 | | Journal (issue) | | SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2022 • VOLUME 53 • NUMBER 5 • $30 L L Akchatau! Wayne & Dona Leicht KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna...SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2022 Articles The Akchatau mine, Shet District, Karaganda, Kazakhstan..................573 by W...E. Wilson & T. P. Moore The Graf Jost-Christian mine, Wolfsberg, Harz Mountains, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany...683 by W. E. Wilson COVER: CREEDITE, 4.6 cm, from Akchatau, Kazakhstan. Parker Sterling collection;...the amethyst they could collect at the old Pearl mine in Thunder Bay. They weren’t as successful with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 10:51 27 December 2014 Creedite Cresson Mine, Cripple Creek Teller County, Colorado ...rare, though at times quite attractive mineral, creedite quickly comes to mind. Not only is the type locality...excellent specimens of the mineral. A fine Colorado creedite specimen has been fittingly suggested as this...this issue’s Connoisseur’s Choice specimen. Creedite is commonly seen in colorless to pale purple, transparent...calculated density is 2.739, and its hardness is 4. Creedite is monoclinic (2/m), commonly_forming bladelike |  | | Catalog/List | | 54 x 1.27 x 1.91 cm) RHODOCHROSITE N'Chwaning I Mine, Kuruman, N. Cape Prov., South Africa 1.68 x 1.37...Tyumenskaya Oblast', Prepolar Ural, Western-Siberian Region, Russia 4.72 x 3.74 x 3.22 inches (12 x 9.5 x 8...Craig Kissick Jenny Milan! HEMIMORPHITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mun. de Mapimi, Durango, Mexico 5.11 x...(13x9.9x6.41 cm) CREEDITE Akchatau Mine, Akchatau, Karaganda Oblast', Kazakhstan 3.61 x 2.4 x 2.14 inches...PSEUDOMORPH after APATITE and APATITE Cumobabi, La Verde District, Mun. de Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico .5 x .25 x |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Creedite, 9.2 × 5.7 × 5.2 cm, from Mina Potosí Santa Domingo, Santa Eulalia district, Municipio...Mexico. Didier Desouens photo. Creedite Colorado Fluorspar Company Mine Wagon Wheel Gap Mineral County...specific gravity of 2.7. At its type locality, creedite formed white to colorless grains and poorly developed...associated with barite and kaolinite or halloysite. Creedite was named and first described by Larsen and Wells...still-active silver-mining town of Creede, with the mine an additional 4 kilometers south on Mark Ivan Jacobson |  | | Journal (issue) | | VERNADSKY STATE GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM Alexander A. Evseev KAZAKHSTAN AND MIDDLE ASIA. A BRIEF MINERALOGICAL GUIDE...153441. Photo: M. Leybov. Cover 4 Calcite. Rudny, Kazakhstan. Height 23 cm. Photo: M. Leybov. 4 Alexander...collection as well: native copper plate from Kazakhstan (about 500 kg in weight), a block of Ural Erythrite...arranged according to geographical location (country — region — locality), excluding the tematic collections... Beryozovsk, Adun-Chilon, and the Zmeinogorskii mine appear to be represented the most completely and |  | | Book | | clarify information regarding minerals from this region. The list, in alphabetical order, generally uses...Volume 7 Charoite Sub-Polar Urals Volume 8 Kazakhstan and Middle Asia Volume 9 Crimea Worldwide (including...Diopside East Pamirs Diamonds Volume 12 North Kazakhstan Ukraine Aldan =5 =3 =5 3 5* si Abukumalite...Actinolite Actinolite Vyuntspakhk Crimea Sarbaiskii mine Sarbay deposit, Rudnyi Sarbay deposit, Rudnyi Sarbay...quarry Stephanitovaya vein, Sarbay quarry Sarbaiskii mine Stephanitovaya vein, Sarbay quarry Sarbay deposit |  | | Catalog/List | | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile Terry Szenics has...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | beautiful strawberry quartz from Chimkent area of Kazakhstan. Red color of quartz and aventurescence are controlled...Godovikov et al, 1987). These are the specimens from Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Georgia, Brazil, and other countries...twined crystals from Sokolovskoe deposit, North Kazakhstan was donated by L.Bulgak. Sphalerite (112 specimens)...adjoining one of its faces was obtained from Akchatau, Central Kazakhstan. This is the weightiest (about 80 pounds)...by A.Ponomarenko during 19851988 at Oktyabrskiy mine, Talnakh deposit, Norilsk area. They represented |  | | Journal (issue) | | Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas...cutting coarse-grained reddish granites of the hilly region thereabouts, known geologically as the Llano Uplift |  | | Journal (issue) | | JULY–AUGUST 2022 Articles Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan ......................................COVER: BORNITE, 3.5 cm, from Mine 21, Dzhezkazgan mine group, Kazakhstan. Joan Massague collection; Jeff...(AsO4)5(PO4)3·14H2O), 2-mm view, from the White Elephant mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. Tom Loomis (Dakota Matrix)...w w w. FineMineral.com Rhodonite Mina do Morro Mine, Brazil 7 cm Rhodonite is a manganese mineral named...ry CRYSTAL CLASSICS Dzhezkazgan Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan Wendell E. Wilson The Mineralogical |  | | Book | | clenche; "dodecahedron" chalcopy ritc from Strashimir mine; disso lution fonns of be1yl from Minas Gcrais;...exhi bits from Brazil, Bulgaria, Russia, and Kazakhstan. The impression of the "crystal fo rest" illustrating...arc Ru ssia, the Czech Repub lic, Bu lgaria, Kazakhstan, USA and Japan. There are also relatively complete...m Asbestos, Canada ( E l 13); pur ple creedite from Akchatau, Ka zakhstan ( E I 06); kavansite from...impm1an1 mineralo gical objects such as mines, mine dumps and natural outcrops. These collections are |  | | Journal (issue) | | gratifying. One young mineralogist, a former student of mine, said that although he had never met Mike, he had...they paid unto their masters. The veins of these mine are of such quality that the ore will not melt with...Douglass and E. P. Mathewson. Decline of the District In 1599 the mine operators began to complain that rich...about 50 ounces of silver per ton. Again in 1636 the mine operators complained of meager profits. Only about...Indians were in residence at Potosi. Disputes between mine operators over the possession of various complex |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jane Koepp Jones and Gene LaBerge (“The Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Wisconsin”) Desautels Trophy: Irv Brown... Blue Ball mine Castle Dome dist. Fat Jack mine Finch mine Holmes Claim N. Geronimo mine Purple Passion...Passion mine Red Cloud mine Silver District Tonopah-Belmont mine Western Union mine Arkansas, Murfreesboro...Australia, Argyle mine Ashburton Downs Beltana mine Broken Hill mines Burra Burra mine Gold localities...Moonta district Mount Bonnie mine Mount Isa Phillip Island Tasmanian mines Wallaroo district Widgiemooltha |  | | Journal (issue) | | COVER: BENITOITE and NEPTUNITE from the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Buzz Gray collection;...on the M agnet m ine (Tasmania), the M t. Isa district (Queensland), an obituary o f Blair Gartrell,...o6/iactb province Kazakh version o f O blast’ OKpyT district o3epo lake no/iyocrpoB peninsula pafioH area peica...ent, m ine Karaganda O blast’ Apatite, aquamarine, bertrandite, bism uthinite, creedite, fluorite, pyrite...kchatau (see also Aqshatau) Atcnaxay Akehatau, Akschatau, Akschatan, A ktschatau-—see Akchatau A k h m atovsk |  | | Journal (issue) | | by U. Burchard Recent discoveries at the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec . .. ................. . . .....Rhodochrosite, 3 inches wide, from the N'Chwaning mine, Cape Province, South Africa. Jeff Scovil photo...photo. RECENT DISCOVERIES aLtM JEFFREY MINE ASBESTOS, QUEBEC Marco Amabili Dipartimento di Ingegneria...Hutcheson, Asbestos, Quebec Canada J1 T 4J8 The Jeffrey mine in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, is world1amous for...INTRODUCTION The Jeffrey mine in Asbestos, Quebec, Canada, is a huge chrysotile mine which began operating |  | | Journal (issue) | | Moscow, Valovaya str., 28, Russia Mednorudyansky mine shafts found when excavating a quarry in r!)85....druses of green-brown axinite from the Dalnegorsk mine (former Tctyukhc), and also crystals and druses...Pribrczhnoc locality discovered in I 991 in the Magadan region were very popular among mineralogists and amateur... The appearance of axinite in the Puiva mining region has been known since the c 94-os (Belyakov, 1 940)...%In 1991, the underground excavation of the Puiva mine exposed quartz veins and fissures with druscs of |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystal cluster, 3 cm across, from the Machacamarca mine (Viboras Vein), near Colavi, Potosí Department,...gold specimens to 3.8 cm, from the Santa Elena district. F. John Barlow collection; Wendell Wilson photo...good friend of mine, Jim Minette, worked as superintendent of a large open-pit borax mine that produced...W. E. Sheffield (fl. 1808) Chrysocolla Dalehead mine, Cumberland (Cumbria), England W. E. Sheffield was...Sowerby for study and illustration. The Dalehead mine, source of this chrysocolla, is also known as one |  | | Book | | kommt daher, daß dieser Glimmer von der Moskauer Region aus gehandelt wurde. Akademiker Wassili Sewergin...entdeckt. 