 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Margabal Mine Entraygues-sur-Truyère, Aveyron, France Wendell E. Wilson The Mineralogical Record...Pavillon Attignat, Montrevel, France F-01340 ericasselborn@free.fr The Margabal mine has become a modern classic...metatorbernite-rimmed meta-autunite. LOCATION The Margabal mine is located on the northeastern flank of a wooded...the town of Entraygues-sur-Truyère (pronounced “Awn-trayg-soor-Treeair”) in the Aveyron department, Midi-Pyrénées...Midi-Pyrénées Region of southern France (lat. 2° 349 110, long. 44° 379 340). The site is in the craggy |  | | Report (issue) | | partial dehydration) from the Margabal mine, Entraygues, Aveyron Department, France. 1 ==================...Torbernite, 5.3 cm, from the Margabal mine, Entraygues, Aveyron, France. Trinity Minerals specimen and...and photo. This small uranium mine, in a small deposit discovered during a survey by the French Atomic...Kingdom was published, a picture therein of a Margabal torbernite was accompanied by Desautels’ mournful...locality began in June 1997 when, somewhere in the old mine, about 1,000 fine specimens were recovered, with |  | | Journal (issue) | | Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...collections. Particular reference is made to Cap Blanc (France), at a settlement dating back 17,000 years; Magdalensburg...Magdalensburg (Carinthia, Austria), where a series of quartz crystals were found at a settlement that can be...(Lombardy, northem Italy), a transparent and perfect quartz crystaldoubly terminated and about 2.5 cm in diameter-was...foothills of the Lombardy Alps (Pezzotta, 1999), where quartz occurs in a deposit very similar to that of the |  | | Journal (issue) | | $6.00 Descloizite vs. Mottramite from the Whale Mine, Goodsprings District, Clark Co., Nevada Tony Nikischer...recently acquired a stash of material from the Whale Mine, a rather obscure and defunct locality in the Goodsprings...Mining District of Clark County, Nevada. The Whale Mine consisted of underground workings about 400 feet...Specimens labeled as “cuprodescloizite” from the Whale Mine date back at least as far back as the late 1940s...descloizite (Castor, 2004). Figure 1: A typical Whale Mine specimen labeled as mottramite. It occurs as densely |  | | Journal (issue) | | M11se11111 ofVic10ria Associate Editors The Daydream Mine, Silverton, N.S.W. John D. Leach .................European correspondent. Pierre-Nicolas is weU known in France as a writer on mineralogical topics and is the...sapphires, rubies, zircon, topaz, tourmaline, garnets, quartz and many other minerals used as gemstones. ln 9Chapters...1 .2 m deep) at the southern end. GROSMONT MICA MINE Prospectors first opened this 2-4 m thick pegmatite...as several others in the area are corn posed of quartz, plagioclase (albite, sometimes with a clenveln11dite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Joel A. Bartsch Houston Museum of Nat. Sci. Houston...Schwab Orleans, France Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook...from the Eagle’s Nest mine in Placer County, California (half of them with quartz matrix) were taken. The...Rose” rhodochrosite specimen from the Sweet Home mine (pictured in vol. 24, no. 3, p. 228, Fig. 24), and...Nepheline Opal Paranatrolite Pectolite Polylithionite Quartz Rinkite Sazhinite-(Ce) Serandite Shkatulkalite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris , France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orleans , France The Trimouns Quarry, Luzenac, Ariege, France ...................... 225...Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg...mm-All from the Trimouns talc quarry near Luzenac, France (see the article beginning on page 225). Freddy...dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium minerals, as well |  | | Book | | Western Europe Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany (Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain...collections; by way of contrast, collecting efforts in France and Scandinavia tended to be restricted to the...0 _ Finland 300 __,km • Berlin • Paris France ,-L.J ) ortugai e Madrid -,,.J ( Lisbon \...22 Quartz (Rock crystal), of Dauphine habit, from the classic locality at Bourg d'Oisans, France. The...particularly interesting collection of miners' lamps and mine surveying instruments. Ancient and mediaeval mining |  | | Journal (issue) | | _, COVER: ELBAITE with albite, lepidolite and quartz, 4.5 cm, a historic specimen from the Grotta d'Oggi...minerals began early, in the Limousin region of France, where he was born on May 5, 1933. Limousin is...such as Chanteloube (beryls) and Compreignac (smoky quartz). His interest blossomed after vis iting the...These included visits to many mines and deposits in France and elsewhere. For Pierre it was a kind of golden...appointed Resident Geologist at the Copper Queen mine for three years, including the responsibility for |  | | Book | | many people who, on seeing a crystal of pyrite or quartz, can scarcely believe that it is the work of Nature...equals 2.54 centimeters. Carbon Diamond Silica Quartz and its varieties Opal Amethyst Common or rare...Prehnite 44 Pronsite 64 Pyrite 60 Pyromorphite 78 Quartz and its varieties . 16 Realgar 66 Rhodocrosite.... ; L *'/ I . ' ' 1 Silica Quartz and its varieties Quartz consists of a combination of the two...a gangue in metallic veins or in veins of pure quartz. However, really fine crystals are harder to find |  | | Journal (issue) | | Moore Tpmoore1@cox.net COVER: ELBAITE with smoky quartz and cleavelandite, 14.5 cm, from Paprok, Nuristan...Mineralogical Record, volume 48, September–October, 2017 Quartz var. Gwindel, Göscheneralp, Switzerland, 10 cm...Monaco budil@monaco.mc www.budil-minerals.com Quartz var. Gwindel, Tiefengletscher, Switzerland, 10...of the pegmatites are simple, consisting only of quartz, feldspars and micas; others are zoned, with a... volume 48, September–October, 2017 Figure 2. Mine workings at Paprok. Peter Lyckberg photo. In the |  | | Book | | ........................................... 