| | Report (issue) | slouches either—even if, for you, azurite and malachite pseudomorphs after azurite from the hot Sonoran locality...mine has established itself as the world’s best azurite locality of all time—which is saying a lot when... Chessy, etc. But just look at this Milpillas azurite miniature on Jordi’s site, with thick yet transparent...blades sticking out. (Superfine new Milpillas azurite clusters like that were also with Collector’s Edge...Tucson Show, as you’ll note in the print report.) Azurite, 3.3 cm, from the Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora | | | Catalog/List | 36x27x15mm.£130 11) AZURITE, Yangchun, Guandong, China. A rich mass of pure crystalline azurite split into two...specimen. 65x55x25mm. £265 13) AXINITE, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia. Lustrous cinnamon brown bladed axinite...£42 19) CASSITERITE and SCHEELITE, Tchokotka, Russia. A lovely aggregate of equant cassiterite crystals | | | Journal (issue) | Minerals" section to ontogeny of pyrrhotite from Dalnegorsk. The " Museum News" section in the issue is devoted...x 5 cm. Zheleznyi Mine, Kovdor, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Fersman Mineralogical Museum RAS #97687, Oleg...Photo: Michael B. Leybov. Published by Printed in Russia Mineralogical Almanac Mineral-Almanac Ltd. and... Mineralogical Almanac Box 71, 117556 Moscow, Russia 10896 W. Beloit Pl. Cellphone: +7 963 614--0525...Badyanova, Anatoly V. Kasatkin New Mineral Locality in Russia: Shaposhnikov Caucasus State Natural Biosphere | | | Journal (issue) | the oxide zone there. These include spectacular azurite, native copper, smithsonite, chlorargyrite and...specimens. Other treasures he acquired include azurite and malachite from the Cobar region, zeolites from...up in Lockenhaus, a town in the Oberpullendorf District of Burgenland, Austria. He immigrated to Australia...Oblast, Zabaykalski Krai, Russia. Epidote, 11.5 cm, from Alchuri, Shigar district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan...Australia. Tourmaline, 13 cm, from Paprok, Kamdesh district, Nuristan, Afghanistan. Supplement to The Mineralogical | | | Journal (issue) | papers devoted to interesting mineral localities in Russia. Mikhail V. Tsyganko writes about the Peschanskoe...14 x 5 cm. Peschanskoe deposit, Northern Urals, Russia. Specimen: Museum "Stufnoy Cabinet" (Severouralsk)...Kirgizia, and of course, many localities in central Russia, first and foremost, in the Moscow region. He actively...from it in 1954 as an engineer electrician for urban land electric transport, and started to work at...minerals is hard to overestimate and not only in Russia: his book on these problems published in English7 | | | Journal (issue) | copper-containing minerals (e.g., chalcopyrite, azurite, malachite, chrysocolla, linarite, etc.). Consequently...sent it to my Representative, Mark Finchem (R-District 11, Oro Valley), asking him to be the primary... Mark Candee Gold, 2.3 cm, from the Breckenridge district, Summit County, Colorado. Ken Donn photo. Wulfenite...(hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected in 1958;...chrysocolla pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona | | | Journal (issue) | 2 Vyacheslav N. Kalachev AXINITE: NEW FINDS IN RUSSIA .................................................© "Plus" Ltd Publishing 103050 Moscow, Box 162, Russia Color separation and printing: Pervaya Obraztsovaya...tipographiya 113054 Moscow, Valovaya str., 28, Russia Mednorudyansky mine shafts found when excavating...tell you about deposits and mineralogical sites of Russia and other countries as well as about the new finds... Vyacheslav N. Kalachev AXINITE: NEW FINDS IN RUSSIA Axinitc is one of the most widespread borosilicatcs | | | Book | Guidebook for the Field Excursions in the Far East of Russia: September 1-20, 2004 © INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION...major deposits of fluorine (Voznesenka), boron (Dalnegorsk), tungsten (Vostok-2), platinum (Konder), gold...CONFERENCE 1 - 20 September, 2004 Vladivostok, Russia EXCURSION GUIDEBOOK Edited by A.I. Khanchuk,...Branch, Russian Academy o f Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia 2 Natural History Museum, Department o f Mineralogy...stretching from the A rctic Ocean in the north to the Russia/C hina/K orea boundary in the south. In the east | | | Journal (issue) | Shabry talc-magnesite deposit, Central Urals, Russia. Specimen: Dmitry V. Davydov. Photo: Michael B...quartz occurrence, Gornouralsk Urban District, Central Urals, Russia. Specimen: Igor V. Peko t. Photo:...Moscow, Russia Cellphone: +7 963 614-0525 minbooks@inbox.ru www.minbook.com Printed in Russia Mineralogical...Gorbunovskoe occurrence, Gomouralsk Urban District, Central Urals, Russia. 2. Quany of the Gorbunovskoe quartz...Gorbunovskoe and other occurrences in the Nizhny Tagil district; however, no details of such quartz and its occurrences | | | Journal (issue) | from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail & Jim Spann...cm, from Stak Nala, Haramosh Mountains, Skardu district, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Zach Goodman collection;...collected fluorescent minerals in the Karnes Uranium district near my ancestral home in south Texas. Over time... from the Knight Vein, Knight mine, Rosiclare district, Illinois. Ex Ocus Stanley Mineral Museum collection;...from the Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Coeur d’Alene district, Shoshone County, Idaho. Joe Budd photo. Supplement | | | Conference Proceedings | Symposium on Minerals of Russia Green Center, Petroleum Hall, Colorado School of Mines, 924 16th St....lamprophyllite, Khibiny massif, Kola Peninsula, Russia Friends of Mineralogy, Colorado Chapter P.O. Box...ralogycolorado.org/ Symposium on Minerals of Russia Green Center, Petroleum Hall, Colorado School of...Mineralization at the Rubtsovskoe Deposit (NW Altai, Russia) and its Genesis 3:00 John Watson: Na Pamir!...G. Turchkova, Moscow, Russia *speaker About thirty mineral localities of Russia can be considered as | | | Journal (issue) | malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear in the specimen market...Kester deposit, Arga-Ynnykh-Khai massif, NE Yakutia, Russia. It is monoclinic, P21, a= 8.4264(4), b= 12.8309(6)...phosphate mineral from Kester tin deposit (Yakutia, Russia): occurrence and crystal structure. Mineralogy...moolooite, brochantite, cuprite, devilline, malachite, azurite, zeunerite/metazeunerite, tennantite, chalcocite...Mcgaw, Peter: Cleveland and Bartlett, Mogollon District, New Mexico, 34-4:8 Nikischer, Tony: "Yooperlites" | | | Journal (issue) | Michael Bainbridge photo. Topaz, 4 cm, from Murzinka, Russia; Mike Menzies collection; Mark Mauthner photo....“a new mineral store” in the central business district of Spokane, Washington, at W. 410 Riverside Avenue...and associated minerals from the Michigan copper district. This is an old time collection,” he said, “collected...purchased her first mineral specimen in 1967, a Bisbee azurite, from Gary Hansen for $8; she and her husband,...(cobalt-rich), 15.6 cm, from Aghbar Mine, Bou Azzer district, Morocco. Quartz, 14.5 cm, from the São Geraldo | | | Book | S. Siberia, Russia E. Transbaikalia, S. Siberia, Russia Aldan shield, Siberia, Russia Aldan shield,...Siberia, Russia Ukraine Primor'ie Aldan shield, Siberia, Russia Aldan shield, Siberia, Russia Karamazar...shield, Siberia, Russia Aldan shield, Siberia, Russia Aldan shield, Siberia, Russia Kazakhstan Pskem...River, Uzbekistan Russia Trudolyubovka Village, Crimea Subpolar Urals (East slope), Russia Subpolar Urals...Urals (East slope), Russia Subpolar Urals Subpolar Urals (East slope), Russia North Kazakhstan Rudnyi, North | | | Catalog/List | on quartz 6 ins. long £250 Minas Cerais, Brazil AZURITE - dark blue crystals on matrix 5 x 2 111 ins. £575...4 x 3 ins. £165 Poona, India AZURITE/MALACHITE - rosettes of blue azurite with some green malachite 6...with calcite, 6 ins. x 4 ins. £220 Dalnegorsk, Primorski Kraj, Russia SCHEELITE - a dark orange crystal...PERI0OT CRYSTALS Naran, Kagan Valley, Mansehra District, North Pakistan Single gemmy light green crystals...Massif, Chara River area, near Oleminsk, Yakutia, Russia Polished slabs, some with Tinaksite £"10 to £35 | | | Journal (issue) | occurrence in the Kwakonje area of the Handeni district in northeast Tanzania (von Knorring, 1967; Bowden...#133408), about 1 cm each, from the Balangoda district, Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka. Harvard Mineralogical...(2.6 cm) (#131010), from Nivitigala, Sagaragamu district, Sabaragamuwa, Sri Lanka. Har vard Mineralogical...Museum of Moscow, Russia; the Nedra Ural Mineralogi cal Center, Ekaterinburg, Russia (with pieces from...this piece. From Dal’negorsk, Primorskiy Kraj, Russia, there were also some very dramatic, very large | | | Journal (issue) | well be discovered, one of these days, in the district. (Continued from page 5) Now, hold your hat!...townships which comprise the heart of the pegmatite district). As you well know, it’s not just the pegmatites...Middletown district would add very few species to their list. That the Middletown district is a distinct...Mountain, Prince of Wales Island, Ketchikan Mining District. Excalibur Mineral Corp. specimen and image. Figure...Prince of Wales Island in the Ketchikan Mining District (see figure 3). Specimens from the Island are | | | Catalog/List | Design District