USGS Mineral Resources Data System
Type: Historical mine record
Supports:
- mine identity
- development status
- commodities
- underground eligibility evidence
California · San Diego County
Himalaya Mine
Unconfirmed Semiprecious Gemstone Underground
Key facts
- State
- California
- County
- San Diego
- Development status
- Past Producer
- Mine type
- Underground
- Primary commodity
- Semiprecious Gemstone
- Verification
- Unconfirmed
Mine Location
Approximate AreaDocumented underground workings
Mindat locality description
Summary: A miarolitic LCT-type granitic pegmatite, highly boron-enriched, located in north-central San Diego Co., California, USA. First discovered in 1898, the Himalaya mine was one of the largest producers of gem and specimen-grade tourmaline in Nor…
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- Derived from MRDS oper_type (existing operation): Underground
- MRDS oper_type documents existing underground operation (dev_stat=Past Producer): Underground · oper_type
Verification
Unconfirmed
Source records support underground workings, but UndergroundMines has not yet independently verified this mine.
Why it's listed
USGS source data documents underground workings for this record.
History & operations
Historical record
- Development status: Past Producer
Commodities & minerals
Reported minerals
- Albite
- Allanite-(Ce)
- Almandine
- Amblygonite
- Apatite
- Aquamarine
- Bavenite
- Beidellite
View all 40 reported minerals
- Albite
- Allanite-(Ce)
- Almandine
- Amblygonite
- Apatite
- Aquamarine
- Bavenite
- Beidellite
- Beryl
- Beyerite
- Biotite
- Calcite
- Cassiterite
- Clay minerals
- Cleavelandite
- Columbite-(Mn)
- Columbite-Tantalite
- Cookeite
- Dravite
- Elbaite
- Feldspar Group
- Fersmite
- Fluor-elbaite
- Fluorapatite
- Gahnite
- Garnet Group
- Goshenite
- Grossular
- Hambergite
- Heliodor
- Hellandite Group
- Herderite
- Herderite-Hydroxylherderite Series
- Hessonite
- Heulandite Subgroup
- Hornblende Root Name Group
- Indicolite
- K Feldspar
- Kaolinite
- Laumontite
Access & recent conditions
- Land
- unknown
Community reports
No community field reports yet.
I Visited This MineSources & evidence
Mindat
Type: Mineralogical locality database
Record: Mindat Locality: 3559
Supports:
- locality identity
- reported minerals (40)
A Mindat locality match does not by itself establish underground workings.
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