 | | Report (issue) | | crisp despite partial dehydration) from the Margabal mine, Entraygues, Aveyron Department, France. 1 ==...======= Torbernite, 5.3 cm, from the Margabal mine, Entraygues, Aveyron, France. Trinity Minerals specimen...specimen and photo. This small uranium mine, in a small deposit discovered during a survey by the French...locality began in June 1997 when, somewhere in the old mine, about 1,000 fine specimens were recovered, with...with torbernite crystals to 2 cm perched on smoky quartz. In August 1997, four more pockets were opened |  | | Report (issue) | | pseudomorph after borax, 17.6 cm, from the Baker mine, Kramer borate deposit, Boron, Kern County, California...Seibel and Jim Minette, in the then-underground Baker mine, a locale which literally vanished into air at some...cm, from the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa. Rocks of Africa...last year in the N’Chwaning III mine, Kuruman manganese field, Cape Province, South Africa. Now a few more...pseudocrystals. Suolunite, 6.8 cm, from the Lac D’Amiante mine, Thetford Mines, Quebec. David K. Joyce Minerals |  | | Report (issue) | | No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping |  | | Report (issue) | | many good things here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California,...blue topaz: Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....to small-cabinet specimens of, let’s see, smoky quartz, elbaite, morganite and aquamarine beryl, spessartine...impressive: Axinite, 5 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....County, especially from the Stewart mine. And from the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia O ne of...species include azurite, pyromorphite, fluorite, quartz, and calcite. Then there are the minerals that...Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla district, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department, Bolivia. The main...pseudomorph siderite include hematite, magnetite, quartz, cacoxenite, calcite, barite, and various chlorite...ROCKS & MINERALS Figure 2. Siderite with quartz, from Mine Hill, Roxbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to explore the inner workings of the local salt mine. Hutchinson was settled in 1871 and became the seat...processing plants sprang up in the area. Tours of the mine were offered to the public from 1923 until 1965...required for individuals as well as groups. Because of mine safety regulations, children under four years of...Gogebic Iron Range (particularly from the Montreal mine in Wisconsin), a suite of large Illinois fluorites...e.net. Calcite, specimen 35 cm across, Elmwood mine, Carthage, Tennessee Beryl, var. morganite, 20 |  | | Journal (issue) | | (Source:NASA/JPL). Abundant New Vivianites From Potosi, Bolivia Alfredo Petrov alfredopetrov@earthlink.net At...vivianites from a newly discovered deposit in Bolivia, labeled with a variety of locality names. Perhaps...will clear up the locality confusion. Cornelio Saavedra province (politically equivalent to a U.S. "county")..."county"), Potosf department ("state' 1), southwestern Bolivia, roughly (in every sense of the word) three hours...is home to a group of tin and silver mines, the Colavi-Machacamarca mining district, which have been worked |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and analyses of very impure material Irom Ta"zna,Bolivia, apparently consisting for the most part of BizOr...bismuth minerals from Bolivia. This specimen, from the neighborhood of Colavi, consisted of a large waterworn...analysis by schaller of material from the Stewart mine conforms fairly well with the formula Bi2OB.3H2O...by the alteration of bismite (o-BirOr) from Colavi, Bolivia. Chemical tests indi_ cated the substanceto...529 ron Brsuurrtn United. Stales Anderson Apache mine, Hachita, New Mexico. Casher's Valley, Jackson Co |  | | Catalog/List | | some pinkish sedimentary matrix on one side Colavi Bolivia £80 =I " ~ ~ 2. LEPIDOLITE a particularly...yellowish-green coarsely fibrous in matrix, Whitesmith Mine, Strontian Scotland large I x2 size £ 14 6. CHALCOPYRITE...inch (a most unusual form of this mineral) Agnew Mine, Leinster Western Australia £ 15 itvf: u-uth·d...! St Calixo Prospect, 20 Km north of P<:>tosi Bolivia small 2x3 £ 16 11. ROMANCHEITE solid grey-black...to about half inch size over 2x2 area. Ciampino Mine Alban Hills Italy £ 15 17. SAL AMMONIAC glassy crystals |  | | Report (issue) | | carbonatites; authigenic, and in concretions. Association: Quartz, barite, fluorite, pyrite. Distribution: Many...Great Onslow