 | | Report (issue) | | S. Geological Survey and Servicio Geologico de Bolivia in cooperation with the Trade Development Program................................. 1 Department of Oruro......................................100 Department...the U.S. Geological Survey-Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia as part of the Mineral Resource Evaluation of the...reports in the files of the Servicio Geologico de Bolivia located in their main office in La Paz. All of...States, and the Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia in La Paz, Bolivia. This report is an edited version of |  | | Report (volume) | | Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia By U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY and SERVICIO GEOLOGICO DE BOLIVIA With a section on...Cordillera Occidental, Bolivia I by U.S. Geological Survey and Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia; with a section...mineral resources-Bolivia-Cordillera Occidental. 3. Geology-Altiplano. 4. Geology-Bolivia-Cordillera Occidental...Geological Survey (U.S.) II. Servicio Geol6gico de Bolivia. Ill. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1975 [TN39.A4] 557.3s--dc20...cooperation between the Servicio Geologico de Bolivia and the U.S. Geological Survey. The geologic research |  | | Journal (issue) | | Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro |  | | Report (issue) | | No. 12: Bolivia ht of Mineral Collecting N 978-0-9790998-5-4 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado...specimen 'being sold with the shrine when he was in Bolivia buying mineral specimens in the 1970s. He took...ophyllite; 5. 2 cm tall Cerro Rico, Potosi, B,atillo province, Potosi Andy Seibel col/action Jejf-SC,m/.plwto...wp11�. Yaalte: 12.5 cm wide Siglo XX Mine, ,U� Bustillo province, Potosi Malty Zinn colkdknt (ex Marv...640 200 100 600 The Political Divisions of Bolivia (after United Nations Map No. 3875, Peacekeeping |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Metallogenetic Epochs and Provinces of Bolivia The Tin-Province (Part I) The Metallogenetic Provinces...the Altiplano (Part II) F. A~LFELD Cochabamba, Bolivia Partf. An attempt is made to solve the relationships...formation of ore deposits using the Bolivian tin-province as an example. In the eastern Cordillera we are...tin-silver mineralization is discussed. Within the tin-province three metallogenic epochs are recognized, with...down-faulted and consequently preserved. The polymetallic province of the Altiplano contains subvolcanic ore deposits |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector's Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the...Mineral Corporation Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens, but production of...of the elongated, fibrous malachite specimens seems subordinate to other, more common forms seen from |  | | Catalog/List | | modified (B) 3/4x1 11 $4.50. ANDORITE ltos mine, Oruro, Bolivia Superb silvery-gray metallic modified intergrown...section BARITE Select quartz on dense Himmelsfu,·st mine, F1·eiberg, Saxony, Germany irregular gray metal...to 3 mm fragments. 3/ 4 11 capsule New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima Co., Arizona bright blue crystallized...termination. ¼x¼xl½11 $12.50. BISMUTH IN ITE East Pool mine, Cornwall, England Dark gray elongated fibrous 2...intergrown brownish BENITO ITE The Dall es Gem mine, San Benito Co. ,California Select deep blue translucent | | | Catalog/List | | modified (B) 3/4x1 11 $4.50. ANDORITE ltos mine, Oruro, Bolivia Superb silvery-gray metallic modified intergrown...section BARITE Select quartz on dense Himmelsfu,·st mine, F1·eiberg, Saxony, Germany irregular gray metal...to 3 mm fragments. 3/ 4 11 capsule New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Pima Co., Arizona bright blue crystallized...termination. ¼x¼xl½11 $12.50. BISMUTH IN ITE East Pool mine, Cornwall, England Dark gray elongated fibrous 2...intergrown brownish BENITO ITE The Dall es Gem mine, San Benito Co. ,California Select deep blue translucent |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma |  | | Journal (issue) | | Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island...Number Four Articles The El Desierto sulfur mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....of the Mazarrón-Águilas mining district, Murcia Province, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...mineral localities: The Pacajake selenium mine, Potosí, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....1980 when he paid me a visit at the Jacupiranga mine; somehow he had learned of my mineralogical researches |  | | Journal (issue) | | Correspondents Dudley Blauwet Louisville, Colorado Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island...Articles Famous mineral localities: Llallagua, Bolivia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...perhaps the finest known, 2 cm, from Llallagua, Bolivia. Mark Chance Bandy collection; current owner unknown...practical experience at the Gottesehre (“God’s Honor”) mine, a small fluorite mining operation in Urberg, near...E-Mail: stuwil@aol.com Rhodochrosite, Uchucchaqua mine, Lima Dept. Peru 2 inches. Wilensky photo. Clara |  | | Book | | this book to further investigate the subject. Miguel Romero PhD President Sociedad Mexicana de Mineralogfa...bodies. My deepest thanks must go to John Sinkankas; Miguel Romero; Eduardo Schmitter; and Jeff Kurtzeman,...Mexico. Special thanks also to Don Pedro Mahieux, Miguel Romero, Eduardo and Rebecca Schmitter, Isidoro...produced specimens from such places as the La Fe Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the...CALl[NTCS ... I MI ( Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein |  | | Journal (issue) | | Colorado contains none of the Basin and Range Province that provides a geological environment conducive...localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,...Collection" labels list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results...thread, some taken from the surface of the American mine and some from its deepest workings indicating that...that depth does not change the character of the mine. One is impressed by the money as well as the scientific | | | Book | | this book to further investigate the subject. Miguel Romero PhD President Sociedad Mexicana de Mineralogia...bodies. My deepest thanks must go to John Sinkankas; Miguel Romero; Eduardo Schmitter; and Jeff Kurtzeman...México. Special thanks also to Don Pedro Mahieux, Miguel Romero, Eduardo and Rebecca Schmitter, [sidoro...produced specimens from such places as the La Fé Mine in the state of Chiapas and Santa Rosalia in the...WIC ' ' (OSE INSET) Figure 3. The mineral province of Sierra Madre Occidental. (Modified from Berstein |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kunzite-Gary and Rosemany White collection, page 295; Malachite-Don and Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle...204; Cerussite-Joe Budd collection, page 63; Malachite-Tim & Holly Smith collection, page 244. (right...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology--continued Stratigraphy--continued Mesozoic--con tinued San Rafael group ................... 2.S Entrada sandstone...' >.* »:,,'*V'»^'*?r»Vi '. ''" ^;'*/^*",* ' Malachite deposits > '^ *: - ' - '»^\: «^/:.*'1;..^^.i...sections measured in the Klondike Ridge area, San Miguel and Dolores Counties, Colorado. . . B. Descriptions...Descriptions of selected carnotite deposits. ..... Penju mine ..................... Deposit #440 ...............deposit (in pocket). . . . 4. Hidden Treasure mine (in pocket) ........... (All plates in pocket) |  | | Report (issue) | | Figure 1. Index map of the Placerville area, San Miguel County, Colorado. . 7 2. Geologic map and sections...sections of part of the Robinson claims. San Miguel County, Colorado............... *n envelope 3. Geologic...and section of part of the Weatherly property, San Miguel County, Colorado. ............. . In envelope...Geologic map of main adit, Weatherly property, San Miguel County, Colorado ................... 3 9 ...specimens from the Robinson pioperty (shaft A), San Miguel County, Colorado. .... 19 2. Photomicrographs |  | | Report (issue) | | == Elbaite “mushroom,” 4 cm, from the Palelni mine, Molo village, Momeik Township, Kyaukme District...==== of the rare brochantite of the Los Azules mine in Chile: spherical tufts of emerald-green fibrous...4.8 cm, from the Los Azules mine, Quebrada San Miguel, Copiapo Province, Atacama region, Chile. Luis... Gold, 2.4 cm, from the Tiglit area, Guelmin Province, Guelmin-Qued Noun Region, Morocco. Luis Burillo...pseudomorphous after chalcocite from the Las Cruces mine near Seville in southern Spain: you’ll perhaps recall |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite. Hell Canyon subdistrict (Seiiora...(Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek, N. of Reserve: quartz...stolzite. Wilcox district, S. of Mogollon. Lone Pine mine: emmonsite, khademite, lannonite,* mackayite, poughite...poughite, rajite,* tellurium, wilcoxite.* Sacaton mine, Blue Rock and Bit Spar prospects: fluorite. Volume...Canyon district, San Andres Mountains. Stevens mine: barite. Hembrillo district, San Andres Mountains |  | | Catalog/List | | pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x H £2.50 1x1 £4...and Be Mica white cleavages in Muscovite. (Harding Mine,Taos County, New Mexico) 1x1 £3.50 1x2 £7 097 CHLOANTHITE...MINERAL !! dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 151 LEUCOSPHENITE...OH fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH...Na Al Silicate Pure creamy coloured masses (Tanco Mine, Bernie Lake, Manitoba, Canada) lx2ins £4 2x2ins |  | | Journal (issue) | | Michigan Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham...ificad a m in e, C e rro R ico d e P o to si, Bolivia. R esearch C h a rita b le T ru s t sp e c im e...gratifying. One young mineralogist, a former student of mine, said that although he had never met Mike, he had...94530 Gem ini Minerals Joe & S u san K ielbaso P.O. Box 70062 San D iego, C A 92167 Tel: (619) 223-0620... famous mineral localities: Cerro ;8.ico de £ofosi Bolivia ^ --------------------- Wendell E. Wilson 4631 |  | | Catalog/List | | Lodestone, Magnetic Iron Copper, Michigan Velvet Malachite, Bisbee, Arizona Rhodonite Zincite, Micaceous...England Salin Spar Malachite, Stalactite Agatized Wood, Adamana, Arizona Velvet Malachite Coral Turquoise...Mammoth, Arizona. Pyrargyrite, crystallized, Samson Mine, Harz, Germany Cuprite on Native Copper, very fine...Azuritc Crystallized on Malachite, Bis bee, Arizona Azuritc Crystallized on Malachite, Bis bee, Arizona...Kelly. N. M. Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University] at 05:52 29 January 2015 FRENCH CREEK IRON MINE, CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA M any minerals described...diverse secondary copper minerals such as azurite, malachite, aurichalcite, brochantite, linarite, atacamite...specimens. One such locality is the French Creek iron mine, Chester County, Pennsylvania, an occurrence worthy...States; they occur in relative abundance in a broad province that occupies southern Arizona and northern Sonora...of chalcopyrite crystals from the Old Lurzenbach mine, Gosenbach, Siegen, Germany. Jack Halpern specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | amountsof native silver occur with the sulfides. Malachite, chrysocolla,and azurite fill the intersticesand...partly oxidized later, and copper in the form of malachite, chrysocolla,and azurite was disseminated in the...reconnaissance 26). Most of the production camefrom the San of coppersulfideswith carMiguelmine(Fig. 1) priorto...bonaceous tion wassporadic andminor,the Eurekaand San berry (1876), Cazin (1880), Jenks(1899), and Miguelmines(Fig...concerning the time of minNacimiento mine(formerlyCopperGlance-Cuprite mine)wentintoproduction withreserves |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | indirectly (e.g., alteration of mine tunnel walls; weathering products of mine dumps and slag). A second human...occurrences Number of localities I. Mine-associated (“post-mine”) minerals Formula Type locality; other...Dandy mine, Paradox Valley, Montrose County, Colorado Metadelrioite 2 SrCa(VO3)2(OH)2 Jo Dandy mine, Paradox...Finistère, France Schuetteite 15 Hg3O2(SO4) Ocean mine dump, San Luis Obispo County, California Smrkovecite...Ni5(CO3)4(OH)2·4–5H2O 132 North mine, Widgiemooltha, Australia B. Alteration phases associated with mine tunnel walls Adolfpateraite |
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