 | | Journal (issue) | | . . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ...Pelt Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...geologic setting and mineralogy of the mine site. The Harding mine catalog will provide researchers and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | JoaquĂn Folch Girona Mineral Collection Barcelona, Spain Downloaded by [University of Birmingham] at 13:56...Barcelona Passeig Picasso, s/n 08003 Barcelona, Spain ccurto@bcn.cat Jordi Fabre i Fornaguera c/o Arc...Arc de Sant MartĂ 79 local 08032 Barcelona, Spain mineral@fabreminerals.com Carles Curto MilĂ is the curator...at the Museum de CiĂšncies Naturals de Barcelona, Spain. Jordi Fabre i Fornaguera (better known to mineral...period when mineralogy was in almost a vacuum in Spain, an extensive collection that in its day was considered | | | Journal (issue) | | by J. A. Scovil The M achow m ine, Tarnobrzeg, P o la n d ........................................... 29...Pelt Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain .............................................after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...geologic setting and mineralogy of the mine site. The Harding mine catalog will provide researchers and |  | Symons, David T.A., Kawasaki, Kazuo, Tornos, Fernando, Velasco, Francisco, Rosales, Idoia (2017) Temporal constraints on genesis of the Caravia-Berbes fluorite deposits of Asturias, Spain, from paleomagnetism. Ore Geology Reviews, 80. 754-766 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.08.020 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the Caravia-Berbes ïŹuorite deposits of Asturias, Spain, from paleomagnetism David T.A. Symons a, Kazuo...Ajalvir Km. 4, 28850 TorrejĂłn de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain d Department de MineralogĂa y PetrologĂa, Universidad...48080 Bilbao, Spain e Instituto GeolĂłgico y Minero de España, Rios Rosas 23, 28003 Madrid, Spain b a r t...genesis Spain a b s t r a c t The Caravia-Berbes district is a major ïŹuorite producing area in Europe...stable chemical remanent magnetization (CRM) in hematite inclusions with a direction of Decl. 20.1°, Incl |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 20013 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Part 2 Huanggang Mine, Inner Mongolia, China T he first part of this...fluorites from the Peopleâs Republic of China and from Spain became readily available, more 250 ROCKS & MINERALS...occurred were originally lead mines, but as lead mining began to taper off, the steel industry began to...erroneous localities were given in the early days of mining to protect sources, as noted by Fisher (2006)....quartz after fluorite are common from here. Recent mining for specimens in the quarries and mines of northern |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | After being kept privately in the Pisa, Italy, area, where it was visited mostly by selected people...is now on exhibit at the Museo di Storia Naturale âLa Specolaâ of the University of Florence, centrally...Museo di Storia Naturale Mineralogia e Litologia Via La Pira 4 I-50121 Firenze, Italy Figure 2. Adalberto...pseudohexagonal twinned crystals, 23 Ă 20 cm, Cianciana mine, Agrigento, Italy. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 5...large crystal group, 50 Ă 50 cm, from the Anahi mine, La Gaiba district, Santa Cruz Department, Bolivia |  | | Journal (issue) | | Butterfly Twin Pocket, 1989. Malmberget mine, Sweden. Benitoite Gem mine, USA Editors: Tomasz Praszkier (Poland)...an iron mine in the polar region of northernmost Sweden two decades ago. The Malmberget mine located...preservation of specimens during several decades of mining goes to miner Kenneth Holmgren. Of course this...positive attitude toward collecting held by the mining company â LKAB. In 1982 a pocket with exceptional...few small nearby deposits, only the Benitoite Gem mine has commercially produced gem quality benitoite |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2024 Articles The Berbes Fluorite District, Asturias, Spain..............................................COVER: FLUORITE, 4.3 cm, from the Valdelmar area of the La Cabaña zone at Berbes. Will Johnson collection...Chris Coy (2023) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009â2024) Mineralogical...the collectors and dealers in the entire Tri-State area. A typical weekend was spent driving their Mercury...Ruslan Adamovsky, who was living in the Rockaway area of New York. Ruslan was an intriguing character |  | | Report (issue) | | as though the new color were passing through the vein. Some people particularly appreciate the edges of...United Kingdom BY IAN JONES 38 Fluorite from Spain: Every Color Under the Sun BY GUIOMAR & MIGUEL CALVO...Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...108 Morocco's El Hammam: Six Decades of Fluorspar Mining BY PIERRE CLAVEL & GUNTHER NEUMEIER 112 Faceting...MICHAEL GRAY 54 Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56 |  | | Journal (issue) | | left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the GachalĂĄ mine, GuaviĂł-GuatĂ©que mining district, BoyacĂĄ Department, Colombia...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...(âthe MAD Groupâ), formed in 1979, and the Houston Area Mineralogical Society (âthe HAMS Groupâ), formed |  | | Journal (issue) | | Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...times some mineral specimens, encountered during mining or found casually in natural outcrops, were collected...in Italy. Throughout the 1600s and up to 1714, Spain directly maintained dominion over almost half of...stone" (a kind of "picture rock" from the Florence area) and other materials suitable for lapidary work...(Ghiara and Petti, 2008); the Mineralogy Museum of the "La Sapienza" University of Rome, founded by Pope Pio |  | | Journal (issue) | | Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R... D. (1999) Famous mineral localities: Ting Tang mine, Gwennap, Cornwall 19:18-23 CLARK, A.M. (1998) Earth's...P. (1995) Crystallized Enargite from the Gregory mine, Ashover, Derbyshire 15:28-29 DAY, B. (1998) Collecting...from Boulby mine, Cleveland 14:4-8 __& McCALLUM, D. (1993) Millerite from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead |  | | Journal (issue) | | No 4. Bournonite, Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath Specimen: 55 x 70 x 55mm Watercolour commissioned for...magnesite plates, a 24 x 18mm specimen from Boulby Mine, Cleveland (seearticle in this issue). David I....and photo. SOUTH CROFTY MINE ------------- 4 BORATE NODULES from BOULBY MINE DI Green· MD Freier 8 ...interest to amateur mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...issue by South Crofcy Pie, Europes last primary tin mine, launched on 30th July 1994, successfully reached |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,...collections); also not tobe missed are the National Mining Hall of 4 Farne Museum in Leadville, the Cripple |  | | Journal (issue) | | pounds. Painting Century Plant in the Big Bend area (1939) by Jerry Bywaters. Courtesy Amon Carter Museum...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...there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines...mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than anywhere |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...18:65-74 Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain area [Georgia and Alabama] (by J.B. Gordon, Jr. & C....and albite-antiperthite crystals in calcite-cored vein-dikes (by L. Moyd) 21:235-248 ALICE GLORY HOLE The...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE |  | | Book (volume) | | the Mineralogical Society and the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy publication on the ferrous, non-ferrous...chapters: France and Luxembourg by J. Bouladon Spain by F. Vazquez Guzman Portugal by D. Thadeu Italy...clear descriptions of the classical and producing mining districts and the larger deposits are required...interested in prospecting, by organizations requiring mining and mineral statistics, by compilers of atlases...non-specialists, who may include, for example, mining company executives, investment consultants and |  | | Journal (issue) | | Amethyst on milky quartz from Hopkinton, Rhode I s la n d by J. Rakovan, D. B. Mitchelltree, L. D. Benton...Miguel Calvo (who covers the two major shows in Spain), under Letter from Europe. George Robinson and...of 1 to 3 meters of overburden. To date, a total area of approximately 6 x 9 meters has been excavated...excavation, August 1991, approximately 80% of the area so far uncovered was searched, yielding only eight...Amethyst crystals are interspersed with the clay and vein blocks, and no open mineralized pockets or vugs |  | | Report (issue) | | A fluorite specimen from the Number 1 (Minerva) Mine, Cave-in-Rock subdistrict, Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar...............................................G31 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................G36 Mine Closure...........................................a fluorite specimen from the Number 1 (Minerva) Mine, Cave-in-Rock subdistrict, Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar...carbonate-hosted mineral district in north-central Spain................................................ | | | Journal (issue) | | Miguel Calvo (who covers the two major shows in Spain). under Leller from Europe. George Robinson and...of I to 3 meters of overburden. To date. a total area of approximately 6 x 9 meters has been excavated...excavation, August I 99 I . approximately 80% of the area so far uncovered was searched. yielding only eight...Amethyst crystals are interspersed with the clay and vein blocks, and no open mineralized pockets or vugs...auached 10 fracture surfaces of brecciated blocks of vein. This amethyst is identical 10 the amethyst caps |  | | Journal (issue) | | Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...crew found their deposit and mined part of itâa vein 25 meters long and 16 cm thick, containing 25% native...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...company of 15 women to exploit it. The Alaska Garnet Mining and Manufacturing Company was the first all-woman |  | | Report (issue) | | 549.4 ISSN 0510-201 4 Copies availablefrom: Mining Information Centre Department of Mineralsand Energy.................................................. Vein and cavity fillings ........................................................... 12 12 Methods of mining .................................................................................... Methods of mining ............................................................................................... Spain ............................................... |  | | Journal (issue) | | (a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...government livestock inspector. He returned to the area 30 years later, found a crystal-bearing horizon...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson |  | | Catalog/List | | of Crystallized Gold from the famed Eagleâs Nest Mine in California A superb Crystallized âLeafâ Gold...gemstone Amethyst to come from the famed Four Peaks Mine in Arizona A sharp and complicated Crystallized...Crystallized Silver with Copper from the famed Wolverine Mine in Michigan A âclassicâ Rhodochrosite with associated...associated Pyrite and Quartz from the Sweet Home Mine in Colorado An unusually massive and extremely colorful...colorful, Smithsonite from the iconic Kelly Mine in New Mexico A âgemâ quality specimen Tanzanite crystal in |  | | Book | | Greenâs Farm, otherwise known as the Roxbury Garnet Mine, which is on the border between Roxbury and Southbury...and is typical of what could still be found in the mine. To me, its label âmakesâ this specimen. I am very...Massachusetts, and I feel that I have a link to the area. I was surprised when I first read about the important...the small deposit and sold specimens to all the area museums, including the American Museum of Natural...found anything truly significant in the general area. One of Daniel Clarkâs nicest Russell garnet specimens |
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