| | Journal (issue) | crystals, 31/2 inches wide, Thomas vein, Nally-Gibson Quarry, Kentucky. Although some of the iron mines of...bodContinued on page 4 2 Mineral News July 1997 New Mineral Finds in the First Half of 1997 • News...(burning pyrite orebody in 1934) in Jerome, Yavapai County, AZ, thought to be native selenium which was established...pearly pale yellow-white molybdomenite. Both are new minerals for Arizona. The specimen is now preserved...Ontonagon County. MI, thought to be calumetite. The mineral forms a blue-green coating. A new mineral for | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Gait, Royal Ontario Museum; Dr. William Kelly, New York State Geological Survey; Dr. Robert King, National...Bioengineering, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244-1240. We previously reported unusual square...T H E THIRTEENTH L A K E QUADRANGLE, WARREN COUNTY, NEW Y O R K . V. H. Collins and J. S. Collins, R...R . D . 1, Old Trail Road, Johnstown, New York 12095. Serendibite is a rare triclinic borosilicate of...grandidierite from the Adirondack Mountains at Johnsburg, New York, U.S.A. International Mineralogical Association | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...and other nearby orebodies were discovered by the New Jersey Zinc Company when it was exploring for zinc...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | calcite, 8 cm, Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo....Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers...Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level. There are some noteworthy mineral...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden...fluorspar district lies between the intersection of the New Madrid and Rough Creek–Shawneetown fault zones and | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | VANDALL T. K I N G P.O. Box 90888 Rochester, New York 14609 NEW YORK £ J A N E T W. C A R E S 18 Singletary...map; adapted from U.S. Geological Survey map of New Hampshire and Vermont (1972). 324 ROCKS & MINERALS...minerals found in Ver mont slate. Figure 2. Slate quarry, Poultney; photo by Roger Bacon. The granite industry...small particles is widely distributed over northern New England in glacial gravels, and many swiftly moving...decorator tiles. The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi cant locality | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | nonmetallic minerals. Rarer species, such as strontianite or millerite, may be present as well. These...Green River and also Buck Creek, both in Lincoln County near Halls Gap, are traditionally good places to...Middle F o r k of Station Camp Creek in Estill County. More geode information will be found in another...the county o f origin, but similar specimens are known from the Bourbon Limestone Company quarry i n...n Bourbon County near Paris (now closed to collecting). T o my knowledge, the most 110 ROCKS AND MINERALS | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...Alleghany County. Howard Freeland specimen and photo. Rutherford pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch...Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed to collectors. However, landowners...currently closed to collecting Albemarle County Alberene soapstone quarry—Alberene amphiboie asbestos, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry—Esmont dolomite, limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite | | | Journal (issue) | world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed...currently closed to collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite, apatite...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry-Esmont dolomite. limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite...crystals, muscovite crystals, tourmaline AMHERST COUNTY Crystals of goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite; | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | M d . 2 0 9 0 1 Minerals Theme: Education Opens New Horizons This Chips and Bits column is gleaned,...Show. Vernon Wertz Welcome to the Imperial Polk County Gem and Mineral Society which meets the second...is a modern success come Mrs. Terry Monagle, the new edi story of real people who had a dream tor of...Beaches re printed that fine article by Mrs. Alice NEW JERSEY Member Fired Parker of the Morris Kraissl...Limetle Mound. Note: Clubs desiring to field crest quarry on its 1-day annual opening trip here should ascertain | | | Journal (issue) | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 What’s new in minerals Springfield Show 2005 . . . . . . . ...WELOGANITE crystal, 4 cm, on matrix, from the Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (See the article in...popular recreational pastime in Australia and many new nuggets were being found. Brian’s role in buying | | | Journal (volume) | MUSEUM volume 42 New Data on Minerals FOUNDED IN 1907 MOSCOW 2007 ISSN 5900395626 New Data on Minerals...Academy of Science This volume contains articles on new mineral species, among them – Faizievite, Guimarã...cobalt from the Norilsk ore field; the description of new finds of recently discovered minerals – Pertsevite...Megacyclite with the structure of the last one; new data on mineralogical assemblages with bituminous...vicechairman, Subcommittee for Unnamed Minerals, IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | has published articles every month 746 The Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club, Marietta, was host to G i...Gem City Rock and Mineral So ciety, Erie, heard new member, Roy Peters, tell of rock hunting in the Classis...eral Club, Harrisburg, went to the Cedar H i l l Quarry. It was so successful that a return trip has been...agate T h e Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless ROCKS A N D MINERALS Hills, heard member...former President of the Midwest Federation, is a new visitor to my desk. The Club's Be ginning Class | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Minerals Theme: Education Opens New Horizons PENNSYLVANIA The York Rock and Mineral Club opened the...trip season with a trip to the Bethlehem Steel Quarry near Han over for hematite, pyrite, calcite and...to the Faylor Quarry at Winfield for cal cite, strontian-calcite, eelestite, strontianite, aragonite,...an added bonus, some fossils may be found in the quarry. (Ed. note: Do not go to these quarries to hunt...quarries in Canada (iHilaire?), Vermont, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania 386 (Cedar Hill) and the Cowee | | | Report (edition) | “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy; right fibrous : tremolite, C. K. Williams quarry, Easton: bottom: calcite...oriented coatings of goethite, “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy, (courtesy of Delbert L. Oswald) ADDITIONAL...succeeding revisions and maintained an active file of new localities, minerals, and corrections which greatly...edition of Mineral Collecting Cedar Hill in quarry where Dave had done IV much of his work PREFACE...collecting than ever before, yes; but new minerals for the state and new localities are springing up almost | | | Journal (issue) | p4,, Over two million residents Arizona's Pinal County welcomes everyone as a V.I.P.!!! ?ieU S ~ , ae...Wells 112 The New Enterprise Quarry of Roaring Spring Edward G. Carper Jr. 11 S A New Pennsylvania Mineral...Kibblehouse Quarry F. A. Keidel 130 The "Cobaltite° Crystals from the K.Joblehouse Quarry J. Alexander...Native Copper and Piemontite Localities of Adams County Jay Lininger FEATURES THE EASTERN FEDERATION...5 miles west of Mt. Holly Springs in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Specimen collected by Martin Anne' | | | Journal (issue) | Societ y 1993. ISSN 0263 7839 FRONT COVER: Strontianite, Strontian mines, Highland Region, Scotland...Society celebrated the anniversary by establishing a new international award for outstanding services to mineralogy...Mines Ltd and the Allen shaft was refitted with new headgear in 1986 as part of an expansion programme...previously from the Botallack area, and krohnkite is also new to the British Isles . A summary of the 46 ANTLERITE...Botallackite was decribed by Church (1865b) as a new mineral from Botallack mine; the actual locality | | Mills, S. J., Kartashov, P. M., Kampf, A. R., Konev, A. A., Koneva, A. A., Raudsepp, M. (2012) CORDYLITE-(La), A NEW MINERAL SPECIES IN FENITE FROM THE BIRAYA Fe-REE DEPOSIT, IRKUTSK, RUSSIA. The Canadian Mineralogist, 50 (5) 1281-1290 doi:10.3749/canmin.50.5.1281 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | DOI : 10.3749/canmin.50.5.1281 CORDYLITE-(La), A NEW MINERAL SPECIES IN FENITE FROM THE BIRAYA Fe–REE...