| | 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 | | 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...cooling history, field diffusion, Little Three mine, Ramona, California. Introduction The coarse grain-size | | | 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 | | | 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 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...discovered at the Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California, by Ed Swoboda and Bill Larson. The...web site at www.wmtucson.com DANBURITE – Aurora Mine, Charcas, SanLuis Potosi, Mexico When in Tucson | | | 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) | Crystallization of the Little Three layered pegmatite-aplite dike, Ramona District, California Received: 24 March...currently is little concensus as to how such dikes form. The Little Three dike near Ramona, California, is representative...100 East Boyd Street, SEC 810 Norman, OK 73019, USA; Fax: (405) 325-3140; e-mail: gmorgan@ou.edu Editorial...investigation of the Little Three pegmatite-aplite dike from the Ramona district, California, feldspar compositions...the George Ashley Block pegmatite (Mesa Grande District, CA) accumulated by crystal settling. Consistent | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | for all or portions of three thin granitic pegmatite dikes in southern California are derived from feldspar...compositions. Feldspar solvus thermometry from these three dikes indicates that their pegmatite-forming melts...Norman, OK 73019, USA 2 Drillinginfo, 440 Louisiana St., Suite 400, Houston, TX 77002, USA characteristic...liquids. We present data for three thin pegmatite dikes from southern California. Assessments of chemical...results are of questionable accuracy. The remaining three studies indicate 13 Contributions to Mineralogy | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | home on January 8, 1998 at the age of 51 after a three-year battle with lymphoma. Gene was a career scientist...mineralogy and paragenesis of pegmatites from San Diego County, California. He will also be remembered for his...Gene was born at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California, November 20, 1946. Gene, a RH-factor baby, had...Pala district, spring 1991. 2. Gene Foord with his friend George Ashley at Hiriart Mountain, San Diego...Diego County, California, 1986. 3. Gene in Jackson, Wyoming, August 1996, on his way back to Denver after | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Pala Chief and Elizabeth R composite dikes, California Adriana Heimann 1 & Jason A. Yonts 1 & Michael...Elizabeth R layered pegmatite-aplite dikes, Pala District, California, and the significance for felsic melt evolution...27858, USA 2 Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013, USA incompatible...Gahnite . Aplite . California . Elizabeth R . Pala Chief . Zoning . Evolution . Pala District Introduction...pegmatite-aplite dikes from the Pala District of the Southern California Pegmatite Province. Gahnite has not | | | Journal (issue) | ou sur rendez-vous Elbaite - 7,1 cm de largeur Mine Hima/aya,Mesa Grande,Californie,U.S.A. Coll. : 8...Scovil • Barite surfluorite Crista/: 4 x 3 x 0,4 cm Mine de /'Ave/lan, Var Coll. : G. Mari Photo : l.-D....Jesse FISHER 380 PennsylvaniaAvenue- San Francisco- CA 94107- USA (Traduitde l'anglaispar J. GALVIER)...exploitations teltes qu'Himalaya,TourmalineQueen au Little Three se trouvent aujourd'hui dans les collections...des monts San Jacinto, dans le centre du comte de Riverside,traversele comte de San Diego et se prolongejusqu'a | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma 73019 USA * Corresponding author. ABSTRACT of Crystallization...with cooling and time. These can be recognized as three stages of crystallization in order: (1) primary...tourmaline, spodumene, topaz, and garnet offer little insight into their temperatures of crystallization...samples from California ur (stilbite-Ca and laumontite at Ocean View, Himalaya, and Little Three) and Afghanistan... heulandite). Stilbite-Ca from the Little Three mine, California, (Table 9 of London et al., 2012) is | | | 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 | | | Report (issue) | 101:31(2)± Z = [4] X-ray Powder Pattern: Little Three mine, California, USA. 3.569 (100), 4.391 (80), 3.008 (80)...4.55 0.22 < 0.05 0.32 100.46 (1) Little Three mine, California, USA; by a combination of electron microprobe...quartz, microcline, topaz. From the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego Co., California, USA. Presumably...National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D.C., USA, 166821. References: (1) Foord, E.E., R.F. Martin...group, from the Little Three mine pegmatite, Ramona district, San Diego County, California. Amer. Mineral | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Rock