 | | 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 |  | | 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...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...program to process electron-microprobe data, 414 Gabbro, Marangudzi, anal., norm, mode, conditions of cryst |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Authors are printed in SMALLCAPITALS,Subjects in lower-case roman, and Localities in italics. T h e m i...Aerugite, synthesis, 72; Cornwall, anal., X-ray, 72; Saxony, anal., X-ray, 72. Aeschynite-priorite series,...topotactic formation from y-CaSiOa, 347. Ankerite, Germany, topotactic decomposition of, 634. Anthoinite,...Arsenobismite, Brazil, 785. Artern, Sachseu-Anhalt, Germany, mellite, 542. ASWATHA~ARAYA~A(U.), Isotopic ages...(S.), see SARBADHIKARI (T. n.), 770. Bhilwara district, ]~ajasthan, India, scorodite, 776. BmaAR (G. |  | | 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) | | 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...byssolite. Mono- coast of North America: Kobuk River Valley, Alaska, clinic, C2/m, a,b,c = 9.89, 18.20, 5.31 |  | | Book | | A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...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... Wire silver, Silver Islet Mine, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada * 11.5 x 14x 11 om Silver has |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | found at Hashupa and at Alchuri, in the Shigar Valley, Northern Areas, Pakistan (Blauwet 2006). • Good...in amphibolite gneiss at the Keystone trap-rock quarry, Cornog, Pennsylvania. • Pink to green crystals...niigataite for the type locality, in the Itoigawa-Ohmi district, Niigata Prefecture, in central Japan (Miyajima...in a sample of pumpellyite rock from the Wakasa district, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The host rock consisted...garnets in a typical skarn assemblage, from Saline Valley, California. When this material was found, the |  | | Book | | immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...culture, derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric...minerals are concerned. Opal is still thought to bring bad luck, and similar stories are told about certain...of these fourfold axes in all. The considerably lower symmetry of a monoclinic crystal is shown in Fig...crystallographic symmetry of a body may often be lower than its apparent geometric symmetry. In a pyrite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | authors are printed in SMALLCAPITALS,Subjects in lower-case roman, and Localities in italics. The minerals...i28. Amblygonite, France, Maine, New South Wales, Saxony, anal., cell-dimensions, distinction from montebrasite...albite, I56; - - , anal., d2o i, 489. Amoibite, Germany, anal., opt., X-ray, 26. Amos Stream, New Caledonia...Australia, alkali feldspar, anal., d2oi, 489. Bosahan quarry, Falmouth, Cornwall, biotite, 2IO. BOWDEN (P.)...Egypt, 394; New Zealand, 375. Chursdorf, Penig, Saxony, amblygonite, 414. Cinnabar, Yorkshire, xlii. CLARK |  | | Book (edition) | | 134 143 THE TRACHYTE AND ANDESITE FAMILY THE GABBRO FAMILY . 152 156 170 . THE GREENSTONE FAMILY...The plutonic rocks-granite, syenite, diorite and gabbro - occur frequently in bosses . Laccolite.- A dome-shaped...many igneous areas (e.g. , in the English Lake District and in North Wales) . Dykes and Veins. - A dyke...sometimes form marked features in the scenery of a district ; for, being more capable of resisting the disintegrating...beautiful scenery of North Wales and of the Lake District owes its origin to the great development of volcanic |  | | Journal (issue) | | Museum Toronto, Ontario Steven R. Morehead Green Valley, AZ Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...Windisch 30 Van Wouw Street Groenkloof, Pretoria Germany Christian Weise Verlag Oberanger 6 D-80331 München...varietal name kunzite) was from mines in the Pala district, and notable occurrences of pink beryl (morganite)...volume 33, September–October, 2002 rine), topaz, spessartine, and many other pegmatite minerals are also found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Universit~itTfibingen, D-7400 Tfibingen, Federal Republic of Germany 2Department of Geology, Stanford University, Stanford...Ttibingen, D-7400 Tfibingen, Federal Republic of Germany Late Cretaceous, granitic pegmatite-aplite dikes...(6D .... = - 9 0 to - 1 3 0 ) in the Mesa Grande district crystallized in the presence of, or exchanged..., southern California. Exposures of San Marcos gabbro (after Larsen, 1948) are shown in black in petrogenesis... The Himalaya dike complex in the Mesa Grande district consists principally of two dikes, each up to |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | below the trend of the samples with lower H2O-contents. Spessartine-almandine garnets from the Rutherford...smooth but decreasing trend was observed when the spessartine Raman OH intensity ratio was compared to the...integrated absorbance and peak heights for the spessartine-almandine series (Rossman et al. 1988), for grossular...Sample description Forty-one grossular and ten spessartine-almandine garnets with OH concentrations previously...approximately 9 to 12 OH per formula unit. The spessartine-almandine garnets range from deep red (Sp45) |  | | Book | | names like granogabbro (granite-gabbro), monzogabbro (monzonite-gabbro), rhyodacite (rhyolite-dacite)...[Vulcan, Roman god of fire], plutonite (Pluto and the lower world), and Pele’s hair (Hawaiian fire goddess)...tribal peoples: bojite (Boii, Celtic tribe in Germany), gondite (Gonds, central India), onkilonite (Onkilones...sthene) are the essential constituents; differs from gabbro by the presence of the Definition proposed prthopyroxene...lUGS, plutonic rock satisfying the definition of gabbro, in which pl/(pl + px + ol) is 10-90 and the opx/(opx |  | | Journal (issue) | | stone described as a moonstone was purchased in Germany and probably comes from Sri Lanka, where a similar...contact alteration zone between serpentinite and gabbro/ diorite. Predominant colours of the nephrite jade...city of Wroclaw in the province of Dolny Slask (Lower southwest Poland (Figure 1). From lage of Jordanow...nephrite jade production in the Jordanow Slaski district appears to have commenced in Neolithic times....SLASK I • D ALL UVI UM .. GRAN ITE D [ffi] °0° GABBRO SERP ENTI NIT E AM PHIBO LITE Em SIL URIA I META |  | | 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 |  | Grew, E. S., Locock, A. J., Mills, S. J., Galuskina, I. O., Galuskin, E. V., Hålenius, U. (2013) Nomenclature of the garnet supergroup. American Mineralogist, 98 (4) 785-811 doi:10.2138/am.2013.4201 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mg3 Al2 Si3 O12 Grossular Ca3 Al2 Si3 O12 2+ Spessartine Mn 3 Al2 Si3 O12 2+ Almandine Fe 3 Al2 Si3...Grossular Ca3Al2(SiO4)3 {Ca3}[Al2](Si3)O12 2+ Spessartine (Mn )3Al2(SiO4)3 {Mn2+ 3 }[Al2](Si3)O12 2+ Almandine...evidence for a multisite OH substitution in spessartine-almandine garnets from Brazilian pegmatites,...arguments are not supported by a Si-deficient spessartine containing no Mn3+, but showing I41/acd symmetry...to constitute a distinct group because of their lower symmetry and because one tetrahedral site is largely |  | | Book | | Tubingen Germany and c. Schmitt-Riegraf Lecturer in Mineralogy University of Munster Germany Translated...Chapman & Hall GmbH, Pappelallee 3, 69469 Weinheim, Germany Chapman & Hall USA, 115 Fifth Avenue, New York...Verlag, P.O. Box 30 03 66, D-70443 Stuttgart, Germany Softcover reprint of the hardcover 2nd edition...Schwabische Alb and in the Laacher volcanic areas of Germany. 2. We give emphasis to the common minerals. They...opposite is the case if the investigated mineral has a lower refractive index than the material it is surrounded |  | | Report (issue) | | Werner's time at the Mining Academy in Freiberg, Saxony (Germany). From 1826 to 1866, he was responsible for...a postcard of the School of Mining in Feiberg, Saxony printed for the 1991 Breithaupt Symposium. Gunter...Madagascar is sorted in a workshop in Idar-Oberstein, Germany. P hoto Eckehard Julius Petsch Mineralogy of...meter long crystal has been recorded from the Alger quarry in New Hampshire (USA). The crystal weighed 455... 8.4m: The largest beryl crystal at the Bumpus quarry in Maine was 8.4 meters long, 1.9 meters in diameter |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and timing of their passage through the mantle to lower crustal depths, and the subsequent exhumation to...Gebauer and Friedl 1994; Friedl et al. 2004) in Lower Austria and the Světlík orthogneiss (2.1 Ga protolith...nappe concept has recently been questioned both in Lower Austria (Racek et al. 2006) and Bohemia (Štípská...vertical extrusion of thermally softened orogenic lower crust (Lexa et al. 2011). Subsequent mid-crustal...2011 or 339 ± 3 and 336 ± 4 Ma: Harley 2013). The lower age limit of the peak HP metamorphism is constrained |  | | Book | | Granite; St. Jacut, Brittany, France. (d) Anhedral spessartine garnet; Nisserdal, Telemark, Norway. as porphyroblasts...chiastolite slate; Skiddaw Granite aureole, Lake District, England. c) Poikiloblastic staurolite porphyroblasts...in oblique section of tourmaline (main crystal, lower right). Also note the end-section of yellow-green...to determine whether a mineral is of higher or lower relief than its neighbour, or with respect to the...minerals with relief, and thus refractive indices, lower than the mounting medium are described as having |  | | Journal (issue) | | Monteregian Hills (see figure 1), which date from the lower Cretaceous (90 to 126 million years ago) Mont Saint-Hilaire...merged into one large quarry, being worked for roadstone of course! Within the quarry there are a number...collecting in the sodalite area of Richard Belson the quarry. Is she collecting, meditating or asleep? Manaan-neotunite...sodalite syenite LJ nepheline syenite !?ZZ'J gabbro, pyroxenite ~ essexiote, rouvillite 1 km b~'_;~N~I...Fig 2 Different rock types in Mont Saint-Hilaire quarry (after Fisher and Glenn, 1989) It even has a |  | | Book | | scabbiness, when rubbed in foul wounds consumes the bad flesh, strengthens the heart, and makes good blood...Harz/F.R.G.; Freiberg, SChneeberg, and Annaberg in Saxony; Pfibram and Jachymov (Joachimsthal) in Czechoslovakia...Other important deposits are found in the Cobalt district of Ontario, Canada, as well as in Mexico and Bolivia...in the sedimentary copper deposits at Mansfeld, Germany. Other than in jewelry and silverware, its main...discovery of the placer deposits in the Sacramento Valley in California led to the famous gold rush in 1849 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ottens. Dr. Liu is a mineral dealer now living in Germany, but his home town is Xikuangshan, the site of...Ottens Klingenbrunn Bahnhof 24 D-94518 Spiegelau Germany The mining of metals and coal in China goes back...International Französische Allee 24 72072 Tübingen, Germany Email: ghliu@aaamineral.com China has 96 million...Ottens Klingenbrunn Bahnhof 24 D-94518 Spiegelau Germany Ever since China began to “open” in the early...comparable, by both measures, with the former West Germany. A remarkable diversity of rich mineral deposits |  | | Journal (issue) | | Werner Lieber Heidelberg, West Germany Olaf Medenbach Bochum, Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland...minerals at the Line Pit, State Line chromite district, Pennsylvania and Maryland ..................149...(Oakdale, CA) Kristall-Growing (Hoechsti, West Germany) Krotki Iron Mines (Los Angeles, CA) La Jolla Gems...clear quartz crystals, probably from the San Juan district (Colorado), from a lady who was using it in the...lberta, Canada T9H 4T2 Phone (403) 791-1566 391 Valley Rd„ W atchung, NJ 07060 !(Herbert Obodda CALCITE |
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