| Moelo, Y., Orlandi, P., Guillot-Deudon, C., Biagioni, C., Paar, W., Evain, M. (2011) LEAD-ANTIMONY SULFOSALTS FROM TUSCANY (ITALY) XI. THE NEW MINERAL SPECIES PARASTERRYITE, Ag4Pb20(Sb14.5As9.5) 24S58, AND ASSOCIATED STERRYITE, Cu(Ag,Cu)3Pb19(Sb,As)22(As-As)S56, FROM THE POLLONE MINE, TUSCANY, ITALY. The Canadian Mineralogist, 49 (2) 623-638 doi:10.3749/canmin.49.2.623 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 3749/canmin.49.2.623 LEAD–ANTIMONY SULFOSALTS FROM TUSCANY (ITALY). XI. THE NEW MINERAL SPECIES PARASTERRYITE...Cu)3Pb19(Sb,As)22(As–As)S56, FROM THE POLLONE MINE, TUSCANY, ITALY † Yves MOËLO§ Institut des Matériaux Jean...Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, I–56126 Pisa, Italy Catherine GUILLOT-DEUDON Institut des Matériaux...Università di Pisa, Via S. Maria 53, I–56126 Pisa, Italy Werner PAAR Department of Materials Engineering...Carducci, near Pietrasanta, in the Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy. It forms acicular crystals up to 4 3 0.3 mm | | | 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...Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto Giazotto collection... 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 (article/letter/editorial) | Figure 4: Lustrous, lead-grey hopper crystals of acanthite pseudomorphs after argentite, Arizpe, Sonora,...Africa (7 cm). Figure 8: Lustrous lead-grey acanthite pseudomorphs after argentite crystals with chalcopyrite...Golden brown barite crystals, Villamassargia, near mine, Guanajuato, Mexico (8.5 cm). Iglesias, Sardinia...Enna, Sicily (6 cm). West 800 Level, White Capps mine, Man- 11: Dark grey stibnite crystals, (variety... Nuristan, Laghman hattan, Nevada (9.5 cm). Province, Afghanistan (5.3 cm). Figure 13: Silver, Calumet | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University] at 05:52 29 January 2015 FRENCH CREEK IRON MINE, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA M any minerals described...specimens. One such locality is the French Creek iron mine, Chester County, Pennsylvania, an occurrence worthy...States; they occur in relative abundance in a broad province that occupies southern Arizona and northern Sonora...of chalcopyrite crystals from the Old Lurzenbach mine, Gosenbach, Siegen, Germany. Jack Halpern specimen...at Rossie, St. Lawrence County, at the Sterling mine, Jefferson County, and in very large crystals associated | | | Book (edition) | complicates identification (e.g., argentite-acanthite). - The Compositional Series notes related minerals...due to decreasing temperature (e.g., argentite-acanthite). • Lamellar pressure twins, commonly of equal...(medium grey, large grain) to form an argentite/acanthite reaction rim (darker grey); the formation of such...forms yes strong red Stilleite Mottramite Acanthite Hollandite mosaic and polysynthetic Crednerite... Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre | | | Journal (issue) | miners drill holes in the rock at Taxco silver mine in Mexico. Right: North Sea drilling rig 'Claymore-A'...fluorescence. M NERALS 0 rr- m ("") -I ACANTHITE IS A SILVER SULPHIDE MINERAL 0 . ,..,. WHICH...:::XJ INTO THE CLOSELY RELATED ARGENTITE Cl) Acanthite is nearly always black or grey in colour and specimens...spiky crystal shapes. SIMILAR MINERAL Although acanthite is closely related to argentite and the two minerals...geologists and chemists. Both argentite and acanthite are sulphides of silver and have exactly the same | | | Book | (Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain Ireland Italy Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Swi~erland...Tetrahedrite Tetrahedrite Hessite Hauchecornite Galena Acanthite Manganite Hematite Skutterudite Zinckenite Stephanite...Saxony, GDR llfeld, Harz, GDR Rio Marina, Elba, Italy Schneeberg, Saxony, GD R Wolfsberg, Harz, GDR Freiberg...particularly interesting collection of miners' lamps and mine surveying instruments. Ancient and mediaeval mining...worn by mine officials of Saxony on ceremonial occasions. A special attraction is a model mine, 20m below | | | Book | of Milan, Institute of Mineralogy Museum, Milan, italy ^ draga blogojevic, geologist, Trepca, Yugoslavia...Curator, Civic Museum of Natural History, Milan, ITALY ic PAUL desautels, Curator, Smithsonian Institution...stood atop the "mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal | | | Book | stood atop the “mother” mass of blue-colored rock. A mine was started and a shaft was sunk into the rock....crystal, still imbedded in the country rock, to the mine manager, Mr. F. Wells. With his pocketknife Wells...Cullinan in honor of the superintendent of the Premier Mine in which it had been found, it was sold to the Transvaal...attractiveness. Miners working the Proprietary Block 14 Mine discovered and removed the matrix from its pocket...1886, when he went underground into a Cornish tin mine in search of crystals. During his lifetime he collected | | | Book | 2013). MALAWI Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series...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...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | are identi®ed in sulphide samples from Bleikvassli mine, Norway. Detailed optical microscopy and electron...25 g/t Ag since production commenced in 1957. The mine is at present closed, due to severe ¯ooding taking...hosting the ore body, locally referred to as the Mine Sequence, the structurally uppermost part of the...sketch map of the area surrounding the Bleikvassli mine the RNC (Trùnnes and Sundvold 1995), have yielded...an area northwest of the Bleikvassli mine, with which the Mine Sequence has generally been correlated | | | Book | Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....appraisal. Many Right: Native mercury from Lucca. Italy. This form is extremely rare as mercury is normally...States, in California and Texas; and in Spain and Italy. Treatment. Occurs naturally in such small drops...areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange...Localities. Lead is found in Sweden at the Harstig mine, Pajsberg; from the gold placers of the Ural Mountains | | | Book | ‘Copper Belt’ in Zaire and Zambia; and in Bura-Bura Mine, Australia. Sedimentary copper is found in schists... it forms large accumulations with argentite-acanthite in the cementation zone of ore veins. Abundant...Sprie, Romania; Kongsberg,Norway; Borgofranco, Italy; Huelva, Spain; Copiapoo, Chile; Hidalgo, Mexico;...grains. In the Japanese deposit at Atakani, Echizen Province, balls of about 1 cm with a prickly surface have...also found there on 26 January 1905 in the Premier Mine. For several decades these South African diamond | | | Book | 'Copper Belt' in Zaire and Zambia; and in Bura-Bura Mine, Australia. Sedimentary copper is found in schists... it forms large accumulations with argentite-acanthite in the cementation zone of ore veins. Abundant...Sprie, Romania; Kongsberg,Norway; Borgofranco, Italy; Huelva, Spain; Copiapo6, Chile; Hidalgo, Mexico;...grains. In the Japanese deposit at Atakani, Echizen Province, balls of about l cm with a prickly surface have...also found there on 26 January 1905 in the Premier Mine. For several decades these South African diamond | | | Book | 'Copper Belt' in Zaire and Zambia; and in Bura-Bura Mine, Australia. Sedimentary copper is found in schists... it forms large accumulations with argentite-acanthite in the cementation zone of ore veins. Abundant...Sprie, Romania; Kongsberg,Norway; Borgofranco, Italy; Huelva, Spain; Copiapo6, Chile; Hidalgo, Mexico;...grains. In the Japanese deposit at Atakani, Echizen Province, balls of about I cm with a prickly surface have...also found there on 26 January 1905 in the Premier Mine. For several decades these South African diamond | | | Book (edition) | sample of scheelite, coming from Traversella (Turin, Italy), in light natural (above) and exposed Other...that a collector in the field should visit are mine dumps and quarry rubble heaps, where there will...small deposits are found near Pisa and Florence (Italy). Uses Native copper rarely occurs in large enough... lb) was mined. How- been from the Guanajuato mine (Mexico), about 500 billion kilos (460,000,000 tons)...Formerly mined in a small district near Monte Rosa (Italy). The main source of the commercial metal, used | | | Book (edition) | Republic). W.D. Birch (Australia), Elena Bonaccorsi (Italy), Ernst A.J. Burke (Netherlands), L.J. Cabri (Canada)...M. Dcliens (Belgium). Giancarlo Delia Ventura (Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA)....(Canada). L.A. Groat (Canada). Alessandro Guastoni (Italy), William A. Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth...(ltaly). Igor Pekov (Russia), atale Perchiazzi (Italy). Ole V. Petersen (Denmark). Fedcrico Pezzotta (ltaly)...Abernathyitc, K[(UO 2 )(AsO,)](HP) 3, tet., Fumerole No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain. on the southeast flank of the | | | Book | coated by a thin black film (eg silver, proustite, acanthite and pyrargyrite). In the presence of light, realgar...arsenopyrite or pyrite); - hackly (eg silver, gold or acanthite); - splintery (eg nephrite or garnet); - earthy...Sicily (Italy). Sulphur of volcanic origin is found in Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, Japan, USSR, Italy and...(USA). Perfect crystals have come from Sicily (Italy), (Poland) and (the USA). Individual crystals have...in association with aragonite; Girgenti (Sicily, Italy) 32 Sulphur H 0- 2 * >t,;: ..,. '"' ' | | | Book (edition) | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga...Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided to three regions: INTRODUCTION...conditions in the gold-bearing "greenstone" in Abitibi province in northern Ontario and Quebec. Some genetic problems | | | Book | illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...coated by a thin black film (eg silver, proustite, acanthite and pyrargyrite). In the presence of light, realgar...arsenopyrite or pyrite); — hackly (eg silver, gold or acanthite); — splintery (eg nephrite or garnet); — earthy...Sicily (Italy). Sulphur of volcanic origin is found in Turkey, Mexico, !ndonesia, Japan, USSR, Italy and...(USA). Perfect crystals have come from Sicily (Italy), (Poland) and (the USA). Individual crystals have | | | Book | mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5...divided by the weight of an Graphite, Black Donald Mine, Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada * 14 x 11 x 10 | | | Book | is found Include Almaden (Spain), Monte Amlata (Italy), ldrija (Slovenia), Moschellandsberg (Germany)...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...(Canada), Kern County (California, USA), Sardinia (Italy) and Sarawak (Borneo). Sb Colour: light grey ...Russia, South Korea, Mexico, the Czech RepubUc and Italy. C Colour: black Lustre; opacity: dull metallic;...It is usually deposited at high temperatures, acanthite often occurs as cubic pseudomorphs after argentlte | | | Book | is found Include Almaden (Spain), Monte Amlata (Italy), ldrija (Slovenia), Moschellandsberg (Germany)...(Peru). Almaden Is the oldest and largest mercury mine In the world. Hg Colour: t in-white Lustre; opacity:...(Canada), Kern County (California, USA), Sardinia (Italy) and Sarawak (Borneo). Sb Colour: light grey ...Russia, South Korea, Mexico, the Czech RepubUc and Italy. C Colour: black Lustre; opacity: dull metall...It is usually deposited at high temperatures, acanthite often occurs as cubic pseudomorphs after argentlte | | | Book | Rocks and Minerals is in itself a veritable gold mine. Readers learn about the inside of minerals — the...is an example of a poly- tites. been found in Italy (Sicily and Romagna), Diamond is found in South...Australia, Morocco, Zambia, the Balkan countries, Italy, etc. converted into beta-sulfur (monoclinic for...France. fi? A Sulfur (ca. x 1), Belisio, Pesaro, Italy. Octahedral diamond crystal > : (ca. x 0.5) Kimberley...sublimation craters. Germany, Hungary, Japan, and Italy. of sea water. Deep deposits, due to their ASSOCIATED | | | Journal (issue) | Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Renato Pagano Milan, Italy Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil... . . . . . . . . .89 by W. E. Wilson The Palomo mine, Huancavelica Department, Peru . . . . . . . . ...White Ca-Mg-Fe-rich rhodonite from the Morro da Mina mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil . ....BaCa2(CO3)2F2, a new mineral species from the Kirovskii mine, Khibiny, Kola Peninsula, Russia . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 3.5 cm, from the Mashamba West mine, atanga, Republic of the Congo. Rob Lavinsky (The |
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