 | | Journal (issue) | | BONANZA Rock collecting, sightseeing and a look at history in Colorado by Steve Voyn ick CONKLIN QUARRY...QUARRY Minerals and gem materials in Rhode Island by James R. Mitchell FEATURES 10 48 51 Page 122 A PICTURE...Vanguard blade. aluminum oxide wheel for sharpening rock picks, chisels, etc. Use fine grit • Handy, adjustable...CENTER CADILLAC OF ROCK GRIPPERS _ __._..__._....., SHIM The new 4 POINT SOVA ROCK VISE Designed and...This toot puts four equal pressure points on your rock. holding odd shaped pieces solidly for accurate |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California......................................................................369 by L. H. Conklin Letters to the editor ........................... 8th Friday, Oct. 9th BEY'S ROCK SHOP GRAYSON LAWRENCE H. CONKLIN PICKENS GRENVILLE MINERALS ...learned to transform intractable masses of hard rock into works of great beauty. The People’s Republic...gem fields. Sapphire deposits on windswept Hainan Island are under in vestigation. In 1976 the first major |  | | Journal (issue) | | Schacht (who was bom Horace Greele} Schacht in the USA), President of the German Reichsbank. In du< course...minerals are leached from the surrounding country rock during metamorphism. Ramsay and Huber (1983) suggest...such as pegmatite veins or cavities in sedimentary rock. The localities for faden quartz are numerous, and...repeated cracking and healing of grains in the country rock, which are broken and exposed when the fissure grad...the stretched crystal fiber hy pothesis, when the rock first fractures, crystal grains are broken, and |  | | 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...ALASKA Famous mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen) 8:4-12...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Joe Cilen's collection from Goodsprings, Clark County. Nevada labelled as heterogenite which is well...reported occurre nce in Quartzburg District, Grand County , Oregon. The heteroge nite is not present on the...:walder Mine, Raston Buttes District. Huerfago County. Col o rado labelled as uraninite. The Schwartzwalder...eastern part of Clark Mountain. San Bernardino County, CA. Whil e beudantite is known from this locality...microlite frCJll9 Continued on page 4 Hydraulic Rock Tr·m o?;; n$'.0c:- ; ,, oc, l\ydar has petfected |  | | Journal (issue) | | specimen from the Spanish Dry Diggings, Eldorado County, California, and a little of its history ........................................ 325 by L. H. Conklin T1 mM!NERA!. =!CAL RECORD The Newmont Azurite:........................ 333 by L. H. Conklin Postscript: Hessonite with apatite, Mount Avie, Bellecombe..................... 248 Obituary: Lawrence H. Conklin (by W E. Wilson) What's New in Minerals Tucson...the Editors Died, Lawrence H. Conklin, 82 Lawrence Henry "Larry" Conklin, Jr., well-known New York mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | years from now all copies of Gems and Minerals, Rock and Gem, Lapidary Journal, Roc/chound, and so on...Record, January— February , 1979 3 W right’s ROCK— SHOP w rite f o r our We buy collections New...ere easy to find at home-> or at shows W RIGHT’S ROCK SHOP OXA NIM A L WONDERLAND R oute 4, Box 462,...“ the fluorine was calculated from the excess of lime.” They state that they have no doubt that the formula...Bavaria, Germany (1) Blue Chihuahua mine, San Diego County, 57-59% California (2) 67-80% Poland, Maine (3) |  | | Journal (issue) | | 247 WULFENITE—from level 4 of the 79 mine, Gila County, Arizona. The specimen was collected in 1971 by...Melano phlogite from Mount Hamilton, Santa Clara County, California. Am er Mineral., 57, 1494-1504. GRASSELLINI...south east of Lancaster in Bart Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The mine was opened in 1732 and...confirmed in the ores of the Gap nickel mine, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. A. F. Buddington (1924) first called...special mineralogical interest. The Lengenbach quarry, Binnetal, Switzerland, has produced a variety |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Vanadinite from the J. C. Holmes claim, Santa Cruz County, A rizona........................................currence. Sometimes a village or township and a county, or a village and a state have the same name and...hap pens that the village or city is not in the county of the same name nor even in the state. For example...minerals. Chester is also a large city in Delaware County. We have frequently run across minerals from Chester |  | | Journal (issue) | | —from a quarry near Eldorado, in the Uwharrie Wildlife M anagem ent A rea, M ontgom ery County, North...at the Burlington mine near Jamestown, Boulder County, Colorado. We found perhaps a dozen good specimens... MINERAL SPECIES: Country: State or Province: County: N earest Town: M ine Name: O ther Inform ation:...friends with the superintendent of every trap rock quarry in New Jersey, and our Saturday morning trips...generous in returning the favors accorded him by the quarry operators and his distinctive pieces were looked |  | | Journal (issue) | | in the Gien Rose Limestone formation of Lampasas County. Lampasas celestine first became well known among... HI STORY_....,_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _......., J COUNTY MAp o, '1~AAa M'Al.t.OFM.11.ES An 1870 map of...the official state gemstone of Texas. (The state rock, established that same year, is petrified palm wood...Barber's Hili salt dome at Mont Belview, Chambers County, on the Texas Gulf coast, small but sharp tetrahedral...Mountain and near Kingsland in Llano County. A northeastem Gillespie County locality known as Amethyst Hili |  | | Journal (issue) | | twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Fluorapatite, 2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan...craft room and taking apart a large chunk of vuggy rock, looking at the freshly exposed voids under my microscope...5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino County, California (#1869). Jerry Cone photo. Aurichalcite...sphalerite, 20 cm, from the Elmwood mine, Smith County, Tennessee. Paul Bordovsky photo. Wire silver |  | | 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...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluocerite-(Ce) and other minerals from the Little Patsey quarry ........... 429 by M . I. Jacobson & M . W. Smith...cm tall, and came from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. The specimen, now in the Smithsonian...92028 Tel: (619) 723-9292 Jewel Tunnel Imports Rock H. C urrier Mail: P.O. Box 267 A rcadia, California...PUBLISHING P.O. Box 37072, Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Richard A. Bideaux, General Partner (602) 297-4862...the higher elevations. Deep weathering has made rock outcrops rare. The deposit once produced gem-grade |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluocerite-(Ce) and other minerals from the Little Patsey quarry ........... 429 by M . I. Jacobson & M . W. Smith...cm tall, and came from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. The specimen, now in the Smithsonian...92028 Tel: (619) 723-9292 Jewel Tunnel Imports Rock H. C urrier Mail: P.O. Box 267 A rcadia, California...PUBLISHING P.O. Box 37072, Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Richard A. Bideaux, General Partner (602) 297-4862...the higher elevations. Deep weathering has made rock outcrops rare. The deposit once produced gem-grade |  | | Book (volume) | | commerce. Coarser gemstones, or those which are rock-like in character or abundance, are treated in still...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken... Cowee Creek gravel washing . Yogo Gulch Mine . Rock Creek, Montana, sapphire mine . Cut and rough aquamarines...Mt. Mica Largest crystal from Mt. Mica Eh Towne Quarry 180 Tourmaline Queen Mountain IgI Tourmaline crystal |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah ...........................................Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado ....................................... Particularly surprising is a large specimen of rock impregnated with native iron, undoubtedly one of...of the earliest known examples from Disko Island, Greenland. Because the Stieglitz catalog is exclusively...and determination of detrital grains and crushed rock fragments. American Mineral ogist, 19, 482-487 |  | | Book | | times it was thought that _ temperature. Water is rock crystal, a colourless variety of : quartz, was...the Earth, the moon, and meteorites, pieces of rock from space, are made up of minerals and virtually...are made of two or more. : Orthoclase teristic rock of 1¢ Earth’s outermost , the continental crust...acidetched to reveal its crystalline structure. LIQUID ROCK ~ CRYSTAL STRENGTH Molten lava from inside the...volcano, Most buildings are made of crystals. Natural rock and artificial materials are both mostly Hawaii |  | | Book | | Lawrence H. Conklin; Joseph F. Decosimo; Dr. B. Delavan; Mrs. George Bowen Delong; Lincoln Elsworth; Alexander...bright colors or beautiful patterns. Carnelian and rock crystal beads were fashioned at Jarmo in Mesopotamia...in the Near East, cylinder seals were made from rock crystal quartz, a hard gemstone, in addition to...carnelian, jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise, obsidian, rock crystal, alabaster, amazonite, and jade-a few showed...gemstones are often superior to those found in solid rock because only the strongest, most perfect specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . ...WELOGANITE crystal, 4 cm, on matrix, from the Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (See the article in...WEW 3 Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, `ÉÇàÜ°tÄ? dâ°uxv Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore |  | | Journal (issue) | | issue also: Collector interview: Wendell Wilson (USA) Huge pocket from Sakangyi, Myanmar Tomasz PRASZKIER...on page 8 Associated photographer: Jeff Scovil (USA) Contact: tom@spiriferminerals.com www.SpiriferMinerals...Sakangyi are columbite-tantalite, danburite, hessonite, rutile, sillimanite, thorite and uraninite. POCKETS...Broken B Br rok ken Hammer Ha H mmer zzone one USA Cartier C artier Capreol C a e apr eol CANADA CANADA...Falconbridge F alconbridge Chelmsford C helmsford USA Group Whitewater W hitewater G roup Sudbury S Sudbur |  | | Journal (issue) | | green diopside on syenite matrix from the Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec. Collected by miner Bruno Carriere...those days, field collecting ("rockhounding") and rock shops were the order of the day, big mineral shows...collectors, as have Gems & Gemology, Gems & Minerals and Rock & Gem magazines. These latter two magazines have...covering Maine, New York, Pennsylvania (Chester County), Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Washington, Colorado (two)...minerals around the age of eight. He had a Mattel rock-polishing kit which he used feverishly, and his |  | | Catalog/List | | Micromount and Fluorescent columns. PETROLOGIC (ROCK) SPECIMENS .... MINERAL DETERMINATION SUPPLIES including...specimen from the Apache mine, near Globe, Gila County, Arizona GLOBES AND ATLASES ...... . 79 Sharp...lVlexico Durango, Mapimi, mina Ojuela. Brilliant lime-yellow prismatic orthrhombic crystals in radial...ADAM1TE from mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico Lime-yellow orthrhom bic- xls on limonitic smithsonite...of Huesca, Estopinian. �ue mass in ancient trap rock; resembles lapis, rare ... ......... ....... 3 |  | | Journal (issue) | | 287 288 293 353 A hornfels unit in the Poudrette quarry .................................................and J.Van Velthuizen Figure 1. The Poudrette quarry in the summer of 1988. Photo by L. Horvath. 284...important for the collector to recognize the various rock units which represent the unique mineralogical environments...associations are listed with the descriptions. Quarry maps have not been included because the precise...of many past finds in the quarry were never recorded, and because the quarry has changed so much over |  | | Journal (issue) | | will be attending the following shows in mid 1974—Lincoln, June 13-16; San Mateo, June 2830; Colorado Springs...Museums Advisory Council: D. V incent M anson, 73 Lincoln T errace, H arrington Park, NJ 07640 $2,159.35...begin work the first day on Kekertausak, a small island near the western shore, about a kilometer from...slowly rowed down the fiord. The shore o f the island is form ed o f low, grayish-green cliffs of naujaite...naujaite, a beautiful, variegated coarse-grained rock, composed o f large crystals o f black arfvedsonite |
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