 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | St. Austell, columbite, r3I Penryn Granite Co. quarry, Halv,zsso, stokesite, 411 Wheal Cock Zawn, stokesite...I Somerset Mendips, chloroxiphite, 357 Merehead quarry, Cranmore, brucite, blixite, hydromagnesite, hydrocerussite...Saltburn, iron-boracite, 404 Hepworth Iron Co. quarry, Penistone, francolite, siderite (magnesian), 287...Hill, Radnorshire, actinolite, tourmaline, altered gabbro, 124 Coch, Glamoroan, pyrobelonite, roman6chite...SCOTLAND Arisaig, Inverness-shire, tholeiite, 273 Bad na h'Achlaise, Assynt, Sutherland, fenite, microeline |  | | Book (edition) | | with both enclosed in square brackets, e.g. fluorapatite Ca[Fl(PO 4)3] or euchroite 0.1 2[OHIAsO 4]•3H...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from the Rabejac deposit... = = = = = Acanthite, x 16 mm, Freiberg, Germany, H Abernathyite, 12 mm, Ririera/, France, H Abhurite...at the Himmelsftirst mine, Freiberg, both Saxony, Germany. In the subtropical areas acanthite may occur |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | authors are printed in SMALLCAPITALS,subjects in lower-case roman, and localities in italics. Actinolitc...ALABASTER (C. J.), An occurrence of brucite at Merehead quarry, Cranmore, Somerset, 4o0 ALEXANDER (P. O.) and...Scotland, Cl-poor, anal., 529 and M7; and see Fluorapatite, Francolitc Aphthitalite, Western Australia...the Bondoc Peninsula meteorite, I21 (Syn.), MI Bad na h'Achlaise, Assynt, Sutherland, fenitc, microcline...W.), PItlLLIPS (E. R.), and STONE (I. J.), The lower quartzofeldspathic gneiss at Broken Hill, New South |  | | Book | | A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...OF A CHANGING PLANET Hardness 5 Hardness 8 Fluorapatite Topaz Hardness 6 Hardness 9 Microcline ...manganese oxide on limestone, Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany * 11.5 x 24 x 0.5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A...such as Porcupine and Hemlo districts; Noranda district, Quebec. USA: Mother Lode belt and others in...Localities Canada: Cobalt mining district and Thunder Bay District, Ontario. USA: several localities |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | hydrobasaluminite, basaluminite, 931 Merebead quarry, Somerset, mendipite, chloroxiphite, 9o i St. Austell...Cornwall, luxullianite, 441; 442 Scar Crag, Lake District, arsenopyrite, alloclase, glaucodot, cobaltian...intergrown with clausthalite and wittichenite, 13I Germany (Deutschland) Clara mine, Black Forest, cuprotungstite...jadeite, phengite, pumpellyite, and lawsonite in gabbro, 979 Termignon, Haut Savoie, blueschist-facies...Valle Vigezzo, Prov. Novara, vigezzite, 459 Osa quarry, Rome, gismondine, 84 I Sasso della Mantesca and |  | | Book | | look for. Michael O’Donoghue Proustite (East Germany) 7 Rocks We can define a rock as a large mineral...Darker and even poorer in silica than diorite is gabbro, containing a calcium-rich plagioclase and pyroxene...Granite Nepheline syenite Syenite Dio rite Gabbro Peridotite 13 Dunite Serpentinite Rhyolite...the fixed index (the ordinary ray) at a higher or lower reading than the moveable (extraordinary) ray. Where...incident beam are retarded by passing through to the lower side of the film, rejoining the main beam either |  | | Book (edition) | | departamento district municipio Saint Sainte island mount, mountain...burning coal dumps of the Anna mine, near Aachen. Germany. CM 51, 57-66, 2013. Afmite Al;[(OH) 4 IPO;(OH)l(PO4))'4Hi0...Northampton co., Pennsylvania, and from the Kobokobo quarry, near Kamituga, Dern. Rep. of Congo. EJM 23, 269-277...meteorite impact crater, N of Nordlingen, Bavaria, Germany. AM 95, 892-895, 2010. Aklimaitc CaJ(OH) 4 JSi2Os(OH)2]·5H...thaleniteM crystals from the NYF-pegmatite at Askagen quarry, Viirmland, Sweden, in tiny metamict crystals to |  | | Report (issue) | | Tyrol; 4. & 9. Greifenstein, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Saxony S. Gouverneur, St. Lawrence Co., New York, U.S...The Panasqueira Mines: One Hundred Years of Fluorapatite BY CARLES CURTO MILA AND JORDI FABRE I FORNAGUERA... the Erzgebirge ("Ore Mountains") of southern Germany. The tin deposit in Ehrenfriedersdorf is the putative...(Damour 1856; Rammelsberg 1860): 4 APATITE fluorapatite, hydroxylapatite, and chlorapatite. Their ideal...of the colors and luminescent properties of fluorapatite. STRUCTURE As with all mineral groups, the |  | | Book (volume) | | octahedra (M-octahedra) by additional D-octahedra with lower-force characteristics (D ¼ Fe, Mg, Mn or Zn) in...points in Fig. 1.8 is due mainly to the presence of lower-force-strength cations (Ca and Na) in the D site...