Dedication and Acknowledgments
Contents
Speaker and Author Biographies
Raquel Alonso-Perez
Tales from the Pala Chief Mine
Bill Larson
The Great Tourmalines of the Pala Gem Mining District
Will Larson
Himalaya Mine Treasures
Brendan Laurs
Geology of San Diego County Pegmatites
Brendan Laurs and Kimberly Knox
Spessartine Garnet from Ramona, San Diego County, California (from the Winter 2001 Gems & Gemology)
Nathan Renfro
Inclusions in Gems and Minerals from San Diego County
Skip Simmons
Crystallography of Tourmaline
Cal Graeber
San Diego County Mines and Minerals
Meg Berry
Cutting the Gems of San Diego County
Paula Crevoshay
Eureka
Aaron Celestian
Using Gems to Illuminate Art and Science
George R. Rossman and Aaron Palke
The Causes of Color of the San Diego County Gem Minerals
Ryan Bowling
Pala Pink and Mesa Grande Mauve (from Rubellite: Tourmaline Rouge, Lithographie Mineral Monograph no. 20, 2019)
Sheryl Elen
Bibliography
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