 | | Journal (issue) | | Mandarino Famous mineral localities: The Annaberg District, Lower A u stria ...................................by C. Auer M ineralogy of the Boqueiraozinho pegmatite, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, B r a z il......rare mineral generally occurring in granitic pegmatite and polymetallic quartz vein set tings. It is...containing copper, bismuth and vanadium and of pegmatite settings will probably reveal additional sources...consist of very thin tabular crystals. Evans-Lou pegmatite, Canada Namibite associated with native bismuth |  | | Book (edition) | | dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from...near Sobotfn, Moravia, Czech Rep., in skarn at the Sankt Christoph mine, near Breitenbrunn, Saxony, Germany...Grossgreiner Mt., overlooking Zillertal Valley, Tirol, Austria, and at Passo di Vizze, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy...Counties, California, etc. At Jordan6w Slcl5ki, Lower Silesia, Poland. The oldest known deposits of white |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | promising forgotten locations is an area of old pegmatite quarries in South Glastonbury, Connecticut. This...81MINERALS dletown-Portland, Connecticut, pegmatite district. They are found in South Glastonbury, about...the Simpson quarry on the south, the Hollister quarry on the east, and the Howe No. 4 quarry on the north...includes one of the largest quarries of the entire district, the Howe No. 1. Access is through a trail system...summer of 1996, the author mapped the trails and quarry locations using an altimeter, a Global Positioning |  | | Journal (issue) | | Conklin Famous mineral localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . ....San Mateo, CA 94403 (415-345-6228). HARDING PEGMATITE CATALOG The University of New Mexico Geo1ogy Museum...and archival material related to the Harding pegmatite in north-central New Mexico. This well-known collecting...suites of samples from specific zones within the pegmatite; a variety of analytical data have been obtained...included over a hundred specimens from the Batopilas district, Chihuahua, Mexico, 73 of which were specifically |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | history, petrology, mineralogy, geochemistry, and pegmatite genesis of probably the best aquamarine locality...single crystals of apatite from the Golconda pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil, and Llallagua, Bolivia...University, Hanisonburg, VA 22807. The Morefield pegmatite is one of two complex, extensively mineralized...MarcWApril1994 133 Courthouse district; the other is the Rutherford pegmatite. In July 1991, the first aluminum...minerals. RECENT MINERAL DISCOVERIES AT THE BENNEll QUARRY, BUCKFIELD, MAINE. W B. Thompson, Maine Geological | | | Journal (issue) | | Conklin 7 Famous mineral localities: the G illette quarry, Haddam Neck, Connecticut ....................... San Mateo, CA 94403 (415-345-6228). HARDING PEGMATITE CATALOG The University of New Mexico Geology Museum...and archival material related to the Harding pegmatite in north-central New Mexico. This well-known collecting...suites of samples from specific zones within the pegmatite; a variety of analytical data have been obtained...included over a hundred specimens from the Batopilas district, Chihuahua, Mexico, 73 of which were specifically |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Quebec. The sill is well exposed in the Varennes quarry, which has been operated continuously for crushed...hornfels chill-zone is evident at both the upper and lower contact of the sill with the sedimentary rocks....those in the amphibole group, analcime, anacylite, anatase, aragonite, astrophyllite, bastnaesite, birnessite...collecting may be possible. INVESTIGATION OF A PEGMATITE LOCALITY IN EAST MORRIS, CONNECTICUT. R. C. Huff...Connecticut, just off Route 109, there is an old pegmatite quarry known locally chiefly for its occasional production |  | | Book | | tiideto the THREE PHASES OF TITAN Rutile Anatase Brookite RobertJ. Lauf Г About the Author he author...of rEarth ScienceMonographs Volume б Lauf 4880 Lower Valley Road, Arglen, Pennsylvania 19310 Other...publisher: Published by Schiffer Publishing Ltd. 4880 Lower Valley Road Atglen, PA 19310 Phone: (610) 593-1777;...common titanium dioxide minerals, namely, rutile, anatase, and brookite. For completeness, mention is also...household. In light of the spectacular finds of anatase and brookite in Pakistan in the last five years |  | | Catalog/List | | pure grey slightly crystalline mass, Ratnapura district SriLanka small 2x3 £8 5. MUSCOVITE nice curved...curved crystal plates, like parts of spheres on pegmatite rock. Interesting display specimen 3.5 x2 x2 Hoydalen...fibrous crystals in large 2x3 quartz Maishofen, Austria £17 15. KOCHSANDORITE three small white areas...HAMBERGITE chalky-white crystalline mass, Zapot pegmatite, Gillis Range, Mineral County Nevada lx ½ inch...and with a band ofBarite (not fluorescent) Crich Quarry Derbyshire £10 3x3 inch 42. FLUORITE cleavages |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Consequently, anatase has been nominated for this issue’c Connoisscur’s Choice. Anatase is perhaps hest...hardness of 5 . 