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⇱ Granite from Gem deposit, Lava Gap District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA


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Gem deposit, Lava Gap District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA

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Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Type:Granite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Gem deposit, Lava Gap District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1303230
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1303230:0
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Granite
25.6km (15.9 miles) Pioneer Claim, Grandview Canyon Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
34.0km (21.1 miles) Mockingbird Gap Mine, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
44.7km (27.8 miles) Unnamed Copper Prospect 3, Estey Mining District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
44.7km (27.8 miles) Unnamed Copper Prospect 1, Estey Mining District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
46.7km (29.0 miles) Unnamed Copper Prospect 2, Estey Mining District, Lincoln County, New Mexico, USA
58.3km (36.2 miles) Illinois Group claims, Caballo Mountains Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
59.3km (36.8 miles) Forty-One and Riverside Claims, Caballo Mountains Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
59.5km (37.0 miles) Independence Mine (Bluejacket Mine), Caballo Mountains Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
60.1km (37.4 miles) Governor Prospects (Imperial Prospects), Caballo Mountains Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
60.3km (37.5 miles) Universal Group, Caballo Mountains Mining District, Sierra County, New Mexico, USA
References
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MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...recognizing rock formations; glossary. How to identify gem minerals and judge their value. More than lOO maps...maps, photographs, and line drawings HP EM OWI GEM HUNTER'S G Fifth Revised Edj Russell P. Mac 11 CD...100 maps; 8 pages color = CO This basic book on gem collecting has now been completely revised and expanded...rock formation* which gems occur. The tabular Gem HiJ linear information in er's Guide enables the
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Director Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Featuring Photographs by Harold and Erica Van...Giibelin ~ VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD ~ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ New York Copyright © 1990 by Van Nostrand Reinhold...Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10003 Van Nostrand Reinhold International Company Limited 11 New Fetter Lane...Gemstones Concentrated by Surface Waters: 1 5 The Gem Gravels of Sri Lanka 2. Gemstones Formed from Surface...Gemstones of Igneous-Hydrothermal Origin 3. Hydrothermal Gem Deposits: 35 39 The Emerald Deposits of Colombia
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Director Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Featuring Photographs by Harold and Erica Van...Giibelin ~ VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD ~ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ New York Copyright © 1990 by Van Nostrand Reinhold...Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10003 Van Nostrand Reinhold International Company Limited 11 New Fetter Lane...Gemstones Concentrated by Surface Waters: 1 5 The Gem Gravels of Sri Lanka 2. Gemstones Formed from Surface...Gemstones of Igneous-Hydrothermal Origin 3. Hydrothermal Gem Deposits: 35 39 The Emerald Deposits of Colombia
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BUTTERWORTH-HEINEMANN GEM BOOKS ◊ DB ♦ HOOVER ♦ Butterworth-Heinemann Gem Books Edited by Peter...Nassau Gem Testing, 10th edn B. W. Anderson, revised by E. A. Jobbins Butterworth-Heinemann Gem Books...INTERNATIONAL BOOKS OXFORD MUNICH TOk'YO LONDON NEW DELHI TORONTO BOSTON SINGAPORE SYDNEY WELLINGTON...Data Hoover, D. B. Topaz. - (Butterworth-Heinemann Gem Books Series) I. Title II. Series 553.8 ISBN 0 7506...Madagascar 180 Mexico 180 Mongolia 181 Mozambique 183 Myanmar 183 Namibia 184 New Guinea 184 Nigeria
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GROUP. Green fluorite (121.39 ct), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 ct), Illinois; square...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75... His works are known to almost every collector, gem cutter, gemologist, and mineralogist. His writings...established by Dr. George F. Kunz, of Tiffany & Company, New York City, whose famous Gems and Precious Stones
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O’Donoghue AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO •...Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington MA 01803, USA First published 1962 Second edition 1970 Third edition...1 2 The Geological Sources of Gems Crystalline Gem Materials 3 40 Part II 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13...The Biological Gem Materials The Fashioning of Gemstones Value-Enhanced Gemstones and Gem Materials 292...updated regularly in The Mineralogical Record and new issues seem to come out every four to five years
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Emphasis is on any new information-for example, the peridot discovery in Park County and updates on property...species from Colorado were described, and a few new ones have since been added to the list. There are...in the state, but only a few places yield actual gem material-finding a superior-quality sample that can...can be transformed into a cut and polished gem is most rare! The original scientific and popular interest...crystal specimens came to be known from the state’s granite pegmatites. Smoky quartz, ammonite, and topaz were
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institutions and companies from many countries. The gem deposits of Gondwana, the one time giant southern...Identifying gemstones 35 37 40 42 45 47 49 52 54 Gem spotters' guide to the Northern Hemisphere PART...Bringing up gemstones Gatherings and scatterings of gem deposits Granitic gemstones Large and small gemstone...gemstones Silica gemstones Spinels and garnets Gem feldspars Gem pyroxenes and am phi boles Peridot Zircon...184 United States of America - Hawaii Canada - Mexico and Central America - Honduras - Costa.Rica Columbia
