 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 36849 cookrob@auburn.edu Figure 1. The North American Emerald mine (2006), where many fine emeralds have...Off—Again: Mining for Emeralds in Hiddenite Alexander County, North Carolina I t has been many decades since...since the fabulous 21-cm-long North Carolina emerald crystal figured in the monumental work Gems and...and Precious Stones of North America (Kunz 1892) was stolen, along with three smaller similar crystals,... from the American Museum of Natural History, disappearing from public display forever. Since that sad |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | spodumene-bearing Alpine-type fissure veins from Hiddenite, North Carolina, USA Michael A. Wise Received: 10 August...mineralization in the Hiddenite area of western North Carolina, USA consists mostly of quartz, but locally contains...contains Cr-bearing beryl (emerald) or Cr-bearing spodumene (hiddenite). These gem minerals occur in mineral-lined...and may be accompanied by euhedral crystals of quartz, calcite, muscovite, rutile, albite, pyrite, siderite...phase in spodumenebearing veins, but is absent in emerald-bearing veins. Chabazite-Ca occurs as simple penetrating |  | | Catalog/List | | natural crystal formations of emeralds. Important emerald gemstones and jewelry can be found in every gem...same cannot be said about exceptional natural emerald specimens. We estimate that there are less than...having two-thirds of the world’s finest known emerald specimens cannot be overstated. This has never...invites the viewer to experience the wonder that is emerald. 3 The Legend of Fura & Tena The Muzo God...legend of the first emeralds. 5 Emerald on Calcite Coscuez Mine, Muzo Municipality, Vasquez-Yacopí |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...are in violation of current FTC regulations. The American Gem Trade Association requires that its members...Engineer Shortage The decline in the number of American colleges and universities emphasizing or teaching...Additional information may be obtained from the American Gem Trade Association, 3030 LBJ Freeway, Suite...Creek area, Last Chance Mining District, Plumas County, California. Axis, volume 1, number 1, pages 1–30 |  | | Journal (issue) | | VOLUME 39 • NUMBER 1 $15 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...100-year history of the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County collection;...Visit our Website: www.MineralogicalRecord.com American Mineral Treasures! By the time you read this it |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...by W. E. Wilson The Hallelujah Junction scepter quartz deposit, Petersen Mountain, Nevada ..............by C. J. Stefano Giroux Point, the Bagdad mine, Yavapai County, Arizona .....................................................................297 COVER: QUARTZ SCEPTER, 29.7 cm, from the Hallelujah Junction...$278/two years, (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription |  | | Journal (issue) | | 39 • NUMBER 3 American Mineral Treasures Issue! $15 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Three Tucson Show Issue 2008 “American Mineral Treasures” The American Mineral Treasures Exhibition,...COVER: COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s...Mineral Museum, and was on display as part of the American Mineral Treasures exhibition at the 2008 Tucson |  | | Catalog/List | | Todd Hignite, Ext. 1790 ToddH@HA.com Fine ArT AMERICAN & EUROPEAN PAINTINGS & SCULPTURE HA.com/FineArt...Hartsock, Ext. 1283 ArianaH@HA.com ART OF THE AMERICAN WEST HISTORICAL MANUSCRIPTS HA.com/WesternArt...1777 StevenC@HA.com HisToriCAl HA.com/Sports AMERICAN INDIAN ART Chris Ivy, Ext. 1319 CIvy@HA.com Peter...on the ear tips, the American Bobcat is one of the most successful North American predators. This one...49002 COYOTE FULL-BODY MOUNT Canis latrans The American Coyote is probably the smartest and most successful |  | | Journal (issue) | | Showcasing the Beauty of Science ENCHANTING EMERALD Royal Status of the Precious Green Gem MICROSCOPIC...the U.S.A. 05 0 74470 02033 2 UNM’s HARDING MINE Exploring Plentiful Pegmatite 2 ROCKNGEM.COM ...Shipping l enta in Contin s 48 State Kingsley North 6” Stainless Steel Unit w/Galaxy & Nova Wheels •...1-0674NOVA Kingsley North 6” Stainless Steel Unit w/Resin Wheels Stock No. 1-0674 Kingsley North 6” Stainless...kingsleynorth.com SCAN ME Free Catalogs Kingsley North, Inc. P.O. Box 216: Dept 3, Norway, MI 49870-0216 |  | | Catalog/List | | Some of his favorite memories are of collecting quartz in Montana, calcite in Utah, silver, galena, sphalerite...Liberty Dollars. He is now putting together an early American dollar set from 1794 to 1803 and a collection... Minera! on QUARTZ RHODOCHROSITE District Mine. Climax Climax olTolg-Yole Lake. County. ncredibly difficult...is a good that met every sized one plate of quartz of those qualities Cry stals w th large This...definately do not detract those and of speak to points quartz incomplete of scattering a is in excellent condition |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pakistan • Record-breaking emerald from Hiddenite, North Carolina • Emerald-in-matrix from Bahia, Brazil...introduced was the Malossi hydrothermal synthetic emerald (Adamo et al., 2005), which was gemologically similar...hydrothermally grown cobalt-colored synthetic blue quartz was described in the Winter 2008 issue of Gems...suggested that they were related to spinel. SYNTHETIC EMERALD AND OTHER BERYLS Available in the gem trade since...This is believed to be a new type of synthetic emerald colored only by Cr3+. The highly diagnostic growth |  | | Journal (issue) | | Beaton, Kenneth F. Rijsdijk, Riccardo Befi, and Alexander U. Falster The geology, mining, and