 | | Journal (issue) | | Appellation 16 The Second World Emerald Symposium in Colombia The Second World Emerald Symposium Focuses on...The Muzo Companies’ 10th Anniversary – A Decade of Change A New Era for the Historic Coscuez Mine Esmeraldas...More Exquisite Emeralds Magnificent Old Mine Emeralds 143 Mine Visit A Visit to Colombia’s “Green” Emerald...Thailand Board of Directors Gabriel Angarita, Colombia Saurabh Bansal, Germany Warren F. Boyd, Canada...Zoysa, Sri Lanka Advisors Jean Claude Michelou, Colombia Ruben Bindra, USA Immediate Past President Benjamin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | represents the culmination of two expeditions to Colombia and Ecuador in 1853 and 1857, inspired by the...January–February, 2016 The Emerald Mines of Colombia Thomas P. Moore The Mineralogical Record 2709...organics-rich sedimentary rocks in the Department of Boyacá in west-central Colombia. From the early 16th century...when Imperial Spain took over deposits at Chivor, Muzo and Cosquez, through the late 20th century, when...major specimens of euclase, parisite-(Ce), quartz, pyrite and dolomite have also emerged. Episodes of bloody |  | | Journal (issue) | | EMERALD UPDATE Highlights of Bogota Symposium Colombia opened its arms to welcome the world’s leading...huge success with more than 300 delegates from Colombia and around the world taking part. More than 42...designers, traders and brand retailers. They visited the Muzo, Cunas, Pita and Chivor mines on the slopes of the...page: Rough emeralds mined by Gemfields at the Kagem mine in Zambia. (Photo courtesy of Gemfields) CONTENTS...Symposium Report and Presentations 42 6 16 17 18 20 Colombia Hosts First High-Level Global Emerald Symposium |  | | Journal (issue) | | (a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...color zoning, 5.1 cm, from Rubaya, North Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo Back cover: Top...Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson |  | Altenberger, Uwe, Rojas-Agramonte, Yamirka, Yang, Yueheng, Fernández-Lamus, Jimmy, Häger, Tobias, Guenter, Christina, Gonzalez-Pinzón, Alejandra, Charris-Leal, Felipe, Artel, Julia (2022) In Situ U–Th–Pb Dating of Parisite: Implication for the Age of Mineralization of Colombian Emeralds. Minerals, 12 (10) 1232 doi:10.3390/min12101232 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Chinese Academy of Sciences, No. 19, Beitucheng Western Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100029, China...Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá 11001, Colombia Natural Colombia Mineral SAS, Bogotá, Colombia Correspondence:...world-famous emerald mines of the Muzo district, Boyacá Province, Colombia. Four samples of parisite-Ce collected...collected from outcrops near Muzo have been geochemically studied and dated using the in situ laser ablation...mineralization and crystallization of emerald deposits in Colombia. Furthermore, this study opens new avenues for |  | | Report (issue) | | 1975-1984) production of pyromorphite at the Les Farges mine near Ussel, Corrèze, France, it was like catching...collector). Pyromorphite, 6 cm, from the Les Farges mine, Ussel, Corrèze, France. Ex Doug Toland collection...prospect at Mawi (Dave writes “Mawi mine”) in Nuristan Province, Afghanistan. (For more information on...================= The Tonglushan mine near Daye, Hubei Province, China—which dates back some 3500 years—is...copper mine in the world. Although not especially noted for collector-quality minerals, the mine surprised |  | | Report (issue) | | but fairly familiar finds—boleite from the Amelia mine, Baja California, Mexico; zunyite from Quartzsite...==== Sapphirine, 3 cm, from Androy, Toliary Province, Madagascar. The Arkenstone specimen and photo...mining area, Herrería-Valdáliga-Rionansa, Santander Province (region of 4 ===============================...classic—witness (below) the galena from the Dörnberg mine, Ramsbeck district, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany...recent finds on the dumps of the old La Vidale lead mine, Bréziès, Asprières, Aveyron, France, there is this |  | | Report (issue) | | Tyson-originating examples from, oh, St.-Hilaire and the Jeffrey mine in Quebec; Ontario’s Flamboro quarry and Liscombe...which he’d contributed some pretty specimens of pyrite-coated calcite 1 ============================...elpidite and rhodochrosite from St.