 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The History of Kunzite and the Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University] at 20:15 13 August 2013...inspecting the darkest color of a Pala Chief mine kunzite crystal. Note where original has had a purple tinge...tinge added to highlight and colorize the kunzite crystal. Mark Mauthner photo of original photo, ex-Kunz...(above left). This is the 16.6 × 10.6-cm spodumene (kunzite) crystal that George F. Kunz is seen holding in...(above center). Gouache painting of the spodumene (kunzite) crystal that is pictured in Kunz (1905) as plates |  | | Journal (issue) | | .......................................... 39 Nigeria.................................................. Israel; Tom Cushman, Madagascar; Linus Adie, Nigeria; Bill Larson, USA; Veronica Shkarina, Moscow, Russia;...Reportedly, Brazilian buyers, eager to obtain kunzite rough that their country no longer produces, found...treated (irradiated) to improve the color. Some kunzite buyers from Brazil also discovered that rough crystals...returning to the United A 2,304-gram specimen of Kunzite from Afghanistan. This specimen is part of the |  | | Journal (issue) | | 159. Emerald beryl, 6.7 cm, from the Jos Plateau, Plateau, Nigeria. Will Johnson collection, ex Gene Meieran;...East and Saki West areas, Atisbo, Oyo Province, Nigeria. Will Johnson collection; Tom Spann photo. 154...Emerald beryl, 4.7 cm, from the Jos Plateau, Plateau State, Nigeria. Will Johnson collection; Tom Spann...54, January–February, 2023 181 Figure 206. Kunzite spodumene, 23 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia...been among the world’s most prolific producers of kunzite specimens. Chosen as the feature specimen on the |  | | Journal (issue) | | mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China. Ex Steve Smale Kunzite spodumene, 11 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil...- - - - Emerald beryl, 2.6 cm, Jos Plateau, Plateau State, Nigeria. Jeff Scovil photo. Amethystine...LAVINSKY COLLECTION Emerald beryl, 6.7 cm, Jos, Nigeria (1991 pocket). Joe Budd photo. Tourmaline with...Scovil photo. Morganite beryl with quartz and kunzite spodumene, 42 cm, Darra-i-Pech, Nangarhar Province...January-February, 2009 MARK POSPISIL COLLECTION Kunzite spodumene, 30 cm, Urucum mine, Galileia, Minas |  | | Journal (issue) | | doubly terminated crystals from the Jos Plateau, Plateau State, Nigeria. Jeff Scovil photo. (variety heliodor)...to 1.5 cm), from the Kautenbach mine, Hunsrück Plateau, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Simone Citon photo...great passion for rninerals. SPODUMENE (variety kunzite) 22.5-cm crystal with quartz and green elbaite...Adalberto Giazotto photo. SPODUMENE (variety kunzite) with elbaite, quartz and lepidolite, 45 cm, from... LUIGINA & LUCIANO PELLEGRINI SPODUMENE (variety kunzite) 11 cm, from the C6rrego do Urucum mine, Galileia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | aquamarines and the world's finest purplish pink (kunzite color) morganites, most of which were mined in...quality have come from pegmatites on the Jos Plateau of Nigeria, possibly from cassiterite greisens. This |  | | Catalog/List | | com/5236 57053 Tourmaline Keffi, Nassarawa State, Nigeria Suffering from a bit of alluvial wear, this 4.7...2015 | 12:00 PM ET 63 57072 Fine Gemstone: Kunzite - 37.40 Ct. Anjanabonoina Pegmatites, Ambohimanambola...Vakinankaratra Region, Antananarivo Province, Madagascar Kunzite was first discovered in California, USA, in 1902...Tourmaline - 17.01 Ct. Keffi, Nasawara State, Central Nigeria Pink, with a faint violet cast, is the dominant...the area around Keffi, a town in the middle of Nigeria. The rough that furnished this eye clean gem was |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Alto- Ligonia, Mozambique Northern part of Jos plateau, Nigeria East African Nigerian-Saharan 711 Absolute...lepidolite are pink in color: pink quartz, spodumene-kunzite, pink muscovite, tourmaline-rubellite, berylvorobyevite |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1982, XVIII, 2 FLUORITE INCLUSIONS IN TOPAZ FROM NIGERIA By S. HORNYTZKYJ, F.G.A. While examining colourless...colourless water-worn pebbles of topaz from Nigeria (Figure 1) under the microscope, I observed small (41/^m...FIG. 1. Part of the examined topaz pebbles from Nigeria. ISSN: 0022-1252 XVIII (2) 131 (1982) 132 J...2. Cubic fluorite inclusions in a topaz from Nigeria. (190 x ) •I I1;:; ^ ) FIG. 3. Octahedral fluorite...fluorite inclusions in a topaz from Nigeria. (140 x ) J.Gemm., 1982, XVIII, 2 FIG, 4. 