| | Journal (issue) | 2023 The Mineral Collector’s Newsletter $6.00 Alaska – The Last Frontier Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral...tony@excaliburmineral.com After spending nearly weeks in Alaska recently, I can emphatically state that it is, indeed...brings its own bragging rights to the forefront: “If Alaska were cut in half, Texas would drop to No. 3 in...case you were wondering, Wikipedia states that: Alaska is the largest U.S. state by area, comprising more...western part of Alaska has no road system connecting the communities with the rest of Alaska. Getting around | | | Book | Toth. All rights reserved. Barrerite from Rocky Pass, Kuiu Island, Alaska Istvan "Steve" Toth 1195 N...N. Grape Street Escondido, CA 92026 Barrerite is a rare sodium-rich zeolite mineral related to stilbite...status for the Capo Pula mineral, which they named barrerite (Passaglia& Pongiluppi, 1975). The mineral name...1997). A pocket of barrerite on Kuiu Island The author digging for barrerite My wife Mary digging...digging for barrerite I discovered the zeolite occurrence in 1984 while duck hunting on the tidal flats | | | Journal (issue) | News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...occurrence and only found in a few specimens. Barrerite crystals up to 15 mm were found on several specimens...self-collected by Ted Johnson at Rocky Pass, Kuiu Island, southeastern Alaska. The mineral resembles very...mineral as barrerite. A rather rare zeolite; new locality for it, and a new mineral for. Alaska.,,> ~ ...The crystal sat on the top edge, so light could pass through from the rear showing the gemmy, translucent | | | Journal (issue) | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...approached this locality by grappling up the steep rocky south face of Plumbago. Instead, Frank managed to...white reticulated snowflakes which could easily pass for cerussite from the Mammoth mine in Arizona....this was the long white tent housing the RMGM (Rocky Mountain Gem and Mineral) Tucson Mineral and Fossil | | | Report (volume) | and clinoptilolite (HEU) Stilbite, stellerite, barrerite (STI) Brewsterite (BRE) OTHER RARE OR STRUCTURALLY......................................... 1 0 1 Barrerite: Na8[Al8Si28072] ·26H20 (Z= 2) ...... .. .. 1...phillipsite) RHO (pahasapaite) -RON (roggianite) STI (barrerite, stellerite, stilbite) TSC (tschörtnerite) TER...clinoptilolite gmelinite stilbite, stellerite, barrerite chabazite, willhendersonite brewsterite levyne...and Armbruster (1993). Stilbite, stellerite, barrerite (STI) The three zeolites belonging to this group | | | Journal (issue) | News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...Bamrsite Utah. l\loab. 14-10:1,4-7 Bnrrerite Alaska. Rocky Pass. Kuiu Island. 14-1:J.4 Benitoite California... 14-10:1,4-7; Mexico. Guanajuato. 14-10:1.4-7; Alaska. Green Monster Mountain, Prince of Wales Island...Ukraine Annpaite. 14-6:1,4,5 USA ... Alaska Calcite, epidotc. 14-10: 1,4-7; Barrerite. 14-1:J,4 •·Arizona Bomite...15840 East Alta Vista Way, San Jose, CA 95127-1737 USA. NEW FINDS AND OLD CLASSIC SPECIMENS on our website | | | Journal (issue) | normally in large rooms through which many people pass to see and eventually buy specimens. Most of the...276) of good specimens of the very rare zeolite barrerite from its only significant worldwide locality—a...called the Rocky Pass claim, Kuiu Island, Alaska. At the Executive Inn show, Mary Toth of Alaska Garnet Mines...com) was presiding over a large tablefull of barrerite specimens (and many tables full of Wrangell almandine...working the Rocky Pass claim intermittently since 1982, taking out good supplies of barrerite every time | | | Journal (issue) | Cannon (Cannon Micro probe, Seattle, Washington, USA) provided some preliminary microprobe work. 219 ...Earth Is Only 10,000 Years Old? Schools all over the USA are pressured to teach this “scientific alternative...Publishing P.O. Box 37072 Tucson, Arizona 85740 USA Tel: (520) 798-1513/(520) 297-4862 FAX: (520) 79...booth or their motel-room shop. Sometimes, just to pass the time, they challenge each other, test each other...early 1970’s I was introduced to the Red Mountain Pass area between Ouray and Silverton in the San Juan | | | Journal (issue) | by our side, over us, around us. In one place a rocky pool of black rock several feet in diameter, filled...or three feet from the surface, enclosed in this rocky wall. Another early historical account of The Geysers...immediately hot steam and vapors will issue. You then pass on to the “ D evil’s G ristm ill,” where a large...never reached again. Going along the usual route, we pass over the “ Fire M oun tain” with its hundreds of...extinct volcanic crater on a small scale. We now pass the “ Indian sweat bath” and come to another remarkable |
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Rocky Pass, Petersburg Borough, Alaska, USA