-Hilaire; pyrite and pyrite after marcasite from Nanisivik; and beautiful...called the “Cobalt Lode mine” (the Quebul specimen is attributed to the “Castle mine”). Stilbite and Chabazite...Safflorite coating silver, 5.2 cm, from the Castle mine, Gowganda area, Timiskaming District, Ontario, Canada |  | | Journal (issue) | | BARITE 13 cm, from Jebel Ouichane, Sagangane, Nador Province, Oriental Region, Morocco. Doug Fiske collection;...from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail & Jim Spann...photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane Brownlee collection; Joe...from Katlang, Mardan Dist., Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Jeff Starr collection; Joe Budd photo...photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection; James |  | | Journal (issue) | | 187 Peñas Blancas: An historic Colombian emerald mine R. Ringsrud and E. Boehm 251 Book review 254...Colombian emerald mine Ron Ringsrud and Edward Boehm Abstract: The Peñas Blancas emerald mine is part of Colombia’s...Colombia’s Muzo mining region, an 800 km2 area that encompasses the famous Muzo, Coscuez and La Pita mines...mines. This is the largest emerald district in Colombia, and it is the most productive and well-known...compares this historic mine to other famous producers in the region. Keywords: Colombia, emerald, geology |  | | Journal (issue) | | Characteristics of Blue to Yellow Beryl History of the Chivor Mine, Part I EDITORIAL 1 Spring 2020 VOLUME 56, No...beryl. p. 35 66 History of the Chivor Emerald Mine, Part I (1880–1925): From Rediscovery to Early Production...Chronicles developments at the Chivor emerald mine in Colombia between 1880 and 1925, based on archival records...Ukrainian heliodor found in the Volodarsk-Volynskii mine. The carving weighs 1,754.70 ct and measures 165...the checkered history of Colombia’s Chivor emerald mine: its abandonment, rediscovery, and intermittent |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystal with calcite, 6.5 cm, from the Cosq uez mine, Colombia; found in 1998. Scott Rudolph collection, ex............................................... 22 Mine Exploitation (or not) Today ......................represents the culmination of two expeditions to Colombia and Ecuador in 1853 and 1857, inspired by the...organics-rich sedimentary rocks in the Department of Boyaca in west-central Colombia. From the early 16th century...when Imperial Spain took over deposits at Chivor, Muzo and Cosquez, through the late 20th century, when |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Environments. Minerals 2021, 11, 513. https:// Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University...settings associated with sediments (type IIB; Colombia) or, more commonly, with magmatism and regional...thermal reducled to albitization, the formation pyrite (FeSbrines 2), and and Be-bearing ◦ C Cr-rich formation...with shale led to albitization, theare formation pyrite 2 ), and Be-bearing mineralization the formation...farm, Caiçara do Rio do Vento, Borborema mineral province, Rio Grande do Norte Pegmatitic bodies hosted |  | | Journal (issue) | | HPHT-Grown Synthetic Diamonds Diamonds from the Letšeng Mine Fall 2015 VOLUME 51, No. 3 EDITORIAL 221 Trapiche...carbonaceous shale containing veins of calcite, pyrite, and minute crystals of low-grade emerald. Photo...this method. Meanwhile, Lesotho’s Letšeng-la-Terae mine is currently enjoying a renaissance. Rising prices...Mathieu, Christophe Morlot, and Yannick Branquet Colombia is the traditional source of the world’s finest...exclusively in the black shales of the country’s western emerald zone, is linked to the peculiar structural |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | stretching nearly 7,500 kilometers (4,700 miles) from Colombia in the north to Chile in the south. They contain...(22,550 feet), and the highest mountain in the Western Hemisphere, Aconcagua at 6,960 meters (22,835 feet)...Andes run along the entire western margin of South America, from Colombia to the tip of Chile. divide...specimens from Uchucchacua, Peru; emeralds from Muzo, Colombia; pink fluorite and huge pyrites from Huanzala...The Pacific coast of South America defines the western margin of the South American plate, which has been |  | | Journal (issue) | | cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...Mineralogy newsletter. After joining the Geoscience Department at the University of Arizona I was surprised...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Spectrometer In late 2021, Gemetrix Pty Ltd (Perth, Western Australia) released the Inspectrum, an instrument...January 2021, the Government of South Australia’s Department for Energy and Mining issued a 36-page report...prospecting permit and ‘requirements to prospect and mine for opal both within and outside’ a field. Also...Diamonds In March 2022, Gemetrix Pty Ltd (Perth, Western Australia) updated its reference poster that displays...Rayner), diamonds from South Africa’s Koffiefontein mine and their inclusions (by Dr Nicole Meyer), and historical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | within the eastern and western borders of the Eastern Cordillera of Colombia which corresponds, in its...and Macanal; the western zone contains the districts of Pefias Blancas, Coscuez, Muzo and Yacopi. Geology...Hauterivian-Barremian age following Forero 1987) for the western zone. The mineralization is contained within hydrothermal...filled with carbonates (calcite, dolomite) and pyrite. Two unusual rock-types are recognized within the...epigenetic growth of albite, calcite, dolomite, pyrite, micas and quartz. The albite/calcite ratio is |  | | Book | | CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES 90 Emerald Lore in Colombia and Peru, 5. 93 Crystal Structure Chemical...Proportions, Chile, 407 335 Polishing 359 361 Colombia, Laps and Agents, 336 407 Czechoslovakia, 13...by the noted were emerald made from green Department of Antiquities more extremely certain that... worked to were satisfy a the gems from Colombia only known source gained of emeralds. vigorous...north of Thebes. No emeralds exist the emerald mine through stones. Qift as as other mineral, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ROBERT B. COOK Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 Downloaded...Queensland] at 01:02 11 October 2014 Muzo District, Colombia Parisite-(Ce) crystals to 2.2 cm across...at or near the type locality at Muzo, Departmento de Boyad, Colombia, in 1990. It was acquired by Dr...on this sample is unavellable, most analyses of Muzo material are consistent with parisite-(Ce). The...from either the emerald mines of Colombia or from the Snowbird mine, Montana. A quick look at the mineral’s |  | | Book | | Gem Deposits: 35 39 The Emerald Deposits of Colombia 4. Gemstones Formed in Pegmatites: 57 Gem Pegmatites...Diamond Pipes: 129 The Diamond Deposits of Argvle, Western Australia Index 141 FOREWORD Each gem deposit-whether...chapters: hydrothermal deposits, with the emeralds of Colombia as an example; the pegmatites of Minas Gerais...Zabargad Island, Egypt and the new find at Argyle in Western Australia are used as examples. It is worth noting...thanks goes to Dr. Art Montana, Chairman of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UClA for his | | | Book | | Gem Deposits: 35 39 The Emerald Deposits of Colombia 4. Gemstones Formed in Pegmatites: 57 Gem Pegmatites...Diamond Pipes: 129 The Diamond Deposits of Argvle, Western Australia Index 141 FOREWORD Each gem deposit-whether...chapters: hydrothermal deposits, with the emeralds of Colombia as an example; the pegmatites of Minas Gerais...Zabargad Island, Egypt and the new find at Argyle in Western Australia are used as examples. It is worth noting...thanks goes to Dr. Art Montana, Chairman of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at UClA for his |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE MUZO EMERALD ZONE, COLOMBIA, S. A. VICTOR OPPENHEIM: CONTE•TS. PAGE Abstract ................................ ?.............. Local geologyof Muzo beds .............................................................................. Mines in the Muzo area :$3 •. 33 34 $4 '. $5 ..................................... $5 Exploitation methods in Muzo ......................................... Bibliography........................... $7 38 ABSTRACT. The Muzo Emerald Mines represent the only large emerald deposits |  | | Journal (issue) | | 296 Photoluminescence Spectra of Emeralds from Colombia, Afghanistan, and Zambia D. Brian Thompson, Christian...synthetic star corundum, and the Colombian emerald mine-to-market industry. In our lead article, Drs. Sally...investigate the PL spectra of 48 samples from Colombia, Afghanistan, and Zambia. Their research strongly...CUBAGUA ISLA DE COCHE Costa Rica Panama Venezuela Colombia Brazil Ecuador El Amparo Chacopata Taguapire...Pinctada imbricata, industry in Venezuela and Colombia, with biological and ecological observations. |  | | Report (chapter) | | Bogotd, Colombia Abstract: The emerald deposits of Muzo and Coscuez hosted within the western flank of...Geological background The breccia occurs in both western and eastern mineralized zones located along the...along the Cordillera flanks. Both western zone deposits (e.g. Muzo and Coscuez) and eastern zone deposits...anticlinoriums. Located between the subduction-related Western and Central Cordilleras and the Llanos forelands...(V1) filled with either fibrous calcite or fibrous pyrite also occurred during this stage. A second stage |
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Muzo Mine, Muzo Municipality, Western Boyacá Province, Boyacá Department, Colombia