 | | Report (issue) | | “bigger” than the rhodochrosite of the Sweet Home mine, and right now the big news appertaining thereto...website (collectorsedge.com) is offering 16 Sweet Home mine rhodochrosite specimens, thumbnail to cabinet-size...the Detroit City Portal, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado. Collector’s Edge specimen; Annette...(WeinrichMineralsInc.com) also has some newly emerged Sweet Home mine rhodochrosite specimens, as well as other items...the Shijiangshan lead-zinc mine at Lixi, Inner Mongolia, China (this mine, begun in 2008, has also turned |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sweet Home Mine Rhodochrosite Wall at the Denver Museum of Natural History JACK A. MURPHY Denver Museum...Museum of Natural History 2001 Colorado Boulevard Denver, Colorado 80205 Downloaded by [University of Saskatchewan...Lees, operator of Colorado’s well-known Sweet Home mine. Lees, through his company Collector’s Edge, has... h 7? ’ A Mount Buckskin 13,865 Sweet Home Mine 1 mile 1 kilometer \ 3 . Alma- Figure 1....Home mine, Park County, Colorado. Maps by William W. Besse. 240 ROCKS & MINERALS silver mine in 1991 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | decided quantity on a fine why this account of a treasure trove may not be alto assay balance. .. It was afterward...load of "The first experiments were made upon galena, or clay is hauled out of a cellar enough gold...steam. Owego, Tioga County, N. Y., January A Case oC Spontaneo us variety of galena is argentiferous...River Delaware, and a "We find in the galena of Ulster County, New York French writer affirms that there...ignited by close con lena of New Britain, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, cannot but wonder at the apparent |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Gold Hill Mine Downloaded by [Gazi University] at 11:25 09 January 2015 Tooele County, Utah PATRICK...89122 phaynes@embarqmail.com Figure 1. The Gold Hill mine, with the 300-foot level’s tunnel to the left of...the underground workings of the Gold Hill mine in Tooele County, Utah. On 6 August 2007 the Utah Mined Land...Hill mining district, beginning with the Gold Hill mine itself. In anticipation of the mine’s closure, a...Laskowski, and I made some collecting trips to the mine to investigate the underground workings and recover |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | other exotic oxidized zone in an as-yet-undeveloped mine. For now, however, Tsumeb holds top honors for the...name leadhillite in 1832, establishing the Susanna mine, Leadhills, as the type locality (Dana 1896). There...Figure 1. Leadhillite, 6.7 cm high, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. Formerly in the Houston Museum...pseudomorphing leadhillite crystals to 5 mm, from the Susanna mine, Leadhills, Scotland. This is the underside of the...is often pale gray (typically from inclusions of galena), creamy white, pale yellow, or colorless, and |  | | Report (issue) | | life). Scattered among the specimens on the “Treasure Trove” page (see under “Galleries”) are a few crystal...but fairly familiar finds—boleite from the Amelia mine, Baja California, Mexico; zunyite from Quartzsite...Australia; painite from Burma; perhamite from Oxford County, Maine; the brand-new species bobdownsite from...great old classic—witness (below) the galena from the Dörnberg mine, Ramsbeck district, Nordrhein-Westfalen...recent finds on the dumps of the old La Vidale lead mine, Bréziès, Asprières, Aveyron, France, there is this |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | across the upper gorge of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado marks the final step leading up to what will be...for much of its course, the Grand Canyon C1f the Colorado River may .well be ranked as the greatest natural...present time there are highway bridges across the Colorado River at Green River, Utah, and at Topock, ten...north and south from Lee's Fetry, but crossing the Colorado at the most favorable point in Marble Canyon (really...use across the sheer·walled gorge of the Little Colorado at the Cameron trading post. Its estimated cost |  | | Report (issue) | | World United Kingdom Mineral rights :Hallmarking Treasure 61 References Illustrations 8 Fig 1 Location...relatively small in the United Kingdom compared with the USA, Japan and West Germany, being about 30 tonnes in...91 per cent, was reported from the Great Boulder Mine near Kalgoorlie. Native gold at the surface and...tree in the auriferous region of Guyana, but in Colorado the ash of wood from the interior of large roots...sulphide minerals such as pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena and tetrahedrite-tennantite, accompanied by calcite |  | | Journal (issue) | | David Muench, Santa Barbara, California. OURAY, COLORADO 6 Howard Neal GOODIES AT GOODSPRINGS 8...three states. Bisbee and the fabled Copper Queen mine were responsible for its primary construction. Volume...from San Francisco to the Yuma crossing on the Colorado River. Each illustration is accompanied by a text...Springs Aerial Tramway GHOSTS by HOWARD NEAL Ouray, Colorado The Indians called the place "Uncapahgre."