 | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...year. *Continued on p. 455 COVER: ELBAITE on quartz, 20 cm, one of the famous “blue cap” tourmalines...discovered at the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California, by Ed Swoboda and Bill Larson. The |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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, $124 for two years, 5186 for three years (includes online access). An institutional...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 05:07 04 June 2016 \ Los Angeles County j San Bernardino County ..I. ...............................Riverside County I J Jb3 %$*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) | | 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) | | California Blue Mine Yucca Valley San Bernardino County California Downloaded by [Heriot-Watt University]...photo. Sacramento San Francisco CA LIF OR A New NI A Los Angeles San Diego Palm Springs Twentynine...Twentynine Palms Marine Corps Base CA Blue Mine X Yucca Valley Gem Pegmatite Landers Joshua tree MICHAEL...MICHAEL P. HUNERLACH 148 Kettle Rock Court Folsom, California 95630 mphunerlach@comcast.net Twentynine Palms...showing general location of the California Blue mine in Southern California. T he discovery in 2006 of |  | | 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...an oak tree whose roots encircled crystals of smoky quartz and lepidolite (fig. 8-15 of London 2008). The...crystals of K-feldspar (to 35 kilograms) and smoky quartz (to 15 kilograms) had detached from the roof |  | | 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...small-cabinet specimens of, let’s see, smoky quartz, elbaite, morganite and aquamarine beryl, spessartine |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Silica and Silicates ( 107 ) from the pegmatites at QUARTZ, silica, Si02, is an essential mineral in the granite...granite pegmatites. Massive, white, or smoky colored crystalline quartz often makes up the greater bulk of...are of pink or the rose quartz variety. Rock crystals, or the colorless quartz crystals, are often found...found as well as are smoky quartz crystals in the cavities of druses which occur in many pegmatites. Amethyst...Amethyst, the purple colored variety of crystalline quartz, usually is found in crystals in cavities or pockets |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | is from Leiper’s quarry at Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Peters 1984). When the spessartine...apatite, albite, muscovite, potassic feldspar, and quartz in the former, and bixbyite, topaz, sanidine, and...Middletown, Middlesex County, and massive spessartine and relatively small crystals in quartz matrix occur at...occur with rhodonite in ore of the Betts manganese mine at Plainfield, Massachusetts. Exceptional garnet...localities in Figure 2. A classic Avondale, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, spessartine specimen with a major |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Page 32 Beryl from the Pegmatites of Southern California Jesse Fisher Page 20 Discovery Stoppaniite Fabio...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...descriptions. T he above is a postcard of the School of Mining in Feiberg, Saxony printed for the 1991 Breithaupt...from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient |  | | Book | | ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and Malachite... kunzite, spodumenc and citrine. Page 5: Left: Quartz (Variety Amethyst); Hopkinton, Rhode Island; Scepter...aquamarine, morgan ite, chrysoberyl, peridot, smoky quartz, citrine, calcite, rbodochrosite, and fluorite...crystals and their atomic arrangement. There are three basic forms of symmetry: n1irror, rotation, and...latter; an example is he1natite on quartz. Hen1alite " with" quartz indicates adjacent crystals of the |  | London, D., Morgan, G. B., Paul, K. A., Guttery, B. M. (2012) Internal Evolution of Miarolitic Granitic Pegmatites at the Little Three Mine, Ramona, California, USA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 50 (4) 1025-1054 doi:10.3749/canmin.50.4.1025 | 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...the thinner (Swamp) dike. Fluid inclusions within quartz and topaz from miarolitic cavities of the Main |  | | 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 |  | 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) | | kande, San Diego Eountg, Ealifiornia 7 Los Angeles County II ,J - r J--4 ‘*- \ Orange County f ... San Bernardino Coun -----. I--L-L--- \,-. 