 | | Book | | Twyfelfontein 7 AiAiba / farm Anibib 136 8 Grosse Spitzkoppe, Erongo 9 , .,/, loringa tree ...station Garub near Aus Nature conservation, Erongo 16 Welwitschia, Goboboseb Mountains 17 ....Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand Escarpment The Spitzkoppen The Erongo Mountains...s Onganja Mine and Surrounding Copper Deposits The South The Pegmatitesin Central Namibia Luderitz and... Encyclopedia of the Mineralsof Namibia 443 Meteorites in Namibia Bibliography Index Photo credits |  | | Report (issue) | | Wet Shaft, Tsumeb mine (photograph by Dr Gabi Schneider, Geological Survey of Namibia) MINISTRY OF MINES...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NAMIBIA Director: B.G. Ho al BULLETIN 1 Type mineralogy of Namibia by Vaughan C. Daltry...the Geological Survey P.O. Box 2168, Windhoek, Namibia Price Local (+GST) Abroad (Post Free) R20.00 R25... ______ ........ Abstract The type mineralogy of Namibia is reviewed. One hundred and thirty-nine (139)...Twenty-three (23) unnamed phases are also listed. Namibia ranks second to Zaire as the most productive African |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Frederick A. Canfield 4 4 Minerals from the Erongo Mountain, Namibia by Georg Gebhard 6 3 We warmly welcome...t i o n s on carrollite from the Kamoya South II mine, Democratic Republic of Congo byR. L. Mown 2:00...kulanite and phosphophyllite from the Palermo #1 mine, North Groton, New Hampshire bill. W Nizamoff R...Carrollite crystals f r o m the Kamoya South I I Mine, Katanga, DRC, have pronounced facial striations...FROM T H E TIDEWATER QUARRY, GLEN ALLEN, VIRGINIA. Erich Grundel. 2000 S. 2nd St. Apt. 8, Arlington, VA 22204 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GecoMine, ManitouwadgeDistrict, Ontario, Canada ERICH U. PETERSEN Departmentof Geologyand Geophysics...formationof the oresaccounts for thepresence of cassiterite ratherthanstanniteor the simpletin sulfides in...Gecovolcanogenic massive sulfidedeposit.The Geco mine is well suitedfor a studyof massivesulfide-related...reported that cassiteriteis associatedwith 323 324 ERICH U. PETERSEN gahniteand cordierite in the wall rocks...nigeriteand/orh/Sgbomite occurwith gahniteandcordieriteandthat cassiterite is presentin all 45 polished thin sectionsand |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Harder Farm, Hammond, St. Lawrence County, NY. M. Lupulescu. 3:45 H i s t o r y of the Powers farm streamside...n e r a l s of the phosphate vein, Bower Powers farm, Pierrepont, St. Lawrence Co., NY. S. C. Chamberlain...zone assemblage from the Allah Cooper/Valcooper mine, Louisa County, Virginia. L. E. Kearns & M. D. Dunn...collecting. With a vast array of abandoned underground mine openings available, searching for specimens became...fit in? The mine openings were short lived. The State was slowing capping all known open mine shafts and |  | | Journal (issue) | | ...............363 by C. J. Stefano The Nakhlak Mine, Anarak District, Esfahan Province, Iran..........species hauckite (type locality: the Sterling Hill mine) was named in his honor in 1980, in recognition...Robert (left) and Richard Hauck in the Sterling mine (2008). J.R. Glover photo. American Mineral Heritage...brothers, goes back to the closing of the famous mine in 1986, and the resulting auction of the property...Hauck brothers sold their family farm and purchased the Sterling Hill mine and its various above-ground facilities |  | | Journal (issue) | | eral regions, numerous maps of min ing regions and mine workings and photo plates of mining camps and mines...The Mineral and Mining History of the Torrington Region of New South Wales. Australia by Eric L. Stevens...PORTRAIT GALLERY Harvey W. Wiley, 1844-1930 by Erich Grundel 38 MATRIX BOOK CRITIQUE The Pennsylvania...person ing historical papers, and supplemented with mine tours, ally. it has been both a gratifying and anguishing...the Mining History Association specimens of cassiterite or ferberite, labeled "Torrington, Aus (MHA) |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Eye Candy Clockwise from top left: Silver, ZCA #3 mine, Balmat, NY; Fluor-dravite, road cut near Gouvemeur...(Japan-Law twin), Ellenville Lead mine, Ellenville, NY; Quartz, Bower Powers farm, Pierrepont, NY; Hematite,...variscite, and planerite have been recovered from this mine. Outstanding specimens of planerite ( AWPO^jCPOjOHzMOHlgM^O)...The Humboldt granite is an evolved columbite, cassiterite and topaz bearing granite (Hoffman, 1987; Schulz...and heavy mineral separates prepared. While no cassiterite and topaz were found (likely due to limited sampling) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pyrargyrite, 2.8 cm high, Churprinz Friedrich August mine, Großschirma, near Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Jeff...Figure 6. Erythrite, 2.1 cm high, Siebenschlehen mine, Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Jeff Scovil photo...and walpurgite—that came from the Weisser Hirsch mine in Schneeberg in 1871. However, even more important...spectacular azurite specimen from the Schönbrunn fluorite mine document his collecting activities. Volume 88, May/June...calcite, and pyrite specimen, 11 × 9 cm, Segen Gottes mine, Gersdorf near Rosswein, Saxony, Germany. Susanne |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...Steve Knox Pete Knudsen Artem Kovalev Paul LaBonte Erich R. Laskowski Jeff Lines Litchfield Family David |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | later worked underground by Charlestown United mine, so the alluvials in this valley would probably...contained in the quartz-tourmaline leader as cassiterite (Figure 5), but the greisen usually also contained...granite between the veins also contained some cassiterite, which could be recovered with little or no stamping...surface; Drew and Hitchens (1824) say: “In this mine the lodes are numerous, but not large, and as they...geology Figure 5. Photograph of a specimen of cassiterite from the collection of the Royal Institution |  | | Report (issue) | | GRANT 86 92 96 20 Fluorite Balls from Hell BY ERICH OFFERMAN & R. PETER RICHARDS Upper Left: An uncommon...gemstone cut from rough originating in Okorusu, Namibia. Collection Warren Taylor; photo Jeff Scovil AFRICA...Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...MICHAEL GRAY 54 Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56...Castleton in Traek Cliff (Derbyshire), the Blue John mine (page 35). The term "fluorite" was coined in 1797 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | which all combined extend the igneous stage of Erich granitic systems to lower temperature and more extreme...section is a study of the gap between the two-phase region tantalite-tapiolite, which had not been studied...and co-authors report the presence of magmatic cassiterite in an aplite-pegmatite complex in Thailand; the...uncertainty of the mechanism of formation of primary cassiterite is resolved by the study of textural relationships...water in primary beryl from pegmatites of this same region, interpreting the increased concentration of Hz0 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | aluminosilicate clay minerals . . . . . . . . .. 55 ERICH. OELKERSand HAROLDC, HELGESON:Calculation of the...geochemicalconditions of ore deposition at the Jumbo mine, Kansas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ,...from the Roccamonfina Volcano, Roman Comagmatic Region, Italy ............................... GRENVILLETURNER:...cherts ............................ J. LIPROLTand ERICH WEIOEL: 4He diffusion in “Ar-retentive minerals...._..._..........I...._.....r,._. of tin in cassiterite by tantalum, niobium, “.,,. ., .., R. S. ALTMANNand |  | | Journal (issue) | | d'Ossola, Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah...Editor • The Sanford Vesuvianite locale (Goodall Farm Q., The Greatest Mineral Collection A friend and... Goodall Farm-Sanford vesuvianite locality After receiving comments that the Goodall Farm Quarry, also...Located on the east rim of Magnet Cove, the Christy Mine, fonnerly known as the Christy brookite locality...zone during exploration drilling at the Brewer Gold Mine in South Carolina in the early I990s. Those crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | .................................... 17 DAOPING MINE Guanghua Liu and Berthold Ottens .................Photographers Nelly Bariand Dan Behnke Werner Lieber Erich Offermann Jeffrey A. Scovil Harold & Erica Van Pelt...crystal, 2.1 cm, from the Dadongla (Yunchangping) mine near Tongren, Guizhou Province, China. Marcus Budil...Xikuangshan, the site of the world’s largest stibnite mine. Berthold Ottens is a German dealer and author of...today, near the ancient mine workings, there is a large open-pit copper mine which provides small calcite |  | | Book | | was a site on what was known in 1887 as the Yale Farm, about two miles northeast of the town of Litchfield...localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | tgressman@comcast.net Famous Mineral Localities: The Soudan mine, Vermilion Range, St. Louis County, Minnesota ....Wallace Famous Mineral Localities: The Old Gunnislake mine, Callington District, Cornwall, England ..........red hematite inclusions, 4.5 cm, from the Soudan mine, Vermilion Range, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Don...FineMineral.com AQUAMARINE ON MUSCOVITE Chumuru Mine, Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern...that he found when he was 7 years old on his aunt’s farm in West Bloomfield, New York. Bill always maintained |  | | Report (issue) | | Contributions by: C.R. Beesley, Dudley Blauwet, Erich Draganits, Si and Ann Frazier, Tyler Funk, Bernhard...Appiani, C.R. Beesley, Dudley Blauwet, Frank Coffa, Erich Draganits, Maximilian Glas, Bernhard Grasemann,...the Himalayan Treasure Chest Bernhard Grasemann & Erich Draganits ........Page 20 Picking Pegmatite Pockets:...especially since many of the specimens from the region are now acknowledged to be the best of their species...Shahre Bazar using tools of the trade typical to the region-an oil lamp and a blowpipe were surprised. I remember |  | | Journal (issue) | | Photographers Nelly Bariand Dan Behnke Werner Lieber Erich Offermann Jeffrey A. Scovil Harold & Erica Van Pelt...superb mineral specimens as has the Deccan traprock region in India. Many interesting mineral occurrences...investigations. The amygdaloidalcavity minerals from this region have often simply been called “zeolites,” and the...is about 500,000 square kilometers, and even the region where specimens have been found measures fully...must be made clear that in view of the size of the region and the huge quantity of its minerals on the market |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Obersachsen, Germany. Acquired from the collection of Erich Lindemann, Hamburg. Kay Robertson collection; Jeff...English, Kay wisely responded in German). Herr Erich Lindemann turned out to be a childless widower of...Hagendorf-Süd phosphate pegmatite, in the Upper Palatinate region of Bavaria, is Kay’s favorite classic German locality... Figure 13. Brucite, 15.4 cm, from Wood’s Chrome mine, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Kay Robertson... Figure 15. Fluorite, 2.4 cm wide, from the Cäcilie mine, Nabburg, Wölsendorf district, Oberpfalz, Bavaria |  | | Journal (issue) | | 492-500 A history of mineral collecting at the Chino mine, Grant Co., New Mexico. 502-519 The graphites of...544-550 Shattuckite, Kunene District, Kaokoveld, Namibia 557-558 Collecting at Hallelujah Junction, Peterson...and mafic LE REGNE MINERAL # 90, 12.09 5-16 La mine du Buisson, Saint-Etienne-duValdonnez, Lozère 18-23...macle de la pyrrhotite sur un échantillon de la mine El Potosi, Santa Eulalia, Chiahua, Mexique LITHORAMA...Ireland. 10-14 Zincolivenite from the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall 15-25 Supergene manganese mineralisation |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1979 with an article on the Sweet Home mine. He mined the Dixie mine in Idaho Springs for leaf gold and crystallized...including Huanuni, Viloco, Llallagua, the San Jose mine in Oruro, Tasna, Morococala, Chicote Grande, and...reopened the now-famous Sweet Home mine in Alma, Colorado to mine specimen rhodochrosite, h bnerite,...Other localities mined include the Calumet Iron mine; Italian Mountain; and Mt. Antero. In July 1979...each are allowed by the local mining committee to mine the deposits. The Chumar Bakhoor pegmatites have |  | | Journal (issue) | | Arizona 85740 602-297-6709 Articles The Iron Cap mine, Graham County, A rizona..........................discoveries. Finds made in Arizona (the Iron Cap mine) and in Ouray County, Colorado, are described in...6-12 cm, Adamite with Hemimorphite from the Ojuela mine, pale green and purple Naica fluorites in small...advertising I got a call from the owner of an old dairy-farm that had just shut down after 70 years in operation...Tubutama Tucson, Arizona 85715 n 1987 the Iron Cap mine yielded some o f the finest sphalerite and galena |  | | Journal (issue) | | these many achievements that have helped to give mine ralogy a national recognit ion. Among your fri ends........................... REPORT ON THE TITANIUM MINE AT TAHAWUS, N . Y . By Paul E. Killinge,· ........part is covered by ice, and only in the peripheral region and in lofty ranges of mountains are rocks exposed...19031905 and 1908-1910, were cirried on in the general region of West Antarctica ROCKS AND MINERALS explored...German South Polar Expedition, 1901-1903, under Erich von Drygalski, carried on its work in the African |
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