...structures. The building was completed in 1904. Ouray, founded in 1876, boomed following the discovery |  | | Journal (issue) | | Care! ARIZONA WULFENITE Down Deep in the Rowley Mine GEM GARNETS Popular for Centuries THE BALTIMORE...toxic. This 6 cm spray of needles is from the Herja mine (Baia Mare, Maramures), Romania. (Gerhard Brandstetter................... 22 This Arizona mine is a specimen treasure trove Winter rockhounding in South Carolina...Notes New owners took possession of the Mary Ellen mine property on July 1, 2014 and no collecting is being...are Mary Ellen jasper or came from the Mary Ellen mine, just west of Biwabik, Minnesota, is speculative |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Kola Peninsula, Russia, and Wind Mountain, Otero County, New Mexico, United States (W. Stoll, pers. com...same period, Tarassoff also discovered another treasure, the Redpath Museum at McGill University; its...deposits in the Keno Hill–Galena Hill area in the Yukon Territory. Old mine dumps and underground mines...Chandler’s Mill pegmatite quarries, and the Manhan lead mine. In 1960 a private mineral-collecting trip with...province of Quebec. They visited the Orford nickel mine, a locality that became Tarassoff ’s lifelong interest |  | | Journal (issue) | | steve@collectorsedge.com P.O.Box 1169, Golden, Colorado 80402 U.S.A. Tel: 303-278-9724 Fax: 303-278-9763...Garanin Boris Z. Kantor Michael B. Leybov Bryan Lees (USA) Yuriy B. Marin Vladimir I. Pavlishin (Ukraine) Igor...T. Trofimov Lydie Touret (France) John S. White (USA) Managing Editor Ludmila A. Cheshko Science Editor...Alexander S. Yakubchuk John S. White (USA) and Peter Modreski (USA) Translators Editors of English (Style)...Mineral-Almanac Ltd. 10896 W. Beloit Pl. Lakewood, CO 80227, USA minbooks@rambler.ru www.minbook.com CONTENTS Georgii |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...and in the current issue are truly an African treasure chest worthy of H. Rider Haggard and Allan Quatermain...Bou-Azzer, 9:69-73 Toussit mine, 11:59-61, 15:347-350 NAMIBIA Kombat mine, 22:421-425 Tsumeb (special...Messina mining district, 22:187-199 The Palabora mine, 22:255-262 The Kalahari Manganese Field, an update...The Jan Coetzee mine, 24:39-40 The Wessels mine, 24:365-368 The Kruisrivier cobalt mine, 27:417-428 The |  | | Book | | taken by him of the botallackite in situ, Wherry Mine pump column and wolframite outcrop. Two private...Cornwall's ric geological resource of metalliferous mine contained in the rocks underfoot. The were many...giao ga Rocks of the County, from £1 upwards. a So i ey eS rm “Whe Malkin Mine ein ee one eet rare ees...diverse mineralogical heritage, | have divided the county into eleven districts, stretching from Land's End...— each unique in form — has been found in the county that it is impossible to include all those found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Corporation and is currently on display at the Ikuno Mine Mineral Museum (Rakovan 2005a). Many of these specimens...Interestingly, the Tanakami Granite, and its treasure trove of fine minerals, was formed long before the...New Hampshire and the Pikes Peak Batholith in Colorado (London 2008; Rakovan 2008). One of the largest...Euxenite-(Y) Fergusonite-(Y) Fluorite Gadolinite-(Y) Galena Heulandite Hingganite-(Y) * Hübnerite Lazulite...Japan: Part 2—The Wada mineral collection, Ikuno mine, rainbow garnet, and mineral dealers in Japan. Rocks |  | | Book (edition) | | Washington block, in the city of T acoma, P ierce county. I forthwith prepared for business, fitting up...and now report upon every mining district, every mine of promise 01· prospective worth, every indlistrial...interest as is the story of the finding of the treasure trove of natme, from time immemorial heretofore,...ri\·er. ThiH creek iH in what is now also Kittitas county. Like the Swauk, the Peschastin placers proved...winter a roaring torrent, in what i:- now Stevens county. From the most authentic information obtainable |  | | Book | | ancient quarry face, sheep graze around a ruined mine head-gear and the rabbits scurry over a grasscovered...unless you are experienced, do not venture into