| | Journal (issue) | net The Guatomo (“Hat Yai”) mine near Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province, Thailand ................731 . by M. P. Sacchi The Santa Rosa mine, Inyo County, California .........................SCORODITE crystal, 1.6 cm wide, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. Unique Minerals...SILVER WITH PYRRHOTITE AND CALCITE Kongsberg Silver Mines, Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway, 8 cm. The Mineralogical...supplement showing many details of the Berezovsk mining district, the subject of the July–August 2016 issue | | | Book | especially in central Africa. Also the contributions of mining organizations, such as Union Miniere du Haut-Katanga...traveller and pioneer of trade with India, Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne (1605-1689), born...Bettendorf). France: Musee de Mineralogie, Ecole des Mines de Paris - Type: dewalquite [donated by Pisani (with...the Netherlands, whereas � eu Moresnet, to the east, became part of Prussia. Neutral Moresnet, with...the Kingdom of Belgium. Presently, the depleted mining area of Moresnet belongs to Kelmis (La Calamine) | | | Journal (issue) | an tgressman@comcast.n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic...... ............... ............. 228 Obituary: Jean DeMouthe .................. .. ...................METATORBERNITE, 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott...part-time while working as a geologist for various mining companies including Halferdahl and Associates (1974-1980)...for the Mineralogical Record: on the Port Radium District in the Northwest Territories (1989) and on the | | | Book | Produced by Nevraumont Publishing Co., Inc. 16 East 23rd Street, New York, New York 10010 Book design...status. By the late fourth millennium in the Near East, cylinder seals were made from rock crystal quartz...EXPLOITATION OF THE LAPlS LAZULI MINES IN Badakshan, Afghanistan, and the turquoise mines on the Sinai Peninsula...C. and Sumer (Iraq) by 2500 B.C. China, India, Greece, and Rome received gemstones from the same source...the coasts of North Africa, Turkey, Cyprus, and Greece. Recent spectroscopic studies of amber beads discovered | | | Report (issue) | Miscellaneous Report 32 Kingston, Ontario to Lac St-Jean, Quebec Ann P. Sabina 1983 COVER Left: Weloganite...MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Kingston, Ontario to Lac St-Jean, Quebec Ann P. Sabina Originally published in...west of Highway 38 Freebern mica mine Mobey (Burnham) mine Enterprise mine Sand Road (Card) quarry Dwyer...Road Kingston (Bedford) mica mine Richardson feldspar mine Glendower iron mine Road-cut at km 10.9, Westport...Hickey-Murphy lead mine Road-cuts at km 16.7, Westport Road McLaren phosphate mine Long Lake blue calcite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | as well, presented eight crates of minerals from mining areas in Transylvania and Upper Hungary, i.e. Slovakia...practical applications as agriculture, husbandry and mining. The teacher of mineralogy was Ignaz von Born (1742–91)...be located (Wilson 1994). Born was a miner and a mine-oriented mineralogist. Thus, he not only taught...delegate of the "dipartimento del Tevere" (the district covering the Tiber Valley just north of Rome)...Roman "campagna", was the Alban Hills volcanic district, where beautiful and rare specimens were then | | | Book | Features Names after Political Divisions Names after Mines and Mineral Deposits Some Unusual Examples of Names...crystallographers, geologists, petrologists, geochemists, mining engineers, mineral assayers, curators, collectors...Union, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Greece, and others. Because the number of persons honored...determinations of mineral compositions. romeite, Jean Baptiste Rome Delisle (1736-1770), French crystallographer;...chemist and mineralogist; student of Torbern Bergman; mine owner and mineral analyst; trained J. J. Berzelius | | | Report (issue) | AnnP. Sabina \ Kingston, Ontario to - . Lac St-Jean, Quebec, Digitized by the Internet Archive in...MINERALS FOR THE COLLECTOR Kingston, Ontario to Lac St-Jean, Quebec Ann P. Sabina Originally published in...of Highway Freebern mica mine 8 y Mobey (Burnham) mine 9 Enterprise mine 10 38 38 Sand Road (Card)...(Bedford) mica mine 12 13 14 14 1D 1 16 16 17 Richardson feldspar mine Glendower iron mine Road-cut at...Hickey-Murphy lead mine Road-cuts at km 16.7, Westport Road McLaren phosphate mine Long Lake blue calcite | | | Journal (issue) | spinel|Spurrite from New Mexico, USA|Tsavorite mining at the Scorpion mine, Kenya|Mussel pearls from the Philippines...Gemmologisches Institut Hamburg, Germany; Tay Thye Sun, Far East Gemological Laboratory, Singapore; Pornsawat Wathanakul...Midlands – Georgina E. Kettle North East – Mark W. Houghton South East – Veronica Wetten South West – Richard...USA. The seminars covered various aspects of gem mining, marketing, industry, identification and jewellery...technology. Supply remained constrained: Annual mine production increased by the slowest rate since 2008 | | | Book | more a country disregard and have logical Jean Hardouin head- (Joannes 1723). complete, and... Pliny's and False Industrial in 70 . in Mining Treated 56 .... Time. Plinys 48 54 Value... and possibly of book a popular of most mining adventurer, a to on been authority, his a...amber. As Ismenias Great), Theophrastus, on mining engineers, among Callistratus while hence the... by Pliny crystal faces gem pebbles. in selenite, of Of highly prized by mounted surface.” | | | Book | more a country disregard and have logical Jean Hardouin head- (Joannes 1723). complete, and... Pliny's and False Industrial in 70 . in Mining Treated 56 .... Time. Plinys 48 54 Value... and possibly of book a popular of most mining adventurer, a to on been authority, his a...amber. As Ismenias Great), Theophrastus, on mining engineers, among Callistratus while hence the... by Pliny crystal faces gem pebbles. in selenite, of Of highly prized by mounted surface.” | | | Book | Brazil. Bliss Gift AQUAMARINE Minas Anna B. Old mine 17% brilliant cut, carats. Paris, Maine. Morgan...precious metals to the more elaborate settings of Greece and Rome is both easy and obvious, and once...Photo CHAPTER III -K "There are at ters, this mine numerous diamond cutwheel of about They place but...the lapidary by following a diamond on from the mine happens to it. gem excursion into the side of...just what When the diamonds are taken out of the mine, not by any means all of them are clear and colorless | | | Book | 1500s, the German Inspired by Button's ideas, more mining engineer Georgius Agricola and more geologists...the Tethys Seaway grew wider, elbowing into the east of Pangaea. Cretaceous 80 mya By the Cretaceous...extraordinary way the west coast of Africa mirrored the east coast of South America. H e also noticed amazing...deep under the sea. Fissures like this one in the East Pacific seabed, some 2,600m (8,500ft) below the...out of the water first. , .2.t'l UNDERSTAN DING MINE RALS HOVV MINERALS FORM Minerals are the natural | | | Journal (issue) | shows in Tucson, Denver, Munich and Ste-Marie-aux-Mines Tel.: 949-494-5155 • www.kristalle.com • Email:...May–June, 2017 Contents The St. Andreasberg Mining District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany.......................... 302 History 1487–1624: Mining Begins in the Oxidation Zone ................................. 315 Modernization and the End of Mining ................................... 317 Collecting...working in the lode” (Simonin, 1869). The Mining District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | elsevier.com/locate/scitotenv Detoxification of selenite and mercury by reduction and mutual protection...mechanism of selenite to elemental Se, cells were grown in the presence of various selenite concentrations...and selenium was also studied. The presence of selenite significantly reduced the accumulation of mercury...oxidation states from the water soluble oxyanions selenite, SeO32−, Se(IV) and selenate, SeO42−, Se(VI) under...them, especially the reduction of selenate and selenite to elemental Se, would involve microorganisms | | | Report (issue) | 9,~0 9'~/l 'i /Jt-f. I DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA CANADA...Kingston, Ontario to Lac St-Jean, Quebec Ann P. Sabina DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY, MINES AND RESOURCES @ Crown.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Freebern mica mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mobey (Burnham) mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Enterprise mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | | | Book | large collections, sometimes establishing their own mines or creating a monopoly to ensure that they acquired...COME FROM? 025 Mining for gems Revealing the treasures of the Earth Large-scale mining for precious materials...used in industry, such as copper. Some large-scale mines also produce fine gem material, such as malachite...malachite and turquoise, as by-products. Much gem mining is relatively small scale, however, and is often done...Australia’s largest open pit gold mine and is one of the largest open pit mines in the world. Aquamarine Aquamarine | | Floor, G.H., Calabrese, S., Román-Ross, G., D´Alessandro, W., Aiuppa, A. (2011) Selenium mobilization in soils due to volcanic derived acid rain: An example from Mt Etna volcano, Sicily. Chemical Geology, 289 (3) 235-244 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2011.08.004 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | the atmosphere will transform this Se to soluble selenite (SeO32−) and selenate (SeO42−) (Wen and Carignan...flank, whereas maximum rainfall (1200 mm) occurs on east facing slopes at an altitude of 700–900 m due to...mass approaching mainly from the Ionian Sea in the east (Chester et al., 1985). Owing to the high permeability...volcanic activity. Se(VI) = selenate, Se(IV) = selenite. Al–SOM are areas where Al associated with SOM...et al. / Chemical Geology 289 (2011) 235–244 selenite (SeO3−1) is the thermodynamic species (Fig. 7) | | | Book | Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...240). J r ILMENITE QUEBEC Girardville, Lac Saint-Jean area. Just northwest of the town of Girardville...Girardville, itself 40 km northwest of Lac Saint-Jean in south-central Quebec, very large and sharp ilmenite Cl) | | | Book (edition) | United States of America Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 1 1501 PUBLISHER'S...AND ROCKS 221 XIII THE FOSSIL FUELS 246 XIV MINING AND MILLING 263 XV WATER RESOURCES 272 MINERAL...the old was marketed), alaskaite from the Alaska mine in Colorado, cubanite from Cuba, kernite from Kern...from the Arabic "powder of the mine" because it came from a silver mine. Perhaps the worst blunder in...volatile and quick-moving nature ("quicksilver"). From Greece have come the names castorite and pollucite, after | | | Book | stalagmites grew upwards from the floor of an abandoned mine as water, rich in calcium carbonate, dripped down...and survive, many are destroyed by people during mining and other activities. Survivors are therefore of...collected from a famous silver mine area at Chanarcillo, Copiapo, Chile. The mines were extensively worked between...Herodsfoot lead mine, near Liskeard in Cornwall, England. Between 1850 and 1875 this mine produced bournonite...Oh Le. eT, creation which the . French artist Jean Giraud, known as Moebius, based on crystal shapes | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | lacustrine sediments .............. 103 P. JEAN-BAPTISTE,S. BELVISO,G. ALAUX, B. C. NGUYEN, and N. MIHALOPOULOS:‘He...age, and origin of groundwater in a mafic pluton, East Bull Lake,Omario,Canada . . . . . . . . . . . ....boiling, and fluid mixing in the Keno Hill Ag-Pb-Zn district, Yukon Territory, Canada . 1045 R. FJZNG and...Chemical processes in buoyant hydrothe~a1 plumes on the East Pacific Rise near 21% . . . . . . . . . . . . ..... . _ , . . . . I. _ 1941 M. M. HYLAND, G. E. JEAN, and G. M. BANCROFT:XPS and AES studies of Hg(fI) | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | lacustrine sediments .............. 103 P. JEAN-BAPTISTE,S. BELVISO,G. ALAUX, B. C. NGUYEN, and N. MIHALOPOULOS:3He...boiling, and fluid mixing in the Keno Hill Ag-Pb-Zn district, Yukon Territory, Canada 1045 R. FENG and R...._........................ 1911 plumes on the East Pacific Rise near C. R. GERMANand H. ELDERFIELD:Rare...glasses and minerals 1941 M. M. HYLAND, G. E. JEAN, and G. M. BANCROFT:XPS and AES studies of Hg(I1)...Solution ion effects on the surface exchange of selenite on calcite . . 2207 2223 M. E. BERNDTand W | | | Journal (issue) | terminated xis. 3x 1 t 2 3.50 ADAMITE, Laurium, Greece. Minutely xld. on rock. 4x l '.'2 ........ . 5...in the s~nd dunes along currence in the Tintic District, Utah ." He Lake Michigan. won a $25 Savings Bond...Consoli- former president of the Federation, mandated Mine near Eureka, Utah. H e plans aged the contest. The...active in popularizing the earth Colorado School of Mines at Golden. sciences, were Dr. Ben Hur Wilson of...as a Tilly Foster Unit. The old abandoned iron mine (magnetite) at Tilly Foster, Putnam Co., N. Y. is | | | Book | museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...what to look for. Michael O’Donoghue Proustite (East Germany) 7 Rocks We can define a rock as a large...over its beer: to go underground in a non-working mine is sheer folly unless you are accompanied by someone...(preferably several people) who really knows the mine. Before venturing into the field serious collectors...collectors or students should get hold of geological and mining maps and records of visits made by others. Few |
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