5 4 . 0 and a density of 3.89. Anatase is tetragonal (4im Ym Urn). Crystals are typically... generally in amounts less than 0.5 percent. Anatase is commonly found as a minor constituent of alpine-type...titanite, and o r t h d a s e ( v x . adtilaria). Anatase specimens have been found at many locdities in...the castern United States. Lustrous dipyrmidal anatase crystals to seveml milIimeters have been reported |  | | Book | | A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...a fracture, producing such forms as aegirine pegmatite. As well, hot hydrothermal fluids often carry...such as Porcupine and Hemlo districts; Noranda district, Quebec. USA: Mother Lode belt and others in...Localities Canada: Cobalt mining district and Thunder Bay District, Ontario. USA: several localities... Wire silver, Silver Islet Mine, Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada * 11.5 x 14x 11 om Silver has |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Malachite with azurite, Schwaz-Brixlegg, Tpol, Austria. Dieter Miiller specimen, Rainer Bode photo. NovembedDecember:... 410 Arem, J. E., see Media Reviews Arkansas, anatase, brookite, 200; eudialyte, 196; fluorapophyllite...France, 36; Colorado, 357; New Jersey, 324; Tyrol, Austria, 315 Babulski, D., see Through the ’Scope Barite... M. A., Recent Mineral Finds at the Millington Quarry, Somerset County, New Jersey, 320-24 Beryl, California...County, California, 156-80 Brochantite, Tyrol, Austria, 3 15 Cafarsite, Switzerland, 30 Calcite, Chamonix |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | derived from pegmatites, and for connoisseurs of pegmatite minerals, the city of Governador Valadares in...referred to-is not the locus of any productive pegmatite. The nearest place that has furnished noteworthy...noteworthy specimens OJ gems is the Golconda district, about 50 kilometers to the northwest. The city of Gover-...Figure 3. Location of Pedreira Atalaia (the Sentinel quarry) near Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil...selling of gems. A few of the more noteworthy pegmatite localities near Valadares are, besides Golconda |  | | Journal (issue) | | Richard V. Gaines Mineralogist feature articles Anatase from Norway......................................A. Wilson Selected Minerals from the Volcanic District of Laacher See, Germany.........................ignorant of the value of minerals collected on his land. Once he is informed, however, he will find that...permission to collect. For collecting on public land, permission must be obtained from the Directorate...Mineralogical Record, July — August, 1977 265 Anatase fro m No rway by W. L. Griffin, T. Garmo, H. Lovenskiold |  | | Journal (issue) | | Bastnas Mines, Riddarhyttan Ore Field, Bergslagen District, Vastmanland, Sweden ........... 187 by L. Ohman...Pierre-Nicolas Schwab Orleans , France The Trimouns Quarry, Luzenac, Ariege, France ........................crystal, 5.5 mm; (lower left) IIMORIITE-(Y) crystal, 2 mm-All from the Trimouns talc quarry near Luzenac,...BASTDAS ffiIDES RIDDARHYTTAD ORE FIELD, BERGSLAGED DISTRICT, VASTffiADLADD, SillEDED Lennart Ohman Hi:igviltsvagen...1 meter in the dumps, about 30 meters from the Sankt Goransgruvan mine. The zone contained many cerium |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | zircon crystals have been found at the Songo Pond quarry, Albany, and well-developed crystals to about 1...1 cm have been collected at the Dunton quarry, Newry, and on Rattlesnake Mountain, Stoneham, Maine. The...Neck, Salem, Massachusetts; the Beryl Mountain quarry at Acworth, the famous Ruggles mine at Grafton...overgrowths are found in the marble at the Limecrest quarry, Sparta, New Jersey. Fine crystals to 4 cm have...have been found in serpentinite at the Williams quarry, Easton, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Zircon |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Michigan, 389,393 Anapsids, South Africa, 56 Anatase, Hardangervidda,Ullensvang, Norway, R. B. Cook...Aurichalcite, New Mexico, 301 Austinite, New Mexico, 301 Austria, epidote, 328-32 Azurite, Tsumeb, 21; Tsumeb, Namibia...Mineralogy Chile, luanheite, 120-22 Chips from the Quarry, M. E. Huizing, 5-7, 85-87, 149,213-15,293-95,373-75...bond accelerator *Super