| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | aikinite. BERRYITE, is a lead, bismuth, silver, and copper sulfide. It has been noted at Ivigtut, West Greenland...occurs in pegmatite associated with bismuthinite, jamesonite, and tetrahedrite at the Superior Stone Quarry...tals of monazite, muscovite, rutile, and barite. JAMESONITE, a lead and antimony sulfide, is one of the rare...noted here with kobellite, bismuthinite, and jamesonite in seams in the pegma tite. The seams also contain...Gleason and Gourtland gets its dumps of the old mines in the area or name from the old Tiffany Mine on | | | Book | precious native elements such as silver, gold and copper to complex silicates such as vesuvianite, first...the basis of an ancient treasure, lapis lazuli. Copper and gold were first used at least 10,000 years...since Roman times. colour makes them easy to see. Copper and gold were both too soft to make tools from...from, but the discovery that tin could be added to copper to make the tough alloy bronze about 5000 years...fluorite, pyrite (shown), garnet, spinel, magnetite, copper. Dome, two prisms Dipyramid and pinacoid Triclinic | | | Journal (issue) | shows in Tucson, Denver, Munich and Ste-Marie-aux-Mines Tel.: 949-494-5155 • www.kristalle.com • Email:...May–June, 2017 Contents The St. Andreasberg Mining District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany...working in the lode” (Simonin, 1869). The Mining District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany...The geographically tiny St. Andreasberg District of silver mines has an outsized reputation: it is among...abandoned for more than a century after that, these mines produced world-class specimens of pyrargyrite, dyscrasite | | | Catalog/List | transparent group of to.bular 3. 20. BARYTES. United Mines,St.Day,Cornwall.(Ex.Christie Collection). little...DESMINE/EPIDOTE/ORTHOCLASE.Striegan,Schlesion,Austria. Choice smaller specimen in plastic display box...Irridescont matrix.2pc1jx1", 82.75. • 9. JAMESONITE. Tresungers Mine,St.Endcllion,N.Cornwall. masses...Rich,bright,fibrous Quartz.4x2x1¾'',C4.25 98.. JAMESONITE. Wh.Boys,St.Endellion.(18th C.) Cornwall. These...1ix¾x-} 11 ,23.00. • 112. MALACHITE.Kolwezi District,Shnba Prov. ,Zaire. Choice lustrous green 'pimply' | | | Catalog/List | ments. 5x5",f.12.00 pair. ALM~NDINE.Zillerthal,Austria. Many dark-red coloured dcdecahedrnl 1 11 in size)...2x1i" ,t:R •.50" .'ZURITE/MtLf,CHITF.. Chessey des Mines,N:c.LyonsFrA.nce. Sp~rl...---------------- ··-- 6. 68. NATIVE COPPER ('Paper Copper•). Ghost Groft Hina,i-lullion,Lizard,Cornwall...surface,would 7x7 11 ,~12.50. clean. NATIVE COPPER/BORNI'I'E. Cape Corn\iall Mine,St"Just,W"Cornwall...version o! 1 Å 1 .2x1i",~1.00 72. CUPRITE. Ray Copper Mine,Pinal xtl 73. developments matrix~ 1 | | | Book | comparative study from colleagues, institutes, and mines; many samples were collected by the writer himself...to mention a rarity, selenium + lead + silver + copper + quicksilver -f palladium. These associations...r o t o r e " of t h e ''disseminated porphyry copper ores", which are mostly assigned, not quite correctly...quartz ± bismuth gold -f quartz + much pyrite copper minerals chalcopyrite + tourmaline chalcopyrite...been exactly studied in the extraordinarily deep mines). I n deposits t h a t exhibit the transition to | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | consideredto possessthe same status as porphyry copper and molybdenumdeposits. The geological features...possesssimilarities with those of typical porphyry copper deposits. The stocks, commonly 1 to 2 km2 in area...porphyry tin depositsdiffer from many porphyry copper 4eposits: in not being susceptibleto supergeneenrichment;...Paleozoicphyllite then ruby silvers (chiefly pyrargyrite), jamesonite, in the lower mine levels. and boulangerite....andAbbott(1931), but its widespread distribution jamesonite. The last stage of mineralization inwasneverfully | | | Book (edition) | for most mineral production. The majority of the mines still officially discourage any collecting. We have...and singularity for a few cents’ worth of metal. Mines that encounter specimens of great artistic and scientific...studies of inaccessible and abandoned mines. Someday many old mines may come to life again, reopened because...because studies of specimens that were saved when the mines were running have indicated that other minerals...driving out other elements, replacing iron with copper. Sulfides will change to carbonates, silicates | | | Book (volume) | Germany, the German Democratic Republic, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands and...Ilmenite—titanomagnetite formation Porphyry copper and polymetallic copper skarn . formation with Ste polvmerilic...Dinaric metallogenic province The western Macedonian district Iron ore deposits . Manganese ore deposits Molybdenum...epoch Lead—zinc deposits Antimony ore deposits Copper ore deposits Iron ore deposits . Molybdenum ore...Osogovo—Ograzden ore district The West Rhodope ore district The East Rhodope ore district The Srednogorié | | | Book | practical dug mines to get at them underground. geological skill as they Copper and gold were first...the first great unconformities (see Reading the Copper and gold were both too soft to geology book, De...by Hutton’s ideas, more tin could be added to copper to make The rock hunters Below: None of these...and Below: Salt Cellar Tor in England's Peak District is one of several tors in this region. They are...Cuprite forms a bright green crust on oxidized copper minerals. Left: Rubies are among a number of rare | | | Book (edition) | for most mineral production. The majority of the mines still officially discourage collecting by workers...of beauty for their few cents' worth of metal. Mines that encounter specimens of great artistic and scientific...Mining and Mineral Museum, the Arizona Bureau of Mines, the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum, the Canadian...studies of inaccessible and abandoned mines. Someday many old mines may come again to life, reopened because...because studies of specimens that were saved when the mines were running have indicated that other minerals | | Amstutz, G. C., Goresy, A. El, Frenzel, G., Kluth, C., Moh, G., Wauschkuhn, A., Zimmermann, R.A. - Eds. (1982) Ore Genesis. Springer Berlin, Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-68344-2 | Book | VIII Preface and Outlook visited innumerable mines and was an indefatigable collector of ores and minerals...creation are (l).the complexity of most porphyry copper intrusions; (2) the fact that, almost always, only...Phenomena of Terrigenous Minerals by Sulphides in Copper-Bearing Permian Sandstones in Poland M. Banas,.... . . . . . . . . . 3 Problems of Genesis of Copper Sandstones of Central Europe Yu.V. Bogdanov and...Alteration and Mineralization in the Tri-State District of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, U.S.A. R.D | | | Catalog/List | 45mm x 13mm. £12.00. 19. AZURITE. Chessey des Mines,Nr.Lyon,France. From this no longer accessable site...15mm, £9.00. 'B'. 45mm x 50mm x 12mm, £5.00. 5J- COPPER. Wheal Providence,Levant Set,W.Cornwall. Recent...killas matrix. 45mm x 30mm x 16mm. £8.00. 1 5*»- COPPER (Crystals). Kerage Mine,Keowenaw Peninsula.Michigan...________ , A small but attractive FLUORITE. __ Bingham Copper Mine,Hew Mexico,U.A. pocket of pale blue cubes...terminated thumbnail matrix-free crystal. 102. JAMESONITE/PYRITE. Conception del Oro,Zacatecas.Mexico. | | | Book | had broken up around the time of the St Marie-aux-Mines show. Following a discussion with Ian regarding...a crocoite from Dundas, Tasmania (£9), a native copper and cuprite from South Caradon Mine, Cornwall (£16...fluorites from Blackdene and Cammack Eals (both working mines at that time) for £67.50, leaving a balance of £82...Austell. This was my first trip to the china clay district. Looks just like a moonscape. We got permission...Pendarves Mine and I also took a Pendarves native copper, a St Austell Consols Mine apatite (variety francolite | | | Journal (issue) | Sulfosalt Environment: The Mineralogy of the Julcani District, P e r u ....................................215...Pennsylvania. The mine was opened in 1732 and worked for copper. In 1852 the presence of nickel was discovered...tons of ore, show ing from 1.10 to 2.26 percent copper and 1.53 to 4.23 per cent combined nickel and...varied complex habits of calcite from the iron mines of French Creek, Pennsylvania (Fest September—October...hydrous iron and aluminum phosphate from the tin mines of Llallagua, Bolivia, should be named Vauxite in | | | Catalog/List | LIST (BRITISH) No"17. ACTINOLITE. Gross-Gloading,Austria, Lustrous lath-shaped xtls, about 1-4-x3/811 in...velvety crystalline Malachitc.Ex"Paris School of Mines.2x1i~",.f,12.00. 19. AZURITE. 20. AZURITE. ...of matrix. BROCHANTITE/LANGITE.Bedford United Mines,Nr.Tavistock,Devon. Lustrous s~y-b~u~ co~oured sprays...59. CERUSSITE. Wheatley to chocolate-coloured Mines,Phoenixville,Pennsylvanin,U.S.A. ,reticulate twinned...'rough'xtls and a little granular Qunrtz plus N. Copper. 2x2x1-½" ,:-~12.50. 85u CUPRITE. Wh.Druid,Illogan | | | Journal (issue) | Articles on specimen-producing locali ties, quarries, mines, and mining districts of the past and present will...was man ager at both the Perkiomen and Wheatly mines. He was a very good mineralogist and I suspect he...I found this mineral in a Piedmont silver-lead-copper-zinc deposit in Northern Virginia a few years ago...Bindheimite is a probable from Phoenixville and Perkiomen mines, and I’m sure I have samples of yellow earthy minerals...foreign. Azurite, wulfenite, angle site, native copper, brochantite and many others available. Send us | | | Book | relative to mines, or the minerals and ores extracted from them , as Coal, Iron, Lead, Copper, Salt, &c...Francis of London . A list of most of the Cornish mines referred to is, for the sake of convenience, given.... 161. Cuprite. 162. Melaconite . 163. Pitchy copper. 144. Mispickel. ORDER V. Manganese. Genus 3...IN COMBINA TION. 154. Eisen -nickelkies. 178. Copper glance. 179. Kupferindig ( Covelline). Genus 6...OXIDE . 1 ORDER VIII. Genus 1. NATIVE COPPER . 160. Copper. 186. Molybdenine. Genus 2. SULPHIDE. 187 | | | Book | writer has personal experience. Camborne School of Mines, Pool, Redruth, Cornwall, United Kingdom 4 Worldwide...when proposing a non-genetic classification of copper deposits, provided the following comments'with...systems of classification most widely used for copper and other mineral deposits are based on the supposed...Sediments /metasediments (Cleveland and Renison Mines, Tasmania) Deposits within granitoid dykes (a)...placers little or much modi fied (Isergebirge District, Poland; Ipameri, Goias Brazil; Esira region, | | | Book (edition) | Gneiss, Sandstone, Marble, Limestone 2 Gold, Silver, Copper, Sulphur, Galena, Sphalerite xill 16 17 Kiv...Enargite, Bournonite, Boulangerite 15 Miargyrite, Jamesonite, Cuprite, Corundum, Hematite, Ilmenite 16 Bixbyite...studies of inaccessible and abandoned mines. Some day many old mines may come to life again, reopened because...because studies of specimens that were saved when the mines were running have indicated that other minerals... Gold in quartz (Grass Valley, California) 3. Copper (Keweenaw County, AND SULPHIDES 2. Silver | | | Journal (issue) | Mexican min erals, including ·boleite from Montana, coppers from Arizona and New Mexico, and others. Of course...recognizeoble habits hove appea red from this district. Figure 9. 13eryl (light green. l OJ.5 cts ...the Son Antonio mine (?), in the Santo Eu lalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico. Only o hondfull of crystals...acquainted with fine mineral specimens from the copper mines in the Boulder batholith around Butte, Montana...of the lead i dif ferent from that of the lode mines, and therefore the Con sols mineralization was | | | Journal (issue) | MICHIGAN COPPER! The Mineralogical Record JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2023 ? VOLUME 54 ? NUMBER 1 ? $40 ...gemgypsy@bellsouth.net JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2023 Articles Copper Country II Introduction...........................3 by W. E. Wilson The Keweenaw County Fissure Mines.............................................................53 by P. Persson & C. J. Stefano The Copper Falls Mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan.................................157 by T. P. Moore COVER: COPPER, 8 cm, from the Keweenaw County fissure veins, | | | Book (edition) | Platinum, 1+75 13. The Nonferrous Metals 481 Copper, 1+81; Lead and Zinc, 527; Tin, 51+6; Aluminum...increased 100-fold, of mineral fuels 75-fold, and of copper, 63-fold. Those countries abundantly supplied with...geology to mineral finding in districts of waning mines. His knowledge is sought also by the metallurgist...two parts: metalliferous deposits, such as gold, copper, iron, or nickel (Part II) ; and nonmetallic substances...time Neolithic man became acquainted with gold and copper, he also used nephrite, sillimanite, and turquois | | | Journal (issue) | (for January 2008's competition) is " Copper Minerals". A copper mineral is defined as one vvith "Cu"...and Caradon mines on Bodmin Moor. Among the Phoenix minerals we saw excellent native coppers, cuprites...cuprites and the secondary copper species libethenite, malachite, pseudomafachite, olivenite and chalcosiderite...hentschelite and barbosalite. From the Caradon mines we saw an excellent old-label Liskeard fluorspar...Boys and Port Quin mines where additional antimony minerals stibnite, jamesonite, senarmontite and valentinite | | | Journal (issue) | Mexican min erals, including boleite from Montana, coppers from Arizona and New Mexico, and others. Of course...dozen recognizeable habits have appeared from this district. Figure 9. Beryl (light green, 103.5 cts., 3...the San Antonio mine (?), in the Santa Eu lalia District, Chihuahua, Mexico. Only a handfull of crystals...acquainted with fine mineral specimens from the copper mines in the Boulder batholith around Butte, Montana...discovery of Broken Hill is linked with one of A us district. Broken Hill itself, however, was derisively re |
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