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| knew John Sinkankas, through his achievements as an author, artist, mineralogist, bibliophile, bookseller...came during a chance visit to the Lower New Street quarry immediately following a blast; prehnite-filled...in during his later years. In 1982 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane letters degree from William...T. Liddicoat Library. John never slowed down. At an age when most men would be satisfied to rest on such...long-time project, the monumental three-volume Gemology: An Annotated Bibliography, and saw it published in 1993 |
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| Tasmania RECENT investigation of samples labelled zaratite from the Lord Brassey Mine, near Heazlewood, Tasmania...study, which failed to confirm the presence of zaratite. The Lord Brassey Mine is situated near the summit...ore occurs as narrow veins within a body of serpentinite 4 km long and 800 m wide, forming part of a...emerald-green amorphous mineral referred to as zaratite by Williams (1958) has been deposited along with...shear planes and fractures. Otwayite Otwayite is an orthorhombic nickel carbonate thus far recorded only |
 | Arai, Shoji, Ishimaru, Satoko, Miura, Makoto, Akizawa, Norikatsu, Mizukami, Tomoyuki (2020) Post-Serpentinization Formation of Theophrastite-Zaratite by Heazlewoodite Desulfurization: An Implication for Shallow Behavior of Sulfur in a Subduction Complex. Minerals, 10 (9) 806 doi:10.3390/min10090806 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) |
| Formation of Theophrastite-Zaratite by Heazlewoodite Desulfurization: An Implication for Shallow Behavior...hydroxide-hydroxyl carbonate, theophrastite (Ni(OH)2 )-zaratite (Ni3 (CO3 )(OH)4 ·4H2 O) aggregates were found...subduction complex of Cretaceous age. The theophrastite-zaratite aggregate from Fujiwara most typically occurs...and magnetite within an antigorite-rich part of the rock. The theophraste-zaratite formed possibly together...their cogenesis. The desulfurization occurred at an early stage of, or during, exhumation of the subduction |
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| coatings, associated 'lvith zaratite, on shear planes within a body of serpentinite. In transmitted light it...(1952). The powder difiraction pattern of the zaratite, however, cannot be indexed on the basis of published...collected from a body of serpentinite containing small amounts of a pale blue mineral and an emerald green mineral... Primary sulphide mineralization within the serpentinite consistsof veins and segregationsof heazlewooditewith...0 mm. thick, in part coating zaratite, along shear planes in serpentinite. It has one perfect cleavage |
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| Crystal . . . . . . .. Diagra1natic Sketch of Brinton Quarry Pegmatite Graphic Granite Geologic Cross-Section...Pseudomorphs of Deweylite after Aragonite. Cedar Hill Quarry . . . . . . . Calcite Crystal Forms "Picrolite"...years, mineral collec'ting has become a hobby for an increasingly large number of people. The Pennsylvania...good collecting localities. We are not attempting an exhaustive treat1nent of Pennsylvania's mineral occurrences...permission from the owners of the land, or from the quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect |
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| microscope by D.M. Lapham of a thin slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green...the hobby of mineral collecting has been growing at an accelerated pace. To keep up with the demand for...County, the Stillwell quarry in Lancaster County, and the Medusa Cement Company quarry in York County, are...Zircon Crystal 50 Diagramatic Sketch of Brinton Quarry Pegmatite 53 Geologic Cross-Section of West ...84 of Deweylite after Dolomite, Ceclar Hill Quarry 89 _ Limonite Pseudomorphs from Chestnut Hill |
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| Discovered in the Othrys and Vermion Ophiolites, Greece: An Overview Maria Economou-Eliopoulos 1, * 1 2 * Citation:...Discovered in the Othrys and Vermion Ophiolites, Greece: An Overview. Minerals 2022, 12, 1214. https://doi.org/10...chromitite. Very likely, they formed at lower pressure in an extremely low fO2 and reducing environment during...[3–9]. Small grains, approximately 15 µm across, with an approximately composition (Ni,Fe)5 P, were first...Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and |
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| main groups. In general, the host rock age provides an older limit for the age of ore, but the younger limit...unmetamorphosed Paleozoic rocks. For most of these deposits, an age younger than Paleozoic has not been established...to establish for some within the Triassic group. An unclassified group of five deposit types is not assigned...mine and the chromite deposits of the State Line district follow at $5-7 million. The Phoenixville type...23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Bonneaughtown Teeter's quarry Gettysburg Hunterstown Near Heidlcrsburg Center |
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| Wagnerite to Wurtzite ... Xanthoconite to Xonotlite Zaratite to Zunyite ... References 4 5 7 8 10 12 13...Geology and major deposits, Heazlewood mineral district ... Main mineral locations and 1:100 000 scale...other areas. The 1969 catalogue did not indicate an author, but was mostly compiled by Dr Bill Baker...and the professional mineralogist is catered for by an extensive listing of the sources of data. Most technical...southeast Tasmania. [MRT 1548] 7 D I e 0 .s an • The history of mining in Tasmania is summarised |
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| groups: The number of new mineral species may grow as an avalanche, flooding the mineral population with tens...lepidolite, wolfrarnite). In many cases, minerals have an intermediate composition between theoretical end-members...to crystallographic tenns (e .g. prismatine), to an organization (e.g .. mgriite). to a journal (minrecordite)...form. Many minerals display characteristic twinning, an intergrowth of two or more individual crystals of...Miller indices are used. For instance, the symbol for an orthorhombic dipyramid form is { 111}, for a hexagonal |
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| “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy; right fibrous : tremolite, C. K. Williams quarry, Easton: bottom: calcite...oriented coatings of goethite, “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy, (courtesy of Delbert L. Oswald) ADDITIONAL... DEDICATION feHB DAVIS M. LAPHAM (1931-1974) An outstanding mineralogist and a wonderful friend...in 1959 and of succeeding revisions and maintained an active file of new localities, minerals, and corrections...edition of Mineral Collecting Cedar Hill in quarry where Dave had done IV much of his work PREFACE |
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| by Lake Buchanan in 1938. The Terlingua mining district is noted for its rare mercury minerals. Mining...(Zeitner, 1972). Rendham, E and N of Rendham along an escarpment, limestone over red shales of the Permian...Temple, 6 miles W of Temple in abandoned limestone quarry; marcasite* (spear-point crystals; groups up to...cretions) (Schleh, 1967). Blanco County Coal Creek Serpentinite ( = Gould Davis Ranch), N W Austin County Raccoon...and stringers), tremolite* (some as asbestos), zaratite (as stainings) (Barnes, 1940). Comanche Creek |
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| Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 In addition to being an executive editor for R O C K S A N D M I N E R A...Univ. Ilus. (1925). 280 ROCKS AND MINERALS Zaratite, N i C 0 ( O H ) » 4 H 0 , cubic; emerald green...encrustations; often on frac tures in chromite and serpentinite; numerous localities throughout the world. 3...Casares y Rodrigo in which he named the minerals zaratite and morenosite, dedicating them to the gentlemen...morenosite, as illustrated in Goldschmidt's Atlas der Krystallformen. The writer wishes to express his |
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| by the necessity of having its contents conform to an orderly publication format. Because of this restriction...Shale Brick Corp. Fenati Brick Co., Inc. Midland Quarry, McQuiston Coal Co. Veon Mines, Ralph A. Veon,...FIRE CLAY o - OTHER CLAY r-o - MAP 6 0 F I R E AN D 0 THE R C LAY r-oo f~ ~~ ~~~~ FF FF FF F ...main groups. In general, the host rock age provides an older limit for the age of ore, but the younger limit...unmetamorphosed Paleozoic rocks. For most of these deposits, an age younger than Paleozoic has not been established |
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| determination of C and H, recalculated to 100% from an original total of 99.01% after deduction of SiO2...00 (OH)2 • 2H2 O. Occurrence: In veinlets in serpentinite (Otway prospect, Western Australia; Lord Brassey...Western Australia); theophrastite, hellyerite, zaratite, magnetite (Lord Brassey mine, Tasmania, Australia)...Otway nickel deposit, near Spinnaway, Nullagine district, and in the 132 North nickel mine, 4 km southwest |
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| elbowrne, Li'niver sity M During the examination of zaratite-bearingspecimensfrom the Lord Brassey mine at...with zaratile on a shear plane in a specimen of serpentinite. This mineral was at first believed to be fine-grained...3X2XO.7 mm., and this contained inclusions of zaratite' The minerai has a dull, earthy lustre and, by...appears cloudy and rather opaque. It is soft, with an estimated scratch hardnessof approximately 2, and...b e s t v a l u e sw e r e c l o s et o 1 . 6 8 ' An r-ray powder diffraction photograph was found to |
 | Deasy, G. F., Griess, P. R., Balazik, R. F., Burtnett, J. W. (1967) Atlas of Pennsylvania’s Mineral Resources - Supplement, Limestones and dolomites of Pennsylvania, in Atlas of Pennsylvania's Mineral Resources. Mineral Resource Report M50-1S, Pennsylvania Geological Survey. | Report (Issue volume) |
| active mines, 1962 .. 2. Types of active mines (quarry andjor underground) 3. Number of months that mines...consists of a group of six related maps. Where feasible, an attempt is made to arrange the individual maps in...quantity and value of production) by operators of an additional three mines; and by the absence of two...two pages of the reporting forms pertaining to an additional four mines (see Table l) . All such factors...by the necessity of having its content~ conform to an orderly publication fonnat. As has been previously |
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| as coatings on shear surfaces in serpentinite. Association: Zaratite, theophrastite, otwayite. Distribution: |
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| control on mineral deposits in the State-line serpentinite, Pennsylvania Piedmont Alexander E. Gates Department...control on mineral deposits in the State-line serpentinite, Pennsylvania Piedmont. In: W. Petruk, A.H....State-line serpentinite were controlled by shear zone processes. The State-line serpentinite is a layered...generations of shear zones that have affected the serpentinite including early thrust faults, conjugate high-angle...The thrust faulting emplaced the State-line serpentinite onto the Peters Creek metasediments and represents |
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| years, mineral collecting has become a hobby for an increasingly large number of people. The Pennsylvania...attempting formation on good collecting localities an exhaustive treatment of Pennsylvania's mineral occurrences...owners the rockhound, of the land, or from quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect...MINERAL COLLECTING The study rocks and minerals is an important part of the science of geology. These same..."rockhounds" who have discovered that mineral collecting is an exciting hobby. The surface made up of MINERALS |
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| Pennsylvania 17 I 05-8453, U.S.A. AssrRAcr Serpentinite from Woods Chrome Mine, l,ancaster County, Pennsylvania...velopment of one layer silicate polytype in place of an- are type I or II) or +b/3 along the three b axes...into schistsand gneissesin the Ordoyician. The serpentinite is now exposed in the Woods Chrome Mine, Lower...Creek metabasalt).Together, these units represent an ophiolitic island arc complex that was obducted onto...contained 48 wto/oCrrOr. An analysisof the serpentinized dunite from a nearby quarry yielded SiO, 37.3010 |
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| ---------------------------------- Lynn Lake district----------------------------------------Thompson-~oak...____________________________________ - ___ Kenora district ______ ----- ___________________________ ----...___ ------------------------------------U nga va district ______________________________ - _- ---------UI...fifth most abundant element of the earth, having an average bulk percentage of 2.7. The average nickel...peridotite (the nickel silicate variety) and serpentinite (the nickeliferous iron variety). The largest |
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| Department of Mineralogy, British Museum (Natural History) AN invitation by Mr. Richard Lambert to write a foreword...consist solely of a mere mention in a paper, or of an exhibit at a meeting of the Mineralogical Society...massive from a vein in a dolerite sill at Embleton quarry, near Cockermouth, Cumberland. A. W. G. Kingsbury...Orange-brown cleavages on vein quartz, at Merehead quarry, near Shepton Mallet, Somerset. Specimen found...(2 cm) from a pegmatite vein in the old aplite quarry at Meldon, Okehampton, Devon. A. W. G. Kingsbury |
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| Entries for the glossary have been derived from an extensive literature survey, examination of many... INTRODUCTION In 1901 M. F. Heddle published a systematic and an alphabetical list of Scottish mineral species (Heddle...glossary entries, and the bulk of the remainder is an abstraction from the mineralogical and geological...synonymic names it must be pointed out that, just because an old name has dropped out of usage, there is no reason...formed, with a definite chemical composition and an ordered atomic arrangement. But what status do we |
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| Left: Magnificent hexagonal crystals of chalyblte, an Iron carbonate. The triangular 'growth shadows' that...are visible represent the form of the crystals at an earlier stage in their development The following...along certain directions, is mentioned here. It is an important way of identifying minerals, and it is... which runs from i (talc) to io (diamond). It is an important guide to the identity of a mineral, and...the stone; and the mineral’s sensitivity to heat—an important con¬ sideration, since stones are heated |
