 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | no other group of minerals has more associated mining lore or history. Silver financed empires and great...recovered as a byproduct of low-grade copper and lead mining. This fact, coupled with the historically low price...copper were the first). The earliest known siIver mining occurred in Cappadocia in Asia Minor and is dated...Excavations at Ur, an ancient city on the Euphrates River, have recovered some extraordinary silver work (ca...probably reflects the fact that the earliest silver mining amounted to gathering the metal in its native state |  | Stouraiti, Christina, Soukis, Konstantinos, Voudouris, Panagiotis, Mavrogonatos, Constantinos, Lozios, Stylianos, Lekkas, Spyridon, Beard, Andrew, Strauss, Harald, Palles, Dimitrios, Baziotis, Ioannis, Soulamidis, Georgios (2019) Silver-rich sulfide mineralization in the northwestern termination of the Western Cycladic Detachment System, at Agios Ioannis Kynigos, Hymittos Mt. (Attica, Greece): A mineralogical, geochemical and stable isotope study. Ore Geology Reviews, 111. 102992 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.102992 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | northern Hymittos Mt (central Attica, Greece) district has made this region important due to its structural...world-class Lavrion mining district (25 km SE of Hymittos Mt.). At Agios Ioannis Kynigos mine veins of oxidized...study, with Ag hosted mainly in Ag-tetrahedrite, acanthite and jalpaite. Compositionally pyrite shows As...rendering it structurally equivalent to the Lavrion district and indicate that the WCDS has a minimum strike...abandoned mine of Agios Ioannis Kynigos which is situated c. 25 km northwest of the Lavrion mining district |  | | Report (volume) | | it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...E. H. Barbour, University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Nevada...........Dr. W. S. Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal...North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks |  | | Journal (issue) | | Dam gold prospect is located in central Dickinson County, Michigan, approximately ten kilometers north of...the dominant exposed bedrock in this part of the county. Excavated near the tum of the 20th century, the...obvious even when visiting some of the Garland County mines. I also planned to do some Magnet Cove collecting...came from the Hardy-Walsh or more likely from Moses Hill on the eastern edge of the Cove because parts were...just to the east of the brookite diggings on Moses Hill. Previously, 1 had some of the lustrous black quartz |  | Tombros, S. F., St. Seymour, K., Williams-Jones, A. E., Spry, P. G. (2008) Later stages of evolution of an epithermal system: Au–Ag mineralizations at Apigania Bay, Tinos Island, Cyclades, Hellas, Greece. Mineralogy and Petrology, 94 (3) 175-194 doi:10.1007/s00710-008-0019-0 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cyclades, Hellas, Greece S. F. Tombros & K. St. Seymour & A. E. Williams-Jones & P. G. Spry Received:...handling: R. Abart S. F. Tombros (*) : K. St. Seymour Department of Geology, University of Patras, Hellas...tompros@mailbox.gr K. St. Seymour e-mail: kstseymr@upatras.gr K. St. Seymour Department of Chemistry and...State University, 253 Science I, Ames, IA 50011, USA e-mail: pgspry@iastate.edu Introduction Reviews...epithermal Au–Ag–Te at St. Demetrios, Fakos and Perama Hill, Thrace (3.5 to 3.7 g/t Au; Voudouris and Alfieris |  | | Journal (issue) | | calcite, 11/2 inches across, Knippa Quarry, Uvalde County, Texas, photo by the author. Tucson 1999 - mouthwash...nor post-mining. It came from two localities Posey Mine (San Juan Co., Utah, USA) and Planet Mine (La Paz...Paz Co., Arizona, USA). That from Posey Mine is composed of 5-10 mm veins, composed of fibers perpendicular...have many years of experience in mining and selling gems in Oxford County; Vandall King (the expert on Maine...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collecting. Although Texas is not known for its mining industry, be cause of its large oil and gas exploration...rare-earth pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake...1938. The Terlingua mining district is noted for its rare mercury minerals. Mining here was contin uous...from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced most of the rare minerals, ceased...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991) |  | | Journal (issue) | | at the State Pit Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston...about 2 miles north of Mount Ida in Montgomery County. Arkansas has been mentioned in several show reports...1983). Most of these specimens have come from the County Continued on page 4 Fig. 1 Planerite with colorless...Mulingisha. or Mulungwishi, which he says is not a mine but a village nearby where minerals are traded (much...barite comes from Shangulowe, an open pit copper mine abandoned in 1943 and mined on and off since by |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | I>2σ(I)] is topologically identical to that of acanthite, Ag2S, and aguilarite, Ag4SeS. It can be described...Science I, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-3212, USA (e.g., Padma Kumar and Yashonath 2006). These compounds...collected from the spoil tips of the abandoned Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora (Mexico). By means of X-ray photographic...studied fragments of cervelleite intergrown with acanthite from a structural point of view and reported a...et al. (1989) also noticed that cervelleite, acanthite and hessite were altered rapidly and profoundly |  | | Report (volume) | | ....................................... 102 District of Columbia ............................................................................ 187 Nevada..................................................to refer to Geological Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals that are widely...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products, but because they furnish |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | midamphibolite facies conditions (Stamatelopoulou-Seymour and MacLean 1984; Bernier et al. 1987) during the...c Schematic cross-section highlighting the pre-mining morphology of the massive sulphides. The position...deformed to some degree. Some, such as McArthur River and Century in Australia, are only very slightly...metamorphosed and deformed. Others, such as Broken Hill, also in Australia, have been metamorphosed at granulite...of granodioritic to gabbroic composition. In the mine area, these metamorphic rocks strike roughly north–south |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah. In most locations...along the coulees of Meeting Creek and the Battle River in the vicinity of Donalda. The locality is in the...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...V anadiun1 l\'line, l\fagnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas is Reclaimed and Collecting Ceases...Located on the east rim of Magnet Cove, the Christy Mine, fonnerly known as the Christy brookite locality |  | Voudouris, Panagiotis Christos, Spry, Paul G., Sakellaris, Gregory Aarne, Mavrogonatos, Constantinos (2011) A cervelleite-like mineral and other Ag-Cu-Te-S minerals [Ag2CuTeS and (Ag,Cu)2TeS] in gold-bearing veins in metamorphic rocks of the Cycladic Blueschist Unit, Kallianou, Evia Island, Greece. Mineralogy and Petrology, 101 (3) 169-183 doi:10.1007/s00710-011-0144-z | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State University, Ames, IA, USA G. A. Sakellaris RWTH Aachen University, Aachen,...polybasite (Voudouris and Spry 2008). The Kallianou district (Fig. 1) is part of the AtticCycladic-Pelagonian...near-surface levels (Neubauer 2005). The Kallianou mining district is famous for the exploitation of gold-silver-rich...region during slab retreat. The Kallianou mining district covers an area of about 50 square km at the...map of the Kallianou ore district showing the location of Kallianou district within the Styra Nappe (modified |  | | Book | | occurrences Portugal of uranium minerals 4 4 Gilpin county, Colorado 5 Cornwall, England 9 Joachimsthal...Gilpin County, The Colorado. following description of the pitchblende deposits Quartz hill, Gilpin...Gilpin county, Colorado, is taken from a paper by Forbes Rickard appearing in the Mining and Scientific Press...Press of June 7, 1913:"Near the west end of Quartz hill are several mines which have been known to produce...all on Quartz hill, are among the more important and best known ....... "This district is one in which |  | | Journal (issue) | | GEM & MINERAL SHOW - SPRING Holiday Inn - Orange County Airport, 2726 S. Grand Ave., SANTA ANA, CA 92705...Bolva Group, Inc. Cam’s Crystal Gallery Capistrano Mining Co. Cinderhill Client Server International Inc...Jewel Tunnel Imports Jim Parrish Minerals King Mike Mining Inc. Kristalle Lasco Diamond Products Love of Stones...PM Reader Letters IELD NOTES EDITORIAL the mine where we could oversee the valley and stream when...there?) Rock & Gem has been a favorite magazine of mine for years, so it’s a wonderful thing to have it |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | not impor tant specimen producers: Newgate copper mine, which was used for a prison; the Allyndale quarry...i n nesota sounded the death knell for metal mining in Connecti cut. Now, trap rock, marble/limestone...believed that it may have come from the Tollgate mine or elsewhere in the Middletown area. D a n a (Palache...bismuth mine, but efforts to trace it to that locality have failed; it has been found at O l d Mine Park... limestone q u a r r i e s , Beaver B r o o k district, Danbury: barite, calcite, graphite, microcline |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino.......... 87 by T. Moore T he S ilv e r m in es district, C o u n ty Tipperary, I r e l a n d ...........microthin coating of bomite, 5.7 cm, from the Flam beau mine, Ladysmith, Wisconsin. William Larson collection;...Weardale fluorite miniature for $140, a beautiful 79 mine aurichalcite (2.75 inches) for $140, a Zambian libethenite...subject of the 1999 Mineral Symposium. Mexico has a mining specimen collecting history dating back nearly |  | | Book (edition) | | McDonald Co\·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...used mining districts as part of the locality description. These political and geographic district names...with a more descriptive term, metallic mineral district. This term shows the geochemical and mineralogical...reader to learn more about the geology of the district and to possibly predict the minerals that could...districts. Where possible, the metallic mineral district for each mineral locality is given for the mineral |  | Scheffer, Christophe, Tarantola, Alexandre, Vanderhaeghe, Olivier, Voudouris, Panagiotis, Spry, Paul G., Rigaudier, Thomas, Photiades, Adonis (2019) The Lavrion Pb-Zn-Ag–Rich Vein and Breccia Detachment-Related Deposits (Greece): Involvement of Evaporated Seawater and Meteoric Fluids During Postorogenic Exhumation. Economic Geology, 114 (7) 1415-1442 doi:10.5382/econgeo.4670 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hall, 2237 Osborn Drive, Ames, Iowa 50011-1027, USA 6 Centre 7 Institute de Recherches Pétrographiques...formation of ore deposits in the Lavrion Pb-Zn-Ag district was associated with Miocene detachment that accommodated...nappes across the ductile-brittle transition. This district consists of (1) low-grade porphyry Mo style, (2)...of various ore deposits is the Lavrion Pb-Zn-Ag district (Greece), located along the western boundary of...Hellenic-Aegean orogenic belt (Fig. 1A). This district is relatively unique in that four styles of mineralization |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia....Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo...Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. (9) Shigaite, N’Chwaning II mine, South Africa. v This special |  | | Book (volume) | | Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to hill ridges, increasing steadily in elev. From 1,000’...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...cuts, breaks, river banks, stream beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma...Fm. On Elm Cr. Near its jct. with the Missouri River (about 15 mi. S of Chamberlain) gray Barite rosette...rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides, ridges |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS AND THEIR OCCURRENCES A CANT HITE Acanthite, the orthorhombic form of Ag2S , is stable at...are there fore valid for acanthite and are so recorded here . Most acanthite probably crystallized originally...inverted to acan thite on cooling. Pseudomorphs of acanthite after argentite are common. Orthorhombic crystal...gold at the Jewel and other mines in the Greenwood Mining Division (R. Bell , 1902-3: Geo l. Surv. Can ....masses and crysta l s in vugs at the Highland Bell Mine , Wallace Mountain , n ear Beaverdell , 23 miles |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Book (volume) | | ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Report (volume) | | I.M.E., Mining Geology Geophysics Div. Ann. Mtg., Min. Br. Abs.-American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical...Metallurgical Engineers, Mining, Geology,. and Geophysics Division Annual Meeting, Mining Branch Abstracts....New York. A.I.M.E. Trans.-American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers Transactions...Alberta. Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans.-Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Transactions...-Canadian Mining Journal. Gardenvale, Quebec. Canadian Min. Metall. Bull.-Canadian Mining and Metallurgical |
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