 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology S ilver was one of the first metals to silver has the highest-known reflectivity of visible light...used by humans, with records Silver crystallizes in the isometof silver mines dating back at least six ric...commonly show cubic, octahedral, less available than gold, and from that and dodecahedra1 faces. Parallel...the When pure, the mineral is simply elemental silver (Ag). However, it Andean mineral theme of the 2003...excepof Au and Hg and, less commonly, tional Peruvian silver has been selected as this issue’s Connoisseur’s |  | | Book | | heightened this impression. The centuries-old lure of gold has given rise to a great many legends, such...the Golden Fleece, Gaulish gold for Caesar, the gold of the Rhine, the gold of the Incas for the Conquistadors...the price of gold has merely confirmed the ancient traditions. The sight of a 50-pound gold ingot has a...also certain metallic seams, in particular, tin, gold, copper, etc. —Deformations of the Earth’s crust...Native Sulphur Pyrite Marcasite Gold Native Gold Silver Native Silver Proustite Arsenic Orpiment - Realgar |  | | Journal (issue) | | (deceased) Peter L. Via (deceased) SENIOR FELLOWS Gold Level Scott A. Rudolph (2022) Gail & Jim Spann...built specifically to process the ores from local mines. Figure 2. Hugh Lee Pattinson (1796– 1858) patented... Figure 3. Map showing the locations of the various mines and major vein structures in the Caldbeck Fells...and in 1829 first observed the “partitioning” of silver between solid and liquid lead that would be the...mining property that was claimed to be rich in silver, but which The Mineralogical Record, volume 54 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on the structure, chemistry, and texture of wire silver for a master’s of science degree at Miami University...edu rakovajf@miamioh.edu & Wire Silver Kongsberg, Norway Wire Gold Ground Hog Mine, Gilman, Colorado...Colorado S ince the dawn of civilization, silver and gold have been treasured for their surpassing beauty and...and captivating luster. Some of the earliest known gold jewelry, dating from approximately 4500 BC, was...coins are Figure 1. Section cut through a wire silver from Kazakhstan shows roughly equigranular texture |  | | Book | | Orleans, FRANCE; Curator, School of Mines, Paris ^ F* HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg...schubnel, Pro fessor and author, School of Mines, Paris, FRANCE ^ JOHN sinkankas, author and collector,...Kongsberg, NORWAY ^ PAUL fraenkel, collector, Paris, France ^ JOHN fuller, Mineral Assistant, British Museum...omitted, how is it possible to select two golds, two silvers, two rhodochrosites, and two siderites? When the...localities: the Egyptians were working gem and gold mines on the Upper Nile River, the Greeks were busy | | | Book | | Congress catalog card number: 77-186742 Printed in France by Draeger, Paris CONTENTS Introduction The Birth...Orleans, FRANCE; Curator, School of Mines, Paris 4 F. HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg...SCHUBNEL, Professor and author, School of Mines, Paris, FRANCE ¥& JOHN SINKANKAS, author and collector...Kongsberg, NORWAY }& PAUL FRAENKEL, collector, Paris, FRANCE jx JOHN FULLER, Mineral Assistant, British Museum...omitted, how is it possible to select two golds, two silvers, two rhodochrosites, and two siderites? When the |  | | Book | | Managing Editor: Moira Duggan Associate Editor: Mimi Gold Associate Editor: Barbara Hoffbeck Associate Editor:...Wulfenite 30 Prehnite 34 Rutile Rhodochrosite Gold Pyromorphite 26 Barite 82 42 38 98 Marcasite...they will probably elude him. Setting aside the lure of one species or many, there are collectors to...specimen-producing veins of the Portuguese tungsten mines, requires some chemical explanation. Uvarovite,...collectors has also brought about exploitation of mines and other properties that would not be worked commercially |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of gasoline, there are mineral events aplenty to lure us onto the open road with our vacation days. For...Copper Falls (Petherick), Mesnard, and Arcadia mines. (Who says there aren’t any places to collect anymore...and Michigan, and objects related to the Klondike gold rush. One display will feature eighteenth-century...Southeastern University] at 01:10 31 December 2014 Native silver, 6.5 cm, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Calcite twin...Karlsbad, Bohemia. Mineral displays will include silvers and fluorites as well as locality groupings from |  | | Journal (issue) | | Numerous minor actors in this drama had their own gem mines to exploit. This history recounts these tales from...Black’s case of meteorites entitled “Worth More than Gold”. The case provided historical details about each...equivalent weight in gold. The L’Aigle chondrite meteorite of 1803 from France, at 3.78 grams, is worth...worth 10 times its equivalent weight in gold. Figure 1. A slice of the Imilac pallasite from Anne M. Black’s...cases with the theme of documenting the origin of gold in the ground, its historical extraction and processing |  | | Journal (issue) | | FineMineral.com NATIVE SILVER WITH PYRRHOTITE AND CALCITE Kongsberg Silver Mines, Kongsberg, Buskerud,...figures are as follows: Figure 25. Overview of the gold occurrences in the larger Ekaterinberg district...