 | | Journal (issue) | | BERBES! The Miner alogical Record JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2024 • VOLUME 55 • NUMBER 1 • $30 Wayne & Dona...JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2024 Articles The Berbes Fluorite District, Asturias, Spain.................................FLUORITE, 4.3 cm, from the Valdelmar area of the La Cabaña zone at Berbes. Will Johnson collection, ex Eric...Chris Coy (2023) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2024) Mineralogical...the collectors and dealers in the entire Tri-State area. A typical weekend was spent driving their Mercury |  | | Journal (issue) | | of-interest co amateur mineralogists, collectors, and mining historians. Concril?ucions or suggestions for articles...Hughes -------26 ------A JOURNEY THROUGH NORTHERN SPAIN David I. Green · Max D. Freier Peter J.Briscoe ...occurs as microscopic intergrowths with galena. chalcopyrite. millerite, marcasite and sphalerite (Livingstone...occurs in microscopic intergrowths with galena, chalcopyrite and sphalerite Q. Mason, Prit:. Comm.. 1989)...figure). Associated species include sphalerite, chalcopyrite, galena, an unidentified metallic acicular mineral |  | Symons, David T.A., Kawasaki, Kazuo, Tornos, Fernando, Velasco, Francisco, Rosales, Idoia (2017) Temporal constraints on genesis of the Caravia-Berbes fluorite deposits of Asturias, Spain, from paleomagnetism. Ore Geology Reviews, 80. 754-766 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2016.08.020 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | constraints on genesis of the Caravia-Berbes fluorite deposits of Asturias, Spain, from paleomagnetism David T...Ajalvir Km. 4, 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain d Department de Mineralogía y Petrología, Universidad...48080 Bilbao, Spain e Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Rios Rosas 23, 28003 Madrid, Spain b a r t...Paleomagnetism Caravia-Berbes fluorite mineralization Remagnetization Ore genesis Spain a b s t r a c t The...The Caravia-Berbes district is a major fluorite producing area in Europe. The fluorite occurs as mantos |  | S^|^Aacute;NCHEZ, VIRGINIA, STUART, FINLAY M., MART^|^Iacute;N-CRESPO, TOM^|^Aacute;S, VINDEL, ELENA, CORBELLA, MERC^|^Eacute;, CARDELLACH, ESTEVE (2010) Helium isotopic ratios in fluid inclusions from fluorite-rich Mississippi Valley-Type district of Asturias, northern Spain. GEOCHEMICAL JOURNAL, 44 (1) doi:10.2343/geochemj.1.0077 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fluorite-rich Mississippi ValleyType district of Asturias, northern Spain VIRGINIA S ÁNCHEZ,1* FINLAY M. STUART...Geológicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040, Madrid, Spain 2 Isotope Geosciences Unit, SUERC, Rankine Avenue...Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles, 28933, Madrid, Spain 4 Dept. Geología, Facultat de Ciences, Universitat...Universitat Autònoma, Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain (Received September 22, 2009; Accepted January 18, 2010;...Mississippi Valley-type (MVT) deposits from Asturias, Spain, in order to assess the involvement of mantle |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pelt Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...This refers to Georges de La Bouglise, a French mining engineer, after whom the mineral ''bouglisite"...one can speculate that Dohrmann may have been a mining engineer or consultant. Only by actually visiting...summer) Specialties: Worldwide minerals; Colorado mining & minerals A. E. Seaman Mineralogical Museum Curator |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fluorites from the People’s Republic of China and from Spain became readily available, more 250 ROCKS & MINERALS...occurred were originally lead mines, but as lead mining began to taper off, the steel industry began to...erroneous localities were given in the early days of mining to protect sources, as noted by Fisher (2006)....quartz after fluorite are common from here. Recent mining for specimens in the quarries and mines of northern...with barite and pyrite from Ribidasella, Oviedo, Spain. Ryan Lay specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. up for these |  | | Report (issue) | | diamondshaped, yellow-brown crystals with pyrite, chalcopyrite and other sulfides. Both places are quite busy...geology, mineralogy and recent mining history of this red-hot mineral area, which comprises much, much more...combinations from the well-known Berbes mining area, Ribadesella, Asturias, Spain…and of course there’s a page...groups spotted with microcrystals of pyrite and chalcopyrite, some resting on gray sulfide matrix. The really...another pocket of the same kind was opened in the same area but that the crystals then were assumed to be schorl |  | | Journal (issue) | | on the SMLS trip to northern Spain in 1999 at La Cabana, Berbes, Asturias. Interesting inclusions including...Specimens from the collection of Roger Kemplen CHALCOPYRITE Collected from Hingston Down quarry, Cornwall...another slow search. Conveniently close to the parking area and sustenance. HEMIMORPHITE From level Fawr,... good parking and plenty of micro material, The area on both sides of the road still has great potential...about 50 were on the trip, are mainly interested in mining history. During an examination around Pandora mine | | | Journal (issue) | | Pelt Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain .............................................altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...This refers to Georges de La Bouglise, a French mining engineer, after whom the mineral “bouglisite” was...one can speculate that Dohrmann may have been a mining engineer or consultant. Only by actually visiting...de Sant Marti 79 Local 08032-B A R C E LO N A (SPAIN) « (3) 4 3 3 3 0 2 2 * -(3 ) 3571869 Fax (3 )4 5 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ʥˑˎˎˇ˅˖ˑ˔ˑˈ˖ˊˇʧ˚˓˗ˋ˕ˋ˖ˇ Spain has historically been a country with little tradition...Barcelona Parc de la Ciutadella, s/n 08003 Barcelona, Spain ccurto@bcn.cat collections, such as that of Josep...cm high, from Pedrera AVE, Riudarenes, Girona, Spain; mined 2006. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 4 (top right)...at the Natural History Museum of Barcelona, in Spain, since 1973. =VS\TL 5V]LTILY+LJLTILY...wide, from the Azkarate quarry, Eugui, Navarra, Spain; mined 2002. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 7 (below) |  | | Catalog/List | | The Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natura) Beauty with its highest peakt Worcester Beacon at 1394...of the Severn plain and is a geologicallycomplex area. Most aspects of the history and development of... ANAPAITE. Bellaver de Cerdena,Gerona Province,Spain.11 specimens. 7 sr,ecimens as half phosphatic geodes...LC,tlO. 33. DARITE. La Union,M~rcia Province,Spain. Pale blue,vafer ular xtls forming superb coral-like...xtls of Chalcopyrite to 3mm. Attractive Specimen. SC,t20. 35. BARITE/FLUORITE. Solis,Asturias Province |  | | Report (issue) | | United Kingdom BY IAN JONES 38 Fluorite from Spain: Every Color Under the Sun BY GUIOMAR & MIGUEL CALVO...108 Morocco's El Hammam: Six Decades of Fluorspar Mining BY PIERRE CLAVEL & GUNTHER NEUMEIER 112 Faceting...been exploited since at least the Middle Ages, when area miners, like their counterparts in the that those...as a fluxing stone. Artifacts of early fluorite mining are difficult to locate, as fluorite was at that...specimen market each year, but commercial fluorite mining did not begin in th earnest until the mid to late |  | | Journal (issue) | | Donovan (2020) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2020) Mineral Association... Company, another shipping firm serving major American mining and chemical companies. The company ceased operations...mineral collector and curator, was born in the mining town of Anyox, British Columbia on April 30, 1930...Michael’s early employers were the Britannia Beach Mining and Smelting Company of British Columbia, and the... Michael was also interested in mining history, and collected mining memorabilia and stock certificates |  | | Catalog/List | | PicoPesquero Fogo Island cape Verde £7 8 PHILLIPSITE 2x3cm area of small white crystals in Basalt 5x6 cm Limberg...8mm long with inclusions of Hydrocarbon Berbes, Asturias Spain. £4 33 HEMIMORPHITE colourless micro crystals...Nenthead Cumbria £25 50 PYROPHANITE orange-brown platy area about 8mm . Varenche Mine, Aosta Italy £8 51 PHARMA...61 MANGANITE black acicular micro crystals in an area Ixlcm on 2x2,5 Bolet Vastra Gotaland Sweden £5 ...fresh colour Molmello Mine, Vai Graveglia, Genova area Italy £8 91 CONICHALCITE green micros associated |  | | Journal (issue) | | ........................ Sussex go to Northern Spain Roger Kemp/en & John Pearce 34 ..................given an outline of the history of the mines in the area. Wapping has been worked since the 18 century for...precipitation ponds, the remaining potential for mining, the future plans of the local Parys underground...because we now have quite a few members in the Swansea area, we will probably hold it there, any ideas for a...to do an individual project on a randomly chosen area of Scotland. Steve Plant, who had just come back |  | | Journal (issue) | | government livestock inspector. He returned to the area 30 years later, found a crystal-bearing horizon...cm, from a 2019 find at Pedra Azul in the Medina area, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Will Johnson collection;...celadonite inclusions, 20 cm, from the Rio Grande do Sul area, Brazil. Will Johnson collection, ex Marshall Sussman;...Aquamarine beryl, 10.6 cm, from Pedra Azul, Medina area, Minas Gerais, Brazil. This crystal shows the purest... Figure 22. Heliodor beryl, 11.7 cm, from the Medina area, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Only four heliodor crystals |  | | Catalog/List | | Dolcoath mine, Camborne, Cornwall. 7x7x3cm. A chalcopyrite variety "blister copper" as it shows a metallic...mine, 13utte, Montana. 4.7x3x3cm. A pyrite or chalcopyrite matrix is covered 011 one side with dark 111etallic... Wonderful. £75. 78. 17LUORITE, Berbes mine, Berbes, Asturias. Spain. 8.5x6.5x4.5cm. This is nn amazing...another m i neral. It is found around an argon rich area underground. £45. I 1 0. OPAL P ENDANT, Australia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | November/December: Fluorite on barite, La Cabana, Berbes, Asturias, Spain; Jordi Fabre specimen, Jordi Deusedes photo...Mistaken Identities, A. L. Guth, 456–58 Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum, 280 Arkansas, wavellite, 346–50...(blue), Turkey, 126–27 Chalcocite, Quebec, 502 Chalcopyrite, Colorado, 407; Nevada, 517; New York, 162;...William Metropolis Fine Minerals Crystal Springs Mining Company Samora Minerals/Mexican Amber Judy and...Colorado, 413; Michigan, 300– 316; Ontario, 462 Copper Mining in Calumet: The Artist & Mural, S. Robinson, 317 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...collections); also not tobe missed are the National Mining Hall of 4 Farne Museum in Leadville, the Cripple...Western Museum of Mining and Industry in Colorado Springs, where the history of mining is featured. Following |  | | Journal (issue) | | pounds. Painting Century Plant in the Big Bend area (1939) by Jerry Bywaters. Courtesy Amon Carter Museum...there; the first claims were staked in 1894 and mining soon commenced. Eventually over two dozen mines...that railroads were being constructed through the area. George F. Kunz described a sky-blue celestine crystal... Fine topaz crystals continued to come from the area for most of the 20th century, many from fee-collecting...are similar to those found in Sicily. Sadly, the mining method does not allow the preservation of specimens |  | | Catalog/List | | Barvte Pyrite & Marcasite Jamesonite Chalcopyrite Chalcopyrite Bournonite Jamesonite Arsenoovrite Chalcoovrite...Baryte/Calcite Galena Galena Galena & Dolomite Chalcopyrite on Dolomite Arsenopyrite Sphalerite var Marmetite...Gerais Brazil Pyrrhotite Pitcher, Oklahoma, USA Chalcopyrite on Dolomite Cornwall Tennantite Parvs Copper...Arsenopyrite & Garnet Colarado, USA Covellite & Chalcopyrite Whitesmiths Mine, Strontian Galena Italy Stibnite...Mine Nenthead Sphalerite Realqar Tirol Hozario Spain Cinnabar Elba Pyrite Chalcooyrite Greystones, Cornwall |  | | Report (issue) | | 549.4 ISSN 0510-201 4 Copies availablefrom: Mining Information Centre Department of Mineralsand Energy................................ 12 12 Methods of mining .................................................................................... Methods of mining ............................................................................................... Spain ................................................................... Geological map of the Speewah area ..................................... Geology of |  | | Catalog/List | | • • 0 , J Tue Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natura! Beauty with iis h:s>2st peak Worcester. Beacon...mound of translucent grey Hemimorphite xtls and lem area of dull mid-green Aurichalcite xtls as slender laths...of slender,tarnished,prismatic xtls vith ive Chalcopyrite. A boxed MIN Cornish classic. L75. Matrix same... vith ateely-blue crystalline developments. Chalcopyrite xtla alao present. Boxed KIN,t5. ~ -545....deep-green micro xtls upper surface. Boxed MIN,L4. Chalcopyrite in patches on 46. BROCHANTITE.Bou Becker,Toussit |  | | Journal (issue) | | into the mine and navigated through a collapsed area without too much difficulty. At several places the...Finally we arrived at Funnel Cave, just close to an area called the maze. It was here that we found some...some good size specimens were collected. The maze area requires some more time and experience to negotiate...actively worked for fluorite with some barite. The area on top of the Rakes was being work~d for carboniferous...includes some excellent photos from the Berbes region in north Spain and other superb mineral photographs |  | | Journal (issue) | | the ten day trip to Northern Spain to visit the fluorite sites near Berbes. Participation has been good...health safety and pollution of the environment by mining operations was evidence of this. In contrast some...allowed to collect, but he was escorted from the mine area under vehicular escort! At some other mines Peter...strengthened, a quarryman engaged, blasting and heavy mining tools provided and the vessel specially fitted...member, Bob Symes to the group. • This area was rich in mining enterprises during the latter half of the |
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