crystals occur at many localities. Some over three feet in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry...150 pounds in weight have been found at Pala, California. A fortyfour pound crystal nineteen inches in...quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three feet in length. Haddam Neck, Connecticut, and from...Hampshire, and from Pala, Rincón, and Mesa Grande, California. Amethyst quartz crystals have been found occasionally...occasionally at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, to three inches in length. Other amethyst crystal localities | | | 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) | Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, USA a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...individual parts, they have received surprisingly little investigation as a whole; that is, as rocks, through...aplite 2 cm b 2 cm Fig. 1. Graphic granite, Ramona, California. (a) Viewed perpendicular to the a-axis direction...Manebach twin planes. Swamp dike, Little Three mine, Ramona, California (USA). Pegmatites share textural...pegmatite from near Palomar Mountain, San Diego County, California, shows typical zonation and texture | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | is from Leiper’s quarry at Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Peters 1984). When the spessartine...to 7 cm across occur near Middletown, Middlesex County, and massive spessartine and relatively small crystals...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...HUK [OL *PU JPUUH[P4PULYHS:VJPL[` Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Detailed work by Lindsley and Peters | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | materials scientist who recently retired after twenty-three years at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is now...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 | | | 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) | 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 purest quartz in the world. At the height of mining, it employed some 240 workers and their families...equipment, and weather conditions add to the problem. Mining at Neroika is done in drifts cut into the mountainside | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | transforming the early-formed disordered K-feldspar to microcline below 450°C. As it becomes progressively enriched...pegmatite. There, it is aggressive toward the microcline perthite, which is replaced by cleavelanditic...igneous rocks. The graphic intergrowth of perthitic microcline + quartz, or of albite + quartz, for example...a K-rich feldspar other than microcline are exceedingly rare. Microcline enters its field of stability...the conversion of a disordered K-feldspar to microcline is a very sluggish, H-catalyzed subsolidus process | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | environments of the minerals they collect (previous three: London 2015, 2016, 2017a). In these articles, the...slow, steady, and constant environment in which little changed. Müller, Ihleni, and Kronz (2008), who...interstices between crystals of graphic quartz-microcline intergrowths. A continuum of the same massive...individual quartz blebs are highly interconnected in three dimensions, forming a network through the feldspar...constitute a graphic intergrowth with the host microcline grew upward in a vertical orientation in this | | Foord, Eugene E., Martin, Robert F., Fitzpatrick, Joan J., Taggart, Joseph E., Jr.,, Crock, James G. (1991) Boromuscovite, a new member of the mica group, from the Little Three mine pegmatite, Ramona district, San Diego County, California. American Mineralogist, 76 (11-12) 1998-2002 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | group, from the Little Three mine pegmatite,Ramonadistrict San Diego County, California EucnNBE. Foono...Pocket, main Little Three pegmatite dike, Ramona district, San Diego County, California. The mineral...The Little Three layered pegmatite-aplite intrusion is located in the Ramona pegmatite district of central...central San Diego County, California (Foord et al., 1989). Bodies of granitic pegmatiteon the Little Three...Three mine property have been the subject of study since their discovery in 1903. The voluminous literature | | | Book | ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and Malachite...crystals and their atomic arrangement. There are three basic forms of symmetry: n1irror, rotation, and...eventually grew to the present enclave of twen ty-three buildings, forming the largest natural history museum...Willian, Boyce Thompson, founder of the Newmont Mining Corporation, along with an endowment that enables...SiO, • nH,O 213 Feldspar group (see also gems) Microcline KAISi3O8 214 Labr adorite (see gems) Ca05 Na0 |
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