Consols mine, St. Breward, Wheal Maudlin, Lanlivrey, Dolcoath mine, Camborne; from the Virtuous...Virtuous Lady mine, Tavistock, Devon. At Panasqueira, Portugal. From Ivigtut, Greenland. Very large crystals...Antler mine, Mohave Co., Arizona; at Leadville, Lake Co., Colorado. From Mosojllacta, Colavi, Bolivia, large...large crystals. In Brazil, in the Morro Velho gold mine, Nova Lima, Minas Gerais, and at Pedreira Ataleia |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut...................................... Mandarino COVER: BORNITE crystal, 1.6 cm, on quartz , from Dzezkazgan, Kazakhstan. Houston Museum of...in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro |  | | Catalog/List | | Lode, Gecvor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. An approx 60x60mm area on bro\\11 cellular quartz hematite matrix...£20. (b) 40xl5mm coverage. Smaller xls with white quartz. 45x20x30mm. £9. (c) 3) A PATITE. Cerro de Mercado...imbedded in a quartz apatite matrix. 30x35x30mm. £20. 4) ARSENOPYRITE and FERBERITE. Yaobangxian Mine, Chenzhou...15mm approx. £30. 6) BABINGTONfTE, PREHNITE and QUARTZ. Hongquizhen Quarry, Meiqu Co , Sidman, China.... A floater showing a matrix of double sided quartz xls with about 7 balls of light green prchnite to |  | | Journal (issue) | | past year- chiefly the last few months of 2004 - Bolivia provided a host of new finds, reflected in the...near Canutillos (Colavi, Provincia Cornelio, Saavedra, Departamento de Potosf, Bolivia) was the most important...GaryFreeman collection. (Continues on page 2) The Madison Mine, Madison, Carroll County, New Hampshire: An Addendum...77036 artsmith@msn.com An article on the Madison mine, Madison, Carroll County, briefly describing the...have made a sketch map showing the location of the mine pit in relation to the dumps, old mill site and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ......... : ............................. Gold quartz veins ...........................................These depositsincludeOruro, Huanuni, Llallagua, Colavi and Potosi. The size and abundance of the depositsdiminishboth...Joya (Fig. •), enargite-tennantite veinsoccurwith quartz-wolframite-gold veins in a dacite intrusive. In...•lntimony I?ei•zs.--Most of the antimonydepositsof Bolivia belongto this group. They havebeenformedat depthsranging...springsthat depositchalcedonic quartz with stibnitecrystals. A vein at the Tarumita mine near Caracollo north |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | met in Baker at 10 a.m., then set off for the Aga mine, where khinite was discovered in 2004, and which...of the new species. The Aga mine is a drivable locality, but the second mine, the Bird Nest, visited after...malachite on cerussite from the Llechwedd Helyg mine, Cardiganshire, Wales. Willow Wight photo. of passersby...Patrick Haynes, who spoke on Minerals from the Gold Mine, Tooele County, Utah, emphasizing the fact that...microminerals were no longer collectible because of mine reclamation. Patrick has been responsible for the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1960 A COMPARATIVE STUDY CENTRAL OF MAJOR BOLIVIA. No. 2 ORE DEPOSITS PART OF I F. S. TURNEAURE...major ore depositsof the Eastern Andes of central Bolivia, the tin depositsof Llallagua, Huanuni and Morococala...largely preceded vein filling. Chlorite, sericite and quartz are characteristic of both the tin and tin-silver...tin ores. Minerals typical of the tin veins are quartz, cassiterite, bismuthinite, pyrrhotite, stannite...zinc,and antimony. In the northernpart of the province, the ore deposits are closely related to the small |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Metallogenetic Epochs and Provinces of Bolivia The Tin-Province (Part I) The Metallogenetic Provinces...the Altiplano (Part II) F. A~LFELD Cochabamba, Bolivia Partf. An attempt is made to solve the relationships...formation of ore deposits using the Bolivian tin-province as an example. In the eastern Cordillera we are...tin-silver mineralization is discussed. Within the tin-province three metallogenic epochs are recognized, with...down-faulted and consequently preserved. The polymetallic province of the Altiplano contains subvolcanic ore deposits |  | | Journal (issue) | | from the Machacamarca mine (Viboras Vein), near Colavi, Potosí Department, Bolivia. Rob Lavinsky (The Arkenstone)...good friend of mine, Jim Minette, worked as superintendent of a large open-pit borax mine that produced...W. E. Sheffield (fl. 1808) Chrysocolla Dalehead mine, Cumberland (Cumbria), England W. E. Sheffield was...Sowerby for study and illustration. The Dalehead mine, source of this chrysocolla, is also known as one...decent living collecting your own Herkimer-type quartz crystals. I enjoyed field collecting a lot, but |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Jasper Co., Missouri (Burminco 1100) Near Yates Mine, near Otter Lake, Quebec, Canada (Burminco 1100-A)...