1668 hat D. Tumaschew im Ural, in der Murzin-Region, Edelsteine entdeckt. Und 1724 wurde die berühmte...Topas-Fund stelle Adun-Tscholon in der Bajkal-Region bekannt. Die Menge des Materials mußte bestimmt...organisiert, Expeditionen zur Erforschung der Bajkal-Region, des Urals mit seinen bedeuten den Pegmatiten...maline aus der Bajkal-Region (Bortschewotschnij Gebirge, jetzt Tschitin-Region). 1 83 1 entdeckte man |  | | Journal (issue) | | we had never heard of, such as Dal’negorsk and Akchatau. Old classics began turning up anew as well, such...tours for collectors are permitted by the friendly mine management, and visitors have even been allowed...the area and purchased the rights to the Verchniy mine. Operations to extract copper, lead and zinc began...Dal’negorsk. GEOLOGY The geology of the Dal’negorsk region is tectonically complex because of its relationship...unique among the various intrusive rocks of the region. Xenoliths of eclogite and lherzolite suggest a |  | | Report (issue) | | Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...MICHAEL GRAY 54 Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56... Iridescent Fluorite from Ohio's Findlay Arch District BY JASON MCDONALD 69 Canada BY MARK MAUTHNER...Castleton in Traek Cliff (Derbyshire), the Blue John mine (page 35). The term "fluorite" was coined in 1797...The Blue John Mine, Castleton. In Modern Terms A postcard depicting the Blue John mine near Castleton |  | | Journal (issue) | | E - M - S - T - O - N - E Wulfenite, Red Cloud Mine, La Paz Co., Arizona Send $7.50 for our Mineral...occurrence in the Kwakonje area of the Handeni district in northeast Tanzania (von Knorring, 1967; Bowden...x 6 x 5 mm and weighs 0.673 g. It has a damaged region from which a small fragment was removed for optical...measuring 45 x 58 x 178 pm, was removed fro the damaged region of sinhalite crystal #1. An optical study of tl...#133408), about 1 cm each, from the Balangoda district, Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka. Harvard Mineralogical |  | | Book | | phrases as <Kazakhstan,» etc., appeared in the Russian papers. In non-Russian...territory of the former Soviet Union, the Urals, Kazakhstan, and Central Asia, where many new minerals were...dump of a coal mine in the town of Ct,ervonograd, Lvov-Volyn coal basin, Lvov district, W Ukraine. This...suggestion is not plausible, since the Preobrazhenskii mine was opened only in 1 797 [79), i .e., ten years...tungsten deposit, Betpakdala Desert, Central Kazakhstan (earlier the Solnechnoye was known as the Western | | | Journal (issue) | | · E · M · S · T· 0 · N · E Wulfenite, Red Cloud Mine, La Paz Co., Arizona Send $7.50 for our Mineral...occurrence in the Kwakonje area of the Handeni district in northeast Tanzania (von Knorring, 1 967; Bowden...6 x 5 mm and weighs 0.673 g. It has a dan1aged region from which a small fragment was removed for optical...45 x 58 x 1 78 µm, was removed from the damaged region of sinhalite crystal # 1 . An optical study of...33408), about I cm each, from t he 13alangoda district, Sabaraga mu" a , Sri Lanka. Harvard Mineralogical |  | | Book (volume) | | discovered in the Bota-Burum U deposit, Southern Kazakhstan, was detected by characteristic bands in the...cm1 is called the fingerprint region. Usually IR spectrum in this region contains very complicated series...overlapping bands. The importance of the fingerprint region is that each mineral species produces a different...500 to 800 cm1 can be considered as “fingerprint region” sensitive to the composition and the topological...see Fig. 1.9), but generally IR spectrum in this region is characteristic of all these minerals. In IR |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . ...recovered from the dumps of this small mine. Local collectors reworked the mine dumps many times in search of...about 325 meters southwest of the Bishop manganese mine. The locality was early on referred to as a “copper...spatially distinct from the nearby Bishop manganese mine. The dumps do not contain significant manganese...James RiverRoanoke River manganese and iron mining district. Mining for iron ore began during the Revolutionary |
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Akchatau Mine, Akshatau, Shet District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan