| | Journal (issue) | Ramsbeckite, an American occurrence at the Ecton mine, Pennsylvania ....................................the Foote mine, North C arolina........................................ 133 by 1. S. White Pokrovskite........... 135 by /. S. White Phosphosiderite from the Champion mine, California.........................QUARTZ (rose, smoky and colorless) from the Sapucaia mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The specimen measures 8 cm...$200, and a surprising number are under $50. The peak range of $200-500 is also something to think about | | | Report (issue) | Fe3+ PO4 • 2H2 O Phosphosiderite c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Monoclinic...19.28 Total 100.41 99.40 100.00 (1) Kalterborn mine, Germany. (2) The Kreuzberg, Germany; average of...in small amounts. In Germany, from the Kalterborn mine, near Eiserfeld, North Rhine-Westphalia; on the...pegmatite, near Guarda, Portugal. From the Leveäniemi mine, near Kiruna, Sweden. In the Bomi Hill Caves, Liberia...In the Alto Ligonha district, Mozambique. In the USA, from the Palermo #1 and Fletcher mines, near North | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | including gold. However. except for the Homestake mine, which has operated for more than 120 years, most...FiridofGt~rnSphultirite ut IIIP Bulinut Zinc Mine, St. Luwrence County, tditor of NPW b r k ” unrl iipptwwl...and additions. Mlneral Index by Counties Brule County Elm Creek, IS mi. S. of Chamberlain, near junction...of Pierre Formation: barite (gray roses). Butte County Belle Fourche, 6 mi. W., secs. 23, 24, 25. and...Moreau River: barite* (similar to Elk Creek. Meade County, but smaller), calcite (yellow crystals), gypsum | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite) deposits...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey | | | Journal (issue) | Erica Van Pelt Julius Weber Founder: John Sampson White © 1992 The Mineralogical Record Inc. The Mineralogical...Big Fish River area is part of the Richardson Mountains, located west of the Mackenzie River Delta in...formation. These minerals occur abun dantly as obvious white or yellow stains and coatings on outcrops where...products of weathering, occur as either microscopic, white, acicular crystals, or as powdery masses that are...Ludlamite Messelite Metavivianite Penikisite Phosphosiderite Pyrite Quartz Siderite Souzalite Sphalerite | | | Catalog/List | aupplied. Usually; the ■ine ~e ■ountain range, county and state will be furnished with speci■ens. PRIES:...Limonite .. fluorescent green, fl SW/LW IE E;le·, 'o white fihrous xln on matrix MAJ0II are micro xl radiating...See M! Vol 14, pa 115 __ to!a, - St. llilaire Champion Hi,Ca Diamond Lake,( Hex1 co Cres tmore f,lry...Roxbury, CT Champion Mine Utah Crystal Peak,CO Four Peaks Horseshoe Dam Spain Maine Carter Mine,NC Champion...Champion Mine Grants, New Hex Workman Creek Spain Connecticut Canada India Horseshoe Dam *ftRAGONITE/CALCITE | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Tourmaline on quartz, Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History specimen...Pelt photo. MarcWApril: Beryl and calcite, La Pita mine, Maripi Boyacii, Columbia. Cal Graeber, Leonard... near Badger Creek, north of Coaldale, Fremont County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...cluster (Herkimer “diamonds’’), Treasure Mountain Diamond mine, near Little Falls, New York. Uli Bahmann...photo. SepteniberlOctober: Gold, Smuggler Union mine, Telluride district, Colorado. Colorado School of | | | Report (issue) | ] \ I ^,_|^_g|g„gy. MMM STATE OF CALIFORNIA GOODWIN I. KNIGHT, Governor DEPARTMENT OF... Chief BULLETIN December 173 MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA By JOSEPH MURDOCH University of Caliiomia,...ROBERT W. WEBB University of California, Santa Barbara College Goleta, California Price $3.00 LIBRARY UNIVERSITY...Goodwin J. Knight Governor of ihe State of California Dear Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith...JenlCalifornia, Chief of the Division of Mines. Minerals of California is one of the Division's | | | Report (issue) | MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA THE GOLDEN BEAR The Golden Bear Nugget of Yankee is NUGGET said to have...found in the mining the nugget Jim, Placer County, California, in 1871 by a small girl in who town kept...are nuggets. The nugget was acquired by the California Federation of Minerologicol Societies insignia...in in the Cali- San Francisco MINERALS OF CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL VOLUME by JOSEPH (1866-1966) MURDOCH...Ian Campbell and Eleanor M. Learned BULLETIN California Division of Ferry Building, San 189 Mines | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Skouriotissa mine, Cyprus, at the £1 Plomo mine, Ojojoma district, Honduras, and the Lamar silver mine, Owyhee...Owyhee County, Idaho. + 3 9 2 D U N N , P E A C O R , A N D S T U R M A N (1978) named this mineral in..." One of these papers, on the minerals of the Champion area of Michigan (Mandarino, 1950), was a result...Minerals 22:1112-1113. . 1950. The minerals of the Champion, Michigan, area. Rocks & Minerals 25:563-565....arrays of crystals, associated with hureaulite, phosphosiderite, and a Mn-rich member of the jahnsite series | | | Journal (issue) | affiliated with the Friends of Mineralogy John S. White, Jr. Division o f M ineralogy The Smithsonian Institution............22 by Pete J. Dunn Minerals of the Tui Mine, New Zealand......................26 by R. L. Ansin...Phillip Matter III circulation manager Mary Lynn White design & composition Bowie Graphic A rt Services...postage paid at Bowie Md. GOLD, Placerville, California. From the collection of Bob Melzer, Tucson, Arizona...ney to the Southwest, including localities in California, The mineral to be named gordonite was one of | | | Journal (issue) | with a large mass of native copper in the Quincy mine ca. 1918. (Michigan Technological University Archives...Native copper crystal group, 13.6 cm, from an unknown mine in the Michigan Copper Country. Richard A. Kosnar...Stoiber and Davidson (1959), Ensign et a l (1968), White (1968), Jolly and Smith (1972), Babcock (1974, 1975...and Cornwall (1954), Davidson et a l (1955) and White and Wright (1956) provided information on the location...(1952), Jamison (un dated), Jamison (1963, 1969), White (1968), Chaput (1971), Lankton and Hyde (1982), | | | Book | of the Ali-Mirsa-Kuh mountains near Nishapur, Iran and in the Kara Tube mountains near Samarkand (Eichholz...Saxony in Germany. Numerous deposits in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah were...burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime". The white pigment of many ancient painters consisted of ground...rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals include...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in | | | Journal (issue) | by a p p o in tm e n t only] publisher John S. White Smithsonian Institution editor Wendell E. Wilson...Mamaroneck, New York circulation manager Mary Lynn White designed by Wendell E. Wilson Mineralogical Record...Brazilian localities, Virgem da Lapa and the Golconda mine, have produced remarkable crystals of hydroxyl-herderite...Company spodumene mine, near Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and from the Dunton Gem mine, Newry, Maine,...Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil (3)* 71-90% Golconda mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil (6) 53% Waldstein, Fichtelgibirge | | | Book (volume) | the southern end of the Appalachian chain of mountains. These ranges extend into the northeast corner...where Brasstown Bald, a part of the Nantahala Mountains achieve the highest elevation in the state at...in the northwest, where the Lookout and Sand mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily...Plateau, the Appalachian Valley, the Appalachian Mountains, the Piedmont Plain (about 30% of the state),...1828, one on the Lovelady place near Loudsville in White Co. and the other on the Bear Cr. near Dahlonega | | | Report (issue) | C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Paul E. Dcsautels, Roy S. Clarke, Jr., and John S. White, Jr. of the Smithsonian Institution and to G. K...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com mon rock-making materials | | | Report (issue) | 31 University of Nevada Press, Reno, Nevada 89557 USA Copyright © 2004 by University of Nevada Press Photographs...Scovil, Storm Sears, Jeffrey Weissman, and Sugar White copyright © 2004 unless otherwise noted Map of Mining...Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection. Photograph...Goodsprings (Yellow Pine) Mining District, Clark County John C. Kepper 91 References 467 Contributors...Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with Conichalcite Gold, Round Mountain Mine | | | Book | minerals, along with the familiar landscape of mountains, valleys, plains, and oceans that we all too often...Saint Helens, cataclysmic earthquakes in Italy or California, seasonal avalanches in British Columbia or the...processes can be observed directly. We can watch mountain streams tumble pebbles as they flow downhill to...field full of rounded pebbles at the base of a mountain, I don't suspect that the site is an ancient volcano..."shell," which is underlain by a denser mantle (the white of the egg), with an even denser "yolk," or core | | | Journal (issue) | Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR VISIT OUR MINE-KEEP WHAT YOU FIND DOOR PRIZES HOURLY DEALERS...Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard S. Mitchell and Arthur S. Katz Peter’s Mountain: Hematite...Classified Advertisements VIRGINIA! The Rutherford Mine, Amelia Court House and certainly Mineral, Virginia...CRYSTALLIZED TURQUOISE from near Lynch Station, Campbell County, is Virginia's unique contribution to the mineral...Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin tabular crystals. These range from white to | | | Book (edition) | Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43... with all The color of most opaque minerals is white or gray in possible intermediate gradations. Luster...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...abbreviations used are as follows: Mt. (mount or mountain), Mts. (mountains), R. (river), Is. (island), Vole. (volcano) | | | Book | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...prospectors of the last century. Because of the California Forty-Niners, as well as their predecessors...of salt. Although some great mines of Arizona, California, Idaho, and Nevada may havebeen discovered in...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand | | | Book (edition) | (Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar | | | Book (volume) | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; | | | Book (volume) | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; | | | Catalog/List | IUf)Plitd. Usually; }V• ■lne naael ■ountain ran9e, county and state will be K·yqXzVHF wlth Xw■Cl~111. • PRILS:...te/Wulfeni le .so 1.75 BAIHJ[ Micro to ?Oin111 white xi clusters - attractive BAIHT[ 2.-1 c Sherry colored...clusters - nice! ••• see M Vol lt,plOO 1.00 Magu Mine 4.50 ·BARITE Brown tabular sei--transparent x] clusters...showy! 2.00/5. .85/?.50 -11 BARITE Mexico BARIi[ White : Calivo colored crested xis - nice! Nca 1.80 Weldon...Canada Utah Crystal Peak Four Peaks Horseshoe Da■ Spain Conn Carter Hine, Champion Kine • Grants, New |
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