 | | Report (issue) | | Indeed the first five items, all new finds from Morocco, appeared at the Ste.-Marie Show, where Jordi Fabre...conduit through which newly found minerals from Morocco make their debuts in Europe. Appearing in the mid-July...vanadinite on siderite from the old locality of Taouz, Morocco. 1 =========================================...cm, from Taouz, Tafilalt district near Erfoud, Morocco. Fabre Minerals specimen and photo. These specimens...specimens, 4.8 to 11.1 cm, from the Imilchil, Morocco area. These are “wheels” of pale green, blocky |  | | Report (issue) | | many good things here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California,...blue topaz: Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....miniature to small-cabinet specimens of, let’s see, smoky quartz, elbaite, morganite and aquamarine beryl, spessartine...impressive: Axinite, 5 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....County, especially from the Stewart mine. And from the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia....Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo...Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. (9) Shigaite, N’Chwaning II mine, South Africa. v This special |  | | Journal (issue) | | Printed by Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas Front cover Quartz scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King...Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...collecting has flourished throughout the Northwest region in recent decades; a history of the mineral discoveries...book. Collectors have reveled in the beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County,...the estate. Many early minerals collected in the region about Spokane, Washington, are represented in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | .................... 211 by Richard V. Gaines Morocco M ineralogy......................................name on a label when additional details (such as mine, district or county) are easily obtained. Unlike...that the first exploration of the Lake Superior region was undertaken by the United States Government...Gen. Walter Cunningham, the U.S. mineral agent, to mine the section of land on which the boulder rested...but not enough harder than quartz to be easily differentiated from quartz on this basis. Under the microscope |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jebel Ouichane, Sagangane, Nador Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. Doug Fiske collection; Jordan Root...row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...collection; Tom Spann photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane Brownlee collection;...from Katlang, Mardan Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Jeff Starr collection; Joe Budd photo...photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection; James |  | | Journal (issue) | | feature articles Famous Mineral Localities: Bou-Azzer, Morocco.......................69 by Gerard Pallix...Geological Survey Uralolite from the Dunton Gem Mine, Newry, Maine: A Second O c c u rre n ce .........and so on. Obsidian was called Apache tears and quartz pseudomorphous after crocidolite was called tiger’s...length, collected in the Mindola open pit, Rokana mine, Zambia, by S. P. Korowski. The Mineralogical Record...under ground miner at the 115-year-old Oriental mine in Alleghany, Sierra County, California. In August |  | | Journal (issue) | | Number Five Famous mineral localities: Bou Azzer, Morocco _______________________ avrea r gger Ait...338 COVER ER THRITE crystal, 3 mm, from Bou Azzer, Morocco. G. Favreau collection; Robert Vernet photo...showing early mining methods, a case of antique mine lamps, worldwide uranium and rare earth ores, gold... e tem er cto er Calcite, 24.1 cm, Verchniy mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia. Jeff Scovil photo. Famous...Sarp9, Gian Carlo Parodi10 and Ste an ei 11 Bou Azzer has produced the world’s finest specimens of erythrite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Calcite-Kevin & Mark Brown collection, page 52; Smoky quartz gwindel-Brent Lockhart collection, page 175;...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...unearthing many fine specimens of gadolinite, smoky quartz, fluorite, feldspar in crystals to five feet...dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than |  | | Journal (issue) | | cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken |  | | Report (issue) | | crisp despite partial dehydration) from the Margabal mine, Entraygues, Aveyron Department, France. 1 ==...======= Torbernite, 5.3 cm, from the Margabal mine, Entraygues, Aveyron, France. Trinity Minerals specimen...specimen and photo. This small uranium mine, in a small deposit discovered during a survey by the French...locality began in June 1997 when, somewhere in the old mine, about 1,000 fine specimens were recovered, with...with torbernite crystals to 2 cm perched on smoky quartz. In August 1997, four more pockets were opened |  | | Catalog/List | | Lode, Gecvor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An approx 60x60mm area on bro\\11 cellular quartz hematite matrix...£20. (b) 40xl5mm coverage. Smaller xls with white quartz. 45x20x30mm. £9. (c) 3) A PATITE. Cerro de Mercado...imbedded in a quartz apatite matrix. 30x35x30mm. £20. 4) ARSENOPYRITE and FERBERITE. Yaobangxian Mine, Chenzhou...15mm approx. £30. 6) BABINGTONfTE, PREHNITE and QUARTZ. Hongquizhen Quarry, Meiqu Co , Sidman, China.... A floater showing a matrix of double sided quartz xls with about 7 balls of light green prchnite to |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Mining Migration Trails and Ink Sketches of Mine Labor Life at the Western Museum of Mining & Industry...educating visitors about the geology of the Pike’s Peak Region. Jenna is also in her second year as a volunteer...Blake will talk about the fossils of the Pikes Peak region and discuss some of the new discoveries in the...and then sharing his knowledge of the Pikes Peak Region with youth and adults in programs like the Florissant...collecting locality, the mines of the Bou Azzer District, Morocco. The District contains over 60 ore bodies |  | | Journal (issue) | | sussex mineral & lapidary society SMLS Visit to Morocco SMLS Competition 2013 · Display at Haywards Heath...(leucochalcite) fibres found in a cavity of vein quartz on the Ting Tang dumps in Cornwall. The judge commented...in association with manganese ore at the Benallt Mine on the Lleyn Peninsula in Wales entered by Richard...and a specimen of green brochantite from the Hafan Mine at Nant-y-Moch in the Central Wales ore field entered...crystals intermingled with clear pencil like milky quartz crystals. The photograph was very ~lear enhancing |  | | Journal (issue) | | Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...Magdalensburg (Carinthia, Austria), where a series of quartz crystals were found at a settlement that can be...(Lombardy, northem Italy), a transparent and perfect quartz crystaldoubly terminated and about 2.5 cm in diameter-was...foothills of the Lombardy Alps (Pezzotta, 1999), where quartz occurs in a deposit very similar to that of the...the Sicilian sulfur deposits; so-called "fenster quartz" of Porretta Terme; gypsum and other minerals of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Berheley4, Cali.fornia. Ansrnlcr Brannerite is found in quartz veins about seven miles south of Coleville, Mono...metamict brannerites from Idaho, California, and Morocco yield similar r-ray diffraction patterns after...vein material consists of massive milky quartz. Smoky quartz and clear prismatic qtrartz are present...occasionally associatedwith slightly radioactive smoky quartz.,, 110 A. PABST Cnvsrer Svsrnlr In the original...occurs in lustrous black crystals firmly embeddedin quartz. These crystals are mostly slenderprisms not over |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Topaz from near El Chaltén, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. . . . . . . . . . . . ...cm (4 inches), from the Morro da Mina manganese mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Probably...2008 issue for his article on the Mockingbird gold mine). Like the rest of us on the staff, he will be striving...2009 5 Topaz from near El Chaltén Santa Cruz Province, Argentina Robert Brandstetter Auweg 1, A-2831...milky quartz crystals and large, white feldspar crystals. INTRODUCTION The South American region known |  | | Journal (issue) | | FINE www .MardaniFineMinerals .com MI NE R ALS Quartz with Chlorite Inclusions Minas Gerais, Brazil ...SHOWS TABULAR BLUE BERYL ON TOURMALINE DEO DARRAH MINE, NEAR PATTA GUZAR, BADAKSHAN, AFGHANISTAN 6CM TOM...yielded fine crystals of dolomite, magnesite, pyrite, quartz and celestine. Mining there for many more years...addition, the largest of the three mines, the Wiesergut mine, has produced the world's finest specimens of crystallized...crystallized strontianite. Dolomite, magnesite, pyrite and quartz specimens from Oberdorf are excellent as well, |  | | Catalog/List | | difficult to obtain. One of his favorite minerals is Quartz, as can be seen by the wide variety of types and...specimens”, he particularly favored the rare “Japan-Law” Quartz twins and has many unusual ones in his collection...from as many locations as possible. He also loved Quartz because he self-collected “Herkimer Diamonds” in...looking for elusive specimens. His fascination with Quartz of all types spans the globe. Daniel Trinchillo...Uruguay An Amethyst ‘porcupine’ of colorless interior Quartz with glossy, deep violet termination faces. Some |  | | Journal (issue) | | with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite...discovery at tbe Red Cloud mine, Ed Over moved on in 1939 to investigate tbe Hilltop mine in Cochise County. |  | | Book | | Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series |  | | Catalog/List | | il" in size . 2xl". £5 . 00 AI'-'GLE'.SITE. Hilton Mine, Scordale, Westmoreland. Cavities in Galena matrix...2~xlil ". £4.00 ANNABERGITE. Arhb8.r t1:;'ne , Bou Azzer, i"orocco. Rich coating of apple green lxil" .... £2.50 APOPHYLLITE and Preh;,ite. Phalaborwa Mine, Transvaal, S. Africa. Very rich specimen suitable...2x3 '; . £14.00 NATIVE ARSE.'lIC + Stibnite. Kusa Mine, Nr . Bau, Sarawak, Borneo. Specimen ASilvery grey...Malachite in association . 2~xl~". £5 . 50 AZURITE. Wood Mine, Alderl ey &!ge, Cheshire . Pale inky blue coating |  | | Catalog/List | | updated: 1-lth April, 1996. Anglesite. Mibladen, Morocco. Cluster of clear, transparent lustrous striated...long). 6 x 4 x 3 m. .f 4.40 Azurite. Mibladen, Morocco. Lustrous, deep-blue unterminated c1ystal of Azurite...3x2x I.5cm . .f3.50 Baryte / Cerussite. Mibladen, Morocco. Intergrown, bladed pink Baryte crystals on matrix...specimen. 9 x 4 x 3 cm . .f 11.25 Calcite. Quirivilca Mine, La Libertad, Peru. 1 of 11 06/24/96 13:05:51...white rhombic crystals (to about 7 mm) on Galena/Quartz matrix. 9.5 x 6 x 3 cm . .f 3.90 Calcite / Aragonite |  | | Journal (issue) | | mines, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa ..................................crystals on matrix, 17.2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, collected in 1978. Private collection and photographer...Show and Riverpark Inn Rhodochrosite, Sweet Home Mine, USA, 10 cm Photo: Malte Sickinger MARCUS BUDIL...budil-minerals.com Chrysocolla on Malachite Mashamba West Mine Democratic Republic of Congo 26 cm - Joe Budd Photo...mineral shows worldwide! Rhodochrosite - Sweet Home Mine, Colorado - 13cm | Brazilianite - Minas Gerais, |  | | Catalog/List | | 1" in sizo, thickly intergrown on Arsenopyrite/Quartz matrix with h;o b12c:...matrix.~xltxlt". £2.50. 6. ARTHURITE. Hingston Down Mine, Nr. Callington, Cornwall. Specimen A - Rich lime...crystals to 2~" in length, richly embedded in milky Quartz. 3x2-}x 2 " • £4.50. 8. AUTUNITE. Bess:·.nes...display. 7~x4x2" .£22.00. 10. AZURITE. Ting Tar.g Mine, Gwannap, Cornwall. Rich, Bright blue small sparkling...crystals and crystal crusts scattered over Slate/Quartz veinstuff. Specimen A 3x2-txlt". £4.75; Specimen |
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