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| CONNOISSEUR'SCHOICE JOHN RAKOVAN Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science Miami University...University Oxford, Ohio 45056 rakovajf@miamioh.edu Fluorapatite Acushnet Quarry Bristol County, Massachusetts...Massachusetts N orth America has produced some of the world’s finest apatite specimens, and there are many wellknown...Maine. Formerly in the collection of Col. Washington A. Roebling, builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, the specimen...Hooker Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals. The gemmy, intense purple apatites from this pegmatite mine have |
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| possible in part by contributions from The Fellows of the Mineralogical Record and the Sponsoring Organizations...Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2019) Mineral Association of Dallas (MAD) (2009–2019) Arizona Mineral Minions...before returning home and enrolling at the University of Karlsruhe in 1946. He received his Diplom-Chemiker...retirement in 1988, rising to the position of chief chemist of the research laboratory. Lieber’s first exposure...jeweler’s showcase containing a “rough and cut” exhibit of gemstones and uncut natural crystals. He took courses |
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| KING Department Geological Sciences State University of New York 4240 Ridge Lea Road Amherst, New York 14226...interest has been generated concerning the "proper" use of words in mineralogy. One problem is that some mineral...and albite.) The word specie is not the singular of species. Specie means money. The usage for index...section at the back of a book. It is the plural which is confusing. The plural of reference sections is...different kinds of matrix for a species, the word is matrixes. Matrices refer to arrays of numbers in mathematics |
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| •i f l JJ 1atYON RALPH Moore's COMPENDIUM of Mineral Discoveries -------~►►--.•.... -~~1----------...Inc. Tucson, Arizona All rights reserved. No part of this work may be copied, digitized, reproduced, or...permission of the Mineralogical Record, Inc. Please respect our copyright; many years of hard work went...condition, provenance, ownership, price or value of any specimens discussed or reported in this work...Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well |
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| Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham...Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino Royal...R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George...Tampa, FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil... . . . . . . . . . 215 by H. Barwood “The Father of Bolivian Geology,” Friedrich (Federico) Ahlfeld (1892-1982) |
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| November 2015 st THE THIRTY-FIRST TECHNICAL SESSION of the Rochester Mineralogical Symposium was held on...Abstracts were reviewed by a committee consisting of Dr. Carl Francis, Maine Mineral and Gem Museum; Dr...PETROGENESIS OF THE LLALLAGUA TIN DEPOSIT. W. B. Betkowski1, J. Rakovan1, and D. Harlov2. 1 Dept. of Geology...world. In fact this is the basis of the rock cycle. A specific class of replacement reactions occurs via...precipitation. Within this class of reactions there are those where the formation of a new mineral is spatially |
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| PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of the first quarter-century of publication of the Mineralogical...helping to build one of the single most valuable and authoritative published archives of data for the mineral...problems, however. With each passing year the sum of knowledge contained in the back issues has grown...early on that, were this problem of access not relieved, the sheer bulk of data would eventually compromise...compromise its own reference value. In 1980, at the urging of Pete J. Dunn, we initiated a feasibility study for |
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| serandite (orange) and analcime (white). It is one of the most famous specimens collected at Mont Saint-Hilaire;...the "Bouhelier pegmatite", and shortly thereafter acquired by the Canadian Museum of Nature (CMNMC 37124)...crystals of monteregianite-(Y), [KNa 2YSi8 0 19 • 5H 20], and on the right, deep blue crystals of carletonite...Monteregianite is named after the Monteregian Hills, of which Mont Saint-Hilaire is a member; carletonite...carletonite is named after Carleton University, where much of the early work on Mont Saint-Hilaire minerals was |
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| Scovil Harold and Erica Van Pelt Single copies of this issue are available, while the supply lasts...Elbaite from Nuristan, Afghanistan; Neptunite from San Benito County, California; Spinel from Mogok, Burma;...impor tant influence for centuries, from the time of Thomas Jefferson and George Gibbs (1776-1833) to...surveyed the top 1% of U.S. taxpayers,* a group of affluent individuals earning an average of nearly a quarter...support and encouragement of their spouse.” As it turns out, fully 29% of these people invest in collectibles |
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| Mines and Minerals of the California Pegmatite Province Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University]...August 2013 Southern JESSE FISHER PO Box 77774 San Francisco, California 94107 jef520@comcast.net F...much of the past century, the Southern California pegmatite province has been the source of some of the...specimens of a variety of gem and rareelement minerals, along with considerable amounts of gem and lapidary...specimens of multicolored tourmaline, the region’s pegmatites have also been the source of excellent |
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| Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation...reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored...prior written permission of the publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn,...laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in Department of Conservation programs |
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| Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham...Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino Royal...R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George...Blauwet Louisville, Colorado Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil...Tarassoff, L. Horváth & E. Pfenninger-Horváth Abstracts of the 27th annual FM-MSA-TGMS Tucson Mineralogical |
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| A. Bartsch Houston Museum of Nat. Sci. Houston, Texas Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino Royal...R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George...Tampa, FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P....alter’s wife and daughter, Candace and Ilona. Parts of this memorial repeat things I said at M ike’s funeral |
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| the Friends of Mineralogy ( V lin e r a lo j g ic a l Volume Eight/Number Two PEGMATITE ISSUE #1 p u...Supervisor, Division of Mineralogy The Smithsonian Institution Peter G. Embrey Curator of Minerals The British...83 by R. Lasmanis The Clear Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas.............and J.W. Anthony Uvite, a New (Old) Common Member of the Tourmaline Group and Its Implications for C o...Dunn and Daniel Appleman The Dravite Crystal Bonanza of Yinnietharra, Western A u s tra lia ............ |
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| JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2022 Articles History, Mines and Minerals of the Mogok Stone Tract, Mandalay Division, Burma ...(685 grams), nicknamed “The King of Mogok” and more recently the “King of Freedom,” from Mogok, Burma. Federico...part by generous contributions from The Fellows of the Mineralogical Record and the Sponsoring Organizations...Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2022) Mineral Association of Dallas (MAD) (2009–2021) Arizona Mineral Minions...Record, volume 53, January–February, 2022 The rest of his life has been spent chasing minerals as a commercial |
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| Mineralogy of Beryl and the Beryl Group William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 24 The Best of the...Antero: The Peak of Colorado Beryl Collecting Mark I. Jacobson Page 14 Crystal Structure of Beryl and Pezzottaite...Jarnot Page 16 Bazzite of the Alps Stefan Weiss Page 32 Beryl from the Pegmatites of Southern California...he was responsible for the mineralogical education of Freiberg's miners. He was also the gemstone inspector...first descriptions. T he above is a postcard of the School of Mining in Feiberg, Saxony printed for the |
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| STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA Nils Boe, Governor MINERALOGY OF THE BLACK HILLS by WILLARD LINCOLN ROBERTS...Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and GEORGE RAPP, JR. Curator of Mineralogy...Mineralogy, Museum of Geology, and Associate Professor of Mineralogy, Department of Geology and Geological...School of Mines and Technology With the Editorial Assistance of RICHARD L. BARTELS, Instructor of Mineralogy...Dakota School of Mines and Technology BULLETIN NUMBER 18 of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology |
