 | | Book (edition) | | GEM hunter's GUIDE (Cross-seaion at right) CHRYSOBERYL EPIDOTE PERIDOT SPHALERITE CORUNDUM FELDSPAR...brilliant). The and ability of this 6 an object to pass light is known as diaphaneity, ranges from transparency...and a value-fixing is star sapphire and the chrysoberyl cats-eye are valued chiefly for pattern, and...associated with such rocks. Because hard rock mining amateur will usually get is tedious and expensive...feldspar quarries in pegmatite deposits, mines and mine dumps, and from "float" deposits, minerals loose |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | microprobe, etc.) Because New Mexico is a mining state, mining districts are given whenever possible in...2015 Bernalillo County Cerro Colorado, W. of Albuquerque: carnotite. Placitas district (Sandia Mountains)...schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite...(Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve: quartz...quartz (chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite, gold |  | | Report (volume) | | Minerals of Colorado: A 100- Year Record By EDWIN B. ECKEL GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1 1 14 A...knowledge____________________________________ Future of Colorado mineralogy______________________________________...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado ________________________________ In pocket III...mineral localities and metallic mineral deposits of Colorado, has not been included in this reprint. Many of...especially Fischer and others, 1946). MINERALS OF COLORADO: A 100-YEAR RECORD By EDWIN B. EcKEL ABSTRACT |  | Collins, Donley S., Cobban, Robert R., Foord, Eugene E., Murphy, Jack A. (1989) Bibliography for update and revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado -- a 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel, Part A - Paper copy --Bibliography data file disks. Open-File Report Vol. 1989 (89-206) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr89206a | Report (issue) | | Survey Denver, Colorado Department of Geology, Denver Museum of Natural History Denver, Colorado NOTE FOR...revision of U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel By Donley...Prepared in cooperation with Friends of Mineralogy - Colorado Chaptar, and the Denver Museum of Natural History...references dealing with the mineralogy of the state of Colorado. It is part of a more than 10 year effort to update...and revise U.S.G.S. Bulletin 1114, Minerals of Colorado: A 100 year record, by Edwin B. Eckel (1961). |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2008 Table of Contents Collecting Minerals in Colorado - Peter Modreski ...........................Pg...Riemvasmaak South Africa 2008 Mining Update .......................... Pg. 20 Colorado Fossil Woods - Frank Daniels.....................................Pg. 28 Chalk Creek Feldspar Field Trip - Justin Zzyzx ...............on collecting minerals in Colorado by Pete Modreski, the informative Colorado petrified wood article by...the magazine so you get your very own copy! Colorado Minerals is the theme of the 2008 Denver Gem and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. In this issue also: Twin Creeks mine, USA Scott KLEINE, Bryan K. LEES & Malcolm SOUTHWOOD...Paul Cragan (USA) Malcolm Southwood (Australia) Associated Photographer: Jeff Scovil (USA) Contact: s...orpiment specimen from Cut 62 in Twin Creeks mine, Nevada, USA; 9.6 cm high. Azurite Corporation specimen...well-crystallised orpiment at the Twin Creeks mine in Northern Nevada, USA, and it's subsequent extraction as fine...corporations; one of them the mining company that owns and operates the mine, and the other a company that |  | | Report (issue) | | Bibliography and Index of Colorado Geology 1981 1982 by American Geological · Institute Colorado Geological Survey...Resources Denver, Colorado I 1983 Information Series 19 BIBLIOGRAPHY AND INDEX OF COLORADO GEOLOGY 1981-1982...Geological Institute Colorado Geological Survey Department of Natural Resources Denver, Colorado 1983 ii CONTENTS...• • . . . . . • • . • • • . . • . . • • . 47 County Index............................................Geological S Institute, Falls Church, Virginia. Colorado Geological This volume contains 595 citations |  | | Journal (issue) | | gold specimen comes from the Eagle’s Nest mine in Placer County, California. It is currently on display...collecting spots in Arizona by Ed Winbourne by Bob Jones Quest for Native Gold............................Marc Davis A superb, chatoyant pseudomorph by Bob Jones regular columns Rock & Gem Kids.................standard 58-facet diamond, so we routinely buy old mine cuts and European cuts and re-cut them to our standards...to weaker UV, not a weaker specimen. —Bob Jones BOB JONES Senior Consulting Editor LYNN VARON Managing |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...Behnke Famous mineral localities: the Corrego Frio mine and vicinity, Minas Gerais, Brazil ...............Person-other—Other persons such as miners, field assistants, mine managers, etc. Place —Used when a mineral is named...Czechoslovakia France Germany Japan Italy Mexico Namibia USSR USA Zaire Total Total number of species during 5-year...leached, ferruginous gossan. Stolzite from this mine was occasionally seen overlying or associated with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 5) Bearss, G., The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hamp441-512 Nov./Dec. (No. 6)...Batholith, Okanogan County, Washington, 450-459 January/February: Azurite, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona;...in Bethlehem, S. M. MayIJune: Vivianite, Rapid Creek, Yukon Whittemore, B. Janules, 45 Territory, Canada;...Autunite, Daybreak mine, Boggs, R. C., R. M., see Who’s Who in Mineral Names Spokane County, Washington; Dr...smoky Bravoite, Washington, 318 quartz, Teller County, Colorado; Rock H. Currier specimen, Harold and Erica |  | | Journal (issue) | | mountains east to the Colorado river, and from the northern borders of the Colorado desert to the Mexican...mountain area. 7-8 Martinez and Aqua Alta canyons, Colorado desert, will attract Sierra clubbers, as they...Mexico, with Richard Crooks, tenor. 19-22 Riverside County Fair and Date Festival at Indio, California. 20-22...We Found the Sheep Hole Palms . 9 By RANDALL HENDERSON CONTEST Prize announcement for February . 13 ARTISTRY...DESERT QUIZ Test of your desert knowledge . 22 LOST MINE Lost Quartz Vein of the Tonto Apache Indians . 23 |  | | Book | | often are arrested there. At the Eldorado sapphire mine in Mon¬ tana the action of a million years is readily...intrudes a sloping bed of limestone. As the Yogo mine has been worked at various times in the past hundred...Again, some of the best specimens from Emerald Creek in Idaho have been found by indi¬ viduals standing...famous was the single beryl stone found in Oxford County in Maine that weighed 18 tons and was 18 feet in...in the bed of the stream. e. If it is possible to mine the bed of the stream itself this may prove to be |  | | Journal (issue) | | Utah, Salt Lake City. Lawrence F. Mollin, Denver, Colorado, assistant secretary. 18 Ice Fiesta, sponsored... Utah, to show colored motion pictures of his Colorado river expeditions at Boos Bros, cafeteria meeting...November 4 HISTORY Old Iron Boat on the Colorado By RANDALL HENDERSON 5 INDIAN CRAFTS Drum Maker of Cochiti.... 34 CONTEST Prize announcement for January 35 MINING Briefs from the desert region 36 NEWS Here and...be secured from the editor in writing. RANDALL HENDERSON, Editor. LUCILE HARRIS, Associate Editor. Dick |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Silverton, Colorado; photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt. September-October: Wire silver, Cobalt Lode mine, Ontario;...421 Argellite, 188 Arkansas, Stand on Your Head #2 mine cookeite, 318; Magnet Cove eggonite, 114 Arsenopyrite...locality, 27 Can Rocks Provide Safe Storage for Nu clear Waste?, R. D. Titamgin, 125 Canada, National Museum...Wollastonite and Titanite Near Natural Bridge, Lewis County, New York, 78; 13th Rochester Academy of Science...the Quarry, 5, 77, 149, 221, 301 Chlorite, 190 Chrysoberyl, 54, 236, 411 Classified Advertisements, 67, |  | | Journal (issue) | | "Goodbye, Death Valley!" Sculptured by CYRIA ALLEN HENDERSON, Kodachrome photo by JOSEF MUENCH. (See page 19...Junior Livestock Show, Spanish Fork, Utah. LOST MINE May 8-10 — Lone Pine Stampede, Lone Pine, California... Nevada. May 17—Quarter Horse Show, Santa Cruz County Fair and Rodeo Association, Sonoita, Arizona. May... Lost Mine of the Blond Mayo By JOHN D. MITCHELL 22 PRIZES Run-off predictions for Colorado River...Basin LETTERS Contest for photographers 24 MINING Comment from Desert's readers 25 EXPERIENCE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tourmaline on quartz, Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History specimen...Pelt photo. MarcWApril: Beryl and calcite, La Pita mine, Maripi Boyacii, Columbia. Cal Graeber, Leonard...Quartz (amethyst), near Badger Creek, north of Coaldale, Fremont County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff...(Herkimer “diamonds’’), Treasure Mountain Diamond mine, near Little Falls, New York. Uli Bahmann specimen...SepteniberlOctober: Gold, Smuggler Union mine, Telluride district, Colorado. Colorado School of Mines Museum specimen |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...SPECIMENS from the collection of the Geology Museum, Colorado School of Mines. See page 242 for a full description... All rights reserved. notes fromthej EDITOR COLORADO-III Here we are with our third special issue devoted...devoted to the mines and minerals of Colorado. As most long-time subscribers know, the first in the series...about $200 on the out-of-print market. The second Colorado issue was vol. 10, number 6 (1979), and we still |  | | Journal (issue) | | Sir: I enjoyed the story of the Lost Dutch Oven mine by Mr. Rexford Bellamy in the October issue of the...information as to the location of this lost mine. I am convinced that the mine now being worked by Clifford Gillespie...Dutch Oven Mine," said to have been found years ago by Tom Scofield. The fact that the mine is located...telling the story often deliberately placed the mine in a nearby range or mountain as they sometimes...and treasure hunter at heart. To discover a lost mine or dig up a buried treasure is the dream of Eternal |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book (volume) | | the falls or rapids in rivers at places where they pass from the Piedmont crystalline rocks into softer...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: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | North America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI), Ytterby (Sweden)...2, pp. 104-105, 1907. la Reid, A. Mclntosh, The mining fields of Morina, Mt. Claude, and Lorinna: Tasmania...pp. 300-311. t6 Dolmage, Victor, Finlay River district, British Columbia:' Canad'ian l[i'n. TH E AM...A. L Genesis of mica pegmatite deposits, Latah County, Idaho: , Econ. Geology,vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 41-58... 20Barrell, Joseph, Geology of Marysville mining district, Montana: U.S. Geol,. Suntey, Prof . Paper |  | | Report (volume) | | Bulletin, vol. 44. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 61-72; Transactions,... 147-264. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, no. 64. San Francisco, Cal. California...Transactions, vol. 9, pts. 2, 3. Toronto, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Quarterly Bulletin, nos. 18-20; Journal... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY, 1912. 7 Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 33. Toronto and Montreal, Canada... New York. Colorado College Publications: Science series, vol. 12, nos. 10, 11. Colorado Springs, Colo |  | | 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...Crystallized Silver with Copper from the famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A “classic” Rhodochrosite with associated...associated Pyrite and Quartz from the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado An unusually massive and extremely colorful...colorful, Smithsonite from the iconic Kelly Mine in New Mexico A ‘gem’ quality specimen Tanzanite crystal in |  | | Book (edition) | | civilization. . . it is clear that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS...Highlights in the history of New Mexico mineralogy and mining 3 5 Prehistoric utilization of minerals New...SUBDISTRICTS, CAMPS, ETC. 569 BIBLIOGRAPHY 597 MAP: Mining Districts of New Mexico in pocket II. PREFACE...highlights in the his- New Mexico mineralogy and mining— including a section on the prehistoric utilization...edition, 1892. A. H. Fay (1920) A glossary of the mining and mineral industry. R. E. Grim (1953) Clay |
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