| | Journal (issue) | Institute of Romania Prof. Dr. Gheorghe Damian, President of the Society of Economic Geology of Romania Editor...France Marian Munteanu, Geological Institute of Romania Essaid Bilal, Ecole des Mines, St. Etienne, France...Cuza” University, Iaşi, Romania Ioan Pintea, Geological Institute of Romania Grigore Buia, University...University of Petroşani, Romania Giorgios Christofides, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Floarea...University Cluj-Napoca, North University Center of Baia Mare, Romania Gheorghe Damian, Technical University Cluj-Napoca | | | Book | Udubaşa (1938, Ocnele Mari, Romania) Director of the Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest; President...President of the Mineralogical Society of Romania; Member of the Commission for New Minerals and Mineral Names...Associate Professor of Mineral ogy at University of Baia Mare (1997). He has published five books and about...about 100 articles - one-third outside of Romania. Rudolf Duda (1944, Vojany, Slovakia) Head of the Department...Hungary (Sándor Szakáll) Poland (Ewa Kos/.owska) Romania (Gheorghe Udubasa) Slovakia (Rudolf Duda) Ukraine | | | Catalog/List | directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...mined from Balmat, New York. • A world-class Manganite from Ilfeld in the Harz Mountains of Germany,... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume...000-$3,000 52006 MIMETITE Var. CAMPYLITE Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland) | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Arizona] at 22:28 17 December 2014 Figure 3. Manganite, 2.4 cm high, Ilfeld, Harz Mountains, Thuringia...Fluorite with stilbite, 11.9 cm high, Malmberget mine, Gallivare, Lappland, Sweden. Scott Werschky specimen...Maramures, Romania. Wendell Wilson specimen. Figure 5. Pyromorphite, 4 cm high, Les Farges mine, Ussel,...10. Quartz on hematite, 11.1 cm across, Florence mine, Egremont, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom. Steve...13. Fluorite and quartz, 11.3 cm across, Le Burg mine, Tarn, France. Scott Rudolph specimen. Figure 11 | | | Book | eum. Kosice. SLK; GIR = Geological Institute of Romania, Bucharest, ROM; GM= Gold Museum, Brad, ROM : GYV...Museum, Brno, CZE; MMBa = Mineralogical Museum, Baia Mare, ROM ; MMRo = Mining Museum . Rozi'iava, SLK;...data. Bogdan Marinescu (Geological lnstilllte of Romania): Necolai Terteleac (De. ign-Art-Foto. Bucharest):...Bucharest): Victor Gorduza (Mineralogy Mu eum. Baia Mare); and Grigore Verde§ (Gold Museum. Brad) - for photography...Gheorghe llinca. Mihai Tatu (Geological lnstillltc of Romania, Bucharest): Marian Lupule cu (Univcr. ity of Bucharc | | | Journal (issue) | stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...of ten pieces in this quality have been seen. Romania This past summer there has been an important find...calcite in complete "balls" from the Herja Mine near Baia Mare. Evidently a large vug, or series of vugs | | | Catalog/List | museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...Auction 2 53001 CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority...Caledonite and a dash of azure blue Linarite. The mine is now collapsed and only a memory for the lucky... 53002 CHALCOCITE Lucky Friday Pocket, Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin, USA This is one | | | Journal (issue) | row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...twin, 5.5 cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...2.2 cm, from the Pulsifer quarry, Androscoggin County, Maine. Kyle Kevorkian collection; Jordan Root...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | diameter and 14 cm in depth. Various bands of black manganite cut through the rosepink rhodonite thus providing...Wah Mountains, Beaver County, Utah; pink beryl (morganite) from San Diego County, California; Minas Gerais...green crystals and slices of elbaite from San Diego County, California; Newry, Maine; and Haddam Neck, Connecticut;...measures 14 x 8 x IVi cm and is from the Himalaya mine near Mesa Grande, Cali fornia. The second is from...internally and exter nally. From the X a n d a mine, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil, comes the | | | Book (volume) | Jankovié Albania by E. Pumo, V. Melo and B. Ostrosi Romania by V. Ianovici and M. Borcos Bulgaria by B. Bogdanov...includes Albania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia; and Southwest Europe embraces France...genesis : Pre-Hercynian mineralization . and and Romania by V. Ianovici and M. Borcos Introduction by W...non-metallic minerals . Country breakdown Hungary Romania Yugoslavia Albania . Bulgaria . Greece Cyprus ...rocks of the eastern Carpathian foreland (Palazul Mare). The latter are the equivalent of the deposits | | | Book | interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...breithauptite AgAuTe, Baia de Aries, Romania EUCAIRITE Cu,Se.AgsSe Sacdramb, Romania in ore veins metallic...sylvanite, calaverite, nat. tellurium Sacaramb, Romania finely granular to coarse-spathic in arsenic-silver...Cracow, Poland ROCK SALT NaCl (Halite) Dognecea, Romania Stassfurt, Gerinany CARNALLITE KMgCl; .6H,O Stassfurt...HYDROZINCITE Zn[(OH)3COs;]. (Zinc Bloom) San Giovanni Mine, Laorca, Sardinia eliminated from soda lakes, in | | | Book | Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on it. Typical aggregates...deposits were found in Klondike, Alaska; Tuolumne County, California, USA and in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia...(Colorado Quartz mine, Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from Rosia Montana, Romania. The best crystals | | | Book (edition) | red law, lamellar 32 Thoreaulite Ilmenite Manganite Ulvöspinel Jacobsite Reflection Colour & Ø... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...vein in jasper (red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey...argentite reaction rim (greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL | | | Book | Tetrahedrite Hessite Hauchecornite Galena Acanthite Manganite Hematite Skutterudite Zinckenite Stephanite Aragonite...Apophyllite Senarmontite Cassiterite Cassiterite Manganite Scheelite South Africa St Andreasberg, Harz,...FRG Clausthal, Harz, FRG Bates, Transylvania, Romania Grube Friedrich, Wissen, FRG Neudorf, Harz, GDR...Sea, Egypt Vllb Morawicza (Ocna defier), Banat, Romania Vllb San Benito Co., California, USA Vllb Altyn...particularly interesting collection of miners' lamps and mine surveying instruments. Ancient and mediaeval mining | | | Book | interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves...tellurium, calaverite SYLVANITE AgAuTc, Baia de Arie?, Romania sectile, malleable granular masses, crystals...selenium orcs EUCAIRITE Cu.Sc. Ag.Se SilcSramb, Romania very good brittle, malleable granular, compact...nat. tellurium KRENNERITE (Au,Ag)Tc. Sacdramb, Romania finely granular to coarse-spathic masses, compact...Cracow, Poland ROCK SALT NaCl (Halite) Dognccea, Romania cubic, octahedral crystals, coarse to fine-grained | | | Journal (issue) | Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange...traveled all the way from Philadelphia to Yuma County in order to gather more wulfenite and vanadinite...later when Edwin Over paid a visit to the Red Cloud mine and made one of history's most spectacular wulfenite | | | Journal (issue) | AGARDITE(Y) Collected in 1987 from Marke Valley mine, Cornwall. Identified by David Green and photographed...FLUORITE Collected about 15 years ago from Yew Tree mine in Weardale. A beautiful combination of the two...Eagle Crag mine. A site memorable for a 3 mile walk across the hills, entry into the mine through an...blue habit). ANATASE Swap from the Virtuous Lady mine, Coppicetown, Devon (brown bipyramidal habit}, ...jeanbandyite was in the news. AZURITE From Morency mine, Arizona, USA Purchased as a manky hand specimen | | | Journal (issue) | the St. Josefs mine, Verespatak, Romania (left) Associate Photographers: manganite from Ilfeld, Nelly...(top); and silver Eric Offermann from the Anton mine, Wieden, West Germany. Harold & Erica Van Pelt...Albertus IN SID E BACK COVER: Stibnite, 18 cm , from Romania. Single copies o f this issue are available, while...................3 2 T h e G old M useum Brad, Romania .................................................be known as “Central Europe”), Hungary, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. Most o f these museums have outstanding | | | Book | [(OH)5 (P04)4]' 6 H20 (monoclinic, brown) Rotlăufchen Mine near Wetzlar/FRG Original size 5 x 6 mm ISBN-13:...a deeper view of the crust in mines. The deepest mine shafts are those of the gold mines in the Witwatersrand...century. Its thatched 3 Native Gold on Quartz Grace Mine, Ontario/Canada Original size 19 x 30 mm Isometric...Rosia-Montană (Verespatak), Baia de Aries (Offenbanya), in Transylvania, Romania; and Cripple Creek, Colorado...the 23.6 carat Williamson Pink from the Williamson mine in Tanzania. Treatment of diamonds with neutrons | | | Book | Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica and Uchucchaqua, Peru. New finds...(Colorado Quartz mine. Nigger Hill and others). Fine leaf gold comes from Rosia Montana. Romania. The best crystals...110 mm (47.6 in) long were very rare in Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Colorado, USA. The largest known sheets...of crystallized gold occurred in the Jamestow n mine. California, USA, where a cavity, which yielded | | | Book (edition) | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO...Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co .. Utah. Also at Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald | | | Book | (Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...(Czech Republic), New Brunswick (Canada), Kern County (California, USA), Sardinia (Italy) and Sarawak...Tetrahedrite-tennannite is found in Botes and Kapnik (Romania), Boliden (Sweden), Pribram (Czech Republic), Tsumeb...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)...(England), Prlbram (Czech Republic), Bala Sprle (Romania) and Oruro and Potosi (Bolivia). W ZnS Colour: | | | Book | (Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...(Czech Republic), New Brunswick (Canada), Kern County (California, USA), Sardinia (Italy) and Sarawak...Tetrahedrite-tennannite is found in Botes and Kapnik (Romania), Boliden (Sweden), Pribram (Czech Republic), Tsumeb...stannite when zinc-rich. Stannite is found at Etna Mine (South Dakota, USA), Seward Peninsula (Alaska, USA)...(England), Prlbram (Czech Republic), Bala Sprle (Romania) and Oruro and Potosi (Bolivia). W ZnS Colour: | | | Book | times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...crystals show platy to lumpy distortions. Verespatak, Romania. Center Arborescent native copper, Keeweenaw, Michigan...Colorado, also from Red Mountain Pass, San Juan Co. ROMANIA - complexly crystallized fern-like growths on drusy...from Verespatak, Bihar Mountains and elsewhere in Romania and the Carpathian Mountains. USSR- much alluvial...largest diamond ever found was the Cullinan (Premier mine, 1905), of 3,106 et., or 621.2 grams; from it were | | | Journal (issue) | San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with his son Phillip is actively exploring the mine for minerals...minerals. The San Pedro Mine is perhaps best known for producing beautiful specimens of finely crystalline...Phillip have also developed a surface exposure at the mine to produce some very nice, single, sceptered quartz...ci rc ulatio n for some years. Sulfides are real mine rals and I still regret no t buy ing a good specimen...came from the Ortiz Mine (Cunningham Gulch) around 19845. The Ortiz mountains and mine are just a few miles |
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