 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | [Northeastern University] at 11:57 17 November 2014 Husky Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers...informal family is polybasite, a relatively common silver ore mineral that is rare as fine specimens. Although...have been available in recent years from the Husky mine, Yukon Territory, Canada. Consequently, in keeping...this year’s Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, a Husky mine polybasite has been nominated as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...essentially a silver antimony sulfide in which copper occurs in substitution for silver in amounts up |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | exceptionally sharp 4.2-cm acanthite paramorph after argentite from the Rayes mine, Guanajuato, Mexico. Francis...1878); the Baker quarry near Billmeyer, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where it occurs as an alteration...well-known Silver Hill occurrence in Davidson County, and the McMakin mine in Cabarrus County (Genth 1891);...of the Virgilina district, Halifax County, Virginia (Dietrich 1990). The great silver occurrences of the...abundant acanthite. Many mines of the Colorado mineral belt contained important amounts of acanthite, although |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology S ilver was one of the first metals to silver has the highest-known reflectivity of visible light...used by humans, with records Silver crystallizes in the isometof silver mines dating back at least six...the When pure, the mineral is simply elemental silver (Ag). However, it Andean mineral theme of the 2003...excepof Au and Hg and, less commonly, tional Peruvian silver has been selected as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...Choice. Figure 1. An unusually aesthetic 8.3-cm silver As, Sb, Bi, Pt, and Cu in solid soluAdditional |  | | Catalog/List | | and Nevada were his favorites because of their mining and coin minting history. During his second year...the university, Kevin delved into mineralogy and mining history, and began to update his mineral collection...country as well as exploring scores of abandoned mining towns from California to New Mexico to Montana...and in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin...of collecting quartz in Montana, calcite in Utah, silver, galena, sphalerite, and amethyst in Creede |  | Roberts, Andrew C., Scott Ercit, T., Criddle, Alan J., Jones, Gary C., Scott Williams, R., Cureton, Forrest F., Jensen, Martin C. (1994) Mcalpineite, Cu3TeO6·H2O, a new mineral from the McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, and from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah. Mineralogical Magazine, 58 (392) 417-424 doi:10.1180/minmag.1994.058.392.07 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | McAlpine mine, Tuolumne County, California, and from the Centennial Eureka mine, Juab County, Utah I ANDREW...Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth Street, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0E8 T. SCOTTERCIT Research Division...Division, Canadian Museun of Nature, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1P 6P4 ALAN J. CRIDDLE, GARY C. JONES Department...Conservation Institute, 1030 Innes Road, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C8 FORREST F. CURETONII The Cureton...Cureton Corporation, P.O. Box 85445, Tucson, Arizona, USA. 85754-5445 AND MARTIN C. JENSEN Mackay School of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Co-Ni-As mineral assemblages, often with accessory silver. Associated minerals include cobaltite, skutterudite...localities as the old cobalt mine at Great Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut; the Franklin...mines, Sussex County, New Jersey; the old Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County, New York;...in Lebanon County, the French Creek iron mines and Wheatley lead mines in Chester County, and the Dyer...Berks County. It is reported from the Alberene and Old Dominion soapstone quarries, Albemarle County, Virginia; |  | | Report (issue) | | CALITI ES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock UTAH GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL SURVEY a division of the UTAH DEPARTMENT...JANUARY 1981 MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES OF UTAH by Kenneth C. Bullock Nature displays her most.... . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | 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...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...time, in such things as the variety and habits of Alpine minerals, unusual calcites, or copper minerals...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com |  | | Book | | high to low temperatures (it includes ore and the Alpine-type veins, cavities in volcanic rocks, minerals...minerals (the origin of native copper and native silver under the reduction conditions in the cementation...is associated with cuprite, 1nalachite, azurite, silver, chalkocite, bornite and other minerals. The largest...primary copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx....140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at 07:53 01 January 2015 Bournonite Yaogangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China T here are certain...clearly the most prolific being the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan Province. (Additional locality information...Hawk mine, Blue Hill, Maine; New York City, New York; an unspecified locality in Chester County, Pennsylvania;...Pennsylvania; the Cofer deposit in the Mineral district of Louisa County, Virginia, where it occurs with tetrahedrite;...occurrences of Sevier County and with tetrahedrite and galena in Montgomery County, Arkansas. Fine bournonite |  | | Journal (issue) | | scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...noted) (top row, from left) Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific...beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County, Washington, and the zeolites from the coastal...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | they are not only important ores of copper and silver, they can also provide impressive and beautiful...the density may increase to 5.1 with increasing silver content (Berry and Mason 1959). It is brittle and...National University] at 06:43 31 December 2014 mine in Colorado, and they found virtually the entire...Tetrahedrite also forms a series with freibergite, with silver substituting for copper. Zinc and mercury may also...important ore mineral of copper and a minor source of silver. In fact, in some localities tetrahedrite forms |  | | Book | | museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...granite but with no quartz. Sandstone (South Dakota, USA) _9_ A darker rock than granite but with a similar...cubic. Fluorite is a common example. Aragonite (Utah, USA) 27 Crystals Crystal Morphology The term morphology...crystal form. Other crystals Wulfenite (Arizona, USA) 29 may show lesser symmetry on a scale at the...compound with two components, such as sodium chloride, silver sulphide. When two valence states exist for the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | azurite, Utah boasts an array of mineral species. AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT Mineral Collecting in Utah Downloaded...Drive Salt Lake City, Utah 84106-3313 JAMES R. WILSON Weber State University Ogdeo, Utah 84408-2507 PAULA...PAULA N. WILSON University of Utah Salt Lake City, Utah 84112-1183 sion to visit or collect material;...to collectors. Many specimens were produced when mining districts were active in the late 1800s through...districts mentioned below, most historically active mining districts in the state have been inactive for decades |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | featured proustite, an arsenic ember of the major ruby-silver family (Cook 1996). The species was chosen because...and historical importance as an ore mineral of silver, well-crystallized specimens of pyrargyrite have...recovered from an interesting array of important mining districts; it is currently available from Mexico...several Mexican occurrences. Ideally, pyrargyrite is silver antimony sulfide (Ag3SbS,). Most analyses show...amounts up to several percent. Pynte, acanthite, polybasite, and silver pseudomorphs after pyrargyrite are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | March/April: Cacoxenite, Dravo quarry, Shelby ‘County, Alabama. Dan Behnke photo. MayIJune: Stibnite...gold-and-quartz specimen, Paymaster mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Royal Ontario Museum photo. September/October:...beryl, Violet claims, Wah Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah. Private collection, Jeffrey Scovil photo. ...329; New Mexico, 109; Utah, 377, 409; West Virginia, 165 Barium-pharmacosiderite, Utah, 41 1 Benton, R.,...180-82 Beryl, Virginia, 237 Beudantite, Utah, 411 Bindheimite, Utah, 41 1 Bismuthinite, New Mexico, 109 Bismutite |  | | Journal (issue) | | George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Associate Photographers.............191 by W. E. Wilson The Port Radium district, Northwest Territories, Canada ..............................201 by R. Tyson Mineralogy of the Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec ...................typically abraded specimens you’ve found in the old mine dumps. And you’ve probably looked long and hard...Everyone has heard repeated warnings about entering old mine workings. But, face it, those deep, open shafts |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 5 No. 6 Downloaded by [University of Western Ontario] at 00:34 02 February 2015 Cover Photographs January/February:...September/October: Silver crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado; Dave...Symposium: Contributed Papers in Specimen Mineralogy Acanthite, Nevada, 514 Actinolite, Quebec, 498 Adamite,...Amethyst, British Columbia, 39; Nova Scotia, 39; Ontario, 38; Turkey, 127–28 Anatase, Quebec, 499 Anglesite...413; Nevada, 515 Annabergite, Kilometer 3 Mine, Laurium District, Greece, R. B. Cook, 154–59 Apatite, nomenclature |  | | Book | | high to low temperatures (it includes ore and the Alpine-type veins, cavities in volcanic rocks, minerals...minerals (the origin of native copper and native silver under the reduction conditions in the cementation...is associated with cuprite, malachite, azurite, silver, chalkocite, bornitc and other minerals. The largest...primary copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50...(5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to |  | | Book | | CA 94804-1659 Earth Treasures trom the Royal Ontario Museum ie es ¥ ¥ A> i ; \ Pig era , . ... Gems«Minerals Earth Treasures from the Royal Ontario Museum Gems & Minerals reveals the beauty and splendor...and minerals from the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Minerals and gems form naturally... -Gems« Minerals Earth Treasures from the Royal Ontario Museum Dr. Bicriberly Tait 20 v|Meu? FIREFLY...Photographs copyright © 2011 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. All rights reserved. No |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals of the Centennial Eureka Mine, Tintic District, Eureka, Utah Downloaded by [North Carolina State...September 2012 JOE MARTY 3457 E. Silver Oak Road Salt Lake City, Utah 84108 MARTIN C. JENSEN Mackay School...Geological Survey of Canada 601 Booth Street Ottawa, Ontario K1A OE8, Canada AH mineral photographs by Joe Marty...his collection THE TINTIC DISTRICT in Utah has been mined for gold, silver, copper, lead, and zinc since...since 1869. The district can be divided into two subdistricts: (1) The Main Tintic subdistrict, centered |  | | Book | | minerals. From precious native elements such as silver, gold and copper to complex silicates such as vesuvianite...the geysers at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Silica-rich minerals are deposited by the hot water...1500s, the German Inspired by Button's ideas, more mining engineer Georgius Agricola and more geologists...forms. of mid-ocean ridge. But some, like the Alpine Fault in New Zealand, link ocean trenches. The...clay. As a river washes into the sea, or into a lake, the heaviest quartz grains are dropped nearest |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | late discovery of the phenomenal Cripple Creek district, essentially subsequent to the development of...Colorado minerals. Calaverite is a yellowish to silver-white, metallic mineral that is most often seen...(AuTe2), but most analyses show minor amounts of silver, up to several percent and likely the result of...Analyses of calaverite from the Kirkland Lake district, Ontario, Canada, show up to several tenths of a...1995). Calaverite is known from the Star mine in Montgomery County, North Carolina, where it occurs rarely |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino Royal Ontario Museum Toronto...Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew...tours for collectors are permitted by the friendly mine management, and visitors have even been allowed...Valley. It serves as the center of a very active mining area; a narrow-gauge railway for hauling ore passes...(The name simply means “most distant or remote mining tow n”) HISTORY The area around Dal’negorsk was |  | | Journal (issue) | | APATITE HISTORIC DIAMONDS Replicas on Display SILVER MINERALS Rare Collectibles HEAVY METALS It Took...COVER Volume 44, Number 04 April 2014 FEATURES Lake Superior agates are a large part of the displays...Agate and Geological Interpretive Center in Moose Lake. This beautifully banded specimen from a Minnesota...Minnesota Minerals and Agates............ 12 A Moose Lake museum highlights rare rocks by Bill Vossler Birthstones...II: April, May and June by Kenneth H. Rohn Rare Silver Minerals.................................... 20 |
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