 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SHERWOOD 106A East 25th, P. 0. Box 436 Oak Grove, Missouri 64075-0436 Downloaded by [Brown University Library]...Louis, Missouri 63129-2704 Figure 1. Counties in Missouri. N o comprehensive list of Missouri mineral...found in Missouri; two of these, fletcherite and starkeyite, were first described from Missouri mines....location a~ included at the end of each entry. Adair County Chariton River (40-04-05N 92-4 I -23W). septarian...concretions about 2 miles north of the Macon county line. CALCITE crystals enclosing bundles of acicular and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | small hand in forming a mineral club in Nassau County, New York now called the Nassau Mineralogists....specimens for the members of the club. At the Buckwheat Mine Dumps close to the river I broke up a boulder which...specimens. Then we headed over to the Gooseberry Mine Dumps at Franklin. There I found a large, well formed...brown tourmaline. Then we headed for the Buckwheat Mine. Dumps at Franklin where I finally found a decent...spinel—a nice green well formed octohedron in calcite. Also found the usual andradite xls. Then we went |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Siderite Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province...include azurite, pyromorphite, fluorite, quartz, and calcite. Then there are the minerals that collectors have...carbonate, or Fe2+CO3, and is a member of the calcite _ group, crystallizing within the trigonal system...History. Figure 1. Gemmy siderite from Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla district, Sud Chichas Province...include hematite, magnetite, quartz, cacoxenite, calcite, barite, and various chlorite minerals, but these |  | | 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...matrix. Crystal displays well. £35 6. APATITE & CALCITE. (6cm x 5cm x 2cm) Slyukyanka, Russia. 30 x 10mm...exposed, in orange brown calcite £15 7. MALACHITE (5cm x 3cm x 3cm) Musonoie Mine, Zaire. Crystalline mass |  | | Report (issue) | | England, by W. Buckland (1829). These bodies were described as fossil fir cones before Buckland recognized...petrified cones of fir.” Agassiz, L. (1838) in Buckland (1841), p. 150, 155, and 156. (1) Location: Lyme...Petrology, v. 28, p. Location: Salmon Creek, Lewis County, Washington, U.S.A. Age: Tertiary. (4) Shape and...Rare-earth-bearing francolite 87.0 percent, magnesian calcite 4.7 percent, and opaline silica 1.7 percent. Bradley...this error has persisted in later literature.” Buckland, W. (1823) Reliquiae Diluvianae: London, 303 p |  | | Report (issue) | | sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration and...and coal. fragments of fine-grained anhydrite. Calcite and sulfur were probably formed from anhydrite...California Auschwitz mine, Lake County - 2, 4 Coso Range deposits, Inyo County - 14 Coyote Mountain deposits...Imperial County - 13 Crater (Last Chance Range) mine, Inyo County - 9, 11, 15, 16, 17 Elgin mine, Colusa...Colusa County - 6, 12 Full Moon deposit, Imperial County - 13 The Geysers, Sonoma County - 1, 18 Leviathan |  | | Journal (issue) | | Blair Counties. V. Clinton, Iron Shales - Juniata County, IV. Medina, Sandstones–Central Pa. Counties....they resemble the bulls noticed in the Whitesides County, Ill., fulgurite, described and figured by Mr....three ladies in England are mentioned by Dr. Buckland as containing “ petrified ink bags of belemnites...the ink was said to be of superior quality. Dr. Buckland had drawings of these extinct cephalopods made...pyrite, limonite, malachite, chalcocite, apatite, calcite, aragonite, chalcedony, agate, jasper, and others |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Diamond Mines, at (or near) Murfreesboro, Pike County, Arkansas. At the mines, I was kindly given permission...nearly three page article on the Arkansas Diamond Mine, with three pictures, and is quite true to facts...fluorite, are common in the Delhi-Babb fluorite mine near Salem, Livingston Co., -Ky. LOUISIANA — Something...Sulphur Co. when it begins to operate its new sulphur mine at Bay Ste Elaine, La. The sulphur deposit is located...under the waters of Gulf of Mexico and in order to mine it, the operations will be conducted from a huge |  | | Catalog/List | | MARCH/APRIL 2007 " 1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Cellular ironstained matrix...55x40x20mm max. £8. 3) ANATASE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon. A small piece of quartz...to 20mm. 50x30x30mm. £35. 8) BARITE. Silverband Mine, Dufton, Westmorland. A nice clean group of six...matrix. 160x80x25mm. £15. 10) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A clean bright specimen showing...40x40x35mm. £1500. 11) CASSITERITE and TOPAZ. Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Germany. Four jet |  | | Catalog/List | | MARCH/APRIL 2007 " 1) AGARDITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St Hilary, Cornwall. Cellular ironstained matrix...55x40x20mm max. £8. 3) ANATASE. Virtuous Lady Mine, Buckland Monachorum, Devon. A small piece of quartz...to 20mm. 50x30x30mm. £35. 8) BARITE. Silverband Mine, Dufton, Westmorland. A nice clean group of six...matrix. 160x80x25mm. £15. 10) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. A clean bright specimen showing...40x40x35mm. £1500. 11) CASSITERITE and TOPAZ. Sauberg Mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Erzgebirge, Germany. Four jet |  | | Report (issue) | | here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California, the star of the show...Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California. Ex Bryant Harris collection...Axinite, 5 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California. Ex Bryant Harris collection...district, San Diego County, especially from the Stewart mine. And from the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande district... San Diego County, Dave offers (besides plenty of elbaites) such rarities from that mine as cassiterite |  | | Report (chapter) | | Lacustrine sequences in the Culpeper Basin, Virginia, USA were deposited in a half-graben dominated by fluvial...are also present in the underlying Bull Run and Buckland Formations, which together comprise 74% of the...palaeoenvironmental setting of the Bull Run and Buckland Formations to that of the Waterfall Formation...Culpeper Basin, located in Virginia and Maryland, USA is an elongate half-graben containing approximately...upper part of the Bull Run Formation, and the Buckland and Waterfall Formations are Early Jurassic in |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Hensbarrow china clay pit and South Crofty tin mine in Cornwall, and still has a photo showing him operating...with a first placement at the Mount Lyell copper mine in Tasmania, where he gained an introduction to...Loughrea, County Galway. He spent a year prospecting for lead and zinc, around the Tynagh mine and in County...County Clare, before returning to Britain in 1975 to take a PGCE at Keele University. He then initiated...tutor at the Ecton Hills Field Studies Association mine and has joined their committee. MERCIAN GEOLOGIST |  | | 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...organic origin; the most prominent example is CaC03, calcite. The triangular C03 group gives threefold symmetry...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | quest for gold? Rock & Gem LEFT: There was a gold-mine shaft right in downtown Cripple Creek in 1905. FAR...operate two cars moving in opposite directions. At a mine high on a slope, an ore any gold around Pikes Peak...Stratton The Cresson mine was opened in made his fortune in the Independence mine at the early 1890s,...changed in 1914 when, at the 370-meter depth, the mine manager Dick Roelof broke into what can only be...Roelof notified the mine owners and took two of them to the 12th level in the mine. He walked them around |  | | Catalog/List | | There was no May/June 2010 List I) A PAT I T E in CALCITE. Liscombe, Haiburton Co., Ontario, Canada. Large...80x50mm, attached to a matrix of yellowish/pink calcite at about 120 degree angle. 140x100x60mm max. £85...60x30x30mm approx. £48. 4) ARSENOPYRITE. Old Anderton Mine, Tavistock, Devon. A solid mass of slightly iron...arsenopyrite. 80x50x40mm. £15. 5) ARSENOPYRITE. South Mine, Devon United Mines, Mary Tavy, Devon. Good very...2 0 m m . £8. 6) BARYTOCALCITE. Nentsbury Haggs Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria. A nice small radiating mass |  | | Report (issue) | | minerals-Continued Barite ____________________________ _ Calcite _________ - ____ -_-----------Gypsum __________________________...