29 France .................................................uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...was about 270 tU. In Argentina the Sierra Pintada mine had been in standby status since 1999 and was expected...recovered from mine rehabilitation activities; small amounts were likewise recovered during mine remediation |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Joel A. Bartsch Houston Museum of Nat. Sci. Houston...Schwab Orleans, France Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke, Northbrook...on matrix, 12 cm, from the Elura lead-zinc-silver mine, No. 1 Level, Cobar, New South Wales, Australia...noticed about the previous issue on the Sweet Home mine was the peel-off temporary cover. The story behind...red is what it was all about for the Sweet Home mine! Had the rhodochrosites not been found in that stunningly |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for...Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pyromorphite from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho; Wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Arizona; Calcite and Fluorite...Fluorite from the Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway;...in Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from the Brumado mine, Brazil; Elbaite from Nuristan...from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald from the Coscuez mine, Colombia. OUTSIDE BACK COVER: Beryl crystals: heliodor...aquamarine (right), 5.1 inches, from the Pioniera mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Freilich Collection. ♦ 4 |  | | Book | | ................................ .......... 47 France ........... .....................................vvastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...Saskatchewan, is the world's largest high-grade uraniu1n mine. The ore from that ,nine is crushed and treated...to start production at the Talvivaara Ni-Zn-Cu-Co mine, ,vhere bio-heap leaching is used to extract metals...Production is expected to grow when the Four Mile ISL mine comes on strea1n, and planned expansion of Olympic |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Joel A. Bartsch Houston Museum of Nat. Sci. Houston...Schwab Orleans, France Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook...80906 719-634-0635 (By Appt. Only) Amazonite & Smoky Quartz Fine Colorado Minerals Genesis Epoch Mel &...719-442-6630 Producing Colorado Amazonite & Smoky Quartz. Beginner to Advanced, W orldwide M inerals...gratifying. One young mineralogist, a former student of mine, said that although he had never met Mike, he had |  | | Catalog/List | | extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans...Atacama Desert to collect Underground Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia, 1993. "RPG," Artigas, Uruguay...Ed Swoboda to mine University of Arizona RRUFF Project. Another was the 7,500+ quartz in Minas Gerais..............................................145 France .............................................. |  | | Journal (issue) | | Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach...York circulation manager Articles The Boltsbum mine, Weardale, County Duiham, England ................ Bariand Arsenate minerals of the Sterling Hill mine: an overview .....................................The Mineralogical Record Jan uary-February, 1982 mine Weardale, CpuntyJ)urham, England t h e B o l...1800’s, fine specimens have issuedfrom the Boltsburn mine and are still occasionally available today. W |  | | Journal (issue) | | Care! ARIZONA WULFENITE Down Deep in the Rowley Mine GEM GARNETS Popular for Centuries THE BALTIMORE...Show FIELD TRIP: www.rockngem.com Diamond Hill Quartz Winter Rockhounding in South Carolina RG_RED_cover_0914...toxic. This 6 cm spray of needles is from the Herja mine (Baia Mare, Maramures), Romania. (Gerhard Brandstetter...sense FIELD TRIP by Steve Voynick Diamond Hill Quartz ................................. 52 Underground...in the Rowley................... 22 This Arizona mine is a specimen treasure trove Winter rockhounding |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Schwab Orléans, France Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook...Number Two Articles Cuprian elbaite from the Batalha mine, Paraíba, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...by W. E. Wilson Stibnite from the Wuling antimony mine, Jianxi province, China . . . . . . . . . . . ....etch pits and corrosion surfaces, from the Medra mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Keith Proctor collection; |  | | Book | | known to 1umankind since prehistoric times such as quartz 1nd gold, but also ~minerals first described quite...Namibia and Chessy, France. Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...secondary. It occurs with pyrite, arsenopyrite, quartz, sylvanite, calaverite, krennerite and other minerals |  | | Book | | known to humankind since prehistoric times such as quartz and gold, but also minerals first described quite...Namibia and Chessy. France. Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...secondary. It occurs with pyrite, arsenopyrite, quartz, sylvanite. calaverite. krennerite and other minerals...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz or cinnabar. Current practice most often names...polished mineral surface, expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage...purine-porphyrine group). a nickel porphyrine. With quartz. rutile, piemontite, sursassite, ardennite, Triclinic...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO |
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Margabal Mine, Entraygues-sur-Truyère, Rodez, Aveyron, Occitanie, France