 | | Journal (issue) | | (a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Lower left:...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm,...Andrea Bartorelli: Minerals and Precious Stones of Brazil. Other important references (if any) for individual...cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson collection (I had |  | | Journal (issue) | | localities: The Sapo mine, Ferruginha district, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil . . . . . ...Menezes Famous mineral localities: The Lac d’Amiante mine, Black Lake, Thetford Mines, Québec . . . . ...Localities: The Sapo Mine Ferruginha District, Conselheiro Pena Minas Gerais, Brazil Luiz Menezes Rua...Horizonte Minas Gerais, Brazil 30410-080 Email: lmenezesminerals@uol.com.br The Sapo mine exploits a...discovered in 1985 and has produced large pockets of quartz crystals, several important pockets of tourmaline |  | | Catalog/List | | ‘normal’ habit, often in conjunction with euhedral Quartz crystals. The potential for new discoveries and...sideways as well as up. This form is sometimes seen in Quartz, but very rarely in Tourmaline. The rough exterior...matrix and is accompanied by a partially euhedral Smoky Quartz crystal. The Phenakite, measuring 0.9 inches...first offered for sale. 73007 TOURMALINE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam A classic Vietnamese...online, visit HA.com/6150 73008 ELBAITE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam This unusual |  | | Book | | BARTORELLI ::• . . .. MINERALS & PRECIOUS STONES OF BRAZIL Sponsored by: VALE MINISTER.IO DA CULTURA ©...tourmaline (84 x 26 mm), Lavra do Sapo, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais. Collection of Alvaro Lucio...Brasileira do Livro, SP, Brazil) Cornejo, Carlos .Minerals & precious stones of Brazil. Carlos Cornejo, Andrea...3. Minerals - Brazil 4. Minerals- Classification 5. Mineralogy 6. Mineralogy - Brazil - History 7. Precious...Precious stones - Brazil I. Bartorelli, Andrea. II. Title. 09-10025 Cover photograph: Crystal of brazilianite |  | | Journal (issue) | | row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Spann collection; Tom Spann photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Jordan Root photo. Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province...kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler collection; Holly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | silky luster, and may occur as colorless, gray, smoky brown, green, yellow, or rose-red crystals. Dark...in tin-tungsten deposits (such as the Panasquiera mine) and is a constituent of granite, aplite, gneiss...rosettes of muscovite with quartz, 6.8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz...across, and are associated with beryl, albite, and quartz. Plumose muscovite has been found at the Smith...minerals include beryl, albite, fluorapatite, and quartz. In nearby New Hampshire, the Chandler quarry, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector—Part II Fify-nine treasure hunts in Minas Gerais, 1969–2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 by...crystal cluster on matrix, 6 cm tall, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Sandor Fuss collection (2004)...Vug,” discovered on the 12th level of the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek district, Colorado in 1914 (see “The...Mineralogical Record, volume 37, May–June, 2006 Cresson mine manager Dick Roelofs showing the Cresson Vug to...school; he did his Master’s work at the Rueppele iron mine in Stanton, Missouri. He spent the years 1931–1932 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hawthorne & W. W. Pinch Fifty-nine treasure hunts in Minas Gerais . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....on albite matrix, 6.6 cm, from Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Sandor Fuss/ Stuart Wilensky specimen;...Jeff Scovil photo. For more on the minerals of Minas Gerais see Guido Steger’s memoirs in this issue. The...Toronto Technical College. He learned that the Tsumeb mine in South-West Africa was producing some very beautiful...the miners was nothing new at Tsumeb; they would mine around crystal pockets until lunchtime, then go |  | | Journal (issue) | | FLUORffE Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife...(upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection; Joe Budd...photo. (lower left) Amazonite microcline with smoky quartz, 8.5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim,...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe...Daoping mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China. Ex Steve Smale Kunzite spodumene, 11 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral collector—Part 3: Treasure-hunting in Minas Gerais since 2000. . . . . . . . . . . ....the Morro da Mina manganese mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Probably the world’s finest...2008 issue for his article on the Mockingbird gold mine). Like the rest of us on the staff, he will be striving...cognac-brown, water-clear topaz crystals with milky quartz crystals and large, white feldspar crystals. INTRODUCTION...the local Tehuelche Indian language, meaning “the smoky mountain”; this is not in reference to any volcanism |  | | Book | | until he managed to reach the land of his dreams, Brazil. A specialist in the field of geology and mineralogy...France acquired his remarkable collection of giant quartz crystals, exhibited in the National Museum of Natural...crystals and the remarkable mineral treasures of Brazil, as well as the incredible adventures and difficulties...CRYSTALS GIANT QUARTZ CRYSTALS UNIQUE MINERALS IN WORLD MUSEUMS GEM TREASURES OF BRAZIL Cyan Magenta...Crystals GIANT QUARTZ CRYSTALS UNIQUE MINERALS IN WORLD MUSEUMS GEM TREASURES OF BRAZIL SOFIA–MOSCOW |  | | Catalog/List | | museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on...on Feldspar. And then there is another Rose Quartz, smaller than the “Madona Rosa”, but just as choice...Auction 2 53001 CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority...Caledonite and a dash of azure blue Linarite. The mine is now collapsed and only a memory for the lucky |  | | Journal (issue) | | and Smelting Company of British Columbia, and the Mine and Exploration Division of the Canadian Forestry...“The Mineralogy and Geology of the Silence Lake Mine” was published in Lapis (May 1985), and he was a...Colorado he worked as a miner at the Climax molybdenum mine. Benjy married Elizabeth Ann Spangler, and they...volume 51, September–October, 2020 famous Franklin mine. Russell and Alexandra were married soon after meeting...MardaniFineMinerals.com | w w w. FineMineral.com Colorado Quartz Mine, California, USA 6 cm Rudolph Now accepting |  | | Journal (issue) | | twins from Schlaggenwald in Bohemia, a large smoky quartz crystal from the Tyrolean Zillertal and a large...Schumacher Graphite (35 x 32 cm) of the Alibert Mine, Botogol Mt. in Siberia, rough materiaL two pencils...Haidinger in 1859 1842 in the Tsarevo-Alexandrovskaya mine near Tashkurganka River, Miass, Urals. The original...totally clear topaz crystal, grown on a group ofsmoky quartz and cleavelandite from Alabashka pegmatite field...totally clear topaz crystal is grown on a group of smoky quartz and cleavelandite, with original label. Photo: |  | | Journal (issue) | | SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2019 Articles The Golconda District, Minas Gerais, Brazil ..........................................TOURMALINE, 11.9 cm, from the Golconda I mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil Brice Gobin (Mineral Art) and Emanuele...China, South Africa, Namibia, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico. His first exchange of specimens with...as well, and they started picking over the local mine deposits together. They were married in 1970, and... Zincolivenite with Ferrilotharmeyerite | Tsumeb Mine, Namibia | 7.0 x 7.0 x 6.0 cm CRYSTAL CLASSICS |  | | 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...famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A “classic” Rhodochrosite with associated Pyrite and Quartz from the Sweet...Sweet Home Mine in Colorado An unusually massive and extremely colorful, Smithsonite from the iconic Kelly...Kelly Mine in New Mexico A ‘gem’ quality specimen Tanzanite crystal in matrix from the only locality of |  | | Report (issue) | | crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced crystals up to 2 meters...from some pegmatites. This specimen, from Minas Gerais, Brazil, is housed in the Deutsches Edelstein Museum...crystals are found in soils and stream gravels in Brazil. On the other hand, at high temperatures and pressures...phosphate type pegmatites, beryl is associated with quartz, microcline, albite, muscovite, biotite, ferrocolumbite...Alpine and hydrothermal veins, it is found with quartz and feldspar. In topaz rhyolites where red beryl |  | | Journal (issue) | | cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken |  | | Catalog/List | | directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume...000-$3,000 52006 MIMETITE Var. CAMPYLITE Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland)...12:00 PM CT 11 52007 FLUORITE De’an Fluorite Mine, Wushan, De’an Co., Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi |  | | Journal (issue) | | with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite...discovery at tbe Red Cloud mine, Ed Over moved on in 1939 to investigate tbe Hilltop mine in Cochise County. |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pyromorphite from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho; Wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Arizona; Calcite and Fluorite...Fluorite from the Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway;...Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from the Brumado mine, Brazil; Elbaite from Nuristan...from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald from the Coscuez mine, Colombia. OUTSIDE BACK COVER: Beryl crystals: heliodor...Joerania, Minas Gerais, Brazil; aquamarine (right), 5.1 inches, from the Pioniera mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; |  | | Journal (issue) | | C. Schuh & W. E. Wilson The Minh Tien tourmaline mine, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam.... . . . . . . . . . . . 495 COVER: ELBAITE on Quartz, 12 cm, from the Minh Tien pegmatite, Yenbai Province...(Bunny later coauthored, with Richard W. Holmes, Mine and Mineral o he rea merican Ri .) Curtis had first...the desert about 10 miles from the famous Tiger mine, where he left a suicide note with his abandoned...poses a political problem, as it did for the Trepca mine article in the July–August 2007 issue. The Balkans |  | | Catalog/List | | 49017 KAMMERERITE (CHROMIAN CLINOCHLORE) Kop Krom Mine, Kop Daglari, Erzurum Province, Eastern Anatolia...The sole exception is material from the Kop Krom Mine in Turkey, where the mineral appears as sharp and...specimens. It is also quite unfortunate that this mine is near the end of its productive lifespan. The...000-$9,000 49018 YELLOW & BLUE FLUORITE Minerva No. 1 Mine, Ozark-Mahoning Group, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District...TWINNED FLUORITE WITH SPHALERITE ON GALENA Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Central Tennessee Ba-F-Pb-Zn District |  | | Book | | Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | replaced by cleavelanditic albite + muscovite + quartz, mostly in the range 250–400°C, a process that...intergrowth of perthitic microcline + quartz, or of albite + quartz, for example, attests to the rapid growth...granitic pegmatites, one year before his death: “Quartz is partially replaced by cleavelandite, and K-feldspar...massive crystallization of anhydrous minerals like quartz and the feldspars. The aggressive late orthomagmatic...contents of Ca and Sr in F2 fluid inclusions in quartz being derived from the breakdown of microcline |
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