-------r--Barite _____________________ -------Calcite ________________ -_- __ ------Gypsum and iron oxides...the NW_%'SE_%' sec. 13, T. 5 S., R. 7 E., Custer County, S. Dak___________________________ 4. A rock specimen...nodules at a sringle locality near Fairburn, Custer County, S.Dak., and record a part of Turonian time (Late...locally mixed in the veins with calcite. A few snl'all patches of calcite, partly replaced by barite, seem |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | use of " cornstone " in a scientific sense, but Buckland (1821, p. 512) was the first to define it clearly...marlstone, in which they are imbedded." The rock Buckland referred to cropped out in the Lickey Hills near...CORNSTONES These, the original cornstones of Buckland (1821), are abundant in the Old Red Sandstone...multicrystalline aggregates. Dusty to microcrystalline calcite forms the groundmass. Crystals of dolomite are...2-91 per cent of calcite and from 1-7 per cent of dolomite. Sharp veins of calcite, often zoned by drusy |  | | Catalog/List | | specimens, including some recently discovered Calcite Twins from China - very fine - & Quality English...COLO (9cm x 6cm x 2cm) Eaglu N11t Afln,, Plac�r County, California US.•I A superb 1op dau cibu1ct dlspt::...13. EMBl)LJTE (7an :i: Mine, .�W. Aamral:a J 'Ibis is 1 ,cry old IJ>e...111ro silw:r chi oride-brom idc. £ 110 I I 14. CALCITE. bulltr11y h\1n (4.5cm x 3.5cm x 2.5an) Xiang Fang...matrix free specimen w11h beoutiful form !16$ IS. CALCITE lWIN ON MATRL"( (Arro,,bead T"ln) (6cm x cm x lcru) |  | | Catalog/List | | 70x50x40mm. £18. 5) BINDHEIMITE and JAMESONITE. Bodannon Mine, Endellion, Cornwall. A good flat mass of jamesonite...brown mica without matrix. 170x90x30mm. £15. 7) CALCITE. Croft Quarry, Enderby, Leicestershire. (a) A n...E Smith collection. 1977. 40x35x80mm. £45. 8) CALCITE. Dean Quarry, St Kevearne, Cornwall. Three colourless...matrix. The largest 20x15x10mm. 65x40x35mm. £12. 9) CALCITE on DOLOMITE. Black Rock Quarry, Buckfastleigh,...reddish matrix. 60x20x30mm. £35. 10) CALCITE. Coronation Lode, Geevor Mine, St Just, Cornwall. Shallow cavity |  | | Catalog/List | | beforehand. MAY/JUNE 2005 1. ALLOPHANE.* Hawks Wood Mine, North Hill, Cornwall. A nice rippled crust of pale...CHALCOPYRITE.* Skinners Engine Shaft Dump, Clitters Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. A matrix composed mainly of...Collection No 803. 60x55x35mm. £30. 7. BARITE. Sharkham Mine, Brixham, Devon. Nice intergrown group of light...bismuthinite as needly xls to 10mm. 50x40x30mm. £175. 12. CALCITE.* Wheal Wrey, St Ive, Cornwall. Thin matrix with...thin needly calcite xls to 20mm. On these are planted two "V" shaped off-white twin calcite xis of 35mm |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Catalog/List | | SPRING 1989 ft. We((enj\linera(s Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent "Endsleigh", 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall...5x2-Jx1-J", £8.50. ALLOPHANE/LINARITE. Maid of Sunshine Mine,Cochise Co..Arizona.U.S.A. Highly attractive and... 1-£xl£x1", £8.00. 5- ALSTONITE. Fallowfields Mine,Nr.Hexham,Northumbria. A 2x£" channel developed...metall:.ic xtls,plus a little clear scalenahedral Calcite in association. Pretty, smaller specimen. 1-Jx-JxJ-"...2£x1Jx5/8". £5-00. 28. AZURITE/MALACHITE. Tsumcorp> Mine,Otavi.Namibia. Choice,lustrous-surfaced composite |  | | Catalog/List | | I) APATITE (var FRANCOLITE). Simms Lode, Gecvor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An approx 60x60mm area on bro\\11...£20. 4) ARSENOPYRITE and FERBERITE. Yaobangxian Mine, Chenzhou, Hunan, China. Three composite lustrous...AZURITE. Nevada Lode, La Sal, San Juan Co., Utah, USA. A flattened ball like mass of sharp lustrous dark...15nun. £175. • 9) CASSITERlTE nnd FLUORITE. Geevor Mine, Pendee n , Cornwall. A good part vein section showin...70x50x30mm. £! 8. 13) CHALCOCITE. Cooks Kjtchcn Mine, Canibome, Cornwall. A thin quartz/c halcocitc m |  | | Catalog/List | | label40x30x25mn. U6. 4. 5. ~u,_,. Panasqueira Mine, Beira-Beixa, Portugalxl without matrix. 65x45x20mm...60x40x3Cmn. f.12. .u.._ xls æ ~- CALCIT! ~'"'€vor Mine,. St Just, Cornwall. Three transluænt tel'ldnated...site pinldsh-white spherical aggregates of Xls of calcite to 4rrrnscattered down tbree of t.h2 six si das...das. U. 80x30x28nm. t2L1. CAI.CITE. Geevor Mine, St Just, xls to lOmn intergrown 50x45x3Cmn. t12....shape with a little chlorite. CALCITE.Cambokeels Mine, Co Durharn, Wcardale. 13. about ,half covered |
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