 | | Journal (issue) | | Number 5 The JllilpillaB Jlline Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico .............................................with malachite, 5.4 cm, from the Milpillas mine, Cuitaca, Sonora, Mexico. Fine Minerals International specimen;...the mines and minerals of Mexico is devoted entirely to the Milpillas mine, a relatively new locality...quantities. We published a preliminary report on the mine by Tom Moore and Marcus Origlieri back in 2008,...specimens; they visited Milpillas and went underground with the miners. Since the mine has now shut down permanently |  | | 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...(hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected in 1958;...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 |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | Graham Sutton 4 5 CONTENTS 08 20 22 24 36 6 Milpillas Encore By Peter Megaw and Evan Jones Mineral...Future of Mineral Collecting By Tama Higuchi MILPILLAS ENCORE By Peter Megaw and Evan Jones W eâve...10 cm, Rosette Pocket, 1100 level, Milpillas Mine, Sonora, Mexico. Unique Minerals specimen. and the...phenomenal specimens that poured from the Milpillas Mine in Sonora, Mexico from 2006-2021. These finds reset...azurite, malachite pseudomorphs after azurite, brochantite, volborthite and olivenite-and a host of accessory |  | | Journal (issue) | | row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the GachalĂĄ mine, GuaviĂł-GuatĂ©que mining district, BoyacĂĄ Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, GalilĂ©ia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino |  | | Journal (issue) | | particularly from the huge silver deposits of Mexico and eru. panish silver mining remade the economy...Record, E Figure 3. Montezuma, the ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan, is said to have observed a blazing...employed as forced labor, cobbing out silver ore at a mine in Chihuahua; from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r...mita mestizo E W Figure 18. Indian miners in Mexico, from Louis Simonin s i e ergr u r i e a i er (1869)... Figure 20. An engraving of the School of Mines in Mexico City, opened in 1795, from Calderon de la Barca |  | | Report (issue) | | elbaite, amethyst, Tsumeb minerals, and Sweet Home mine minerals. Also scattered on these pages are items...====================================ï„ work as a mine supervisor at Boron) for what turned out, by the...âpresence.â Stolzite, 3 cm, from the Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Ex-Minette...distinctive blue fluorite on quartz from the Huanggang mine, Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia, China. These... Fluorite on quartz, 15 cm, from the Huanggang mine, KĂšshĂkĂštĂ©ng Banner, Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | SYMPOSIUM august „ 22-23,2014 Gold Eagle's Nest Mine, California, USA J «. *.1 DALLAS Mineral Collecting...Yearâs Speaker Lineup Brice Gobin Tanzanite: From Mine to Market Dr. Robert Bowell Tsumeb: A Mineralogical...passionate mineral collector since first setting foot in Santa Eulalia in 1977. He moved to Tucson in 1979 and...collecting has come to focus exclusively on minerals of Mexico. He won the Desautels Trophy in 2006 for the Best...awards. He is photo-moderator for submissions on Mexico to Mindat and co-moderator of the FMF Mineral Forum |  | | Journal (issue) | | with Mimetite on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...7 THE COLLECTIONS 1 1 Malcolm Alter Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Mark Kielbaso Jim & Imelda Klein...explore literally thousands of mineral occurrences, mine dumps and abandoned mines in the public domain administered...enough, just across the border to the south is Mexico, rieb in active mines where miners are gathering...Heintzelman (1805-1880) shipped ore specimens from his mine to be exhibited at the Cincinnati Merchant's Exchange |  | | Journal (issue) | | KHURSHEED DINSHAW NEVADA PATENT MINE 34 United Statesâ only active azurite mine. STUART âTATEâ WILSON Regular...Azuritecredit) with Malachite,. (photo Milpillas Mine, Mexico : ARKENSTONE specimen now in the Jeff Kremer...of Tiffany Stone are no longer available from the mine at Delta Utah, even though the beryl content is... Mexican miners working underground at Ojuela mine circa 1908. Note safety equipment of the day. IMAGE...have Mexico become a reliable source of mineral specimen wealth â and periodic surprises. Mexico is a |  | | Journal (issue) | | Issue Presidentâs Message 2&4 Officers 3 Milpillas Azurite Story 5-9 State Mineralogy Books 10-15...28-30 Our Affiliates 31 Mimetite, Ojuela mine, Mapimi, Mexico, 2.4 x 1.8 x 1.7 cm, Alex Schauss Collection...Chapter Newsletter: Get it While You Can: the Milpillas Azurite Story by Bob Carnein A Lake George Club...exorbitant amount of money for an azurite specimen from Mexico (Figures 2, 3). The price was in the very low 3-figures...to answer that question and show you why the Milpillas mine is one of the great contemporary mineral localities |  | | Journal (issue) | | Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...SeptemberâOctober, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by âthe children...time collection,â he said, âcollected by a former mine superintendent over a period of many years. Nearly |  | | Journal (issue) | | (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica, Mexico---Stephen Blyskal and Sigrid Stewart collection;...like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil country, and many fortunes have been...ofLeadville, Colorado. Eventually rnoving on through New Mexico and Arizona as a prospector, he leamed some mineralogy...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Voynick THE WORLDâS FINEST AZURITES Part II: The Milpillas mine has its pockets full of fine crystals. By Bob...area around Zumpango del Rio, Amatlan, Guerro, Mexico. (Jeff Scovil photo/ University of Arizona collection)...shattuckite (basic copper silicate), after the Shattuck mine in Bisbee, Arizona; and the qualifications of minerals...crystalline nate), after Mexicoâs historic Ojuela mine; and tsumebite, structure because it is a liquid...historically considered to be after Namibiaâs famed Tsumeb mine. About 14% of minerals are named for their chemistry |  | | Journal (issue) | | Calcite aus der Gordonsville Mine, USA Kupfermineralien von der Milpillas Mine, Mexiko âą QuecksilberMineralien...57 SpektakulĂ€re Calcitfunde in der Gordonsville Mine, Tennessey 58 Neuigkeiten aus der Vulkaneifel...AuĂergewöhnliche Kupfer-Mineralien von der Milpillas Mine in Sonora, Mexiko 76 Neue Mineralien 86 ACHAT-Magazin...ein Exemplar von der TyplokalitĂ€t, der Uchucchacua-Mine bei der Stadt Oyon in der Provinz Lima handelt,...BĂŒcher Cap Garonne - das Buch? Die Cap Garonne Mine in der Gemeinde Le Pradet, Departement Var, Region |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the type locality, the Shattuck or Shattuck-Denn mine at Bisbee, Warren district, Cochise County, after...which the mineral in named (Schaller 1915). The mine itself was developed by one of the Bisbee copper...Shattuckite occurs at the New Cornelia open-pit mine in the Ajo district, Pima County, occasionally in...Pinal County and include the MammothâSt. Anthony mine (Anthony et al. 1995a), in drill core from the Florence...district, and the 1,750 level of the San Manuel mine, where the first author has collected massive radiating |  | | Report (issue) | | describes his recent visits to a small former fluorite mine 2.5 kilometers north of the village of Mihalkovo...border with Greece. Until its closure in 1994 this mine produced fluorite for industrial uses, and, it seems...and sphalerite after calcite, from the Broken Hill mine, Aggeneys, Northern Cape Province, South Africa...epimorphs after calcite, 14.2 cm, from the Broken Hill mine, Aggeneys, Northern Cape Province, South Africa...Gegentrum mine, Frohnau, Annaberg district. Fluorite, 8 cm, from the Bergsmannisch GlĂŒck Gegentrum mine, Frohnau |  | | Journal (issue) | | AZURITES 16 Part I: Electric blues from the Milpillas mine. By Bob Jones 16 PREHISTORIC TEXAS Lubbock...others, at an auction. I was told it was taken from a mine in Alaska called Aurora Borealis in the â60s. I...on, there is an old mine adit bored into a sheer rock wall. Beyond the old mine, there are spectacular...from the Milpillas Mine T Story by Bob Jones he azurite specimens recently mined in Mexico are the...azurite. But this recent source of azurite, the Milpillas mine near Cuitaca, about 25 miles south of the Arizona |  | | Report (issue) | | monthsâ in the Big Bear orebody in the Fletcher mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri; these...twin, 6 cm, from the Big Bear orebody, Fletcher mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Weinrich...Galena, 4 cm, from the Big Bear orebody, Fletcher mine, Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Weinrich...attractive specimens has been given as the Ortega mine in the Mundo-Tamboras district, Sanchez Carrion...occurrence was actually in a previously unnamed mine that the Ortega brothers, who developed it for the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter $6.00 Fibrous Malachite from the Mindingi Mine Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo Tony Nikischer...Specimens of fibrous malachite from the Mindingi Mine in the Kambove District of Katanga began to appear...ten {I 0) years ago (see figure J ). Although the mine was first worked superficially in the 1930s for...DRC as well (see figure 2). Today, the Mindingi Mine continues to produce wonderful malachite specimens...specimenand image. Nickel Laterite From the Tiebaghi Mine, New Caledonia Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet.com |  | | Journal (issue) | | I N E R A L Cover: Gold. 195 mm. Mocking Bird Mine, Mariposa Co., California, USA. Daniel Trinchillo...Mingueza, Xavier Ortiz and Joan Vinyoles whole mine. although the passages are more dangerous due to...from level 3. INTRODUCTION Les Ferreres mine (Las Ferreras mine. Les Ferreres mines. Rocabruna mines) is...in Camprodon municipality (Ripolles. Girona province Catalonia). The galleries of the mine are di,·ided...or less o erlapping: âą Upper level (Dalt mine. the Roman mine). level 5. This level is short. with irregular |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Through the process known as acid rock drainage (or mine drainage), the oxidative dissolution is in this...complex outer layer of of sulfides from ores and from mine wastes can release air, water, biota, organic matter...supergene oxidation and leaching of ore deposits and mine wastes. They have a profound effect on high pressures...geochronologic studies. For overall viability of the mine. This has been the case since example, one could...metals is exemplified by the Santa Rita (Chino) porphyry Cu deposit in New Mexico (USA). In most porphyry |  | | Journal (issue) | | many exceptional pockets have been discovered. The mine is renowned for the diversity of colors and habits...One of the most remarkable pockets found at the mine was the Afghan Pocket, collected in 2001; it did...cmâ Continued on page 6 Pederneira Mine (Brazil) The Pederneira Mine is one of the most important sources...crystals on matrix are the signature specimens for this mine. Associated Photographer: Jeff Scovil (USA) Topaz...find: J. Elliot photo. Gypsum; 10 cm; Naica, Mexico. K. & C. Graeber specimen. J. Scovil photo. A |  | | Journal (issue) | | âą NOVEMBER 2021 40 Rockhounding Adventures in Mexico â Part 1 By Bob Jones 14 50 A Guide to the Carnegie...Hidden Valley Jasper and Moonshine Jasper. We own and mine these claims. You can contact any of us for specimens...Owner/proprietor Steve Schultz Mine Owners Tom & Jessa Pearson Mine Owners * Specializes in Mines Agates...gml@gmail.com | shop.gilmansatthecave.com ROUGH GEMS MINE-DIRECT FACETING ROUGHS & MINERAL Sapphire, Emerald...Lytle Coleman, Owner/Operator Mine Owner of Lava Cap Thunderegg, Mine Shaft Thunderegg, Eggzilla Thunderegg |  | | Journal (issue) | | EUCLASE with Albite, 11.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Muzo District, Boyaca Department, Colombia. See...DENVER MART EXPO HALL ROOMJ53 BARITE 20.3 CM XIEFANG MINE , GANZHOU PREFECTURE , JIANGXI PROVINCE , CHINA...1751 was funded mainly by donations from wealthy mine owners and from simple mining families. Modem times...when the area was also being referred to as Bana ("Mine"), and in 1228 when the name Argentifodina ("Silver...runoff from the mine dumps); this was later combined with the word Banska meaning "mine." The name Banska |  | | Journal (issue) | | FLUORffE Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe...Daoping mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China. Ex Steve Smale Kunzite spodumene, 11 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais...photo. Benitoite on natrolite, 5.5 cm, Dallas Gern mine, San Benito County, California. Ex Robert Gill collection |
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Milpillas Mine, Milpillas, Santa Cruz Municipality, Sonora, Mexico