 | | Journal (issue) | | Volume 32. Number 2 12 The Gem s of Africa A treasure chest of bright stones from the Dark Continent;...orden Experience Collecting vertebrate fossils in Canada (legally); by Kenneth H. Rohn 40 The Remarkable...stand out brilliantly against a ba ckground of azurite and malachite. All" are from Arizona. (Photo by...58 The Future of Leadville, Colorado A metal-mining district turns to tourism; by Steve Voynick REGULAR...Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Scepters at Treasure M ountain Shop Talk ....... . ...... . . .18 A |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Beryl and calcite, La Pita mine, Maripi Boyacii, Columbia. Cal Graeber, Leonard Himes, and Gonzalo Jara...July/August: Quartz cluster (Herkimer “diamonds’’), Treasure Mountain Diamond mine, near Little Falls, New York...Atheneite, Pallas Athene, 47 Autunite, Maine, 412 Azurite. Bahia, Brazil, 35; Michigan, 225; Utah, 245 Barbosa... R. L., Scepter Quartz Crystals from the Treasure Mountain Diamond Mine near Little Falls, Herkimer County... S. C., Scepter Quartz Crystals from the Treasure Mountain Diamond Mine near Little Falls, Herkimer County |  | | Report (issue) | | Selected Mining Districts of Utah by Carl L. Ege Headframe of Centennial Eureka mine, Tintic mining district...MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATION 05-5 UTAH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY a division of 2005 Utah Department of Natural Resources.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 What is a mining district? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 How many mining districts are there in Utah and are they still...mineral resources are mined in Utah’s most productive mining districts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Journal (issue) | | Madison, Carroll County, briefly describing the mining history and my experiences collecting there was...Cooks pond. My sketch ha'i no scale but the whole area is less than several hundred feet in any direction...cottage (called the A. E. Reynolds cottage) and the area of the other mine buildings, now completely obliterated...guessed it- intense bottle green. Terry Ledford of Mountain Gems and Minerals offered a lot of self-collected...per year, or $46.00 for two years; addresses in Canada and Mexico are US$48.00 per year, or US$90.00 for |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Granite State, is one of our smaller states, with an area of just 9,304 square miles and is one of the lowest...large scale, there has been enough prospecting and mining activity to uncover many important mineral localities...collector. Prospecting, granite quarrying, and mining probably peaked before the turn of the twentieth...pegmatite prospecting and mining were revived during World War II, with some mining continuing into the early...January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz (crystals), sillimanite |  | | Journal (issue) | | or $315 / three years, (Canada) $180 / one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription...Don Lum (2017) Bryan Swoboda (2012-2017) Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) Gunter Grundmann (2018) Richard...part-time while working as a geologist for various mining companies including Halferdahl and Associates (1974-1980)...of Toronto, and they mounted field trips to British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario, Yukon and...an acre of land overlooking the tidal Parrsboro River. The house has a turret, and room for a store. As |  | | Journal (issue) | | or $324/three years, (Canada) $186/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $265 for one year Subscription...Countiss (2019) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2020) Mineral Association...5 cm CRYSTAL CLASSICS FINE MINERALS LIMITED Azurite with Malachite | Milpillas Mine, Mexico | 4.5 x...by monarchs, aristocrats, physicians, scholars, mining men and ordinary private citizens since the 16th...B8000, Argentina. Email: analaurarl @hotmail.com 2 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | peo- ple settled in the area and created the state (1864). There are 526 mining districts in the state...produce nonmetallic ores (Tingley 1998). Three major mining booms have occurred in Nevada: 1860-1880 (Comstock...regained its preeminent status in precious-metal mining with the development of low-grade, large-tonnage...KL - Klondyke district KM - Killie mine, Spruce Mountain district IH JA - (SM) Lewis district Maggie...(DE) Aspen district Austin district (now Reese River, RR) Aurora district Bullfrog district Broken Hills |  | | Journal (issue) | | (deceased) EricD. Long SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009-2014) Mineralogical...new localities like the Carlota mine (brilliant azurite) and the Oatman fluorite occurrence; one mysterious...Mountains in what used to be known as the Empire Mining District, about 9 miles south of the town of Pantano...Pacific Railroad about 5 miles away. The Total Wreck Mining and Milling Company was formed in 1881 and issued...inclined shaft was sunk to a depth of 330 feet, with mining on three levels, and miners began hauling out 50 | | | Journal (issue) | | or $324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription...Lucking (2020) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009-2020) Mineral Association...CENTER APRIL24-26 INESITE HALE CREEK MINE MAD RIVER ROCK, COASTAL RANGE, TRINITY CO., CALIFORNIA THOMAS...monarchs, aristocrats, physi cians, scholars, mining men and ordinary private citizens since the 16th...B8000, Argentina. Email: analaurarl @hotmail.com 2 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California |  | | Book | | 1410 Birchmont Road Scarborough, Ontario M1P 2E7, Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen...rift that extends from Mexico along the Rocky Mountain Front to possibly the North Slope of Alaska. In...Mountains Jarilla Mountains Santa Rita Area and the Central Mining District, Grant County Burro Mountains...District Hansonburg District Socorro Area New Placers District Grants Area Nacimiento Uplift Harding Pegmatite...Sneffels-Telluride District Red Mountain District Cement Creek Tungsten Area Ouray (Uncompahgre) District |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ann Arbor, Ml Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...owned by Richard Bideaux’s Arizona Exploring and Mining Company for quite a few years. Bideaux and Wayne...to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro National Monument...thorn in the side of environmentalists and anti-mining interests in the state. The issue was finally resolved...purchased the claim from Arizona Exploring and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now |  | | Book (edition) | | a thou- sand localities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico where gems have been and can be found...book contain such specific details as farm roads, mountain paths, and stretches of directions in the stream... Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald...Maine and Florida. Still others are to be found in Canada and Mexico. What you cannot collect in person you...as a means of identification. For some, such as azurite or malachite, the color is a primary characteristic |  | | Report (issue) | | INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY...assigned to the Moppin Formation, Kiawa Mountain Formation, Burned Mountain Metarhyolite, and Maquinita Granodiorite...occurred after deposition of the Precambrian Kiawa Mountain Formation, Cretaceous Lewis Formation, and Tertiary...the Tusas Mountains, part of the southern Rocky Mountain province, and the San Juan Basin, part of the...Mexico state line (fig. 1). The western edge of the area approximately coincides with U.S. Highway 84, along |  | | Book | | turn, was named for Russell Mountain—a place his father loved. The mountain is in the small town of Russell...Massachusetts, and I feel that I have a link to the area. I was surprised when I first read about the important...the small deposit and sold specimens to all the area museums, including the American Museum of Natural...found anything truly significant in the general area. One of Daniel Clark’s nicest Russell garnet specimens...dug is in someone’s front yard in a residential area of Hopkinton. There are probably more specimens |  | | Report (issue) | | andradite…and, from the recent finds in the Golconda area, Minas Gerais, Brazil, there are world-class bertrandite...exceeding 3 cm: Bertrandite, 3.7 cm, from the Golconda area, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Mineral Classics specimen...crystals to 2 cm came from the Los Changos collecting area of the mine. First marketed at the 2013 Denver Show...major find, this one in June 2019 in an unnamed area of the mine. I obtained that date from a French...September 2017 find, in the San Diego collecting area of the mine, as the Tucson specimens did; I have |  | | Journal (issue) | | considered world-class. In I997. a group o f fiv·e Boston area collectors who frequently collect together at the...directed by one of the old employees of the mine to an area that had prod uced epidote crystals in the I960s...and loss of documentation during the great Ohio River n ood of 1937. The Troost collection was purchased...year suriace, $34.00 per year air, First Class to Canada and Mexico $28.00, rates include sales taxes as...drawings). and 39 maps. covers the Ouachita Mtns. area where most Arkansas minerals occu r. with most quartz |  | | Report (volume) | | Mineral Resource Potential and Geology of the White River National Forest and the Dillon Ranger District of... Mineral Resource Potential and Geology of the White River National Forest and the Dillon Ranger District of...Mineral resource potential and geology of the White River National Forest and the Dillon Ranger District of...3:2035 1. Mines and mineral resources Colorado White River National Forest. 2. Mines and mineral resources...Arapaho National Forest. 3. Geology Colorado White River National Forest. 4. Geology Colorado Arapaho National |  | | Report (volume) | | for the names of States and for the provinces of Canada are given in Part I.] Anon anonymous papers, placed...State Mining Bureau Can G S Canada, Geological Survey Can :M Br Canada, Mines Branch Can Pari Canada, Parliament...(F P), 94; Phalen. 08c: Pratt, Olh; US G S, 83; Canada: McLeish, 10, 14 Absaroka folio, Wyo. (no. 52):·Hague...56a American geological science, indebtedness to Canada: Dawson (J W), 87 Antiquity of man: Penck, 09a...to geology: Rice (W N), 07 Cretaceous system in Canada: Whiteaves, 94 Crystalline rocks of the Northwest: |  | | Book | | is not common in the metasedimentary rocks of the area which host these species, but "reasonably good"...ILMENITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Ice River complex. The Ice River complex is an intrusive... r ILMENITE QUEBEC Girardville, Lac Saint-Jean area. Just northwest of the town of Girardville, itself...drainage flows west-southwest from a mountain massif to join the Reuss River at the town of Amsteg, subordinate...attacking it once again as a blizzard began on the mountain, Isseponi lay down on the freezing ground and |  | | Journal (volume) | | 1 Return to itss INDEX Canadian Mining Journal, Vol. 34 JANUARY 1st, 1913 TO DECEMBER 31st... The Canadian Mining Journal (With which A is incorporated "The Canadian Mining Review.") Journal...Journal Devoted to Mining and Metallurgy Published on the First and Subscription in Canada, $2.00 Fifteenth...The Canadian Mining Journal, 44-46 Lombard St., Toronto to — INDEX CANADIAN MINING JOURNAL. VOL,...Asbestos \'eius and the Mineral JN'ephrite, British Columbia, Visit to Mines of Alberta Notes on, by W |  | | Journal (issue) | | (deceased) Eric D. Long SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009-2014) Mineralogical...under the following major headings: the US and Canada, Latin America, Europe, Africa, the former Soviet...information 797 A ACANTHITE UNITED STATES and CANADA BRITISH COLUMBIA Beaverdell [Highland Bell] mine, Beaverdell...mines in the Beaverdell silver-mining district of southern British Columbia, near the village of Beaverdell...251). Cerro Proano, Fresnillo, Zacatecas. Silver mining in and around Cerro Proano (Proano Hill), just |  | | Book (edition) | | included contain such specific details as farm roads, mountain paths, stretches of stream beds, and easily identifiable...permission of the publisher. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto. Manufactured...book would not exist if countless prospectors treasure hunters, mineralogists, and enthusiastic amateurs...to Maine and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and Mexico. Every state, as a glance at the list...wetting the specimen, rubbing the area, and examining it after the area dries. Tests should be made only |  | | Journal (issue) | | or $324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription...Lucking (2020) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2020) Mineral Association... Oregon, Montana, Nevada, California, and British Columbia. In addition to his legendary field collecting...Realgar crystals on matrix, 23.4 cm, from Green River Gorge, Franklin, King County, Washington. Collected...books as he could find, especially the Washington Division of Mines and Geology Bulletin No. 37, Inventory |  | | Report (issue) | | NEWMEXICOINSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY CAMPUS STATION SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY................................ GoodHope. Inner Mountain. and Cinnabar claims . . . . . . ........................................... Coyote-Youngsville area .................................. 94 MogulFraction... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 4. Mining districts in the Tusas Mountains . . . . . . ....district . 90 11. Geologic map of the Cleveland Gulch area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 12. Index map showing |
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