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Improving Mindat.orgUnusual error

16th May 2006 17:37 UTCBarry Flannery Expert

I just got this ''new'' error when clicking on a forum. Only happened once but I managed to copy it. The only different things were that some writing was in blue and red.

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Re: Anyone know of Lake Chatuge?

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I went here collecting back in the early seventies; didn't find much along the lake shore, but the nearby Hogg Mine has produced some fine, bright pink asteriated corundum!

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Re: Danburite

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Alan:

I know of two pockets found in Montana's Boulder Batholith (in pegmatites) that had several danburite crystals in each; one of these was my own find, and another made by the late Dan price of Butte. In my case, the crystals were corroded and etched, canary yellow in color, and some areas transparent enough to cut one gem weighing 1.67 carats. The material Dan found was represented by only two crystals, each a greenish-yellow, fairly smooth but not shiny or lustrous, and fluorescent under long-wave UV. I purchased on of Dan's crystals, and it is now in the Montana Tech Mineral Museum collection.

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Re: Need Texas Mineral Localities

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Hi David,

Just so your aware Brad Cross has a book already published on collecting sites of TX, its quite nice and worth a look before you finish.

Enjoy!

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Re: New Mexico Rockhounding

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Hello Colt...ALL of the ground at the Blanchard and Mex-tex is under claim by various people. The owners of the Blanchard Rock Shop in Bingham have access to at least one, probably more. Google "Blanchard Rock Shop" for more data.

Don

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Re: New Mexico Rockhounding

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Any information on the blanchard mines near Bingham? Can you collect, ect?

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Re: Need Texas Mineral Localities

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David,

What part of Texas are you in? I live in Austin and can take you to some places in Texas that'll knock your socks off.

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Re: Danburite

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I worked on a collection that contained a number of specimens as Danburite listed as having originated in Russell, St. Lawrence Co., New York. Still a trek but not as far as Mexico.... though i wouldn't have a clue if there is still collecting to be had there!

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The type locality for danburite in Danbury, Conn., no longer exists. It was reportedly cleaned out in the mid-1800s, and the site is now under an office complex... I do not know of any other confirmed localities for the mineral in Conn. More likely than not, there are none. (The nearest confirmed locality that I know about is down in Mexico...)

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"They always seem to know too who's not there to play golf."

Was it because of your hammer ?

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Kyanite-

WOW! I just found some real nice Kyanite in Prospect park I'm not sure how to get pictures up but I would like to show it. Its a huge cluster in quartz, the coolest peice we've found in 3 trips! (Showing that patience does pay off). This place is still producing nice specimens! Anyone interested in a few more tips for looking that I've found useful for this site email me VWphishGD@hotmail.com.

Pyromorphite-

Still some traces around the dump site at pickering valley golf course I believe it is. Obviously you still have to ask permission, and they have asked me for specimens I've found elswhere but usually just pass it off anyways. They always seem to know too who's not there to play golf. A magnifying glass is real nice. If you have a few days bring a hoe before a big rain and hoe down some of the huge dump piles, we've had good luck this way. Nice crystal quartz points and if you're lucky enough some may have pyromorphite.

-By the way has anyone ever had any luck finding anything other than iron ore and hemotite at St. Petes? Actually we did find some Morrel Mushrooms down in the quarry....makes excellent quisine. We took a walk around, I think we may have found the old smoke stack from the mines or whatever. My guess is they're burried over now or filled in. Anyone no the specs? Eliabeth mine, Keim mine? The trap quarry? Where is all this stuff. We asked the post office people at st peters, they said they had never heard of them, then travelled over to that warwick cnty park office which happened to not be open.

Onward.....

I would like to find out where Caleb Cope's Lime Quarry, East Bradford, Chester Co., Pennsylvania, USA is? Anyone know? Been there? My hunting buddy and I live in west chester, the next town over and are very interested in finding more kyanite specimen closer to home. Actually I'm interested in any kind of interesting specimen I can find in the area. I hear of places in Unionville, St. Peters Village, Phoenixville, King of Prussia, and so on but unfortunatley thats where it ends... just hearing about it. I know I should join the local club, but I dont really know where to start with that. I do enjoy just going out with my buddy and hunting ourselves, nothing like having the whole day ahead of you and the whole site to yourself!

Happy hunting

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Re: Bolivia Locations

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The mines in Potosi are certainly worth visiting. Several tourist agencies will approach you there offering underground tours for several hours for about 3 euros. You can take your hammer with you. And you can hammer on the huge dumps outside. Easy to get to - just 0.50 euros by taxi from the central hotels.

Likewise Oruro (but without the ubiquitous tourist agencies). You'll find lots of pyrite and secondary sulphates. Micro vugs of silver sulphosalts if you're lucky.

Many bolivian mines are far off the highway, and you'll only reach them if you rent a 4WD car (expensive!), but there are a few easily reachable by bus. For example, when you take the bus from Oruro to Cochabamba, about an hour from Oruro you can jump off at the village of Lequepalca, where there is an abandoned W-Sb mine - you can see the dumps from the highway. You can find the list of minerals there if you look up Lequepalca here on Mindat. When the landowners see you collecting up on the dumps they will optimistically come up to see whether you've come to buy their mine.

In Cochabamba you'll find a few minerals and fossils on sale cheap in the artesanias section of the big market, and in the souvenir kiosks behind the post office and along neighboring blocks of Avenida Heroinas. In Cochabamba and La Paz there are indigenous ladies who sell trilobites from blankets on the side of the streets. Beware that some of these are faked - baked from mud! You might be lucky enough to find your own trilobites during your field work around Cochabamba, but mostly you just find trilobite tracks in the rock (big "cruzianas", which people used to think were a fossil animal in its own right, but it's just trilobite tracks). In some places (like around Liriuni hot springs) the "cruzianas" are very abundant and unusually large.

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Hello Alfredo,

Me and my friend, because I noticed a grammatical error in the first post, will be there together during several weeks. But we won't have any transportation available but the public busses. No car because nor me nor my friend will have our driving license yet before the departure.

As for the distances I want to travel, I can't be very specific about that. But we will certainly be visiting the mines in Potosi. Maybe joining some friends in Oruro. Probably we will take night busses to travel friday night, spending two days somewhere and returning by monday. We will be exploring the region around Cochabamba. I hope that this give you some idea of the distances we are willing to travel and we think are achievable.

To return to Belgium, where I'm from, I will have to take a plane from Santiago, Chile. I'm not sure which route I will take to get there. Via the border Chile Peru Bolivia or via Uyuni. Because I heard that in the north of Chile there are also some interesting geological features to discover.

I hope I managed to give you some idea about my whereabouts during my stay in Bolivia (& Chile).

I very much hope you can help me,

thanks a lot already for your efforts,

Thomas

ps I agree with you that bracheopods aren't that interesting, but here in Belgium there are no places where you can find trilobites, are they abundant in the Cochabamba mountains?

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Hello Thomas,

There isn't much of mineralogical interest in the Cochabamba valley or the mountains immediately around there - Boring Paleozoic sediments with dead brachiopods and trilobites. Further away there are mines for W-Sn and Pb-Zn and Sb-Au, but still in Cochabamba Department. So the question is, what kind of transportation will you have, and how far away are you willing to drive?

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Hi,

I'm a student mining engineering and we are going to work in Bolivia this summer, mainly in the area of Cochabamba.

We are both very interested in mineralogy.

Can anyone adivse us with some interesting sites/mines to visit or other interesting locations for finding/buying nice minerals?

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Re: Ruggles Mine, New Hampshire apatite

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Ruggles is still very much open. The collecting fee was $17 when I was there last (two years ago). I was also informed by an attendant (who had seen me head to my car once already) that you are limited to three trips back to your car!

I have also found apatite there. One specimen (overall about the size of a bowling ball) with a large area of fluorescent apatite with a uraninite crystal in the apatite, and radiating uranophane and autunite around the uraninite.

The pillars do have interesting material on occasion. On my first trip there, I found some cubic uraninites surrounded by uranophane.

There was a lot of newly blasted material at the south end (through the tunnel), but it was surrounded by "Keep Off" signs. Some folks were finding beryl there.

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Back in 1970 I visited the Ruggles Mine. At that time it was (still is?) a tourist attraction. I didn't find a whole lot other than some feldspar and a few small gummites, but one of the pillars had some albite that was vuggy. I managed to chip out a dozen or so very pale purple apatite crystals. They were small, 2-4 mm. I packed them away and forgot all about them until I recently found them in a box. Has anyone else collected any apatite from this mine and is it still open to collecting?

Henry Barwood

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Re: New Mexico Rockhounding

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Hello Phil... The San Pedro Mine (possibbly the old "Nuestra Senora de Dolores" mine attributed to Juan Onate) is South of Santa Fe in the New Placers District, South of what remains of the coal mining village of San Pedro The district REPORTED 19.56K ozsTroy (estimated: 117K ozsTroy) gold and 304.626K ozsTroy (estimated: 305K ozTroy) to date. Collecting is prohibited...I've collected the surface w/ virtually no results (I'm a mineral collector and, generally speaking, gold mines are devoid of interesting mineralogy. The Carnahan Mine, just South of the San Pedro, IS interesting for a micromounter. My email is don@zianet.com...I can give you references....

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Hi Seb,

Sorry, but the benitoite mine was closed, bulldozed over with earth, and reclaimed just this past year. I hope you already have one in your collection.

I have heard that there is other collecting opportunities in that area, but exactly what or where I don't recall. I'm from much further south in the state, but attended a rock show in Paso Robles last year and do recall local members talking about club collecting trips in that area after the benitoite mine was closed.

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weird that my post showed twice a bit different .. *shrugging shoulders*.

Do you know if it is possible to collect in the New Irida disctrict? I've heard that they charge quite a lot just to dig for an hour or two for some benitoites. Would you know more?

I have the book "Rockhounding California" as well ... probably take another closer look through it.

Thanks,

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