 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cookrob@auburn.edu Aurichalcite Downloaded by [George Mason University] at 01:02 21 December 2014 79 Mine, Gila...Gila County, Arizona E veryone likes blue minerals. Most of them contain significant copper, and it is...tentatively identified on sight. One such mineral, aurichalcite, is traditionally available from a number of...recommended as a Connoisseur’s Choice topic. Aurichalcite varies from pale green to sky-blue; some specimens...1 and 2, and has a measured density of 3.96. Aurichalcite is monoclinic (2/m) and is pseudo-orthorhombic |  | | Catalog/List | | crystals to 2mm. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Black goethite... Collected 1980. Goethite with calcite. Old Ham Mine, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. Stalactitic brown...Quartz. 50' above bottom of Boundary Shaft, Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. A group of colourless pyramidal...pyramidal quartz crystals. 90/091 Baryte. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Pale blue baryte crystals...minor matrix. 901006A Baryte with sphalerite. Minera Mine, nr. Wrexham, N. Wales. Clear transparent baryte |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist | | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst |  | | Catalog/List | | beforehand. JULY/AUGUST 2008 1) ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. A shallow cavity in limonitic...40x45c30mm. £75. 2) ANGLESITE on CERUSSITE. Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia. A good six rayed stellate...but still a nice group. 70x60x40mm. £85. 4) AURICHALCITE. Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. Cavities in gossan...lined with lovely clean blue/green needly xls of aurichalcite. 50x30x25mm. £20. 5) AZURITE. Laurion, Attica...colour. 70x50x40mm. £12. 7) BARYTOCALCITE. Lunehead Mine, Brough, Cumbria. A 50x30mm cavity in matrix lined |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS AT COBALT, ONTARIO, CANADA By KENNETH FISHER Westgate - Lyndell Rd., R2 Downington, Penn. Cobalt, the...the bush, to the southeast, is another: the Langis Mine, on Casey Township, some ten miles to the northeast...arsenopyrite, argentite, (South Lorraine and Cobalt), aurichalcite, malachite, azurite, loellingite, sphalerite...Cobalt and is concurred in by people engaged in mining there. Minerals credited to the camp, but not collected...matildite had been found in a stope of the O'Brien Mine not now accessible and that emplectite might still |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cuprite, variety chalcutrichite, from Fowey Consols mine (Lanescot section). Tywardreath. Cornwall. Field...and S.M. Ingram 23 Hannotome from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead, Cumbria, England D.l. Green and l.R....botallackite and clinoatacamite, from Castletown mine, Lochgilphead, Scotland R.E. Starkey and .v Huhbm-d...Huhbm-d 3R Thaumasite from Hi gh Sedling mine, Weardale. County Durham, and from Shap, Cumbria, England...veins. Throughout the orefield the economic ore mine ral assemblage is dominated by abundant argentiferous |  | | Journal (issue) | | Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines...mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than anywhere...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas |  | | Book | | Beamish, The North of England Open Air Museum,County Durham [Beamish]: pages 41, 46, 54, 59(x2), 63(x2)...page 26 Friends of Killhope Archive, Killhope Lead Mining Museum, Weordale: page 66; photograph by Horry...Mineralisation ......................... The Lake District ..................... The Northern Pennine Orefield...The Mines and Minerals .............. The Lake District ..................... The Northern Pennine Orefield...British geology and are world-renowned. From a mining perspective,coupled with a remarkable wealth of |  | | Journal (issue) | | compiled by Harry Critchley ......... 26 Cornwall's Mining Inheritance by Dr Colin French ..................collaborating with other societies geological , mining history and the like - in a range of activities...mineral which I had enquired about from that kindly mine of info rmation which was Peter. He was always willing... perhaps, his favourite mine. His collection of Cornish minerals and mining memorabilia was exceptionally...geology ofsome oft he National Parks ofthe Western USA. This time the highly glaciated granite scenery ofY |  | | Journal (issue) | | superbgreenfluoritetwin25 mmon edge from the Heights Mine, Westgate, Weardale,Durham.J. Piddcollection. MUSEUM...articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...subscriptions and advertising. BARITE FROM BARRAS END MINE Peter Briscoe 15 DIGITAL MICRO-PHOTOGRAPHY David...FINANCE Jean C. Spence CESAflOLITE FROM EAGLEBROOK MINE Tom Cotterell 39 NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe Richard...Richard Bell WURTZITE FROM LOCKRIDGE MINE Ben Grguric • Ernest Nickel 41 DESIGN Julie Ballard COPPER |  | | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...RANSOM 1875-1948 An to the Eastern '‘Schoolmarm” Mining Camps of the Old West I I a s I \ h K... CONTENTS Preface ix PART I 1 Introduction to Mining and Mineralogy 2 Preparation for Mineral Collecting |  | | Journal (issue) | | -----------------------------------Page 21. UK Mining Round-up -------------------------------------...Show--------------------------Page 29. Reviews: Peak District GeoWalk -------------------------------------...----------------Page 33. Field Guides to Lake District Mineral Sites ---------------------------------Page...-------------------------Page 38. High Longrigg Mine (NB) -------------------------------------------------------Page...a further excavator dig organised at the Benallt Mine following the very successful one at Penberthy Croft |  | | Report (issue) | | description of the geology, mining history, and production of the major gold-mining districts in 21 States...relations ---------------------------History of gold mining and trends in production_ J\labama -----------...--------------Cleburne County ----------~----------------- Tallapoosa County --------------------------Alaska...------------------Cochise County -----------------------------Gila County --------------------------------Greenlee...ee County ----------------------------R[aricopa County ----------------------------R[ohave County -- |  | | Journal (issue) | | ...................... 28 Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum ..........................................morning, comparing various samples with those of a mine he knows particularly well (which produces excellent...specimens, localised to town or village, perhaps to mine level but virtually never giving any more detail...parageneses of our old specimens with that of the new. A mine or quarry name indicates the position of the locality...through .a series of excursions w hich included old mine sites, picturesque river valleys, volcanic areas |  | | Report (volume) | | Bulletin, vol. 44. New York. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 61-72; Transactions,... 147-264. San Francisco, Cal. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, no. 64. San Francisco, Cal. California...Transactions, vol. 9, pts. 2, 3. Toronto, Ont. Canadian Mining Institute: Quarterly Bulletin, nos. 18-20; Journal... BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY, 1912. 7 Canadian Mining Journal, vol. 33. Toronto and Montreal, Canada...Bulletin, nos. 19, 21. Hartford, Conn. Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 6, nos |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Report (issue) | | limestone or dolomite. It is a useful ore guide in many mining districts UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE........... Characteristics of jasperoid in major mining districts of the United States ..................................................... Tri-State district, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri ................Clifton-Morenci district, Arizona .............................. Bisbee (Warren) district, Arizona ........ Ely (Robinson) district, Nevada .............................. Leadville district, Colorado ...... |  | | Journal (issue) | | Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Nelly Bariand Paris, France Werner...circulation manager Articles The Boltsbum mine, Weardale, County Duiham, England ......................... Bariand Arsenate minerals of the Sterling Hill mine: an overview .....................................BERYL crystal, 7 cm tall, from the Virgem da Lapa district, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Sorbonne collec tion,...miners, as give away promotional items for use by mining executives, as part of sculptures depicting miners |  | | Report (issue) | | PAPER 235 Includes the. Leadville, Colorado, mining district. Prepared in cooperation with the Colorado...Geological Survey Board and the Colorado Metal Mining Fund UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE...shear zones on Finnback Knob. Faults near Hilltop mine _________________ Faults of the southern section...disFaults in the Nevada Tunnel.. ____ _______ Bowden and related faults in the Ibex mine. Classes and ages...Comparison with deposits in central Leadville district and elsewhere. ____________________ Description |  | | Journal (issue) | | COVER:Superbtwinnedyellowfluoritecrystal 15 mm on edge from Hilton Mine, Scordale, Cumbria.PeterBriscoeCollection. T'wENTY...articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...T CUMilRJA EDITOR David I. Green -12- LA.KE DISTRICT -16- MARKETING Peter J. Briscoe Tony Stubbins...of Northern England. This specimen from ~ry Gill Mine, once part of the Fred Bull collection, is°'currently...England has a long and distinguished history. The mining districts of Cumbria, Northumberland and Durham |  | | Journal (issue) | | edition of the newsletter is not a favourite of mine, nor does it bode well in family circles. Spending...in almost waist-deep ice-cold water in Lune Head mine in the middle of winter, eager to explore and find...He was a keen sportsman, playing hockey for the county of Devon, and was a more than a useful cricketer...mineralogical tour of Britain, and 'The History of Antimony Mining in Britain' etc. The papers format A3 folded to...'Wheat Sheafs' An interesting find from the Susanna Mine, Leadhills, were a number of wheat-sheaf bundles |
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Westgate mine, Westgate Mining District, Churchill County, Nevada, USA