 | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |  | | Report (issue) | | geographic coordinates and, where applicable, by county and section, township, and range. Both published...nickel-plus-copper in the deposit. The Gap mine (Pennsylvania) and the San Julian mine (California),are examples of...of this type of deposit Contact deposits, formed by diabase intruding limestone, in 10 places have important...deposits varies widely. Some, like the Bluebird mine (Arizona), are small deposits containing 16 mostly...mostly only cobalt minerals. At the Standard mine (Oregon), the , cobalt minerals are associated with |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | OURAY, COLORADO 6 Howard Neal GOODIES AT GOODSPRINGS 8 Mary Frances Strong TARANTULA! 12 Timothy...three states. Bisbee and the fabled Copper Queen mine were responsible for its primary construction. Volume...Myrick's Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California Vol. 7, and Railroads of Nevada and Eastern California...to form the Sunset Route. This gave impetus to mining and agriculture and in turn intensified the construction..." In the Ute language the word meant "hot water spring." Long before any white man set his eyes upon the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino... 327 COVER: BARITE, 17 cm, from the Miekle mine, Nevada. (See the article in the previous issue.) Keith...rediscovered the Moctezuma mine that was first opened for gold in 1937. This mine, though small, provided...Dr. Gaines wrote a compre hensive review of this mine for The Mineralogical Record early in its first...California Issue Benitoite, Gold L.A. County Museum, Himalaya mine $10 v.9/#3 Kalahari rhodochrosite, |  | | Journal (issue) | | dominates the city view and is a reminder of the mining activity that started in the early 17th century...even tho ugh on a small scale. The Storforshei iron mine in the Dunderlandsdalen is still in operation, working...sold as souvenir in a few places. The Mofje llet Mine, a once considerable but now depleted ase metal...NaCaCu5(AsO4 ) 4Cl, and the locality is the El Guanaco Mine, 93 km east of Taltal, Antofagasta Province. Chile...is a new mineral for this famous classic silver mining locality as well as for Spain; a remarkable contribution |  | | Journal (issue) | | an tgressman@comcast.n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic...METATORBERNITE, 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott...three years, (Canada) $180 / one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...Mineralogical Record. Would you like to become a Fellow? Contact Tom Gressman at tgressman@comcast.net or 303-246-3194...part-time while working as a geologist for various mining companies including Halferdahl and Associates (1974-1980) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | localities as the old cobalt mine at Great Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex County, Connecticut; the Franklin...mines, Sussex County, New Jersey; the old Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County, New York;...in Lebanon County, the French Creek iron mines and Wheatley lead mines in Chester County, and the Dyer...Berks County. It is reported from the Alberene and Old Dominion soapstone quarries, Albemarle County, Virginia;...in the Martin mine of the Upper Mississippi Valley lead-zinc district, Lafayette County, Wisconsin; and |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...net NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2022 Articles The Laohuan mine, Goncheng, Zhuang, Guangxi, China.................pyromoprhite crystals, 9 cm, from the Laohuan mine, Gongcheng County, Guangxi, China. Federico Pezzotta (MCP)...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...become a Fellow and join this important group. Contact Tom Gressman (tom.gressman@minrec.org, Tel: 303-246-3194) |  | | Journal (issue) | | AN INFLUENTIAL IRON ORE MINERAL + ARTISANAL MINING A Complex Industry ROCK & GEM • Vol. 49 No. 05...Magma Dot Wine Country Bill Rozday 26 ARTISANAL MINING It’s Dangerous, Illegal, Undocumented—and Booming...HEMATITE AND GOETHITE Exploring New Mexico’s U.S. 60 Mine Mark Leatherman 42 PROUSTITE 36 58 THE MINERALS...Canada and all other foreign countries. EDITORIAL CONTACT INFORMATION: editor@rockngem.com Rock Science... be inspired, and share. I also invite you to contact me with any questions or thoughts about MyRockHub |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...The Franklin Mineral Museum and the Sterling Hill Mining Museum have taken the New Jersey suite, the New...exhibits included a case showing early mining methods, a case of antique mine lamps, worldwide uranium and rare... e tem er cto er Calcite, 24.1 cm, Verchniy mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia. Jeff Scovil photo. Famous...mineral species have been identified from the district, of which six were new to science: irhtemite, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 581; spectrochemical determination of, 790; Amelia County, anal., 796 ALIAS (L. J.), see DE CASTRO(A. HoYos)...alumina gels, 145 BShmite, see Boehmite Boodtite = heterogenite, 253 Book reviews: ALLER (Lawrence H.), The...171 O'NEAL (R. A. H.), Derbyshire lead and lead mining, a bibliography, 528 OSTROUMOV(E. A.), trans. PATERSON...Cinnabar, Derbyshire, lxxxvi, xc; Sarawak, lxix CLARK (A. H.), The composition of arsenopyrite in the...X-ray in rock chips, 619 Clinochlore, Georgia, Nevada, New York, and Sweden, anal., D.T.A., 404 Clinopyroxene |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Thirty-four, Number Four Articles The El Desierto sulfur mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Secondary minerals of the Mazarrón-Águilas mining district, Murcia Province, Spain . . . . . . . . . ...Famous mineral localities: The Pacajake selenium mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...1980 when he paid me a visit at the Jacupiranga mine; somehow he had learned of my mineralogical researches |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | where type specimens are deposited. J. A. M. Heterogenite-2H Cuprosplnel* E. (1973) The new mineral...ineral. Mag., 39, 152-157. Detailed study of heterogenite samples from Mindigi, Shaba, Zaire, showed that..."normal" heterogenite, except for the X-ray powder diffraction pattern. "Normal" heterogenite should be...considered as heterogenite-3R and this new type as heterogenite-2H. The data for heterogenite-2H are similar...similar to those for heterogenite-3R.The strongestlines in the X-ray powder diffraction pattern (in A for |  | Mambwe, Pascal, Shengo, Michel, Kidyanyama, Théophile, Muchez, Philippe, Chabu, Mumba (2022) Geometallurgy of Cobalt Black Ores in the Katanga Copperbelt (Ruashi Cu-Co Deposit): A New Proposal for Enhancing Cobalt Recovery. Minerals, 12 (3) 295 doi:10.3390/min12030295 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Exploration Geology, Tenke Fungurume Mining S.A, Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of the Congo...shengolutandulamichel@yahoo.fr Department of Mine Geology, Ruashi Mining S.A, Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic...formation of a cobalt cap. The ore consists of heterogenite associated with minor amounts of chrysocolla...the variation in mineralogy with depth from heterogenite with minor amounts of malachite and chrysocolla...chrysocolla to malachite, chrysocolla with traces of heterogenite, spherocobaltite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, |  | | Journal (issue) | | i� opernt cl almost exclusiv ely by mail. ,\II contact- with subscribers, writers. and aclverti crs arc...nature's fastest forming mineral crystals. An abandoned mine in upper M ichigan. for example, was revisited a...shimmering with selenite crystals. This mine. tlw Bristol Mine of Crystal Falls, · was deco rated as...transparent, sharply chiseled beauties of Clay County, Minnesota. Spherical in shape, with well formed...Craw ford. and in other parts o f northern Dawes County. Oddly shaped molds of rou h gray chalcedony itself |  | | Journal (issue) | | STATES ...................... A MODEL SOCIE1Y. By Clark Harrison .........................................COPPER IN DRAINAGE WATERS OF THE SCHUYLER COPPER MINE. By 0 . Ivan Lee ............................ WITH...................... COLLECTORS' TALES (Path to spring worn nearly deep enough for pipe line). By Walter... ................................ DE LUCA EMERY MINE HAS BRIGHT FUTURE ........................ CLUB...spent in poking around the immedi~te vicinity of a mine dump or quarry wh1ch apparently was barren from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Earth Science Transactions of the Institutions of Mining and Metallurgy ISSN: 2572-6838 (Print) 2572-6846...J Walding, Gawen RT Jenkin, Daniel James, David Clark, Lisa Hart-Madigan, Robin Armstrong, Jamie Wilkinson...J Walding, Gawen RT Jenkin, Daniel James, David Clark, Lisa Hart-Madigan, Robin Armstrong, Jamie Wilkinson...commonly recovered from Co-oxi-hydroxides (i.e. heterogenite, asbolane) by acid-leaching under reducing conditions...techniques. Several concentrate samples from different mine plants of Katanga Copperbelt (Kalukuluku, Mutanda |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | worked at this camp. Its preciseprovenancein the mine is unknown. Grains of the hypogeneore minerals are...the Upper Miocene (Sillitoe, Mortimer,and Clark, 1968;Clark et al,1967), and consistsentirely of djurleite...under discussion, but heterogenite and cuprian heterogeniteof oxidation origin (cf Clark, 1970) have beenconfirmedas...irregular, rectangularcleavage.Grains not in immediate contact with djurleite contain no oriented incluslonswhich...387 34.8 42.4 245 weight pe! cent ALAN H. CLARK the gen- is lessreflectantand appreciablysofter |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Proterozoic Mines Series, Tenke-Fungurume Cu–Co district, Democratic Republic of Congo I. Fay & M. D. Barton...stratiform Cu–Co deposits in the Tenke-Fungurume district of the Central African Copperbelt were examined...Fourth Street, Building #77, Tucson, AZ 85721-0077, USA e-mail: fay1@email.arizona.edu Fungurume results...results both from original hypogene lithologyand contact-related precipitation and from supergene oxidation...et al. 2005). Recent rejuvenation of large-scale mining in the Congolese deposits has brought with it renewed |  | | Report (issue) | | occurrence • • • • Ores and minerals of cobalt • • Mining, beneficiation and recovery • Preparation of cobalt...flowsheet of Kolwezi concentrator, Katanga Cobalt mining areas of Morocco . . . . Mines, treatment plants...acknowledge the kind assistance of the various Mining and Geological Departments of the Commonwealth...Selection Trust Ltd.; Rhokana Corporation Ltd.; Rhoanglo Mine Services Ltd.; Anglo-American Corporation of South...Kobolds, were believed by miners in the Harz mountains to be responsible for their failure to produce |  | | Journal (issue) | | / three years, (Canada) $180/ one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...Mineralogical Record. Would you like to become a Fellow? Contact Tom Gressman at tom.gressman@minrec.org or 303-246-3194...SHOWS TABULAR BLUE BERYL ON TOURMALINE DEO DARRAH MINE, NEAR PATTA GUZAR, BADAKSHAN, AFGHANISTAN 6CM TOM...dolomite, magnesite, pyrite, quartz and celestine. Mining there for many more years is anticipated, but the...(Steiermark), central Austria. The setting is bucolic, the mining history is interesting, and the local geology is |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...gratifying. One young mineralogist, a former student of mine, said that although he had never met Mike, he had...doubt, be much silver. Subsequently a well-equipped mining expedition was dispatched to the site, but after...captain Juan de Villarroel, who was involved in mining at Porco about 75 km away. He had been chasing...Cotamito and a man named Santandia, and they began mining the rich surface ores. Production continued through |  | Verhaert, Michèle, Madi, Atman, El Basbas, Abdelaziz, Elharkaty, Mohamed, Oummouch, Abdellah, Oumohou, Lahcen, Malfliet, Annelies, Maacha, Lhou, Yans, Johan (2020) Genesis of As-Pb-Rich Supergene Mineralization: The Tazalaght and Agoujgal Cu Deposits (Moroccan Anti-Atlas Copperbelt). Economic Geology, 115 (8). 1725-1748 doi:10.5382/econgeo.4779 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | deposits are the subject of a growing interest from mining industries, boosted by an ever-increasing demand...subsequent relatively easy and fast accessibility and mining are definite advantages over the hypogene, sulfidic...and compounds in mine environments may lead to high arsenic concentrations in mine tailings and waste...information for ore processing. Geologic Setting and Mining of the Deposits The Anti-Atlas belt, located on...Tazalaght and Agoujgal deposits are situated at the contact between Precambrian and Cambrian formations, and |
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