 | | Book | | and a complete Index. Richard M. Pearl COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. Contents Preface => Acknowledgments CHAPTER...extremely helpful. Eva C. Keller, of Colorado Springs, designed one of the difficult illustra- tions...localities. Two hundred such clubs exist just in California, many of them providing junior memberships for...federations—Eastern, Midwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest, California, and Northwest— which in turn are affiliated...the Rocky Mountains, Death Valley, or New England) or from your home county; minerals of your favorite |  | | Book | | always one that has been well opened, such as a mine, a quarry, road or railroad cut, or a cliff. Fresh...should each be in tissue paper, then in raw cotton, and wrapped news- finally in paper. Very fragile...ELEMENTS Arborescent silver on calcite. From Keweenaw County, Michigan, comes this superb example of metal “sculpture...similarity in color precious gem. From Baxter Springs, Kansas. Octahedral galena. This important lead-sulfide... crystal form. fine a specimen from Baxter Springs, Kansas, is of unusual interest. Marcasite dollar | | | Book | | always one that has been well opened, such as a mine, a quarry, road or railroad cut, or a cliff. Fresh...each be wrapped first in tissue paper, then in raw cotton, and finally in news¬ paper. Very fragile specimens...ELEMENTS Arborescent silver on calcite. From Keweenaw County, Michigan, comes this superb example of metal...similarity in color to the precious gem. From Baxter Springs, Kansas. Octahedral galena. This important lead-sulfide...this crystal form. So fine a specimen from Baxter Springs, Kansas, is of unusual interest. Marcasite dollar | | | Book | | always one that has been well opened, such as a mine, a quarry, road or railroad cut, or a cliff. Fresh...each be wrapped first in tissue paper, then in raw cotton, and finally in newspaper. Very fragile specimens...ELEMENTS Arborescent silver on calcite. From Keweenaw County, Michigan, comes this superb example of metal "...similarity in color to the precious gem. From Baxter Springs, Kansas. Octahedral galena. This important lead-sulfide...this crystal form. So fine a specimen from Baxter Springs, Kansas, is of unusual interest. Marcasite dollar |  | | Book (edition) | | • 303 307 PHOTOGRAPHS On cover: top left: Lake Superior agate, Winona, Minnesota; top right: octahedral...from the Alaska mine in Colorado, cubanite from Cuba, kernite from Kern County in California, aragonite from...from the Arabic "powder of the mine" because it came from a silver mine. Perhaps the worst blunder in...volcanoes, in sulfur-bearing waters such as bot springs, and in beds of sulfate minerals, especially gypsum...nearly invisible when immersed. The Greenland deposit is a huge one; the raw material that is quarried |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Alaska mine in Colorado, cubanite from Cuba, kernite from Kern County in California, aragonite from...from the Arabic "powder of the mine" because it came from a silver mine. Perhaps the worst blunder in...volcanoes, in sulfur-bearing waters such as hot springs, and in beds of sulfate minerals, especially gypsum...the aluminum industry. and so the mineral land deposit, now is nearly invisible depleted, Crystals...calcareous sinter? As deposited at Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park, and along the Anio |  | | Journal (issue) | | leading producer. Later, rich strikes were made in California and Australia (from c. 1850) and, later in the...Witwatersrand gold. The richest gold mine for these is Bracken Mine at Evander on the Far East Rand and...suring about 2½cm near Boksburg. in quartz from a mine 2. U.S. Gold: One does not generally think of the...gold for museums and specimen collectors today. California has yielded the very best of these and they have...Some recently mined specimens from Placer County, California measured over 37mm and bore a striking resemblance |  | | Book (edition) | | gypseux = gypsum, Egleston 5 (1892). A16aurach = borax, Dana 7th II, 339 (1951). А1-bentoпite = А1-exchangcd...pyrite, Dana 6th. 85 (1892). Ball iron = siderite + clay, Egleston 312 (1892). Ball jasper = quartz, de Fourestier...мdledgeite, А(in. ('lag. 46, 515 (1982). Barabus = borax, Chudoba 11 (1971). Bar3cite = 6aridile, Цiп. ('lag...Baurach = borax, Dana 7th iI, 339 (1951). Вaиracia = borax, Dana 7th 11, 339 (1951). Ваигад; = borax, Nev...nickclskutleruditc,.11in. .11ng. 38, 988 (1972). Вогасе = borax, Egleston 53 (1692). Bomcic acid = sassolite, Egleston |
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