 | | Journal (issue) | | Happen Here! A Visit to the Shin-Otani Manganese Mine, Japan Alfredo Petrov alfredopetrov@earthlink.net...small of a hole in the ground merits being called.a mine. None of these mines is in operation anymore, but...show in April mentioned that a nearby manganese mine was now a museum open for underground tourism, I...to the Shin-Otani mine in the Tanba mining district. This manganese mining district includes 277 mines...drive away. After mining in the Kyoto area ended, little more than 20 years ago, mining and miners were |  | | Journal (issue) | | Weber by the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (see February 2005 Mineral News - Ed.). Between...noted for the mounted specimens acquired by the LA County Museum, the collection provides a solid reference...a greyish olive. but it can be attractive, pale blue. Specimens often have loosely attached, individual...fantastic black tourmaline, and a few excellent blue beryls var. aquamarine but the unusual minerals...specimens of the IMA approved, yet unpublished 'skorpionite' from the new Skorpion Mine near Rosh Pinah |  | Mills, S. J., Etschmann, B., Kampf, A. R., Poirier, G., Newville, M. (2014) Sb5+ and Sb3+ substitution in segnitite: A new sink for As and Sb in the environment and implications for acid mine drainage. American Mineralogist, 99 (7) 1355-1359 doi:10.2138/am.2014.4834 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | substitution in segnitite: A new sink for As and Sb in the environment and implications for acid mine drainage...Department, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California... 2 Abstract A sample of Sb-rich segnitite from the Black Pine mine, Montana, U.S.A., has been studied...Sb-rich segnitite opens new possibilities for Sb sinks within the supergene zone. Segnitite may, in fact...structure, segnitite, antimony, valency, alunite supergroup, oxidized zone Introduction Segnitite, ideally |  | Ferretti, Paolo, Campostrini, Italo, Demartin, Francesco, Rocchetti, Ivano (2017) Nota preliminare sui minerali della Miniera del Taubenleck (Gola del Bletterbach, Aldino, BZ) [Preliminary note about the minerals of the Taubenleck Mine (Bletterbach Gorge, BZ, Italy)]. Geo.Alp, 14. Bolzano/Bozen. 25-33 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Preliminary note about the minerals of the Taubenleck Mine (Bletterbach Gorge, BZ, Italy) • Paolo Ferretti1...la specie, approvata dall’IMA nell’aprile 2016 (IMA 2015-115), si tratta della terza segnalazione mondiale...describes the minerals found at the Taubenleck Mine, a mining site dated between XV and XVI century and located...of the Bletterbach Gorge (Aldino, BZ). The old mining site is located at the coal levels rich in Cu and...Cu2C2O4(OH)2. For the latter species, approved by the IMA CNMNC in April 2016 (IMA2015-115), it is the third |  | Birch, W. D., Pring, A., Gatehouse, B. M. (1992) Segnitite, PbFe3H(AsO4)2(OH)6, a new mineral in the lusungite group from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. American Mineralogist, 77 (5-6) 656-659 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | o Il€tv mineral in the lusungite group flom Segnitite, PbFerH(AsO4)r(OH)6e Broken Hill, New South Wales...bayldonite, agardite-(Y), goethite, and coronadite. Segnitite is the new As end-member of the lusungite group...ore rich in galena and arsenopyriteJoellingite. Segnitite is named after E. R. Segnit, and type material...resemblancebetween the powder data and unit-cell parametersfor segnitite and "S-poor beudantite." The mineral is named...family with the general name were approved by the IMA Comand Thedata formula AB j(XO4)r(OH)u are widespread |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Burgring 7, A-1010 Wien, Austria Exploration and Mining, CSIRO, Private Bag 5, Wembley, WA 6913, Australia...to show the same single unit-cell structure, and IMA 1993-039 is a new superstructure of kintoreite and...Philipsbornite Arsenogoyazite Dussertite Graulichite-(Ce) Segnitite NdAl3(AsO4)2(OH)6 PbAl3(AsO3.5(OH)0.5)2(OH)6...hydroniumjarosite Arsenobismit = preisingerite + atelestite + segnitite or beudantite arsenoflorencite-(Nd). Questionable;...strontiohitchcockite = goyazite sulfatfreier Beudantit = segnitite sulphate-free weilerite = arsenogorceixite Th-crandallite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | discreditation of “lusungite” and the naming of segnitite and kintoreite (from Pring et al. 1995). § E-mail...Birch et al. (1992) and Pring et al. (1995) named segnitite and kintoreite, respectively, the names were introduced...that time (1987), only huangite, kintoreite, and segnitite would have been disallowed; as well, for both...kemmlitzite (Fig. 5 in Jambor 1999). Kintoreite and segnitite would not have been approved on the grounds that...a mineral because of historical reasons, but segnitite, kintoreite, and huangite were named in the 1990s |  | | Journal (issue) | | Collector's Newsletter $6.00 Minerals from the Eagle Mine Gilman, Colorado Bob Werner werner@lcturboney.com...submit1ing the article, Silver Orefrom the Eagle Mine, (Mineral News, Vol. 35, No. I), I thought there...locality that is now closed "forever". The Eagle Mine (fig. I, right) is well known to collectors for...reached the market during its operation. The Eagle Mine was Colorado's largest zinc and copper producer...adjacent local mines into one operation. The Eagle Mine was accessed by the Wilkesbarre shaft and the Newhouse |  | | Journal (volume) | | of euhedral schulenbergite at the Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall John Betterton and Ian E. Grey 34–35...Kerry, Ireland Mike S. Rumsey 35–38 Segnitite from Weardale, County Durham Brian Young and Adam Pacey ...south-west of the Emerald Isle, to Ballybunnion, in County Kerry, from where Mike Rumsey describes the first...Adam Pacey report on the first occurrence of segnitite in the Pennines, discovered in the supergene zone...zone of the Slitt Vein, at Heights Pasture Mine, Weardale, an area not normally associated with arsenic |  | | | | Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA 3 Research School...the A and/or B sites (Jambor, 1999). At the Tsumeb mine, in the Otjikoto region of Namibia (19º15’S , 17º42’E)...Pb-bearing species of the supergroup. The Tsumeb mine is the type locality for approximately 58 other...Ga analogues of kintoreite, arsenocrandallite, segnitite and corkite) as zoned crystals. The paragenesis...only the unnamed Ga analogue of arsenocrandallite (IMA Code: UM1996-04-AsO:CaGaGeH; Smith and Nickel, 2007) |  | Sejkora, J., Plášil, J., Císařová, I., Škoda, R., Hloušek, J., Veselovský, F., Jebavá, I. (2011) Interesting supergene Pb-rich mineral association from the Rovnost mining field, Jáchymov (St. Joachimsthal), Czech Republic. Journal of GEOsciences, 56 (3) 257-271 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | supergene Pb-rich mineral association from the Rovnost mining field, Jáchymov (St. Joachimsthal), Czech Republic...shallow gallery of the Rovnost mine, the Jáchymov (St. Joachimsthal) ore district, western Bohemia (Czech Republic)...cerussite, anglesite, wulfenite, philipsbornite–segnitite minerals, pyromorphite and metazeunerite were...association was discovered in the Rovnost mining field, Jáchymov ore district, western Bohemia, Czech Republic...at the IMA 2010 General Meeting in Budapest (Sejkora et al. 2010b). The Jáchymov ore district, located |  | | Journal (issue) | | Australian Museum, Sydney • Antleriet van de Jomac mine, Utah • En veel MKA- en ander nieuws… Mineralogische...Pelckmans Reisbelevenissen in Nevada en Oregon (USA) De reis die Herwig en zijn gezin dit jaar maakte...antleriet met carbonaatcyanotrichiet van de Jomac mine, Utah, USA aangeboden. Meer details hierover vindt U elders...cerussiet-kristallen van de Proprietary Block 14 mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Specimen...amphibole from the Kajlidongri manganese mine, Jhabua District, madhya Pradesh, India 428-440 Luminescence |  | Mills, Stuart J., Kampf, Anthony R., Poirier, Glenn, Raudsepp, Mati, Steele, Ian M. (2010) Auriacusite, Fe3+Cu2+AsO4O, the first M3+ member of the olivenite group, from the Black Pine mine, Montana, USA. Mineralogy and Petrology, 99 (1) 113-120 doi:10.1007/s00710-009-0089-7 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the olivenite group, from the Black Pine mine, Montana, USA Stuart J. Mills & Anthony R. Kampf & Glenn... from the Black Pine mine, 14.5 km NW of Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana, USA. It occurs lining quartz...coating quartz crystals and is associated with segnitite, brochantite, malachite, tetrahedrite and pyrite...