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Zircon from
Little Three Mine, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Comments:Occurs chiefly or wholly in pocket pegmatite.
Abundance at site:Very Rare
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Little Three Mine, Ramona, Ramona Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:12186
Long-form Identifier:1:3:12186:2
GUID (UUID V4):c94df498-3fa5-4850-9609-eaf8422e85e5
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
17.2km (10.7 miles) Himalaya Mine, Gem Hill, Mesa Grande Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
30.9km (19.2 miles) Dehesa, San Diego County, California, USA
31.8km (19.7 miles) Cryo-Genie Mine (Cryogenie Mine; Cindy B-Cryogenie claim; Lost Valley Truck Trail prospect), Warner Springs, Warner Springs Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
43.9km (27.3 miles) Stewart Mine, Tourmaline Queen Mountain (Pala Mtn; Queen Mtn), Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
44.0km (27.4 miles) Elizabeth R. Mine (Hazel W. claim), Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
44.2km (27.5 miles) Hazel W. prospect, Elizabeth R. Mine (Hazel W. claim), Chief Mountain, Pala, Pala Mining District, San Diego County, California, USA
60.1km (37.3 miles) Juan Diego Mine No. 1 (Juan Diego No. 1 deposit; Rainbow Mine; Rainbow prospects), Little Cahuilla Mountain, Cahuilla Mining District, Riverside County, California, USA
71.4km (44.4 miles) Bautista Canyon, Cahuilla Mining District, Riverside County, California, USA
86.7km (53.9 miles) Southern Pacific Silica Quarry (Southern Pacific deposit; Nuevo Mine; Southern Pacific Quarry; S.P. Silica Quarry; S.P. Mine; Nuevo Quarry), Nuevo, Lakeview Mountains, Riverside County, California, USA
98.0km (60.9 miles) Val Verde tunnel, Mead Valley, Riverside County, California, USA
References
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Journal (issue)
Brendan M. Laurs, and Marcelo de Oliveira Bernardes Mining activities for these vivid cuprian elbaites are...pg. 261 Spessartine Garnet from Ramona, San Diego County, California Brendan M. Laurs and Kimberly Knox...on amethyst, citrine, and ametrine from the Anahí mine, Bolivia • “Copal” resin from Madagascar • Iolite...Rock” cabochons • Tourmaline from Warner Springs, California • Synthetic topaz • Exhibits, announcements,...Mary L. Johnson Carlsbad, California George Rossman Pasadena, California John Emmett Brush Prairie
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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
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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
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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 (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
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
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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
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
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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
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Although overshadowed by diamond and the "big three" (emerald, sapphire, and ruby), topaz is nevertheless...true topaz, included citrine, yellow sapphire, zircon, and even garnet. Hoover (1992) states that Henckel...Location map of major topaz deposits. 1. San Diego County, California pegmatites; 2. western U.S. topaz rhyolite...rhyolite belt (includes some pegmatites); 3. Mason County, Texas; 4. topaz rhyolite belt of Mexico; 5. Appalachian...of Cornwall, England, and France; 9. Erzgebirge district, Saxony, Germany; 10. Volyn and Kiev pegmatite
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) 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...perpendicular axes One 6-fold axis BENITOITE ZIRCON TRIGONAL SYSTEM: TETRAGONAL SYSTEM: One 3-fold...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
Catalog/List
Director San Francisco Roberta Kramer Managing Director Chicago BEVERLY HILLS NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO...“rough” directly from mine owners. Over the years, he befriended many of these mine owners and would travel...occurring. The stone exhibits a native cut as the mine owner would not let the “rough” leave the country...Bi-Color Tourmaline - 6.23 Cts. California, USA Tourmaline from California can make for some of the most...Rhodochrosite - 8.65 Cts. Pasto Bueno, Pampas District Pallasca Province Áncash, Peru This nearly 9 carat
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
portal of the San Diego Tourmaline mine, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County, California, during 1986...community worldwide. Dr. Foord was born in Berkeley, California, 20 November 1946, to Beth and Del Foord. He...Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County, California, and its gem tourmaline deposits...included McDermitt, Nevada; the Golden Sunlight mine and the Stillwater complex, Montana; Round Mountain...niobium-tantalumoxide rynersonite from the San Diego mine (Foord and Mrose 1978).A simple list of the
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
