 | | Book (edition) | | gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE |  | | Journal (issue) | | Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality index.............................. 323 by B. L. Muntyan What’s new in Colorado minerals? ...................................... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................339 by M. I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349 by J. A...AMAZONITE with smoky quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...photo. May/June: Tourmaline on quartz, Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum...Museum of Los Angeles County specimen, Harold and EricaVan Pelt photo. July/August: Amethyst and calcite...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...Erica Van Pelt photo. November/December: Elbaite on quartz, Barra de Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Hyman |  | | Report (volume) | | .... 29 Buck Creek...................................................... Anikovik Creek and Buhner...Buhner Creek-................................ Localities from which stream tin has been reported......... J................................................. Quartz............................................. ....Thin sections of altered porphyritic dike near Tin Creek.. 24 VI. A and B, Thin sections of porphyritic dike...and this find has awakened great interest in the district. The demand for authentic information regarding |  | | Report (volume) | | the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green...sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully synthesized |  | | Report (issue) | | . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ...... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY .................Rutile and Rutilated Quartz. ... 9 Rutile, Xenotims and Monagite. ........ 9 Smoky Quartz, Goethite and Graphite... 9 ALLEGHANI COUNTY 1± Manganese ....... f 11 Barite , 11 Copper . 11 ASHE COUNTY. . . . Copper...Staurolite AVERY COUNTY . . ......... 13 13 13 . 13 Iron and Epidote BUNCOMBE COUNTY Garnet ...........13 Moonstone and Associated Minerals 15 BURKE COUNTY 15 Corundijin 15 Itacolumite 15 Toiirmaline |  | | Book (edition) | | ALASKA Stewart's Jewel Jade Claims, located at Dahl Creek. Stewart's Photo Shop, 531 4th Ave., Anchorage,... Phone (907) 586-1785 Jade, gold, serpentine, quartz, asbestos, rhodonite, chrysoprase Fossils Garnets...lbs., 400/lb. over 100 lbs. Black Mountain Opal Mine. Write Lander's Turquoise, 321 East Andy Devine...Phone (501) 262-2058. Fee: $2.00. Coleman Crystal Mine, Jessleville. AR 71949. Fee: $2-00. Under 12 yrs*...year. Free camping. **John Moundy, Mt. Ida. AR. Mine on High Peak Mountain. Ocus Stanly, P.0. Box I63 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 April 2015 PICK&PACK Vol 55 ...... Number 3 Inside...Micromount Group UGLY ROCK CONTEST by Joyce Price The Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society will have an UGLY...really fun events of the year. COLORADO PO&BOX 2 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 80901-0002 April 2015 SPRINGS...Senior Center is located at 1514 North Hancock in Colorado Springs. For more information on any of the sub-groups...Auditorium (room 180). Thurs., Apr. 16, 7:00 p.m., The Colorado Scientific Society’s 2015 S.F. Emmons Lecture |  | | Journal (issue) | | Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 December 2015 PICK&PACK Vol 55 .... Number 10...Secretary: Sharon Holte Other Events Pg3 Trout Creek Pegmatite Pg4 Editor: Norma Alexander Summer’s...Mark Lemesany COLORADO MINERALOGICAL SOCIETYPICK PO BOX 2 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 80901-0002 December...Senior Center is located at 1514 North Hancock in Colorado Springs. For more information on any of the sub-groups...combined with the gem & mineral show); Boulder County Fairgrounds, Exhibit Building, 9595 Nelson Rd. |  | | Report (issue) | | 978-0-9836323-2-0 Publisher Lithographie, Ltd. Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria A. Staebler © 2012...Lithographic, Ltd. PO Box 11613 • Denver, CO 80211 • USA Phone: 1.303.495.5521 • Fax: 1.303.482.1238 W\\w...United States of America PHOTO CREDITS Cover: Quartz variety amethyst, 10.5 cm tall Goboboseb Mountains...photo © 2009 GIA Page 2 Quartz variety amethyst, 3.5 cm tall Kakamunurle Mine, Kar0r, Tamil Nadu, India...collection, Marie-Lan Nguyen photo Upper middle: Quartz variety amethyst (Japan-law twin), 1.6 cm tall |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Book | | Catalog Card Number: 74-1276 The pictures of gold-in-quartz, smithsonite, stilbite, and wulfenite on the front...often are arrested there. At the Eldorado sapphire mine in Mon¬ tana the action of a million years is readily...learn that gravel beds are rich in such minerals as quartz, feldspar, mica, garnet, tourmaline, magnetite...Schists often contain feldspar, garnet, mica and quartz. With sapphires are often found associated an abundance...oxide. Chalcedony, one of the common varieties of quartz, was formed in the same way. Pegmatites and Hematites |  | | Report (issue) | | THULITE AND PYRITE MONAZITE EMERALD CUPRITE SMOKY QUARTZ ZIRCON TORBERNITE ~/ UBRAR'l USE ONLV ...beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...beryl, amethyst, almandite garnet, citrine, and smoky quartz. It is hoped that this publication will find...GEM STONES IN NORTH CAROLINA 12 History of Gem Mining 12 Important Gem Stones 12 Diamond 12 Corundum...Rutile 17 Quartz 17 Rock Crystal 17 Amethyst •• 18 Rose Quartz 18 Smoky Quartz 18 Rutilated | | | Report (issue) | | beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...beryl, amethyst, almandite garnet, citrine, and smoky quarts. It is hoped that this publication will find.......................... 10 12 History of Gem Mining ..... .......................... . 