 | | Journal (issue) | | May–June, 2017 Contents The St. Andreasberg Mining District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany...working in the lode” (Simonin, 1869). The Mining District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany...minrecord@comcast.net The geographically tiny St. Andreasberg District of silver mines has an outsized reputation: it...century after mining ceased in the St. Andreasberg District, the locality remains secure in its fame among...LOCATION Saint Andreasberg (Sankt Andreasberg in German) is a town in the district of Goslar, in the German |  | | Journal (issue) | | Weisseck, Austria. Collected by Reinhold Bacher; Reinhold Bacher photo. Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from...from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from...Carlin Tom Cooper John Cornish Christi Cramer Michael L. Davis Erin Delventhal Ray DeMark Philip DeVries...Sammer Mike Sanders Robert Schuster Jeff Self Michael Shannon Robert Sielecki Philip Simmons George Stacey...Szenics George Thompson Brendan Traw Rod Tyson Michael R. Walter Steve Watts Markus & Stefan Wiklund Wendell |  | | Journal (issue) | | Photo: Layout of shemes Image processing ?repress Michael B. Leybov Ludmila A. Cheshko Nikolay 0. Parlashkevich...Kilpio Nikolay 0. Parlashkevich, Ivan A. Glazov Michael B. Leybov Natalia A. Vishnevskaya Yurii I. Ivanov...Ivanov Ivan A. Glazov Text (Russian), sketches, crystal drawings belongs to the authors, 2011 Text (English)...Russia. Specimen: Russian Minerals Ltd. Photo: Michael B. Leybov First Page Photo Gold nugget., 548 grams..............................................36 Michael B. Leybov Denver-2010: Notes on Show ........ |  | | Book | | information b Book review c Crystal morphology information d Crystal drawing ff Continues on following...10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...the Alpine ar,d Subalpine region [Switzerland,Austria and Iti:Jy](by C. M. Gramaccioli) 8:287-293 Minerals...Alps of Austria (by K. Kotal) 13:171-173 ALSTONITE An occurrence of alstonite at Cave-in-Rock, Illinois...ANALCIME Natrolite and analcime from Eckman Creek quarry. Waldport. Oregon (by M. Groben) 1:153, 1:173, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Conklin Famous mineral localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . ....two exciting parts of the process, such as the crystal structure. Lastly, pick one with a track-record...SPECIES Fine Mineral Specimens Wholesale & Retail Rock Trimmers & Hardwood Thumbnail Cabinets Send want...Appt. Only _J \ ,./ Fleck Mineralien Gisela & Klaus Fleck D-8023 Munich-Pullach Tel: 089-793-1793 Top...included over a hundred specimens from the Batopilas district, Chihuahua, Mexico, 73 of which were specifically |  | | Journal (issue) | | of Emerald Mining in the Habachtal Deposit of Austria, Part II Karl Schmetzer The finale of a two-part...YAG with flux-filled fingerprints • Quarterly Crystal: Hillocks on beryl p. 71 72 Diamond Reflections...Video Production Robert Weldon Albert Salvato Michael Creighton gia.edu/gems-gemology Customer Service...mineralogical studies, which focused mainly on crystal forms and trace element geochemistry. Our second...content from fluid inclusion in topaz, and a garnet crystal inclusion in our highly anticipated return to Tucson |  | | Book | | the third edition Introduction Australia ...... Austria ....... Azerbaijan Republic Belarus Republic ....collection; Queensland Gold collection, including crystal gold; South East Queensland Iris Agate collection...alphabetical index cards, rock accession numbers, rock and mineral index cards, rock catalog thin sections/polished...collections are used for teaching specimens. Two rock collections exist, one contains teaching specimens...specimens. The reference collection contains rock specimens that are cited in theses produced in the School |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINERALOGY 4------- COVER: TOPAZ, Siberia. A crystal SS x SSmm with smokey quartz and mica, one of two...EVENTS ---------- 8 ---------PYRITE from GOAT QUARRY S l'1gham · J G Todd · D Anderson -----------II----------JG...appropriate channels. J Barnes ---------- 30 ---------- ROCK BOTTOM PUBLICATIONS LTD ISSN 0952-2409 TYPESETTING...goes on "As I have myself fruitlessly visited the quarry since, ... I conclude that time 1887). Houston's..." In the same year (1840) Connell obtained a crystal of grecnockite from Lord Greenock, and published |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...vugs of crystalline talc. Easily the best extant crystal, a doubly terminated floater found in a talc vug...