 | | Report (issue) | | Beryl-bearing Pegmatites in the Ruby Mountains and Other Areas in Nevada and Northwestern Arizona By...acknowledgments.--------.---------------------Pegmatite mining in the region...________-__-__--__.______-_-_-General...minerals___________________________________________ Beryl and chrysoberyl____________________________________..._____________________ Dawley Canyon area, Elko County-______--_--_------_-_-_-_-_---_-_ Location and...Quartz_-_____-__.-.-__-__-__----_---_--__---_-_-__.-_-_-_ Feldspar....______________________________________________ |  | | Book (edition) | | OPALS • AOATI • • AMETHYST URINE • • BERYL MOONSTONE CITRINE GEM HUNTERS GUIDE by Russell...semi-precious in Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to... TYPICAL CRYSTAL FORMS OF PROMINENT MINERALS BERYL CHIASTOLITE a\ DIAMOND CRYSTALS DIOPSIDE EMERALD... CHRYSOBERYL EPIDOTE PERIDOT SPHALERITE CORUNDUM FELDSPAR ^ PHENACITE SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE...short direction of the prismatic crystal, and feldspar has a pearly-type parting difficult to describe |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ........................................ 187 Nevada................................................................... New Hampshire..... 190 201 New Jersey............................................................... New Mexico..................................................... New York. ...............................................F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than |  | | Journal (issue) | | R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...following people: Canada: Mrs. J. W. Peat 36 Deepwood Crescent Don Mills, Ontario M3C 1N8 South Africa: Horst...Paul Van Hee Mariaiei 43 B-2120 Schoten Articles New minerals 1978-1982: a perspective .............................................211 by P.J. Dunn A new stolzite occurrence: Broken Hill, Australia........Behnke Famous mineral localities: the Corrego Frio mine and vicinity, Minas Gerais, Brazil ............ |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA Peer Hen By CASTOR oan eGORY.C.oFER DOCK NEVADA AND BUREAU... UNIVERSITY Reno & Las Vegas OF NEVADA PRESS GEOLOGY Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...otherwise noted Map of Mining Districts and significant mineral occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Castor, Stephen B, Minerals of Nevada / Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.— Ist |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...HANOVER, Coosa Co., (near) Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book | | Photographs by Mike Caggiano ASSOCIATION PRESS • New York FINDING AND PREPARING PRECIOUS AND SEMIPRECIOUS...James A. Peterson Association Press, 291 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10007 All rights reserved. No part of this...nature of the rock itself, the emergence of new chemicals and new formations. An example of the radical change...position of igneous rocks. Anyone who walks in the mountains will be familiar with the natural processes going...often are arrested there. At the Eldorado sapphire mine in Mon¬ tana the action of a million years is readily |  | | Book (volume) | | Fourche and Cheyenne rivers. These pine covered mountains, higher than the Alleghenies, culminate in Harney...crystals of Beryl and Spodumene. For instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone...weighed 90 tons. Also huge crystals of sparkling blue Beryl from the Black Hills pegmatites have measured from...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides |  | | Book | | stumble over a valuable nugget and stake your own mining claim? Indeed it to is, and author book Jay...prospecting, he points out, is in abandoned mining districts, where valuable mineral ores are present...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...Jay Ellis Ransom )' HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS New York, Evanston, and London A RANGE GUIDE TO MINES...Publishers, Incorporated, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y. * FIRST EDITION LIBRARY OF CONGRESS |  | | Journal (issue) | | Industry Background image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the...They are Found zite (201 cts) is from the Oceanview Mine in Southern California; the 0.72-ct benitoite (left...Dallas Gem Mine area, San America’s Royal Gems – Montana and Yogo Sapphires Benito County, California;... State of Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing Turquoise ite Country, Montana...original mine image by Mark Mauthner. Red Beryl – A Very Rare and Highly Prized Gem Beryl Peridot – | | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF NEVADA MINERALS OF NEVADA STEPHEN B. CASTOR and G R EGOR Y C . F E R D OC K l NEVADA BUREAU...association with the UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA PRESS Reno & Las Vegas Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Special...University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright© 2004 by Uni versity of Nevada Press Photographs...Districts and si gnificant minernl occurrences of Nevada by Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology All rights reserved...-Publ ication Dat,i Castor, Stephen B. Minerals of Nevada/ Stephen B. Castor and Gregory C. Ferdock.- rst |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H |  | | Book (volume) | | excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional knobs and ridges and just above areas...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |  | | Book (volume) | | excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional knobs and ridges and just above areas...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OCCURRENCES IN THE UNITED STATES PART 1: ARIZONA, NEVADA, AND NEW MEXICO By MAHGARET COOPEB CONTENTS Page Page...Bibliography 197 Nevada, and New Mexico 208 3. Index I. Gazetteer for Arizona, Nevada, and 5. Index III...Subject index for Arizona, NeNew Mexico 205 vada, and New Mexico 222 FOREWORD The following bibliography consists...other radioactive occurrences in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico. It represents the first section of...checking have been cited. The remaining old and new references will be added to this basic list when |  | | Journal (issue) | | to preserve and promote the unique geologic and mining heritage of Wisconsin while underscoring the importance...in the museum’s creation. Dr. Weis grew up in New York, and as a child was fascinated with rocks, minerals...jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was considerably...manufacturer’s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | meaning golden and (iripuyyos (beryllos) meaning beryl. The mineral first was described and named by Werner...Paris-Rumford district, Maine Topsham district, Maine Grafton district, New Hampshire Greenfield, New York Middletown...Middletown district, Connecticut Southern Black Hills district, South Dakota Crystal Mountain district, Colorado...Clear Creek district, Colorado Bunkerville district, Arizona/Nevada Bently district, Nevada O Pegmatite...mailed (Hauy, 1811; Seybert, 1824). Dr. Bruce, a New York City physician, should be remembered as an avid |  | | Book (volume) | | erosional debris spreading out from the Rocky Mountains as they rose during the Larimide revolution of...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2 (below). Tourmaline (elbaite) from the Dunton mine, Newry, Maine. A selection of some of the crystals...underscore this, there are major tourmaline mines in New England (principally Maine) and California, with...quality, in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, stretching all the way from Maine to Georgia...sporadic source of superb gem amethyst in the mountains just east of Phoenix, Arizona. Superb amethyst...currently being mined at Jacksons Crossroads, Wilkes County, Georgia. The more familiar and more highly regarded |  | | Journal (issue) | | paragenesis of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ...............to slip away. New students are not being taught old and useful techniques along with new ones; they view...and advancements in the last 25 years or so. Many new instrumental techniques have been introduced to all...of the “ computer age.” Most, but not all, of the new influences have been beneficial. Minerals can now...now quickly and often easily done. Mastering these new techniques is no small task, and the high level of |  | | Journal (issue) | | Minerals 1998: What's New Dan Weinrich www.danweinrich.com China One of the exciting new finds from China...specimens belong. A more recent find involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at...more than the kids, and hopefully may have started new "collecting families." 2 Mineral News I found...years ago in Denver; the other, about tin size, were new. They were water clear with deep reddish/purplish...spent a good bit of time with Walter Lombardo (Nevada Mineral and Book Co.). He has really nice books |  | | Book | | Rock Collecting HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS ....... New York, Evanston, San Francisco, London 1817 Portions...& Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canada...Reading the Geologic Map; Geologic Maps as Guides to New Fields; Other Maps Useful to Gem and Mineral Hunters...Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota...the Old Stone Age) and Homo sapiens (men of the New Stone Age, our direct ancestors, the Cro-Magnon) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | observation. This has already been done by Foyes in New England. Pn'cuatrtos Tun Pne-C.q.MBRrAN Pegmatites...radioactive minerals in the metamorphic rocks of southern New England: Am. Jour. Sci. (5) vol. 28,pp.I27138, 1934...pegmatites are sufficiently large to be exploitable for feldspar or mica or other minerals. Complex pegmatites...Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI), Ytterby (Sweden), Tanganyika, and India; and the beryl pegmatites...activity. One of the best regions illustrating this is New England and the Paleozoic Appalachians to the southwest |
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