 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BORATES OF CALIFORNIA M. VONSEN Business man ( f a r m products) in Petaluma, California; amateur mineral...collector. The story of the discovery of borates in California is one of romance and adventure. In fact, one...prospecting for boron minerals in the mountains and hills of northern California. No less arduous were the later...1857, to the California Borax Company, for whom he was scouting the northern part of California in search...solution in the waters at Tuscan Springs, Tehama County, later referred to as Lick Springs, and eight miles |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | borates in the California area. ROCKS AND MINERALS September, 1951 BORATES OF CALIFORNIA M. V O N S E...E N Business man (farm products) in Petaluma, California; amateur mineral collector. 1856 is a memorable...to powder, and a sulphur deposit. Such re the California Borax Company, for whom ports spurred Dr. Veatch...borax, a hydrous sodium borate, which County) he crossed a steep range of hills seems to have been the only...miles west of Sulphur Bank. Tuscan Springs, Tehama County, later re He also examined another little lake |  | | Report (issue) | | and 3, respectively. Arituzar Mine Calichar Caftuelas Daniel Mine San Marcos Volcanclto Salar Centenario...Mucar Laguna Guacha|ayte Laguna Guayatayoc Baratoyoc Mine Grupo Cordoba Laguna Vilama Adriana Lari Los Bayos...Bayos Tropa Pete 3erta Prospect 3lanca Lila Mine Boratera de Antuco Celti Occurrence Coyaguaima Archibarca...Pozuelos Margarita San Mateo Mine Salar de Pucar Salar de Rio Grande Betina Mine Boratera Blanca Lila Coronel...Prospect Maria Luisa l-ll Occurrence Purmamarca Mine Salar de Antofalla Salar de Cauchari DEPOSFT NAME |  | | Report (issue) | | Howlite Ca2 B5 SiO9 (OH)5 c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2 Crystal Data: Monoclinic.... Point Group: 2=m: Crystals tabular, °attened on f100g, with f100g dominant and terminated by f011g and...608(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Sterling Borax mine, California, USA. 6.2 (100), 3.10 (90), 3.90 (80), 2.04 (70)...after deduction of 4.32% gypsum. (2) Daggett, California, USA; remainder is Na2 O and MgO: (3) Ca2 B5 SiO9...Island, Nova Scotia. In the USA, in California, in the Sterling Borax mine, Tick Canyon, near Lang, Los |  | Muessig, S.J., Pennell, W.M., Knott, Jeffrey R., Calzia, James P. (2019) Geology of the Monte Blanco borate deposits, Furnace Creek Wash, Death Valley, California. Open-File Report 2019-1111. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20191111 | Report (issue) | | Borate Deposits, Furnace Creek Wash, Death Valley, California Open-File Report 2019–1111 U.S. Department...northwest with white playa deposits, Death Valley, California. Photograph by W.M. Pennell Geology of the...Borate Deposits, Furnace Creek Wash, Death Valley, California By S.J. Muessig, W.M. Pennell, J.R. Knott, and...borate deposits, Furnace Creek Wash, Death Valley, California: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 2019–1111...study of the borate deposit at Monte Blanco, California, among others, as part of a wider effort to ascertain |  | | Journal (issue) | | paceite, two new acetate minerals from the Potosi mine, Broken Hill, Australia * Superior Copperdistrict...mineral species from Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah, USA 91-102 The crystal structure of bergenite...Tourmaline discovery at the Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, USA 170-187 Porcelaneous datolite in Michigan's...mineral from the Dara-i-Pioz moraine, Tien-Shan Mountains, Tajikistan * MINERAUX ET FOSSILES 29(316), 04...Kilimandjaro 20-21 Mammoth Hot Springs (wyoming, USA) 23-28 Philippe Bourseiller (fotograaf) 29-31 Pierre |  | | Journal (issue) | | OUARTZblack, blue red, green with fine eye. i ! ; I- 3-8...JEWELERS. SPECIAL DISCOUNTS ON QUANTITY ORDERS. 1.25 Black 1.50 SarflrGreen Masonic or initial gold encrusted...•. Personally Speaking 3 T5I California Convention 4 Yogo Sapphire Mine Reopened 4 Alpha Counters 5 Berkeley...FIND WITHIN OUR PAGES. 3 r NEWS BRIEFS '51 CALIFORNIA CONVENTION SLATED FOR OAKLAND Just prior to...authorita SOURCE THAT THE 1951 CONVENTION OF THE CALIFORNIA FEDERATION WILL PROBABLY BE HELD AT OAKLAND, | | Muessig, S.J., Pennell, W.M., Knott, Jeffrey R., Calzia, James P. (2019) Geology of the Monte Blanco borate deposits, Furnace Creek Wash, Death Valley, California. Open-File Report 2019-1111. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr20191111 | Report (issue) | | part Tad 50 35 40 cm 5 ux 40 White Monster mine 1:150,000 40 45 35 EXPLANATION OF MAP SYMBOLS...contacts 0 45 Tms 35 Tb1 Qal 50 ux Widow #3 mine ot 20 Tmt 4 48 Tcg Direction of plunge 40...downthrown block 30 30 Tb2 65 45 36°23'10" Howlite 36°23'10" Low angle—half circles on upper plate... Thinner lines have 40-foot contour interval Howlite 1 cm Well controlled 50 45 50 70 75 45 ...20 cm cm 1,000 25 60 Tms 800 cm 30 50 Howlite Tb1 600 5 50 65 36°23'00" 116°46'20" 65 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tincalconite all fluoresce, as does the wet clay of the mine. This makes it very difficult to include or rule...in this country from Boron and Mount Blanco, California. As is the case with so many of the borates,...observe this fluorescence in specimens studied. HOWLITE—Found as nodules and small masses in clay at borax...make for an attractive end product. Masses of howlite have been reported up to several hundred pounds...happened all too often here in Arizona and in California. I can name several formerly fine collecting |  | | Report (volume) | | _ 21. Differential thermal analysis curves of howlite and of kernite_ _ 22. Differential thermal analysis...curves of bakerite, borax, oolemanite, ginorite, howlite, kernite, meyerhofferite, priceite, probertite...set an upper temperature limit to the practical range of investigations. Preliminary investigations confirmed...troublesome: bakerite, borax, colemanite-howlite, ginorite, howlite-priceite, meyerhofferite, probertite...650° C, a temperature range utilized in the examination of bakerite and howlite, the 100-volt setting |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................49 California ..............