 | | Report (issue) | | MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | iron oxide, and a small amount of stibnite." CALIFORNIA — A large greenishwhite mass of jadeite, not...locality in the State is Russell Gulch in Gilpen County. A small but very fine crystal group from Russell...mind. We have only one small rock outcrop in my county (Orange) at Rock Springs near Apopka. "The beaches...displays from the different clubs. Not enough commercial stuff but there are good reasons given to eliminate...are from Plummer's Hill, 7 miles west of Greencastle (Putnam Co.) Ind. Plummer's Hill rises several hundred |  | | Book | | luminescence. For example, fluorite may fluoresce white, blue, green, yellow, orange, or red, each color due to...fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its production of...present. For example, fluorite may fluoresce white, blue, green, yellow, orange, or red; each color is due...Balmat, New York; and Howard Brown of Lucerne Valley, California. Emanuel Fritch of the Gemological Institute...the AutoCAD program. Helen Brumbaugh of the Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Library managed to obtain a seemingly | | | Book | | luminescence. For example, fluorite may fluoresce white, blue, green, yellow, orange. or red, each color due to...fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its production of...present. For example, fluorite may fluoresce white, blue, green, yellow, orange, or red; each color is due...Balmat, New York; and Howard Brown of Lucerne Valley, California. Emanuel Fritch of the Gemological Institute... AutoCAD program. Helen Brumbaugh of the Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Library managed to obtain a seemingly |  | | Journal (issue) | | from the Franklin Mineral Museum News from Sterling Hill Field Trip Report 4 F.O.M.S. Field Trip Safety... Unusual Graphite Crystals from the Lime Crest Quarry, Sparta, New Jersey (Reprinted from Rocks & Minerals)...Update on the MVT Pb/Zn Vein at the Lime Crest Quarry Warren Cummings An Apatite-Diopside-Calcite Calc-Silicate...Pete J. Dunn's monograph, Franklin and Sterling Hill: the world's most magnificent mineral deposits 28...Mining, Men, and Minerals at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey 32 ABOUT THE COVER The FOMS is a member |  | | Journal (issue) | | ZODAC Contents for March, 1940 CHIPS FROM THE QUARRY .................................................few smaller specimens of Argen6te locally called " Blue Silver." A recent find of singularly beautiful wiresilver...Steatite pseudomorph_s after Enstatite crystals. A new quarry nearby is quite interesting. A number of minerals...From the more distant Kragero localities we got Orangite at Fone; Rutherfordine coating Alvite, and bluish...red Mosandrite Catapleiite Nepheline Chrysoberyl Orangite Cordierite Pyrargyrite Dolomite Pyrite Emerald |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | type locality for these species, the Rockport quarries have afforded an interesting list of rare-earth...is very similar to the famous commercial stone of the Quincy quarries, and like it, has been extensively...The principal localities are (1) the Flatledge quarry on the east or seaward side of the Cape, about...a rock dump on the south crest of the Flatledge quarry, where large blocks of rejected granite show remrrants...closely to the description of gadolinite from Llano County, Texas, altho the careful qualitative analysis |  | | Book (edition) | | Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Rare-with scorodite in U-bearing lignite in the Caves Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Yedlin reported upon the club's trip to Strickland's Quarry on Nov. 7. Bertrandite in well-formed crystals...few. Iveland was the next stop and many of the quarries visited in the company of a guide, Olav Landsverk...familiar with the localities and minerals. As the quarries were widely scattered through the woods and swamps...phenomena on a large scale was noted in three quarries where cleavelandite, microlite and other late...the other minerals were shown clearly in many quarries. The new mineral scheteligite was collected and |  | | Book | | rust stain on the rock face jutting out beneath the Blue Hills Tennis Club. To a geologist, Gleba explained...stone with a hammer and later sent that rock to California to be tested. The answer was that, if this sample...11ne 2; ••• Amph1bo1ite--see Bolton, Worcester County M1nera1 Loca11t1es. page 85 ••• 11.8 3~ter cerium...•••••••••••••••••'.' •.••.•••• 2--6 Barn.table County ro •• il Localiti ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...Localit1e•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 21 Br1.tol County Mineral Localit1 •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | lease was for Henderson County, N. C. years in the hands of Gen. T. L. valley of the Arkansas River...are so isolated that it would be tains, in the valley of the Arkansas, on the line of the impossible...delays and annoyances from labor Hrindletown, Burke County, N. C., and monazite sand disturbances. It is safe...(Illustrated articles are marked with an asterisk.) . County, . the property for a term of years and at once...of The Scientific Alnerlcan SUPl,lelDellt In County, S. C., zircons are found in large quantities |  | | Journal (issue) | | 418 — Catalina 5 Station, INC. Pasadena 4, California ASTER bsAs erg AUEIANIN (1s — ens! BUFFS! 12”...meteoric dust constantly raining down out of the sky. At the same time, however, she is losing weight...Sincerely, J. HUNT (Mrs. Carl Hunt) 701 Mission Blvd Riverside, Calitorn April 27, 195¢ DEAR Dr. WILSO Your nice...fossil displays, as this ts the first year that California has included fossils as part of the Federation...Our trips terminated with a week spent in our California desert collecting material for spheres tor Sam |  | | Catalog/List | | enlarged photograph of a piece of Obsidian, from Lake County, Oregon, which shows a Conchoidal fracture. t...their first order with cash or with banking or commercial references. Orders amounting to $1.00 or less...magnesium and iron) Actinolite Xline, fibrous; California or Vermont ............ .30 Radiated on rock;...\lassive; California ......... ... . .... ........ .... . .50 .75 Chiastolite XI; California or South...... 1 x 2" .26 2.00 1.00 XI, partly altered; California ....... ..... ...... .. 1.00 .60 XI, sections |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | placed the test sub stance. The second mineral, orangite, is a variety of thorite. It always accompanies...gratifying to note that the Hamburg-American and commercial valuable spirits turpentine, while by-products...the constant of aliena! ion, two pori ions of the sky, distant 90 deg., being presented in the field of...mowed being vigorously mentioned thorite and orangite. be Both of them have These two minerals are...of specimens vf pentine are necessary to the commercial world. Whence thorite. 'The following figures |  | | Journal (issue) | | finest made. Mr. Chas. 0 . Femquist, W . 333 ½ Riverside Ave., Spokane 8, Wash., writes: ''Send us a 12"...CONTENTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1946 , s r CHIPS FR OM THE QUARRY ............................................................... . THE MINERALS OF BLUEBERRY MT. QUARRY, WOBURN, MASS. By f ero,ne 1\if. Eisenbe,•g ............ . FLUORESCENT MINERALS AT KiBBL EHOUSE QUARRY. By C. A . Tho,nas R & M MEMBER HAD BEEN INTERNED...topography of the Little Cottonwood Area, Salt Lake County, Utah, are here described, and the geologic history |  | | Journal (issue) | | persistence, a fine specimen is procured in an abandoned quarry or mine. Unfortunately a number of these old localities...sum for its purchase and maintenance.* I n Orange County, New York, there are about 30 iron mines, alt but...Amethyst, J3eryl, and Garnet localities of Delaware County. The French Creek locality has been and, is today...Nature did unlock. . Down thru its rock-strewn valley wound each stream, Each foot of way acceding to...its gro,vth. The rain and melting snows from sky and hill, Seeping thru the mold, rewarded both. A river |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ir on slag from alllast furnace, pink coral, commercial pIaster of Paris, and most specimens of ordinary...of the fur - sulphate, foUl' pounds weight of commercial pIaster of Paris, nace are two openings oppos...sepa- pbate and fluoride), ziIcon , cerite, and commercial ceric obtained in this manner. He saw tbe luminous...earths ohtailled fl'Om zircons at so great arl ex. Orangite treated in tbe same t.his m ight be added experiments...it, so it was not unlikely that in tborite and orangite migbt at lust be fouud a good source of tbe long |  | | Catalog/List | | their first order with cash or with banking or commercial references. Orders amounting to $1.00 or less...magnesium and iron) Actinolite Xline, fibrous; California or Vermont . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....00 ANDALUSITE (aluminum silicate} l\lassi,·e; California ... . .. . . . . . . ... ... ... .... . . .....Australia; crude xl . . . ... .... . ....... . XI; California .... . .... .. . . . ... . ... . ... .. .......ANDRADITE-See Garnet ANHYDRITE (calcium suliate} Xline, pale blue; New York . .. . . . . . . .. .. .. .... ..... |  | | Book | | to Mineral Collecting rr at Franklin and Sterling Hill, I New Jersey ffi fi.-i'l �� with Notes as to the...Guide to Mineral Collecting at Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey with Notes as to the History, Geology...Farber and Forbes Dunn of the Farber White Limestone Quarry, Bernard Kozykowski, J. Kenneth Fisher. Miss Margaret...approach to the mineralogy of Franklin and Sterling Hill but concurrent in their fidelity to the mineral...Retrospective Summary of the Events at Franklin and Sterling Hill . . . ...... . . .. . . . .. ..... . . . ... .. |  | | Book (edition) | | details for prospecting for all the important commercial minerals, metallic and non-metallic. A special...collector. Only book of its kind . . . Price $2.00. CALIFORNIA GEM TRAILS — New enlarged and revised second...and facet cut styles. The common opal of Virgin Valley, Nevada, lends itself well to ca bochon cutting...afore mentioned filters. The dense cobalt - blue glass ("Pot- blue") allows isolation of portions of the near-ultraviolet...substitute for spe cial filter glass. Such cobalt-blue glass, however, should never be depended upon in |  | | Book | | ornament, unique a history of antiquity, pink blue aquamarine. compelling people second in the...with that of mankind. John Sinkankas San Diego, California October, XIV 1981 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS As may... searches were encouraged University of California, important no and facilitated Scripps Institution...ians Mr. Atkins and Mrs. Brunton; Dr. or Morgan Hill, William Larson, CA; R. Fallbrook, W. Dr....since it produced through many tints of green, blue, and yellow, and completely colorless impossible |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | certain q uan tity of the minerals thorite and orangite, which are very rich in thoria. About one ton...The first offered were the Norwegian thorite and orangite ores, which contained from forty to sixty-two...be l].bsolutely useless. The minerals thorite,orangite, and pyrochlore, which all contain a large amount...the most useless and least promising, from a commercial point of view, in the whole annals of scientific |  | | Book (edition) | | localities through out U.S.A.described. Price $4.75. CALIFORNIA GEM TRAILS . New e11larged a11d revised second...and facet cut styles. The common opal of \ irgin Valley, Nevada, lends itself well to cabochon cutting...pass, along with some radia; The de11se coi>alt-blue gl,lss ( ' ' I>()t l) lue'') a1 lo,vs isolatio11...Short wave visible ligl1t-particularly t l1e violet, blue and green-excites fluo there ma)' in some species...accessory mineral i11 a num l)rightly with violet and blue light. i11 ber of comn1on rocks, usually fluoresce |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | beenrecordedonly from three localitiesin El Paso County, Colorado.$ The original specimenwas discoveredby...BasementComplex of the territory; 3. ff present in commercial quantities it could representa potential ore...cassiteriteare common, and in addition thorite (orangite)has beenidentified.The following propertieswere...iron, covellite, chalcopyrite,pyrite, and a deep blue cupriferousmineral that has not been satisfactorily |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | : TABLE Name $ Th I. :‘pU km k ;( kTtA Orangite. Thorite 3 Monazite. 4 I‘ 7.76 6.26 0.33 0.46...thorium mineral. TABLE Kame .............. 5 Th Orangite 43.1 Thorite ............... 46.6 Monazite .....But t h e activity of pure Tho, prepared from commercial samples of pure nitrate was always much less...thorium considerably below that of the least active commercial sample used. But, in spite of the apparently...radiothorium is 737 days. T h e low activity of commercial samples of thorium, as observed by Boltwood and |
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