Report (issue)
O3 [(OH)0.93 F0.05 ]Σ=0.98 . (2) Little Three mine, California, USA; corresponds to Be2.00 B1.00 O3 [(OH)0...Association: Beryl, danburite, apatite, spodumene, zircon, fluorite, feldspar, quartz. Distribution: From...Tribic; Sušice; and elsewhere. From between San Ilario and San Piero in Campo, Elba, Italy. In Madagascar...Anjanabanoana. In the USA, fine crystals from the Little Three mine, near Ramona, and the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande...Grande district, San Diego Co., and in the Jensen quarry, Riverside Co., California; large crystals from
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Anderson and Payne, diamonds should be classified into three main groups, according to the colour of their ultraviolet...been identified by x-ray techniques, and a further three are completely new as diamond inclusions. T h e... brackets. T h e photograph in Plate V I depicts one of three diamonds in which a dense white cloud of particles...particles was observed ; these being less than three microns in diameter. T h e shape of the cloud is here...orange; some having a colour similar to topaz and zircon for which they have probably been mistaken by some
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019 USA (email: dlondon@ou.edu) ABSTRACT Pegmatites are...igneous rocks themselves, which consist mostly of three principal mineral components in or close to their...carries implications for resource assessment. A little-known but important feature of pegmatites is that...proposed that Li-rich pegmatites of the Black Hills district, South Dakota, might be unrelated to the Harney...trench, and coring program conducted in Colorado (USA) during WWII generated modal analyses of 1,803 pegmatites
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involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at the Pomona Fairgrounds Mrs. Kay Robertson...103341/ona Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90064 This year's California Show was held again in Pomona, but luckily in...the variety of minerals occurring in Southern California, there are many excellent field collectors. ...Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens, that were already...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites
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the location of the ternary feldspar solvus at three temperatures, and of the cotectic. The point z marks...anorthite, P-anorthite: primitive anorthite. There are three solvi; from left to right, Peristerite, Bøggild...relative depletion in lithium, cesium and tantalum, three elements that are enriched in granitic pegmatites...perthite, pyrochlore-group minerals and fersmite, zircon and native bismuth (De Vito et al. 2006). In addition...Fe2+ and Mg in the Anjanabonoina pocket; these three cations generally behave coherently in other contexts
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
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kande, San Diego Eountg, Ealifiornia 7 Los Angeles County II ,J - r J--4 ‘*- \ Orange County f ... San Bernardino Coun -----. I--L-L--- \,-. 1 Cahuilla Mt. X x Thomas Mt- L-. JESSE FISHEK 380...380 Pennsylvania Ave. San Francisco, California 94107 EUGENE E. FOOKD M.S.905, U.S. Geological Survey Box...BRICKER 410 East Elder Fallbrook, California 92028 T he Himalaya mine has been the largest producer of...include specimens from this mine. Since it was first claimed in 1898, mine production has been highly
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...individual quartz blebs are highly interconnected in three dimensions, forming a network through the feldspar...specimen is from the Swamp dike, Little Three mine, Ramona, California. Figure 5 (below). A cross section...portion of a pegmatite dike from the Little Three mine, Ramona, California, shows graphic granite as an upward-coarsening
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^ '“ P r . . . I West Orange SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY 9048 00992838 7 257989 R q549...q549 PEMBERTON, H.E MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA P 2995 IpSl q 49 f 07. 257889 ^ pe B T 5 w! balJ E...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
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...have been found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...mineral exhibit in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966)...Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines and Geology Francisco
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the opening of our gallery in the Chelsea Art District of NYC. Presenting fine minerals among the world’s...Chalcopyrite) Cata Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 10 Adamite (Manganoadamite) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango,..., Morocco, 48-49 Apatite (with Bikitaite) Foote Mine, Kings Mountain, Cleveland Co., North Carolina,...Div., Myanmar, 22 Aphthitalite PCA Intrepid Potash Mine, Carlsbad, New Mexico, 22 Axinite (Magnesio-Axinite)...Pakistan, 7 Azurite (& Malachite) "Sams Pocket", Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 20-21 Bastnaesite (on Calcite)
 
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