(including the Berezovsk district). Figure 26. The gold mining region around Berezovsk, including the names...along veins in part of the Berezovsk mines. Figure 30. Overview of gold occurrences in the Mias district...district, southern Urals. Figure 31. Map of alluvial gold deposits in the Carevo Alexandrovsk area south of Mias |  | | Book | | Stevia Thompson Bob & Susan Thompson for Idaho Opal Mines, Inc. Christiane Toft in memory of Kaj Toft Douglas...point, plot on a map the location of nearly all the mines, prospects, and surface outcrops that have produced...minerals were pouring forth, year after year, from mines relatively close at hand? This is what brought dealers... lead and zinc minerals from these surrounding mines and deposits. Then there is the horde of attractive...mineralogist, ample reason for visiting the show. Local mines and deposits (in Arizona and across the Mexican |  | | Book | | stroke, in the reverberations that ensued, invent haute couture. This first collaboration between fabrics...Eugenie herself, wife of Napoleon III, ordered a silver tea-service. Cartier’s prospects were transformed...life already anticipated the Belle Epoque. Liberal France was experiencing an unprecedented growth in the...years ol political wariness and suspicion towards France, with its reputation for revolts and revolutions...he decision taken by Louis to cease working in silver sparked a revolution. He found this metal too malleable |  | | Book | | a stroke, in the reverberations ensued, invent haute couture. This first collaboration between that...Eugénie herself, wife of Napoleon IIL, ordered a silver tea-service. Cartier’s prospects were transformed...already anticipated the Belle Epoque. Liberal France was experiencing an unprecedented growth in the...years of political wariness and suspicion towards France, with its reputation for revolts and revolutions...he decision taken by Louis to cease working in silver sparked a revolution. He found this metal too |  | | Report (issue) | | _______________________________________ General features of silver veins_____.____________________________ Occurrences...mine_______-____________-____________________.___ Other mines._____________________________________________ St...monzonite in composition, has been correlated with the Silver Plume granite of the Front .Range. All types of...GEOLOGY The veins have been mined primarily for silver. Gold has been a subordinate product of most veins...north-central part of the Sugar Loaf district. Native silver was present in some veins, and some of it must |  | | Report (chapter) | | Sillitoe Department of Mining Geology, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London, England 553.067:553...following their accumulation. Copper and subordinate silver were leached from the volcanic rocks and deposited...deposits in the western U.S.A. and an epithermal gold deposit in Fiji, however, were emplaced following...metals. Silver occurs as argentite (or acanthite) and arsenic- or antimony-bearing sulphosalts, gold in the...000 oz of silver from both Pachuca and Guanajuato. Furthermore, quite a number of the mines have yielded |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Australia’s best specimen minerals. The Elura lead-zinc-silver deposit in western New South Wales has produced...green mimetite crystals and Australia’s best wire silvers (Chapman and Scott 2005). The New England region...molybdenite specimens from the Deepwater and Kingsgate mines (see Cook in press) and has also produced beautiful...cassiterite crystals, to 6 cm across, from the tin mines around Elsmore (Lawrence 1998a,b). In the Northern...atacamite specimens (see Pring this article). These mines Downloaded by [Korea University] at 06:33 08 January |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | No. 654. hereafter see that the New Hampshire mines in 1880 yielded twenty cents per $1 invested, which...of the curious nlin erals found in some of the mines. J. G. Heap, the pioneer of regular mica mining...of thiS Journal * to the fact that some of the mines had been worked by the prehistoric inhabitants of...mine, in Yancey, and the Silvers or Sink Hole and the Buchanan or Clarissa mines in Mitchell. The first...was not, however, in searching for mica, but for silver. It was known that at this place were great pits |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | greatest source of mineral wealth in the world. Andean mines account for more than 45 percent of the world's...nearly 30 percent of the silver production, significant amounts of lead, zinc, and gold, and an array of industrial...finds suggest that South Americans were obtaining gold from placer deposits and mining and smelting oxidized...Quechm (the Inca) had words for gold (cori), silver (colqui), the ruby silvers (cochiso), and argentite (tucuna)...religion of the Andean people. Gold was thought of as the "sweat of the sun," silver was the "blood of the moon |  | | Book | | MINES MINERS MINERALS AND OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Western North Carolina’s Hidden Mineralogical...on Data Presnell, Lowell, 1941– [Mines, miners, and minerals] Mines, miners, and minerals of western.../ Lowell Presnell. p. cm. Originally published: Mines, miners, and minerals. Alexander, NC: WorldComm...(soft cover), ISBN: 1-933251-06-9 (hard cover) 1. Mines and mineral resources—North Carolina—History. I...Explorers 9 2. Early Mines 11 3. Iron Mining 15 4. Cranberry Forge 19 5. Gem Mecca 23 6. Gold, Diamonds & Alum |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Joel A. Bartsch Houston Museum of Nat. Sci. Houston...Schwab Orleans, France Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook...However, if you have a special Afghanistan, Nuristan mines Arizona, Blue Ball mine Castle Dome dist. Fat Jack...Geronimo mine Purple Passion mine Red Cloud mine Silver District Tonopah-Belmont mine Western Union mine...Beltana mine Broken Hill mines Burra Burra mine Gold localities Kingsgate mines Moonta district Mount Bonnie |  | | Report (issue) | | (see under “Galleries”) are a few crystal groups of gold from a find in September 2015 at Serra do Caldeirão...2016 issue now being printed), this is marvelous gold and there’s plenty of it: hundreds of first-rate...tortured-looking, are sharp-edged all around: the gold stayed “in place” once weathered out from its host... who is also offering fine gold specimens from the new occurrence. Gold, 1.9 cm, from Serra do Caldeirão...digging good fluorite specimens from some of the old mines; in Munich I always check out certain German (former |  | | Journal (issue) | | f r o m t h e y EDITOR SILVER ISSUE Among the precious metals, gold has always generated the greatest...is silver. Though today only about 2% as valuable by weight, silver was nearly on a par with gold in...discerns a warm richness to silver that all the others lack. Furthermore, silver has been found as superb...famous and in teresting localities for native silver. Of course there are hundreds, perhaps thousands...and plenty remain for future issues. Unlike gold, silver forms the basis for an extensive array of addi |  | | Report (issue) | | Resources Consultative Committee Mineral Dossier No 25 Silver Compiled by J. M. Ridgway, BSc, PhD, CEng, MIMM... Slate No13 Gypsum and Anhydrite No14 No 15 Gold Mica No16 Potash No17 Sandstone No18 Silica... Limestone and Dolomite No24 Fireclay No25 Silver Sand and Gravel Celestite PREFACE The Mineral...Refined Metals Limited, Carnon Consolidated Tin Mines Limited, llford Limited, Johnson Matthey Chemicals...Mh1eralogy Natural abundance of silver Silver minerals 3 3 5 Silver Ore Deposits and their Associations |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | However, this paper will deal pri marily with the mines where the prin cipal collecting is for mineral...been collected. Many who collect at the Creede Mines do not know what minerals to look for and most are...deal only with the mines surrounding the town of Creede. There are numerous other mines and ghost towns...San Juan Mountains. For descriptive purposes the mines will be grouped into four areas as shown on the...East and West Willow Creek areas. History In 1869 silver was discovered at the Monon Hill area at the site |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............................ 11 Native Element—Silver .................................................May 26, 2015: Nathalie Brandes – The Famous Silver Mines of Kongsberg, Norway: Attend any larger gem...Kongsberg, Norway wire silvers. They are perhaps the most aesthetic and exquisite silvers in the world. What...lot more to the Kongsberg area than just pretty silvers. Our speaker, Dr. Nathalie Brandes, will take us...King’s Mine, The Norwegian Mining Museum, and the “Silver Vault,” and walking around the town taking in the |
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