 | | Journal (issue) | | net SEPTEMBER–OCTOBER 2023 Articles The Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck, Allerdale, Cumbria, England............only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...his interest in minerals. They moved to Phoenix, Arizona, in 1962 when Bill was transferred to GE’s Computer...Computer Division there, and it was while living in Arizona—a mineral collector’s paradise—that Bill was able...business on the side, called Gulf Coast Minerals and Mining, and had a table at many shows in the Southeast |  | | Journal (issue) | | M ontreal Mine! L L The Mineralogical Record MAY–JUNE 2020 • VOLUME 51 • NUMBER 3 • $25 & Wayne... Co / Munich, Germany Laguna Beach, California, USA tel: +1 949 494 5155 / info@kristalle.com The ...net MAY–JUNE 2020 Articles The Montreal mine, Iron County, Wisconsin .................................. 487 COVER: BARITE, 6.5 cm, from the Montreal mine. David and Karen DeBruin collection, ex Muscatine...$324/three years, (Canada) $196/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $275 for one year Subscription |  | | Journal (issue) | | 3 • March 2018 16 ARIZONA UNDERGROUND 10 Winter visitors enjoy underground mine tours, mineral museums... Rock & Gem Winter Visitors Enjoy Underground Mine Tours, Mineral Museums and Limestone Caves Story...Story and Photos by Bob Jones March 2018 11 Arizona Underground W hen winter comes, tens of thousands...copper mineral you might see on the Copper Queen mine tour. 12 rockngem.com Scottsdale is invaded by...involves minerals? Fortunately, there are underground mine tours, mineral museums, and limestone caves to be |  | | Book | | Specimen of rough marble Rocks The Earth’s rocks (see box, left) are made up of naturally occurring aggregates...COME FROM? 025 Mining for gems Revealing the treasures of the Earth Large-scale mining for precious materials...malachite and turquoise, as by-products. Much gem mining is relatively small scale, however, and is often...the Superpit is Australia’s largest open pit gold mine and is one of the largest open pit mines in the...quartz Tourmaline Mozambique 50% Madagascar At its peak, Madagascar was producing around 50 percent of the |  | | Book | | World Series editor James W. LaMoreaux, Tuscaloosa, USA More information about this series at http://www...Tuscaloosa, AL USA Bogdan P. Onac School of Geosciences University of South Florida Tampa, FL USA and “Emil...International Publishing. Tuscaloosa, USA Tampa/Cluj-Napoca, USA/Romania Gheorghe M. L. Ponta Bogdan.... . . . 467 Bogdan P. Onac Caves Discovered by Mining Activities and Mined Caves . . . . . . . . . ....Geosciences, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA; “Emil Racoviță” Institute of Speleology, Romanian |  | | Book | | Azurite crystals, partly replaced by malachite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia; width of view ca. 3 cm; collection H.E... Herbert Kroll (Münster), Rob Lavisnky (Dallas, USA), Heike Lehner (Heidelberg), Joachim Lorenz (Karlstein...the Medieval Latin word mina = shaft (minare = to mine). The antique people, e.g., the Greeks and Romans... . Fig. 1.1 Group of quartz crystals, Arkansas, USA, approximately original size 1.1 Crystal Morphology...Dana), 23rd ed., Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA Klein C, Hurlbut CS Jr (1999) Manual of Mineralogy |  | | Book | | Hans-Rudolf Wenk University of California, Berkeley, USA and Andrei Bulakh St Petersburg State University...of water and some of earth. Metals obtained by mining come from water; stones, including the precious...(mina is the Latin word for ‘‘mine’’, and minare is Latin for ‘‘to mine’’). Pliny the Elder, who was killed...publication of De Re Metallica in 1556 by the German mining engineer and physician Georg Bauer (known as Agricola)...important minerals were described. A.G. Werner, a mining geologist in Freiberg, proposed a chemical classification |
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