 | | Book (edition) | | Katharine M. Gohn E. W. M. Johnson of Lincoln, of Mesa, Ariz., Frank Bogart Bean of Madison, Wis., Stephen...gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | _NATUREGRAPH "PUBLISHERS oa a7 ExplORING, ANd MINING GEMS GOLD IN THE WEST FIFTY-FOUR YEARS OF PROSPECTING...who were in the gem mining or lapidary business in San Diego County, California, from 1901 to 1925. ...TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Boyhood Discovery of an Old Mine . ° : 1 2. 3. 4, My Start of a Great Adventure...Adventure - Mostly Underground Experience in the Mine at Aguanga Mountain . . : Fascinating and Difficult...Stones . ° ° ° : Personalities Met on Way Home (San Diego) . ° ° ~ ° : ° 32 38 42 48 61 Oil, . > : |  | | Report (volume) | | the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green...sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully synthesized |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................ California....................................................................................... 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...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 |  | | Report (issue) | | decide whether a certain metalliferous deposit or district should be included or not. The problem was also...other forms) since 1935 is reviewed. New sulfur mining and recovery projects in the United States and...chemical properties of sulfur, the geology and mining operations of the salt-dome sulfur deposits, the...sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration and...Swager, W. L. , and Sullivan, J. D. , 1951, Sulphur: Mining Engineering, vol. 3. , pp. 403409. The history |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cookrob@auburn.edu Beryl, Variety Morganite San Diego County, California O ne of the most popular of all collectible...pegmatites in Southern California. Consequently, in keeping with the California theme of the 2011 Tucson...beryl, so well known from the pegmatites of San Diego County, has been nominated for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...albite from the White Queen mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 11-cm specimen is in...elbaite from the Stewart mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. The 5 × 4 × 3.5-cm specimen |  | | Journal (issue) | | material (natural beryl) and a transparent one (quartz) are placed beside the unknown stones. After a...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....inclusions seen in transparent green grossular, quartz and tanzanite are mentioned. T h e testing of a...Application of goniometry to gemmology. Journ. Mining Coll., Akita Univ., Ser. A, Vol. V, No. 3, 1-21 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from commercial lithium sources such as the Foote mine at Kings Mountain, North Carolina; the giant crystal-bearing...the Black Hills, South Dakota; the Harding mine in Taos County, New Mexico; the enormous Bernic Lake pegmatite...tourmaline, in addition to muscovite, feldspars, quartz, and such interesting associated species as cassiterite...Androscoggin County; Georgetown, Sagadoho County; and Andover and Newry, Oxford County, Maine. Purple...for cabachons was found near Lithia in Hampshire County, Massachussetts. Small fragments of pale purple |  | | Book (volume) | | colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...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 -...variety and wealth of locality information concerning quartz gemstones are recognized in a separate chapter...Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert |  | | Report (issue) | | Lode-Type Gold Mineralization, Hodson District, Calaveras County, California CHAFFEE, M.A., AND KUHL, T.O. ...Dow Chemical #1 Garrigan Drill Hole, Mississippi County, Arkansas DIEHL, S.F., GOLDHABER, M.B., TAYLOR...Fill Above the Rabbit Creek Gold Deposit, Humboldt County, Nevada MADDEN-McGUIRE, D.J., NAESER, C.W., KELLEY...Host-Rock Units in the Getchell Gold Belt, Humboldt County, Nevada MADDEN-McGUIRE, D.J. AND MARSH, S.P......of an Early Proterozoic Rift Basin in the La Esmeralda Area, Guayana Shield, Venezuela SIDDER, G.B., |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...with respect to one another. gem minerals The quartz gems, such as amethyst, form crystal prisms with...another at 60 degrees and intersected by a fourth Quartz and vertical axis at right angles to the other...other, light) FELDSPAR TWINS I J PHENACITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS ffrl (^h /&> ^& \b^ ^ VESUVIANITE |  | | Report (issue) | | Fl at Concluding remarks Playa deposits of the California Desert Drilling results Buried salt bodies of...Figure 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Index map of a part of Esmeralda and Nye Counties, Nevada, showing location of...Index map showing location of bore holes in the California Desert planning area Interpretation of data from...Lithium content of bore-hole samples from the California Desert playa-evaluation project 30 Lithium...analyses of bore hole water samples from the California Desert playa-evaluation project 34 7. 8. 9 |  | | Journal (issue) | | GRIEGER'S • 1633 E. WALNUT ST. • PASADENA 4, CALIFORNIA OUR STORE IS OPEN EVERY DAY 8:30 A.M. UNTIL 5:00...Museum, Highland Park. Los Angeles, Calif. Dec. 2 — San Antonio Day at La Loma, near Taos, N.M. Firelight...13-14 — Southern California Chapter, Sierra Club, knapsack trip to Long Valley, in San Jacinto Mts., Calif...Christmas Eve, 1775, the first white child born in California. Dec. 24 — Night Procession of the Virgin, with...Dances after Midnight Mass in mission churches, San Felipe, Laguna and Isleta Pueblos, N.M. Dec. 24—Christmas |  | | Report (volume) | | Geological Survey office, Room 724, Appraisers Building, San Francisco, Calif. SL Geological Survey office, Room...of the Shinarump No. 1 uranium mine, Seven Mile Canyon area, Grand County, Utah: TEI-287, Jan. 11, 1954...Results of exploration at the Old Leyden coal mine, Jefferson County, Colo.: TEM-292, Mar. 30, 1953. D, GJ....N., The pegmatites of the Errington-Thiel mine, Elko County, Nevada: TEI-71, Dec. 28, 1949. Office of...Ridge, and West End claims near Clancy, Jefferson County, Mont.: TEM-31, Oct. 19, 1951. D, SL, T. (332, |  | | Journal (issue) | | page 2 Fig. 1 Barrerite, 21/4 inches long, with quartz, Kuiu Island, Alaska, Gary McWilliams collection...some of the words used to describe a lluorite mine in the San Andres Mountains of New Mexico. The author...location for a possible collectin_g ve~ture. The mine was determined to be the Bohrnstedt lluonte mme...mme and was located near Sulphur Canyon in the San Andres Mountains. The problem was that it was within...for us to reach the mine. This was accomplished and we eventually reached the mine (which included a hike |  | | Report (issue) | | and Grade-Tonnage Information on Low-Sulfide Au-Quartz Veins by James D. Bliss and Gail M. Jones Open-File...nomenclature. 1. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction.............mineralogy of deposits classifed as lowsulfide Au-quartz veins were compiled for deposits found throughout...deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...tabulation have characteristics of low-sulfide Au-quartz veins as described in Berger (1986). These deposits |  | | Book | | The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission...is * CONTENTS Foreword Preface Important Mining Districts Discovery and Developments in México...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in México, which produce fine mineral...geologists, mineralo- x / Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors |  | | 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 | | The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission... CONTENTS • Foreword lX Preface Xl Important Mining Districts 1 Discovery and Developments in Mexico...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in Mexico, which produce fine mineral...geologists, mineralo- LX x I Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors |  | | 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 | | 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 |
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Esmeralda Mine, Mesa Grande, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA