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[am mizunaka]

[Chris Wentzell]

I must add a few pegmatite minerals myself:

[GneissWare]

This is the best specimen to come from the commercial mining effort completed in 2004 by John Seibel, Steve Perry and myself when I owned the mining claim. The specimen is 11.9 cm in its longest dimension, and the largest linarite is a complex crystal group approximately 4 cm in length. This one I decided to keep.

[Chris Wentzell]

Here is some more kunzite from the California pegmatites:

[am mizunaka]

A pale double terminated smoky quartz with tourmaline and lepidolite.

[benchambers]

The picture doesn't do them justice.

[am mizunaka]

Etched tourmaline from the Cityscape pocket.

[rweaver]

A superb gem quality transparent pinkish-purple loose striated kunzite crystal. Complete all around - this is a floater with no points of attachment. No damage. Very fine, especially for the locality. Ex Lloyd Tate collection. Now in my San Diego County Collection. Photos and Description by Dan Weinrich. Most likely from the Pala Chief mine but the label does not say that.

[Tobi]

The quartz with elbaite ( https://www.mineral-forum.com/message-board/files/qtztourmaline1_149.jpg ) is really a fine and beautiful specimen, wow!

[Tobi]

[Tobi]

Cinnabar from California:

[Tobi]

Three years since the last post here, far too long ;-)

[Scot Krueger]

Just thought I'd toss this one in from my collecting days in CA. It is a specimen of needle aragonite I found circa 1988 in a vein in serpentinite in the Northern California Coast Ranges.

[Scot Krueger]

And here's another one of my finds from my collecting days in California. This one is a calcite stalagmite from a large vug in marble from near Felton in the Santa Cruz Mountains SW of San Jose, collected circa 1985.

[Jesse Fisher]

Fluorite on quartz from the Felix Mine, near Los Angeles. Although fluorite is not uncommon around the state, the Felix Mine has been one of the only sources of significant specimens.