 | | Journal (issue) | | D from the Latin word marmor (a shining stone), marble may be said to cover a considerable n u m b e r...marbles are typically rocks. W h a t is marble ? T o the geologist marble is usually defined as a crystalline...stonemasons— or shall it be said the commercial view—marble is widely interpreted and may be said to include...form of gypsum known as alabaster is thought of as marble. For the purpose of this study the subject of marbles...some other types of rocks, so like marble and therefore termed marble in commercial parlance, also demand |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of green fuchsite in limestone have been found in the marble quarries of the Georgia Marble Co. at Tate...), Ky., I did some collecting in the limestone quarries on the reservation. I found white cubical calcite...farm. I have been told that it is composed of fuchsite and pink corundum. I have also been told that...beautiful one consisting of lustrous bright green fuchsite and pinkish xline corundum, but is not fluorescent |  | | Journal (issue) | | PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FEDERICO PEZZOTTA CURATOR OF MINERALOGY...JANUARY-FEBRUARY, 2011 PRIVATE MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN ITALY Participating Collectors: Marco Amabili Silvia...Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto collection Jeff Scovil photo... MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY )In OutCine of MINERAL COLLECTING IN ITALY Federico Pezzotta Mineralogy...literature and music, scholars and aristocrats in Italy assembled some of the first great collections of |  | | Journal (issue) | | is another locality for precious opal in this province on the south shore of Cheslatta Lake in central...at the Information Centre Crystal Green Marble Green fuchsite and white carbonate Precambrian age (about...hammered and polished blue-grey dolostone (Adair Marble). Hornblende gabbro slabs (Positano Granite or...slabs of green and white carbonate (Crystal Green Marble) from Kirkland Lake. Present for the ribbon cutting...million years old) Silurian Period Deforest Brothers Quarries Ltd., Caledon Township Positano Granite Gneissic |  | | Report (edition) | | aragonite, cordierite, black jade, mookaite, fuchsite, jasper, and Munjina and Print stones, together................. 15 Halls Creek Orogen — Lamboo Province.................................................................... 15 East Kimberley diamond province ................................................................... 20 East Kimberley diamond province .................................................................. 20 North Kimberley diamond province ............................................. |  | | Report (volume) | | geologists............................................. Marble in general............................................................. Limestone and marble................................................. Page. 9...9 10 11 11 Definitions of marble.................................................. Chemical composition...Origin of limestone and marble.......................................... Calcite marble......................Dolomite marble....................................................... Relation of calcite marble to dolomite |  | | Report (issue) | | mapped the Namanga-Bissel area. The Kenya Marble Quarries Co. Ltd. have for over 40 years worked the...near Turoka for agricultural lime and statuary marble, and a concise but complete account is given of...of the Kajiado area 10 —Plan of the Kenya Marble Quarries . . 11 —Plan of the diatomite deposit, near...miles in the Kajiado District of the Southern Province, bounded by latitudes 1° 30' and 2° 00' S. and...structures of the area. The workings of the Kenya Marble Quarries Co. Ltd. are described and other economic prospects |  | Kissin, Aleksander, Gottman, Irina, Sustavov, Sergei, Murzin, Valery, Kiseleva, Daria (2020) The First Find of Cr2O3 Eskolaite Associated with Marble-Hosted Ruby in the Southern Urals and the Problem of Al and Cr Sources. Minerals, 10 (2) 101 doi:10.3390/min10020101 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The First Find of Cr2O3 Eskolaite Associated with Marble-Hosted Ruby in the Southern Urals and the Problem...results of the study of eskolaite associated with marble-hosted ruby found for the first time in the Kuchinskoe...identification of the eskolaite associated with the marble-hosted rubies from the Kuchinskoe occurrence is...synchronously with them. Keywords: gems; ruby; marble; eskolaite; Southern Urals 1. Introduction The...10, 101 2 of 11 in ruby-bearing marble, such as muscovite (fuchsite), phlogopite, margarite, pargasite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | referred to as "the Pittsburgh of the East." Some quarries of historic note have been omitted because they...w h i c h came the marble for the Connecticut State Capitol; the sandstone quarries of Portland, w h i... stone Point, Waterford, and resulted i n two quarries. A t one time, the granite was used for the construction...Navy as an underwater sound laboratory, and both quarries now house the Millstone Point Nuclear Power Plants...metal mining in Connecti cut. Now, trap rock, marble/limestone, sand and gravel, gran ite, and crushed |  | | Journal (issue) | | s11ries, as they are ne eded. Oniiie MlnerelTraii: Italy MALTA THE $TORY OFTHE EARTH Minerals Ill Medlclne...p&pl pe, u ay. ---------� MINERALS Chlorites, Fuchsite, Tantalite GROUNOWORK On the Mineral Trail: ...adular/11 (moonstone) on black henu,rite (Isla ofElba, Italy). Leff; Yellow orthoclas• has tire same chemical...moonstona-prodllcing countries are Brazi l, India, Italy, Madagascar, Mexico, Myann1ar (Burmal, Switzer land...hallway up the volcanic .\fouor Vesuvius near Naples (Italy), Although it has sobsequentl)' beeu found i11 other |  | | Report (edition) | | ................... 21 East Kimberley Diamond Province.................................................................... 24 East Kimberley Diamond Province................................................................... 24 North Kimberley Diamond Province ................................................................... 26 West Kimberley Diamond Province.......................................................................... 31 Wandagee Diamond Province ............................................. |  | | Report (issue) | | seen and studied in outcrops, quarries or rock-dumps within the province. Although a few metallic minerals.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 13. Fuchsite from old workings near Lamprey Falls 22 14....minerals to study in the Precambrian regions of the province. Good places to look for specimens would be granitic...the Red River Formation, as at the Tyndall-stone quarries of the Garson district (Selkirk Member). This...Member; a decorative "marble" was quarried there many years ago by Winnipeg Marble Quarries Limited. This old |  | | Journal (issue) | | Earth. They are the main substance in limestone and marble, and they have a wide range of uses, from building...crystals set in an asbestos base from Sondrio in Italy. Actinolite has high mechanical sensitivity - this...(matrix) from Balzano, Italy. Below: Note the blackness of these crystals from Novara, Italy. ~ Actinolite forms...British Columbia (Canada), in the Alpine regions of Italy, in New Zealand, in Siberia (Russia) and in Alaska...occurring in Switzerland, Austria and northern Italy. Albite is a mineral that is common and widespread |  | | Journal (volume) | | often seep into cracks in crystal rocks such as marble, so that veins of minerals are formed . ◄ A pyrite... Eight-sided crystals from the Traversella mine, Piedmont, Italy. .&. crystals. It can also be found in kidney...rose quartz can also be found in parts of Germany, Italy, Ireland and Scotland. History Many ancient examples...carbonate is the main substance in limestone and marble, which have a wide range of uses, from building...native gold panned from the River Orba in Piedmont !Italy>. Bismuth After mercury, bismuth is the poorest |  | | Conference Proceedings | | Oslo, Norway (1957), Paris, France (1958), Milano, Italy (1960), Helsinki, Finland (1962), Vienna, Austria...(1985); Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1987), Tremezzo, Italy (1989); Stellenboch (1991), Paris, France (1993);... Germany, Greenland, Hong-Kong, Israel, India, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Liechtenstein, Lithuania,... Pough (U.S. A) and Dr. J. M. Saul (Kenya). In Italy, the IGC logo was designed by Roberto Sambonet,...delegates during the Tremezzo 1989 edition. In Italy, in 1989, the following rules were agreed for future |  | | Report (issue) | | in a pegmatite on the island of Elba in Tuscany, Italy, elbaite forms pris matic to acicular crystals...field on the southwestern margin of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield. Color: pale pink to colorless;...(OH) 3 (F) Named for the type location in the Uva Province, Sri Lanka, uvite crystals may be prismatic to...phlogopite or meionite and is known from the Uva Province in Sri Lanka; Franklin, New Jersey; Gouverneur...case with ferri dravites from India, Madagascar, Italy and probably other countries as well. German dealer |  | | Book (volume) | | ..... 289 Figure 62. Scene near the peridot quarries, San Carlos Reservation, AZ...........ssseseee...333 Figure 72. Map ot aboripinal Flint Ridge quarries, OH aia ikcename Metal cies 339 Figure 73. ...Ontario’s Grenville province. Min. Rec. 13, 2, p. 71-86. APATITE areas, Province types of crystals...argillite, much used by Inuit carvers of the province, consists of a metamorphosed, laminated sedimentary...although the matrix consisted of fine-granular marble which took only a glossy finish rather than a glassy |  | | Report (issue) | | The State Geologist gives some statement of the quarries now operated in Vermont. PHYSIOGRAPHY OF VERMONT...Where there has been metamorphism on the west, marble, often in great variety of color and texture is...Bay and Swanton are quarries from which the stone known in trade as "Champlain Marble," a very attractive...green, gray, olive, etc., not seldom seen in the marble floors of public buildings is taken. As this stone...and in them are situated all the many granite quarries in the State. In the other elevations there is |  | | Book | | crystals to 2.5 cm have been found with spine! in marble less than 1 mile southwest of Amity (Chamberlain...2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...Alberene and Old Dominion quarries, Albemarle County. In these two soapstone quarries, tabular ilmenite crystals...Administered Tribal Areas and North West Frontier Province. Ilmenite crystal clusters to 12 cm across have...Mountain, Warsak district, North West Frontier Province. Surface diggings worked by local people on Zagi |  | | Report (edition) | | minerals have been exploited by means of open-pit quarries (Figure 5) and, less commonly, underground workings...minerals often litter the roads leading to the quarries, and help point the way to collecting sites. Quartz...to be concentrated in layers in the schist. Marble quarries are abundant in the Rockland-Thomaston, Rockport...), but most are now closed. One can locate the quarries by inquiring locally, and they are shown on maps...the mineral collecting potential of these marble quarries, but they have provided some good specimens |  | | Book (volume) | | Eastern Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout...Blue Springs): all regional gravel pits and quarriesCalcite, Quartz crystals; SE 3 mi., quarry on...petrified wood. STEELE CITY, area gravel pits, quarries, and stream gravelsagate, chalcedony, jasper...Silver. LYON COUNTY DAYTON: S 10 mi., old camp of Como (Palmyra, Indian Springs) Gold, Silver; NE 17...Lead and Silver minerals; NW 20 mi., old camp of Marble, area minesGold, Lead and Silver minerals; NE |  | | Book (volume) | | towns, counties, and districts in each state and province arranged alphabetically; with an appendix, containing...concern specimens from Mount Apatite. There are many quarries on this hill but most collectors, unaware of this...formed on twigs in standing water in Thomaston marble quarries do not qualify as minerals under this definition...simplicity, in this section, open pits are called quarries if more than half of their workings are above...small surface exposure. Ambiguous sites are called quarries if they are pegmatites and mines if they were |  | | Report (issue) | | Stonewall quarries Lillie's Farm quarry Interlakes area occurrences Oak Point quarry Lundar quarries Lily...Lily Bay quarries Rosehill quarry The Narrows quarry ix 248 248 249 249 252 255 255 256 256 256 257 260...Gypsumville quarries Cedar Lake occurrence Amaranth gypsum mines Harcus Mine Winnipegosis quarries Mafeking...Mafeking quarries Highway 10 road-cut Souris gravel pit Silver Plains Mine Morden selenite occurrence Miama-Thomhill...Stonewall-Stony Mountain quarries Lundar, Lily Bay quarries Rosehill, The Narrows quarries Steep Rock area Gypsumville |  | | Book (volume) | | City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine...marine fossils. WILL COUNTY LEMONT, area quarries⎯glistening Quartz replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional...Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. Regional limestone quarries produce some gemmy Apatite, Calcite, Glauconite...Siderite can also be found in regional limestone quarries. ALLEN COUNTY FORT WAYNE: c area farms, as glacial |  | | Book (volume) | | City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine...marine fossils. WILL COUNTY LEMONT, area quarries⎯glistening Quartz replacement fossils. WILMINGTON, regional...Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. Regional limestone quarries produce some gemmy Apatite, Calcite, Glauconite...Siderite can also be found in regional limestone quarries. ALLEN COUNTY FORT WAYNE: c area farms, as glacial |
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