 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | I56; see also alkali feldspar. ALIEV (R. M.), see KASHKAI(M.-A.), 929. Alkali feldspar, variation of ~o~...BURCESS (A. S.), Computerized data processing from an X-ray texture goniometer, 428. Aucoa~r (J. W.) and...472; and see Omphacite. Avelinoite, relation to wardite, 598. Axinite, Devon, anal., opt., 45. AXON (H...Zealand, grandidierite, 615. Blende, Algeria, Austria, Congo, France, Greece Spain, Yugoslavia, cathodoluminescence...Boolcoomatta, South Australia, alkali feldspar, anal., d2oi, 489. Bosahan quarry, Falmouth, Cornwall, biotite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | amblygonite, 414. Drachenfels, Pfalz, alkali feldspar, 489. Dreiser Weiher, Eifel, spinel-lherzolite...Upnor, Kent. Cornwall Bosahan quarry, Falmoath, biotite, 21o. Dean quarry, Coverack, The Lizard, analcime...Loch Don, Mull, plumbogummite group, 935. Loch Feith an Leothaid, Loehinver, augite, bronzitc, t ~5Loyne...omphacite, 61. Slieve Gullion, Armagh, alkali feldspar, 489. France Le Puy, IIaute-Loire, spinel-lherzolite...orthoclase, 489. Schyn-Schhtcht, Grisons, albite, I56. Austria (Osterreich) Burgstein, Oetztal, omphacite, 61 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 812–8581, Japan Montebrasite and amblygonite in an Li–Cs–Ta enriched (LCT) pegmatite from Nagatare,...fluorapatite, crandallite, goyazite, waylandite, wardite, viitaniemiite, morinite, muscovite, lepidolite...lacroixite, quartz, and topaz. Among these minerals, wardite, viitaniemiite, morinite, and lacroixite are newly...indicates an F–OH exchange. However, fluorapatite, morinite, and viitaniemiite crystallized in an F–rich...Montebrasite–amblygonite series minerals undergo an acidic alteration to muscovite in the last stage |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | however, the freshly bulldozed dump material provided an unexpected collecting opportunity. It was the discovery...apatite to discoveries of childrenite and an occasional wardite microcrystal. Gradually we added some common...walls and boulders. Little by little we came to find an even greater variety of phosphate minerals: messelite...its abundant feldspar. As were so many of the early pegmatite mines, it was probably an intermittent...1945, it included a parcel that “contained an abandoned feldspar mine that ceased operation in the mid-1920s” |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have the 109.5° interfacial angle characteristic of an octahedron. A short distance from the edge, how...Mountain pluton, and the Nine Mile pluton. Zircon is an accessory mineral throughout the complex but is most...was opened in the southeast wall of the Poudrette quarry. The pipe contained large crystals of serandite...differs from any illustrated in Goldschmidt's Atlas der Krystallformen and bears no resemblance to the square...of fluocerite-(Ce), (Ce,La)F . The Little Patsy quarry pegmatite is a well-zoned, vertical pipelike body |  | | Journal (issue) | | a p a n la w tw in s 4 0 miles S.E. o f B lin m an , S. A u s tra lia N a ru s h im a , N a g a s a...can consider them lost to science. The bait may be an equally rare species, but what is the point of seriously...thin sec tion through a petrographic microscope. An unethical curator or mineral dealer could send him...available. $25.00 to $40.00 ea. MARCASITE. F rederick der G rosse Mine, H erne, W estphalia, Germ any. 2.3x1...HESSONITE GARNET. Jeffrey Mine, Ontario, Q uebec, Canada. An extremely choice lot collected from the original |  | Birch, William D., Pring, Allan, Bevan, D. J. M., Kharisun, (1994) Wycheproofite: a new hydrated sodium aluminium zirconium phosphate from Wycheproof, Victoria, Australia, and a new occurrence of kosnarite. Mineralogical Magazine, 58 (393) 635-639 doi:10.1180/minmag.1994.058.393.13 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fibrous masses in small cavities in the quartz/feldspar/muscovite/schorl-bearing pegmatite. The fibrous...selwynite, the K-analogue of gainesite - - as well as wardite, eosphorite, cyrilovite, leucophosphitc, rockbridgeite...discovered pegmatite veins in granite boulders in a quarry at Wycheproof, a small town in northwestern Victoria...present on five specimens. Occurrence The granite quarry yielding the wycheproofite and kosnarite is on...found at the base of the southeastern wall of the quarry and were probably close to their original position |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Granite State, is one of our smaller states, with an area of just 9,304 square miles and is one of the...identification or location. Other supplemental information on an occurrence is given in parentheses after a locality...best occurrence at a locality it is so designated. An asterisk (*) after a mineral means that the occurrence...1955). Conway, Redstone granite quarry (includes Redstone Green granite quarry located 800 feet WNW), 1 mile...(Gillson 1927). Conway, White Mountain granite quarry, W side of Saco River on W side of Birch Hill, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | only listed in the mineral heading in Dana. We spent an enjoyable evening. At Schortmann's, 10 McKinley Ave...and came away with some splendid specimens of wardite; some including variscite, millisite and lewistonite...searching under the 'scope may disclose others. The wardite was blue-green in color, lining vugs, with pseudo-octahedral...casually. Schortmann's material will contain fine wardite, lewistonite, millisite, massive crandallite, and...judgment to know what to photograph thru the 'scope. An evening with Lou is a memorable one. Desautels, of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Clays and Clay Minerals 25:95–104. A New Look at An Old Locality: The Chickering Mine in Walpole, NEW...one end will be a triplet and the other end will be an untwinned plate of phlogopite. If it cleaves as shown...metamorphism while solidly encased in calcite rather than in an open space. They would seem to represent elongation...Chickering mine is located in the Keene pegmatite district of southwestern New Hampshire. Recognized as one...Chickering is an important locality. The pegmatite was mined for potassic feldspar for an unknown period |  | | Report (issue) | | localities. For these reasons, it was decided to adopt an •environmental' approach to describing the known...Victorian mineralogy. We hope it provides collectors with an appreciation of the link between a particular mineral...the analytical workProfessorAllanWhitekindlyread an early draft of the chapter on phosphates in the granitic...CharlesLightfootprovidedhistoricalinformationon the Lake Boga quarry, as did Stephen Pritchardon the WycheproofQuarry...phosphatemineralswas facilitatedby an X-ray diffractometerobtained through an ARC equipmentgrant to Dr Bill |  | | Catalog/List | | xtls to 5mm with a little blue green chrysocolla on an iron stained matrix RF SPC. C. £5 2. COBALTOSMITFISONITE...clear beryl xtls to 15mm with a little milky white feldspar xtls to 6mm Zi: stubby terminated whorl xtls to...Interesting mineral assemblage. Good RF SPC C. £68 20. WARDITE,Big Fish,Blow River.Yukon,Alaska.USA Attractive...translucent off white pyramidal equant wardite xtls on a slatev wardite rich matrix Good RF or ID SPC. C £38...or D SPC. C. £10 41 WOLLASTONITE-2NI,Crestmore Quarry,CalifomialISA. Greenish vitreous rather massive |  | | Book (edition) | | groups: The number of new mineral species may grow as an avalanche, flooding the mineral population with tens...lepidolite, wolfrarnite). In many cases, minerals have an intermediate composition between theoretical end-members...to crystallographic tenns (e .g. prismatine), to an organization (e.g .. mgriite). to a journal (minrecordite)...form. Many minerals display characteristic twinning, an intergrowth of two or more individual crystals of...Miller indices are used. For instance, the symbol for an orthorhombic dipyramid form is { 111}, for a hexagonal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tenn. ARIZONA—"I am sending you under separate cover an interesting specimen. This material is found at the...have become dry even, through drouth, or through an elevating of the formation, and sand blown in to...Colorado. CONNECTICUT — "The Hal e and Andrews feldspar quarries near Portland, Conn., are now closed...parked in the road leading to the quarry which stopped the quarry trucks from entering." —Noie dated...Peoria, 111., reads: "Went down to the fluorite district around Rosiclare, (Hardin Co.) 111. Found 22 more |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Brazilian occurrence for this mineral), crandallite, wardite and apatite, from the amblygonite. Eosphorite,...are primary accessory minerals Brazilianite and wardite occur sometimes in measurable, although small crystals...Souza, F. H. Pough and others. Johnston (1945), gives an extensive bibliography on these occurrences.These...more abundant, often in large crystals, and afford an economic sourceof beryllium, tantalum and sometimestin...(1945) p. 1040 these pegmatites have been formed by an orderly sequenceof crystallization, with little or |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bostonite and tinguaite in north- from the Goldfields District, Saskatchewan B r o w n .H . . . . . Buchwald...Lake Athabaska. Canada . 286, 363 Chemische Analyse der Gesteine and Robinson,S. C., A cound silikatischen...Cobalt-nickel-copper selenide from the Goldfields District Saskatchewan (Robinson, Brook512 er) " " Columbite...fuge der Granite und Gneise und ihre genetische Bedeutung (Drescher-Kaden)(Book 707 Review) der Die ...