 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Oregon; argyrodite (a silver sulphide germanate), Germany, Bolivia. On the other hand, there are many well...crystalline, igneous rocks are exposed at surface (granite, pegmatite, crystalline, schists, quartz or limestone...in Colyn region W. of r. Dniepr. ANDREASBERG, Germany, S E Oberharz mountain range, lead-zinc deposit...hormotone, analcime, desmin. FREIBERG, Saxony, Germany, old famous mineral, classic locality. Native silver...cIausthalite-rare selenium mineral. OBERFAIZ, Bavaria, this is a region with some interesting mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Fossil Areas In Germany By DR. WERNER LIEBER Dante Str. 50, Heidelberg, Germany In the January-February...to find out if there are any mineral clubs in Germany. Since this number of R&M was sent to the readers...these questions and to give an idea of the present situation here in Germany. The last question of Mr....answer. In Germany exists one club like the R&M Association. Its name is "Vereinigung der Freunde der Mineralogie...the association is Dante-str. 50, Heidelberg, Germany. The club publishes a monthly magazine for collectors |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | trip with Mr. Boyle to Blue Hill and Brinton's quarries. W. H. Fr,acr, Secretary PHILADELPHIA MINERALOGICA]...Connecticut, quarries near Portland and Middletown, Connecticut, the limestone quarries near Canaan,...Massachusetts, trap quarries, the Cumington, Massachusetts rhodonite mine, the marble quarries at Rutland, Vermont...Vermont, the granite quarries at Barre, Vermont, the iron mines at Mineville, the garnet mine on Mt....garnet, rhodonite, quartz crystals, and datolite-an extraordinary mass of fine large crystals-were exhibited |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New England hills again I should like to mention an interesting incident that happened during the early...early spring of 1917. 1 was wallpapering in an elegant summer-villa belonging to someone in Stockholm,...it was an event very few of us mineral collectors ever have a go at. Of the many old quarries in Boston...of a quarry. Along Grove Street in West Roxbury is an old quarry in the felsite area still being worked...colored brookite xls, pale yellow xls of anatase, rutile and rutile pseudomorphs after brookite xls. All |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | provinces are arranged in the overall structure of an arch, with the oldest rocks appearing in the central...marcasite. A major mining district, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district, was in these rocks in...and copper minerals were found. Mining in this district ceased in the late 1970s. A branch of the Middle...prehnite, laurnontite, and datolite) found in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan also occur in Wisconsin. The...Wisconsin. Some of these rocks are pegmatitic and yield an interesting and diverse group of rare minerals (phenakite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | deposits of zinc-lead ores in Silesian-Cracow district have been known for many centuries and the largest...occurs in district of Bytom, Sharley mine. According to W. Emmons the Zn, Pb ores from Upper Silesia deposits...chromium, tin have been found in the Silesian district, near Swidnica. The arsenic bearing ore—arsenopyrite...in the Holy Cross Mountains, Miedzianka, Kielce district (miedz-copper). Copper ore contains: chalcopyrite...1957 in Silesia between Legnica and Glogow, Lubin district, a huge deposit of copper ore of the Mannsfield |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states, with an area of just 9,304 square...mineral localities for the collector. Prospecting, granite quarrying, and mining probably peaked before the...identification or location. Other supplemental information on an occurrence is given in parentheses after a locality...best occurrence at a locality it is so designated. An asterisk (*) after a mineral means that the occurrence...Conway, miarolitic cavities in decayed Conway Granite. Pit opened in 1955, 1970s brought productive collecting |  | | Book | | library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books...recently communicated to the Royal Dublin Society, an excellent paper on the mineral localities in Donegal...been inserted as far as it is possible to do so, and an attempt has been made to diminish the number of super...Mineralogy, by ROBERT JAMESON , F.G.S. Edinburgh, 1821 . An Elementary Introduction to the Knowledge of Mineralogy...WILLIAM PHILLIPS, F.G.S. Third Edition. London , 1823. An Elementary Introduction to Mineralogy, by the late |  | | Book (edition) | | ~ S'I' OVEN'S .