 | | Journal (issue) | | SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2022 • VOLUME 53 • NUMBER 5 • $30 L L Akchatau! Wayne & Dona Leicht KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna...SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2022 Articles The Akchatau mine, Shet District, Karaganda, Kazakhstan..................573 by W...E. Wilson & T. P. Moore The Graf Jost-Christian mine, Wolfsberg, Harz Mountains, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany...E. Wilson COVER: CREEDITE, 4.6 cm, from Akchatau, Kazakhstan. Parker Sterling collection; Tom Spann photo...the amethyst they could collect at the old Pearl mine in Thunder Bay. They weren’t as successful with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 20013 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Part 2 Huanggang Mine, Inner Mongolia, China T he first part of this...northern England, particularly from the Rogerley mine, has made these classic specimens available once...Kèshíkèté Qi County, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China. Limpid complex fluorite crystals displaying...made of the complex crystals from the Trevaunce mine, St. Agnes. The crystals on the Smithsonian specimens...crystals to 2 cm have been recorded.The East Pool mine has produced crystals to 6 cm in colors ranging |  | | Book | | clarify information regarding minerals from this region. The list, in alphabetical order, generally uses...Volume 7 Charoite Sub-Polar Urals Volume 8 Kazakhstan and Middle Asia Volume 9 Crimea Worldwide (including...Diopside East Pamirs Diamonds Volume 12 North Kazakhstan Ukraine Aldan =5 =3 =5 3 5* si Abukumalite...Actinolite Actinolite Vyuntspakhk Crimea Sarbaiskii mine Sarbay deposit, Rudnyi Sarbay deposit, Rudnyi Sarbay...quarry Stephanitovaya vein, Sarbay quarry Sarbaiskii mine Stephanitovaya vein, Sarbay quarry Sarbay deposit |  | | Journal (issue) | | VERNADSKY STATE GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM Alexander A. Evseev KAZAKHSTAN AND MIDDLE ASIA. A BRIEF MINERALOGICAL GUIDE...153441. Photo: M. Leybov. Cover 4 Calcite. Rudny, Kazakhstan. Height 23 cm. Photo: M. Leybov. 4 Alexander...collection as well: native copper plate from Kazakhstan (about 500 kg in weight), a block of Ural Erythrite...arranged according to geographical location (country — region — locality), excluding the tematic collections... Beryozovsk, Adun-Chilon, and the Zmeinogorskii mine appear to be represented the most completely and |  | | Catalog/List | | GMT) PREMIER SELECT LIST- TUCSON - MARCH 1995 1) AQUAMARINE, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. I was...fascinated by this odd looking material. It being an aquamarine crystal that has been naturally dissolved away...through it in many places.60x40x33mm. £85 2) AQUAMARINE, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Similar...24x17x13mm £65 4) HEULANDITE (green). Pandharpur District. India New Find from what is claimed to be a rare...above the others) 5) STILBITE (green), Pandharpur District, India. New Find from the above occurrence. Two |  | | Journal (issue) | | page 258. Inside back cover: (left colurnn) Aquamarine-Glenn & Janis Rising collection, page 218; Ruby-Michael...gwindel-Brent Lockhart collection, page 175; Aquamarine-Wally Mann collection, page 193. (rniddle colurnn)...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than |  | | Catalog/List | | Internet, Fax, and Mail) Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Sunday...52001-52306 LOT VIEWING Heritage Auctions Design District Annex 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, TX 75207 Wednesday...directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region, Chile Terry Szenics has...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume |  | | Journal (issue) | | GMKFU, Geogrii Yurgenson donation. 19. Beryl (aquamarine) crystals intergrowth. 9 x 6 cm. Sherlova Gora...of this collection were from Transbaikalia), and mine surveyor Yakovlev from the Southern Urals. By the...includes an aquamarine crystal GM KFU #5737 from Mount Gopeevskaya Pseudo-cylindrical aquamarine crystals...recovered there in the late 18th to 25. Beryl (var. aquamarine) with old label. 15.0 x 6.5 cm. Sherlova Gora...Transbaikalia (label says "AdunChilon, Nerchinsky district; Siberia"), Russia. GMKFU #5753. 26. Beryl (emerald) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gemmy, intense purple apatites from this pegmatite mine have made Pulsifer the premier locality for fluorapatite...” 