Showroom 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Heritage Auctions Design District Showroom...to collect Underground Nikolaevskiy Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia, 1993. "RPG," Artigas, Uruguay, acquired...was one of the irst foreigners into areas like Dalnegorsk. He came When asked why he had so many minerals...minerals, Rock would reply with back from Russia with specimens for his collection, sometimes a smirk:...mineral collecting addiction! Lena River, Siberia, Russia, 1993 TABLE OF CONTENTS United States Arizona | | | Catalog/List | CHALCOPYRITE ON SPHALERITE (8cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk, Russia A quartz'calcite matrix with a beautiful...pyritahedrons of pyrite. Nice combination. £70 16 AZURITE (7cm x 6cm x 4cm) Mineral Hill, New South Wales...Australia A pretty sparkling specimen of dectnc blue azurite crystal rosettes, beautifully infilling a large...QUARTZ & CALCITE (7cm x 7cm x 5cm) Dalnegorsk Mine, Dalnegorsk, Russia An impressive very sharp well-formed...23 24 THANITE (9cm x 4cm X 2cm) Polar Urals, Russia Lustrous brown twinned crystals of titanite to | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | visit nearby mineral meccas such as the Tri-State district or Michigan’s Upper Peninsula copper mines, but—the...1993, Gary Richards showed him a wonderful Tsumeb azurite, providing with it a lecture about how very important...important a mineral locality Tsumeb is. The azurite became John’s first mineral purchase for a sum greater...numbers of the exotica then emerging from Dalnegorsk, Russia. Over the first decade of the new millennium...rarities (see below), and it has plenty of gorgeous azurite, smithsonite, mimetite, dioptase, wulfenite, etc | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | and diverse secondary copper minerals such as azurite, malachite, aurichalcite, brochantite, linarite...chalcopyrite crystal on sphalerite from Dalnegorsk, Primorskiy Kray, Russia. Houston Museum of Natural Science...(for example, the copper mines of the Ducktown district, Tennessee), chalcopyrite in good crystallized...Valley–type lead-zinc deposits in the Tri-State district of Oklahoma, Missouri, and Kansas, and in the...Denton mine of the Illinois-Kentucky fluorite district, Hardin County, Illinois. Small groups of chalcopyrite | | | Book | ceremony. Dobretsov N.L., Koulakov I.Yu. (Novosibirsk, Russia) THE WAYS OF MAGMA-FLUID TRANSPORT UNDER ISLAND...V.N. (Petrozavodsk, Kostomuksha, St.Petersburg, Russia) KOSTOMUKSHA IRON ORE PROVINCE, REPUBLIC OF KARELIA:...DEPOSIT IN NORTHWEST RUSSIA 9:20-9:40: Tselyuk I.N., Tselyuk D.I. (Krasnoyarsk, Russia) RESOURCE POTENCIAL...Evstigneeva T.L. (Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso; Moscow, Russia) GOLD MINERALIZATION OF NEW ORE OCCURRENCE AT NOUNGOU...BURKINA FASO 10:00-10:20: Kostin A.V. (Yakutsk, Russia) UNDISCOVERED MINERAL RESOURCES AND GIS: A NEW | | | Catalog/List | areas in matrix. (Khibiny Hassif, Kola Peninsula, Russia) lem E3 1 x ins f7 228 FRANCKEITE (Pb Sn) Fe Sn...Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (UmbaMine,LovozeroHassif,Kola Russia) lxl E4 lx2 E7.50 029 Bl!:RTRAflOITE Be 0 i0 OH...in capsule. Abouti or 8 grains. (llevjansk Ural Russia) ElO 3'15SIEGENITE (NiCo)S. Octahedral silvery...pale blue-green coating on 2cm matrix, somewith Azurite. Rare. (Grabanz,Neufinkenstein,Carinthia Austria)...rlch mauvemasses in Quartz (Gor~yak,Altayskaykray,Russia) lxl 90p lx2 El.80 095 CALCIOVOLBORTHITE Ca Cu | | | Catalog/List | mass of black crystals, some Mount Malosa, Zomba District, lxl ins £5 lx2ins _lyro?'~~e . __ __ _ ___ ___...£12 68 NaCaSiOF Pure black-brown cleavage Yakutia,Russia ALABANDITE Smm£2 IS 255 6 9 SOI 13 14 12 215 69...colourless micro crystals on 3mm matrix Mt Yukspor, Kola Russia £2.80 ANCYLITECe CeSrCO/3 Rich pinkish fine grained...Ca Cu (As S) 0 OH Canyon.Nevada U.S.A ossible azurite on rock. ½ins£2 ISITE One pink micro crystal inwhite...I mm size Udachnaya Kimberlite Pipe C Yakutia, Russia Greyish green massive. Checked material Near Broadfo-rd_S_k_ | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Siderite Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province, Potosà Department, Bolivia...and associations. Other A-List species include azurite, pyromorphite, fluorite, quartz, and calcite. Then...siderite from Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla district, Sud Chichas Province, Potosà Department, Bolivia...found as iridescent microcrystals; the Duquesne district, Santa Cruz County, as curved rhombohedra; and...sphalerite and pyrite. The White Raven mine, Ward district, Boulder County, has produced some of the Figure |
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