 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 31 December 2014 NEVADA MINERAL STEVEN PULLMAN 1755 Circle Drive NW Reno, Nevada 89509 RICHARD THOMSSEN...THOMSSEN P.O. Box 1656 Carson City, Nevada 89702 Map showing Nevada counties, by William W.Besse. N evada...minerals new to the state being identified every year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published...well-known and collected localities, such as Majuba Hill. Many other localities with extensive and unusual...Clark County. Walt Lombard0 specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Churchill County Chalk Mountain District Chalk |  | | Catalog/List | | S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...on feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless to...crystals on \/ad. 104 ADAMITE, Quartz Mountain, Nevada. Pale blue to colorless nearly equant crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 The Majuba Hill Mine, Pershing County, Nevada A Source of Superb Secondary Copper...(phroth@sunrise.ch) Introduction Since the 1950’s, the Majuba Hill Mine has been recognized by the mineral collecting...minerals from the Majuba Hill Mine. Spherical aggregates of arthurite crystals from Majuba Hill. FOV 3.8 mm...Evanich photo. History The Majuba Hill Mine, located in Pershing County, Nevada, was first located in 1907...1907 by A.J. McCauley of Imlay, Nevada. No work of importance was undertaken until 1914, when the property |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist |  | | Report (issue) | | α = 92.93(1)◦ X-ray Powder Pattern: Potts Gill mine, England. 4.72 (10), 2.562 (10), 2.489 (10), 2.688...olivenite, liroconite, chenevixite, clinoclase, pseudomalachite, bayldonite, parnauite, tyrolite, azurite,...United mines, Tavistock, Devon; from the Potts Gill mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. At Southwick Cliffs, near...Scotland. In Germany, at Neubulach and the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, Black Forest; and from Reichenbach...Reichenbach, near Bensheim, Hesse. From the Cap Garonne mine, near le Pradet, Var, and the Roua copper mines |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tweed Mine, Tintic District, Juab County, Utah and Tin Stope, Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada, USA...analyses depend on the crystal studied, though the Majuba mixite gave analyses which matched the formula... from the Mineral Research Company (California, USA) and from the author's (RLF) personal collection...Tweed Mine, Tintic District, Juab County, Utah and from Tin Stope, Majuba Hill, Pershing County, Nevada...Nevada, USA. 6 SEM and X-ray microanalysis Mixite samples were coated with a thin layer of evaporated | | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |  | | Journal (issue) | | Update on the mineralogy of the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada ................................ U p d a t e o n t h e M in e r a l o g y OF THE MAJUBA HlLL M lN E, P e r s h in g C o u n t y Martin...of Nevada, Reno Reno, Nevada 89557-0047 Interest and collecting activity at the Majuba Hill mine have...(Jensen, 1985). Information on new discoveries at the mine, as well as on certain aspects that were left vague...to the mine is tenuously unrestricted. INTRODUCTION Several companies have held the Majuba Hill property |  | | Catalog/List | | co.uk 1. CAROLLITE (4cm x 3cm x 3cm) Mashamba Mine, Zaire, Africa. Two modified bright octahedral crystals...matrix. £60 2. DIOPTASE (6cm x 5cm x 4cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Bright green 2mm dioptase crystals...TOURMALINE ON COOKEITE (6cm x 5cm x 3cm) Golconda Mine, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Chalky...calcite £15 7. MALACHITE (5cm x 3cm x 3cm) Musonoie Mine, Zaire. Crystalline mass of fibrous dark to pale...5cm. £55 11. AZURITE (3.5cm x 1.5cm x 1cm) Tsumeb Mine, Namibia, Africa. Dark inky blue azurite crystal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | has been an important industry in the economy of Nevada, the Silver State, since territorial times (1861)...area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state, 60 of which produce nonmetallic...ores (Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock and other silver...precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage mines. I n 1997 Nevada ranked first...percent, respectively, of total U.S. production. Nevada also produced 148 million pounds of copper, 4 percent |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when...originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times...fine brochantite from the abovementioned Blanchard mine has been selected for this issue. Brochantite, a...sparingly at the old Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and as coatings of tiny crystals...crystals at the Chimney Rock quarry, Somerset County, New Jersey. Dark emerald-green, acicular brochantite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurrence of azurite, chrysocolla, malachite and pseudomalachite, while tyrolite was first mentioned by Zepharovich...situated on the southern slopes of the Farbište Hill (675 m a.s.l.), c. 4 km NE of Poniky village (Fig...649 640 0 62 0 63 648 adit dump outcrop 0 hill 100 m forest road Fig. 2 Schematic topographic...topographic map of the Farbište occurrence showing the mining objects and outcrop location. 274 2.2. Copper...Farbiště occurence Early exploration and small-scale mining at the locality took place in the 19th century |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | existence of an isostructural series with pseudomalachite. Euchroite is orthorhombic, P2t2t2t. The unit...Leucochalcite from Wilhelmine mine Spessart Germany (type locality) and from Majuba Hill, Nevada give the same tr-ray...botryoidal crusts. The results of this study of pseudomalachite, cornetite and clinoclasite have already appeared...University Museum (YM); Hatfield Goudey, Yerrington, Nevada; and Dr. C. Milton, United States GeologicalSurvey...(1920) as well crystalIized material from the Higgins mine, Bisbee, Arizona. Strunz (1939) gives unit cell |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | apfu of As and 0.59 apfu of P) and As-rich pseudomalachite (with 1.37 apfu of P and 0.63 apfu of As).... Key words: olivenite, cornwallite-pseudomalachite series, supergene minerals, X-ray powder data, chemical...olivenite and minerals of the cornwallite-pseudomalachite series were discovered in this sample and the...Ľubietová village on the steep southern slopes of Vysoká hill (995.6 m a.s.l.), around 17 km east of Banská Bystrica...dumps are situated in Zelená valley, with Rainer mining field located about 400 meters northwest, in a |  | | Journal (issue) | | 30/4-1/5 1/5 1/5 7/5 7-8/5 7-8/5 7-8/5 7-8/5 78 USA DENVER (Colorado). Holiday Inn + Best Western, Denver...Hillhurst Arena. Beurs. USA COSTA MESA. A INNSBRUCK. Stadtsäle...report 1/3/10 Rare minerals at the Sweet Home mine, Park County, CO 8 Platinum and related minerals at Kodnyor...Sailauf im spessart (Teil 2) 39 Due Stiepelmann'sche Mine in Namibia (vervalsingen !) 40-57 Das Tujetsch (CH)... Cornwalliet-aggregaatjes op bayldoniet. Penberthy Croft Mine, St.Hilary, Cornwall, Groot-Brittannië. Veldbreedte |  | | Book | | ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...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...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | D46007 and originated from The Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada, USA. A sample of arthurite was...Research Co. and originated from Hingston Down, Consols Mine. Calstock, Cornwall, England. Whitmoreite was obtained...package GRAMS (Galactic Industries Corporation, NH, USA). Band component analysis was undertaken using the...electron probe analyses of the arthurite samples from USA and UK are shown in Figures 1 and 2. The analysis...Fig. 1. Electron probe analysis of arthurite from USA. Molecular assembly in secondary minerals Fig |  | | Catalog/List | | limonitic gossan. 2x2". £3. 2. ANDREWSITE. Phoenix Mine, Linkinhorne, Cornwall. Light brownish yellow spherical...in association. 2x1". £2. 3. ANGLESITE. Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Fine small sharp semi-transparent...7. BEUDANTITE. ^. — 11 8. BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. 