 | | Journal (issue) | | 1nlorma11on dOCI requests 10 ine Ameucan Federation CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES Otlicus...LAPIDARY EQUIPMENT P()\\ ERGLID E CO:\TROL PA:\EL ..--- I 16''-18'' ⢠20'' -24 '' ⢠36'' Slab Saws...secretary-treasurer of the those with common interests. California Federation). A major portion of the clubs in...Among the features is the most to the Yern10. California area. recent edition of the American Fcderaci...San Mateo Previouslv mentioned were the annual County. Federation ¡ convention!> and shows; Third Row |  | | Journal (issue) | | Flatirons Facets Flatirons Mineral Club of Boulder County, Colorado Volume 66, Number 3 May-June 2023 Our...field trip of the year to the Edgar Experimental Mine in Idaho Springs. See the Presidentâs Message on...we took our first trip to the Edgar Experimental Mine which the Colorado School of Mines runs in Idaho...perks for those involved in the industry. The Edgar Mine holds a special place in my heart as it brings back...mining summer class I attended in 1983, I obtained my Mine Safety and Health Administration underground certification |  | | Journal (issue) | | PLATINUM MORE THAN AN AFTERTHOUGHT ENCHANTING AMETHYST RED FEATHER LAKES DELIVERS ROCK & GEM ⢠Vol. 49...Lakes Mineral Smorgasbord Enchanted by Quartz and Amethyst Mark Leatherman 50 Evolution of a Gem Shop The..................53 60 Gems and Minerals of Post Mine Closures The Maine (Part I) Popularity of Bisbee...Specimen of Bear Canyon agate, with chalcedony bands/ amethyst point from the Purple Dragon Claim. (Doug Moore/Mark...Jocinto Neto specimen.â - Rock H. Currier Topaz Xanda Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil Overall Measurements: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and faceted aquamarine crystal, and a faceted amethyst pebble. The field of view is about 15cm. However...plaster moulds found in the NHM. 9 The Cursed Amethyst The Koh-i-noor is regarded by some as being a...highlights of the NHM mineral collections, "The Cursed Amethyst" is, as its nickname suggests, also considered...only because of it's bizarre story. Visually this amethyst is an unremarkable cut stone mounted within a...donation to the NHM in 1944. Fig. 8. 'The Cursed Amethyst" on dispiay in "The Vauit" at the Natural History |  | | Journal (issue) | | epimorph Ladyâs slipper After barite, Virtuous Lady Mine Fig. 5 Copper after aragonite Fig..2 Goethite...conditions e.g contact with the atmosphere, rain or mine water, while further down is increasing low oxygen...knowledge resulted in Chris being approached by the BBC to be a presenter on the two part programme âExpedition...dangerous for the surrounding people and towns. The BBC film focused on Nyiragongo , the largest volcano...Chris then invited members to watch episode 1 on BBC iPlayer and note when episode 2 would be broadcast |  | | Journal (issue) | | modifiedcrystalsin quartzdrusefrom RoundMountain (Nevada,USA).JurgenTron specimen. (Continues on page 2) The...ferro-axinite from Ne\\ Melones Dam (Calaveras Co .. California). This is an old, well-l-nown locality and as...from Searles Lake, Trana, San Bernardino Co .. California. This is not frightfully surprising as these...available with more dealers. The Gem Mine in San Benito Co. (California) also produced a few new jonesite...NJ 1.16 Guadalcazar, Mexico 5.00 First Soviet mine, Russia 0 MnO 1.60 I 13.69 I : 1.73 ! |  | | Catalog/List | | WULFENITE & ASSOC/A TIONS: Finch Mine (AKA Barking Spider), Pinal County, Arizona: Very nice combinations...$15.00 each ROWLEYWULFENITE &ASSOCIATIONS: Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mtns., Maricopa Co., Arizona: Clear...and $ 30.00 each GLOVE WULFENITE: Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Very nice crystalline specimens...00 each YUMA WULFENITE: Old Yuma Mine, Tucson Mountains, Pima County, Arizona: Butterscotch to deep orange-red...mounted in 1 1/4 79 WULFENITE: 79 Mine, Banner District, Gila County, Arizo _na: Transparent bright yellow |  | | Journal (issue) | | Reveals Largest Violet Diamond Recovered from Argyle Mine Gemology 32 18 21 26 Harvard Mineral Heritage...provenance of colored gemstones all the way to the mine that produce the stone. The vertically integrated...price. Confidence is increasingly InColor Bureau USA Claudiu Margarit claudiu@gemstone.org [1] (212) 620-0900...possible tied to transparency and provenance. from mine to market is being developed strongly. As a result...branding strategies are increasingly being related to mine sites, local towns or geographical areas. There |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1ďż˝- . -�� 1r,.,,;:1 . Importers of: Agale, Amethyst, Rock Crystal Gemstones, Jewellery, Fossils PR...place e,¡ery 2 years 111 .1 d itTerc:m city i11 USA. - \Xhr-,1w M11...often contain rare minerals and gems: quartz, (amethyst, rost' quartz), beryl. ch rysobcryl, topaz, tourmalim:...wc:ar; those of lower hardness arc: nor so ,uHablc. Amethyst. cimne. rock crystal, which arc all members of...;iriery often occur in a range of shades or colours: amethyst from hlac ro deep purple. cirrine from pale lemon |  | | Journal (issue) | | CARLSBAD STORE: 2961 STATE STREET, CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA July 1973 - No. 430 OFFICIAL MAGAZINI AMERICAN...MANAGING EDITOR ART/ ADVERTISING DIRECTOR - CALIFORNIA FEDERATION ASSOCIATE EDITOR - OF CIRCULATION...Corraapondenca and requests for Information to the California Federation ahould be addre11ed to: Mra. Juanita...OF MINERALOGICAL SOClmES CONTENTS: FEATURES California Camper Owner⢠Beware ..........................Convention and Show. " Garnel Star of Idaho." Nez Perce County Fairgrounds, Lewiston, Idaho. Host. Helli Canyon |  | | Journal (issue) | | Flatirons Facets Flatirons Mineral Club of Boulder County, Colorado Volume 60, Number 4 JulyâAugust, 2017... Midnight Express Mine Field Trip On June 17th, the club headed to Midnight Express Mine outside of Jamestown...Basil and Jennifer Robinson at the Midnight Express Mine Dani Chavez digging for specimens, along with other...2017 Herman Oehl digging out a specimen at the mine Page 5 Jr. Geologists Activities The Jr. Geologists...neighboring claim owners that there are 16 active county and federal cases against this group of claim jumpers |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lucille Wilson, the winners of the Grand Prize amethyst geode. Welcome to all who helped with the show...Red ticket = Debbie Kersh. Field trips: The Wise County Club has invited us to join them for a picnic and...Dynamite sticks & gem stones By Martin Patience; BBC News, Panjshir Valley, Afghanistan (May 2009) It...explosions went off - I wasn't actually out of the mine. Instead, I was at a so-called "safe" distance. |  | | Journal (issue) | | Stevenson. This was a veritable mine of of inif one can have a mine for pearls. When formation - if I...Wednesday, 3 May 1989, at 11.00 hours, Long Wave, the BBC broadcast an excellent programme on Radio 4. It was...1991,22, 6 334 Gem thaumasite from the Black Rock Mine, South South Mrica Africa Ulrich Henn, Markus...associated with sulfidic ores (e.g. Sweden, Tennessee/USA), 2. in cavities of of basic effusive effusive rocks...metamorphic rocks (e.g. Hungary, Austria, New Jersey/USA), 3. in limestone contact zones associateq associated |  | | Journal (issue) | | Madagascar | Sphalerite from Balmat, New York, USA | Tourmaline from Calabar, Nigeria | Sapphire Coloured...Alonso-Perez Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Alan D. Hart Gem-A, London Karl Schmetzer Petershausen...Edward Boehm RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA Brian Jackson National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh...Johnson Mary Johnson Consulting, San Diego, California, USA Alan T. Collins Kingâs College London Stefanos...Emmett Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA Emmanuel Fritsch University of Nantes, France Rui |  | | Book | | Photos, 21 ; Ken Lucas/Visuals Unlimited, 23 (left); BBC Microimaging/Visuals Unlimited, 25; Doug Sokell/...crystals. I -- C H A P T E R T W 0 AN EL E MEN T is a substance made up of only one kind of...halit~_Jsalt), fluorite _quartz, feldspar, olivine Amethyst (a type of quartz)/Silicate I ./ CHAPTER T...colors. Quartz with a bluish-violet color is called amethyst. This color --..... Pr ope r ti c s 0...extract aluminum from ore, companies generally only mine aluminum ore that has at least 30 percent metal |  | | Book | | BROADCASTING CORPORATION . This book accompanies the BBC Further Education Television programmes On the Rocks...of programmes prepared in consultation with the BBC Further Education Advisory Council This book is...use all over the world, have come from an English county (Devon) and two ancient Welsh tribes (the Silures...accessible, that this book has been written and the BBC Television series of the same name, (for which it...submerged further out in the Channel. Along the USA East Coast these reef beaches have trapped enormous |  | | Catalog/List | | COLLECT/ON: RED CLOUD WULFENITE: Red Cloud Mine, La Paz County, Arizona: The best wulfenite locallty in...WULFEN/TE & ASSOC/A [IONS: Finch Mine (AKA Barking Spider), Pinal County, Arizona: Very nlce combinations...00 each ROWLEY WULFENITE & ASSOCIA T/ONS: Rowley Mine, Painted Rock Mlns., Maricopa Co., Arizona: Clear...and $25.00 each GLOVE WULFENITE: Glove Mine, Santa Cruz County, Arizona: Very nice cryslalline speclmens...each D~SCLOIZl[E 0N VANADIN/TE: Plnal Clalms, GIia County, Arizona: Mini to drusy crystals of desclolzlte |  | | Journal (issue) | | season of fossil-related events throughout the county. Nuneaton Museum will be playing host to Cardiff's...Vermilion Bay granite, stromatolitic marble and amethyst from Thunder Bay rounded out the treasures from...anniversary of UW co-op program and others are donated by mine owners. A piece of Canada's first decorative stone...andradite garnet skarn from the Marmoraton Iron Mine, were donated by Armbro Construction of Toronto...chalcopyrite, cobaltite, iron formation, gold ore, amethyst and nickel ore. The block of nickel ore from Sudbury |  | | Journal (issue) | | ancient monument followed by what is Britainâs newest mine. The latter (a quarry to purists) has supplemented...cost of removing the unproductive overburden. The mine visit was followed by a tour of the stone factory...looking for Mayan and Aztec temples, including being in El Salvador during their civil war. Whilst in Nicaragua...Masterâs degree was taken at the University of California where he was once hit by a tear-gas grenade on...Underground Research Group) and WCMS (Wealden Cave and Mine Society). He got involved with a number of projects |  | | Journal (volume) | | 5â16 mineral deposition in a cavity in Smallcleugh mine, Nenthead, Cumbria Trevor F. Bridges and Roy Starkey...diamondsâ Roy Starkey and John Faithfull 24â45 Note amethyst from Screel Hill, Castle douglas, dumfries and...development of a mineralised cavity at the Smallcleugh Mine in the North Pennine Orefield, where Trevor focused...short note follows on an interesting occurrence of amethyst at Screel Hill, Castle douglas, in Scotland, by...we were walking down from Copa Hill at Cwmystwyth mine in mid-wales. we had both been participants on one |  | | Journal (issue) | | varieties: crystalline prismatic (e.g. rock crystal and amethyst), crystalline massive (e.g. milky quartz), polycrystalline...mountains, firstly to Quiruvilca, Peru's top pyrite mine at the time, elevation approx. 16,000ft. We then...During these times other minerals such as gold, amethyst, beryl, carnelian and agate were used decoratively... Russia Langban, Sweden Franklin/Sterling Hill, USA Tsumeb, Namibia Mont St. Hilaire, Canada Vesuvius...Thursday January 21 st (see below), also in th~ County Times and in the business section of the Argus |  | | Journal (issue) | | .................................... 17 DAOPING MINE Guanghua Liu and Berthold Ottens .................crystal, 2.1 cm, from the Dadongla (Yunchangping) mine near Tongren, Guizhou Province, China. Marcus Budil...Xikuangshan, the site of the worldâs largest stibnite mine. Berthold Ottens is a German dealer and author of...today, near the ancient mine workings, there is a large open-pit copper mine which provides small calcite...1121 B.C. There in 1973 a 3,000-year-old copper mine with smelting facilities was discovered on Mt. Verdigris |  | | Book (edition) | | McDonald Co\¡er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...report for California and Arizona. William Blake was the state mineralogist for California in 1866. From...southeastern corner of California, the southern portion of Arizona, and Sonora and Baja California, ;\Iex.ico.The...gemandmineralmuseum.arizona.edu) is located in the old Pima County Courthouse building at 115 North Church Avenue...found in Arizona, as well as from Sonora and Baja California, Mexico. Currently, the collection holds more |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Croydon-based Microsoft consultancy. One of his clients was BBC News where Jolyon spent much o f his time with Windows...during highway construction, Hull Township, Gatineau County, Quebec. P. M. Bellev, R. Rowe & M. Picard. 2:45...e " from the Harder Farm, Hammond, St. Lawrence County, NY. M. Lupulescu. 3:45 H i s t o r y of the Powers...Powers farm streamside veins, St. Lawrence County, New York. M. R. Walter & S. C. Chamberlain. 4:00 M...assemblage from the Allah Cooper/Valcooper mine, Louisa County, Virginia. L. E. Kearns & M. D. Dunn. 4:30 |  | | Journal (issue) | | and chalcedonic concretions in anhydrite, Sandwith Mine, St. Bees, Cumbria. Bull. Geol. Surv. Gt Britain...visits to Johannesburg to visit a personal friend of mine, Michael Sutherland, F.G.A. (who is also a practising...the probable source. Three emeralds from the Maria Mine (approximately 17 miles north-west of MarvSâin the...been obtained to date in South Africa as virtually 'mine-run' material. It has apparently been from these...material from six mines, (1) the emerald-alexandrite mine near Lake Manyara in Tanzania, (2) the Merelani |
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