 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | net Rose (Pink) Quartz Lavra da Pitorra, Laranjeiras, Galiléia Minas Gerais, Brazil T here can be...be multiple reasons for including rose quartz crystals in your collection. One that immediately comes to...remarkable number of specimens “wear” their rose quartz crystals as halos, crowns, overgrowths, sashes...found on larger crystals or masses of smoky, milky, or colorless quartz, some exceeding 30 cm in size. This...intriguing and decidedly unique. Although the rose quartz crystals themselves scarcely reach 3 cm in size |  | | Journal (issue) | | Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Lower left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from...Andrea Bartorelli: Minerals and Precious Stones of Brazil. Other important references (if any) for individual...da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson collection (I had to buy many unwanted...Morganite beryl, 7.5 cm, from near Araçuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The find predates the discovery of morganite...to get this specimen, a complete floater, for my Brazil collection); Tom Spann photo. Reference: Cassedanne |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pennsylvania 17363 john@jwkustos.com Figure 1. Smoky quartz gwindel, 12.2 cm, from the Mont Blanc massif...are characterized by being flattened, are usually smoky in color, and appear to be twisted about a vertical...reason they are commonly referred to as twisted quartz. The name gwindel is an obscure German word for...but it is lacking in the stouter and far tougher quartz crystal. Figure 4. Schorl crystal, 6.5 cm long...specimen and photo. Of particular interest to me are quartz crystals that are bent. My interest in these came |  | | Catalog/List | | ‘normal’ habit, often in conjunction with euhedral Quartz crystals. The potential for new discoveries and...sideways as well as up. This form is sometimes seen in Quartz, but very rarely in Tourmaline. The rough exterior...matrix and is accompanied by a partially euhedral Smoky Quartz crystal. The Phenakite, measuring 0.9 inches...sub-parallel prisms of a uniform pink with minor smoky coloration on exterior surfaces and terminations...amounts of light pink at the base that picks up a smoky cast and later a few pale green areas at the pyramidal |  | | Book | | ltatiaia, Conseilheiro Pena, Governador Valadares, Brazil (Roger Titeux collection, France) 4 inches. Above:...collection) 6 inches. Right: Rutile in quartz, lbitiara, Bahia, Brazil (Yves Gillet collection, France) 1...2 inches. Preceding pages: A Tourmaline, Minas Gerais, Brazil (4.2 inches) B Tourmaline, Queen Mine, San...case of rhodochrosite. 10 Amazonstone and smoky quartz, Lake George, Park Co., Colorado (Coil family-...levels of artistry with much harder minerals such as quartz, carnelian, lapis-lazuli, etc. Phenicians, Cretans |  | | Book | | 1982 Jules Roger Sauer ” Foreword For years Brazil has been the major producer of colored stones in...metamorphic rocks, the variety of gem deposits in Brazil is almost infinite. In addition to the mineral...assemblage one might expect from pegmatite dikes, Brazil also produces a very significant output of diamonds...written in English, and beautifully illustrated. “Brazil, Paradise of Gemstones’, by Jules Roger Sauer,...Century. The book is a showcase ofthe best from Brazil and it makes a handsome evocation of what is beautiful |  | | Journal (issue) | | 3 FEATURE ARTICLES Gem Pegmatites of Minas Gerais, Brazil: The Tourmalines of the Araquai Districts...tourlnaline thon anywhere else in the world-Minos Gerais, Brazil; the other with (I new locality for red tourmaline-Zcrmbia...thousand miles south, to the "Gem Pegmatites of Minas Gerais." THe first in a series (which Cdntinues in...his extensive travels in the mining regions of Brazil. Mr. Proctor received an M.S. in molecular biology...graduate gemologist. GEM PEGMATITES OF MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL: THE TOURMALINES OF THE ARACUAI DISTRICTS |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Localities: The Barra de Salinas pegmatites, Minas Gerais, Brazil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....Mineral Localities: The Barra de Salinas Pegmatites inas Gerais, Brazil Francisco Müller Bastos Rua Bernardo...Bernardo Guimaraes 1645 Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais 30000 Brazil Brazilian tourmaline has been famous...Brazilian localities is the district of Barra de Salinas, encompassing a gem-bearing pegmatite swarm that...superb specimens today. LOCATION The Barra de Salinas mines are situated 715 kilometers from Belo Horizonte |  | | Book | | BARTORELLI ::• . . .. MINERALS & PRECIOUS STONES OF BRAZIL Sponsored by: VALE MINISTER.IO DA CULTURA ©...Lavra do Sapo, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais. Collection of Alvaro Lucio. Photograph taken...Brasileira do Livro, SP, Brazil) Cornejo, Carlos .Minerals & precious stones of Brazil. Carlos Cornejo, Andrea...3. Minerals - Brazil 4. Minerals- Classification 5. Mineralogy 6. Mineralogy - Brazil - History 7. Precious...Precious stones - Brazil I. Bartorelli, Andrea. II. Title. 09-10025 Cover photograph: Crystal of brazilianite |  | | Book | | until he managed to reach the land of his dreams, Brazil. A specialist in the field of geology and mineralogy...France acquired his remarkable collection of giant quartz crystals, exhibited in the National Museum of Natural...crystals and the remarkable mineral treasures of Brazil, as well as the incredible adventures and difficulties...CRYSTALS GIANT QUARTZ CRYSTALS UNIQUE MINERALS IN WORLD MUSEUMS GEM TREASURES OF BRAZIL Cyan Magenta...Crystals GIANT QUARTZ CRYSTALS UNIQUE MINERALS IN WORLD MUSEUMS GEM TREASURES OF BRAZIL SOFIA–MOSCOW |  | | Journal (issue) | | Spann collection; Tom Spann photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane...Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root photo. Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture...kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler collection; Holly Smith...what I found was chert with occasional well-formed quartz crystals. I had an insatiable curiosity to know...my journey through the mineral world collecting quartz in Arkansas. At the same time I collected fluorescent |  | | Catalog/List | | In the early 1980s Rock began to concentrate on Brazil and Peru with occasional trips to Uruguay, Chile...RRUFF Project. Another was the 7,500+ quartz in Minas Gerais, Brazil: a micromount collection. And of course..............................................196 Brazil..................................................online, visit HA.com/5445 72018 Chrysocolla & Quartz var. “Gem” Chrysocolla Live Oak Pit, Inspiration...Starting Bid: $1,000 72019 ”Gem” Chrysocolla, Quartz & Malachite Miami, Miami-Inspiration District, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Printed by Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas Front cover Quartz scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King...book. Collectors have reveled in the beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County,...Monthly, including one on pseudomorphs and one on quartz in 1888, and he wrote a detailed article for the...were mostly just rocks, beach agates and chunks of quartz, but they still fascinated me. My first “real mineral”...interrupted my collecting. But around 2004, I found some quartz crystals while out fishing. That was the spark |  | | Report (issue) | | from some pegmatites. This specimen, from Minas Gerais, Brazil, is housed in the Deutsches Edelstein Museum...crystals are found in soils and stream gravels in Brazil. On the other hand, at high temperatures and pressures...phosphate type pegmatites, beryl is associated with quartz, microcline, albite, muscovite, biotite, ferrocolumbite...Alpine and hydrothermal veins, it is found with quartz and feldspar. In topaz rhyolites where red beryl...beryl is found, topaz, high-temperature quartz, and bixbyite are common associates of beryl. Alteration |  | | Catalog/List | | 1.5cm across, prettily perched on white needle quartz crystals £1450 2 1 2 LAZULITE (7cm x 6cm x 4cm)...diverging group, very pretty £48 10 AQUAMARINE ON QUARTZ A FELDSPAR (6cm x 4cm X 2.5cm) Shigar, Skardu,...crystal 2cm in length prettily sitting on a matrix of quartz crystals, albite & muscovite crystals. An impressive...group oflustrous silvery enrrolite 1 cm aaoss on quartz crystals A good example of this rarely crystallised...cavity on a tan coloured gossanous quartz matrix. £32 PYRRHOTITE & QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk |  | | Report (issue) | | Topaz, 3.5 cm tall Capao Mine, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil Max and Jon Sigerman collection Robert Weldon...Zimbabwe Blue Topaz: St. Anne's Mine JAN KANIS 60. Brazil: The Land of Topaz DIETMAR SCHWARZ 68. Topaz from...locality in Brazil (Sinkankas, 1981). Two gemmy crystals from the Te6filo Ot6ni region in Minas Gerais, Brazil...the term "topaz" in reference to the olivines, quartz, and other Topaz crystals can be extraordinarily...three huge specimens from Te6filo Ot6ni, Minas Gerais, Brazil, that are housed at the Smithsonian Institution |  | | Journal (issue) | | and Anthony R. Kampf Gem Pegmatites of Minas Gerais, Brazil: Exploration, Occurrence, and Aquamarine...the northeastern section of the state of Minas Gemis, Brazil. The history of gem exploration and m i n...Te6filo Otoni-Marambaia pegmatite district of Minas Gerais. As is common with most aquamarines, the stones...gem pegmatite regions of the 20th century: Minas Gerais, Brazil. With these articles, we hope to take you...what pegmatite gems have meant historically in Brazil and the production of one very important pegmatite |  | | Catalog/List | | Stuart Wilensky August 2020 4 5 Fluorite on Quartz Yaoganxian Mine, Chen Zhou, Hunan Prov., China...tall x 20.3 cm wide 20 21 Amethyst on Quartz Andilamena Quartz Quarries, Andilamena Dist., Toamasina...Romero and Gene Meieran 26 27 Morganite with Quartz Mawi, Laghman Prov., Afghanistan 8 cm tall x 15...9 cm diameter 38 39 40 Spessartine with Smoky Quartz Grossular Garnet Tongbei, Fujian Prov., China...Germany 30.5 cm tall x 16.5 cm wide 42 43 Quartz with Halloysite Inclusions Cabiche, Municipal de |  | | Journal (issue) | | com Frontcover Smoky quartz with amazonite, 11.8 cm, from the "Smithsonian packet," Smoky Hawk claim, Florissant...most farnous collector species like amazonite, smoky quartz, rhodochrosite, fl uorite, gold and silver minerals...this cabinet by a characteristic sample of wbite quartz, interspersed with gold, but the owner of the mine...another in wbich the weight of gold was equal to the quartz. This shows how easy it is for a royal cabinet...three-fourths of an inch lang. Another wonder is a quartz crystal, tipped with sbining gold; and other mineral |  | | Report (issue) | | with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993 extraLapis English...and Valuable: Cuprian Tourmaline from Paraiba, Brazil ....... 47 Brian C. Cook Discovery ♦ Technology... nomically feasible, the discovery in Parafba, Brazil of cuprain blue elbaite (article page 47) could...a peculiar quartz-diopside rock type that consists of ab solutely white diopside, quartz and calcite...elbaite group from the Pederneira Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil. The bottom of the group was likely corroded |  | | Journal (issue) | | twins from Schlaggenwald in Bohemia, a large smoky quartz crystal from the Tyrolean Zillertal and a large...totally clear topaz crystal, grown on a group ofsmoky quartz and cleavelandite from Alabashka pegmatite field...totally clear topaz crystal is grown on a group of smoky quartz and cleavelandite, with original label. Photo:...Crystal size up to 9 mm. Mibladen, Morocco Photo 2. Quartz druza, 9 cm high. Pelengichei River, Nether Polar...Berezovskoe Deposit Urals, Russia Photo 9. Intergrowth of quartz crystals (up to 1.5 cm) on actinolite-byssolite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. May/June: Tourmaline on quartz, Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California...November/December: Elbaite on quartz, Barra de Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Hyman and Beverly Savinar...Who’s Who in Mineral Names Berry, R. R., Large Smoky Quartz and Fluorite Crystals from the Holy Moses Pocket... S. Kulinski, 129-31; Locality Information for Quartz with Hematite from China, J. Tron, 412-13 Colombia...64, 14243, 207, 285-86, 36547,431 Connecticut, quartz, 257-61 Connoisseur’s Choice, R. B. Cook, Brookite |  | | Journal (issue) | | . • • • • • • • • • • I 5.00 Rutilated Quarts, Brazil. 3 x 2 ½ x I . Polished curved face. Plus tax •...• • 7.50 Heulandite, Iceland. Xld. on drusy Quartz. 3 x 2 1/2 x 1 ½ . • . . • • • • • . • • 2.00 Cacoxenite...¾ x t ½. . . . . t.50 Colu1ite, Butte. Mass on Quartz. 1 ¾ x 1 ½ . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • . • ..... . . . . . . . 2.00 Artentite, Butte. Xld. on Quartz w . Pyrite. 2 x 2. . . . . . . . . . • • • • ....3.00 Tetrahedrite, Bolivia. Xld. and massive on Quartz. 4 x 2 ½ x 2. • . • • • . 4.00 Niccolite, Ontario |  | | Journal (issue) | | epidote deposits of the Capelinha Region, Minas Gerais, Brazil ......................................315...epidote on matrix, 4.4 cm, from Capelinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gail and Jim Spann collection; Tom Spann...w. FineMineral.com Tourmaline Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil. 19.5 cm Fine Minerals International proudly invites...EPIDOTE DEPOSITS OF THE CAPELINHA REGION, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL Andrea Bartorelli1 Carlos Cornejo2 Mario...mid-1960s, the Capelinha region in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, has become world-famous for producing beautiful |  | | Journal (issue) | | the CapelinhaMalacacheta Area (State of Minas Gerais, Brazil)..........................................Selection of Superb Gem Minerals recently acquired in Brazil. Also the Finest Dark Blue-Green Amazonite Groups...HOLESALE ONLY 206 SPECIALIZING IN AMAZONSTONE & SMOKY QUARTZ SPECIMENS Paterson, N .J. 07 5 0 5 FINE MINERALS...southern part of the district in veins of massive grey quartz. September—October, 1974 Table 1 List of vein...hematite F e2 0 3 kaolinite A l 2 (Si2 0 5 )(0 H ), quartz S i0 2 siderite FeCO, wolframite (Fe,Mn) W 0 4 |
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