 | | Book (edition) | | crystals, Areas in Maine, Connecticut and California, and Madagascar, are famous for Lava known...and Washington occur the many types of agate, opal and petrified this region is noted. The agate...crystal and a cut specimen of kunzite. Found in California, kunzite lilac or Diamond in matrix. Rough...Orbicular or "poppy" jasper with yellow, red, and orange patterns. How gems for I N planning a gem...River country of Utah or the far southern part of California, is no place for a human being in the summer; |  | | Catalog/List | | pebble polished on one side 3.5 x3cm Keweenaw County Michigan USA £25 - 4 TALC pure pink massive about 2x2...BalmatEdwards Zinc mining district, St Lawrence County ,New York, USA £7 14 EPIDIDYMITE pure white-grey cleavage...of the Tiragalloite material ! 33 TIRAGALLOITE orange massivecrystalline area about I cm x 5mm area on...8x8mm orange area on 1.5cm £1.2 36 VANADINITE attractive bright display piece of lustrous orange small...earth pit. £10 42 MEREHEADITE very tiny about 1.5mm orange brown area on white hydrocerussite and calcite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Media, Inc., 3585 Maple St., Ste. 232, Ventura, California 93003-3517, telephone (805) 644-3824. Periodicals...Watercolor by Frederick C. Wilda© Special Exhibit: California Collectors & Collections coordinated by John...that combined the black jade and some Australian opal. “After cutting a slab of the black jade to about...Then, with a paper-thin blade, I cut the Australian opal to the same thickness. Using clear epoxy, I glued...glued the three pieces together. The Australian opal is at an angle and not horizontal because, after 45 |  | | Journal (issue) | | ISSUE 10 • OCTOBER 2020 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT OPAL CLAIM TO COPPER FAME Butte’s Mining Legacy DYNAMIC...Printed in the U.S.A. 10 0 74470 02033 2 WIN AN OPAL PRIZE PACK! Details on page 6… 2 ROCKNGEM.COM...By Steve Voynick 28 10 FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT OPAL By John L. Carver and Bill Halepeska 62 REGULAR...specimen of opal from the prolific USA locality of Butte, Oregon, reveals a carving-grade opal as it is...rockngem.com FIELD NOTES our staff EDITORIAL EYE ON OPAL IN OCTOBER BOB JONES Senior Consulting Editor ANTOINETTE |  | | Catalog/List | | £4.50 051 BURBANKITE(NaCa)(SrBa Ce) CO/3 sparse orange brown areas in matrix. (Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula...matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE Ca (V 0 ) SiO...(Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 497 TELLURITE Te 0/2 good...brown metallic (Herbb £2 Mine, Powhatton County Virginia USA) lcm £6 314 PYRARGYRITE Ag/3 SbS/3 pure crystalline...masses, well coating matrix. (Dooneen Mine Allihies, County Cork, S.Ireland) . lxl £3.50. 1x2 £6.50 2xl.5ins |  | | Report (volume) | | and sapphire are considered precious gems. Some opal is precious, but most varieties are semiprecious...heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green beryl...streams, and eventually deposited as alluvial gravels. Opal and agate are formed from aqueous solutions. Diamonds...localities in California where diamonds have been found are: Smith River, Del Norte County; Trinity River...River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville and Webber Hill, El Dorado |  | | Report (issue) | | Minerals of California By ARTHUR S. EAKLE, MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining...Hon Hiram W. Johnson, Governor of the State of California. Sir: I have the honor to transmit Bureau...of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this date through...Bureau. and Mineralogy of the University of California, with this Eakle has given freely of his time...Minerals Distribution by Counties Bibliography on California Minerals Index to Minerals — 197 204 210 220 |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA BULLETIN No STATE ; . .. : DlViSIi BUILDIN 113 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE...AGRICULTURE DAVIS, CALIFORNIA STATE OF CAUFORNIA DEPABTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES GEORGE D. NORDENHOLT, Director...MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By ADOLF PABST Associate Professor of Mineralogy University of California BERKELEY...BERKELEY CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE GEORGE H. MOORE. State Printer SACRAMENTO. 51440 1938 TABLE...Letter of Transmittal 5 Map 6 Outline o['. California Preface 7 Introduction 11 Native Elements |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jaae Neph111e Jasper Rea Jade•te Se1 ol 6 color Opal Mosaic O;;a1 T 11p1e1s O.,at 1Wh,1e1 F,ery Peroao1...Depending upon yield - 30 to 50% from our rough opal - and your market, profits should not be less than...cutting opal for profit, and WISH TO START YOUR OWN BUSINESS ask for our leaflet on how to cut opal more...PARRAMATTA 21 51, AUSTRALIA I I I I SEND ROUGH OPAL TO THE VALUE OF - --------------------------- $...discussed this month by Thomas J. Ricks Page 45 CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES FIELD |  | | Journal (issue) | | For Your Supply of write to: Mintabie Black Opal Company P.O. Box 243-DG Epping 2121 Australia We...by Eva Surrell FIELD TRIPS 10 40 48 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLD There are many locations where rec reational...Information and requests to the American Federation CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES Bill Burns...For additional information and requests to the California Federation NORTHWEST FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL...consisting of one each of Black, Green, Mauve, Red (or Orange) and Yellow: $40.00 Ml. Sets of 5 oval 25x18mm |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mile west of the community of Levesque in Cross County. The locality may also be given as 6 miles east...Brown. Wynne, in southern Cross County is in eastern Arkansas. CALIFORNIA—"Thought you might like the enclosed...interesting. Plaster City, in S/W Imperial County, is in southern California. GEORGIA—In the last issue of R&M...unusual will advise." LaGrange, in central Troup County, is in western Georgia. ILLINOIS—An unknown reader...Illinois."—on label. Libertyville, in central Lake County, is in N/E Illinois. MAINE—The following note was |  | | Catalog/List | | _ _ _C'-o_ll_!l_ty._Arizona, U.S.A ALBITE Rich orange-red masses with darker Kragero Norway lx2 S0p Feldspar...CO/3 and masses in matrix. Yorkshire ALUNITE Rich orange masses in quartz, under Flux Canyon,Santa Cruz...SO/4 OH magnification there arc small crystals County, Arizona -------------"'--------'-'--'----'--____;;...grey cleavable massive Crystal peak, Park County, Colorado, USA Keystone, South Dakota U.S.A. 1" £4 2x3...grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Ix½ £2.50 lxl £4 ANCYLITECe CeSr CO/3 Montana |  | | Report (issue) | | M^iajKaMVMtrVMMIMMVW^- 'Vv s > MINERALS Of CALIFORNIA BULl,ETIN N«, 91 issei0 BY rr: ^ ;wIFORNIA...BULLETIN [November, 1922 No. 91 Minerals of California $ BY ARTHUR S. EAKLE, Ph. D. Professor...Mineralogy, University of California COMPLIMENTS OF ^^^foyd Sc, c/iosty GIST CALIFORNIA STATE PRINTING OFFICE...Stephens, Governor of the State of California, Sacramento, California Sir: I have the honor to transmit...upon the minerals of California. This bulletin records our knowledge of California minerals to date, |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................ California................................................mineralogic reports, especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota,...Bulletin, 1912. Eakle, A. S., Minerals of California: California State Min. Bur. Bull. 67, 1914. George...Palo Alto. Prof. Arthur S. Eakle, University of California,- Berkeley. Colorado_____Prof. R. D. George,...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Report (issue) | | West Paterson. N. J. 5—Garnet, var. Spessartite (orange-red), Haven Avenue nnd 179th Street. Manhattan.................................. 22 Spinel, Orange County, N. Y............................................... . 119 O’Rourke’s Trap Rock Quarry, West Orange, N. J. (1891) . 120 Pcnetcntiary Trap Rock Quarry...depression, extending from the present Bockland County, New York, through New Jersey toward the southwest...operations of this kind are now under way in Westchester County. 