January/February 2011: In This Issue

Mines and Minerals of the Southern California Pegmatite Province

by Jesse Fisher

For much of the past century, the Southern California pegmatite province has been the source of some of the world's finest specimens of a variety of gem and rare-element minerals, along with considerable amounts of gem and lapidary material.

Abstract

The Fallbrook Gem and Mineral Museum, Fallbrook, California

by Michael T. Evans, Jim Walker, Mary Fong/Walker

The rural “village” of Fallbrook in northern San Diego County, California, has arguably one of the highest concentrations of gem and mineral dealers, lapidary authors, researchers and gem miners in the United States.

 Abstract