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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tourmaline King Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:480974
Long-form Identifier:1:3:480974:6
GUID (UUID V4):ec751d71-a87d-451d-84aa-2e463677c618
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
0.4km (0.3 miles) Tourmaline Queen Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Little Joe adit, Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
1.3km (0.8 miles) Little Joe No. 2 adit, Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
18.0km (11.2 miles) Mack Mine (John Mac mine; Mac mine; San Luis Rey claim), Rincon Mountain, Rincon, Rincon Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
18.8km (11.7 miles) Victor Mine (Big Buck mine; Big Buck prospect), Rincon Mountain, Rincon, Rincon Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
18.9km (11.8 miles) Clark Mine, Rincon Mountain, Rincon, Rincon Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
31.4km (19.5 miles) Rose Quartz Mine (Patton lode; Patten lode; Powers group; Crystal Quartz; White Quartz; Sante Fe Gem), Mesa Grande, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
32.4km (20.2 miles) Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
33.2km (20.7 miles) Anita Mine (Magee Mine; Magee & Dougherty Mine; Sage Mine), Red Mountain, Cahuilla Mining District, Riverside County, California, USA
34.1km (21.2 miles) Juan Diego Mine No. 1 (Juan Diego No. 1 deposit; Rainbow Mine; Rainbow prospects), Little Cahuilla Mountain, Cahuilla Mining District, Riverside 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...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
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
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
Book (volume)
THE SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma... Also by Allan W. Eckert Bayou Backwaters The King Snake Blue Jacket The Owls of North America The...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
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Background image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the back of...of American Gems worked ledge. Kunzite and gem tourmaline American Gemstones – What They Are and (in the...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
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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....et kunzite(cristal 10 x 6 cm) dans quartz avec tourmaline (gangue 11 x 10 cm) de Laura Do Urucum,Bresil...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
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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...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
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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pohwatp@si.edu Muscovite Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California R ocks are made up of minerals. Some, such...littleknown locality of Shannon Canyon, Inyo County, California. The specimen is 3 × 4 cm and was collected...collected in 1988 by Chris Lehman. Vandall King specimen and photo. layers is weak. Polytypes are a kind of...crystals. Dark muscovite is sometimes mistaken for biotite and phlogopite. The streak is white (Anthony et...Muscovite is the second most common mica after biotite. Muscovite has many uses, one of the earliest of
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Shaokui Pan Comparison of Emeralds from the Chitral District, Pakistan, with other Pakistani and Afghan Emeralds...Conference | Nineteenth Annual Sinkankas Symposium: San Diego County Gems and Minerals Learning Opportunities...Alonso-Perez Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Alan D. Hart Gem-A, London Karl Schmetzer Petershausen...Edward Boehm RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA Brian Jackson National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh...Mary L. Johnson Mary Johnson Consulting, San Diego, California, USA Alan T. Collins King’s College London
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I. Hopkins E. H. Rutland, Ph.D. R. Webster D. N. King J. M. McWilliatn D. G. Kent D. J. Ewing W. Stern...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...Application of goniometry to gemmology. Journ. Mining Coll., Akita Univ., Ser. A, Vol. V, No. 3, 1-21
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Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...100-year history of the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County collection;...Benitoite Gem mine will note the portion of the story devoted to the 1935 visit to the mine by collecting...interest in science led him to the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (Michigan Tech) in Houghton, where
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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...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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The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller...Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct)...Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange...ct), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless...Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink kunzite (26.61 ct), Pala, California. NECKLACE
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colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand...up to the end of 1974. John Sinkankas San Diego, California July, 1975 JOHWSTUPAW.N19,901 Gene ... 5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert
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Fluorescence | New Finds at the Tourmaline King Mine, Pala, California, USA | A New Amber Imitation: Amber-Epoxy...Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Edward Boehm RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA Maggie Campbell Pedersen...Emmett Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA Emmanuel Fritsch University of Nantes, France Alan...Mary L. Johnson Mary Johnson Consulting, San Diego, California, USA Stefanos Karampelas Laboratoire Français...Shigley Gemological Institute of America, Carlsbad, California Christopher P. Smith American Gemological Laboratories
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............................................ California....................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish
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it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...H. Purdue, Nashville, Tenn. California........Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco. Prof. A. F. Rogers...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT. Director DIVISION OF MINES...MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO WALTER Vol. 35 W. BRADLEY State Mineralogist JANUARY, 1939 No...No. CALIFORNIA JOURNAL OF MINES AND GEOLOGY QUARTERLY CHAPTER OF STATE MINERALOGIST'S REPORT XXXY STATE...MINES FERRY BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 70803 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS 1 DIVISION...Logan, District Mining Engineer O. McK. Laizure, District W. Burling Tucker, Reid J. Mining Engineer
 
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