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| 1998 The Mineral Collector's Newsletter The Illinois KentuckyFluorsparDistrictis Dead!Long Live the...University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana to commemorate the recent history of the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar...fluorspar district. I had wanted to hold this gathering since the moment I had heard that Ozark-Mahoning...pulling out. That was the death-knell for fluorite mining in the United States, the e~d of 163 year-long era...crystals at Hastie's Quarry. A Page from-a Collecto,r's Notebook: More Finds at the Midstate Quarry Magnet |
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| Collector's Newslee Unusual Minerals in the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar District Alan Goldst ein Falls of the...Clarksville, Indiana 47129 The Illinois Kentucky tl uorspar district has a lot of minera lization. Thi...focuses on the less-common species, which are described in alphabetical order. See Goldstein ( 1997) fo r a...fou nd in the Minerva# I. the on ly known North American occurrence (ed. note, recently reported in Virg...alstonite in collections that is • unrecognized. Ang les ite is lead sulfate that is very rare in the d istrict |
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| with a resolution of 7 nm in the visible spectrum, going to 14-20 nm in the near-infrared. It "sees"..."sees" objects on the ground ranging in size from 300 m to 5 km, depending on the altitude of the spacecraft...2) Re-exainination of Some Minerals from the Cave-in-Rock Area Alan Goldstein 1607 Washington Blvd. Louisville... I have been photographing my mineral collection in order to upload images to the web site: www.mindat...that I collected at the Minerva No. 1 mine dump in 1985. It had bundles of orange crystals with small |
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| Mineral Collector's Newsletter $3.00 Rubies Baked in Brine Dr. Vivien Gornitz vgornitz@giss.nasa.gov Beginning...setting into motion a series of events that culminated in the raising of the world's loftiest mountains and...gemstones. Most of the world's finest rubies are found in marbles that have undergone the metamorphism and...ordinary salt (halite, NaCl) was a key ingredient in the recipe for making gem-quality rubies out of lime...Pakistan.Will Heierman collection. Illinois- Kentucky Fluorspar District Symposium by the Friends of Mineralogy |
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| 77036 Introduction Wavellite has been collected in Arkansas since the middle of the 1800s. A drawing...drawing of a typical wavellite specimen is included in Harvey ( 1886), Arkansas' first state mineralogy. Although...collectable mineral as specimens in Arkansas. Dug Hill in Garland County was the source of most early wavellite...Cove in Hot Spring County or from Montgomery County. Dug Hill was in fact part of Hot Spring County until...Vauquelinite & Mottra01ite fro01 a New Locality: Louisa County, Virginia Lance E. Kearns Dept. of Geology & Environmental |
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| rocks, and the mineral was described as a new species in 1970. Recent work on pyroxmangite [Mn2+SiO3] and...Jersey, unequivocally confirms the presence of the iron-analogue at the locality, bringing the total number...significant mention due to the on-going interest in Franklin mineralogy. First, however, a bit of history:...sulzbach-ja@comcast.net Sunday - It was an overcast morning in Praia do Forte, on Bahia's tropical Atlantic coast...tourist travel around Brazil. From our host's condo in Belo Horizante, we had first visited the historic |
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| 00 A Week as a Garimpeiro Living a Digger's Dream in Brazil By John Sulzbach sulzbach-ja@comcast.net Wednesday-...to get in 9-10 days of field collecting at the pegmatite mines near Governador Valadares, in the mineral-rich...Gerais (See map, Fig. I), before joining my wife in Belo Horizante, where a friend's condo would be our...a keen sense ofhumor. Unfortunately, Johnny died in a tragic traffic accident earlier this year-a great...I will again be staying at the Vlcek family home in Governador Valadares, from whence we shall visit |
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| price or value of any specimens discussed or reported in this work. Copies may be purchased, while supplies...MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...series of rare-earth species found as small crystals in drusy dolomite-lined cavities. The extremely rare...rarely as doubly terminated crystals to I cm floating in vugs of crystalline talc. Easily the best extant |
Hastie's Quarry, Spar Mountain, Cave-In-Rock Mining Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA