| | 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...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...Choice. Figure 1. An unusually aesthetic 8.3-cm silver As, Sb, Bi, Pt, and Cu in solid soluAdditional | | | Book | merely heightened this impression. The centuries-old lure of gold has given rise to a great many legends,...contain phosphate, and pearls contain aragonite and calcite. Yet all the splendidly crystallized collector's...are rare in such deposits, though crystals of calcite, celestite, etc. can be found in them from time...faces, all the sides of which are equal (dolomite, calcite). This type gives the most varied shapes, particularly...Minerals from sedimen tary rocks and gangues Calcite Fluorite Barite Dolomite Aragonite Rhodochrosite | | | Journal (issue) | 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...local farmers and miners leased the Roughton Gill mines on the Caldbeck Fells (North Yorkshire Record Office | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | on the structure, chemistry, and texture of wire silver for a master’s of science degree at Miami University...ander210@miamioh.edu rakovajf@miamioh.edu & Wire Silver Kongsberg, Norway Wire Gold Ground Hog Mine, Gilman...Gilman, Colorado S ince the dawn of civilization, silver and gold have been treasured for their surpassing...coins are Figure 1. Section cut through a wire silver from Kazakhstan shows roughly equigranular texture...alloy of silver and gold (Wallace 1987). Throughout history and around the globe, gold and silver have been | | | 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...Ontonagon County, and a third on pseudo-octahedral calcite found at the Minesota mine. If you are headed East...31 December 2014 Native silver, 6.5 cm, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Calcite twin, 9 cm, Cumbria, England...Karlsbad, Bohemia. Mineral displays will include silvers and fluorites as well as locality groupings from | | | 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 | 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...occurred with a white mineral such as quartz or calcite. 8 J 5. Color. The shade, hue, and intensity | | | Book | Adamite 66 Radioactives Legrandite Dioptase Calcite 70 74 78 86 126 130 Faceted Gems 134 Gem...size. A hundred-pound specimen of large fans of calcite may be a perfect accent for an interior decoration...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 (issue) | FineMineral.com NATIVE SILVER WITH PYRRHOTITE AND CALCITE Kongsberg Silver Mines, Kongsberg, Buskerud,... Workings along veins in part of the Berezovsk mines. Figure 30. Overview of gold occurrences in the...Westward Look Show Fluorite “Venus“, Mont-Blanc, France, 8 cm Photo: Malte Sickinger MARCUS BUDIL Monaco...Guatomo mine at Tham Thalu. Production data for the mines during this period are lacking, but by the time...time of Pui Sae Tan’s death in 1878, the family mines were thriving, and the principal export commodities | | | Journal (issue) | Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach...(Elmhurst, IL) Gilbert Gauthier (Maisons-Laffitte, France) Gemmological Institute o f America, Michael Waitzman...Mateo, CA) Thomas N. McKee, Arizona Turquoise and Silver (Scottsdale, AZ) John C. Medici (Dublin, OH) Frank...lous photos of the abandoned Japanese stibnite mines,” he said to me when I visited him in Fallbrook;...demonstrates the value of personal encounters with the mines and the miners. American Sapphire mine, Yogo Gulch | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers are certainly some of the most collectible of all...mineral species, and the two most familiar ruby silvers, proustite and pyrargyrite, have been covered previously...informal family is polybasite, a relatively common silver ore mineral that is rare as fine specimens. Although...essentially a silver antimony sulfide in which copper occurs in substitution for silver in amounts up...(Ag,Cu)16(As,Sb)2S11. Pseudomorphs of stephanite, silver, pyrite, and marcasite after polybasite have been | | | 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...by B. P. Kent & B. Butkowski Mineralogy of the calcite-fluorite veins near Long Lake, New Y o r k ......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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | mineral collector, silver and Kongsberg are synonymous, and the place to see the best silver specimens is the...fantastic specimens of native silver mined over many centuries from the great silver deposits of Kongsberg,...grand old silver mine. Explore the History The name Kongsberg has been associated with fine silver for centuries...centuries. Mines in the Kongsberg area, about 80 kilometers west of Oslo, produced more than 1,350 metric...metric tons of silver from the beginning of production in about 1623 until the last mine closed in 1956 | | | Journal (issue) | . n o t e s f r o m t h e y EDITOR SILVER ISSUE Among the precious metals, gold has always...behind, however, is silver. Though today only about 2% as valuable by weight, silver was nearly on a par...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 | | | Journal (issue) | Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf...(Elmhurst, IL) Gilben Gauthier (Maisons-Laffine, France) Cemmological illstitute ofAmerica. Michael Waitzman... CA) Thomas N. McKee, Ari-1:.ona Turquoise and Silver (Scottsdale, AZ) John C. Medici (Dublin, OH) Fran...lous photos of the abandoned Japane e stibnite mines." he said 10 me when I visited him in Fallbrook:...demonstrate the value of personal encounters with the mines and the miners. American Sapphire mine, Yoga Gulch | | | 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...metals in various proportions, but also base metals. Silver occurs as argentite (or acanthite) and arsenic-... accompanied by varying quantities of pyrite, calcite, dolomite, barite, adularia, rhodochrosite, rhodonite...000 oz of silver from both Pachuca and Guanajuato. Furthermore, quite a number of the mines have yielded | | | Report (issue) | digging good fluorite specimens from some of the old mines; in Munich I always check out certain German (former...Yuanfuliite, 3.3 cm, from the Nuestra Señora del Carmen mines area, La Celia, Jumilla, Murcia, Spain. Fabre Minerals...specimen and photo. Jordi also offers some beautiful calcite specimens from a revered Spanish locality: the...================= Cantabria). The small Pb-Zn mines of the La Florida group have been inactive since...it’s likely that they came from this discovery. Calcite, 5.6 cm, from the La Florida mining area, Herr | | | 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) | red of the two most familiar members of the ruby silver family. The acquisition of even a good proustite...collections or once-a-century type finds in operating silver mines. Conse quently, this much-revered mineral has...pyragyrite (Ag SbS ), are commonly called the "ruby silvers." They do not form a complete isomorphous series...known; proustite pseudomorphs after argentite, silver, and stephanite have been reported. Primary proustite...atively shallow, epithermal portions of hydrothermal silver deposits. It also forms by secondary enrichment | | | Journal (issue) | Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Schwab Orleans, France Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook...de la Selle, Saint Christophe-en-Oisans, Isere, France...............................223 by L. Gautron...Cunha Baixa mine, Paulkerrite $10 .16/#4 Kingsgate mines v .17/#4 National Belle mine (CO), Tip Top mine...(Brazil), Anjanabonoina (Madagascar), Port Radium Silver (Canada) $10 v.20/#5 Brazilian Diamonds, Leveaniemi | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Country Eleventh in a series of articles on the mines and minerals of Michigan’s Copper Country Figure...shoreline shift with Lake Superior storms, exposing calcite/quartz veins in the Copper Harbor Conglomerate...terminated scalenohedral calcite crystals on crystallized quartz. The longest calcite crystal is 7.9 cm and...and was collected from the calcite/quartz vein by Bob Williams in July 1975. Pam and Jerry Hall specimen...1968 by the closing of all Calumet & Hecla, Inc. mines in Houghton and Keweenaw counties because of an | | | 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 | | | Catalog/List | memories are of collecting quartz in Montana, calcite in Utah, silver, galena, sphalerite, and amethyst in Creede...Collection 7 (ener weapYILVER, CALCITE, & ACANTHITES L Kongsberg Silver Mines — ' Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway...Kongsberg Silver Piece. What a super aesthetic combination of native wire silver growing atop calcite crystals...there are two absolutely perfect rhombs of white calcite with sharp crystals of gray acanthite to the left...left. Situated in the middle is the “trunk” of the silver tree that starts at a thickness of about 1 cm and | | | Journal (issue) | known to include chalcocite, native copper and wire silver, as well as some of the world’s best crystals of...of four mines that exploit the Dzhezkazgan sandstone copper deposit). In addition, the mines of the Zhilandy...Spassky Copper Mine Ltd., were granted concessions on mines in Kazakhstan, the latter acquiring the rights to...Because professional expertise was needed, the mines were developed under the direction of Europeans...inmates were forced to work in the Dzhezkazgan mines. Figure 4. Lithuanian political prisoners forced | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | The specimen is 12.4 × 6.2 cm and was encased in calcite. Tom Rosemeyer specimen, John A. Jaszczak photo...photo. Seventeenth in a series of articles on the mines and minerals of Michigan’s Copper Country Figure...minerals include copper, silver, porcelaneous datolite nodules, prehnite, quartz, calcite, epidote, analcime...after of the highly prized specimens are native silver and native copper, metal detectors are extensively...finds are grouped into five categories: copper, silver, copper-banded agates, datolite, and miscellaneous |
|