 | | Journal (issue) | | BERBES! The Miner alogical Record JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2024 • VOLUME 55 • NUMBER 1 • $30 Wayne & Dona...JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2024 Articles The Berbes Fluorite District, Asturias, Spain.................................FLUORITE, 4.3 cm, from the Valdelmar area of the La Cabaña zone at Berbes. Will Johnson collection, ex Eric...Chris Coy (2023) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2024) Mineralogical...the collectors and dealers in the entire Tri-State area. A typical weekend was spent driving their Mercury |  | | Journal (issue) | | of-interest co amateur mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Concril?ucions or suggestions for articles...Hughes -------26 ------A JOURNEY THROUGH NORTHERN SPAIN David I. Green · Max D. Freier Peter J.Briscoe ...following: borne lead in the area. This will mean that the New Glencrieff area will be levelled, covered...involved in rescue collecting from various dumps in the area for many years particularly as opportunities for...extensive excavation work. The NMS trenched part of this area in early April 1991 (from the Beam Engine cowards |  | | Journal (issue) | | because the sun came out later. ·· Chalk in the area between Folkestone and Dover is well known for its...161 - Sept/Oct 1999 SMLS FIELD TRIP TO NORTHERN SPAIN July 17 - 30th July 1999 Part I. An Overview This...This was geotourism at its best. Northern Spain is the home of the famous quality fluorites with their...colours and variously modified crystal edges; also the area of the zinclead mines in the Picas mountains. We...massifs and separate the rest of Spain from the principality of Asturias, a land of bagpipes and cider, |  | | Journal (issue) | | up a hill through a wooded path to the collecting area which is the size of a rugby pitch and consists...the quarry, and a further 10 minutes to reach the area at the back of the quarry where the best calcite...produced a meteorite that had fallen in the Aveyron area, just 50 kilometers from Millau itself. She went...NORTHERN SPAIN July 17 - 30th July 1999 Part 2. The Main Collecting Trips Field Trip 1. Berbes The obvious...obvious first site to visit was Berbes, the Mecca for Spanish fluorite collectors. As the village and |  | Symons, David T.A., Kawasaki, Kazuo, Tornos, Fernando, Velasco, Francisco, Rosales, Idoia (2017) Temporal constraints on genesis of the Caravia-Berbes fluorite deposits of Asturias, Spain, from paleomagnetism. Ore Geology Reviews, 80. 754-766 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.08.020 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | constraints on genesis of the Caravia-Berbes fluorite deposits of Asturias, Spain, from paleomagnetism David T...Ajalvir Km. 4, 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain d Department de Mineralogía y Petrología, Universidad...48080 Bilbao, Spain e Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Rios Rosas 23, 28003 Madrid, Spain b a r t...Paleomagnetism Caravia-Berbes fluorite mineralization Remagnetization Ore genesis Spain a b s t r a c t The...The Caravia-Berbes district is a major fluorite producing area in Europe. The fluorite occurs as mantos |  | | Report (issue) | | geology, mineralogy and recent mining history of this red-hot mineral area, which comprises much, much more...Arizona antique, chrysocolla coating and replacing malachite pseudomorphs after azurite, from the Live Oak...specimen; Joe Budd photo. Chrysocolla pseudo malachite pseudo azurite, 8.6 cm, from the Live Oak Pit...combinations from the well-known Berbes mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain…and of course there’s a page...another pocket of the same kind was opened in the same area but that the crystals then were assumed to be schorl |  | | Journal (issue) | | from the collection of Dorothy & Cyril Merritt. MALACHITE Collected in 1980 from Castle Hill quarry, Somerset...on the SMLS trip to northern Spain in 1999 at La Cabana, Berbes, Asturias. Interesting inclusions including...another slow search. Conveniently close to the parking area and sustenance. HEMIMORPHITE From level Fawr,... good parking and plenty of micro material, The area on both sides of the road still has great potential...about 50 were on the trip, are mainly interested in mining history. During an examination around Pandora mine |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pelt Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...This refers to Georges de La Bouglise, a French mining engineer, after whom the mineral ''bouglisite"...one can speculate that Dohrmann may have been a mining engineer or consultant. Only by actually visiting...summer) Specialties: Worldwide minerals; Colorado mining & minerals A. E. Seaman Mineralogical Museum Curator |  | | Catalog/List | | The Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natura) Beauty with its highest peakt Worcester Beacon at 1394...of the Severn plain and is a geologicallycomplex area. Most aspects of the history and development of... ANAPAITE. Bellaver de Cerdena,Gerona Province,Spain.11 specimens. 7 sr,ecimens as half phosphatic geodes...Greece. 6 specimens all boxed. Colourful green Malachite and deep blue Azurite drusy crusts and x~ls. All...LC,tlO. 33. DARITE. La Union,M~rcia Province,Spain. Pale blue,vafer ular xtls forming superb coral-like |  | | Journal (issue) | | Donovan (2020) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2020) Mineral Association... Company, another shipping firm serving major American mining and chemical companies. The company ceased operations...mineral collector and curator, was born in the mining town of Anyox, British Columbia on April 30, 1930...Michael’s early employers were the Britannia Beach Mining and Smelting Company of British Columbia, and the... Michael was also interested in mining history, and collected mining memorabilia and stock certificates |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | France. Scott Rudolph specimen. Figure 11. Malachite-coated copper on calcite, 5.5 cm high, Rudabanya...Fluorite and barite, 10.7 cm high, Ana mine, Berbes, Asturias, Spain. Wayne and Dona Leicht specimen. Figure...Watzl Minerals specimen. Figure 24. Azurite and malachite, 8.7 cm across, Chessy mines, Rhone, France. Giles |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ʥˑˎˎˇ˅˖ˑ˔ˑˈ˖ˊˇʧ˚˓˗ˋ˕ˋ˖ˇ Spain has historically been a country with little tradition...Barcelona Parc de la Ciutadella, s/n 08003 Barcelona, Spain ccurto@bcn.cat collections, such as that of Josep...cm high, from Pedrera AVE, Riudarenes, Girona, Spain; mined 2006. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 4 (top right)...at the Natural History Museum of Barcelona, in Spain, since 1973. =VS\TL 5V]LTILY+LJLTILY...wide, from the Azkarate quarry, Eugui, Navarra, Spain; mined 2002. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 7 (below) |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........................ Sussex go to Northern Spain Roger Kemp/en & John Pearce 34 ..................given an outline of the history of the mines in the area. Wapping has been worked since the 18 century for...precipitation ponds, the remaining potential for mining, the future plans of the local Parys underground...because we now have quite a few members in the Swansea area, we will probably hold it there, any ideas for a...to do an individual project on a randomly chosen area of Scotland. Steve Plant, who had just come back |  | | Catalog/List | | PicoPesquero Fogo Island cape Verde £7 8 PHILLIPSITE 2x3cm area of small white crystals in Basalt 5x6 cm Limberg...8mm long with inclusions of Hydrocarbon Berbes, Asturias Spain. £4 33 HEMIMORPHITE colourless micro crystals...Scotland £8 42 CHALCOCITE black metallic with minor malachite , about 50% chalcocite Copperbelt Zambia 5x4cm...Nenthead Cumbria £25 50 PYROPHANITE orange-brown platy area about 8mm . Varenche Mine, Aosta Italy £8 51 PHARMA...61 MANGANITE black acicular micro crystals in an area Ixlcm on 2x2,5 Bolet Vastra Gotaland Sweden £5 | | | Journal (issue) | | Pelt Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain .............................................altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...This refers to Georges de La Bouglise, a French mining engineer, after whom the mineral “bouglisite” was...one can speculate that Dohrmann may have been a mining engineer or consultant. Only by actually visiting...de Sant Marti 79 Local 08032-B A R C E LO N A (SPAIN) « (3) 4 3 3 3 0 2 2 * -(3 ) 3571869 Fax (3 )4 5 |  | | Journal (issue) | | government livestock inspector. He returned to the area 30 years later, found a crystal-bearing horizon...cm, from a 2019 find at Pedra Azul in the Medina area, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Will Johnson collection;...celadonite inclusions, 20 cm, from the Rio Grande do Sul area, Brazil. Will Johnson collection, ex Marshall Sussman;...Aquamarine beryl, 10.6 cm, from Pedra Azul, Medina area, Minas Gerais, Brazil. This crystal shows the purest... Figure 22. Heliodor beryl, 11.7 cm, from the Medina area, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Only four heliodor crystals |  | | Report (issue) | | United Kingdom BY IAN JONES 38 Fluorite from Spain: Every Color Under the Sun BY GUIOMAR & MIGUEL CALVO...108 Morocco's El Hammam: Six Decades of Fluorspar Mining BY PIERRE CLAVEL & GUNTHER NEUMEIER 112 Faceting...been exploited since at least the Middle Ages, when area miners, like their counterparts in the that those...as a fluxing stone. Artifacts of early fluorite mining are difficult to locate, as fluorite was at that...specimen market each year, but commercial fluorite mining did not begin in th earnest until the mid to late |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...collections); also not tobe missed are the National Mining Hall of 4 Farne Museum in Leadville, the Cripple...Western Museum of Mining and Industry in Colorado Springs, where the history of mining is featured. Following |  | | Catalog/List | | label. 80x50x50mm. £58. 5) AZURITE altering to MALACHITE. Barnaovald, Russia. Quartz gossan matrix showing...several azurite xls to 5mm partly altered to green malachite. Ex J Neeld collection No. 803. 70x60x30mm. £20... 80x50x40mm. £20. 19) FLUORITE. La Cabana, Berbes, Spain. A 60x40mm cavity in limestone matrix with about...Mine, Los Angeles Co., California, USA A 50x30mm area of matrix showing pale green octahedral fluorite... Ex J White collection. 40x40x30mm. £35. 35) MALACHITE, AZURITE and CERUSSITE. Penberthy croft Mine, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | November/December: Fluorite on barite, La Cabana, Berbes, Asturias, Spain; Jordi Fabre specimen, Jordi Deusedes photo...Mistaken Identities, A. L. Guth, 456–58 Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum, 280 Arkansas, wavellite, 346–50...William Metropolis Fine Minerals Crystal Springs Mining Company Samora Minerals/Mexican Amber Judy and...Colorado, 413; Michigan, 300– 316; Ontario, 462 Copper Mining in Calumet: The Artist & Mural, S. Robinson, 317... Nevada, 517 Creede: The Last Wild West Silver Mining Camp in Colorado, T. Rosemeyer, 396–413 Crichtonite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kunzite-Gary and Rosemany White collection, page 295; Malachite-Don and Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle...204; Cerussite-Joe Budd collection, page 63; Malachite-Tim & Holly Smith collection, page 244. (right...pounds. Painting Century Plant in the Big Bend area (1939) by Jerry Bywaters. Courtesy Amon Carter Museum...there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines...that railroads were being constructed through the area. George F. Kunz described a sky-blue celestine crystal |  | | Journal (issue) | | goethite in sferule di colore nero, kutnahorite, malachite massiva ed in cristalli, neotocite accompagna...centro), kutnahorite e rodonite (a destra). Malachite (a sinistra), neotocite su rodonite (in centro)...Montoso, all’interno del Massiccio Dora-Maira (con area di circa 36 Km2), toccando i comuni più interessati...di campioni. Proseguiamo e pernottiamo a Berbes, Ribadesella. Il giorno seguente la nostra ricerca ci...gialla e bariti nella discarica che dà sul mare di Berbes. Il solito fiuto di Manlio lo porta vicino alla |  | | Catalog/List | | azurite roselles in between and s0111c green malachite druse is a lso presen t. /\n interesting specimen... Wonderful. £75. 78. 17LUORITE, Berbes mine, Berbes, Asturias. Spain. 8.5x6.5x4.5cm. This is nn amazing...another m i neral. It is found around an argon rich area underground. £45. I 1 0. OPAL P ENDANT, Australia |  | | Catalog/List | | Mine Nenthead Sphalerite Realqar Tirol Hozario Spain Cinnabar Elba Pyrite Chalcooyrite Greystones, Cornwall...Cornwall Prentea, Wales Rauris, Austria Chella, Spain Salzburg, Austria Trevusa Cornwall Prenteg, Wales...Mine, Cumbria Ullcoats, Florence Mine, Cumbria Berbes, Spain Hampstead Farm Qy Galloway, Scotland Hilton... Derbys Heights Quarry, Weardale (Fisher) Asturias, Spain Chile Ball Eye Qy, Derbys Levant Mine, Cornwall...Thuraston Beach, Cheshire Brandybottle, Swaledale Asturias, Spain Coldberrv Mine, Teesdale Millclose Mine, Derbys |  | | Catalog/List | | • • 0 , J Tue Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natura! Beauty with iis h:s>2st peak Worcester. Beacon...mound of translucent grey Hemimorphite xtls and lem area of dull mid-green Aurichalcite xtls as slender laths... Wheal Buller,Redruth,Cornvall? Pure Cuprite/Malachite chunk vith large convoluted vugh in display face...vith royal-blue micro xtls. Minor Cerussite and Malachite also present. LC,.E.10. Specimen B-boxed. Side...crystalline masses vith interstitial dull-green Malachite. LC,.E.12. Specimen B-small matrix fragment vith |
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