 | | Catalog/List | | £6 lxl £8 Cos C \,r 51 ■■ CHAYESITE Pauliberg, Burgerland Austria ,/ Dark blue single 2mm crystals on...Zcolite Ix! £4 lx2 £8 2x2£16 26) ■ MAGADIITE Aris Quarry, near Windhoek,Namibia / White micro snow-flakes...SiO 220 ■ MENDIPITE ✓~ CaAISiOC0/3 Merehend Quarry, Mendips Somerset Very rich white to pinkish faintly...fluorescence lxl£3 lx2£5 FLUORESCEN'. ■ SCHEELITE Penlee Quarry, Newlyn,Cornwall creamy spots in chlorite. Fluorescent...Sjogruvan Grythyttan, Sweden 126 DIASPORE Saga Quarry, Tvedalen, Norway Rich fawn massive, x-rayed material |  | | Report (issue) | | Alexander U. Falster and William B. Simmons • Dravite from Qarusulik, Ameralik Fjord in Southwestern...This 24 cm wide "schorl" specimen from Tyrol, Austria was part of the Gigot D'Orcy collection and is...Tschermak later focused on tourmaline and named dravite, the third of the currently accepted tourmaline...accepted tourmaline species: schorl, elbaite and dravite. Quensel and Gabrielson (1939) revised Riggs' (1888)...cm "water melon tourma line " from the Dunton Quarry in Newry, Maine. Woodrow Thompson collection; Jeff |  | Baksheev, Ivan A., Trumbull, Robert B., Popov, Mikhail P., Erokhin, Yuri V., Kudryavtseva, Olesya E., Yapaskurt, Vasily O., Khiller, Vera V., Vovna, Galina M., Kiselev, Vladimir I. (2018) Chemical and boron isotopic composition of tourmaline from the Mariinsky emerald deposit, Central Urals, Russia. Mineralium Deposita, 53 (4) 565-583 doi:10.1007/s00126-017-0759-z | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | examples in the literature include Habachtal, Austria (Grundmann and Morteani 1989); Swat Miner Deposita...studies of tourmaline from the Urals Emerald Mines district have reported major-element compositions, but...and still-active deposit in the Emerald Mines district. We also analyzed one sample from the inactive...Krasnoarmeisky deposit in the southern part of the district. The data set presented here combines majorelement...Regional and deposit geology The Ural emerald mining district (Ural emerald belt) is located between the Eastern |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Island) Reykjanes, basalt, smectite, 217 Finland (Suomi) Kaavi, chromian dravite, 4o8 Outukumpu, chromian...chromian dravite, 4o8 British Isles ENGLAND Cornwall Gunheath Pit, St. Austell, columbite, r3I Penryn...Penryn Granite Co. quarry, Halv,zsso, stokesite, 411 Wheal Cock Zawn, stokesite, 41 I Somerset Mendips, chloroxiphite...chloroxiphite, 357 Merehead quarry, Cranmore, brucite, blixite, hydromagnesite, hydrocerussite, 4o6; datolite...Saltburn, iron-boracite, 404 Hepworth Iron Co. quarry, Penistone, francolite, siderite (magnesian), 287 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Arthur Roe Famous Mineral Localities: The Brumado District, Bahia, Brazil..................................Mont Blanc Swiss-French border region. genbach quarry specimens (see the Record, They really hit the...specimen was sold to the Smithsonian Institution by Martin Ehr mann in 1965. Smithsonian specimen #C6568;...mine. Some dealers are using “Black Rock” as a district designation and this is incorrect. Confusion is... J. J. (1958) The manganese ores from Kuruman District, Cape Province, South Africa. Economic Geology |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ALABASTER (C. J.), An occurrence of brucite at Merehead quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, 4o0 ALEXANDER (P. O.) and... 21 I BARBER (C.), see DICKSON (J. A. D.), t45 Basalt, eastern Deccan, India, anal., Rb/Sr ratios, 165;...