 | | Journal (issue) | | —————————— Mineral News ————————————————— Page Mineral News Vol. 38, No. 12 December, 2022 The Mineral Collector’s...as it is often referred to, is a fairly common mineral that is often found in the upper, weathered portions...a shallow depth, capping the ore deposits. The mineral is soft, H-2 on Mohs scale, resinous or waxy and...at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...that locates Silver Reef in SW Utah. US I-15 between St. George and Salt Lake City cuts right through the |  | | Journal (issue) | | —————————— Mineral News ————————————————— Page Mineral News Vol. 39, No. 12 December, 2023 The Mineral Collector’s...Standards Mineral Samples Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral.com There are so many obscure, mineral-related...the more esoteric compounds, there were several mineral standards as well! Who knew? A significant part...by the research community that often requires mineral standards for analytical work. For example, when...when the Mars rover (Curiosity) uncovered the mineral jarosite, KFe3+3(SO4)2 (OH)6, as a constituent of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs January/February: Chalcopyrite on quartz, La Mine de Giraud, La Gardette, Bourg d’Oisan, Isère...Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. March/April: Quartz, variety amethyst, Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico...May/June: Quartz (Herkimer “diamond”), Herkimer Diamond Mines, Inc., New port, Herkimer County, New York...cleavelandite, 49er Pocket, Oceanview mine, Pala district, San Diego County, California. Bill Larson specimen...photo. September/October: Gold, Mockingbird mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge Minerals, |  | | Report (issue) | | Reconnaissance Geology of Western Mineral County Montana By ROBERT E. WALLACE and JOHN W. HOSTERMAN ...geologic structure and mineralogy of western Mineral County, Mont., as determined by a 'series of traverses...and Revett formations___-_-_-__-_______--_________ St. Regis formation-_-_-____--___---_-____________________Wallace...________________________________________________________ Mineral deposits_________________________________________________...mine____-_-_________-_________________________ True Fissure mine._-_--____--__-_--_______-___-________--Deposits |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | d’Alene mining district. Oxygen isotope ratios for quartz from the calcite-dominant and ankerite-dominant...15.5 per mil, respectively. Previous studies of quartz from the Ag-producing veins give average ratios...13.0 to 16.0 per mil and –6.9 to –2.8 per mil. Quartz-ankerite fractionations lie between 1.1 and 2.9...270° to 320°C). Quartz-calcite oxygen fractionations are scattered, as are the quartz-ankerite fractionations...investigation of ankerite-bearing veins associated with the quartz + siderite + sulfide veins of the Coeur d’Alene |  | | Book (edition) | | materials have been found 58 119 Glossary of mineral terms 173 Sources of information 175 Books...Tom Roberts of Chicago, 111., and W. J. Bingham of St. Paul, Minn. of Helena, Mont., E. T. of Columbia...by buying from the large stocks advertised by mineral supply houses. It's fun and profitable 1 Perhaps...from rocks, which are mixmres of minerals. Each mineral has physical characteristics peculiar to itself...gem and rare enough stand stone material, a mineral must be beautito be worth keeping, and hard enough |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Vol. 18 No. 5 May 2002 The Mineral Collector's Ne Cinnabar Along the Oak Grove Fork of the...the Clackamas River, Clackamas County, Oregon Bill Tompkins 12929 SE Kathryn Court Clackamas, Oregon 97015...just below the dam at Lake Harriet, C lackamas County, Oregon. This study is being made because the mines...last two summers, Donald Hattie, a geologist and mineral collector of Sackville, New Brunsw ick, Canada...ince of New Brunswick" it listed: " Westmoreland County.-Bellevue.-Pyrite.'' It is curious to find apparent |  | | Journal (issue) | | CATALOGUE OF. MINERAL PSEUDOMORPHS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM -B CLIFFORD FRONDEL BU.LLETIN OF THE AMRICANMUSEUM'...~ 54.9:07 (74.71) Article IX.-CATALOGUE OF MINERAL PSEUDOMORPHS IN THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL...is defined as a mineral which has the outward form proper to another species of mineral whose place it...replaced by quartz or some other mineral because the original substance is here not a mineral. The general...molds, and also: (1) Any mineral change in which the outlines of the original mineral are preserved, whether |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mine Vol. 35 No. 1 January 2019 News The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $6.00 Albert Edward Foote...Foote, the Chair of Chemistry, was a vigorous mineral collector (Shaffer 1872) many years before he was...Congress representing the Anti-Monopoly Party (Sioux County Herald I 874). Luckily, he was unsuccessful at...some spare time, he exhibited his collection at the St. Louis Fair in October 1874, thus receiving $200...NewYork. Silver Ore from the Eagle Mine Red Cliff District, Eagle County, Colorado Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gray quartz enclosing a dark green mass of diopside (pyroxene). Nashville, in eastern Howard County, is...S/W Arkansas. CALIFORNIA—Don Erpelding, 5401 Acuna St., San Diego 17, Calif., sent in a rounded group of...person's collection. "These xls are found in San Diego County on private property in an area few people have...beautiful— they also fl. a very pale green. San Diego County is in southern California. 176 xli rystalllne...massive quartz. No. 3—pale green fibrous radiating tremolite. Pearl, in northern Jackson County, is in |  | | Report (issue) | | more promptly available to p'roperty owners and mine operators concerned ~'lith exploration for and production...•••• Mineral Resources (continued) Idaho •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• l Montana •••••...,,, ••• ,.,. • •.,,, •,. •. •., •••• ,,, • • Montana •• , •••••• , ••••• , ••• , • , •• , • • • • •...Iowa ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Mineral Resources Colorado •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...Colorado ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 37 MOntana •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 28,29 29 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralogy of Chub Lake-Type Hematite Deposits in St. Lawrence County, NY Steven C. Chamberlain 1, *, Marian V...Albany, NY 12230, USA New York State Museum, Research and Collections, Albany, NY 12230, USA; marian.lupulescu@nysed...Department, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY 13323, USA; dbailey@hamilton.edu Correspondence: sccham2@yahoo...Province in St. Lawrence County, New York. Here, we focus on six of them: the Dodge mine, the Chub Lake...establish the history of each site as a source of mineral specimens. We examined extensive holdings of specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...Wendell Wilson Robert Winkelman Allan Young Young Mineral Collectors David Ziga V The Thrill of Discovery |  | | | | ip ue eo What is the difference between a mineral and a rock? Where do they come from? How do Istart...minerals and rocks, and how to test them. : Each mineral and rock is accompanied with concise descriptions...surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized by the Internet Archive...digital photographs; Bob Gault took a number of the mineral and rock photographs; Donna Naughton took a number...draft of the mineral and rock descriptions. introduction Mineral and Rock Collecting Mineral or Rock? |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral News Vol 16 No. 4 April 2000 The Mineral Collector's Newsletter Zeolites from Schroeder, Minnesota...Continued on page 6 Fig. 1 Calcite and stilbite with quartz overgrowth, on basalt, specimen 21/2 x 5 inches...New Mex ico before the War ~nd after at the zinc mine at Balmat. These specimens resulted in an article...Edwards Mine:· The Edwards Mine, also a zinc mine, was near the Balmat Mine in St. Lawrence County, New...native silver from the Balmat Mine but not Continued on page 5 .. Mine rnl Ne ws 2 Mineralogical Almanac |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Al-RICH CHROMIUM-DRAVITE FROM THE #1 MINE, BALMAT, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK Marian V. LUPULESCU§ New... Albany, New York 12230, USA Ralph ROWE Canadian Museum of Nature, Mineral Sciences Division, 1740 Pink...Cr2O3), quartz, phlogopite, and fluorapatite in talc – tremolite – cummingtonite schist at the #1 mine at...Balmat in the Adirondack Lowlands, St. Lawrence County, New York. The mineral occurs as small (up to 0.5 mm)...mm) dark green crystals in quartz, tremolite or along tremolite cleavages and contacts. The assemblage |  | | Report (volume) | | the Geological Survey's annual report entitled " Mineral Resources of the United States" (the volumes for...of a century. During that period, however, the mineral resources of the United States have been enormously...showing the composition and character of each mineral and the location of. its principal deposits. Many...These are only examples of notable changes in the mineral production of the United States and of correlated...changes in the appraised value of some of the mineral deposits. In this list, as in the earlier lists |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the iron deposits and occurrences. Where a mineral or a group of minerals has been previously described...of geology at the New York State Museum. 248 mineral species that were not well documented until now... This is the case for the Tilley Foster mine (Putnam County), which was well described by Nightingale...geology and mineralogy of the Sterling mine, Antwerp (Jefferson County), which were well documented by Robinson...old mines that may help complete the previous mineral descriptions. History Iron mining in New York State |  | | Journal (issue) | | —————————— Mineral News ————————————————— Page Mineral News Vol. 38, No. 3 March, 2022 The Mineral Collector’s... $6.00 The Ravine, Fine, St. Lawrence County, New York An Obscure Mineral Locality Re-Discovered Steven...connect close to this intersection. Three well-known mineral localities are within walking distances of each...reported that several collectors in the St. Lawrence County Mineral Club had told him about an old locality...Emirates Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral.com Mineral specimens from the United Arab Emirates are few |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and economically important for this “strategic mineral.” These and other graphite occurrences in the state...JASZCZAK Department of Physics and the A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum Michigan Technological University 1400 Townsend...sccham2@yahoo.com GEORGE W. ROBINSON A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum and the Department of Geological and Mining...Graphite rosettes from Leib’s Moonstone mine, Bloomingdale, Essex County. This specimen (8 cm across), collected...common but now obsolete synonym, plumbago†: “This mineral, of singular beauty, occurs near Ticonderoga, both |  | Bailey, David G., Lupulescu, Marian V., Darling, Robert S., Singer, Jared W., Chamberlain, Steven C. (2019) A Review of Boron-Bearing Minerals (Excluding Tourmaline) in the Adirondack Region of New York State. Minerals, 9 (10) 644 doi:10.3390/min9100644 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Clinton, NY 13323, USA New York State Museum, Research and Collections, Albany, NY 12230, USA; marian.lupulescu@nysed...New York, College at Cortland, Cortland, NY 13045, USA; robert.darling@cortland.edu Earth & Environmental...12180, USA; singej2@rpi.edu Center for Mineralogy, New York State Museum, Albany, NY 12230, USA; sccham2@yahoo...Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA. Individual mineral grains were epoxy mounted, polished using...analyzed with 3 replicates. The same polished mineral mounts were analyzed for trace elements by a laser |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Lincoln] at 19:54 09 April 2015 Near Russell, St. Lawrence County, New York STEVEN C. CHAMBERLAIN MARIAN...State. south of the village of Russell in St. Lawrence County, New York (fig. 2), is one of the classic...southeast of the junction of Dana Hill Road and St. Lawrence County Route 24. The latitude and longitude for...3, Sites 2, 3, and 4). History The well-known mineral collector and dealer Chester D. Nims (Cross 1903)... Jefferson County, New York, Nims collected widely in Jefferson, Lewis, and St. Lawrence counties. In |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, W. B. Simmons2. 11140 12th st. n, Wisconsin Rapids, WI 54494; 2Dept. of Geology...chalcocite-bearing vein material from the Baltic mine exposing the sulfides. Several samples carried small...anilite seems restricted to quartz-rich portions of thin carbonate-quartz-sulfide veinlets, is intimately...the Baltic mine dump revealed crude wires of native silver associated with chalcocite, quartz, and minor...with stromeyerite and is the first report of this mineral for Michigan. It has been suggested that alteration |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wollastonite and Titanite NATURAL BRIDGE, LEWIS COUNTY, NEW YORK STEVEN C . CHAMBERLAIN Institute for...Syracuse, New York 13244 G E O R G E W. ROBINSON Mineral Sciences Division National Museums of Canada Ottawa...century and are rep resented in the world's major mineral collections. Speci mens of excellent quality can...MINERALS CLIFFORD A. SMITH 703 S. 3rd W. Missoula, Montana 59801 of parts of this study have been published...5-minute quadrangle, in the town of Diana, Lewis County, New York (Figure 3). l b reach the locality, proceed |  | Lupulescu, Marian, Chamberlain, Steven C., Walter, Michael, Wallace, Scott (2010) Diagenetic Uvite with Overgrown DraviteBigelow, St. Lawrence County, New York. Rocks & Minerals, 85 (3) 250-259 doi:10.1080/00357529.2010.487359 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | as rossmanite and olenite from Newcomb in Essex County (Lupulescu and Rakovan 2008) and species potentially...dravite from a road cut north of Gouverneur in St. Lawrence County (Lupulescu 2008; Chamberlain, Lupulescu,...feruvite from the Jayville iron deposit in St. Lawrence County, and the hydroxyl-dominant analog of uvite...Alexandria Bay in Jefferson County and from the Wight mine–Arnold pit in St. Lawrence County (Lupulescu 2008)....Precambrian terrain in either the St. Lawrence Valley or Orange County. However, one tourmaline locality |
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