 | | Report (issue) | | 2021 report in July-August 2021), excellent smithsonite specimens have emerged from a group of quarries... ============================================================ quarry, from whence the veszelyite comes. The Yanga Koubenza...specimen-worthy gray to blue-green to deep blue smithsonite began to show up in July 2021. The Spirifer entrepreneurs...up to cabinet size, with smithsonite spheres reaching 3 cm over smithsonite crusts of the same vivid...Spirifer travelogessay about “being there.” Smithsonite, 10.2 cm, from the Yanga Koubenza quarries, Bouenza |  | | Book | | with Orbis Publishing Limited abcdefgh Printed in Italy by IGDA, Novara Adapted from the original Italian...silver 4, 5 skutterudite 17, /7 smaltite 17, 17 smithsonite 38, 39, 40 soda 50 sodalite 114 sorosilicates...(Yugoslavia), some mines on Mount Amiata, Tuscany (Italy), and Almadén (Spain). In the United States it...Filiform silver. Nicola Secci, Sarrabus, Sardinia (Italy) Dendritic copper famous (Michigan) 1822. It...silver are in the North Mexico, Plates of gold on quartzite. California American the continent, western |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ladysmith (Rosemeyer 1999, the Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence...may have omitted. Adams County Hamilton Mound. A quarry is located in the NE 1/4 sec. 36 T*20N*R.6E.: potassium...orthopyroxene (Laybourn 1979). Quarry Road quarry. A water-filled quarry and nearby spoils heap are in...agates) (La Point 1976). Grandview marble quarry. This quarry exposes Proterozoic dolomitic marble cross-cut...(Grant 1901). Buffalo County County M quany. This quarry is on County Route M, approximately 1.5 miles north |  | | Book (volume) | | rocks are exposed as thick bands around the entire mountain system. The rising granite mass intruded the famed...an inexhaustible supply of cold artesian, Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the...minesColumbite, Gold, Silver, etc.; and (2) Old Marble Quarry on the Needles Hwy. 5.5 mi. NEScheelite, and deep... E 6 mi., on French Cr., the Scott Rose Quartz QuarryAmblygonite (large yellow crystals), Aquamarine...Cumberland plateau to the Western Valley in the province of the Highland Rim, which also encloses an oval |  | | Catalog/List | | xtl with an undamaged tip. £3. 5. ANALCIME, Croft Quarry, Leicstershire. 3.5xl.8xl.3cm. A greeny/white matrix...under magnification. £6. 9. ANGLESITE, Coldstones Quarry, Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire. 3x l.9x2cm. A bright...£32. (am9) 2. ~ ~ I,. "POTATO STONE", Dulcote Quarry, Somerset. 4.5x4x2cm. A cut geode 4 12. ARAGONITE... £36. 13. ARTHURITE AND ARSENOPYRITE, Hingston quarry, Cornwall. 2.4x2.3x 1.5cm. A light grey crystalline...green to one end. £2. 15. AURICHALCITE, Machen Quarry, Gwent, Wales. 6.7x5.5x4.5cm. A mottled green, |  | | Catalog/List | | 73 ■ BRAUNITE Praboma Mine, St Marcel ,Piedmont, Italy Dark grey massive with quartz or red mica lxl £4..._ Fcldsp3~ -·· ~ 510 ■■ CHALCEDONY Greystones Quarry, lezant, Cornwall Grey banded massive lx2 £1 2x2...- -- -- - -- - - -- - 134 ■ CHALCOCITE Swinless Quarry, Kilbirnie, near Glasgow, Scotia Rich metallic...------ - -- - - - -- - - 26 ■ DOLOMITE Thoiras Quarry. Gard . France Good creamy curved crystals on matrix...858 FERROSAPONITE San Giovanni, ilarione, Verona Italy Black to dark grey linings of8mm vesicles in Basalt |  | | Report (issue) | | Anne' (Kline's quarry), Edward Carper (Soister mine), Betty and John Clauser (Edison quarry), Thomas O'Neil...Bluff), Donald Schmerling (York Stone and Supply Co. quarry), and Joseph Varady (Jug Hollow mine). Additional...by Martin Anne (Kline's quarry and Medusa), Bryon Brookmeyer (Blue Ball quarry), George Buchannon (Whim...Perkiomen mine), Betty and John Clauser (Edison quarry and especially New Galena), Thomas O'Neil (a generous...Bluff), Donald Schmerling (York Stone and Supply Co. quarry), and Joseph Varady (Ecton, Jug Hollow, and Wheatley |  | | Catalog/List | | mass nearly lxl inch with Hydrocerussite. Merehead Quarry Mendips £35 9. SIMPSONITE Orange cleavage mass...across on lxl with small quartz crystals Francon Quarry Montreal Quebec £25 14. VESUVIANITE lxl inch area...orange massive in quartz £10 (St Marcel, Aosta Italy) 17. DOMEYK.ITE obvious metallic masses in large...variety "Greenovite" (Praboma Mine, St Marcel, Aosta Italy) pink vein about 3mm wide and 3cm long in rich brown...5 inch £18 30_ PALYGORSKITE, creamy coloured mountain leather covering a one inch scalenohedral calcite |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...1991). Simdeled, Aust-Agder. Early in 1999, in a quarry near S~ndeled, collectors opened a pocket containing...PORTUGAL Montijos quarry, Monte Redondo, Leiria Estremadura. The Montijos gabbro quarry at Monte Redondo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za Edgar Donald Mountain (1901–1985) Mountainite, KNa2Ca2[Si8O19(OH)]·6H2O...kimberlite pipe (Gard, Taylor, and Chalmers 1957; Mountain 1957). Type-specimen material is lodged at the...currently known from four other localities: Höwenegg quarry, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; Comet Hill, Hunedoara...surname of mountain should have a mineral named after him, and so it is with Edgar Donald Mountain, geologist... Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. Apart from his prowess as a geologist, Mountain was an accomplished |  | | Journal (issue) | | Iwagi Island. The Wessels Mine in Northern Cape Province, South Africa, produces sugilite from a manganese... Natural History Museum in London In Search of Smithsonite by Kathy Hrechka, Vice-President The Natural...in the Darwin storage area.) Smithsonite I was looking for smithsonite minerals, named after the British...minerals on display in the geology hall, including smithsonite (the shiny blue-green mineral above) and unakite...relic, part of the Ohio River system. An ancient mountain range, though worn The Mineral Newsletter A |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....jct. of Brint St. and Centennial rd., the Medusa Quarry (SW of 4 quarries), very many specimens⎯fossils...deposits⎯Hematite. OTTAWA COUNTY CLAY CENTER, area limestone quarry, famed⎯Calcite, Celestite (fluorescent), Dolomite...secondary line rd., then N ½ mi. to Maple Grove Quarry) ⎯Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite...WOOD COUNTY BOWLING GREEN, W and S, at the Pugh Quarry⎯crystals of Barite (fluorescent), Calcite, Celestite |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....jct. of Brint St. and Centennial rd., the Medusa Quarry (SW of 4 quarries), very many specimens⎯fossils...deposits⎯Hematite. OTTAWA COUNTY CLAY CENTER, area limestone quarry, famed⎯Calcite, Celestite (fluorescent), Dolomite...secondary line rd., then N ½ mi. to Maple Grove Quarry) ⎯Calcite, Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite...WOOD COUNTY BOWLING GREEN, W and S, at the Pugh Quarry⎯crystals of Barite (fluorescent), Calcite, Celestite |  | | Catalog/List | | matrix. 5x5x2.5cm Molinello Mine, Vai Graveglia, Italy £35 2 AWARUITE about 10 individual 2 to 3mm long...small white crystals in Basalt 5x6 cm Limberg No 1 quarry, Kaisersthul, Germany £4 11 LAVOISIERITE rich...brown fibrous about 3x2cm Punta Gensane, Viu Turin Italy 13 SENARMONITE single sharp grey octahedral crystal...fibrous mass . Praboma mine, St Marcel |, Piedmont Italy 5x2.5 £12 Sample b) .5x1.5 £ 36 ARAGONITE 3 to 4mm...orange-brown platy area about 8mm . Varenche Mine, Aosta Italy £8 51 PHARMA COSIDERITE very micro cubic crystals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | beautiful specimens have been gathHubbard (Brandywine) quarry in Wilm- ered in the past for jewelry. ington,...specimen ot From this branch, Mr. Wm. J. Kane made quartzite containing three prisms of dra- one of the prettiest...of Sweat setting them in silver mountings. Now Mountain (Cobb Co., Ga.). The dravite it looks as if I...Everyone wants a ring or brooch just like a 20 inch quartzite band which has been mine. I have been informed...massive that this petrified wood was too soft or quartzite. too brittle to work and it had me quite Black |  | | Journal (issue) | | partially converted to cerussite or is replaced by smithsonite. Secondary galena occurs here as veinlets surrounding...galena veinlets often have a central core of smithsonite and willemite and are evidently of supergene...minerals in the oxida tion zone are willemite, smithsonite and cerussite. The vanadium minerals, descloizite...occurs as small octahedral crystals. Smithsonite, Z n C 0 3 Smithsonite is often associated with willemite... In No. 2 kopje open pit massive botryoidal smithsonite (Fig. 5) with a concentrically banded structure |  | | Journal (issue) | | Spann collection, page 253. (right colurnn) Smithsonite-Mark Hughston collection, page 144; Variscite-Gus...than 30 cm, have been found east of Packsaddle Mountain and near Kingsland in Llano County. A northeastem...example, has been found associated with the Town Mountain Granite near Marble Falls). Other Early Dealers...stilbite with heulandite, 15 cm, from the Wagholi quarry complex, Pune District, Maharashtra, India. Don...Gracias mine, Diego de Almagro, EI Salado, Chaiiaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile. Don and Laura Aaron photo | | | Catalog/List | | attractive small group about l x2 inches ( Coldstones Quarry, Yorkshire) £7 19. ANAPAITE pale green micro...a good covering in open half nodule Val D' Arno Italy 2x3 £15 good small display piece about a large 2x3...over 3x2 surface. Location interest. Coatsgate quarry Dumfries Scotland £ 12 32. STILBITE good small...HYDROZINCITE white massive area small l x2 on 2x2 smithsonite Broken Hill Zambia £7 FLUORESCENT white 47. CALCITE...Serpentine and malachite on the top surface. Goonhilly Quarry, Lizard Cornwall 2x 1.5 £7 57. KJDWELLITE small |  | | Catalog/List | | fi1icaeousscales on matrix a (St M~rcel, Val d'Aosta Italy) W 1J:1 7Cp 1x2 f 1. 30 2x2 :t3. 00 brc~n ~~ss...crystals in cavities in Slag.Cetine Mine, Sienna ,Italy .. lem t3.80 88 CHABAZITE white crystais on Basalt...f~wnareas in and on crystallised quartz. (Benet Quarry,BuckfieldNaine U.S.A 1x~ tl.30 107 NATIVE COPPER...Tasmania) 117 CUPROADAMITE good green crust on Quartzite.(Cap GaronneVar France) 1:,:1 50p !x2 tl.00 118...thin white crust on 1cmmatrix.(Mt Amiata Tuscany Italy) f,1.20 123 DIDPSIDE pale fawn massive with possible |  | | Book | | each fine mineral specimen recovered from a mine, quarry, or canyon wall there must be millions lying hidden...Sulfur * orthorhombic ¢ sulfur Agrigento, Sicily, Italy Photograph on page 2: Pyrite * isometric * iron...and rocks he found in caves, stream beds, and mountain cliffs. The first geologist was probably a cave...limestone are composed of the single mineral calcite. Quartzite is a rock made up of cemented grains of the mineral...that force flat-lying rock strata into crumpled mountain masses. These pressures may be great enough to |  | | Report (issue) | | mine, Redmond. 1. Finely granular replacement smithsonite from May Day mine, Page Tin tic district_____...__ _ __ _ 5 3. Sketch of a piece of lamellar smithsonite from the Hidden Treasure mine, Dry Canyon di...district____________________ 5 4. Fibrous smithsonite with chalky white hydrozincite, May Day mine, Tin...Frisco____ 20 36 10. Sketch map of Tecoma and Copper Mountain mines________ 37 11. Sketch map of Lakeview group...deeply oxidized. The principal ore minerals are smithsonite and hemimorphite, associated with smaller quantities |  | | Journal (issue) | | Smith. Mineral News frotn Asia Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals Internationa l Once again I am doing...sizes of 2 to 3 inches from Darrah Pech Kunar Province, Afg hanistan. Also from Darrah Pech, was ~ decent...a dark brown mica schist from Gamithu Mountain. Laghman Province. This new deposit started producing about...friends said the village had the same name as the mountain. The best crystal was very green and the size...at the lapis and sodalite mines in the Northern Province of Afghanistan was a bit different, wit11 the |  | | Book (volume) | | crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined...Quartz, Selenite, Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination). Hamilton Quarry Location East Branch...Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Smithsonite, Strontianite, Witherite; e the Minerva No. 1...Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Smithsonite, Witherite; f N 0.8 mi. on Rte. 1 from Rte. 146...Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Smithsonite, Witherite. This Fluorspar region extends W into |  | | Book (volume) | | crystals); (b) Hamilton Quarry, the lower Warsaw section at the top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined...Quartz, Selenite, Smithsonite and Sphalerite in any combination). Hamilton Quarry Location East Branch...Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Smithsonite, Strontianite, Witherite; e the Minerva No. 1...Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Smithsonite, Witherite; f N 0.8 mi. on Rte. 1 from Rte. 146...Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Smithsonite, Witherite. This Fluorspar region extends W into |  | | Journal (issue) | | advertising. JUDKINS QUARRY F. Ince· R.E. Starkey· J. Wooldridge ------- 14 ------MILLTOWN QUARRY S.A. Rusi -------...BOC J. & P. Pearce ------- 48 ------- HENDRE QUARRY R.E. Starkey· N. Hubbard· M.P. Bayley 0952-2409...Pen-y-Clun .\fine. This locality lies east of the mountain road from Llanidloes to .\fachynlleth, and was...details. October llth-13th: 20 th Torino Show, Italy. Information: see page 6. APMP, c/o Scuola Gabelli...Gabelli, Via Monterosa. 56, I-10154, Torino, Italy. (Telephone: 011 85 1196). May 1992: Study tours of |
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Quartzite quarry, Civillina Mountain, Recoaro Terme, Vicenza Province, Veneto, Italy