 | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...and CUPRITE in CALCITE, 5.2 cm, from the Onganja mine near Seeis, Namibia. Mike Bergmann specimen, now...Museum of Los Angeles County 900 Exposition Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90007 Bisbee, Arizona...were saved, collected and traded by Bisbee miners, mine executives, shop owners, and businessmen. One such...presented to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County by his children. A century ago Bisbee, Arizona |  | | Book (edition) | | involving so much pre-knowledge, that it is little wonder that people sometimes shy away from it. However...nicely shaped crystals at New Cornelia, Arizona and Santa Rita, New Mexico. Also found as cavity fillings...Brilliant white when fresh, but tarnishes easily to black or grey Streak: Shining silver white Lustre: Metallic...in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good specimens have...masses are found in the Mother Lode country of California, as in El Dorado, Calaveras, Kern and Tuolumne |  | | | | involving so much pre-knowledge, that it is little wonder that people sometimes shy away from it. However...nicely shaped crystals at New Cornelia, Arizona and Santa Rita, New Mexico. Also found as cavity fillings...Brilliant white when fresh, but tarnishes easily to black or grey Streak: Shining silver white Lustre: Metallic...in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good specimens have...masses are found in the Mother Lode country of California, as in El Dorado, Cala¬ veras, Kern and Tuolumne |  | | Book | | is given credit for naming stilbite, analcime, harmotome, and laumontite although he only popularized and...(determined by bulk wet chemical analysis) between harmotome and phillipsite. Much later, these "wellsite"...were found to be phillipsite in the core and harmotome at the rim; therefore, the name "wellsite" was... Preexisting minerals like analcime, levyne, harmotome, quartz, and feldspar were not changed. The nomenclature...(clinoptilolite), natrolite (mesolite and scolecite), harmotome (phillipsite and wellsite), and stilbite (barrerite | | | Book | | is given credit for naming stilbite, analcime, harmotome, and laumontite although he only popularized and...(determined by bulk wet chemical analysis) between harmotome and phillipsite. Much later, these "wellsite"...were found to be phillipsite in the core and harmotome at the rim; therefore, the name "wellsite" was... Preexisting minerals like analcime, levyne, harmotome, quartz, and feldspar were not changed. The nomenclature...(clinoptilolite), natrolite (mesolite and scolecite), harmotome (phillipsite and wellsite), and stilbite (barrerite |  | | Journal (issue) | | peach to colorless. Associations include small black micro crystals of manganbabingtonite, quartz, calcite...involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at the Pomona Fairgrounds Mrs. Kay Robertson...103341/ona Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90064 This year's California Show was held again in Pomona, but luckily in...the variety of minerals occurring in Southern California, there are many excellent field collectors. ...stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | The ConejoVolcanics Santa Monica Mountains,Los Angeles and VenturaCounties,California William L. Rader 808...808 Fourth Street, #315 Santa Monica, CA 90403-1231 raderw@petersenpub.com Introduction • '-- Fifteen...Volcanics of the Santa Monica Mountains of Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, California. Historical documentation...Mulholland Highway, extreme western Los Angeles County, California. CubicGarnets Foundin Marylandand VirginiaStreams...mineral concentrates of Rock Run, a small Montgomery County, Maryland stream about 5.5 miles (9 km) long which |  | | Journal (issue) | | of Yanadinite La Aurora Mine Chihuahu, Mexico Fornacite DH Claims Gila County, Arizona DH Claims In...due to a thorough study of the mine- Fig. 1 Descloizite, La Aurora Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico, SEM photo...Donald G. Howard. The Blacl~ Mountain §podumene Pegmatite Natrona County, Wyoming • Mark Jacobson 112...observed during a visit in September, 1996. The Black Mountain spodumene pegmatite is the only known spodumene...Precambrian (of Archean age?) mafic schists on Black Mountain onlapped by Cenozoic sediments. Spodumene is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | xled—crystallized p h — p h o s p h o resces CALIFORNIA — From the California from a crevice which was surrounded...granite." — sent in by P. L. Bélanger, southern California R&M has a 2x3 inch 2484 Elm St., Manchester,...255) of the "Big Beryl" Mine Imperial County in southern Calif. (old Hogg Mine), gem hunters from COLORADO—F...Denver 20, Colo., sent in the visited Georgia and the mine. All have following item: been well pleased with...some rutile plus fish from of an abandoned lead mine above the the 22 acre pond, wild duck and beaver |  | | Catalog/List | | Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...Nickel Skutterudite) Ni Co As. Rich silvery with black native ARSENIC (Schlema Germany) lxl £4 lxl £8 2x2...Ti Nb 0 small black crystals sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif...for £8 480 PYROCHLORE Ca Na NbO OH F individual black octahderal crystal (Oka Quebec, Canada) 3 to 4mm |  | | Book | | and Sterling Hills. - 1 - I r CONNECTICUT PENNSYLVANIA VIRGINIA WYOMING Green River Formation COLORADO...MICHIGAN Houghton County, Park Cowlitz County, Keeneenan Highwood Mts. County CANADA NOVASCOTIA...and shists. LOCATIONS: USA Ash Creek, Sonoma and Mendocino Co., California EUROPE Strontian, Argyllshire...Bonhomme, Mt. Blanc, Savoie, France St. Turpet, (Black Forest area) Germany CLEANING: Caution: Avoid...Jones Falls, COLORADO Table Mt. , Jefferson CALIFORNIA Clear HAWAII Many locations. Creek, Baltimore |  | | Report (edition) | | SERIFS MINERAL COLLECTING PENNSYLVANIA COMMOWl FAITH OF PENNSYLVANIA PY G345/4.3 G33 1959 Snrrtary...Lapham, Davis M. Mineral Collecting in Pennsylvania c.l PENNSYLVANIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN G 33 ... MINERAL COLLECTING IN PENNSYLVANIA by Davis M. Lapham and Alan R. Geyer JMluitrationi lu _JtU... Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County |  | | Book | | 353-416 257-320 321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...gysinite-(Nd) and other rare minerals from [the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298 |  | | Journal (issue) | | article in this issue. Photo: Mick Cooper. 4 HARMOTOME FROM PEN-Y-CLUN D. Morgon • R.E. Starkey 7 DIARY...interest to amateur mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...Symposium a conference weekend at the Peak District Mining Museum in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. That first...the technique by collectors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the mid to late nineteenth century. • Figure...Figure 3. CALEDONITE (0.25mm) on LINARITE: Red Gill mine Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. R.S.W. Braithwaite Collection |  | | Book | | museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...texture. Basalt arises from a lava solidified into a black rock, containing no quartz but rich in the feldspar...granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology...crystal form. Other crystals Wulfenite (Arizona, USA) 29 may show lesser symmetry on a scale at the |  | | Journal (issue) | | of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ..................... B. Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ...........................................129 by A. R. Kampf & the Southern California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality...e P e g m a t it e s , istrc San Diego D ,California Eugene E. Foord U. S. Geological Survey, M....Louis B. Spaulding, Jr. P. O. Box 807, Ramona, California 92065 Roger A. M ason Dept, of Earth Sciences |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the railroad tunnels through Bergen Hill, Bergen County, and similar specimens have been collected in railroad...Weehawken areas and quarries at Snake Hill, Hudson County. Exceptional analcime specimens have been collected...collected from many localities in Passaic County, such as quarries at Paterson and West Paterson (including...Montclair and Verona in Essex County, the Houdaille quarry at Summit in Union County, and quarries near Millington...Millington, Morris County. Good specimens are similarly reported from Plainfield and the Chimney Rock and |  | | Book | | 20 halotrichite 60 hambergite 55 hanksite 59 harmotome /24, 125, 126 hauerite 17 haiiyhite 114, 1/6...(Spain). In the United States it is found in California, Alaska, Oregon, Texas, and Arkansas. Arsenic...concentric structure, coloured dark gray or brownish black, at Freiberg and Andreasberg in Germany, and also...is usually found in compact masses, coloured black with a semi-metallic lustre, and greasy to the...silver has no great importance from the mining point of view due to its comparative rarity; it | | | | | halotrichite 60 hambergite 55 hanksite 59 diaspore 37 harmotome /24, 125, 126 dichroite 95 hauerite 17 haitynite...(Spain). In the United States it is found in California, Alaska, Oregon, Texas, and Arkansas. Arsenic...concentric structure, coloured dark gray or brownish black, at Freiberg and Andreasberg in Germany, and also...Houghton fichigan) ates of gold on artzite. California famous Perm deposits in the Urals, discovered...it is usually found in compact masses, coloured black with a semi-metallic lustre, and greasy to the touch |  | | Journal (issue) | | May–June, 2017 Contents The St. Andreasberg Mining District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany.......................... 302 History 1487–1624: Mining Begins in the Oxidation Zone ................................. 315 Modernization and the End of Mining ................................... 317 Collecting...working in the lode” (Simonin, 1869). The Mining District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany...minrecord@comcast.net The geographically tiny St. Andreasberg District of silver mines has an outsized reputation: it |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | silicate hydrate from California RrcHeno C. Eno U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California 94025 eNo Yosnrrezu...Onasnr Department of Geology, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania19104 Abstract ' H2O...massesin Franciscan chert in the Diablo Range, Santa Clara and Stanislaus Counties, Calif. It is associatedwith...calcite, rhodochrosite, kutnohorite, barite, harmotome, chalcopyrite, and native cgpper. S a n t a c... in the Diablo Range in northeasternSantaClara County, Calif., by Messrs.John L. Parnau and Albert L |  | | Catalog/List | | grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE...guite rich black masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE...dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7 242 KOLBECKITE |  | | Journal (issue) | | Geological Survey Richard V. Gaines Pottstown, Pennsylvania Mary E. Mrose U. S. Geological Survey Abraham...people: COVER: AURICHALCITE from the 79 mine, Gila County, Arizona. Photo (first place winner in Tucson...slides) 4. Shadow boxes (for display of minerals or mining memorabilia) 5. Three-hour photochemical light...issue. S 195 MORGANITE ON TOURMALINE PALA, CALIFORNIA KEITH PROCTOR fine minerals Few collections...Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36830 o other district of similar size in the western hemi sphere has |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Brookite Dodo Mine, Subpolar Urals, Russia Downloaded by [Colorado...minerals. Consequently, a fine brookite from the Dodo mine, Subpolar Urals, Russia, has been chosen to feature...of red- and yellow-brown through dark brown to black. Its luster is adamantine to submetallic, its hardness...the Consolidated No. 2 quarry, Topsham, Sagadahoc County, Maine (King and Foord 1994). It occurs with anatase...(corundophilite) in the Chester emery deposits, Hampton County, and has been reported as a rare constituent of |  | | Book | | l(irl< THUNDER BAY - - P· R·E·S·S San Diego, California THUNDER BAY P R E· S S Thunder Bay Press...colourless, but may be of almost any hue through to black. lazvrite has a distinct blue colour and sky-blue...characteristic reddish colour darkened by a coating of black copper oxide. Further weathering produces a covering...conglomerates. The southern shore of Lake Superior (USA) is the best location to find copper, allegedly the...Jachymov (Czech Republic), the Comstock Lode (Nevada, USA) and Cobalt (Canada). Ag Colour: silver-white |
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