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...Shelley Lambert extracted excellent loose ilmenite crystal clusters from a calcite vein-dike digging site |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to state I am a rank amateur. I do quite a bit of rock hunting about once a week, then I come back and...at the Holland mine in Washington Camp Mining District near Nogales, Santa Cruz Co., Ariz ARKANSAS—"Last...brassy-yellow, striated pyrite cubes in a cellular quartzose rock, gray in color but stained brown by iron (from the...have been found at Alicante, Lake Co., Colo. my crystal. It is virtually colorless, though an extremely...seen on close examination. Bob gave me a loose crystal of faintly yellowish topaz CONNECTICUT—"The J u |  | | Book | | Renaissance silver-gilt cups from Nuremberg by Michael Miller (cat.no.105), Hans Petzolt (cat.nos.103—4)...no.D.64~—'85) 69 Portrait of Wolfgang Thenn, of Salzburg, 20 Italian maiolica bottle made for the Duke...pearwood, 1531 (cat.no.257) 70—2 Busts of Margaret of Austria and Philibert of Savoy traditionally attributed...pounced, decoration on the golden doors of St Michael and St Christopher at the back can be discerned...impressive pair of portrait busts of Margaret of Austria and Philibert of Savoy and four other small-scale |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........................ 155 COVER: CINNABAR crystal, 2 cm, on dolom ite m atrix, from F enghuang, H...Minerals, By Appt. O nly Fleck Mineralien Gisela & Klaus Fleck D-8023 M unich-Pullach Tel: 089-793-1793 Top...crystals, Tum bled stones —by Appt. V + VGeo E xpert Michael & Nikolaus Vogt H oher Eschenweg 126 D-3005 H em...to enhance our knowledge of the species, their crystal structures, solid solution relations, stabilities...accepted mineral names and formulas. Includes crystal sytemgroup , relations, literature references. |  | | | | What is the difference between a mineral and a rock? Where do they come from? How do Istart collecting...rocks, and how to test them. : Each mineral and rock is accompanied with concise descriptions and precise...photographs; Bob Gault took a number of the mineral and rock photographs; Donna Naughton took a number of field...mineral and rock descriptions. introduction Mineral and Rock Collecting Mineral or Rock? Origins of...Non-metallic Mineral Identification Key How to Identify a Rock Geological Regions of Canada ©) en, Sey SP It lex) |  | | Journal (issue) | | grateful for his courteous cooperation. The largest crystal proved to be extraordinarily interesting in that...characteristic striation parallel to the long crystal axis and the interference colours of the tarnish...also of the host crystal itself. Further very close examination of the phenakite crystal disclosed that...before they were enclosed by the growing phenakite crystal and consequently represent protogenetic inclusions...(250 x ) of the head part of the darker aikinite crystal clearly depicting the large gas bubble in the fluid |  | | Book | | photographs; Bob Gault took a 11un1ber of the mineral and rock photographs; Donna Naughton took a nun1ber of field...mineral and rock descriptions. . .. Introduction Mineral and Rock Collecting Mineral or Rock? Origins...Non-metallic Mineral Identification Key How to Tdentify a Rock Geological Regions of Canada 6 6 6 7 7 8 10 11...Minerals and Rocks IX Introduction Mineral and Rock Collecting or most of us collecting is a natt:u-al...a healthy, active, outdoor life. F Mineral or Rock? Mineralogists would define a rnineral as one or |  | | Journal (issue) | | the publishers. Cover Picture Burmese sapphire crystal weighing 502 ct, unearthed in 1994 at Khabine,... As yet the region has not yielded a corundum crystal large enough to be included in the list of sapphire...like to record our appreciation of the efforts of Michael O'Donoghue, Evelyne Stern, Peter Read, Professor...inner side of the shell as one large sheet-like crystal of aragonite, but rather to limit its size to innumerable...Moris' scale. Due to the felted nature of the crystal aggregates, it is extremely tough. Specific gravity |  | | Journal (issue) | | increasing the knowledge and experience of its members in rock, mineral, gemstone and fossil collecting and their...Cornwall and Sheppey, plus mineral shows And the rock piles increase wherever he goes. Minerals from New... Scotland and then the South West And exchanges rock gossip with gusto and zest. When he's away, I look...2002 Figure 3. Geology of the Otavi Mountain District ~ ,. .,, . rr '"' , ;;..._-r~,rr;;-:8 1...time period has also enabled much of the carbonate rock to undergo karstification - the formation of swallow |  | | Book | | Printing AGMV Marquis imprimeur inc. Barite on Quartz, Rock Candy mine, Grand Forks, British Columbia / Photo...e.g., orthoclasite for chemical formula, the crystal system and the space orthoclase, but amethystine...Rocks and Minerals; the indi- tural position. Crystal-system abbreviations are as fol- ces of these...inorganic phases: a comparison and hierarchy of crystal structures. Can. Mineral. 34, 845-880. CRONSTEDT...indigenous people of the discovery area. Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Rouville County, Quebec, Canada |  | | Journal (issue) | | Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf...FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P. Moore Niantic...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Castle D om e district, Yuma County, A r iz o n a .....................O'Donoghue, P. /. Dunn & W. E. Wilson COVER: MIMETITE crystal group on matrix, 12 cm, from the Elura lead-zinc-silver...volume 29, September-Octoher, 1998 435 Copper City Rock Shop John & K aren M ediz 566 A sh Street Globe |  | | Report (issue) | | Kirschweiler, Germany: An Historic Opal Cutting Center BY KLAUS EBERHARD WLLD 36 Black Bonanza, Dreams of Fire:...same name. It has been suggested that an irised rock crystal, that is one in which there is a crack that...Kunsthistorisches (Art History) Museum in Vienna, Austria (Catalogue No. XI b 41) Florentine Codex, 1569)...found in the Museum of Natural History in Vienna, Austria. Across the street from the Museum of Natural History...an amorphous substance, meaning that it lacks a crystal structure. As such, opal is properly termed a mineraloid |  | | Book (edition) | | Mexico (#2, column 1) and TENNANTITE, Dresser quarry, Walton, Nova Scotia, Canada (13, column 2). ...the American Mineralogist contains a section by Michael Fleischer on new minerals and discredited species...work now being published in phase equilibria and crystal-structure analyses, the work on syste1natic optical...of the properties. Chemical Formula: Until the crystal structure is known or at least until an accurate...with simple Miller indices) that are potential crystal faces or, when the bonds across the plane are few |  | | Book | | Knowledge & Global Trade, 1450–1800 Edited by MICHAEL BYCROFT & SVEN DUPRÉ Europe’s Asian Centuries...series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/14978 Michael Bycroft • Sven Dupré Editors Gems in the Early...Knowledge and Global Trade, 1450–1800 Editors Michael Bycroft History Department University of Warwick...Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship awarded to Michael Bycroft and at Utrecht University and the University...volume would not have been possible. March 2018 Michael Bycroft & Sven Dupré Contents 1 Introduction: |  | | Journal (issue) | | shape from the Jwaneng mine. Journal Journal of Crystal Growth, 94, 229-52. Woods, G.S., Collins, A.T....lens-shaped colourless colourless of particle or small crystal immersed immersed in a thin layer of CENTRAL STOP...staining chart for an uunknown n k n o w n crystal, crystal, showing the showing the smoothed of s m o...Illuminant 'A'. The The the n D value for the to be crystal is seen to 1.616. J. G e m m , 1993, 23, 8 The...theory, method and apparatus. The Microscope & Crystal Front, 13, 311-22. 8. Nelson, J.B., 1986. T h e |  | | Journal (issue) | | near Los Angeles, California, to retrieve barite crystal clusters and had wonderful examples of these in...Bancroft, Stanton Hill, Ralph Dietz and George Burnham. Rock H. Currier • Jewel Tunnel Imports The Mi11eralogical...examples have been preserved. Large gold nuggets and crystal specimens have also been found in other gold producing...strike of the extremely rich Sheba Reef at Golden Quarry just below Eureka City. The Mi,reralogica/ Record...of the farm. Harrison stumbled over an outcrop of rock. He examined it and, having been a digger in Australia |  | | Report (issue) | | deposit: longest crystal is 9 mm. Frontispiece: Azurite, Burra copper mine; 5 mm crystal group on chrysocolla...from Johannes Menge who was appointed Mine and Quarry Agent to the South Australian Company in 1836....Whimpress. Photographic assistance was given by Klaus Furstner and early editorial work was carried out...marble near Cowell; in very coarse-grained wernerite rock at a locality 21 km northwest of Cowell. Flinders...“‘Arkaroola’’. Olary Province—Actinolite is a common major rock constituent. Long coarse blades are associated with |
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