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| Minerals of Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin 73 by R. S. Bottrill and W. E. Baker Mineral Resources...Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources E>...56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Phone (03) 6233 8377 Fax (03) 6233 8338 Email info@mrt.tas.gov.au www.mrt...gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure...Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018 www.mrttas.gov.au ©Copyright State of Tasmania, 2008 All rights reserved |
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| Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement To The Mineralogical Record, September–October 2020 ... Mineral Collections in Australia Organized by Robert Sielecki Designed by Wendell Wilson with Photography...Record, September–October, 2020 Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement to The Mineralogical...1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian...Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western Ausytralia |
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| # ' 'M & va ;>1 MINERALS All GEMSTONES OF TASMANIA v. AND THEIR LOCATIONS By KEITH E. LANCASTER...LANCASTER Si "s MINERALS All :' GEMSTONES OF TASMANIA AND THEIR LOCATIONS By KEITH E. LANCASTER The author...Lancaster — panning for osmiridium at the “Clay Bank”, west of Adamsfield. Published by GEMCRAFT PUBLICATIONS...National Museum of Victoria. Chromiferous cerussite — (Dundas). Courtesy. National Museum of Victoria. First...National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0909223 04 1 Printed in Australia by Quadricolor Industries |
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| l WITHDRAWN CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia = _ |) VieBAtO TATA JARS...UAE a hte “ CLASSIC MINERAL LOCALITIES OF THE WORLD Asia and Australia Philip Scalisi David Cook...Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand...Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen Street Mitcham, Victoria 3132, Australia Van Nostrand Reinhold...Scalisi, Philip. Classic mineral localities of the world, Asia and Australia. Bibliography: p. Includes |
 | Kampf, A. R., Mills, S. J., Housley, R. M., Bottrill, R. S., Kolitsch, U. (2012) Reynoldsite, Pb2Mn4+2O5(CrO4), a new phyllomanganate-chromate from the Blue Bell claims, California and the Red Lead mine, Tasmania. American Mineralogist, 97 (7) 1187-1192 doi:10.2138/am.2012.3989 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
| the Blue Bell claims, California and the Red Lead mine, Tasmania Anthony R. Kampf,1,* Stuart J. Mills,2...Housley,3 Ralph S. Bottrill,4 and Uwe Kolitsch5,6 Mineral Sciences Department, Natural History Museum of...Victoria, GPO Box 666, Melbourne 3001, Victoria, Australia 3 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences...91125, U.S.A. 4 Mineral Resources Tasmania, P.O. Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018, Australia 5 Mineralog...14, A-1090 Wien, Austria 1 Abstract The new mineral reynoldsite, Pb2Mn4+ 2 O5(CrO4), occurs at the |
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| Sverdlovsk) and finding a mineral apparently al ready k n o w n as "Siberian red lead." T h e probable source...source was the Beresov gold mine, opened i n 1752. T h i s mineral from Beresov was also described by Pallas...Pallas i n 1770. The element combined with lead remained a mystery until 1798 when Nicolas Louis Vauquelin...the el ement chromium in impure form from the mineral we know today as crocoite. Vauquelin writes: "...cabinets of Europe come from the [Beresov] gold mine . . . b u t . . . it has become very scarce, and |
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| "BLAHS" than to go shopping through your favorite mineral/fossil catalogs by mail or internet! (well, actually...while they last. TOTAL WRECK WULFENITE: Total Wreck Mine, Pima County, Arizona; Nice butterscotch to near...dozen of these from an old collection. A very rare mineral for sure and this Is one of the most famous localities...inch specimens, $25.00 each. CAMPYLITE: Dry Gill Mine, Cumberland, England; A unique and rare species...hoppered crystals of this important bright yellow mineral mounted in plastic perky boxes: $2.50 each. CA |
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| authoritative published archives of data for the mineral collector and specimen-oriented mineralogist that...fl. Fluorescent, or fluoresces H History of Mineral Collecting (vol. 25, no. 6) All dimensional notations...Phosphates; 24/#2, Greenland; and 25/#6, The History of Mineral Collecting) are paginated independently, but following...GREENLAND] HMC0 ] 1-264 •MINERAL MUSEUMS OF EASTERN EUROPE 0 HISTORY OF MINERAL COLLECTING Tlir M/11,ru/1111/ml...spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON |
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| THE NATURALLY OCCURRING CHROMATES OF LEAD S. A. WILLIAMS BULLETIN OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL... No. 8 THE NATURALLY OCCURRING CHROMATES OF LEAD BY SIDNEY ARTHUR WILLIAMS Phelps Dodge Corporation...Price £1.95 THE NATURALLY OCCURRING CHROMATES OF LEAD By S. A. WILLIAMS CONTENTS Page Introduction...supposed - of phoenicochroite and of other BASIC lead CHROMATES fornacite Embreyite Iranite and hemihedrite...401 403 410 SYNOPSIS The history of the natural lead chromates is traced from 1766 to 1972, and the published |
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| the American West, however, the true importance of these mineral deposits was economic: lead from Connecticut...founder of modern chemistry, was studying "Siberian red lead" (crocoite) from Ekaterinburg (now Sverdlovsk)...chromium after the Greek chroma, color. The "Siberian red lead" was in demand. It was ground as a pigment and...older collections, mostly in Europe, to cheer the mineral collectors o f the present. About 1 8 0 1 , continued...the most common chromite ore was an ugly black mineral containing about 55% C r 0 . This ore is still |
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| EACH PIECE. PLEASE QUOTE BOTH THE CODE AND THE MINERAL NAME. IF YOU WANT TO SEND BACK THE CATALOGUE WITH...AVAILABLE. I NORMALLY HAVE A SHALL STOCK OF EACH MINERAL' IN THE CATALOGUE UP TO WHERE IT SAYS 'SINGLE SPECIMENS'...All page 7 Brianyoungite Scawtite; Lizardite Mineral with unusual elements Page 1 Greenockite General...Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...463 THORTVEITITE (Sc Y)/2 Si/2 0/7 rare Scandium mineral (Tuftane Iveland Norway) grey to colourless crystal |
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| from California. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 7 THE MINERAL KINGDOM 9 IDENTIFICATION TARLES 146 CONVERSION...relationships among minerals. Members of the main mineral families are grouped together. Each such family...To find a particular mineral in this section, consult the Index. Under each mineral name in the Index there...this reference section. If you have a sample of a mineral of whose identity you are unsure, you should consult...section. When you think you know the name of the mineral you can find its entry by consulting the Index |
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| MINERAL NAMES WHAT DO THEY MEAN? MINERAL NAMES WHAT DO THEY MEAN? by Richard Scott Mitchell ...America Published by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Published simultaneously...contrast, the relatively small number of necessary mineral names (probably less than 2500 even now, with about...activities of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names of the International Mineralogical Association...when more than one is in use, and toward studying mineral groups with the aim of defining the names used |
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| '• Pyrite PY UK and Ireland: 0870 890 2730 Australia: (03) 9872 4000 New Zealand: (09) 308 2871 South...copy? Ring Customer Services UK: 0870 870 2575 Australia: (03) 9872 4000 New Zealand: (09) 308 2871 South...Marina on the island of Elba , off the Italian coast. - Q) ...plain pyrite. 0 :I 'C n Although a common mineral, pyrite - also known as 'fool's gold ' - has a...Mexico. Eight-sided crystals from the Traversella mine, Piedmont, Italy. .&. crystals. It can also be |
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| [(OH)5 (P04)4]' 6 H20 (monoclinic, brown) Rotlăufchen Mine near Wetzlar/FRG Original size 5 x 6 mm ISBN-13:...Translator: John Sampson White, Department of Mineral Sciences, Smithsonian Institution © by Springer-Verlag...recognize that our earth once circled the sun as a red-hot glowing sphere, many billions of years ago -...a deeper view of the crust in mines. The deepest mine shafts are those of the gold mines in the Witwatersrand...term mineral derives from the Latin minare, meaning mining, and mina, the shaft. Therefore mineral became |
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| Mineralogical Record The International Magazine for Mineral Collectors VOLUME 47 • NUMBER 4 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief...tgressman@comcast.net Famous Mineral Localities: The Berezovsk District, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia ....ajoite-included quartz in the Artonvilla mine, Messina District, Limpopo Province, South Africa .........Collector & Dealer Biographies • Mineral Artists • Antiquarian Mineral Literature Bio-bibliography The...Brett Kosnar & Family (2009-2015) Lyda Hill The Mineral Trust (2015-2016) Richard W. Graeme (2008-2016) |
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| includes a short history, from t he discovery of the mineral or gemstone to its present day uses, and pic ks...information boxes: Characteristics describes what the mineral or gemstone looks like, what it can do, w hat it...For quick filing, the first two letters of each mineral and gemstone appear at the top corner of the page... miners drill holes in the rock at Taxco silver mine in Mexico. Right: North Sea drilling rig 'Claymore-A'...found at Whitby in Yorkshire, England. The British coast is worked extensively for quartz grains, which are |
