 | | Book | | Editions Minerva S. A. Gendve, 1976 Printed in West-Germany 4 I I Preface Rather than a manual of mineralogy...Fleece, Gaulish gold for Caesar, the gold of the Rhine, the gold of the Incas for the Conquistadors, the...certain metallic seams, in particular, tin, gold, copper, etc. —Deformations of the Earth’s crust take the...compounds: oxides, carbonates, sulphates, etc., of copper, lead, uranium, etc. Unlike the organic compounds...(pyrite), and sometimes pyramidal cubes (native copper). —Tetragonal: a straight prism, with a square |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf Medenbach Ruhr Universitat Bochum Bochum, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim...Fourteen, Number Five ARIZONA- V Articles Lost mines of Arizona .......................................Affiliated with the Friends of Mineralogy COVER: COPPER from the Ray mine, Arizona. The specimen is 3 inches...was the winner of the Best Copper Cabinet Specimen and Best Arizona Copper at the 1977 Tucson Show. Evan...(and last) in our series of special issues on the mines and minerals of Arizona. During the years before |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ARIZONA COPPER Featured at the 1997 Tucson Show Downloaded by [California Institute of Technology] at...of Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 A rizona and copper are intricately linked in history. Production from...pounds of the red metal. This enormous amount of copper, which, if placed on a regulation football field...from the rock of several thousand mines and prospects. Some of these mines, such as at Ajo, Clifton-Morenci...Jerome, and Bisbee were, and are, among the largest copper camps in the world. At the end of the nineteenth |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 COPPER RAY MINE, PINAL COUNTY, ARIZONA Downloaded by...Whether uncombined or alloyed with other metals, copper has played a major role in the development of our...and widely used nonferrous metals. Consequently, copper deposits have been sought by prospectors and geologists...Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, an h i zona native copper specimen has been chosen for this issue’s Connoisseur’s...(fig. I). For an in-depth description of Arizona copper and its most famous localities, the reader is referred |  | | Catalog/List | | Batters Engine-house at West Chiverton, to the north ot Truro. (Sanu ^IVeffeKjS/linerafs SPRING 1989...greenish-yellow xtls. 2£x1Jx5/8". £5-00. 28. AZURITE/MALACHITE. Tsumcorp> Mine,Otavi.Namibia. Choice,lustrous-surfaced...rear. 5ix2^xli", £100.00. 31 AZURITE. Tynaugh Copper Mine,Co.Galway,Eire. Very lustrous.rich infill...classic. 1£x1£x1", £15-00. 33. AZURITE/MALACHITE. Tynaugh Copper Mine,Co.Galloway,Eire. Bright,royal blue...coloured, velvety botryoidal Malachite. 1-|x1-Jx1", £8.00. 34. AZURITE/MALACHITE. Kamarezi Central Mine,Nr |  | | Catalog/List | | is simply remarkable. The Elmwood-Gordonsville mines were initially discovered in 1969, then mining began... The Odyssey, Book XII Imugi Azurite with Malachite Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Santa Cruz Municipality...from a thin transparent layer of azurite over malachite on every face where light reflects, shimmers,...azurite floating above a ridge of rich green malachite, is the largest intact specimen from this legendary...these challenging mountains. 30 32 33 IV Copper ‘Shout as you will, begging to be untied your |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | southeast The fissure vein that is exposed in the of Copper Harbor and has produced Some glaciated outcrop...of the largest copper crystals found in the on the bedrock geology map of tbe Fotr Copper Country. Nearly...view of the flssure vein at Point pmpect showing copper crystals in the siUcilled prehnite veln. Photo... Figure 2 (right). Probably the two best large copper groups recovered from Point prospect. hj?: John...crystal and shows the original patina of azurite, malachite, and cuprite (clow-up view in flg. 6). The specimen |  | | Journal (issue) | | Backcover (above) Stock certificate for the Rowley Copper Mines Company (1914) Dick Morris collection (below)...of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered by the Bureau...file a legal claim. Likewise a number of operating mines are encountering and helping to preserve minerals...active mines where miners are gathering specimens to sell to wholesalers who will take them north to Texas...Railroad Survey, collected native copper crystals and botryoidal malachite in the Big Horn Mountains and |  | | Journal (issue) | | "curly albite"andquartz. (Continues on page 2) Copper from the Itauz Mine Near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan...and purchased an unusual specimen labeled merely "Copper, Kazakhstan". Since none had ever been available...my collection. This piece is a blocky chunk of copper with a small, elongated spinel Jaw twin protruding...to Tucson, Arizona in 1999: a large, branching copper with a very light cuprite patina was obtained -...of twinning and I believe they are equal to any copper twins from any other area in quality and perhaps |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tri-State district or Michigan’s Upper Peninsula copper mines, but—the next-best thing—during high school...particularly in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. As late as 1990 his “worldwide” mineral...with Midwestern-US minerals, especially Michigan coppers. He subscribed to Dan Weinrich’s monthly newsletter...2014 he made his first visit to the Ste.-Marieaux-Mines Show. Bon! The Mineralogical Record, volume 47...Conichalcite Copper Cuprite Dioptase Dolomite Galena Hydrocerussite Linarite Malachite Mimetite Mottramite |  | | Journal (issue) | | collecting achievements contributing to the heritage of North American mineral specimens February 201 8 Notes...contributing to the Heritage of American (that is, North, Central and South American) mineral specimens....of 2007 Rod began looking at housing along the north shore of the Bay of Fundy. He found a ship captain's...River, and the Colonial Copper mine (all in Nova Scotia), Pine Point (North West Territories), Thunder...as a mineralogist for the New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources (1988-1992). In August 1992 |  | | Report (issue) | | about the most venerable of mineral localities, the mines having been worked for silver and lead by the classical...crystals. Some of the spheres have pale green malachite spots, and one 3.7-cm specimen shows an open vug...with dense, foliage-like growths of azurite, malachite pseudomorphs after azurite, olivenite, conichalcite...Tremolite, largest crystal 2.2 cm, from the Merelani mines, Arusha Region, Tanzania. Marin Minerals specimens...crystals from the tanzanite mines at Merelani, Arusha Region, Tanzania. From these mines, we are by now accustomed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gleason and Gourtland gets its dumps of the old mines in the area or name from the old Tiffany Mine on...Bisbee azurite is king and malachite is queen. Cuprite and other coppers are side of the mountain is...bringing it out on native copper but the crystals were small and the copper was very dull. It couldn't...cuprite. One of our favorites is the calcite on malachite specimens that were very plen tiful a couple...Beautiful calcites have come out of the Bisbee mines and even some selenite but the latter is usually |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Elements of Cu-(Fe)-Sulfide Inclusions in Bronze Age Copper Slags from South Urals and Kazakhstan: Ore Sources...settlements of the Cis-Urals, Trans-Urals, and North and Central Kazakhstan are presented. The study...Te, Sb, Ag, Pb, and Bi, are important markers of copper deposit types. Sulfides from olivine Cr-rich spinel...characterized by As-Co-Ni high contents and confined to copper deposits in ultramafic rocks. Olivine sulfide-containing...indicators of alloying or flux components in primary copper smelting. These include samples from Ustye, Katzbakh |  | | Book | | precious native elements such as silver, gold and copper to complex silicates such as vesuvianite, first...01225 478440; sales@manning-partnership.co.uk North American agent/distributor: National Book Network;...the basis of an ancient treasure, lapis lazuli. Copper and gold were first used at least 10,000 years...since Roman times. colour makes them easy to see. Copper and gold were both too soft to make tools from...from, but the discovery that tin could be added to copper to make the tough alloy bronze about 5000 years |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Red Cloud, the Old Yuma and the Grand Reef mines, as well as the Morenci open pit. She has been the...mine, San Diego County, California. BACK COVER: Copper, 13.5 cm, from the Ray Mine, Pinal County, Arizona...184 Cerussite 61 Chrysoberyl 95 Chrysocolla 182 Copper 57, 133, 178, back cover Epidote 111, 184 Euclase...115 Lepidolite 97 Linarite 181 Liroconite 99 Malachite 41, 119, 182 Manganite 105 Phosphophyllite 37...from the Kombat mine, Namibia (plate 19) The big Copper crystal, frorn Upper Michigan (plate 23) The V-shaped |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A NEW AND OLD LOOK AT COPPER PROF. J . T. HENRY, SR. Central State University Wilberforce, Ohio Wilberforce...Wilberforce, Ohio of the North. It is interesting to note, INTRODUCTION We feel that an introduction to the...understanding of its contents. Copper and that the very mineral that was virtually the copper industry has probably...mining company did this topic. mine copper. The production was too Copper is non-ferrous metal that has small...centuries, as early as 5000 in copper was still alive and was in the B. C. Copper is mined around the world |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology, v. 106, pp. 307–316 COPPER ISOTOPE CHARACTERISTICS OF COPPER-RICH MINERALS FROM BESSHI-TYPE...Abstract The copper isotope ratios of chalcopyrite, secondary malachite, and native copper of metamorphosed...massive sulfide (VMS) deposits from two different mines, Japan, were measured by femtosecond-pulsed laser...× 1,000) values of chalcopyrite samples of both mines are relatively narrow (−0.34 to +0.29‰) compared...chalcopyrite are slightly different between the two mines. This suggests that, although metamorphic reequilibration |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MICHIGAN COPPER COUNTRY Figure 1: Shaft house of the Ahmeek mine, Keweenaw County. 1962 photo by Terry...probably never will be anything like the Michigan Copper Country. For the mineral-minded, it is the region...region uniquely celebrated for mining its copper as the native metal. For the collector, its scores of old...and a New England climate. The Copper Country lies 500 miles due north of Chicago in the Keweenaw Peninsula...author believes these were Chinese who took back the copper to make their famous bronze vessels. From evidence |  | | Journal (issue) | | 27th . September to explore some localities in the copper, lead, barite mining area in the hills to the south-east...Pontesbury. The first of these, the old Westcott copper mine, comprised three separate collecting sites...together in the underground parts of these two mines. After sorting ourselves into two parties, we set...adits. All members collected azurite and other copper minerals fr~m the dumps. . ·.· . . . . -: : . ...j • • • •, :. • I Originally started as a copper mine in the latter part of the 1800s, the workin·gs |  | | Journal (issue) | | Treasures Issue! $15 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)...$190 for one year. *Continued on p. 258 COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County...Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s finest copper specimen. It was part of the Donald C. Gabriel...Mountain, Alaska, by hardy prospectors looking for copper in the early 1900s. The epidote specimens occur...not only large amounts of gold, molybdenum and copper but also more than 90 different mineral species |  | | Book | | Silex and Stone Mining . . . . . . . . .126 ic 7. Copper and Bronze Age Mining . ..... 153 8. Iron and...being discovered at a far greater rate than are mines, new information is forthcoming and new theories...his Roman Mines in Europe (1935), refers to the problem of poor evidence for ancient mines and suggests...disciplines. If this is true for ancient Greek and Roman mines it is still more valid for prehistoric workings...the work is to describe and discuss prehistoric mines and to consider the areas from which early man obtained |  | | Book | | practical dug mines to get at them underground. geological skill as they Copper and gold were first...the first great unconformities (see Reading the Copper and gold were both too soft to geology book, De...by Hutton’s ideas, more tin could be added to copper to make The rock hunters Below: None of these...places, including the Tethys Seaway. South-western North America was flooded by the Sundance Sea. Cretaceous...Present day Over the last 50 million years, the North Atlantic has opened up to separate Europe and America |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf Medenbach Ruhr Universitat Bochum Bochum, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim...the FM-TGMS-MSA Symposium on Azurite and other copper carbonates ............................................................. COVER: CUPRITE with malachite on chrysocolla, from the M ashamba West mine,...grading system for minerals, a coin’s grade deter mines its price, so the rule might be restated to say...recover equipment and minerals from one of the oldest mines in the United States. Even as the water rose to |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kunzite-Gary and Rosemany White collection, page 295; Malachite-Don and Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle...Rhodochrosite- Marc & Janis Countiss collection, page 76; Copper-Paul Bordovsky collection, page 33; Elbaite-Jeremy...204; Cerussite-Joe Budd collection, page 63; Malachite-Tim & Holly Smith collection, page 244. (right...mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced...Hillebrand and Schaller) in 1910. And the Terlingua mines also yielded fine groups of scalenohedral calcite |
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