| | Report (issue) | International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...were uncovered there until the 1860s when a true mining effort was directed at the outcrop (King, 2000)...view of the old mine portal on the north side of the Himalaya Mine in San Diego County, CA. D. Sterrett | | | Book | copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica... 48 mm, El Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on...from Farncomb Hill near Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. Fine crystals were also found in Berezovsk, Ural | | | Book (volume) | The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller...Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct)...ct), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless...Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink kunzite (26.61 ct), Pala, California. NECKLACE...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75 | | | Journal (issue) | significant moss agate finds in China and the USA. The USA has the most famous agatised woqd in the Petrified...(Italy); Chihuahua (Mexico); California, Colorado, Michigan and New Mexico (USA). (Italy) and Berlin (Germany):...have been found in North Creek, New York State, USA. Star garnets - that is, specimens showing asterism-...in many locations, but the best come from Idaho, USA. Inferior deposits have been unearthed in Austria... Namibia, Russia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. In the USA, there are microcline deposits with some small amazonites | | | Book | copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23 x...(5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica...jewelry, electronics. Gold, 411 mm. El Dorado, California. U.S.A. Gold Au CUBIC • • Properties: C...gold found in many localities in California, USA (Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf | | | Book (volume) | The Bowers Museurn of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller...red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62 et), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rho...Kern Cowny, California; octagonal seep cut violetish pink kunzite (26.61 et), Pala, California. NECKLACE...blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75 diainonds...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout | | | Book (edition) | Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado | | | Journal (issue) | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...ELBAITE crystal, 7.3 cm, from the Alto Ligonha district, Mozambique. American M useum of Natural History...20:191-200 MALAWI Zomba district, 25:29-35, 38 MOROCCO Bou-Azzer, 9:69-73 Toussit mine, 11:59-61, 15:347-350...15:347-350 NAMIBIA Kombat mine, 22:421-425 Tsumeb (special issue, vol. 8, no. 3) Tsumeb, 13:137-147, 13:155-157...Museum for Tsumeb, 10:116-118 The Onganja mining district, 27:85-97 The Otavi Mountain Land, 28:109-130 | | | Catalog/List | TREMOLITE VANADINITE VARISCITE VERD ANTIQUE VERDELITE VERDITE VIVIANITE VOROBYEVITE WAGNERITE WHITNEYITE...turquoise] [Bornholm diamonds} Amber from Lower California Rock crystal Slromimn tita11a1e Red spine! Tabasheer...iris (California jade] (C:tl ifornian moonstone] [Californian onyx] [Californian ruby] [California turquoise]...Brecciated jasper Red and white banded jasper ( California) Quarn or agate with green hair-like needles...Elixirite Blue chalcedony Yellow ish quartz (California) Green glass Py rope garnet Banded rhyolite from | | | Book (edition) | Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine...n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode , Su1nmit County . rt is also found in Canada, Mexico | | | Journal (volume) | Mexico. Eight-sided crystals from the Traversella mine, Piedmont, Italy. .&. crystals. It can also be...South Africa; and Maine and other regions of the USA. Minor deposits of rose quartz can also be found...in Afghanistan , India, Pakistan, China, Montana, USA, and Norway. • • TWo 19th-centurv brooches set with...at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, USA. • A Burmese ruby in calcite, a common mineral....conifer trees, which are (or were) living things. Mining for minerals is tricky and it can be dangerous | | | Book (edition) | vanadinite, Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce © | | | Book (edition) | vanadinite, Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M | | 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) | Sharon Cisneros: Minerological Research Co., San Jose, California. Andrew M. Clark: Dept. of Mineralogy, Natural...Currier: Jewel Tunnel Imports, Baldwin Park, California. Stanley Dyl: Seaman Mineralogical Museum, Michigan...Canada. Richard C. Erd: U.S.G.S., Menlo Park, California. Howard T. Evans: U.S.G.S., Reston, Virginia...Claren N. (‘‘Si’’) and Ann Frazier: Berkeley, California. Carl Francis: Mineralogical Museum, Harvard...Paris, France. Legrand A. Gould: Pebble Beach, California. George E. Harlow: Dept. of Min. Sci., American | | | Book | Amethyst flower (85 x 60 mm), Ametista do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Collection of Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes...mineralogists active in Brazil 69 Notable national mining en~·neers and mineralogists 73 Ca inets of curiosities...The auriferous claims 148 The gold mine of Morro Velho 153 The Mine of Passagem 155 The/old rush in P'ianc6...274 276 The class of oxides :ind hydroxides Iron mining in Brazil The Qu:idrilatero Ferrifcro The discovery...topaz 385 T he imperial topaz of Ouro Preto 393 The Mine of Capao do Lana 397 The imperial topaz of Antonio | | | Book (edition) | HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Butterworth-Heinemann...Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington MA 01803, USA First published 1962 Second edition 1970 Third edition...Canada, Germany, Thailand, Vietnam, the UK and the USA, making this a truly international collaboration...extensive fields in the prophetically named Kimberley district of Western Australia promise to be of world importance...Ltd, for the information on the Botswana diamond mining; Messrs Eickhorst & Co of Hamburg for the illustrations | | | Book | 178 Pleonaste 204 204 Sodalite Variscite Verdelite Smithsonite (Bonamite) We 224 Venus Hair Stone...prehistoric tombs has yielded bone and shell parures. The mining of and common uses for ornamental stones have been...minerals were densely con- centrated. This type of mine was very at- tractive, since it avoided the need...collection using gravity were necessary. Underground mining techniques had little relevance to the gathering...sophisticated prospecting techniques and heavily mechanized mining methods come into use—and even then, only | | | Journal (issue) | produced by Regency Created Emeralds Co. in the USA. Since 1979 various synthetic beryls including green...reminiscent of the natural red beryls from Utah, USA (see Henn and Becker, 1995). The physico-chemical...U., and Becker, G., 1995. Rote Berylle aus Utah, USA Neue Beobachtungen. Z. Dt. Gemmol. Ges., 44, 55--{i0...Lucerne, Switzerland (5); F.H. Pough, Reno, Nevada, USA (8); M. Schaeffer, Detmold, Germany (1). For assessing...Lucerne, Switzerland, Dr F.H. Pough of Reno, Nevada, USA, and M. Schaeffer of Detmold, Germany. Professor | | | Journal (issue) | specific artisanship, traditional trade routes, and/or mining regions consistent with the age-specific attributes...The Gemmological Association of Great Britain mining operations — elucidating the point of origin of...— from mining locations separated by only a few kilometres (e.g. the Muzo and Cosquez mining localities...determine if chemical heterogeneity between emerald mining localities was chemometrically unique and statistically...Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM)), and the mining localities were selectively chosen based on the | | | Book | NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM CAPE TOWN Published in the USA by Oxford University Press, New York 2 Filmset...Al)16O34(Cl,SO4,CO3)4.0-6H2O, from a lapis-lazuli mine, Sar-e-Sang, Badakshan province, Afghanistan. The...Greenish-blue hexagonal crystals from the Bou-Skour copper mine, Jebel Sarhro,* Ouazazate,* Morocco, have the composition...270. Natural /1-FeOOH, occurring at the Akagane mine, Iwate prefecture, Japan, and named from the locality...[2Mn0.Si02]. Named from the locality, Alleghany County, North Carolina. [M.A., 5, 50.] 13th List [Wales; | | | Book | Experimentalist – Writer 31 Georgius Agricola – A Renewer Of Mining And Metallurgical Technique 34 New Winds in the...– The Gold Country 105 The Golden Fleece 105 Esmeralda – The Gold Country 106 Gold Coins 107 Gold and...Silver Minerals 133 Silver Resources and Reserves 134 Mine Production of Silver 134 Silver Manufacture – Metallurgical...Many Regions 144 A Model for the Development of Mining and Metallurgy 145 Copper in the Roman Empire 145...Technology 146 Brass – Copper and Zinc 147 The Copper Mine in Falun 148 Copper Ores 151 Copper Minerals 151 | | | Book | b} (of Chesnokov) calcium iron oxide from burning mine dump Acid Aluminium Phosphate = (of Marchand) inadequately...Chesnokov) calcium chloro-oxy-silicate from burning mine dump Afanerita, Afonesa, Afanesite, Afanezit, Afonite...Chesnokov) calcium chlorosilicate from a burning mine dump Albriltonite = an artificial hydrated cobalt...(of Jusli) m ixture of Chlorargyrite and Calcite? [Mine d'Argent Alkaline] Alkalidavyn, Alkalidavyne =...Chesnokov) zinc ammonium chloride from a burning mine dump Ammiolite = mixture of Cinnabar and Partzite | | | Book | success in obtaining and studying Ian Campbell San Francisco July 1972 ix ■ -W . Acknowledg ments...are, for the most part, restricted to those of the USA. Old and obsolete terms are defined when possible...and logging, materials, and the terminology of mining up to the point of re¬ moval of the ore. Engineering...highways, urbanization of drainage areas, strip mining, or ejecta based on mode of origin, and is equivalent...flat top of relict high ground or pressure. of a mesa-like hill, (c) A term loosely applied in central | | | Book | senders. The moonstone is another personal favorite of mine. It is a stone popular among a good number of Witches...communicate with us. Lee Prosser is a Shaman friend of mine who shares my interest in the occult lore and application...identification tool. Jade is another favorite of mine. Like moonstone, it speaks to me. A receptive stone...was walking along the beach in Santa Monica, California, with my friend, writer Christopher Isherwood...shall the flame of love unite [name]’s heart with mine. Harming none, this spell be done. Wrap the wax | | | Book | which shows that it dates back to the beginnings of mining. By minerals we mean the constituents of rocks...of the useful component is high enough to make mining worth while. Some minerals contain important metals...of the development of material culture, in which mining played Fig. 1.An ancient working ul an unlimuny...tians, Greeks, etc., were among the pioneers of mining. From time immemorial man has known not only native...prospect for mineral deposits. In places, ancient mine workings have survived to our time (Fig. 1). Of |
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