old mine workings. That inviting adit may lead the unwary...workings. The chief ore minerals of the area are galena and sphalerite, and these are accompanied by the...Just where the Romans mined is uncertain; the Odin Mine at Castleton is as likely a site as any, and tradition...from his excavations. Where it was essential to mine unwanted material, as in driving adits or sinking |  | | Journal (issue) | | ...................................... Florence Mine on You Tube ......................................production commencing at the Drakelands Mine I managed to refer to the mine as Drakewalls - not once but twice...contents list and in the figure caption. Drakewalls Mine is of course a completely different place some 20...being Jesse Fisher (from California but via Rogerley Mine) and Mike Rumsey from the Natural History Museum...Lot No. 318 – fluorite and quartz from Cambokeels Mine, Weardale - more than ‘washed its face’ (as they |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gold and Other Minerals of Rock Run, Montgomery County, Maryland Jack Nelson 17300 Hughes Road, Poolesville...from my panning trips have been a veritable treasure trove of fasc inating tiny mineral spec imens. I...in quantity. It is wortl1 remembering tliat this mine alone produces 8% of the world's annual silver production...minerals from here! Santa Eulalia: 11ie San Antonio Mine in tlie East Camp has produced significant amounis...Smithsonite occurs dominantly on the 8tli level of the mine, at tlie water table. Here, zinc leached from oxidizing |  | | Journal (issue) | | FEDERATION CONTENTS: FEATURES Stanislaus Treasure Trove Offers Field Trips ..........................& Show ''STANISLAUS TREASURE TROVE'' JUNE 15, 16 & 17, 1973 Stanislaus County Fairgrounds Turlock, Callfornla...Convention and Show. " Stanislaus Treasure Trove." Stanislaus County Falrgrounds, Turlock, Ca. Mother...Convention and Show. " Garnet Star of Idaho." Nez Pet'ce County Fairgrounds. Lewiston. Idaho. Host, Helle Can,on...pattern and/or color at only '3.00 per lb. Average mine run material at S1.50 per lb. Expect small nodules |  | | Journal (issue) | | on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim, Colorado. Collected by the Dorris family; Tom Spann photo...Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini |  | | Journal (issue) | | 8 RED CLOUD MINE WULFENITE Rockhounds enjoy the products of this amazing Arizona mine. By Bob Jones...QUARTZ 40 ROCK & GEM KIDS 46 THE BRISTOL COPPER MINE 50 COOL SUMMER ROCKHOUNDING 54 NATIVE AMERICAN... Find jagged quartz crystals at the Wall Street mine. By Robert Beard Regular Columns Field Notes ....Wulfenite from the Red Cloud (photo credit)mine (La Paz County), Arizona, is world famous. (3.9 cm high)...Speerstra and not Sam Spirstra? If so, I believe his mine was on the Missouri River, near York, and not the |  | | Report (issue) | | Smith. Director Professional Paper 138 MINING IN COLORADO A HISTORY OF DISCOVERY, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTJON...area, and organization of the mining counties of Colorado _________________________ _ Adams County_- __..._____________________ _ Alamosa County __________________________ _ Arapahoe County _________________________...Archuleta County _________________________ _ Baca CountY-----------------------------Boulder CountY------...CountY----------------------~----Chaffee County _____________________·______ _ Clear Creek County _______________________ |  | | Journal (issue) | | mind’s eye, like mine, drift fondly to the aqua hues of specimens from the famous Kelly Mine, like the one...smithsonite has a geologic affinity for ores rich in galena and sphalerite, so the three minerals are often...analogue to smithsonite, also occur together. The Kelly Mine in New Mexico is the source of many famous eye-catching...Tucker to tell you about collecting at the Kelly Mine. Perhaps Pat Hayes and Fred Parker, who moved to...difficult to discern. I believe it is the Singing River Mine, Shipham, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England (Pracejus |  | | Journal (issue) | | o f the galena are not very common, because Fig. 1 Alstonite on calcite, Minerva No. 1 Mine. Continued...been recovered from the area around the New Holland Mine near Washington Camp, an old mining town from the...at 5 am the next morning . In order to reach the mine and d iggings you m ust take the back road out of...Patagonia and head towards the Mexican bor- 2 Mine ral News May 2003 Fig. 2 Japan law twin qu artz...before the sunrise and headed out of Patagonia to the mine. It took two hours to get there from Tucson, which |
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