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The current progress in mineralog), with countless new data in books and scientific as well as amateur journals...submitted to, and accepted by, the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...pure freibergite is very rare. The decision that a new mineral species is established when one of the cations...eudialyte, and several other groups: The number of new mineral species may grow as an avalanche, flooding...and long-wave UV light (LW, 365 nm). Recently, a new wavelength of UV, called midwave (~300 nm) has been
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lapidary, tabulated compactly for easy reference. Gem-fashioning processes, too, are described -from simple...about the transformation thatturns a stone into a gem, wili find as much in this book as the enthusiastic...(classifica¬ tion), old systems have given way to new and minerals have been re-allocated to different...the other natural sciences, and this means that new discoveries are constantly being made. Some of these...others instead of naming them as separate species. New minerals are Above: A woodcut from Agricola's great
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lapidary, tabulated compactly for easy reference. Gem-fashioning processes, too, are described — from ...about the transformation that turns a stone into a gem, will find as much in this book as the enthusiastic...CEMSIONES Edited by Michael ODonoghve CRESCENT BOOKS - New York © Orbis Publishing Limited, London and Istituto...(classification), old systems have given way to new and minerals places in have been them, but...the other natural sciences, and this means that new discoveries are constantly being made. Some of
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Book (edition)
QUESTIONS ANSWERED series: Astronomy, Birds, Th e New Science~ The Seashore, Th e Weather. P3 lb 1001...Illinois; bottom left: aurichalcite, Mexico; bottom right: stilbite, New Jersey Following page 118: Specimen...MINERAL KINGDOM From the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age man moved cautiously through the Bronze...Colorado, cubanite from Cuba, kernite from Kern County in California, aragonite from a former kingdom...to contain yttrium, which had been mistaken for a new element. Another mineral name of Greek origin is
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COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE ! ■ : ' BOOKS BY RICHARD M. PEARL Colorado Gem Trails and...Mountain: Pikes Peak and the Pikes Peak Region American Gem Trails Gems, Minerals, Crystals, and Ores: The Collectors...Colorado Gem Trails The Art of Gem Cutting (With Dr. H. C. Dake) * RICHARD M. PEARL ★ COLORADO GEM TRAILS...Colorado National Monument Mesa County Dinosaur National Monument Moffat County Great Sand Dunes National... Montezuma County NATIONAL PARKS IN COLORADO Mesa Verde National Park Montezuma County Rocky Mountain
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comprehcnsin: English I:inguage publication to pbce gem deposits into :1 concise geological and genet- ic...mineralogi- responsible for ,·:irious Yaricties. i\lajor gem deposits and districts arc described for each counrry...in geology and deYelopment of quartz, optical and gem deposits. Professor Kievlenko receiYed mam· a"·ards...formulated principles on exploration of peuso-optic and gem raw materials in the USSR.He actively participated............................ 10 5 1\li:irolitic Granite Peg1natites...................................
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KINGDOM Richard M. Pearl DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. New York Dedicated to Mignon Published in Canada by...work originally published by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, in 1959. In the Dover edition, a Publisher's...work originally published by Dodd, Mead & Company, New York, in 1959. For the Dover edition, a Note has...MINERAL KINGDOM From the Old Stone Age and the New Stone Age man moved cautiously through the Bronze...Colorado, cubanite from Cuba, kernite from Kern County in California, aragonite from a former kingdom
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Journal (issue)
training and high standards exposed me to a whole new world of expertise. www.retailer.gia.edu Ultimate...explanation of the 4Cs exemplified in that particular gem. Lean economy. Less jewelry? At the nexus of the...million, a world record price back then for any gem ever sold at auction. When you have great gems and...from Antetezambato, Northern Madagascar: Review and New Data Federico Pezzotta, Ilaria Adamo, and Valeria...mining activity, production, and distribution of gem andradite from this locality, including a complete
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Book (edition)
gemologists, gem collectors, sourcebook for immediate revised, Color En- gem dealers have... A major feature of this second edition is the new coverage of synthetic gems. In this section you will...special interest, and edition, is a detailed analysis new to this of color and color measurement as applied...REINHOLD New York COMPANY This book is dedicated to Abraham “Edge” Goldstein of Brooklyn, New York. His...Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 115 Fifth Avenue New York, New York 10003 Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Limited
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PRICE KEVIN WALSH DORLING KINDERSLEY LONDON, NEW YORK, MUNICH, MELBOURNE, AND DELHI DK LONDON Senior...triclinic prismatic crystals white calcite e in the USA, Chile, and Russia. PICTURES shades of blue Photographs...becomes a granodiorite; with larger amounts, a granite. These three rock types often occur together in...different aspects of the rock or mineral, including gem cuts, different habits, and colour variations. COMPOSITION...however, and some of the most richly coloured are gem minerals that are beautiful, durable, and rare.
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Book (edition)
JOEL E. AREM, PH.D., FG.A. Since this gem collectors, gem dealers have relied on gemologists, 1977... A major feature of this second edition is the new coverage of synthetic gems. In this section you will...here. Also of special interest, and edition, is new to this a detailed analysis of color and measurement...Ph.D., EGA. VHE VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY New York c Sausalito Public Library i:*~ r~\:t*~*\~...dedicated to Abraham "Edge" Goldstein of Brooklyn, New York. His love of minerals and gems and his generosity
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COLO RAD O GEM T RAILS t.lilky quartz crystals, Ow-ay. Katherine H . Jensen. AND MINERAL GUID E RICHARD...OGS. REVISED EDITION Revised Edition, COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE HICllAHD :--1. PEARL Thb...collectors who want to make the best use of their time. Gem and mineral societies that welcome visitors-museums...Mountains Historical Atlas of Colorado American Gem Trails Nature As Sculptor: A Geologic Interpretation...The Boundary Book Cleaning and Preserving Minerals Gem Identification Simplified Blowpipe and Chemical Testing
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Report (issue)
Association of Canada Printed in Canada THE GEOLOGY OF GEM DEPOSITS Mineralogical Association of Canada Short...Diamond Thomas Stachel 2. The Geology and Genesis of Gem Corundum Deposits Gaston Giuliani, Daniel Ohnenstetter...Daniel D. Marshall & David Turner 79 4. Non-Emerald Gem Beryl David Turner & Lee A. Groat 111 5. Chrysoberyl...161 Daniel Marshall & Lori Walton 8. Pegmatite gem deposits William B. 'Skip' Simmons 169 9. Jade...Sorensen & Virginia B. Sisson 207 10. Colored gem stones from Canada Bradley S. Wilson 255 lll DETAILEDLIST
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Report (issue)
.......... 76 Specifically Rock Creek sapphire district ......................................................... 76 Specifically Dry Cottonwood Creek deposit and the Butte area ..............................for sapphires in the Rock Creek sapphire district, Granite County ........................................modern alluvial deposits. Sapphires at the Yogo deposit are mined directly from an Eocene igneous dike...this interpretation. In evaluating a reported deposit, potential relationship with igneous rocks is a
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Report (issue)
Science by Academic Press. London, England, and New York, N.Y. Akad. Nauk SSSR Doklady- Akademiya Nauk...Sci. - American Journal of Science. University. New Haven, Conn. Botanical Sdciety of America. Kline...Natural History. New York, N.Y. Am. Mus. Novitates - American Museum Novitates. History. New York, N.Y. American...Production Practice Drilling and Production Practice. New York, N. Y. Am. Philos. Soc. Proc. Philadelphia,...Scientist- American Scientist. Society of the Sigma Xi. New Haven, Conn. Am. Soc. Civil Engineers Proc., Jour
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Report (issue)
GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA By F. HAROLD WEBER JR., California...parts of several sections, by R. M. Stewart COUNTY REPORT California Division of Mines Ferry Building...CAMPBELL, Director AND GEOLOGY State Geologist COUNTY REPORT ^ Price $8.00 3 CONTENTS Page ABSTRACT...rocks Split Mountain formation Alverson andesite lava and associated pyroclastic and sedimentary rocks...Land closed to prospecting and mining City and county zoning Water for mining operations Previous descriptions
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FGA. COLOR ENCYCLOP OF GEMSTONE This important new encyclopedia is a milestone in lapidary publishing...complete cross index of familiar gem names. Information on each gem includes chemical formula, crystal...represent today's most sophisticated techniques for gem his own photography. Resulting from three-year...clearly revealing the degree of birefringence in a gem, as well as any inclusions Some of the data provided...published before, such as the dispersion values for 15 gem materials. These values are calculated from
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