 | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...one of the early producers of the pink cobaltoan calcite specimens that have been found in significant numbers...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens |  | Kampf, Anthony R., Nash, Barbara P., Marty, Joe, Hughes, John M. (2017) Mesaite, (V2O7)3·12H2O, a new vanadate mineral from the Packrat mine, near Gateway, Mesa County, Colorado, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (2) 319-327 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.095 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | vanadate mineral from the Packrat mine, near Gateway, Mesa County, Colorado, USA ANTHONY R. KAMPF1,*, BARBARA...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA Department of Geology...Lake City, Utah 84112, USA 5199 East Silver Oak Road, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, USA Department of Geology...University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont 05405, USA [Received 5 December 2015; Accepted 23 February 2016;...new mineral from the Packrat mine, Gateway district, Mesa County, Colorado, USA. Crystals of mesaite |  | Kampf, Anthony R., Nash, Barbara P., Marty, Joe, Hughes, John M., Rose, Timothy P. (2017) Hydropascoite, Ca3(V10O28)·24H2O, a new decavanadate mineral from the Packrat Mine, Mesa County, Colorado. The Canadian Mineralogist, 55 (2) 207-217 doi:10.3749/canmin.1600069 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NEW DECAVANADATE MINERAL FROM THE PACKRAT MINE, MESA COUNTY, COLORADO ANTHONY R. KAMPF§ Mineral Sciences...Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...(IMA2016-032) discovered in the Packrat mine, near Gateway, Mesa County, Colorado. It occurs as blades up to...decavanadate, crystal structure, Packrat mine, Mesa County, Colorado, USA. § Corresponding author e-mail...Hilpert 1952, Chenoweth 1981) sits astride the Colorado–Utah border. The mineralized belt consists of |  | Kampf, Anthony R., Hughes, John M., Nash, Barbara P., Marty, Joe (2017) Kegginite, Pb3Ca3[AsV12O40(VO)]·20H2O, a new mineral with a novel ε-isomer of the Keggin anion. American Mineralogist, 102 (2) 461-465 doi:10.2138/am-2017-5834 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California 90007, U.S.A. 2 Department...mineral species from the Packrat mine, near Gateway, Mesa County, Colorado, U.S.A. It is a secondary...Keggin anion e-isomer, crystal structure, Packrat mine, Colorado Introduction With the ability to control...collections of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., catalog numbers...main tunnel level of the Packrat mine, near Gateway, Mesa County, Colorado, U.S.A. (38°38′51.28″N 109°02′49 |  | Kampf, Anthony R., Hughes, John M., P. Nash, Barbara, Marty, Joe (2016) Vanarsite, packratite, morrisonite, and gatewayite: four new minerals containing the [As3+V4+,5+12As5+6O51] heteropolyanion, a novel polyoxometalate cluster. The Canadian Mineralogist, 54 (1) 145-162 doi:10.3749/canmin.1500062 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California...four new minerals from the Packrat mine, Gateway district, Mesa County, Colorado, U.S.A. Crystals of all...crystal structure, polyoxometalate, Packrat mine, Gateway, Colorado. INTRODUCTION The field of polyoxometalate...secondary mineralization in U– V deposits of western Colorado and eastern Utah have yielded many new members...fair 0.027 excellent –0.028 excellent Packrat mine in Colorado, has also yielded four new minerals containing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | biological processes. Since the advent of human mining and manufacturing, particularly since the industrial...indirectly (e.g., alteration of mine tunnel walls; weathering products of mine dumps and slag). A second human...Keywords: Mineral evolution, archeology, new minerals, mining, philosophy of mineralogy, sociology of mineralogy...time associated with the advent of near-surface mining and smelting technologies in classic times (e.g... at least in part, to human activities such as mining or quarrying. If such substances are formed purely |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | clinoptilolite-K, mordenite, smectite, celadonite, calcite, and barite. Dachiardite-K is white, some individual...the 1990s at the Geschieber vein in the Svornost mine (10th level), Jáchymov, Western Bohemia, Czech Republic...formed due to alteration of uraninite during post-mining processes. Crystals are elongated on [001] and...University in Prague and Technical University of Mining in Příbram. The holotype specimen is deposited...analogue of martyite from the Little Eva mine, Grand County, Utah, USA. Journal of Geosciences, 60(4), 251–257 |  | | Journal (issue) | | August 2018 Minerals of the L'Etoile du Congo Mine Lumbumbashi, Katanga Province, Democratic Republic...less so. The L'Etoile du Congo (Star of the Congo) Mine is the type locality for cornetite, described in...Tremolite Locality South of Russell, St. Lawrence County, New York Steven C. Chamberlain sccham2@yaho_o...of Russell in the Town of Russell, St. Lawrence County, NY. He visited the locality frequently over a...property. It covers the top ofa low mound just west of County Rt. 24, about 2. 