1 Cahuilla Mt. X x Thomas Mt- L-. JESSE FISHEK 380...380 Pennsylvania Ave. San Francisco, California 94107 EUGENE E. FOOKD M.S.905, U.S. Geological Survey Box...BRICKER 410 East Elder Fallbrook, California 92028 T he Himalaya mine has been the largest producer of...include specimens from this mine. Since it was first claimed in 1898, mine production has been highly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Although overshadowed by diamond and the "big three" (emerald, sapphire, and ruby), topaz is nevertheless...Location map of major topaz deposits. 1. San Diego County, California pegmatites; 2. western U.S. topaz rhyolite...rhyolite belt (includes some pegmatites); 3. Mason County, Texas; 4. topaz rhyolite belt of Mexico; 5. Appalachian...of Cornwall, England, and France; 9. Erzgebirge district, Saxony, Germany; 10. Volyn and Kiev pegmatite...Gilgit pegmatite district and Katlang, Pakistan; 13. Tin granites of Jos plateau district, Nigeria; 14. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | [Be:(OH, F)(BOt] from the Little Three mine, near Ramona, San Diego County, California, disciosed that the...fluorine. Hambergite from a second California localitl., the Himalaya mine near Mesa Grande, contains 0.2...Anjanabanoana, Madagascar, and the Little Three mine, California, follow: Madagascar-BeO 53.6, 8z0136...orthorhombic,a:9.76+O.Ol, b:12.23+O-01' c:4.43*0.01 A. California-BeO 529,82Ot36.6, HrO 6.7,F 6 0, O=F 2.5, sum...{ 3 4 1 } . Substitution of F for OH in the Little Three material has causedthe unit cell to erpand in |  | | Journal (issue) | | small black micro crystals of manganbabingtonite, quartz, calcite, datolite, and inesite (identity confirmed)...(8 cm) tall, and J5/g inches (4 cm) thick. The quartz from here can also be nice; I had one large clear...involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at the Pomona Fairgrounds Mrs. Kay Robertson...103341/ona Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90064 This year's California Show was held again in Pomona, but luckily in...the variety of minerals occurring in Southern California, there are many excellent field collectors. |  | | 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 1930s as the hub of operations in the Dodo quartz deposits, and extended further north to Patak and...produces some of the purest quartz in the world. At the height of mining, it employed some 240 workers |  | | Book (volume) | | the opening of our gallery in the Chelsea Art District of NYC. Presenting fine minerals among the world’s...white matrix versus a creamy white. A clear bright Quartz versus a slightly included one. These variations... A Tourmaline on clear Quartz is not double the value of one on milky Quartz, it can be 10 times, or...Chalcopyrite) Cata Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 Adamite (Manganoadamite) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,...Aegirine (& Smoky Quartz) Mt. Malosa, Zomba Dist., Malawi, 56 Amazonite (with Smoky Quartz) Tree Root |  | | Journal (issue) | | Menzies Pink topaz from the Thomas Range, Juab County, U ta h .........................................to 4 cm, on matrix, from Ghundao Hill, Mardan district, Pakistan. F. John Barlow collection; photo by...their dry, written lists (“Wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona, 1-inch, 500; 2-inch, $2; 2 inch, $3.50”...& Antiquities - Neth. R.J.B. Rock Shop Red Beryl Mine Reed, Blaine Meteorites Ryder, Dan Fossils Scheele...Stone Company, The Tesoros Naturales - Spain Three Little Pigmatites Triebold Paleontology Tynsky Fossil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | dlondon@ou.edu Part 4 Reading Pegmatites What QUARTZ and FELDSPARS Say T his is the fourth of several...environments of the minerals they collect (previous three: London 2015, 2016, 2017a). In these articles, the...environment in which they form. The series continues with quartz and the feldspars. Dr. David London is a Stubbman-Drace...in composition. By definition, that means that quartz and feldspars (including the plagioclase and the...percent of the rock. In the common pegmatites, quartz and feldspars constitute nearly 100 percent of |  | | 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...drill holes • Glass sold as quartz • Fossil ivory • Hornbill “ivory” • Quartz with rhodochrosite • Sapphires...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, |
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