 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5...3/. 0/0% (!2$). -!33!# 05,!3+) %8 !. $% 2 Illinois Mineral Locality Index 7)..%"!'/ /',% #!22/...(above). Map showing the counties in Illinois, courtesy the Illinois Geological Survey. 96*2: 405...at 19:53 09 October 2014 T he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary |  | | 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...ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection; Jeff Scovil...York; the Helvetia district, Arizona; O ntario’s Grenville Province; the Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York;...Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin Island; the fluorite mines of Madoc, Ontario; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure I: Galena, Treece, Kansas, Tri-State district; specimen 5Vi cm tall; Na tional Museum of Canada...figure 2 (leftI: Galena. Crawford mine, Pirher, Oklahoma, Tri-State district; 6' 2 cm across; Harvard Mineralogical...page): Galena, St. Joseph Lead mine, Viburnum, Missouri, Viburnum Trend district; 6 cm on edge; James Madison...Geologists have now classified numerous deposits and mining districts in Canada and in other parts of the world...host rock.is dolomitized limestone. • The mining district is on a dome or arch. • Mineralization is |  | | Journal (issue) | | Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection;...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil...5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado; Karl Warning collection; Jeff Scovil...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kunzite-Gary and Rosemany White collection, page 295; Malachite-Don and Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle...204; Cerussite-Joe Budd collection, page 63; Malachite-Tim & Holly Smith collection, page 244. (right...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines |  | | Journal (issue) | | stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek, Pikes Peak and |  | | Journal (issue) | | stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...just a few specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone,...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series |  | | Catalog/List | | 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...Crystallized Silver with Copper from the famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A “classic” Rhodochrosite with associated...associated Pyrite and Quartz from the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado An unusually massive and extremely colorful...colorful, Smithsonite from the iconic Kelly Mine in New Mexico A ‘gem’ quality specimen Tanzanite crystal in |  | | Catalog/List | | November 1999________ 1 ULEXITE, Boron, California, USA. Matrix free pure mass of tight silky unidirectional...Arizona, USA. Pretty pocket of sparkling tiny blue xtls. GRF. Ml. £4.00 4 MALACHITE, Killie Mine, Elko...Elko Co., Nevada, USA. Very rich with fibrous edges or cross section. GRF. C. £4.00 5 GYPSUM, Simpson Desert...£4.00 9 WAVELLITE, County Pit, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery Co., Arkansas, USA. Pastel apple green radiate...xtls. GRF. Ml. £5.00 10 SMITHSONITE, San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Pale blue botryoidal |  | | Report (issue) | | Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...108 Morocco's El Hammam: Six Decades of Fluorspar Mining BY PIERRE CLAVEL & GUNTHER NEUMEIER 112 Faceting...land Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56 64 The fluid inclusions in Illinois fluorite...Albert Gilg & BRIAN STEFANEC The Great Southern Illinois Fluorspar Deposits BY ROSS LILLIE Connecticut... Iridescent Fluorite from Ohio's Findlay Arch District BY JASON MCDONALD 69 Canada BY MARK MAUTHNER |  | | Journal (issue) | | Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root |  | | 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...unpublished 'skorpionite' from the new Skorpion Mine near Rosh Pinah in Southwest Namibia were offered...or tarbuttite. Skorpion Mine is expected to become the world's largest zinc mine, covering 15% of our zinc...new minerals from that mine. I saw a few pieces of kochsandorite from the coal mine at Many in Hungary. |  | | Book (volume) | | uor i t ewi t hChal c opy r i t ei nc l us i ons Annabel LeeMi ne,Har di nCo. ,I l l i noi s 91/ 2”t al...t ,Connor ,Shana MINERAL INDEX Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, 51 Aegirine Mt Malosa, Zomba Dist...West, Gobbobisberg Mtns., Namibia, 31, 57 Margareta Mine, Amatitlan, Guerrero, Mexico, 20 Apatite (with Tourmaline)...Areas, Pakistan, 15 Golconda Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 32 Panasqueira Mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal, 5,...Swat Valley, Pakistan, 22 Azurite (on Malachite) Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, 64 Babingtonite Hongxi |  | | Report (issue) | | International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...at the Crystal River quarry, Lecanto in Citrus County Florida. Collection Francis Benjamin; photo Jeff...calcite twin on {1 OTI} from the Leiping mine, Guiyang County, Hunan, China. Collection Frederic Escaut;...on (0001} from St. Clair Lime quarry, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Collection Terry Huizing; photo Jeff...phenomenon of double refraction. California State Mining Museum; photo Jeff Scovil Back lower left: 6.2 |  | | Catalog/List | | Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...Meteorite End Cut Iron, IAB-MG Odessa, Ector County, Texas, USA Another larger ofering at 4.5 kilograms (9...Meteorite Iron, IAB-MG Meteor Crater, Coconino County Arizona, USA Found: 1891 Without question, the Canyon...Ordinary Chondrite (LL5) Near Lazbuddie, Parmer County, Texas, USA. (approximate centroid) Fell: 