e re spec 
lrennrase is a Pendhucene Praeie 
bluish-green or yellow-green chalced- 
ES 
arte bor setae of small 
o Muchacha 
ave been dis- 
DIAMOND—A small stone was re- 
adage in 1898 as ha siubey been found in 
ifornia, extant 50 miles south 
monds have not been 
reported from San 
4 States pee 
semi-preciou 
bets ong a var- 
. Beck as 
valley, U 
at this Sehr: occurs near 
ee ig ma are 
as occuring Diego 
LUMNITE — . Fiexthie ‘sand- 
he 
from 
alley. but "Ens not been seen 
= The West American Scientist. 
ferior varieties are yet known in Cali- 
u 
some three miles from Granite Peak. 
ig hyalite 
ERIDOT—New Mexic < 
nok RT Z—Fine cr vatete have been 
found in the lithia mine at Pala, from 
which some beautiful stones have been 
cut. 
A beautiful fragment was found on the 
agoteagins south of Ensenada. 
Rose quartz in magnificent masses 
has sli foun by the writer near 
Mesa Grand 
UBELLIT ‘E—B eautiful — radiations 
and masses of crystals of pink tourma- 
e county. 
crystals measure two inches in di- 
me peers black tourmaline, beau- 
tifully banded with Sage rubellite, was 
found in 1898, at P. Fine specimens 
of gem quality ie been foun this 
locality, now famous with collectors. 
RUBY: 
The so-called rubies of the placers of 
Baja California are not true rubies but 
only garnets, and seldom of value as 
f 
? 
ems 
True rabies occur in N. C. and S: €; 
SAPPHIRE: 
Dr. J, Lawrence Smith published the 
first aoe of the occurrance of 
sapphires in Montana, in the Ameri- 
vik n Jour. Sci. IIT. vi. 386: Sept 1873. 
SCHORL—Black tourmalines, 
inches in diameter, were found at Mesa 
Grande. 
SILICIFIED WOOD: 
Quantities of this occur on the 
six 
Colo- 
pois oe be ash and chaicedo- as 
y pebbles ti 
cat Re in andl woe ee 
as found near Pendennis, Lane 
comer. goog by L. Ww. ees ‘The 
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