 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849-5305 W Pyromorphite Downloaded by [University of Nebraska, Lincoln]...02 June 2016 Bunker Hill Mine, Coeur d’Alene District, Shoshone County, Idaho 190 ROCKS & MINERALS ...23:16 02 June 2016 I t is only fitting that pyromorphite should follow on the heels of its sister mineral...between the two, particularly for the collector. Pyromorphite specimens seem to appear in relatively enormous...somewhat regular basis. Important discoveries in Idaho, Spain, France, and, most recently, China occurred |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cerussite occurs in dense, compact to loosely coherent sandy aggregates, sometimes of great size, and as stalactitic...caledonite, hydrocerussite, bournonite, linarite, pyromorphite, and vanadinite have been reported. Concentrically...are well known to collectors and geologists. Pyromorphite, minium, malachite, and a variety of other minerals...such other secondary minerals as anglesite, pyromorphite, smithsonite, malachite, azurite, and various...diameter from the Warren district, large twinned crystals from the Hilltop mine, and very sharp single |  | | Book (edition) | | Idaho Minerals The complete Reference and Guide to the Minerals of Idaho Lanny R. Ream 1!11, ) a...PISTOLS Idaho Minerals Idaho Minerals The Complete Reference and Guide to the Minerals of Idaho with Special...Chapters on the Coeur d'Alene Mining District, the Blackbird Mining District, and the Sawtooth Mountains...Rerun Publishing P .O. Box 2043 Coeur d'Ale ne, Idaho 83814 Copyright © 1989 by L.R. Ream Publishing...R Ream Publishing P.O. Box 2043 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 83814 (208) 667-0453 To those collectors who are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with its representation of mining tools clearly proclaim Montana’s mining origins. Montana’s production...published describing the occurrence, collecting, mining, and cutting of the two state gemstones. Figure...Granville Stuart established Montana’s first mining camp at Gold Creek in 1860. Geologic Provinces The state...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish............Prof. George H. Perkins, Burlington. Virginia...........Dr. Thomas L. Watson, Charlottesville...Washington....... Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin... |  | | Journal (issue) | | Happen Here! A Visit to the Shin-Otani Manganese Mine, Japan Alfredo Petrov alfredopetrov@earthlink.net...small of a hole in the ground merits being called.a mine. None of these mines is in operation anymore, but...show in April mentioned that a nearby manganese mine was now a museum open for underground tourism, I...to the Shin-Otani mine in the Tanba mining district. This manganese mining district includes 277 mines...drive away. After mining in the Kyoto area ended, little more than 20 years ago, mining and miners were |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia .................................................................................. Idaho................................................................................................ Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to |  | | Journal (issue) | | at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...City cuts right through the middle of the Mining District. (Continued on page 2) The Moravian Territorial...km2), but with a rich and world- famous history of mining and associated mineralogy. In the city of Brno...Chlorargyrite, on and impregnating Sandstone, Silver Reef District, Washington Co., UT, 6 x 5 x 3 cm. Author’s specimen...Sandstone. Figure 3: Geologic map of the Mining District showing the outcrops of the Springdale Sandstone |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. This is in the cinnabar district of Howard, Pike, and Clark Counties, Ark. This...Modesto, Calif. Both specimens come from an old Gold mine at Placerville, El Dorado Co., Calif. The following... Here a diabase sill forms a cliff along Putah Creek; a 40-ft. thickness of the sill is exposed, to its...by Seymour F. Dozier, Red Oak, Route 1, Fulton County, Georgia. Large lumps of this material can be picked...picked up on land lots, 199 and 200, 10th Land District, six miles northeast of Greenville (Meriwether |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | secondary minerals, including hemimorphite, pyromorphite, mimetite, willemite, hydrozincite, cerussite...depth. These include the Loudville mines, Hampshire County, Massachusetts; the Buckwheat pit, Franklin, New...Chester County, the Ueberroth mine near Bethlehem, and the zinc mines at Friedensville, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania;...Timberville district in Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties, and the Austinville district, Wythe County, Virginia;...of the Rush Creek district), Marion County, Arkansas (Richards 1993). and the Hill lead mine, Hardin County |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Silver specimens are not uncommon at the Monte Cristo Mine. To reach the Monte Cristo, take road to Constallation...drives. There is a store at Crown King; Crown King Mine is no longer in operation. Good Pyrites of Iron...point where road CROSSES Castle Creek, one may take right UP Castle Creek with 4-wheel drive, and find good...good Agate within a few miles (mostly east side of Creek). About 8 miles up colorful Copper Specimens may...including Native Copper. None of these are found in the Creek bed, however, except, at some points, Agate, Jasper |  | | Catalog/List | | S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...on feldspar. 