 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 16 March 2015 JALGAON, MAHARASHTRA, INDIA APOPHYLLITE GROUP MINERALS are of particular interest to both...subject of this issue's Connoisseur's Choice is apophyllite, a mineral known in good specimens since the...the late eighteenth century. Until recently, apophyllite was considered to be a hydrated potassium-calcium...and Wilson 1978) has shown that "apophyllite" is best used as a group name for minerals in the fluora...described using the group name only), much of the outstanding Indian apophyllite has been identified |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals from the Pillow Basalt of Salsette-Mumbai, Deccan Volcanic Province, India Berthold Ottens 1...Minerals from the Pillow Basalt of Salsette-Mumbai, Deccan Volcanic Province, India. Minerals 2022, 12...as in other localities in the Deccan Volcanic Province (DVP). However, the secondary minerals of Salsette...Rb-Sr and K-Ar ages on apophyllite-K, a third phase of precipitation with apophyllite-K, okenite II, and...◦ C can be expected. Keywords: Deccan Volcanic Province; secondary minerals; zeolites; prehnite–pumpellyite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | zeolites are an interesting and quite pleasing group of minerals from the collector’s standpoint, with...available for several decades from the famous Deccan basalt quarries of India, and, in keeping with the zeolite...of other zeolites, prehnite, calcite, and apophyllite-group minerals. Scolecite is apparently not abundant...Mallison Falls, Windham, Maine, and at the Dexter quarry, Lincoln County, Rhode Island. A historical occurrence...occurrence is with prehnite in gneiss at Ward’s quarry, Pelham, Massachusetts. It has been reported from |  | | Journal (issue) | | fluorapophyllite crystal, 4.6 cm, from Pashan Hills quarry no. 2 near Poona, Maharashtra state, India. Steve...page]: Street scene in Lahore, India, early 1800’s. Author’s address: Berthold Ottens Klingenbrunn Bahnhof.................... 25 The Discovery of Green Apophyllite at Poona. ...................... 31 Localities...Shiva Temple in Elephanta Cave, carved from Deccan basalt in the sixth century on an island off the entrance...January–February, 2003 Introduction Green apophyllite with mesolite from Poona, velvety white okenite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pasadena - Nov. TO LOS ANGELES SANo/£ freeway C °A S T h ig h w a y HOURS: Tues.-Sat. 10-5 Sunday 12-5... affiliated with the Friends of Mineralogy publisher John S. White Division of Mineralogy The Smithsonian Institution...O D O C H R O S IT E fro m th e N ’C h w a n in g m ine , K a la h a ri M a n g a n e s e F ie ld , C...C ape P ro v in c e , S o u th A fric a . T h e g ro u p is a b o u t 7 cm ta ll. P h o to by H a ro ld... 36 D e e p w o o d C re s c e n t. D o n M ills , O n ta rio M 3 C 1 N 8 S o u th A frica: H o rs t |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | QUARRIES riassic Traprock Minerals of EW J E R S E Y JOSEPH J . PETERS Department of Mineral Sciences...the early 1800s. T H E P U R P O S E O F T H I S A R T I C L E I S to review, summarize, and supplement...in New Jersey. This article focuses on the Bergen Hill occurrence in the Palisades diabase and five quarries...Brothers quarry, Prospect Park; McDowell's quarry, Upper Montclair; and the Francisco Brothers quarry, Great...(notably Rocky Hill and Lambertville) and two Hudson County localities, Laurel (Snake) Hill quarry, Secaucus |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Construction Materials, the last operator of the quarry, ceased operation in 1977, and since 1983 the pit...Company quarry in the Borough of Watchung, Somerset County—sometimes known as the Scotch Plains quarry, or...or the Weldon quarry —is about AVi miles southwest of the Summit quarry and exposes the same stratigraphic... Although the quarry has been active for more than fifty years, access to this quarry has been quite...received relatively little at tention: however, the quarry is expanding into the promis ing areas and will |  | | Journal (issue) | | you to become a Fellow and join this important group. Contact Tom Gressman (tom.gressman@minrec.org,...BENEFACTORS Arthur Montgomery (deceased) Randolph S. Rothschild (deceased) Philip G. Rust (deceased) Peter...Stolowitz (2022) Eric D. Long (2022) Salim Edde Lyda Hill Daniel J. Record Rob Lavinsky Wilbert A. Danner...Dabney (2015–2022) Marilyn Lang (2020–2022) C. Brendan S. Traw, PhD (2022) Jeff Kremer (2015–2022) Walt Donovan...flows. Between eruptions, the weight of the heavy basalt flows causes the crust to sag in the rift, creating |  | | Book | | Buffalo, New York 14205 66 Leek Crescent Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 1H1 Design and Layout: Joseph Gisini/PageWave...Miguel Hortiguela, LPPO Illustrations: Crowle Art Group Printed in China The publisher gratefully acknowledges...ofjust a few minerals; quartz and the feldspar group are the most abundant processes — called biominerals...collectors and often used as decorative items. Basalt is the most abundant volcanic rock on Earth’s surface...rock, created when hot gases were trapped in the basalt lava as it a specimen. The minerals may have grown |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese District Cape Province, South Africa I t was summer when the decision...produced fine, collectorquality inesite: Broken Hill mines, New South Wales, Australia; Hale Creek mine...manganese district, Cape Province, South Africa; and Fengjiashan mine, Hubei Province, China. Of these, the...writing for the hobby. Figure 1. A fine 3.8-cm group of bright pinkish-red inesite from the Wessels mine...district, Cape Province, South Africa. Bruce Cairncross specimen and photo. To this group of historic localities |  | | Book (edition) | | are partly based on the C:.ecl1book 'Encyclopedic S)nopsis of Minerals", published by the Academia Publishing...to the chemical formula, allegiance to a mineral group, symmetry and crystal structure as well as the strongest...chemical formula, structure (crystal system, space group, and unit cell dimensions), and at least some other...of the tennantite group (2.G) will serve as a good example: tetrahedrite Cu 12[S(SbS 3).d Cu-rich freibergite...freibergite (Ag,Cu) 12[S(SbS 3)4] Ag-rich tetrahedrite [Cu,Ag) 12[S(SbS3).d freibergite AgdS(SbS3)-1l |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1996 2-----------COVER:STEUERITEfrom Sarbayskaya Quarry, Rudr:iiy,Kazakhstan,'40mmtall. EDITORIAL David...bladed celestite to 40mm was discovered at Trearnc Quarry, near Beith, Strathclyde during the summer. Three...standing crystal groups up to 30mm. At nearby Loanhead Quarry, a mecca for micromounters, the lowest bench has...Caldbcck has relocated and merged with the Threlkeld Quarry Project. The joint venture, which opened on July...and underground equipment. Many of the original quarry buildings still stand at the new site in Threlkeld |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series... Simdeled, Aust-Agder. Early in 1999, in a quarry near S~ndeled, collectors opened a pocket containing...PORTUGAL Montijos quarry, Monte Redondo, Leiria Estremadura. The Montijos gabbro quarry at Monte Redondo |  | | Journal (issue) | | Beach, Cal. 92651 [714]494-7695 publisher John S. White Smithsonian Institution editor Wendell E...Gaines Pottstown, Pennsylvania Mary E. Mrose U. S. Geological Survey Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida...Zambia..........................................341 by S. P. Korowski and C. W. Notebart Quartz & Pyrite from...Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey 385 by F. J. Parker Tveitite from the Barringer Hill District...surcharge, to the following people: England: Roger S. Harker 2 Wellsic Lane, Rothley Leicestershire LE7 |  | | Journal (issue) | | appropriate channel. through MINERALS OF AUGHRIM QUARRY Stephen Moreton • David Green • Andrew Tindle...ExoticMineralogy, is clearlyrecognisable as the zeolite-group mineralheulandite withsomeassociated stilbitein...Bay produced excellent specimens of stilbite, apophyllite and calcite in late 2009 and 2010. Unusually...the discovery of calcite crystals at Sligachan Quarry in 2010 by French collectors Tom and Jean-Claude...providesa wayto determinethe ageof the skam. The basalt that surrounds the Cuillin hills, also on Skye |  | | Book | ny We) is Ao Lis Hii Lis ase ar meee SS —s AUS. = Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022...kingdom. Witsoe s = Gh sea Foreword Minerals are the inorganic solids ...many that are still in operation, such as Broken Hill in New South Wales and the Deccan Plateau zeolite-producing...Saijo, Iyo Province, Ehime Prefecture, Island of Shikoku Ashio Mine, Shimotsuke Province, Tochigi Prefecture...Arakawa Mines, Ugo Province, Akita Prefecture, Honshu The Obira Mine, Bungo Province, Oita Prefecture, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rural scene in Lesotho. The layering of the various basalt lavas are clearly visible on the slopes of the...host rock. Most of the country comprises Jurassic basalt, with Permo-Triassic sedimentary strata forming...as parts of the southeastern regions. It is the basalt formations in the Butha-Buthe district (pronounced...the Jurassic-aged Drakensberg Group, composed of low TiZr tholeiitic basalt that can be stratigraphically...Drakensberg Group extends beyond Lesotho into adjacent South Africa. In Lesotho, the Drakensberg Group has been |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | According to Anthony and Laughon (1970), an apophyllite-group mineral is “very abundant in the skarn and...is embedded in and penetrates the surface of apophyllite crystals.” Figure 1. A 3.6-cm-wide area of the...gauge. Locally, native copper is embedded in apophyllite crystals with kinoite. Elsewhere in Arizona kinoite...stringhamite, copper, wollastonite, and an apophyllite-group mineral at the Twin Buttes mine, Sierrita...1995). It occurs intimately associated with apophyllite and the rare mineral ruizite at the Christmas |  | | Journal (issue) | | IRVINEBOWL highway M alachiteTsum eb s p e c im e n s s u b je c t to p rio r sale FOatESCAVETillB...Beach, Cal. 92651 [714]494~7695 publisher John S. White Division of Mineralogy The Smithsonian Institution...Nomenclature Revisions in the Apophyllite Group: Hydroxyapophyllite, Apophyllite, andFluorapophyllite 95...E d ito r....................... 117 Personality S k e tc h ...........................................e la rg e c ry s ta l g ro u p m e a s u re s 14 x 14 x 12 cm . S m ith s o n ia n s p e c im e n # C |  | | Corporate Document (Series) | | Minerals of Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin 73 by R. S. Bottrill and W. E. Baker Mineral Resources Tasmania...entry: Bottrill, R. S. (Ralph Stephen) A catalogue of the minerals of Tasmania/ R. S. Bottrill and W. E...5499946 Reference this publication as: B0TTRILL, R. S.; BAKER, W. E. 2008. A catalogue of the minerals of...72 variety or invalid names, and 36 series and group names. All entries in the 1969 catalogue have been...least one sample so-labelled is probably from Broken Hill, NSW. Catalogues of the major mineral finds have |  | | Book | | data, chemical analysis, physical properties, etc.) s Specimen locality attribution only; no information...AUSTRALlA] 353-504 KATANGA] 257-320 321--416 M-S--HlLAlRE ] CARNEGlE] 281-392 249-328 [ 417-512...Guest editorial: collecting in abandoned mines (by S. Voynick) 20: 178-180 ABSTRACTS [Abstracts of the]...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN Famous...[the Santa Lucia and Sa Duchessa mines,] Sardinia [Italy] (by F. Olmi, C. Sabelli & G. Brizzi) 19:305-310 |  | | Report (issue) | | (Sammel, 1981), which is the youngest of Newberry 1 s obsidian flows (l^c age of ~1300 years B.P.)(MacLeod...through dacite, andesite, basaltic andesite, and basalt, as well as fragmental rocks of about the same...sulfides, and minor apatite, hydrogrossular, apophyllite, gyrolite, epidote, anhydrite, and iron oxide...sediment along with calcite, smectite, gyrolite, apophyllite, and other zeolite minerals: faujasite, chabazite...analcime, gyrolite, smectite, erionite, and apophyllite. SEM micrographs of a sample from 309 m shows |  | | Journal (issue) | | do, w hat it is used for, and t he group of minerals it belong s t o. Origins gives the location of the...mines that contain amethysts, aquamarines, chrysobery/s, emeralds, garnets, opals and topaz. Although some...the most fascinating examples in each min eral group. This map highlights some of the world's leading...and the world 's finest rubies. Burma is also the most important source of 1ade. Burma 's other mineral...in layman's terms below. GROUP Each mineral and gemstone belongs to a group, or family, of similar types |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | calcite. In places, late stage xenoblasts of apophyllite and witherite overgrow these assemblages. Garnets...monzodiorites of the Monzoni Intrusive Complex, northern Italy (Povoden et al., 2002) and the Auerbach marble,...metasomatic exchange between the crystallising basalt magma and the limestone, (iii) infer P-T-X(CO2)...opaque minerals, 5 mm for feldspar and 20 mm for apophyllite and zeolites. Conditions for the carbonate minerals...The dolerite sill The dolerite sill is an olivine basalt with Ca-rich plagioclase, clinopyroxene, olivine |  | | Book | | the ClaraMine in Germany,Laurion in Greece,Broken Hill in NewSouthWalesand Langbanin Sweden.The secondtype...natrolite with pale green diaspore from the Saga I quarry, M0rje, Porsgrunn. Field height 7 mm. Collection...Bjorksya -· i! '! ho/rnaM -;>~t ... * Or,S,.S.:...' ... .. _.;•...~'• ... i .Iii ............discoveries suffered from a recession during the l 790's, The first written documentation on a Tychsen experienced...(zircon) and bergmannite (mainly natrolite after group at the Mining Academy in Kongsberg. nepheline) |
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Basalt quarry, S. Marco hill, Gambellara, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy