 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Institution Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Part 2 Huanggang Mine, Inner Mongolia, China...South American fluorite localities (Pohwat 2013). In this installment I look at fluorite specimens from...reiterating what I wrote in the first installment, fluorite is a mineral deserving of a separate book, so...tour. Europe England has long been known for its fluorite specimens, in particular those from the north...1874, p. 77), Bryce M. Wright Jr. said of English fluorite, “It is perhaps the most beautiful of all English |  | | Book | | ADOLFSSON, STIG G. Hrudeposit, Sweden 3:38-39 Notes on recent underground collecting...Rare-earth minerals in the Alpine ar,d Subalpine region [Switzerland,Austria and Iti:Jy](by C. M. Gramaccioli)...M1ETHYST Amethyst (by F. Hassan) 3:221-225 Mineralization of the Four Peaks amethyst deposit. Maricopa...& T. Rybicki) 7:72-77 Axinite. hydromagnesite,amethyst and other minerals from near Vit6ria da Conquista...P. & J. 0. Cassedanne) 8:382-387 Amethyst from the Thunder Bay region, Ontario (by D. G. Ellion) 13:67-70 |  | | Journal (issue) | | minerals, such as quartz, calcite, gypsum, and fluorite, are represented by excellent specimens. There...VSGM, M'22262. Photo: M. Leybov. Agate. Unknown deposit. Fragment 10x 12 an. VSGM Ng 8068. Rhoto: M. Leybov...specimens, we should also mention collections of fluorite (England, Tadzhikistan, and Transbaikalia), barite...arranged according to geographical location (country — region — locality), excluding the tematic collections...specimens. Next follows Italy, England, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, each being represented by approximately |  | | Book | | localities for good ilmenite crystals exist in the region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely..."jacupirangite" found in the Jacupiranga carbonatite deposit is ilmenite, in lustrous, flattened crystals to...in Switzerland, it is only in the Maderanertal region of east-central Canton Uri that clefts bearing...clefts are found fairly commonly throughout this region, such that only a handful of notable finds during |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Placitas district (Sandia Mountains), NE of Albuquerque: schorl. Tijeras Canyon district (Manzano Mountains)... E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite. Hell Canyon subdistrict (Seiiora...(chalcedony). Mogollon district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite, gold, hematite,... SW of Reserve: labradorite. Taylor Creek Tin district, Black Range. Adobe Ranch: cassiterite, hematite...(martite). Nugget Gulch: cassiterite, stolzite. Wilcox district, S. of Mogollon. Lone Pine mine: emmonsite, khademite |  | | Book | | Mountainland The Central Northern to Northwest Region including Damaraland The Central Namib Desertand...Acknowledgments 825 834 840 854 856 20 t ~ ...__,__ Republic of Namibia The President State House W°Ntdhoek...producethe first scientific descriptionsof the ore deposit in Tsumeb. Hecanthus be regardedasa pioneerof the...experts to admire the huge outcrop of the ore deposit of Tsumebandthe famous green hill made out of malachite...of Namibianmineralogyfor the atTsumeb. famous deposit, then known as "Grube next hundredyears.Somevery |  | | Catalog/List | | Avenue, 17th Floor • Dallas, Texas 75219 Design District Annex • 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, Texas 75207...835.3243 • Email: Bid@HA.com Heritage Design District Annex Cataloged by: David Herskowitz Edited by:...DOUBLE CHAMBERED AMETHYST CATHEDRAL – MATCHED PAIR Rio Grande do Sul, South Region, Brazil This organically...organically shaped Amethyst geode has two chambers, sitting side by side, mirror images of each other. While...Sunday, June 8, 2008 • 1:00 PM CT 38002 AMETHYST CAST AFTER CALCITE Artigas, Artigas Department |  | | Book | | (Developments in economic geology ; 18) Translated from the Czech. Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines and mineral...rush, nevertheles. some nonmetallics came tro. deposit. comparable in value to the richer metal de- posits...literature on the subject and the work done by Czech and Slovak economic geologists since the establishment...non-metallic elements (pyrite as a source of sulphur, fluorite for fluorine, apatite for phosphorus) or their...fossil fuels) the term "non-ore" is only used in the Czech and older German and Polish literature· The Anglo-Saxon |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERAL & ROCK COLLECTING IN THE ROSICLARE FLUORITE DISTRICT OF SOUTHEASTERN ILL. By JOSEPH SCHRAUT St...of in the vein-type fluorite deposit and can fluorite in the Rosiclare District of South- be collected...or near in the Rosiclare district is more notably the multi-colored fluorite. The associated argentiferous...veinlets in fluorite. The galena malachite, quartz, smirhsonite, cerussite, usually occurs with fluorite, calcite...surfaces of the galena, e.g., ceruscurrence of the fluorite which is found site as films or crusts. Galena |  | | Journal (issue) | | & J. K. Brizendine The Garnet Ledge almandine deposit near Wrangell, Alaska ..............685 by W. E.................... 731 by W. E. Wilson COVER: FLUORITE crystal on celestine, 8 cm (see page 672), from...March 31, 1930, in Helena, Montana, the son of a Czech-born co-founder of the Bata Shoe Company in Zlin...as a civil engineer for the Metropolitan Water District. While working in the desert on the electric transmission...collecting; they took field trips to the Mesa Grande district, the Crestmore quarry, and other localities, and |  | | Book (volume) | | ......................258 Missouri – New Lead District Map .........................................................325 New Jersey – Franklin Mining District Map ......................................................329 New Mexico – Catron County Area Fluorite Mines .......................................331...................333 New Mexico – Grant County Fluorite Mines .......................................................336 New Mexico – Luna County Fluorite Deposit Map ..................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Institution Washington, DC 20513 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee... egular readers of this column will note that fluorite has already been covered in a previous installment...mineral for the 2013 Tucson Gem and Mineral Show is fluorite and because the previous column stressed one aspect...expanded look at fluorite was thought to be in order. This is a well-deserved look, as fluorite is one of the...wonderful specimens of fluorite doing anything but gracing our displays; however, fluorite is a more utilitarian |  | | Report (edition) | | FRONTISPIECE Tiger iron from the Ord Ranges, Pilbara region, displaying folded bands of dark brown hematite...eye jasper from the Mount Brockman area, Pilbara region. The sphere, approximately 35 cm in diameter, contains.......................................... 34 Cue region...................................................................................... 34 Yalgoo region .................................................................................... 39 Menzies region .............................................. |  | | Journal (issue) | | .................................. 45 CHINESE FLUORITE Berthold Ottens ................................worked the oxidized zone of a high-grade copper deposit, probably discovered because of malachite showings...was established. At the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, only about 800 people with some...SOCIAL ASPECTS Since the founding of the People’s Republic ca. 1950, mining activity in China has intensified...China. Even in the relatively well-worked-over region of Hunan and its neighboring provinces there are |  | | Journal (issue) | | superb mineral specimens as has the Deccan traprock region in India. Many interesting mineral occurrences...investigations. The amygdaloidalcavity minerals from this region have often simply been called “zeolites,” and the...is about 500,000 square kilometers, and even the region where specimens have been found measures fully...must be made clear that in view of the size of the region and the huge quantity of its minerals on the market...yield additional information. The study of the region and its minerals will remain a long-term task. |  | | Book (edition) | | andreprodu<..1ion by StudioVVG, Prague Printedin Czech Republicby Finidr.u.o .. Ce,ky Te~in 14/02/03/0...Publishing House in Prague and which recei\ ed the Czech Literary Award for best book in the natural sciencesfor...named according to chemical composition (e.g. fluorite). to crystallographic tenns (e .g. prismatine)...and other Larin Ianguages. and in the- Polish. Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Finnish. and Swahili Ianguages...to reflect the light gypsum. 3 - calcite, 4 - fluorite, 5 - apatite, 6 - ortho- beam on the polished |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | Dept. of Mineralogy, National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. Seppo Lahti: Geological Survey of Finland...and Feel 1 Tale 2 3 Gypsum Calcite 4 5 6 Fluorite Apatite Orthoclase a Quartz Soft, greasy feel...visible light and are notably thermoluminescent. Fluorite, ideally CaF, is the classic fluorescent species...Co., Bonanza mine, Trinity Co., Michigan Bluff district, Placer Co., in AK, placers at Fairbanks, Iditarod...and quartz veins at Juneau. In Canada, Noranda district, PQ; Porcupine, Kirkland Lake, and Larder Lake |  | | Catalog/List | | us from previous auctions, you must send a 25% deposit, or list dealers with whom you have credit established...live in the thick jungles of the Central African Republic, Congo, and Cameroon and are very difficult and...Greater Kudu, this species lives in the Eastern Cape region of South Africa and tends to be brighter in color...any distance over 100 yards. Their origin is the Republic of South Africa. This is a large trophy bull with...are native to the desert mountains of the Sahara region, but are also now quite plentiful on Exotic Game |  | | Book | | (Russia), P. Bruneton (Europe), J. Cisovsky (Slovak Republic), G. Érdi-Krausz (Hungary), H. J. Förster (Germany)...Hruby (Czech Republic), E. Kirchner (Austria), B. Kirchner (Austria), J. Komínek (Czech Republic), I. Bojkov...J. Royall (Spain), and A. Kuestermeyer (Slovak Republic). M. Cuney deserves my particular gratitude for...of other geoscientists who worked on any given deposit, in order to stimulate and encourage further research... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 West Balkan Region . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |  | | Book | | a b r i e f h i s t o r y o f t h e gems o f e region. T h i s C h a p t e r also includes t h e g e...all r i g h t . . . n o t i n a n y m a j o r deposit a s t h e y dreamed, b u t p i c k e d u p o n...rubies, sapphires, aquamarines, garnets, topaz, amethyst and golden beryl are among the historic gems of...An enthusiastic family found and mined an amethyst deposit in South Carolina which is pro ducing many...in the nation. sapphires, garnets, amazonite, amethyst, smoky quartz, rose quartz, williamsite and other |  | | Report (issue) | | systems that was part of the Symposium on Mineral Deposit Modeling, held December 5-14, 1985, in the Philippines... Some classic descriptions of epithermal ore deposit districts are included also with a brief description..., 72 p. Ashley, R. P., 1974, Goldfield mining district, jLn Guidebook to the geology of four Tertiary...Erickson, R. L., ed., Characteristics of mineral deposit occurrences: U. S. Geological Survey, Open-File...metals in silicified rocks of the Goldfield mining district, Nevada: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the central Iranian volcano-plutonic belt, Kerman region, Iran: A review—Sina Asadi, Farid Moore, and Alireza...Allaqi-Heiani belt, Egypt: A case study from the Haimur deposit—Basem Zoheir and Ashraf Emam Greenstone-hosted...tectonic setting of the Sijiaying banded iron deposit in the eastern Hebei province, North China craton:...GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA Is the Bayan Obo ore deposit a micrite mound? A comparison with the Sailinhudong...orientation study in Mo skarn deposits, Jecheon district in Korea—Ji-Young Park, Su-Hyeon Jeon, Jong-Nam |  | | Report (issue) | | PRECIOUS METAL MINERALIZATION FOR THE IUGS/UNESCO DEPOSIT MODELING WORKSHOP HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS IN VOLCANIC...PRECIOUS METAL MINERALIZATION FOR THE IUGS/UNESCO DEPOSIT MODELING WORKSHOP, HYDROTHERMAL SYSTEMS IN VOLCANIC...Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Mineral Deposit Modeling Program workshop Hydrothermal Systems...literature. Some classic descriptions of epithermal ore deposit districts are included also with a brief description...p. 9-24. Ashley, R. P., 1974, Goldfield mining district, in Guidebook to the geology of four Tertiary |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mandarino Famous mineral localities: The Annaberg District, Lower A u stria ...............................compilation of occurrences, associated minerals and deposit types. Diligent examination of polymetallic hydrothermal...characteristic dark green color. Elias mine, Czech Republic Mrazek et al. (1994) report an occurrence of...from the Elias mine, Jachymov, Krusne hory, Czech Republic, where it is found in fragments of quartz gangue... Table 1. Namibite occurrences, associations and deposit types. (Superscripts refer to references list.) |  | | Journal (issue) | | Volume Thirty-eight, Number Two Articles Pink fluorite from an exceptional find at Chumar Bakhoor, Pakistan...Kosnar, a construction contractor of Hungarian/Czech ancestry with family roots in the mining area of...found, as well as albite, smoky quartz, goethite, fluorite, and many rare species at their various commercial...Colorado to mine specimen rhodochrosite, h bnerite, fluorite, svanbergite and goyazite crystals. Other localities...Kosnarite was later found in Brazil in the Jenipapo district. Kosnar assembled an extensive suite of some of |
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