 | | Book | | Orleans, FRANCE; Curator, School of Mines, Paris ^ F* HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg...schubnel, Pro fessor and author, School of Mines, Paris, FRANCE ^ JOHN sinkankas, author and collector,...Kongsberg, NORWAY ^ PAUL fraenkel, collector, Paris, France ^ JOHN fuller, Mineral Assistant, British Museum...omitted, how is it possible to select two golds, two silvers, two rhodochrosites, and two siderites? When the...localities: the Egyptians were working gem and gold mines on the Upper Nile River, the Greeks were busy with | | | Book | | Congress catalog card number: 77-186742 Printed in France by Draeger, Paris CONTENTS Introduction The Birth...Orleans, FRANCE; Curator, School of Mines, Paris 4 F. HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg...SCHUBNEL, Professor and author, School of Mines, Paris, FRANCE ¥& JOHN SINKANKAS, author and collector...Kongsberg, NORWAY }& PAUL FRAENKEL, collector, Paris, FRANCE jx JOHN FULLER, Mineral Assistant, British Museum...omitted, how is it possible to select two golds, two silvers, two rhodochrosites, and two siderites? When the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Australia’s best specimen minerals. The Elura lead-zinc-silver deposit in western New South Wales has produced...green mimetite crystals and Australia’s best wire silvers (Chapman and Scott 2005). The New England region...molybdenite specimens from the Deepwater and Kingsgate mines (see Cook in press) and has also produced beautiful...cassiterite crystals, to 6 cm across, from the tin mines around Elsmore (Lawrence 1998a,b). In the Northern...atacamite specimens (see Pring this article). These mines Downloaded by [Korea University] at 06:33 08 January |  | | Journal (issue) | | built specifically to process the ores from local mines. Figure 2. Hugh Lee Pattinson (1796– 1858) patented... Figure 3. Map showing the locations of the various mines and major vein structures in the Caldbeck Fells...and in 1829 first observed the “partitioning” of silver between solid and liquid lead that would be the...mining property that was claimed to be rich in silver, but which The Mineralogical Record, volume 54...local farmers and miners leased the Roughton Gill mines on the Caldbeck Fells (North Yorkshire Record Office |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on the structure, chemistry, and texture of wire silver for a master’s of science degree at Miami University...ander210@miamioh.edu rakovajf@miamioh.edu & Wire Silver Kongsberg, Norway Wire Gold Ground Hog Mine, Gilman...Gilman, Colorado S ince the dawn of civilization, silver and gold have been treasured for their surpassing...coins are Figure 1. Section cut through a wire silver from Kazakhstan shows roughly equigranular texture...alloy of silver and gold (Wallace 1987). Throughout history and around the globe, gold and silver have been |  | | Journal (issue) | | a suite now known to include chalcocite, native copper and wire silver, as well as some of the world’s...of four mines that exploit the Dzhezkazgan sandstone copper deposit). In addition, the mines of the Zhilandy...Spassky Copper Mine Ltd., were granted concessions on mines in Kazakhstan, the latter acquiring the rights to...Because professional expertise was needed, the mines were developed under the direction of Europeans...inmates were forced to work in the Dzhezkazgan mines. Figure 4. Lithuanian political prisoners forced |  | | Journal (issue) | | Disused Tin Mines Starting with the basics, all three of these localities are disused tin mines. Stavoren... Arsenopyrite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, bomite, chalcocite, native copper, sphalerite, molybdenite and,...Gold has been recorded at Wheal Gerland, though silver only occurs at Majuba Hill. The Arsenates As...occurrence at the Nevada locality consists of chalcocite pseudomorphs after olivenite, which are in turn...to 3mm (Jensen, 1985), typically in altered, chalcocite-rich pods. Pharmacosiderite, and (less commonly) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | electrons (48). Suchtransitions areobserved in chalcocite (11) andrelatedminerals of the typeM,.S. The...wurtzite, molybdenite, melonite,chalcocite,stibniteand the ruby silvers. With few exceptions, almostall...Derivative-Superstructures Structure (High) Chalcocite (Low) Chalcocite 105 ø C fl--Cu•S a--Cu•S Orthorhombic--Abmm...sulfides and sulfo salts containingunivalent copper,silver; trivalent-antimony,-bis- muth,-arsenic;divalentlead;...Tennantite Ruby Silvers Composition bronze CuaFeSl black-brown-red brown-red red (Copper, silver, iron, antimony |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Schwab Orleans, France Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook.............. 487 by J. Scovil Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 2001 .............................................produced world-class specimens o f crystallized chalcocite and hornite, fin e exam ples o f which are held...and ended in 1857; apparently, all of the fine chalcocite and bornite specimens now extant were found during |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | photo. Seventeenth in a series of articles on the mines and minerals of Michigan’s Copper Country Figure...the mine dumps. These minerals include copper, silver, porcelaneous datolite nodules, prehnite, quartz...after of the highly prized specimens are native silver and native copper, metal detectors are extensively...finds are grouped into five categories: copper, silver, copper-banded agates, datolite, and miscellaneous...locality has long been a source of fine copper and silver crystal groups that have been recovered from the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 70148. Recent work on material from several former mines on the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, has revealed...matrix was partially removed from samples of chalcocite-bearing vein material from the Baltic mine exposing...fide veinlets, is intimately associated with chalcocite, and is usually spatially associated with late...dump revealed crude wires of native silver associated with chalcocite, quartz, and minor barite. During...with the native silver. The Cu-Ag sulfide is identical in overall appearance to chalcocite and was analyzed |  | | Report (issue) | | digging good fluorite specimens from some of the old mines; in Munich I always check out certain German (former...Yuanfuliite, 3.3 cm, from the Nuestra Señora del Carmen mines area, La Celia, Jumilla, Murcia, Spain. Fabre Minerals...================= Cantabria). The small Pb-Zn mines of the La Florida group have been inactive since...during the 1960s, as the last of the old Ramsbeck mines were closing down. The specimen is already marked...Vidale lead mine, Bréziès, Asprières, Aveyron, France, there is this large specimen of botryoidal yellow-green |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | stromeyerite, mckinstryite, jalpaitc,andthe ruby silvers. Pyriteandmarcasite are subordinate constituents...distinguished; six of these contain,at least locally, copper-silver mineralization.In order to reconstructthe depo...nt.These particularlyin unitsI, II, and III. Chalcocite,bornRe,andtennantite(argentian)are The overlyingsedimentsof...carbonate veins. Where silver occurs as discrete has not been observed. Native silver occurs as fine disseminations...predominant,the reverserelationshipis blagetennantite-chalcocite, earlyformedtennantite common.Chaleopyrite-r |  | | Journal (issue) | | BUTTE, MONTANA Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines and History The Mineralogical Record Volume 33 • Number...January–February, 2002 Contents Butte, Montana: Minerals, Mines and History By Robert E. Jenkins & Jerry A. Lorengo...January–February, 2002 3 Butte, Montana Minerals, Mines, and History Robert E. Jenkins 6 Columbus Circle...22215 For more than 100 years Butte’s dozens of mines have been a source of extraordinary specimens of...copper sulfides and sulfosalts like bornite, chalcocite, colusite, covellite, digenite, djurleite, and |  | | Report (chapter) | | Sillitoe Department of Mining Geology, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London, England 553.067:553...concentrations of disseminated and vesicle-filling chalcocite-bornitechalcopyrite in the tops of Jurassic to...following their accumulation. Copper and subordinate silver were leached from the volcanic rocks and deposited...metals in various proportions, but also base metals. Silver occurs as argentite (or acanthite) and arsenic-...000 oz of silver from both Pachuca and Guanajuato. Furthermore, quite a number of the mines have yielded |  | | Report (volume) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1237 A study of the silver-zinc and manganese deposits of the Nation's only...district is an economically important zinc- and silver-producing area and virtually the only domestic...Quartz veins that have been mined primarily for silver, zinc, and lead cut both the batholith and the...Such veins on Hope Hill yielded much highgrade silver ore early in the history of the district, and their...places contain recoverable amounts of zinc and silver sulfides. The manganoan carbonates formed mainly |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................:...... . 559 Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Show 2013 by T. P. Moore ......... . 565 issue...collectors take great pride in their old historic mines, and instead of bulldozing them into parking lots...one-of-a-kind masterpiece specimens from the major classic mines of the world is NOW FOR SALE -- INDIVIDUALLY! Most...famous localities like the Tsumeb, Kombat and Otavi mines, and more recently from the Skorpion mine. Over...Kandesei pits and the Van der Plas and Otuani mines. These mines have been described previously, primarily |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg...Cairncross Famous mineral localities: The Idria mines, Slovenia, Yugoslavia ............................201 by P. Bancroft, /. Car, M. Zorz & G. Kobler Silver minerals of the Trebsko deposit, Pribram orefield...mined or its silver value except for Mr. Clinton’s assay results of 300 ounces of silver per ton. From |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | several in North Carolina, including the well-known Silver Hill occurrence in Davidson County, and the McMakin...and mines of the Virgilina district, Halifax County, Virginia (Dietrich 1990). The great silver occurrences...widespread and locally abundant acanthite. Many mines of the Colorado mineral belt contained important...although it was apparently sparse in some famous silver districts, such as Leadville, whereas others that...specimens (Eckel 1997). Some wire silver from the White Raven and Black Jack mines of the Ward district, Boulder |  | | Catalog/List | | 13mm. £12.00. 19. AZURITE. Chessey des Mines,Nr.Lyon,France. From this no longer accessable site.a very...x 28mm x 15®m. £38.00. 20 AZURITE/HALACHITE/CHALCOCITE. Gwennap.Cornwall. An excellent,inexpensive display...BOURNONITE. Casapalca.Peru. A series of six or so silver-grey.slightly flattened,*cog-wheels'.rest upon...pocket remaining. 84mm x 60mm x 23®®- £7«00. 45. CHALCOCITE. Vrancice,Pribram,Bohem,C.S.S.R. An almost pure...matrix-free ,specimen. 50mm x 45®® x 20mm. £4.00. 46. CHALCOCITE. Wheal Cock,St.Just.Cornwall. Pure crystalline |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Joel A. Bartsch Houston Museum of Nat. Sci. Houston...Schwab Orleans, France Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook.............. 155 by J. A . M andarino COVER: CHALCOCITE, colored blue by a microthin coating of bomite...Mexican state of Guanajuato, which has been producing silver since the 1550’s, is famous for its specimen-quality...specimen-quality minerals. The major ore minerals include silver, acanthite and the sulfosalts polybasite, pearceite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg...operated their business, under the name of “ The Silver Pick,” for 40 years, and attended the Tucson Show...in g C o u n t y Martin Jensen Mackay School of Mines University of Nevada, Reno Reno, Nevada 89557-0047...hoping that it could be in-situ leached for its silver values. With the increase in environmental controls |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | SILVER By G A R Y F I N I O L 1 0 1 5 Glenmeadow C t . , Saginaw, Michigan 4 8 6 0 3 Of all the metals...verware in the form of sterling silver use in his world, the properties of silver which is 9 2 . 5 % pure, in...The metal has been known since an batteries, in silver contacts and in the cient times, is mentioned in...world where man has of silver. learned to depend heavily upon metals. Silver paints are used in mirrors...electrical circuits and silver fulmi that man first learned to separate silver nate (Ag2C2N20i) is a very |  | | Journal (issue) | | Associate Editors Pierre Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Bill Birch Museum of Victoria Melbourne, Australia...Associate Photographers Nelly Bariand Sorbonne Paris, France Dan Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg...grading system for minerals, a coin’s grade deter mines its price, so the rule might be restated to say...recover equipment and minerals from one of the oldest mines in the United States. Even as the water rose to...Avenue Alexandre III F-78600 Maisons Laffitte, France Vandall T. King P.O. Box 90888 Rochester, New York |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEOLOGY OF THE SILVER COLQUIJIRCA, H. DEPOSIT AT PERU. E. MCKINSTRY. DR. WA•.r)V. MARL•N•)GRV...• hasrecentlypublisheda paperon the Colquijirca Silver mine in the Andes of Central Peru.- The presentarticle...: The Silver Mine of Colquijirca, Peru. 331-346, I935. 618 Ecos. GEo•.., vol. 30, pp. SILVER DEPOSIT...it accompanied or followed the main folding. SILVER DEPOSIT /IT COLQUIJIRC/I, PERU. 621 FIG. 1.4...gradationsand modifications maybe found: kaolin SILVER DEPOSIT •IT COLQUIJIRC•I, PERU. 623 with disseminated |
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