(K. A.), 389, M21 Deception Island, Antarctica, basalt, volcanic ash, 217 DELIFNS (M.), Review of the...297 Donathite, Norway, a doubtful species, 35 I Dravite, Wales, anal., opt., X-ray, cell-size, 124; chromian...Progress in mineralogy, 6 DUNN (P. J.), Chromium in dravite, 4o8; Perhamite, a new Ca-A1 silicophosphate, and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector's Newsletter $2.00 from the Mill Creeli. Quarry Polk County, Oregon John Cornish 40 Cedar Glen...Washington 98362 • Within the Eocene Siletz River basalt of central western Oregon are several mineral producing...localities. The Mill Creek quarry is one of these. The Mill Creek quarry is located in Polk County, off...into the quarry. Park here and hike the short half mile (0.9 km) into the quarry. This small quarry is operated...fluorite on calcite, Mina el Carmen, Santa Eulalia District, Mexico, photo by the author. 2 Mineral News |  | | Report (issue) | | Kristallwand (“crystal wall”), Frosnitztal, East Tyrol, Austria. In the 4-cm matrix piece shown here—the one of...cm, from Kristallwand, Frosnitztal, East Tyrol, Austria. Saphira Minerals specimen and photo. For yet...active mining for metals had ceased in the Annaberg district—thanks to ongoing collecting by locals. I always...Bergmannisch Glück Gegentrum mine, Frohnau, Annaberg district. Fluorite, 8 cm, from the Bergsmannisch Glück...amethyst from Maquar, Zarkashan Mountain, Qarabagh district, Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. The crystals are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1987), mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB; SPIVACK and EDMOND,1987),and ocean island basalt (OIB; SHIMA,1963a)...from a single pegmatite gem pocket in the Dunton Quarry, Newry, Maine. The major element compositions of...replacing the green elbaite. A schorl-dravite sample is from the Harvard Quarry pegmatite, Greenwood, Maine. Both...pegmatite and the pegmatite intersected by the Dunton Quarry are thought to be genetically related to the Carboniferous...as Baptiste Lake Road, Ontario and the Rudeville Quarry, Hamburg, New Jersey (Table 1 and Appendix). Furthermore |  | | Journal (issue) | | collecting ALBEMARLE COUNTY Alberene soapstone quarry-Alberene actinolite-tremolite, apatite, ferroan...goethite pseudomorphs after pyrite Esmont slate quarry-Esmont dolomite. limonite pseudomorphs after pyrite...Gathright, 11; W. F. Giannini specimen). Martin Marietta quarry-near Charlottesville epidote, muscovite...crystals, pyrite, quartz Old Dominion soapstone quarry-near Old Dominion actinolite-tremolite, apatite...ferroan dolomite, malachite Dominion Stone Plant quarry-near Piney River albite, apatite, chalcopyrite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Heierman collection. Illinois- Kentucky Fluorspar District Symposium by the Friends of Mineralogy (Midwest...the closing of the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar district that I organized at Indiana University Southeast...believed having a similar program in the fluorspar district would be ideal. However, the logistics behind...this year. In previous visits to the fluorspar district, I had made contact with Bill Frazer, the owner...MINERAL NEWS IN TUCSON! WE'LL BE IN TUCSON AT THE NEW MARTIN ZINN HOTEL SHOW: THE CLARION AT RANDOLPH ROOM |  | | Report (edition) | | ........................... 56 Euhedral black dravite crystals from Yinnetharra........................Cabochons of amazonite from Melville in the Yalgoo district.................................................albite feldspar and grey quartz, Carlaminda Blue quarry..... 78 8.2 Ornamental bowl featuring lepidolite...eucryptite rock, Londonderry feldspar pegmatite quarry.................................... 83 8.9 Geology...Cluster of quartz crystals from an amygdale in basalt from the Maddina Formation.................... |  | | Book (edition) | | dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...near Sobotfn, Moravia, Czech Rep., in skarn at the Sankt Christoph mine, near Breitenbrunn, Saxony, Germany...Grossgreiner Mt., overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy...to Hot Springco., Arkansas, in the Point of Rock quarry, pearly. Clea,·age {001} perfect. {100} and {010} |  | | Journal (issue) | | ] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...Norbert) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 100-108.] The dravite crystal bonanza of Yinnietharra, Western Australia...localities: the Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, California (by E. E. Foord) [1977, vol. 8, no...Lowell) [1982, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 19-28.] The Jensen quarry, Riverside County, California (by F. DeVito and...International Mountain Minerals International Martin Zinn P .O . Box 2433 Evergreen, CO 80439 303-670-1960 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | reveal that the mafic eclogites have mid-ocean ridge basalt (MORB)-type signatures relating to the subduction...kyanite (20%), haematite (7%), rutile (5%) and dravite (3%). Talc, kyanite, rutile and ribbon quartz form...axes define a impersistent lineation (Fig. 4a). Dravite and haematite are generally coarser than the fabric...chlorite (40%), kyanite (30%), haematite (10%), dravite (10%), talc (5%) and yoderite (5%). All phases...It is composed of gedrite (35%), kyanite (30%), dravite (15%), quartz (10%), haematite (9%) and rutile |  | Owen, J. Victor, Hanley, Jacob J., Kerr, Mitchell J., Stimson, Matthew, Boucher, Brandon (2019) Geochemistry of pink corundum-bearing feldspathic gneiss, Frenchvale quarry, Cape Breton Island, Canada: metamorphism of albitised, Fe-poor clastic rocks. Mineralogical Magazine, 83 (2) 249-260 doi:10.1180/mgm.2018.165 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | corundum-bearing feldspathic gneiss, Frenchvale Quarry, Cape Breton Island: metamorphism of albitized...DOI: 10.1180/mgm.2018.165. Abstract Frenchvale Quarry, once mined for dolomitic marble, contains pink...1B deposits occurs as xenocrysts in the alkali basalt flows, or as megacrysts in xenoliths. Notable examples...with dolomitic marble is exposed in a 0.6 km long quarry near Frenchvale, Cape Breton Island (Fig. 1 inset...of intrusive rocks (see below) in the Frenchvale Quarry, evidently occurs farther south than indicated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (or Chalaua) mine in the Alto Ligonha pegmatitic district, Mozambique, is the world’s largest known deposit...Mössbauer and structural parameters in elbaiteschorl-dravite tourmalines. American Mineralogist, 93, 658 666...Linking structure and chemistry in the schorl-dravite series. American Mineralogist, 84, 922 928. Bosi...Lucchesi, S. (2004) Crystal chemistry of the schorl-dravite series. European Journal of Mineralogy, 16, 335...Reznitskii, L. (2004) Crystal chemistry of the dravite-chromdravite series. European Journal of Mineralogy |  | | Report (edition) | | Western Australia FRONTISPIECE Euhedral black dravite tourmaline crystals from Yinnetharra. Set in a............................................. 61 Dravite–schorl series: physical properties .................................................. 58 Black dravite crystals from Yinnetharra .......................Cabochons of amazonite from Melville in the Yalgoo district ................................................albite feldspar and grey quartz, Carlaminda Blue quarry, Yalgoo area ................................. |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Morgan 2 4:15 Natromontebrasite from the Meyers quarry, Fremont County, CObyM. I. Jacobson,.1, W Nizamoff...geology for the Parishville-Hopkinton Central School District in the town of Parishville, St. Lawrence County...that have not previously been reported. The Gole quarry, approximately 80 km north of Bancroft, near Madawaska...positive identification of kamotoite-(Y) from the Gole quarry was confirmed. In 1999, co-author Liz Fodi found...Ontario is a pegmatite locality well known for dravite specimens. Liz Fodi found some unusual white to |  | | Book (edition) | | departamento district municipio Saint Sainte island mount, mountain...Northampton co., Pennsylvania, and from the Kobokobo quarry, near Kamituga, Dern. Rep. of Congo. EJM 23, 269-277...thaleniteM crystals from the NYF-pegmatite at Askagen quarry, Viirmland, Sweden, in tiny metamict crystals to...fluorapatite in a phosphate zone in the Penrice marble quarry, Angaston, near Adelaide, South Australia. MM 72...chemovite-(Y) in Mn- etc. in NYF pegmatite in the Stetind quarry, Tysfjord, rich nodules in metasediments from the |  | | Catalog/List | | places, Itxlxl". £11.' 4-. APATITE, Colcerrovl Quarry, Luxulyan, Cornwall. A sharp, well. formed, doubly...and varying in size up to t", thickly encrusting Basalt matrix with odd blades of Stilbite. 5tx3tx-2t"...ranging in size up to i", thickly intergrown on Basalt with minor creamy white Heulandite in association...mostly around t" in size, thickly encrusting a Basalt matrix. 2ix2". £3.25. CHALCEDONY. North Roskear...tabular crystals to t" in size, thickly encrusting Basalt. 3x2". £7. IDO. SE. Monte Rosso, Val d:Aosta, Piedmont |  | Liu, Chao, Hystad, Grethe, Golden, Joshua J., Hummer, Daniel R., Downs, Robert T., Morrison, Shaunna M., Ralph, Jolyon P., Hazen, Robert M. (2017) Chromium mineral ecology. American Mineralogist, 102 (3) 612-619 doi:10.2138/am-2017-5900 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in various environments, including meteorites, basalt, evaporites, and oxidized Pb ore deposits. Keywords:...(3054) FeCr2O4 1, 2, 9 3 1, 5, 8, 12, 18 9 Chromium-dravite (8) NaMg3Cr6(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3OH 3 3 8, 11 10...Olkhonskite (1) Cr2Ti3O9 3 3 27 27 Oxy-chromium-dravite (1) NaCr3(Cr4Mg2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O 3 3 1 28...5, 7 3 1, 5, 8, 12, 13 37 Vanadio-oxy-chromium-dravite (1) NaV3(Cr4Mg2)(Si6O18)(BO3)3(OH)3O 3 3 1 38...lithological settings No. Locality 1 Pereval Marble Quarry, Slyudyanka (Sludyanka), Lake Baikal Area, Irkutskaya |  | | Catalog/List | | orange crystals on cockscomb Barytes Mibladen district , Morocco 6x4 £30 () , 1 5 APOPHYLLITE pale...up to one cm size on small Stilbite crystals and basalt matrix 6x5 £30 Maharashtra India 9 SUGILITE...10x6cm showing excellent play of colours Ampanihy District Madagascar £25 13 OLIVINE variety FORSTERITE...dark grey veins in Feldspar Ricksburg Karibib District Namibia 5x3x2.5 £ 18 16 HILLEBRANDITE pale blue...magnetite with minor black Ludwigite fibres. Old marble quarry Kilchist Skye 4x4 £7 29 GOETHITE quite rich, lustrous |  | | Journal (issue) | | green diopside on syenite matrix from the Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec. Collected by miner Bruno Carriere...Brown (2009-2014) Richard J. Rossi (2009-2015) Martin Zinn (2010-2015) Helen Buchanan Davis (2010-2015)...Germany, Switzerland (three!), the Hohe Tauem of Austria, Pi'fbram in the Czech Republic, the Carpathian...several small mines in the Beaverdell silver-mining district of southern British Columbia, near the village...50 km north of the U.S. border. Activity in the district began with a small "gold rush" in the late 1880s |  | Baksheev, Ivan A., Yu Prokof'ev, Vsevolod, Zaraisky, Georgii P., Chitalin, Andrey F., Yapaskurt, Vasilii O., Nikolaev, Yuri N., Tikhomirov, Petr L., Nagornaya, Ekaterina V., Rogacheva, Lubov' I., Gorelikova, Nina V., Kononov, Oleg V. (2012) Tourmaline as a prospecting guide for the porphyry-style deposits. European Journal of Mineralogy, 24 (6) 957-979 doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2012/0024-2241 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lamprophyre and diorite porphyry dikes and post-ore basalt dykes are rare. The deposit is controlled †Deceased...Middle Devonian to Permian rhyolite, andesite, basalt, cherty shale, and limestone constitute a structural...siltstones and carbonaceous schists, which host basalt and tuff. Total thickness of these rocks is about...striking fault and intrudes Vendian to Middle Cambrian basalt, andesite, tuff, sandstone, conglomerate and marble...mineralized zones are overlain by the Oligocene basalt. Ore bodies are controlled by near-meridional and |
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