 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Texas mineral locality INDEX Whereas Texas is well known for its vastness, cattle industry, and oil...I T S T O P O G R A P H Y A N D G E O L O G Y , Texas, the second largest state, has produced relatively...famous localities. A s this article will show, Texas has hadâor currently hasânu merous mineral occurrences...produce good specimens; yet when specimens from Texas are sought in collections and dealers' stocks, few...some basic facts that help explain the situation. Texas has very little federal land in its mineralized |  | | Journal (issue) | | Menzies Pink topaz from the Thomas Range, Juab County, U ta h .........................................their dry, written lists (âWulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona, 1-inch, 500; 2-inch, $2; 2 inch, $3.50â...& Antiquities - Neth. R.J.B. Rock Shop Red Beryl Mine Reed, Blaine Meteorites Ryder, Dan Fossils Scheele...formed the w orldâs major chains of fold-belt mountains, such as the Andes. In contrast, the anorogenic...that fall outside these belts (e.g. in central Texas, southern Norway and Zimbabwe) are generally in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Two Point claim, Pikes Peak batholith, Teller County. The Collectorâs Edge specimen, Jeff Scovil photo... St. Peters Dome 3. Crystal Peak 4. Tarryall Mountains 5. Harris Park 6. Devils Head 7. South Platte...iron mine 11. South Park peridot locality 12. Hartsel barite locality 13. Del Norte (Twin Mountains) thunder...Junction (Book Cliffs) barite locality 15. Otero County barite occurrences 16. Royal Gorge (Eight Mile...Red Feather Lakes amethyst locality 32. Elbert County petrified wood occurrences Downloaded by [Erciyes |  | | Book (volume) | | the southern end of the Appalachian chain of mountains. These ranges extend into the northeast corner...where Brasstown Bald, a part of the Nantahala Mountains achieve the highest elevation in the state at...in the northwest, where the Lookout and Sand mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily...Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain (about 30% of the state),...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and ï the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Planetary Institute 3303 NASA Road l, Houston, Texas 77058 exo Cnenr-ns V. Guroorrr Department of Geological...patterns, their approachto chemParkway, Plano, Texas 75023. ical equilibrium, and their relative element...miscible solidsolutionseries:schorl-draviteand schorl-elbaite. dravite and elbaite (Deer et al., 1962)...described in terms of their position in the elbaite-schorl series or in the schorldravite series. Nonetheless...There is no reliance on a Alkali-free Dravite tT Schorl Buergerite ti^^ 1, ofo a' a a ai' t.t 'rt |  | | Journal (issue) | | paragenesis of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ...............those by Ivan Kostov (1968, Mineralogy, Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh and London, 587 pp.), of the relationship...plus an interesting range o f rare species. The mine, first opened in 1903, continues to produce fine...fine specimens. T INTRODUCTION The Little Three mine is one of several mines located on the Little Three...property in the Ramona district, San Diego County, California. This mine, strictly speaking, is developed in |  | | Journal (issue) | | A. Bartscb Houston Museum of Nat. Soi. Houston, Texas Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...published, a sample article (the recent Red Cloud mine articleâ click on the specimen photos and blow them...family, which had owned and operated the Las Chispas mine near Arizpe, Sonora. The family sent Schmitter a...location. The Western Union mine is one such rare find. It is a tiny mine which never actually went into |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1911, âupâ Cane Branch near Burnsville in Yancey County, North Carolina. His lean and sinewy frame suggested...five to ten miles over the hills to a prospect or mine, labor until dark, and then walk home, only to repeat...afterward. In fact, hardly any roads existed in Yancey County in those days, only well-worn foot trails. No wonder...began his career driving steel in a local pegmatite mine for ten cents an hour. He soon moved up to a higher-paying...hand-cobbing feldspar for the Bowditch Feldspar mine. This work required separating the spar from the |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsâŻagate, jasper, rare...âŻagate, jasper; d RR siding of ClayâŻagate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area depositsâŻSiderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...depositsâŻSiderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mineâŻpyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.âŻfossils; |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravelsâŻagate, jasper, rare...âŻagate, jasper; d RR siding of ClayâŻagate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area depositsâŻSiderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...depositsâŻSiderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mineâŻpyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.âŻfossils; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Western Maine Gem and Mineral Exhibition by Oxford County Gem and Mineral Association will be held at the...Lapidary Society in conjunction with the r-H Henry County Fair will hold their Rock Swap and Junior Mineral...Section, Sulphur, Ky. July 22, 23, 1967âJefferson County Rock & Mineral Club Annual Rock Show to be held...M. ro 4 P.M. July 26-29, 1967âThe Second Annual County Gemboree is scheduled for appearance at the Franklin...Bower Power's Farm, Pierrepont, New York. Famous schorl, tourmaline location. Swapping, digging for tourmaline |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sarkeys Energy Center, 100 East Boyd Street, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, USA Abstract Experiments with tourmaline-group...tourmaline-group minerals (solid solutions among schorl, dravite, olenite, foitite and, to a lesser extent...habituelles (solutions solides impliquant les pĂŽles schorl, dravite, olĂ©nite, foĂŻtite et, Ă un degrĂ© moindre...A case in point is tourmaline from the Himalaya mine, California. The Na and F contents of tourmaline...____________________________________________________________ schorl NaFe2+3 Al6 (BO3 )3 Si6 O18 (OH)3 (OH) dravite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | COMING EVENTS July 26-29, 1967âThe Second Annual County Gemboree is scheduled for appearance at the Franklin...1967âIndiana State Rock Swap will be held at the Lawrence County 4-H Fair Grounds on U.S. Route 50, southwest of...of Bedford, Ind. Sponsored by the Lawrence County Rock Club. Field trips, silent auction, dealers welcome... 13, 1967âFulton County Mineral Club 7th Annual Swapping Bee and Picnic, John Boyd Thacher Park (Yellow...7th Annual Denver Gem 8c Mineral Fair, Jefferson County Fairgrounds, Denver, Colo. For information contact: |  | Ertl, A., Rossman, G. R., Hughes, J. M., London, D., Wang, Y., O'Leary, J. A., Dyar, M. D., Prowatke, S., Ludwig, T., Tillmanns, E. (2010) Tourmaline of the elbaite-schorl series from the Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, California: A detailed investigation. American Mineralogist, 95 (1) 24-40 doi:10.2138/am.2010.3271 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2010 Tourmaline of the elbaite-schorl series from the Himalaya Mine, Mesa Grande, California: A detailed...and Geophysics, University of Oklahoma, 100 East Boyd Street, Room 810 SEC, Norman, Oklahoma 73019, U...tourmalines from gem pockets in the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California, including a strongly color-zoned...tourmaline decrease. The black core is a Mn-bearing âoxy-schorl.â The grayish-yellow, intermediate zone is Mn-rich...(Fe2++Mn2+) content in tourmalines from the elbaite-schorl series (r2 = 0.99). Values lower than 15.84 Ă
for |  | | Report (issue) | | from the University of New Orleans in Louisiana (USA), with the lowdown on beryl mineralogy An ancient...in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced...number of Brazilian states (page 84); San Diego County, California (page 32) in the United States; Canada...International's monograph Pakistan: Minerals, Mountains & Majesty (2004). Equally as exciting are new...surprise. In 1997, Gary and Mary Freeman began to mine the Orchard pit, a then insignificant pegmatite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | McGlashan Mine, the Evans Lou Mine, Bear Lake Mine, Shawville Road Cut, the Yates Uranium Mine and an open...recent finds at the 4-H Youth Exposition The Bergen County Min eralogy and Paleontology Society, Paramus...de signed cover. The club went to the Scrub Oak Mine, near Dover, and the Cran berry Lake Prospects...now the United States was in Geor gia! The Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club, Marietta, voted a sum of...sum Kentucky. mer's activities. The Mahan Lead Mine ALABAMA dumps offered members a number of Ernest |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Oklahoma 100 East Boyd Street, SEC 710 Norman, OK 73019, USA IP T *email: jlmaner87@ou...US Swamp, and Spessartine) at the Little Three mine near Ramona, California, have been analyzed by secondary...Main, Swamp, and Spessartine) of the Little Three mine with the principal aims of 1) using the boron isotopic...tourmaline. The pegmatites of the Little Three mine near Ramona, California, are ideally suited for...dikes. GEOLOGY OF PEGMATITES AT THE LITTLE THREE MINE 2.1. Location, structure, and host rocks. CE |  | | Journal (issue) | | digging again. I plan on returning to the Navegadora Mine, to live with the garimpeiros as I had done three...Peekskill, NY 10566-2088. Fig. 1-Approaching Navegadora Mine, spoil dumps visible at upper left I found some...my roundabout travel. We pulled up at the Cigana Mine an hour later, to find no one there. They had it...we left for the 35-minute trip to the Na, egadora Mine, where the last steep stretches of dirt road had...sink. While the miners rested, I hiked up to the mine, figuring to explore the lower portal working face |  | | Journal (issue) | | Industry Background image: Miners at the Pala Chief Mine, San Diego Country, California, circa 1903. On the...They are Found zite (201 cts) is from the Oceanview Mine in Southern California; the 0.72-ct benitoite (left...Dallas Gem Mine area, San Americaâs Royal Gems â Montana and Yogo Sapphires Benito County, California;... State of Maine phires is from the Gem Mountain Mine, GranTantalizing Turquoise ite Country, Montana...Rare and Beautiful American Gemstone and original mine image by Mark Mauthner. Red Beryl â A Very Rare |  | | Journal (issue) | | ber-D ecem ber 1977 ISSUE! TourmalineGolconda mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil SHOWS Sul/urPerticara, Romagna...U E S t AVETltlB 0)A C L PyromorphiteWheatley mine, Hours: Wed-Sat. 10-5 Sunday 12-5 [evenings by...E id a h l M in e ra lo g y o f th e Cham pion Mine, W h ite M o u n ta in s , C a lifo r n ia .......T h e N atural History M useum of Los A ngeles County 487 b y P e te r C K e lle r a n d A n th o n y...O ft ovnas 2>. T a L c r Clay C enter, Ottawa County, Ohi o. n a m e P \d )rQ tn Q h fih i ÂŁ < ? |  | | Book | | long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's finest ilmenite |  | | Book (volume) | | (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...crystals, many of facet-grade, found in the Wah Wah Mountains of Utah are to be mined by conventional open-pit...operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine, Laytonville, CA; Ralph...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | KATERINA MINE, A MORGANITE AND KUNZITEBEARING PEGMATITE IN THE PALA DISTRICT, SAN DlEGO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA...Pennsylvania Ave., San Francisco, CA 94107. The Katerina mine accesses a Be-Li-phosphate-enriched pegmatite located...First claimed by the Sickler family in 1902, the mine is located on the same dike system as the famous...of coarse, pale green muscovite; and occasional schorl. The core zone is relatively simple toward the...âCathedralâ-habitquartz, 11 cm high, Katerina mine, Hiriart Mountain, Pala, San Diego County, California. J. Fisher specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bu er , Bje rked alen, Porsgrunn i 1990 (SA B). Mine ralet opptrer pa druserom samme n med albitt , helvin...andre forekomster: St. Peters Dome , Colorado , USA av 32 E . E . Ford, W. N. Sharp and J. W. Ad ams...and re zirko niummine raler. I mindre men gder er mine ralet funn et so m kryst aller i druserom pa Monte...forst funnet i 1734 nair New London , Connecticut , USA av John Winthrop . Min eralet ble , imidlertid ,...micros=liten) fra Chesterfield , Massachu setts , USA . Vanli gvis opptre r micro litt i albitt iserte |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of todayâs prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation, |
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