 | | Journal (issue) | | Mandarino Famous mineral localities: The Annaberg District, Lower A u stria ...................................by C. Auer M ineralogy of the Boqueiraozinho pegmatite, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, B r a z il......mineral generally occurring in granitic pegmatite and polymetallic quartz vein set tings. It is commonly associated...polymetallic hydrothermal quartz veins containing copper, bismuth and vanadium and of pegmatite settings will probably...several milli meters in diameter in vugs within the quartz matrix. Morass Creek Gorge, Australia Birch et |  | | Journal (issue) | | Front cover: Fluorite on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim, Colorado. Collected by the Dorris family;...from left: Fluorite, 6.7 cm, from the Weisseck, Austria. Collected by Reinhold Bacher; Reinhold Bacher...Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | are found in certain pegmatites, granite bodies, quartz veins, and metal deposits. The pockets of pegmatites...localities, and, when colorless, phenakite can resemble quartz. Phenakite exhibits a Mohs hardness of 7.5–8 and...MINERALS fluorite, the micas and feldspars, and quartz; there appears to be a general association with...and is reported from the Orchard quarry at Buckfield, the Noyes quarry at Greenwood, and the Burnell Hill...Mountain near Effingham, and the Hamm and Weeks quarry, Wakefield, all in Carroll County; and the Bean’s |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | that he has had cut a few rock crystals, also pale smoky crystals, from the Center, Cherokee County, Ala...sphalerite is a lead-silver mine in the Silverton district, San Juan County, Colo. The mineral occurs as...crystalline galena and a litte chalcopyrite and milky quartz. A triboluminescent mineral is one which gives...greenish to deep blue, have been found in a milky quartz vein about V2 mile north of the bridge (Judd's...Eugene VanderWender, Harrington, Kent County, Del. District of Columbia—French Morgan, of Washington, D. C |  | | Journal (issue) | | small black micro crystals of manganbabingtonite, quartz, calcite, datolite, and inesite (identity confirmed)...(8 cm) tall, and J5/g inches (4 cm) thick. The quartz from here can also be nice; I had one large clear...by a quantity of glistening '·Herkimer diamonds" quartz crystals, in which she specializes. Most of them...France. Also, he had small trays holding small clear quartz crystals, one tray with pale green inclusions of...Associations include smoky quartz and feldspar. The locality, I believe, is a granite quarry. I have been told |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | beautiful specimens are found of snowy-white drusy quartz which line cavities of gray chert. California—R...Please Send Them In. calcite from the West End quarry, Inyo Co., Calif., and the other is a bluishwhite...consisting of about 22 minerals of which garnet and quartz seem to be the most common. Along with the sand...(microcline, orthoc'ase, albite, oligoclase, anorthite), quartz, mica (biotite, muscovite) obsidian and gold??...Can anyone supply information on the occurrence? District oí Columbia—On a recent visit to Washington, the |  | | 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...Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic, plutonic and...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment, |  | | Book (edition) | | very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz or cinnabar. Current practice most often names...polished mineral surface, expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....purine-porphyrine group). a nickel porphyrine. With quartz. rutile, piemontite, sursassite, ardennite, Triclinic...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | unusual boxlike cavities lined with comb-structured quartz. Although Dale (1924) named the vein after the...the outer walls of the quartz-lined cavities, at the boundary between quartz and calcite, pyrolusite...along the cleavage directions of calcite. Euhedral quartz characterized the interior of the cavities, Volume69...University Library] at 17:06 10 August 2015 Calcite and quartz mineralization typical of the box-vein of Lyonsdale...with Herkimer quartz) locally occurs on the surfaces and within the outer margins of quartz. Textural evidence |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | here and there. The rock forming minerals, such as quartz, feldspar, mica, calcite and dolomite, build entire...are exposed at surface (granite, pegmatite, crystalline, schists, quartz or limestone veins). Mineral deposits...orangite, latapleite, eucrasite, veins of nephelin pegmatite. Kragero, S Norway, and Iviland, occurrence of...fergusonite. KIMOTO, S. W. Finland, large deposit of pegmatite: muskovite, beryl, topaz, tapiolite, tryphiline...(vivianite, triphylite, hagendorfite-rare mineral in pegmatite). JACHYMOV (Joachimstal), Czechoslovakia, important |  | | Book | | second piece: the flakes are mica, the glassy grains quartz, and the yellowish grains feldspar. The whole specimen...hich feldspar, quartz, and mica are the main constituents. Quartzite consists of quartz only, mica schist...schist of quartz and mica, and eclogite of garnet and augite. There are also rocks which consist of fragments...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...100,000 years ago, beads made of limestone and quartz were found, and when man began to decorate cave |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | silky luster, and may occur as colorless, gray, smoky brown, green, yellow, or rose-red crystals. Dark...muscovite with albite, 2.8 cm high, from the Strickland quarry, Portland, Middlesex County, Connecticut. This...of muscovite with quartz, 6.8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz County...across, and are associated with beryl, albite, and quartz. Plumose muscovite has been found at the Smith...Newry (King and Foord 1994). The Black Mountain quarry, Rumford, Oxford County, was one of the biggest |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | T.I., R 19W of Garland County, Ark., some fine quartz xls containing chlorite phantoms have been obtained...1/2" xl in a 2" matrix which consisted of minute quartz xls, and vellow cookeite. Lepidolite: some choice...in length were noted on a specimen of quartz. This noted pegmatite locality, although not being worked...believe we can it was found at the New England Lime Quarry, Canaan (Litchfield Co.), Conn." use 3 or 4 dozen...matrix. "Stibnite with cervantite, Ambrose nite (quartz) have been found on the mine, Hollister (San Benito |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | bodies) and belong to the Moldanubian rare-element pegmatite province. They show distinct degree of textural...Al-poor tourmalines) higher in the less evolved pegmatite bodies in the Fe-skarn. The tourmaline-bearing...pegmatites were evidently generated from the granite–pegmatite body in the footwall contact of the Fe-skarn....respective parts of the parental Footwall granite–pegmatite body. This observation seems consistent with the...the model of sequential derivation of pegmatite melts from evolving parental granite. Primitive to highly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | arsenopyrite, galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite with quartz, feldspar, limonite, siderite, muscovite, biotite...grayish-black chlorite schist and comes from the Bay Horse district, Challis, Custer Co., Idaho. This is not only... This is the only occurrence in the Rosiclare District, however, Dana reports such occurrences from the...xl group found on the dumps of another limestone quarry, this one south of Pella (Marion Co.), Iowa. Found...tan fluorite xls have been found in the Lockport quarry, Lockport (Henry Co.), Ky." LOUISIANA—Mark W. Mitchell |  | | Catalog/List | | grey-white crystals on 2x3.5 inch surface. (Croft Quarry,Leicestershire) £5 ANATASE sharp black single crystal...brown fibrous vein section with some clean white quartz (Timmins area,Ontario,Canada) 2x2 £15 less rich...on the surface, on feldspar. (Globe Mine.Petaca District, Rio Arriba County, new Mexico) £15 b) smaller...top, light brown fibrous on the edges. (Merehead Quarry, Mendips) 2x2.5 £4 HELVITE quite rich light brown...rich black xlline mass in matrix (Laytonville District,Mendocino County, California USA) 2x3 £ 16 bY |  | | Report (issue) | | William "Skip" Simmons and Alexander Falster, pegmatite specialists from the University of New Orleans...pegmatites. Most ore beryl occurs in massive pegmatite zones where crystals may reach considerable size...can be found adjacent to the core margin of the pegmatite and in Suggested Chromophores for Beryl Color-generating...diameter; Ohigashi, Japan; and in Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica, where meter long blue green crystals...meter long crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bastnas Mines, Riddarhyttan Ore Field, Bergslagen District, Vastmanland, Sweden ........... 187 by L. Ohman...Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orleans , France The Trimouns Quarry, Luzenac, Ariege, France ........................crystal, 5.5 mm; (lower left) IIMORIITE-(Y) crystal, 2 mm-All from the Trimouns talc quarry near Luzenac,...BASTDAS ffiIDES RIDDARHYTTAD ORE FIELD, BERGSLAGED DISTRICT, VASTffiADLADD, SillEDED Lennart Ohman Hi:igviltsvagen...1 meter in the dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium |  | | Journal (issue) | | FROM THE QUARRY ................................................................ AMETHYST-SMOKY QUAR1Z-TOPAZ.................................. (0PPER•STAINED QUARTZ FROM ARIZONA .................................... ~ .... v-.... ...... _ CHIPS FROM .. THE qUARRY . '~ - - ................... ...................ASSOCIATION lock Vol. 20, No. 6 ardally AMETHYST - SMOKY QUARTZ ritaIn Northern New Hampshire •eek IJU• ,ubBuPril...localities where a large quantity of amethyst and smoky quartz, and a smaller amount of topaz have been found |  | | Journal (issue) | | sapphire and spinel deposit of An Phu, Luc Yen Mining District, Yenbai Province, Vietnam . . . . . . . . . ....12th level of the Cresson mine, Cripple Creek district, Colorado in 1914 (see “The Cresson Vug, Cripple...Steger Nestroystrasse 15 2700 Wiener Neustadt Austria The author has been visiting mines and mineral...mineralogical tours have taken him from his home in Austria to such enticing localities as the Virgem da Lapa...isolated occurrence of large, colorless, transparent quartz crystals with epidote crystals to 15 cm included |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | history, petrology, mineralogy, geochemistry, and pegmatite genesis of probably the best aquamarine locality...transparent crystals resembling the tounnalinated quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil. Of approximately one...XRD methods and found to be composed largely of quartz, stained brown by iron oxide. A few grains of apatite...single crystals of apatite from the Golconda pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and Llallagua, Bolivia...University, Hanisonburg, VA 22807. The Morefield pegmatite is one of two complex, extensively mineralized |  | | Report (issue) | | topazes, weighing a total of 3.03 carats on the lower wings. The small stones in the wings, totaling 19...Topaz: St. Anne's Mine JAN KANIS 60. Brazil: The Land of Topaz DIETMAR SCHWARZ 68. Topaz from Russia...the term "topaz" in reference to the olivines, quartz, and other Topaz crystals can be extraordinarily...gold-color quartz ("citrine") is often labeled "topaz quartz" and brown, smoky quartz is sold as "smoky topaz...pinacoid {001} is conspicuous. Topaz crystals from pegmatite pockets are commonly etched, and crystals from |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | peacockcolored massive bornits and masseive pale smoky quartz. The locality for this handsome specimen is...Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. This is in the cinnabar district of Howard, Pike, and Clark Counties, Ark. This...crystal, and a beautiful rutilated quartz cabochon (colorless quartz containing slender bronzy xls of rutile)...Francisco, Calif., under the heading "Geology of Lower Lake Quadrangle" there appears the following statement—...gave us—both were from the famous Gillette pegmatite quarry, Haddam Neck, Middlesex Co., Conn. One specimen |  | | Journal (issue) | | gressman@minrec.org Articles The Malkhan Pegmatite District Krasny Chikoy, Transbaikalia, Eastern Siberian... from the Forgotten Pocket, Sosedka pegmatite, Malkhan district. The same specimen as shown from a different...Rubellite, 25.5 cm Malkhan pegmatite field, Russia Rudolf Watzl Freistadt, Austria Visit our website and...- cell.: +43 (0)664 4047940 The Malkhan Pegmatite District Krasny Chikoy, Transbaikalia, Eastern Siberian...Gerhard Wagner,6 and Philip Persson7 The Malkhan pegmatite field in Siberia represents the largest source |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | promising forgotten locations is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. This...81MINERALS dletown-Portland, Connecticut, pegmatite district. They are found in South Glastonbury, about...the Simpson quarry on the south, the Hollister quarry on the east, and the Howe No. 4 quarry on the north...includes one of the largest quarries of the entire district, the Howe No. 1. Access is through a trail system...summer of 1996, the author mapped the trails and quarry locations using an altimeter, a Global Positioning |
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Pegmatite quarry, Ambach, Wölbling, Sankt Pölten-Land District, Lower Austria, Austria