| | Catalog/List | locality, Earth makes her own crystals; or the mine where a mineral was discovered, is akin to its ...tsavorite. Traveling west to the storied Tsumeb Mine is one of the very finest examples of the region’s...Dioptase Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia 13 cm tall x 14 cm wide Africa The mine we now call...specimen. East to China, home of a seemingly sured fluorapatite. Rubellite Tourmaline on Cleavelandite Malkhan...featuring the complete story and history of this mine. Asia 21 Schorl Tourmaline with Aquamarine Shengus | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | GROSSULAR Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité Régional de Comté Estrie, Québec, Canada A lthough...the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Les Sources Municipalité, Régional de Comté, Estrie, Québec, Canada. The...grossular dodecahedra is commonly observed on Jeffrey mine specimens. This particular specimen is one of...single crystal of grossular from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Québec, Canada. The Arkenstone specimen, Joe Budd...group of grossular crystals from the Jeffrey mine, Québec, Canada. Formerly in the Charles Key collection | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Variably colored grossular specimens from the Jeffrey mine in Canada have previously been featured as a Connoisseur’s...Tsavo National Park, and was granted a permit to mine the deposit. In 1973 the name tsavorite was coined...1980 Bridges opened the Scorpion mine in Taita-Taveta County. This mine continuously produced outstanding...in 2009. For six years following this tragedy the mine lay dormant, but it was reopened by his son, Bruce...tsavorite for the mineral collector. At the Scorpion mine, and in other Neoproterozoic Mozambique Metamorphic | | | Book | Sites "Re miniets Aitus du Canada Joel D. Grice A # ds. «< RE « "1 é+ Le: . 0 7, 22 L # ... SITES MINIERS CANADA CÉLÈBRES DU “Joel D. Grice L'ouvrage Sites miniers célèbres du Canada est un heureux...collectionneur amateur saura mettre à profit. L'auteur décrit les divers sites miniers de façon très détaillée, ce...pierre des pharaons (le lapis-lazuli). Il n'oublie non plus l'aspect pratique de l’utilisation des minéraux...l'identification des minéraux. Ce dernier élément devrait particulièrement intéresser les jeunes collectionneurs | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | carats, from Baicheng. Diopside from the Handan iron mine, Wu’an County, Handan Prefecture, Hebei Province...An unusual locality in the collection is the Posu mine, Changbak, Hangyong, North Korea. The lone specimen...pale green crystals to 1.5 cm come from the Horado mine, Gifu Prefecture. These are bladelike crystals with...diopside also occur at the Kamaishi mine, Iwate Prefecture, and the Yaguki mine, Fukushima Prefecture. Specimens...diopside variety schefferite have come from the Kuga mine, Yamaguichi Prefecture, and from Sarukabeyama, Iwate | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University 859 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 0C4 peter.tarassoff@sympatico.ca M CGILL...Pinch Medal from the Mineralogical Association of Canada. VISITOR INFORMATION Address: Redpath Museum,...Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C4, Canada Hours: Monday–Friday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.; Sunday, 11...Montreal founded in 1827, and the Geological Survey of Canada established in 1842. All three museums were available...scientific endeavor. In 1877 the government of Canada decided to move the Geological Survey and its museum | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | STUDY OF Fe3+ AND VO2+ IN PREHNITE FROM THE JEFFREY MINE, ASBESTOS, QUEBEC Yuanming PAN§, Mao MAO and...Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada Abstract Prehnite from the Jeffrey mine, in Asbestos, Quebec, has been...silicates, Jeffrey mine, Quebec. Sommaire Nous avons étudié la prehnite provenant de la mine Jeffrey, à Asbestos...Asbestos, Québec, au moyen de microscopie optique, analyses avec une microsonde électronique, diffraction...spectroscopie par résonance paramagnétique des électrons (EPR). Les données analytiques obtenues avec la microsonde | | | Journal (issue) | only): $145/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...Belo Horizonte. At the time, the Morro Velho gold mine, in the municipality of Nova Lima, was in full production...Mineralogical Record, “The Minerals of the Morro Velho Gold Mine, Brazil,” with co-author Richard V. Gaines, in 1973...particular was from the vicinity of the Morro Velho mine: it consisted of a hand-sized plate of white dolomite...nováčekite and zeunerite in the world (from the Brumado mine—now in the Mim Mineralogical Museum in Beirut), | | | 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...Morgenstern photo. Calcite, 5.8 cm, from the Mariposa mine, Terlingua; Roh Lavinsky (The Arkenstone) specimen...Calomel crystals on terlinguaite, 3 mm, Mariposa mine, Terlingua. Celestine, 4.5 cm, Burnet, Burnet County; | | | Report (issue) | == Elbaite “mushroom,” 4 cm, from the Palelni mine, Molo village, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District...==== of the rare brochantite of the Los Azules mine in Chile: spherical tufts of emerald-green fibrous...matrix. Brochantite, 4.8 cm, from the Los Azules mine, Quebrada San Miguel, Copiapo Province, Atacama...Diopside on Grossular, 2.7 cm, from Alpe Della Frasse, Val di Susa, Piedmont, Italy. Luis Burillo Minerals specimen...pseudomorphous after chalcocite from the Las Cruces mine near Seville in southern Spain: you’ll perhaps recall | | | Report (issue) | Renfrew, Ontario, Canada; 7. Canada; 8. South Burgess, Lanark Co., Ontario, Canada 10. Snarum, Norway;...Kragero, Norway; 12. Eganville, Renfrew Co., Ontario, Canada; 13. (Phosphorite) Staffel, Limburg, Hesse-Nassau...Thousand Pound Crystals and Eighty Carat Gemstones-Canada is BIG! BY KIMBERLY TAIT AND MICHAEL BAINBRIDGE...The Panasqueira Mines: One Hundred Years of Fluorapatite BY CARLES CURTO MILA AND JORDI FABRE I FORNAGUERA... Werner's apatite samples originated in the tin mine in the town ofEhrenfriedersdorfin the Erzgebirge | | | Journal (issue) | localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,...Collection" labels list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results...thread, some taken from the surface of the American mine and some from its deepest workings indicating that...that depth does not change the character of the mine. One is impressed by the money as well as the scientific...quartz, interspersed with gold, but the owner of the mine, Mr. Walker, seeing the cabinet, said that the piece | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Carnegie Museum of Natural History specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. JulyIAugust: Charles P. Daly Medal...gold-and-quartz specimen, Paymaster mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Royal Ontario Museum photo. September/October:... Gilgit area, Pakistan. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. November/December: Red beryl, Violet...Mountains, Beaver County, Utah. Private collection, Jeffrey Scovil photo. Barite, Colorado, 329; New Mexico...Brookite, Anatase, & Rutile from the Silver Link Mine, Ouray County, Ouray, Colorado, T. Rosemeyer, 327-30 | | | Report (issue) | Tyson-originating examples from, oh, St.-Hilaire and the Jeffrey mine in Quebec; Ontario’s Flamboro quarry and Liscombe...Territory, Canada. Tyson’s Fine Minerals specimen and photo. Elpidite, 1.4 cm, from St.-Hilaire, Québec, Canada...called the “Cobalt Lode mine” (the Quebul specimen is attributed to the “Castle mine”). Stilbite and Chabazite...from Wassons Bluff near Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, Canada. Quebul Fine Minerals specimen and photo. 3 ...cm, from the Poudrette quarry, St.-Hilaire, Québec, Canada. Quebul Fine Minerals specimen and photo. | | | Journal (issue) | Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orléans...Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica Van Pelt...and CUPRITE in CALCITE, 5.2 cm, from the Onganja mine near Seeis, Namibia. Mike Bergmann specimen, now...were saved, collected and traded by Bisbee miners, mine executives, shop owners, and businessmen. One such | | | Journal (issue) | minéralogie Les tribulations de trois minéralogistes dans le Binntal, un été 2003 Gîtes minéraux n°94: Les Bouis...du Trias évaporitique et métamorphique de Savoie Les nodules de pvrite de Porsguen (Finistère) 20 Horaires...PROSPECI'EUR PRÉPARATION DES MINÉRAUX DE COLLECTION 5. LE TRAITEMENT ET_LA PRÉSERVATION DES PYRITES Daniel GOL...REVUE BIMESTRIELLE PAR ABONNEMENf ANNUEL Editée par les Editions du Piat S.A.R.L au capital de 7 622,45 €...Pierre-Salvador REXACH - Domini k SCHLÀFLI (CH) Jeffrey SCOVIL (U.S.A.) - Robert VERNET Correspondants | | Carlsen, Kenneth S., Gale, Marjorie H., Thompson, Woodrow B., Kierstead, Matthew (2015) Belvidere Mountain Asbestos Quarries, Lowell/Eden, Vermont. Rocks & Minerals, 90 (6) 510-551 doi:10.1080/00357529.2015.1080535 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | aerial view of the Ruberoid Corporation Asbestos mine, ca. 1960. Frank L. Forward photo. A Belvidere...postcard of the initial three-story mill at the Eden mine that opened in May 1902 but closed later in the... we and our colleagues, being familiar with the mine, decided that it is important to document this famous...terrain in this region of Vermont. Drainage from the mine site follows either the Burgess Branch north to...developers. 512 ROCKS & MINERALS drains into Québec then southwest to Lake Champlain) or the Hutchins | | | Journal (issue) | Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orléans...Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica Van Pelt...mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 by...annual FM-MSA-TGMS Tucson Mineralogical Symposium: CANADA! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Chairman: | | | Journal (issue) | 2009 Articles Famous mineral localities: The Sapo mine, Ferruginha district, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais...localities: The Lac d’Amiante mine, Black Lake, Thetford Mines, Québec . . . . . . . . . . ...July–August, 2009 Famous Mineral Localities: The Sapo Mine Ferruginha District, Conselheiro Pena Minas Gerais...30410-080 Email: lmenezesminerals@uol.com.br The Sapo mine exploits a thick sub-horizontal pegmatite that was...“apatite” specimens recently found at Brazil’s Sapo mine, near Goiabera, in Minas Gerais. The specimens show | | | Journal (issue) | or $315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription...scientific study, and they have shown potential as sources of industrial minerals and strategic metals, besides...to follow price trends for specimens at their sources and in the Peshawar, Pakistan market, as well as... volume 48, September–October, 2017 Figure 2. Mine workings at Paprok. Peter Lyckberg photo. In the...purpose of the Soviet investigations was to locate sources of rare elements such as tantalum and strategic | | Cook, Robert B. (2020) Minerals of the Grenville Province—New York, Ontario, and Québec by George W. Robinson, Jeffrey Chiarenzelli, Michael Bainbridge, and T. Scott Ercit. Schiffer Publishing, 4880 Lower Valley Rd., Atglen, PA 19310; www.schifferbooks.com. 208 pages; 2019; $34.99 plus shipping and handling (softbound). Rocks & Minerals, 95 (1) 96-98 doi:10.1080/00357529.2020.1683698 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University, 859 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Québec H3A 0C4, Canada; to order redpath. museum@mcgill.ca. 96...the campus of McGill University in Montreal, Québec, Canada. It is a companion volume to that reviewed...outlines the distinctive geologic provinces making up Québec, setting the stage for the following sections that...Province—New York, Ontario, and Québec by George W. Robinson, Jeffrey Chiarenzelli, Michael Bainbridge...nice treatments are given to albite, corundum, fluorapatite, titanite, tremolite, and zircon. Interestingly | | | Book | © 2011 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. All rights reserved. No part of this publication...Cataloging-in-Publication Data (U.S.) Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Tait, Kimberly. Tait...States by Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. Published in Canada by Firefly Books Ltd. PO. Box 1338, Ellicott Station...at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Photography: Brian Boyle, MPA, FPPO, and Miguel...publishing program by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund as administered by the Department | | | Journal (issue) | Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Pagano Milan, Italy Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orléans...Northbrook, IL Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica Van Pelt...1979 with an article on the Sweet Home mine. He mined the Dixie mine in Idaho Springs for leaf gold and crystallized...including Huanuni, Viloco, Llallagua, the San Jose mine in Oruro, Tasna, Morococala, Chicote Grande, and | | | Journal (issue) | Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orléans...Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica Van Pelt...practical experience at the Gottesehre (“God’s Honor”) mine, a small fluorite mining operation in Urberg, near...curator of gems and minerals. Photography by Jeffrey A. Scovil and Harold & Erica Van Pelt The magnificent | | Schumann, Dirk, Martin, Robert F., Fuchs, Sebastian, de Fourestier, Jeffrey (2019) Silicocarbonatitic melt inclusions in fluorapatite from the Yates prospect, Otter Lake, Québec: Evidence of marble anatexis in the central metasedimentary belt of the Grenville Province. The Canadian Mineralogist, 57 (5) 583-604 doi:10.3749/canmin.1900015 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 1900015 SILICOCARBONATITIC MELT INCLUSIONS IN FLUORAPATITE FROM THE YATES PROSPECT, OTTER LAKE, QUÉBEC:...Incorporated, 1431 Merivale Road, Ottawa, Ontario K2E 0B9, Canada ROBERT F. MARTIN Department of Earth and Planetary...3450 University Street, Montreal, Québec H3A 0E8, Canada SEBASTIAN FUCHS¶ Marine Mineral Resources, GEOMAR...Wischhofstrasse 1-3, Geb. 8A-112, D-24148 Kiel, Germany JEFFREY DE FOURESTIER Mineralogical Research, 28 Broad...Broad Street, Gatineau, Québec J9H 4H3, Canada Key State Laboratory of Nuclear Resources and Environment |
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