| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Derry, N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 IV S A L Z...e old emerald Venediger and Hohe Tauern form the Mine is about 7 M i from Habach. T h e trail leaves the...Alpenrose going E and then N . The crystalline Alps. Mine is a few hundred yards beyond the I f we come in...Across the valley is an old foot of cliff. copper mine, 2 M i S from the main Kapruntal. Extensive work...Marcasite; Calcite Xls; Clinochlore; Disthene; Hematite; Gold panning. Worth is 3 Mi beyond Rauris. Collec | | | Book | Frontcover Upper left: The observatory at Kremsmunster. Austria. which houses the mineral collection. Upper right:...mineralogical cabinet of the convent at Kremsmunster, Austria. The . specimens a~e displayed m baroque furniture...important mineralogical museums in Western Europe Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany (Federal...half are in Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly...universities, 14 by town or city councils, 13 by district councils or regional boards, and 16 form part | | | Catalog/List | Nice. 75x50x31 010 ALUMINOCOPIAPITE - Champion Mine, California, USA. A pure yellow botryodal mass....matrix. 6lx47xl8 22,00 017 APACHEITE - Christmas Mine, Gila Co., USA. Pale blue patches in matrix. Moderately...xl 13xl0x8 8,00 )!. .. 022 AXINITE xx - Obira Mine, Japan. A large terminated xl, 47x27, forming the...BRUSHITE - CALCIOFERRITE - ARAGONITE - Rocabruna Mine, Brugues Gaba, Barcelona, Spain. Very rich whitish...have one bright red face due to hematite. Associated are strings of hematite. Very esthetic. 74 x 72 -x 51 | | | Journal (issue) | SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2022 Articles The Akchatau mine, Shet District, Karaganda, Kazakhstan..................573...Wilson & T. P. Moore The Graf Jost-Christian mine, Wolfsberg, Harz Mountains, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany.....the amethyst they could collect at the old Pearl mine in Thunder Bay. They weren’t as successful with...localities such as the Majuba Hill mine, the Tsumeb mine and the Black Pine mine in Montana. More recently he...he had been concentrating on the Tintic district in Utah and amassed many self-collected specimens. He | | | Book (volume) | up 165 for to Temiskaming Cochrane district read district. Ref. 4, under oruetite, add See also... for VVakatipu district, CoUingwood, 294 Zealand read Wakatipu 303 line district, 8 in synonomy...and the corresponding citation (Hudson Bay 309 mine). in Ref. 4, line Z, for 670 read 676. 310 in...pageite read paigeite. for Algoma district read Sudbury District. in the left Itand figure in the...say that this guarantee did much to deterrepaid. mine the award of the grant. To Mr. W. 0. Wiley, Chairman | | | Book (edition) | hand specimens. Left: Internal reflections of hematite (red), azurite (blue), and malachite (green)....matrix is pyrrhotite. Left (bottom): Polysynthetic hematite twinning under XPL, red internal reflections are...different internal reflections. Left: Zonal growth of hematite. Dehydration Cracks Various colloform minerals...secondary minerals. Left: Coffinite (darker grey) with hematite (lighter grey) in dehydration cracks. 7 Light...stable, leading to an exsolution process (e.g., hematite, rutile, and ulvöspinel separating from ilmenite) | | | Book | times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...needles or fibres radiate from a common center (hematite or reniform limonite, Pls. 13, p. 73, and 21 ...occasionally workable veins of cassiterite with hematite (Mexico); many other minerals too form as sublimates... and deposited later. Some of the sedimentary hematite and pyrite deposits are formed in this manner: | | | Book | A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...cosmetics, or as sources of color for ceramic glazes. Hematite and other iron oxides create reds and browns,...different optical properties. The play of colors on hematite comes from very thin surface layers similar to...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular | | | Journal (issue) | Metaliferi Mts. 15 4. Baia Mare metallogenic district 64 5. Other sources of native gold from Romania...metal gold pans, as well as a replica of the famous mine carriage which is considered to be the oldest of...unit. For instance, in BradSăcărâmb metallogenic district, the Au:Ag ratio is relatively uniform (45% to...metallogenic criterion: province, subprovince, district, sector, field/ node (Fig. 2) . 7 Fig. 1. Example...relevant metallogenic units (node, field, sector, district) were made. For samples sourced abroad, a summary | | | Catalog/List | pure grey slightly crystalline mass, Ratnapura district SriLanka small 2x3 £8 5. MUSCOVITE nice curved...inches £30 8. GOETHITE on QUARTZ attractive rich coating of small golden brown goethite crystals, on quartz...grey mass with Actinolite, large 2x3 inch ..Bastnas Mine Sweden £30 12. SCAPOLITE completely clear single...fibrous crystals in large 2x3 quartz Maishofen, Austria £17 15. KOCHSANDORITE three small white areas...small quartz crystals, possibly some with faces. lxl Mine, Washoe County Nevada USA £30 Olinghouse ... | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | aragonite on calcite, 10.3 cm across, from the Agrigento mine, Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy. In...Nesse 2012). Associated minerals include gypsum, goethite, siderite, calcite, glaucophane, lawsonite, pumpellyite...that appears to be caused by inclusions of hematite or goethite; other crystals are a honeybrown or cream...Alston Moor (Tindle 2008). The Yorkshire Silverband mine, Cronkley Fell, Durham, has produced interesting...particularly from the Botallack mine, Wheal Owles, and Wheal Cock, St. Just district, as well as Wheal Edward | | | Journal (issue) | calcite; crystal aggregates 15 cm in size. Vеrklinii Mine, Dabugorsk, Pпmorskii Krai, Russia. Specimen: V...cassiterite (?), corundum, cristobalite, cuprite (x1), hematite (xl), iozite (wustite), maghemite, melanophlogite...diaspore, feroxyhyte, ferrihydrite, gibbsite, goethite (x1), lepidocrocite, lithiophorite, maпganite... are represented by epsomite, gypsum, sulfur, goethite, malachite, azurite and others, aid are also of...quartzine, celestine, jarosite, basaluminite, goethite, hydrogoethite, chalcedony, pyrite, melanophlogite | | | Catalog/List | crystal about I cm size, twinned crystal ( Telino Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais Brazil) £25 Na Be PO 4...silvery platelets and small masses (Castle Siscoe Mine, Gowganda Ontario, Canada £30 4. CUBANITE two intergrown...8mm overall size Quebec Canada) £20 (Henderson# 2 mine, 3250 level, Chibugamu, 5. NATIVE BISMUTH water...undulating 2x4 inch surface Katanga) £20 (Mashamba Mine West. Kolwezi 8. VESUVIANITE attractive coverage... some slightly pink on 1,5 x 1,5 matrux Jeffery Mine, Quebec Canada £20 9. DANBURITE very large single | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | assemblage also includes finely crystalline hematite, goethite, Mn-oxide films and illite formed by alteration...elongate crystals of Fe-oxyhydroxide (probably goethite, see below). Small, submicron-diameter K-feldspar...right) surrounded by smectite and an elongate goethite crystal (thin, dark crystal center left) in sample...this phase as goethite. In many cases, goethite is topotactically oriented, with h* goethite parallel to...clay. Some regions of glass contain dispersed hematite crystals, identified by their SAED patterns and | | | Book | :hange into oxygen salts (eg malachite, azurite, goethite, cerru site and smithsonite). In these deposits...- autunite; Cr-orange - crocoite; Fe-yellow - goethite; Co-pink - erythrite. 3. Allochromatic - of variable...mineral particles (eg inclusions of chlorite and hematite in jasper). Allochromatic minerals display other...unaltered crystals of the same mineral. For instance, hematite (hardness 6) will have a lower hardness in the...named from the colour of their streak, such as hematite - blood, crocoite - saffron and xanthocone - yellow | | | Book | illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...change into oxygen salts (eg malachite, azurite, goethite, cerrusite and smithsonite). In these deposits...— autunite; Cr—orange — crocoite; Fe—yellow — goethite; Co—pink — erythrite. 3. Allochromatic — of variable...mineral particles (eg inclusions of chlorite and hematite in jasper). Allochromatic minerals display other...unaltered crystals of the same mineral. For instance, hematite (hardness 6) will have a lower hardness in the | | | Journal (issue) | 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...Diamond Willow mine, operated by Gunnard Noyes and also by the author, the Ontario Gem mine, the Dorion | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | pohwatp@si.edu Siderite Siete Suyos Mine, Atocha-Quechisla District Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department...1. Gemmy siderite from Siete Suyos mine, Atocha-Quechisla district, Sud Chichas Province, Potosí Department...siderite; of these, by far the most common is goethite after siderite. Many of the specimens examined...coating of goethite on their surface. Other minerals known to pseudomorph siderite include hematite, magnetite...chlorite minerals, but these are less common than the goethite pseudomorphs and are often of the encrustation | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Johannesburg, South Africa brucec@uj.ac.za AJOITE Messina Mine, Musina, Limpopo Province, South Africa I t might...originating from the Messina mine in South Africa. (Note that the town where the mine existed was originally... The registered mine name remains Messina.) Since the early 1950s, the Messina mine has produced spectacular...original type-locality specimens from the New Cornelia mine, Pima County, Arizona, in the United States have...exist worldwide, are described here, but the Messina mine specimen illustrated as figure 1 is a fine example | | | Book | oxygen-for examp le. quartz (S10 2), rutil e (Ti0 2). hematite (Fe,0 1). Also in this category are the hydroxides...Chemical Classification Siderite, 8ri.iderbund Mine, near Eiserfeld (Siegerland, Germany), 3x almost...specimen shown here comes from the Eagle's Nest Mine in California, and its actual size is about 2 inches...be scratched with fluorite, take the next-harder mine ral from the scale, until yo u find a mi ne ral...minerals: Sulfur 1.96 Quartz 2.65 Diamond 3.52 Hematite 5.30 Scheelite 6.10 Cassiterite 7. 10 Uraninite | | | Journal (issue) | of this collection were from Transbaikalia), and mine surveyor Yakovlev from the Southern Urals. By the...Transbaikalia (label says "AdunChilon, Nerchinsky district; Siberia"), Russia. GMKFU #5753. 26. Beryl (emerald)...Mineral Cabinet were most likely brought from India, Austria (from Habachtal), and perhaps, also from Columbia...Izumrudnye Kopi and Mariinskii Rudnik (Mariinsky Mine) are mentioned starting at no earlier than 1840s-1850s...specimens taken by Kanonnikov from the Zyryanovsk Mine in the Altai, by 1Ipli3oltraie I 1 ilpOTOPC.1.1 | | | Catalog/List | 2x3xl-3/4" $ 20.00 4. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico Choice pale lustrous sky-blue... l-3/4x3x3/4" $ 30.00 6. APOPliYLi.,ITE No. 3 mine, Cornwall, Pennsylvania Choice milky white 1/2"...single white frosted 9. BENITOITE The Dalles Gem mine, San Benito Co., California Superb deep blue to...3/4x3/4" matrix$ 30.00 11. BRAZILIANITE Galilea mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil Choice pale golden-yellow...1-1/4x2" $ 25.00 coating over 16. CROCOITE Red Lead mine, Dundas, Tasmania New Discovery (A) Superb bright | | | Report (issue) | c = 2.870 Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Sagamore mine, Minnesota, USA. 4.17 (10), 2.798 (6), 2.675 (6)...66 9.10 10.24 Total [99.70] 100.00 (1) Mahnomen mine, Minnesota, USA; after correction for quartz 2.39%...(Arizona, USA). Association: Manganite, hematite, goethite, lepidocrocite, quartz, calcite. Distribution:...No. Two and One Half mine, Talcville, New York. In Arizona, in the Campbell mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co.;...; the Magma mine, Superior, and at Malpais Hill, Pinal Co.; the North Star and King of Arizona mines | | | Journal (issue) | Articles Famous mineral localities: Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria ...........................................C. M. Garland Arsenopyrite from the Kilpatrick mine, Madoc, Ontario...................................mushistonite; and an unnamed tin mineral from the Etta mine ..............................................383...WULFENITE group, 6 cm, from the Stefanie mine at Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Photo by Werner Lieber. For a detailed...thought, I decided to depict a specimen of Red Cloud mine wulfenite (drawn rather loosely from Bob Lane’s | | | | SO gehlenite 85 gismondine 124 glaucophane 100 goethite 37, 37 gold 5,5 goslarite 59 grandidierite 85...gadolinite 85 gahnite 24 galaxite 24 heliodor 93, 93 hematite 25, 25, 27 hemimorphite 86, 87 hercynite 24 hessonite...especially near Kimberley); diamonds from the Kimberley mine are embedded in ultrabasic blue rock called kimberlite...carats, equal to 621 grams) was found at the Premier Mine; named the Cullinan diamond, it was presented to...found at Butte, Montana, and the Copper River district of Alaska. A much rarer mineral is covellite, |
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