 | | Journal (issue) | | SPRING 2022 PAGES 1–136 Yellow Topaz from Saxony, Germany History of Emerald Mining at Habachtal, Part II...EDITORIAL 1 Yellow Topaz from Germany, Emerald Mining in Austria’s Habachtal Region, A Return to Tucson, and...Gem Topaz from the Schneckenstein Crag, Saxony, Germany: Mineralogical Characterization and Luminescence...history of Austrian emerald deposits in the Habachtal region. p. 40 REGULAR FEATURES p. 55 47 The Dr. Edward...California Canberra, Australia Petershausen, Germany Edward W. Boehm A.J.A. (Bram) Janse Andy Shen |  | | Journal (issue) | | M ontreal Mine! L L The Mineralogical Record MAY–JUNE 2020 • VOLUME 51 • NUMBER 3 • $25 & Wayne... Japan Springfield, Ma / Denver, Co / Munich, Germany Laguna Beach, California, USA tel: +1 949 494 5155...gemgypsy@bellsouth.net MAY–JUNE 2020 Articles The Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin ........................... 487 COVER: BARITE, 6.5 cm, from the Montreal mine. David and Karen DeBruin collection, ex Muscatine...crystals to 1.6 cm on vesuvianite from the Crazy Sphinx mine, Helena District, Lewis and Clark County, Montana |  | | Journal (issue) | | Moore Tpmoore1@cox.net The Guatomo (“Hat Yai”) mine near Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province.............731 . by M. P. Sacchi The Santa Rosa mine, Inyo County, California .........................crystal, 1.6 cm wide, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. Unique Minerals specimen;...Berezovsk district). Figure 26. The gold mining region around Berezovsk, including the names of all of...in the area of the No. 1 shaft at the Pyšminskij mine near Berezovsk. Figure 29. Workings along veins |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystals on matrix, 17.2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, collected in 1978. Private collection and photographer...TRINCHILLO | w w w.FineMineral.com APATITE Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 11...Houston Ste. Marie Denver Munich USA France USA Germany Melbourne Australia See me in Tuscon at Westward...Show and Riverpark Inn Rhodochrosite, Sweet Home Mine, USA, 10 cm Photo: Malte Sickinger MARCUS BUDIL...mc www.budil-minerals.com Chrysocolla on Malachite Mashamba West Mine Democratic Republic of Congo |  | Caucia, Franca, Marinoni, Luigi, Leone, Alberto, Ghisoli, Christian (2015) New physical, geochemical and gemological data of opals from Acari Mine (Arequipa Department, Peru) Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen Journal of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 192 (1) 73-84 doi:10.1127/njma/2014/0272 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | geochemical and gemological data of opals from Acari Mine (Arequipa Department, Peru) Franca Caucia, Luigi...compositional properties of some opals from Acari Mine, Peru, have been investigated through several methodologies...available in literature. XRPD analyses highlighted Acari Mine opals are CT types with variable contents of cristobalite...distinct feature of the dark pink opals from Acari Mine is represented by the presence of β-carotenoid and...Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, Germany DOI: 10.1127/njma/2014/0272 www.schweizerbart |  | | Book | | personal names in general. In 1790 Franz Joseph Anton Estner (1739-1803), a mineralogist in Vienna, issued...dependent on the generosity of aristo¬ crats, as in Germany or Russia. Povarennykh would like to see a rational...Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Austria...chemist and mineralogist; student of Torbern Bergman; mine owner and mineral analyst; trained J. J. Berzelius...and chemist; assisted R. W. Bun¬ sen in Marburg, Germany; opened chemical laboratory in Philadelphia (1848); |  | | Journal (issue) | | ...............363 by C. J. Stefano The Nakhlak Mine, Anarak District, Esfahan Province, Iran..........species hauckite (type locality: the Sterling Hill mine) was named in his honor in 1980, in recognition...Robert (left) and Richard Hauck in the Sterling mine (2008). J.R. Glover photo. American Mineral Heritage...brothers, goes back to the closing of the famous mine in 1986, and the resulting auction of the property...their family farm and purchased the Sterling Hill mine and its various above-ground facilities for $750 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | No. 4 NORTHERN RHODESIA. ANTON GRAY. x•xRor)ucxxo•r. Mufulira Mine is in the N'Kana Concession...an initial outputof x5oo tonsper day. 3t5 316 ANTON GRAY. Mufulira is destinedto be a large and importantproducerof...concernedwith the economicpossibilitiesand prospectsof the mine. It is a descriptionof the geologyof the depositas...Exceptfor a considerable amountof swampygroundthe region • Studt, F. E.: The Geology of Katanga and Northern...London, Dee., 1929, Jan., Feb, March, 193o. Gray, Anton, and Parker, R. J.: The Copper Deposits of Northern |  | | Journal (issue) | | with apatite, Mount Avie, Bellecombe area, Aosta Valley, Italy ................ ......... ...............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... including Nicolaus Jacquin, Christoph Delius, Anton Ruprecht, Karl Haidinger, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli...1751 was funded mainly by donations from wealthy mine owners and from simple mining families. Modem times |  | | Journal (issue) | | MARCH–APRIL 2023 Articles Altyn-Tyube, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan: The Type Locality for Dioptase......Scotland, Taft’s quarry in Wales, and the Florence mine in Cumbria), and to work in the cleaning lab of...Gochenour, owner of the Cryo-Genie mine, and collected at the Elizabeth R mine at Pala. Tim had no business...Properties, cleaning specimens from the Himalaya mine. More recently he assisted John Veevaert of Trinity...favorite field-collecting day was at the Himalaya mine in 1989, when Pala Properties hit the President’s |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ..................... Physical Features of the Region ................................ Geologic Setting...intersecting the country. In from four to fiveyears the region shouldbe producingaround 400 million poundsof copper;...Concession," by Dr. Anton Gray, and "The Geology and Development of the Roan Antelope Mine," by D.C. Sharpstone..."The Copper Deposits of Northern Rhodesia," by Anton Gray and R. J. Parker, Eng. and Min. ORESOF N...on the West Coast. PhysicalFeaturesof the Region. The region forms part o,f a great plateauthat lies at |  | Pekov, Igor V., Siidra, Oleg I., Chukanov, Nikita V., Yapaskurt, Vasiliy O., Britvin, Sergey N., Krivovichev, Sergey V., Schüller, Willi, Ternes, Bernd (2015) Engelhauptite, KCu3(V2O7)(OH)2Cl, a new mineral species from Eifel, Germany. Mineralogy and Petrology, 109 (6) 705-711 doi:10.1007/s00710-015-0400-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | KCu3(V2O7)(OH)2Cl, a new mineral species from Eifel, Germany Igor V. Pekov 1 & Oleg I. Siidra 2 & Nikita V....636 südöstlich Neroth^), Daun, Eifel region, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Associated minerals are volborthite...volborthite, allophane, malachite, tangeite and chrysocolla; earlier minerals belonging to the primary, high-temperature...Academy of Sciences, 142432 Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, Russia 4 Nanomaterials Research Center, Kola...Straußenpesch 22, 53518 Adenau, Germany 6 Bahnhofstrasse 45, 56727 Mayen, Germany There are 20 copper vanadates |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | siliceous hornfels in association with cerussite, chrysocolla, fluorite, goethite, gypsum, mimetite, opal,...the Atkinson mine and most of the other workings have been known as the Hard Luck mine. Mineralization...reference, they published the recent history of the region, known to them, and descriptions of 45 minerals...quartzite-like hornfels in a fractured and chaotic region of limestone showing irregular skarn formation...filled largely with cerussite, silica, and/or chrysocolla. The plumbophyllite appears to be a tertiary |  | | Journal (issue) | | Palmstrom The Lengenbach Mineral Locality, Binna Valley, Valais, Switzerland.............................Symes and P. G. Embrey Fluorite from the Font Sante Mine, Esterel, Var, France.............................Minerals from the Volcanic District of Laacher See, Germany..................................................Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim...desire is to visit Norway on collecting tours. In Germany there are still more, also with their own jour |  | | Journal (issue) | | localities: Minerals of the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia ........................................shattuckite, 7.1 cm, from the Kaokoveld District, Kunene Region, Namibia. Irv Brown specimen; Jeff Scovil photo...the best vesuvianite specimens from the Jeffrey mine in Quebec. In this issue we present a review of...Herodsfoot Mine Work Readers who enjoyed Roy Starkey's superb article on the famous Herodsfoot mine in Cornwall...to the old engine house at the North Herodsfoot mine is being cleared of hundreds of tons of accumulated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ORES OF EXTENSIONS, THE N'CHANGA NORTHERN MINE AND RHODESIA. G. C. A. JACKSON. CONTENTS. Introduction...Principal Deposits ........................... N'Changa Mine and •Vest Extension ..............................reference should be made to papers by J. A. Bancroft, Anton Gray, and Alan M. Bateman, and for details of the...Mines," by Anton Gray, EcoN. GEOL., Vol. 25, pp. 783-804, •93o. ORES OF THE N'CH,•ING.4 MINE, Intrusive...PRINCIPAL DEPOSITS. N'Changa Mine and Extensions. The N'Changa Mine and its associatedore bodiestogether |  | | Report (issue) | | Eocene strata on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, Fresno and Merced Counties, California, by Max... P. Price 75$. 16. Geology of the Shasta King mine, Shasta County, California, by A. R. Kinkel, Jr...pp., 1 pi., 15 figs. Price 50$. Santa Rosa lead mine, Inyo County, California, by Edward M. Mackevett...75$. 20. Geology of the Superior talc area, Death Valley, California, by Lauren A. Wright. 1952. 22 pp....figs. Geology and ore deposits of the Afterthought mine, Shasta County, California, by John P. Albers. 1953 |  | | Journal (issue) | | M. Gressm an tgressman@comcast.n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic...COVER: METATORBERNITE, 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo...and on the best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's...west of the Mackenzie River Delta. The Nanisivik mine on Baffin Island was another prolific locality pioneered...Nanisivik mine, at Rapid Creek in the Yukon, at the El Bonanza mine, at the Society Girl mine, and at Emerald |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystal with calcite, 6.5 cm, from the Cosq uez mine, Colombia; found in 1998. Scott Rudolph collection............................................... 22 Mine Exploitation (or not) Today ......................specimen-collecting aspects of the Colombian emerald-mining region. The Mineralogical Record, volume 47, January-...occurrences (abandoned), The Nemoc6n mine is primarily a salt mine refitted as a tourist attraction; it...of Muzo, occupies both slopes of a funnel-shaped valley above the little Itoco River, at elevations ranging |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO |  | Janeczek, Janusz, Ciesielczuk, Justyna, Dulski, Mateusz, Krzykawski, Tomasz (2016) Chemical composition and Raman spectroscopy of cornubite and its relation to cornwallite in Miedzianka, the Sudety Mts., Poland. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie - Abhandlungen Journal of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, 193 (3) 265-274 doi:10.1127/njma/2016/0305 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cu5(AsO4)2(OH)4, occurs in association with chrysocolla, cornwallite-pseudomalachite and philipsburgitekipushite...centered at 830, 825, 823, and 792 cm–1. In the region of OH stretching vibrations there is a single Raman...Schweizerbart’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart, Germany DOI: 10.1127/njma/2016/0305 eschweizerbart_xxx...GołęBiowSka 2011 and references therein). Aside from chrysocolla which is ubiquitous in all samples, arsenates...vugs within amphibolite in association with chrysocolla, P-rich cornwallite, As-rich pseudomalachite |  | | Journal (issue) | | by W. E. Wilson Pink amethyst from the El Choique mine, Patagonia, Argentina ............................Martino & A. Oteiza The Copper World and Mohawk mine, Northeastern San Bernardino County, California...387 COVER: WULFENITE, 11.5 cm, from the Jianshan mine, Ruoqiang County, Kuruktag Mountains, Bayinguoling...WULFENITE with Mimetite, 1.7 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Wish Wang collection...MINERALS LIMITED Azurite with Malachite | Milpillas Mine, Mexico | 4.5 x 3.4 x 1.9cm orders@crystalclassics |  | | Journal (issue) | | Nephrite Jade from Washingto n State, USA Copper Mine rals in Chalcedon y from Indon esia ARTICLES The...Hart Gem-A, London Karl Schmetzer Petershausen, Germany Ulrich Henn German Gemmological Association, Idar-Oberstein...Lore Kiefert Gemmology Consulting, Heidelberg, Germany Hiroshi Kitawaki Central Gem Laboratory, Tokyo...Elisabeth Strack Gemmologisches Institut Hamburg, Germany Tay Thye Sun Far East Gemological Laboratory, Singapore...of the world. Total annual supply rose 2%, with mine production at a four-year high. Visit https://www |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Far-Eastern Region, Russia (55° 41’N, 160°14’E, 1200 m asl) Igor V...2015-103 Hansblockite (Cu,Hg)(Bi,Pb)Se2 El Dragón mine, Quijarro province, Potosí, Bolivia (19°49’23.90”S...Avdontseva, Andrey A. Zolotarev, Vladimir Y. Karpenko, Anton S. Mazur, Victor N. Yakovenchuk, Sergey V. Krivovichev...Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka Peninsula, Far-Eastern Region, Russia (55°41’N, 160°14’E, 1200 m asl) Igor V...Tolbachik volcano, Kamchatka peninsula, Far-Eastern Region, Russia (55°41’N, 160°14’E, 1200 m asl) Igor V |
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