784 ADAMITE, Moha\'.1k Mine, San Bernardino County, r.alifornia. Group o f colorless to...785 ADAMITE (CUPRIAN),MohawkMine, San Bernardino County, California. Nicely spaced transparent jade green |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | northeast near Jamestown in Cherokee County is another lead mine." ARIZONA—A letter dated Sept. 17, 1953...his letter, dated Aug. 19, 1953, writes:— "An old mine near here had cavities in it that contained a sandlike...Reservation north of this community (in Apache County) with "high hopes" of finding the legendary diamond...Arkansas. ARKANSAS—Galena has been mined near Blakely Creek, Garland Co., Ark. CALIFORNIA—The following letter...found at the Red Ledge chromite mine in the Washington mining district of Nevada Co., Calif. It consists |  | | Journal (issue) | | stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...Publishing, 3619 W. Fairway Drive, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 83815. Lanny R. Ream, Editor. Periodicals postage...postage (USPS 751-150) paid at Coeur d'Afene, Idaho Postmaster send address changes to: Mineral News P.O |  | | Journal (issue) | | $6.00 Pyromorphite and Wulfenite from the Montague Claims, Teller Mountain, Montezuma District, Summit...for pyromorphite in the Montezuma District, Summit County (Eckel et al., 1997): 1. “Pyromorphite, galena...transparent pyromorphite occurs with iron oxide minerals and barite.” 3. “Green pyromorphite is a secondary...have produced fine micro specimens of green pyromorphite needles and sprays, in addition to other minerals...on the eastern side of Summit County, in the Montezuma Mining District (Figure 1). Access is via a series |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Journal (issue) | | Record Inc. Articles The Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Id a h o 339 by N. Radford and J...by R. S. W. Braithwaite Barite from the Niobec mine, Chicoutimi, Quebec .....................355 by...G. Gagnon Minerals of the Yates uranium mine, Pontiac County, Quebec . 359 by D. L. Leavitt Shavano...Hill the mine kellogg, shoshone county, idaho by Norman Radford P. O. Box N Osbum, Idaho 83849 and Jack...California 94560 he Bunker Hill mine in the famous Coeur D ’Alene district of Idaho has produced some of North |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | red vanadinite xls and coming from the Red Cloud mine (about 30 miles N . of Yuma), Yuma Co., Ariz., have...the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains. At...1st to Oct. 15th, I advise staying out of this district unless you have a desert man along. Be glad to...were modified by the octahedron. Found in the Lark mine, San Juan Co., Colo." CONNECTICUT—We are indebted...the N. W . part of Dade County, Fla., due west of Miami and near the Monroe County line. Among the samples |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Collection Downloaded by [University of Virginia, Charlottesville] at 11:59 03 August 2012 Australian...Toussit, Morocco. Downloaded by [University of Virginia, Charlottesville] at 11:59 03 August 2012 Figure... representing an important part of Australia’s mining and mineralogical heritage. In addition, it featured...Smithsonite. (7 × 4 cm; D49972), Broken Hill Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Prospect dolerite...Museum, Sydney. Downloaded by [University of Virginia, Charlottesville] at 11:59 03 August 2012 Figure |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations...Fig. 3 steep slopes along the coulees of Meeting Creek and the Battle River in the vicinity of Donalda...Museum, but they have been found in the Meeting Creek coulee. A common geological horizon, the Upper Cretaceous...Publishing, 3619 W. Fairway Drive, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, 83815. Lanny R. Ream, Editor. Periodicals postage...postage (USPS 751-150) paid at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Postmaster send address changes to: Mineral News P.O |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |  | | Journal (issue) | | to preserve and promote the unique geologic and mining heritage of Wisconsin while underscoring the importance...brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was...manufacturer’s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a...material collected from waste piles of abandoned mine sites in the mountains of central Colorado. A unit |  | | Report (issue) | | Four areas of peridotite near Murfreesboro, Pike County, Ark., were known at the time of the writer's visit...1912. One of these, that near the mouth of Prairie Creek, has been known to geologists since 1842. The rock... 1906, in the area near the moutji, of Prairie Creek, and, according to D. B. Sterrett,2 approximately...1908, pp. 187-194. Fuller, J. T., Diamond mine in Pike County, Ark.: Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 87, 1909...C., and Brackett, E. N., The peridotite of Pike County, Ark.: Am. Jour. Sci., 3d ser. vol. 38, 1889, pp |  | | | | in Colorado at Aspen and in Boulder County; also in several mining areas in Arizona. Good specimens have...Telluride, Cripple Creek, and Breckenridge districts of Colorado. Also at Homestake Mine, South Dakota; in...at Waihi Mine, New Zealand. In Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove...Luning and Cuprite in Nevada; at Sulphur Bank mercury mine and at Lassen Peak, California. Sharp well-shaped...crystals in Clear Creek County, Colorado. Very fine crystals in dolomite from French Creek Mines, Pennsylvania |
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