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ..................................................................45 Arizona – Yuma Co. Hull Mine Site Map ...................................... |  | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................39 California ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a |  | | Book (volume) | | ..........................................39 California ...............................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...pegmatites and ore-bearing veins. Prior to the California gold rush of 1849, this portion of Alabama experienced...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a |  | | 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... but perfection is elusive. An “ absurdity” in point: check the figure caption on the ouside-back-cover...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M. |  | | 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 | | | 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 |  | | Book (volume) | | colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...careful, accurate detail and with many color and black-and-white illustrations, it describes the chemical...to the end of 1974. John Sinkankas San Diego, California July, 1975 JOHWSTUPAW.N19,901 Gene ay Derek... 5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...with digging vast quantities of coal, leveling mountains of iron ore, and tapping subterranean lakes of |  | | Report (issue) | | fjil* STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEOLOGY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA BULLETIN 170...Director DIVISION OF MINES Son Francisco STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN San Francisco J. Ferry Building,...OlAF 170 September 1954 GEOLOGY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA RICHARD Edited by H. JAHNS CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS...transmit herewith nulletin 170, Geoloejy of Southern California, prepared nnder the direction of Olaf P. Jenkins...Richard II. Jahns, professor of geology at the California Institute of Technology. Four other members of |  | | Book | | Fossils in America A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals The Rock-Hunter's Range Guide Petrified Forest...Arizona Gem Trails and the Colorado Desert of California High Tension (A Biography) Jay Ellis Ransom...different form in A Range Guide to Mines and Minerals and The Rock-Hunter's Range Guide, both by Jay Ellis...in L.\merica Alabama Alaska Arkansas Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia...possible by Howard and Hazel Michael, of Y reka, California, who opened their home and rock museum to me |  | | Book (edition) | | Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is. (island), Vole. (volcano), Penin...and Transylvania. Some names of towns or even mountains were either changed or written in another manner |  | | Book | | metamorphic processes in a solid state at a wide range of temperature and pressure (it includes regionally...pink to copper-red, it darkens and covers green to black in air; S - red; L - metallic; D opaque; DE- 8.9;...copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to...dendritic aggregates come fron1 Mednorudnyansk, Ural mountains, Russia; crystals up to 30 mm ('3/i6in) were found |  | | Book (edition) | | photographs, mostly of large specimens, as well as 104 black-and-white photographs 45 new crystal drawings of...Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...right) topaz, Thomas Mountains, Utah; (lower /eft) rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower...(lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower right, center) mimetite, Tsiimehb, Namibia;...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For |  | | Book (edition) | | examined by Dr. Harry F. Miller of Oceanside, California, who offered numerous helpful suggestions toward...Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, whose helpful suggestions were also incorporated...studios of O. D. Smith, Photographer, La Jolla, California, under the personal direction of the author...William and Violet Dawson, San Marcos, C. California, and many other outstanding private collections...collections, in part exhibited at the shows of the California Federation of Mineralogical Societies, at shows |  | | Book (edition) | | Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...not n1ost mineral species are found to exhibit a range of colors depending on chemical solid solution or...INTRODUCTION Class: Classes are designated by their point group symmetry. Note that as mineralogists we use...monoclinic crystals. The monoclinic holohedral point group symmetry is 2/m and the one symmetry direction...Although we have tried to include a statement of the range, we have not attempted to be comprehensive or inclusive |
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