lithium-cesium-tantalum-type pegmatite dikes of San Diego County, California, USA, tourmaline is the main reservoir
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Copyright 0 1996Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016.7037/96$15.00 + .oO Pergamon...Planetary Physics, University of California, Riverside CA, 92521, USA (Received October 31, 1995; accepted...pegmatite in the San Jacinto district, and Himalaya pegmatite dike system in the Mesa Grande district of southern...southern California. These analyses are the first inclusion volatile studies to indicate the presence of...in late-stage green/pink-zoned gem elbaite tourmalines from that mine. Fluid inclusions in quartz, as
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(above). Amethyst, Four Peaks, Arizona. This flawless gem weighs 39.4 carats and is 22 × 19 mm. Tino Hammid...photo. Figure 2 (below). Tourmaline (elbaite) from the Dunton mine, Newry, Maine. A selection of some of...respect to gem deposits, but the average consumer of gems surely has no idea of the wealth of gem material...(principally Maine) and California, with virtually no important tourmaline source in between. Gem-quality amethyst...superb gem amethyst in the mountains just east of Phoenix, Arizona. Superb amethyst specimens and gem rough
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Francois County, Missouri. Glenn Williams specimen, Terry Huizing photo. May/June: Elbaite on quartz...quartz, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Wayne Sorensen specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...photo. July/August: Barite, Black Cloud mine, Leadville, Lake County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff...photo. NovembedDecember: Hematite, Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin. F. John Barlow specimen, M. Hjerstedt...Allanite, Missouri, 96 Almandine-spessartine, California, 171 Alpine Minerals: A Review of the Most Famous
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Pegmatites: ART Downloaded by [University of California, San Diego] at 03:56 02 March 2016 What TOURMALINE...from which many of the finest mineral specimens and gem materials are obtained. The minerals chosen will...dike, Little Three mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California. Varieties of elbaite: (c) rubellite, 10...10 cm, Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande, California, found by Ralph Potter in 1958, William Larson specimen...6 cm, 1991 London Pocket, Little Three mine, Ramona, California; (e) indicolite, 5.6 cm, Aracuai, Minas
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Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalå mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacå Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root
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suggested that an account of activities at the Denver Gem & Mineral Show would be of interest to FM. That request...Joe Marchesani; Jmarch06@comcast.net SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER: Dr. Don Buchanan; dbuch7326@aol.com...the Early Mining History of the Himalaya Pegmatite Mine The early-day history (1896-1913) of gem tourmaline...tourmaline mining at the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, is rife with conflicts by men who truly believed...Numerous minor actors in this drama had their own gem mines to exploit. This history recounts these tales
 
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