 | Fisher, Jesse, Foord, Eugene E., Bricker, Garth A. (1998) The Geology, Mineralogy, and History of the Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Rocks & Minerals, 73 (3) 156-180 doi:10.1080/00357529809603033 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...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 (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...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 |  | | 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... George Kunz, in the he has exercised ance, Gem and the use Industry complete, and to our |  | | 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 (issue) | | 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 ..........................cm long, with albite and lepidolite, mined recently at the Himalaya mine, Pala, California. William Larson |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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) |  | | Journal (issue) | | THE GEMMOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN GEM MOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF GREAT BRITAIN SAINT DUNSTAN'S...of precious stones is a source of worry for the gem jeweller. A n actual case is described here, with...other than those of the usual commercial scale for gem diamonds, which includes colourless stones to those...N G There is no point whatsoever in irradiating gem diamonds of good original colour as this would probably...for a gemstone variety although by no means all gem materials show definite absorption bands. There are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Inclusion Studies of GEM-Bearing Granitic Pegmatite-Aplite Dikes, San Diego Co., California Bruce E. Taylor...Geology, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA aAbteilung Geochemie, Mineralogisches Institut...pegmatite-aplite dikes in southern California have been known for gem-quality minerals and as a commercial...zone, nearly to 565 ~ C. Subsolidus formation of gem-bearing pockets took place over a relatively narrow...rocks (6D .... = - 9 0 to - 1 3 0 ) in the Mesa Grande district crystallized in the presence of, or exchanged |  | | Journal (issue) | | rendez-vous Elbaite - 7,1 cm de largeur Mine Hima/aya,Mesa Grande,Californie,U.S.A. Coll. : 8. Larson -...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 |  | Webber, Karen L., Simmons, William B., Falster, Alexander U., Foord, Eugene E. (1999) Cooling rates and crystallization dynamics of shallow level pegmatite-aplite dikes, San Diego County, California. American Mineralogist, 84 (5) 708-717 doi:10.2138/am-1999-5-602 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | shallow level pegmatite-aplite dikes, San Diego County, California KAREN L. WEBBER,1,* WILLIAM B. SIMMONS...Pegmatites of the Pala and Mesa Grande Pegmatite Districts, San Diego County, California are typically thin,...with albite- and quartz-rich bands. Thermal modeling was performed for four dikes in San Diego County...County including the 1 m thick Himalaya dike, the 2 m thick Mission dike, the 8 m thick George Ashley dike...days for the Mission dike, and ~5 days for the Himalaya dike. Based on these calculations, growth rates |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 28 New England Gem Beryl Bruce Jarnot Page 16 Bazzite of the Alps Stefan...Page 32 Beryl from the Pegmatites of Southern California Jesse Fisher Page 20 Discovery Stoppaniite Fabio...William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 49 Gem Beryl from Russia and Ukraine Peter Lyckberg Friedrich...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...Little Three pegmatite-aplite dyke in the Ramona district, contains minor amounts of native bismuth, beyerite...1986; Foord et al.,1989). The Himalaya dyke system in the Mesa Grande district contains bismuth, bismutite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, MS 170-25, Pasadena, California 91125, U.S.A. Materials...Rutherford no. 2 (Virginia), Himalaya (California), and George Ashley Block (California) pegmatites were determined...zone to the core zone of the Rutherford no. 2 and Himalaya pegmatites, consistent with increasing H2O activity...pegmatite, George Ashley Block pegmatite, and the Himalaya Mine. The Rutherford no. 2 pegmatite is a steeply...block located in the Pala pegmatite district of Southern California. Kleck and Foord (1999) reported on |  | | Journal (issue) | | ber-D ecem ber 1977 ISSUE! TourmalineGolconda mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil SHOWS Sul/urPerticara, Romagna...U E S t AVETltlB 0)A C L PyromorphiteWheatley mine, Hours: Wed-Sat. 10-5 Sunday 12-5 [evenings by...in e ra l fro m th e B e n ito ite G em M in e , San B e n ito C o u n ty, C a lif o r n ia ............lf Pabst, Jam es R. H in th o rn e Artinite fro m San B e n ito C o u n ty , C a lifo r n ia ............ike S y s te m , M e sa G ra n d e D is tric t, San D ie g o C o u n ty , C a lifo r n ia .......... |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | hydrothermal conditions in pegmatites from San Diego County, California Elizabeth M. Gammel1,* and Peter I....some pegmatites in the San Diego County pegmatite district contain abundant, gem-quality, Li-bearing minerals...minerals in pockets, whereas others do not. In this district, lithium-cesium-tantalum type pegmatites occur...contain gem-quality, Li-bearing minerals. Two pegmatite suites were studied: the gem-bearing Himalaya and...intermediate zone and the massive quartz core of the Himalaya pegmatite have Th ranges of ~350 to 420 and ~150 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ca(TarNb)rO.,a newmineralfrom SanDiegoCounty,California EucnNnE. Foono U. S. GeologicalSuruey Denuer...is found in the Himalaya pegmatite-aplitedike system,MesaGrandedistrict,SanDiego County,California.It occurs...in recognitionof their lifelong interestin mining the gem-bearingpegmatitesin MesaGrande.California.... 1976, 1977),locatedin the Mesa Grande district,SanDiegoCounty,California(33o12'42u N, 116"47'56'W )...unusual specimenof stibiotantalitefrom the SanDiego mine property,was found a creamy-whiteto pale-pinkfiffi03-004x |  | Ertl, A., Rossman, G. R., Hughes, J. M., London, D., Wang, Y., O'Leary, J. A., Dyar, M. D., Prowatke, S., Ludwig, T., Tillmanns, E. (2010) Tourmaline of the elbaite-schorl series from the Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, California: A detailed investigation. American Mineralogist, 95 (1) 24-40 doi:10.2138/am.2010.3271 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | elbaite-schorl series from the Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, California: A detailed investigation AndreAs...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...= 0.99) were found in tourmalines from the Himalaya Mine. These correlations indicate that, in the short-range... elbaite, schorl, crystal structure, Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, spectroscopy introduction ~98–93 Ma |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 |
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Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA