 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and quartz, 9.9 cm across, Tree Root Pocket, Two Point claim, Pikes Peak batholith, Teller County. The...Mail Stop 150, Box 25046 Federal Center Denver, Colorado 80225 pmodreski@usgs.gov C olorado is, of course...been written as guides to mineral collecting in Colorado. A classic, which went through three major editions...1951 version with a slightly different title), is Colorado Gem Trails and Mineral Guide, by Pearl (1951,...up-to-date guidebook to the state’s minerals is Colorado Rockhounding, by Voynick (1994). Other published |  | | Journal (issue) | | - - - - - - - - - - - Mineral Collections 1n Colorado A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record November-December...Frontcover Smoky quartz with amazonite, 11.8 cm, from the "Smithsonian packet," Smoky Hawk claim, Florissant...Florissant, Colorado. Collected in 2008; Dorris Family collection; Jeff Scovi l photo. Backcover: Collectible...certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This special supplement...Collecting in Colorado The Collections: Mel & Pam Bersch Ryan Bowling Ralph Clark Colorado School of Mines |  | | Book (volume) | | white matrix versus a creamy white. A clear bright Quartz versus a slightly included one. These variations... A Tourmaline on clear Quartz is not double the value of one on milky Quartz, it can be 10 times, or...Aegirine (& Smoky Quartz) Mt. Malosa, Zomba Dist., Malawi, 56 Amazonite (with Smoky Quartz) Tree Root...Root Pocket, Two Point Claim, Teller Co., Colorado, 59 Amethyst (scepter) Goboboseb Mts., Brandberg, Erongo...Erongo Region, Namibia, 60 (on Quartz) Jackson Crossroads, Wilkes Co., Georgia, 2-3 Anglesite Touissit Dist |  | | Journal (issue) | | series). and that the demarcation point between them would rest at the point where Fe=Mn. The lunar material...diffraction (XRD). (Continued on page 9 ) COLORADO MINERAL COLORADO FOSSIL EXPO & FOSSIL SHOW Holiday Inn...$49.00 for two years; addresses in Canada and Mexico are US$48.00 per year, or US$90.00 for two years; all...subscriptions are US$56.00 per year, or US$105.00 for two years. All foreign subscriptions are sent via air...Eliane followed me in looking for pieces of clear quartz that she could use in the necklaces she creates |  | | Journal (issue) | | largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection; self-collected...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil...microcline with smoky quartz, 8.5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado; Karl Warning...Mineral Society, and many others. Of these, the two rnost important organizations representing exclusively...Mineral Society ("the HAMS Grou p"). Members of these two organizations often sponsor group exhibits at the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Oriental Region, Morocco. Doug Fiske collection; Jordan Root photo. Back cover: Top row, from left: Euclase,...Spann collection; Tom Spann photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root photo. Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from...January–February 2009 issue. It was sponsored by the state’s two principal organizations of mineral collectors: the |  | | Calendar | | in the field: a miner encounters a crystal-lined pocket in the course of ore recovery; a prospector observes...observes crystal fragments in the roots of a downed tree; a dealer works a deposit for the sole purpose of...mineral specimens; or a weekend collector finds a pocket in a local outcrop. One of the true joys of collecting...wulfenile spec11ncn from the Red Cloud Mine in La Paz County, Arizona, 1s co11 ·idercd among the lincst matrix...Specimen-quality pyromorphite was discovered in Shoshone County, Idaho's Bunker Hill Mine in 1980 and subsequently |  | | Journal (issue) | | Our Lucky Monday – a great collecting story Colorado, USA J. Scovil photo. Issue #6 The Collector’s...find a great pocket, it could be the end of our search for amazonite with smoky quartz. Monday morning...extracted first important specimen from the pocket known as “Two Pillars”. T. Dorris photo. The Pikes Peak...Peak region has been producing amazonite and smoky quartz specimens as well as other pegmatite minerals...combination of smoky quartz with amazonite from Lucky Monday pocket, Smoky Hawk claim, Colorado, USA. 8.2 cm |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...520-544-0815 •Individuals (U.S.): $47 for one year; $90 for two years. (First-class mailing available; write to circulation...•Individuals (outside the U.S.): $51 for one year, $98 for two years. (Airmail mailing available; write to circulation...ecord March-April 1998 Volume Twenty-nine, Number Two Articles Mineralogy of the Saint-Amable Sill, Varennes...Eagle’s Nest mine in Placer County, California (half of them with quartz matrix) were taken. The gold |  | | Journal (issue) | | page 2) Zalesiite frolll the Gold Hill Mine Toole County, Utah Paul M. Adams 126 South Helberta Avenue #2...Kokinos and Wise (1993). At that time they noted that two different varieties of mixite occurred at Gold Hill...with olivenite and conichalcite, in cavities in quartz veins. On the 30-level they mentioned the presence...pale blue acicular sprays which were found in quartz, either in the south pit or on the dumps. The Gold...tubes." The tubes were about one to two inches in diameter and two to four inches long. They were obviously |  | | Journal (issue) | | September 2006 The Mineral Collector's Newsletter Colorado Calumet Mining and Glacier Peak Mining Crystal...Joseph Dorris This season, Glacier Peak Mining and Colorado Calumet Mining Inc. (Bryan Lees) decided to join...Crystal Peak Mining District near Lake George, Colorado. As I wrote last season, Glacier Peak Mining has...its mining claims in mining for amazonite and smoky quartz crystals. Last season we learned the structures...limited resources we bad. Bryan Lees (president of Colorado Calumet) and I agreed that with our combined resources |  | | Catalog/List | | you will enjoy our spectacular offerings in this two catalog presentation. If you would like to see more...Elbaite on Feldspar. And then there is another Rose Quartz, smaller than the “Madona Rosa”, but just as choice...Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans for the area of Scotland beyond...CHALCOCITE Lucky Friday Pocket, Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin, USA This is one of the Chalcocite...Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California, USA San Diego County doesn’t just raise Avocados and |  | | Journal (issue) | | on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil photo...minerals of significant value, he can file a legal claim. Likewise a number of operating mines are encountering...traveled all the way from Philadelphia to Yuma County in order to gather more wulfenite and vanadinite...1939 to investigate tbe Hilltop mine in Cochise County. No one knows what attracted him there, but he...employees, as it tends to decrease ore production. Two significant exceptions are part of Arizona's collecting |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Michigan Correspondents Dudley Blauwet Louisville, Colorado Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Renato Pagano Milan...• Individuals (U.S.): $58 for one year; $106 for two years. (Firstclass mailing available; write to circulation...•Individuals (outside the U.S.): $65 for one year, $120 for two years. (Airmail mailing available; write to circulation...COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...520-544-0815 •Individuals (U.S.): $47 for one year; $90 for two years. (First-class mailing available; write to circulation...•Individuals (outside the U.S.): $51 for one year, $98 for two years. (Airmail mailing available; write to circulation...Co-chair (The Collector s Stope, 9641 East Hickory Tree Drive, Tucson, Arizona 85749; (520) 760-1501; e-mail:...them a call at 972-540-6999 and order your copy. COLORADO FOSSIL EXPO Denver Merchandise Mart • Mart Plaza |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...com •Individuals (U.S.): $47 for one year; $90 for two years. (First-class mailing available; write to circulation...•Individuals (outside the U.S.): $51 for one year, $98 for two years. (Airmail mailing available; write to circulation...silicate minerals from Trumbull Peak, Mariposa County, California......................................AMAZONITE and SMOKY QUARTZ, 7.3 cm, from the "Tree Root Pocket," Pikes Peak, Colorado. Bryan Lees specimen; |  | | Book | | AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic...Farm, about two miles northeast of the town of Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had...had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses could be seen on the old dumps. In 1975-1976...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | h e mineralogy of polylithionite and tainiolite, two lithium micas from Mont SaintHilaire, Quebec by A...Jarnot. 2:45 N b - T a - T i oxide minerals from two pegmatites in the Middletown area, Connecticut by...occurring in the Cartersville Mining District, Bartow County, Georgia by1..C. Gray. 4:30 A new site for gadolinite-(Y)...e x a h e d r a l faces on grossular from Inyo County, California by V. T King. 2 5:00 T w i n n e...activities at the Sweet Home mine, at the Colorado Quartz Gold mine, at the Red Cloud mine, at the Benitoite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Edelsteinen Neu: Monatsmagazin Rhodochrosit Colorado maline | aus Granat dem & Fluorit vom fur...Yard, Sol. I NCE TITELBILD Nefund aus dem, 18 Pocket" Lilafarbenes Fluorit— Kuboktaeder aut tifrotem...Neves Dotrat Oiy Portal Swest Home Mine, Aima, Colorado/ USA Stufe von Colectors Edy Hohe 4,8 om. Foto: Riley...Stetan Weis 8.9 Neuer Rhodochrosit—Bergbau in Colorado/USA: Die Detroit City Mine Philp M. Persson, Richard...VichaslODonoghe, Sevenceks/ent — Jeff Scout, Phoon Arona (USA) reporte Ing. Stefan Meler, Merktrecwite und Patrck |  | | Journal (issue) | | PATRIOTIC PRIDE: HONORING AME RICA IN FACETE D QUARTZ THE EARTH’S TREASURES • MINERALS & JEWELRY VOL...OVAL Jerry Muchna Salutes America in Faceted Gem Quartz By Jim Perkins, Mark Oros, and Antoinette Rahn:...the flag in Iwo Jima is memorialized in faceted quartz by Jerry Muchna, by Bob Jones, and center image:...com Amazonite & Smoky Quartz Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim Teller Co., Colorado, USA 4.72 x 2.56 x...that go on as well. Monday is reserved for one or two demonstrations conducted by instructors to give students |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...Exhibition of the Dragon Gold Specimen, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California.......................“the Dragon”), 22.9 cm, from the Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge specimen...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...together at many localities including the Blanchard claim in New Mexico. They spent seven summers attending |  | | Journal (issue) | | produced by Regency Created Emeralds Co. in the USA. Since 1979 various synthetic beryls including green...reminiscent of the natural red beryls from Utah, USA (see Henn and Becker, 1995). The physico-chemical...both long- and short-wave UV radiation. Figure 1: Two faceted synthetic red beryls produced in Russia each...and possibly Co3+ (Platonov, pers. comm., 1999). Two additional absorption maxima at 370 and 405 nm in...and veil-like feathers consisting of liquid and two-phase inclusions form Table III: Electron microprobe |
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Tree Root Pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado, USA