| | Report (edition) | maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Bulletin 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia second edition While systematically...authoritative, the second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is written not only for the professional geologist...et al. The second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is an updated version published in response...formal inception of the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) in 1896. In this second joint publication | | | Report (edition) | Stocklmayer GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia FRONTISPIECE Euhedral black... MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J Michael Fetherston, Susan M Stocklmayer...Stocklmayer Perth 2013 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINISTER FOR MINES AND PETROLEUM Hon. Norman...EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Rick Rogerson REFERENCE The recommended reference...VC 2013, Gemstones of Western Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral Resources Bulletin | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Collection, Kyushu University News Downloaded by [The Aga Khan University] at 00:19 02 January 2015 from Japan...arsenopyrite and quartz (Ko #1508) from the Obira mine, Oita Prefecture. It is a huge matrix piece, measuring...from the Obira mine; chalcopyrites from the Ani mine, Akita Prefecture, and the Ashio mine, Tochigi Prefecture;...matrix specimens of fluorapatite from the Ashio mine, Tochigi Prefecture. Of the several collections...one of the largest stibnites from the Ichinokawa mine, Ehime Prefecture (fig. 4) can also be found at | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Sciences, University of Western Australia, Western Australia 6009, Australia 2 Centre for Microscopy...Analysis, University of Western Australia , Western Australia 6009, Australia 1 Abstract Quantitative...pegmatites such as the Greenbushes deposit, Western Australia (Partington et al. 1995), Sn-Cu-Pb-Zn skarns...and SC2), two from the greisen zone of the Buriti mine (BM1 and BM2), and one is from the White Lode Sn-mineralized...te skarn located in northwestern Tasma‑ nia, Australia. Tin mineralization is interpreted to have occurred | | | Report (issue) | Asia: Pakistan, Afghanistan and India .......6 0 Old Mine Emeralds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...intensely colored materials in the world. ... To the Western Middle Ages Many theologians of the early middle...Maharajahs and Maharanis held large emeralds (see "Old Mine Emeralds" page 62). The Color of Islam Emerald...Pedro I of Brazil to the 6 th Duke of Devon- shire. Also housed here are a number of large cut emeralds...879), trapiche emeralds are found only in the western emerald zone in the Muzo Coscuez-Pefias Blancas | | | Journal (issue) | 2.69 orange-pink weak violet violet Biron (Australia) pinkish Novosibirsk (Russia) pinkish 1.570...Pinkish synthetic beryls are also produced in Australia by Biron International Ltd., which are well known...number of synthetic beryls produced in Japan and Australia. The recent red beryls show strong pleochroism...known (e.g. Riebling and Duke, 1967; Dmitriev and Khan, 1971), but Raman spectra are lacking. Raman spectra...de Gemmologie a.f.g., 88,15-17 Dmitriev, LA., and Khan, V.P., 1971. Formation of beryl structure in glasses | | | Report (issue) | World-Class Beryl Guanghua Liu Page 76 Gem Beryl in Australia Dermot Henry Page 78 Beryl from Southern Africa...crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced crystals up to 2 meters...surprise. In 1997, Gary and Mary Freeman began to mine the Orchard pit, a then insignificant pegmatite...(Laurs et al. 2003). A second location in the Deva mine, Paroon Valley, Kunar, Nuristan, Afghanistan has...faces and sitting on altered granite matrix. The western part of the Furka Base Tunnel in Wallis produced | | | Journal (issue) | 1982, XVIII, 2 GROSSULAR GARNET FROM THE JEFFREY MINE, ASBESTOS, QUEBEC, CANADA By WILLOW WIGHT, B.A....Division, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A OM8, Canada The Jeffrey Mine is the second largest asbestos deposit in the world...Located about 160 km east of Montreal, the Jeffrey Mine has been producing since 1881. Now owned by the...found on granitic rocks that intrude the Jeffrey Mine ore body. The grossular varies from colourless through...carats FIG. 1. Grossular garnet from the Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Hessonite (NMNS #20206) | | | Journal (issue) | Egyptian mines may have introduced emeralds to the Western world, historically the finest emeralds have come...And as recently as the early 1970s, Muzo-the major mine-was forced to close because of over 900 emerald-related...their observations (which were usually on a single mine) with a comprehensive review of the literature to...the mine is at an elevation of about 2300 m and that just 2 km to the east, in sight of the mine, the...that is even higher than the mine (figure 4). In addition to the Chivor mine, the Chivor district includes | | | Book | of the Stone in Myth and in Rock 9 3 From Mine to “Mine”: The Emerald Business 21 4 Emeralds in World...John) is one of the most mysterious figures in Western myth. His ancestry is uncertain, but some claim...could identify the country and sometimes the actual mine a particular stone came from. However, vaporizing...of some ocean. The glorious emeralds of the Muzo mine of Colombia are embedded in calcite veins found...chromium needed for emerald, was washed off the western coast of the continent to collect on the sea floor | | | Book | not ideal architectural partners. Egypt and western Asia their work was done with Other materials...flesh shrinks from the touch of cold marble, and western Turkey, where Ephesus is located, does feel a touch...depths of barbarism. wonder then that the ancient Western world, lacking accurate maps and adequate comIt...enough Greek for the purpose, Eudoxos reached the western coast of India. There he obtained a cargo of perfumes...addition to the sea-lanes connecting India to Western powers of Greece and Rome, there were also the |
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