 | | Book | | not always a rock. On the other hand, gold and silver, found pure or in the 'native' state, are indeed...found and smelted. Remains of Bronze Age copper mines can be found, for instance, in various parts of...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...alphabetical order of symbols, (G = gas, N Ag silver Al aluminium M As arsemc An gold B boron B, barium...Fe S than to 7 8 FeS. ElementJ Above left Wire silver, X 1½, Aue, Erzgebirge. Center lift Native gold |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mateo, CA) Thomas N. McKee, Arizona Turquoise and Silver (Scottsdale, AZ) John C. Medici (Dublin, OH) Frank...lous photos of the abandoned Japanese stibnite mines,” he said to me when I visited him in Fallbrook;...demonstrates the value of personal encounters with the mines and the miners. American Sapphire mine, Yogo Gulch...Monster mine, Prince of Wales Is., Alaska Joplin District, Joplin, Missouri Coleman mine, Jessieville, Arkansas...mine, Hiddenite, North Carolina Franklin/Sterling mines, Franklin, New Jersey Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine |  | | Journal (issue) | | However, if you have a special Afghanistan, Nuristan mines Arizona, Blue Ball mine Castle Dome dist. Fat Jack...Geronimo mine Purple Passion mine Red Cloud mine Silver District Tonopah-Belmont mine Western Union mine Arkansas...mine Broken Hill mines Burra Burra mine Gold localities Kingsgate mines Moonta district Mount Bonnie mine...Island Tasmanian mines Wallaroo district Widgiemooltha Austria, Annaberg dist. Bleiberg mines Knappenwand...Highland Bell mine Silvana mine Van Silver mine Bulgaria, Madan mines California, Benitoite Gem mine Billie |  | | Report (issue) | | _______________________________________ General features of silver veins_____.____________________________ Occurrences...____.___ Other mines._____________________________________________ St. Kevin district.___.._...__..._________...mine, along Arty and Snow vein, St. ' ' ' Kevin district. Page FIGURE 40. Index map of part of Colorado...Sugar Loaf district....__._._______.____________. 44. Map of T. L. Welsh adit, Sugar Loaf district-______________..._------_-_-_ 46. Map of Lakewood mine, St. Kevin district..._--_-______-__ 47. Modal composition of some |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | neW DATA On MIneRALs fROM THe KeWeenAW cOPPeR DIsTRIcT, MIcHIcAn. T. W. Buchholz1, A. U. Falster2, W...70148. Recent work on material from several former mines on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, has revealed...several minerals not previously reported from the district. Noting the suggestion of the possible occurrence...Baltic mine dump revealed crude wires of native silver associated with chalcocite, quartz, and minor barite...sulfide were noted closely associated with the native silver. The Cu-Ag sulfide is identical in overall appearance | | | Journal (issue) | | CA) Thomas N. McKee, Ari-1:.ona Turquoise and Silver (Scottsdale, AZ) John C. Medici (Dublin, OH) Fran...lous photos of the abandoned Japane e stibnite mines." he said 10 me when I visited him in Fallbrook:...demonstrate the value of personal encounters with the mines and the miners. American Sapphire mine, Yoga Gulch...Monster mine, Prince of Wales Is., Alaska Joplin District, Joplin. Missouri Coleman mine, Jessieville. Arkansas...mine, Hiddenite. Nonh Carolina Franklin/Sterling mines, Frartklin. New Jersey Pulsifer quarry, Auburn |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Famous mineral localities: Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria ...........................................6 cm, from the Stefanie mine at Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Photo by Werner Lieber. For a detailed review...1 famous mineral localities: Bleiberg Carinthia, Austria Gerhard Niedermayr* Department of Mineralogy-Petrology...History Museum of Vienna Burgring 7, A-1014 Vienna, Austria leiberg is among the most famous o f European...Bleiberg is located in southern Austria, in the province of Karn;n (Carinthia), just a few kilometers north |  | | Book | | compound with two components, such as sodium chloride, silver sulphide. When two valence states exist for the...dendritic, tree- or branch-like as in native copper and silver; wedge-shaped, as in gypsum; spear-shaped, as in...cupboard. Sodium cyanide is used to clean gold, silver and copper. Concentrated nitric, sulphuric and...Nitrates Hydroxides (some) Chlorides (apart from lead, silver and mercuric chlorides) Carbonates (only ammonium...agents Rutile Remove other silicate coatings with HF Silver Remove black tarnish by immersion in a solution |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | for mineral and mining history enthusiasts. The silver and geological collections, mining collections...wood buildings, thoroughly covers 335 years of silver mining. For those choosing Susan Robinson, a free-lance...aesthetic and spectacular. A spinel-law twinned silver crystal, at 3.5 cm, is undoubtedly the finest in...be priceless today, but as recently as 1961 the silvers were sold from the museum’s shop for only one and...to two times metal value! Although some of the silvers were found in the nineteenth century, many on display |  | | Book (edition) | | of giving in connection some information as to mines and mining renovation ; industry. " The student...and its Compounds Copper and its Compounds 141 Silver its Lead and its Compounds Zinc and its Compounds...windows, and in arborescent forms of native copper, silver, gold, etc. Fig. 11 represents, much magnified...flatten out under the hammer, as in native gold, silver, copper. When thin slices may be cut off with...and cerargyrite are examples of sectile ores of silver. The former cuts nearly like lead, and the latter |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | JANUARY-FEBRUARY, NICKEL-COBALT-NATIVE EDSON SILVER 1959 ORE No. 1 TYPE3 S. BASTIN. ABSTRACT....reviewed. A primary origin for most of the native silver is indicated but downward enrichment appearsto...may be largely structural, and (b) that at Bruce Mines, Ontario, granite dikes cut the diabaseflows and...of depositssimilar in otherrespects but poorin silver. R--indicates that the.mineral is rare. Only those...Borniteis primary THE NICKEL-COBALT-NATIVE SILVER :;:::X'X ßo3!xoIA• '[gu.tqg S 'e3.txJV'OS'ImOmleH |  | | Book | | and Edenville, large, fine crystals of spine!, titanite, amphibole and pyroxene have been found since...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...combinations of rutile, anatase, brookite, hematite and titanite (Philippe Beiley, personal communication, 2010)...good specimens of epidote, pyroxene, magnetite, titanite and other species. Equant, complex crystals of...Burlakov and Kotrly (1995), about 20 other quartz mines are operated in the region of the Subpolar Urals |  | | Journal (issue) | | coins in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, revealed that they have suffered serious corrosion...Benitoite, Gold L.A. County Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Museum, Himalaya mine $10 (Brazil), Bosch Collection...Cunha Baixa mine, Paulkerrite $10 .16/#4 Kingsgate mines v .17/#4 National Belle mine (CO), Tip Top mine...and much color photography! v .17/#6 Bleiberg (Austria), v,19/#6 Australia Issue! 152 pages and much...Bancroft (Ont.), Franklin .17/#3 Knappenwand (Austria). Laurium (Greece), Senaite (Brazil), Chalcophyllite |  | | Book (edition) | | common species pyroxene (also of segirite and titanite) occasionally show this habit in the distribution...symmetry. Such cases are common with native gold, silver, and copper. A cube lengthened or shortened along...composition. 1. Compounds of the heavy metals, as silver, copper, mercury, lead, etc., are soft, their hardness...to cut under a hammer; native gold, native * silver. See further in Appendix B. PHYSICAL MINERALOGY...strontium, barium, also iron, tungsten, copper, silver, lead, mercury, etc. is about 5 the of METALLIC |  | | Journal (issue) | | Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See the article...IHI1IJNGA1llY. Figure 1. "Internal view of the silver mines near Schemnitz, in Hungary" published by C....scepter and skeletal quartz, drusy amethyst, wire silver, acanthite, pyrargyrite, stephanite, barite, calcite...Hodrusa-Hamre (in the Banska Stiavnica mining district) is also the type locality for hodrusite. V INTRODUCTION...historical events before 1920, we will use the older district name of Schemnitz in accordance with the literature |  | | Journal (issue) | | hoar-frost ; here into crowns and circlets, as bright as silver, as if for the gnome princesses to wear ; here...14 miles north, at the Rothschild and other gold mines, pieces of quartz, thickly covered with very brilliant...and everywhere activit}- is evident. The great mines of Butte have produced many line speci mens, but...chalcocite, flecked with bright patches of native silver, enargite crystals as large as one inch, in cavities...sparingly. From the silver zone up at Walkerville, just back of the copper mines, I was able to secure |  | | Book | | and the most valuable. precious metals are gold, silver, ( like this rolled in emerald pebble, a stream)...organized early mining - for example, abandoned mines and waste dumps - is found in the Urals of Russia...many thousands of years. The earliest back known mines date 2000 lu:. to Egypt, INTRODUCTION • Ancient... lost surrounded by tales of and murder. Some mines are thought to be cursed probably rumors spread...refractive color, opaque White or Silver Always White or Silver Milky Quartz 85 Distinctive milky |  | | Book (volume) | | Limits and Rocks 5 Kingdom .... 7 Form of Silver Native Minerals. site and Crystal-forms Combinations...90. dite 87. 87 Ores Silver and Proustite of 86. Iridosmine silver 9 Crystals The 85 86...188 Anatase 192. The Precious Forms 190. Titanite Brookite 192. Ilmenite Nephrite and Unit...Native Silver. 7. Native Gold, Silver 8. Gold-ores Gold Sylvanite, and Copper. Silver-ores ... Nagyagite, 28. I. Argentite, II. Red-silvers, Ste- Argyrodite. Native 11. Copper-ores Copper |  | | Journal (issue) | | operations in the mountains now, but there are many old mines and mine dumps to attract the mineral collector...orange-yellow in color; it comes from Knittelfeld, Austria. (Bukanov, 2006). The Name Orpiment seems to be...are also minerals with the same name like gold, silver and copper. See Blackburn et al., 1997 for more...page l) The Gold Creek Area Although. many of the mines and districts of the range are worthy of articles...combination, native gold with wulfenite. Even though the mines of the range are known to many mineral collectors |  | | Journal (issue) | | against an estimate of $35-50. He also purchased five silver specimens for a total of $160. The grand total...$64.80 on five mineral specimens. JO Figure 6. Silver crystals in calcite, 9.5 cm, from Batopilas, Mexico...the collection." Figure 7. Wire silver, 4.29 cm, one of 16 silver specimens from Mineral Park, Arizona...mineral specimens, including 372 golds and 212 silvers . There were also 105 gemstones, 98 fossils and...Californian, from many different mines and prospects (see Table 1). His silvers included over a hundred specimens |  | | Journal (issue) | | P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica .................................Cairncross Famous mineral localities: The Idria mines, Slovenia, Yugoslavia ............................201 by P. Bancroft, /. Car, M. Zorz & G. Kobler Silver minerals of the Trebsko deposit, Pribram orefield.................................... 223 COVER: TITANITE crystal, 3.5 cm, from Felbertal, P inzgau, A ustria...mined or its silver value except for Mr. Clinton’s assay results of 300 ounces of silver per ton. From |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mining Memorabilia www.argentumauctions.com e-mail: silver@argentumauctions.com Attard’s Minerals Fine Worldwide...Figure 2. Location of the Batalha mine and two other mines known for cuuprian elbaite, in the Seridó Fold Belt...85750 minrec@earthlink.net Two Chinese antimony mines have produced collectorquality stibnite crystals...creations, grown on authentic matrix from the sulfur mines, were sold worldwide. Most of these specimens are...one specific area: the growth of artificial wire silver and acanthite crystals (Edwards, 2001). Less well |  | | Book (edition) | | two adjacent faces into the telescope deter- mines the angle existing c Fig. 2. Contact Goniometer...are accomplished. For instance, metals like lead, silver, copper, etc., may be reduced from their minerals...other lying nearer the bottom of the tube, of a silver-gray and crystalline material. Oxysulphide of... (NH 4 ) 2 for phosphoric acid (see page 106); Silver Nitrate, AgN0 3 , for chlorine (see page 99). ric...sublimate shows an amorphous black band above and a silver-gray crystalline band below. If the bottom of the |  | | Journal (issue) | | fluorites in small cabinet sizes, etc. Native silvers such as the above are a specialty, and we regularly...1987, another important liscovery was made in the district: fine crystals of sphalerite and galena at the...galenas are the best for Arizona. The Aravaipa district is located in Graham County, Arizona, lear the...southwestern ilope of the Santa Teresa Mountains. Mines include the Iron Cap, jran d Reef, Head Center,...Central, Cobre Grande, Sinn ein, Arizona, Dog Water, Silver Cable, Lead King, No. 1, No. 2, md others. The |  | | Book | | thus produced, particularly in the species tin, silver, gold, copper-pyrites, calc-spar, felspar, diamond...then approaching 3. Silver-white, 6. and cockscomb-pyrites. Tin-white, to silver-white. — the colour...colour of native — the colour of pure tin silver. unmixed with lead ; also that of antimony. 7. Lead-grey...lead-grey, and blackish lead- grey, as in vitreous silver ore. As already remarked, these metallic colours...grey ; lour, a —grey mixed with muriate of silver. 4. flint. Greenish-grey cat’s-eye and several |
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