 | | Journal (issue) | | Photography by Jeff Scovil, Gerald Pauley, John Chapman, Stuart Humphreys, John Fields, Craig Bosel, Michael Stott...from the 1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the...Australian Museum; ex Albert Chapman collection; John Fields photo. Back cover: Australian Gold: Top row...Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia. George Stacey...• 2.3 cm, Kintore mine, Coolgardie, Western Australia. Aloe Family collection; John Chapman photo. • 1 |  | | Journal (issue) | | mines, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa ..................................Wilson COVER: RHODOCHROSITE crystals on matrix, 17.2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, collected in 1978...(2015–2016) Scott A. Rudolph Paradise Woods (2008–2016) John Dabney (2015–2016) Daniel J. Record Irv Brown (2009–2015)...(2016–2017) Eric D. Long Barry M. & Beth Kitt (2011–2016) John Schneider (2016) Dylan Stolowitz Steve Maslansky...com APATITE Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 11.5cm. Fine Minerals International |  | | Journal (issue) | | FLUORffE Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife...Asselbom collection. Joe Budd photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas...Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection; Joe Budd photo. (upper right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine...Northem Areas, Pakistan ; Marc Countiss collection; Joe Budd photo. This special supplement was funded entir~ly...rnain driving elements that were present in the local area. One of these was the influence of the Houston |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have superb examples of bright pink and red rhodochrosite in his or her collection. Nothing matches the...needle-pointed crystals from the Kalahari Desert of Africa. Few carvings are as vibrantly colorful as the...the brilliant, rich pink, banded masses of rhodochrosite from Argentina. In the window of the Collector...carved in Idar-Oberstein from Argen tinian rhodochrosite. In his book Gem and Crystal Treasures, Peter...attractive, crys tallized rhodochrosite: Pasta Buena, Peru; the Home Sweet Home mine, A l m a , Colorado; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wessels Mine, Northwest of Kuruman, Kalahari Manganese District Cape Province, South Africa I t was...inesite: Broken Hill mines, New South Wales, Australia; Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California; Kalahari...Kalahari manganese district, Cape Province, South Africa; and Fengjiashan mine, Hubei Province, China...China. Of these, the Wessels mine within the Kalahari manganese district has yielded a sufficient number of...their own with the stunning rhodochrosite that came from the same district. From a Historic Perspective |  | | Journal (issue) | | affiliated with the Friends of Mineralogy publisher John S. White Division of Mineralogy The Smithsonian...Arthur Roe Famous Mineral Localities: The Brumado District, Bahia, Brazil..................................Thomssen, Walt Risch, Star Northam, Carolyn Wilson, John Muntyan and Wayne DeBrusk assisted with record keeping...Brazil) Pierre and Nellie Bariand (Paris, France) F. John Barlow (Appleton, WI) Ron Bentley (Windsor, CT)...San Jose, CA) Forrest Cureton II (Stockton, CA) Rock Currier (Jewel Tunnel Imports; Arca dia, CA) Wayne |  | | Journal (issue) | | COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...Thomas P. Moore & Joe Polityka Tucson Mineralogical Symposium on the Minerals of Africa: Abstracts Chairmen:...anywhere. Handsome specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry Dolph, concerning |  | | Catalog/List | | $3,000,000 per lot. Attendees must comply with local regulations for in-person events. This Auction is...Chicago Alissa Ford Managing Director San Francisco Joe Maddalena Executive Vice President Kathleen Guzman...of Crystallized Gold from the famed Eagle’s Nest Mine in California A superb Crystallized “Leaf” Gold...gemstone Amethyst to come from the famed Four Peaks Mine in Arizona A sharp and complicated Crystallized...Copper from the famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A “classic” Rhodochrosite with associated Pyrite and Quartz |  | | Journal (issue) | | strand of freshwater cultured pearls • Star rhodochrosite • 31 ct orange sapphire • Flux-induced fingerprints...sapphire • Chondrodite in Burmese red spinel • Black coral with polyp structure • Demantoid garnet with...sales of pink and blue diamonds from the Argyle mine • Chalcedony-epoxy composite imitation of “candy...soverlin@gia.edu Nathan Renfro Elise A. Skalwold John I. Koivula Associate Editor Editors, Gem News...California Lucerne, Switzerland Hamburg, Germany John L. Emmett Simon Lawson Nicholas Sturman Brush |  | | Report (volume) | | -_--_--_-------_ Black Rock (Shotwell) deposit.._._......_.._....._._._._._.. Black Jack (Skougard) claims...County__________________________________________________ Black Jack (Gregory) claims__-_____________________________...__-_--_ Blackhawk and Joe Louis claims. __:.___--____-____-_________ Lucky Joe claim__-___._____________-_...(Neilson) claims_______._--_____-----_--__---__ Black Jack (Kendall-Duvall) claims________--____---________...property___-_-____-_________________--_____-________ Black Ledge claims-___-_____-_-_____--___-_--___-__-__-l__ |  | | Journal (issue) | | 85741 Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Founder John Sampson White Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne...Zeolites and associated minerals from the Palabora mine, Transvaal........................................& R. S. W. Braithwaite The Lake George antimony mine, New Brunswick ..................... 