(Smithsonian 70678) Roxbury Iron Mine, Connecticut Sovacon Infiernillos, Colavi, Bolivia Mt. St. Hilarie, Quebec...Los Angeles Co., California (Burminco 1840) Sultan Mine, near Goodsprings, Clark Co., Nevada (Burminco 1840-C)...Apatite P1 P2 Yates Mine, near Otter Lake, Quebec, Canada (Burminco 440-A) Dacey Mine, near Cantley, Quebec...sample is contaminated with less than 1 wt% of quartz and calcite. This amount of contamination is far |  | | Book (edition) | | example for such a situations can be seen in euhedral quartz crystals embedded in the sulfide matrix of fossil...normally contain amorphous silica/opal rather than quartz in its initial stages, as is the case in modern...displaying various colours under XPL; euhedral quartz shows milky internal reflections. Internal Reflections...Late proustite (red internal reflections) filling quartz druse (milky); dike filling. Right (third from...(often 120º). Right (top): Recrystallised euhedral quartz (dark grey) in pyrite (creme) and chalcopyrite |  | | Report (volume) | | biotite-muscovite granite or, as in Bolivia, with shal-low-seated volcanic rocks such as quartz latite or dacite. The...major lode tin deposits of the world (those of Bolivia excepted) are o:f this type.2 Lodes are near or...typically contain cassiterite in greisen (quartz-mica rock) or quartz-topaz-tourmaline rock that also contains...Alaska 2. Manley Hot Springs, Alaska 3. Sullivan mine, British Columbia, Canada 4. New Brunswick area...Tex. 8. Black Range district, New Mexico 9. Climax mine, Colorado 10. Gorman area, California SOUTH AMERICA |  | | Report (issue) | | 1 Mineralogy of Llallagua, Bolivia by MARK CHANCE BANDY LA PAZ, BOLIVIA, 1944 FEBRUARY 1976 TF;JG...Minera_logy of Llallagua, Bolivia by MARK CHANCE BANDY LA PAZ, BOLIVIA, 1944 FEBRUARY 1976 TnG M�S...Llallagua and a view of his home there and the Siglo XX mine wh('re he worked arc induded for added insight an...Mineralogy. He worked in Mexico, Venezuela, Chile, Bolivia, Europe, South ern Rhodesia (Rhodesia) and Moab...introduc tion-guide to the new men coming to the mine. It was translated into Spanish with great interest |  | | Journal (issue) | | and J. Langhof Zagi Mountain, Northwest Frontier Province, Pakistan ....... . ....... 205 by H. Obodda,...dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium minerals, as well...I (Gustav Vasa). The last active iron and copper mine, Biickegruvan, was closed by its owner, Fagerstabruk...district one of the oldest in Sweden. Though the mine was mainly worked for iron ore, copper ore production...important for the gun-making foundries. The Falu mine in the northern Bergslagen area was Europe's most |  | | Journal (issue) | | ..................13 by C. J. Stefano The Cliff Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan...........................25 by C. J. Stefano & P. Persson The Central Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan........................53 by P. Persson & C. J. Stefano The Copper Falls Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan...........................85 by C. J. Stefano & P. Persson The Phoenix Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan........................lode deposits—e.g. the Kearsarge, Pewabic (Quincy mine), Baltic, Calumet & Hecla, and numerous others. |  | Dyar, M. D., Jawin, E. R., Breves, E., Marchand, G., Nelms, M., Lane, M. D., Mertzman, S. A., Bish, D. L., Bishop, J. L. (2014) Mössbauer parameters of iron in phosphate minerals: Implications for interpretation of martian data. American Mineralogist, 99 (5) 914-942 doi:10.2138/am.2014.4701 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | number 38.1.1.1 triphylite DD193-B triphylite, quartz, hureaulite, whiteite, and minor tavorite and...1.1.1 triphylite ML-P38 65% triphylite and 35% quartz 38.1.1.2 lithiophilite DD135 ferroan lithiophyllite...purpurite, 30–40% ferrisicklerite, and 10–20% quartz 38.4.1.2 purpurite DD270 80% albite and 20% purpurite...DD293-A 90% strengite, 10% goethite, and trace quartz 40.4.1.2 strengite ML-P16 60% plagioclase and 40%...Grande du Norte, Brazil Baviere, Germany Tip Top Mine, Custer Co., South Dakota Serra Branca pegmatite |
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