 | | Journal (issue) | | Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York City. Emeralds.................................... 2 Himalaya pegmatite,...................................................................................... 2 Unnamed pegmatite occurrence, Volcan Mountains ....................................... 3 Brown Derby no. 1 pegmatite ........................................................................... 3 Connecticut .......................................................... |  | | Report (issue) | | Alexander Falster, pegmatite specialists from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown...pegmatites. Most ore beryl occurs in massive pegmatite zones where crystals may reach considerable size...can be found adjacent to the core margin of the pegmatite and in Suggested Chromophores for Beryl Color-generating...crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms...lengths of 3 meters, as have those at Tin Mountain, South Dakota. 4m: Beryl crystals have reached 4 meters |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Canada by Ann P. Sabina). Quebec Francon Quarry The Francon quarry in Montreal is famous for the abundance...dis covered what appears to be a first for the quarry—cube faces on analcime. This mineral almost always..."dresserite" examined. It was identified in the quarry by an "expert." On the specimens were gray botryoids...also available as tiny, loose crystals. Jeffrey Quarry, Asbestos The following note comes from D r . Steve...lizardite, magnetite, manganite, molybdenite, muscovite, pectolite, phlogopite, prehnite, pyrite, pyroaurite |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume...CONTENTS Page Feature Articles: The Coolgardie pegmatite field, Western Australia Mark I. Jacobson ......associated with ironstones in the Olary region, South Australia P.M. Ashley, B.G. Lottermoser, K.M. Scott...Nickel CS/RO Western Australia Dr Allan Pring South Australian M11se11111 Saddlebackite, Pb2Bi2Te 2...Australia. Employed as a geologist in the colony of South A ustra I ia, his enthusiastic and optimistic pronounce |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | FROM T H E THIRTEENTH L A K E QUADRANGLE, WARREN COUNTY, NEW Y O R K . V. H. Collins and J. S. Collins...Schaller, W. T . 1932. Serendibite from War ren County, New York and its paragenesis. Amer. Min. 17:457-465...R I T E IN T H E LOCKPORT FORMATION I N MADISON COUNTY, NEW Y O R K . W. P. Dossert and S. C. Chamberlain...2-km band of Lockport Dolostone exposed along the south shore of Oneida Lake. The mineralized area is north...composite alkalic intrusive ex posed in Marathon County, Wisconsin. The complex con sists of four intrusive |  | | Book (volume) | | publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...gem-producing areas in the United States, admittedly. Connecticut has produced a few tourmalines, aquamarines,...However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite district in North |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts N orth America has produced...anywhere is the “Roebling apatite” from the Pulsifer quarry in Auburn, Maine. Formerly in the collection of...The gemmy, intense purple apatites from this pegmatite mine have made Pulsifer the premier locality for...Acushnet quarry (also currently known as the J. Keating Company stone quarry), Bristol County, Massachusetts...Massachusetts. Rather than a granite pegmatite, the geological environment in which this specimen formed was |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | variety aquamarine with spessartine on albite and muscovite, 11.5 × 11.0 × 7.0 cm, Haramosh Mountains, Pakistan;...Etched beryl variety aquamarine, with spessartine, muscovite, and feldspar, 9.9 × 5.5 × 5.1 cm, Dassu, Shigar...attributes of a layered pegmatite dike from near Palomar Mountain, San Diego County, California. Note that...in composition, and for convenience, the term pegmatite will refer to those of granitic composition in...generally highest in white micas (e.g., mostly muscovite in composition), which contain up to 10 ppm Be |  | Kampf, A. R., Adams, P. M., Kolitsch, U., Steele, I. M. (2009) Meurigite-Na, a new species, and the relationship between phosphofibrite and meurigite. American Mineralogist, 94 (5) 720-727 doi:10.2138/am.2009.3134 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Blvd., Los Angeles, California...occurs at Tom’s quarry and Moculta quarry in South Australia, Australia, Lake Boga quarry and probably Rixon’s...Rixon’s Sandstone quarry in Victoria, Australia, and at an unnamed pegmatite prospect near Linopolis...description of meurigite from the Santa Rita mine, Grant County, New Mexico, Birch et al. (1996) were unable to...deposited in the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County under catalog numbers 57659 and 57660. descRiption |  | | Journal (issue) | | e r a lo j g ic a l Volume Eight/Number Two PEGMATITE ISSUE #1 p u b lis h e r ls * h n Q n i. • ;...New York Famous Mineral Localities —The Pulsifer Quarry....................... 72 by Wende|| E Wi|son ...Lasmanis The Clear Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas.....................by Anthony Robert Kampf The Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico......................... 115 by Richard...apatite H (actually fluorapatite), from the Pulsifer quarry near Auburn, Maine; H 3 x 3.8 x 4.3 cm, on display |  | | Book | | ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Copyright © 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/02 $22.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...beryllium and the crustal Be cycle from migmatite to pegmatite JOSEPH M. EVENSEN*† and DAVID LONDON School of...Boyd Street, 810 Energy Center, Norman, OK 73019, USA (Received July 18, 2001; accepted in revised form...compatible in plagioclase of An31 (1.84 at 700°C) and muscovite (1.35 at 700°C) but incompatible in biotite (0...case of plagioclase of An31 (0.89 at 700°C), muscovite (0.87 at 700°C), biotite (0.18 – 0.08 from 675– |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Bishop copper prospect near Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...(Otherwise By Chance or By Appointment) Three miles south of Bancroft, Ontario, on the West side of Hwy. 62...E-mail: vwlueth@nmt.edu Treasurer Jim Hurlbut, 2240 South Adams St., Denver, CO 80210 303-757-0283 or 303-279-7796 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mines and Minerals of the California Pegmatite Province Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University]...of the past century, the Southern California pegmatite province has been the source of some of the world’s...(bottom left page). Map of the Southern California pegmatite province, including location of major specimen-producing...cm tall, Fano mine, Cahuilla Mountain, Riverside County. Bryant Harris specimen. Figure 4 (top right)....Lithia Dike claim, Cahuilla Mountain, Riverside County. Al and Betty Ordway specimen, Jeff Scovil photo |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...5 cm (Grice and Gault, 1981). CONNECTICUT Litchfield, Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 100 East Boyd Street, SEC 710 Norman, OK 73019, USA IP T *email: jlmaner87@ou.edu CR ABSTRACT Tourmaline...hambergite, danburite, and axinite from three pegmatite dikes (named Main, US Swamp, and Spessartine)...pocket mineralogy includes foitite, spessartine, muscovite, axinite, danburite, and rare beryl. The thicker...patterns of δ11BTur from margin-to-core of each pegmatite attest to a negligible fractionation of boron...only the bulk isotopic US composition of the pegmatite-forming melts. KEYWORDS AC CE PT ED M AN |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ACCESSORY MINERALOGY OF AN EVOLVED DICKINSON COUNTY, MICHIGAN, PEGMATITE. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster 2, W...approximately ninety known pegmatite occurrences in central Dickinson County in the Upper Peninsula of...of Michigan. A small beryl-rich pegmatite was investigated to describe its mineralogy and determine its...its degree of geochemical evolution. The pegmatite is emplaced in Lower Proterozoic metamorphic rocks of...probable that the pegmatite is late- to post-Penokean in age. Local control for pegmatite emplacement appears |  | London, D., Morgan, G. B., Paul, K. A., Guttery, B. M. (2012) Internal Evolution of Miarolitic Granitic Pegmatites at the Little Three Mine, Ramona, California, USA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 50 (4) 1025-1054 doi:10.3749/canmin.50.4.1025 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITES AT THE LITTLE THREE MINE, RAMONA, CALIFORNIA, USA David LONDON§, George B. MORGAN VI, Kerry A. PAUL...Boyd Street, Room 710 SEC, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA Abstract Miarolitic granitic pegmatites at the Little...Three mine property near Ramona, San Diego County, California, USA, possess a bulk composition that closely...the temperatures recorded by feldspars in the pegmatite that surrounds the miarolitic pockets, then the...compositions. Keywords: miarolitic, granitic pegmatite, modal analysis, bulk composition, alkali feldspars |  | | Report (issue) | | STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA Nils Boe, Governor MINERALOGY OF THE BLACK HILLS by WILLARD LINCOLN ROBERTS...Research Associate in Mineralogy Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and GEORGE...Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology With the...of Mineralogy South Dakota School of Mines and Technology BULLETIN NUMBER 18 of the South Dakota School...School of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota PUBLICATIONS STAFF F. L. Partlo J. T. Thomas |  | | Book | | Roland Bouhelier in 1973 from the "Bouhelier pegmatite", and shortly thereafter acquired by the Canadian...Saint-Hilaire pluton 36 Geology of the Poudrette quarry Miarolitic cavities in nepheline syenite Sodalite...Organic compounds 491 Partially studied and unnamed MSH minerals 494 Gemstones 514 Pseudomorphs...progressed well through repeated visits to the operating quarry and collaborations with visiting professionals...chiseling away at the quarry walls. Intrigued, they later ventured into the quarry and discovered what |  | | Report (issue) | | Mountain, Avery Co. and 0 -G-Q gneiss fron the south slope of Long LOTO! Mountain, Arery Co. . 2? 10...-south end of the Too Hiver Bridge south of Xngalls, Avery Co. ...........from between Q-Epi-H schist and H-A gneiss from a quarry along Crabtree Creek, Mitchell Co. ..............37 16. Photomicrographs of epidotite from the quarry along Crabtree Creek, Mitchell Co. and H-A -Z-Q...................... 42 ?. Muscovite in the vail zone of the pegmatite in tha Meadow mine, Avery Co |  | | Journal (issue) | | $324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription...Ceylon, Australia (including Tasmania), China, South Africa, Namibia, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and...Tourmaline with Cleavelandite N Chwaning I Mine, South Africa Stak Nala, Pakistan 4.4 x 3.6 x 2.9cm 10...with tourmaline, have sustained the Golconda pegmatite field’s reputation as among the most important...districts in all of Brazil. INTRODUCTION The Golconda Pegmatite Field is a familiar name to mineral collectors |  | | Journal (issue) | | Nuristan, Afghanistan; Neptunite from San Benito County, California; Spinel from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald...world. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County was particularly interesting among the museums...minerals at the Tourmaline Queen mine in Sz Diego County, California. By 1978 he had accumulated a hu£ Tourmaline...Stan Tourmaline) into a general San Diego County pegmatite collectic of nearly 200 superb specimens....garnets stood side-by-side with rare and exotic pegmatite specie It was widely acclaimed as the finest such |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...commuted between work and the fam ily’s home in Connecticut for some time, but eventually the job became...(Otherwise By Chance or By Appointment) Three miles south of Bancroft, Ontario, on the W est side of Hwy....among the oldest and most fam ous orebodies in South America, has yielded billions o f dollars in silver...and Conquest o f the Provinces o f Peru, in the South Sea, A nd o f the notable things which there are |  | | Journal (issue) | | $384/three years, (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...couple of famous localities: Spruce Ridge in King County, Washington (for quartz and pyrite) and the Rock...Manganite N'Chwaning Mine, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. 8.7 cm In 1978 a historic discovery of Rhodochrosite...N'Chwaning 1 mine in the Kalahari manganese fields of South Africa. A series of vugs produced a bonanza of specimens...cm Eagle’s Nest Mine Sage Hill, Placer County California, USA Ex M. 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