(Tertsch) (Book Re704 view). . Die Lagerstiitte der TreP6a und ihre Umgebung (Schumacher) 134 (BookReview) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | a geologist by training though not by profession. An avid mineral collector for forty years, she enjoys...more subtle factors that might account for color in an otherwise colorless mineral, and in so doing perhaps...these are: (1) defects in the crystal structure where an atom has been knocked out of position (often by heat...they might occur within a particular pegmatite district. Often, many additional prospecting pits and surface...episodes of mining for tourmaline, pollucite, feldspar, and montebrasite, and see at least nine separate |  | | Journal (issue) | | someday someone will probably get his Ph.D. by doing an analysis of the how, when, and why the Tucson Show...organized by an energetic and articulate group, The Tucson Gem & Mineral Society, Inc. Tuc son is an attractive...that this show has definitely become associated with an interna tional flavor! Many collectors and dealers...Spain at the same meet ing? The show also attracts an astonishing array of dealers, now on a worldwide...the enclosed stadium. Getting in and out fostered an ap preciation of how sardines must feel in the can |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | diameter occur in the Palermo quarry, North Groton, New Hampshire and to an inch in diameter at the Smith...another hydrous manganese phosphate was found as an alteration product of lithiophilite at the Stewart...hydrous manganese phosphate was found abundantly as an alteration of lithiophilite at the Stewart mine,...hydrous ferrous phosphate occurs in pegmatites as an alteration of triphylite, lithiophilite and other...Hampshire; and at Pala, California. PURPUR1TE, essentially an iron-manganese, hydrous phosphate with manganese |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | blue, water-worn, mineral chips while conducting an oil exploration program in the Blow River area of...only a few other localities in the world, notably Austria, Sweden, Brazil and the United States. On 16 February...discoveries. Beautiful octahedral crystals of wardite excel any in the world. The rare phosphate arrojadite...Mineral Locality Brigadier Andrew Hamilton Gault chose an elegant setting for his manor beside Lac Hertel,...from around the world in such numbers that the quarry owners restrict entrance to special groups on specific |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Access The local roads leading to the Palermo quarry are shown on the map. North Groton can be located...present owner, Mr. Robert Whitmore, is operating the quarry for the express purpose of maintaining its availability...197 Figure 6 (left): Huge feldspar crystal forming an arch over the quarry pit. Figure 7 (right): blast...in later years can be more accurately termed a quarry. In 1914, the mine was purchased and worked for...matites at this time and continued the mining o f feldspar and mica until the 1920s. After a long hiatus |  | | Journal (issue) | | project they were curious as to whether there would be an American market for such a book, even though it would...museums in the U.S. She agreed that an English edition would be an exciting and valuable thing to have...would be masked out and the presses kept rolling. An English translation would be prepared at the British...Walter Goodwin Swart, oper ating out of Denver. Swart, an experienced and respected mininj engineer, spent...eight years traveling through the western states an< Mexico examining mines and prospects for the company |  | | Book | | MINERALS An Illustrated Exploration of the Dynamic World of Minerals and Their Properties A ' •%7r...eWRobinson, Ph. D. pliorroGRApilyBy jeffrey A. Scovil An Illustrated Exploration of the Dynamic World of Minerals...or mineral must have formed in an I0 ancient sea and another in an ancient lava flow? By observation...base of a mountain, I don't suspect that the site is an ancient volcano or mud puddle! Common sense and the...means to visualize their properties. A bat can't see an insect flying past him in the night sky, yet it is |  | | Report (edition) | | 5 cm tall; gem weighs 2 carats. From the Havey Quarry, Poland, MaifJ. e. Photo copyright 1995 by Wendell...on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield, Maine. Mined in 1996 by Holden !Jrothers... 1987). The "cleavelandite" variety of albite feldspar, which was named after him, can be found at numerous...Supplemental labels were added where necessary to show quarry sites, road names, and other useful landmarks....homework before starting out to the field, and develop an alternative itinerary in case the preferred locality |  | | Catalog/List | | small white crystals in Basalt 5x6 cm Limberg No 1 quarry, Kaisersthul, Germany £4 11 LAVOISIERITE rich...Japan £45 B) smaller piece 2.5 x 3cm £20 16 1 WARDITE colourless crystals Yukon Canada £25 around 5mm...HARMOTOME, clear micro crystals on 1x2 cm Dolyhir Quarry, Old Radnor Powys £5 54 HEMIMORPHITE good covering...£7 61 MANGANITE black acicular micro crystals in an area Ixlcm on 2x2,5 Bolet Vastra Gotaland Sweden...Laurium Greece 3x3,5cm £5 78 PHILLIPSITE no 1 quarry, Limburg Germany, 6mm white vugh in basalt 1.5cm |
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Feldspar quarry, Wolfsberg, Spittal an der Drau, Spittal an der Drau District, Carinthia, Austria