 | | Catalog/List | | AUCTION SEPTEMBER 2, 2021 | DALLAS TREASURES OF CHINA Front Cover Lot: 72078 Inside Front Cover Lot:...#8067 NATURE & SCIENCE FINE MINERALS Treasures of China September 2, 2021 | Dallas Heritage Auctions 2801...and Gemstones, exclusively from the country of China. With due respect for the storied history of that...highlighting the ancient and respected culture of China of great artistic beauty Spectacular gemstones of...outstanding representations of the mineral history of China in all of their magnificent grandeur. Thank you |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu AR AGONI TE PART 1: ARAGONITE FROM WESTERN EUROPE T here are many collecting...of classic localities is aragonite, this column’s featured mineral. Aragonite is an orthorhombic mineral...mineral with point group 2/m 2/m 2/m. Aragonite occurring as untwinned crystals is rare; its normal occurrence...stalactitic. As mentioned, twinned crystals of aragonite are common. Repeated twinning on {110} yields...examples are the most familiar to collectors. Aragonite may display polysynthetic lamellae and striations |  | | Journal (issue) | | row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane Brownlee collection; Joe Budd photo...cm, from the Amo tin deposit, Ximeng County, Yunnan, China. Wally Mann collection; Joe Budd photo. Topaz...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The Carabas Collection; Joe |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorite with quartz, 12.5 cm, from the Piaotang mine,Xihuashan ore field,Dayu County,Ganzhou Prefecture...27.3 cm, from Lushi,Sanmenxia Prefecture, Henan, China. 8 ♦ ) Preface 83lit ~ ~{.it;:fö~;c!s:83 ilflt~L...(pink beryl) on feldspar, 16 cm, from the Pingwu mine on Mt. Xuebaoding, Huya Township, Pingwu County...County, Mianyang Prefecture, Sichuan Province, China. Found in mid-1990s, and among the first specimens exported... ~fr'l~ ~~»·l~ön~ ßfr~3l'.:, 12 ;1cmq:i~~Elm China Stone Park n~~~;r-oi~miftt§A □ Rob Lavinsky tw |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Megaw photo. 502 ROCKS & MINERALS The First China (Changsha) Mineral and Gem Show Downloaded by...somehow never gotten there . . . or anywhere else in China for that matter. Thus it was with pleasant anticipation...accepted the invitation of the organizers of the First China (Changsha) Mineral and Gem Show (CMGS) to attend...congratulations and TGMS Show™ posters (2005 Minerals of China), we headed over to what was being billed as the...essentially overnight. Changsha lies in east central China and is the capital of Hunan Province (fig. 3). Considered |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Seventh China (Hunan) Mineral and Gem Show M Y WIFE ALLISON, DAUGHTER LAUREN, AND I HEADED OVER...OVER TO CHENZHOU, CHINA (fig. 4), in early May for the Seventh Annual China (Hunan) Mineral and Gem Show...(Megaw 2015). Chenzhou is sort of in the middle of China, and it’s difficult for Westerners to believe, but...Figure 1. Chenzhou train station decorated with China Mineral and Gem Show banners and inflatable mascots...designed especially for the show. Chenzhou Hunan, China 17–21 May 2019 Photography by Lauren Megaw unless |  | | Journal (issue) | | CALCITE & ARAGONITE CaCO3, 5.3cm, Wenshan Mine, Wenshan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province, China; “The...“The Dragon of Yunnan Province,” Chris Whitney-Smith Collection, © Jeff Scovil. Table Of Contents President’s...of “The Alma Rose” Rhodochrosite and Sweet Home Mine, please visit following: https://www.collectorsedge...Zn)2] Sb4S13, “The Alma Rose,” 46.5cm, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado, USA; Rice Museum of... In the past, I tried to find this mine, but never found any mine after driving around the area. Another |  | | Journal (issue) | | FLUORffE Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe...Daoping mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China. Ex Steve Smale Kunzite spodumene, 11 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais...photo. Benitoite on natrolite, 5.5 cm, Dallas Gern mine, San Benito County, California. Ex Robert Gill collection |  | Tian, Chao, Wang, Lixin, Tian, Fuqiang, Zhao, Sihan, Jiao, Wenzhe (2019) Spatial and temporal variations of tap water 17O-excess in China. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 260. 1-14 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2019.06.015 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | temporal variations of tap water 17O-excess in China Chao Tian, Lixin Wang, Fuqiang Tian, Sihan Zhao...temporal variations of tap water 17O-excess in China, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta (2019), doi: https://doi...temporal variations of tap water 17O-excess in China 2 3 Chao Tiana, Lixin Wanga, *, Fuqiang Tianb...Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 * Corresponding...17O-excess variations of tap 30 water across China (652 samples). Annual 17O-excess of tap waters at |  | | Journal (issue) | | 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...specimens of the "Bull Creek" locality, within the city limits of Austin, wh~re sharp, translucent, distinctively...Scientific Society in 1908. Brock also served as Houston City Supplement to The Mineralogical Record, September-October |  | | Catalog/List | | beforehand. JULY/AUGUST 2008 1) ADAMITE. Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. A shallow cavity in limonitic...40x45c30mm. £75. 2) ANGLESITE on CERUSSITE. Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia. A good six rayed stellate...to 3mm. Nice 3D specimen. 50x40x40mm. £95. 3) ARAGONITE. Frizington, Cumberland. A n intergrown group...colour. 70x50x40mm. £12. 7) BARYTOCALCITE. Lunehead Mine, Brough, Cumbria. A 50x30mm cavity in matrix lined...xls to 6mm. 60x50x30mm. £30. -• 8) BOLEITE. Amelia Mine, Baja, California, Mexico. Nice large thumbnail |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vol 17 No. 2 February 2001 Epidote from the V AG Mine Belvidere Mtn., Lowell, Vermont Ken Hollmann P.O...Center Rutland, VT 05736 Recent ly. 1he old asbestos mine located on Belvidere Mt. in Lowell, Vermont , has...at the mine (with great past success), were directed by one of the old employees of the mine to an area...Textbook twin of epidote, 13/8 inches across, VAG Mine, Belvidere Mtn., Lowell, VT, photo by the author...airlines flight that went through Dallas-beautiful city, too bad I only got to see the airport-and finally |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystal with calcite, 6.5 cm, from the Cosq uez mine, Colombia; found in 1998. Scott Rudolph collection............................................... 22 Mine Exploitation (or not) Today ......................area is about 160 km north of the Colombian capital city of Bogota, and The Mineralogical Record, volume...occurrences (abandoned), The Nemoc6n mine is primarily a salt mine refitted as a tourist attraction; it...is the Muzo mine proper, and 12 km north of that lies the almost equally famous Cosquez mine; both of these |  | | Journal (issue) | | Weinrich www.danweinrich.com China One of the exciting new finds from China during 1998 would have to be...1. Apophyllite, Jianghshan, Guangdong Province, China, photo by Dan Weinrich. neat piece. To my knowledge...stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite |  | | Journal (issue) | | San Pedro Mine in Santa Fe County, and along with his son Phillip is actively exploring the mine for minerals...minerals. The San Pedro Mine is perhaps best known for producing beautiful specimens of finely crystalline...Phillip have also developed a surface exposure at the mine to produce some very nice, single, sceptered quartz...the new. radiant green pyromorphite from Nanjing, China, occurring as specimens to 8 inches (20 cm) with...ci rc ulatio n for some years. Sulfides are real mine rals and I still regret no t buy ing a good specimen |  | Zhai, Jixuan, Wang, Xu, Qin, Ben, Cui, Linlin, Zhang, Shuhua, Ding, Zhongli (2019) Clumped isotopes in land snail shells over China: Towards establishing a biogenic carbonate paleothermometer. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 257. 68-79 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2019.04.028 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Manuscript Clumped isotopes in land snail shells over China: Towards establishing a biogenic carbonate paleothermometer...Z., Clumped isotopes in land snail shells over China: Towards establishing a biogenic carbonate paleothermometer...pertain. Clumped isotopes in land snail shells over China: Towards establishing a biogenic carbonate paleothermometer...Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 9825, Beijing 100029, China 2. Institutions of Earth Science, Chinese Academy...100029, China 3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 9825, Beijing 100049, China 4. State |  | | Journal (issue) | | cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...Arizona” (2012), “The Crystalline Treasures of China” (2013), and “The Best of the Best: Prized Minerals...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken |  | | Book | | SMLS Chair 2022 Botallackite (Xtals 3mm) Bunmahon Mine, Copper Coast, Eire. Photo:John Hall CONTENTS...to descend the hydraulic shaft in the Smallcleugh Mine and we bought an inflatable dinghy so we could land...had found. Photo 3. Chalcanthite (7cm). Nangiles mine, Cornwall. Whilst at school in Cornwall I was fortunate...fortunate to have a trip down th e Nangiles mine, when the initial exploration for Wheal Jane was being...being carried out. I recall that the air in the mine was rather acrid, due to the oxidation of the abundant |  | | Journal (issue) | | localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek,...scientific department. He established the Central City Registeroffice with bis partner David C. Collier...Collection" labels list the name of the lade or mine, the mining district and county, and the assay results...thread, some taken from the surface of the American mine and some from its deepest workings indicating that...that depth does not change the character of the mine. One is impressed by the money as well as the scientific |  | | Journal (issue) | | Black Diamonds Vanadium-Rich Emerald from Malipo, China Inclusions in Corundum from Bo Welu, Thailand Fall...338 Unique Vanadium-Rich Emerald from Malipo, China Yang Hu and Ren Lu Spectroscopic and chemical analyses...Andy Shen Tokyo, Japan Perth, Australia Wuhan, China Timothy Adams Mary L. Johnson Guanghai Shi San...Diego, California San Diego, California Beijing, China Edward W. Boehm Anthony R. Kampf James E. Shigley...Fritsch Ren Lu Wuyi Wang Nantes, France Wuhan, China New York, New York Eloïse Gaillou Thomas M. Moses |  | | Catalog/List | | FLUORESCENT WILLEMITE AND CALCITE Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey Willemite with calcite is...THREE-COLOR FLUORESCENT FRANKLIN CLASSIC Franklin Mine, Franklin Borough, Sussex Co, New Jersey Purple-fluorescing...found elsewhere in minor traces in a Bolivian tin mine, for example, but Franklin is likely the only locality...carbonate-mineral coating probably composed of aragonite and/or calcite, all fluorescing well together...fairly small finds were made at the Sterling Hill Mine, the rarer thick-vein occurrence from the 180-foot |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystals on matrix, 17.2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, collected in 1978. Private collection and photographer...our fine retail gallery in the heart of New York City 766 Madison Avenue | New York, NY 10065 | www.mardaninyc...Show and Riverpark Inn Rhodochrosite, Sweet Home Mine, USA, 10 cm Photo: Malte Sickinger MARCUS BUDIL...budil-minerals.com Chrysocolla on Malachite Mashamba West Mine Democratic Republic of Congo 26 cm - Joe Budd Photo...mineral shows worldwide! Rhodochrosite - Sweet Home Mine, Colorado - 13cm | Brazilianite - Minas Gerais, |  | | Journal (issue) | | CHINA THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2005 • VOLUME 36 NUMBER 1 • $20 Wayne & Dona Leicht...Photo by Harold and Erica Van Pelt, Los Angles CHINA MINERALOGICAL RECORD, SPECIAL ISSUE I INTRODUCTION..................................... 3 MINING IN CHINA Berthold Ottens ................................................................... 4 GEOLOGY OF CHINA Guanghua Liu ......................................................................... 17 DAOPING MINE Guanghua Liu and Berthold Ottens .............. |  | | Catalog/List | | 72002 Toluca Meteorite End Cut Iron, IAB—sLL Mexico City, Mexico Found: 1776 This end cut is not terribly...Pyromorphite Daoping Mine (Tangping Mine) Gongcheng Co., Guilin, Guangxi China The Daoping Mine has been closed...Bid: $750 72026 Aragonite Wenshan Mine, Wenshan Co. Wenshan, Yunnan China Aragonite has one of the most...any mineral. This impressive example yields from China and will make a statement in any collection. The...stalactite crystals protruding from a larger “wall” of Aragonite. These fascinating specimens get their blue coloration |  | | Catalog/List | | QUARTZ CRYSTAL WITH TOURMALINE Barra de Salinas Mine, Barra de Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil This specimen...coal, the district is now down to one operating mine and probably that one will close in the not too...Shangbao, Hunan Province, People’s Republic of China A mirror-bright group of simple, brassy cubes from...CT 19 38029 RHODONITE BOULDER Evelyn Creek Mine, Yukon Territory, Canada This large boulder of fantastic...500 38030 LARGE STROMATOLITE BOULDER Cliff Erie Mine, Minnesota, USA Stromatolites are the fossil remains |
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Wenshan Mine, Wenshan City, Wenshan, Yunnan, China