 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Canada Downloaded by [Florida International University] at 19:52 23 August 2013 C anada is home...from emerald to sapphire, Canada has it all. Yet, for most of its history, Canada has been regarded as a...producing gem rough, most major gem species have been found at one time or another in Canada (fig. 1)...1). Some gem localities, such as those for amethyst from Nova Scotia and Ontario, have been known for centuries...sapphire in Nunavut, emerald in the Yukon and Ontario, and peridot, topaz, and aquamarine in British |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Amethyst Deposits of the Thunder Bay Area, Ontario, Canada DANIEL E . KILE 333 Salem Street Aurora,...Colorado 80011 T H E T H U N D E R BAY REGION IN ONTARIO PROV I N C E , Canada, has long been noted as a source...approximately 35 miles northeast of the city of Thunder Bay. Access is from Highway 11-17, which follows...Background Figure 1: Overview of the Thunder Bay Amethyst mine quarry in 1982. Elbow Lake is in the background...dezvous. A noteworthy point of interest in the Thunder Bay area is the excellent reconstruction of this |  | | Journal (issue) | | New York Articles Amethyst from the Thunder Bay region, Ontario .......................................Donald Elliott at the Diamond Willow mine near Thunder Bay, Ontario. Photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt...Leicestershire LE7 7Qb Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 South Africa:...paid at Bowie, Maryland One of the World’s Great Gem and Crystal Collections for sale by owner This collection...featured at the Munich, Germany, and Tucson, Arizona, Gem and Mineral Shows; specimens have been illustrated |  | | Book (volume) | | cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern... His works are known to almost every collector, gem cutter, gemologist, and mineralogist. His writings...newer events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most...promising diamond fields being vigorously explored in Canada and the United States. Experts agree that in several...diamond-bearing kimberlite bodies, most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing |  | | Book | | ........................ Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County......................of Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties.. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County............................................ Hematite mines near Ontario, Wayne County.................. Lead-Zinc Mines...................................... Rossie lead mine, St. Lawrence County.................................. Balmat-Edwards zinc district, St. Lawrence County......... Garnet mine of Gore Mountain, Warren | | | Book | | farm above Keuka Lake in New York's Finger Lakes district. After attending Penn Yan Academy in nearby Penn......................... . Tilly Foster magnetite mine near Brewster, Putnam County .....................Jefferson and St. Lawrence Counties .. Sterling mine, near Antwerp, Jefferson County ......... . Clinton.......................... . Hematite mines near Ontario, Wayne County ........... • Lead-Zinc Mines . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rossie lead mine, St. Lawrence County . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (issue) | | Change William E. Boyajian FEATURE ARTICLES 292 Gem Localities of the 1990s James E. Shigley, Dona M...Includes a wall chart and comprehensive tables of gem localities. 336 Gemstone Enhancement and Detection...pressing need to identify them. 360 Synthetic Gem Materials and Simulants in the 1990s John I. Koivula...Analyzes an entire decade of activity in the synthetic gem industry, as well as the introduction of new simulants... Editors, Gem Trade Lab Notes Thomas M. Moses Ilene Reinitz Shane F. McClure Editors, Gem News Mary L |  | | Journal (issue) | | Journal of Gemmology The Gemmological Association and Gem Testing Laboratory of Great Britain President E...BSc., FCA, DCA The Gemmological Association and Gem Testing Laboratory of Great Britain 27 Greville Street...yield more gems from different localities, thirteen gem species are recorded here as stars or cat'seyes....materials science is of growing influence in the gem market and if it is not laser development or space...gemmological. R.R.H. © Gemmological Association and Gem Testing Laboratory of Great Britain ISSN: 1355-4565 |  | | Journal (issue) | | accumulated in 1966, when the team from the Royal Ontario Museum m a d e their protracted study of the Crown...(September 1975) By KENNETH SCARRATT, F.G.A. The Gem Testing Laboratory London Chamber of Commerce and...co-operation of our colleagues in the Institute and at the Gem Testing Laboratory during this work. W e are particularly...Synthetic Opals. Aust. Gem., X I I , (6), 179-180. 76 J. Gemm., 1976, XV, 2 ON GEM RHODONITE FROM MASSACHUSETTS...INTRODUCTION Rhodonite, MnSiC>3, occurs as massive gem material, well suited to carving and the cutting |  | | Report (issue) | | cut stencils, ran the mimeograph, stuffed per- Gem & Mineral envelopes, societies, and proof read... MEMBER SOCIETIES AND CLUBS Page Antelope Valley Gem and Mineral Society.......................................................... ,..... 10 Bellflower Gem and Mineral Society............................................................. 11 Benicia Rock & Gem Club, Inc ........................... :....................................... ::.... 11 Calaveras Gem and Mineral Society, Inc........................ |
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