 | | Report (issue) | | of America PHOTO CREDITS Cover: Quartz variety amethyst, 10.5 cm tall Goboboseb Mountains, Erongo Region...collection, Jeff Scovil photo Title (facing) Page Amethyst mouse with gold tail, 130 grams, 6.3 cm wide Carved...Brazilian amethyst Private collection, Robert Weldon photo © 2009 GIA Page 2 Quartz variety amethyst, 3.5...3, Table of Contents Insets Top: Circa 212 CE amethyst intaglio bearing the portrait of Roman Emperor...Marie-Lan Nguyen photo Upper middle: Quartz variety amethyst (Japan-law twin), 1.6 cm tall Andilamena, Toamasina |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | some specimens of quartz that came from a rock quarry in North Little Rock (Pulaski Co.), Ark. This quartz...Cartersville (Bartow Co.), Georgia. The large Riverside quarry produced some excellent specimens of platy barite...the serious collector to inactive portions of the quarry." — letter dated Feb. 18, 1961, from James T. White...the location to collecting." IOWA — From an old quarry north of Keokuk (Lee Co.), Iowa, we have 2 rough...Iowa. "The specimens sent you come from an old quarry on the Mississippi River, north of Keokuk, Iowa |  | | Book | | Archaeological Museum. Tell el-Parcha, The Nile Delta, Egypt. About 3150-3100 BC, Nagada Culture, approximately...other processes was transported to water basins (sea, lake or underground ones). A statemcnt suggesting...in sca basins is a very important gcnetic factor. Sea water is undersaturated with silica, so il cannot...exploration of the waste-rock limestone in the porphyry quarry at Zalas near. Malachite and after more thorough...decline of bron ze. Due to aggression of so called "sea nations" at the beginning of the 12th century BC |  | | Report (issue) | | Norway Special publicatioN n Contents Introduction Abu-Jaber, N., Bloxam, E.G., Degryse, P. and Heldal,...Gypsum quarries in the northern Faiyum quarry landscape, Egypt: a geo-archaeological case study Tom Heldal...The quarryscapes of Gerasa (Jarash), Jordan Nizar Abu-Jaber, Ziad al Saad and Nihad Smadi ...............fingerprinting of Egyptian siliceous sandstones and the quarry source of the Colossi of Memnon Robert W.O’B. Knox................... 77 Granite quarry survey in the Aswan region, Egypt: shedding new light on ancient |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pyrite,jasper,steatite,amber,jadeite, calcite;amethyst,and fluorspar(see Ta•>leI.), while aboutthe x...France); also Neolithic. About 2o,ooo-I6,ooo B.C. AMETHYST. Solutrean (France): also Neolithic of Europe:...(480-300 B.c.): Saite or GraecoRoman period in Egypt (603 B.c. or later.) 600-0.75 B.c. RUBY. Etruscan:...throne found at Buddha Gaya: also Ptolemaic Period, Egypt. About 50 B.c. MEERSCHAUM. Greek. xoo-x B.c. BALAS...LABRADORITE. Mound Builders of Mississippi Valley. Red Paint peopleof Maine. Usedin Europeanjewellery, x6th |  | | Journal (issue) | | of a 20 ounce sample from this opal parcel. Thin red/blue fire layers on a dark grey opal base. Allan’s...Spodmene Crystals Lemon Quartz Apatite Yellow Amethyst (Brazil) Four Peaks (Arizona) Aqua Golden Beryl...beautiful minerals we can own is crocoite, a bright red lead chromate. It is also one of the more fragile...to mine, handle and own. But its vibrant orange-red color and long slender crystals in elongate, striated... CROCOITE: SPANNING SERBIA AND TAZMANIA he vibrant red mineral once found in modest crystals seldom over |  | | Report (issue) | | 84 93 96 • • Honduras United States • •• Egypt • • • • • • ••• French Equatorial Africa • •• ...back of the stone and emerge as separate rays of red, blue, yellow, and other coloured light. The brilliant...wherea.s there are no standards of beauty~ · Amethyst and deep red _g arnet were used in jewellery to a consider...rrighly esteemed universally. A coloured diamond, red, blue, g:re-e n, violet, etc., is known as a '' fancy...variable, bu:t the name ruby is reserved for the red va.r iety and sapphire for the bl11e. Gem corundum |  | | Book | | both sexes. The beads were also made of carnelian (red agate) and lapis lazuli (blue stone), but a type...mining rock crystal north of Assuan and amethyst near Gebel Abu Diyeiba, and they collected the agates from...storms, [green agate], haemachates [red agate or agate with red jasper veins or spots], [chalcedony]...Just as a man is marked today by his It is Egypt has no red or white also oil it is quite apparent...“Lithica” wrote these lines about the agate: amethyst or purple quartz, Zebulun’s was yellow jasper |  | | Book (volume) | | Gemstones 10 Gems of the Silica Group including Amethyst, Agate and Opal 11 Turquoise and Lapis-Lazuli...Crystals and Cut Stones of Rock Crystal, Citrines and Amethyst : : : : : : : . 166 XVI XVII Opal: Cabochon-cut...peridot, aquamarine, topaz, tourmaline, zircon and amethyst in company with all other stones which do not...are rock crystal phyrites leptosephos’ of upper Egypt, rocks which had a considerable vogue for ornamentation...sediment and muds © EVERIO Shells from salts in sea Sea level tt + + 4+ Granite with pegmatites Figure |  | | Book | | jasp-agate, jasper, quartzite, rock crystal, amethyst, chrysoprase, opal, etc.), serpentine, and steatite...blue turquoise and lapis lazuli, clear red carnelian, purple amethyst, and rock crystal-all mounted in heavy...pods of a desert plant. A third was of turquoise, amethyst, and hollow gold balls held together with gold...bracelet had brown limestone beads mingled with amethyst and turquoise. About 3500 B.c. the Egyptians were...collecting agates from the desert playas near Jebel Abu Diyeiba, along with rock crystal and amethysts. During |  | | Book | | Japan Springs, Arkansas 75 80 Quartz, Variety Amethyst 88 Sagenitic Quartz 98 Cr>'stals Flexible...dwellers of Western Europe, the predynastic period in Egypt, and numerous other areas occupied by Stone Age...mentions Crete, India, Phrygia in Asia Minor, Egypt, Cyprus, the Oeta Mountains, Mt. Parnassus, Lesboa...is found an agate rock which is white, milky, or red stone, which is made redder in the fire." This is...mined rock crystal north of Assuan and amethyst near Gebel Abu Diyeiba, and collected agates from the surrounding |  | | Book | | 1 Mines, occupatores/coloni and conductores 7.2 Quarry Labels and Quarrying Contractors 261 261 290 ...documented in the epigraphic record of the mine/quarry. In consequence, imperial mines and quarries are...evidence from the quarries at Mons Claudianus in Egypt has also drawn fresh attention.21 The role of the...published by Luigi Bruzza in 1870. Based on these quarry labels, Otto Hirschfeld, followed by Michael RostovtzeV...Fitzler, however, believed the quarries in Roman Egypt to have been farmed out to interested lessees who |
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