&AY • LEGEF:i'D C QVARR.Y GRANITE AND DIOJUTE 2 \ THE MINERALS OF JERSEY by A...Cover:- Group of quartz crystals from a geode in granite; Gigoulande quarry, St. Peter. THE MINERALS...found but, unfortunately, a great many of the quarries yielding the best specimens have ceased working...possible for a geologist in a day or two to make an excellent petrographic collection but in the same...majority have come from the pegmatitic parts of the granite and hybrid diorite intrusions. Most of the mineral |  | | Book | | Hilltop sites last year sold at around $600,000 an acre for office-park development, according to professional...the cheapest land, on back roads, costs $200,000 an acre. But the value of this land now turns out to...Hills Tennis Club. To a geologist, Gleba explained in an interview, rust on rock means iron inside. Iron usually...beterence &roll which the inforllation i. dran,e An t ...ple would be (26(42 43'33",70 §3'53")406,aa...overla1a by fine brewn and gray sands. outcrop in an undulatiag layer for aeveral hundred f ..t ••• The |  | | Book | | Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River complex is an intrusive body of alkaline igneous rocks where sodalite...ilmenite specimens have come from an unusual calcite vein-dike occurrence with an exposure very near, indeed...2008, when extensive blasting for construction of an extension to High,, ay 5 revealed veins of massive...by different combinations of rutile, anatase, brookite, hematite and titanite (Philippe Beiley, personal |  | | Report (issue) | | Maximilian Glas, Starnberg, Germany Printer Mediahaus Biering, Munich, Germany English Edition © 2005 by... extraLapis No. 20: Inset Elba Die Urlaubsinsel der Mineralogie Photo Credits Cover: Elbaite 5.4 cm...Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany German Edition © Christian Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany ISBN 3-921656-57-5...3-921656-57-5 Printed in Germany The Italian Island of ----- A Mineralogical Jewel in the Tuscan Archipelago... The Italian Island of Elba Table of Contents Page 4 An Island Steeped in History Federico Pezzotta Page |  | | Journal (issue) | | mixed blessing. It has indirectly paid my salary (as an engineer in Alberta's oil patch), but it offers a...Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations, tungstenite...Creek coulee. A common geological horizon, the Upper Cretaceous Edmonton Group, hosts both rhe fossils...day. Parking on the curve on the main road would be an invitation to disaster as the road is narrow and...a reduced prepublication price of only $120, with an expected retail price of about $240. Congratulations |  | | Report (issue) | | Shore occurrences Paul Viau quarry Melochville quarries Rivermont quarry Goyer quarry Dulude quarry Mont...quarry St- Vincent-de-Paul quarry Cap-St-Martin quarries Terrebonne quarry St-Lin fossil locality Road-cut...Shawinigan-Sud quarry Shawinigan and St-Maurice quarries Grand'Mere quarry Black Creek bog Ste- Thecle...occurrence Red Mill ochre deposit St-Marc-des-Carrieres quarries Tetreault mine Montauban mine Portneuf molybdenite...Cap-Sante fossil occurrence Riviere-a.-Pierre quarries Neuville quarry and shoreline exposures Escoumins |  | | Book (edition) | | undergone, new illustrations have been introduced, an improved arrangement of the species has been adopted...they contain. Water is a mineral, but generally in an impure state from the presence of other minerals...flakes when snows; the streams become coated with an aggregation it CRYSTALLOGRAPHY. 5 of crystals...grains when it cannot make distinct crystals. Granite mountains are mountains of crystals, each particle...or one of An ; U D 90 is truncated, this angle is accordingly 135 (= 90 -j- 45 ) when an edge of 70 |  | | Book (edition) | | great changes of emphasis in mineral collecting and an unforeseen growth in the number of collectors. Mineral...Africa, and Asia have become significant sources. An increasing recognition of investment values in fine...carefully preserved to arrive on a dealer's shelf in an unblemished state. Would that the old-time miners...common can't-be-bothered attitude can be replaced by an enlightened recognition of the operators' public... CONTENTS Preface iii About This Book xi PARTI An 1 Introduction to the Study of Rocks and Minerals | | | Report (issue) | | Queen Baby mine 26 Ly, 7, 27 28 29 ey) 30 3] BZ Quarries Limited mines Rogers mine Byrnes mine Hanlon...Shawinigan-Sud quarry Shawinigan and St-Maurice quarries Grand'Mere quarry Black Creek bog Ste-Thecle...‘Red Mill ochre deposit St-Marc-des-Carrieres quarries Tetreault mine Montauban mine Portneuf molybdenite... Cap-Santé fossil occurrence Riviere-a-Pierre quarries Neuville quarry and shoreline exposures Escoumins...mine Simard mine Charlesbourg West limestone quarries Section 3: Quebec-Lac St-Jean Chicoutimi occurrences |  | | Book | | ASSOCIATION. A MANUAL OF MINERALOGY, TRURO, 1828? AN ELEMENTARY INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF MINERALOGY...outline of these various branches can be given. Such an outline may, however, prove sufficient for many miners...the use of the blowpipe the author would recommend "An Introduction to the Use of the Mouth-Blowpipe," by...marked thus, (*), are essential ; for the others an ingenious student will usually be able to devise...cheap). oil-lamp with flat wick, or a thick candle. An A spirit lamp. 4. Several pieces of charcoal |  | | Journal (issue) | | crusts. A couple of photographs of the mine provided an interesting backdrop. Simon Harrison produced a stunning...edsomeof the world'sfinestspecimensof fluoritein an unmatched rangeof colours. Above. Pale ice blue fluorite...than tw?thousand mineral specimens, together with an extensive collection of local fossils and archaeological...It forms part of the Lake District Natural History Gallery, which gives an excellent introduction to...Mines & M1ncr.1lsNo. 26 -4- MINERALS IN THE GRANITE PEGMATITES AT CHYWOON QUARRY, CORNWALL David |  | | Book (edition) | | groups: The number of new mineral species may grow as an avalanche, flooding the mineral population with tens...lepidolite, wolfrarnite). In many cases, minerals have an intermediate composition between theoretical end-members...to crystallographic tenns (e .g. prismatine), to an organization (e.g .. mgriite). to a journal (minrecordite)...form. Many minerals display characteristic twinning, an intergrowth of two or more individual crystals of...Miller indices are used. For instance, the symbol for an orthorhombic dipyramid form is { 111}, for a hexagonal |  | | Book | | journals and other sources, Mr Firsoff has compiled an invaluable reference book for the ‘rock-hound’. ...Museum; E. G. Langholme, Secretary of The Shap Granite Co. Ltd.; R. D. Penhallurick, Assistant Curator...FIRSOFF Contents Preface and Acknowledgments v AN INVITATION I RULES AND TOOLS OF THE GAME 4 SIGNS...ROYAL GEMS 81 DUN CON Oo PWN CROSS-COURSE SPAR 87 GRANITE ACCESSORIES 96 FRUITS OF HEAT AND PRESSURE 105...VEGETABLE I4I References 146 Index 149 vii I5 I An invitation ‘Romance’ is one of those shopworn words |  | | Journal (issue) | | one needs to decide whether “fairness” should be an issue at all. The concept of fairness implies some...We all know that just because a certain dealer has an Ojuela adamite priced at $3,500, that doesn’t mean...even then you can’t be sure. Maybe the buyer was an aberration not representative of the overall market...see on the specimens they want, it is the result of an influx of more affluent buyers. We worry that our...define “fairness” was to suggest that, in cases where an approximate fair market value can be determined by |  | | Book | | in a typical association. Each chapter opens with an introductory page describing the parameters of the...important, are all given full-page entries. Blue, white, an and these are g crystal. The elo hardness is ma its...ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS None. ORIGIN Crystallization of an acid or intermediate magma in a minor intrusion....7 OTHER KEY INFORMATION – ROCKS IGNEOUS ROCKS An intermediate, coarse-grained igneous rock, diorite...becomes a granodiorite; with larger amounts, a granite. These three rock types often occur together in |  | | Book (volume) | | director. As a scholar of mineralogy, he has been an indefatigable researcher and collector of mining...difficulty of obtaining the source material, which an inquiring reader would want to read, but also with...the facts presented here were not the figment of an active imagination. The great number of historical...authors' visiting the locations described. Mineralogy is an enjoyable branch of natural history which has taken...mind. The hours in the laboratory, at home or at an institution, challenged the intellect. The solitude |  | | Report (issue) | | Mineral, der lebhafte Edelstein with the permission of Christian Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany German...German Edition © Christian Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany ISBN 3-921656-42-7 Printed in the United States...2.52 carats) from Katlang, Pakistan, adorn the upper wings, with a matched pair of pink Russian topazes...forms desirable collector specimens. The mineral is an aluminum fluorosilicate with the composition Al2SiOiF...the Bergakademie (Mining Academy) in Freiberg, Germany. This box belonged to and is signed by Hans von |
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