| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Pfalz, alkali feldspar, 489. Dreiser Weiher, Eifel, spinel-lherzolite xcnoliths, 736. Harzgerode, Harz, ulhnannite...Upnor, Kent. Cornwall Bosahan quarry, Falmoath, biotite, 21o. Dean quarry, Coverack, The Lizard, analcime...alkali feldspar, 489. France Le Puy, IIaute-Loire, spinel-lherzolite xenoliths, 726. Lherz, Aridge, omphacite...omphacite, 61. Montboissier, Pto,-de-DOme, spinel-lherzolite xenoliths, 726. Montebras, Creuse, amblygonite...Beaunit, Puy-de-D6me, spinel-lherzolite xcnoliths, 726. Rentikres, Pu.v-de-DOme, spinel-lherzolite xcnoliths | | | Journal (issue) | Australia and New Zealand Micromineral News Issue 7 – August 2013 Editor: Steve Sorrell – steve@crocoite...Kingsgate, New South Wales Photo width 5mm across Photo and Specimen: Steve Sorrell Australia and New Zealand...or microminerals in your region, get in touch with one of the following: New South Wales: George Laking...Laking – bglaking@tech2u.com.au New Zealand: Jocelyn Thornton – sodalite@paradise.net.nz Queensland: Russell...Australian and New Zealand Micromineral News. October 2013 October 25th to 29th - New Zealand Micromount | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | pyroxene, feldspar, and spinel in ultramafic nodules from Auckland, New Zealand K. A. RODGERS AND R. N...Geology Department, University of Auckland, New Zealand SUMMARY. Chemical, optical, and X-ray data are...bronzite-enstatite, diopsidic augite, anorthite, and spinel from ultramafic nodules at seven localities in...the seventh is a Miocene olivine nephelinite at Arapohue. Descriptions of the fabrics and textures of these...to 85 % modal feldspar. Accessory phases include spinel, biotite, zeolite, and glass. Texture is usually | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | localities, and authars mentioned in the 26th List of new mineral names (p. 954) are not included in this index...Rockall, opt., cell-dimensions, 216. Adularia, New Zealand, hydrothermal, anal., opt., genesis, 916. ADUSUMILLI(MARIAS...dickite or both, i28. Amblygonite, France, Maine, New South Wales, Saxony, anal., cell-dimensions, distinction...Amoibite, Germany, anal., opt., X-ray, 26. Amos Stream, New Caledonia, omphacite, 6I. Ampamatoa, Madagascar,...between, 923. Analcime, Cornwall, cryst., I47; New Zealand, anal., opt., X-ray, 453. Andamooka, South Australia | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | ProfessorD. S. Coombs of the University of Otago, New Zealand, called mv attention to some two-phase (liquid...eER64-123). 17+8 EDWIN RO]JDDLR clusionsof spinel or magnetite, however, in that even in ordinary...abundant isotropic cubic crystals, presumably of spinel, partially oriented in an epitaxial array in the...attached to an opaquepl'atelet,also presumed to be spinel (Fig. 23). Crystal facets are sometimesseen on...Nachet, 17, Rue Saint Severin, Paris V", France. 2 A new crushing stage, permitting better control in the | | | Report (issue) | NEW ZEALAND DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 125th ANNIVERSARY...1865 -1990 NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 104 ISSN 0077-9628 Minerals of New Zealand by G. L....initials should be G.T., not G.L. Lower Hutt, New Zealand 1990 I I Beach sand, alluvium, • terrace...Figure 1. Simplified geological sketch-map of New Zealand. 0 20 40 60 80 100 KM l INTRODUCTION It...Morgan's "Minerals and Mineral Substances of New Zealand" was published, as NZ. Geological Survey bulletin | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Joplin, 1941). Olivine nephelinite, Todd's Quarry, Arapohue, New Zealand (Black & Brothers, 1965). Olivine...Olivine nephelinite, Grove Farm Quarry, Kauai, Hawaii (White, 1966; Washington & Keyes, 1926). Olivine nephelinite...and joins clinopyroxene on the liquidus at 36 kb. Spinel is present as rare medium-size euhedral crystals...oxidation state would cause the early appearance of spinel and this may account for its apparently random...only one run throughout the studied P, T interval. Spinel is present in the subsolidus assemblages at 10-25 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | outstanding collections of minerals, gems and fossils. New exhibits are continually being added to the larger...museum of today is a teacher in action. Some of the new, expertly designed exhibits, constitute a "three... 2' 206 TREASURER Carl Krotki 140 West End Ave. New York, N. Y. 10023 This leisurely pace gives one...could, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, admiring the magnificent gems in the Morgan...for quartz and graphite. PEN1NSYLVANIA Limecrest, New Jersey was the goal of many members of the Rock and | | | Report (volume) | 50. II. Tertiary History of the G-rand Caiion District, with atlas, by Clarence E. Dutton, Capt. U. S... Geology of the Comstocls Lode and the Washoe District, with atlas, by George F. Becker. 1882. 4°. xv...Price $1.20. VIII. Paleontology of the Eureka District, by Charles Doolittle Walcott. 1884. 4°. xiii...Lamellibranchiata of the Raritan Clays and Greensand Marls of New Jersey, by Robert P. "Whitfleld. 1885. 4°. xx, 338pp...Fishes and Fossil Plants of the Triassic Rocks of New Jersey and the Connecticut Valley, by John S. Nbwberry | | | Book (edition) | to include And in addition to the general much new materials. synopsis, he has, by request, thrown...that time latest complete exposition of the much new material has been to the State collection, which...occasional instances, for the investigation of species, new species; and the range of occurrence of many known...and the number of greatly extended; all these new data have been embodied. Sev- GEOLOGY OF NORTH...development of the State, and the addi- to many new tion of species to the list of its known minerals | | | Report (issue) | owned by Tiffany valued at $100,000. & Company of New York and First thought to be emerald but later identified...specimens of collecting value. He also added numerous new collecting sites of which we were not aware. Mr...incorporated into the text. Individuals who furnished new mineral site information are acknowledged at the...fascination caused the early explorers to sail to the New World in search of treasure and fortune for themselves...Amethyst Aquamarine White Sapphire/Diamond Green Spinel Alexandrite Ruby Peridot Blue Sapphire Rose Zircon | | | Book | years this has lead to the establishment of many new species that are compositional and structural analogs...Subcommittee for Zeolite Nomenclature of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...evaluating proposed new species, it is difficult to apply them rigidly to accepted species. 1. A new zeolite mineral...must be demonstrated as a condition for approval of new species. Zeolites that have the same framework and...structure are acceptable as separate species. 2. A new zeolite mineral cannot be defined solely on the basis | | | Book | years this has lead to the establishment of many new species that are compositional and structural analogs...Subcommittee for Zeolite Nomenclature of the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...evaluating proposed new species, it is difficult to apply them rigidly to accepted species. 1. A new zeolite mineral...must be demonstrated as a condition for approval of new species. Zeolites that have the same framework and...structure are acceptable as separate species. 2. A new zeolite mineral cannot be defined solely on the basis | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Microcline Labradorite Zicon Hyacinth Cyanite Blue Green Spinel Ruby Grahnite Zoisite' Thulite Olivine Peridot...TH E AMEMCAN MI NERALOGIST of Natural History, New York City. Another diamond, weighing 2$ carats, was...diamond weighing one carat was found in 1852on Todd's Branch, Mecklenberg County; another was found at...Collection in the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Two of the best rubies that were ever...(essonite, rhodolite and almandite), gahnite (a green spinel), rutile, cyanite, and zoisite (thulite). Eunnero | | | Book (edition) | DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE WILLEMITE ZIRCON...many types of agate, opal and petrified this region is noted. The agate is wood for which ...as occur in the — hollow, found geodes Iowa region, and from them weather the types of agates found...flakes of mica, and quartzites. Corundum, — — spinel and garnet are associated with such rocks. Because...which can be traced through have been retained. New gem locations are found every season, and to this | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | p y d a t a t h a t require revision in light of new information on the internal distribution of cations...variable cation distributions) in the ratio 1:2 as in spinel. This result will be used to apply nominal corrections...The possible formation of new and distinctly different sites requires a new set of site-population equations...Z are discussed below. Limits o/the Accessible Region With the variations in site occupancies permitted...permitted in (2), the theoretically accessible region in N, Z space is a triangle bounded by the lines Z = | | | Report (issue) | known and in his note of 1880 (1) he pronounced it a new species. This is the first published article on dumortierite...With the encouragement of having found something new, Gonnard (16) returned to the original locality and...) giving a chemical analysis and formula for the new mineral. I n the years which have followed the discovery...others on the Kyshtymsk estate in the Uvildy Lake district of the Russian Urals (25). Inclusions of dumortierite...Nevada, New Mexico, New York, and Washington. The intense blue color of the mineral a t Harlem, New York | | | Book (edition) | with the former “appendix,” so as to include much new materials. And in addition to the general synopsis...of the subject up to date. Since that time much new material has been added to the state collection...opportunity to examine, except in occasional instances, new species and the range of occurrence of many known...yielding them have been greatly extended all these new data have been embodied. Sevfor the investigation...development of the state, and the addition of many new* species to the list of its known minerals, some | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | properties of Fe 2+ - Mg z +-aluminatetitanate-ferrite spinel solid solutions permit extension of the database...between tetrahedral and octahedral sites in the spinel structure; a structure exhibiting Fd 3m space group...temperature (~657 ~ C) than in the more common spinel end-members; some of the ordering of Mg 2+ and...and Navrotsky 1984). Our interest in developing a new model for the thermodynamic properties of (Fe, Mg)(A1...in terms of mixing between "fictive" end-member spinel components with completely normal and inverse cation | | | Book (edition) | ENLARGED. ILLUSTRA TED BY NUMEROUS WOOD-CUTS. NEW YORK: JOHN WILEY 1887. & SONS. EARTH' SCIENCES...work (1878) is as follows: new throughout. In the it has undergone, new illustrations have been introduced...of minerals, and in the introduction of the many new species announced during the past eight The chapter...The work is greatly enlarged, and supplied with new illustrations. indebted, for facts about ores and...localities in Ontario and Quebec. JAMES D. DANA. NEW HAVEN, Dec. 15, 1886. TABLE OF CONTENTS. MINERALOGY | | | Book | Rock Collecting HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS ....... New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London 1817 Portions...Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canada...Reading the Geologic Map; Geologic Maps as Guides to New Fields; Other Maps Useful to Gem and Mineral Hunters...Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota...the Old Stone Age) and Homo sapiens (men of the New Stone Age, our direct ancestors, the Cro-Magnon) | | | Book (edition) | Geo. J. Brush. Third edition, translated into the new system. 8vo, cloth, INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DETERMINATION...AND FOR SALE BY JOHN WILEY & SONS, Astor Place, New 4t% Will be prepaid hy mail on the receipt of the...PLATI. NEWLY REVISED AND ENLABQED. (L5Tn Edition.) NEW YORK: JOHN WILEY 15 & ASTOR Place. 1889. SONS...1877. Press of J. J. Little & Co* Astor Place, New York. ; PREFACE. preparation of a " Text-Book...in the Science, and among these are included new new those of modern Chemistry. The chemical formulas | | | Book (edition) | PLATI. NEWLY REVISED AND ENLARGED* (16TH EDITION.) NEW YORK: JOHN WILEY AND SONS, 53 EAST TENTH STREET...1877. Press of J. J. Little & Co* Astor Place, New York. PREFACE. " " Text-Book of Mineralogy was...progress in -the Science, and among new species. those of new edition will be found in the G.... covering about fifty pages. to descriptions of new instruments and methods of research in CrystallogIN...important new facts in regard to the characters or occurrence of old species. A number of new figures | | | Book (edition) | Edition Russell P. MacFall Thomas Y. Crowell New York / Company Established 1834 Copyright ©...West, the broad plains and the verdant hills of New England hold inestimable treasures of living things...doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable...the developer's bulldozer obliterates other sites, new ones are discovered. Books and thetic and scientific...locations suddenly are brought back to life and new ones re- — — ward luck or The persistent search | | | Book | analysis of minerals. My historical researches opened new horizons and have taken me back to the very beginnings...personalities who helped to lay down the foundations of the new science. I am grateful to many people in numerous...Dumfries; Mr S. C. Brownlee of Cumnock and Doon Valley District Council; Mr R. Hunter and Mr Kevin Wilbraham of...beginnings of mineralogy. Rapid expansion of the new science relied heavily upon good mineral specimens...brief locality details are stated. (2) Minerals (29) new to science first described from Scotland (such as |
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