I won a bag of tourmaline ore in a auction

[Oakview2]

Ron Decker helped me clean and sort and took some USB photos, some with blacklight lighting.

 

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[goldenIrishman]

Any idea which mine(s) it's out of Oak? Looks a lot like what comes out of the Mesa Grande-Pala districts down in San Diego. We used to find outcroppings all over the place down there as well as crystals in many of the streams. I've got samples of pink, green, blue, black and "Watermelon" from that area. We even found schist outcroppings with tons of small pink tourmaline at the Ramona cemetery.

Last trip out to San Diego, Robi and I went to the "Ocean view" mine and did some digging. Got lots of small pieces of tourmaline as well as a couple of 6in + quartz crystals. Really nice folks there.

 

[Hoser John]

That one dark red is a nice Rubalet,I have the same faceted stone set in a nugget and it looks righteous-John

 

[Oakview2]

Trade ya

 

[Oakview2]

It was from the Pala Mine I believe

Any idea which mine(s) it's out of Oak? Looks a lot like what comes out of the Mesa Grande-Pala districts down in San Diego. We used to find outcroppings all over the place down there as well as crystals in many of the streams. I've got samples of pink, green, blue, black and "Watermelon" from that area. We even found schist outcroppings with tons of small pink tourmaline at the Ramona cemetery.

Last trip out to San Diego, Robi and I went to the "Ocean view" mine and did some digging. Got lots of small pieces of tourmaline as well as a couple of 6in + quartz crystals. Really nice folks there.

 

[fowledup]

Anything big enough to cut and make some jewelry with?

 

[goldenIrishman]

The Pala Mine is just down the hill about a 1/2 mile from Ocean View. We got plenty of pieces that could be cut and mounted in a nice setting. Just a matter of finding time to do it is all. So many rocks... so little time!

 

[BurntBear]

We mainly have green varieties here in Tennessee. Lot's of Schorl over in N.C. My partner got several nice Watermelons and Bi-Color greens from here in Tennessee. Pretty stuff! Hard to find those red shades here.

Here is one of the bi-color Tourmalines from Tenn.:



Thanks for sharing! I love Tourmalines.

 

[Lanny in AB]

Ron Decker helped me clean and sort and took some USB photos, some with blacklight lighting.

Nice win! Those are some mighty pretty specimens you won in that auction.

Thanks for posting the pictures.

All the best,

Lanny

 

[Oakview2]

The pink one on top is about 5 carats, and might be cutable if there are not too many inclusions.

 

[TAKODA]

Trade ya

 

[Hoser John]

I have some really nice watermelon insitu from Pala but kept in my sdbox so only gets to visit home temporarily-John