 | | Journal (issue) | | 3 FEATURE ARTICLES Gem Pegmatites of Minas Gerais, Brazil: The Tourmalines of the Araquai Districts...tourlnaline thon anywhere else in the world-Minos Gerais, Brazil; the other with (I new locality for red tourmaline-Zcrmbia...bicolored tounnaline (12.90 ct), all from the Himalaya mine (California). Thestones were faceted by PalaInteri~ntional...thousand miles south, to the "Gem Pegmatites of Minas Gerais." THe first in a series (which Cdntinues in...his extensive travels in the mining regions of Brazil. Mr. Proctor received an M.S. in molecular biology |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | curators share their tales of obtaining specimens in Brazil. *7CLh Downloaded by ["Queen's University Libraries...this field was Allan Caplan, who first went to Brazil by boat in 1938. His experiences there and the... Jack Lowell. 50 ROCKB 6 MINERALS arrived in Brazil for a two-month buying hip based in Governador...some fine new specimens at the Xanda mine, near the town of Virgem da Lapa (Virgin of the Cave), north of...mostly doubly terminated hydroxylherderites on schorl with associated zinnwaldite, a greenish mica. Although |  | | Journal (issue) | | York circulation manager Articles The Boltsbum mine, Weardale, County Duiham, England ................by R. J. King Famous mineral localities: The Virgem da Lapa Pegmatities ................................. Bariand Arsenate minerals of the Sterling Hill mine: an overview .....................................crystal, 7 cm tall, from the Virgem da Lapa district, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Sorbonne collec tion, photo...The Mineralogical Record Jan uary-February, 1982 mine Weardale, CpuntyJ)urham, England t h e B o l |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in tin-tungsten deposits (such as the Panasquiera mine) and is a constituent of granite, aplite, gneiss...muscovite with quartz, 6.8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona...locality is the Palermo No. 1 mine, near North Groton, Grafton County. This mine is known for its cornucopia...a few. Also in Grafton County is the Keyes mica mine, near the town of Orange, the premier muscovite...Connecticut. Muscovite from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Brewster, Putnam County, New York, is associated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 407-carat teardrop; both stones are from Minas Gerais, Brazil. A n other featured strength of the gemstone...5-cm-thick sea-green crystal of aquamarine from Minas Gerais, Bra zil, catches the eye as does an emerald...California; Minas Gerais, Brazil; and Kunar, Afghanistan; as well as yellow beryl (heliodor) from Minas Gerais...Gerais, Brazil, help to fill out the suite. Featured in the same case are the minerals of the tour maline...crystals of blue and green el baite from Minas Gerais, Brazil, attest to the reputation of this prolific |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Laboratory, Carlsbad, California BRAZIL IMPRESSIONS: I have only been to Brazil twice, but 1 did see a lot...most expensive real estate. While on a tour in Brazil in the early 198Os, our bus was stopped by the...begging everyone’s forgiveness. My second trip to Brazil was in 1987 as a member of the International Gemological...Conference group. I had a wonderful time on both trips. Brazil is a beautiful country, one full of contrasts....Fallbrook, California FIRST TRIP TO BRAZIL: I have a number of memories of Brazil, but perhaps the most vivid |  | | Journal (issue) | | FLUORffE Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife...(upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection; Joe Budd...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe...Daoping mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China. Ex Steve Smale Kunzite spodumene, 11 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais...Gerais, Brazil. Ex Steve SmaJe collection. Joe Budd photo. Tanzanite zoisite, 6 cm, Merelani Hills, Arusha |  | | Book | | MINERALS & PRECIOUS STONES OF BRAZIL Sponsored by: VALE MINISTER.IO DA CULTURA © 2009 - CARLOS CORNEJO...Lavra do Sapo, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais. Collection of Alvaro Lucio. Photograph taken...photographs: "Parafba" tourmaline (25 x 6 mm), Sao Jose da Batalha, Parafba. Courtesy of Bruno and Rolando Gioia...Brasileira do Livro, SP, Brazil) Cornejo, Carlos .Minerals & precious stones of Brazil. Carlos Cornejo, Andrea...3. Minerals - Brazil 4. Minerals- Classification 5. Mineralogy 6. Mineralogy - Brazil - History 7. Precious |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jan/Feb 2024 Vol.99, No.1 ROCKS MINE ."Iii[! iil"J www.tandfonline.com/vram Pegmatite Minerals & Gems...Pegmatites, Limoeiro Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara~uaf Pegmatite District, . Minas Gerais, Brazil, Michael A. Menzies...Specimen: Elbaite from the Cruzeiro Pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil: At the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles... 72.5 cm, Limoeiro mine, Virgem da Lapa, Ara<;uar district, Minas Gerais, Brazil; private collection...Heliodor, 5.5 x 14.2 cm, Minas Gerais, Brazil; B: Topaz, 8 x 10.5 cm, Minas Gerais, Brazil; C: Aquamarine, 6 |  | | Book | | 1982 Jules Roger Sauer ” Foreword For years Brazil has been the major producer of colored stones in...metamorphic rocks, the variety of gem deposits in Brazil is almost infinite. In addition to the mineral...assemblage one might expect from pegmatite dikes, Brazil also produces a very significant output of diamonds...written in English, and beautifully illustrated. “Brazil, Paradise of Gemstones’, by Jules Roger Sauer,...the Cruzeiro tourmaline and mica mine and the Jacobina amethyst mine. He owns several other mines as well |  | | Journal (issue) | | Tourmaline Queen mine, San Diego County, California. BACK COVER: Copper, 13.5 cm, from the Ray Mine, Pinal County...a superb crystal of kunzite from The White Queen mine in California lends important provenance to the...from the White Queen mine, California (plate 8) The Cerussite from the Kombat mine, Namibia (plate 19)...Tourmaline Queen mine, California (plate 31) "The Dragon" Gold from the Colorado Quartz mine, California (plate...the Tsumeb mine, Namibia (plate 51) The "Alma Queen" Rhodochrosite frorn the Sweet Horne mine, Colorado |  | | Book | | tetrahedrite crystals; from the Home Sweet Home mine near Alma, Colorado. Found in 1965, it is considered...variety known as k1111zire; from the Pala Chief mine, San Diego County, California. Found shortly after...the finest pieces ever recovered from the Tsumeb mine in Namibia; the \\"orldwide tourmaline collection...specimens of azurite from a major find at the Tsumeb mine in Namibia, Desautels and Sams bought the entire...conceivable combi nation, all f rom the famous Elmwood mine at Carthage, Tennessee. Tucked away in the crevices |  | | Journal (issue) | | their dry, written lists (“Wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona, 1-inch, 500; 2-inch, $2; 2 inch, $3.50”...Aesthetics Underground - Canada Alvaro Lucio M inerals - Brazil Ana Arruda - Azores Arizona M inerals Artifactual...Artifactual Im port Ausrox - Australia Barbosa, Carlos - Brazil Barcelona - US Im porters - Spain Ben David, Claude...Megaw, Peter M inerals Menezes, Luiz M inerals - Brazil M ercer M inerals M idwest M inerals M ikon M ineralien...ineralien Kontor - Germany Min - Geo - Czech Republic Minas Victoria - Spain M iner-W a - Poland Mineral Cabinet |  | | Report (issue) | | Cover: Topaz, 3.5 cm tall Capao Mine, Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil Max and Jon Sigerman collection...Occurrence MIKE MENZIES 22. Topaz from Utah's Maynard Mine RYAN BOWLING 26. Volodarsk-Volynski PETER LYCKBERG... 58. Zimbabwe Blue Topaz: St. Anne's Mine JAN KANIS 60. Brazil: The Land of Topaz DIETMAR SCHWARZ 68...locality in Brazil (Sinkankas, 1981). Two gemmy crystals from the Te6filo Ot6ni region in Minas Gerais, Brazil...three huge specimens from Te6filo Ot6ni, Minas Gerais, Brazil, that are housed at the Smithsonian Institution |  | | Book | | Green’s Farm, otherwise known as the Roxbury Garnet Mine, which is on the border between Roxbury and Southbury...and is typical of what could still be found in the mine. To me, its label “makes” this specimen. I am very...this plethora of vibrant crystals. Miss Sterling, a mine owner, called in a state geologist, and it was soon...that more specimens will be recovered here, as the mine is now a part of Fort Drum. The Sterlingbush find...Diamonds Mine” in Middleville, Herkimer County. Most of the quartz crystals from this mine are colorless |  | | Journal (issue) | | Schumacher Graphite (35 x 32 cm) of the Alibert Mine, Botogol Mt. in Siberia, rough materiaL two pencils...Haidinger in 1859 1842 in the Tsarevo-Alexandrovskaya mine near Tashkurganka River, Miass, Urals. The original...minerals by ROSE, perovskite from the A:hmatowsk mine, Slatoust, Ural Mountains (1839), and the silver... Fluorite, 17 cm - Dalnegorsk Brookite, 8 cm - Dodo Mine ■ Photos and specimens: Boris z. Kantor, except...druzas of giant gypsum in the Cave of Crystals, Naica Mine, Mexico, that reach 15 meters in height (Photo 6) |  | | Journal (issue) | | Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...time collection,” he said, “collected by a former mine superintendent over a period of many years. Nearly |  | | Report (issue) | | for scale next to a giant beryl crystal at Senhora da Assun9iio in Portugal uncommonly seen in beryl and...crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced crystals up to 2 meters...long by 1.5 meters wide have been found at Senhora da Assun�io, Portugal. Pegmatites at Mahajamba, Madagascar...from some pegmatites. This specimen, from Minas Gerais, Brazil, is housed in the Deutsches Edelstein Museum...crystals are found in soils and stream gravels in Brazil. On the other hand, at high temperatures and pressures |  | | Journal (issue) | | epidote deposits of the Capelinha Region, Minas Gerais, Brazil ......................................315...epidote on matrix, 4.4 cm, from Capelinha, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gail and Jim Spann collection; Tom Spann...w w w. FineMineral.com Tourmaline Cruzeiro Mine, Brazil. 19.5 cm Fine Minerals International proudly...greenmountainminerals.com BA R I T E 12 X 8” Parkside Mine, Frizington Copeland, Cumbria, England, UK Photo...EPIDOTE DEPOSITS OF THE CAPELINHA REGION, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL Andrea Bartorelli1 Carlos Cornejo2 Mario |  | | Journal (issue) | | and Smelting Company of British Columbia, and the Mine and Exploration Division of the Canadian Forestry...“The Mineralogy and Geology of the Silence Lake Mine” was published in Lapis (May 1985), and he was a...Colorado he worked as a miner at the Climax molybdenum mine. Benjy married Elizabeth Ann Spangler, and they...volume 51, September–October, 2020 famous Franklin mine. Russell and Alexandra were married soon after meeting...com | w w w. FineMineral.com Colorado Quartz Mine, California, USA 6 cm Rudolph Now accepting |  | | Journal (issue) | | Unusual Crystallization or... Mineral Pathology? //Mine mlogicheskii zhurnal. 1989.1.11, N 2. p.96-98. 10...during the warm season. Only a watchman stays at the mine through the winter. Last year, the teamleader Vasilii...Cavities of topaz pegmatites contain well developed schorl crystals of small size not exceeding 4 x 2 x 2...color tourmaline crystals: schorl, rubellite and polychromatic tourmalines. Schorl, black tourmaline, is encountered...and in its vugs the schorl crystals served as seeds for colored tourmalines. Schorl overgrowth on rubellite |  | | Book | | until he managed to reach the land of his dreams, Brazil. A specialist in the field of geology and mineralogy...crystals and the remarkable mineral treasures of Brazil, as well as the incredible adventures and difficulties...UNIQUE MINERALS IN WORLD MUSEUMS GEM TREASURES OF BRAZIL Cyan Magenta Yellow Black 1 Delev Ilia Deleff...UNIQUE MINERALS IN WORLD MUSEUMS GEM TREASURES OF BRAZIL SOFIA–MOSCOW 2004 3 Cyan Magenta Yellow Black...NATIONAL MUSEUM IN SOFIA 66 OTHER COLLECTIONS OF MINE IN BULGARIA 71 COLLECTIONS IN OTHER CITIES AROUND |  | | Journal (issue) | | and Anthony R. Kampf Gem Pegmatites of Minas Gerais, Brazil: Exploration, Occurrence, and Aquamarine...the northeastern section of the state of Minas Gemis, Brazil. The history of gem exploration and m i n...from the Pioneer mine in the Te6filo Otoni-Marambaia pegmatite district of Minas Gerais. As is common with...gem pegmatite regions of the 20th century: Minas Gerais, Brazil. With these articles, we hope to take you...what pegmatite gems have meant historically in Brazil and the production of one very important pegmatite |  | | Journal (issue) | | and describes the wide range of methods used to mine th e corundum . Gemologically, the Th ai rubies...and Rubies of Siam, Ltd., obtained the rights to mine in what was then Siam. This company was an extension...limited to Thai nationals. Today, about 2,000 people mine in the Khao Ploi Waen-Bang Kha Cha area, and at...: .. . 6?' ,...-/- International boundary Road Mine River Figure 2. Geologi sketchmap of th Chanthaburi-Trat...Chanthaburi-Trat area. MINING METHODS The methods used to mine ruby and sapphire in the Chanthaburi area reflect |  | | Journal (issue) | | name on a label when additional details (such as mine, district or county) are easily obtained. Unlike...Gen. Walter Cunningham, the U.S. mineral agent, to mine the section of land on which the boulder rested...Its structure is based on superimposed Si60 18 Brazil and South Africa, Aquamarine comes mainly from...large diameter open channels parallel Brazil; heliodor from Brazil and the USSR; morganite to the C-axis...accomodate water mole from Madagascar, Calif, and Brazil; and red beryl from cules, and atoms of Cs and |
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