| | Journal (issue) | Schneeberg Mining District, Western Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany ....................................... 620 by...Schneeberg District in the famous Saxon Erzgebirge of Germany has been a source of mineral specimens and mineral...1877 "find of the century" in the Weisser Hirsch mine; many fine specimens of gangue species-these are...Sammlungen, Brennhausgasse 14, D-09599 Freiberg, Germany. Email: Andreas .Massanek@geosamm.tu-freiberg.de...de 2 Naunhoferstrasse 49, D-04299 Leipzig, Germany. Email: info@sm -mineral.de 3 Senckenberg Naturhistorische | | Sluzhenikin, Sergei F., Kozlov, Vladimir V., Stanley, Chris J., Lukashova, Maria L., Dicks, Keith (2018) Vymazalováite, Pd3Bi2S2, a new mineral from the Noril'sk-Talnakh deposit, Krasnoyarskiy region, Russia. Mineralogical Magazine, 82 (2) 367-373 doi:10.1180/minmag.2017.081.050 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | the Noril'sk -Talnakh deposit, 2 Krasnoyarskiy region, Russia 3 4 Sergei F. Sluzhenikin1, Vladimir...X-ray-diffraction data; Crystal structure; Komsomolsky mine; 31 Talnakh deposit; Noril'sk district, Russia...1180/minmag.2017.081.050 39 40 41 Abstract 42 mine of the Talnakh deposit, Noril'sk district, Russia...grains in intergrowths of polarite, sobolevskite, acanthite, and 44 unnamed (Pd,Ag)5BiS2 in aggregates (up...natural sample. 64 This new mineral honours Dr Anna Vymazalová of the Czech Geological Survey, Prague | | Veselovský, F., Ondruš, P., Gabašová, A., Hloušek, J., Vlašimský, P., Chernyshev, I. V. (2003) Who was who in Jáchymov mineralogy II. Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 48 (3-4) 193-205 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | children of the Secret Councillor Johann Sternberg and Anna Josefa born Kolowrat-Krakowská. He was educated...Dauber (1854) Vajdakite P. Ondruš et al. (2002) Acanthite A. G. Kenngott (1855) Èejkaite P. Ondruš et al...Society 48/34(2003) Norilsk in the Krasnoyarsk region and Monchegorsk in Karelia. He also studied deposits...deposits in the Little Caucasus, in the Krasnoyarsk region and in Buryiatia. Basing on Cl contents in amphiboles...served his sentence as a miner in the Kohinoor coal mine at Libkovice. After returning from military service | | | Journal (issue) | noted) (top row, from left) Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection...collecting has flourished throughout the Northwest region in recent decades; a history of the mineral discoveries...the estate. Many early minerals collected in the region about Spokane, Washington, are represented in the...specimens, well displayed in illuminated glass cases.” Anna E. Durkee (1869–1948), one of the early garnet collectors...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands | | | Journal (issue) | EUCLASE with Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See...DENVER MART EXPO HALL ROOMJ53 BARITE 20.3 CM XIEFANG MINE , GANZHOU PREFECTURE , JIANGXI PROVINCE , CHINA...skeletal quartz, drusy amethyst, wire silver, acanthite, pyrargyrite, stephanite, barite, calcite, aragonite...tabular barite, pink-purple diaspore crystals, acanthite, and the type specimens of hodrusite. Calvary...1751 was funded mainly by donations from wealthy mine owners and from simple mining families. Modem times | | | Journal (issue) | Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf Medenbach Ruhr Universitat Bochum Bochum, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim...typically abraded specimens you’ve found in the old mine dumps. And you’ve probably looked long and hard...Everyone has heard repeated warnings about entering old mine workings. But, face it, those deep, open shafts...commonality: They can be very dangerous. Each year mine rescue specialists and conventional search and rescue...Statistically, shafts are the most dangerous part of any mine; 90 percent of all accidents and entrapments in | | | Journal (issue) | Mine Vol. 35 No. 1 January 2019 News The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $6.00 Albert Edward Foote...Courtesyof John Betts,NewYork. Silver Ore from the Eagle Mine Red Cliff District, Eagle County, Colorado Bob Werner...location. The specimen came from the well-known Eagle Mine (fig. 2 on page 3) of Empire Zinc Company, a subsidiary...subsidiary of New Jersey Zinc Company. The mine is located at Gilman, Red Cliff District (also known as...of the Eagle Mine. Fig. 1 {right): Silver ore specimencontainingnative silver, acanthite,polybasite, freibergite | | | Journal (issue) | Piccoli Riccardo Prato Chiara & Daniele Respino Anna & Danilo Rolando Giovanni Signorelli Vietti C,·-±...Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...place in the Sardinian mines and the Traversella mine (Piedmont). The second edition of the Catalogue...Marches Region, and the sphalerite, chalcopyrite and various rare sulfosalts from the Bottino mine in Tuscany...exploring the underground workings of an historic gold mine in the Brusson area, Val d' Ayas, western Alps. | | | Journal (issue) | Titanite and epidote deposits of the Capelinha Region, Minas Gerais, Brazil ........................... | w w w. FineMineral.com Tourmaline Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil. 19.5 cm Fine Minerals International proudly...greenmountainminerals.com BA R I T E 12 X 8” Parkside Mine, Frizington Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK Photo...TITANITE AND EPIDOTE DEPOSITS OF THE CAPELINHA REGION, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL Andrea Bartorelli1 Carlos...W. Romano3 Since the mid-1960s, the Capelinha region in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, has become | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Pd-Ag-S: phase relations and mineral assemblages Anna Vymazalová 1*, František Laufek1, Alexandr V. Kristavchuk...Mineralogy (IEM RAS), 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, Russia 3 Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg...minerals: vysotskite (PdS), vasilite (Pd16S7), acanthite/argentite (Ag2S) and two ternary minerals coldwellite...and kravtsovite (PdAg2S) found in the Komsomolsky mine in the Talnakh deposit of the Noril’sk district...variety Ag2S (monoclinic), the analogue of mineral acanthite. The phase Ag2S does not dissolve Pd. Ternary | | | Journal (issue) | employed as forced labor, cobbing out silver ore at a mine in Chihuahua; from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r...malachite pseudomorphs from the Milpillas copper mine began appearing on the mineral market in 200 . t...those from Tsumeb, amibia. The huge new underground mine exploits a manto deposit of chalcocite, with secondary...production during the next few years, as long as the mine remains in operation. LOCATION AND SETTING Milpillas...Mineralogical Record, Figure 2. The Milpillas mine site (photo courtesy of Salvador Ortiz and Francisco | | | Journal (issue) | Famous Mineral Localities: The Erupción/Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico ........minrec.org Front Cover WULFENITE from the Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico; 6.6 cm...gathering around a natural amphitheater amid the mine buildings and headframes in order to hear what we...Mexico-II having been devoted to the famous Ojuela mine). Covered here are four more important and prolific...and Arizona Company, then managed the New Cornelia mine at Ajo with great success. While still working for | | | Journal (issue) | Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...FLUORITE crystal group, 8.1 cm, from the Shangbao mine, H unan, China. Collector's Edge Minerals specimen;...color, and give a historical background for each mine or mining venture. These catalogs, still available...our regular advertising rates). & Mineralogist: Anna M. Domitrovic Tel: (520) 883-1380 ext. 152 Fax:...developm ent and m ineralogy o f this reknowned region o f the Kola Peninsula by Dr. Igor Pekov. Hardcover | | | Journal (issue) | Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf Medenbach Ruhr Universitat Bochum Bochum, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim............................................ 2 Germany An historical perspective on silver mining in G...Islet Famous mineral localities: the Silver Islet mine, O n ta rio ............... 49 by W. E. Wilson ...photo © SILVER crystals, 3.3 by 4.5 cm, from the mine, Kongsberg, Norway. (See the this issue.) Keith...©crmang — » » Werner Lieber Baden-Badener-Strasse 3 D-6900 Heidelberg 1 West Germany # I ----------- — ------------------ | | | Journal (issue) | • Email: info@kristalle.com Harz Mountains, Germany by Günter Grundmann Thomas P. Moore Wendell E...COVER: PROUSTITE, 3.5 cm, from St Andreasberg. Germany, found in 1899; ex collection of Richard Baldauf...District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany ........................... 300 by G. Grundmann...District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany Günter Grundmann Eschenweg 6 D-32760 Detmold grundmann...samsonite emerged from just two pockets in the Samson mine. St. Andreasberg is also known for its fine specimens | | | Journal (issue) | Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...microthin coating of bomite, 5.7 cm, from the Flam beau mine, Ladysmith, Wisconsin. William Larson collection;...Weardale fluorite miniature for $140, a beautiful 79 mine aurichalcite (2.75 inches) for $140, a Zambian libethenite...minerals. The major ore minerals include silver, acanthite and the sulfosalts polybasite, pearceite and pyrargyrite...Tredwell to carefully document the localities by mine and sometimes by level. It also afforded him superior | | | Journal (issue) | Hazen The best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec ........ .......................1972, and considered to be the finest known Jeffrey mine grossular specimen. Marco Amabili collection; James... Colorado (two), New Mexico (the Bingham Canyon mine), Nevada, Arizona (two), Mexico, Brazil, Northern...and Devon, Ste-Marie-aux-Mines, East and West Germany, Switzerland (three!), the Hohe Tauem of Austria...in the Czech Republic, the Carpathian Mountains region, Laurium, Morocco, Namibia (two), Tsumeb (two) | | | Journal (issue) | localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,...Collection" labels list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results...thread, some taken from the surface of the American mine and some from its deepest workings indicating that...that depth does not change the character of the mine. One is impressed by the money as well as the scientific...quartz, interspersed with gold, but the owner of the mine, Mr. Walker, seeing the cabinet, said that the piece | | | Book | table, surrounded by minerals from [the] Ojuela [mine].” Saturday Evening Post, 1927: George Kunz, mineral...cluster of aguilarite crystals from the San José mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, in the Terry Wallace collection...article, George Kunz described his visit to an opal mine, saying: 7 Introduction They had been working...light strikes them through the night. There at the mine I went over the hoards of opals, each one a miniature...and mineral shows in Tucson, Arizona; Munich, Germany; Ste.-Marie-Aux-Mines, France; Denver, Colorado; | | | Journal (issue) | Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...important assignment at the Shinkolobwe uranium mine. His supervisor was Johannes Vaes (1902–1978). Gilbert...with his fabulous cuprites from the Mashamba West mine, Gilbert only hinted to a few people of his treasures...The mineralogical future looks bright for this region, because there are still vast tracts of mountainous...has excellent quality downloadable images of the region. HISTORY Cloos (1911) provided one of the earliest | | | Journal (issue) | JULY–AUGUST 2022 Articles Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan ..................................... Moore COVER: BORNITE, 3.5 cm, from Mine 21, Dzhezkazgan mine group, Kazakhstan. Joan Massague collection;...productive and successful describer of new species in Germany—even ahead of August Breithaupt, who described...(AsO4)5(PO4)3·14H2O), 2-mm view, from the White Elephant mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. Tom Loomis (Dakota Matrix)...w w w. FineMineral.com Rhodonite Mina do Morro Mine, Brazil 7 cm Rhodonite is a manganese mineral named | | Sokol, Ella V., Kokh, Svetlana N., Nekipelova, Anna V., Abersteiner, Adam, Seryotkin, Yurii V., Ershov, Valeriy V., Nikitenko, Olga A., Deviatiiarova, Anna S. (2021) Ge-Hg-Rich Sphalerite and Pb, Sb, As, Hg, and Ag Sulfide Assemblages in Mud Volcanoes of Sakhalin Island, Russia: An Insight into Possible Origin. Minerals, 11 (11) 1186 doi:10.3390/min11111186 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Origin Ella V. Sokol 1 , Svetlana N. Kokh 1, *, Anna V. Nekipelova 1 , Adam Abersteiner 2,3 , Yurii V..., Valeriy V. Ershov 5 , Olga A. Nikitenko 5 and Anna S. Deviatiiarova 1 1 2 3 4 5 ...bournonite, galena, realgar, metacinnabar, cinnabar, acanthite, and chalcopyrite. Sphalerites are remarkably...and the occurrences of the Freiberg district in Germany [16], contain more than 1000 ppm Ge, locally up...company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland) in a region of 50 to 3000 cm−1 at a resolution of 2 cm−1 . | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Fe–Cu–REE skarn deposit in the Bergslagen mining region (Skinnskatteberg, Västmanland, south-central Sweden;...3520 cm–1 and two (or more) broad bands in the region 3300‒3200 cm–1. The average of two electron probe...Nikolaevich Plesin (b. 1963), a mine surveyor at the Oktyabr’sky mine and an amateur mineralogist who...the Oktyabr’skoe Cu-Ni-Pd-Pt deposit (Oktyabr’sky mine), Talnakh, Norilsk district, Siberia, Russia. It...kröhnkite Na2Cu(SO4)2(H2O)2 from La Vendida mine, Antofagasta Region, Chile (25–700 °C with 25 °C step and | | Ondruš, P., Veselovský, F., Hloušek, J., Skála, R., Vavřín, I., Frýda, J., Čejka, J., Gabašová, A. (1997) Secondary minerals of the Jáchymov (Joachimsthal) ore district. Journal of the Czech Geological Society, 42 (4) 3-76 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | MYSTERIOUS GREEN URANIUM-BEARING MINERAL FROM ELIÁŠ MINE....., NOT LEAVING IN PEACE THEIR LIVES. STORIES...and B. Moser, Landesmuseum Joaneum, Graz, - in Germany: K. Thalheim, Staatliches Museum für Mineralogie...ore district ranges from 450 to 850 m a.s.l. The region is underlain by a complex of metamorphosed sedimentary...Hildebrand, F - Fundgrubner, G - Geschieber, AN - Anna, MT - MatČj, ZB - ZdaĜ BĤh, FR - Františka. The...biotite-rich zone about 10 cm thick. The whole region contains abundant aplite, pegmatite, granite porphyry | | | Journal (issue) | Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A... Famous Mineral Localities: D a l 'n e g o r s k P r im o r s k iy K ray R u s s ia Raymond Grant Mesa Community...tours for collectors are permitted by the friendly mine management, and visitors have even been allowed...the area and purchased the rights to the Verchniy mine. Operations to extract copper, lead and zinc began...was shipped to the United States, Holland and Germany. World War I resulted in closure of the mines, |
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