 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tino Hammid photo. Figure 2 (below). Tourmaline (elbaite) from the Dunton mine, Newry, Maine. A selection...currently being mined at Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. The more familiar and more highly regarded...third, hiddenite, which is an emerald-green variety of the mineral spodumene, that occurs in North Carolina...Carolina. ;V\YTHSPUL Gem tourmaline (the species elbaite exclusively) occurs in pegmatites in both Maine...fragments were found at Mount Mica, Paris Hill, Oxford County, Maine, in 1820 among the roots of a fallen tree |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Gemological Institute of America. Downloaded by [North Dakota State University] at 07:03 14 October 2014...FOSSIL SHOW West Springfield, MA Downloaded by [North Dakota State University] at 07:03 14 October 2014...- 22 G HOLIDAY INN - CARTERSVILLE, GA 45 Miles North of Atlanta - I-75 at EXIT 293 G G Next to the Tellus... Downloaded by [North Dakota State University] at 07:03 14 October 2014 Wilkes County, Georgia (November/...Paul’s quartz scepter from Petersen Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada (September/October 2007), on the right |  | | Book | | in. ) high from Tourmaline Queen Mine, San Diego County, Pala, California. Back Cover: Azurite and Malachite...n1useun1. Kunz created a 1nagnificen t collection of North Ainerican ge1ns and precious stones as one of Tiffany's...6O18 164- 171 Tourmaline group (see gems also) Elbaite Na(Li,Al)iAli BO3)3Si 6O,s(OH), 172- 186 Liddicoatite... ~ 29 Native Gold Sheet on Quartz El Dorado County; California 30 5 cm (2 In.) high Native Gold...across Native Copper in Calcite Hancock, Houghton County, Michigan 12 cm (4% in.) across 37 38 Native |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Zapot pegmatite, Gillis Range, Mineral Co., Nevada, USA. Named in honor of W.B. Simmons. The sample is 1...Orleans, 2000 Lakeshore Drive New Orleans, LA 70148, USA E-mail: wsimmons@uno.edu 2 Museo di Storia Naturale...America 5345 Armada Drive, Carlsbad, CA 92008-4602, USA E-mail: jshigley@gia.edu 4 Department of Geology...(Zimbabwe, 25.67 ct), green elbaite tourmaline (Afghanistan, 12.33 ct), red-violet elbaite tourmaline (Brazil...(Sri Lanka, 5.13 ct), bicolored pink and blue elbaite tourmaline (Namibia, 9.88 ct), and lilac-pink kunzite |  | | Journal (issue) | | William Besse; wwbesse@gmail.com VICE PRESIDENT: Alexander Schauss; alex@aibmr.com SECRETARY: Linda Smith;...Brice W. Bridenbecker; bbridenbecker@cmccd.edu Alexander Schauss; alex@aibmr.com Chris Whitney-Smith; ask...Stephenson (Michael Finger) and LKA Emeralds, Hiddenite, Alexander County, NC Go On Public Exhibit in New York........................................... 6 North Carolina .............................................Diego County, California. Within a narrow pegmatite small anhe- dral masses were found with elbaite crystals |  | Rossi, Manuela, Dell’Aglio, Marcella, De Giacomo, Alessandro, Gaudiuso, Rosalba, Senesi, Giorgio Saverio, De Pascale, Olga, Capitelli, Francesco, Nestola, Fabrizio, Ghiara, Maria Rosaria (2014) Multi-methodological investigation of kunzite, hiddenite, alexandrite, elbaite and topaz, based on laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy and conventional analytical techniques for supporting mineralogical characterization. Physics and Chemistry of Minerals, 41 (2) 127-140 doi:10.1007/s00269-013-0631-3 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Multi-methodological investigation of kunzite, hiddenite, alexandrite, elbaite and topaz, based on laser-induced breakdown... Abstract Gem-quality alexandrite, hiddenite and kunzite, elbaite and topaz minerals were characterized...crystals of alexandrite (BeAl2O4), hiddenite and kunzite (LiAlSi2O6), elbaite (Na[Li,Al]3Al6[BO3]3Si6O18[OH]4)...spodumenes, the hiddenite specimen (c.n. 24309) was collected at Stony Point, North Carolina, USA, whereas the... 2229) comes from Teofilo, Otono, Brazil. The elbaite (c.n. 22255), the tourmaline group minerals (X |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | well known for its purple (kunzite) and green (hiddenite) varieties, both of which were named for esteemed...indicate traces of iron, manganese, chromium (hiddenite), sodium, germanium, gallium, and water, although...sources such as the Foote mine at Kings Mountain, North Carolina; the giant crystal-bearing pegmatites of the...Black Hills, South Dakota; the Harding mine in Taos County, New Mexico; the enormous Bernic Lake pegmatite...sits upright on a base of albite and associated elbaite. The specimen, which is 7.7 cm high, was found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Silver, Wolverine mine, Kearsarge lode, Keweenaw County, Michigan. William Severance specimen, Jeff Scovil...(Hallelujah Junction), Petersen Mountain, Washoe County, Nevada. Paul Geffner specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...November/December: Millerite, Sterling mine, Antwerp, Jefferson County, New York. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian...Minerals from the Huron River Uranium Prospect, Baraga County, Michigan, 298–308 Bornite, Michigan, 302 Brachiopods...Plant Fossils from the Cahaba Coal Field, Jefferson County, Alabama, 227–29 Beraunite, Alabama, 235 Beryl |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | muscovite and calcite, 19.5 cm tall, Hiddenite, Alexander County, North Carolina; Houston Museum of Natural Science...Figure 5. Gold, 8.3 cm tall, Round Mountain, Nye County, Nevada; Ian Bruce specimen. On my first trip to...Tasmania] at 10:42 13 November 2014 Figure 11. Elbaite, fluorite, and albite, 10.6 cm tall, Stak Nala |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | “neon” blue, greenish-blue, and green tourmaline (elbaite) in the northeastern state of Paraíba, Brazil....similar blue elbaite, both in Africa: Nigeria and Mozambique. At least some of the elbaite from each of...remarkably large cut stone (17 carats) of Paraíba elbaite. Houston Museum of Natural Science specimen, Jeff...the term for all blue and blue-green to green elbaite whose color can be attributed to copper, irrespective...copper-bearing elbaite Paraíba tourmaline, while also identifying it as natural elbaite, Volume 82, March/April |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sions was made in Alexander County, North pressure of the original solution. Inclu Carolina in 1882, along...zircon, anhydrite, copper, epidote, spodumene, (hiddenite), limenite, magne tite, side rite, calcite, dolomite...gold, amphibole (actinolite), tourmaline (shorl, elbaite), goethite, and clay. Obviously this is only a |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Creek area, Last Chance Mining District, Plumas County, California. Axis, volume 1, number 1, pages 1–30...beauty of the city. He dined with the Emperor Alexander I and was feted by the Russian nobility. After...purchases were from the sale of the collection of Sir Alexander Crichton FRS, MD, FRCS, FLS, FGS (1763–1856)....polymathic Crichton was physician to Emperor Alexander of Russia from 1803 to 1814, and was well respected |  | | Report (issue) | | aquamarine; the spodumene varieties kunzite and hiddenite; and watermelon tourmaline. LCT pegmatites are...the important districts were King’s Mountain, North Carolina, and the Black Hills, South Dakota. 1 Figure...rare-element phases such as beryl, spodumene, elbaite, columbite-tantalite, pollucite, and lithium phosphates...commonly bear tourmaline in the pink to green variety elbaite, which is high in lithium and manganese. Beryl...smaller, 1- by 5km halo. Cassiterite, tantalite, elbaite, and spessartine are sufficiently dense and durable |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Marshall has spent his career at the University of North Texas since 1967 involved in nuclear magnetic resonance...laboratory chemistry. Dr. Marshall cofounded the North Texas section of the Materials Research Society...Denton, Texas, whereJim teaches at the University of North Texasand Jenny pursues her own business in computer...2:45 R a r e - e a r t h mineralogy of the Mohave County pegmatites, NW Arizona byS.L. Hanson, A U. Falam;...Li mineralization in the Rist Emerald Tract, North Carolina by M. A. Wise 3:45 N a n o - and micro-scale |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | December 2014 THE FENGJIASHAN WOLLASTONITE MINE, DAYE COUNTY, HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA. B. Ottens, Klingenbrun-Banhof...visited the Fengjiashan Wollastonite mine in Daye County, and a huge number of well-developed minerals have...reported. The Gole quarry, approximately 80 kilometers north of Bancroft, near Madawaska, is well known for fabulous...WISCONSIN MINERALS FROM THE NINE MILE PLUTON, MARATHON COUNTY, WISCONSIN. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, and...ferberite-hübnerite from the Nine Mile pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin. Program notes. In 31st Rochester Mineralogical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the finest Elbaite Tourmaline crystals from Pala, and Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California, in...gem elbaite tourmalines from the Hamlin collection. These are mainly from Mt. Mica, Oxford County, Maine...terminated deeply colored hiddenite crys tal from Alexander County, North Caro lina, over two and a |  | | Report (issue) | | .'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North CarOlina Department of Natural Resources and Community...for the general welfare of the citizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts a number of basic and...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist FRONT | | | Report (issue) | | Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist i ...FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian Institution (slide...viable mineral collecting sites through out North Carolina. Some sites are commercially operated during |  | | Journal (issue) | | Treasures Issue! $15 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...COPPER, 8.3 cm, from the Central mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan—considered by some to be the world’s...from the Mammoth-St. Anthony mine, Tiger, Pinal County, Arizona Chapter authors: Les Presmyk, Robert W...Associated Minerals from the Old uma Mine, Pima County, Arizona Chapter authors and showcase organizers: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Martin Zinn specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. May/June: Elbaite, Paprok, Nuristan, Afghanistan; Adalberto Giazotto...crystals, Bachelor mine, Amethyst vein system, Mineral County, Colorado; Dave Bunk specimen, Jesse La Plante...Uvite with Overgrown Dravite, Bigelow, St. Lawrence County, New York, 250–59; Gemstone Deposits in Turkey...Uvite with Overgrown Dravite, Bigelow, St. Lawrence County, New York, M. Lupulescu, S. C. Chamberlain, M....110–11 Eicher Mineral Museum, 567 Emerald, North Carolina, 16; Northwest Territories, 28; Ontario, 27; |  | | Book | | mother-of-pearl, and shell are that were et on seashore the north coast of Europe, igget is fossil resin from trees... azurite, malachite, ORTHOCLASE spodumene (hiddenite and kunzite), serpentine, diopside, meerschaum...these are not included in the formula. CZAR ALEXANDER Il Date of discovery Some gems have names related...supposedly discovered on the birthday of Russia’s Czar Alexander Il and so is named after him. which they are...recovered from stream gravels at Rock Creek in Montana, USA, by hand-sieving gravels concentrated in the placer |  | | Journal (issue) | | VOLUME 39 • NUMBER 1 $15 Wayne & Dona Leicht, 875 North Pacific Coast Highway, Laguna Beach, CA 92651 (949)...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...100-year history of the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County collection; photo...16 cm, from Wood’s Chrome mine, Texas, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; originally from the collection of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (mostly known as lepidolite), and the tourmalines (elbaite, rossmanite, liddicoatite, and others; see London...cited in the text. Species Amblygonite Bikitaite Elbaite Eucryptite Holmquistite Lepidolite Liddicoatite...crystals (largest crystal is 5 cm across), with green elbaite on albite, from Paprok, Kunar Province, Afghanistan...lithium tourmalines (dominated by the components of elbaite, rossmanite, or liddicoatite: see table) are the...Simmons, Falster, and Lars Figure 2. Polychrome elbaite: three crystals with green and pink to red zonation |  | | Journal (issue) | | Treasures of Mineralogy by Wendell E. Wilson Alexander G. Schauss Jim Houran & Robert Lavinsky A Supplement...by The Mineralogical Record, Inc., © 2022 5347 North Ridge Spring Place, Tucson, Arizona 85749 Softcover:...Collection of Alexander Schauss by Alexander G. Schauss & Wendell E. Wilson Alexander Schauss: Consummate...St. Andreasberg, Harz Mountains, Germany. (5) Elbaite, 2.5 cm, from Sarapulka, 12 km from Mursinka, Ural...beryl, 2.4 cm, from Slieve Corra, Mourne Mountains, County Down, Ireland. Gem-crystal thumbnails illustrated |  | | Journal (issue) | | Winter Branch Chairmen: Midlands - G.M. Green, North West - I. Knight, Scottish - B. Jackson, South West...perthite. Four-rayed star tourmaline (bicolour elbaite) has one direction caused by hollow channels and...not and it was surprising to find a tourmaline - elbaite with a weak fourrayed star. The stone is an elongated...the eastern flank of the Sudete Mountains of the north-east Bohemian Massif. They occur on the southeastern...outlying ridge that stretches north-westwards from Jordanow Slaski. To the north-east, the site overlooks |
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