(Specord 75 IR or Specord M80, Carl Zeiss, Jena, Germany), Perkin Elmer 1600 Series FT IR spectrometer or...FT IR spectrometer (Bruker Optics, Ettlingen, Germany). IR spectrum of a pure KBr disc was subtracted...MgB6O7(OH)6·2H2O Locality: Chelkar salt dome, Aksai Valley, Aktobe region, Kazakhstan (type locality). Description: |  | | Report (issue) | | Deposit/Site_Name, is meant to identify the area, deposit, district, mine, or occurrence to which the geologic, economic...duplicates, for some areas we report information for a district or area, as well as for specific deposits or mines...316-322. Al-Bassam, K.S., and Hagopian, D., 1983, Lower Eocene phosphorites of the Western Desert, Iraq:...Memoir 13, p. 923. Chen, J., and Li, G., 1991, Lower Cambrian phosphate-replicated endoliths from Emei...Precambrian Champaner Group, near Gandhra, Panchmahal District, Gujarat, in Rao, G.V., Dasgupta, S.P., Pant, |  | | Book (volume) | | of the publisher. Cover photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard... is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite district in North America. Its wealth of tourmalines, morganites...Gerais, Brazil, better than those from the Harvard quarry in Greenwood? Are the morganites of Cerro de Urucum...Pala, California, better than those of the Bennett quarry in Buckfield? The answer to most of these questions...Naturhistorisches Museum der Stadt Bern, Bern, Germany, 143 p. Vlasov, K. A., Kuz'menko, M. Z., and Es'kova |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Horbuliv quarry (20– 40 ppm), have the highest temperature of crystallization (845 ± 40 °C). Lower (720–770...i t e a n d leucogabbronorite with subordinate gabbro-noritic rocks. Other rock types, including monzonites...reach 1–2 m in size and are often layered: their lower parts consist of large crystals of pyroxene (average... Sample 599 represents zircons from an olivine gabbro of the Fedorivka layered intrusion that was described...Torchyn gabbroic massif was sampled in the Torchyn quarry (sample 03D18). The separated zircons are slightly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | following its discovery in Waldheim, Döbein, Saxony, Germany, and was so-named because it occurred in elongated...silica carbide is included, for some reason. As bad as these are, however, my favorite is “Oxidated Barnite...the common rock types such as peridotite, basalt, gabbro, andesite, granite, and so forth. There are, of...Nelson County, Virginia, and the lat- Figure 1. Fluorapatite, 5.3 cm high, Cerro Mercado, Durango, Mexico...and interiors of buildings. ter for the Kiruna district in northern Sweden. Differences between nelsonites |  | | Journal (issue) | | mine does seem to generate more than its share of bad luck. A t this point the other participants became...on calcite from the New Nevada mine, Batopilas District, Chihuahua, M exico. The specimen, from the John...ith Mexican localities to include the m ining district name where possible, because there are often several...exist in Permian marine sediments of the H unter Valley region on the Central Coast of New South Wales...also been observed in the glendonites from the lower H unter region. A ccording to A nderson and Jevons |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Schneebergite and nickelschneebergite from Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany: the first Bi-bearing members of the tsumcorite...Metamict aeschynite-(Y) from the Evje-Iveland district (Norway): heat-induced recrystallization and dehydrogenation...mantle component in the origins of the Hercynian gabbro-granite series of the “Serie dei Laghi” (Southern...Pb6Sb6S14(S3), a new mineral from the Ceragiola marble quarry..................................................ILDEFONSE, G. CALAS.– Native Cd+ in sedimentary fluorapatite....................................... 1087 |  | | Book | | composition into an opaque amorphous mass with much lower properties, such as refractive index and specific...significantly reduced 18O content (down to <10%), much lower than the 18O composition of the solution after reaction...the apatite, with the presence of NaF producing a lower nucleation density, larger crystals and coarser...pure calcite (2.71 g/cm3) and the density of fluorapatite (FAP) as 3.20 g/cm3, the porosity of most of...to end member FAP, whereas samples reacted with lower F content are probably replaced by hydroxy-FAP (Ca10(PO4)6OHxF2x) |  | | Book | | themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral species, microspecimens...fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its production of...Balmat, New York; and Howard Brown of Lucerne Valley, California. Emanuel Fritch of the Gemological...be seen under the microscope, providing that the lower magnifications are used. The details of color and...Hampshire, and the Strickland quarry in Portland, Connecticut. Fluorapatite, which fluoresces yellow-orange | | | Book | | themselves in the minerals of a single mine or mineral district, one or several particular mineral species, microspecimens...fluorescing minerals. The field—mine, mine dump, or quarry—can be richly rewarding in its production of...of Balmat, New York; and Howard Brown of Lucerne Valley, California. Emanuel Fritch of the Gemological...be seen under the microscope, providing that the lower magnifications are used. The details of color and...Hampshire, and the Strickland quarry in Portland, Connecticut. Fluorapatite, which fluoresces yellow-orange |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ladysmith (Rosemeyer 1999, the Vulcan Materials quarry in Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence...marcasite. A major mining district, the Upper Mississippi Valley zinc-lead district, was in these rocks in...and copper minerals were found. Mining in this district ceased in the late 1970s. A branch of the Middle...may have omitted. Adams County Hamilton Mound. A quarry is located in the NE 1/4 sec. 36 T*20N*R.6E.: potassium...converted to a hornfels at the contact with the Mellen gabbro complex: apatite, fayalite, ferroaugite, grunen'te |  | | Journal (issue) | | ......................................658 Pech Valley Pegmatite Field ...................658 Pricing...undiscovered at this time, whereas the nearby Sar-e-Sang District—red arrow—had been mined for lapis lazuli for...group; (2) the pegmatites of Dari-i-Pech (Pech River Valley); (3) the Parun/Waygal/Chathras group; and (4)...Sar-e-Sang (“Blue Mountain”), in the Kokcha River Valley of Badakhshan Province, may be the earliest gem...1960, the first modern exploitation of the Pech Valley pegmatite field produced 130 tons of industrial |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ......................................658 Pech Valley Pegmatite Field.................658 Pricing and...undiscovered at this time, whereas the nearby Sar-e-Sang District—red arrow—had been mined for lapis lazuli for...group; (2) the pegmatites of Dari-i-Pech (Pech River Valley); (3) the Parun/Waygal/Chathras group; and (4)...Sar-e-Sang (“Blue Mountain”), in the Kokcha River Valley of Badakhshan Province, may be the earliest gem...1960, the first modern exploitation of the Pech Valley pegmatite field produced 130 tons of industrial |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf Medenbach Ruhr Universitat Bochum Bochum, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim...] 328 Famous mineral localities: the Pulsifer quarry (by W. E. Wilson) [1977, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 72-77...localities: the Himalaya dike system, Mesa Grande district, California (by E. E. Foord) [1977, vol. 8, no...Lowell) [1982, vol. 13, no. 1, p. 19-28.] The Jensen quarry, Riverside County, California (by F. DeVito and...Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof, Pretoria West Germany Christian Weise Verlag Oberanger 6 D-800G Munchen |  | | Journal (issue) | | Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Olaf Medenbach Ruhr Universitat Bochum Bochum, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim.............191 by W. E. Wilson The Port Radium district, Northwest Territories, Canada .......................... 241 COVER: PROUSTITE from Freiberg, Saxony. The specim en m easu res 3.6 cm tall. Collection...unstable ground, deteriorated ground support systems, bad air, fire and unsafe water. The hazards of old underground...have gone into underground mines to help support “bad ground.” Timbers, of course, are susceptible to long |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cathodoluminescence images and trace element compositions of fluorapatite from the Hongge layered intrusion in SW China:...element analyses were performed for fluorapatite from the gabbro and Fe-Ti oxide ores in the upper zone...mafic-ultramafic layered intrusion in SW China. The fluorapatite is closely associated with Fe-Ti oxides and...interstitial to plagioclase and clinopyroxene. The fluorapatite grains in one thin section vary from ~10 to...and ~50 to 1200 mm in length. Coarse-grained fluorapatite crystals (>200 in width) in the same thin section |  | | Book | | MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...Mount Malosa, Chilwa alkaline province, Zomba district. "Illite" is the name of a series of incompletely...magnetite, anatase, biotite, microcline and minor fluorapatite (Robinson and Chamberlain, 1982), with ilmenite...1991). Simdeled, Aust-Agder. Early in 1999, in a quarry near S~ndeled, collectors opened a pocket containing |
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