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA G. Poirier Mineral Sciences...Chicago, 5734 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA (5), β=1.865(5) and γ=1.910(5), measured using white |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystals to 1 mm) with raspite (brown), Proprietary mine. Broken Hill Geocentre specimen. T he rich silver-lead-zinc...historian Geoffrey Blainey (1982), no other single mining field of the future will ever exert as much influence...from Kintore and Block 14 dumped at the Pinnacles mine, 15 kilometers southwest of Broken Hill, has now...the primary ore has long gone, and underground mining is now under the control of two companies, Perilya...estimates give Broken Hill another twenty years of mining, without any additional exploration. Geological |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | names representing valid species, accredited by the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names, are...Pap. & Proc. Gen. Meet., IMA, 1986. 102. Mira Flores mine, H u a n u n i district, Oruro, Bolivia. FeA16(PO4)a(OH)8...subhedral crystals to 1 mm in a quartz vein from Ankang County, Shaanxi Province, China. Ideal formula Ba(Ti,V...pleochroism; reflectance data are given. Named for the County in which the type locality is situated. Antimonselite...accordingly. Gen~ve, 47, 45. From the Cap Garonne mine, Arsenoflorencite-(Nd). B. Scharm, M. Scharmov~t |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals of the Centennial Eureka Mine, Tintic District, Eureka, Utah Downloaded by [North Carolina...noted, of specimens from his collection THE TINTIC DISTRICT in Utah has been mined for gold, silver, copper...copper, lead, and zinc since 1869. The district can be divided into two subdistricts: (1) The Main Tintic...the Tintic district during the last fifty years. This has changed because some of the old mine dumps in...for low-grade gold. All of the Centennial Eureka mine dump was screened. The small-sized material was |  | | Journal (volume) | | characteristic trigonal sym metry, from Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, described by Bridges et...The Geology and Mineralization of the 51 Just District. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of London...Tindle 3 A review of the mineralisation at Red Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England Trevor Bridges...of kombatite, Pb14[(V04)209Cl4], from the "Wesley Mine" near Westbury on Trym, Bristol Michael Rumsey ...zeolite group minerals new to Britain from Whitesmith Mine, Strontian, Highland Region , Scotland David Green |  | | Journal (issue) | | 00 A ''New'' Discovery of Philipsbornite and Segnitite Two rare members oftlze crandallite group, philipsbomite...0, and segnitite PbFe 3+H(As0.1Ji(OH)6'have recently been confirmed from the Black Pine Mine. Both are...large lot of unsorted material from the Black Pine Mine near Philipsburg, Granite Co., Montana. Well known...excellent veszelyite samples it produced, the Black Pine Mine is also the type locality for philipsburgite, and...thirty-plus different species from the Black Pine Mine for one of our monthly lists last year, several |  | Pring, A., Birch, W. D., Dawe, J., Taylor, M., Deliens, M., Walenta, K. (1995) Kintoreite, PbFe3(PO4)2(OH,H2O)6, a new mineral of the jarosite-alunite family, and lusungite discredited. Mineralogical Magazine, 59 (394) 143-148 doi:10.1180/minmag.1995.59.394.14 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Wales, Australia. It is the phosphate analogue of segnitite and the iron analogue of plumbogummite. Kintoreite...compositions across the P-dominant portion of the segnitite-kintoreite series. The selected type specimen...several intermediate members suggest that the segnitite-kintoreite series may not represent ideal solid...the renaming of the 'lusungite' group as the segnitite group. However, as relationships between crystal...philipsbornite, plumbogummite, hinsdalite, hidalgoite and segnitite (Birch et al., 1992). Within the alunite-jarosite |  | Elliott, P., Brugger, J., Pring, A., Cole, M. L., Willis, A. C., Kolitsch, U. (2008) Birchite, a new mineral from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia: Description and structure refinement. American Mineralogist, 93 (5) 910-917 doi:10.2138/am.2008.2732 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | translucent (masses) to transparent (crystals); pale blue with a vitreous luster. Optically, birchite is biaxial...The mineral and its name have been approved by the IMA Commission on New Elliott et al.: STRUCTURE OF...BIRCHITE Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (IMA 2006-048). Type material is preserved in the Department...reflected in the complexity of its mineralogy. Mining of remnant sulfide and oxidized ore in the Blackwood...Blackwood, Kintore and Block 14 Opencuts by Minerals, Mining, and Metallurgy Limited commenced in 1972 and continued |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2O, is a new mineral from the Maria Josefa Gold mine, Rodalquilar, Andalusia region, Spain. It occurs...species, sodium aluminium arsenate, Maria Josefa mine, Rodalquilar, Spain, mineral nomenclature, redefinition...labelled as aluminopharmacosiderite from Maria Josefa mine, Rodalquilar in Spain. The specimen was * E-mail:...approved by the IMA Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification (IMA 2010-009). The specimen...Natropharmacoalumite occurs at the Maria Josefa mine (36º51’30’’N, 2º5’2’’W), near the town of Rodalquilar |  | Vignola, Pietro, Rotiroti, Nicola, Hatert, Frédéric, Dal Bo, Fabrice, Gentile, Paolo, Albertini, Claudio, Merlini, Marco, Risplendente, Andrea, Pavese, Alessandro (2018) Plumbopharmacosiderite, Pb0.5Fe3+4(AsO4)3(OH)4·5H2O, A New Mineral Species From the Monte Falò Pb-Zn Mine Near the Village of Coiromonte In the Armeno Municipality, Novara Province, Italy. The Canadian Mineralogist, 56 (2) 143-150 doi:10.3749/canmin.1700080 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | A NEW MINERAL SPECIES FROM THE MONTE FALÒ Pb-Zn MINE NEAR THE VILLAGE OF COIROMONTE IN THE ARMENO MUNICIPALITY...minerals. It was found at the Monte Falò Pb-Zn mine near the village of Coiromonte in the Armeno municipality...with arsenopyrite, scorodite, beudantite, rare segnitite, marcasite, galena, sphalerite, and mimetite....International Mineralogical Association (IMA) under the number IMA 2016-109. § Corresponding author e-mail...group, arsenate, pharmacosiderite group, Monte Falò mine, Novara province, Italy. INTRODUCTION The pharmacosiderite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | DIVERSITY IN A HYDROTHERMAL VEIN-TYPE DEPOSIT: THE CLARA MINE, SW GERMANY, AS A TYPE EXAMPLE GREGOR MARKL§ Universität...Germany ABSTRACT The Clara baryte-fluorite-(Ag-Cu) mine exploits a polyphase, mainly Jurassic to Cretaceous...ashes introduced into the exploited parts of the mine resulted in fluoride assemblages of alkali and alkaline...centimeter scale. Unusual mineral diversity at the Clara mine therefore develops from a combination of diverse...fluids and anthropogenic additions. Keywords: Clara mine, fluids, supergene, mineral diversity, hydrothermal |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA–CNMNC), Secretary *Corresponding author, e-mail:... B-18, Université de Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium IMA–CNMNC, Vice-Chairman 3 CSIRO, Private Bag 5, Wembley...proposal and naming of new mineral groups within the IMA–CNMNC framework. Key-words: mineral group, supergroup...supergroup, nomenclature, mineral classification, IMA–CNMNC. Introduction History There are many ways which...The following proposal has been approved by the IMA Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names prior |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Magazine, 82(5), 1057–1077. 3+ Ammoniovoltaite (IMA 2017-022), ideally (NH4)2Fe2+ 5 Fe3 Al(SO4)12 (H2O)18...asterisk have been approved by the IMA CNMMC. † For a complete listing of all IMA-validated unnamed minerals...and their codes, see http://pubsites.uws.edu.au/ima-cnmnc/. 0003-004X/19/0005–779$05.00/DOI: http://dx...Mineralogical Magazine, 82(5), 1079–1088. Belousovite (IMA 2016-047), ideally KZn(SO4)Cl, monoclinic, is a new...and Petrology, 112(5), 743–752. Chlorellestadite (IMA 2017-013), ideally Ca5(SiO4)1.5(SO4)1.5Cl, hexagonal |
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