 | | Journal (issue) | | our website! March Meeting Program: Maine’s Tourmaline Pegmatites details on page 14 In this issue...Watermelon, and so is watermelon tourmaline. Watermelon tourmaline is a particular, informal form of...members, No in-person social events for now! Tourmaline is a large family of minerals; in fact, it is...people, especially mineral collectors, think of tourmaline, they see elbaite in their mind’s eye, usually...example the Smithsonian’s beautiful “Candelabra” from Pala, CA. It features three large pink elbaite crystals |  | | Book | | (41/i in. ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and...page 233. Page 2: Gemstone crystals including tourmaline, aquamarine, emerald, morganite, heliodor, topaz...Willian, Boyce Thompson, founder of the Newmont Mining Corporation, along with an endowment that enables...and wille1nite, a zinc silicate, is nan1ed after King Wille1n Frederik of the Netherlands. The chart below...1BSi,O,5(OH) 163 Beryl Be1Al 2Si 6O18 164- 171 Tourmaline group (see gems also) Elbaite Na(Li,Al)iAli BO3)3Si |  | | Report (issue) | | extraLapis English No. 3: Tourmaline Publisher Lapis International, LLC; East Hampton, CT Concept &...International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993 extraLapis English No. 3 Tourmaline A Gemstone...Francis, Maximilian Glas, Robert E. Kane, Vandall T. King, John I. Koivula, Ole V. Petersen, Alfredo Petrov...AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline - History in Brief .... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tourmaline: The Kaleidoscopic Gemstone 7.7 carat fancy bluegreen Namibian tourmaline (set in 18 k gold)...top-quality “neon” blue-to-green, copper-bearing tourmaline, the Paraíba-type, is one of the highest-priced...species. KEYWORDS : tourmaline, gemstone, Paraíba-type, chromophores, gem deposits TOURMALINE AS A GEMSTONE...GEMSTONE Perhaps more than any other gemstone, tourmaline is renowned for its spectrum of colors, even within...within individual crystals (FIG. 1). In addition, tourmaline has the appropriate combination of beauty, durability |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...328 History Toramalli, a short history of the tourmaline grou p ....................... 331 by F. Benesch...Benesch and B. Wohrmann Mineralogy The tourmaline group: a resume........................................P. Orlandi and P. B. Scortecci M aine Maine tourmaline.......................................................................413 by A. M. Bassett California Recent work at the Himalaya m in e ......... |  | | Book (volume) | | 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 |  | | Book | | 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...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica... 48 mm, El Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on...from Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Fine crystals were also found in Berezovsk, Ural |  | | Book | | copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23 x...(5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica...jewelry, electronics. Gold, 411 mm. El Dorado, California. U.S.A. Gold Au CUBIC • • Properties: C...gold found in many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf |  | | Journal (issue) | | Petersburg University specimens **- St.-Petersburg Mining Museum specimens 2 W o r l d of Stones. Ng 1 I...(admixture of Cr''). Height 7cm. b. Polychromatic tourmaline. 5. Fine zoned crystals. a. Synthetic quartz...the authors of this article, was opened in the Mining Museum of St. Petersburg not long ago and another...Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...popularity in the world, while it is the leader in the USA. Recently, well known jewelry stones have been joined |  | | Book | | [(OH)5 (P04)4]' 6 H20 (monoclinic, brown) Rotlăufchen Mine near Wetzlar/FRG Original size 5 x 6 mm ISBN-13:...a deeper view of the crust in mines. The deepest mine shafts are those of the gold mines in the Witwatersrand...about 16 km lies in the fact that the processes of mountain building and faulting have brought deeper materials...mineral derives from the Latin minare, meaning mining, and mina, the shaft. Therefore mineral became...metallic appearance and a high density. From a mining point of view, however, many other minerals are |  | | Book | | Topaz 190 218 Tortoise Shell 195 196 218 Tourmaline 201 219 Tsavorite 224 Onicolo Onyx 158...178 Pleonaste 204 204 Sodalite Variscite Verdelite Smithsonite (Bonamite) We 224 Venus Hair Stone...would display on special occasions. The Egyptian king Ramses impressed Assyrian ambassadors with his lapis...prehistoric tombs has yielded bone and shell parures. The mining of and common uses for ornamental stones have been...quartz scarab with the cartouche of the Egyptlan king Thutmose Ill, who reigned from around 1504-1450 |  | | Book (edition) | | JanH. BernardandJaroslavHyrsl Editedby VandallT. King GRflnil 2004 by Granit. s.r.o. 2004 Text bv Jan...Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...complicated compositions, e.g. the amphibole, mica, tourmaline, labuntsovite, eudialyte, and several other groups:...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g. |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | ASSOCIATES, TAMPA With Sections by VANDALL T. KING ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK...compelation of the American Geological Institute, 4220 King St., Alexandria, VA, 22302-1502. However, without...Sharon Cisneros: Minerological Research Co., San Jose, California. Andrew M. Clark: Dept. of Mineralogy, Natural...Currier: Jewel Tunnel Imports, Baldwin Park, California. Stanley Dyl: Seaman Mineralogical Museum, Michigan...Canada. Richard C. Erd: U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, California. Howard T. Evans: U.S.G.S., Reston, Virginia |
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Tourmaline King Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA