 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Vesper Peak Garnet Deposit SNOHOMISH COUNTY, WASHINGTON This popular destination peal for mineral...bright orange-brown grossular BART CANNON 1041 100th Street, NE Seattle, Washington 98125 V E S P E R...in the North Cascades of Washington State. The peak is in Snohomish County, 45 miles north east of Seattle...city. History and Ownership The area around Vesper Peak was prospected for pre cious metals in the 1890s...Pat Crane, a mining engineer and mineral collector who lived in the nearby town of Snohomish, located a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | that occur in beautiful specimens in Washington. minerals Washington Mineral Locality Index L A N N Y R...okanoganite-(Y), and zektzerite, all from Washington Pass in Okanogan County —which are known only from the state;...mine in Snohomish County, ferritungstite from Germania mine near Fruitland in Stevens County, and paulingite...from Rock Island Dam near Wenat chee in Douglas County. In addition, many localities pro duce fine-quality...only been known for a decade or two. Whereas metal mining has led to the discovery of some of these mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | History Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu GROSSULAR Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les...University] at 03:53 04 October 2014 Figure 1. Grossular, 7 × 8 cm, from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Les...Québec, Canada. The stepped-growth modification of grossular dodecahedra is commonly observed on Jeffrey mine...devoted to grossular, a personal favorite. The chemical formula of grossular is Ca3Al2Si3O12. Grossular is an...crystal faces may be striated. Other habits of grossular include massive, compact, or granular. Visitors |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Mexico, 57; Washington, 318 185-256 May/June (No. 3) Bastnkite-(Ce), Washington, 454 257-360 July/Aug...July/Aug. (No. 4) Bastnkite, Washington, 457 361440 Sept./Oct. (No. 5) Bearss, G., The Weeks Pegmatite Mine...Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hamp441-512 Nov./Dec. (No. 6) shire, 129-135 Becker, R., Minerals...Horn Cover Photographs Batholith, Okanogan County, Washington, 450-459 January/February: Azurite, Copper...Chip Clark photo. lecting Localities in Western Washington MarchIApril: Labuntsovite, Mont SaintState, 330-334 |  | | Report (issue) | | Grossular Ca3 Al2 (SiO4 )3 c 2001 ° Mineral Data Publishing, version 1.2 Crystal Data: Cubic. Point...Powder Pattern: Georgetown, Placer Co., California, USA. (ICDD 26-292). 2.647 (100), 1.581 (50), 2.959 (25)... 37.35 (1) Georgetown, Placer Co., California, USA; corresponds to (Ca3:00 Fe2+ 0:02 )§=3:02 (Al1:92...the Je®rey mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. In the USA, at Standish, Cumberland Co., Maine, and at the Belvidere...Santa Rosa, Sonoma Co.; on Vesper Peak, Sultan basin, Snohomish Co., Washington. In Mexico, large crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 80 in Passaic County, New Jersey. It also occurs in the Roncari quarry, Hartford County, and at Cheshire...Cheshire, New Haven County, Connecticut, and in the Hampden quarry, Hampden County, Massachusetts. It has...respectively, and at the Cornwall iron mine, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. It has been found in individual...Rockville Crushed Stone Company quarry, Montgomery County, Maryland. Small prehnite crystals to 1 cm are...the Gouverneur Talc Company No. 4 quarry, Lewis County, New York. Prehnite is reported from many localities |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 4,000 meters above sea level in the Andes. The district is an important producer of gold, silver, and...SCEPTERS FROM FALL HILL, LITTLE FALLS, HERKIMER COUNTY, NEW YORK. S. C. ChmizDerlainand W J. Hladysz,...bank of the Mohawk River at Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York. Cavities mineralized with quartz, dolomite...as euhedral crystals more than 10 cm on edge; grossular in brown crystals up to 4 cm in diameter; phlogopite...June 2016 CUBIC AND OCTAHEDRAL GARNETS: MARYLAND, USA, BRAZIL, AND ITALY. E. E. Foord and V i? King, 906 |  | | Catalog/List | | ~~ite micro xls with calcite. MM 1.50/TN 2.00 GROSSULAR ... Teenage Crush, N.Cascades, WA. Colorless,brown...red micro xls. r!M 4.00/TN 6.00 QUARTZINCLUSIONS Vesper Creek, WA. Clear quartz xls with blebs and distorted...MM5.00 to 10.00/ TN 5.00 to 15.00 ZEKTZERITE... Washington Pass, WA. Nearly complete single xls from .25...on quartz xls. MM2.00/TN S.OO/M9.00 ZIRCON... Washington Pass, WA. Excellent micro xls on feldspar xls...CLINOZOISITE... Vesper Peak, WA. Free standing .1 to .4 inch xls. Some associated with quartz and grossular. MM1 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (pomegranate) for the red color of its seeds. Grossular, also based on the Latin, is from Peter J. Modreski...the pale green color of the berry and of some grossular; but this name is actually predated in use by...now considered just a varietal term for orange grossular. Hessonite takes its meaning from the Greek ‘inferior’-meaning...mineralogist; and uvarovite is after Count s. s. Uvarov. Grossular and spessartine were formerly sometimes spelled...Connecticut (grossular), and Idaho (star garnet); and the state mineral of Connecticut. Garnet (grossular, variety |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | prospect four miles south of New Idria i n San Benito County. Three other localities are mentioned in the article...calcite from the Howard-Montgomery quarry in Howard County. This locality, a classic for its sulphide minerals...are associated with orangered grossular crystals. Washington Grossular New Y o r k Sphalerite and Quartz...most exciting items to come this way is a 3 mm grossular crys tal found by Bart Cannon, author of Minerals...Violet Anderson of Toronto, Ontario. The grossular is from Vesper Peak, a locality well known for cubic modifications |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | some grossular garnets with H2O contents less than 0.5%. Many colorless to near-colorless grossular garnets...absorbance and peak heights for the spessartine-almandine series (Rossman et al. 1988), for grossular (Rossman...suite of grossular samples used by Rossman and Aines (1991) in their study of OH in grossular, and the...0003-004X/02/0203–307$05.00 307 Sample description Forty-one grossular and ten spessartine-almandine garnets with OH...spectroscopy were analyzed for this study. The grossular garnets range from colorless to green to brown-orange |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 164, l99l The hydrous components in garnets: Grossular-hydrogrossular Gnoncr R. RossrrlN, Rocnn D. Arxts*...Pasadena,California 9 I 125, U.S.A. Ansrucr Grossular garnets from 33 localities were examined for indications...have been identified in the spectra of common grossular,occurring in groups of four to ten bands. Both...grossulartypically contains less than 0.3 wto/oHrO. Grossular from rodingites and low-temperature alteration...content of common, macroscopic garnets of the grossular com- position. Becausethe hydrogarnet substitution |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | S.A. Abstract The calcium-silicate garnets, grossular (Ca3Al2Si3O12), andradite (Ca3Fe3+ 2 Si3O12),...(this issue) of the investigation. Keywords: Grossular, andradite, nominally anhydrous minerals, H2O...investigated the high P-T phase relations of grossular under dry and hydrothermal conditions and discussed...their experimental high P-T investigation of grossular and hydrogrossular. Other hydrogarnets, both end-member...4000 cm–1. For example, the large collection of grossular spectra of Rossman and Aines (1991) were measured |  | | Journal (issue) | | largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection; self-collected...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil...5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado; Karl Warning collection; Jeff Scovil...Pyrite on quartz, 11 cm, Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington. Ex Bruce Oreck collection. Joe Budd photo...natrolite, 5.5 cm, Dallas Gern mine, San Benito County, California. Ex Robert Gill collection. Joe Budd |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. In this issue also: Twin Creeks mine, USA Scott KLEINE, Bryan K. LEES & Malcolm SOUTHWOOD ...Paul Cragan (USA) Malcolm Southwood (Australia) Associated Photographer: Jeff Scovil (USA) Contact: s...specimen from Cut 62 in Twin Creeks mine, Nevada, USA; 9.6 cm high. Azurite Corporation specimen. J. Scovil...orpiment at the Twin Creeks mine in Northern Nevada, USA, and it's subsequent extraction as fine mineral specimens...co-operation between two corporations; one of them the mining company that owns and operates the mine, and the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Co / Munich, Germany Laguna Beach, California, USA tel: +1 949 494 5155 / info@kristalle.com The ...MAY–JUNE 2020 Articles The Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin ......................................$324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription...photographer and book collector, was born in Cook County, Illinois on July 31, 1932, the son of Sophie Klainowski... He worked first as Assistant Director of Cook County Public Aid, 398 On the evening of October 15, |  | | Journal (issue) | | including periodic visits to Elk Creek, Meade County, to collect superb transparent golden barite found...advancing opportunity came up that brought me to Washington state, where I had the pleasure of meeting Bart...to the mineralogy community, and Ray Lasmanis, Washington state’s geologist in the Division of Natural...Mountain range, including: pyrite, quartz, (Vesper Peak) grossular garnet, diopside, clinozoisite, epidote...a good thumbnail specimen. Moving to Tacoma, Washington, also allowed us a chance to join the Pacific |  | | Journal (issue) | | North-West Branch: R. Perrett, FGA South Yorkshire & District Branch: G. A. Massie, FGA Examiners: A. J. Allnutt...nearly gone out of production, had brought gem-mining into the scene again24. The roads that had come...stated that from 1912, carborundum manufactured in USA had replaced powdered corundum because carborundum...evidence for the controls on the growth of vanadium grossular garnets in Kenya R.M. Key, FGA*, andP.G.Hill**...exploration guides for new Abstract vanadium grossular garnet deposits. New data on The physical and |  | | Catalog/List | | Ganes Creek Mine, Innoko Mining District Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Alaska, USA The dimensionality and complexity...Ganes Creek Mine, Innoko Mining District Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Alaska, USA This simplistic and elliptical-shaped...Ganes Creek Mine, Innoko Mining District Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Alaska, USA This Gold nugget is really...Ganes Creek Mine, Innoko Mining District Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Alaska, USA Somewhat flat, but by no...Ganes Creek Mine, Innoko Mining District Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area Alaska, USA There is quite a zoomorphic |  | | Book | | Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson |  | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted |  | | Journal (issue) | | Editorial Boris Z. Kantor Igor V. Pekov John S. White (USA) Galina F. Anastasenko Alexander A. Evseev Margarita...Editors (English Style) Peter Modreski (USA), Edward Rosenzweig (USA) Design idea Dmitrii A. Kilpio Layout...Mineralogical Almanac 4871 S. Dudley St., Littleton CO 80123 USA E-mail: minbooks@online.ru Web-site: www.minbook...gold and silver, because platinum was found during mining of gold placers. Platinum was known to the aboriginals...Federation. Figure 1. Map of the Avrorinskiy district (Vysotskiy, 1925, Map # 9) Black circles are the |  | | Book (volume) | | Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout... most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing gravels in Montana is beginning...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...R. Fuhrbach, Amarillo, TX; La\vrence A. Funt, Washington, DC; Michael & Patricia Gray, Graystone Enterprises |  | | Book (edition) | | Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M | | | Book (edition) | | Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;...Dives m.ine, Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine |
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48-55 Mine, Vesper Peak, Sultan Mining District, Snohomish County, Washington, USA