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| Rose, North West - D M Brady, Scottish - B Jackson, South East - C H Winter, South West - R M Slater...Islands (although one was recently dredged off the coast of J. Gemm., 2004, 29, 4, 193-203 193 Colombia...Paw P. maxima P. margaritifera (Pacific) (Australia) (Tahiti) 2119 813 18 311 54 0.6 924 0.4 6674...scallop pearl is similar to that shown by natural red coral. The Raman spectrum of the 5.91 ct scallop...ofOuro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil 2. Department of Mining and Geology, Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil |
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| herein). Notices Knowledge and best practice in this field are constantly changing. As new research and experience...Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe (BGR, Hannover), • the mineral specimens from the Senckenberg Museum (Dresden)...name) and cited in the figure captions of the mineral description chapter. Name Affiliation/Address...supplemented by colour photos for as many different ore mineral species as possible; this is done here. All minerals...present valuable clues for the identification of mineral associations, because a number of metals exhibit |
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| elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993...is adorned at its center with a large, polished, red tourmaline. The crown is housed at the Hradschin....78 Australia ......................... 82 Europe (east) ...................... 83 Europe (west) ......pearls. The large (39.5 x 36.5 x 14 mm), bright red stone in the center of the front of the crown was...it. Hyrsl realized that, like a number of other red stones in the royal treasuries of Europe (see article |
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| LTD. DURBAN : 33/35 Beach Grove AUSTRALIA: BUTTERWORTH & CO. (AUSTRALIA) SYDNEY : 6/8 O’Connell Street...2 PREFACE For two decades, an earlier work of mine—Practical Gemmology—has proved a useful elementary...the Cultured Pearl Company, and those of diamond mining by the Anglo-American Corporation. ROBERT WEBSTER...second virtue and depends upon the hardness of the mineral. In general, gem minerals are hard minerals. Glass...than either beauty or durability is rarity. A mineral may be fairly common, yet really fine pieces suitable |
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| MARCH, Ph.D. 1914 Issued by California State Mining Bureau McN. HAMILTON STATE MINERALOGIST F. F...Minerals of herewith Bulletin 67 of the State Mining California. This work was made possible at this...that this bulletin will be of service to the mineral industry. Respectfully submitted. Fletcher McN...localities new and quently the The second list ^Mining' State Mineralogist. This known localities...as Report of the State viously field, were knoMTi for mineral specimens was short and not list |
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| SCHUSTER'S GUIDE TO ROCKS AND MINERALS An easy-to-use field guide, with over 1,000 spectacular illustrations—...which man has samples (meteorites and the Moon). A mineral is characterized by homogeneous physical properties;...that is, any two parts of a piece of a particular mineral will have the same set of properties. However,...with direction in the crystal; for example, the mineral may be harder on one side than on another or may...will be the same for all pieces of that mineral. Each mineral has a distinctive chemical composition which |
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| by detailed encyclopedic information on all the mineral varieties importantto the collector or lapidary...into sections, describing every aspect of the mineral world, this book gives the most complete coverage...find as much in this book as the enthusiastic mineral-collector and the experienced lapidary for whom...O’Donoghue The Mineral Kingdom 148 compiled by Michael O’Donoghue 288 Glossary \ Mineral Identification...of the world of minerals and fashioned gems; to lead those who have already made a first acquaintance |
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| property, colour is only occasionally useful if the mineral has a d/stinctive, inherent colour such as yellow... INTRODUCTION STREAK Streak is the colour of a mineral in a finely powdered form. This is usually demonstrated...is therefore a more consistent indicator of a mineral. Streak is not useful for most silicate minerals...describes the nature of light from the surface of a mineral. A metallic lustre is shown by opaque minerals...weaknesses and many strengths: it is the hardest mineral known and is the highest on Moh '.s scale of hardness |
