| | Report (issue) | Gremmelsbach, Oberrötenbacher Tal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Mintreasure specimen and photo. And before leaving...the Daybreak mine, Washington; or the Streuberg quarry in the Vogtland region of Saxony; or from hard-to-remember... from Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Mintreasure specimen and photo. Yes indeed, one...siderite, from the long-defunct Georg mine, Rhineland-Palatinate, in the old German Siegerland mining region:...Georg mine, Siegerland district, Rheinland-Palatinate, Germany. Edwards Minerals specimen and photo. 10 | | | Book | immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...that the uninteresting-looking grey piece is limestone. There is nothing to be seen on it, is there?...feldspar. The whole specimen is called granite. Limestone and granite you will already have heard about...three minerals, and occasionally of a few more. Limestone or marble are good examples illustrating the first...times, some 100,000 years ago, beads made of limestone and quartz were found, and when man began to decorate | | | Journal (issue) | Rupnica near Voćin (Figure 1). Rupnica is an old quarry with well-exposed phenomenon of columnar jointing...(Figure 2 left). Rupnica (together with Trešnjevica Quarry, where a magmatic vein several hundred metres in...Papuk. The second protected geological site is Quarry Fantazija (Figure 2 right) near Rovinj (Figure...good practice is Vinkuran (Figure 1), the oldest quarry in Istria (Figure 3 left), known as “Cava Romana”...Vinkuran stone is an upper Cretaceous rudist limestone used for the construction of the Arena in Pula | | | Book | by Gloucester Typesetting Co. Ltd. Printed in Germany Contents Translator's Foreword 4 Foreword ...Whoever bothers to stoop and pick up a piece of limestone, gneiss or granite? And yet, it is these rocks...known in some parts of the Continent, including Germany. Ore: Ores are deposits of minerals, which contain...nucleus gives an oolitic structure, as in oolitic limestone. 16 Minerals Properties of Minerals Since...chalcocite, chalcopyrite, lollingite, pyrrhotite, marcasite, molybdenite, pentlandite, pyrites, realgar, proustite | | | Book | by the calcium carbonate can eventually form limestone. Sedimentary rocks made in this way are known...small calcite crystals in the sedimentary rock limestone change into larger crystals in the metamorphic...Nellexorem Dendritic manganese oxide on limestone, Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany * 11.5 x 24 x 0.5 om MINERALS:...system include olivine, topaz, barite (baryte) and marcasite. Pushing on an edge of an orthorhombic cell so... Europe: Cornwall, England; Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Asia: Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk), Ural Mountains | | | Book | Manganese and iron dendrites. Solnhofen, Bavaria, Germany. Photo 60xl20 mm, sample 200x100xl5 mm. Historia... Kraków. 200xl70xl00 mm. Flint from Jurassic limestone. A print of a sponge in the central part with...form of lumps, nodules, flattened nodules in limestone, or less frequently in marle, gaize or dolomite...Jurassic and Creatceous limestone in Central and Western Europe (Poland, Germany, Denmark, France and England)...by a hard object. Flint modules excavated with limestone are used in crushing mills. They are especially | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | such as aragonite, barite, celestite, fluorite, marcasite, pyrite, sphalerite, and strontianite are present...on {0221}, 4 cm across; Meshberger Stone, Inc. quarry, Bartholomew County. Richard Russell specimen and...Calcite with marcasite inclusions; largest crystal 3.5 cm across; Berry Materials quarry, Jenn ings C...right): Pyrite, 1.5 cm high; Rensselaer Stone C o . quarry, Jasper County. Vernon Swanson speci men; Richard...concretions or at the boundary with adjacent limestone formations. Some min erals have been deposited | | Staude, S., Mordhorst, T., Neumann, R., Prebeck, W., Markl, G. (2010) Compositional variation of the tennantite–tetrahedrite solid-solution series in the Schwarzwald ore district (SW Germany): The role of mineralization processes and fluid source. Mineralogical Magazine, 74 (2) 309-339 doi:10.1180/minmag.2010.074.2.309 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | solidsolution series in the Schwarzwald ore district (SW Germany): The role of mineralization processes and fluid...Tübingen, Wilhelmstrasse 56, D-72074 Tübingen, Germany [Received 30 October 2009; Accepted 28 April 2010]...locations in the Schwarzwald ore district of SW Germany. Electron microprobe analysis is used to correlate...1980). From the Middle Triassic to Jurassic, SW Germany was part of a shelf platform with distinct time...Lörrach, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart in Southern Germany is well suited to understanding the controls on | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | in geology from the University of Greifswald, Germany. Dr. Julio A. N. T. Soares is a senior research...previously best known for its exceptional calcite and marcasite, as well as the occasional find of barite specimens...traced back to 1897, when it began as an open-pit quarry (Garvin 1995). Four years after incorporation of...between 1956 Figure 3. Prismatic barite on a limestone matrix. Note the abundant spherical to crescent-shaped...a result of increased demand for high-purity limestone for the desulfurization of flue gases from coal-burning | | | Report (issue) | Windom Member. of the Moscovv Shale and th.e Tully Limestone ---------Age of the Geneseo Shale Member and associated...of Caster (1933) ------Age of the Genundevva Limestone Member of the Genesee Formation --------------Age...Windom Member of the Moscow Shale and the Tully Limestone -----------------------------------------------------6...Leicester Marcasite Member of Moscow Formation of Sutton (1951) and the North Evans Limestone of Rickard...conodonts from the "conodont bed" (North Evans Limestone of Rickard, 1964) were desc·ribed by W. L. Bryant | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | History, Geology, and Mineralogy of the BAYPORT LIMESTONE QUARRIES 8313 Hartel Road Grand Ledge, Michigan...Cheney quarry (River Road quarry), operated between the late 1940s and 1950s. 5 = Cheney quarry (Pease...(Pease Road East quarry), operated from the late 1950s to the late 1960s. 6 = Cheney quarry (Pease Road West...West quarry), operated between approximately 1970 and 2002. 7 = Cheney quarry (Sand Road West quarry), operated...and approximately 2005. 8 = Cheney quarry (Sand Road East quarry), operated between 2005 and the present | | | Journal (volume) | David I. Green 37 59 The mineralogy of Whitwell Quarry, Derbyshire Peter J. Briscoe, John Chapman, David...Tindle 60 120 Mineralisation at the Steetley Quarry complex on the Derbyshire-Nottinghamshire border...thick evaporite sequences dominate. The Magnesian Limestone has provided building stone for millennia. It...crystallographically fascinating fluorite from Old Towns Quarry near Newton Aycliffe, cannonball calcite concretions...localities around Ferryhill and rose quartz at Hawthorn Quarry near Easington. Minor copper mineralisation is | | | Book (volume) | colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N of Calloway airport at rd...1½ mi., in Knox dolomite exposed in an abandoned quarry Barite, Calcite, Fluorite (purple cubes), Galena...US 27: (a) along both sides of Hwy.agate; (b) quarry on W side of rd.agate, chalcedony, chert, opal;...W 3 mi. and 2 mi. N: (a) at the Marble Springs Quarrygemmy marble (red and green); (b) E, in Taylor...Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline, Zeolites; Rock Chapel Quarry, on N side of Arabia Mt.Calcite, Epidote, Fluorite | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | rich mineral collecting heritage. Its numerous limestone quarries, gravel pits, strip mines. and rock outcrops...Unfortunately. with today’s environmental laws and mine and quarry regulations. the prolific collecting of the 1950s...(crystals), dolomite, galena, goethite, hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz (drusy), smithsonite (Garvin,...Ludvigson, and Ripley 1987). Postville, Postville quarry, 1.5 mi. N of Postville on State 51, sec. 16, T...yellow to purple color-zoned, cubic), gypsum, marcasite, pyrite, siderite, sphalerite (Prior 1994). Waukon | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | soROCKS AND MINERALS xline—crystalline lid limestone bed of the above mentioned creek, and in to which...strongly radioactive microlite occurs at the Slocum quarry in E. Hampton. A few of the octahedral crystals...that runs through the area, and in the Keokuk limestone cliffs along the creek. We found many good géodes...Citrus Co., Fla. These nodules geode. occur in limestone lenses in the lower part Quartz (Rock crystal)...vein in mass in quartz geode. cellular grayish limestone. Found in the INDIANA—Siderite was once mined | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | lead and zinc ore, glass-sand, and dolostone and limestone that produce lime and rock aggregate. To complicate...suite of minerals. Quarries and a few outcrops in limestone may have vugs or cavities with crystals of calcite...or other minerals. An added bonus are vugs in limestone that contain sprays of millerite associated with...collectible septaria with calcite, pyrite, and marcasite. The coal mines in the Sparta area are well known...Lower Silurian-age Girardeau Limestone) (McClure 1946). )VVUL*V\U[` Irene quarry, Rockford Sand and Gravel | | | Journal (issue) | Behnke Northbrook, IL Werner Lieber Heidelberg, W. Germany Eric Offermann Arlesheim, Switzerland Jeffrey A...Articles Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada . . . . . . . . . . ...WELOGANITE crystal, 4 cm, on matrix, from the Francon quarry, Montréal, Québec, Canada. (See the article in...WEW 3 Famous mineral localities: The Francon Quarry, `ÉÇàÜ°tÄ? dâ°uxv Peter Tarassoff 91 Lakeshore...Road Hudson, Québec, Canada J0P 1H0 The Francon quarry ranks as the second most prolific type locality | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | me know what it is." The pieces are small gray marcasite nodules. They are interesting specimens. Centreville...out and report later." The Strickland feldspar quarry (or mine) on Collins Hill, near Portland, is one...Strickland Quarry, Conn." pp. 131-144). Long idle, the announcement that the Strickland quarry is being...in the East sit up and take notice. DELAWARE — Limestone has been quarried in New Castle Co., Del., at...M found, I understand, by a rockhound and the quarry is holding off operations in that part of the pit | | | Catalog/List | golden-yellow nodule, A/20. ANALCIME. Enderby Quarry. Leicestershire. This specimen is more interesting...2.5x2x1.25", £4.00 1. ANALCIME/NATROLITE. Dean Quarry, St. Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white to...75x1", £7.50. 2. ANALCIME/NATROLITE/CALCITE. Dean Quarry, St Keverne, Lizard, Cornwall. Pearly white, large...Graham Mts, Arizona, U.S.A. A pale-grey, layered Limestone slice carrying sharp, adamantine, dodecahedral...25x1", £10.00. 32^) APATITE/GILBERTITE. Colcerrow Quarry, Luxulyan, 19th.C. Cornwall. A thin, coarse ‘Granitic | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 1894). rite, MILLERITE crystals to 50 x 4 mm, MARCASITE to 6 mm, PYRITE (Tucker 1989). Columbia, in quartz-chalcedony...skeletal faces. Columbia brickyard pit, a former clay quarry, below a coal seam: PYRITE (nodules to 5 cm, incorporating...cube, octahedra, and pyritohedron; pyrite after marcasite), copiapite, GYPSUM, melanterite (Jenni 1963)...scattered over northem Boone County: GYPSUM crystals, marcasite, pyrite (Unklesbay 1952). Finger Lakes State Park...COPIAPITE, GYPSUM, HALOTRICHITE, melanterite, MARCASITE,PYRITE. Loutre Formation (39-13-54N 092-25MW) | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | freiburg@illinois.edu Figure 2. Calcite with inclusions of marcasite and pyrite; the specimen is 13.5 × 9 cm. Matt...calcite crystals, concentrically zoned with marcasite and pyrite inclusions, was recently made in the...cavities that were exposed by underground mining for limestone and dolomite. In 2010, Lafarge North America,...mineralizing fluids. Without further study, Figure 1. Marcasite stalactite cluster (“Saguaro Cactus”); the specimen...predominately of sphalerite, galena, pyrite, marcasite, calcite, and dolomite (Paridas, Hannigan, and | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | calcite ; the other a dark (almost black) compact limestone. Burtwo west One and gray CALIFORNIA — Col....produced enought material for description." The limestone quarries at Crestmore, Riverside Co., Calif.,...star in the white quartz. Though it resembles marcasite in structure it was demonstrated by Ransom to...of bertrandite specimens found at the Strickland Quarry, at Portland, Conn., last year. Walter Bagley spotted...unreported. On October 15th last I visited the Toll Gate Quarry, just iy2 miles south of Middletown, on Rout 9"Dave | | | Report (issue) | ......................................... 39 Marcasite ................................................barite, celestite, copiapite, epsomite, fluorite, marcasite, melanterite, millerite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, smythite...Most of the active and many abandoned crushed limestone quarries, a few coal strip mines, and road and...from Big Walnut Creek, Putnam County; and many quarry operators for granting us permission to examine...From the lenses of flint protruding from the limestone walls they hacked flint flakes, with granite hammers | | Ozturk, H., Hein, J. R., Hanilci, N. (2002) Genesis of the Dogankuzu and Mortas Bauxite Deposits, Taurides, Turkey: Separation of Al, Fe, and Mn and Implications for Passive Margin Metallogeny. Economic Geology, 97 (5) 1063-1077 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.97.5.1063 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | unconformity-type deposits in Upper Cretaceous limestone. The bottom contact of the bauxite ore is undulatory...the footwall limestone, whereas its top surface is concordant with the hanging-wall limestone. The thickness...m and consists of böhmite, hematite, pyrite, marcasite, anatase, diaspore, gypsum, kaolinite, and smectite...and argillaceous limestone, which are in turn overlain by massive, compact limestone of Santonian age... That 50-m-thick limestone is in turn overlain by well-bedded bioclastic limestone of Campanian or Maastrichtian | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Nickeloan pyrite from Prangenhaus quarry, Niederberg area, Germany— A short communication Udo Harms...Harms Luxemburger Allee 47, D-45481 Mülheim/Ruhr, Germany Received 20 September 2008; accepted 19 May 2009...two nickeloan pyrite samples from the Prangenhaus quarry, Wülfrath, is presented. Sample PRH 5: main zone...chemistry of the ore forming fluids in the Prangenhaus quarry. The presence of nickeloan pyrite indicates formation...Mineral chemistry; Postvariscan ores; Prangenhaus quarry; Niederberg area 1. Introduction Nickeloan pyrite |
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