12 Important......................................... 16 17 Quartz ................................................... Rose Quartz ....................................................... 18 18 Smoky Quartz ........ |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Colorado........................................................................................ 102 District of Columbia ....................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...with respect to one another. gem minerals The quartz gems, such as amethyst, form crystal prisms with...another at 60 degrees and intersected by a fourth Quartz and vertical axis at right angles to the other...other, light) FELDSPAR TWINS I J PHENACITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS ffrl (^h /&> ^& \b^ ^ VESUVIANITE |  | | Report (volume) | | Contact metamorphisni ____...._________._.-.._ Quartz-augite porphyry dikes__..___...__._____ . _ .....occurrences----__.._..___. . .-_.. _.___._.____..... Buck Creek______________._.__. _.__._____.._ ._ Geologic...limestone_________________ Cassiterite and wolframite quartz veins__________ JMetasomatic processes___________________...__________________ , 61 Buck Creek___________:____________________ 61 Grouse Creek _____________________...Banded apophysis from garnet-vesnvianite mass on Tin Creek ; B, Orbules in marble matrix, showing mode of origin____ |  | | Book (volume) | | instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...from 18’ to 27’ long. In addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals, Topaz and Tourmaline add to the fascination...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds |  | | Book (edition) | | .......................................... -.. Quartz .................................................the gem sapphires came from the mines in Fergus County, where they occur in a rock matrix. The majority...The development of the opal deposits of Humboldt County, Nev., was attended with much success, and o. quantity...opal from Australia. Prospecting and mining at the emerald mine in North Carolina were aUended wit.h...previous years. Benutuul a.met-hyst was found m Wa1Ten County, N. C., and some .fine gems have been cut from |  | | Book (volume) | | corner of Kimball Co. where it overlooks both Colorado and Wyoming. The subsurface rock strata of the...of the Pine Ridge Escarpment and along Whiteclay Creek near the Sioux Indian community of the same name...and breaks in the hills along the Minnechaduza Creek and the Niobrara, as well as all tributary canyons...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark gray to black nodules⎯flint. CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS...Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co. exposures of blue clay, as clusters |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | comprehensive listing, including detailed spot locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can...The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can be obtained from the North Carolina...Carolina 27611 B. J . M C K E N Z I E Alamance County Pyrophyllite, cacoxenite, diaspore, sericite, pyrite...ilmenite, topaz, and chert are found at the Snow Camp mine (Holman's Mill) located 2.7 miles southeast of the...onto SR 2352 for approx imately 1.9 miles. The mine lies north of the road on the side of a wooded hill |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...MILFORD, area creek gravels and alluvial deposits, rare⎯Diamond. CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s...Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford...Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark gray to black nodules⎯flint. CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS...Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co. exposures of blue clay, as clusters |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Coosa County there is an outcrop that carries considerable tin and there has been some mining since 1940..."Cassiterite is the only tin mineral found in the district. The crystals are black or a dark mahogany color...crystals are largely found in the pegmatites of the district. "In the general area the following minerals are...magnetite, microcline, muscovite, olivine, pyrite, quartz, sillimanite, topaz, tourmaline, zircon, zoisite...encrusted by colorless drusy quartz; the locality is the Aurora Quicksilver Mine in San Benito Co., Calif |  | | Journal (issue) | | Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society Founded in 1936 Lazard Cahn Honorary President Sept 2020 “Pick...CSMS Annual Picnic 18 President’s Corner 20 Smoky Hawk Field Trip 21 Secretary’s Spot 22 Classifieds...Details Inside COLORADO SPRINGS MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY PO BOX 2 COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO 80901-0002 Sep...Pete Modreski) SUSPENDED Van Tuyl Lecture Series, Colorado School of Mines, Iron Ores in North America –...on. POSTPONED Symposium on Water and Energy in Colorado, to be held in Ricketson Auditorium, Denver Museum |
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Buck Mine, Cripple Creek Mining District, Teller County, Colorado, USA