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Tourmaline from
Royal Gorge Quarry, Fremont County, Colorado, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:'Tourmaline' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:AD3G6 (T6O18)(BO3)3X3Z
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Tourmaline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Royal Gorge Quarry, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:493166
Long-form Identifier:1:3:493166:9
GUID (UUID V4):e325f347-f764-4fc7-bb8d-44d350b30e11
Nearest other occurrences of Tourmaline
10.3km (6.4 miles) R. H. Magnuson Mine (Magnusson Crosscut), Eight Mile Park Pegmatite Mining District, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
10.8km (6.7 miles) Meyers quarry (Meyers Quarry; Meyers-Halstead Quarry; Suzana Claims; Suzanna Claims; Royal Gorge No. 2), Eight Mile Park Pegmatite Mining District, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
12.7km (7.9 miles) Green Mountain Mine (Copper Boy Mine), Grape Creek Mining District (Greenhorn Mining District), Fremont County, Colorado, USA
13.4km (8.3 miles) Consolidated Feldspar Corporation Mine (Feldspar Corporation Mine), Eight Mile Park Pegmatite Mining District, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
20.4km (12.7 miles) Spikebuck Mine, McIntyre Hills Area, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
24.9km (15.4 miles) Ilmenite Pegmatite Occurrence (MRDS - 10010868), Lookout Mountain Area, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
24.9km (15.5 miles) Horsepasture Pegmatites Occurrence, Lookout Mountain Area, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
25.1km (15.6 miles) Jim 3 Mine, Lookout Mountain Area, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
27.2km (16.9 miles) Highway 50 roadcut, Texas Creek Area, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
30.3km (18.8 miles) Chief lithium pegmatite, Texas Creek Area, Fremont County, Colorado, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine (Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA). Ex coll. Rock Currier. Part of the American Mineral...from collections. Several of the real novelties COLORADO MINERAL & FOSSIL SHOW Holiday Inn - Denver Central...Morogoro, also carrying blue quartz/chalcedony and tourmaline. One of the few novelties on everybody's lips...copper crystal from Keweenaw Peninsula (Michigan, USA). Ex coll. countries. \\'hat more Houston Museum...descriptive mineralogy. Just $45 plus $8.50 s/h USA Minerals and their Localities Over 800 pages, 8500
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITES OF EIGHT MILE PARK, FREMONT COUNTY, COLORADOXT E. Wrrr. HerNnrcu, Department of Mineralogy...three to twelve miles west of Canon City, Fremont County, Colorado, includes about 30 square miles that lie...7000 feet in altitude, that is bisected by the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas River, rvhich is nearly 1200...separate paper. 420 PEGMATITES OF EIGHT MILE PARK, COLORADO 42r area are flanked on the east by hogbacks...pegmatites and geology of Eight Mile Park, Fremont County, Colorado. ft is an attempt to interrelate the structure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 20 SOCIETY OF' AMERICA MAY, 1935 No.5 COLORADO PEGMATITES KBNNBTU K. Lauons, Unioersity of Kansas...in every county 'of Colorado along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains from Larimer County on the Wyoming...Wyoming line to Custer County in the south-centralpart of the state, and in scatteredpre-Cambrianareas...The pre-Cambrian schists and granites of Larimer County are cut by numerous pegmatite dikesl which have...mineral phaseoccur in Boulder County.3JeffersonCounty contains both tourmaline and muscovite pegmatites.aComplex
Journal (issue)
by Vandall King. from Orchard Dome, Fort Bend County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036...Fort Bend County, Texas, photo by the author. ,/" 2 Minero! News The Lost Gem Tourmaline Mine: the...the Royal Gorge No. 1 Mine, Eight Mile Park, Fremont Co., Colorado Mark Jacobson 112 N. Lemans St. Lafayette...wrote in Mineral News about the gem tourmaline mine of the Colorado miner, C. A Beghtol. This long lost...Survey library at the Federal Center, Englewood, Colorado. Since the USGS photographic library is only a
Journal (issue)
Rediscovered: The Royal Gorge No. 1 Mine, Eight Mile Park, Fremont County, Colorado Mark Ivan Jacobson...colored tourmaline pegmatite near Royal Gorge (Jacobson 1997), Eight Mile Park, Fremont County, Colorado...colored tourmalines Ben Roesch 6 14 Southern Cross Colorado Springs, CO 80906 (Sterrett 1909). The purpose...April 1998, I received a letter from Ben Roesch of Colorado Springs about his and Joseph Dorris's (Glacier...(Glacier Peak Art and Minerals) rediscovery of the Royal Gorge No. I mine pegmatite based on the published
Journal (issue)
Huizing, 534 I Thrasher Dr, Cincinnati OH 45247 USA Please, make checks payable to Mineralogical Almanac...encourage your submissions. James D. Endicott: Colorado Gem Miner Mark Ivan Jacobson I 08 Farmington Drive...Pearl lPearl I 95 I, p. 15) in his classic, ·'Colorado Gem Trails;' stated that '·no name appears more...history of Colorado gem mining. In 1907, Endicott discoYered amazon stone in Custer County, aquamarine...(later known as the Devils Hole pegmatite), Fremont County and facetable almandine garnets near Canon
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
three feet in length have been found at the Palermo Quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire. Crystals to 150 pounds...from the Devil's Head area southwest of Denver, Colorado, a few years ago. A large milky quartz crystal...257 pounds was found about 1925 at the Bennett quarry, Buckfield, Maine, together with others over three...Connecticut, and from the Mt. Antero region of Colorado. A very large smoky quartz crystal was recovered...quarries near Custer, South Dakota; near the Royal Gorge in Colorado, and elsewhere. Small crystals of rose
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mica Lode pegmatite, Eight Mile Park, Fremont county, colorado. Two other new triplite localities are...district and another pegmatite in El Paso county, colorado. The triplite occurs in hydrothermal replacement...pegmatite deposits of Eight MiIe Park, Fremont County, Colorado, the junior author obtained a number of...25-square mile plateau roughly bisected by the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas River. It is underlain by pre-Cambrian...Arbor, Michigan. 518 TRIPLITE CRYSTALS FROM COLORADO 519 ing belt of Idaho Springs schist. The scutheastern
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Two Point claim, Pikes Peak batholith, Teller County. The Collector’s Edge specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Mail Stop 150, Box 25046 Federal Center Denver, Colorado 80225 pmodreski@usgs.gov C olorado is, of course...been written as guides to mineral collecting in Colorado. A classic, which went through three major editions...1951 version with a slightly different title), is Colorado Gem Trails and Mineral Guide, by Pearl (1951,...up-to-date guidebook to the state’s minerals is Colorado Rockhounding, by Voynick (1994). Other published
Journal (issue)
1 ·C ontents for February, 1941 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY ................... .............................. GEOLOGY OF THE ROYAL GORGE AREA . By F. C. Kessler ........ A RESERVOIR QUARRY IN CONNECTICUT. By...the hill, where it is being wor'quarry Here lies an inexhaustible supply of this valuable...About one and a half verst distance from the iron-quarry, the coppermines exist ; the latter ore is obtained...found--emerald, amethyst, beryl, chrysoberyl, topaz rose tourmaline, and garnets; all highly interesting to the crystal•
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Precambrian Rocks of the Southern Front Range, Colorado ABSTRACT Rb-Sr analyses of whole-rock samples...the Blue Ridge and Royal Gorge areas in the southern part of the Front Range, Colorado, yield ages of 1...igneous and metamorphic events of the Front Range in Colorado. Analyses of minerals separated f r o m t w o...volcanic in origin. These rocks west of Golden, Colorado, were named " I d a h o Springs F o r m a t i...rocks in the southern part of the Front Range, Colorado, in order to examine existing lithologic correlations
Report (volume)
all red stones: spinel, ruby, garnet, and rose tourmaline; the term "sapphire," to lapis lazuli and other...beauty of irregularly colored stones, such as tourmaline. UNIT OF WEIGHT The carat, meaning one-fifth...dikes contain a variety of gem stones, such as tourmaline, beryl (emerald, aquamarine), spodumene (kunzite...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian
Book (edition)
— _ ; COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE ! ■ : ' BOOKS BY RICHARD M. PEARL Colorado Gem Trails...Trails and Mineral Guide Colorado Rocks, Minerals, Fossils America’s Mountain: Pikes Peak and the Pikes...Nature As Sculptor: A Geologic Interpretation of Colorado Scenery Guide to Geologic Literature Popular Gemology...Gemology Mineral Collectors Handbook Colorado Gem Trails The Art of Gem Cutting (With Dr. H. C. Dake)...Dake) * RICHARD M. PEARL ★ COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE ★ SKETCH MAPS BY MIGNON WARDELL PEARL
Book (edition)
MILEAGE L OGS. REVISED EDITION Revised Edition, COLORADO GEM TRAILS AND MINERAL GUIDE HICllAHD :--1. PEARL...an extensive ¥em and mineral collecting tour 01 Colorado, revealing the interesting places where Nature...Swallow, Publisher) 2679 South York Street Denver, Colorado 80210 - , =· - ·, BOOKS BY RICHARD M. PEARL...PEARL Exploring Rocks, Minerals, Fossils in Colorado America's Mountain: Pikes Peak and the Pikes Peak...Atlas of Colorado American Gem Trails Nature As Sculptor: A Geologic Interpretation of Colorado . Scenery
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral in a few pegmatites at Atolia, San Bernardino County, California and also in pegmatites north of the...pegmatite. It is often associated with cassiterite, tourmaline, topaz, iepidolite, apatite, etc. It is usually...earth type of pegmatite as at Barringer Hill, Llano County, Texas where large masses weighing up to four hundred... Red cleavage masses are found at the Gillette quarry at Haddam Neck, Connecticut. The best fluorite...found in the Gem Mines region north of Florissant, Colorado; green cubes and cubo-octahedrons to four inches
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
occurs in dunes on the shore of Dogs Bay, Connemara, County Galway, Ireland. A small sample of this sand has...Howarth, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Wales. Tourmaline Sand from California The following item is taken...sample of tourmaline sand from Mesa Grande Indian Reservation, the site of the old Himalaya tourmaline mine...coarse sand. It consists chiefly of slender pink tourmaline (rubellite xls)—all gemmy and showing little...Carlinville in the town of Carlinville, in Macoupin County, Illinois. It was brought to me by a student at
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
inch diameter crystal was found in the Pulsifer quarry at Auburn, Maine. Six inch crystals have been found...found at West Bethel, Maine, and at the Ruggles quarry, Grafton Center, New Hampshire. Notable excellently...gems. Noted from Pala, California; Mt. Antero, Colorado; some localities in Chester and Delaware counties...the Mica Lode pegmatite near the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Common in the pegmatites of Yavapai...variety essonite or cinnamon stone occur in the tourmaline deposits of Mesa Grande, Pala, and Rincón. Also
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PEGMATITES OF EIGHT MILE PARK, FREMONT couNTY, coLoRADO E. Wm. Heinrich, Deparlment of Mineralogy, Uniaersi...554 .).).) Chlorite Lepidolite Garnet. Beryl Tourmaline. Apatite. Triplite . . Fremontite..... Columbite... Magnusson Crosscut. . . . . Mica Lode. Meyers Quarry. Conclusions. Bibliography. 556 556 556 JJ/ ... 579 583 5d5 PEGMATITES OF EIGHT MILE PARK, COLORADO .).) I MINERALOGY GeNBnar, FnarunBs On the basis... and muscovite. Other important minerals are tourmaline, garnet, apatite, beryl, lepidoIite, triplite
Journal (issue)
After receiving comments that the Goodall Farm Quarry, also known as the Sanford vesuvianite locality...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...land before 11s: rhe making of cmcienr Alberra: Royal Tyrrell Museum. Red Deer College Press, Red Deer...V anadiun1 l\'line, l\fagnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas is Reclaimed and Collecting Ceases...of Colorado Mining History By Arthur E. Smith Jr., a listing of more than 740 books on Colorado Mining
Book (volume)
SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas...Southwestern Quadrant Arizoni, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisicna, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas...Location Numbers Arizona Arkansas California Colorado 258 Louis B30 ana HOW TO USE THIS BOOK...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
December 2014 THE FENGJIASHAN WOLLASTONITE MINE, DAYE COUNTY, HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA. B. Ottens, Klingenbrun-Banhof...visited the Fengjiashan Wollastonite mine in Daye County, and a huge number of well-developed minerals have...PHENAKITE. M. Back1, R. A. Ramik1, and E. Fodi2: 1 Royal Ontario Museum, Mineralogy, Dept. of Natural History...that have not previously been reported. The Gole quarry, approximately 80 kilometers north of Bancroft...positive identification of kamotoite-(Y) from the Gole quarry was confirmed. In 1999, coauthor Fodi found some
Journal (issue)
Gem & Mineral Club News June 2019 Now retired to Colorado, Dr. Carnein was an active member of NMS when...across occur at the Devils Hole mine, in Fremont County, Colorado). More typically, they are on the order...garnet (dark brown). Devils Hole mine, Fremont County, Colorado. (Carnein photo and collection) page...Carnein Lake George Gem & Mineral Club Lake George, Colorado (RMFMS) From: Lake George Gem & Mineral Club News...magnetite; and schorl (the black, iron rich variety of tourmaline). Simple pegmatites range in size from bodies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
it is found at the Hamm quarry in Wakefield and the Parker Mountain quarry in Center Strafford. Another...Another well-known locality is the Strickland quarry near Portland, Connecticut, where the apatite fluoresces...Harding mine in Taos County, New Mexico; the Midnight Owl mine in Yavapai County, Arizona; and the Himalaya...Diego County, California. Fluorescing apatite is also found in some pegmatites of the Royal Gorge area...area in Fremont County, Colorado. It is not difficult to obtain a display specimen of yellow-fluorescing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ALABAMA—Arbacoochee, a tiny town in southern Cleburne County of N / E Alabama, was famous over 100 years ago...Alpine Co., Calif. COLORADO-"Prof. Richard M. Pearl of Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo., told...quartz from the Mica Lode, Royal Gorge District, (Fremont Co. ), Colorado. The garnet ranges in size...AND MINERALS finding of the first uvarovite in Colorado will interest you. Thank You"—Note dated March...George Robertson, Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs, Colorado. CONNECTICUT-"Enclosed are a few almandite
Journal (issue)
• • • ♦ • • • • • 163 CHIPS FROM T HE QUARRY I Editorial Page) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 THE ROYAL GORGE. By F. C. Kessler ....................... 174...Topazfels ( topaz rock) which is a brecciated mass of tourmaline-quartz rock · cemented by quartz and topaz and...rhyolite. 164 ROCKS and MINERALS CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY PETER ZOOAC Our congratulations are extended...COLD By ALLAN CAPLAN Box 42, Golden, Colorado Breckenridge, Colorado, from the mineralogical viewpoint,
 
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