| | 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...represented by numerous geothermal areas. The range of minerals found in mines, quarries, and prospect...year. Nevada is one of the few western states without a published state mineralogy; thus, mineral collectors...collectors are aware of its mineral specimen wealth from only a few well-known and collected localities, | | | Journal (issue) | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum, MTU Houghton, Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig...327 COVER: BARITE, 17 cm, from the Miekle mine, Nevada. (See the article in the previous issue.) Keith...1937. This mine, though small, provided many new mineral species. Dr. Gaines wrote a compre hensive review...great opportunities to acquire rare and classic mineral specimens which were attractively displayed in | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Betts, 215 W. 98th St., #2F, New York, NY 10025. Mineral collectors are steadily losing their old collecting...promising forgotten locations is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. This...81MINERALS dletown-Portland, Connecticut, pegmatite district. They are found in South Glastonbury, about...includes one of the largest quarries of the entire district, the Howe No. 1. Access is through a trail system...December 2014 result is a new map of the area. Mineral occurrences have been documented with the help | | | Catalog/List | extra) Please quote both the code number and the mineral name when ordering I. GORCEIXITE , Ba Al PO/4...New Jersey USA 2x2 £14 4. GRAPHITE pure grey slightly crystalline mass, Ratnapura district SriLanka small...small 2x3 £8 5. MUSCOVITE nice curved crystal plates, like parts of spheres on pegmatite rock. Interesting...short-wave. Los Gavilanes area, Baja California, USA with copy of John Sinkankas collection label £ 15...orange Fluorescence short-wave (Franklin, New Jersey, USA) 2.5 xl inch £12 ! " 11. FERRIALLANITE Ce rich | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | envision a convecting fluid phase cycling around the pegmatite body, and a reaction path that brings the acidified...acidified fluid back into the heart of the pegmatite. There, it is aggressive toward the microcline perthite...replaced by cleavelanditic albite + muscovite + quartz, mostly in the range 250–400°C, a process that enlarges...cycles of hydrothermal enrichment in a large LCT pegmatite can give rise to zones enriched in micas of the...i.e., super-LCT deposits. Keywords: granitic pegmatite, NYF and LCT affiliations, miarolitic cavities | | | Journal (issue) | NUMBER 1 • JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2000 • $15 Gem and mineral dealers depicted in the Hortus Sanitatis (1491)...Katlang, Mardan District, Pakistan; Freilich Collection. OPENING SPREAD: Some exceptional mineral specimens...Nuristan, Afghanistan; Neptunite from San Benito County, California; Spinel from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald...Sams Barlow Foreword B em ent Swoboda The mineral collecting “elite” in America have been an impor...increasing number of them harbor a love of fine mineral specimens. In fact, there are more “elite” collectors | | | 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 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | described (Cook 2009). Garnet forms under a wide range of geologic conditions and bulk compositions, resulting...Gem and Mineral Show, spessartine has been chosen as this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice mineral. To this...variability, occurs in a wide array of colors that range from almost black through various shades of brown...fracture. The calculated density for the pure mineral is 4.179. Spessartine is cubic (4/m32/m) and is...is from Leiper’s quarry at Springfield, Delaware County, Pennsylvania (Peters 1984). When the spessartine | | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | category of corundum-bearing anatectic felsic pegmatite formed in mantle peridotite earlier subjected...overprint by a mixed H2O + CO2 fluid. The bulk of the pegmatite bodies encountered are not obviously of anatectic...an LCT pegmatite also being affected by an LCT-type overprint, to form a “super-LCT pegmatite” is explored...economic potential of pegmatite occurrences. Keywords: granitic pegmatite, felsic pegmatite, classification...+ CO2. En revanche, la plupart des venues de pegmatite sont le produit du fractionnement d’un volume | | | Journal (issue) | Raman spectrum Introduction O ver the years, the range of coloured freshwater cultured pearls generally...around 1127 and 1524 cm 4 and broad peaks in the range between 2256 and 3730 cm"'. Some dark-coloured cultured...Brazil and is reliably reported to come from a pegmatite in Minas Gerais. The base is tourmaline with a...consisted of thin tourmalines and white hexagonal muscovite crystals, and then finally in the last phase all...from the Vishnevye Mts. in the Urals, a famous pegmatite region about 100 km south of Ekaterinberg, were | | | Journal (issue) | Mineral Collections in the PACIFIC NORTHWEST Organized by Don Newsome With an Introduction by Wendell...Mineralogical Record, September–October 2019 Mineral Collections in the Pacific Northwest A Supplement...scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...Amethyst scepter, 17 cm, from Petersen Mountain, Nevada; Brianna and Brendan Traw collection. Barite, 7...the magazine. Contents i A Brief History of Mineral Collecting in the Pacific Northwest j The Collections: | | | Book (edition) | common minerals and common metals important for mining. The common minerals form most of our rocks and...metals section are generally valuable, come from mining districts, and are usually either attractive or...noncommercial online database of almost 39,000 mineral names, more than 300,000 photos, and 125,000 localities;... The US Geological Survey (USGS) operates the Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) (http://mrdata.usgs...professional papers and publications related to mining districts, fossil locales, and more. It has interactive | | | Book | Dimensions in the captions refer to the entire gem or mineral; however, in some cases only a portion is shown... living organisms rocks such as granite. The mineral grains in these rocks are actually crystals, but...are yet these crystals are considered to be a mineral called crystal structures. Natural crystals formed...be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING... Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals encompass | | | Journal (issue) | 1980). Several Several primary primary gem gem mineral mineral occurrences occurrences have have been been...marble (Figure 2). The sizes of these potholes range from a few decimetres (on the gentle slopes) up...located on the gentle Figure 4: Complicated gem mining in a karstic channel in marble. J. Gemm., 2000...of the tourmaline. In addition to Figure 6: Gem mining activities in a shallow gem pit. Occurrences of...sediments and their abundance as a guide to identify mining sites. Figure 7: Gem-bearing sediments being sieved | | | Journal (issue) | Mineralogical Record The International Magazine for Mineral Collectors VOLUME 49 • NUMBER 2 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief...tgressman@comcast.n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the...Wilson Columns Notes from the Editors American Mineral Heritage Award: Rod Tyson .......................METATORBERNITE, 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott Rudolph...Collector & Dealer Biographies • Mineral Artists • Antiquarian Mineral Literature Bio-bibliography The | | | Catalog/List | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 PRELIMINARY...PRELIMINARY LOT VIEWING (Highlights Only) Denver Fine Mineral Show at The Denver Marriott West 1717 Denver West...866-835-3243 Email: Bid@HA.com Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Thursday...Devonian, Silica Shale Formation Sylvania, Ohio, USA This is an almost pristine specimen of the classic...maximus Ordovician, Richmond Formation Mt. Orab, Ohio, USA This classic specimen of Isotelus maximus, the State | | | Book (edition) | Introduction .................................. 7 Mineral Species and their Localities .............. Explanation... . . . . . . . . . . . 686 Alphabetic List of Mineral Localities ............. Explanation of Symbols... PREFACE 6 · PREFACE This book reviews abollt 8,500 mineral localities from all over the world, for all valid...with 3,350 minerals in the former edition. The mineral systeniatic classification is based on the updated... with regard to the worlds mineral localities and environment of mineral occurrences, as a result of |
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