 | | Journal (issue) | | Happen Here! A Visit to the Shin-Otani Manganese Mine, Japan Alfredo Petrov alfredopetrov@earthlink.net...small of a hole in the ground merits being called.a mine. None of these mines is in operation anymore, but...show in April mentioned that a nearby manganese mine was now a museum open for underground tourism, I...to the Shin-Otani mine in the Tanba mining district. This manganese mining district includes 277 mines...drive away. After mining in the Kyoto area ended, little more than 20 years ago, mining and miners were |  | | Journal (issue) | | Weber by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (see February 2005 Mineral News - Ed.). Between...noted for the mounted specimens acquired by the LA County Museum, the collection provides a solid reference...a greyish olive. but it can be attractive, pale blue. Specimens often have loosely attached, individual...fantastic black tourmaline, and a few excellent blue beryls var. aquamarine but the unusual minerals...specimens of the IMA approved, yet unpublished 'skorpionite' from the new Skorpion Mine near Rosh Pinah |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | were beautiful. One was lined with lustrous azure-blue drusy azurite; another lined with lustrous drusy...be recorded." Pala is in northwestern San Diego County of Southern California. COLORADO: Prof. Richard...Castle Co., Del. Writes Mr. Pickett: "Iron Hill and Mine Hill are one and the same with Iron Hill being the...occur at the abandoned Laurel Creek corundum mine in Rabun County, where it is associated with corundum. The...Salmon, Idaho, sends in the following news item: "The Ima Tungsten Mine of Patterson, Lemhi County, Idaho |  | | Book (edition) | | Idaho Minerals The complete Reference and Guide to the Minerals of Idaho Lanny R. Ream 1!11, ) a...PISTOLS Idaho Minerals Idaho Minerals The Complete Reference and Guide to the Minerals of Idaho with Special...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Rerun Publishing P .O. Box 2043 Coeur d'Ale ne, Idaho 83814 Copyright © 1989 by L.R. Ream Publishing...R Ream Publishing P.O. Box 2043 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814 (208) 667-0453 To those collectors who are |  | | Book (edition) | | Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County; ca1cioaravaipaite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; carmichaelite...from Gamet Ridge, Apache County; shannonite from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County; wupatkiite from near...Mountain, Coconino County, and grandviewite from the Grandview mine, Coconino County. A few of the additional...website (www.geo.vu.n1/~ima-cnmmnlMINERALlist.pdf). and other recent publications. The IMA has a mineral category...uranium deposits on the Colorado Plateau. Coconino County: near Tuba City (Anthony et aI., 2000). ACANTHITE |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............... 2 Trip Report – Malbunka Copper Mine, Areyonga, Northern Territory ....................Micromineral News: Issue 7 Trip Report – Malbunka Copper Mine, Areyonga, Northern Territory Dehne McLaughlin,...off tomorrow on our third expedition (T3) into the mine. Struck big rain and a terrible tooth problem last...went on. Who wants to operate a mineral specimen mine? Being camped on the old waste rock dump as well...that our vehicle dust from the access track to the mine was an environmental impact so you cannot please |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DIVERSITY IN A HYDROTHERMAL VEIN-TYPE DEPOSIT: THE CLARA MINE, SW GERMANY, AS A TYPE EXAMPLE GREGOR MARKL§ Universität...Germany ABSTRACT The Clara baryte-fluorite-(Ag-Cu) mine exploits a polyphase, mainly Jurassic to Cretaceous...ashes introduced into the exploited parts of the mine resulted in fluoride assemblages of alkali and alkaline...centimeter scale. Unusual mineral diversity at the Clara mine therefore develops from a combination of diverse...fluids and anthropogenic additions. Keywords: Clara mine, fluids, supergene, mineral diversity, hydrothermal |  | | Journal (issue) | | articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...advertising. FRONTISPIECE 3 Fluorite from Frazer's Hush Mine 4 THE SUSSEX MINERAL AND LAPIDARY SOCIE1Y EDITOR...RASPITE, STOLZITE AND PHILIPSBORNITE FROM CLIGGA MINE, CORNWALL David Green • Andrew Tindle 33 THE LEVERS...identified using square brackets e.g. [Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall] and a note is included with...country. I t might seem surprising that Sussex, a county dominated by young and mineralogically impoverished |  | | Journal (issue) | | and finding new material, such as: Current day mining operations – Blast it! Litigation-minded people...rings. The material recently discovered at the Blue Lizard Mine in southeastern Utah has produced a whole...Silver Coin Mine. IMA No. 2015-077 Fluorwavellite Al3(PO4)2(OH)2F·5H2O Silver Coin