 | | Journal (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ...after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...two exciting parts of the process, such as the crystal structure. Lastly, pick one with a track-record...his name to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Friends and admirers of Al who would like |  | | Catalog/List | | Thallium Prospect, Little Valley, Sheeprock Mts., Vernon, Tooele Co., Utah / USA; The exceptionally rare...forms deep dark brown, iridescent (blue-green-yellow), spherical crystal aggregates around 2 mm in size,...Santa Rita Mts., Pima Co., Arizona / USA; Blue spherical crystal aggregates of 4 mm, rich in addition...location"; NS 28,00; HS 38,00 Baghdadite xls Fuka Mine, Bicchu-cho, Takahashi City, Okayama Pref. / Japan;...brown (fluorescent in UV-light bright yellow) crystal aggregates of 5 mm, together with some dark brown |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bacher; Reinhold Bacher photo. Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by...Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...from left: Liddicoatite, 7 cm, from the Sahatany Valley, Madagascar. Collected by Federico Pezzotta; Antonio...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter Pebble Beach Pegmatites Lake Buchanan, Llano County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Str. Houston, Texas...Canine Road Marble Falls, Texas 78654 .7 l Llano County has long been known for its rare-earth granitic...Geologist for Texas Gulf at their Frasch sulfur mine at New Gulf, Texas, I noticed a small vial with...shape led me to believe that they were probably celestine and not anhydrite, unless they were pseudomorphs...interior is darker and glassy. So I sent one broken crystal to the Excalibur Mineral Company for an EDS analysis | | | Journal (issue) | | after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...two exciting parts of the process, such as the crystal structure. Lastly, pick one with a track-record...his name to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco. Friends and admirers of A1 who would like...comptroller of the fund), 625 Market Street, Suite 802, San Francisco, CA 94105. Checks should be made payable |  | | Journal (issue) | | ....... 12 coming full circle with a little blue crystal Collecting on Peridot Mesa ...................50 by Jim Brace-Thompson olivine gems on the san carlos apache Indian reservation The Mineralogical...steadily To nearby mountains that we see. There is a mine owned by my friend And he’ll be there at this road’s...clothes we don. After four hours we get there. The mine site fills us all with cheer. A rustic air-conditioned...dam without a din. The lodge is built right at the mine. Outside the lodge there points a sign. It says |  | | Journal (issue) | | / three years, (Canada) $180/ one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...Compton (2016-2018) George K. Hickox, Jr. (2012-2018) Juan Fernandez-Buelga (2016-2017) David E. Ellis (2012-2018)...AND THE TuCSON SHOWS TABULAR BLUE BERYL ON TOURMALINE DEO DARRAH MINE, NEAR PATTA GUZAR, BADAKSHAN,...Come see our limited NEW selection of alkali-rich blue beryl specimens at the Westward Look Show! WWW...of dolomite, magnesite, pyrite, quartz and celestine. Mining there for many more years is anticipated, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...Johnston & E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . ...Pezzotta Famous mineral localities: The Lord Brassy mine, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....FLUORITE on muscovite, 14 cm, from Nagar, Hunza Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan. Wally Mann collection; |  | | Catalog/List | | Avenue San Mateo, California 94403 U.S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla...AT AL OG HATFiaD GOUDEY 1145 \'/est 31st Avenue San Mateo, California 94403 U.S.A. COMTENTS General...postal money arder. Pr i ces c;uoi:ed are F .0. B. San fl,aceo, Cali fornia. California add applicable state...preferably stereoscopic, microscope can reveal various crystal fonns, habits, color, paragenesis and association...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystals on matrix, 17.2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, collected in 1978. Private collection and photographer...Keith F. Compton (2016) Bryan Swoboda (2012–2016) Juan Fernandez-Buelga (2016–2017) Drs. Douglas & Diane...FineMineral.com APATITE Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 11.5cm. Fine...| New York, NY 10065 | www.mardaninyc.com CRYSTAL CLASSICS FINE MINERALS LIMITED The largest selection...orders@crystalclassics.co.uk | +44(0)1935 862673 Crystal Classics Fine Minerals Ltd. No. 1, The Old Coach |  | | Catalog/List | | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Session...Collection LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...Sulfur specimen from Italy – a tremendously large crystal on matrix. There is a wide selection of exemplary...museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans for the area |  | | Journal (issue) | | Russia. Or. 1520. 3 0 0 0 copies. Cover 1 Calcite crystal with solution forms. Puiva. 29x 23 cm. SyktyvIcar...Photo: M. Leybov. Cover 2 Sal ammoniac. Skeleton crystal. Ravat (near), Tadzhikistan. 10x 9x 2.5 cm. VSGM...OF THE VERNADSKY STATE GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM Rock crystal. Dauphine, France. 13 x 7 cm. VSGM, Is§20980, Photo:...specimens) from the period 1759-1930, of the Moscow Mining Academy (about 10,000 specimens), which existed...localities. Ilmenite from the Ilmeny Mts, jozeite from San Jose, and other exhibits (up to 300 mineral species |  | | Book (edition) | | McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R....E. Wilson The Minh Tien tourmaline mine, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam . . . . ....Tourmaline from the Minh Tien pegmatite, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam . . . . . . . . ...(Bunny later coauthored, with Richard W. Holmes, Mine and Mineral o he rea merican Ri .) Curtis had first...of John Sinkankas’s eri i hon book dealership in San Diego and invited Curtis to his house to see his |  | | Report (issue) | | Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...108 Morocco's El Hammam: Six Decades of Fluorspar Mining BY PIERRE CLAVEL & GUNTHER NEUMEIER 112 Faceting...MICHAEL GRAY 54 Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56... Iridescent Fluorite from Ohio's Findlay Arch District BY JASON MCDONALD 69 Canada BY MARK MAUTHNER...as a fluxing stone. Artifacts of early fluorite mining are difficult to locate, as fluorite was at that |  | | Journal (issue) | | Turley & M. Koval Mineralogy of the Killie mine, Elko County, N ev a d a ........................413 by...6-12 cm, Adamite with Hemimorphite from the Ojuela mine, pale green and purple Naica fluorites in small...have been col lected at the Duff quarry in Logan County, Ohio, for more than ten years. The crystals are...approximately 2 kilometers north of Huntsville, Logan County, in west-central Ohio. The quarry produces crushed...Leperditiid ostracodes, and gypsum biscuits and single crystal molds. Evidence of dissolved The Mineralogical |  | | Catalog/List | | the Rowley and Red Cloud mines in Arizona and the San Francisco, Los Lamentos and Chihuahua locations in...AROUND THE WORLD** BLADED HEMJMORPHITE; Dauntless Mine, Robinson Distric!, White Pine Co., �evada: J:?irec...depending upon size and quality. OLIVENITE; Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing Co., Nevada: Originally described from...have been found in the U.S., mostly in Nevada and Utah. This is the best material found in the U.S. in...size and quality. RICHELSDORFITE; Burrus Mine, Pyramid District, Washoe Co., Nevada: Lets talk about rarity |  | | Journal (issue) | | R&G KID EmeraldS GEMS, MINERALS AND FOSSILS of Utah REDUCE TOXICITY in the Workshop JESSE MONONGYE...until 03/31/15 U S $5.99 0 74470 02033 PRINTED IN USA RG_greyBlue_cover_0315.indd 2 03 2 FIELD TRIP...Mary Ellen mine in St. Louis County, Minnesota, but was found in a gravel pit in Carlton County, 60 miles...............................54 The Windy Ridge Mine ................................12 still a wellspring...work by Bob Jones The Natural History Museum of Utah ....26 see the gems, minerals and fossils of the |  | | Catalog/List | | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume |  | | Book | | information b Book review c Crystal morphology information d Crystal drawing ff Continues on following...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73 |  | | Book | | vugs of crystalline talc. Easily the best extant crystal, a doubly terminated floater found in a talc vug...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described |  | | Catalog/List | | Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518...department. It will be held in the Dallas Design district at 1518 Slocum Street on June 2, 2013. The auction...A Linarite specimen with haunting blue color and formidable crystal size. • Rare species, such as the...specimens, including Roebling specimen R101, a Virgin Valley Opal with purity of color and rainbow flash that...after LAUMONTITE with APOPHYLLITE Mumbai District (Bombay District), Maharashtra, India Three minerals makeup |  | | Journal (issue) | | 85740 602-297-6709 Articles The Iron Cap mine, Graham County, A rizona..................................Ouray County, Colorado ............... 89 by B. & J. Muntyan Anatase on quartz from Ouray County, Colorado...AZ Mowry Place Tucson, 85741 COVER: SPHALERITE crystal, 1.8 cm, on jo h an n sen ite from the Iron C ap... Finds made in Arizona (the Iron Cap mine) and in Ouray County, Colorado, are described in three articles...dealers to list separately a total for sales made to crystal power people. The dealers reported well over 150 |  | | Journal (issue) | | the subject- here we will explore the various crystal shapes and learn about them in more detail. You... miners drill holes in the rock at Taxco silver mine in Mexico. Right: North Sea drilling rig 'Claymore-A'...suffic ient size and qual ity to make them worth mining commerci ally. In Treasures of the Earth we will...producer of gold, which accounrs for two-thirds of its mining rovenue. Another major resource are diamonds, which...as many other minerals. Since it began diamond mining in the 1970s, Australia has become the world's |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Famous mineral localities: The Sapo mine, Ferruginha district, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil...Menezes Famous mineral localities: The Lac d’Amiante mine, Black Lake, Thetford Mines, Québec . . . . ...AQUAMARINE beryl crystal, 10.5 cm, on muscovite, from Mount Xuebaoding, Pingwu County, Sichuan Province...Madagascar and variscite nodules from Fairfield, Utah have always had an honored place in the cabinets...the naturally beautiful and lustrous faces on a crystal, marveling at how nature could precipitate a surface |
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