 | | Journal (issue) | | 2023 The Mineral Collectorās Newsletter $6.00 Alaska ā The Last Frontier Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...tony@excaliburmineral.com After spending nearly weeks in Alaska recently, I can emphatically state that it is, indeed...brings its own bragging rights to the forefront: āIf Alaska were cut in half, Texas would drop to No. 3 in...Wikipedia states that: Alaska is the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more total area than the next three...Alaskaās population lives in the Anchorage municipal area. That leaves relatively few people populating a |  | | Report (issue) | | the Sinuk River barite deposit, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, by D. A. Brobst, D. M. Pinckney, and C. L. Sainsbury...and Wasatch Formations in the Little Snake River area of northwestern Colorado, by E. J. McKay. . Disseminated...Cretaceous plutonic rocksĀ· of St. Lawrence Island, Alaska-A preliminary report, by Bela Csejtey, Jr., W....geology Glaciation of the Ray Mountains, central Alaska, by Warren Yeend ...... ; . . . . . . . . . . ...bedrock in the Metlakatla peninsula, Annette Island, Alaska, by M. V. Marcher . . . . . Raised beach deposits |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Brothers quarry, Prospect Park; McDowell's quarry, Upper Montclair; and the Francisco Brothers quarry, Great...two Hudson County localities, Laurel (Snake) Hill quarry, Secaucus, and Fort Lee. The geology and mineralogy...Historical Background Bergen Hill, Hudson County The area known as Bergen H i l l consists of several railroad...are located in Paterson; Prospect Park quarry in Prospect Park; McDowell's quarry in Upper Montclair; and...and the Francisco Brothers quarry in Great Notch (Little Falls Township). Bergen Hill is located within |  | Cooke, D. R., Wilson, A. J., House, M. J., Wolfe, R. C., Walshe, J. L., Lickfold, V., Crawford, A. J. (2007) Alkalic porphyry AuĀ āĀ Cu and associated mineral deposits of the Ordovician to Early Silurian Macquarie Arc, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54 (2) 445-463 doi:10.1080/08120090601146771 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Australia c CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining , PO Box 1130, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia Published...Australia. 3 CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, PO Box 1130, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia. Downloaded...associated with alkalic intrusions in the Cadia district of New South Wales have defined the Late Ordovician...and other selected alkalic porphyry deposits. District/deposit Mt Downloaded by [University of California...Alkalic porphyry deposits, New South Wales Cadia district Cadia Hillm 352.0 Cadia Quarrym 50.0 Ridgewaym |  | | Book | | 10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...Mountain area [Georgia and Alabama] (by J.B. Gordon, Jr. & C. L. Hollabaugh) 20:355-362 ALASKA Famous mineral...mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen) 8:4-12 ALBANDAKIS...Cassedanne: Apatite and muscovite from the Ze Pinto prospect, Minas Gerais, Brazil 21:405-408 --with J.P. Cassedanne:...collection (by C. A. Francis) 5:190-192 A.\1ITY The Amity area, Orange County. New York (by L. E. Keams) 9:85-90 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Contents for March-April, 1949 CHIPS fROM THE QUARRY ................................................................. 137 THE NEWENHAM PENINSULA OF ALASKA. By Frank H . lf1/askey ............ 140 GEODES.............................. 156 A GOOD DAY AT PROSPECT PARK, N . J. By T . Orchard Lisle ..............o<,KS AN D M t Nt:llAts - 114 CHIPS FROM rfHE QUARRY COMING EVENTS 6th Annual Convention National Speleological...on an outcrop, or, if a view is being taken in a quarry, several persons c:1.n be pho~og raphed in some |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | unequivocally, a world-class mineral collecting area (see figs. 4ā10). The combination of carbonate-rich...the sphalerite deposits of the Balmat-Edwards district (Brown 1936; Chamberlain 1992; Johnson 1998),...Smith 1987; Robinson and Chamberlain 1985), the galena deposits of Rossie (figs. 7 and 8) (Robinson, Dix...collection, Steve Chamberlain photo. Figure 7 (left). Galena, 14 cm wide, Coal Hill vein, Rossie, St. Lawrence...570 Ma to 350 Ma). This region is a key reference area for Paleozoic stratigraphy and paleontology in North |  | | Report (edition) | | (courtesy of John S. White) Back cover: Upper left: galena with cubic and octahedral cleavages, Pequea silver... āoldā Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy; right fibrous : tremolite, C. K. Williams quarry, Easton: bottom: calcite...oriented coatings of goethite, āoldā Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy, (courtesy of Delbert L. Oswald) ADDITIONAL...edition of Mineral Collecting Cedar Hill in quarry where Dave had done IV much of his work PREFACE...permission from the owners of the land, from the quarry or mine operators before entering to collect. (Land |  | | Book | | Trimming Oxalic Acid Northwest Area Lakeville Goethite Mine Conklin Quarry Prospect Mountain Judd's Bridge Kyanite...Mine North Street Area Sandy Hook Mine Southwest Area Hidgefield Pegmatite Silver Prospect West Redding Garnet...Biermann Quarry Captain Cook Quarry Honey Hill Road Outcrop Northcentral Area Nepaug Anthophyllite Area Amethyst...Amethyst Area Lead Mine Brook Thomaston Dam East Morris Dam A&VJ Root Beer Stand Silliman Gravel Pit Southcentral...Southcentral Area Cheshire Trap Rock Quarry Cheshire Barite Mines Hamden Copper Mine Arsenic and Nickel |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...is not common in the metasedimentary rocks of the area which host these species, but "reasonably good"...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely... r ILMENITE QUEBEC Girardville, Lac Saint-Jean area. Just northwest of the town of Girardville, itself |  | | Report (issue) | | District_____________________________ Mackenzie District---------------------------Yukon Territory ---...Alabama____________________________________________ 61 Alaska---------------------------------------------- 61...North America referred to above. It is an equal-area map on a bipolar oblique conic conformal projection...equals 50 km; 1 inch, approximately 80 miles. In area, a square centimeter equals 2,500 km2; a square...not exposed, and in some small areas, the entire area is colored in a light tint. Undeformed volcanic |  | | Book | | QUEEN MINE, Cochise Co. Azurite CLIFTON-MORENCI DISTRICT, Greenlee Co Chalcedony DEER CREEK, Gila Co.,...HOT SPRINGS, Garland Co. Malachite HOT SPRINGS DISTRICT Quartz Xls LAWRENCE COUNTY Pearls LITTLE ROCK...Co. Azurite TRI-STATE DISTRICT Calcite, Dolomite, Marcasite, Sphalerite, Galena, Calcopyrite WHITE RIVER...\ CRESTMORE, Clarno Quarry Calcite, Epidote CRESTMORE, Commercial Rook Quarry Wallastonite CRESTMORE...Star Quarry Vesuvianite CRESTMORE, Riverside Cement Quarry Prehnite CRESTMORE, Wet Weather Quarry Garnet |  | | Journal (issue) | | MONTHLY Contents For April, 1945 CHlPS FROM THE QUARRY ............................................................................. STANNITE FOUND IN ALASKA ..................................................... PETRIFIED WOOD IN THE WASHINGTON, D . C. , AREA. By French l\1organ .................... ............ .. .. ....... ... ..... ........ .. TIN IN ALASKA .................................................I I I I I I I I I I a CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY I I I āŗ--āŗ ā¢v i I I I I I I I I I |  | | Journal (issue) | | Arthur Roe Famous Mineral Localities: The Brumado District, Bahia, Brazil..................................David R. Hahn (Crystal Habit; Portland, ME) Hamel Mining and Minerals (Los Angeles, CA) Gary R. Hansen (Hansen...AZ) D. Vincent Manson (Santa Monica, CA) Maricopa Mining Corporation Gary & Carol Mathiasen (Mathiasen MinerĀ...(El Toro, CA) Ann and Dean McCrillis (Plumbago Mining; Rumford, ME) A. L. McGuinness (San Mateo, CA)...(Socorro, NM) Doug and Fran Toland (Crystal Pocket of Alaska; Haines, AK) Harold and Erica Van Pelt (Los Angeles |  | | Journal (issue) | | pounds. Painting Century Plant in the Big Bend area (1939) by Jerry Bywaters. Courtesy Amon Carter Museum...there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas...that railroads were being constructed through the area. George F. Kunz described a sky-blue celestine crystal... Fine topaz crystals continued to come from the area for most of the 20th century, many from fee-collecting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | December 2014 Recent Finds at the Famous Prospect Park Quarry Prospect Park, Passaic County, New Jersey All...Figure 1. Locality map, by William Besse. he Prospect Park quarry has been producing fine mineral specimens...minerals it is possibly the most significant trap-rock quarry in the world. Not many localities can boast fine...entrance to the quarry. It is likely that after Tilcon has finished blasting this area, the famed pillow...basalts of the Paterson area may never be blasted again. History The Prospect Park quarry began operations |  | Friedman, Jules D., Mutschler, F.E., Zartman, R.E., Briggs, P.H., Swayze, G.A., Thiesen, A.F. (1989) Shawangunk ore district, New York; geochemical and spectral data. Open-File Report Vol. 1989 (89-193) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr89193 | Report (issue) | | SURVEY DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Shawangunk Ore District, New York: Geochemical and Spectral Data by...New York Table Ib. Location data for Shawankunk galena samples analyzed for lead isotope ratios. Table... Table 2. Primary minerals of the Shawangunk district in relation to similar lead-producing districts...Table 3. Secondary minerals of the Shawangunk district in relation to similar lead-produc ing districts...of Shawangunk district sulfide minerals. Table 4a. Mercury content of Shawangunk district sulfide minerals |  | | Book (volume) | | publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical...been an indefatigable researcher and collector of mining history. Among his specialties may be mentioned...Ogdensburg, New Jersey, and his intense interest in mining history led him to purchase the mine in order to...a story to tell concerning Maine's minerals and mining history. The ranks of invited contributors have...Sweden, are more numerous than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, |  | | Report (issue) | | Survey in accordance with the provisions of the Mining and l'iinerals Policy Act of 1970 (Public Law 91-631...discovered or not currently profitable to mine. The mining of mineral deposits, once discovered, depends on...deposit __ Porphyry copper deposits in the Chibougamau area, Quebec ___________________________________ _ Breccia...pipes and mineralized porphyry of the Batchawana area, Ontario -----------------Porphyry copper and molybdenum...-------------------------Woodstock, New Brunswick, prospect _______ _ Porphyrylike mineral prospects -----------------Known |  | | Journal (issue) | | ....... 87 by T. Moore T he S ilv e r m in es district, C o u n ty Tipperary, I r e l a n d ...........subject of the 1999 Mineral Symposium. Mexico has a mining specimen collecting history dating back nearly...geologic environments present, the multitude of major mining districts, and the high level of specimen exploitation...tectonics related to the evolution of the circum-Pacific area. During Mesozoic times accretionary tectonics accounted...accounted for an addition of about 40% of land area to Mexico. Consolidation of these terranes and magmatism |  | | Journal (issue) | | Contents for July. A ug ust, 1949 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................SUSQUEHANNA ONCE 4 MILES WIDE, 100 F EET DEEP I N MARIETTA AREA .. . .... 357 WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES............................... 371 STRUCTURE ANO MINING IN WJLLIAMSON AND FRANKLIN COUNTIES, ILLINOIS,................... 382 llEcoRD SIZE CRYSTALS AT PROSPECT PARK, N . J . By T. 0 . Lisle .................. 338 R OCKS AND MINERALS CHIPS ~_, ROM 1,HE QUARRY ----------------------------,----CLUB PUBLICATIONS |  | | Journal (issue) | | base metal mining in rocks ranging in age from Silurian to Permo-Triassic in the Newent area of Gloucestershire...silver has been found during the present study but galena, blende, pyrite and probable chalcopyrite have...found in limestones of Wenlock age in the area in which gold mining is said to have been conducted. The occurrence...period of activity has survived. In the 17th century mining attempts to recover gold and silver were also made...fllaterial on the minerals of the district, and very little on the mining. According to Johnson (1953) there |  | | Book | | Hillgrove . Metz area Enmore ā¢ Melrose Gold Field Cheyenne Complex Kookabookra ā¢ Bear Hill district RockvaleĀ·...RockvaleĀ· Fishington district Deposits in and adjacent to the Rockvale Adamellite Antimony (- gold - silver)...Epigenetic deposits ,.. Marengo - Dundurrabin - Dorrigo district Deposits in and adjacent to the Dundurrabin Granodiorite...Nambucca Block Halls Peak area 81 81 Taylors Ann district ,... Munga Creek district Granitoid-Related Deposits...Deposits Guyra . Vralla district Llangolhlin Adamellite Highlands Complex Tilbuster Granodiorite Mount |  | | Journal (issue) | | 473 SENIOR FELLOWS Peter Bancroft The Braen Quarry, Haledon, Passaic County, New Jersey . . . ....Mineralogical Association of Dallas (MAD) (2009) Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009) Continued on page...trying to seize control of Bridgesā lucrative gem mining concessions. The unlicensed miners had been illegally...Rodney Bridges, a British geologist for the Central Mining Investment Corporation in South Africa. Barbara...Chairman of Mining Africa. Campbell was generous about sharing his passion for gem mining in Africa. He |  | | Report (edition) | | ....................... 11 History of gemstone mining in Western Australia ................................................................... 13 The Mining Act 1978 .................................................................. 13 Summaries of the Mining Act, Minerās Rights, and Section 20A Permit ................................. 32 Mount Throssell area .................................................................................. 46 Paynes Find area ............................................... |
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