 | | Journal (issue) | | JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1978, Volume 53 Number 1 S 10 The Mica Minerals Mark C Blazek One Locality Minerals of...be returned to the photographer after use. The Mica Minerals "The Mica's comprise a glittering array...mineral species. The micas, according to their group name which is of ancient Latin derivation (probably...to behold the splendid sparkle of the distant mica-mine dumps in New England sunshine to agree with tftis...cabinet they can scarcely be surpassed. A chunk of mica is one of the first specimens acquired by any beginning |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gold Mines Middle Buttes Volcanic Complex Kern County, California Allan R. Blaske allan.blaske@gmail...volcanic complex is located in southeastern Kern County, approximately 9 miles southwest of the town of...area along US-6 between Spanish Fork and Price, UT. Mine dumps can be seen from the highway on the north...the Pleasant Valley Coal Company's Winter Quarters mine (famous for an explosion on May I", 1900, that killed...mineral species from the Middle Buttes/Cactus Gold Mine. Scorodite from the Shumake deposit was described |  | | Journal (issue) | | Carvings CRYSTAL SKULLS Modern Art or Genuine Artifacts? www.rockngem.com THE MICA GROUP Accessory...STAINLESS STEEL CABBING UNIT This machine is made in the USA for Kingsley North. Features an all stainless steel...specimen of quartz with fluorite is from a claim near Crystal Park, Colorado, at the base of Pikes Peak. (Jeff...Colorado’s Mining History on Display......38 Mica: An Accessory Group ...................... 12 stunning specimens...by Bill Vossler The myth and mystery of quartz crystal skulls by Bob Jones regular columns Rock & Gem |  | | Journal (issue) | | Menlo Park, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums...R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...localities: the mineralogy of Graves Mountain, Lincoln County, G eorgia....................................chalcopyrite, from the Sweetwater mine, Ellington, Reynolds County, Missouri. Collection of Maudine and...by Augustus C. Hamlin of Mt. Mica, Maine, on the cele brated Mt. Mica tourmaline locality. He brought |  | | Catalog/List | | Quebec ,Canada lxl £1.10 lx2ins £10 Black crystal sections with Astrophyllite in matrix Khibiny...black-brown cleavage Yakutia. Russin 5mm£2 Rawhide Mine, MohavcCounty, ½xY,£3 Arizona , US.A . l.x2 50p...ALSiO ALMANDINE garnet group AlS0/4 Al S0/4 ✓ New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon .England Madagascar...in Porphyl)·. Pure grey metallic mass San Jose Mine. Oruro, Bolivia 6x6mm £3 23 ANHYDRITE Rich white... Pb AgSb S CaS0/4 Dolomite group ANNITE ANORTHITE Pure black mica plate new Analysis . paper available |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | coal-bearingstrata (Murchison, Duncan, et aL\ rr-r2 2166 Crystal chemistry Chemical bonds in semiconductorsand solids...systems (Gray, T. J., et al) 9-10 1843 Crystal growth Crystal growth in gels (Henisch, Heinz K.) 7-8...crystals (Laudise,R. A.) ll-12 2162 Crystal structure Principlesof crystal structure determination (Carpenter...Contemporarycrystallography (Buerger,Martin, J.) 3-4 642 Crystal defectsand crystalline interfaces (Bollmann, W...Universitiit Berlin. 177G-1970 (Strunz, Hugo.) 7-8 1490 Mica Fluorine micas (Shell, Haskiel R., et al) 3-4 643 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pottstown, Pennsylvania Donald R. Peacor Univ. of Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, Florida Richard W...AMETHYSTINE QUARTZ group 4 x 5 cm, collected in 1978 by Donald Elliott at the Diamond Willow mine near Thunder... Maryland One of the World’s Great Gem and Crystal Collections for sale by owner This collection has...Albite from the Itatiaia mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The Rubellite crystal measures 5 x 14 inches. (The...Raven Hills Court, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919 USA; tel: (303) 598-1233 66 The Mineralogical Record |  | | Catalog/List | | Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...£4 garnet group Crystal 1 inch across Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE...SO/4 OH magnification there arc small crystals County, Arizona -------------"'--------'-'--'----'--____;; |  | | Catalog/List | | grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE...Siberia Russia) 486 MURMANITE Na (Ti Nb) SiO mauve mica like plates with Mg Arfvesonite In Felspar. (Alluaiva...Cs)Al (B,Be) 0 pale yellow, garnet shaped single crystal. 3 mm £3.50 (Antsirabe Madagascar) 3 small crystals...in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360 PARATELLURITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL |  | | Catalog/List | | (Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4 040 BITYITE Li and Be Mica white cleavages...cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE (variety...dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE Ba Na Ti B...Cs)Al (B,Be) 0 pale yellow, garnet shaped single crystal. 3 mm £3.50 (Antsirabe Madagascar) 3 small crystals...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH U |  | | Report (volume) | | cientlfica Circular Classe classification Company, County Collections Committee Communications Comparative... Colo. Compass vols. 24, nos. 1-4; 25, no. 1. Lincoln, Nebr. Condor vols. 48, 49. Berkeley, Calif. Connecticut...Abstracts nos. 5, 6. Bethlehem, Pa. Los Angeles County Museum: Publications nos. 4-7; Quarterly vol. 6...D. F. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters, Papers vol. 30. Ann Arbor, Mich. Michigan Geological...Reports 12, 13; Publications 42-44. Lansing, Mich. .Michigan University Museum of Paleontology Contributions |  | | Book (volume) | | Dick's deep concern for the fate of the Sterling mine in Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest...interest in mining history led him to purchase the mine in order to form a living museum so that it would...mineralogical community. Through his efforts, the Sterling mine has been declared a national historic landmark....greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...probably a greater variety of minerals in a single mine in Franklin, New Jersey, or Mont Saint-Hilaire, |  | | Book | | milky quartz stems. Denny Mountain area of King County. Specimen from the collection of Cary A. Maykut...DESCRIPTIONS 21 ABBREVIATIONS 24 GLOSSARY 25 COUNTY INDEX OF MINERAL OCCURRENCES 29 MINERAL DESCRIPTIONS...(using a code explained on page 21) and a county by county list mentioning the nature of their occurrence...Parks and Monuments prohibit all collecting. state, county and city parks usually prohibit collecting. Please...often or iented randomly with respect to their crystal axes, having been caught in the magma "mush" as |  | | Report (volume) | | Chicago. _ . Los Angeles County Mus. Quart.; Sci. Ser., Paleontology-Los Angeles County Museum Quarterly; Science...Boletin. Mexico, D. F~ Mich. Acad. Sci. Papers-Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters Papers....Arbor, Mich. Mich. Univ. Mus. Paleontology Contr.-Michigan University Museum of Paleontology Contributions...Proc.-Nebraska Academy of Sciences Proceedings. Lincoln, Nebr. N.Mex. Miner-New Mexico Miner. Albuquerque...Arkansas-White-Red Basins, Minerals and Geology Work Group-United States Interagency Committee on the ArkansasWhite-Red |  | | Book (edition) | | commonly have several variants, such as Great Smoky Group, Great Smoky Conglomerate, Great Smoky Formation...the total of 4,284 new Terms were United States county and city Terms. Counties and Cities in the United...States Earlier editions had Terms such as Washington County and Portland for counties and cities of the United...for example: Washington County Arkansas and Portland Maine. Each new county Term can now autopost its...to counties was a major task. The scope of U.S. county and city Terms can now be clear even when they |  | | Book | | world, and worked on their identification and crystal structures. Despite this familiarity, however;...wide range of other facts about their origin, crystal form and mode of origin are given. The publishers...amianthus, blue 100 _amianthus, Cape 100. amphibole group 98 analcite 76, 108, 111 anatase 34, 34 andalusite...coquimbite 60 cordierite 95 galena 12, 13 garnet group 76 garnierite 107 gaylussite 50 gehlenite 85 gismondine...eye 31 fayalite 75 feldspars 111 feldspathoid group 108 ferrierite 122 ferrimolybdite 63 fluoborite |  | | Catalog/List | | District, free standing. ______ ______ Malawi Black crystal sections with Astrophyllite in Khibiny massif/Kola...Greenish , sparse, acicular micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall...ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________ County. Arizona, U.S.A £5___...Feldspar_____________ Black areas in actinolite Basinas Mine Sweden 1x1 £1.20 ALLANITE 9 Ce Y Fe SiO__________...formed dodecahedral Madagascar 1 ins £4 ALMANDINE 1 Crystal I inch across garnet group__________ 1 x '/2 £4 |  | | | | world, and worked on their identification and crystal structures. Despite this familiarity, however;...wide range of other facts about their origin, crystal form and mode of origin are given. The publishers...amianthus, blue 100 -amianthus, Cape 100 amphibole group 98 annabergite 73 arduinite 119, /2/ argentite...dialogite 42, 42 diamond 5, 6 galena 12, /3 garnet group 76 garnierite 107 gaylussite SO gehlenite 85 gismondine...97, 98 fayalite 75 feldspars 111 feldspathoid group 108 ferrierite 122 ferrimolybdite 63 fluoborite |  | | Report (issue) | | White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER PHOTOS: Upper left- Rutile crystal from Graves...left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing interference growth... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Iron, Nickel-Iron ............................................................................... 111 Garnet Group .................................................................................... 118 Axinite Group ............................................... |  | | Catalog/List | | with a cut su rface. Has be n microprobed. Green crystal section with minor Talc LOCATION ANDESI NE Fel...ANDRADITE garnet group ♦ ANGLES ITE Pb SO/4 ANHYDIUTE Ca SO/4 AN KERITE-KUTNAIIORITE Dolom ite group ANN ITE Mica...Mica AN ORTHITE Fe ldspar ANORTHOCLASE Felspar Group ANTHOPH YLLITE Amphibole 2cm £8 3cm £ 15 Near...Near Chelan. E.Washington USA !x i £3 ½" £3 Ix½ £5 Rich fi ne grained black crystalline mass will Fluorescent...Fluorescent orange Sodal ite Rich mass of black crystal sections ,on matrix. brown chi ps, probably mixed |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Michigan ............................................................................................. Michigan ............................................................................................. Michigan ..........................'...... ....I.........Hematites of Alabama, McCalley, 3819. Iron ore mines in Jefferson County, Castlcnian, 777. Leaf impressions...Ga., to Birmingham, Ala., Brewer, 561. Miocene group of Alabama, Johnson, 2917. Murphrecs Valley, Phillips |  | | Catalog/List | | massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...dark red crystal with 22 faces, about 2cm lxl £5 lx2 £10 2x2 £15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico...Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless to yellow small crystals on matrix...ALTHAUSITE Modum, Buskerud,Norway Rich mass of black crystal sections ,on matrix. Rich brown-purple mass in...2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near Creston |  | | Catalog/List | | £10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...Malosa, Zomba District, Malawi Rich mass ofblnck crystal sections ,on matrix. Ix½ £3 Ix! £5 lx2 £10 Pyroxene...Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some with micro...£12 7.x2 £24 Hydrocarbon 963 6 ✓ ALBITE Maine USA variety CLEAVELANDITE, pure white sheafy, masses...--811 Tysse, Hardanger,Norway single blue 3mm crystal on quartz no £5 -------------------------933 |  | | Report (issue) | | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...COLOR PLATES (following page 242) Gold, Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with...with Conichalcite Gold, Round Mountain Mine Quartz, Lovelock area Acanthite Grossular, Nightingale |  | | Book (edition) | | The study of New Mexico specimens revealed new crystal forms for some minerals and much valuable information...mineral are 2;iven: 1) the accepted largest crystal of calcite in the of- information name is ...stones, 1. Aitkens ( 1 932) Quartz of meteoric iron. see: gem stones. O. C. Farrington (1903) Gems...prospecting for uranium on La Ventana Mesa, Sandoval County, New Mexico. .,3d ed. H. C. Dake (1953) The uranium...and the counare arranged alphabetically; within a county the districts are also given in alphabetical order |
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