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Apatite from
Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Apatite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:Ca5(PO4)3(Cl/F/OH)
Comments:Occurs as small tabular crystals partly lining cavities in phosphatic rock.
Colour:White
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals:
Associates:Lazulite
Pyrophyllite
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Apatite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Champion Mine, White Mountain Peak, White Mountains, Mono County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:884
Long-form Identifier:1:3:884:4
GUID (UUID V4):92e1e2f7-c8df-4651-aa28-63738fabf543
Nearest other occurrences of Apatite
50.4km (31.3 miles) Laurel Mountain, Mono County, California, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Guelph] at 01:09 24 December 2014 Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia B lue minerals are a traditional...well-known locality of this type is, of course, Graves Mountain, Georgia. The occurrence of lazulite in this and...specimens, an attractive lazulite from Graves Mountain has been suggested for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...occurs in shades of azure-blue to sky-blue, bluish-white, yellow-green, blue-green, and green. It has a vitreous...quartz and generally classed as quartzites (Graves Mountain). Lesser occurrences are in quartz and phosphate-rich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Library] at 07:06 06 January 2015 Klamath Cascade Mountains Range I 396 ROCKS & MINERALS Modoc Plateau...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
486 ROCKS AND MINERALS THE MONO COUNTY ANDALUSITE MINE C. D. WOODHOUSE Dean, Santa Barbara College;...College; former manager, Mono County andalusite m i n e ; amateur mineral collector. Geographic and Geologic...Geologic Setting The Mono County Mine, owned and operated by the Champion Spark Plug Company of Toledo...west-central California on the western flank of the White Mountains about 20 miles south of the California-Nevada...California-Nevada State Line. The highest peak, White Mountain (elevation 14,201), is only a few hundred feet lower
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE...Letter of Transmittal 5 Map 6 Outline o['. California Preface 7 Introduction 11 Native Elements
Book
MINERALS OF CALIFORNlA 299" 257889 PEMBERTON' HOFE CALIFORNIA MINERALS 2995 SEP 1933 OINCO Digitized by...org/details/mineralsofcalifo00pemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA - MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl Pemberton ~ VAN NOSTRAND...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: centennial volume, 1866-1966...index. 1. Mineralogy - California. 2. Mines and mineral resources - California. I. MUidoch, J oseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. 11. Title. QE375.C32P45 549.9794 81-15963 ISBN 0-442-274882 AACR2 Preface
Catalog/List
Fairfield County, Branchville White xlline with cymatolite, good study ... New Mexico Taos County, near Dixon...Dixon Nearly pure white xlline lamellar mass . MOONSTONE India ----rransparent green cleavages of gem...Calcium iron cerium aluminum silicate California Los Angeles County, Pacoima Canyon Large black tabular...magnesium iron silicate ACTINOLITE California San Bernardino County, Wrightwood Green prismatic crystalline...basic silicate of sodium and iron California San Benito River, Gem mine Black prismatic xls imbedded in
Report (issue)
= 99.99(2)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Champion mine, California, USA. 3.208 (100), 3.095 (90), 3.075 (50)...6.09 Total 99.93 [100.00] 100.00 (1) Västanå mine, Sweden. (2) Hökensås, Sweden; by electron microprobe...(Västanå mine, Sweden); scorzalite, augelite, viséite (Champion mine, California, USA); montebrasite...montebrasite, scorzalite, bertossaite, brazilianite, apatite, gatumbaite, samuelsonite, wyllieite (Buranga pegmatite...Rwanda). Distribution: In Sweden, from the Västanå mine, near Näsum, Skåne; at Hålsjöberg, Värmland;
Book
7 257989 R q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T...org/details/mineralsofcalifoOOpemb MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA H. Earl r i L ] Pemberton ...H. Earl, 1907Minerals of California. An updating of: Minerals of California: 1866-1966 / by Joseph Murdoch...Includes index. 1. Mineralogy -California. 2. Mines and mineral resources- California. I. Murdoch, Joseph, 1890Minerals...1890Minerals of California. II. Title. centennial volume, QE375.C32P45 ISBN 0-442-27488 2 549.9794
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...when I first took this job, then-publisher John White offered to buy me a steak dinner if I ever managed...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M.
Report (issue)
Properties: Translucent to transparent. Color: Colorless, white, flesh-pink. Luster: Vitreous, pearly on {0001}...386(6) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Champion mine, California, USA. (ICDD 37-469). 2.932 (100), 2.163...13.54 13.05 Total 99.87 100.00 (1) Champion mine, California, USA. (2) CaAl3 (PO4 )(SO4 )(OH)6 . Mineral...quartz veins in an andalusite deposit (Champion mine, California, USA); a product of sulphatic argillic wall-rock...disseminated ore deposits, replacing apatite (Summitville, Colorado, USA); rarely a cave deposit, formed from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF ANDALUSITE MINERALS AT WHITE AND RELATED MOUNTAIN, CALIFORNIA. PAULF. KEI•R. INTRODUCTION...INTRODUCTION. TI-IE andalusite mine near White Mountain, California, is at presentthe only andalusite mineof commercial...one-half miles east of Shealysiding,betweenBishop,California,andGoldfield,Nevada. The depositoccurson the...from . the California- ",,,• '"'> F•. •. The andalusite mine is located in Mono County, C•ifornia...Nevada Mountains and on the west side of White Mountain. Nevadaline (Fig. •). The main mine plant is
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...Beach, CaL 92651 [714]494~7695 Publisher John S. White Division of Mineralogy The Smithsonian Institution...Wilson Mineralogist Circulation Manager Mary Lynn White Associate Editors written content: Richard A. Bideaux...E id a h l M in e ra lo g y o f th e Cham pion Mine, W h ite M o u n ta in s , C a lifo r n ia ....
Report (issue)
in reflected light, gray with bluish tint, with white, yellow, or red internal reflections. Streak: Pale...(1) 97.46 2.62 Total 100.08 (1) Graves Mountain, Georgia, USA. Polymorphism & Series: Mineral Group:...Association: Anatase, brookite, hematite, ilmenite, apatite, adularia, albite, titanite, chlorite, pyrophyllite...Ural Mountains, Russia. In the USA, at Magnet Cove, Hot Spring Co., Arkansas; on Graves Mountain, Washington...Co., Pennsylvania; in the Champion mine, White Mountains, Mono Co., California. In Brazil, large crystals
Report (issue)
567–16.75 Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Champion mine, California, USA. (ICDD 39-1361). 2.949 (100), 2.2069...45 (1) Near Hawthorne, Nevada, USA. (2) Champion mine, California, USA; by electron microprobe, H2 O by...vein and disseminated ore deposits, replacing apatite. Association: Pyrophyllite, kyanite, andalusite...(Horrsjöberg), Värmland, and at the Västanå mine, near Näsum, Skåne, Sweden. In the Novodmitrievsk...less-well-defined localities in Russia. In the USA, in the Dover andalusite mine, about 20 km northeast of Hawthorne
Catalog/List
limonile ........... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen...Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on...Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...Lustrous white twin xl groups, minor muscovite MM Lot 10-1'' lxl" lx2" I. 25 .50 I. 00 2.50 5... Austria 1 SWitzerland Aleine areas Fine large white twin xls on 1:;neisswith chlorite . ALLANITE Calcium
Report (issue)
1(2)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA. 3.05 (10), 2.73 (9), 3.22 (8), 3.48 (7)...74 0.78 [100.0] 100.00 (1) Palermo #1 mine, New Hampshire, USA; corresponds to (Ca3.28 Mn0.47 Mg0.17...triphylite in complex zoned granite Association: Apatite, whitlockite, childrenite–eosphorite, laueite,...amblygonite, siderite. Distribution: In the USA, from the Palermo #1 mine, near North Groton, Grafton Co., New...Linwood, and White Elephant mines, near Custer, Custer Co., South Dakota; at the Champion mine, White Mountains
Book
353-416 257-320 321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN Famous mineral...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese
Book (edition)
and often gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level for the ist to States contain... Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4. Fluorite 9. 5. Apatite B). interesting to note that diamond, It is...a scratch just gypsum or about will scratch apatite, as and a a hard as file material. testing...malachite (copper carbonate), phosphates such as apatite, and silicates, which large and complex family... crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are famous for Lava known
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines
Journal (issue)
p a c if ic COAST HIGHWAY Gold-Nevado Co. California Hours: Tues-Sar. 10-5 Sunday 12-5 [evenings by...Mineralogy lv|ineralogical RccorcT publisher John S. White Smithsonian Institution (USPS 887-700) editor... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine .......................................................... 339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado .....................................349 by J. A. Murphy Amazonite from the Pikes Peak batholith ............................373 by E. E
Book
scattering properties that are needed to make a good white pigment. They are extremely stable against degradation...eliminate yellowish tones and yield a pleasing bluish-white color in daylight. All three species have been known...(A material ;ure 2. Faceted rutile from Zegi Mountain, Pakistan. The stones are very dark, but with...intense blue internal reflections, in contrast to the white-to-yellow internal reflections of the surrounding...might also play a role. It has been estimated that peak shock pressures ranged from 16 to 20 GPa and that
Report (issue)
] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF... Chief BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia,...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...JenlCalifornia, Chief of the Division of Mines. Minerals of California is one of the Division's
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Loudville mine, Hanipshire County, Massachusetts; Chimney Rock quarry, in Somerset County, and New Brunswick...Jersey; the Jones mine in Berks County, and Phoenixville and French Creek, Chester County, Pennsylvania;...workings of the copper mines at Ducktown, Polk County, and the zinc deposits of eastern and central Tennessee;...and mines of the Virgilina district, Charlotte County, Virginia; and copper mines in Guilford, Mecklenburg...characterized by somewhat fibrous, color-banded interiors. White ( I99 1 ) demonstrated that variation of color shade
Book
139) Page 248: Quartz (amethyst variety), Erongo Mountains, Namibia * 5 x 6 x 3 cm Page 251: Calcite, Irai...made dramatically apparent to us as spectacular mountain ranges, erupting volcanoes, earthquakes and even...Serbia ¢ 11x8x7cm LEFT: Fluorite, Taihang Shan Mountains, Hebei, China * 19x13x1cm 10 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...considered to be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 cm. Biominerals Crystals formed...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA » 18 x 24 x 8 om 14 MINERALS: PRODUCTS
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139) Page 248: Quartz (amethyst variety), Erongo Mountains, Namibia * 5 x 6 x 3 cm Page 251: Calcite, Irai...made dramatically apparent to us as spectacular mountain ranges, erupting volcanoes, earthquakes and even...Serbia ¢ tixex7 cm LEFT: Fluorite, Taihang Shan Mountains, Hebei, China * (Sexes selem 10 | MINERALS:...considered to be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS
 
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