 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Senckenberg Museum, Am Museum 1, D-02826 Görlitz, Germany Corresponding author Sunburn texture, a white-grey...found in outcrops around the world. The sunburn basalt is more fractured and less resistant than the fresh...identification is of interest in all types of basalt quarries. Three localities were chosen with different...field in the border area of the Czech Republic and Germany (Borská Skalka, Mittelherwigsdorf, Wittgendorf)...affected by many cracks that are filled with limonite. Limonite also infiltrates the sunburn spots, which |  | | Book | | immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...by the mineral kingdom: minium, cinnabar, and limonite (ochre). The black color was soot. By Egyptian...Pseudomorphs of limonite after pyrite are common, since pyrite readily decomposes into limonite (see p. 92)...radiate from a common center (hematite or reniform limonite, Pls. 13, p. 73, and 21 , p. 101). Easily crumbled...rosettes ('desert roses'). Dendrites are moss-like limonite or pyrolusite found along minute flaws in rocks |  | | Report (issue) | | Wölsendorf fluorite mining district, Bavaria, Germany. Ex Kay Robertson collection. The Arkenstone specimen...Wölsendorf fluorite mining district, Bavaria, Germany. Cäcilia mine fluorite crystals are complexly twinned...Proustite, 2 cm, from Marienberg, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany. Ex Kay Robertson collection. The Arkenstone specimen...Marienberg district in the Saxon Erzgebirge of Germany (Kay purchased this one in the 1970s from New Jersey...in turn are held together in clumpy masses by limonite: 14 ======================================= |  | | Book | | on quartz, from Neudorf in the Harz Mountains (Germany). The large crystal measures almost 2 1/2 inches...on quartz, Braunsdorf near Freiberg (Saxony, Germany); crystals up to 2 1/2 inches (6 cm) long. 6 ...with the NO 3group. Apatite, Fichtelgebirge (Germany), 2x 12 Scheelite, Tae-Wha (Korea), 1x The...8ri.iderbund Mine, near Eiserfeld (Siegerland, Germany), 3x almost identical in size. They form an unbroken...siderite, from Neudorf in the Harz Mountains (Germany). The largest crystal measures about 1/2 inch (1 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | good crystal specimens of epidote which occurs in limonite as well as in calcite. Some of the epidote crystals...greenish and translucent, have been found in the basalt quarries on Mt. Tom, Holyoke, Hampden Co., Mass. MICHIGAN:...been sent to the gem cutters at Idar-Oberstein, Germany, where it was fashioned into a sphere and polished...schist occur at Quimper, in Brittany, France. GERMANY: Nice specimens of aborescent native silver have...have been found at Altwolfach, Baden, Germany. GREECE: Pinkish, brecciated marble of much beauty, is quarried |  | | Book | | of the Deutsches Bergbau-Museum in Bochum, West Germany, Professor J. C. Becker of the University of Copenhagen...USA, Fig. 93; German Mining Museum, Bochum, West Germany, Figs 19, 20, 42, 46, 52, 55, 56, 57, 81; Institute...USA Fig. 64; Museum of History, Cologne, West Germany, Fig. 69; Museo de Prehistoria, de la Excma, Valencia...Romisch-Germanisches Commission, Frankfurt, West Germany, (Germania), Figs 68, 98; Society of Antiquaries...Tundra in NW. Europe Forest pine in S. France and Germany Return to colder conditions Mesolithic — Holocene |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | FIRST IN A SERIES ON EAST COAST TRAPROCK QUARRIES riassic Traprock Minerals of EW J E R S E Y JOSEPH...New York, New York 10024 The Triassic traprock quarries of New Jersey have been a prolific source of beautifully...Hill occurrence in the Palisades diabase and five quarries located in the First Watchung Mountain: Upper...applied to dark-colored dike and flow rocks, chiefly basalt and diabase. have occurred from these localities...Mountain traprock (basalt) quarries in New Jersey. Upper and Lower New Street quarries are located in Paterson; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach Bochum-Querenburg, West Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim...interesting minerals offered in several such study in Germany and some marvelous letters as this. A special thanks...Az Micro xls in Basalt matrix TN 60< NATROLITE Horseshoe Dam,Az Clear xls in basalt SCabl.75 GEARKSUTITE...Park West at 79th Street New York, New York 10024 Basalt, formed from solidified lava, comprises a ridge...and is known as the First Watchung Mountain. This basalt is very fine grained, tough, and resistant to |  | | Journal (issue) | | his first exhibit and sale of such well-known quarries as those of minerals in the Shelton Hotel, New...descriptive. As we covered many of garnets. the same quarries as in past years at our At Lower Manhattan Island...Summer's experiences. We visited 16 different quarries, on Wall Street in New York City, we some of them...Paterson Zeolites and Franklin and ham feldspar quarries with Mr. Gutman and found no changes at any of...accurate information as to localities of interesting quarries and has written a very extensive article about |  | | Book | | Alberene and Old Dominion quarries, Albemarle County. In these two soapstone quarries, tabular ilmenite crystals...1970s and early 1980s the Portland Harbor Trust basalt quarry (now inactive) produced unusual specimens...augite and ilmenite rest on matrix of fine-grained basalt. The ilmenite crystals are lustrous black plates...6 X 1.8 x 2.8 cm (Pekov, 1994a). Malad-Kurar quarries, Mumbai [Bombay], Maharashtra. Ilvaite occurs...in the 1960s (Birch, 1999). IMITERITE EUROPE GERMANY Ramsbeck district, Nordrhein-Westfalen [Sauerland] |  | | Report (volume) | | England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product__________ Method of tr...The granite railroads_______________________ The quarries, their granite and finished product_______ Caledonia...________ Geology of Byegate quarries__________ Quarries ________________________ Groton____________________________...Descriptions of the quarries, granites, and product Continued. Vermont Continued. Page. The quarries, their granite...______________ ______ Geology of Barre quarries____________ Quarries _______________________ Cabot __________________ |  | | Book | | CUMULATE ROCK gas bubble holes VESICULAR BASALT flow structure BASALT METAMORPHIC ROCKS These rocks are...together in one geological environment. For example, basalt, scoria, spilite, and volcanic bombs are found...human activity, such as roadcuts, mine dumps, and quarries. Good examples are also found where nature has...MOUNTAINS VOLCANIC REGIONS dolomite BEACHES tuff QUARRIES MINES ROAD CUTS volcanic bomb amber kimberlite... stilbite apophyllite elbaite tourmaline basalt BASALT ASSOCIATION quartz rhodochrosite kyanite |  | | Book | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 11.2.3 Basalt/Andesite/Dolerite . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...USA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 Basalt hand axe from unnamed wadi near Mine Mueilha, Egyptian.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Basalt hafted hammer from Lake Superior north shore, USA...Jordan, is constructed almost entirely of local basalt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...was that marble regenerated itself in certain quarries. Nevertheless he was suspicious of claims that |  | | Book | | aquamarine. Excited collectors took home from old quarries in Pennsylvania and Maryland, pieces of apple...by Flora Collins. 3 i palachians as well as quarries which are on a semiactive basis such as those...and feldspar mines, gravel or dimension stone quarries, inactive gold mines, quartz out crops, and a...you ing operations should also be examined, and quarries if you need. Chambers of Commerce, Jaycees, police...interested in specimens and fossils. New mines and quarries should be watched. all, local rock and mineral |  | | Report (issue) | | .............................................8 Basalt or ‘trap rock’..............................................................................129 Basalt.......................................................................129 Jules Road and other quarries .................................................................................135 Beelerup quarries ................................................................................136 Carabooda quarries ............................................. |  | | Book (edition) | | opened or systematically worked, as in mines and quarries, the amateur is far better able to keep track...system in 1735, followed by Friedrich Mohs of Germany, who published his in 1820. In 1758, Axel Frederic...Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) in Sweden, and in Germany by Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817), the merits...carried out by Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863) in Germany; these did much to explain hitherto puzzling variations...Properties Considering the enormous collector in quarries, mines, quantities of ordinary rock which greet |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fair illustrating the mineral occurrences in the Basalt around Spokane, Washington. Conspicuous among these...zeolites. Mike and his family collected brecciated basalt which they sold to Ward’s Natural Science Establishment...collecting agates and arrowheads in rural Iowa quarries and stream beds: lean but geographically appropriate...(1949–2001) Joe Jochen Nagel was born in Montabaur, Germany, in 1949. His family soon emigrated to the US,...the Clara mine, Oberwolfach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Bill Dameron photo. Fluorite on hübnerite with | | | Book (edition) | | opened or systematically vvorked, as in mines and quarries, the amateur is far better able to keep track...system in 1735, followed by Friedrich Mohs of Germany, who published his in 1820. In 1758, Axel Frederic...Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) in Sweden, and in Germany by Martin Heinrich Klaproth (1743-1817), the merits...carried out by Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863) in Germany; these did much to explain hitherto puzzling variations...of ordinary rock which greet the collector in quarries, mines, and other collecting sites, it is obvious |  | | Book (edition) | | SUITE Lusters: dull, earthy, kaolin, goethite (limonite); waxy, quartz (chalcedony): greasy, oily, cordierite...(prismatic crystal), epidote, olivine (dun ite or in basalt), andalusite (chiastolite), kyanite, topaz, staurolite...out by Eilhard 1\tiitscherlich (l 794-1863) in Germany; these did much to explain hitherto puzzling variations...of ordinary rock vvhich greet the collector in quarries, mines, and other collecting sites, it is obvious...gold, silver, lead, etc. Some igneous rocks, as basalt and diabase, contain gas cavities filled by interesting |  | | Book | | Bergemann in 1858 from Johanngcorgenstadt, Saxony, Germany, and named by G. J. Adams in 1869. They were considered...activity occurred in the region, and vesicular basalt flows, ashes and tuffs, together with a few vents...discontinuous deposits ofberthierine, chamosite, limonite and siderite. with minor pyrite and varying amounts...siderite and its weathering products, gocthite and limonite, 7 GEOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION Manchestere Liverpool...•Deganwy Conwy• Penmaenmawr• + Trecastell mines,quarries,elc. HOLY ISLAND • villages,smalltowns e • |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | Fritz: Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany. Donald B. Hoover: U.S.G.S., Federal Center, Lakewood...Institut fur Mineralogie, Ruhr Universitat Bochum, Germany. Duane Mellor: Geology Library, Yale University...Berlin, Germany. Peter Susse: MINABS, Inst. of Mineralogy, Univ. of Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany. C. Sheldon...Pennsylvania. Hans J. Wilke: Eppertshausen/Hessen, Germany. Wendell E. Wilson: The Mineralogical Record, Tuscon...France; Andreasberg, Freiberg(*), and Schneeberg(*), Germany; Pribram(*), Jachymov, and Schemnitz, Czech Republic; |  | | Journal (issue) | | New ork and then Pan Am flight 72 to Frankfurt, Germany. He cabled his French contacts of the situation...offerings of zeolites and associated minerals from the quarries around Mumbai, Nasik, Pune, Ahmednagar, Jalgaon...most zeolite specimens were collected from basalt quarries in operation near these cities, but about 20...2008 We found massive slabs and huge boulders of basalt covered by thick carpets of green apophyllite crystals...were also a few rhombohedral calcite crystals. The basalt in the well showed former gas pockets and small |  | | Journal (issue) | | ......... . 2.50 PSEUDOMALACHITE ILUNNITE l , Germany. Xld. and xllinc. in rock. 2½ X 2 ½ .... ........mass. 2 x 2 x I ¼ .... 3.00 PYROMORPHITE, Ems, Germany. Very gooq, gray xis. in matrix. 3½ c: [\ R...my wife and I ever experienced. We visited 22 quarries in Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut and New Jersey...most active collecting was confined to 4 working quarries, which we f requented often and from which I have...interfere with workmen during working hours at quarries. Don't leave papers and lunch debris all over |  | | Book (volume) | | | Augite andesite 254 | Basalt . 255 | Leucite basalt 257 | Nepheline basalt 258) Peridotite . 263|Serpentine...of regular structure in the mines of England, Germany, Sweden, &c, 4. The remains of plants and animals...Werner contemplated the rocks and metallic veins of Germany, was the relative period of ~ Figs x. their...that the order of succession among these rocks in Germany would be found to prevail in all parts of the world...the naturalists of Italy, France, England, and Germany in the ridiculous dispute whether fossil shells |  | | Journal (issue) | | Apart from the obvious tourist attractions, Germany has two main interests for a gemmologist. One of...All of my holiday touring had been in southern Germany in the areas of the Rhine, the Black Forest and...shapes. Other sources of fine zeolites are the basalt quarries around Paterson, New Jersey as well as Oregon...what is now the grandeur of the Cuillin Hills. The basalt of Talisker is well known for stilbite which occurs...those mentioned, where they may well occur. The basalt in Mull far exceeds the thickness found anywhere |
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