 | | Journal (issue) | | the Bement collection was particularly weak in golds, especially those of American origin. Louis Pope...MINERALS, itX'LR 'l!-;\.JEI .Y NIC11 IN CRYSTALLIZED GOLD l-\ND S IIJVER., OF A. DOHRMANN, Eso.J OF SAN FRANClSCO...Dohrmann auction catalogue (1886), showing California gold specimens: (35) Tuolumne County; 3.18 cm (36) Tuolumne... Jtmuar,,~Febn,ar,•, 1992 WFW WEW Figure 3. Gold from the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California:...traded a century later to William Larson. Figure 4. Gold from the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California: | | | Journal (issue) | | the Bement col lection was particularly weak in golds, especially those of American origin. Louis Pope...Dohrmann auction catalogue (1886), showing California gold spec imens: (35) Tuolumne County; 3.18 cm (36)...volum e 23, January-F ebruary, 1992 Figure 3. Gold from the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California:...a century later to W illiam Larson. F igure 4. Gold from the Grit mine, El Dorado County, California:...bequeathed to Harvard. Figure 5. The Grit mine gold specimen, 8.26 cm, shown as no. 55 on Plate I of |  | | Report (issue) | | short, I’m keeping up with my what’s-new duties, and am now fully vaccinated, as are all of my colleagues...you will find that the Daoping and Yangshuo lead mines are accessed from opposite sides of the same mountain...from June 21 to June 27, since the Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines Show has already been cancelled for 2021. Meanwhile...“gray uglies”), but they are hefty examples of a gold-bearing telluride from the long-gone type locality...mine, Zamanti River area, Denizovasi, Yahyali district, Kayseri Province, central Anatolia region, Turkey |  | | Book | | FRANCE; Curator, School of Mines, Paris 4 F. HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, EAST GERMANY...H. J. SCHUBNEL, Professor and author, School of Mines, Paris, FRANCE ¥& JOHN SINKANKAS, author and collector...epidote are omitted, how is it possible to select two golds, two silvers, two rhodochrosites, and two siderites...localities: the Egyptians were working gem and gold mines on the Upper Nile River, the Greeks were busy...the civilized world was now widely using bronze, gold, silver, and lead, no systematic method for the | | | Book | | FRANCE; Curator, School of Mines, Paris ^ F* HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, east Germany...j. schubnel, Pro fessor and author, School of Mines, Paris, FRANCE ^ JOHN sinkankas, author and collector...epidote are omitted, how is it possible to select two golds, two silvers, two rhodochrosites, and two siderites...localities: the Egyptians were working gem and gold mines on the Upper Nile River, the Greeks were busy...the civilized world was now widely using bronze, gold, silver, and lead, no systematic method for the |  | | Book | | minerals. From precious native elements such as silver, gold and copper to complex silicates such as vesuvianite...pride of any geological collection. From the green, gold and blue iridescent sheen of labradorite to the...(bottom), also known for obvious reasons as 'fool's gold'. stone lying there. To start with, they probably...of an ancient treasure, lapis lazuli. Copper and gold were first used at least 10,000 years ago. They...times. colour makes them easy to see. Copper and gold were both too soft to make tools from, but the discovery |  | | Journal (issue) | | finding good ones mounts. Which ms me wonder why I am sharing the joys of single crystal collecting \ this...ahead. If by wri about this aspect of the hobby I am able to make some converts, it be more than worth...IC A L A S S O C IA T IO N NEW MUSEUM DIRECTORY I am pleased to announce the publication this month, by...Williams, 1979); and the asbestos mines at Black Lake and Thetford Mines, Quebec. The belt also hosts many... 23, 15-18. BUISSON, G., and LEBLANC, M. (1985) Gold in carbonatized ultramafic rocks from ophiolite |  | | Book | | (bottom), also known for obvious reasons as ‘fool's gold'. and there in the stone you may actually see fossils...deep underground, such as those in the Austrian Tyrol and in Cornwall. Again, locating these sources required...practical dug mines to get at them underground. geological skill as they Copper and gold were first used...great unconformities (see Reading the Copper and gold were both too soft to geology book, De Re Metallica...as nickel years and some brand new - and is and gold that combine readily with rarely more than 10km/6 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | focus. There have been individual species such as gold and azurite and geographical areas such as Africa...sulfosalts from now exhausted