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Mandarino...in y u lite from the W illard m in e, P ershing County, N e v a d a ....................................Record, volume 31, July-August, 20C Sweet Home Mine Special Issue. Since living in Connecticut I have...fund-raising technique being used by the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. It’s called the “Adopta-mineral” |  | | Book | | of the Stone in Myth and in Rock 9 3 From Mine to “Mine”: The Emerald Business 21 4 Emeralds in World...emerald belonging to Satan himself was found by the Queen of Sheba, who gave it to King Introduction r...could identify the country and sometimes the actual mine a particular stone came from. However, vaporizing...Prize, but he did get to be Royal Astronomer to the Queen. Fred Hoyle was wrong about the Big Bang, though...of some ocean. The glorious emeralds of the Muzo mine of Colombia are embedded in calcite veins found |  | | Journal (issue) | | Tucson report • Emerald-bearing gem pockets from North Carolina • Spessartine from Loliondo, Tanzania • Gem-quality...Myanmar • Large gem pocket discovered in San Diego County, California • Green sodic plagioclase from East...Abduriyim et al., 2006). One blue-green stone from that mine GEMS & GEMOLOGY SPRING 2008 showed some different...Cu-bearing tourmalines from the Alto dos Quintos mine in Brazil show complete overlap, whereas the (light)...(light) blue to bluish green stones from the Mulungu mine in Brazil show higher SG values (3.08–3.13: Shigley |  | | Journal (issue) | | feldspar from Congo • Fluorite from the Rogerley mine, England • Demantoid garnet from Iran • Kyanite...opal triplets • Plus: Emeralds from Hiddenite, North Carolina • Star emerald from Madagascar • Tourmaline...tourmaline has come from Madagascar’s Anjanabonoina mine and contains remarkable color zoning, as shown by...of home study (or “distance”) education beyond North America when, in 1970, he sent Nord to Israel to...Tourmaline Queen pegmatite mine in the Pala district of San Diego County, California, with mine owner Ed |  | | Journal (issue) | | is the Lundazi District, located ~160 km to the north (as indicated by Rossman and Mattson, 1986). Since...(Shire Trading Ltd., Hong Kong), who was leasing the mine in partnership with a Zambian company. Since then...recently included in a list of discredited minerals (Burke, 2006), because no samples have been documented...been referred to as the Kaombeka or Doost-Chiwele mine (Njamu, 2003). HISTORY AND PRODUCTION Initial gem...1982), and the brown tourmaline was tossed into the mine dumps (Njamu, 2003). Yellow tourmaline from eastern |  | | Book (chapter) | | crandallite, AM 48, 1144 (1963). candas de las Indias = pyrite, de Fourestier 60 (1999). Candelabra = large blue-cap...6th, 306 (1892). carbopyrite = coal + marcasite + pyrite, Thrush 175 (1968). Carborund = moissanite-6H,...36-1458. carolathine = allophane, Chester 47 (1896). Carolina Emperor = 64.83 ct. dark-green gem Cr±V-rich beryl...beryl, GG 46, 315 (2010). Carolina Queen = 14 gm. dark-green gem Cr±V-rich beryl, GG 46, 314 (2010)...cordierite, Doelter IV.3, 1116 (1931). cat coal = coal + pyrite, Bates & Jackson 104 (1987). Ca-tetranatrolite |
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