 | | 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...archive 2 Table of Contents Page 58 Mellow Yellow: Heliodor and Golden Beryl Michael Wise Page 61 The Mysterious |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cookrob@auburn.edu Beryl, Variety Morganite San Diego County, California O ne of the most popular of all collectible...emerald and aquamarine, and to a lesser extent heliodor, morganite, bixbite (red beryl), and goshenite...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 |  | | Book | | (41/i in. ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and...Gemstone crystals including tourmaline, aquamarine, emerald, morganite, heliodor, topaz, kunzite, spodumenc...grouped 13 the other beryl gems-aquan1arine, heliodor, and morganite-with e1nerald in order to keep...Willian, Boyce Thompson, founder of the Newmont Mining Corporation, along with an endowment that enables...1BSi,O,5(OH) 163 Beryl Be1Al 2Si 6O18 164- 171 Tourmaline group (see gems also) Elbaite Na(Li,Al)iAli BO3)3Si |  | | Journal (issue) | | 56; Amazonite-JeffKremer collection, page 165; Heliodor-Jim Gibbs coUection, page 113. Inside front cover:...from Naica, Mexico---Stephen Blyskal and Sigrid Stewart collection; Pyromorphite-Carol & Karl Waming collection...Allred Michael Biavati Steve Blyskal & Sigrid Stewart Paul Bordovsky Dave & Marcie Bristol Kevin & Mark...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Background image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the back of...of American Gems worked ledge. Kunzite and gem tourmaline American Gemstones – What They Are and (in the...from the Oceanview Mine in Southern California; the 0.72-ct benitoite (left California Gems – More Than...Dallas Gem Mine area, San America’s Royal Gems – Montana and Yogo Sapphires Benito County, California; the...U.S. State of Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing Turquoise ite Country, Montana |  | | 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...across a local area net\,vork. Subscription offices: USA/North America: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 530 Walnut...Copyright Clearance Center (www.copyright.com) in the USA or the Copyright Licensing Agency (www. cla.co.uk) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | J O H N SINKANKAS 5372 Van Nuys Court San Diego, California 92109 T H E D E S O L A T E W A S T E S...plumes of debris at the mouths of over one hundred mine openings. Imbedded solidly in mica schist, the treasure...and, similarly, in the gem gravels of the Mogok district of Burma. Emeralds, especially, were known to...withstood the ravages of time. It is probable that mining for emerald commenced as early as twenty-five hundred...3: Golden yellow, complexly terminated beryl (heliodor) (10 cm tall), from Minas Gerais, Brazil; A M |  | | Journal (issue) | | Shaokui Pan Comparison of Emeralds from the Chitral District, Pakistan, with other Pakistani and Afghan Emeralds...Conference | Nineteenth Annual Sinkankas Symposium: San Diego County Gems and Minerals Learning Opportunities...Alonso-Perez Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Alan D. Hart Gem-A, London Karl Schmetzer Petershausen...Edward Boehm RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA Brian Jackson National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh...Mary L. Johnson Mary Johnson Consulting, San Diego, California, USA Alan T. Collins King’s College London |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...100-year history of the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County collection;...Benitoite Gem mine will note the portion of the story devoted to the 1935 visit to the mine by collecting...interest in science led him to the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (Michigan Tech) in Houghton, where |  | | Journal (issue) | | underground workings to help me dig specimens in the San Francisco, the Flux, the Red Cloud, the Old Yuma..."Blue-Cap" Tourmaline, 13.2 cm, from the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California. BACK COVER:...COVER: Copper, 13.5 cm, from the Ray Mine, Pinal County, Arizona. Copyright © 2007 The Mineralogical Record...77, 89, 109,127,139,165,179,184 (Emerald) 157 (Heliodor) 43, 81 (Morganite) 69, 113, 149 Beryllonite 93...143, 184 Sulfur 91 Topaz 39, 73, 87, 103, 152 Tourmaline 27, 67, 79, 97, 121, 155, 161, 169, 185, front |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s...fine minerals on DVD wilensky Fluorite, Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Wilensky Fine Minerals...Cal and Kerith Graeber Richard Graeme Bill Larson, Pala International Rob Lavinsky, the Arkenstone John... Epidote and Associated Minerals from Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Alaska Chapter authors | | | Book (volume) | | The Bowers Museurn of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller...Idaho; rectangular step cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange...red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62 et), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rho...Kern Cowny, California; octagonal seep cut violetish pink kunzite (26.61 et), Pala, California. NECKLACE...blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75 diainonds |  | | Report (issue) | | muscovite. Common accessory minerals include garnet, tourmaline, and apatite. The major lithium ore minerals...the gemstones are: the beryl varieties emerald, heliodor, and aquamarine; the spodumene varieties kunzite...kunzite and hiddenite; and watermelon tourmaline. LCT pegmatites are also mined for ultrapure quartz, potassium...pegmatites; among the important districts were King’s Mountain, North Carolina, and the Black Hills, South Dakota...convergent-margin orogens (Himalaya pegmatite, California) and collisional orogens (Mt. Mica, Maine). Contrary |  | | Book (volume) | | colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand...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 -...Furcron, Chief Geologist of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology; on the State of Michigan by Robert |  | | Journal (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ...after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...to be donated in his name to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Friends and admirers...comptroller of the fund), 625 Market Street, Suite 802, San Francisco, CA 94105. Checks should be made payable |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Schuh & W. E. Wilson The Minh Tien tourmaline mine, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam . ....443 by D. Blauwet Tourmaline from the Minh Tien pegmatite, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province,...Biographical Archive: John Grieger and Thomas Warner, California mineral dealers and collectors . . . . . . ....(Bunny later coauthored, with Richard W. Holmes, Mine and Mineral o he rea merican Ri .) Curtis had first |  | | 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...AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline - History in Brief .......Mineralogy of the Tourmaline Group . . . 10 Species by Species - The Minerals of the Tourmaline Group ..... |  | | Journal (issue) | | Leicht KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...Society, supported gem and mineral shows around the county as a museum exhibitor and speaker, and served on... He started his own company, Phoenix Mineral & Mining Associates, Inc., and mined opal at Virgin Valley...TRINCHILLO | w w w. FineMineral.com Tourmaline Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil. 19.5 cm Fine Minerals International |  | | Catalog/List | | BONHAMS 7601 W. Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90046 bonhams.com PREVIEW Friday November 21...2295 CATALOG: $35 Bonhams 220 San Bruno Avenue San Francisco, California 94103 © 2015, Bonhams & Butterfields...is exempt by law from the payment thereof, any California, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia...retain all rights of a secured party under the California Commercial Code. If the foregoing conditions...hereunder are governed by the laws of the State of California. By bidding at an auction, each purchaser and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quartz-magnetlte-schists in the Bababudan Hills, Kadur district, Mysore. Baeumlorite. O. Reuner, 1912. Centralblatt...22. A greenish, foliated mineral, from Mt. LyeU mine, Tasmania ; it had previously been described as...T. Batchelor, formerly manager of the Mr. Lyell mine. SIXTH LIST OF NEW MINR~ar. NAMES. S~5 ~suerite...six-sided plates. Named from the locality, Beaver County, Utah. Belmontite. G. Kttstel. R. Koechlin, Mineralogisches...found as white crystalline grains in the Nelson district, British Columbia, Canada. Named after the country |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quartz-magnetlte-schists in the Bababudan Hills, Kadur district, Mysore. Baeumlorite. O. Reuner, 1912. Centralblatt...22. A greenish, foliated mineral, from Mt. LyeU mine, Tasmania; it had previously been described as pyrophyllite...T. Batchelor, formerly manager of the Mr. Lyell mine. SIXTH LIST OF NEW MINR~ar. NAMES. S~5 ~suerite...six-sided plates. Named from the locality, Beaver County, Utah. Belmontite. G. Kttstel. R. Koechlin, Mineralogisches...found as white crystalline grains in the Nelson district, British Columbia, Canada. Named after the country |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorescence | New Finds at the Tourmaline King Mine, Pala, California, USA | A New Amber Imitation: Amber-Epoxy...Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Edward Boehm RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA Maggie Campbell Pedersen...Emmett Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA Emmanuel Fritsch University of Nantes, France Alan...Mary L. Johnson Mary Johnson Consulting, San Diego, California, USA Stefanos Karampelas Laboratoire Français...Shigley Gemological Institute of America, Carlsbad, California Christopher P. Smith American Gemological Laboratories |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Muscovite crystals forming a 10-cm rosette, Jose Pinto mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Table 3. Interlayer-deficient...spectacular recent find of muscovite was at the Jose Pinto mine, where more than a ton of beautifully crystallized...(manganoan) varieties are found at the Harding mine, Taos County, New Mexico (Jahns and Ewing 1977). Fuchsite...forms huge crystals. At Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal district, Russia, it forms large, dark red-brown (but surprisingly...a number of localities. At the Stewart pegmatite in Pala, California, compact lepidolite masses containing |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............................................ 55 USA ...................................................of InColor: International Gemmological Institute, USA/Belgium; Cody Opal, Australia ; Richard and Mary...Gemstar, Israel; Tom Cushman, USA/ Madagascar; Pala International, USA; Sokolov Co., Russia; Sant Enterprises...Hong Kong; The Gemological Institute of America, USA. InColor l Spring 2006 3 p4 21/05/2006 12:41 Page...Street, 7th Floor, Suite 705 New York, NY 10010-6805, USA tel: (212) 620-0900 fax: (212) 352-9054 website: |
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