5.6 cm tall, Alchori, Shigar Valley, Skardu district, GilgitBaltistan, Pakistan. Private collection...Swan Hill Rural City, Victoria Aberfoyle mine, Rossarden district, Tasmania Complex metamorphosed sedimentary...Norte and Paraíba: e.g., Sapo mine, Ferruginha; Golconda district, Governador Valadares; Linópolis...prospect (Aldeia do Eme mine), Aldeia; Medina, Jequitinhonha Valley; Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas Morro |  | | Journal (issue) | | Golden Topaz, 3.5 inches, from Katlang, Mardan District, Pakistan; Freilich Collection. OPENING SPREAD:...Pyromorphite from the Bunker Hill mine, Idaho; Wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, Arizona; Calcite and Fluorite...Fluorite from the Elmwood mine, Tennessee; Aquamarine from Pakistan; Wire Silver from Kongsberg, Norway;...in Calcite from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia; Novacekite from the Brumado mine, Brazil; Elbaite from Nuristan...from Mogok, Burma; and Emerald from the Coscuez mine, Colombia. OUTSIDE BACK COVER: Beryl crystals: heliodor |  | | Journal (issue) | | we had never heard of, such as Dal’negorsk and Akchatau. Old classics began turning up anew as well, such...tours for collectors are permitted by the friendly mine management, and visitors have even been allowed...the area and purchased the rights to the Verchniy mine. Operations to extract copper, lead and zinc began...Dal’negorsk. GEOLOGY The geology of the Dal’negorsk region is tectonically complex because of its relationship...unique among the various intrusive rocks of the region. Xenoliths of eclogite and lherzolite suggest a |  | | Journal (issue) | | gratifying. One young mineralogist, a former student of mine, said that although he had never met Mike, he had...they paid unto their masters. The veins of these mine are of such quality that the ore will not melt with...Douglass and E. P. Mathewson. Decline of the District In 1599 the mine operators began to complain that rich...about 50 ounces of silver per ton. Again in 1636 the mine operators complained of meager profits. Only about...Indians were in residence at Potosi. Disputes between mine operators over the possession of various complex |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | example, 450 kilograms of perfect aquamarine were extracted from one mine during a single year (Fersman 1954)...1820 the foundation of the iron-ore Akhmatovskaya mine was laid in the environs of Zlatoust (Southern Urals)...(about 20 tons) of magnetite were extracted, but the mine turned out to be extremely rich in such remarkable...Until the beginning of the twentieth century, the mine (as well as the Saranovskoe deposit) was operated...the Moscow region. Yuri I. Dubrovskii collected agate at the outcrops in the North Timan region and also |  | | Journal (volume) | | COLLECTIONS- OF RUSSIA �-==--- ---===--===--====--==-_,. Mine ral o g i c al Al m a nac v o lum e 2/2000 FOURTEEN...Yod in koye sulfur deposit, at the M ikhailovsk mine of the K u rsk Magnetic A nomaly . and other localities...informed the Trustee o f the Moscow Educational District, that the Faculty "... on the basis of the application...notified the Trustee o f t h e M oscow Educational District on this " H ighest behest." The collection was...small-scale mineral collection ..." made in 1845 by the mine conductor Denisov under the direction of Adju nct |  | | Journal (issue) | | Moscow, Valovaya str., 28, Russia Mednorudyansky mine shafts found when excavating a quarry in r!)85....druses of green-brown axinite from the Dalnegorsk mine (former Tctyukhc), and also crystals and druses...Pribrczhnoc locality discovered in I 991 in the Magadan region were very popular among mineralogists and amateur... The appearance of axinite in the Puiva mining region has been known since the c 94-os (Belyakov, 1 940)...%In 1991, the underground excavation of the Puiva mine exposed quartz veins and fissures with druscs of |  | | Journal (issue) | | JULY–AUGUST 2022 Articles Dzhezkazgan, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan ......................................COVER: BORNITE, 3.5 cm, from Mine 21, Dzhezkazgan mine group, Kazakhstan. Joan Massague collection; Jeff...(AsO4)5(PO4)3·14H2O), 2-mm view, from the White Elephant mine, Black Hills, South Dakota. Tom Loomis (Dakota Matrix)...w w w. FineMineral.com Rhodonite Mina do Morro Mine, Brazil 7 cm Rhodonite is a manganese mineral named...ry CRYSTAL CLASSICS Dzhezkazgan Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan Wendell E. Wilson The Mineralogical |  | | Journal (issue) | | long prismatic ma/achite c,ysta/s. Mednorudyanskii Mine, Midd/e Ura/s. 4.5 ст across. Тhе Mining Museum...pseudosta/actites оп wa/1ofjissure in mica schist. Gumeshevskii Mine, Middle Urals. Pseudosta/actites 2 ст. SGM, № 11945...stepped - Ыосk su,face. Dzhezkazgan deposit, Kazakhstan. 2.5 ст. V.l. Stepanov specimen. Photo: А. Sverd/ov...сотр/еtе/у in minera/ forming solution. Gumeshevskii Mine, Middle Ura/s. 8 ст. мм, № 278/99. Photo: А. Sverdlov... Bertrandite crystal gгоир. Кша-ОЬа, Centra/ Kazakhstan. 