 | | Journal (issue) | | E-mail: leicht@kristalle.com T he Sw e e t H ome Park C o u n t y , C o l o r a d o This publication...Leonard Beach, whose undying faith in the Sweet Home Mine made it all happen. M in e FRONTISPIECE:... found in the Good Luck Pocket, Sweet Home mine, in 1992. Sweet Home Rhodo, Inc. specimen; photo by Harold... found in the Good Luck Pocket, Sweet Home mine, in 1992. Sweet Home Rhode. Inc. specimen; photo by Harold...adventure in specimen collecting in our time: the Sweet Home mine operation. Many thousands of specimens have |  | | 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? ...................................... Kosnar Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..........................................333 by R. A. Kosnar Famous mineral localities: Mount A n tero ............................ 339 by M.... I. Jacobson The San Juan Mountains of Colorado ..................................349 by J. A. Murphy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs JanuarylFebruary: Copper, Ray, Pinal County, Arizona. Les Presmyk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...with quartz and albite, Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California. Houston Museum of Natural...claims, Farncomb Hill, Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado. Denver Museum of Natural History...Azurite on malachite ring, Flambeau mine, Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wisconsin. Dan Behnke specimen and... calcite, and chalcopyrite, Sweetwater mine, Reynolds County, Missouri. Marvin Rausch specimen, Jeff |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of COLORADO ED RAINES Geology Museum Colorado School of Mines 1310 Maple Street Golden, Colorado 80401...noted Figure 1. Camp Bird mine, level 2, Sneffels district, Ouray County. Raines-Pettem collection,...photographer unknown. B etween 1868 and 1922, Colorado produced almost 260 million pounds of copper....from the Leadville district, with another 50 million pounds mined in San Juan County (Henderson 1926).... During the twentieth century, the Gilman district surpassed Leadville in total copper production with |  | | Journal (issue) | | growth of pectolite was recently found at Prospect Park, New Jersey. The specimen is made up of a remnant... described from slags at Le Celine di Cotoriano Mine (Rosia, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy). I have...aesthetic end we saw the best stibnite from Xikuangshan Mine (Lengshuijiang, Shaoyang, Hunan Province, China)...on the This year, giYe the gift of information! Mine al The Mineral Collector's Mineral News, The Mineral...crystals Jochen Hintze collected in the Morogoro District in Tanzania. Imagine a mineral dealer going in |  | | Journal (issue) | | ornacite, Hemimorphite & Rosasite From the Alice Mine, Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer Excalibur...offered me a modest lot of material from the Alice Mine, near Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada. The deposit...unknownolive greenelongatedneedlesfrom the Alice Mine provedto be molydofomacite, as evidencedby Mo>CrEDSanalysis...years ago I collected at the site of the Big Mike Mine in the mouth of Panther Canyon, Tobin Range, Pershing... and bornite, Cu5FeS4 , with minor amounts of digenite, CuuS. The oxidized cap consisted primarily of |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Michigan Correspondents Dudley Blauwet Louisville, Colorado Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Renato Pagano Milan...COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s...fine minerals on DVD wilensky Fluorite, Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Wilensky Fine Minerals...commemorative labels for the specimen owners to take home, over 100 showcase title placards and informative |  | | Journal (issue) | | (Continues on page~-z) Grand Canyon Uranium: The Orphan Mine Dr. Vivien Gornitz vgornitz@giss.nasa.gov Better...deposit was the Orphan Lode (later renamed the Orphan Mine), located on the south rim of the Grand Canyon,...visitors to Grand Canyon National Park are aware that a uranium mine operated here as recently as 35 years...before establishment of the Grand Canyon National Park in 1919 (Chenoweth, 1986). Daniel L. Hogan, who...detected in 1951 and uranium mining began in 1956. Mining within the national park was permitted because the |  | | Journal (issue) | | an tgressman@comcast.n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic...METATORBERNITE, 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott...three years, (Canada) $180 / one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...part-time while working as a geologist for various mining companies including Halferdahl and Associates (1974-1980)...shore of the Bay of Fundy. He found a ship captain's home, built in the 1890s on an acre of land overlooking |  | | Book | | MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40...MINES AND MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna...Mines and minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index...index. 1. Mines and mineral resources—Colorado. 2. Mines and mineral resources—New Mexico. I. Kennedy, Marrianna...enter must be obtained to prevent trespass. Old mine workings are dangerous and entering underground |  | | Journal (issue) | | Update on Rare Minerals at the Sweet Home Mine, Park County, Colorado Martin Jensen Collectors Edge Minerals...Minerals, Inc. P.O. Box 1169 Golden, Colorado 80401 martin@collectorsedge.com During micromineralogical...examination of selected specimens from the Sweet Home mine which have either been recently exposed underground...(EDS) at the facilities of the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. For the original, comprehensive...comprehensive written work on the Sweet Home mine, the reader may refer to the special issue of The Mineralogical |  | | Book (edition) | | common minerals and common metals important for mining. The common minerals form most of our rocks and...metals section are generally valuable, come from mining districts, and are usually either attractive or...scraper, hand ax, or similar tool until you get it home and clean it up. In that case, you again owe it...probably takes a beating in the field. I leave mine at home. For web-based research, I recommend the Minerals...professional papers and publications related to mining districts, fossil locales, and more. It has interactive |  | | Journal (issue) | | COVELLITE crystal cluster, 3 cm across, From the Leonard mine, Butte, Montana. Frederick H. Pough collection;...like bornite, chalcocite, colusite, covellite, digenite, djurleite, and enargite rank among the finest...(rightbackground) mines, Butte, ca. 1965. World Museum of Mining photo. 6 The Mineralogical Record, volume 33...hole.” The ground in the Butte mining camp, especially in the Kelley mine, was just full of vug holes ...World Museum of Mining is also located in Butte, at the site of the old Orphan Girl mine. . . . So wrote |  | | Journal (issue) | | England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA Steven R. Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor...Update on the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada ..................................husband Karl started as mineral dealers from their home and were soon selling at many mineral shows throughout...Interest and collecting activity at the Majuba Hill mine have increased since the publication o f the initial...(Jensen, 1985). Information on new discoveries at the mine, as well as on certain aspects that were left vague |  | | Journal (issue) | | index. This is organised hierarchically by country, county or state, then site name. To avoid the confusion...century boundary changes in the British Isles, the county boundaries defined by the Local Governmant Act...referred to as Glamorgan. The new counties and county boroughs brought in by the Lieutenancies Act of...Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations...south of Donalda in the Drumheller area which is home to the well-known Tyrrell Museum, but they have...cutters • Freestanding for use in the field or mount on your working table - NEWLAND .. Model Inside...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...longer possible and there really is no place to park in the immediate area. Best bet is to have a non-collecting |  | | Report (volume) | | Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of...especially Fischer and others, 1946). MINERALS OF COLORADO: A 100-YEAR RECORD By EDWIN B. EcKEL ABSTRACT |  | | Book | | 193-256 137-208 129-192 209-264 193-256 [ [ COLORADO-Ill] 177-256 121-184 89-168 1-120 1-88 [ ...177-256 185-280 169-248 [ 425-528 337--400 COLORADO-II] 321--400 337--400 ARIZONA-Ill] 337--400...69-132 65-128 1-64 11 / 1980 20 I 1989 [ COLORADO-I] [ 289-352 385-448 [ AUSTRALlA] 353-504...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Mandarino Famous mineral localities: The Annaberg District, Lower A u stria ...............................them a call at 972-540-6999 and order your copy. COLORADO FOSSIL EXPO Denver Merchandise Mart • Mart Plaza...Martin Zinn Expositions • P.O. Box 999 • Evergreen, Colorado 80437-0999 • Fax (303) 674-2384 162 The M ineralogical...Elias mine, Czech Republic Mrazek et al. (1994) report an occurrence of namibite from the Elias mine, Jachymov |  | | Journal (issue) | | England Richard C. Erd U.S. Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA Steven R. Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Kipushi mine, Z a ir e ........................................is connected by a good road to the old Kansanshi mine and the neighboring Solwezi town, about 100 km S60°W...Kolwezi, Shinkolobwe and Broken Hill. The Rokana mine is located near Kitwe. deposits in order to establish...indigenes serving as guides. In 1915, the Kipushi district was delineated by the famous prospec tor Major |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Johnston & E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . ...Pezzotta Famous mineral localities: The Lord Brassy mine, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... John Sinkankas (1915–2002) at the Pala Properties Mine Bash, 1977. Van Pelt photo. NOTICE Died, John Sinkankas...John and Marge retired to their first permanent home, in San Diego, California. He wrote articles regularly |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael...group, 13 cm, w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection;...year at the age o f 84. The collection has found a home at the Australian M useum in Sydney, where a lavish...York; the Helvetia district, Arizona; O ntario’s Grenville Province; the Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pandaite • copper arsenic sulfide • Chinkuashih mine, Keelung, T aiw an • 4x5 $ 5 0 .0 0 , 2x3 $ 2...person legally tie up a collecting area under a mining claim?How does the term '‘economical find” affect...exploration geologist and a mineral collector). 1. Is a mining claim on a collecting locality valid? Answer is...interest are not specifically excluded by law from mining claim location. These include: petrified wood regardless...great sepcimens from Fairfield, Utah; M am m o th mine, Ariz.; Pala, Cal. tourmalines; magnificent epidotes |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...on p. 327 COVER: BARITE, 17 cm, from the Miekle mine, Nevada. (See the article in the previous issue...Technology as a freshman and then transferred to the Colorado School of Mines where he received the degree of...uranium exploration while living in Grand Junction, Colorado. In 1959 Richard moved with his family to Mexico...rediscovered the Moctezuma mine that was first opened for gold in 1937. This mine, though small, provided |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...FLUORITE crystal group, 8.1 cm, from the Shangbao mine, H unan, China. Collector's Edge Minerals specimen;...daughter of a mining family, she has maintained an intense interest in minerals and mining throughout her...pursuits in this regard was the collecting of old mining stock certificates, a collection which grew to... and give a historical background for each mine or mining venture. These catalogs, still available while |
|
