 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cm across, from the Agrigento mine, Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy. In addition to sulfur...Budd photo. Aragonite was named for the Spanish province of Aragón by Abraham Gottlieb Werner (1749–1817)...in 1790. He had mistakenly assumed this was the province in which Molina de Aragón was located. Interestingly...smithsonite, hydromagnesite, brucite, cerussite, celestine, sulfur, and melanophlogite. Before we move on... 8.3 cm across, from the Agrigento mine, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy. The Arkenstone specimen, |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral specirnens have always been the lovely blue celestine crystal groups found at various sites in the Gien...Limestone formation of Lampasas County. Lampasas celestine first became well known among mineral collectors...the area. George F. Kunz described a sky-blue celestine crystal measuring 10 X 13 X 20 cm found in a railroad...cut near Lampasas in 1886. A magnificent 25-cm celestine specimen from Lampasas was described that same...have had many extra choice specimens [of Texas celestine] and can still furnish good crystals that I collected |  | | Journal (issue) | | BARITE 13 cm, from Jebel Ouichane, Sagangane, Nador Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. Doug Fiske collection;...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...the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The Carabas Collection; Joe Budd photo...crystal, 4.5 cm, from the Kamoya South mine, Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Joe Budd photo |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lhuyd and Alban Thomas near Raddusa, Catania, Sicily, Italy...............................................connecting Brig, Switzerland with Domodossola, Italy. Cutting through the Alps beneath the Simplon Pass...railway between the Romandy region of Switzerland and Italy, 479 Figure 1. Topographic map showing the path...Switzerland, northwest of the Simplon Alp to Iselle, Italy, at the southeast end, and the larger city of Domodossola...Jura-Simplon). A treaty between Switzerland and Italy was signed in 1895 to 480 The Mineralogical Record |  | | Catalog/List | | 52001 HEMATITE Elba Island, Livorno Province, Tuscany, Italy If there was ever a specimen that simultaneously...POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile Terry Szenics has been...MANGANOCALCITE Pachapaqui District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash Department, Peru It is difficult to believe...TALMESSITE Bou Azer District, Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco The sere desert...Wushan, De’an Co., Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, China The Fluorites from De’an, including this |  | | Journal (issue) | | 731 by W. E. Wilson COVER: FLUORITE crystal on celestine, 8 cm (see page 672), from the White Rock quarry...there since at least the 1880s, and also for fine celestine and sphalerite specimens. INTRODUCTION The White...specimens of brown fluorite, white to colorless celestine crystals, calcite, sphalerite and occasional galena...demand for strontium, which was extracted from celestine and used in the manufacture of road flares, tracer...were in Ohio, where strontium was recovered from celestine hand-picked in quarries of the Findlay Arch, including |  | | Catalog/List | | particular note is an exceptional Sulfur specimen from Italy – a tremendously large crystal on matrix. There...Shaft 11, Touissit, Touissit District, Oujda-Angad Province, Oriental Region, Morocco This is just a nice...development called the Tessin Habit after a place in Italy where it was first noticed. The central crystal...NATIVE BISMUTH Carmine Mine, La Union, Los Andes Province, La Paz Dept., Bolivia Most people’s acquaintance...(Toscopomici Quarry), Pitigliano, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy Hauyne is an uncommon silicate mineral chiefly associated |  | | Journal (issue) | | and Petrography Corso Venezia, 55 I-20121 Milano, Italy Hours: 9 am–6 pm daily Specialties: Italian minerals...Bernard Jago was born on April 1, 1909 in Livorno, Italy. His mother, Harriet Benfield, was an American of...two-year-younger sister Beatrice (“Nini”) from Italy to the San Francisco area, where her parents and...Jack’s first mineral specimen was given to him in Italy when he was about six years old. It was a zeolite...Switzerland, they enjoyed more collecting; then in Italy they visited Florence and Rome, and finished off |  | | Journal (issue) | | public and private investors from Switzerland, Italy, and the German Empire. Construction of the Gotthard...Bronze Age artifacts from France, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark, etc., etc. Tools made specially for the...Stuer, wants fossils of Italy of all ages, meteorites and minerals of Sicily, Vesuvius, Tuscany and Sardinia...Stuer, wants fossils from Italy of all ages, Meteorites and minerals from Sicily, Vesuvius, Tuscany and...from the Santa Margarita del Belice area, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Francesco Guzzo specimen; Mark Mauthner |  | | Catalog/List | | Chalcedony Mamuju, Sulawesi Barat Province (West Sulawesi Province) Sulawesi (Celebes) Indonesia The...Chalcedony Mamuju, Sulawesi Barat Province (West Sulawesi Province) Sulawesi (Celebes) Indonesia This...Azurite Sepon Mine, Vilabouly District Savannakhét Province Laos The secondary Copper minerals Azurite and... 72012 Celestine Sakoany deposit, Katsepy Commune Mitsinjo District, Boeny Region, Mahajanga Province (Majunga)...(Majunga) Madagascar While Celestine, commonly also referred to as Celestite, is a fairly abundant mineral |  | | Catalog/List | | Fossil Traumatocrinus hsuixi Triassic Guizhou Province, China Crinoids are echinoderms that live in marine...Traumatocrinus hsuixi Triassic, Hiuxia Beds Guizhou Province, China This unique and uncommon grouping of Triassic... 73026 Saudi Palm Slab Palm Miocene, Hanidh Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia This piece of Petrified Wood has...on Custom Metal Armature Iron, IAB-MG Guangxi Province, China The Nantan meteorite that was found in...kilometers) wide, near the city of Nantan, in Guangxi Province. Fragments of the Iron Meteorite were abundant |
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Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy