 | | Report (edition) | | maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Department of Mines and Petroleum 100 Plain Street East Perth WA 6004 Phone: (08) 9222 3459 Fax: (08) 9222...Bulletin 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia second edition While systematically...authoritative, the second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is written not only for the professional geologist...et al. The second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is an updated version published in response |  | | Report (edition) | | Stocklmayer GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia FRONTISPIECE Euhedral black... MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J Michael Fetherston, Susan M Stocklmayer...Stocklmayer Perth 2013 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINISTER FOR MINES AND PETROLEUM Hon. Norman...EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Rick Rogerson REFERENCE The recommended reference...VC 2013, Gemstones of Western Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral Resources Bulletin |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pty Ltd PO Box 537, Torrensville Plaza, South Australia 5031 i'6 MINELAB Visit our website www.mlnelab...Comoony FRONT COVER1 A 23-ounce nugget from the Golden Triangle, Vic 3,000 VICTORIANS RALLY The cry is...know-how came up with WATTS GULLY AND THE GUMERACHA GOLDFIELD The second in our three part series on this productive...Super Magnet (lifts 10kg) * Weekend Tuition on Goldfield * Video Documentary 'The Prospectors' (normally...Wehla, Tarnagulla, Talbot, Maryborough - name a goldfield and it is probably affected! 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With the use of metal detectors in Australia beginning in the mid-1970s, it was nuggets that |  | | Book (volume) | | that surrounds Warsaw, Hamilton, and Nauvoo in western Illinois⎯geodes (lined with botryoidal chalcedony... W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY...City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburden⎯oval concretions (containing Mason Creek fossils). ...Hounds in the United States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK...e extensive exposure S of town on Crystal Glen Creek⎯geodes (lines with Aragonite, Barite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite |  | | Book (volume) | | that surrounds Warsaw, Hamilton, and Nauvoo in western Illinois⎯geodes (lined with botryoidal chalcedony... W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY...City, on area mine dumps from sedimentary overburden⎯oval concretions (containing Mason Creek fossils). ...Hounds in the United States EAST BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK...e extensive exposure S of town on Crystal Glen Creek⎯geodes (lines with Aragonite, Barite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite |  | | Catalog/List | | these earlier labels were lost in our house- fire five years ago. ADAMITE. Mina Ojuela, Mapimi, Durango...5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...25x2x1.5", £3.75 A/9. ALBENDITE. Dingwall, Ross-shire, Scotland, a small glass phial containing, jet-black...ALMANDINE (Xtl). broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. A matrix-free, sharp, elongated, dodecahedral...dark inclusions. 2.5x1.5x1", £15.00 transparent golden-yellow nodule, A/20. ANALCIME. Enderby Quarry |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | interesting mineral occurrences in the state of Wyoming. Five publications were used extensively in compiling...2016 Figure 2. Postcard view of the Tenderfoot mine (about 19131, Esterbrook copper district, Albany...and Grace Dyck and wus titled “The Sunrise Iron Mine near Hartville, Wyoming”; it appeared in the MaylJune...extends into Converse County iind includes the Big Five. Esterbrook, Eureka, Maggie Murphy. McGhee. Oriole...microcline, muscovite, quartz. and schorl (Harris 1989). (;rizzly Creek prospect, 25 miles W o f Wheatland |  | | Book (volume) | | ................42 Arizona – Yavapia Co. Burro Creek area Site Map .........................................................45 Arizona – Yuma Co. Hull Mine Site Map ...............................................50 Arkansas – Garland Co. Coleman Crystal mine Site Map ..............................51 Arkansas...................................114 Colorado – Golden Area Site Map ...........................................................129 Colorado – Cripple Creek Area Site Map ................................. |  | | Book | | address Harper 6 Row, Publishers, Incorporated, 49 East 33rd Street, New York 16, N. Y. * FIRST EDITION...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...mining and underground geology were known some two to five thousand years ago, it was not until the sixteenth...Forty-Niners, as well as their predecessors in the states east of the Mississippi, the major mining districts...mushroomed into cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating |  | | Book (volume) | | Not a county in Alabama but a tradition of a “lead Mine” worked by Indians.) PELL CITY, NE 3 mi., area quarries⎯black...cutting limestone⎯Fluorite. CHILTON COUNTY AREA: c east-central region (W and SW of the Coosa R. and E of...NW¼SE¼Sec. 15, T.22 N, R. 13 E, on S bank of a creek in the Hillabee schist⎯Arsenic, Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite...Copper, Gold and Pyrite; (b) Franklin or Jemison Mine, in NW¼SE¼Sec. 8, on tributary of Mulberry Cr.,...Muscovite mica, Quartz, etc. ASHLAND: c area: (a) M & G Mine⎯Apatite, Garnet and Smoky Quartz; (b) Gibson prospect⎯Garnets; |  | | Book (volume) | | Not a county in Alabama but a tradition of a “lead Mine” worked by Indians.) PELL CITY, NE 3 mi., area quarries⎯black...cutting limestone⎯Fluorite. CHILTON COUNTY AREA: c east-central region (W and SW of the Coosa R. and E of...NW¼SE¼Sec. 15, T.22 N, R. 13 E, on S bank of a creek in the Hillabee schist⎯Arsenic, Arsenopyrite, Chalcopyrite...Copper, Gold and Pyrite; (b) Franklin or Jemison Mine, in NW¼SE¼Sec. 8, on tributary of Mulberry Cr.,...Muscovite mica, Quartz, etc. ASHLAND: c area: (a) M & G Mine⎯Apatite, Garnet and Smoky Quartz; (b) Gibson prospect⎯Garnets; |  | | Report (issue) | | Frontispiece: Olivenite, 1.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn collection...actively involved in mining in the state and the western U.S. for the rest of his has, and will continue...COLOR PLATES (following page 242) Gold, Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Pyromorphite after Galena with...with Conichalcite Gold, Round Mountain Mine Quartz, Lovelock area Acanthite Grossular, Nightingale...Meikle Mine Malachite and Azurite, Aurichalcite with Hemimorphite Azurite Barite, Meikle Mine Barite |  | | Book (edition) | | or a vein of massive pyrite and chalcopyrite in a mine, so references such as these were not included....for a particular mineral may be a certain mine, but that mine may now have a new name, or may now be a...there may be others. The biggest problems are with mine names and occasional1y mining district names. Mining...come from one ore zone, but not others. So if the mine is still operating, some of the minerals may not...District, Wardner District, Kellogg District, Pine Creek District, and more. These names are primarily long | | | Report (issue) | | Frontispi ece: Oliven i te, r.6-cm cluster, Majuba Hill Mine, Antelope district, Pershing County. N. Prenn coJlection...Hen1in1orphite Azurile Barite, N1eikJe Mine Barite, '\forthun1berland Mine Bante, Rosebud t1ine Barile v;ith...inclusions Bolt½'OOdite Calcite, Meikle Mine Calcite, Getchell Mine Callaghanite Cassiterite and Hema tile...Martha Mine Gold, Humboldt Mountain Gold, Mexican Mine Gold, Majuba Placer Gold, Round Mountain Mine Grossular...Quarry Mine ()pal after wood Opal, faceted Orpin1ent, Getchell Mine Orpiment, 'twin Creeks Mine Powellite |  | | Book (volume) | | This rectangular Great Plains state rises 4,460’ east to west, from 840’ to 5,300’, yet so imperceptibly...jaspers that rival the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan...of the Pine Ridge Escarpment and along Whiteclay Creek near the Sioux Indian community of the same name...in Dawes Co. and the rather extensive rock beds east of the Orella railroad sta. ranks among the finest...and breaks in the hills along the Minnechaduza Creek and the Niobrara, as well as all tributary canyons |  | | Book | | their help. I am grateful to the Click family of Western Publishers Service in Seattle for ad vice and... SULPHIDE LENSES IN ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS (Mackinaw Mine) Pentlandite, chalcopyritc, pyrite, raaucherite...variety of mineral assemblages. Most underground mine workings follow mineralization localized by joints...beryl, stilbite, natrolite, zircon Rare except in Golden Horn Batholith: Riebeckite, astrophyllite, b....copiapite 3. SULPHIDE DEPOSIT EFFLORESCENCES (often on mine working walls) Chalcanthite, boothite, morenosite |  | | Book | | LISKEARD AREA—W.H.Sands 8. PROSPECTING WITH THE 'GOLDEN PICK' Carson Ritchie Section! GENERAL New...survey of the country, GEMS found that while some mine managements themselves collect and market good speci...not yet heard about. When the management of Tynagh Mine, Co. Galway, last year put aside some tons of fine...never know what you may come across in a disused mine! ' This would be unlikely to happen in Weardale...fluorite minerals. Last October at the Becermet Mine in West Cumber land the management held a well |  | | Report (issue) | | . _. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Australia .... _.. _............ _.... _..................zone; B, Entrance to upper workings, Drinkwater mine ___________ . _________ .. __________ . _________________...___ . . 38 Vertical cross section of Drinkwater mine workings ____ . ___ . ____ .. _.... _... __ ....... _ 38 Maps of chief stope workings, Drinkwater mine: A, Workings in upper part of zone; B, 40 Workings...cross section of chief stope workings, Drinkwater mine. _____ . __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ___ 40 A, Pegmatitic |  | | Journal (issue) | | Gem LEFT: There was a gold-mine shaft right in downtown Cripple Creek in 1905. FAR LEFT: Calaverite...Calaverite is the gold telluride for which the Cripple Creek, Colorado, became famous. DIDIER DESCOUENS VIA WIKIMEDIA...tram up the hill, and the Kern River and at Gray Eagle Bar on the the operator could use grip levers to...operate two cars moving in opposite directions. At a mine high on a slope, an ore any gold around Pikes Peak...In this specimen haul tramcars up the of Cripple Creek gold ore, artificial steep hills. It would heating |  | | Report (issue) | | Platinum Iron Nickel-Iron Arsenic Bismuth GOLD Au. Golden-yellow to pale yellow. Luster metallic. Opaque...County-Vulture district, with lead and silver. Cave Creek district. Phoenix Mountains. Bighorn Mountains....district, with ores of copper and silver. Goldfield Mountains, Goldfield district. Santa Cruz County-Oro Blanco...districts, with copper-silver ores; Groom Creek, Turkey Creek, Bradshaw, and Tip Top districts, with silver...district, with copper, silver, and lead ores. Date Creek Mountains, Martinez district. Wickenburg Mountains |  | | Book (edition) | | MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA • Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/...District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART...uranium and vanadium deposits; "mine fire" minerals at the United Verde mine in Jerome; and Arizona meteorites...that the "average" mineral reported is in or near a mine or mineral prospect. The pace ofgeological and mineralogical | | | Book (edition) | | zy MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County...District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 “Mine Fire” Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART...uranium and vanadium deposits; “mine fire” minerals at the United Verde mine in Jerome; and Arizona meteorites...that the “average” mineral reported is in or near a mine or mineral prospect. The pace of geological and |
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