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| 054.!- Figure 1 (above). Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5...3/. 0/0% (!2$). -!33!# 05,!3+) %8 !. $% 2 Illinois Mineral Locality Index 7)..%"!'/ /',% #!22/...(above). Map showing the counties in Illinois, courtesy the Illinois Geological Survey. 96*2:...he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. In the southern portion |
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| Fluorite in Mississippi Valley–type Downloaded by ["Queen's University Libraries, Kingston"] at 08:16...Deposits Figure 1 (top left). Fluorite, Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England...specimen is 5.5 × 4.5 × 3.5 cm and was recovered in July 1977 by British collector Richard Barstow. Jesse...(center left). Fluorite, Dow Scar level, Hilton mine, near Appleby, Scordale, Cumbria, England. This...The specimen is 3.5 × 4 × 4 cm and was recovered in 1970. Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka specimen, Jesse |
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| Wilson T he Circulation Manager Mary Lynn Michela M in e r a l o g ic a l R ecord Associate Editors Pierre...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael...S-M SA S y m p o siu m o n cop p er and cop p er m in e r a ls ................................................. 51 Chairman: K. Wenrich W hat's n e w in m in erals D en v er S h o w 1996 ................. |
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| Paleozoic Geology and Ore Deposits in the Midcontinent Region Rosiclare, Illinois to Ironton and Viburnum, Missouri...0-87590-588-9 Printed in the United States of America Leaders: James W. Baxter Illinois Dept. of Energy and...MO 65401 Associate Leaders: James C. Bradbury Illinois Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources State Geological...PALEOZOIC GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS IN THE MIDCONTINENT REGION James W. Baxter 1 , James C. Bradburyl, Eva B...Missouri. lIllinois State Geological Survey, Urbana, Illinois. 2Missouri Geological Survey, Rolla, Missouri |
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| Figure 1. Galena crystal, 3.2 cm across, with chalcopyrite and dolomite, Brushy Creek mine, Viburnum...Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Dan Weinrich specimen and photo. Mississippi Valley–Type Deposits...lead-zinc ore deposits that are characterized by (1) low-temperature formation (50°–200°C, but usually...are the largest and were the first to be studied in detail—thus the origin of their name. MVT deposits...great societal importance. The most abundant minerals in MVTs are sphalerite and galena (the ores of zinc |
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| Record, September-October 201✓ Mineral Collections in Texas A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September-October...September-October 2014, Volume 45, number 5 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Wendell E. Wilson Editors: Thomas P. Moore...abundance of great mineral localities like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil...Texas collections generally tend tobe very broad in scope, and focused predominantly (though not exclusively)...display specimens. The vitality of mineral collecting in Texas today has already been weil demonstrated by |
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| Diagenetic Features Their Role in the Interpretation of the Southern Illinois Fluorspar Deposits WoN C. PaRK...fluorite and sphalerite occur in the Cave-In-Rock fluorite district, Illinois in the upper part of the Mississippian...System; in the upper parts of the Fredonia and Joppa Members of the Ste. Genevieve Formation and in the upper...'cut-andfill' channels usually contain broken pieces of dolomite, limestone, shale, sandstone, fluorite and sphalerite...mechanically filled from above into an open crack formed in the hydroplastic carbonate mud below. A number of |
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| 4461_txt.indd 1 1/18/21 11:02 AM 4461_txt.indd 2 1/18/21 11:02 AM If art is an expression of...4461_txt.indd 3 3 1/18/21 11:02 AM 4461_txt.indd 4 1/18/21 11:02 AM Contrast In the world of aesthetic...how crystals and matrix contrast with each other in color and texture, such as dark on light, clear on...honored tradition in all forms of art. It is one of the most important design principles in art training...multidimensional world on a flat surface. “There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one Winter 2021 |
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| Figure 1: Purple, zoned fluorite cubes with galena on sphalerite from the HillLedford mine: 11 by 9...9 by 6 cm: HMM #117417. Southern Illinois, as amply demonstrated by the Bannister Collection, is a source...All specimens are from mines in the Cave in Rock district, Hardin County, Dlinois. Clive Russ, photographer...Rosiclare mine. John Carlon, photographer. Figure 4: The sign near the front gate of the Rosiclare mine. John...m i n e J o h n Fluorite and southern Illinois have become syn onymous for the mineral connoisseur |
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| 9.5 x 13.5 cm and is housed at the British Museum in London (GR 2003.12-2.21). Photo© The Trustees of...reserved. byAlbertGilg Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE), in his well-known work Natural History, described luxury..."myrrhine" or "murrhine" ware, writing "their value lies in their varied colors: the veins, as they revolve,...where colors may be reflected such as we observe in the inner part of a rainbow." (translation Rackman...the victory of Pompey the Great over Mithridates in 62 BCE when Anatolia became part of the Roman Empire |
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| different perspectives. Some think of the Midwest in terms of geography—as an area where rivers (the Mississippi...dipping sedimentary rocks, Paleozoic through Tertiary in age, which host a suite of a dozen or so common minerals...The implication then is that there will be no rarities in the Midwest or that any mineral species found...found beyond that suite could be considered rare. In addition, a significant portion of this bedrock geology...eight states (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, and Iowa); the Midwest Federation |
 | Huizing, Terry E., Richards, R. Peter, Clifford, Janet H., Cook, Robert B. (2017) Connoisseur's Choice: Calcite from the American Midwest, Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Rocks & Minerals, 92 (1) 46-63 doi:10.1080/00357529.2017.1241690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
| Midwest Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee C alcite is ubiquitous in the American Midwest...Midwest where it occurs in a wide range of geological environments and frequently forms crystals of high... It is the major constituent of limestone, most cave formations, and many fossil shells. North America’s...are predominantly found in the American Midwest where large crystals occur in aesthetic combinations with...spaces within sedimentary rocks, and treasured finds in the very different, and much older, rocks that host |
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| Mineral NeWSVol. 21 No. 4 April 2005 The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $3.00 Mapping the Minerals... with a resolution of 7 nm in the visible spectrum, going to 14-20 nm in the near-infrared. It "sees"..."sees" objects on the ground ranging in size from 300 m to 5 km, depending on the altitude of the spacecraft...2) Re-exainination of Some Minerals from the Cave-in-Rock Area Alan Goldstein 1607 Washington Blvd. Louisville... I have been photographing my mineral collection in order to upload images to the web site: www.mindat |
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| A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes...the highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the...forests lie some of the oldest crystalline rocks in the East, both igneous and metamorphic, strongly...coastal lowlands in the Atlantic Coast Fall Line, so named from the falls or rapids in rivers at places...and Columbus. The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries |
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| MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN TEXAS III A SUPPLEMENT TO THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD, NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2020 ... Mineral Collections in TEXAS UVolume IIIV With an Introduction by Wendell Wilson A Supplement to...November–December 2020 MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN TEXAS Mineral Collections in Texas Volume III A Supplement to...November–December 2020 Volume 51, number 6 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Wendell E. Wilson Associate Publisher & Circulation...Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail |
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| otherwise noted THOSE IN ATTENDANCE at the 46th Annual Rochester Mineralogical Symposium in Rochester, New...New York, on 13 April 2019, were in for a particular treat, for on that day mineral collector William “Bill”...collecting minerals at an early age like so many of us. In fact, it was not until he was the father of young...from the beach and wanted to know what they were. In Severance’s typical laid-back humorous style he responded...impact on him because soon after that he enrolled in a mineralogy class taught by Dr. Peter Leavens at |
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| Library] at 00:11 06 November 2014 Eagle Mine, Cilman, Eagle County, Colorado W orld production of zinc...mineralogy is complex with multiple representatives in most chemical groups, yet virtually all of the primary...number of good sphalerite occurrences, the Eagle mine at Gilman holds the record as that state’s leading...(figs. 1 and 2 ) . Sphalerite is notable for its dodecahedral cleavage, the six planes of {01 1 }, and...typical resinous to adamantine luster. It ranges in color-generally based on the proportion of iron substituting |
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| Ne Vol. 19 No. 5 May 2003 The Mineral Collector's Newslee Unusual Minerals in the Illinois-Kentucky Fluorspar...Fluorspar District Alan Goldst ein Falls of the Ohio State Park 201 W Riverside Drive Clarksville, Indiana...Indiana 47129 The Illinois Kentucky tl uorspar district has a lot of minera lization. Thi s artic le...focuses on the less-common species, which are described in alphabetical order. See Goldstein ( 1997) fo r a...fou nd in the Minerva# I. the on ly known North American occurrence (ed. note, recently reported in Virg |
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| Illinois ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors...any other state in America. Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern...northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin glaciation, the bluffs and detritus...detritus of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well |
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| Illinois ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors...any other state in America. Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern...northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin glaciation, the bluffs and detritus...detritus of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well |
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| kristalle.com £*rtSH 4...SH A IC - if* IT I SH Mil 1 Pa I-' ilUTlSH ; MI Editor & Publisher Wendell...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...manager for rates.) *Continued on p. 519 T he M in e r a l o g ic a l R ecord November-December 1997...Barite after paralstonite, a new pseudomorph from Cave-in-Rock, I llin o is .................................by W. L. Wilson Kingsbridge, an early quarrying district on Manhattan Island ......................... |
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| FLOOR Sessions 1-2 (Floor, Telephone, HERITAGELive!®, Internet, Fax, and Mail) Session 1 Wednesday, December...75261-6199 BIDDING METHODS ®1 BIDDING Bid live on your computer or mobile, anywhere in the world, during the...HERITAGELive!® program at HA.com/Live LIVE FLOOR BIDDING Bid in person during the floor sessions. LIVE TELEPHONE...but it is not uncommon to sell 50 lots or 80 lots in any given hour. Buyer's Premium Per Lot: This auction...Attendees must comply with local regulations for in-person events. This Auction is cataloged and presented |
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| Mineral Collections in the PACIFIC NORTHWEST Organized by Don Newsome With an Introduction by Wendell...Record, September–October 2019 Mineral Collections in the Pacific Northwest A Supplement to The Mineralogical...September-October 2019 • Volume 50, number 5 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief Wendell E. Wilson Associate Publisher & Circulation...scepter with pyrite, 7 cm, from Spruce Ridge, King County, Washington; Rick Dillhoff collection; Jeff Scovil...Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst |
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| extraLapis English No. 4: Calcite To Our Readers: As we established our company, we made a commitment...natural history as well as to help popularize science in general, particularly among young people. Toward...06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint.com ISBN 0-971 5371-3-5 In extraLapis...extraLapis English No.2: Emeralds of the World, Zak Swartz, then a junior at East Hampton (Connecticut) High...emeralds that are found in the world's museums. Sarah Bronko, a senior at Westover School in Middlebury, Connecticut |
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| August 2017 ILLINOIS ISSUE I enjoyed the issue of Rocks & Min erals devoted to Illinois, especially...fluorspar district. I have studied and led university geology classes into the fluorspar district since 1981...would be interested in oc currences of other minerals that were not mentioned in the issue. Azurite has...dump of the Minerva No. 1 mine. Cerrusite, a weathering product of galena, has been found in a shallow...shallow surface mine west of Hick's dome. It occurs in three forms: white to gray crusts; 1-mm transparent, |