Solvent- works fast Pegmatite Interest /y brow 1 “GetPIG-headed. ” I Downloaded...pegmatites? If so, visit the website for the Pegmatite Interest Group (PIG), hosted by the Mineralogical |  | | Catalog/List | | crystals on 2x3.5 inch surface. (Croft Quarry,Leicestershire) £5 ANATASE sharp black single crystal with a...on the surface, on feldspar. (Globe Mine.Petaca District, Rio Arriba County, new Mexico) £15 b) smaller...top, light brown fibrous on the edges. (Merehead Quarry, Mendips) 2x2.5 £4 HELVITE quite rich light brown...rich black xlline mass in matrix (Laytonville District,Mendocino County, California USA) 2x3 £ 16 bY...the crystals are about half inches across on pegmatite (Varutrask, North Sweden) 2x2 inch area on large |  | | Journal (issue) | | feldspar. The locality, I believe, is a granite quarry. I have been told that, at the site, the large...items seen recently include a fairly large find of anatase from Norway. There were a lot of good specimens...from Hardangervidda. They are certainly very good anatase specimens. There has been some work done in Mozambique...hear the area is quite dangerous, with a lot of land mines still in place from the civil war that occupied...there, but the owner doesn't allow collecting on 1is land. The long crystals were cut in about 1/2 to 3/4 |  | | Book | | 10:215-217 ADULARIA Adu Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54...the Alpine ar,d Subalpine region [Switzerland,Austria and Iti:Jy](by C. M. Gramaccioli) 8:287-293 Minerals...10:85-89 Micromounting in the eastern Alps of Austria (by K. Kotal) 13:171-173 ALSTONITE An occurrence...Strontian crandallite from the Alto Benedeto pegmatite, Parai'ba, Brazil (by J.P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto)...21:409-412 --with J. P. Cassedanne: The Jaguara~u pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil 25:165-170 9 AUTHOR/TITLE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | igneous rocks are exposed at surface (granite, pegmatite, crystalline, schists, quartz or limestone veins)...orangite, latapleite, eucrasite, veins of nephelin pegmatite. Kragero, S Norway, and Iviland, occurrence of...fergusonite. KIMOTO, S. W. Finland, large deposit of pegmatite: muskovite, beryl, topaz, tapiolite, tryphiline...(vivianite, triphylite, hagendorfite-rare mineral in pegmatite). JACHYMOV (Joachimstal), Czechoslovakia, important...found jordanite with thalium. STRZEGOM (Strigov), Lower Silesia, Poland. In granite quarries occur large |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mine, which was used for a prison; the Allyndale quarry in North Canaan, from w h i c h came the marble...York City and elsewhere; and the Hoadley Neck quarry in Guilford, which furnished the granite base for...through out the United States. I n modern times, one quarry has been used by the Navy as an underwater sound... limestone q u a r r i e s , Beaver B r o o k district, Danbury: barite, calcite, graphite, microcline...pyrrhotite, scheelite. B r a n c h v i l l e pegmatite q u a r r y , B r a n c h v i l l e , Mountain |  | | Book | | Frontcover Upper left: The observatory at Kremsmunster. Austria. which houses the mineral collection. Upper right:...Vienna. Lower left: Cobaltocalcite group. from Lerida. Spain. Folch collection. Barcelona. Lower right:...mineralogical cabinet of the convent at Kremsmunster, Austria. The . specimens a~e displayed m baroque furniture...important mineralogical museums in Western Europe Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany (Federal...half are in Germanspeaking countries (Germany, Austria, Switzerland). The reasons for this are partly |  | | Journal (issue) | | with byssolite fibers. Anatase To date there has only been one find of anatase in the area. Jet-black...Jet-black, metallic anatase crystals up to 4 mm were found in a contact zone between colourless to white quartz...like the ones found in Teufelsmühle, Habachtal, Austria. Light red hematoid quartz crystals with excellent...#4 The-Vug.com Quarterly V4 #4 28 The Aris Quarry is worked for building stone, located on the farm...farm Aris, south of the capital city Windhoek. The quarry is known for the variety of fine crystallized rare |  | | Book | | derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have...of these fourfold axes in all. The considerably lower symmetry of a monoclinic crystal is shown in Fig...crystallographic symmetry of a body may often be lower than its apparent geometric symmetry. In a pyrite...symmetr:y ar:e no longer: present (Fig. 16a, p. 93). A lower: cr:ystallogr:aphic symmetr:y is often only shown...trigonal, but the true symmetr:y of dolomite is lower than that of calcite, as shown by different etch |
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