1" group of large sharp tarnished...cubic crystals. £3- 9. BORNITE. South Caradon Mine, St. Cleer, Cornwall. A rich solid mass of tarnished...specimen. 2i-xli". £2.50. 13. CASSITERITE. Poldice Mine, Gwennap, Cornwall. Sharp black in size on. massive |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | . . Amon, W. F., Jr.. 513 Analcime from Benton County, origin of spheroidal clusters of. (Staples). 574...Franklin, N.J. (Holmes). . 198 Artinite from Luning, Nevada. (Hurlbut). 365 Axelrod,J. M.. . 193 Axinite. (Optical...(Palache, Berry). .203, 243 Clinoclasite from Majuba Hill, 259 N e v a d a(. G i a n e l l a ). . . . ...Composite pegmatites of the Franklin-Sylva mica district, N . C a r o l i n a(.H e i n r i c h ) . . ....pegmatites of 499 western Montana. Cornetite and pseudomalachite. (Berry) 190 CrystallographicSociety. . . |  | | Journal (issue) | | Spence FAMOUS MINERAL LOCALITIES: PENBERTHY CROFT MINE, ST. HILARY, CORNWALL, ENGLAND Jolin Betterto11...mi1tl'r:Jl~of Pl·nb.:rchy C.rnfr. UK JournJI of Mine, & Mim·r.1!, N,~ 20 -1- GUEST EDITORIAL THE FUTURE...for hard-core, as has been happening at Frongoch Mine for years. Collector pressure is perhaps less of...where I am based, than in, for example, the Lake District. although one site. the famous brookite-bearing...generation loses out. The commercial e>..-ploitationof mine sites by mineral dealers is an even thornier topic |  | Majzlan, J., Števko, M., Plášil, J., Sejkora, J., Dachs, E. (2023) Thermodynamics of the Cu, Zn, and Cu-Zn phases: zincolivenite, adamite, olivenite, ludjibaite, strashimirite, and slavkovite. Journal of GEOsciences, 68 (1) 67-80 doi:10.3190/jgeosci.367 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | is metastable with respect to its polymorph pseudomalachite. Slavkovite is probably restricted to local...[Cu5(PO4)2(OH)4] is a less common polymorph of pseudomalachite (Piret and Deliens 1988). There are a few sites...654 and 3.567 bits/atom for ludjibaite and pseudomalachite, respectively). They concluded that structural...polymorph in preference to another. Ludjibaite, pseudomalachite, and reichenbachite are combinatorial polymorphs...Later, slavkovite was found also at the Krupka ore district (Czech Republic) in paragenetic sequence strashimirite |  | Plášil, J., Sejkora, J., Čejka, J., Škoda, R., Goliáš, V. (2009) Supergene mineralization of the Medvědín uranium deposit, Krkonoše Mountains, Czech Republic. Journal of GEOsciences, 54 (1) 15-56 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | parsonsite, phosphuranylite, plumbogummite, pseudomalachite, pyromorphite, saléeite, torbernite/metatorbernite...of 1,000 to 1,200 m, in proximity of the Medvědín hill (1,235 m) (Figs 1–2). The deposit was discovered...local Trutnov branch of the Jáchymovské doly (JD) mining enterprise. After exploitation started at the levels...Prague Czech Republic At present, the dumps after mining are largely removed. The most extensive remains...the Horní Mísečky site, some buildings from the mining stage are preserved and used in part as recreation |  | | Journal (issue) | | spent a good bit of time with Walter Lombardo (Nevada Mineral and Book Co.). He has really nice books...Minerals) had stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had...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...the Geological Survey of Nevada is preparing a very comprehensive book on Nevada minerals, which has a preliminary |  | Sejkora, J., Novotný, P., Novák, M., Šrein, V., Berlepsch, P. (2005) Calciopetersite from Domašov Nad Bystricí, northern Moravia, Czech Republic, a new mineral species of the mixite group. The Canadian Mineralogist, 43 (4) 1393-1400 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.43.4.1393 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | “Ca-dominant analogue of petersite-(Y)” from the mine Altväter samt CALCIOPETERSITE, A NEW SPECIES OF...(1997b) or as “petersite-(Ca)” from Herrensegen mine near Schapbach, Black Forest by Walenta (1992, 2003)...298, 133-154. cornetite, libethenite, and pseudomalachite. Am. Mineral. 88, 37-46. MEREITER, K. & PREISINGER...copper arsenate minerals from the Majuba Hill mine, Pershing County, Nevada. Am. Mineral. 63, 704-708. KOLITSCH |
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