 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5...3/. 0/0% (!2$). -!33!# 05,!3+) %8 !. $% 2 Illinois Mineral Locality Index 7)..%"!'/ /',% #!22/...(above). Map showing the counties in Illinois, courtesy the Illinois Geological Survey. 96*2: 405...at 19:53 09 October 2014 T he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael...ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection; Jeff Scovil...York; the Helvetia district, Arizona; O ntario’s Grenville Province; the Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York;...Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin Island; the fluorite mines of Madoc, Ontario; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Fluorite, Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England. This transparent...(center left). Fluorite, Dow Scar level, Hilton mine, near Appleby, Scordale, Cumbria, England. This...Rosiclare level, Denton mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois. The specimen is 8.5 × 7...the Lead Hill area, Cave-in-Rock district, Hardin County, Illinois, and is 5.5 cm. Ross Lillie specimen...this mineral. Examples include the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district (Lillie 1988, 2006); the North Pennines |  | Huizing, Terry E., Richards, R. Peter, Clifford, Janet H., Cook, Robert B. (2017) Connoisseur's Choice: Calcite from the American Midwest, Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Rocks & Minerals, 92 (1) 46-63 doi:10.1080/00357529.2017.1241690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the American Midwest Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee C alcite is ubiquitous...Society. 46 ROCKS & MINERALS Tennessee Lead-Zinc district as our Connoisseur’s Choice; this locality is...the Gordonsville mine, Central Tennessee Lead-Zinc district near Carthage in Smith County. Calcite from...changed. It is known that the center of the large Illinois Basin accumulated sediments more than one mile...Mississippi Valley–type (MVT) deposits (in red) and mining districts in the American Midwest, and their relationship |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with chalcopyrite and dolomite, Brushy Creek mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Dan Weinrich...respectively), barite, fluorite, calcite, and dolomite. Several other minerals are found in substantial...cm long, Milliken (Sweetwater) mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Dan Weinrich specimen...deposits tend to occur in clusters (forming a district) at the margins of sedimentary basins, and they...include the Pine Point district, Northwest Territories, Canada; the Cornwallis district, Canada; the Upper |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 288-3½)6 AdditionalFluid InclusionData for the Illinois-KentuckyFluorsparDistrict' Evidencefor the Lack...replacement,vein, and breccia-hosted depositsin the Illinois-Kentuckyfluorspardistrict. Paragenetic relationships...generalagreementwith thosereportedpreviouslyfrom the district. Salinity-Threlationships for the AnnabelLee,...Fluidmixingidentified duringfluoritedepositionin the Illinois-Kentucky districtis similarto that reportedpreviouslyin...regional temperaturevariationthroughoutthe Illinois-Kentucky district,ashasbeenproposedby Rowanet al. (1991) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure I: Galena, Treece, Kansas, Tri-State district; specimen 5Vi cm tall; Na tional Museum of Canada...figure 2 (leftI: Galena. Crawford mine, Pirher, Oklahoma, Tri-State district; 6' 2 cm across; Harvard Mineralogical...page): Galena, St. Joseph Lead mine, Viburnum, Missouri, Viburnum Trend district; 6 cm on edge; James Madison...Geologists have now classified numerous deposits and mining districts in Canada and in other parts of the world...host rock.is dolomitized limestone. • The mining district is on a dome or arch. • Mineralization is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Library] at 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production of zinc...number of good sphalerite occurrences, the Eagle mine at Gilman holds the record as that state’s leading...to 5 cm across have been found in the Lockport Dolomite, particularly in Monroe and Niagara Counties....gypsum have been found in recent years in the Dolomite Products quarry, Walworth. Good sphalerite specimens...commercial zinc mines of the BalmatEdwards district in Saint Lawrence County (Smith and Figure 1. A fine example |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at 13:58 04 February 2015 Maybee Quarry, Monroe County, Michigan C elestine, the only commercially significant...minerals, including strontianite, gypsum, calcite, dolomite, fluorite, and sulfur; clastic rock units such... Michigan Stone Company quarry, Maybee, Monroe County, Michigan. Unusual celestine and associated sulfur...associated with brown fluorite from Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio, grace most museum collections. Other noteworthy...White Rock quarry, also in Ottawa County; the Portage area of Wood County; quarries in the Lime City area; |  | | Report (issue) | | Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...108 Morocco's El Hammam: Six Decades of Fluorspar Mining BY PIERRE CLAVEL & GUNTHER NEUMEIER 112 Faceting...land Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56 64 The fluid inclusions in Illinois fluorite...Albert Gilg & BRIAN STEFANEC The Great Southern Illinois Fluorspar Deposits BY ROSS LILLIE Connecticut... Iridescent Fluorite from Ohio's Findlay Arch District BY JASON MCDONALD 69 Canada BY MARK MAUTHNER |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pakistan.Will Heierman collection. Illinois- Kentucky Fluorspar District Symposium by the Friends of Mineralogy...symposium on the closing of the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district that I organized at Indiana University...believed having a similar program in the fluorspar district would be ideal. However, the logistics behind...this year. In previous visits to the fluorspar district, I had made contact with Bill Frazer, the owner...Yen. Quy Chau. northern Vietnam: Chumar-Ruyil district. 