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA Aleksei A. KONEV*...Cordylite-(La), (Na,Ca)2Ba2(La3Sr)∑4(CO3)8F2, is a new mineral species (IMA2010–058) from the Biraya Fe–REE...pyrrhotite in carbonate veins composed of aragonite, strontianite, calcite, dolomite, and cordylite-(Ce). Cordylite-(La)...isostructural with cordylite-(Ce). We also discuss new heterovalent substitution mechanisms found in the | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 33556 Treasurer—Carl Krotki, 170 West End Ave., New York, N. Y . 10023 Assistant Treasurer—Jack Burrus...e m e : Building A F i r m NEW "Foundation" JERSEY T h e Bergen County Mineralogy and Paleontology...minerals i n the Irvington Public Schools T h e New Jersey Mineralogical Society, Cranford, was host...D M I N E R A L S Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless H i l l s , held a Copper Night, where...containing copper, or even copper jewelry. T h e Bucks County Library officially thanked the Club for the many | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | American Mineralogist, Volume 78, pages233-238, 1993 NEW MINERAL NAMES* JonN L. Jlrvrnon CANMET, 555 Booth...(Mg,Fe)rBrO,rCl, a new borate mineral from the Salt Springs potash deposit, Sussex, New Brunswick.Can. Mineral...deposits near Sussex,New Brunswick. The new name is for L. T. Trembath of the University of New Brunswick. Cotype...Mineral. Zhurnal, l3(l), 3l-40 (in Russian). The unnamed minerals are from a placer near the boundary between...partly replaced by other compounds, including the unnamed minerals. Ptr(As,S), Electronmicroprobe analysisgave | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | was made to find the first recordings of minerals new to Scotland since 1901. Many authors have been unaware...For the locality references we have retained the county names in use immediately prior to the 1973 regionalization...mineral, kasolite-like mineral, unnamed plumbogummite-group mineral, unnamed rare-earth mineral. 3 argentite...analytical . 11 GLOSSARY techniques, when much new data would doubtless have been gained. In many cases...last decade the collection has been rehoused in new cabinets and revised. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We acknowledge | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | shock-af942 fected rhodonite: A rePly Alazanite 161 new mineral (abstr) Albite authigenic, chenistry, 235...1069 as a function of , - ? - f o z Al loy 739 unnamed ( P d , P t , N i ) z ( S b , S n ) 738 unnarned...Multiple beam direct lattice inaging compounds of new nixed-layer of the bastnaesite-syn351 chisite series...garnets in the stockdale Kirnberlite Intrusion, Riley County, Kansas Anandite ordering Ancyl ite crystal structure...Astrophyllite nonoclinic Mg-: astrophyllite: (abstr) 737 new nineral (abstr) 736 hydroastrophyllite Atonic arrangenent' | | | Book | the Russian Academy of Sciences Please forward any new information to the author in care of the editor or...Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Commission on New Minerals and which was privately published in 1994...effective of the commissions, the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN), was initially...many corrections. Much work remains to be done as new synonyms appear and old references bring fonh others...the museum guards in Ber l i n , London, N e w York and Vienna, for not losing patience with me. Jeffrey | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Members "The Ryans" placed a mineral display in the New London Public Li brary. The Stamford Mineralogical...to encourage mem bers to follow rules of safety. NEW HAMPSHIRE There is no resume of the National Show...specially designed arm patch es. The Southeastern New Hamp shire Mineral Club, Rochester, began the fall...announced a series of field trips. The Lachaine Quarry, the McGlashan Mine, the Evans Lou Mine, Bear Lake...the Goff Jr. High School. Theme: Education Opens New Horizons (Written in September for October issue | | | | aegirine, lorenzenite, an unamed Ti-silicate, an unnamed Mg-Zr silicate, bazirite, rutile, dolomite and...varieties occurring in the Leucite Hills (Wyoming, USA) or West Kimberley (Australia); nor are they an extension...by BSE petrography include: rutile, monazite, strontianite, chromite, zircon and bazirite. Further data...and are the most abundant of the carbonates. Strontianite occurs rarely, intergrown with these carbonates...3, Mn-Fe-Sr-dolomite; 4 5, norsethite; 6 7, strontianite All analytical oxide data expressed as carbonate |
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