7х 5 ст. VA. Krikov specimen. Photo: М. Leybov |  | | Journal (issue) | | MARCH–APRIL 2023 Articles Altyn-Tyube, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan: The Type Locality for Dioptase.......199 COVER: DIOPTASE, 5.5 cm, from Altyn-Tyube, Kazakhstan. Jim and Gail Spann collection; Tom Spann photo...Sunday and West Sunday Mines, Slick Rock Mining District, San Miguel County, Colorado. His mineral collecting...Scotland, Taft’s quarry in Wales, and the Florence mine in Cumbria), and to work in the cleaning lab of...Gochenour, owner of the Cryo-Genie mine, and collected at the Elizabeth R mine at Pala. Tim had no business |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jane Koepp Jones and Gene LaBerge (“The Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Wisconsin”) Desautels Trophy: Irv Brown... Blue Ball mine Castle Dome dist. Fat Jack mine Finch mine Holmes Claim N. Geronimo mine Purple Passion...Passion mine Red Cloud mine Silver District Tonopah-Belmont mine Western Union mine Arkansas, Murfreesboro...Australia, Argyle mine Ashburton Downs Beltana mine Broken Hill mines Burra Burra mine Gold localities...Moonta district Mount Bonnie mine Mount Isa Phillip Island Tasmanian mines Wallaroo district Widgiemooltha |  | | Book | | clenche; "dodecahedron" chalcopy ritc from Strashimir mine; disso lution fonns of be1yl from Minas Gcrais;...exhi bits from Brazil, Bulgaria, Russia, and Kazakhstan. The impression of the "crystal fo rest" illustrating...arc Ru ssia, the Czech Repub lic, Bu lgaria, Kazakhstan, USA and Japan. There are also relatively complete...Asbestos, Canada ( E l 13); pur ple creedite from Akchatau, Ka zakhstan ( E I 06); kavansite from Poona...impm1an1 mineralo gical objects such as mines, mine dumps and natural outcrops. These collections are |  | | Report (issue) | | Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...MICHAEL GRAY 54 Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56... Iridescent Fluorite from Ohio's Findlay Arch District BY JASON MCDONALD 69 Canada BY MARK MAUTHNER...Castleton in Traek Cliff (Derbyshire), the Blue John mine (page 35). The term "fluorite" was coined in 1797...The Blue John Mine, Castleton. In Modern Terms A postcard depicting the Blue John mine near Castleton |  | | Journal (issue) | | COVER: BENITOITE and NEPTUNITE from the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Buzz Gray collection;...on the M agnet m ine (Tasmania), the M t. Isa district (Queensland), an obituary o f Blair Gartrell,...o6/iactb province Kazakh version o f O blast’ OKpyT district o3epo lake no/iyocrpoB peninsula pafioH area peica...47°59 73°45 Settlem ent, m ine Karaganda O blast’ Apatite, aquamarine, bertrandite, bism uthinite, creedite...kchatau (see also Aqshatau) Atcnaxay Akehatau, Akschatau, Akschatan, A ktschatau-—see Akchatau A k h m atovsk |  | | Journal (issue) | | jadeite, (3) 7.81 ct violet jadeite, (4) 27.23 ct aquamarine, (5) 1.28 ct blue spinel, (6) 1.17 ct benitoite...marketed, and merchandized. In diamonds especially, the mine-to-market process has been severely tested. Vertical...to the country rather than to the specific mine or region. For more on the specific localities, consult...typically report gem- Figure 3. Saturated-color aquamarine comes from relatively few deposits, and Africa...mines have prompted active exploration in this region (Schwarz, 1999). Emerald mining also continued |  | | Journal (issue) | | bands in the ultraviolet (375, 387 nm) and visible region (450, 460, 469 nm). A broad Fe2+ - Ti4+ charge...areas) and drainages, Pailin district, Figure 2: Distribution district, continuous lines, with with gem-barren...and 7.9.3 member compositions). Thailand (Rubywell Mine) alluvial sapphirines (T) and NSW granulite-hosted...Thai-Cambodian Thai-Cambodian border border region. region. In In (b) addition to the two broad broad...pronounced 'shoulder' 'shoulder' in in the the UV UV region regionaround around 330 330 nm nm isis present |  | | Journal (issue) | | Hazen The best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec ........ .......................1972, and considered to be the finest known Jeffrey mine grossular specimen. Marco Amabili collection; James...seeing a superb, lustrous, 4 X 7-inch Brazilian aquamarine crystal sitting unsold on a shelf in George Burnham's... Colorado (two), New Mexico (the Bingham Canyon mine), Nevada, Arizona (two), Mexico, Brazil, Northern...in the Czech Republic, the Carpathian Mountains region, Laurium, Morocco, Namibia (two), Tsumeb (two) |
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Akchatau Mine, Akshatau, Shet District, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan