 | | Journal (issue) | | Mexico ineralogical Record September-October 2003 ❖ Volume 34 Number 5 ❖ $20 Wayne & Dona Leicht,...Van Pelt, Los Angles Mexico Special Issue II The Ojuela Mine Preface to Mexico-II1............................................................... 24 Mapimí District Geology .................................... 32 Sidebar: First Discovery of Adamite at Ojuela................................ 43 Sidebar: Purple...find in the San Judas chimney, Level 6, of the Ojuela mine. Houston Museum of Natural Science collection; |  | | Journal (issue) | | cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken |  | | Report (issue) | | a whiff of Mexico too. There are many good things here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district...blue topaz: Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....to small-cabinet specimens of, let’s see, smoky quartz, elbaite, morganite and aquamarine beryl, spessartine...impressive: Axinite, 5 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....County, especially from the Stewart mine. And from the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Conichalcite Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb Otjikoto Region, Namibia A n article appeared...Conichalcite on malachite, 10.5 cm across, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. Fine spherules...green crusts of fibrous spheres at the Cap Garonne mine, Le Pradet, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France...has been found as green spheres associated with quartz, goethite, monazite-(Ce), and agardite-(Y). Conichalcite...chrysocolla and cuprite has come from the Clara mine, Oberwolfach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Conichalcite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals in a contrasting matrix. The rutile star on quartz (fig. 5) is just plain dramatic. The malachite...Gene and Rosalind Meieran specimen. Figure 3. Quartz, variety amethyst, 10.3 cm high, Goboboseb Mountains...sphalerite and celestine, 17 cm high, Cumberland mine, Smith County, Tennessee. Steve Neely specimen....January/February 2020 13 Figure 5. Rutile with quartz and hematite, 7 cm high, Ibitiara, Bahia, Brazil...Wulfenite, 14.5 cm wide, Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scott Rudolph specimen. Figure |  | | Report (issue) | | thumbnail-size azurite specimen from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece, which I acquired at the...from the very small 2017 find in the Christiana mine which yielded the specimens seen in Munich later...harm either: Azurite, 4.2 cm, from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece. Greekrocks specimen and...======== Azurite, 1.8 cm, from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece. Greekrocks specimen and...material handled by Dan consisted of epidote and quartz specimens which Doug and his partner Tom Hanna |  | | Report (issue) | | the stout tourmaline crystal and the crude smoky quartz crystal that it adjoins. The crystals come from...most cherished products of the Ojuela mine at Mapimí, Durango, Mexico: of the several styles of “old”...“old” fluorite specimens from the great mine, the best known shows deep purple, transparent, cubo-dodecahedral...beginning around 2008, fresh ore exploitation in deep mine levels has yielded beautiful groups of gemmy, lustrous...shows 13 excellent fluorite miniatures from the Ojuela mine, nine “new” and 4 “old,” the “old” showing typical |  | | Book | | Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the U.S.-Mexico Border TRACKING GLOBALIZATION Robert J. Foster... Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the U.S.-Mexico Border elizabeth emma ferry Indiana University...Minerals, collecting, and value across the U.S.-Mexico border / Elizabeth Emma Ferry. pages cm — (Tracking...States. 2. Minerals—Collection and preservation—Mexico. 3. Rock collectors. 4. Mineral industries—Social...industries—Social aspects. 5. United States—Commerce—Mexico. 6. Mexico—Commerce—United States. I. Title. QE392.5.U5F47 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Saint-Hilaire La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality Montérégie Québec, Canada A s Bruce Cairncross...Saint-Hilaire (La Vallée-du-Richelieu Regional County Municipality [RCM], Québec, Canada), one of the Quintin Wight...in Mont Saint-Hilaire, it could be confused with quartz, and indeed with the apophyllite with which it...Nature & Science Adamite Ojuela Mine, Mapimí Mun. de Mapimí Durango, Mexico 2.8 x 1.6 x 1.2 inches (7 |  | | Report (issue) | | pale blue barite from the Ouichane (or Sidi Lahcem) mine in Nador Province, and furthermore I cautioned against...this with the barite from the Bou Nahas (or Afrou) mine in the Oumjrane-Alnif district near Meknes. Really...These new specimens come from the Shijiangshan Pb-Zn mine, which Jordi locates close to “Jipeng” in the Huanggang...much, much more than the famous Huanggang Sn-Fe mine, see the articles in our September-October 2012...resembling tarbuttite crystals from the old Broken Hill mine at Kabwe, Zambia. Mixed with them, on matrix plates |  | | Report (issue) | | in 2016 in a disused tunnel of the Sieroszowice mine, and the Spirifer website, with typical conscientiousness... Ag, and Pt-group elements. In the Sieroszowice mine, which exploits both halite and Kupferschiefer,...crystals. Halite, 3.5 cm, from the Sieroszowice mine, Lubin district, Lower Silesia, Poland. Spirifer...======= Halite, 6.5 cm, from the Sieroszowice mine, Lubin district, Lower Silesia, Poland. Spirifer...the same region—the locality is given as the Rudna mine, Lubin district, Legnica, Lower Silesia, Poland—come |  | | Report (issue) | | from a recent chalcocite find in the Las Cruces mine, Gerena near Seville, Andalusía, Spain—and I wrote...=========================== an open-pit copper mine still under active development: it’s for sure that...there. Chalcocite, 3.1 cm, from the Las Cruces mine, Comaria Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalućia, Spain...clusters of fluorite crystals from the La Viesca mine, La Collada area, Asturias, northern Spain, all...especially fine. Fluorite, 8.2 cm, from La Viesca mine, La Collada area, Asturias, Spain. Fabre Minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Durango, México. Moore and Megaw (2003) described the Ojuela Mine as Mexico’s...fluorite, calcite, wulfenite and other species. Mina Ojuela is also the type locality for paradamite, lotharmeyerite...Collector that “of all the species from the Ojuela mine, perhaps the least eye-appealing is köttigite... Famous mineral localities: The Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico: Mineralogical Record, v. 34, September...that flow eastward to the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. The sparkling streams of Colorado not only shape |  | | Report (issue) | | Debar, Algeria. (2) BaFe3(AsO4)2(OH)5. (3) Clara mine, Germany; no analysis given; said to correspond...scorodite, arseniosiderite, stibiconite, goethite, quartz. Distribution: From Djebel Debar, northeast of...Senator mine, 20 km south-southwest of Kutahya, Turkey. In the Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. From...the Black Forest, at the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, the Anton mine, Heubachtal, near Schiltach, and |  | | Journal (issue) | | row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Spann collection; Tom Spann photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Jordan Root photo. Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler |  | | Report (issue) | | #50. His style differs in several respects from mine, but everyone—writers and readers alike—needs a...rhodochrosite crystal group from the N’Chwaning I mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province...$1680. Rhodochrosite, 2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province...classic localities for the species: the San Andres mine, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba Province...anyway. Pyromorphite, 3.1 cm, from the San Andres mine, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba Province |  | | Report (issue) | | evenings… Clinoatacamite, 5.6 cm, from the Lily mine near Pisco, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru...clinoatacamite in the Lily mine, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru. In 1998 this copper mine began giving up...clinoatacamite crystals resting on cavity walls with drusy quartz and chrysocolla-stained calcite. At Munich, John...and he landed the two superb miniatures of Lily mine clinoatacamite now offered on his site (trinityminerals...in arsenic from the 1991 find in the Tellerhäuser mine near Pöhla, western Erzgebirge, Upper Saxony, Germany |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | terminated gem crystal, 13.0 × 2.5 cm, from the Jaquetô mine, Medeiros Neto, Bahia, Brazil. Bonisoli specimen... Elbaite, 7.2-cm crystal in quartz, 7.5 × 6.0 cm, from the Himalaya mine, San Diego County, California...concretions, 7.0 × 6.5 cm, from the Mashamba West mine, Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo. Bonisoli...coated with malachite, 4.5 × 4.5 cm, from the Onganja mine, Seeis, Windhoek, Namibia. Bonisoli specimen 3349...specimen 3462, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 11 (right). Quartz, doubly terminated crystal with “bissolite” inclusions |  | | Report (issue) | | elbaite, amethyst, Tsumeb minerals, and Sweet Home mine minerals. Also scattered on these pages are items...==================================== work as a mine supervisor at Boron) for what turned out, by the...“presence.” Stolzite, 3 cm, from the Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Ex-Minette...======= I first saw the new hematite-included quartz from Aouli, Khenifra Province, MeknesTafilalt region...on his site. Brick-red and lustrous, prismatic quartz crystals with large rhombohedral terminal faces |  | | Report (issue) | | there is new work afoot at the famous Red Cloud mine in the Trigo Mountains, in the southwestern part...backgrounds on the history of wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, see the essay by Szenics just quoted (“Ed Over...headed by Wayne Thompson (“Bonanza at the Red Cloud mine,” in the SeptemberOctober 1996 issue). The Thompson...notable wulfenite would be found at the Red Cloud mine. But 14 years ago Robert Bell, a mineral collector...collector who lives in Kansas, purchased the mine anyway, and now he has contracted for experienced field man |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | private appointments Topaz, Cleavelandite Mokrush Mine, Russia Thomas Spann Photo 2 3 CONTENTS 06...specimen. James Elliott photo 10 Fluorite and quartz, 21 cm aross, Planggenstock, Göschenenalp, Kanton...written by Bryan Swoboda. 12 Väyrynenite. Lolu Dahku mine, Roundu Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan...specimens from the mim museum Stibiotantalite. Urandu mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan... James Elliott photo 14 Malachite. Kalukuluku mine, Lubumbashi, Katanga, D.R. Congo. 60 x 48 x 26 cm |  | | Report (issue) | | colored arsenates (mostly adamite) from the Ojuela mine. The sterling pale purple example shown here...$615). Adamite, 2.2 cm, from the Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. Key’s Minerals specimen and photo...fluorapatite/fluorite “combination” piece from the Sauberg mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Obersachsen—i.e. Upper Saxony...rarity as time goes by. The Sauberg tin/tungsten mine closed for good when the Berlin Wall came down in...Fluorapatite and Fluorite, 2.3 cm, from the Sauberg mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Saxony, Germany. Key’s Minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | Article - M. Nelson, Grand Canyon Mining: Orphan Mine and Halotrichite 16 Presidential Matters 20 ...specimen came from the Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico. M. Nelson Mixed color... 1941). Above: Silver ore from the Yankee Girl mine. Courtesy of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science...DMNH EGM5479. S.W.Veatch Above: The Yankee Girl mine started a rush to the Red Mountain Mining District...depth of 1,050 feet, it was the most productive mine in the district. Photo: S. W. Veatch dated 2020 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Moore Tpmoore1@cox.net COVER: ELBAITE with smoky quartz and cleavelandite, 14.5 cm, from Paprok, Nuristan...Mineralogical Record, volume 48, September–October, 2017 Quartz var. Gwindel, Göscheneralp, Switzerland, 10 cm...Monaco budil@monaco.mc www.budil-minerals.com Quartz var. Gwindel, Tiefengletscher, Switzerland, 10...of the pegmatites are simple, consisting only of quartz, feldspars and micas; others are zoned, with a... volume 48, September–October, 2017 Figure 2. Mine workings at Paprok. Peter Lyckberg photo. In the |  | | Report (issue) | | crisp despite partial dehydration) from the Margabal mine, Entraygues, Aveyron Department, France. 1 ==...======= Torbernite, 5.3 cm, from the Margabal mine, Entraygues, Aveyron, France. Trinity Minerals specimen...specimen and photo. This small uranium mine, in a small deposit discovered during a survey by the French...locality began in June 1997 when, somewhere in the old mine, about 1,000 fine specimens were recovered, with...with torbernite crystals to 2 cm perched on smoky quartz. In August 1997, four more pockets were opened |
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Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Municipality, Durango, Mexico