 | | Journal (issue) | | Conklin Famous mineral localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . ....included over a hundred specimens from the Batopilas district, Chihuahua, Mexico, 73 of which were specifically...Canada (5 specimens), the Bell mine in the Butte district, Montana (1 specimen), and the Gould & Curry mine...1992 Famous Mineral Localities THE GILLETTE QUARRY ~DAM NECK, CONNECTICUT Jeffrey A. Scovil 734 E...Coronado Road Phoenix, Arizona 85006 The Gillette quarry is one of a number of complex zoned lithium-rich |  | | Book | | tiideto the THREE PHASES OF TITAN Rutile Anatase Brookite RobertJ. Lauf Г About the Author he author...common titanium dioxide minerals, namely, rutile, anatase, and brookite. For completeness, mention is also...household. In light of the spectacular finds of anatase and brookite in Pakistan in the last five years...with an explanation of the structures of rutile, anatase, and brookite and their phase relations. A section... Introduction he titanium oxide minerals rutile, anatase, and brookite are well known to mineral collectors | | | Journal (issue) | | Conklin 7 Famous mineral localities: the G illette quarry, Haddam Neck, Connecticut .......................included over a hundred specimens from the Batopilas district, Chihuahua, Mexico, 73 of which were specifically...Canada (5 specimens), the Bell mine in the Butte district, Montana (1 specimen), and the Gould & Curry mine...Coronado Road Phoenix, Arizona 85006 TheGillette quarry is one o f a number o f complex zoned lithium-rich...well-known Middletown, Connecticut, pegmatite district. It has long been a favorite locality fo r field |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | furnished noteworthy specimens OJ gems is the Golconda district, about 50 kilometers to the northwest. The city...Figure 3. Location of Pedreira Atalaia (the Sentinel quarry) near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil...considerable interest when, in the summer of 1990, in a quarry at the foot of Ibituruna, a large cavity was discovered...rock for construction purposes and road metal. The quarry in question is the westernmost of these, not far...Atalaia (Sentinel quarry). It is owned by Dr. Joaquim A. Leiio. The face of the quarry runs east-west and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pyrolusite, and plattnerite, and is trimorphous with anatase and brookite. Rutile is popular as a collector’s...Commonly associated minerals include ilmenite, anatase, brookite, hematite, quartz, titanite, chlorite...to 2 cm across are reported from the Songo Pond quarry at Albany, Maine. It has been found in good specimens...2015 localities include crystals to about 4 cm in gneiss at Barre and well-formed crystals in micaceous...cm from Logan’s quarry; similar brilliantly lustrous crystals from the Poorhouse quarry; and large geniculated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | particular sulfosalt minerals from the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal-which, at least in part, are still valid...mineral locality in the Alps, namely, the Lengenbach quarry in Binntal. In 1958, due to the initiative of Prof...distinctive sulfosalt minerals from Lengenbach quarry accessible to modem research. The syndicate has...by sedimentary in Boudin Neck layers between the gneiss nappes). This accumulation of rock nappes of kilomeFigure...importance. Characteristic minerals are TiO, minerals (anatase, rutile, and brookite), hematite, magnetite, and |  | | Catalog/List | | crystals on 2x3.5 inch surface. (Croft Quarry,Leicestershire) £5 ANATASE sharp black single crystal with a...on the surface, on feldspar. (Globe Mine.Petaca District, Rio Arriba County, new Mexico) £15 b) smaller...top, light brown fibrous on the edges. (Merehead Quarry, Mendips) 2x2.5 £4 HELVITE quite rich light brown...rich black xlline mass in matrix (Laytonville District,Mendocino County, California USA) 2x3 £ 16 bY...feldspar is slightly weathered. 5x2,5 (Shap granite quarry Cumbria) £12 PECTOLITE good covering of white radiating |  | | | | Australia, at Mount Morgan Mine, from Chartres Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...U.S., sulfur is found in Louisiana and Texas in upper parts of salt domes. Also in tuff at Sulphurdale...U.S., nice bladed crystals occur in the Darwin district, Inyo County, California; also at Antimony Peak...California; and large crystals come from the Rand district, San Bernardino County. Long crystals at Manhattan...In U.S., very abundant in Tri-State lead-zinc district as cockscomb forms. Very excellent cockscomb crystals |  | | Book (edition) | | Chartres In Australia, at Mount Morgan Towers district, from Hillgrove, from Hill End, and large production...S., sulfur is found in Louisiana and Texas in upper parts of salt domes. Also in tuff at Sulphurdale...U.S., nice bladed crystals occur in the Darwin district, Inyo County, California; also at Antimony Peak...California; and large crystals come from the Rand district, San Bernardino County. Long crystals at Manhattan...U.S., very abundant in Tri-State lead-zine district as cockscomb forms. Very excellent cockscomb |  | Triebold, Silke, Luvizotto, George Luiz, Tolosana-Delgado, Raimon, Zack, Thomas, von Eynatten, Hilmar (2011) Discrimination of TiO2 polymorphs in sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 161 (4) 581-596 doi:10.1007/s00410-010-0551-x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | predicted, and furthermore, the occurrence of anatase is more widespread than previously thought. Metamorphic...whole rock chemistry, control the occurrence of anatase, whereas variation of mineral assemblage characteristics...fluid occurrence or composition takes influence on anatase trace element characteristics and re-equilibration...element contents obtained by electron microprobe in anatase, brookite, and rutile shows that these vary significantly...polymorph discrimination Phase classification Anatase Brookite Rutile Erzgebirge Zr-in-rutile |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINES AND MINERALS OF AUSTRIA By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Derry, N . H . 0 3 0 4 1 IV S A L Z...main Kapruntal. Extensive work has been valley (Upper P i n g a u ) . done here on roads and reservoirs...Scheelite with Epidote in Cal cite veins; Brookeite; Anatase; Apatite Rauris T a l . Leaves the valley at TaxenROCKS...Talmuseum. Q Xls. (scepter) (Amethyst), (Clear); Anatase Xls; Fluorite Xls; Rutile Xls; Albite; Chlorite;...M. with gallery going 3 or 4 Mi. E. Greisweis. Anatase; Calcite Xls. Greisweis Alpen. Euclase. Turehelwand |  | | Book | | Burchard • Bode . Frontcover Upper left: The observatory at Kremsmunster. Austria. which houses the mineral...mineral collection. Upper right: Pyromorphite crystals from Pribram. Czechoslovakia. Natural History Museum...mineralogical cabinet of the convent at Kremsmunster, Austria. The . specimens a~e displayed m baroque furniture...important mineralogical museums in Western Europe Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany (Federal...half are in Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Trimouns Quarry Luzenac, Ariège, France Freddy Marty Rue de l’Hôpital 11230-Chalabre France In recent...recent decades, the Trimouns quarry has become well known as a source of outstanding crystals of several...reference to the three peaks that overlook the quarry. Langue d’Oc is a regional language of Latin The...Littéraires et Industrielles de l’Ariège. In 1905 the quarry was acquired by the Société des Talcs de Luzenac...producer of talc at 1.3 million tonnes per year. The quarry employed some 100 workers at the beginning of the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Richard V. Gaines Mineralogist feature articles Anatase from Norway......................................A. Wilson Selected Minerals from the Volcanic District of Laacher See, Germany.........................Mineralogical Record, July — August, 1977 265 Anatase fro m No rway by W. L. Griffin, T. Garmo, H. Lovenskiold...1 0 cm long, associated with a few scat tered anatase crystals. Below this extended a large talus slope...for small groups and single quartz crystals with anatase, so little or no attempt was made to remove large |  | | Book | | kilometres down toa few centimetres. When there €s Gneiss METAMORPHIC ROCKS petrologist : can work... examining the new textures the Phyllite Gneiss has a coarse grain witha structure of darker and...The collector should make a point of looking at quarry faces or cliff sections. These will be especially...the sloping faces get smaller and so does the upper surface, which ends in a point. Some faces,...economically. Gold from the Witwatersrand district of the Transvaal, South Africa, is of the greatest |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pegmatites of Nawahatu (23°26'N, 86°04'E), Purulia District, belong to the intercratonic extensional zone...crystallisation of the rare earth elements from the upper mantle, the AI and Si-bearing REE minerals are indicative...crystallisation from the lower crust and partly from the upper mantle as well as the subsequent granite-pegmatite...the ore deposits occurring in and around Purulia District, West Bengal. While Sengupta (1965) and Ray and...with the Archaean structural geology of Purulia District, Das (1973, 1977) focuses his work mainly on pegmatites |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | been used in breakwaters and came from Prospect quarry, near Parramatta in western Sydney. Unlike today...today, at that time the area around the quarry was bushland and well away from the demographic center of...ships that anchored nearby. These included garnet gneiss from South America. Later, in his teenage years...(1912); his first specimens (almandine-bearing gneiss from South America, gold in quartz from north Queensland...the United States), followed by the Garawilla district of northern New South Wales (superb orange and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | metamorphosed to hornblende gneiss. Later, there was an intrusion of the Springfield quarry massive gabbro, and...then aplite veins, and finally the Ridley Park quarry type. The Springfield granodiorite is porphyritic...biotite gneiss. The Springfield granodiorite is always associated with crushed Wissahickon gneiss, in which...pegmatites." Mr Lee gave directions for reaching the district and described some of the individual quarries...t1'pes of material made from artiIicial anatase: (a) Anatase partly recrystallized by heat treatment |  | | Book | | distinct bands which help to identify the rock. ■10 Gneiss is similar but contains less mica — it may have... . _ a Basalt Slate Schist 16 Phyllite Gneiss Homfels 17 Quartzite Marble Skam 18 Sedimentary...rubbish which may harm animals. If the site is a quarry careful arrangements with respect to equipment...forms part of an important and extensive mining district. Details of the names of species are taken largely...Found at the Pelican Dives mine, Silver Plume district, and Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County, Colorado |  | | Journal (issue) | | mineral localities: Knappenwand, Untersulzbachtal, Austria .................................................EPIDOTE from Knappenwand, Untersulz bachtal, Austria. (See the article in this issue, p. 167.) The specimen...History Museum of Vienna Burgring 7, A -1014 Vienna, Austria nappenwand,in the Untersulzbach Valley, is among...beautiful mountains with France, Switzerland and Austria. In Austria, in the southern part of the province of...consider Unter167 Figure 1. General geology of Austria. 1. Northern and southern Mesozoic limestone. 2 |  | | Book | | derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...ditetragonal prism e, also shown at D (only the upper part of the whole crystal is shown). identification...the fifteen most abundant elements present in the upper ten miles or so of the crust, which account for...characteristics 3 The 15 most abundant elements in the upper 10 miles of the Earth's crust given as weight percentages...by geological disturbances penetrates into the upper regions of the Earth's crust and there begins to |  | | Report (issue) | | Polymorphism & Series: Mineral Group: Trimorphous with anatase and brookite. Rutile group. Occurrence: A common...pegmatite; in hydrothermally-altered rocks; in gneiss, schist, contact metamorphosed limestone; in clays...shales; a common detrital mineral. Association: Anatase, brookite, hematite, ilmenite, apatite, adularia...Saualpe, and at Herzogberg, near Modriach, Styria, Austria. From Kassoi Brod, Ural Mountains, Russia. In the...Structural and thermal parameters for rutile and anatase. Acta Cryst., 47, 462–468. (4) (1969) NBS Mono |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria (Received December 31, 2003; Accepted January 28...Activation Analysis (INAA) at the University of Vienna, Austria, following procedures described by Koeberl (1993)...Spectrometer (ICP-MS) at the Arsenal Laboratory, Vienna, Austria. For the analysis, approximately 100 mg samples...mass spectrometer at the University of Vienna, Austria. The results are reported in δ units with reference...comprises biotite-quartzofeldspathic gneiss, amphibole-quartzofeldspathic gneiss, amphibolite, meta-ultramafic |  | BARTOSOVA, Katerina, HECHT, Lutz, KOEBERL, Christian, LIBOWITZKY, Eugen, REIMOLD, Wolf Uwe (2011) Melt in the impact breccias from the Eyreville drill cores, Chesapeake Bay impact structure, USA. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 46 (3) 396-430 doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.2011.01162.x | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz-Institute at Humboldt...Natural History Museum, Burgring 7, A-1010 Vienna, Austria 4 Institute of Mineralogy and Crystallography,...University of Vienna, Althanstrasse 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria * Corresponding author. E-mail: katerina.bartosova@univie...but an additional crystalline basement (schist ⁄ gneiss) precursor is likely for the most abundant melt...consists mostly of suevite and large blocks of gneiss 397 (Fig. 2) (Bartosova et al. 2009a; Horton |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Marquette district....................................... Southern Complex of the Marquette district...................................................... Upper Keweenawan sediments....................................................... Sandstones of Felch district................................................... Basal Knife Lake sediments of the Saganaga district......................................... Keweenawan... 1438 Map of a portion of the Penokee-Gogebic district.............................................. |
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