 | | Book (volume) | | 0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Robert...Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist of Maine Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology Edited by...Resources Information, Maine Geologi,cal Survey Robert G Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 2000 Copyright ©2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All |  | | Book (volume) | | Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Journal (issue) | | in South Dakota (see figure 2). and one large crystal from this de osit roduced 37 tons of marketable...contrast to chemistry, all other secondary data (crystal, physical and optical properties) are comparatively...for their creation The second two have different crystal systems, orthorhombic and triclinic respectively...for a mineral to express itself through multiple crystal systems and further to permit variation of cell...rarely hexagonally? Calcium carbonate regardless of crystal form is still calcium carbonate. But than, what |  | | Book (volume) | | cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 ct), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (16...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...conventional open-pit methods and the enclosing rock crushed and treated to release the crystals. Red...periodical literature, especially in Rocks & Minerals, Rock & Gem, Lapidary Journal, The Mineralogical Record |  | | Report (issue) | | RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell and William F. Giannini...RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell and William F. Giannini...RESOURCES PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OF ALBEMARLE COUNTY, VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell and William F. Giannini...talc l0 PUBLICATION 89 MINERALS OI' ALBEMARLE COUNTY. VIRGINIA Richard S. Mitchell* and William F....references to various minerals found in Albemarle County are found in both published and unpublished geological | | | Book (volume) | | cut purplish pink elbaite tourmaline (30.89 et), Maine; round brilliant red-orange spessartine garnet (...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...conventional open-pit methods and the enclosing rock crushed and treated to release the crystals. Red...periodical literature, especially in Rocks & LV!.inerals, Rock & Gem, Lapidary Journal, The Mineralogical Record...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache |  | | Report (issue) | | Colorado Beryl Collecting Mark I. Jacobson Page 14 Crystal Structure of Beryl and Pezzottaite William "Skip"...August Breithaupt had his seal carved into a beryl crystal. Breithaupt began his studies in 1811, during A...from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient...refer, rather than to a given species, to the crystal properties of clarity and luster. The French term...crystals from various alluvial deposits; the largest crystal is about 4 cm wide Collection Eckehard Petsch |  | | Book | | vugs of crystalline talc. Easily the best extant crystal, a doubly terminated floater found in a talc vug...long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...late 19th-century literature. One of these was a site on what was known in 1887 as the Yale Farm, about...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles History and minerals of The Geysers, Sonoma County, California .....................................1852 to the 1920’s, is located in northern Sonoma County about 145 km north of San Fran cisco, California...of what a geyser is, please note the intense on-site description of the boiling springs (Brewer, 1865):...us, around us. In one place a rocky pool of black rock several feet in diameter, filled with thick, black...danger” stuck up in every direction. The country rock is serpentine, sandstone and limestone with ig |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...Stefano Giroux Point, the Bagdad mine, Yavapai County, Arizona ........................................$278/two years, (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...Little Falls, New Jersey in 1964, calling it the “Crystal Gems Company.” The venture lasted for about a year...collection; Wendell Wilson photo. Figure 5. Keyite crystal on Cu-rich adamite, ca. 2 mm, from the type locality |  | | Book | | Pape HARRIS COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY , | 3 4028 04886 ’ ; “4 : BP ae - ms bs . -a i 7 : ; -...Designed by McDonald's Jewelry, Fresno, California (USA). Collection: Michael M. Scott, San José, California...Larson’s Stuart Mine in the Pala Mountains, California (USA). Next to it, a step-cut, red-green colored tourmaline...gemstones Corundum: the colorful palette Ruby: divine crystal spark Sapphire: symbol of the firmament Beryl:...patrician from black africa Topaz: chalice of golden crystal Tourmaline: alpha and omega Zircon: dizzying quick-change |  | | Journal (issue) | | Flatirons Facets Flatirons Mineral Club of Boulder County, Colorado Volume 61, Number 2 The Flatirons Mineral...fun event and is a great chance to buy and sell rock and mineral specimens, as well as equipment and...have also been learning how to polish rocks in a rock tumbler. We have been polishing a batch of rocks...demonstrates to the Jr. Geologists how ancient people used rock tools The Jr. Geologists program is open to all...Nature and Science collected the bones from the site under the direction of curator Joe Sertich. An estimated |  | | Journal (issue) | | _ NEW! Cuts beautiful stones and is a very hard rock mixture of these blue and green minerals and silica...rhyolite exterior surrounding a beautiful quartz crystal Interior. An excellent buy at only . . . $1.00...- ALL ORDERS MUST INCLUDE A $2.00 fee if in the USA - all others including Canada must include full amount...ease In any direction. Saw frame Is of steel construction with plated finish - won't rust and It Is adjustable.... Tumbles stones in about one week. QUALITY CONSTRUCTION . . . Steel, Aluminum and Vinyl . . . no shafts |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jewelry mounted with Chinese red feldspar • Hibonite crystal • Unusual green color in a jadeite bangle • Greenish...Mouawad Campus 5345 Armada Drive Carlsbad, CA 92008 USA © 2012 Gemological Institute of America All rights...high-temperature (HPHT) growth technique, single-crystal synthetic diamond can be produced using chemical...Technological advances and a greater understanding of the crystal growth processes have led to significant improvements...AND METHODS X-ray topography of brown single-crystal asgrown CVD synthetic diamond has not shown significant |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...The Jackson’s Crossroads amethyst deposit, Wilkes County, Georgia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 474 COVER: BERYL crystal (variety morganite) on albite matrix, 6.6 cm, from...that same year the family moved to Hertfordshire County, England. They lived in various small towns, and...in that area, and later purchased a quantity of rock for lapidary use which he had shipped to Canada |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Principal Localities in the Middlesex County Region in Connecticut Unclassified Material Page...Directions to the Mineral Localities in the Middlesex County Region in Connecticut .... Additional Locality...booklet devoted to the mineralogy of the Middlesex County region. Invaluable assistance in preparing the...the same minerals that are found in the igneous rock granite: quartz, feldspar, and mica. However, the...pegmatite a small crystal of one mineral may occur along side of, or next to a large crystal of another mineral |  | | Journal (issue) | | we doing this? Quite simply, it is to benefit our rock shop vendors, newsstand distributors and advertisers...A 1000 GEMS Attractions in and around Ventura, site of the CFMS Show by Jeanne Stultz CALIFORNIA F~DERATION...Gems Rush's Culver City, CA Sunnymead. CA Fords Rock Ryans Susanville. CA Yorba Linda, CA Fowlefs Wire...ConctetJon A-thyat 0 0 11•· G ROUP N O. 3-ROCKS 6 ROCK FORMING MINERALS .................................xi portion OiabaM P1raao,,11e - xi Gutropod Rock Crystal Ouertz - Ill Coqulne 0bt1d11n "apache,..,.. |  | | Journal (issue) | | FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES FIELD TRIPS Rock collecting in North Carolina by James R. Mitchell...degrees. Index 4-12-20-28-36-44-52-60. PREPAID to USA addrett (Wuhlngton l'Nl«Mnt• add 7.ftt tall) PIXIES... Temple of Gems By Leonard M. Eckmann , M.D. Kanawha Rock and Gem Club Gem Carvers Guild of America 8- JUNE...sanre title as the series. This book is available at rock shop s and from mail-order suppliers. Coleman F...pegmatite outcrop which cuts through the native rock, and, at one time, was quite productive, sup plying |  | | Journal (issue) | | demonstrate silver casting and will make broom straw and rock salt castings. Buy some silver, see it cast at the...fourth Tuesday of each month at 7:30. The HGMS Web site address is http://www.hgms.org. 3 THE BACKBENDER'S...effort that goes into getting ready for the greatest Rock Show on Earth this year, in Houston. Houston Rocks... Additional information will be here on the Web site and in e-mail notices. April 22, 2008--General Meeting:...bicolored (pink and green) terminated spodumene crystal (about 6 by 4 cm) with numerous tiny black schorl |  | | Journal (issue) | | Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard S. Mitchell and Arthur S. Katz...Unique Virginia Rock Book Review: Minerals of Virginia by R. V. Dietrich (Carl Francis) Rock Clubs in Virginia...CRYSTALLIZED TURQUOISE from near Lynch Station, Campbell County, is Virginia's unique contribution to the mineral...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin...attached, they are bounded on all sides by sharp crystal faces. According to Sinkankas (1968) one specimen |  | | Journal (issue) | | ease in any direction. Saw frame Is of steel construction with plated finish - won't rust and It is adjustable...(412) 547-6779 NEW FINDS A. RED CRYSTAL-GEM QUALITY Deep resonant crystal colours penetrating total breadth...ORANGE GREEN CRYSTAL- GEM QUALITY Clean, minimum waste-intense dominating orange crystal interspersed...interspersed with green crystal. 1. 6 gram to 12 gram pieces-SHX) p er gram . 2. 5 gram to 15 gram pieces- $60 per...Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Check with your local rock shop for Eastern Gem Trails by Floyd Oles, or write |  | | Journal (issue) | | diamond growth environment • Very large single-crystal rough diamond • Unusual curved color zoning in...Green kyanite • Banded mimetite • Turquoise-rock crystal composite • Imitation Larimar Editorial Staff...Mouawad Campus 5345 Armada Drive Carlsbad, CA 92008 USA © 2013 Gemological Institute of America All rights...triangle. The borders and luminosity are purely the construction of the observer’s visual intelligence system...difficulties. N ephrite jade is an almost monomineralic rock, composed primarily of tremolite [Ca2Mg5Si8O22(OH)2] |  | | Journal (issue) | | ease In any direction. Saw frame Is of steel construction with plated finish - won't rust and It Is adjustable... . ... .. . .. ... .. .. . .... . 61 HOW-TO-DO Rock Plctur• In Shadow Box• by Bernada French ........._ NEW! Cuts beautiful stones and is a very hard rock mixture of these blue and green minerals and silica...rhyolite exterior surrounding a beautiful quartz crystal Interior. An excellent buy at only . . . $1 .00............... •1.50 ,. 1 . Tllf'IIIIIIII• .,.. crystal. ,1a1Ufll .........•.....•.•...•.....•....••.• |  | | Journal (issue) | | ease In any direction. Saw frame Is of steel construction with plated finish - won't rust and It Is adjustable... . ... .. . .. ... .. .. . .... . 61 HOW-TO-DO Rock Plctur• In Shadow Box• by Bernada French ........._ NEW! Cuts beautiful stones and is a very hard rock mixture of these blue and green minerals and silica...rhyolite exterior surrounding a beautiful quartz crystal Interior. An excellent buy at only . . . $1 .00............... •1.50 ,. 1 . Tllf'IIIIIIII• .,.. crystal. ,1a1Ufll .........•.....•.•...•.....•....••.• |  | | Journal (issue) | | ease In any direction. Saw frame Is of steel construction with plated finish - won't rust and It Is adjustable... . ... .. . .. ... .. .. . .... . 61 HOW-TO-DO Rock Plctur• In Shadow Box• by Bernada French ........._ NEW! Cuts beautiful stones and is a very hard rock mixture of these blue and green minerals and silica...rhyolite exterior surrounding a beautiful quartz crystal Interior. An excellent buy at only . . . $1 .00............... •1.50 ,. 1 . Tllf'IIIIIIII• .,.. crystal. ,1a1Ufll .........•.....•.•...•.....•....••.• |
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