133 Cluster |  | | Journal (issue) | | New South Wales, ThailandKampuchea and the Jos Plateau, Nigeria. In these districts the sapphires have rounded...alkali basalt containing sapfphire from the Jos Plateau, Nigeria. The sapphires have rounded edges, possibly...supplying pictures of sapphires from Montana and Nigeria. We had useful discussions with Dr A. Wilson (Laboratory...discussed. M. O'D. CASSEDANNE, J. 1986. La kunzite au Bresil. (Kunzite in Brazil.) Revue de Gemmologie, 87,...5-8, 10 figs (8 in colour). Various sites for kunzite in Brazil are described and mapped. A list of known |  | | Journal (volume) | | Accessory Mineralogy of the Ririwai Biotite Granite, Nigeria, and its Albitized and Greisenized Facies: R. A...Magmatism, and Metamorphism in the Lower Benue Trough, Nigeria: J. Benkhelil ................... 467 A Model for...prccambriennes de la partie meridionale du Haut Plateau angol ais. Bull. Bur. Rech. geol. min. (2 serie...localities mentioned in the text: Uganda: Bj-Buhweju plateau: K a-Kamena Fe; Ki-Kirwa W ; Ke-Karenge G4 granite:...(quartzites, sandstones and phyllites) in the Buhwcju plateau (Ankole, Uganda). At Buhweju, the placers nearly |  | | Journal (issue) | | general characlerofigпeousrocksof theArmenian Plateau leads us to expecta greater wealth of these subvolcanic...Volk-ostrov (Wolf island); • schungite — Shun'ga. Кeivy plateau, Kola Peninsula:! almandine; ! amazonite; ! kyanite;...beryl; ixiolite; ! columbite — remarkable crystals; kunzite; ! lithiophilite; ! manganotantalite; ! natrobistantite;...and stan: rock crystal — crystals up to 40 cm; ! kunzite surrounding territories — crystals up to 45 x 20...1952 — dalyite; * 1961 — vlasovite tric. Jos plateau, Nigeria: aquamarine; ! emerald — crystals up to |  | | Book | | emplacement to the tin-bearing younger granites in Nigeria. Other igneous rocks studied included kimberlites...2 6 7 "\\A UPPER VOLTA Sa T 30 20 50 A NIGERIA gh 3 ETHIOPIA AFRICAN REPUBLIC ° ” OROGENIC...Rocks of similar antiquity occur in the Hoggar, Nigeria, Malagasy Republic and elsewhere, in belts affected... the Cameroons, the Central African Republic, Nigeria, the Hoggar and western Sierra Leone. Of these... STRUCTURAL FRAMEWORK OF AFRICA 7 through Nigeria, Dahomey, Mali and into the Hoggar (Fig. 1); and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Rocks & Minerals entitled “Opal from the Columbia Plateau.” He was President of the Columbian Geological...after quartz, 10 cm, from Kandesei, Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene region, Namibia. Jeff Scovil photo. Gold...(bottom right) Aquamarine, 10 cm, from the Jos Plateau, Nigeria. Jeff Scovil photo. (bottom left) Hambergite...(2) Tourmaline (Cr-rich), 4 cm, Merelani. (3) Kunzite, 8 cm, Nuristan. (4) Tanzanite, 11 cm, Merelani...spodumene crystal (1.75 cm) growing from a re-healed kunzite crystal (8.5 cm), from Afghanistan. Purchased in |  | | Catalog/List | | VERY LARGE, BRIGHT PINK SPODUMENE CRYSTAL (Var. KUNZITE) Konar Valley (Kunar Valley), Konar (Kunar; Konarh;...lilac colored variety of gem spodumene is known as kunzite, named after the famed mineralogist, George Kunz...Kunz who first discovered this exotic gemstone. Kunzite is formed occasionally in conjunction with gem...unusually large and well formed crystal of gem kunzite with an excellent knife shaped termination. It...Approx. 3:30 PM CT 35 48258 SPODUMENE: VARIETY KUNZITE Nilau-Kolum Pegmatite Field, Mawi, Laghman Province |  | | Book (edition) | | resinous.streak white. H = 5. D = 3.73. Np,m,g = Plateau, Zomba ...Gwinear.bothCornwall.EngJand,at Lavrion.Greece. Plateau,Sakha, Siberia, Russia, and in the Dara-i-Pioz...on Grossgreiner and Schwarzenstein Mt., the Jos Plateau.!\igeria. both overlookingZillertal Valley, Tirol...anatase occurs in the Druzhnoye deposit. Aidan Plateau. Sakha. Siberia. Russia. The most important anatase...Namibia, and in the Murrael-Elevyn Cave, Nullabar Plateau, Western Australia. AC, B 28, 2845-2852, 1972. |  | | Catalog/List | | com/5386 72066 Rubellite Sphere Stone Source: Nigeria This amazing Rubellite sphere has the most intense...x 10.42 x 8.50 cm) Starting Bid: $3,000 72269 Kunzite Nuristan Province Afghanistan This curved blade...blade of the lilac variety of Spodumene known as Kunzite looks a bit like a hand axe. The shape is very interesting...on the top edges. Overall, this is a very large Kunzite crystal. Overall Measurements: 10.24 x 4.69 x 0...Shattuckite with Malachite & Quartz Kaokoveld Plateau Kunene Region Namibia This large specimen is essentially |  | | Journal (volume) | | Contents EDITORIAL PAGE 1 ARTICLES The Chambe Plateau Ring Complex of Nyasaland. By K. V. Stringer, B...Somaliland . Bechuanaland Swaziland Federation of Nigeria Gold Coast . Sierra Leone Federation of Malaya...REVIEWS The Cretaceous Ammonoidea of Southern Nigeria and the Southern Cameroons. By R. A. Reyment, M...INDEX TO VOLUME 6 508 Illustrations The Chambe Plateau Ring Complex of Nyasaland Plate I Plate II Plate...Face of Ring -dyke B. Plateau Ring · facing p. Location Map of Chambe Plateau Area . Outline Map showing |  | | Report (issue) | | Sahatany Valley pegmatite district in Madagascar; Nigeria; Namibia; Nuristan Valley, Afghanistan and the...Czech Republic; Sanga Sanga, Tanzania and Abuja, Nigeria. Color: colorless, pink, green and brown, polychrome...heat-treated. Similar stones have recently been found in Nigeria (Zang et al. 2001). Causes of Color in Tourmaline...marine, heliodor, morganite, goshenite, spodumene, kunzite, spessartine, topaz, amblygo nite-montebrasite...liddicoatite, but now there are examples from Nigeria, Russia, Brazil, Mozambique, Tanzania, Czech Republic |  | | Journal (issue) | | and Vietnam), Africa (Tanzania, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, and Namibia, as well as Madagascar), South America...from southern Tanzania; spessartine garnet from Nigeria and Namibia; exceptional peridot from Pakistan;...Pakistan; and pink to red tourmalines from Nigeria and Brazil. Diamond was mined in northern Canada for the first...cutting and reexport). The African sources were Nigeria, Mozambique (figure 3), Zambia, and Madagascar...from Namibia declined at the end of the 1990s, Nigeria provided larger and cleaner spessartines to Figure |  | | Catalog/List | | 41070 KUNZITE Darra-i-Pech Pegmatite Field, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan This blocky Kunzite crystal...Lots 41096 PEACH TO GREEN BI-COLOR TOURMALINE Nigeria This bi-colored Tourmaline gem is a very clean...14 mm. Estimate: $2,800–$3,200 41097 LILAC KUNZITE Afghanistan This lilac, oval brilliant gemstone...fashioned from top grade Kunzite from the mountains of Afghanistan. Kunzite is the gemstone variety of...found only in a few localities in the world. This Kunzite is quite clean, with only one small veil inclusion |  | | Journal (issue) | | spectacular species. Check your specimens of elbaite, kunzite, and other pegmatite gem minerals, and chances...pegmatite gems like morganite, elbaite, beryl and kunzite. The material from the Stewart Lithia mine is particularly...mineralogist and collector George F. Kunz, of kunzite fame. Once the Mitchell-Hedges skull was shown...Tafawa Balewa Street , PO Box 13029 , Jos Plateau State , Nigeria. P.O. Box 740252, Houston Texas TX 77274-0252 |  | | Journal (volume) | | Mountains of Russia , in Mexico, Sri Lanka and Nigeria. There are colourless or pink crystals in rocks... Nova Scotia, Canada; in Poona, on the Deccan Plateau, India; in the Columbia FACT FILE CHABAZITE Group:...Chabazite crystals from Victoria, Australia. River plateau and Riverside County, California, USA; in Victoria... It is also found in Montebras in the central Plateau of France; the area of Eisenberg, Thuringia, in...have soft, delicate colours, like the pink of kunzite, or the pale blue of celestite. By contrast, oxides |  | | Journal (issue) | | _K_A_R_E_N_R_._H_R_U_B_Y_ __,!el•---◄141--------------Kunzite spodumene with albite, 8.4 cm, from the Hunza Valley...Scovil photo. Phenakite, 2.9 cm, from the Jos Plateau, Nigeria. JetT Scovil photo. Dioptase in calcite...chrysocolla and cuprite, 12.1 cm, from the Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region, Namibia. Jeff Scovil photo. Dioptase...Dioptase on calcite, 7.1 cm, from the Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region, Namibia. Jeff Scovil photo. Dioptase...Dioptase, 4. 7 cm, from the Kaokoveld Plateau, Kunene Region, Namibia. Jeff Scovil photo. Supplement |  | | Book (volume) | | the amphibolite facies of the Central Abukuma Plateau, Japan (Shido, 1958; Miyashiro, 1958), the (Mg...al. (1958) from the ring complexes of northern Nigeria, and in the rocks of this area the hedenbergite...R., 1958. younger granite province of northern Nigeria. No. 1. Jong, W. F. de, 1959. General crystallography...Gosaisyo—Takanuki district in the Central Abukuma Plateau. Journ. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo, vol 11 p. 219. Morimoto...and Iritono districts in the central Abukuma Plateau. vol. 11, p. 131. Journ. Fac. Sci. Univ. Tokyo |
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