7 km south of the four-corners |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | dikes of biotite tourmaline granites and veins of calcite carbonatites and fenites. Bulgakite was found in...mineral species first found at the Eleonore Iron mine, Dünsberg, near Gießen, Hesse, Germany and has since...eleonorite mostly based on material from the Rotläufchen mine, Waldgirmes, Wetzlar, Hesse, Germany, which is considered...Eleonore Iron mine. The neotype from the Rotläufchen mine and a specimen from the Gutglück mine, Braunfels...mineralization at the Packrat mine in the Gateway district, Mesa County, Colorado, U.S.A. (38°38ʹ51.28ʺN |  | | Journal (issue) | | Leather Craft Revived LOST MINE 17 DESERT QUIZ The Lost Dutchman Mine By MARY L. BAGWELL Golden Ghost... A True-False test of your desert knowledge . MINING About those who write for Desert 24 NATURE ...down to the Colorado. The Virgin River carries over 3,000,000 tons of rock waste to the Colorado each year...isolated property in the southwest corner of Lincoln County, Nevada, to make their home. Accursed or not, Charlie...going to mine gold; the neighbor's mine, 15 miles away, was lead. Charlie had owned a gold mine in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | kuboktaedrischer Galenit, dazu Chalkopyrit. Boldut Mine, Maramures, Rumänien. Höhe der Stufe ca. 6 cm, Sammlung... Se enoaks/Kent - Jelt Scovil. Pi10en· Arizona {USA) REPORTAGE Ing . S te fan Meier. MarKll e witz und...Sibirien. Kanada: Aus der British Columbia Molybdenum Mine bei Kitsault stammen bunt angelaufene Kristalle...Länge in Kristalldrusen. Mexiko: Die Santa Catarina Mine, Guanajuato hat Akinit als feinnadelige Aggregate...genaue Analysen unterscheiden Peru: Aus dem Julcani-District, Huancavelica wurde Aikinit als bis zu 3 mm lange |  | | Report (issue) | | Resource Stewardship and Science Fort Collins, Colorado The National Park Service, Natural Resource...Stewardship and Science office in Fort Collins, Colorado, publishes a range of reports that address natural...2023/2541. National Park Service, Fort Collins, Colorado. https://doi.org/10.36967/2299742 NPS 170/189737...10. Reed-like fossils preserved in the Wild Horse Mesa Tuff (NPS/SOFIA ANDESKIE). .......................and notified paleontologists at San Bernardino County Museum (SBCM). This resulted in one of the only |  | | Journal (issue) | | "Bells of Old Guevavi," first of a new series of lost mine stories by the author of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures...and ends at Hite, about 100 miles away at the Colorado river. • From deep in the Navajo reservation Toney...California. Feb. 9-16—Arizona state citrus show, Mesa, Arizona. Feb. 15—Turtle dance, Taos pueblo, New...championship rodeo, Yuma, Arizona. Feb. 20-23—Riverside County Fair and Date festival, fairgrounds, Indio, California...FEBRUARY. 1947 Number 4 COVER HOME OF MR. AND MRS. PACKRAT. Packrat's nest in Joshua tree, west of Lancaster |  | | Journal (issue) | | specifically the area includes the Mojave and Colorado deserts of California; southern Nevada including...counties and all but the higher mountains of Clark county; in Arizona the lowest level of Grand Canyon and...Production meeting of Western mining industry, Shirley-Savoy hotel, Denver, Colorado. Jan. 28-Feb. 28—International...readers 31 NEWS Here and There on the Desert 33 MINING Current news briefs 38 HOBBY Gems and Minerals...you can imagine the Salton Sea basin before the Colorado river broke through and filled it with water in |  | | Journal (issue) | | Health, Physical Ed. and Recreation, Southwest district, in convention at Albuquerque, N. M. 9-11 Desert...championship. Palm Springs. 17-18 16th annual Maricopa county 4-H club fair on campus of Arizona State Teachers...February temperatures on the desert 31 Vista de Anza MINING By EVA M. WILSON a n d HENRY E. HOCKER . 32 NEWS...Arizona mountain, site of the fabled Lost Dutchman mine, is winner of the first prize in Desert Magazine's...surrounds the precipitous walls of the Enchanted Mesa in New Mexico a strange scene was enacted in July |  | | Report (issue) | | Century of Research on the Colorado Plateau— A Compilation of the Colorado Plateau Biennial Conference...Century of Research on the Colorado Plateau—A Compilation of the Colorado Plateau Biennial Conference...the U.S. Government. The last six books of the Colorado Plateau series from which abstracts and introductory...century of research on the Colorado Plateau—A compilation of the Colorado Plateau Biennial Conference...of the First Biennial Conference on Research in Colorado Plateau National Parks edited by Peter G. Rowlands |  | | Journal (issue) | | plan. DESERT CANTEEN By N E L L MURBARGER Costa Mesa, California You may choose to drink from a mountain...The music I have waited for so long! Colorado Springs, Colorado The ants and the stars, The lowly and...SEASONS JUNE, 1946 2 . . . QUIZ FIELD TRIP MINING ART OF LIVING NEWS HOBBY CRAFT COMMENT LETTERS...21. Number 8 COVER PHOTOGRAPHY Jun. 1-2—Rand District Old Timers reunion, Randsburg, California. Jun...California. Members of the Polacca family at First Mesa. In the background the truck waiting to transport |  | | Journal (issue) | | . .21 POETRY My Burro, and other poems 23 MINING News notes on recent developments 24 BOOKS ...brightly, put a red flashing light inside. Friends of mine have adapted this too, for last year I saw three...all, Christmas is ivhat yon make it. Enchanted Mesa rises 340 feet above the floor of the desert and...challenge that caused me to climb the Enchanted Mesa the first time. A health-seeker from the east—much...Enchanted Mesa — whose present inhabitants say their ancestors once dwelt on top of the smaller mesa. We had |  | | Journal (issue) | | Papago Park, Phoenix. Arizona. Feb. 16-22—Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival, Arabian Nights...Tucson. Arizona. Feb. 22-28—Maricopa County Fair, Horse Show, Mesa, Arizona. Feb. 22-29—Invitational Golf...— Maricopa County Fair, Mesa Civic Center, Mesa, Arizona. Feb. 24-Mar. 4 — Imperial County Fair, El Centro...POETRY Evening Primrose, a n d other p o e m s LOST MINE Black Nuggets in the Valley of P h a n t o m Buttes...BRADT . . . . 23 MINES Current n e w s of desert mining 26 INDIANS W h e n W e a l t h C a m e to Hosteen |  | | Journal (issue) | | spent in snow and sunshine, on the west rim of [he Colorado desert weren't lived in vain. TIM OIXA. Grants...excursion train to Lime Point light house, on the Marin county side of the Golden Gate. In exploring around the... 4 Indian rodeo. Salt river Indian reservation, Mesa, Arizona. 4 Rodeo and horse show, Cimarron, New...Southwest district convention of 20-30 dubs. Carlsbad, New Mexico. Wiley Van Hecke, Santa Fe, district governor...PLACE NAMES Origin of n a m e s in the Southwest MINING Briefs from the desert region COMMENT Just Between |  | | Report (issue) | | Series 30 Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology, 1984-1989 Colorado Geological Survey Department of...Resources Denver, Colorado 1990 Information Series 30 Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology, 1984-1989...Institute under contract to the Colorado Geological Survey Colorado Geological Survey Department of...of Natural Resources Denver, Colorado 1990 ii FOREWORD In recognition of the need to more effectively...published literature on the state's geology, the Colorado Geological Survey is pleased to release Information |  | | Journal (issue) | | in 1928. Flagstaff. Volume 16 May 31—Lincoln County Homecoming Day, Caliente, Nevada. COVER June—Continuance...CALENDAR June events on the desert HISTORY Forgotten Mine of the Mormon Pioneers By NELL MURBARGER June 2-5—20th...in 1692. Santa Fe, New Mexico. June 18-20—Quay County Sheriff's Posse Rodeo, Tucumcari, New Mexico. June... Number 6 JUNE, 1953 21 June forecast for Colorado River Basin . 22 . . . . 23 Hard Rock Shorty...24 CONTEST Prizes for Photographers 24 LOST MINE Lost Lode of Sierra S o m b r e r a LETTERS NEWS |  | | Book | | Grandview Mine, in a photo taken by Arion (John R. Putnam) around 1900. The Last Chance Mine dump can...Research, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, California, photo no. 8596. © Copyright 1997...of scores of people in libraries, Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History; Peter historical societies...Ohlman, and County Public Library; Nancy Caudill, Librarian at the staff of the Yavapai County Recorder... Long Beach; Norma Cochran, Librarian, Mohave County Richard Quartaroli, and Paul Martin. Historical |  | | Report (issue) | | cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy Denver, Colorado 1986 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...sites near the Continental Divide in southwestern Colorado: Atmospheric Environment, v. 19, no. 7, p. 1199-1203...Post-Silent Canyon caldera structural setting for Pahute Mesa, in C. W. Olsen and M. L. Donohue, eds., Third Symposium...localities in the vicinity of Yucca Mountain, Nye County, Nevada, by J. G. Rosenbaum and D. B. Snyder, 73...uranium-series ages of calcite and opal, and stable isotopic compositions of calcite from drill cores UE-25a-l |  | | Journal (issue) | | in March, 1946, in mock search for Lost Dutchman mine. Photographer Edmond Read, Glendale, California...amateur gem cutter, whose worst offense is his packrat tendencies to fill every nook in yard and garage...the Desert 27 HOBBY Gems a n d Minerals 33 MINING Current n e w s briefs 40 CONTEST Rules for...Mexico state fair, Albuquerque. Oct. 3-5—Grand County fair, Moab, Utah. Oct. 4—Annual fiesta, Ranchos...Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico. Oct. 4-6—Navajo County fair, and Northern Arizona Cattlemen's rodeo, Holbrook |
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