| | Catalog/List | Compared to the output of place such as Afghanistan or Brazil, the production from Elba is relatively small....59 BRAZIL 73060 TOPAZ var. IMPERIAL TOPAZ Ouro Preto, Iron Quadrangle, Minas Gerais, Brazil This specimen...specimen is a single Imperial Topaz crystal over 2.5 inches (6.35 cm) in length, displaying extremely...market is but a very small fraction of the overall Topaz production on the planet. Overall measurements:...ROSE QUARTZ Galiléia, Doce Valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil Here is a cockscomb arrangement of Rose Quartz | | | Catalog/List | Sunday, May 4, 2014 | 12:00 PM CT 17 52013 TOPAZ and QUARTZ Bulochi, Astor Valley, Astor District...minerals, but the pale peach, highly transparent Topaz specimens are especially noteworthy. Usually coming...combination specimen, featuring a 2.38 inch (6.0 cm) high Topaz of wonderful transparency, partially embedded in...cm) tall. The Topaz and the Quartz are in remarkable condition, and there is a partial Topaz crystal of...deposits of Butte ultimately resulted in an open pit mine that swallowed a good portion of the town of | | | Journal (issue) | tourmaline pockets were encountered at the Dunton gem pit in Newry, Maine. Dean McCrillis joined the dig, at...around the corner and drilled in the floor of the pit where the dump had been. We quickly got into what...quality. Now wild horses couldn’t tear me from the pit! “The pocket went back into the solid quarry wall...kaolin-producing pegmatite, Vila Remo, São Paulo, Brazil; collected in 1964 with my classmate Carlos Isotta...stalactite, 3.5 cm, from Curionópolis, Serra dos Carajas, Pará, Brazil. All specimens are still in my collection | | | Journal (issue) | Gerais, Brazil. (4) Humite, 2.3 cm, from Mount Somma, Italy. (5) Palladium, 2.1 cm, from Brazil. (6) Mellite...from the Jequitinhonha River area, Minas Gerais, Brazil. 4 Refined Elegance, a Supplement to The Mineralogical...of Gustav Seligmann (1849–1920), illustrated in Das Mineralreich (“The Mineral Kingdom”) (1903) by Reinhard...Hauerite, 2.1 cm, from Raddusa, Catania, Sicily. (7) Topaz, 2 cm, from Schneckenstein, Saxony, Germany. (8)...(9) Topaz, 2 cm, from Minas Gerais, Brazil. (10) Chrysoberyl, 2.4 cm, from Minas Gerais, Brazil. (11) | | | Journal (issue) | 0026-4628 'Continued on p. 415 Articles Diamonds in Brazil .................................................Universitaria, Ilha do Fundao 21.910 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Since their discovery in Minas Gerais, near the...mining, fables and dreams. By the end of the 1700’s Brazil had become the world’s leading producer of diamonds...century. fficially the discovery of diamonds in Brazil is dated at 1727. Gold prospectors had found occasional...false idea that Brazil is a producer.” The sheer volume of diamonds coming from Brazil soon overwhelmed | | | Journal (issue) | section to indicate localities. Except for open-pit mines, many western localities are underground so...the Noble pit or Noble mine. It was worked from 1860 to 1870 for hemimorphite. The larger pit, north of...south of the cross-member. It was called the Passaic pit or Passaic mine and was worked by the Passaic Zinc...limb; they also mined hemimorphite in the Passaic pit. Later, the Passaic Zinc Company sunk a 152-meter...Rainbow Tunnel at the north side of the Passaic pit. The west limb of the orebody is to the left. Figure |
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Pomba pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil