 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | interaction in gneisses of the simano nappe: Arvigo, Val Calanca, Swiss Alps Tobias Weisenberger • Kurt Bucher...amphibolite-facies basement gneisses at Arvigo (Val Calanca, Swiss Alps) show distinct cm-sized reaction...in the fracture porosity with the old high-grade gneiss assemblages. The process of selvage or reactionvein...reaction veins are composed of a selvage of altered gneiss on both sides of the central fracture and a central...central zone of the Arvigo veins contains an early assemblage with epidote, prehnite and chlorite and a |  | | Book | | 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...localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...in 2002 in a calcite-carbonatite vein intruding gneiss, together with very large Baveno-law-twinned crystals...Alberene and Old Dominion quarries, Albemarle County. In these two soapstone quarries, tabular ilmenite crystals |  | | Report (issue) | | in mid-July on Jordi’s site are six excellent prehnite specimens, 4.8 to 11.1 cm, from the Imilchil,...area. These are “wheels” of pale green, blocky prehnite crystals in subparallel growth, each crystal being...These specimens were collected in April 2013. Prehnite, 11.1 cm, from Imilchil, High Atlas Mountains...Kiyoshi’s pictures, but at the 2013 Tucson Show Alfredo Petrov was showing a specimen from this occurrence...crystal of diopside from Ibity, Vakinankaratra region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar; Andy says he |  | | Report (issue) | | loose or resting on matrix of porous, pale yellow gneiss, so weak and friable that, Robert writes, trimming...stronger flow just this past year, from the Frohnau region near Annaberg, in the Erzgebirge (“ore mountains”)...are said to have come from somewhere in the Anosy region of Tuléar; they are miniatures and thumbnails showing...(1836-1912). Grandidierite, 4.4 cm, from the Anosy region, Tulear Province, Madagascar. Marin Mineral specimen...====== Grandidierite, 1.2 cm, from the Anosy region, Tulear Province, Madagascar. Marin Mineral specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | S. P. was taken Sunday the 11th, to New Street Quarries, Paterson N. J., thru the courtesy of the Consolidated...secure them. Many succeeded in getting specimens of prehnite, pectolite and a few other varieties in smaller...were M.S.P. field trip to New Street trap rock quarry, Paterson, N. J . Sept. I I , 1955 Photo by Harold...Jennings (in hole) with son, David. New Street quarry, Paterson, N. J . Sept. I I , 1955 Photo by Harold...historic zeolites formerly taken from the New Street quarries in Paterson and from nearby Prospect Park. Accessory |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland R H O D O C H R O S IT E fro m th e N ’C h w...(Kitchener, Ontario) Stanley Esbenshade (Ashland, OH) Alfredo Ferri (Milan, Italy) Richard V. Gaines (Pottstown...Switz erland) Robert Sullivan, Jr. (Oberwil, Switzerland) Joseph Taggart (Socorro, NM) Doug and Fran Toland...clefts in the Mont Blanc Swiss-French border region. genbach quarry specimens (see the Record, They really...prices would otherwise be way out of reach. buck region. This can produce some surprises both ways. Another |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | interesting document ; I plan to take a trip to this region very soon". A group of very fine rock xls has been...out and report later." The Strickland feldspar quarry (or mine) on Collins Hill, near Portland, is one...Strickland Quarry, Conn." pp. 131-144). Long idle, the announcement that the Strickland quarry is being...M found, I understand, by a rockhound and the quarry is holding off operations in that part of the pit...Service Corporation. That corporation has three quarries around Chicago and they have always yielded very |  | | Journal (issue) | | Medenbach Bochum, Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland photomicrography Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New...Benny Fenn (Colonia Juarez, Mex.) Alfredo Ferri, / Sassi de Alfredo Ferri (Milan, Italy) Chris and Agatha...Franklin/Sterling mines, Franklin, New Jersey Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine Dunton mine, Newry, Maine Las Vigas...Goschenen clefts, Goschenen, Switzerland Lengenbach quarry, Bina Valley, Switzerland Knappenwand, Salzburg,...Greece Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada Arsukfjord, Ivigtut, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Franklin-Sterling Hill mineral deposit • Geology of the Hamburg Quarry • A rare mineral discovered in the New Jersey Highlands...Calcite-Apatite-Pyroxene Occurrence at Hamburg Quarry: A Bancroft Terrane Style Vein-Dike? Warren Cummings...to the Franklin-Sterling Hill Mineral Deposits, Alfredo Petrov ..........................................Franklin-Sterling Hill mineral deposit • Geology of the Hamburg Quarry • A rare mineral discovered in the New Jersey Highlands...permitted on the Mine Run Dump and in the Fill quarry, Passaic pit, and “Saddle” area. Fees for mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have done some fairly thorough exploring in the region and find that it is well supplied with good crystal...for aegirite is the abandoned Flatrock granite quarry at Waterford, New London Co., Conn. Trie aegirite...State's most noted locality, the Brandywine (Hubbard) quarry, in Wilmington, New Castle Co., Del. A note from...old Brandywine quarry which is along Brandywine Creek in Wilmington, Del. This quarry, of course, was...and translucent, have been found in the basalt quarries on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Hampden Co., Mass. MICHIGAN: |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystals from the Aris Phonolite Quarry (Windhoek District. Khomas Region. Namibia). In my view they are...the Aris PhonoliteQuarry,WindhoekDistrict, Khomas Region,Namibia. We have gotten used to see villiaumite...At the show I heard of babingtonite crystals on prehnite from Da Liang Shan (Sichuan Province. China) but...on matrix of quartz crystals to 8 cm with pink prehnite. The epidote crystals are well-shaped, often double-terminated...lustrous and transparent to somewhat milk.')'. The prehnite was sold for 'pink' but that is reaching ... the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Medenbach Bochum, Gem,any Eric Offennann Arlesheim, Switzerland photomicrography Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New...mineral assemblages. The occurrence of the gro sular-prehnite-epidote group-ve uvianice diopsidc assemblage...the habit u ually associated with this mineral. Prehnite is common as green botryoidal masses but at this...are lozenge-shaped and curved (Fig. 1 2) . As prehnite crystals are relatively uncommon. the morphology...the Jeffrey mine specimens is described below. Prehnite crystals belong to the onhorhombic crystal system |  | | Journal (issue) | | that the first exploration of the Lake Superior region was undertaken by the United States Government...emeralds have come from Colombia, where in a large region of the state of Boyaca there are a score or more...directly by mail from Off Verlag, Ch-3600 Thun 7, Switzerland. Send an international money order or check for...relatively small. 227 Figure 10. (top right) Prehnite, (colorless) Rouscher muhle at Niederkirchen...vanadinite, amethyst and aragonite from the Sefrou region, crystals of cerussite on barite, radial-fibrous |  | | Journal (issue) | | fluorapophyllite crystal, 4.6 cm, from Pashan Hills quarry no. 2 near Poona, Maharashtra state, India. Steve................................ 65 Visiting the Quarries ................................................superb mineral specimens as has the Deccan traprock region in India. Many interesting mineral occurrences...investigations. The amygdaloidalcavity minerals from this region have often simply been called “zeolites,” and the...the region where specimens have been found measures fully 250,000 square kilometers. The quarries at Bombay |  | | Report (issue) | | metasedimentary rocks...................... 14 Micaceous gneiss................................ 14 Petrography...(cont'd) Gneiss 1 ii ............................................. 21 Feldspathic gneiss................. 21 Augen gneiss.................................... 23 Cataclastic gneiss south of Ituango...Schists......................................... 25 Gneiss ........................................ 28 ...Porphyroblastic adamellite gneiss.............. 47 Cataclastic tonalitic gneiss................... 48 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the New Point lime- ROCKS AND MINERALS stone quarry at New Point, Ind., (in Decatur Co.) with Roy Grossman...corals from the Versailles (Ripley Co.), Indiana, region fluoresce a deep reddish-orange. "What I have said...Nice calcite xls have been found in a limestone quarry near Roca, Lancaster Co., Nebr. NEVADA: Fine specimens...In the March-April, 1951, issue of R & M, Don Alfredo, 322 Linda Vista, Las Cruces, N . Mex., had a most...October one of our members discovered thaumasite in a quarry in Fairfax County, Va., a few miles south of Falls |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wecreateunforgettable experiences ... -it's as simpleas that- Alfredo Petrov and Frank de Wit info mineraldreams.com...Valencia/ Emili Callen. Translators and proofreaders: Alfredo Petrov, New York / Isaias Casanovas, Tucson I Joan...tennantite variety found at Lengenbach, Binntal, Switzerland). They have also been found, more rarely, in...near the reservoir in the Sahatany valley, in the region of Antananarivo, Madagascar. Armenite, a very rare...in the Simpton pass, in the canton of Wallis, Switzerland. Ferrokesterite, a very rare mineral closely |  | | Report (issue) | | Vandall T. King, John I. Koivula, Ole V. Petersen, Alfredo Petrov, Minik T. Rosing, William B. Simmons, Berhard...McClure, P. Michalek, Harold & Erica van Pelt, Alfredo Petrov, Paul Prokop, Gamini Ratnavira, William...Tropical Rainforest ......................... 54 Alfredo Petrov • Burmese Tourmaline - An Historical Perspective...cm "water melon tourma line " from the Dunton Quarry in Newry, Maine. Woodrow Thompson collection; Jeff...rinds on pink cores of tourmalines from the Havey Quarry in Poland, Maine. The term was original ly coined |  | | Book (volume) | | (Licking Co.) and Zanesville (Muskingum Co.), a region of rolling, wooded hills. Here, prehistoric Indians...are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT...COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co....countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered crystals sharply |  | | Book (volume) | | (Licking Co.) and Zanesville (Muskingum Co.), a region of rolling, wooded hills. Here, prehistoric Indians...are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT...COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co....countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered crystals sharply |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lengenbach Mineral Locality, Binna Valley, Valais, Switzerland................................................Imhof Famous Mineral Localities: Lengenbach, Switzerland 275 by Stefan Graeser Rare Earth Minerals in...Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland photomicrography: Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New...(Billingstad, Norway) Don Elliot (O ceanside, Calif.) Alfredo Ferri (Milan, Italy) Richard V. Gaines (Pottstown...KELLER-WILDI, W yhlenweg 40 CH 4 1 2 6 Bettingen, Switzerland ★ Cabinet specimens ★ Miniatures ★ Thumbnails |  | | Journal (issue) | | Behnke Northbrook, IL Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica...Thirty-eight, Number Three Articles The Lonavala Quarry, Pune District, Maharashtra, India . . . . . ....Record, volume 38, May–June, 2007 The Lonavala Quarry une Distri t Ma aras tra n ia Tomas Pras kier...diverse zeolites and associated minerals. he Lonavala quarry has produced fine specimens of green uorapophyllite...specimens of mesolite after those of the ashan Hills quarries , and recently some specimens of the beautiful |  | | Book (volume) | | rises abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi. Black Hills region enclosed by the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne rivers...has come only from the core of the Black Hills region. Two divisions are recognized: the Northern Section...Fluorapatite (fluorescent orange). BUFFALO GAP, entire region W 37 mi. to the WY line, in stream gravels, cut...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep... E 6 mi., on French Cr., the Scott Rose Quartz QuarryAmblygonite (large yellow crystals), Aquamarine |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Dunn. 4:30 B l u e wavellite from the De Linde quarry, Garland, County, Arkansas. S. L. Hanson, A. U...Marathon County, WI (Koss); the former Ladick East quarry (now Charneski Pit), Nine Mine Granite, Marathon...WI (Ladick); and Pegmatite #10 from the Waterloo Quarry near Waterloo, WI (Waterloo). Microprobe analyses...Additionally, samples from dike 1110, Waterloo Quarry show V203 contents of 1-1.5 wt %, whereas the others...Samples from dike #22 in Koss Pit and Charneski Pit quarry are P dominant, thus appear to be grayite. Conversely |  | | Journal (issue) | | Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica...deposits o f m endipite were discovered at M erehead quarry, the H igher Pitts m ine at Priddy was the main...directly between two of the largest lead veins in the region, approximately 1 km to the east of the Higher Pitts...small underground working leading off from an old quarry pit at the edge of Dursdon Wood. Now is therefore...early as Roman times, and manganese ores from the region were recorded by Christopher Merret (1614—1695) |
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