16 M'liLKTIX NF.W YORK MINKRALOCJICAT; CLUB |  | | Journal (issue) | | the SOUTHWEST It will be n' Woolly at the Orange County Fair "We want to make the public more aware...profession with others at the Fair this year." Orange County has numerous clubs for the rockhound and mineral...mineral collector. The 1985 Orange County Fair Gem and Minerals Show will feature 53 classes for open and...of the newest attractions at the 1985 Orange County (California) Fair will be a building devoted to the...1985 at the Orange County Fair and Exposition Center, 88 Fair Drive, Costa Mesa, California. This is within |  | | Book (volume) | | dikes ranking with those in Maine and Southern California for their production of gems and minerals. The...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...tributary gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream...stream beds, etc. petrified wood, wood opal; along the Grand R. though entire Co., regional banks, breaks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | n e , 15 for $ 5 . 0 0 . 10 ringsize cabochons (opal, amethyst, onyx, etc.) $ 5 . 0 0 . Pekay, Sanmiguel... , postpaid. GOLD, 5 3 3 0 College, Oakland, California. SPECIAL GET Dozen M i n n e s o t a agates,...o w and brown tigereye, 5 lbs. $ 4 . 5 0 ; moss opal, $ 2 . 9 0 l b . ; Georgia moss agate, $ 3 . 0 0...d , mounted, and i d e n t i f i e d , postpaid USA, $ 2 . 0 0 . Specimens average approx. 1 " . Irma...O K L E T — " U r a n i u m Prospecting in Orange County, N. Y . " Geology, Minerals, Historical Mines |  | | Journal (issue) | | For Your Supply of write to: Mintabie Black Opal Company P.O. Box 243-DG Epping 2121 Australia We...Gems, the 46th annual Convention and Show of the California Federation of Mineralogical Societies. More Information...Information and requests to the American Federation CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES FIELD...Pictured on our cover are a magni- County, California; Baja California and ficent faceted gem of benitoite...current lease holders, E. Gray and W .C. Forrest. California. Benitoite is a (typically blue) More benitoite |  | | Book (volume) | | chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona agatized wood. This...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Canada. 276 KENTUCKY FOSSILS-New find in Bath County. Brachiopods, platystrophias, Ordovician. Five...Specimen in matrix, 2V2", $1.25 postpaid. Anderson County Corals, fine, reddish, 2 " x 3 " , $1. Satisfaction...from mine, 15 for $5.00. 10 ringsize cabochons (opal, amethyst, onyx, etc.) $5.00. P. Kendall, Apartado...ounce white red opal, 1 ounce transparent green blue opal, 1 ounce brown pinfire opal matrix, all 3 ounces...piece guaranteed for fortifications. Postpaid in USA. The Breitweisers, 510-B N. Division, Powell, Wyo |  | | Book (volume) | | chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona agatized wood. This...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Journal (issue) | | Media, Inc., 3585 Maple St., Ste. 232, Ventura, California 93003-3517, telephone (805) 644-3824. Periodicals...COAST GEM & MINERAL SHOW - SPRING Holiday Inn - Orange County Airport, 2726 S. Grand Ave., SANTA ANA, CA 92705...Obsidian House, The Olson, Donald K. & Associates Opex Opal PaleoFacts Piritas de Navajun Prentiss Campbell...rockhounding in the Calico Mountains near Yermo, California. When assayed, it was found to contain small...show; Roxy Ann Gem & Mineral; Olsrud Arena; Jackson County Fairgrounds; Sat. 9-5:30, Sun. 10-4:30; adults |  | | Journal (issue) | | Austra\lanBC?.PniUAN FIRE OPAL is Oltly in the red. oran&t. 1 "play o1 f\RE OPAL! ..,... ol brilliant fires...PRICED Al RS pAAAl)ISE and • 3 to 30 each not come to OPAL LOVE our stores. BY IAAIL . . . r II .•t 1ll__!...Meister (CFMS) 380 Anne Marie Drive. Altadena, California 91 002 Kenneth V. Zahn (EFMS) 4727 N. 24th St...MANAGING EDITOR ART/ ADVERTISING DIRECTOR - CALIFORNIA FEDERATION ASSOCIATE EDITOR - OF CIRCULATION...Correspondence and requests for Information to the California Federation shoul d be addressed to: Mrs. Juanita |  | | Report (volume) | | Arkansas..........Dr. A. H. Purdue, Nashville, Tenn. California........Mr. William H. Storms, San Francisco....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |
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