15 Feb 2013;...Plainview, Hale County, Texas, USA Found in 1917 during the World War I era in Hale County, Texas, the Plainview |  | | Journal (issue) | | track, to collect specimens underground at the Kelly mine, famous for exceptional blue-green botryoidal smithsonite...nearby Graphic mine, noted for azurite and malachite crystals, and visit the Blanchard mine to collect fine...included that of Ms. Blanchard at the Blanchard mine, who greeted someone she didn’t know with a shotgun...continue, including periodic visits to Elk Creek, Meade County, to collect superb transparent golden barite...and natrolite. Unfortunately, the nearby Reward mine in Enumclaw had closed, as well as access to its |  | | Catalog/List | | SUMMER 8989 iSamp ^effeiuMineraG Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent "Endsleigh'', 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall...interphase. 9. AQUAMARINE. Centreville,Boise County,Idaho,U.S.A. A fine,transparent , blue-green terminated...poorly located crystalline massive Azurite and Malachite. 45mm x 35°® * 35“®. Hence only £4.00. 21. BABINGTONITE...2mm. £5.00. 22. BARITE on CALCITE. Elk Mine,Meade County,S.Dakota,U-S.A. Beautiful terminated golden... BROOKITE. Magnet Cove.Arkansas.U.S.A. A single sub-metallic.matrix-free fine lustrous.doubly-terminated |  | | Catalog/List | | Time 8am -9pm) FLUORITE,Rosilare Level.Minerva Mine No 1 ,Cave-in-Rock District.Southem Illonois.Xtl...SPHALERITE,var.Ruby Blende.Mid-Continent Mine,Pitcher.Oklahoma,USA Rich continuous druse of ruby sphalerite...translucent tips coated with fibrous silky olive green malachite replacement Largely matrix free. Pretty D Ml.£15...mauve points. Matrix free Pretty D TN.£24 25 MALACHITE & CERUSSITE,Browns Deposit.Rum Jungle.Northern...Northern Territories. Australia.Beautiful silky B malachite nodules with milky white light brown blocky cerussite |  | | Journal (issue) | | LuminescentPhantom Quartz From Hudson,St. Croix County,Wisconsin William S. Cordua Dept. Plant and Earth...November-December, 1997 near Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin has revealed some unexpectedly interesting...reached from Interstate 94. One takes Exit 2, marked County F and Carmichael Road, then turns south on Cannichael...83816-2043 Montgomery at the "Little Green Monster" Mine Fairfield, Utah 1937 A 96 page treatise based upon...and new books on minerals, mining, and mining history. These are on mining areas all over the U.S., and |  | | Journal (issue) | | S. White, Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California............................article “on the chondrodite from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Brewster, New York.” Two of the plates show 21...November). Tht museum features fossil, gemstone, mining and mineral exhibits, with about 1800 mineral specimens...rhodochrosites, excellent Georgia amethyst specimens, Illinois fluorite and speci mens from local occurrences...6-12 cm, Adamite with Hemimorphite from the Ojuela mine, pale green and purple Naica fluorites in small |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2 BIG SK Y COUNTRY Revisiting Montana’s Rich Mining History CAPTIVATED BY BIRTHSTONES Considering...Voynick 20 Aragonite 42 Exploring Montana’s Mining Past Out and About in the Pioneer Mountains Region...Cover 187.7-carat diamond recovered from the Diavik Mine in Canada; a fossil ammonite recovered from Fox...Free minerals for kids Speakers Smithsonite, Kelly Mine, NM Watercolor by Frederick C. Wilda© Speakers...Virgil Lueth Kevin Downey Barite on Calcite Montreal Mine, WI Watercolor by Fred Wilda© Shop in Air Conditioned |  | | Book | | “Light of the Desert” (see page 117) Page 3: Malachite (see page 120) Page 6: Mimetite (see page 139)...process, new minerals and rocks are formed. RIGHT: Malachite with chrysocolla, Majdanpek, Serbia ¢ tixex7 cm...be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals...carbonate) can react to form malachite (green copper carbonate). If malachite produced this way keeps the |  | | Catalog/List | | 12. 13. AIIDRADITEGA.i!llET. Belatones Consols Mine ,.';ticklepath Lustrous,sharp,brownish-green twinned... ANTIMONITE. Baia Sprie,Rumania. Silvery,bright,sub-metallic crystalline bladed inter!orms with miner...;i::C:IIOPYRITE/CHALC0PYRITE/CASSITERITE. Cape Cornwall Mine ,St .Just, ·.1est Cornwall. This old specimen was...Eye-catching lar~e cabinet specimen. Rich,silvery sub-metallic fans with inc lud ed ( enhancing) bras sy...38. ARSEN0PYRITE/SCH0RL/CHALC0PYRITE. East Pool Mine,C.1920s. Silvery, crystalline mass with golden inclusions |  | | | | 12. 13. AIIDRADITEGA.i!llET. Belatones Consols Mine ,.';ticklepath Lustrous,sharp,brownish-green twinned... ANTIMONITE. Baia Sprie,Rumania. Silvery,bright,sub-metallic crystalline bladed inter!orms with miner...;i::C:IIOPYRITE/CHALC0PYRITE/CASSITERITE. Cape Cornwall Mine ,St .Just, ·.1est Cornwall. This old specimen was...Eye-catching lar~e cabinet specimen. Rich,silvery sub-metallic fans with inc lud ed ( enhancing) bras sy...38. ARSEN0PYRITE/SCH0RL/CHALC0PYRITE. East Pool Mine,C.1920s. Silvery, crystalline mass with golden inclusions |  | | Catalog/List | | 5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...5x2x1", £10.00 6. ANDRADITE GARNET. Belstone Consols Mine, Sticklepath, Devonshire. A vitreous brownishgreen...25x5/8", £15.00 12. ANDRADITE/URALITE. Cornwall Iron Mine, Lebanon Co, Colorado, U.S.A. Lustrous coffee brown...ANTIMONITE. Baia Sprie, Rumania. Silvery, bright, <sub-metalhc crystalline bladed interforms with minor...APATITE (Var: Francolite) - Holmbush Form. Holmbush Mine, Nr. Callington, East Cornwall. Vuggy Quartz/Chloritic |
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Annabel Lee Mine, Harris Creek Mining Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA