 | | Journal (issue) | | Mexico ineralogical Record November-December 2003 ❖ Volume 34 Number 6 ❖ $20 Wayne & Dona Leicht,...Pelt, Los Angles Mexico Special Issue III Los Lamentos Famous Mineral Localities: The Erupción/Ahumada...Erupción/Ahumada Mine, Los Lamentos District, Chihuahua, Mexico ...................................... 4 by W. E....Famous Mineral Localities: Fresnillo, Zacatecas, Mexico .............. 36 by T. C. Wallace & M. K. Hall-Wallace...Famous Mineral Localities: Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico .............. 55 by W. Lieber & Gerhard Frenzel |  | | Journal (issue) | | cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken |  | | Journal (issue) | | row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino |  | | Catalog/List | | directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years...highlights include: • Possibly the best matrix Sphalerite ever mined from Balmat, New York. • A world-class...bygone era. • Amethyst from Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico that has exceptional aesthetics, color, and composition... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume |  | | Catalog/List | | museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...Auction 2 53001 CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority...Caledonite and a dash of azure blue Linarite. The mine is now collapsed and only a memory for the lucky... 53002 CHALCOCITE Lucky Friday Pocket, Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin, USA This is one |  | | Catalog/List | | first offered for sale. 73007 TOURMALINE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam A classic Vietnamese...online, visit HA.com/6150 73008 ELBAITE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam This unusual...2015 | 12:00 PM CT 15 73009 ELBAITE Minh Tien Mine, Luc Yen, Yenbai Province, Vietnam Clearly defined...12:00 PM CT 17 CHINA 73012 PYROMORPHITE Daoping Mine, Gongcheng Co., Guilin Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang...73013 SPESSARTINE on SMOKY QUARTZ Wushan Spessartine Mine, Tongbei, Yunxiao Co., Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian |  | | Report (issue) | | New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY...Nancy Gilson New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 SOCORRO, 1996...1996 11 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Daniel H. Lopez, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES...REGENTS Ex Officio Gary Johnson, Governor of New Mexico Alan Morgan, Superintendent of Public Instruction...Authority of State of New Mexico, NMSA 1953 Sec. 63-14 Printed by University of New Mexico Printing Services |  | | Catalog/List | | 87002 AQUAMARINE & SCHORL TOURMALINE Dache, Haramosh Mts., Gilgit Dist., Gilgit-Baltistan Div., Pakistan The...com/5110 87003 CYANOTRICHITE Grandview (Last Chance) Mine, Grand Canyon, Coconino Co., Arizona, USA Fuzzy...Estimate: $800-$1,200 87004 KROEHNKITE Chuquicamata Mine, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile...PSEUDOMORPH after AZURITE New Cornelia Mine (Ajo Mine), Ajo, Little Ajo Mts, Ajo District, Pima Co., Arizona...Estimate: $250-$500 87007 FLUORITE Hill-Ledford Mine, Cave-in-Rock, Cave-in-Rock Sub-District, Illinois |  | | Catalog/List | | the majority of snakebite fatalities in northern Mexico. This particular specimen is presented in a natural...and along the northern coastline of the Gulf of Mexico. This mount was done with real skin and measures...PM CT 45 MINERALS TOURMALINE Tourmaline Queen Mine, Pala District, San Diego County, California, USA...of the “Blue Cap Pockets” in the Tourmaline Queen Mine. So impatient were some of the “helpers” to see...WITH CALCITE, DOLOMITE AND QUARTZ Shangbao Pyrite mine, Leiyang Co., Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan Province |  | | Catalog/List | | costatum species and was mined at the Korite Oxbow Mine which has been closed since the early 2000s. The...part of the root preserved. Found in the Gulf of Mexico, off of Venice, Florida, this remnant from the...from a deposit about 50 miles NW of Guadalajara, Mexico. The 4.3 inch (11 cm) blade is signed and numbered...Chondrite, Type III Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico (26° 58’N, 105° 19’W) Witnessed Fall: February...Chondrite, Type III (CV3) Pueblito de Allende, Chihuahua, Mexico (26° 58’N, 105° 19’W) Witnessed Fall: February |  | | Report (issue) | | Geology—Mexico. 2. Geology, Structural—Mexico. 3. Faults (Geology)—Mexico. 4. Ore deposits—Mexico. I. Alaniz-Álvarez...The evolution of Middle America and the Gulf of Mexico-Caribbean Sea region during Mesozoic time: Geological...Tectonostratigraphic Terranes and Tectonic Evolution of Mexico: Geological Society of America Special Paper 278...Paleozoic ages in the northern part (Sonora and Chihuahua) and Mesozoic ages beneath the rest of the Sierra...volcanics of the Lower Volcanic Complex in central Chihuahua, were affected by moderate contractile deformation |  | | Journal (issue) | | involvement in collecting the great Bunker Hill mine pyromorphite bonanza, was born in Spokane, Washington...mined by a Phelps Dodge subsidiary as the Sherwood mine. His career was interrupted by the draft in November...Black Pine mine in Phillipsburg, Montana (the type locality for phillipsburgite), but the mine quickly ran...Norm was hired as a geologist at the Bunker Hill mine, where he worked for more than 16 years. He continued...geologists in the logging of core from the Crescent mine when he suffered a stroke in 2010. But he remained |  | | Catalog/List | | 41008 HUGE FLUORESCENT SPHERE Purple Passion Mine, Wichenburg, Arizona Many mineral specimens are...FREEFORM Sterling Hill Mine, Franklin, New Jersey, USA The Sterling Hill mine in the Bucolic Hills of...of New Jersey is an old silver mine, now closed but famous for having produced some of the finest fluorescent...Rogerley Mine, Weardle, Co. Durham, UK The famous Rogerley Mine in northern England is the only mine in that...District, Chupadera Mountains, Socorro Co., New Mexico This hydrothermally-formed goethite and hematite-glazed |  | | Catalog/List | | Ranging from Alaska all the way down to central Mexico, the Black Bear is one of North America’s most...FLUORESCENT WILLEMITE AND CALCITE Sterling Hill Mine, Ogdensburg, New Jersey Willemite with calcite is...THREE-COLOR FLUORESCENT FRANKLIN CLASSIC Franklin Mine, Franklin Borough, Sussex Co, New Jersey Purple-fluorescing...found elsewhere in minor traces in a Bolivian tin mine, for example, but Franklin is likely the only locality...fairly small finds were made at the Sterling Hill Mine, the rarer thick-vein occurrence from the 180-foot |  | | Catalog/List | | QUARTZ CRYSTAL WITH TOURMALINE Barra de Salinas Mine, Barra de Salinas, Minas Gerais, Brazil This specimen...White Mountain Wilderness, Lincoln County, New Mexico At one time this spectacular locality was open...coal, the district is now down to one operating mine and probably that one will close in the not too...CT 19 38029 RHODONITE BOULDER Evelyn Creek Mine, Yukon Territory, Canada This large boulder of fantastic...500 38030 LARGE STROMATOLITE BOULDER Cliff Erie Mine, Minnesota, USA Stromatolites are the fossil remains |  | | Journal (volume) | | se 7 The Only Mining Journal Pablithed in Mexico. Vhe Mexican Mining Journal Published SKConthly...— Vhe Mexican Mining Journal APARTADO 105 £IS. MEXICO CITY, MEX. THE MEXICAN MINING JORNAL INDEX TO...20 and 1. January to December 1915. Accounts Mine, System Action of Dissolved Air of, in Mill Pulp...and Folation, Air and Temperature in the Deepest Mine in the World,. Air, Compressed, for Ore Flotation...Ore 242 American Society of Mexico, 145,.. 198 American Society of Mexico, Organization of, 158 Analysis |  | | Journal (issue) | | AUTUNITE on TOURMALINE, 11.9 cm, from the Golconda I mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil Brice Gobin (Mineral Art)...Africa, Namibia, Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil and Mexico. His first exchange of specimens with the Smithsonian...“Famous Mineral Localities: Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico” (2003). In 1995 Lieber donated his collection...as well, and they started picking over the local mine deposits together. They were married in 1970, and...First Edition, 1903, pg 231, plate 44 Miask, Ilmen Mts., Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia 12.3 cm Zincolivenite |  | | Book | | Disaster ........20 On Site: Crystals at Large in Mexico.......102 On Site: Geology in Central Park ......were traveling from New York City, New York, to Los Angeles, California. How would you know where to...they are considered to have a metallic luster. Sphalerite, for example, is a mineral with a metallic luster...pyrite ( FeS2) marcasite (FeS2) galena (PbS) sphalerite (ZnS) used to make sulfuric acid; often mistaken...are obtained from large, open-pit mines. When a mine is excavated, unwanted rock and dirt, known as gangue |  | | Book | | Africa, North Carolina Siberia, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, Colorado, Utah, Texas, California, Maine...Sri Lanka, Brazil, North Carolina, Arizona, New Mexico Quartz makes up about 30 percent of Earth’s continental...John’s Island, located in the Red Sea), Arizona, New Mexico SECTION 3 Uses of Minerals 75 (l to r, t to...8/20/04 12:11 PM Page 78 Figure 15 The mineral sphalerite (greenish when nearly pure) is an important source...shiny mineral sphalerite, a source of the element zinc, which is used in batteries. Sphalerite sometimes |
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