 | | 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)...with both enclosed in square brackets, e.g. fluorapatite Ca[Fl(PO 4)3] or euchroite 0.1 2[OHIAsO 4]•3H...form. Many minerals display characteristic twinning, an intergrowth of two or more individual crystals of |  | Carlsen, Kenneth S., Gale, Marjorie H., Thompson, Woodrow B., Kierstead, Matthew (2015) Belvidere Mountain Asbestos Quarries, Lowell/Eden, Vermont. Rocks & Minerals, 90 (6) 510-551 doi:10.1080/00357529.2015.1080535 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 21:19 19 October 2015 Figure 1. Postcard showing an aerial view of the Ruberoid Corporation Asbestos...passes between North Hyde Park and the Gallagher quarry because it broke up the roads. Former Roger Jones...Lamoille River). The most recently worked cluster of quarry pits, a sprawling historic extractive industrial...Eden Mills. A separate operation, the old Eden quarry, is on the south side of the mountain in Eden....as follows: “Belvidere Mountain, VAG Mine, the quarry name (Lowell, C-Area, T-C, or T), Lowell or Eden |  | | Book | | A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...combination of space for growth, sufficient time and an adequate supply of chemical nutrients. Well-formed...In the larger open spaces, the crystals can reach an impressive size. Among the many minerals found within...carbonate. Geologists can figure out how quickly an igneous rock formed by the calcium carbonate can...of its crystals. If the magma has escaped from in an ocean evaporates, the chemicals in the remaining |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SECONDARY BERYLLIUM PHOSPHATES FROM THE CONSOLIDATED QUARRY, GEORGETOWN, MAINE. J. W. Nizamoff 1, A. U. Falster2...Bryant Rd., Buckfield, ME 04220. The Consolidated quarry in Georgetown, Maine, is a large, mineralogically...beryl, fluorapatite, montebrasite, cassiterite, and columbite-tantalite-group minerals. In 2012, an area...area of the quarry containing a mineralized zone rich in albite, muscovite, and beryl was encountered. One...beryllonite → moraesite → hydroxylherderite → fluorapatite → greifensteinite. Late-stage low-temperature |  | | Report (issue) | | F or Cl. Occurrence: Much less common than fluorapatite. Formed by the reaction of limestone with phosphatic...from guano. In talc schists associated with serpentinite. As a fracture-localized alteration of montebrasite...Ossola, Italy. In the USA, in the Verde Antique quarry, Holly Springs, Cherokee Co., Georgia; from the...the Midnight Owl pegmatite, White Picacho district, Maricopa Co., Arizona. Large crystals in the Gardiner...hydroxyl and membership in the apatite group; see fluorapatite. References: (1) Palache, C., H. Berman, and |  | Bačík, Peter, Fridrichová, Jana, Štubňa, Ján, Bancík, Tomáš, Illášová, Ľudmila, Pálková, Helena, Škoda, Radek, Mikuš, Tomáš, Milovská, Stanislava, Vaculovič, Tomáš, Sečkár, Peter (2020) The REE-Induced Absorption and Luminescence in Yellow Gem-Quality Durango-Type Hydroxylapatite from Muránska Dlhá Lúka, Slovakia. Minerals, 10 (11) 1001 doi:10.3390/min10111001 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Abstract: In talc-magnesite veins in serpentinite near Muránska Dlhá Lúka (MDL), Slovakia, yellow...concentrations. The Sr content reflects the host-rock serpentinite composition. Fluids for its crystallization...transparency, and perfect crystal form. Durango fluorapatite crystals are found in the martite of the ore...Variscan Upper Unit contain isolated bodies of serpentinite with talc. The formation of talc zone and associated...Dlhá Lúka occurs in talc-magnesite veins in the serpentinite body which can relate to the fluid regime during |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (2007) DOI : 10.2113/gscanmin.45.4.901 BEUSITE AND AN UNUSUAL Mn-RICH APATITE FROM THE SZKLARY GRANITIC...Poland Abstract An assemblage of phosphate minerals, including beusite, Mn-rich fluorapatite, chlorapatite...the earlier crystallization of tourmaline and fluorapatite. In terms of enrichment in Mn, the beusite from...richest in Mn worldwide. Similarly, Mn-rich fluorapatite containing up to 19.3 wt.% MnO, and a Mn-dominant...crystallization of abundant Fe-bearing tourmaline and fluorapatite, extraction of Mn from pegmatite-forming, H2Oundersaturated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | by Lake Buchanan in 1938. The Terlingua mining district is noted for its rare mercury minerals. Mining...(Zeitner, 1972). Rendham, E and N of Rendham along an escarpment, limestone over red shales of the Permian...Temple, 6 miles W of Temple in abandoned limestone quarry; marcasite* (spear-point crystals; groups up to...cretions) (Schleh, 1967). Blanco County Coal Creek Serpentinite ( = Gould Davis Ranch), N W Austin County Raccoon...Minerals quarry), at Damon on Route 36, prominent hill, shallow piercement salt dome, open-pit quarry on N |  | | Journal (issue) | | ....126 by P. J. Dunn McGuinnessite from a serpentinite body in Maryland ......................127 ...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Famous mineral localities: Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria ...........................................Cuprocassiterite discredited as mushistonite; and an unnamed tin mineral from the Etta mine ..........................383 by P. J. Dunn & W. L. Roberts An author's guide to writing locality articles for the...6 cm, from the Stefanie mine at Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Photo by Werner Lieber. For a detailed review...designed envelopes printed up for the oc casion, with an appropriate illustration (called a “cachet”) on the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 25 mm with gehlenite, spinel, fluormayenite, fluorapatite, perovskite), in the northern part of the Daba-Siwaqa...fluormayenite-fluorkyuygenite, brownmillerite, fluorapatite, gehlenite, and jasmundite) at Ma’ale Adummim...calcite, brownmillerite, shulamitite, CO3bearing fluorapatite, fluormayenite-fluorkyuygenite, aravaite, periclase...[ν4(SiO4)4–]; 569 and * All minerals marked with an asterisk have been approved by the IMA CNMMC. † For...I>2σ(I) unique reflections. It exhibits a modular an intercalated antiperovskite structure derived from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | peak at ~1.52 Å (060). “Kerolite” does not swell at an ethylene glycol atmosphere; its cation-exchange capacity...(CEC) is 31±2.3 meq/100 g. “Kerolite” is a product of an interaction between quartz and Mg-rich fluids originating...and SiO2 released during “kerolite” formation, with an assumption of Al immobility, gives 20(Na0.85Ca0.10K...desilication, episyenite, contamination, pegmatite, serpentinite, Věžná, Czech Republic. Introduction The hydrothermal...known from granitic pegmatites typically cutting serpentinite and similar ultramafic rocks, or marbles (e |  | | Report (edition) | | “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy; right fibrous : tremolite, C. K. Williams quarry, Easton: bottom: calcite...oriented coatings of goethite, “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy, (courtesy of Delbert L. Oswald) ADDITIONAL... DEDICATION feHB DAVIS M. LAPHAM (1931-1974) An outstanding mineralogist and a wonderful friend...in 1959 and of succeeding revisions and maintained an active file of new localities, minerals, and corrections...edition of Mineral Collecting Cedar Hill in quarry where Dave had done IV much of his work PREFACE |  | | Book (edition) | | 2006, with a few corrections of the text and with an appendix containing new minerals described in 2004--2006...including a few minerals missing in the 2004 edition. An important progress and many changes in mineralogy...Specific Tl(Pb) and Hg sulfosalts 2.M Sulfosalts with an excess of small cations (Ag,Cu) relative to As,Sb...departamento district municipio Saint Sainte island mount, mountain...Mineralien-Welt, Lapis, extraLapis, extraLapis English, der Aufschluss, Rocks and Minerals, etc. ABRAMOVITE |  | | Journal (issue) | | Allen, J. C. Blankenship and W. B. Simmons Fluorapatite from the King Lithia mine, Custer County, South... June 15 Nov.-Dee. is s u e .............Aug. 15 An additional 30 days past the closing date are allowed...paid for. Affiliated with the Friends of Mineralogy, an independent, non-profit organization devoted to furthering...COVER: APOPHYLLITE recently collected at the Pashan quarry, Poona, India. The crystal cluster is 6 cm from...Roman, C/z£vei/i deposits of jf v l t h e Ems district in West Germany have yielded over 50 mineral species |  | Pieczka, Adam, Biagioni, Cristian, Gołębiowska, Bożena, Jeleń, Piotr, Pasero, Marco, Sitarz, Maciej (2018) Parafiniukite, Ca2Mn3(PO4)3Cl, a New Member of the Apatite Supergroup from the Szklary Pegmatite, Lower Silesia, Poland: Description and Crystal Structure. Minerals, 8 (11) 485 doi:10.3390/min8110485 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (31) 222; and 1.864 (22) 132. Chemical analysis by an electron microprobe gave (in wt%) P2 O5 39.20, MgO...crystal structure of parafiniukite was refined to an R1 = 0.0463 for 320 independent reflections with...Parafiniukite, ideally Ca2 Mn3 (PO4 )3 Cl, was discovered in an LCT (Li–Cs–Ta) granitic pegmatite hosted by serpentinites...outcropped in the northern part of the Szklary serpentinite massif. The massif is considered as a part of...section, which was in primary intrusive contact with an altered aplitic gneiss, up to 2 m thick, to the southwest |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Apatite and Other Phosphates from Llallagua, Bolivia: An Interesting Story of Hydrothermal Mineralization...John is an outstanding specimen mineralogist well known to all of you in the audience. He is an executive...current apatite volume published by Lithographie is an excellent example of his efforts. Underpining this...University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign in 1988; an MS in clay mineralogy/crystallography from the University...BS in physics from Case Western Reserve in 1983; an MS in physics from Ohio State in 1985; and a PhD |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bastnas Mines, Riddarhyttan Ore Field, Bergslagen District, Vastmanland, Sweden ........... 187 by L. Ohman...Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orleans , France The Trimouns Quarry, Luzenac, Ariege, France ........................IIMORIITE-(Y) crystal, 2 mm-All from the Trimouns talc quarry near Luzenac, France (see the article beginning...BASTDAS ffiIDES RIDDARHYTTAD ORE FIELD, BERGSLAGED DISTRICT, VASTffiADLADD, SillEDED Lennart Ohman Hi:igviltsvagen...1 meter in the dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | radioactive and exhibits a greasy Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals, is a professor... Zircon occurs in an exceptionally broad array of geologic environments. It is an almost universal accessory...rocks and their metamorphic derivatives, and it is an important Figure 1. A 4.3-cm group of zircon crystals...zircon crystals have been found at the Songo Pond quarry, Albany, and well-developed crystals to about 1...1 cm have been collected at the Dunton quarry, Newry, and on Rattlesnake Mountain, Stoneham, Maine. The |  | Mair, Philipp, Tropper, Peter, Harlov, Daniel E., Manning, Craig E. (2017) The solubility of apatite in H2O, KCl-H2O, NaCl-H2O at 800 °C and 1.0 GPa: Implications for REE mobility in high-grade saline brines. Chemical Geology, 470. 180-192 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.09.015 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1016/j.chemgeo.2017.09.015 This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication...IP Innsbruck, Innrain 52f, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria Germany Department of Geology, University of...Los Angeles, CA 90095-1567, USA AN US c M Abstract Apatite is an important host for LREE, F, and...fluor- and chlorapatite and natural PT Durango fluorapatite were measured in H2O, KCl-H2O, and NaCl-H2O...and XNaCl). Under all conditions, synthetic fluorapatite and synthetic chlorapatite dissolve congruently |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | anorthominasragrite, orthominasragrite, minasragrite and an unidentified yellow-green hydrated Fe–V sulfate....data: Because of the instability of the mineral, an electron-microprobe analysis could not be carried... 218 THE CANADIAN MINERALOGIST Brinrobertsite An ordered, mixed-layer dioctahedral pyrophyllite–smectite...Argentina, and at the Nepomucene mine, Annaberg, Austria. Occurrence: In the upper oxidation zone of the...nastrophite, magnetite, sjögrenite and carbonate-fluorapatite. General appearance: Crystalline masses up to |  | Szuszkiewicz, Adam, Pieczka, Adam, Gołębiowska, Bożena, Dumańska-Słowik, Magdalena, Marszałek, Mariola, Szełęg, Eligiusz (2018) Chemical Composition of Mn- and Cl-Rich Apatites from the Szklary Pegmatite, Central Sudetes, SW Poland: Taxonomic and Genetic Implications. Minerals, 8 (8) 350 doi:10.3390/min8080350 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | studied. Pieczkaite, M1 Mn2 M2 Mn3 (PO4 )3 X Cl, is an exceptionally rare Mn analogue of chlorapatite known...other hand, document local contamination by the serpentinite wall rocks. We propose that pieczkaite-like...Pieczkaite, ideally M1 Mn2 M2 Mn3 (PO4 )3 X Cl, is an exceptionally rare mineral of the apatite group,...is bordered on the north-east, east, and south by an assemblage of weakly metamorphosed mafic-ultramafic...pegmatite has an affinity for the beryl–columbite–phosphate subtype of the The Szklary pegmatite has an family |  | Gadas, Petr, Novák, Milan, Talla, Dominik, Vašinová Galiová, Michaela (2013) Compositional evolution of grossular garnet from leucotonalitic pegmatite at Ruda nad Moravou, Czech Republic; a complex EMPA, LA-ICP-MS, IR and CL study. Mineralogy and Petrology, 107 (2) 311-326 doi:10.1007/s00710-012-0232-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Kristallographie, Althanstraße 14, 1090 Wien, Austria M. Vašinová Galiová Department of Chemistry, Masaryk...occur only in subordinate amounts; biotite, fluorapatite and betafite/pyrochlore are very rare (Novák...up to ~10–20 cm thick, replacing host altered serpentinite, with lobate contact with the outermost part...pegmatite, is developed along the contact with host serpentinite. The zoned pegmatite, ~3–4 m thick and ~20–30...common, whereas betafitepyrochlore, pyrochlore, fluorapatite, monazite-(Ce), Ti-rich hematite, biotite and |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River complex is an intrusive body of alkaline igneous rocks where sodalite...ilmenite specimens have come from an unusual calcite vein-dike occurrence with an exposure very near, indeed |
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