 | | Journal (issue) | | Geological Society of Zimbabwe G S Z Newsletter February 2018 No. 1 of 3 of 2018 An integrated... Keynote Address to the Geological Society of Zimbabwe 2017 Summer Symposium by Branko Corner www.geologicalsociety...Society of Zimbabwe, P.O. Box CY 1719, Causeway, Harare Geological Society of Zimbabwe Newsletter ...Zambia: Exotic terrane or a reworked segment of the Zimbabwe Craton? …………………………..………………. Southern Africa under...and Motor Mine - 2 December 2017 …………………………… NEWS Geology Department, University of Zimbabwe – Maideyi |  | | Report (issue) | | ______ 53 Rare new minerals of the United Verde Mine fire ___________________________ 53 Calcite ___...important in the area including a major mine at Jerome (just west of Cottonwood and Clarkdale) and a scattering...scattering of mines in the Verde Ranger District (RD) and the southern half of the Bradshaw RD (fig. 1)...found particularly in east Chino Valley Ranger District (fig. 1) and adjacent parts of the Kaibab National...plastic index Prescott National Forest Ranger district metric tons cents per gram The report is divided |  | | Catalog/List | | example, CATS-EYE DIOPSIDE, CAT'S-EYE QUARTZ, STAR BERYL, STAR GARNET, etc., are proper label names. However...BENITOITE BERYL AQUAMARINE BAZZITE EMERALD GOLDEN BERYL GOSHENITE HELIODOR MAXIXE MORGANITE RED BERYL ROSTERITE...LLANITE LUDLAMITE LU.MACHELLE GOETHITE GOLDEN BERYL GOSHENITE GRANITE GR.ANODIORITE GREEN QUARTZ GROSSULAR...QUARTZ SMOKY QUARTZ TOURMALINATED QUARTZ REALGAR RED BERYL RHODIZlTE RHODOCHROSITE RHODOLITE RHODONITE FOWLERITE...from Burma also known as Tawmawite Greenish-yellow beryl Red to brown copper-bearing scone with blue or green |  | | Journal (issue) | | Branch: J. Leek, FGA North-West Branch: R. Perrett, FGA South Yorkshire & District Branch: G. A. Massie, FGA...Their name for amber was 'succinum'. Urine of the lynx Theophrastus mentioned, and Pliny described, certain...and gemstones were generated from the urine of the lynx. "They claim", writes Pliny, "that this creature...being called Lyncurium or Lynx-urine), was formed of the urine of the lynx; tawny dark sherry colours...writes, being a product of the male while the female lynx produced the lighter coloured ambers. Again, according |  | | Journal (issue) | | region (near the municipality of Lajes) had produced beryl and/or columbite-tantalite from pegmatites, but...efforts and promising early results, the emerald mine has not yet begun production. 2 GEMS & GEMOLOGY...LOCATION AND ACCESS The Fazenda Bonfim region lies west of Natal, the state capital of Rio Grande do Norte...deposit is located near the Bonfim gold-tungsten mine (figure 2), at coordinates 05°50.45¢S, 036°07.10¢W...by driving about 95 km west to Caiçara do Rio do Vento, then another 6 km west on a paved road. A dirt |  | | Journal (issue) | | Dalt, PART OF DUMP OF FAMOUS OLD TRADE DOLLAR. MINE, SILVER C~TY, IDAHO. SPECIAL ARTICLES MARBLE. ............. 73 The Occurrence of Breunnerite a,t West Paterson, N. J. By Charles v\'. Hoadley 77 Acknowledgments......................................... 77 Huge Beryl Crystals at Albany, Maine. By E. K. Gedney and Harry...0.JARRl £S ASSOCIA lEO MAINE MINERAL STORE • WEST PARIS. MAINE STA N L E Y 1. PERHAM OXf'ORO COUNTY...largest deposits, however, are in the Furnace Creek district in the Funeral Range ex- ho- )ns pes !ry |  | | Book | | Books Edited by Peter G. Read Amber Helen Fraquet Beryl John Sinkankas Corundum Richard W. Hughes Garnet...Kingdom 193 United States of America 194 Zaire 203 Zimbabwe 203 Index 205 Preface When Peter Read asked...of Beryl by Sinkankas and Read in the Butterworth-Heinemann Gem Books series. Because both beryl and...Brazil, Sri Lanka; Jos plateau, Nigeria; Volyn district, Ukraine, and numerous pegmatites throughout the...the channel in Cornwall, England, and from north-west Spain (Faul, and Faul, 1983; Forbes, 1972).. Attractive |  | | Book (edition) | | is better quality lapis lazuli from Badakshan district, of Afghanistan, or 2 DICTIONARY OF GEMS...and fashioned and prized by the negroes of West African coast. Red, blue or violet. Has also been...decomposed obsidian flows (perlite) of the American West. They are usually translucent, a light- to valuation...The pale or light green-blue to blue variety of beryl. H. 8; S.G. 2.68-2.75; R.I. 1.57/1.58-1.58/-...’’ Greenish- yellow beryl. ‘aquamarine emerald.”’ Trade name for a genuine beryl or aquamarine triplet |  | | Book (edition) | | blue, best quality lapis lazuli from Badak- shan district, of Afghanistan, or from just over the border...fished and fashioned and prized by the negroes of West African coast. Red, blue or violet. Has also been...tioned by Schlossmacher, for pale reddish violet beryl. amethystine. A color designation meaning violet...” Greenish- yellow beryl. “aquamarine emerald.” Trade name for a genuine beryl or aquama¬ rine triplet...The pale or light green-blue to blue variety of beryl. H. 8; S.G. 2.68-2.75; R.I. 1.57/1.58-1.58/1.59 |  | | Book (edition) | | lazuli from BadakFrom all of these the Chinese shan district, of Afghanistan, or fashion small images, miniature...fished and fashioned and prized by the negroes of West African coast. Red, blue akabar. agate opal. See...mentioned by Schlossmacher, for pale reddish violet beryl. amethystine. A color designation meaning violet...(ak-wa-ma-reen') . (1) light green-blue to blue variety of beryl. H, 8; S.G. ignation meaning light blue to bluish...chrysolite." Greenishyellow beryl. "aquamarine emerald." Trade name for a genuine beryl or aquamaSee "emerald |  | | Journal (issue) | | By Edward Cahen NOTES ON THE BuTTE, MONTANA, DISTRICT. By R. F. H. Harter STARK'S KNoB. By C. A. Hartnagel...EARLY ISSUE The Tin Fields of Northern Nigeria, West Africa: By Aubrey E. H orn, Mining Engineer. This...by those of our readers who are mining engineers, mine offi• cials, prospectors, or those otherwise interested............ Some Notes on the Butte, l\{ontana. District.................................................Belgian Congo, just north of Northern Rhodesia and west of Lake Tanganyika; furthermore. if the map is colored |  | | Book (volume) | | producer Blue Grouse Mine shows copper sulphides and carbonates, Lake Cowichan. The mine dump is full of pyrite...and Mackenzie Mountains, and is bounded on the west by the Rocky Mountain Trench, home to towns like...ofslabs of rock that were pushed and slid from the west, mostly between 100 and 40 million years ago. This...home, the mountains in the Bugaboo Range (to the west of Windermere) are granites, as is the Squamish... name to the structure), and the Myra Falls /Lynx mine in Strathcona Provincial Park. From then until |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bariand Paris, France Werner Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach Bochum, Germany Eric Offermann...in 1978 by Donald Elliott at the Diamond Willow mine near Thunder Bay, Ontario. Photo by Harold and Erica...Rubellite Tourmaline on Albite from the Itatiaia mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Rubellite crystal measures...began with the opening of the Thun der Bay amethyst mine in 1967, and in 1975 amethyst was declared by the...best known occurrence is the Thunder Bay amethyst mine, at Elbow Lake, which has been in operation since |  | | Journal (issue) | | Branch: J. Leek, FGA North-West Branch: R. Perrett, FGA South Yorkshire & District Branch: G. A. Massie, FGA...effect of Devanampiya Tissa's merit. Sapphire, beryl, ruby, these gems and many jewels and those pearls...Mohammedan merchants of Mannar and Mantota [in the north-west of Sri Lanka] received into the immense warehouses...fragment the gem trade and gem cutting. Towns on the west seaboard, which were also landing stages, attracted...Kenya Lualenyi Tanzania Malawi Lobi Pit Zimbabwe Lynx Mine X R F analysis by David Bland as part of |  | | Journal (issue) | | These values are normal for hydrothermally-grown beryl and emerald (excluding Cr-rich overlays), and they...at 5100 Â. The O-ray absorption for vanadium in beryl was first reported by Emel'yanova et al.(2) in 1965...the optic axis and still contained the natural beryl seedplate. The presence of traces of iron in the...Several Brazilian localities are known where green beryl a n d emerald are found to contain appreciable v...line should be drawn between emerald and green beryl. This necessarily depends on one's definition of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | confirmed four localities in Canada that contain beryl with the hue and depth of color to be considered...have turned out to be greenish or bluish-green beryl instead of true emerald. Only two localities have...6U[HYPV In 1941, Satterly briefly described green beryl from the Taylor pegmatite near Dryden, northwestern...Almost a half-century later, Breaks described this beryl occurrence as Ontario’s only known emerald locality...emerald project (fig. 13). At the Taylor occurrence, beryl ranges in color from creamy white to pale green |  | | Book (chapter) | | hydroxide = descloizite, Kipfer 182 (1974). leaf-like beryl = kyanite, Bukanov 187 (2006). leafy serpentine...524 (1900). lechleitner = dark-green gem Cr-rich beryl, Webster & Jobbins 64 (1998). Lechosopal = dark-green...Dana 6th, 666 (1892). lesem = green gem Fe-rich beryl or blue gem Fe-Ti-rich corundum ?, de Fourestier...diopside, Novitzky 185 (1951). leucoberyl = white beryl, Bukanov 64 (2006). leucocalcita = white olivenite...Mn-rich spodumene, Clark 403 (1993). lithion beryl = Li-rich beryl, Thrush 648 (1968). Lithioneisenglimmer |  | | Report (chapter) | | Federico Cesi in 1603, this Academy was named after the lynx, famed for its sharp-eyed and penetrating vision...illustrated, but bloodstone, turquoise, jade or nephrite, beryl, pearls, gold, earths and red coral are frequently...tumours and as a desiccant (Mattioli 1568). Fungus or Lynx stone An isolated sclerotium of the stone fungus... and dismissed the idea that they resulted from lynx urine. Severinus (1649, p. 170, 1778, p. 3) also...operations of nature that work internally, just as the lynx is said to do with its look, seeing not only that |  | | Journal (issue) | | Iowa when I was 14," said he. "I wanted to go out West and become a cowboy. I d:d it, too, by george! Then...sat in her home one recent after- Garden, Green Lynx and Black Widow noon, I could not help wondering...been my of her round black body, invariably mur- Lynx and the Golden Garden. In autumn, hobby ever since...perhaps, Nan Songer cially the web of the young Green Lynx for rectly my crickets led me to the spiders." splitting...window. There I saw large families of young Green Lynx, lonely and listless male Black Widows, and the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Rising gold prices may someday bring this sleeping mine back to life; by Kathleen Connell 44 Finding Gold...world-class California gold specimen from the Eagle's Nest Mine in northern California. from the collection of Wayne...adult; displays, demonstrations, chil• dren's mini-mine, minerals, gems, lossils, prize drawings hourly...www.gemfalre.com. c11111i1111ed 011 page .18 34 West 46th Street, New York, NY 10036 10 www.rockngem...in the Turin Museum that shows an Egyptian gold mine. f rom page 13 There is no record of who developed |  | | Book (volume) | | vacation stops at a roadside “dig your own” gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a peach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...VOLUME 4 Northeast States Connecticut Delaware District of Columbia Illinois Indiana Louisiana Maine...North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Virginia West Virginia Vermont Wisconsin “ NE i fe € IWNIOA...U.S.A. 4TH EDITION Where & How to Dig, Pan, and Mine Your Own Gems & Minerals VOLUME 2: SOUTHWEST STATES |  | | Journal (issue) | | Branch: J. Leek, FGA North-West Branch: R. Perrett, FGA South Yorkshire & District Branch: G. A. Massie, FGA...(Figure 4) and semi-transparent Africa, including Zimbabwe (Campbell, 1972), one small, dark subhedral crystal...of Tanzanian material reportedly from the Kangala mine. According to Mr calcite dichroscope. When viewed...Petershausen, West Germany Petershausen, West Germany consists of of a colourless natural beryl seed plate...characterized microscopically fading into colourless beryl layers towards the table cally as well well as as |  | | Book | | that the Sicily;* caerulium Book and * that lynx;* and * lychnis ) * comes Book Ch. XXXVII...some three or of India; descrip- as of beryl of and two India have and, not joined together...Again is be may pits in Spain. same tion beryl it (yellow crystal, chryselectrum the hue. ...ancient * as to some the urine of the ex- lynx, probably mnemonic, due its color. Pliny’s ...(Pytheas): birds, the meleagrides. 22 is and a lynx:* produced by at scum that it sunset: of the | | | Book | | that the Sicily;* caerulium Book and * that lynx;* and * lychnis ) * comes Book Ch. XXXVII...some three or of India; descrip- as of beryl of and two India have and, not joined together...Again is be may pits in Spain. same tion beryl it (yellow crystal, chryselectrum the hue. ...ancient * as to some the urine of the ex- lynx, probably mnemonic, due its color. Pliny’s ...(Pytheas): birds, the meleagrides. 22 is and a lynx:* produced by at scum that it sunset: of the |  | | Report (chapter) | | of Latin translations, his writings came to the West via the Byzantine copyists and scholars of the eighth...effects of tuberculosis; drinking water in which beryl has been soaked takes away liver and respiratory...that were subsequently highly influential in the West, largely through the eleventhand twelfth-century...stones. Entries for the lynx, for example, often mention Ligurius, the ‘lynx stone’, which supposedly...Walton 2001; Duffin 2008a). The identity of the lynx stone, depending on the context, is usually amber |
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Lynx Mine, Lynx, Karoi District, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe