 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Chambery, Savoie France alain.martaud@wanadoo.fr Figure 1. Fluorite, 1.7 × 1.4 × 1.5 cm, on quartz, Le Burg...University, San Marcos] at 07:49 21 June 2016 Fluorite from France All photos by Louis-Dominique Bayle F...spectacular large clusters of blue cubes from the Beix mine raised its status to almost that of a myth—a myth...soon realized that beautiful blue crystals of fluorite were relatively common at many French mines, whereas...Massif Central (in south-central France), the Vosges (in eastern France, near its border with Germany) |  | | Catalog/List | | locality, Earth makes her own crystals; or the mine where a mineral was discovered, is akin to its ...tsavorite. Traveling west to the storied Tsumeb Mine is one of the very finest examples of the region’s...Dioptase Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia 13 cm tall x 14 cm wide Africa The mine we now call...calcite. 14 Africa Liddicoatite Tourmaline with Quartz Anjanbonoina, Antananarivo Prov., Madagascar 7...extreme rarity. This rubellite red liddicoatite and quartz was mined in 2018. It was part of a small pocket |  | | Journal (issue) | | row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...& Jim Spann collection; Tom Spann photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...collection; Jordan Root photo. Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler |  | | Journal (issue) | | (a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson...discovery of morganite at the famous Corrego do Urucum mine in 1973. Will Johnson collection (I had to trade |  | | Catalog/List | | Odyssey Book XII Janus Calcite on Quartz with Sphalerite Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee,...crystal of calcite is perched on top of glistening quartz with black sphalerite. The clarity and depth of...world. The Elmwood Mine is among the world’s exceptional calcite localities. This is a mine that has produced...Book XII Imugi Azurite with Malachite Milpillas Mine, Cuitaca, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico...from this legendary deposit. Now that the Milpillas Mine has closed, and will never reopen, we can more easily |  | | Journal (issue) | | MineralogicalRecord.com Front cover: Fluorite on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim, Colorado. Collected...Tom Spann photo. Back cover: Top row, from left: Fluorite, 6.7 cm, from the Weisseck, Austria. Collected...Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Pezzotta; Antonio Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson;... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp |  | | Journal (issue) | | Printed by Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas Front cover Quartz scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King...Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...book. Collectors have reveled in the beautiful quartz specimens from Denny Mountain and King County,...Monthly, including one on pseudomorphs and one on quartz in 1888, and he wrote a detailed article for the...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SCHWAB 36, rue Charles Sanglier F-45000 Orleans France C hamonix, a town of ten thousand residents,...Figure 2 (above). Fluorite, 2.5 cm, La Barre mine, near Pantgibaud, Puy-de-DBme, France. Jean-Franqois Astier...centuries, mountain men have been marveling at quartz crystals. In the whole of the Alps, from Austria...impossible to determine the exact origin of the quartz used in their manufacture: Switzerland, Austria...1792, a Swiss book alluded to a discovery of pink fluorite in a place in the valley called “Grandes Jorasses |  | | Journal (issue) | | Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite-Bruce and Marcia Friedman collection, page 105;...collection, page 155; Fluorite-Samuel Cooper collection, page 67. (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica...Calcite-Kevin & Mark Brown collection, page 52; Smoky quartz gwindel-Brent Lockhart collection, page 175;...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the |  | | Catalog/List | | DENVER - HOLIDAY /NN ROOM 311 - SEPT. 1992 706) FLUORITE - Kora-Oba, Kazakhstan; These make excellent display...Mexico material. The fluorite xls are "studded" on single xls and clusters of quartz to create striking...striking specimens. The quartz usually has a slightly smoky look. Minor associations include micro siderite and...octahedron of fluorite with a few smaller minor fluorites set nicely in a cluster of tour quartz xls; the...the !argest quartz xl measures 5 x 10 cm. Size: 7 x 7 x 10 cm - $200 b) A "stubby" quartz xl 4.5 x 4 x 4 |  | | Journal (issue) | | ière page de couverture : Fluorite rose aux arêtes sommitales violettes sur quartz fumé - 4 x 3 cm Pointe... Prix de l'abonnement: 6 numéros+ 1 hors série France : 300' - Soutien 400' - Etranger 400' Vente au...DU MASSIF DU MONT-BLANC par Nicolas MEISSER LES QUARTZ DU MASSIF DU MONT-BLANC par Laurent GAUTRON LA...L'ORIGINE œ fJ œ G œ DES QUARTZ TORDUS par Laurent GAUTRON LA FLUORITE DU MASSIF DU MONT-BLANC œ par...ailleurs fort répandus dans la nature, le quartz et la fluorite. Mais, dans ce massif, leurs cristallisations |  | | Report (issue) | | Soft Myrrhine The Barber Cup Carved of banded fluorite, the Barber Cup is thought to be one of only a...British Museum in London houses two extraordinary fluorite vessels: the Barber and Crawford cups. The Crawford...must have been carved from a soft stone such as fluorite. In probably the most famous example of the Roman...today as fluorite. While modem collectors continue to have a strong predilection for fluorite, they will... Contents 4 Fluorite: from Ancient Treasures to Modern Labs and Collections 72 13 Fluorite Luminescence |  | | Catalog/List | | extremely ine, specimens from the Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine of Tiger, Arizona: now a vanished place alive only...potential mineral buying area, or go into another mine. He travelled to areas that had seen few Americans...Atacama Desert to collect Underground Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia, 1993. "RPG," Artigas, Uruguay...Ed Swoboda to mine University of Arizona RRUFF Project. Another was the 7,500+ quartz in Minas Gerais..............................................145 France .............................................. |  | | Book | | Western Europe Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany (Federal Republic of, FRG) Great Britain...collections; by way of contrast, collecting efforts in France and Scandinavia tended to be restricted to the...0 _ Finland 300 __,km • Berlin • Paris France ,-L.J ) ortugai e Madrid -,,.J ( Lisbon \...22 Quartz (Rock crystal), of Dauphine habit, from the classic locality at Bourg d'Oisans, France. The...particularly interesting collection of miners' lamps and mine surveying instruments. Ancient and mediaeval mining |  | | Journal (issue) | | com Frontcover Smoky quartz with amazonite, 11.8 cm, from the "Smithsonian packet," Smoky Hawk claim, Florissant...most farnous collector species like amazonite, smoky quartz, rhodochrosite, fl uorite, gold and silver minerals...localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,...Collection" labels list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results...thread, some taken from the surface of the American mine and some from its deepest workings indicating that |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pink Fluorite! The Mineralogical Record SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2023 • VOLUME 54 • NUMBER 5 • $30 The ...net SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2023 Articles The Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England.............575 by P. S. Burr & J. G. Wilson Alpine Pink Fluorite from the New Gotthard Road Tunnel, Switzerland.....................................655 COVER: FLUORITE, 5.8 cm, from the New Gotthard Road Tunnel. Found...containing a wet and dry cave environment and a mine. He was active in the Tucson Gem and Mineral Society |  | | Catalog/List | | ‘normal’ habit, often in conjunction with euhedral Quartz crystals. The potential for new discoveries and...sideways as well as up. This form is sometimes seen in Quartz, but very rarely in Tourmaline. The rough exterior...matrix and is accompanied by a partially euhedral Smoky Quartz crystal. The Phenakite, measuring 0.9 inches...first offered for sale. 73007 TOURMALINE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam A classic Vietnamese...online, visit HA.com/6150 73008 ELBAITE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam This unusual |  | | Journal (issue) | | AUTUNITE on TOURMALINE, 11.9 cm, from the Golconda I mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil Brice Gobin (Mineral Art)...localities in the U.S., Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Great Britain, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania...as well, and they started picking over the local mine deposits together. They were married in 1970, and... Zincolivenite with Ferrilotharmeyerite | Tsumeb Mine, Namibia | 7.0 x 7.0 x 6.0 cm CRYSTAL CLASSICS...Rhodochrosite Tourmaline with Cleavelandite N Chwaning I Mine, South Africa Stak Nala, Pakistan 4.4 x 3.6 x 2 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | silky luster, and may occur as colorless, gray, smoky brown, green, yellow, or rose-red crystals. Dark...in tin-tungsten deposits (such as the Panasquiera mine) and is a constituent of granite, aplite, gneiss...rosettes of muscovite with quartz, 6.8 cm wide, from the Santo Niño mine, Patagonia district, Santa Cruz...across, and are associated with beryl, albite, and quartz. Plumose muscovite has been found at the Smith...minerals include beryl, albite, fluorapatite, and quartz. In nearby New Hampshire, the Chandler quarry, |  | | Catalog/List | | directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume...[Hoppel #D0234] Estimate: $2,800-$3,600 52003 FLUORITE Dal’negorsk Tetyuche, Kavalerovo Mining District...aesthetics. It consists of two simple cubes of Fluorite with deceptively simple form and luster. Only |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 36849-5305 Fluorite on Quartz CHAMONIX, HAUTE-SAVOIE, FRANCE This exquisite fluorite on quartz specimen...pocket found in the Mont Blanc area, Chamonix, France, about 1990. It was originally acquired in Europe...Valley-type deposits, such as the famous Elmwood mine in Tennessee and the now-closed mines of the Kentucky-Illinois...collector. So common are fluorite specimens that one would think it impossible for fluorite to ever be an expensive...almost, but not quite, the case. Octahedral pink fluorite crystal specimens from Alpine-cleft occurrences |  | | Journal (issue) | | YourBookshelf 18 Bwlchglas Mine 20 Alpine Quartz L. Gautron 29 Muirshiel Mine 40 The Copper Trials...The Collector's Tale Fluorite on smoky quartz. Mont Blanc, France. Pink fluorite is one of the most prized...prized associates of quartz in Alpine cleft deposits, ( see article on the latter in this issue). This... sits on a small group of doubly-terminated smoky quartz. Frederic Escaut collection. Photo: Mick Cooper...discussed as we go to press. Only the smoky variety of quartz specimens were now available throughout |  | | Catalog/List | | meteorites that contains a rare form of shocked Quartz called Stishovite. The irst remnants of Muonionalusta...due to its metallic luster and patches of drusy Quartz crystals. This medium-sized sphere has been carved...AM CT 29 72053 Sodalite Sphere Stone Source: France This extremely large sphere could make a very pretty...green and cream orbs with a spattering of drusy Quartz among a sea of concentric orbs. This sphere has... The impactful display piece features bands of Quartz crystals and blue Agate that frame the Amethyst |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Robert Brandstetter Fluorite Collection Downloaded by [Heriot-Watt University] at 10:26 31 December...one of his favorite fluorite specimens, a red/pink fluorite perched on a smoky quartz crystal; see figure...two collection rooms is designed to look like a mine portal. Downloaded by [Heriot-Watt University]...2014 Figure 3 (above). “Frédéric,” a fluorite with smoky quartz, 9.3 cm across, from the north face,...d’Argentière, Haute-Savoie, France. Figure 4 (below). Fluorite with stilbite and quartz, 8.5 cm high, from the |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for...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,...Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's |
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Fluorite mine, Nizerolles, Vichy, Allier, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France