| | Journal (issue) | • Email: info@kristalle.com Harz Mountains, Germany by Günter Grundmann Thomas P. Moore Wendell E...Manager Thomas P. Moore COVER: PROUSTITE, 3.5 cm, from St Andreasberg. Germany, found in 1899; ex collection... Contents The St. Andreasberg Mining District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany .............(Simonin, 1869). The Mining District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany Günter Grundmann Eschenweg...minrecord@comcast.net The geographically tiny St. Andreasberg District of silver mines has an outsized reputation: | | | Journal (issue) | Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf Medenbach Ruhr Universitat Bochum Bochum, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim............................................ 2 Germany An historical perspective on silver mining in G...Islet Famous mineral localities: the Silver Islet mine, O n ta rio ............... 49 by W. E. Wilson ...Batopilas Famous mineral localities: the Batopilas District, Chihuahua, M e x ic o .........................photo © SILVER crystals, 3.3 by 4.5 cm, from the mine, Kongsberg, Norway. (See the this issue.) Keith | | | Book | Vienna. Lower left: Cobaltocalcite group. from Lerida. Spain. Folch collection. Barcelona. Lower right:...Netherlands. Back cover The museum ldar-Oberstein. West-Germany. is quaintly situated beneath the Felsenkirche...Copyright 1986 by . Ulrich Burchard, Lalling, West-Germany All rights reserved including the right of reproduction...Printed in Germany Miscellaneous: Design & Lay Out by Rainer Bode, Haltern, West-Germany Type set by...Wurzburg, West-Germany Colour separations by Litho Thungen GmbH, Thungen, West-Germany H. Bari, Musee | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mexico B x years ago this column featured proustite, an arsenic ember of the major ruby-silver family...It is more widespread and far more common than proustite, occurring as an important if not dominant ore...might suggest. It is commonly associated with proustite, acanthite, tetrahedrite, stephanite, miargyrite...in the early years of mining in the Jo Reynolds mine and in smaller though well-formed crystals in the...the siliceous vein exploited in the Nabob mine at Lawson, Clear Creek County. Bastin (1923) reported crystals | | | Book (volume) | Acanthite San Juan de Reyes Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico, 52 Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico,...47 (Cuproadamite with Ferrolotharmeyerite) Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia, 22 Apophyllite (on Stilbite) Jalgaon...Malachite) Liu Feng Shan Mine, Anhui Prov., China, 18 (& Malachite) Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico, 32, 38-39...Quartz) Yaoganxian Mine, Chen Zhou, Hunan Prov., China, 56 Calcite (on Fluorite) Elmwood Mine, Elmwood, Tennessee...India, 40 (on Copper) Quincy Mine, Houghton Co., Michigan, 49 Wenshan Mine, Wenshan Autonomous Pref,, Yunnan | | | Catalog/List | in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin...Kevin Ward Minera! on QUARTZ RHODOCHROSITE District Mine. Climax Climax olTolg-Yole Lake. County. ncredibly...years to find a specimen rhombs rhombs Climax Mine, ot rhodochrosite $50 OOU 60.000 Ex The ... 8 nn ae from the \ slight ¢ « nax 1g Mine : The Kevin Ward Mineral Exceptional German... Freiberg, 12.7 cm Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany; by the consignor. The story | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | the comments of Tacitus in A.D. 98 describing Germany, Poland, Russia, and the Baltic: “Heaven had denied...or wrath? .I would not go so far to assert that Germany has no lodes of silver and gold. But who has ever...08:48 19 February 2015 Figwd 4. S i e r mining in Saxony with the fii and quenching method. From Georgius...century. Because many of these deposits were in Saxony, Germans became the leading metal miners of the...in central Europe. In 1516, the rich deposit of St. Joachimstal (today called Jachymov) was discovered | | | Catalog/List | MINERAL LIST ELEMENTS 1. ARSENIC Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Solid gray dense metallic cellular mass with...dull reddish proustite crystals and masses. 3x4½x2½" $125. 00. 2. SILVER Amethyst mine, Creede, Mineral...slickenside matrix. 2x2½xt!' $125. 00. 7. GOLD Mina St. Georges, Province of Antonio) Chile. vein in pyrite...terminations. 3x3½x2" $35.00. 30. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico. radiating elongated etched...minor muscovite. 2½x3½xh" $150. 00. 33. AZURITE Czar mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona. Choice dee~ blue | | | Catalog/List | MINERAL LIST ELEMENTS 1. ARSENIC Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Solid gray dense metallic cellular mass with...dull reddish proustite crystals and masses. 3x4½x2½" $125. 00. 2. SILVER Amethyst mine, Creede, Mineral...slickenside matrix. 2x2½xt!' $125. 00. 7. GOLD Mina St. Georges, Province of Antonio) Chile. vein in pyrite...terminations. 3x3½x2" $35.00. 30. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico. radiating elongated etched...minor muscovite. 2½x3½xh" $150. 00. 33. AZURITE Czar mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona. Choice dee~ blue | | | Journal (issue) | Famous Mineral Localities: The Soudan mine, Vermilion Range, St. Louis County, Minnesota ...............Tpmoore1@cox.net Seeing red: The addictive allure of proustite .......................................... 529...Mineral Localities: The Old Gunnislake mine, Callington District, Cornwall, England .....................hematite inclusions, 4.5 cm, from the Soudan mine, Vermilion Range, St. Louis County, Minnesota. Don and Gloria...AQUAMARINE ON MUSCOVITE Chumuru Mine, Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 22 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 17. Results. Description of Pyrargyrite and Proustite. Colour and Streak. Habit. Determination ot Rhombohedron...(b) Doubtful. Forms common to Pyrargyrite and Proustite, Relative Frequency of the Forms. Typical Forms...observers as from 71 ~ 18' to 71 ~ 42', and that of Proustite as from 72 ~ 10' to 72 ~ 45' ; a very large number...determined which belong to Pyrargyrite and which to Proustite. Sella, by whom a large number of the forms were...in rbombohedron angle between Pyrargyrite and Proustite. [~rom the occurrence of the form {21-1) ~ R as | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Geophysik, Bereich Mikroanalytik, D–44780 Bochum, Germany Abstract Pallancata is a world-class intermediate-sulfidation...later open space infill resembles the Shila Paula district (Chauvet et al. 2006). Fluid inclusion petrography... sphalerite, galena, miargyrite, pyrargyrite-proustite, chalcopyrite, polybasite-pearceite, argentite...intermediate sulfidation, epithermal, silver (gold), proustite–pyrargyrite, pearceite–polybasite, acanthite,...and is located ~520 km southeast of Lima in the district of Coronel Castañeda, Parinacochas province, Ayacucho | | | Book (edition) | Polybasite II/E.05-50 466 Stephanite II/E.06-10 468 Proustite II/E.07-10 470 Pyrargyrite II/E.07-20 472 Xanthoconite...Affiliation/Address Luzerner Str. 10-12, D-12205 Berlin, Germany – Freie Universität Berlin, FB Geowissenschaften...Mineralogie, Malteserstr. 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Dr. Frank...Stilleweg 2, D-30655 HanDr. Thomas Oberthür nover, Germany Dr. Thomas Kenkmann Museum für Naturkunde der ... zu Berlin, Invalidenstr. 43, D-10115 Berlin, Germany Prof. Dr. Robert Marschik & Ludwig-Maximilians | | | Book (edition) | Mineralogie, Malteserstr. 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany Earth Science Department / College of Science,...Feld 236, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany Sodenstr. 19, D-12309 Berlin, Germany Graslitzer Str. 5, D-63791 Karlstein...Karlstein am Main, Germany Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, Department für Geo- und Umweltwissenschaften...Ressourcengeologie, Luisenstr. 37, D80333 München, Germany Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe...Rohstoffe (BGR), Stilleweg 2, D-30655 Hannover, Germany Dr. Salah Al-Khirbash Prof. Dr. Rainer Altherr & | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | composition Cu6.3Ag3.TFe0.9Znl.2Asz2SbzxSlz7 and proustite-pyrargyrite (Ag3As0.sSb0.sS3). It is postulated...Ag contents in some Pb-Zn ores of the Silvermines mine, County Tipperary, Ireland. This problem was brought...galena, in the form of myrmekitic exsolutions in proustite-pyrargyrite and tetrahedrite (Fig. 2C, D and A)...Table 1). C. Replacement of geocronite (Gc) by proustite-pyrargyrite/galena (second generation) myrmekite...(Gc) which is partly replaced by myrmekite of proustite-pyrargyrite and galena of the second generation | | | Journal (issue) | p. 6 Fig. 1 4 3/ 4 inch (12 cm) specimen of proustite with crystals to 518 inch (1.5 cm) from Chanarcillo...descriptions; and though I have never lived in Germany, I have many friends in that country, have belonged...locality (Srreuberg near Bergen in the Vogtland, Saxony). It was found on the dumps, left over from a bismuth...locality, Johanngeorgenstadt. Right after WW IL when Saxony was under Communist government, it was cut off...ranium ores. D uri ng the Communist years in East Germany. pri vate possession ( including by the mineral | | | Book | attitude to life. Marcasite. 100 mm. Misburg. Germany 7 i 1. Elements Copper. 42 mm. Cornwall, UK...Crystals up to 140mm (5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law...: Vie in) were found Silver. 52 mm. Freiberg. Germany Copper. 120 mm. Keweenaw Peninsula. U.S.A. in...origin in association with acanthite, stephanite, proustite, pyrargyrite, copper and many other minerals....have been found. Silver, 55 mm. Schwarzwald. Germany Beautiful specimens of wire silver with wires | | | Book (volume) | Schluckenau, in Northeastern Bohemia, and at Sohland, in Saxony (e) Arsenious Nickel Ores in the Serpentine of...Deposits of North America Marc[uette Iron Ore District in the State of Michigan 7. African Iron Ore Deposits...Iron Ore Deposits in the Lower Silurian of Central Bohemia .... 2. The Lower Silurian Iron Ores of the...Spherosiderites Carbonaceous Iron Ores of Upper Silesia and Saxony Carbonaceous Iron Ores of Great Britain The Iron...Sulphides 1. The Ore Deposits of Schwarzenberg, Saxony 2. The Orebodies in the Crystalline Schists of | | | Book | Congress Catalog Card No. 66-17809 Printed in Germany 08 011635 3 PREFACE TO THE T H I R D (GERMAN)...N , Troy, New York, USA G. FRIEDRICH, Aachen, Germany H . FROHBERG, Toronto, Canada R. L A GANZA, North...Pullman, Washington R. A. ZIMMERMANN, Heidelberg, Germany 2 Bamdohr, Theorie Minerals XVÜ ABBREVIATIONS...places of extreme differentiation (e.g., at the Frood Mine and at Insizwa) bismuth and tellurium minerals are...solidif}^ at temperatures several hundred degrees lower, and thus after the ore minerals. 2. Magmatic differentiation | | | Book (edition) | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Is. (island), Vole. (volcano), Penin. (peninsula), St. (Saint), Ste. (Sainte). Recent developments in many...tint. R = 35 %. VHN = 26-61. Rare at etc. at Mont St-Hilaire. Quebec. CM 32. 843-854, Georgetown, Clear...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO | | Bauer, Matthias E., Burisch, Mathias, Ostendorf, Jörg, Krause, Joachim, Frenzel, Max, Seifert, Thomas, Gutzmer, Jens (2019) Trace element geochemistry of sphalerite in contrasting hydrothermal fluid systems of the Freiberg district, Germany: insights from LA-ICP-MS analysis, near-infrared light microthermometry of sphalerite-hosted fluid inclusions, and sulfur isotope geochemistry. Mineralium Deposita, 54 (2) 237-262 doi:10.1007/s00126-018-0850-0 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | hydrothermal fluid systems of the Freiberg district, Germany: insights from LA-ICP-MS analysis, near-infrared...Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2018 Abstract The historic silver mining district of Freiberg...Freiberg (Germany) comprises hydrothermal vein-style mineralization of Permian and Cretaceous age. We compare...Bergakademie Freiberg, Brennhausgasse 14, 09599 Freiberg, Germany 2 Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Helmholtz...Chemnitzer Str. 40, 09599 Freiberg, Germany Introduction The silver mining district of Freiberg is well-known | | | Journal (issue) | c5anvw,((e,vMintrafs Mineral Dealer & Mine gent Levant Gallery Lower Boscaswel I, Pendeen, Near Penzance...pseudomorpbs after orthoclase from Wheal Coates, St. Agnes 30 M.P.Cooper Present day collecting at...Minerals 35 37 FRONT COVER Caledonite. Red Gill Mine., Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria. Largest crystal 1.25... S. Africa, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and Germany. Necessary to this development, to take up the...associated with veins worked in the Vigra and Clogau mine, and was more than likely a trial for gold in the | | | Book | peg1natites and T, \farcasite, I 00 mm, Mis burg, Germany meteorites); 2. sedimentary, when a mineral crystallizes...Crystals up to 140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law...('3/i6in) were found Silver, 52 mm, Freiberg, Germany Copper, 120 mm, Keweenaw Peninsula, US.A. in Dzhezkazgan...origin in association with acanthite, stephanite, proustite, pyrargyrite, copper and many other minerals....have been found . Silver, 55 mm. Schwarzwald, Germany 10 Beautiful specimens of wire silver with wires | | Diallo, Mamadoudjan, Bouabdellah, Mohammed, Levresse, Gilles, Yans, Johan, Castorina, Francesca, Klügel, Andreas, Mouhagir, Mohamed, El Mouden, Salim, Maacha, Lhou (2021) Mineralogy, Fluid Inclusion, and C-O-Sr Isotope Geochemistry to Unravel the Evolution of the Magmatic-Hydrothermal System at the Igoudrane Silver-Rich Deposit (Imiter District, Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco) Minerals, 11 (9) 997 doi:10.3390/min11090997 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | System at the Igoudrane Silver-Rich Deposit (Imiter District, Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco) Mamadoudjan Diallo...Universität Bremen, Postfach 33 04 40, 28334 Bremen, Germany; akluegel@uni-bremen.de Managem Group, Twin Center...System at the Igoudrane Silver-Rich Deposit (Imiter District, Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco). Minerals 2021,...creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ Abstract: The Igoudrane mine with a total production of 700,000 t of ore grading...one of the most productive mines in the Imiter district of the eastern Anti-Atlas in Morocco. The silver-rich | | | Book | Such metals as Cu, Ag and Zn often pass from a lower oxidation zone to a deeper cementation zone where...is harder and the test may proceed to the next lower grade. Not much force on the scratching point is...aggregates or weathered minerals have usually a lower hardness than the single or unaltered crystals of...For instance, hematite (hardness 6) will have a lower hardness in the radiating or earthy form than in...become coated by a thin black film (eg silver, proustite, acanthite and pyrargyrite). In the presence of |
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