 | | Report (issue) | | Association Museum of Victoria Nunawading and District Lapidary Club Inc. Tony Annear Tylden Quarries...South Wales have produced some of the finest stellerite and heulandite specimens in the world. Although...and accessible sites, such as Tylden Quarry and Bundoora Quarry, where attractive specimens may be obtained...KILOMETRES Figure I.I. Map showing the Melbourne District. INTRODUCTION Six zeolite species; analcirne,...in the Newer Volcanic basalts of the Melbourne district. Natrolite and gonnardite invariably occur as |  | | Report (issue) | | mineralogy of Elba. Pini, Targioni Tozzetti, vom Rath, Fersman, Millosevich, the two D' Achiardis, Grattarola...tourmaline-bearing pegmatites. German mineralogist Gerhard vom Rath (1830-1888) wrote the important work Die Insel Elba...hotel is located in the heart of the pegmatite district in the village of Cavoli, which boasts a wonderful...m onwgranite of Monte Capanne at the Beneforti quarry, San Piero in Campo. Photo Andrea Dini the eastern...the same locality as Cava della Speranza [Hope quarry], which was renamed by Captain Pisani who, after |  | | Report (issue) | | Hyalophane Albite Datolite Natrolite Laumontite Stellerite Harmotome 64 64 65 67 68 70 71 73 74 79 79 80...been knownTTrom Kongsberg. This alBo applies to stellerite, which is a rather rare zeolite (p. 1 13). 3tsllsrit6...3ilver >VorlcB, a calamitv 10 i, botn to the district in which the works are situated and to the country...possibility of mining for other ores found in this district. Geology of the Area. Tine geology of the area...mine Flg. 3. Geologic map of Kongsberg mining district. Reconstructed after A. Bugge and C. Bugge. 13 |  | | Journal (issue) | | of some clay and “ stone” taken out of a “slate” quarry which the Governor thought contained some metal...of languages. In 1836 he was appointed “Mine and Quarry Agent and Geologist” to the South Australian Company...mineralogist friend in Bonn, Germany, J. J. G. vom Rath (1830-1888). This collaborative work led to the...hydrous phosphates; four of them were new to science. Rath published the names hannayite and newberyite on...Victoria Rath (Ulrich/Maclvor) 1878/9 Newberyite Dittmarite M gHP04-3H20 Victoria Victoria Rath(Ulrich/MacIvor) |  | | Report (issue) | | CharlesLightfootprovidedhistoricalinformationon the Lake Boga quarry, as did Stephen Pritchardon the WycheproofQuarry...Small-scale phosphate mining took place in the Mansfield district in Victoria in the early 1900s, and in the Kapunda...Mawson & Sons of Cohuna. The company purchased the quarry from Mr Lightfoot in 1963 and has owned and operated...study by Hills (1941), based on exposures in the quarry. In 1958. above-average radioactivity was detected...planes in the northern and western faces of the quarry (Chambers, 1958). The discovery caused considerable |  | | Journal (issue) | | Monster mine, Prince of Wales Is., Alaska Joplin District, Joplin, Missouri Coleman mine, Jessieville, Arkansas...Franklin/Sterling mines, Franklin, New Jersey Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine Dunton mine, Newry, Maine Las Vigas...Switzerland Lengenbach quarry, Bina Valley, Switzerland Knappenwand, Salzburg, Austria Tunaberg mine, Tunaberg...Greece Mont St-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada Arsukfjord, Ivigtut,...Conselheiro Pena area, Rio Doce, Brazil Virgem da Lapa District, Minas Gerais, Brazil Aricanga mine, Cruzeiro |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...1991). Simdeled, Aust-Agder. Early in 1999, in a quarry near S~ndeled, collectors opened a pocket containing...PORTUGAL Montijos quarry, Monte Redondo, Leiria Estremadura. The Montijos gabbro quarry at Monte Redondo |  | | Book | | Dumfries; Mr S. C. Brownlee of Cumnock and Doon Valley District Council; Mr R. Hunter and Mr Kevin Wilbraham of...Reform Bill (1831) he represented the Kirkcaldy District Burghs (1831-32, and 1837) and Haddingtonshire...A. G. Werner. During a sojourn in the Dauphine district, Allan enriched his mineral collection, then returned...belonged to the King of Candy (Candy, or Kandy, was a district of the former Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, from which...arriYed at the mining town of Clausthal in the Harz district, where again they examined mineral cabinets. After |  | | Book | | Translucent colorless. Schildmaur, Admont (near), Austria. H= 2-3, Djjj= 1.82, D(;= 1.875, Vc 02. Walenta...Ca)5Ali2(P04)8(0H)22*32H20, 0 Orth. Pearly colorless. Moculta quarry, Angaston (near), South Australia, Australia. H=...Sub-translucent dirty yellow, brownish-yellow, green. Vilate quarry, Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne, France. H= 5-5.5, Djn=3...C1), IaI Mon. Transparent colorless. Amstall, Austria. H= 4, 0^^= 2.40, D(,= 2.380, VIIIE 30. Quint,...bluish, violet. Hall, Innsbruck (near), Tyrol, Austria. H= 3.5, Djjj= 2.98, D(.= 2.960, VIA 07. Werner |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Na)rzAlr6(AI, Si)4Sir0O80.30-40HrO Gismondite Erionite Stellerite (Ca, K)roAlrz(Al, Si)2Si21Os0' 36-40HrO Ca(Na... Mrcnosouurrnaxn Dewxc Microsommite Vesuvius v. Rath Microsommite Vesuvius Scacci Davyne Mt. Somma ria...&re rare larities have been noted (Tschermak)' Stellerite lists erionite species and have not been fully...Tschermak close to stilbite in with stilbite, and stellerite has been shown to be very its crystallographic...356,373 .358,383 ..360 ..399 Steenstrupine. Stellerite. Stilbite. Stilpnomelane Stokesite Sursassite |  | | Book | | indigenous people of the discovery area. Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada...its discovery locality, at Schildmaur, Admont, Austria. Walenta, K. (1979): Tschermaks Mineral. Petrogr...(1989): Mineral. J. 14, 279. Flores mine, Huanuni District, Oruru, Bolivia. Agardite-(La) (La,Ca)Cu¢(AsO4)3(OH)6°3H20...Mineralogy, University of Adelaide, Australia. Moculta quarry, Angaston, South Australia, Australia. From Gk...engineer known for his work in the Limoges Altisite district. Chanteloube, Haute-Vienne, France. Na3k6Ti2[AlSigO26]Cl; |  | | Book (chapter) | | = dufrénoysite, Egleston 109 (1892). Skleroklas (Rath) = sartorite, MM 19, 348 (1922). Skleroklas (von...Sodesalz = halite, Hintze I.2, 2149 (1911). sodian stellerite = barrerite, MM 40, 208 (1975). sodic-amphibole...Chester 257 (1896). stellarite (Erd et al.) = stellerite, MM 37, 964 (1970). stellarite (How) = hard bitumen...(2004). Stellcrit = stellerite, Chudoba EIV, 87 (1974). stellericie = stellerite, Kipfer 196 (1974).... stellerycie = stellerite, MM 15, 431 (1910). stellite = pectolite (or wollastonite ?), Clark 662 (1993) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and w. c. BROGGER in 1876 a paper (with G. vom Rath) on large crystals of enstatite from Norway was...University of Vienna (Wien), was born at Graz in Styria on October 29, 1882, and died in Vienna on November...fumaroles (soffioni) and lagoons in the Larderello district of Tuscany, extracting also ammonia, carbon dioxide...series of papers appeared on the rocks of the Lake District. From 1895 to 1905 his vacations from Cambridge...Bering Sea, where native copper and a new zeolite, stellerite, were found [M.A. 3-28]. Then at Cracow, Polish |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | Institut fur Mineralogie der Universitat Wien, Austria. Michael Zolensky: Lyndon Johnson Space Center...(1966) Mineral News Mineralogy and Petrology (Austria) Mineralogica Polonica Micro Probe VII References...Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity Co., Michigan Bluff district, Placer Co., in AK, placers at Fairbanks, Iditarod...and quartz veins at Juneau. In Canada, Noranda district, PQ; Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, and Larder Lake...deposits, ON; Atlin and Caribou, BC; and Klondike district, YT. In Mexico, Altar and Magdalena, SON; Parral |  | | Journal (issue) | | Batopilas Famous mineral localities: the Batopilas District, Chihuahua, M e x ic o .........................Phidon of Aegina around 869 B.C., and yet the district did not reach its peak in activity and production...mines accounted for half the production of the district. Native silver and silver minerals were of first...the 1800s. Mineral specimens from the Wittichen district are only rarely labeled with a specific mine name;...10 km southeast of Darmstadt. In a nearby gabbro quarry a small calcite-barite-quartz vein is exposed which |  | | Journal (issue) | | paragenesis of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ..................located on the Little Three property in the Ramona district, San Diego County, California. This mine, strictly...material produced from the Mursinka-Alabashka District, Urals, and the Volyn pegmatites in the Ukraine...Minas Gerais, Brazil, and St. A nne’s mine, Karoi district, Zimbabwe. Fine specimens of dark green elbaite...claim map o f the Little Three mine area. Ramona district (compiled by the F. H. Weber, California Division |  | | Book (volume) | | (“cryptoperthite”), nordmarkite, Spalen, Nordmark, Oslo district, Norway (Oftedahl, 1948). Anal. Lars Lund. 3....pyroxene granulite of the charnockite senes, Salem district Madras (Howie, 1955). Anal. R. A. Howie. 16. Colourless...M““^Perthite- nepheline-syenite, Fukushin-zan district, Korea (Yoshizawa, 1933). Anal. H. 3. Microcline...1958). Anal. J. H. Scoon. 14. Sanidine, Eifel district, Germany (Kozu & Seto, 1921). Anal. K. Seto. 15...unmixed to oligoclase and orthoclase), larvikite, quarry near Larvik, near Oslo, Norway (Muir & Smith, 1966) |  | | Report (issue) | | region between Death Valley and Goff's Mining District, nearer the former, and that good samples were...the museum of the Bureau. * * * "The turquoise district, as described by Mr. Eisen and others of the party...reporting placers worked in the "Carga Muehacha" district near Yuma, in 1775, Hanks (12) p. 217, and at..."small thread of gold worked in the Saint Barbara district in 1840." The San Francisco Alia Californian about...following year colemanite was found in the Calico district. Other important deposits of this mineral were |  | | Report (issue) | | from references to the geographic term ''Mining District," especially in the pre-1920 literature. Widespread...housing developments. Another is the famous Crestmore quarry, where the cement production has almost destroyed...region between Death Valley and Goff's Mining District, nearer the former, and that good samples were...the museum of the Bureau. * * * "The turquoise district, as described by Mr. Eisen and others of the party..."small thread of gold worked in the Saint Barbara district in 1840." The San Francisco Alta Calif ornian |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineralogical Notes Pyrite crystals from Duff’s quarry, Huntsville, O h io .............................and copper mines located in the center o f the district. T The Red Cloud fluorite and copper mines are...for iron, copper and fluorite in the Red Cloud district has taken place sporadically from near the turn...in dications, the low reserves of ore in this district preclude any signifi cant mining activity in...Payne (1954) described kornerupine from the Mogok district, Burma, with a more attractive color than the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Freiberg Quarz-Stufen aus dem Sr' da Assurn;äo Quarry, Ferreira de Aves, Viseu in Portugal. Auf den Quarzen...aufmerksam machte, in dem Präparate des Herrn vom Rath in der Niihe des Titaneisens kleine, off in Reihen...ziem- dem Gestein vom Tannbergsthal, welches vom Rath als Basalt mit Graniteinschlüssen, Kalkowsky als...Kristallrändern sägezahnartige Zacken bilden. Die Stellerite können Größen bis 5 mm erreichen. Sie sind Prehnit-Kristallen...level der Opohonga stope, Gold Chain Mine, Tintic District, Juab Co., Utah, USA. Bildbreite 3 mm. Sammlung |  | | Book (edition) | | 438]. (TL) Schildmauer. near Admont. S tyria, Austria. Named for locality. Adulaire. syn. of adularia...330, c 26.60 A. Z=2 [ PDF 35-676). (TL) Mocult:i quarry, Ang:iston. South Australia. Named for A.R. Alderman...Abstr. ( 1909) 3, 1 974. Alomite. trade name. The Quarry, London ( 1 908) 13. 257: W.G. Renwick ( 1 909)...angle. Amblystegite. syn. of hypersthene. G. vom Rath ( 1 869) A nn. Phys. Chem . (Pogg.), 1 38. 53 1...A. I� 100.86'. Z=4. (TL) Amstall graphite quarry . Austria. Named for locality. Anagenite. syn. of chrome |  | | Journal (issue) | | in the Philipsburg mining district. HISTORY The Philipsburg mining district had been producing silver...of blocky orange crystals, and some peculiar stellerite (or should I now say stilbite?) in glistening...in diameter on matrix. Both of these come from a quarry at Sokolovsko, Sarbajsk in the Urals. I spoke to...Jeffrey quarry, Quebec. 499 F igure 1. Catapleiite crystal, 1.4 cm , from the De Mix quarry, M ont...station homestead near Armidale, in the New England district. The new generation had in herited the property |  | | Book (edition) | | (Brewster, Biot), was variously explained. In 1873, Rath, on the basis of careful measurements, referred...largest part of the world's supply comes; Passau district in Bavaria; southern Bohemia; Korea; Madagascar;...at Monroe, Conn.; Brewer's mine, Chesterfield district, S. C.; near Cummins Abundant with silver ores...mountains, eastern Hungary and a less important Alpine district reaching from Carinthia through the Austrian Tyrol^and...Galician frontier. The third district, which is the most important district in Europe, is in Transylvania |  | | Journal (issue) | | ay not restore a surface to an earlier state, but rath er m ay enhance (i.e. fake) the appearance o f a...3T v.15/#5 Jacupiranga m ine (Brazil), Jensen quarry (CA ), Cunha B aixa m ine, Paulkerrite $10 v.15/#6...Peak, CSM M useum $10 v .l7 /# 3 K nappenw and (Austria). Laurium (Greece), Senaite (Brazil), C halcophyllite...leiberg (A ustria), ties, Urucum (Brazil), K alkar quarry (CA ), K rem sm iinster $10 B rochantite (O K...xinites (CA). $10 v.20/#6 Spanish Pyrite, P in t’s quarry (IA ), B eaverdell (Br. Col.), H ollister (CA) |
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