263 by W. E................................. 313 COVER: RHODOCHROSITE crystal group, 10 cm, from the N 'C h w an in...Kalahari m an g an ese field, C ape Province, South Africa. (See th e article in this issue, b eg in n |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Park 2006 Gauteng, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Desmond Sacco Johannesburg, South Africa All photos by the...Although the collection focuses primarily on the Tsumeb mine and the Kalahari manganese field, other “classic”...Onganja, Berg Aukas, Rosh Pinah, the Alto Ligonha district of Mozambique, the Goboboseb Mountains, and the...of the Congo. Despite this emphasis on southern Africa, there are also outstanding specimens from other...because this issue of Rocks & Minerals is celebrating Africa and its minerals, these will be featured here and |  | | Book | | talc vug in 1997, is 1.7 cm long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals...and pegmatitic environments. In the mid- l 970s, local historian-collector William J. Brunet set out to...old dumps. In 1975-1976, Brunet collected sharp, black, flattened hexagonal ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite |  | | Report (volume) | | Pago (A) Manganese carbonate in the Batesville district, Arkansas, by Hugh D. Miser, with a chapter on...Geology and oil and coal resources of the region south of Cody, Park County, Wyoming, by W. G. Pierce and...ILLUSTRATIONS Pago PLATE 1. Geologic map of Batesville district, Arkansas. In pocket 2. Polished surface of gray...ore from Club House mine; B, Polished surface of ore from Woodpecker Hollow mine _ 18 4. A, Thin section...section of ore from Woodpecker Hollow mine; B, Thin section of ore from Pittman mine____ ___ _ 18 5. Polished |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University RO. Box 524 AucWand Park, 2006 Gauteng, South Africa . . .*.’. Corresponding author: bc @na.rau...just south of the great Kalahari Desert on the vast plains of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa...including many of the world’s finest specimens of rhodochrosite, hematite, hausmannite. sturmanite. and other...distribution of the Transvaal Supergroup rocks (black) in South Africa. B: Enlarged portion of Griqualand West...and one of the few economic centers of the Northern Cape Province. Kuruman is also the preferred home |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | anywhere. Handsome specimens of barite, quartz, rhodochrosite, silver, and numerous other species have been...the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes . . . the holes, some...located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote a trainee miner, Jerry Dolph, concerning...an underground stope at Butte, Montana’s Kelley mine in the early 1970’s (Dolph, 1994). The wonderful...only comprehensive mineralogical study of the district. This work is as valuable today as it was 37 years |  | | Journal (issue) | | Arizona 85740 602-297-6709 Articles The Iron Cap mine, Graham County, A rizona..........................discoveries. Finds made in Arizona (the Iron Cap mine) and in Ouray County, Colorado, are described in...to find the best lodging, where to do a little local field collecting and other useful information. 74...6-12 cm, Adamite with Hemimorphite from the Ojuela mine, pale green and purple Naica fluorites in small...collection. Now the Bournes were pressing me. After much local advertising I got a call from the owner of an old |  | | Report (volume) | | ........................... North Carolina and South Carolina.............................. Georgia.................................... Cartersville district.................................................................................. Cave Spring district.................................................region................................ Batesville district.................................................................................. 132 Butte district.............................................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ettringite N’Chwaning II Mine, Northern Cape Province Republic of South Africa C oncrete, that manmade...N’Chwaning II mine, Kalahari manganese field, Northern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa. This specimen...contact-metamorphosed limestones or in xenoliths within igneous rock bodies. It has also been found as weathering crusts...leucite-nephlinetephrite (fine-grained volcanic rock) from Ettringen, Eifel, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...associated with calcite. The Clara mine, Ober Wolfach, Schwarzwald (Black Forest), Baden-Württemberg, is |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 2014 Fourth...Fourth Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...printing December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page...................389 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Page Ohio ......................................................427 South Carolina ...................................... |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...Bussan Steve Chamberlain & Donnie Carlin Tom Cooper John Cornish Christi Cramer Michael L. Davis Erin Delventhal |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 1996 Second...Second Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...63125 December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page...................333 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Ohio ...........................................................366 South Carolina ...................................... |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Collected By: Robert C. Beste, PG 2005 Third Edition...Edition A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Published by Hobbit Press 2435 Union...63125 December, 1996 ii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Table of Contents Page...................333 iii A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States Page Ohio ......................................................366 South Carolina ...................................... |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Sweet Home Mine made it all happen. M in e FRONTISPIECE: “The Ribbon” rhodochrosite specimen, 24...24 cm, found in the Good Luck Pocket, Sweet Home mine, in 1992. Sweet Home Rhodo, Inc. specimen; photo...“Snow C one” rhodochrosite specimen, 17 cm, found in the Good Luck Pocket, Sweet Home mine, in 1992. Sweet...specimen collecting in our time: the Sweet Home mine operation. Many thousands of specimens have reached...examples of cherry-red rhodochrosite and other species from the Sweet Home mine. The experience of owning |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Scotia,lar[ genealterationof suchmineralsas rhodochrosite and masses of manganite are made up of close]...carbonate;rarely, it results from Table 1, DFH-169). In this mine, somelayers m chocolate-brown plumo• supergene alterationof...1, DFH-284. wMe. See sp•ctrographic Fro. 2. Black areas are aggregatesof small crystals • manganite...enclosing lighter areas of rhodochrosite wi• drusy cavities, New Ross mine, Lunenburg, Nova Scoti The...Plumoseaggregatesof fine manganitealternatingwith layers of rhodochrosite, Graham Island, Queen Charlotte Group,British |
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Black Rock Mine, Black Rock, Joe Morolong Local Municipality, John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa