 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON, PO BOX 600, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND 'ANALYTICAL FACILITY, VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF...BOX 600, WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND Boulders of the assemblage ruby-sapphire corundum, chromian sequent on...formation of corundum from the mica matrix involved a further and rivers of north Wcstland, South Island of New...New Zealand. mass—volume reduction and decrements in Si, Ca, K, volatiles The location, Cr-rich composition...(Pounamu Ultramafics) that occur corundum and chromite, Ti, Fe in corundum, Ba in muscowithin Alpine Schist |  | van der Meer, Quinten H.A., Scott, James M., Serre, Simon H., Whitehouse, Martin J., Kristoffersen, Magnus, Le Roux, Petrus J., Pope, Emily C. (2019) Low-δ18O zircon xenocrysts in alkaline basalts; a window into the complex carbonatite-metasomatic history of the Zealandia lithospheric mantle. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 254. 21-39 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2019.03.029 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Otago, Leith Street, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. c Department of Geological Sciences, University...Cape Town, 13 University Avenue, Rondebosch 7701, South Africa. d Nordic Volcanological Center, Institute...two intraplate alkaline basalt locations in New Zealand. U-Pb ages indicate the zircons crystallised...western-Pacific active margin. Zircon megacrysts (± corundum) are rare in Zealandia but occur locally in several...on the South Island (Eastern Province; former fore-arc) and the sub-Antarctic Campbell Island in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | colourless hornblende with chlorite and surrounding corundum crystals. Timurgara, Dir, Pakistan (Jan et al...investigated forms amphibole-rich envelopes around corundum crystals that are partly altered to margarite... but this seemed unlikely in association with corundum, especially as the nearby banded gneisses contain...other amphiboles that are in association with corundum and, like them, is rich in AF i but is neither...cymrite in black shale, north-west Nelson, South Island, New Zealand CYMRITE, BaA1SiaOa(OH), a rare barium |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | localities, and authors mentioned in the 27th List of new mineral names are not included in this index. Aberchirder...France, anal., opt., X-ray, 78I Aguilarite, New Zealand, anal., synthesis, 96I Akagan6ite, formation... I79; Scotland, anaL, 819 Algarvia, SSo Miguel Island, Azores, olivine, I65 Alkalis, fractionation during...with calcite and quartz, 48I Aratiatia, Taupo, New Zealand, rhyolitic lavas, 424 Ardelach, Nairnshire, granite...oriented exsolved titanomagnetite in, 49 Axinite, New Zealand, manganoan, anal., opt., 374 AXON (H. J.) and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | slightly different. "Anyway the sand is from the south side of the Colorado River and just opposite Brieht...Long Beach for California, Florida, Mississippi, New York and Washington and thai we had samples of beach...Covingston, La. Donald Stockwell, 1413 Prentiss Ave., New Orleans 22, La., donated this sample. It is a cream...cave flows into cave."— on label. Creek sand from Corundum Hill, N. C. Some few months ago we received a...Tenn., who collected it at the famous corundum locality on Corundum Hill, Macon Co., N . C. The sample is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 86(2I)), lower Waikukupa stream, South Westland, South Island, New Zealand, showing idioblastic hornblendes...5. 406 SYNOPSES in the Otago schists of New Zealand (Turner, I933); like many similar Alpine schists...Peshawar, 4, 44-78. Turner (F. J.), 1933. Trans. New Zealand Inst. 63, I78-236. [Manuscript received 2I April...pyroxene granulites and are confined to the cores of south-eastern-plunging overturned isoclinal anticlines...K. Din (by XRF and MS). Alumino-tschermakite, corundum amphibolite/hornblendite, Timurgara, Oir, Pakistan |  | | Report (issue) | | NEW ZEALAND DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 125th ANNIVERSARY...1865 -1990 NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 104 ISSN 0077-9628 Minerals of New Zealand by G. L....initials should be G.T., not G.L. Lower Hutt, New Zealand 1990 I I Beach sand, alluvium, • terrace...Figure 1. Simplified geological sketch-map of New Zealand. 0 20 40 60 80 100 KM l INTRODUCTION It...Morgan's "Minerals and Mineral Substances of New Zealand" was published, as NZ. Geological Survey bulletin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 129-156 (2005) THE DEVELOPMENT OF A MARGARITE–CORUNDUM BLACKWALL BY METASOMATIC ALTERATION OF A SLICE...metapelitic country-rocks. The blackwall contains corundum, staurolite, tourmaline and four micas: muscovite...and excess quartz, and then the production of corundum from excess Al2O3. Subsequent desilication of...process leads to the observed dark biotite-rich corundum–margarite rock. The model process predicts the...blackwall mineralogy and also suggests that the corundum–margarite rock represents a mature endproduct |  | | Journal (issue) | | Photograph by Spencer J. A. Currie, FGA, Auckland, New Zealand (see Photographic Competition, p. 246) ISSN:...from a new locality about 350 miles from Tongafeno near the southern coast. Andranondambo is a new addition...century, goodletite has been a name used in New Zealand to describe an ornamental greenish rock containing...matrix of rubies does not coincide with the New Zealand rock, but at present the allusion remains elusive...one side. Meanwhile, the composition of the New Zealand goodletite is described and its gemmological |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Amphibolite Whiteschist from the Southern Alps, New Zealand, with Implications for Uplift on the Alpine Fault...Geology Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Abstract. Chromian kyanites with a maximum content...metachert and amphibolite from the Southern Alps, New Zealand. The presence of the whiteschist assemblage kyanite-talc...occurred. Introduction In the Southern Alps of New Zealand metamorphic grade of the Haast Schists increases...compositions. However, the occurrence of kyanite in South Westland has been known for many years (Hector 1890) |  | | Book | | UC-NRLF NEW ZEALAND of department Geological Survey Branch (P. G. Morgan, Director). LIST...LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND, BY P. O. Issued MORGAN AND under the authority of the Hou, J...Z. JOHN MACKAY, GOVERNMENT PRINTER 1913. NEW ZEALAND-!, n Department jfe 5j Geological Survey...Morgan, Director). LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND, P. Issued O. MORGAN AND under the authority...Minerals . . ... LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND INTKODUCTION. FOR many years there has been |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | views W. H. G. (compare this vol., ii, 490, 586). A New Occurrence of Lautite. LUCIENDURR(Mitt. G d . Landesanst...0 1 3 0.05 99.75 7.051 L. J. S . Vashegyite, a New Basic Aluminium Phosphate from Hungary. KARLZ I M...14.62 100*.19 K,O. Na,O. Ineol. W i t h this new mineral are associated diadochite and a loose, View... and a New Mineral of that Group. OTTOHAUSER (Zeitsch. mzorg. Chem., 1909, 63,340-3431.A new mineral...8. Nephrite and Magnesium Rocks from South Island, New Zealand. ALEXANDER MONCRIEFFFINLAYSON (Quart. |  | | Book | | as rough as it is on the coast at Hokitiki, New Zealand Ovate forms of varying thick9, (Plate Fig. 2)...the Orange River at its junction with Diep River, South Africa. It is of ancient amygdaloid (the body of...etc. or again, in a glacier, would assume entirely new shapes. The same pebble may at different periods...polish to them. This is the case at Griquatown, South Africa, where a number of jasper chipped axes and...) occurring along the course of the Vaal River, South Africa, have contributed abundance of pebbles to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Meta-igneous granulite xenoliths from Mount Ruapehu, New Zealand: fragments of altered oceanic crust ? Ian J....Sciences, Lower Hutt, New Zealand 2 New Zealand Geological Survey, Lower Hutt, New Zealand 3 Research School...lavas from Mount Ruapehu, Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand, have variable but relatively high 5~80 (+8.2...into the continental crustal environment of New Zealand (Fig. 1). Westwards dipping, oblique subduction...(Cole 1979). A continuing puzzle confronting New Zealand volcanology is the origin of the voluminous rhyolitic |  | SCOTT, J. M., PALIN, J. M., COOPER, A. F., FAGERENG, Å., KING, R. P. (2009) Polymetamorphism, zircon growth and retention of early assemblages through the dynamic evolution of a continental arc in Fiordland, New Zealand. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 27 (4) 281-294 doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2009.00817.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | evolution of a continental arc in Fiordland, New Zealand J . M . S C O T T , J . M . P A L I N , A . F...Geology, University of Otago, PO Box 56 Dunedin, New Zealand (jamesscott08@gmail.com) ABSTRACT The Marguerite...and associated rocks in northern Fiordland, New Zealand, contain evidence for retention of Carboniferous...pervasively lineated pargasite–anorthite–kyanite or corundum ± rutile assemblage, and as diffusion-zoned garnet...paleo-Pacific Gondwana continental margin preserved in New Zealand. The Fiordland segment of this margin (Fig. 1) |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hundy, F.G.A. North-West Branch: S. Hill,: F.G.A. South Yorkshire & District Branch: J. L Reynolds, F.G...page 52. Photographed by SJA. Currie, F.GA., New Zealand. ISSN: 0022-1252 2 J. Gemm., 1986, 20, 1... 27 Greville Street, London EC1N 8SU Abstract A new occurrence of ruby from Nepal is described. Cut stones...smaller faceted ruby, which were said to come from a new occurrence in Nepal, were brought into the Geological...1984 and this paper describes the nature of the new ruby and its associated minerals. Commercial quality |  | | Book | | by the Chinese, fought for by the Maoris of New Zealand and offered as gifts to the conquering Spaniards...in fade. The Heber R, Bishop Collection. Vol. 1, New York. Privately printed 1906. The following photographs...Where jade is found China Persia and India New Zealand Pre-Columbian America Chronological tables Map...only China but also America, Persia, India and New Zealand and covers a period in time of some 4,000 years...who were somewhat surprised, and the Maoris of New Zealand were prepared to face great danger in order to | | | Book | | by the Chinese, fought for by the Maoris of New Zealand and offered as gifts to the conquering Spaniards...in Jade. The Heber R, Bishop Collection. Vol. 1, New York. Privately printed 1906. The following photographs...India 12 31 Chronological tables Map 38 38 New Zealand Pre-Columbian America Notes on the illustrations...only China but also America, Persia, India and New Zealand and covers a period in time of some 4,000 years...were somewhat surprised, and the Maoris of New Zealand were prepared to face great danger in order to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | JukesBrowne, 38. Andrews, C. W., D.Sc, Mandible of a New Species of Telrabelodon from Kansas, 347. Antarcticlce...Interference of, II. J. L. Beadnell, 23. Artiodactyle, New, from Majorca, Dorothea M. A. Bate, 385. Ashton,...Sections near,L. Richardson, 540. Bate, Dorothea M. A.,New Artiodactyle from Majorca, 385. Bather, Dr. F . A...Territory of South Australia, 323. Brydone, R. M., Trimingham Chalk, South Bluff, 189 ; New or imperfectly...(Polyzoa), "337, 398. Buckman, S. S., Jurassic Strata, South Dorset, 570 ; Jurassic Ammonites and Brachiopoda |  | | Book | | FREDERICK GEM INDUSTRY WARNE &°CO© ELD LONDON AND NEW YORK C Sb:Aegh- hy ony rs published in the Federal...Brazilian ones suffered the same fate when in 1870 the South African sources, to this day the most important...there is also a number of secondary sources in South Africa, often in alluvial deposits. In the 1950’s...deposits exist in the Congo, Tanzania, Rhodesia, South West Africa, Venezuela, and other places. Among...the biggest diamond ever found was discovered in South Africa and was named after the president of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (especially Devon, Cornwall, and Scilly Isles), Lundy Island, Isle of Man, and North of England. Types of pegmatite:...present at Carrock Fells, North of England. Lundy Island pegmatites have topaz and beryl phase. Qu.artzvein...a r F o x d a l e , f s l e of Man: Geol. Mag., new ser., decade 4, vol. 10, pp. 3rt-36, 1903. Mclintock..., On topaz and beryl from the granite of Lundy Island: Mineral. Mag.,vol. 16, pp. 294-301, 1912. Osman...George,On an intrusionof muscovite-biotite the South-EasternHighlands of Scotland: Quart. Jour. Geol |  | | Book | | GEMS & PRECIOUS STONES The new compact study guide and identifier Cally Hall rr frpioeapy e © ©...PRECIOUS STONES The new compact study guide and identifier GEMS & PRECIOUS STONES The new compact study...gemstones we need light, for it is the light As each new -technique is introduced, the and the way that it...is reflected and re¬ detective gemmologist has a new case to fracted that causes the colour of emerald...When a gemstone breaks along a sur¬ ness between corundum (9) and diamond face that is not a cleavage plane |  | | Book | | Antique Jade Antique Jade Paul Hamlyn LONDON • NEW YORK • SYDNEY • TORONTO Translated by Francis Koval...might have been an iron tool with a diamond or corundum tip firmly embedded at one end. According to legend...in those times of metal tools with diamond or corundum tips, it must be understood that this was a purely...Albert Museum, London. is the corundum. And the fact is that corundum, un¬ like diamonds, is normally...period between the 5 th and the 1st centuries bc corundum or diamond tips were already used in drills which |  | | Journal (issue) | | – J. Riley, Scottish – B. Jackson, South East – V. Wetten, South West – R.M. Slater The Journal of Gemmology...Editor is glad to consider original articles shedding new light on subjects of gemmological interest for publication...studies of nephrites within several ‘fields’ in New Zealand, which fall within distinct geological terranes...nephrite in other localities around the Pacific Rim, in New Caledonia, Australia, Taiwan, Russia and Canada....especially in countries of the Pacific Rim (New Zealand, Australia, New Caledonia, China, Korea, Japan, Russia |  | | Book (edition) | | rich in topaz, tourmaline, chrysoberyl and agates. South African diamonds and Australian opals are two important...orthoclase feldspar (6), quartz (7), topaz (8), corundum (9) and diamond (10). Almost all dust and grit...hardness between diamond and corundum being far greater than that between corundum and talc. A truer comparison... . | | Knoop indentation hardness numbers corundum glass file el il ° ste 1000 2000 3000 7000...Diamond crystals in kimberlite from Kimberley, South Africa (top right), and Siberia (centre), and in |
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