 | | Journal (issue) | | Actinolite from Namibia by Justin Zzyzx ............................................pg. 15 Abenab Mine by Ernst...Three Aloes Mine by Ernst Schnaitmann ........................................pg. 37 Berg Aukas by Ernst..................................pg. 47 Otjozondu Mine by Ernst Schnaitmann .............................we bring you eleven articles about locations in Namibia that do not receive much publicity. It is easy...legendary deposits such as Tsumeb, the Brandberg region and the Erongo Mountains. Alpine clefts, huge soda |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ohio 44118 janet_clifford@att.net Leadhillite Tsumeb, Namibia O xide-zone minerals present the collector...One such lead mineral from the latter category—leadhillite—is the subject of this issue’s Connoisseur’s...perhaps unusual for this column in that the leadhillite crystals found in most collections are quite...such as those found uniquely at Tsumeb, Namibia. The leadhillite discovery at Tsumeb was world class and...as-yet-undeveloped mine. For now, however, Tsumeb holds top honors for the most sought-after leadhillite crystals |  | | Book | | GerhardNiedermayr& Gabi Schneider bode ,rand berg Organ Pipes / Twyfelfontein 7 AiAiba / farm...Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits...__ Republic of Namibia The President State House W°Ntdhoek FOREWORD Namibia is endowed with an |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Nebraska, Lincoln] at 23:16 02 June 2016 Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho...smithsonite, hemimorphite, anglesite, malachite, leadhillite, descloizite, mottramite, wulfenite, vanadinite...pyromorphite occurred at the Lubec lead mine, the Gouldsboro mine, and with wulfenite at the upper Colton...Maine (King and Foord 1994). Recently the old lead mine at Loudville, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, once...Connecticut. It is reported from the Sparta copper mine south of Ossining, Westchester County, New York |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cardiff CF102HH, Wales 2 Geological Survey of Namibia, Windhoek Abstract: The Tsumeb polymetallic carbonate-hosted...carbonate-hosted replacement deposit in northern Namibia, although now closed, is a world-renowned deposit...through the deposit and during operations into the mine workings, even during early mining, often with different...collections housed in the Geological Survey of Namibia include specimens collected by Hans Schneiderhöhn...museum houses the specimen collection of the last mine manager at Tsumeb, Tony De Beer that comprises excellent |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | detail are at the Defiance mine, Cochise County (for wulfenite), the Grand Reef mine, Graham County (for large...large linarites, anglesite, leadhillite, and other minerals), Stanley Butte also in Graham County (for...(for golden andradites), and the Old Yuma mine, Pima County, near Tucson (for wulVolume 82, 81, March/April...locations in New Mexico including the Stephenson-Bennett mine, Organ Mountains (for wulfenite and other minerals)...southern African localities, such as Tsumeb and Berg Aukas. The collection also contains some fine alluvial |  | | Catalog/List | | thick. £13.00. BISMUTHINITE. George & Charlotte Mine, Tavistock Hamlets, Devon. Rich, silvery grey, bladed...veinstuff. IpHxl" , £1.50. BISMUTHINITE. Patino Mine, Uncia, Potosi Dist., Bolivia. Choice, very rich...cavities. lixl-!;-". £4.50. 14.'/ BORNITE. Carn Brea Mine, Illogan, Cornwall. Clusters of tarnished Bornite...mm. 2x2xl-t". £13.00. 15. BROCHANTITE. Mammoth Mine, Tintic District, Utah, U.S.A. Bright, deep green...3>}x3x2". £4.50. 16. 17. CALCITE. Tynebottom Mine, Garrigill, Cumberland. Translucent, milky coloured |  | | Journal (issue) | | with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite...discovery at tbe Red Cloud mine, Ed Over moved on in 1939 to investigate tbe Hilltop mine in Cochise County. |  | | Catalog/List | | crystalised. Quartz. 2xlf". £9.00. 4. Proprietary Mine, Broken Hill, N.S. WalSS, Australia. Very fine sharp... £8. DO. 11. 12. 13. 14. AURICHALCITE. 79 Mine, Gi~a Co., Ari~o~a, U.S.A. Specimen A - Select,...attractive specimen. 2txltxlt". £4.50. AZURITE. Bou Sko~r Mine, Atlas Mts., Morocco. Specimen ~ - A choice group...Barytes matrix. 2tx2-txlt". £7.00. BARYTES. wetgrove Mine, Wensleydale, Yorkshire. Specimen A - Lustrous,...20. 21. 22. 23. 24. BARYTOCALCITE. Nentsberry Mine, Alston MOGr, Cumberlang. Chpice, tabular, crystal' |  | | Journal (issue) | | The research chapter is a gold mine (or perhaps we should say a copper mine) of data; a trio of new species...of others. Geochemists will be puzzling for some (mine included) and look at some facts. time over the... pink, yellow, apple-green, deep green and tur berg, chalcocite from Cornwall, proustite from Chanarcillo...surrounded on all sides (ex Tiger, Arizona; the Palermo mine, New Hampshire; and a new cept the ocean side) by...of rare mineral to rise. Who knows how long the mine will continue to operate? species at Tsumeb. In |  | | Catalog/List | | directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile Terry Szenics has...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume...Kavalerovo Mining District, Primorskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia It is often said that simplicity is the...Tazenakht, Ouarzazate Province, Souss-Massa-Draâ Region, Morocco The sere desert of the Bou Azer mining |  | | Book (edition) | | Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach); XPL...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL... Taymyrskiy Autonomous Okrug, Eastern-Siberian Region, Russia (sample: Melcher/Oberthür); PPL D Fine-grained |  | | Journal (issue) | | Exhibition of the Dragon Gold Specimen, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California......................cjstefanoxls@gmail.com Hauerite from the Destricella mine Circulation Manager & Staff Photographer Christi...“the Dragon”), 22.9 cm, from the Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California. Collector’s Edge specimen...in 1960, they collected on some Michigan copper mine dumps and stopped at many roadside rock shops, where...TRINCHILLO TOURMALINE WITH LEPIDOLITE Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil 16 cm | w w w.FineMineral.com MINERALS |  | | Book | | SMLS Chair 2022 Botallackite (Xtals 3mm) Bunmahon Mine, Copper Coast, Eire. Photo:John Hall CONTENTS...Claim, Araandis, Swakopmund District, Erongo Region, Namibia. Photo: John Hall CALCITE, 15mm crystal group...many overseas field trips; to Europe, Siberia, Namibia, the USA & Canada and the Faroe Islands. Practical...to descend the hydraulic shaft in the Smallcleugh Mine and we bought an inflatable dinghy so we could land...had found. Photo 3. Chalcanthite (7cm). Nangiles mine, Cornwall. Whilst at school in Cornwall I was fortunate |  | | Book | | interest themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral...to explore for fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its...produced under ultraviolet light. Deserts were combed, mine dumps searched, and shelves filled with showy fluorescent...ultraviolet region nearest the visible blue of the spectrum contains long-wave ultraviolet, and the region farther...beautiful specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine in Mammoth, Arizona, consisting of small, glassy | | | Book | | interest themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral...explore for fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in ...produced under ultraviolet light. Deserts were combed, mine dumps searched, and shelves filled with showy fluorescent...ultraviolet region nearest the visible blue of the spectrum contains long-wave ultraviolet, and the region farther...beautiful specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine in Mammoth, Arizona, consisting of small, glassy |  | | Journal (issue) | | Stibioclaudetite, AsSbO3, a new mineral from Tsumeb, Namibia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3 cm across, from the Machacamarca mine (Viboras Vein), near Colavi, Potosí Department,...Bisbee azurite rose, a wire silver from Norway, a leadhillite from Missouri, crystallized coppers from Michigan...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 |  | | Book | | Tsumeb, Namibia and Chessy, France. Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...mm (4 5/i6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets |  | | Journal (issue) | | (litters Mine, Cornwall. In March 2000, whilst on a mineral collecting trip to Gunnislake Clitters Mine, Cornwall...valley on the Devon side in Bedford United mines, a mine no more than a mile away, but have been unable to...time ago from the Boundary Cross Vein in Rampgill Mine, Nenthead have recently attracted some attention...help them work in the extreme conditions. Llallagua mine is a large co-operative operation where the workers...the Branch to talk on - 'Mines and Minerals of Namibia'. This was essentially an account of a geo-tourism |  | | Journal (issue) | | atural H istory) Hydroboracite from the Thompson Mine, Death Valley... 21 James W. M inette David P. W...postage paid at Bowie Md. 20715 The Stevenson Bennett Mine, New Mexico........................31 Janet Hammond...1-1/2 x 2-1/2”. $35.00. 337. SIDERITE. Old Sterling Mine, 138. EMERALD (Beryl). Muso, Colom Antwerp, N.Y...1-1/2 x 2-1/2”. $15.00. 463. EPIDOTE. Green Monster Mine. Prince of Wales Is., Alaska. One small bruise shows...single xl of epidote. $20.00. 490. DESCLOIZITE. Berg Aukus, S.W. Africa. Unusually sharp 3/8” xls cover |  | | Journal (issue) | | Dunn Famous mineral localities: the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utah .............................Kokinos & W. S. Wise The Wagon Wheel Gap fluorspar mine, Mineral County, Colorado ............................33 by B. Cairncross The Jan Coetzee copper mine, Namaqualand, South Africa .......................California Santa Barbara, California 93106 The Gold Hill mine in western Utah has long been an important locality...the oxidation zone o f this old mine. INTRODUCTION The Gold Hill mine is located in western Tooele County |  | | Book | | Tsumcb, Namibia and Chessy. France. Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets...of crystallized gold occurred in the Jamestow n mine. California, USA, where a cavity, which yielded |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wise & G. R. Rossman Orpiment from the Twin Creeks mine, Humboldt County, N e v a d a ............................. 311 by B. K. Lees The Purple Passion mine, Yavapai County, A rizona.................. 323...cm from the Meea trom tne M e 8a pit, Twin Creeks mine, Humboldt County, Nevada. Mined by Collector's Edge...11 cm across. In 1935 they leased the San Diego mine in the Mesa Grande pegmatite field, in southern...located just around the hill from the famous Himalaya mine, source of gorgeous red elbaite tourmaline crystals |  | | Book | | localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the...in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing |
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