properties...International pg. 71 Tucson report • Emerald-bearing gem pockets from North Carolina • Spessartine from Loliondo...Myanmar • Large gem pocket discovered in San Diego County, California • Green sodic plagioclase from East...of the stability and durability of nine common emerald-filling substances. Receiving second place was...Beaton, Kenneth F. Rijsdijk, Riccardo Befi, and Alexander U. Falster Copper-bearing tourmaline from Mozambique |  | | Book | | Stone in Myth and in Rock 9 3 From Mine to “Mine”: The Emerald Business 21 4 Emeralds in World History...and the Great Emeralds 75 6 Secrets of the Emerald Trade 141 7 Fake Emeralds and Their Kin: A Tale...every gem has a story. This is the story of the emerald. It’s a tale of fire, water, and serendipity. From...history, the emerald has had ties with both the sacred and the profane. Legend says that an emerald belonging...part of the extraordinary business of being an emerald. This is also a tale of robbers, miners, explorers |  | | Journal (issue) | | Canadian Gemmological Association|First World Emerald Symposium|Gem-A|Geological Society of America ...Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Alan T. Collins, King’s College London; John L....Emmett, Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA; Emmanuel Fritsch, University of Nantes, France;...E. Post, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA; Andrew H. Rankin, Kingston University, Surrey; George...Rossman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA; Karl Schmetzer, Petershausen, Germany; Dietmar Schwarz |  | | Journal (issue) | | feldspar from Congo • Fluorite from the Rogerley mine, England • Demantoid garnet from Iran • Kyanite...Emeralds from Hiddenite, North Carolina • Star emerald from Madagascar • Tourmaline “slider” in quartz 107 109...tourmaline has come from Madagascar’s Anjanabonoina mine and contains remarkable color zoning, as shown by...him; awards and honors from GIA, the American Gem Society, the American Gem Trade Association, and numerous...executive head of GIA’s sister organization, the American Gem Society [AGS], which Shipley Sr. had established |  | | Journal (issue) | | presentations and special reports|GIT Lab Updates|USA lifts ban on Burmese ruby and jadeite|Margaritologia...inclusions|Clinohumite from Vietnam|Lace opal from Utah, USA|Pollucite from Pakistan with polylithionite inclusions|Large...Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Maggie Campbell Pedersen, Organic Gems, London;...Emmett, Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA; Emmanuel Fritsch, University of Nantes, France;...E. Post, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA; Andrew H. Rankin, Kingston University, Surrey; George |  | | Journal (issue) | | VOLUME 38 • NUMBER 3 $15 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino... on calcite, from the El Oriente tunnel, Chivor mine, Boyaca, Colombia. William Larson collection; Van...volume. Commonly the geodes contain heulandite and quartz, and rarely also mordenite, stilbite and calcite...crystallization of quartz also took place; thus white, spheroidal aggregates of quartz can be found in the |  | | Book | | AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described |  | | Journal (issue) | | A. Fritz, John I. Koivula, Björn Anckar, and Alexander U. Falster Explores the vivid “canary” yellow...channel • The pareidolia of diamonds • Notable emerald carving • Gold coated onyx • Double-star sapphire...Brazilian blue “opal” • Otolith pendant • Inclusions in quartz from Paraíba, Brazil • Sinhalite from Myanmar •...infrared (FTIR) spectrometer equipped with KBr and quartz beam splitters. We used a diffuse reflectance apparatus...A. Fritz, John I. Koivula, Björn Anckar, and Alexander U. Falster The most important source of yellow |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystals on matrix, 17.2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, collected in 1978. Private collection and photographer...Tucson USA Visit us at these international shows: Houston Ste. Marie Denver Munich USA France USA Germany...and Riverpark Inn Rhodochrosite, Sweet Home Mine, USA, 10 cm Photo: Malte Sickinger MARCUS BUDIL Monaco...budil-minerals.com Chrysocolla on Malachite Mashamba West Mine Democratic Republic of Congo 26 cm - Joe Budd Photo...mineral shows worldwide! Rhodochrosite - Sweet Home Mine, Colorado - 13cm | Brazilianite - Minas Gerais, |  | | Journal (issue) | | CVD-grown synthetic diamonds • Synthetic rock crystal quartz bangle with unusual inclusions pg. 443 441 G&G...diamond • Trapiche muscovite • Parisite in Colombian quartz • Violetish blue spinel in yellow sapphire • Stars...Mouawad Campus 5345 Armada Drive Carlsbad, CA 92008 USA © 2015 Gemological Institute of America All rights...meeting in Baltimore, the first International Emerald Symposium in Bogotá, Colombia, and the 34th International...black inclusion that can be seen through the table. Quartz, apatite, sulfides, graphite, rutile, fingerprint-like |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | inclusions. (a) Photomicrograph of a portion of a quartz crystal from the epithermal Ag deposits at Guanajuato...crystal. (b) Photomicrograph of a portion of a quartz crystal from the epithermal Ag deposits at Guanajuato...associated with growth of the quartz crystal. (c) Photomicrograph of a portion of a quartz vein from the Copper...healed fractures in the quartz. (d) Photomicrograph of a portion of a quartz vein from the Marte porphyry-epithermal...inclusions. (a) Photomicrograph of a portion of a quartz vein from the Copper Creek, Arizona, porphyry prospect |
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North American Emerald Mine, Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina, USA