 | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro...and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now owned outright by the Federal Government |  | | Report (issue) | | No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping |  | | Book (edition) | | brilliant yellow redlamellar brown to brilliant Wulfenite medium grey; 15 medium grey; 15 grey; 15 medium... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...(red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach);...(greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL B Same sample |  | | Catalog/List | | directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...Auction 3 52001 HEMATITE Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy If there was ever a specimen that...SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile Terry Szenics...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume...MANGANOCALCITE Pachapaqui District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru It is difficult to believe |  | | Journal (issue) | | BARITE 13 cm, from Jebel Ouichane, Sagangane, Nador Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. Doug Fiske collection;...row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane Brownlee collection; Joe...from Katlang, Mardan Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Jeff Starr collection; Joe Budd photo...photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection; James |  | | Journal (issue) | | Number Four Articles The El Desierto sulfur mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....of the Mazarrón-Águilas mining district, Murcia Province, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...mineral localities: The Pacajake selenium mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....1980 when he paid me a visit at the Jacupiranga mine; somehow he had learned of my mineralogical researches...studies of the mineralogy of the now-famous Brumado mine in Bahia, recovering countless superb crystal specimens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cu4FBr(OH)6, is a new mineral found at the Great Australia mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. An assemblage...hemimorphite. Mojaveite was discovered at the Aga mine where it occurs with cerussite, chrysocolla, khinite...hemimorphite, kettnerite, perite, quartz, and wulfenite, and at the Bird Nest drift, where it is found...thorneite, tim‑ roseite, paratimroseite, quartz, and wulfenite. Bluebellite forms bright bluish-green flattened...(2015) As-bearing new mineral species from Valletta mine, Maira Valley, Piedmont, Italy: II. Braccoite, |  | | Book (edition) | | [MoO4]2- and Wolframates [WO4]2Scheelite VI/G.01-20 Wulfenite VI/G.01-30 804 806 VII - Phosphates, Arsenates...(yellowish white), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(greenish grey), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // Anhedral electrum...(bluish grey shades), quartz (dark grey); New Bullfrog mine, Nye Co., Nevada, USA [h]; Nic. // 8 Gold A ...Pleochroism: low oxygen fugacity environments; Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka, Russia white [> 70] isotropic Bireflectance: |  | | Catalog/List | | museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...Auction 2 53001 CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority...Caledonite and a dash of azure blue Linarite. The mine is now collapsed and only a memory for the lucky... 53002 CHALCOCITE Lucky Friday Pocket, Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin, USA This is one |  | | Book | | native copper after aragonite from Corocoro, Bolivia. 6. Encrustation pseudomorphs (perimorphs). “Pseudomorphs...been described in a stream receiving acid (C) (D) mine drainage rich in SO4 2 ions (Brady et al., 1986)...from the SiO2-dolomite sequence at the Mount Isa mine (Queensland, Australia). Pseudomorphs in the chert...(Muchez et al., 2008). A more than 250-year-old mine dump was studied by Filippi et al. (2015) to document...oxidation under natural conditions in a coarse-grained mine waste dump. A discrete mineralogical zonation was |  | | Journal (issue) | | Famous Mineral Localities: The Erupción/Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico ........Website www.minrec.org Front Cover WULFENITE from the Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua,...gathering around a natural amphitheater amid the mine buildings and headframes in order to hear what we...Mexico-II having been devoted to the famous Ojuela mine). Covered here are four more important and prolific...Lamentos deposit, perhaps the most famous source of wulfenite in Mexico, was described in less detail (and in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Pelt photo. March/April: Calcite, Guiyang, Hunan Province, China. Terry E. Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil...photo. May/June: Tourmaline on quartz, Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum...Scovil photo. September/October:Gold, Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History...Arizona, Black Jack Canyon, 118-19; Sunset Crater Volcano, 119-20 Arsenopyrite, Colorado, 308; New Hampshire |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (TiO 2 only), opt., X-ray, 775. Animas, Atocha, Bolivia, stannite, 1045. Ankerite, Germany, thermal decomposition...Belnhausen, Darmstadt, Germany, ankerite, 138. Benallt mine, Caernarvon~hire, Wales, bannisterite and ganophyllite... P.), Arthur's Seat: a history of Edinburgh's volcano, 301. BOLDT (J. R., JR.), The winning of nickel...taenite of chondritic meteorites, 101. Cochabamba, Bolivia, crocidolite, 743; 791. COCKBAIN (A. G.), Lead...quarry, Cornwall, tourmaline, 1078. Crccidolite, Bolivia, anal., oxidation, dehydration, 791 ; and see riebeckite |  | | Journal (issue) | | within the remains of the caldera of the Koolau volcano, one of the two large shield volca noes comprising...(503) 297-6774 E-mail: Wydar8®aol.com May 2001 Mine ral News The Mineral Database • New version -...the authors and not necessarily the opinions of Mine ral News. Locality descriptions published in the...genuinely happy with this stone he brought from the mine near the village where he lives, and knowing how...pieces of spangolite and brochantite from the Tex Mex Mine in New Mexico, but having paid $50, together, it |  | | Report (issue) | | minerals. Association: Cerussite, litharge, minium, wulfenite, antimony oxides, “limonite”. Distribution: Although...Malmes, Gard; Ally, Haute-Loire; in the La Gardette mine, Bourg d’Oisans, Isère; and others. At Băiţa...Laurium, Greece, in slag. At Caracoles, Bolivia. On Popocatepetl volcano, Puebla; at Carachilas, Baja California;... from the Tonopah-Belmont mine, Osborne district, at the Moon Anchor mine, Potter-Cramer property, and...claim, Vulture district, Maricopa Co.; in the Flux mine, Patagonia Mountains, Santa Cruz Co.; and several |  | | Book | | 2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 7.3 cm, from near Bapu, Guangdong Province, China. Rob Lavinsky specimen, now in the Tom...recovered from the dumps of this small mine. Local collectors reworked the mine dumps many times in search of...about 325 meters southwest of the Bishop manganese mine. The locality was early on referred to as a “copper...spatially distinct from the nearby Bishop manganese mine. The dumps do not contain significant manganese |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | JanuaryFebruary: Ferro-axinite on calcite, Dodo mine, Puiva Mountain, KhantyMansi Avt. Okrug, Tyumen’...MarcNApril: Pyromorphite on quartz, Manhan River mine, Easthampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Marvin...shaft, South Hecla branch of the Calumet and Hecla mine, Houghton County, Michigan. A. E. Seaman Mineral...Robinson photo. JulyIAugust: Vanadinite and wulfenite, Old Yuma mine, Pima County, Arizona. Les Presmyk specimen...November/December: Rhodochrosite, area 28, level 20, Eagle mine, Gilman County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen on |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jianghshan, Guangdong Province. I have seen others listed as coming from Hebei Province. Regardless of where...4 Fig. 1. Apophyllite, Jianghshan, Guangdong Province, China, photo by Dan Weinrich. neat piece. To...stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Nebraska, Lincoln] at 23:16 02 June 2016 Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho...malachite, leadhillite, descloizite, mottramite, wulfenite, vanadinite, and bayldonite, to name a few. Pyromorphite...occurred at the Lubec lead mine, the Gouldsboro mine, and with wulfenite at the upper Colton Hill quarry...Maine (King and Foord 1994). Recently the old lead mine at Loudville, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, once...of unusually fine pyromorphite and associated wulfenite specimens (Greene and Marshall 2001). Pyromorphite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | zone of lead-zinc-bearing ore deposits, such as wulfenite, mimetite, and vanadinite, have been reported...Meshkinshahr and Ardabil districts of Ardabil Province, northwestern Iran (fig. 1). In the order of their...the town of Moalleman, Torud region, in Semnan Province (fig. 1). The crystal groups range in color from...From the same province, beautiful specimens of baryte on quartz were found in an iron ore mine along Nezami...Qaragol (or Gharah Gol) Boron Mine The Qaragol (or Gharah Gol) Boron mine is situated 3.5 kilometers south |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Macquarie, chalcophanite, 538; mineralogy of Nandewar volcano, 241; QUEENSLAND, Pegmont Pb-Zn deposit, Fe-rich...137 BRAITHWAITE, R. S. W., and LAMa, R. P. H., wulfenite, 180; see also PAAR, W. H., 129 BREARLEY, A. J...ENGLAND, SW, Permian lavas, 481; CORNWALL,Restormel mine, waylandite, 731; CUMBRIA, Lake District, tourmalinization...chrysotile and polygonal serpentine, 301; Buca della Vena mine, V-bearing derbylite, 328; Mazzano Romano, ranci6ite...MALAWI,Mulanjecomplex, mafic mineralogy, 85; Chilwa Province, nepheline syenite complexes, 597 Mantle xenoliths |  | | Journal (issue) | | to live in the shadow of Japan's largest active volcano, the almost continuously active Sakurajima. Ash...Rules for the school districts closest to the volcano insist that all children wear hardhats walking...of the 2,300-foot high Iwodake ("sulfur peak") volcano loom up out of the gray drizzle, dropping straight...down into the ocean, with no beach. Rounding the volcano, the landscape to the west gets relatively gentler...occasional awkward phras:; (i.e., ~.."o~en cast" mine i?ste~d of the more commonly ~sed open pit mme) |  | | Journal (issue) | | ornacite, Hemimorphite & Rosasite From the Alice Mine, Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer Excalibur...offered me a modest lot of material from the Alice Mine, near Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada. The deposit...unknownolive greenelongatedneedlesfrom the Alice Mine provedto be molydofomacite, as evidencedby Mo>CrEDSanalysis...years ago I collected at the site of the Big Mike Mine in the mouth of Panther Canyon, Tobin Range, Pershing...occurred under very specific conditions along the mine walls. Fig.1: Ch?lcopyrite, 11x8x6cm, Big MikeMine |
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