| | Journal (issue) | M. Hazen The best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec ........ ...................Postscript: Hematite and rutile from Mount Cervandone, Val Devero, Ossola, Italy .................. ..........pale green diopside on syenite matrix from the Jeffrey quarry, Asbestos, Quebec. Collected by miner Bruno...1972, and considered to be the finest known Jeffrey mine grossular specimen. Marco Amabili collection;...along the way, Tom had also been accessing other sources and books from the 3,200-volume Mineralogical Record | | | Journal (issue) | kleinere specimens: pectoliet, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada + rhodocrosiet: Catamarca, Argentinië...28 x 12 cm Adamiet xx (lot van 10 stuks) Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico Formaat thumbnail. Mooie...xx in matrix (lot van 25 stuks) Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec, Canada. Gemiddelde afmeting 5 cm Kalender...handstuk Kwarts (Dauphiné-beëindiging)v/d Wegner Mine Hot Springs Arkansas. Afm. : 15 x 10 x 7 cm. Schaal... F D F F D SAINT-VALLIER-SUR-RHONE (26). Salle des fêtes. Beurs. OBERURSEL. (nog geen gedetailleerde | | | Journal (issue) | 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...Morgenstern photo. Calcite, 5.8 cm, from the Mariposa mine, Terlingua; Roh Lavinsky (The Arkenstone) specimen...Calomel crystals on terlinguaite, 3 mm, Mariposa mine, Terlingua. Celestine, 4.5 cm, Burnet, Burnet County; | | | Journal (issue) | 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...quartz, interspersed with gold, but the owner of the mine, Mr. Walker, seeing the cabinet, said that the piece | | | Book | Sites "Re miniets Aitus du Canada Joel D. Grice A # ds. «< RE « "1 é+ Le: . 0 7, 22 L # ... SITES MINIERS CANADA CÉLÈBRES DU “Joel D. Grice L'ouvrage Sites miniers célèbres du Canada est un heureux...collectionneur amateur saura mettre à profit. L'auteur décrit les divers sites miniers de façon très détaillée, ce...pierre des pharaons (le lapis-lazuli). Il n'oublie non plus l'aspect pratique de l’utilisation des minéraux...l'identification des minéraux. Ce dernier élément devrait particulièrement intéresser les jeunes collectionneurs | | | Journal (issue) | Ann Arbor, MI Andrew C. Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Seaman Mineral Museum...Zaragoza, Spain Joe Polityka Staten Island, NY Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orléans...Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A. Scovil Phoenix, AZ Harold and Erica Van Pelt...mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 by...annual FM-MSA-TGMS Tucson Mineralogical Symposium: CANADA! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Chairman: | | Cook, Robert B. (2020) Minerals of the Grenville Province—New York, Ontario, and Québec by George W. Robinson, Jeffrey Chiarenzelli, Michael Bainbridge, and T. Scott Ercit. Schiffer Publishing, 4880 Lower Valley Rd., Atglen, PA 19310; www.schifferbooks.com. 208 pages; 2019; $34.99 plus shipping and handling (softbound). Rocks & Minerals, 95 (1) 96-98 doi:10.1080/00357529.2020.1683698 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University, 859 Sherbrooke St. West, Montreal, Québec H3A 0C4, Canada; to order redpath. museum@mcgill.ca. 96...the campus of McGill University in Montreal, Québec, Canada. It is a companion volume to that reviewed...outlines the distinctive geologic provinces making up Québec, setting the stage for the following sections that...Province—New York, Ontario, and Québec by George W. Robinson, Jeffrey Chiarenzelli, Michael Bainbridge...descriptions of Grenville minerals beginning with acanthite on page 26 and ending on page 114 with zoisite | | | Journal (issue) | ...............363 by C. J. Stefano The Nakhlak Mine, Anarak District, Esfahan Province, Iran.......... only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...species hauckite (type locality: the Sterling Hill mine) was named in his honor in 1980, in recognition...Robert (left) and Richard Hauck in the Sterling mine (2008). J.R. Glover photo. American Mineral Heritage...brothers, goes back to the closing of the famous mine in 1986, and the resulting auction of the property | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Carnegie Museum of Natural History specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. JulyIAugust: Charles P. Daly Medal...gold-and-quartz specimen, Paymaster mine, Timmins, Ontario, Canada. Royal Ontario Museum photo. September/October:... Gilgit area, Pakistan. Martin Zinn specimen, Jeffrey Scovil photo. November/December: Red beryl, Violet...Mountains, Beaver County, Utah. Private collection, Jeffrey Scovil photo. Barite, Colorado, 329; New Mexico...Brookite, Anatase, & Rutile from the Silver Link Mine, Ouray County, Ouray, Colorado, T. Rosemeyer, 327-30 | | | Journal (issue) | Ann Arbor, Ml George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham Rosenzweig Tampa, FL Associate...The Port Radium district, Northwest Territories, Canada .................................................typically abraded specimens you’ve found in the old mine dumps. And you’ve probably looked long and hard...Everyone has heard repeated warnings about entering old mine workings. But, face it, those deep, open shafts...commonality: They can be very dangerous. Each year mine rescue specialists and conventional search and rescue | | | Journal (issue) | Renato Pagano Joe Polityka Associate Photographers Jeffrey A. Scovil Harold and Erica Van Pelt SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER...Famous mineral localities: The Königskrone topaz mine, Schneckenstein, Saxony, Germany . . . . . . . ... Famous Mineral Localities: The Konigskrone Topaz Mine Schneckenstein, Saxony, Germany Helmut Leithner...property in 1727 and granted permission for others to mine topaz there, provided that they turned over to him...Schneckenstein ). mst ndliche eschreibung des Schnec enstein, oder des s chsischen Topasfelsens E carmosier | | | Book | À la découverte minéraux pierres précieuses des et des COLLECTION L’AMATEUR DE NATURE Sous la direction...Découvrir les minéraux et les gemmes 6 Qu’est-ce qu’un minéral ?…………………………… 6 Comment identifier les minéraux...minéraux ?… …………… 17 Les gemmes… ……………………………………… 43 Les collections de minéraux et de gemmes… …… 55 Comment...forment les minéraux ?… ………… 61 Clé d’identification… ……………………………… 67 Reconnaître les minéraux et les gemmes...03 Index des minéraux… ………………………………205 Mode d’emploi À la découverte des minéraux et des pierres précieuses | | | Journal (issue) | employed as forced labor, cobbing out silver ore at a mine in Chihuahua; from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r...malachite pseudomorphs from the Milpillas copper mine began appearing on the mineral market in 200 . t...those from Tsumeb, amibia. The huge new underground mine exploits a manto deposit of chalcocite, with secondary...production during the next few years, as long as the mine remains in operation. LOCATION AND SETTING Milpillas...Mineralogical Record, Figure 2. The Milpillas mine site (photo courtesy of Salvador Ortiz and Francisco | | | Journal (issue) | Moore Tpmoore1@cox.net The Guatomo (“Hat Yai”) mine near Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province.............731 . by M. P. Sacchi The Santa Rosa mine, Inyo County, California .........................SCORODITE crystal, 1.6 cm wide, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. Unique Minerals... or $315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription...in the area of the No. 1 shaft at the Pyšminskij mine near Berezovsk. Figure 29. Workings along veins | | | Catalog/List | price paid for the mineral(s). CTINCX..ITE: M179. Mine Mompti, Spain; (a) rich vuggy intergrown prisms...6-$3.50 NALCIME: M68. Mont-St. Hilaire, Quebec, Canada; (a) T/N, white single xl, complete except for...an rock; 1.5-3 cm-$1.50 NHYDRITE: M204. Campiano Mine, Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy; good for species; pale...shaped rock; 6xS.3x3-S12.50 -~ AUTUNITE:M95. Oaybreak Mine, Spokane, Washington; (a) 5 xls & groups, 1-1 .8...(e) 6x3.6x1 .5-$20.00 AZURITE:M37. United Verde Mine, Jerome, Arizona; (a) lustrous ball af intergrcwn | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | to see the names of twenty nonvalid minerals (acanthite, alumochromite, bagrationite, bucklandite, chillagite...Synonyms. By Jeffrey de Fourestier, 1999. 435 pages, hardbound. The Mineralogical Association of Canada, Ottawa...Ottawa, Ontario. $50 (CAN) inside Canada, $50 (US) outside Canada. When I first learned that the book by...reaction was “But the Mineralogical Association of Canada has just published a similar book, Glossary of...Chanarcillita, Chanarcillite = mixture of Silver or Acanthite and Chalcopyrite, Galena, Nickeline, Sphalerite | | Feininger, T. (2000) Optical Crystallography.: By F. Donald Bloss. Mineralogical Society of America, 1015 18th Street, N.W., Suite 601, Washington, D.C. 20036, U.S.A. 1999, 239 pages. Monograph Series no. 5. US$32 (US$24 to MSA members), hardbound. (ISBN 0 939950-49-9). The Canadian Mineralogist, 38 (3) 775-776 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.38.3.775 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | to see the names of twenty nonvalid minerals (acanthite, alumochromite, bagrationite, bucklandite, chillagite...Synonyms. By Jeffrey de Fourestier, 1999. 435 pages, hardbound. The Mineralogical Association of Canada, Ottawa...Ottawa, Ontario. $50 (CAN) inside Canada, $50 (US) outside Canada. When I first learned that the book by...reaction was “But the Mineralogical Association of Canada has just published a similar book, Glossary of...Chanarcillita, Chanarcillite = mixture of Silver or Acanthite and Chalcopyrite, Galena, Nickeline, Sphalerite | | Mandarino, J. A. (2000) Glossary of Obsolete Mineral Names.: By Peter Bayliss, 2000. 244 pages, hardbound. The Mineralogical Record, Tucson, Arizona. $32 + $3 postage (US) * Glossary of Mineral Synonyms. By Jeffrey de Fourestier, 1999. 435 pages, hardbound. The Mineralogical Association of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. $50 (CAN) inside Canada, $50 (US) outside Canada. The Canadian Mineralogist, 38 (3) 768-771 doi:10.2113/gscanmin.38.3.768 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | to see the names of twenty nonvalid minerals (acanthite, alumochromite, bagrationite, bucklandite, chillagite...Synonyms. By Jeffrey de Fourestier, 1999. 435 pages, hardbound. The Mineralogical Association of Canada, Ottawa...Ottawa, Ontario. $50 (CAN) inside Canada, $50 (US) outside Canada. When I first learned that the book by...reaction was “But the Mineralogical Association of Canada has just published a similar book, Glossary of...Chanarcillita, Chanarcillite = mixture of Silver or Acanthite and Chalcopyrite, Galena, Nickeline, Sphalerite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | to see the names of twenty nonvalid minerals (acanthite, alumochromite, bagrationite, bucklandite, chillagite...Synonyms. By Jeffrey de Fourestier, 1999. 435 pages, hardbound. The Mineralogical Association of Canada, Ottawa...Ottawa, Ontario. $50 (CAN) inside Canada, $50 (US) outside Canada. When I first learned that the book by...reaction was “But the Mineralogical Association of Canada has just published a similar book, Glossary of...Chanarcillita, Chanarcillite = mixture of Silver or Acanthite and Chalcopyrite, Galena, Nickeline, Sphalerite | | | Book | © 2011 Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. All rights reserved. No part of this publication...Cataloging-in-Publication Data (U.S.) Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Tait, Kimberly. Tait...States by Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. Published in Canada by Firefly Books Ltd. PO. Box 1338, Ellicott Station...at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Photography: Brian Boyle, MPA, FPPO, and Miguel...publishing program by the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund as administered by the Department | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | participate in either of the programs should contact Dr. Jeffrey Post, vice-president, at the U.S. National Museum...specimens, including a fantastic Arizpe, Sonora, acanthite, a huge Mapimi, Durango, legrandite known as the...“Groundwater Song:’ Am a Raindrop,” “By the Sea,” “Les Planktes,” and “Earth Chant.” Peter Russell of the...some of the songs. Funding came from a variety of sources, including the Canadian Geological Foundation....Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G 1. (Ed. note: Ifyou do as 6‘1 I did, you’ll | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Smithsonite. (7 × 4 cm; D49972), Broken Hill Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Prospect dolerite...Figure 6. Anglesite (5 × 3 cm; D49920), Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Figure 7. Pyromorphite...(4.7 × 3 cm; D49966), 17 Level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. specimens from these...10. Malachite (32 × 21 cm; D50673), Great Cobar mine, Cobar, New South Wales. pounds (Henley 1988)....thanks to contacts he made with both the miners and mine managers. However, it was in the Broken Hill pubs | | | Journal (issue) | Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...place in the Sardinian mines and the Traversella mine (Piedmont). The second edition of the Catalogue...climbing rocks exploring for epidote in the famous Val di Viu area, western Alps. Marco Lorenzoni photo...chalcopyrite and various rare sulfosalts from the Bottino mine in Tuscany. MINERAL COLLECTING FROM THE POST-WAR...underground workings of an historic gold mine in the Brusson area, Val d' Ayas, western Alps. The locality | | | Journal (issue) | from Clay Canyon, Utah. (Continues on page 2) Acanthite FredPoughandSkipSimmonssharinglibationsatthe...laeliason@msn.com From a historic perspective, acanthite is a minor mineral of little importance and it...proper to label all specimens of silver sulfide as acanthite today; some are properly termed paramorphic or..."wires" overgrown with very small crystals of acanthite. Here, one finds the edges are rounded; the overall...actively going on field ex.1>editionsto the Getchell Mine in Nevada and elsewhere. A long time resident of | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | PHILLIPSITE, and THOMSONITE. Adams County Alaska mine, Seven Devils district: azurite, grossular, malachite...malachite, powellite, and scheelite. Arkansas mine, Seven Devils district: grossular. Blue Jacket claim...and stilbite. Copper Bo~' mine, Seven Devils district: epidote. Helena mine (reportedly just northwest...northwest of the Peacock mine at the present site of a small open pit but also reported to be about 1 mile northwest...ilmenite, magnetite, monazite, and zircon. Peacock mine (also South Peacock), Seven Devils district, in |
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