 | | Journal (issue) | | cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...considering the historic importance of copper mining in Arizona, native copper would be the logical choice for... And in fact, a group of fourth graders at the Copper Creek Elementary School in Oro Valley, spearheaded...difference between native copper and copper ore composed of many different copper-containing minerals (e...mining industry support) to propose designating copper as the official State metal rather than mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | Number 5 The JllilpillaB Jlline Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico .............................................with malachite, 5.4 cm, from the Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico. Fine Minerals International specimen;...the mines and minerals of Mexico is devoted entirely to the Milpillas mine, a relatively new locality...quantities. We published a preliminary report on the mine by Tom Moore and Marcus Origlieri back in 2008,...specimens; they visited Milpillas and went underground with the miners. Since the mine has now shut down permanently |  | Del Rio-Salas, Rafael, Ochoa-Landín, Lucas, Valencia-Moreno, Martín, Calmus, Thierry, Meza-Figueroa, Diana, Salgado-Souto, Sergio, Kirk, Jason, Ruiz, Joaquin, Mendívil-Quijada, Héctor (2017) New U–Pb and Re–Os geochronology of Laramide porphyry copper mineralization along the Cananea lineament, northeastern Sonora, Mexico: Contribution to the understanding of the Cananea copper district. Ore Geology Reviews, 81. 1125-1136 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.11.029 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Laramide porphyry copper mineralization along the Cananea lineament, northeastern Sonora, Mexico: Contribution...Contribution to the understanding of the Cananea copper district Rafael Del Rio-Salas, Lucas Ochoa-Landı́n, Martı́n...Laramide porphyry copper mineralization along the Cananea lineament, northeastern Sonora, Mexico: Contribution...Contribution to the understanding of the Cananea copper district, Ore Geology Reviews (2015), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...Laramide porphyry copper mineralization along the Cananea lineament, northeastern Sonora, Mexico: Contribution |  | | Journal (issue) | | row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino |  | | Catalog/List | | Janus Calcite on Quartz with Sphalerite Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA 8.5 cm tall...world. The Elmwood Mine is among the world’s exceptional calcite localities. This is a mine that has produced...Azurite with Malachite Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico 15.5 cm tall x 31...specimen from this legendary deposit. Now that the Milpillas Mine has closed, and will never reopen, we can more...landscape of its most famous species; azurite. Milpillas azurites have an inner glow, a magical electrifying |  | | Journal (issue) | | with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...Backcover (above) Stock certificate for the Rowley Copper Mines Company (1914) Dick Morris collection (below)...7 THE COLLECTIONS 1 1 Malcolm Alter Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Mark Kielbaso Jim & Imelda Klein...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...enough, just across the border to the south is Mexico, rieb in active mines where miners are gathering |  | | Journal (issue) | | particularly from the huge silver deposits of Mexico and eru. panish silver mining remade the economy...Record, E Figure 3. Montezuma, the ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, is said to have observed a blazing...employed as forced labor, cobbing out silver ore at a mine in Chihuahua; from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r...mita mestizo E W Figure 18. Indian miners in Mexico, from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r i e a i er (1869)... Figure 20. An engraving of the School of Mines in Mexico City, opened in 1795, from Calderon de la Barca |  | Valencia-Moreno, Martín, Camprubí, Antoni, Ochoa-Landín, Lucas, Calmus, Thierry, Mendívil-Quijada, Héctor (2017) Latest Cretaceous-early Paleogene “boom” of porphyry Cu mineralization associated with the Laramide magmatic arc of Mexico. Ore Geology Reviews, 81. 1113-1124 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.05.005 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralization associated with the Laramide magmatic arc of Mexico Martı́n Valencia-Moreno, Antoni Camprubı́, Lucas...mineralization associated with the Laramide magmatic arc of Mexico, Ore Geology Reviews (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.oregeorev...mineralization associated with the Laramide magmatic arc of Mexico SC RI Martín Valencia-Morenoa*, Antoni Camprubíb...Colosio y Madrid S/N, A.P. 1039, 83000 Hermosillo, Sonora (México) Instituto de Geología, Universidad Nacional...(México) Departamento de Geología, Universidad de Sonora. Luis Donaldo Colosio y Madrid s/n, 83000 GEO |  | | Journal (issue) | | (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica, Mexico---Stephen Blyskal and Sigrid Stewart collection;...Rhodochrosite- Marc & Janis Countiss collection, page 76; Copper-Paul Bordovsky collection, page 33; Elbaite-Jeremy...like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many fortunes have been...ofLeadville, Colorado. Eventually rnoving on through New Mexico and Arizona as a prospector, he leamed some mineralogy...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | SYMPOSIUM august ¥ 22-23,2014 Gold Eagle's Nest Mine, California, USA J «. *.1 DALLAS Mineral Collecting...Year’s Speaker Lineup Brice Gobin Tanzanite: From Mine to Market Dr. Robert Bowell Tsumeb: A Mineralogical...Mibladen Dr. Bruce Cairncross Darkest Copper: Classic and Contemporary Copper and Dr. Robert Bowell Minerals...passionate mineral collector since first setting foot in Santa Eulalia in 1977. He moved to Tucson in 1979 and...collecting has come to focus exclusively on minerals of Mexico. He won the Desautels Trophy in 2006 for the Best |  | | Report (issue) | | the following page) from the open-pit magnesite mine at Podrečany, Czechoslovakia (now just Slovakia)...siderite in the Milpillas mine, Sonora, Mexico. If siderite specimens from Milpillas were present at...taken last autumn from a huge pocket in the Milpillas mine (see the print report coming up in May-June)...== Siderite, 5 cm, from the Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico. Arkenstone specimen; Joe Budd...thumbnail—from a “small recent find” of native copper in the Casapalca mine, Huarochiri Province, Lima Department |  | | Journal (issue) | | KHURSHEED DINSHAW NEVADA PATENT MINE 34 United States’ only active azurite mine. STUART “TATE” WILSON Regular...Azuritecredit) with Malachite,. (photo Milpillas Mine, Mexico : ARKENSTONE specimen now in the Jeff Kremer...of Tiffany Stone are no longer available from the mine at Delta Utah, even though the beryl content is... Mexican miners working underground at Ojuela mine circa 1908. Note safety equipment of the day. IMAGE...have Mexico become a reliable source of mineral specimen wealth – and periodic surprises. Mexico is a |  | | Journal (issue) | | Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...Robert Seeber, 1879–1957] of native copper, silver, calcite with copper inclusions, datolite, analcite and |  | | Report (issue) | | there is new work afoot at the famous Red Cloud mine in the Trigo Mountains, in the southwestern part...backgrounds on the history of wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, see the essay by Szenics just quoted (“Ed Over...headed by Wayne Thompson (“Bonanza at the Red Cloud mine,” in the SeptemberOctober 1996 issue). The Thompson...notable wulfenite would be found at the Red Cloud mine. But 14 years ago Robert Bell, a mineral collector...collector who lives in Kansas, purchased the mine anyway, and now he has contracted for experienced field man |  | | Report (issue) | | a whiff of Mexico too. There are many good things here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district...blue topaz: Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....impressive: Axinite, 5 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....County, especially from the Stewart mine. And from the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County...(besides plenty of elbaites) such rarities from that mine as cassiterite, hambergite, and a large, superb |  | | Journal (issue) | | Chalcopyrite (twin), El Cobre mine, Concepciandel Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico, 2.2 x 2.1 x 1.6 cm, Alex Schauss...recognition in their state or region. Silver, Hongda mine, Lingquin County, Shanxi Province, China, 3.2x2...MINERALOGY Vol.45, No.3 Page 5 Gahnite, Franklin mine, Sussex County, New Jersey, 2.1 x 2.2 x 2.1 cm,...Alex Schauss Collection. Ericaite, Boulby Potash mine, Loftus, Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England, 3...species. 4 cm, Electric Blue Pocket, Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, Tony Potucek specimen, Jeff Scovil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the nonexistent In 1975, the Santo Niño and Santa Elena veins were argentite. Acanthite formed as...Juan de Rayas in Guanajuato (Mexico) and has become the richest silver mine in the world, in more recently...ceased vein. The San Juan production by the de Rayas mine in time of World War II. Guanajuato also In 1946...very city In Morocco, the of Oberschlema Bou Azzer mine, itself, which finally already very had to be relocated...and east of Schlema, 2014 Tucson show. The Imiter mine began its modern producing many quality specimens |  | | Report (issue) | | Maria, Mariquita, Milpillas October, 1994 Bootprints Along the Cordillera Porphyry Copper Deposits from... September 19, 1994 Dear Participants: Welcome to Mexico and Sonora. and beneficial to you. I hope this trip...Caridad, Pilares, Cananea, Maria, Mariquita, Milpillas" is intended to be a brief introduction to...porphyry molybdenum deposits of northern Sonora. and breccia copper- It will point out the salient features...deposits and the physical aspects of undeveloped copper prospects, which will become mines in the near |  | | Journal (issue) | | Issue President’s Message 2&4 Officers 3 Milpillas Azurite Story 5-9 State Mineralogy Books 10-15...28-30 Our Affiliates 31 Mimetite, Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Mexico, 2.4 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm, Alex Schauss Collection...Chapter Newsletter: Get it While You Can: the Milpillas Azurite Story by Bob Carnein A Lake George Club...exorbitant amount of money for an azurite specimen from Mexico (Figures 2, 3). The price was in the very low 3-figures...to answer that question and show you why the Milpillas mine is one of the great contemporary mineral localities |  | | Report (issue) | | show Jordi also scored something interesting from Mexico and something else from Brazil, and now all of...==== Co-rich calcite, 7.8 cm, from the Oumlil mine, Bou Azzer, Ouarzazate, Morocco. Fabre Minerals...Silver on actinolite, 5.4 cm, from the Bouismas mine, Bou Azzer, Ouarzazate, Morocco. Fabre Minerals...========== About three years ago the Bouismas mine at Bou Azzer surprised the collecting world by producing...“from an exceptional find in 2010” in the Bouismas mine, show much stouter, withal a little elongated, metallic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NOTE Late Cretaceous porphyry copper mineralization in Sonora, Mexico: Implications for the evolution...evolution of the Southwest North America porphyry copper province Fernando Barra & Victor A Valencia Received:...Abstract Two porphyry Cu-Mo prospects in northern Sonora, Mexico (Fortuna del Cobre and Los Humos) located within...that are parallel to the paleo-trench. Porphyry copper mineralization follows the inland migration trend...Laramide orogeny. Introduction In the Andean porphyry copper province, which holds the highest concentration |  | | Catalog/List | | 1/18/21 11:02 AM Quartz and Hematite Jinlong Iron Mine, Longchuan, Guangdong, China 7.5 cm tall x 11 cm...AM Malachite on Quartz with Shattuckite Omaue Mine, Opuwo Rural, Kunene Region, Namibia 7.6 cm tall...1/18/21 11:02 AM Scheelite on Muscovite Pingwu Beryl Mine, Mt. Xuebaoding, Pingwu Co., Mianyang, Sichuan,...example, mined 25 years ago from the Pingwu Beryl Mine, is one of the most remarkable of the species. Scheelite...indd 16 1/18/21 11:02 AM Rhodonite Morro da Mina Mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil 8 cm |  | | Journal (issue) | | *Continued on p. 258 COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered...Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s finest copper specimen. It was part of the Donald C. Gabriel collection...fine minerals on DVD wilensky Fluorite, Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Wilensky Fine Minerals...Mountain, Alaska, by hardy prospectors looking for copper in the early 1900s. The epidote specimens occur...and Other Minerals from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona Chapter authors: Les |  | | Journal (issue) | | AZURITES 16 Part I: Electric blues from the Milpillas mine. By Bob Jones 16 PREHISTORIC TEXAS Lubbock...others, at an auction. I was told it was taken from a mine in Alaska called Aurora Borealis in the ’60s. I...on, there is an old mine adit bored into a sheer rock wall. Beyond the old mine, there are spectacular...from the Milpillas Mine T Story by Bob Jones he azurite specimens recently mined in Mexico are the...azurite. But this recent source of azurite, the Milpillas mine near Cuitaca, about 25 miles south of the Arizona |  | | Journal (issue) | | (a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: 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...discovery of morganite at the famous Corrego do Urucum mine in 1973. Will Johnson collection (I had to trade |
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