Cornish and German mines; silver from Kongsberg, Norway, and various German...epidote and beryl, variety emerald; Norwegian anatase and zircon; Portuguese apatite, cassiterite, quartz...and arsenopyrite; Hungarian stibnite; Romanian golds—the list goes on and on, far beyond the horizon...collections, specimen-specific digs, and currently active mines and quarries. There will be the usual high-quality |  | | Journal (issue) | | and dealers. In 1972, he made a trip to the ore mines of Peru where he acquired many imported specimens...Dixie mine in Idaho Springs for leaf gold and crystallized gold in 1976, and that same year began importing...includes a fantastic suite of leaf and crystallized golds, fluorites, and rhodochrosites, as well as suites...suites of minerals from Mt. Antero, the ore mines of the San Juan Mts. and the Leadville area, amazonite...Calabrian dialect of that language), about Colorado gold and its localities for the mineral magazine, Rivista |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: The Bastnas Mines, Riddarhyttan Ore Field, Bergslagen District, Vastmanland, Sweden ......BASTDAS ffiIDES RIDDARHYTTAD ORE FIELD, BERGSLAGED DISTRICT, VASTffiADLADD, SillEDED Lennart Ohman Hi:igviltsvagen...south-central Sweden, where tens of thousands of different mines have been worked for nearly a thousand years. Iron...fields, with approximately 300 large and small mines. Iron ore mining began in the mid-14th century,...certainty from the mid-14th century, making this district one of the oldest in Sweden. Though the mine was |  | | Journal (issue) | | JO· AUTUMN'" WINTER 1991 u K journal of mines & minerals CONTENTS issue no. I O·autumn-winter...JJ/oreto11 S.K. Howell ------28 ------STE-MARIE-AUX-MINES 1991 D.M. Schofield EDITORIAL M.P. Cooper· D...CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS (0909) 476906 l'KJournal of Mines & 1\lincr~lsNo. 10 -\- 1991 GUEST EDITORIAL The...Society Symposium a conference weekend at the Peak District Mining Museum in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. That...C'i.rcnJ rhc1r \\Jffll ~rtidc\. I· K Journal of Mines & Mineral, No. 10 -2- rhJnk, UJ all the mcmhc" |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Creek Geosyncline succession, After Rum Jungle District Special Sheet, Bureau of Mineral Resources~ 1960..."Vorgraphit", a precursor of true graphite. Patches of anatase up to 1.5 m across are common; these appear to...are commonly closely associated with patches of anatase derived from what appears to have been either ...abundance are: dolomite, quartz, graphite, tourmaline, anatase, chalcedony, sericite, and muscovite (rare). Dolomite... 13. Alteration of titanomagnetite (white) to anatase (grey.) D. D. H. S 38, 228'. × 16. Polished section |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..........191 by W. E. Wilson The Port Radium district, Northwest Territories, Canada .................Famous mineral localities: the Ouro Preto topaz mines ..................................................long and hard at the portal or shaft of abandoned mines and wondered if far better material might not be...least a short distance into aban doned mines. Abandoned mines certainly aren’t hard to find. Colorado...000—most of them underground metal mines. The U.S. Bureau of Mines estimates that there are well over |  | | Journal (issue) | | Advertising Manager Thomas P. Moore Tpmoorel@cox.net A gold specimen from the Spanish Dry Diggings, Eldorado...Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See the article...mineral room wall. And in 2016 we began presenting gold medallions-large pins with a magnetic clasp--that...IHI1IJNGA1llY. Figure 1. "Internal view of the silver mines near Schemnitz, in Hungary" published by C. Brightly...Hodrusa-Hamre (in the Banska Stiavnica mining district) is also the type locality for hodrusite. V INTRODUCTION |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mandarino Famous mineral localities: The Annaberg District, Lower A u stria ...............................GERMANY 2 Am Hechtsberg quarry, Hausach NAMIBIA 10Khorixas UNITED STATES 3Stewart mine, Pala district, California...schumacherite Pegmatite 4 White Queen mine, Pala district, California NEW OCCURRENCES Pucher shaft, Schneeberg...al. (1993). Am Hechtsberg mine, Germany Blass and Graf (1995) report namibite from the Am Hechtsberg quarry...has been identified from the Stewart mine, Pala district, with associated chrysocolla and pseudomalachite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Number Three Articles The Lonavala Quarry, Pune District, Maharashtra, India . . . . . . . . . . . . ....others?). In 1986 the Perth Mint (actually the Gold Corporation, a company wholly owned by the government...Australian gold bullion and proof coins bearing the images of famous named Australian gold nuggets—a different...beautiful coins are not an alloy—they are pure 99.99% gold. In 1987 the original four nuggets were portrayed...unfortunately ended there; since 1989 Australian gold bullion coins have carried depictions of kangaroos |  | | Book | | edition by a team organized by Prof. Dr. C H R . AM S T U T Z (with additions and corrections by the...completing it more rapidly t h a n I can now; since I am more burdened by work of all kinds t h a n ever before...minerals associated with strongly radioactive ones. I am convinced t h a t in the future much new knowledge...comparative study from colleagues, institutes, and mines; many samples were collected by the writer himself...lead to a new and very voluminous book! I hope and I am convinced t h a t the new form of this book will |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineralogy of the Spring Creek area, Last Chance Mining District, Plumas County, California. Axis, volume 1, number...discovered between 1905 and 1909, the mines of the Last Chance mining district produced significant quantities...the 1920’s. Extensive collecting at the abandoned mines has revealed over 65 mineral species in a complex...infirmaries near the East Group and Central Group mines at Likasi, Kipushi, Lubumbashi, Kakanda and Kambove...hospital at Kolwezi, near the West Group of famous mines, including the Musonoi, Kamoto, Mutoshi, Mupine |  | | Book | | with the originators. Front cover: Hope 's Nose Gold, Torquay , FOV 8mm Specimen & photo: John Hall ...all thei.r skiUs and expertise - wor1h more th,an gold were the.y. We also must ac.knowle.dg-e, f,o r the...hisi9ht hav,e earned medals of pure gold . To mountai.ns, mines and qu,a r,ries and even golden sands...Through Sussvc flint and selenite and even Scottish gold Of ,course the ye:a.rly mineral show is ano,ther...fear the Group is 'there to source that piec,e of gold. For fifty years ,o f f feld trips and fifty years |  | | Journal (issue) | | The crystal, from the collection of the School of Mines, Paris, is about 1.7 cm tall. Photo by Olaf Medenbach...1983 n o t e s f r o m t h e ; EDITOR GOLD ISSUE SOLD OUT! As I write this (mid-January 1983)...issues these days is 7500 copies, but for the special Gold Issue we upped that to 10,000 copies. Nevertheless...at the Tucson Show). I guess there’s nothing like gold to get people’s attention. (See Letters column for...well-known mining engineer and authorRickard toured the mines o f Colorado’s San Juan Mountains on horse back |  | | Book | | ORES— 1. NOBLE OB. PRECIOUS METALS. Gold ..... Telluric Gold .... Platinum . . . .44 Black-band... Ill Page Titanium. Lead. Native Lead 60 Anatase Galena, Sulphuret of Lead 61 Rutile Seleniuret...metallic lustre. We make use of the expressions gold-yellow, brass-yellow, silver-white, tin-white, lead...oxide of titanium, Ti, which occurs as rutile, anatase, and brookite, offers a fine example^f this, as...r-H P 03 dO ^ dj CO oT'p dS co © 8ft ® Po aM •p p 'p .a d TO PR P O > .2 b £ £ o O ■goo d |  | | Book (volume) | | 21 Ilmenite ......... 28 Rutile ......... 34 Anatase ......... 40 Brookite ......... 44 Perovskite ...sphalerite is isotropic: brookite is biaxial, and anatase is optically negative. Melanite garnet has a lower... 814. Ecklebe, F., 1932. Optische Untersuchungen am Zinnerz im Temperaturbereich von 16°-1100°. NeuesJahrb...Econ. Geol., vol. 46, p. 421. Nodop, G., 1956. Anatase, rutile, cassiterite. Hamburger Beitr. angew. Min...Bancroft areas in Ontario, or in the Coimbatore district of Madras. Although originally believed to be |  | | Journal (issue) | | W. E. Wilson Letter from Europe: Ste-Marie-aux-Mines Show ............................494 by M. P. Cooper...enjoyed surreptitiously transporting specimens of gold and gem tourmaline across the border from Mexico...of mica from his Villeneuve mine and Pike lake mines; and a magnificent specimen of an apatite crystal... In the vicinity of the mines, Haycock (1905) notes that: None of the mines are working, the roads are...SPENCE, H. S. (1920) Phosphate in Canada. Canada Mines Branch Publication, 396. W ILSON, W. E. (1990) L’Exposition |  | | Book (edition) | | Brazilianite, 35 mm, Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed...various degrees. less common are malleable (e.g gold). ductile (e.g. copper). sectile (e.g. chalcocite)...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Another problem concerned genetic conditions in the gold-bearing "greenstone" in Abitibi province in northern...Structural Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry AM - American Mineralogist AMG - Ark.iv Mineralogi och |
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