 | | Report (issue) | | Malaysia, near the Thai border. The Lower Triassic limestone of this hill is riddled with karstic cavities... ============================================================ quarry, from whence the veszelyite comes. The Yanga Koubenza...Greek for “six”) in the ancient Laurium mining district of Attika, Greece. On the website of his always-interesting...smithsonite, 2.7 cm, from Sounion mine #6, Laurium district, Attika, Greece. Greek Rocks specimen and photo...hemimorphite, 5.5 cm, from Sounion mine #6, Laurium district, Attika, Greece. Greek Rocks specimen and photo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L EastDerry, N. H. 03041 This data was accumulated...These operations are on leased land and trips to Austria. While it may be the most not open to the general...two or more until a more rounded text results. Austria is defined here as what is localities. presently...mineral museums of torically, within recent times, Austria in which the best is the Natural History cluded...longer available. There are The most northerly is limestone and pro many smaller collections in the mining |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | grayish-black chlorite schist and comes from the Bay Horse district, Challis, Custer Co., Idaho. This is not only...cover I am sending you an unusual fluorite specimen. It is yellow fluorite xls either etched or distorted...this fluorite are sphalerite xls with purple fluorite xls. On the curved seemingly etched fluorite is marcasite... This is the only occurrence in the Rosiclare District, however, Dana reports such occurrences from the...inches across, of the type on the yellow fluorite. Also on the fluorite are tabular plates of optically clear |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | O'Neill. It is interesting to note the occurrence of fluorite worthy of special investigation this far south...1, Piedmont, Ala., who plowed up fluorite here in 19OO. The fluorite is green, and about one short ton...Cambrian limestone, referred to as the Conasauga, which has been intensely folded here. The fluorite occurs...30 to 40 feet thick and is a replacement for limestone with the less soluble shale, flint and chert mingled...Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.) The Micanite pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line in south-central |  | Staude, S., Mordhorst, T., Neumann, R., Prebeck, W., Markl, G. (2010) Compositional variation of the tennantite–tetrahedrite solid-solution series in the Schwarzwald ore district (SW Germany): The role of mineralization processes and fluid source. Mineralogical Magazine, 74 (2) 309-339 doi:10.1180/minmag.2010.074.2.309 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tetrahedrite solidsolution series in the Schwarzwald ore district (SW Germany): The role of mineralization processes...(‘fahlore’) from 78 locations in the Schwarzwald ore district of SW Germany. Electron microprobe analysis is...fahlore, tennantite, tetrahedrite, Schwarzwald ore district, Black Forest, hydrothermal mineralization. Introduction...2004). Geological setting The Schwarzwald ore district (SW Germany) is part of the European Variscan...granites in 310 FAHLORE FROM THE SCHWARZWALD ORE DISTRICT The investigated occurrences and their characteristic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sphalerite is a lead-silver mine in the Silverton district, San Juan County, Colo. The mineral occurs as...Eugene VanderWender, Harrington, Kent County, Del. District of Columbia—French Morgan, of Washington, D. C...another very unusual find of petrified wood, in the District this time, and within a half mile of where I live... of Daytona Beach, Fla. The locality is a limestone quarry near south of Bradenton, Manatee County Fla...Various fossils are found locally in the Silurian limestone (Niagaran formation). All sorts of rocks are found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | British occurrences and the Illinois-Kentucky fluorite district. A fine witherite from Fallowfield, Northumberland...deposits. Commonly associated minerals are barite, fluorite, calcite, and galena. Witherite is uncommon in...reported from the Hubbard quarry at Covert, Seneca County, and the Gates Road quarry, Jamesville, New York...Valley–type lead-zinc-fluorite-barite deposits, particularly those of the fluorite-dominated Illinois-Kentucky...Illinois-Kentucky district where fine witherite specimens have been found in the Minerva No. 1, Ozark-Mahoning |  | | Journal (issue) | | JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2024 Articles The Berbes Fluorite District, Asturias, Spain..................................................107 by T. Moore COVER: FLUORITE, 4.3 cm, from the Valdelmar area of the La Cabaña...discharge, in New York City’s famous meatpacking district, becoming a production manager for Edmund Mayer...CLASSICS UK MINING VENTURES The Berbes Fluorite District Asturias, Spain Raúl Sanabria Orellana Vancouver...more formally known as the Berbes District, is one of three great fluorite districts in Spain’s Asturias |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sedimentation (Wetterstein-Limestone of Bleiberg-Kreuth, Carinthia, Austria) T. BECHSTXDT Munich, F.R...sediments of the upper part of the Wetterstein-limestone (Ladinian/ Carnian, Alpine Triassic) of the lead-zinc...Introduction The upper Wetterstein-limestone of the Northern Limestone Alps and the Drau-range contains...most of these have been known for a long time. In Austria, at the moment only the deposit of Bleiberg-Kreuth...Wetterstein-limestone are characterized by "intercalations" in the normal Wetterstein-limestone. They consist |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Controversial genetical interpretations on the fluorite occurrences in the leadzinc deposits of the N6rdliche...Elements Distribution in the N6rdliche Kalkalpe*l of fluorite in carbonate environments under marine condition...answer to the question of how the formation of the fluorite in the Alpine lead-zinc ores could take place...controversial problem of fluorite genesis was still missing. Earlier studies on fluorite deposits (BP,XTTER...structures are very c o m m o n (Fig. 2). Sometimes fluorite is concentrated significantly in rhythmic and |  | | Catalog/List | | grey-white crystals on 2x3.5 inch surface. (Croft Quarry,Leicestershire) £5 ANATASE sharp black single crystal...on the surface, on feldspar. (Globe Mine.Petaca District, Rio Arriba County, new Mexico) £15 b) smaller...crystal about 1cm size (Ribane mine Mozambique) £8 FLUORITE pale green 5mm cubes, making up a good small group...stepped face. lxl.5 £7 (El Hamman, Mine, Morocco) FLUORITE, pale pink 5mm octahedral crystal section. North...top, light brown fibrous on the edges. (Merehead Quarry, Mendips) 2x2.5 £4 HELVITE quite rich light brown |  | | Catalog/List | | the rarer Zeolites Malegaon near Nashik, Nashik District ,Maharashtra India lxl.5 inches £25 2 TRILITHIONITE...attractive, rich yellow platy mass in quartz La Bosse Quarry, Echassieres Allier France 2x3 inch £10 33 MAGNESITE...crystal, 18mm x 5mm Ipira, Bahia Brazil £12 - 41 FLUORITE complete octahedral cle~v~ge, ~k_gr_~~n an_d _qansl11...black grains in Serpentine 2x2.5 inch Kraubat Austria £9 53 NATIVE SILVER five silvery wire/plates about...Zhanjiang Guangdong China 4 inches long. £25 73 74 FLUORITE purple octahedral crystals 8mm to 1.5cm as an |  | | Journal (issue) | | Conklin Famous mineral localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . ....Bartsch with photographs by Harold & Erica Van Pelt Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain ...included over a hundred specimens from the Batopilas district, Chihuahua, Mexico, 73 of which were specifically...Canada (5 specimens), the Bell mine in the Butte district, Montana (1 specimen), and the Gould & Curry mine...1992 Famous Mineral Localities THE GILLETTE QUARRY ~DAM NECK, CONNECTICUT Jeffrey A. Scovil 734 E |  | | Journal (issue) | | SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2020 Articles The White Rock Quarry, Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio ...............Wilson COVER: FLUORITE crystal on celestine, 8 cm (see page 672), from the White Rock quarry, Clay Center...as a civil engineer for the Metropolitan Water District. While working in the desert on the electric transmission...took field trips to the Mesa Grande district, the Crestmore quarry, and other localities, and Russell’s...Guilin, China info@iRocks.com The White Rock Quarry Clay Center, Ottawa County, Ohio Christopher J |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Johnson, RFD 6, Knoxville, Tenn., informs us that fluorite is found with barite east of Birmingham, Jefferson...of the Cahaba River. ARIZONA—A nice xl of green fluorite from the Eagle Tail Mts., Yuma Co., Ariz., was...be selenite xls and tiny calcite, quartz, and fluorite xls. These crystals are micro mounts and are quite...biotite schist and coming from the Worth feldspar quarry on Bog Hill, East Hampton, Middlesex Co., Conn...has been mined with lead ore in the Wood River district, Blaine Co., Idaho. ILLINOIS—The following note |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bookstore at www.MineralogicalRecord.com Front cover: Fluorite on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim...Back cover: Top row, from left: Fluorite, 6.7 cm, from the Weisseck, Austria. Collected by Reinhold Bacher;...Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...by Federico Pezzotta; Antonio Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | common series of extrusives. Clastic sediments, limestone, dolomite, and iron ores are often inter- calated...minerals occur in nar- Tungsten Deposits row quartz-fluorite veins in a granite and at its in more Most of...clusters,but a few are isolated(Fig. 1). The largest district and by far the most eco- quartz veins can be found...skarn dewhere this area are confined to skarn-limestone. Most of posits. There are alsoa few small occurrences...is uncommonand found only occasionally(Torrbo). Fluorite is presentfairly often in the skarn. In most depositsthere |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | complexity, geologic Figure J. Calcite, Meshberger Stone quarry, Columbus, Bartholomew County, Indiana; Richard...their source material. Marble, a metamorphosed limestone, ranges from pure white to highly colored, folded...production of lime, which is, in fact, burned limestone, today is valued at about $7.5 million per annum...crystal 4 cm long. France Stone Company. Custar quarry. Custar, Wood County. Ohio; Neal Pfaff specimen...form, crystal 4.5 cm long. Bergenzerwald, Vorarlberg. Austria; Terry Huizing specimen and photo. structure |  | | Journal (issue) | | sediments as isolated 148 crystals together with fluorite and nigerite". Miss A. Fejer reports having seen...example in the Pulivendla area of C u d d a p a r district of Andhra, but they have so far (1955) not been...now be, according to Sinkankas, the Dexter lime quarry of Lincoln Township. A later investigation on this...where it is found in the chromite mines of the district— mines which have apparently not been worked since...is a brecciated serpentine with fragments of limestone and is usually classed with the ophicalcites. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. This is in the cinnabar district of Howard, Pike, and Clark Counties, Ark. This...us—both were from the famous Gillette pegmatite quarry, Haddam Neck, Middlesex Co., Conn. One specimen...East Haven 12, Conn. "Thin veins of deep purple fluorite occur in the Branford granite-gneiss exposed in...Airport in East Haven (New Haven Co.), Conn. The fluorite occurs associated with quartz in what is apparently...picked up on land lots, 199 and 200, 10th Land District, six miles northeast of Greenville (Meriwether |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | live in Germany, the other 10% live in Holland, Austria, Switzerland and many other countries of Europe...are some quarries which operate for limestone. This Triassic limestone is called "upper Muschelkalk" and...northeast of point (C) is another famous place, where limestone for industrial purposes is yielded. The quarries...dyscrasite have been found. Seldom on market. Fluorite and baryte mine still in operation. (8) South-Black-Forest..."Teufelsgrund" a few miles south of Freiburg city are fluorite mines which are still in operation. West of Freiburg |  | | Journal (issue) | | p u r e or impure limestone rocks. W h e n the country rock is a very pure limestone the only change which...removed as fast as it is formed. Heating pure limestone (CaCC^), a rock which has been laid down as a...little value in repeating what may well be local quarry names. In general there are two main types of nomenclature...nomenclature, one consisting of the name of the quarry and the other referring in some manner to the colour...natural waters do, the calcium carbonate from the limestone rocks, over which the water flows, will be acted |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | color) have been found in the Silver Mountain district, Alpine Co., Calif. COLORADO-"Prof. Richard M...octahedra in quartz from the Mica Lode, Royal Gorge District, (Fremont Co. ), Colorado. The garnet ranges in...number of specimens from that famous Zinc-Lead District, which includes N. W. Arkansas, S. W. Missouri...following item: "Philipsburg (Granite Co.), Mont. Fluorite, partly in modified crystal form on massive and...association of fluorite with rhodochrosite is considered extremely rare in the district." NEBRASKA-Everett |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | vasichko1@aol.com Fluorite Figure 1. Top: Outline of the Findlay Arch mineral district. Right: General...fluoriteproducing quarries of the Findlay Arch district; prepared by William Besse. H “ OW MANY TIMES...crystals of brown fluorite on white bladed celestine, 4 cm tall, from the White Rock quarry at Clay Center...Findlay Arch Mineral District Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana Figure 3. Pugh quarry, Custar, Wood County...sorting specimens collected at the Graymont Dolime quarry, Genoa, Ottawa County, Ohio, part of the Findlay | | | Journal (issue) | | Conklin 7 Famous mineral localities: the G illette quarry, Haddam Neck, Connecticut .......................Bartsch with photographs by Harold & Erica Van Pelt Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain ...included over a hundred specimens from the Batopilas district, Chihuahua, Mexico, 73 of which were specifically...Canada (5 specimens), the Bell mine in the Butte district, Montana (1 specimen), and the Gould & Curry mine...Coronado Road Phoenix, Arizona 85006 TheGillette quarry is one o f a number o f complex zoned lithium-rich |
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