mine, Valmy, Iron...Iron Point district, Humboldt Co., Nevada, USA (40°55’44”N, 117° 19’26”W), and Wood mine, 5 miles NE of Del...Del Rio, Cocke Co., Tennessee, USA (35°57’52”N, 82°57’36”W). Anthony R. Kampf*, Paul M. Adams, Henry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals to 1 mm) with raspite (brown), Proprietary mine. Broken Hill Geocentre specimen. T he rich silver-lead-zinc...historian Geoffrey Blainey (1982), no other single mining field of the future will ever exert as much influence...from Kintore and Block 14 dumped at the Pinnacles mine, 15 kilometers southwest of Broken Hill, has now...the primary ore has long gone, and underground mining is now under the control of two companies, Perilya...estimates give Broken Hill another twenty years of mining, without any additional exploration. Geological |  | Birch, W. D., Pring, A., Gatehouse, B. M. (1992) Segnitite, PbFe3H(AsO4)2(OH)6, a new mineral in the lusungite group from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. American Mineralogist, 77 (5-6) 656-659 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Associatedspeciesinclude beudantite,carminite, mimetite, bayldonite, agardite-(Y), goethite, and coronadite. Segnitite...family with the general name were approved by the IMA Comand Thedata formula AB j(XO4)r(OH)u are widespread...have been recoveredduring extensive mining operations by Minerals Mining and MetAl3*, and X : P, As, and...(Birch, 1990), occurring with mimetite, carminite, bayldonite, and agardite-(Y), exposedat 240-m relative level...binary solid-solution seriesand, on the basisofrecent IMA nomenclature rules, should not have speciesstatus |  | | Journal (issue) | | interest to amateur mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...mineral species has recently been published by the IMA commission on new minerals and mineral names. This...formed by the action of natural weathering in mines, mine spoil, and so on, will still be regarded as minerals...creating new species. Those formed by the action of mine fires however, will no longer be accepted as minerals...Nottinghamshire, NG9 lFJ ENGLAND SCOTLAND B right blue bladed celestite to 40mm was discovered at Trearnc |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Senior mine personnel inspecting an ingress of water on 8 level, on 21 January 1924. F. W....MINERALS Figure 2. A fine group of large, lustrous, blue-black azurite crystals on a powdery, friable matrix...Herr Wilhelm Klein, a senior manager at the Tsumeb mine, and his subject was “Die Mineralien der Tsumeber...in March 1990. Figure 3. Location of the Tsumeb mine in northern Namibia (or South West Africa, as it...pseudomorphs of arsentsumebite (cataloged by Klein as “bayldonite”) after mimetite. Broken ends of the pseudomorphs |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Africa vanadium deposit, Wilson Springs, Garland County, Arkansas, U.S.A. FeZr(PO4)2-4H20. Monoclinic,...coloudess to rosy Virgin Canyon complexes, Questa, Tats County, grains and aggregates, up to 5 mm across and New...include potassium The mineral name is listed as an 'IMA name' feldspar, nepheline, sodalite, cancrisilite...Nelen, 1991. Neues Jahrb. complex, Questa, Tats County, New Mexico, Min., Mh., 169. As bladed, coloudess...Mountain, North Carolina and Newry, Maine, as an 'IMA name' though it is not clear whether U.S.A. (Mn,Fe |  | | Journal (issue) | | The research chapter is a gold mine (or perhaps we should say a copper mine) of data; a trio of new species...of others. Geochemists will be puzzling for some (mine included) and look at some facts. time over the...proustite from Chanarcillo, quoise-blue), willemite (white, yellow, blue, green), and wulfmanganite from...legrandite brilliant yellow, pale yellow, light blue and dark blue). from Mapimi...it’s difficult to stop. However...surrounded on all sides (ex Tiger, Arizona; the Palermo mine, New Hampshire; and a new cept the ocean side) by |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | species, most of which have been approved by the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, 17...transliterations, 9 are names published without IMA approval, 4 are variety names, 2 are spelling corrections...German]. Both in the oxidation zone at Kamariza mining district nr. Laurion, Greece, as spherical aggregates...approved by IMA no formal description has yet appeared and agardite-(Ce) was never even submitted to IMA. [A...Nb)2(O,OH)6, Named for composition in accordance with IMA ruling. [Zap. 113, 370.] 9 Copyright the Mineralogical |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...W. Pinch & J. D. Grice The M eikle m ine, Elko County, N e v a d a ....................................by M. Jensen The Ross H annibal m ine, Lawrence County, South D a k o ta ...............................North Dakota and Washington, and began working as a mining geologist in 1950. During World War II he had served...800-634-4000, code SGE0699 June 4 - 6,1999 ★ MINING ★ GEOLOGY ★ GEMSTONES ★ MINERALOGY ★ JEWELRY ★ |  | | Journal (issue) | | Golden Topaz, 3.5 inches, from Katlang, Mardan District, Pakistan; Freilich Collection. OPENING SPREAD:...Pyromorphite from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho; Wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Arizona; Calcite and Fluorite...Fluorite from the Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway;...Norway; Powellite from Nasik, India; Blue Topaz from the Ural Mountains, Russia; Devilline from the Czech Republic;...in Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from the Brumado mine, Brazil; Elbaite from Nuristan |  | | Journal (issue) | | Update on the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada ..................................by M. Jensen Minerals of the Sawtooth Batholith, Idaho ................................... 185 by M. A...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...presented here. As o f October, 1991, access to the mine is tenuously unrestricted. INTRODUCTION Several |  | | Journal (issue) | | P. J. Dunn Famous mineral localities: The Mezica mine, Slovenia, Yugoslavia ............................the (Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, IMA, which has jurisdiction concerning the subject matter...all discreditations require the approval of the IMA Commission on New Minerals and New Mineral Names...identified by that nation’s representative on the IMA Commission on Museums (CM), and that representative...MANDARINO, J. A. (1987) Procedures in volving the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Famous mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah ..................................... S. Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado ....................................33 by B. Cairncross The Jan Coetzee copper mine, Namaqualand, South Africa .......................right of amateur col lecting and recreational mining, and the use of public and private lands for educational...Association c/o R. E. Romack, Treasurer 655 Eighth Street Idaho Falls, ID 83401 The current president is Jon Spunaugle |  | | Journal (issue) | | M11se11111 ofVic10ria Associate Editors The Daydream Mine, Silverton, N.S.W. John D. Leach .................P. 0. Box 39100 Lafayette, LA. 70593 California, USA This n otable Australian pegmatite locality has...(1981 census). Imining and supply town with a popula tion of 30,000,...the same age, probably 2500-2600 million years. Mining activity for gold started prior to 1900 in the...prices. Only sporadic mining by a few individuals can be expected in this district for the future. Thus |  | Grey, I. E., Betterton, J., Kampf, A. R., Macrae, C. M., Shanks, F. L., Price, J. R. (2016) Penberthycroftite, [Al6(AsO4)3(OH)9(H2O)5]·8H2O, a second new hydrated aluminium arsenate mineral from the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, UK. Mineralogical Magazine, 80 (7) 1149-1160 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.069 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | aluminium arsenate mineral from the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, UK I. E. GREY1,*, J. BETTERTON2...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA School of Chemistry...aluminium arsenate mineral from the Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England, UK. It occurs as...[Al6(AsO4)3(OH)9(H2O)5]· 11H2O, from the Penberthy Croft mine located in the parish of St, Hilary, Cornwall (50...aluminium arsenate minerals reported at Penberthy Croft mine are mansfieldite and liskeardite (Betterton, 2000; |  | | Journal (issue) | | articles of interest to mineralogi,ts, collectors, and mining historians. Contribution or suggestions for articles...Ballard 39 EPIDOTE-(SR) AND PIEMONTITE-(SR) BENALLT MINE FROM NEWS and EVENTS Peter J. Briscoe David McCallum...of the Editorial Board. GORCEIXITE FROM BENALLT MINE Tom Cotterell • Richard Tayler 61 Publication...processes involvedin mineraldeposition. UK JMine~& Mincrab No. 33 -2- UKJournal of Mines & Minerals...fromSgurrnanCearcall, Isleof Skye. UKJounul of Mine~ & Mineral, Nu. 33 -4- A column such as Mineral |  | | Book (edition) | | Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington MA 01803, USA First published 1962 Second edition 1970 Third edition...Canada, Germany, Thailand, Vietnam, the UK and the USA, making this a truly international collaboration...synthetic coloured stones not only in shades of blue and green, but in stones virtually indistinguishable...extensive fields in the prophetically named Kimberley district of Western Australia promise to be of world importance...Ltd, for the information on the Botswana diamond mining; Messrs Eickhorst & Co of Hamburg for the illustrations |
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Ima Mine, Blue Wing Mining District, Lemhi County, Idaho, USA