 | | Journal (issue) | | cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...copper-containing minerals (e.g., chalcopyrite, azurite, malachite, chrysocolla, linarite, etc.). Consequently...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...(hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected in 1958;...chrysocolla pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County |  | | Journal (issue) | | Number 5 The JllilpillaB Jlline Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico .............................................Cramer COVER: Azurite with malachite, 5.4 cm, from the Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico. Fine Minerals...the mines and minerals of Mexico is devoted entirely to the Milpillas mine, a relatively new locality...quantities. We published a preliminary report on the mine by Tom Moore and Marcus Origlieri back in 2008,...specimens; they visited Milpillas and went underground with the miners. Since the mine has now shut down permanently |  | | Journal (issue) | | row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino |  | | Catalog/List | | Janus Calcite on Quartz with Sphalerite Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA 8.5 cm tall...world. The Elmwood Mine is among the world’s exceptional calcite localities. This is a mine that has produced...over the past four decades. 11 14 15 II Azurite ‘Steer wide and keep well to seaward Plug your... Imugi Azurite with Malachite Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico 15.5 cm...phenomenon comes from a thin transparent layer of azurite over malachite on every face where light reflects |  | | Journal (issue) | | with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...7 THE COLLECTIONS 1 1 Malcolm Alter Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Mark Kielbaso Jim & Imelda Klein...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...enough, just across the border to the south is Mexico, rieb in active mines where miners are gathering...botryoidal malachite in the Big Horn Mountains and azurite from near Tucson in 1855. Other explorers reported |  | | Journal (issue) | | particularly from the huge silver deposits of Mexico and eru. panish silver mining remade the economy...Record, E Figure 3. Montezuma, the ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, is said to have observed a blazing...employed as forced labor, cobbing out silver ore at a mine in Chihuahua; from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r...mita mestizo E W Figure 18. Indian miners in Mexico, from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r i e a i er (1869)... Figure 20. An engraving of the School of Mines in Mexico City, opened in 1795, from Calderon de la Barca |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Graham Sutton 4 5 CONTENTS 08 20 22 24 36 6 Milpillas Encore By Peter Megaw and Evan Jones Mineral...Future of Mineral Collecting By Tama Higuchi MILPILLAS ENCORE By Peter Megaw and Evan Jones W e’ve...Mineral Council Azurite, 10 cm, Rosette Pocket, 1100 level, Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico. Unique Minerals...from the Milpillas Mine in Sonora, Mexico from 2006-2021. These finds reset the bar for azurite, malachite...malachite pseudomorphs after azurite, brochantite, volborthite and olivenite-and a host of accessory species |  | | Journal (issue) | | (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica, Mexico---Stephen Blyskal and Sigrid Stewart collection;...Barite-James and Charelle Webb collection, page 279; Azurite-Bob Howard collection, page 138; Calcite- Kevin...like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many fortunes have been...ofLeadville, Colorado. Eventually rnoving on through New Mexico and Arizona as a prospector, he leamed some mineralogy...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens |  | | Report (issue) | | there is new work afoot at the famous Red Cloud mine in the Trigo Mountains, in the southwestern part...backgrounds on the history of wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, see the essay by Szenics just quoted (“Ed Over...headed by Wayne Thompson (“Bonanza at the Red Cloud mine,” in the SeptemberOctober 1996 issue). The Thompson...notable wulfenite would be found at the Red Cloud mine. But 14 years ago Robert Bell, a mineral collector...collector who lives in Kansas, purchased the mine anyway, and now he has contracted for experienced field man |  | | Journal (issue) | | KHURSHEED DINSHAW NEVADA PATENT MINE 34 United States’ only active azurite mine. STUART “TATE” WILSON Regular...Azuritecredit) with Malachite,. (photo Milpillas Mine, Mexico : ARKENSTONE specimen now in the Jeff Kremer...of Tiffany Stone are no longer available from the mine at Delta Utah, even though the beryl content is... Mexican miners working underground at Ojuela mine circa 1908. Note safety equipment of the day. IMAGE...have Mexico become a reliable source of mineral specimen wealth – and periodic surprises. Mexico is a |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | SYMPOSIUM august ¥ 22-23,2014 Gold Eagle's Nest Mine, California, USA J «. *.1 DALLAS Mineral Collecting...Year’s Speaker Lineup Brice Gobin Tanzanite: From Mine to Market Dr. Robert Bowell Tsumeb: A Mineralogical...passionate mineral collector since first setting foot in Santa Eulalia in 1977. He moved to Tucson in 1979 and...collecting has come to focus exclusively on minerals of Mexico. He won the Desautels Trophy in 2006 for the Best...awards. He is photo-moderator for submissions on Mexico to Mindat and co-moderator of the FMF Mineral Forum |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the nonexistent In 1975, the Santo Niño and Santa Elena veins were argentite. Acanthite formed as...Juan de Rayas in Guanajuato (Mexico) and has become the richest silver mine in the world, in more recently...ceased vein. The San Juan production by the de Rayas mine in time of World War II. Guanajuato also In 1946...very city In Morocco, the of Oberschlema Bou Azzer mine, itself, which finally already very had to be relocated...and east of Schlema, 2014 Tucson show. The Imiter mine began its modern producing many quality specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | Chalcopyrite (twin), El Cobre mine, Concepciandel Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico, 2.2 x 2.1 x 1.6 cm, Alex Schauss...recognition in their state or region. Silver, Hongda mine, Lingquin County, Shanxi Province, China, 3.2x2...interesting information on the author of the article on azurite and subsequent mineral species we will be covering...exceptional paper very recently written about azurite that one can obtain, authored by Malcolm Southwood...MINERALOGY Vol.45, No.3 Page 5 Gahnite, Franklin mine, Sussex County, New Jersey, 2.1 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm, |  | | Report (issue) | | the following page) from the open-pit magnesite mine at Podrečany, Czechoslovakia (now just Slovakia)...scalenohedral crystal forms, and the specimens of azurite, cerussite, tennantite, etc. are very far from...siderite in the Milpillas mine, Sonora, Mexico. If siderite specimens from Milpillas were present at...electric-blue azurite specimens taken last autumn from a huge pocket in the Milpillas mine (see the print...== Siderite, 5 cm, from the Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico. Arkenstone specimen; Joe Budd |  | | Journal (issue) | | Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...time collection,” he said, “collected by a former mine superintendent over a period of many years. Nearly |  | | Report (issue) | | a whiff of Mexico too. There are many good things here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district...blue topaz: Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....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...(besides plenty of elbaites) such rarities from that mine as cassiterite, hambergite, and a large, superb |  | | Report (issue) | | show Jordi also scored something interesting from Mexico and something else from Brazil, and now all of...==== Co-rich calcite, 7.8 cm, from the Oumlil mine, Bou Azzer, Ouarzazate, Morocco. Fabre Minerals...Silver on actinolite, 5.4 cm, from the Bouismas mine, Bou Azzer, Ouarzazate, Morocco. Fabre Minerals...========== About three years ago the Bouismas mine at Bou Azzer surprised the collecting world by producing...“from an exceptional find in 2010” in the Bouismas mine, show much stouter, withal a little elongated, metallic |  | | Journal (issue) | | Issue President’s Message 2&4 Officers 3 Milpillas Azurite Story 5-9 State Mineralogy Books 10-15 Friends...28-30 Our Affiliates 31 Mimetite, Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Mexico, 2.4 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm, Alex Schauss Collection...Chapter Newsletter: Get it While You Can: the Milpillas Azurite Story by Bob Carnein A Lake George Club member...an exorbitant amount of money for an azurite specimen from Mexico (Figures 2, 3). The price was in the...to answer that question and show you why the Milpillas mine is one of the great contemporary mineral localities |  | | Report (issue) | | specimens of pyromorphite from the Bou Iboulkhir mine, Moulay Bouazza, Khénifra, Meknès-Tafilalt region:...== Pyromorphite, 4 cm, from the Bou Iboulkhir mine, Moulay Bouazza, Khénifra, Meknès-Tafilalet region...===== Co-rich calcite, 6 cm, from the Agoudal mine, Bou Azzer, Morocco. Mch Minerals specimen and photo...acanthite from the Imiter mine, concerning which John writes the following: The Imiter mine in Morocco has produced...of the finest specimens of acanthite known. This mine is nearing its end, and no new specimens have come |  | | Journal (issue) | | AZURITES 16 Part I: Electric blues from the Milpillas mine. By Bob Jones 16 PREHISTORIC TEXAS Lubbock...others, at an auction. I was told it was taken from a mine in Alaska called Aurora Borealis in the ’60s. I...on, there is an old mine adit bored into a sheer rock wall. Beyond the old mine, there are spectacular...from the Milpillas Mine T Story by Bob Jones he azurite specimens recently mined in Mexico are the...have produced quality azurite. But this recent source of azurite, the Milpillas mine near Cuitaca, about |  | | Journal (issue) | | p. 258 COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to...fine minerals on DVD wilensky Fluorite, Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Wilensky Fine Minerals...and Other Minerals from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona Chapter authors: Les...Presmyk and Tony Potucek The Mammoth-St. Anthony mine at Tiger has produced not only large amounts of...Frank Schultz staked the first claims in 1879. The mine began as several separate workings that ultimately |  | | Journal (issue) | | Calcite aus der Gordonsville Mine, USA Kupfermineralien von der Milpillas Mine, Mexiko • QuecksilberMineralien...57 Spektakuläre Calcitfunde in der Gordonsville Mine, Tennessey 58 Neuigkeiten aus der Vulkaneifel...Außergewöhnliche Kupfer-Mineralien von der Milpillas Mine in Sonora, Mexiko 76 Neue Mineralien 86 ACHAT-Magazin...ein Exemplar von der Typlokalität, der Uchucchacua-Mine bei der Stadt Oyon in der Provinz Lima handelt,...Bücher Cap Garonne - das Buch? Die Cap Garonne Mine in der Gemeinde Le Pradet, Departement Var, Region |  | | Report (issue) | | Caridad, Pilares, Cananea, Maria, Mariquita, Milpillas October, 1994 Bootprints Along the Cordillera... September 19, 1994 Dear Participants: Welcome to Mexico and Sonora. and beneficial to you. I hope this trip...Caridad, Pilares, Cananea, Maria, Mariquita, Milpillas" is intended to be a brief introduction to...the porphyry molybdenum deposits of northern Sonora. and breccia copper- It will point out the...Caridad on the southern most end and finish with Milpillas, the northern most known copper resource |  | | Journal (issue) | | (a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson...discovery of morganite at the famous Corrego do Urucum mine in 1973. Will Johnson collection (I had to trade |  | | Journal (issue) | | secondary minerals like wulfenite, vanadinite and azurite. Mineralogically, Colorado is basically a hardrock...localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,...Collection" labels list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results...thread, some taken from the surface of the American mine and some from its deepest workings indicating that...that depth does not change the character of the mine. One is impressed by the money as well as the scientific |
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Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico