 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DONALD C. NOBLE MackaySchoolof Mines, Universityof Nevada-Reno,Reno,Nevada89557 Historical Background PERUhasa...Accordingto Purser(1971) Spanishcolonialsilver mining faced three main problems:(1) downward drop in...warsof independencein the 1820sthe Peruvianmetal mining industrycollapsedand then recoveredslowly (Fischer...nationalcompanies). played by Peruvianand foreign mining geologists, At the sametime, explorationfor oil...focusedon engineers,andentrepreneurs in furtheringthe mining the continental shelf of northwestern Peru and |  | | Book | | The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission... CONTENTS • Foreword lX Preface Xl Important Mining Districts 1 Discovery and Developments in Mexico...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in Mexico, which produce fine mineral...geologists, mineralo- LX x I Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors | | | Book | | The endsheet maps are reprinted from The Mexican Mining Industry 1890-1950 by Marvin D. Bernstein, by permission...is * CONTENTS Foreword Preface Important Mining Districts Discovery and Developments in México...introduction contains an interesting summary of the mining history and the development of mineralogy. It also...The author discusses eight of the more important mining districts in México, which produce fine mineral...geologists, mineralo- x / Foreword gists, and mining engineers, but also for mineral and gem collectors |  | Chauvet, Alain, Bailly, Laurent, André, Anne-Sylvie, Monié, Patrick, Cassard, Daniel, Tajada, Fernando Llosa, Vargas, Juan Rosas, Tuduri, Johann (2006) Internal vein texture and vein evolution of the epithermal Shila-Paula district, southern Peru. Mineralium Deposita, 41 (4) 387-410 doi:10.1007/s00126-006-0068-4 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and vein evolution of the epithermal Shila-Paula district, southern Peru Received: 28 July 2005 / Accepted:...2006 Abstract The epithermal Shila-Paula Au–Ag district is characterized by numerous veins hosted in Tertiary...metallogenic provinces of southern Peru The Shila-Paula district is one of the many areas of low-sulfidation epithermal...+CAYLLOMA Orcopampa LIMA Pomasi Shila-Paula district Fig. 1b 16 JULIACA + a Madrigal b Tacaza...Fault Mineralized vein Caldera margin Lake Main mine Village / Town 70˚W Fig. 1 Simplified geologic |  | | Journal (issue) | | wires may be covered with acanthite or even altered completely to acanthite. (Continues on page 2) An...Zacatecas, Mexico (perhaps the largest example from the mine in 25 years) In conclusion, if the reader generally...specifically at Bloemfontein itself, but in that district within Free State are the Jagersfontein, Koffiefontein...WeberPerloff micromount collection that went to the LA County Museum, or the Cureton type specimen collection...be from the Tonglushan Copper Mine, near Daye, Hubei Province. This mine is said to be among the oldest |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Native gold from the Jamestown mine, Tuolumne County, California...............................Baranda Some pegmatite minerals from the Zomba district, Malawi ........................................Adularia from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland .......................................visiting the Blanchard mine or other mines in the Hansonburg mining district near Bingham, New Mexico...signed in at Bingham for entry to the Blanchard mine area for surface collecting. Underground collecting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | at: No. 19, Beitucheng Western Road, Chaoyang District, 100029 Beijing, P.R. China. E-mail address:...et al. (1999) classified LS deposits of northern Nevada as type 1 LS (associated with a western andesite...economically important in the 600-km-long Walker Lane in Nevada (e.g., Comstock Lode), the 750-km-long Sierra Madre...Ciobanu et al., 2002; Grancea et al., 2002), Baguio district of the Philippines and Morobe goldfield of Papua...deposits also contain electrum, native gold, acanthite-argentite, and many other silver sulfosalts minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | fluorite crystal group, 7 cm, from the Huanzala mine, Dos de Mayo Province, Peru. Marty Zinn collection;...AUTHORS’ ADDRESSES Jack A. Crowley P.O. Box 5644 Reno, Nevada 89513 Rock H. Currier 13100 Spring Street Baldwin................................. History of Peru Mining in Peru The Mineral Specimen Business C o l l e..................................... Quiruvilca district, Santiago de Chuco province, department of La.................................... Pasto Bueno district, Pallasca province, department of Ancash R a u |  | | Book | | Spanish-English, English-Spanish glossary of gem, mineral and mining terms. BY PAUL WILLARD JOHNSON Price $2.00 r...El Antimonio District Cananea District ...... Arizpe District ........... Nacozari District ...... Moctezuma...Moctezuma District ... Hermosillo District ... Alamos District ........ San Bernardo Area Alistos District...SECTION 2 — Highway 45 Sabinal District ............... Los Lamentos District.... Placer de Guadalupe Puerto...Aire District Chihuahua .......................... Santa Eulalia District....... El Potosi Mine..... |  | Gilmer, Allen L., Clark, Kenneth F., Conde C., Jose, Hernandez C., Ignacio, Figueroa S., Juan I., Porter, Elise W. (1988) Sierra de Santa Maria, Velardena mining district, Durango. Economic Geology, 83 (8) 1802-1829 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.83.8.1802 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1•40ø-1•429 Sierra de SantaMaria, VelardefiaMining District, Durango, Mexico ALLEN L. GILMER,* KENNETH F....principalmines,the LosAzulesmine and the SantaMaria mine, both located within the northeastern flank of the...the early 1980s. the southwesternportion of the district, acrossthe Production CuencameValley from the...the Sierra de San Lorenzo, the other rangein the district(Fig. 1). IndustrialMinera de Mexicobeganore production...neouscoreof the dome;pyrite-sphalerite-galena car- Maria mine and 200 metric tons per day from the bonate-replacement |  | | Book | | do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Collection of Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes Filho. Photograph taken by Marcelo...Malacacheta, Minas Gerais. Collection of Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes Filho. Drawing by Ronald Tobias. Illustration...Preface of Rui Ribeiro Franco 11 Preface of Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes Filho 12 Preface of Carlos Cornejo...mineralogists active in Brazil 69 Notable national mining en~·neers and mineralogists 73 Ca inets of curiosities...The auriferous claims 148 The gold mine of Morro Velho 153 The Mine of Passagem 155 The/old rush in P'ianc6 |  | | Report (issue) | | RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC STUDY OF THE VAZANTE ZINC DISTRICT, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL By Charles H. Thorman, ...~~~ ~~ __ n 2. Geologic map of the Vazante district in pocket 3. Geologic cross sections in pocket... RECONNAISSANCE GEOLOGIC STUDY OF THE VAZANTE ZINC DISTRICT, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL by Charles H. Thorman, U...Pesquisa de Recursos Minerais ABSTRACT The Vazante district, Minas Gerais, 130 km south of Paracatu, produces...produces nearly all of Brazil's zinc metal. The district is situated on the western side of the Late Precambrian |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ta~co Famous mineral localities: The Trucco mining district, Taxco de Alarcon, Guerrero, Mexico .........:Refugio Jlline Famous mineral localities: The Refugio mine, Municipio de Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico .............Front Cover Smithsonite, 4 cm wide, from the Refugio mine, Choix, Sinaloa, Mexico. William Dameron collection;...that were collected and stored more carefully. The mine is still being actively worked today, as the city...6) San Pedro Corralitos, Amatitlan, San Francisco mine Mexico V.· (2008, vol. 39, no. 6) History, Milpillas |  | | Journal (issue) | | Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...times some mineral specimens, encountered during mining or found casually in natural outcrops, were collected...deposits and the development of a !arge number of mining operations. In the above-mentioned famous rnineral...place in the Sardinian mines and the Traversella mine (Piedmont). The second edition of the Catalogue...(1828-1900), who dedicated their Jives to studying and mining the pegmatite rninerals of San Piero in Campo on |  | | Journal (issue) | | .... 5 by C. S. Stolburg Minerals of the Pereta mine, Tuscany, Italy ..................................and M. Tazzini Alteration minerals of the Cetine mine, Tuscany, It a ly ................................ Sabelli and G. Brizzi Siegenite from the Buick mine, Bixby, Missouri .................................R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Arthur Roe Tucson, AZ Abraham Rosenzweig University...visit the gun and knife show at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in Pomona. Here are some items culled |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 101 Station Landing, Suite 300, Medford MA 02155, USA, Email: cs-journals@wiley.com, Phone: 781-388-8598...Petroleum Geologists, 1444 S. 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When the mines were closed at Bisbee in 1975 he transferred toAjo as General Mine Foreman...Nome, Alaska, as well as of a coal mine in Utah and a copper mine in New Mexico for Gold Fields, Ltd...Presi dent of Operations for the Golden Queen Mining Company (Mojave, California), followed by Vice |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hong Kong 691 Gem Notes Baryte from South Dakota, USA| Gems from Mong Long, Myanmar|Pyrite and other sulphides...Reys photo Feature Articles 708 Coloured Stone Mining and Trade in Brazil: A Brief History and Current...Vittoria L. Villani, Franca Caucia, Luigi Marinoni, Alberto Leone, Maura Brusoni, Riccardo Groppali, Federica...Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; Edward Boehm, RareSource, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA; Maggie Campbell Pedersen...Emmett, Crystal Chemistry, Brush Prairie, Washington, USA; Emmanuel Fritsch, University of Nantes, France; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the south part of the Koashva open pit (Vostochnyi mine), Mt. Koashva, Khibiny alkaline complex in Kola...andorite homeotypic series from the Monte Arsiccio mine, Apuan Alps. European Journal of Mineralogy, 30...Arsiccio mine, Stazzema, Apuan Alps, Tuscany, Italy (43°58′16″N, 10°17′05″E). The Monte Arsiccio mine exploited...arsenic analogue of medaite, from the Molinello mine, Liguria, Italy: occurrence and crystal structure...monoclinic, is a new mineral discovered in the Molinello mine, Graveglia Valley, Ne, Genova, Liguria, Italy (~N |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | deposit mines. The recently opened San Cristobal mine is outstanding in size, containing 3.2 million tons...tons Zn, 1.2 million tons Pb, and 12,600 tons Ag (Mining Journal, 2010). The ore deposit is not tin-polymetallic...2). The lead–zinc deposits of the San Cristobal mine (Ludington et al., 1993) have a much younger K-Ar...which is economically the most important for indium mining. Copper-rich base metal deposits tend to occur...time. The total output since the opening of the mine in 1545 is said to reach more than 2 billion ounces |  | | Book | | ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986 [ ONTARIO] NEVADA] [ 16 / 1985 [ 65-128 265-328 261-336 209-272...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73 |  | | Conference Proceedings (Volume) | | copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started in 1968 and the current mining depth...area of the Kristineberg VHMS deposit, Skellefte district, Sweden .......................................A. Massive Zn-Cu-Pb deposits in the Røros ore district, Norway: setting and formation ................Matos The Jörn granitoid complex, Skellefte mining district, Sweden: petrography, lithogeochemistry and...for VHMS deposits, Kristineberg area, Skellefte District, Sweden ..................................... |  | | Journal (issue) | | C. R. Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County, Iowa ............. 231 by P. L. Garvin &...Sevillano The geosc_ience collections of the Freiberg Mining Academy .........................................in the still open underground workings of the Gem mine. He encountered an open pocket containing well formed...substantial quantities of candy for the children in the mining camps he would visit. He would typically stop in...conglomerate. The stories of these early discoveries and mine developments, some of which were conducted under |  | | Book | | P L AT E 8 Chalcopyrite and Calcite. Groundhog mine, Vanadium, New Mexico. 4 x 5 cm. Thesecrystals formed...the diamonds clearly do not form in them. Placer mining employs water to separate gems or precious metals...easily duplicated. Spessartine in Rhyolite. Ely, Nevada. - c m crystals. Spessartine is one of the most...I ( o p p o s i t e ) Elbaite. Tourmaline Queen mine, Pala, California. i o-cm crystals. The dramatic...Spitzkoppe, Namibia (crystal, 4 x 4 cm); Mason County, Texas (gem, 48.35 ct). Topaz is one of many gem |  | | Journal (issue) | | Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W. Thomssen Reno, Nevada photography Neily Bariand Paris, France Werner...minerals at the Line Pit, State Line chromite district, Pennsylvania and Maryland ..................149...L yko Minerals and Gems (El Paso, TX) M ad Rat Mining and Minerals (Ontario, CA) M ike Madsen Minerals...Minerals The Showcase (Sudbury, MA) Sierra Nevada Mining Co. (Reno, NV) Silvy's R ock Barn (Bath, NY)...seemed that every gas station in Utah, Arizona and Nevada had a small display o f minerals for sale in those |
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