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| 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...and Blackberry Crossing Campground): bastnäsite-(Ce)* (microcrystals), cassiterite (microcrystals), danalite |
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| 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 |
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| Prague Printedin Czech Republicby Finidr.u.o .. Ce,ky Te~in 14/02/03/0 I All rights reserved•• ·o pan...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)...dominant rareearth element (REE). e.g. monazite-(Ce), monazite(Nd), etc. In a few cases a similar procedure |
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| 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...Alberene and Old Dominion quarries, Albemarle County. In these two soapstone quarries, tabular ilmenite crystals |
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| reacted with the wall rock—here the granite host—forming the graphic granite zone, in part via a magmatic–metasomatic...GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany e-mail: thomas@gfz-potsdam.de P. Davidson ARC Centre...Oberlausitzische Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften e.V, Neuer Weg 6, Neschwitz/Bautzen, Germany miarolitic cavity...miarolitic pegmatites from the Königshain granite, E Germany (miarolitic class, Černý and Ercit 2005)...gradual transition into the enclosing parental granite, and crystallized from residual melts in situ, |
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| the old New York and Harlem Railroad tunnel under upper Park Avenue. Table 1. Abbreviations used in this...Washington, D.C.; and William Niven (1850–1937), an early mineral dealer who eventually served on the...reports were published in the Exchanger’s Monthly, an early magazine for mineral collectors. In 1892 George...George Kunz proposed to the club membership that an exhibit of NYC minerals be prepared for the upcoming...exhibit received an award, one of the thousands presented to the exhibitors, 206 and an engraved diploma |
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| in the world, with 8 different Scandium-minerals + an additional14 species with Sc-content > 0,5 % wt....nature, viz. thortveitite (Sc2Sb07), was marked by an International symposium on the Mineralogy and Geochemistry...described. In the last twenty years there has been an increasing interest world-wide in scandium minerals...application, like high-strength Sc-AI alloys. There is also an increasing number of publications on the mineralogy...findings are reported from time to time, like Germany (Witzke 2003), in France (Gatel et al. 2002, Marty |
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| 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 |
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| MINERALS Geologic settings of Maine minerals . .. . Granite pegmatites . . . . . . . . . Minerals found in...rare minerals that are found in veins of coarse granite called "pegmatites." Other interesting types of...homework before starting out to the field, and develop an alternative itinerary in case the preferred locality...a fascinating subject. Perham (1987) has written an outstanding book tracing the development of the mineral-rich...bring you into the map area at the point shown by an arrow. Look for landmarks described in the itiner- |
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| on Val-Barrette road Val-Barrette quarries Guenette granite quarries Canada Marble and Lime quarry Labelle...occurrence Kilmar Mines Dobbie Mine Brownsburg quarries Gaboriault &. Nevers Reg'd quarry Miller (Keystone)...Emerald Mine. Formerly, this was an important mica/apatite mining district. (GSC 138748) Abstract Occurrences...types such as feldspar, serpentine, marble. and granite. Probably the best known area is the du Lievre...St-Jovite and Grenville, dumps of old mines and quarries contain specimens of ilmenite, graphite, garnet |
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| 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 |
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| known of all is the famous ,,Emerald-Hand stein", an assemblage of emerald crystals from different Colombian...rarities. Among them was the "Vienna I mperiaJ Opal", an precious opal found in 1672 in Dubnik (former Czerwenitza)...Slovakia, with 594 grams, till now the biggest from an European occurrence. Natural Histoiy Museum, Vienna...Friedrich van der Null (1750-1823), was purchased for the Royal Imperial Naturals Cabinet. \an der Null purchased...from any find com ing on the market. He assembled an exceptionally fine collection of nearly 4.000 mineral |
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| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontenac Quarries Limited. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Melochville quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . Shawinigan and St-Maurice quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . St-Marc -des -Carrieres quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . Riviere -a-Pierre quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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| 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 |
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| the n:di co, ery and im estigati, e cataloguing of an historic rr.ir;.:ralcull ction Andy Tindle ~e\\...andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto de'ermi:iethechem:cal composition...tator:iicnumbers57-71). SEMScan:1:1g electronmicroscope - an instrumentusedt:i -:ib'.a'n :r;;s,;cf:nens:onal /secondary.../secondary e:ectron)photographs of verysmalls;;ec:":,e1s. An SEl.1:saso ea.pableof takingBSEimages. syn. Synonym...Praseodymium 59 Cd Cadmium 48 Pt Platinum 78 Ce Cerium 58 Ra Radium 88 Ci Chlorine 17 Rb |
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| Perry . ......................... 129 The New1y Quarries ................................................particularly impressed by Loren Merrill's activities as an isolated lapidarist who did much to foster many of...lapidarists. Their pioneering effort did much to preserve an historical treasure which cannot be recovered today...will continue to be used in subsequent studies and an independent work, co-authored with them, is planned...transformed by his first visit to the tourmaline-bearing granite pegmatite at Mount Mica in 1952 and Gene eventually |
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| and • indicate that the reproduction is a copy of an official work that is published by Natural Resources..................11 The Ledge (Charlotte County Granite) quarry.......................................................................15 Bayside Black Granite quarry.......................................................................17 St. George granite quarries.............................................................................65 Indiantown quarries.............................................. |
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| 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 |
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| and Materials Importance. Phosphate minerals are an integral component of geological and biological systems...and the main mineral phase in the human body. Monazite and xenotime are highlighted in a fourth chapter...naturally-occurring phosphate phases and a listing of an additional 126 minerals. In the Petrology section...Geochronology section focuses principally on apatite and monazite for U-ThPb, (U-Th)/He, and fission-track age determinations;...81 4 Synthesis, Structure, and Properties of Monazite, Pretulite, and Xenotime Lynn A. Boatner PROPERTIES |
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| dominantly niobium-yttrium-fluorine (NYF)-type granite pegmatites (Rakovan 2008). 508 ROCKS & MINERALS...discovery difficult even when outcrops are found. The granite is very tenacious, and because occurrences are...metamorphism. The reader is referred to Eby (1987) for an overview of the history of the igneous activity....significant geologic feature in the state, covering an area of approximately 1,000 km2 and comprising more...rhyolitic crystal tuffs, breccias, and subvolcanic granite porphyry that are partially outlined by the ring |
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| professor Keijo Nenonen gave us and our photographers an opportunity to participate in this book project partly... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Green amazonite granite in Muurame . . . . . . . . . 194 Finnish gemstones.... . 296 Smoky quartz of the Laitila rapakivi granite . . . . 100 Chalcedony in Vuotso . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 Graphic granite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Finnish Lapland. For almost twenty years he acted as an examiner of the gemmological courses in Finland, |
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| Most sixteenth-century maps depict Newfoundland as an archipelago, which it was thought to be by explorers...Foxtrap mine Manuels River occurrence Kelligrews quarries Colliers River copper occurrence Turks Gut copper...(Blo-mi-don) mine Cliff mine, Lower Drill Brook mine, Upper Drill Brook mine Indian Head labradorite occurrence...occurrences Diamond Cove occurrence Petites–Rose Blanche granite Hope Brook (Chetwynd) mine 162 162 162 162 Labrador...pyrophyllite, chromemica rock ('virginite'), marble, granite, and volcanic rocks. Rock cuts along highways and |
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| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Granite-Rhyolite family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...they may be used. It is hoped that it will stimulate an interest in, and a search for, valuable geological...volcanic activity. ROCK: Any mass of matter forming an essential part of the earth. It may be inorganic...and pumice-are composed mainly of mineral matter in an unorganized or amorphous form. Others-such as coal...gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc, which play such an important part in human activities and human welfare |
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| COMPANY OF CANADA, LIMITED TORONTO <5 = MINERALOGY AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY-:OF MINERALS...mineral species an attempt is made to select for the student all that he requires for an elementary acquaintance...41. THe 3 : HoLosyMMETRIC ORTHORHOMBIC System. an es 44 : CLASS 333 37. THE 38. 39 40 : CLASSES...; . IN PARALLEL BIREFRINGENCE . DISPERSIONS 8. AN THE THE AND a: . BISECTRICES OF CRYSTALS ...consist either of inorganic substances, such as granite, or of organic substances, such as coal. In the |
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| accomplishments of the Division during the fiscal year. As an index of its usefulness, the increase of 55 percent...of $1,166,909,000. The Division of Mines has held an important position by providing the public with authoritative...the fiscal year amounted to $28,963.55, which is an increase of 55 percent over the previous year. There...000. It is apparent that the Division has played an important role in increasing the wealth of the state...Resources Code: "2203. The State Mineralogist shall make an annual report to the Director for transmission to |