1epal; Jegdalek. Afghanistan: and easLem Pamir |  | | Report (issue) | | Deposits in the Midcontinent Region Rosiclare, Illinois to Ironton and Viburnum, Missouri June 30-July...United States of America Leaders: James W. Baxter Illinois Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources State Geological...MO 65401 Associate Leaders: James C. Bradbury Illinois Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources State Geological...Missouri. lIllinois State Geological Survey, Urbana, Illinois. 2Missouri Geological Survey, Rolla, Missouri...The Ozark dome in south central Missouri and the Illinois basin are the major structures in the field trip |  | | Journal (issue) | | Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection;...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil...5 cm, Tree Root pocket, Two Point claim, Teller County, Colorado; Karl Warning collection; Jeff Scovil...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...at the Crystal River quarry, Lecanto in Citrus County Florida. Collection Francis Benjamin; photo Jeff...calcite twin on {1 OTI} from the Leiping mine, Guiyang County, Hunan, China. Collection Frederic Escaut;...on (0001} from St. Clair Lime quarry, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Collection Terry Huizing; photo Jeff...phenomenon of double refraction. California State Mining Museum; photo Jeff Scovil Back lower left: 6.2 |  | | Catalog/List | | November 1999________ 1 ULEXITE, Boron, California, USA. Matrix free pure mass of tight silky unidirectional...Arizona, USA. Pretty pocket of sparkling tiny blue xtls. GRF. Ml. £4.00 4 MALACHITE, Killie Mine, Elko...Elko Co., Nevada, USA. Very rich with fibrous edges or cross section. GRF. C. £4.00 5 GYPSUM, Simpson Desert...£4.00 9 WAVELLITE, County Pit, Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery Co., Arkansas, USA. Pastel apple green radiate...xtls. GRF. Ml. £5.00 10 SMITHSONITE, San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Pale blue botryoidal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | world'smajorsourcesof basemetals(Pb, Zn) and from the Illinois-Kentuckyfluorite districtare used fluorite. Over...theseinvestigations haveestablished that Mississippi The Illinois-Kentuckyfluorspardistrictis located Valley-ty...edfrom hot (50ø-220øC), in southern Illinois along the Illinois-Kentucky saline(10-30 wt % Na-Ca-C1)...1979). These divided into the Cave-in-Rock and Harris Creek subfluidsare thoughtto have been expelledfrom...of imaginativemethodsemployedto dateMissis- the Illinois basin,which overliesthe PaleozoicReelsippi Valley-type |  | | Journal (issue) | | stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek, Pikes Peak and |  | | Journal (issue) | | stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...find of calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series |  | | Catalog/List | | of Crystallized Gold from the famed Eagle’s Nest Mine in California A superb Crystallized “Leaf” Gold...gemstone Amethyst to come from the famed Four Peaks Mine in Arizona A sharp and complicated Crystallized...Crystallized Silver with Copper from the famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A “classic” Rhodochrosite with associated...associated Pyrite and Quartz from the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado An unusually massive and extremely colorful...colorful, Smithsonite from the iconic Kelly Mine in New Mexico A ‘gem’ quality specimen Tanzanite crystal in |  | | Journal (issue) | | Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root |  | | Journal (issue) | | gypsum on chert that I collected at the Minerva No. 1 mine dump in 1985. It had bundles of orange crystals...documented specimen of hemimorphite from Hardin Co., Illinois. (Photo 1) A couple of specimens I had collected...collected in 1995 from the Annabel Lee mine ore pile had been cataloged as "celestine." I found those...trips into the tluorspar district. One of the stops was the Pigmy (Pygmy) mine, near the village of Mexico...Mexico in Crittenden Co., KY. A description of this mine can be found in Goldstein ( 1997) or on the mindat |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | flanges, St. Clair Lime quarry, Marble City, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil...perpendicular to the twin plane, Elmwood mine, Smith County, Tennessee. R. P. Richards specimen 1301...base of the main crystal, Bethel level, Annabel Lee mine, Illinois. Ross Lillie specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...Figure 14. Calcite penetration twin on {Wl)with dolomite, Belluno, Italy. R. P. Richards specimen 1245...“nest twins” such as are found in St. Lawrence County, New York, and elsewhere (fig. 12); (2) to platy |  | | Catalog/List | | SUMMER 8989 iSamp ^effeiuMineraG Mineral Dealer & Mine Agent "Endsleigh'', 50 Daniell Road, Truro, Cornwall...interphase. 9. AQUAMARINE. Centreville,Boise County,Idaho,U.S.A. A fine,transparent , blue-green terminated...2mm. £5.00. 22. BARITE on CALCITE. Elk Mine,Meade County,S.Dakota,U-S.A. Beautiful terminated golden... BROOKITE. Magnet Cove.Arkansas.U.S.A. A single sub-metallic.matrix-free fine lustrous.doubly-terminated...4J. CHALCEDONY. (Fluorite Pseudomorph). Holmbush Mine,Callington,Cornwall. Interesting creamy array of |  | | Catalog/List | | Time 8am -9pm) FLUORITE,Rosilare Level.Minerva Mine No 1 ,Cave-in-Rock District.Southem Illonois.Xtl...SPHALERITE,var.Ruby Blende.Mid-Continent Mine,Pitcher.Oklahoma,USA Rich continuous druse of ruby sphalerite...free Very attractive D Ml. £5 36 MALACHITE,Dolwen Mine,Devils Bridge.Dyfed.Wales Vughy matrix of milky...Matrix free Good D or RF Ml £8 39 PYRITE,Nanisivik Mine,Baffin Island.North West Territory,Canada Xtl group...RF Ml.£3 42 SMOKY QUARTZ on ALBITE.Contact,Nevada,USA Series of smoky quartz xtl prisms to 30mm penetrating |
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