 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Willstaett-Eckartsweier Germany info@wendel-minerals.com Clara Mine The Figure 1. Dumps of the Clara mine where collecting...a small fee. Near Wolfach in the Black Forest Germany From the Myth of the “Golden Calf ” to Modern Mining...6.4 cm. Museum for Minerals and Mathematics Oberwolfach specimen. Figure 4. Barite, so-called Meisselspat...1977 find. Museum for Minerals and Mathematics Oberwolfach collection. T RADITION holds that the wooded...mountain. According to another legend, two men from Oberwolfach tried to find the “golden calf ” with magic. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals of the Clara Mines Ober-Wolfach, Baden, West Germany Outstanding crystals of barite and fluorite...at tracted mineral collectors to West Germany's Clara mines. Today, the number of visitors has swelled...rare elsewhere can be found fairly easily in the Clara mines' abun dant vugs. Thus, American mineral collectors...The Clara mines are in the heart of the Black Forest, which forms the southwest corner o f Germany, bordering...opportunity for many sports. A l though the Clara mine is the mineralogists' chief target, there are |  | | Catalog/List | | Arizona. Pyrargyrite, crystallized, Samson Mine, Harz, Germany Cuprite on Native Copper, very fine, Bisbee... Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Malachite, Copper Queen Mine, Bisbee, Arizona Native Silver...Silver, Aspen, Colo., Mollie Gib son Mine, one of the greatest Silver Mines ever discovered. Native...Calcite, Golden, N. M. Gold Leaf on Quartz, Burdette Mine, Nevada Co., Cal. Agatized Wood, Adamana, Arizona...Adamana, Arizona Vanadanite, Crystallized, Rio Cloud Mine, Yuma Co., Arizona Carnotite, Very Rich. San Miguel |  | | Book | | Netherlands. Back cover The museum ldar-Oberstein. West-Germany. is quaintly situated beneath the Felsenkirche...Copyright 1986 by . Ulrich Burchard, Lalling, West-Germany All rights reserved including the right of reproduction...Printed in Germany Miscellaneous: Design & Lay Out by Rainer Bode, Haltern, West-Germany Type set by...Wurzburg, West-Germany Colour separations by Litho Thungen GmbH, Thungen, West-Germany H. Bari, Musee...Printed by Sellier Druck GmbH, Freising, West-Germany 6 Gasull, Museo de Geologia, Barcelona 249; V |  | | Catalog/List | | SPC. D or RF £12 4. N AT I V E COPPER.Wolserine Mine,Keweenaugh Peninsula-Michigan-USA Pure flattish...Pretty RF N11.£6 10. CI AB.kZITE.Ilowinegg.,Flegau,Germany Rich sugh lined with milky white translucent equant...C. £18 22 IRRIDESCENT HEMATITE,Nickenich.Eifel,Germany. Bright blue aggregates of hematite micra stls...matrix. Attractive RF SPC. C £5 26 PECTOL/TE,JefTrey Mine,Asbestos,Quebec.Canada. Exquisite milky white acicular...nodules M I & TN RF SPC £1 45 GYPSUM,Eisleben,East Germany Pure aggregate of stnated elongated gypsum :sits |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | that very rare variety of cuprite, chalcotrichite. Chalcotrichite resembles tiny scarlet hairs growing...of solid rock. This specimen came from a copper mine at Bisbee, Arizona. Ray Scherzinger 6991 Valley...the days when the quarry was worked as a copper mine and were a specimen of malachite on trap and another...behind the lumber yard. We hunted, thereafter for the mine, but encountered only granite quarries, and finally...—Morton Metersky Secretary—J. Kent Perry Treasurer—Clara Yrshus A new practice has been adopted to instill |  | | Book | | deposits in Texas and Louisiana (USA), Tarnobrzeg region and Mach6w (Poland), Karakum Desert and Volgaland...(217), marcasite (437) • Occurrence: common; Clay region in Alabama (USA); Harz (GDR), FRG, Botogol deposit...Caucasus - crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine - Nevada (USA) •Application: ore (extraction of...- aggregation of crysta ls from pil e of a coal mine; Kladn o (Czechoslovakia - width of field 15 mm)...volcano Avachinskaya in Kamchatka (USSR), Wiesbaden region (FRG) • Application: chemical, glass and food industries |  | | Catalog/List | | Greenish , sparse, acicular micros in Penbenhy Croft Mine, St cavities in quartz_________________ Hilary Cornwall... Rich white crusts on matrix. ALAMOSITE Rawhide Mine, Mohave Ixl £9 'A x A £3 1 xA Pb SiO/3_____________...Feldspar_____________ Black areas in actinolite Basinas Mine Sweden 1x1 £1.20 ALLANITE 9 Ce Y Fe SiO__________...grey masses with possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, ALSTONITE 13 Hexham.Northumberland micros.____...richly distributed in Porphyry. 6x6mm £3 San Jose Mine, Oruro, Bolivia Pure grey metallic mass ANDORITE | | | Book | | illustrated Encyclopedi of the World’s Rocks and Mine re L A R E N MI OF THE WORLD Rudolf Duda and...deposits in Texas and Louisiana (USA), Tarnobrzeg region and Machow (Poland), Karakum Desert and Volgaland...(217), marcasite (437) e Occurrence: common; Clay region in Alabama (USA); Harz (GDR), FRG, Botogol deposit...Caucasus — crystals up to 1.5 cm (USSR), Getchell Mine — Nevada (USA) e Application: ore (extraction of...Sal-ammoniac — aggregation of crystals from pile of a coal mine; Kladno (Czechoslovakia — width of field 15 mm) |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviated, e.g. canton (Switzerland), vilayet (Turkey), region (Chile), kray and oblast (Russia). The country...by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga administrative region again. The former Kivu province is now divided...United States or of the Upper Silesian historical region in Poland, where the importance of ore-bearing...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO |  | | Journal (issue) | | PAUL WILHELM DESERT QUIZ PHOTOGRAPHY MINING LOST MINE 21 A test of your desert knowledge 22 Pictures...news of desert mines 24 Lost Lead of the Santa Clara By GEORGE GARDNER 25 Comment from Desert's readers...California during his younger days and knew the region well. "Just when the idea of a palatial home on...shipped over this rail line to the Bonnie Clare mine, near the head of Grapevine Canyon. The Bonnie Clare...human beings than there are white people in the region today. The Lawbaughs were not the first to discover |  | | 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...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma |  | | Report (issue) | | and good specimens have come from the Manzanita mine. Imperial County: The mud volcanoes near Volcano...mineral. gypsum have been found in the Defiance mine. Kern County On both sides of the San Joaquin Valley...district. Lake County: At the Sulphur Bank quicksilver mine, situated on Clear Lake, a very interesting deposit... mony mines has also been found in the Buffalo mine and in the anti- San Emidio Mountains, of the...Alisal mine on El of Salinas, in the foothills of the Gabilan range, W. P. Blake^^^. This mine contained |  | | Catalog/List | | is fluorescent. MUS,L85. 2. ADAMITE. Kameriza Mine,Laurium,Attica,Greece. Goethite fragment vith aggregates... SC,L6. 3, AGARDITE(CALCIAN).Penberthy Crofts Mine,St Hilary,Cornvall ■ Tvo specimens. Specimen A-boxed...crusts. SC,L8. ~- AGARDITE-Y. Clara Mine,Rankachtal,BLack Forest,Germany. 3 boxed specimens. Specimen...deeper blue. SC,L9. 6. ALSTONITE. Brownley Hill Mine,Nenthead,Cumbria. Six specimens. Specimen A-matrix...vhen found! L3 each. AHDBRSONITE.Peeth Lode,Geevor Mine,Pendeen,Cornva11. Dark brovn matrix fragment vith |  | | Journal (issue) | | Uncommon copper and lead minerals from the Eagle Eye mine, La Paz county, Arizona (USA) 1/7-9 26th Rochester...MINERALOGICAL RECORD 30(5), 10.99 335-344 The Mex-Tex mine, Bingham, New Mexico 347-360/365 The Sapucaia pegmatite...Grube Clara ; Jeremejewit, Eifel) 32-33 Wittichen lebt ! 34-37 Neue Mineralfunde von der Grube Clara (deel...5(2), 12.99 55-62 Mineralogy of the Spring Creek mine, S.Australia, including the new species springcreekite...83 Edgar Ralph Segnit (1923-1999) 84 New chalcotrichite occurrences in the Mt Isa Block, Queensland |  | | Report (issue) | | specimens have come from the Manzanita mine, and also from the Elgin mine. Imperial County: The mud volcanoes...fluorite and gypsum have been found in the Defiance mine. .A small deposit is reported in the mountains east...Spriiijrs. Native sulpluir at 11 the SuiLshiue mine. Last Chance ^lountains. Kern County: On both...district. Lake County: At the Sulphur P>ank quicksilver mine, situated on Clear Lake, a very interesting deposit...east of Vaughn. It has been found in the Buffalo mine and antimony mines of the San Emidio Mountains |  | | Book | | museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...look for. Michael O’Donoghue Proustite (East Germany) 7 Rocks We can define a rock as a large mineral...over its beer: to go underground in a non-working mine is sheer folly unless you are accompanied by someone...(preferably several people) who really knows the mine. Before venturing into the field serious collectors...really is a matter of life or death when you are in a mine - only a plan will show where water on the floor |  | | Report (issue) | | discovered in California came from the gold mining region of the Sierra Nevada, beginning with the nickel...considerable amounts in the wall rock at the Argonaut mine, Josephson (32). County: It is found in the copper-bearing...occurs in brecciated tuff duced at the Leviathan mine, Leviathan Peak of Markleeville, W. W. Bradley (35)...deposited by solfataric action occurs in the Defiance mine. an area of several acres, 9 miles east of Coso...interesting deposit at the Sulphur Bank quicksilver mine on Clear Lake was described by Le Conte and Rising |  | | Catalog/List | | Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn...Rich pinkish fine grained mass in calcite Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Ix½ £2.50 lxl £4 ANCYLITECe CeSr |  | | Book | | dependent on the generosity of aristo¬ crats, as in Germany or Russia. Povarennykh would like to see a rational...Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Austria...chemist and mineralogist; student of Torbern Bergman; mine owner and mineral analyst; trained J. J. Berzelius...and chemist; assisted R. W. Bun¬ sen in Marburg, Germany; opened chemical laboratory in Philadelphia (1848);...specified. arnimite, von Amim family of Zwickau, Germany, kimzeyite, Kimzey family of Magnet Cove, Arkansas |  | | Catalog/List | | cleavage Yakutia.Russia MnS lxl £9 ½x½ £3 IX½ Rawhide Mine. Mohave 255 ALA!\IOSITE Rich white cruslS on matrix...botryoidal with possible New East Wheat Russell mine, ½x½ 501 ALLOPHANE £4 -·-· . . ALSiO £2.SO B~~.~~~~t~...grey masses '1.\ith possible Alstonite Fallowfield mine, Ix½ £4 13 ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 micros. Hexham,Northumberland...- - · - --·· -·Pure grey metallic mass San Jose Mine, Oruro. Bolivia 6x6mm £3 217 A1'DORITE . PbAgSb_S...£1.JQ .. .. F~ls~ar_G!_?~P 2x2 £2 lx2£1 Kaveltorp Mine Sweden Rich fawn sheaves in silvery schist 27 ANTHOPHYLLITE |  | | Report (volume) | | uranium and vanadium minerals in the high plateau region of the West. The present bulletin, like the earlier...vol. 1, 1888. Branner, J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept...STATES ALABAMA. H ing in pure white clay at Eureka mine, 4 miles northeast of Valley Head. Etowah County...Corundum (emery). Found in various places in gold region, including Coosa County, near Mount Olive and Hanover;...rocks. Gneisses and mica schists of metamorphic region. Quarries at Tallassee Falls, in Elmore County |  | | Journal (issue) | | C. van Loon. Diary of Events 4 2 6 Llywernog Mine and Museum S.J.S. Hughes. ADVERTISING Peter Briscoe...Great Consols. Sculls in Devon Great Consols copper mine supporting the hanging wall of the lode. When copper...subsequent extraction of this sulphide from the mine, the lower levels remained untouched, since most...arsenopyrite in the deeper, flooded parts of the mine. P h o t o : R.H. Bird A.R.P.S. U.K. JOURNAL OF...was a single tourmaline (65 x 20тт) from the Jos region of Nigeria which graded from pink to dark green |  | | Book | | on quartz, from Neudorf in the Harz Mountains (Germany). The large crystal measures almost 2 1/2 inches...on quartz, Braunsdorf near Freiberg (Saxony, Germany); crystals up to 2 1/2 inches (6 cm) long. 6 ...with the NO 3group. Apatite, Fichtelgebirge (Germany), 2x 12 Scheelite, Tae-Wha (Korea), 1x The...Classification Siderite, 8ri.iderbund Mine, near Eiserfeld (Siegerland, Germany), 3x almost identical in size...specimen shown here comes from the Eagle's Nest Mine in California, and its actual size is about 2 inches |  | | Report (issue) | | in the Boron area, but also in the Death Valley region. Another example is a recent study of the glaucophane...various accounts of the natural bounties of this region. Mineral riches gold and silver, mainly were among...stone hammers and called his claim the Stone Hammer mine. This find aroused so much interest that the San...circumstance the location was named the Stone Hammer mine. "The State Mining Bureau reported at about the...time that turquoise had been found in the desert region between Death Valley and Goff's Mining District |
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Clara Mine, Oberwolfach, Ortenaukreis, Freiburg Region, Baden-Württemberg, Germany