 | | Catalog/List | | Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Apatite with Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 ...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...crystals or crystal sections in fine grained yellow mica. (Uis Damaraland Namibia) 1x1 £4 ( 3 or 4 crystals) |  | | Catalog/List | | grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE...Siberia Russia) 486 MURMANITE Na (Ti Nb) SiO mauve mica like plates with Mg Arfvesonite In Felspar. (Alluaiva...in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360 PARATELLURITE...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE |  | | Catalog/List | | massive with minor Celsian and Bementite from Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales, (Recently tested by XRD) lxl £4 lx2...£15 £6 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 1036 ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland Colourless...2x2 £3 Al SO/4 767 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 14 ALUMINITE Railway cutting near Creston...Syenite Rock . Microprobed material lxl £1 lx2 £2 Feldspar ½" £4 Ix! £6 lx2 £12 2x2 £25 35 ■ ALBITE Hoydalen...quite well covering Basalt. lxl £4 lx2 £8 2x2 £16 Feldspar Ix I £1.50 lx2 £3 Zeolite 16 ALBITE Lauvland, |  | | Catalog/List | | OHCI ALABANDITE Mn S ALAMOSITE Pb SiO/3 ALBITE Feldspar ALLANITE Ce Ce Ca Y Al Fe SiO ALLANITE Ce ♦ ...ANDRADITE garnet group ♦ ANGLES ITE Pb SO/4 ANHYDIUTE Ca SO/4 AN KERITE-KUTNAIIORITE Dolom ite group ANN ITE Mica...Mica AN ORTHITE Fe ldspar ANORTHOCLASE Felspar Group ANTHOPH YLLITE Amphibole 2cm £8 3cm £ 15 Near...Near Chelan. E.Washington USA !x i £3 ½" £3 Ix½ £5 Rich fi ne grained black crystalline mass will Fluorescent... Rich wh ite crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Moh ave County, ½ x ½ Arizona, U.S.A £3 Kragero Norway |  | | Catalog/List | | £10 2x2 £15 Ix! £3 lx2 £6 I · 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico Colourless to yellow small crystals...Ca SiO F 7fJ 7 ■ AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA Blue veinlets in matrix some with micro...£12 7.x2 £24 Hydrocarbon 963 6 ✓ ALBITE Maine USA variety CLEAVELANDITE, pure white sheafy, masses...crystals in crystalline feldspar with minor fluorite. X 20 needed 1.5cm £4 no/2 feldspar 37 ANCYLITE Ce Dark...Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana U.S.A Rich pinkish fine grained mass in calcite .CeSr CO/3 Ix½ |  | | Catalog/List | | crystals on dar~ matrix. (not radioactive) (Leonie Mine, huerbach, Oberpfal Genany) Sto 10mmf3 l/2in;; ES...Silicate pinkish massiv~ with black Allanite (Bastnas Mine, Riddarhytt2n Vastm~~l2nd,Sw2deri) Cu/2 Se 039...rnetallic spots in matrix (LookoutPass. Tooele County, Ut2h) lxl f7 ½ ins f4 478 ZIRCON Zr Si0/4 singl2...(Ti Nb 0 rich black nasses in matrix (Karnasurt Mine, Revda, Kola Peninsula, Russia) lxl E2.50 lx2 ins...PO/~ • yellowish plates on mauvEUssingit~ (UmDa Mine, Reuda, Kola Peninsula • Russia) (6a pure plate |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Relationship to other minerals Crystal system, space group, structure determined, yes or no Unit-cell parameters...Little Patsy pegmatite, Jefferson Co., Colorado, USA William B. Simmons [(REE+Y),U,Th,Ca,Fe,…](Nb,Ta,Ti)O4...Roberta Oberti NaLi2(Mg2Al2Li)⌺5Si8O22F2 Amphibole group Monoclinic: C2/m; structure determined a 9.357,...2004–003 Findlay Gulch, Saguache Co., Colorado, USA Luca Bindi Ag3HgPbSbTe5 Strong similarities with...Satoshi Matsubara Ce2Be2(SiO4)2(OH)2 Gadolinite group Monoclinic: P21/a a 9.8973, b 7.6282, c 4.7505 Å |  | | Catalog/List | | beryl or mica [3Jack micro crystals in crystalline feldspar with minor nuonte X 20 needed feldspar 2x2£4...masses colourless micro crystals on 3mm matrix feldspar 2x2 £10 CcSrC0/3 lx2£5 £2.i� lxl£3 ALBITE Kragero...masses in rock Feldspar Al MnSiO lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE...short wave Quite rich pink masses with quartz and or mica lxl £3 FLUORESENT lx2£6 2x2£l 2 lx2 £4 Ix! £2 -...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal |  | | Catalog/List | | Pb Te minute silvery apots in lca matrix (HillTop Mine. OrganHountains DonaAnnaC-Ounty,NewMexico) u OSSBIMDHEIHITE...light green films on silicaeous rock. (Pinal County, h.rizona USA) lem El. 50 .E2.50 235 DUFREtiOYSITE Pb/2...with ceruslte on aatrlx. (Silver Bill Mlne,Plaa County, Arizona) I I I l2 341PD...on matrix t Mimetite.(11oon AnchorHin Haricopa County, Arizona U.S.A) lxlins ES lx2 ElO 2x2 E18 275 MIUTUH...to brownmasseswith Cerussite. (Terrible Mine, Isle Colorado, USA)2x2cmEl5 lCII(10 less rich lem E6 5118f3 |  | | Catalog/List | | orange-red masses with darker Hornblende lxl £1 lx2 £2 Feldspar lxl £2 lx2 £3 BaS0/4 --- ---------------------------...grey-white cleavages , some with minor beryl or mica variety MORGANITE. Attractive pale pink semi-vitreous...semi-vitreous mass lxl £I.SO lx2 £3 2x2 £4.50 Feldspar Ix2 £4 2x2 £8 2x3 £ 12 3x4 £25 Be Al SiO · - ----- -...----·-·- ---- ·- -- 1129 ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway 87 ■ BERYL Evje area . South...pale pink crystalline mass with some micros on Feldspar. lxl £3 lx2 £5 2x2 £12 Al Mn SiO ½" £4 lxl £8 |  | | Catalog/List | | ___ 2x2£3 ___ - -----~ - ~014_ _ 88 ADAMITE Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico 69 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE South Bay,...- - - - - · . 767 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA 17 ANAL CITE Talisker Bay, Skye, Scotland...Quarry,Comwall Black micro crystals in crystalline feldspar with minor fluorite. X 20 needed Rich orange-red...orange-red masses with darker Hornblende lxl £1 lx2 £2 Feldspar 1.5cm £4 TiO/2 - -·- ·- ------- ··-- - -- -- -...grey-white cleavages , some with minor beryl or mica colourless micro crystals on 3mm matrix £2.80 Ce |  | | | | surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized by the Internet Archive...example the building of a mountain chain that produces mica schist from previous sedimentary rocks. The formation...groups: Minerals that have oxygen tightly bonded in a group around a central non-metallic ion. Oxides or carbonate...beryl, tourmaline, mica, feldspar, nepheline, zeolite, sodalite, bonded in a group around a central silicon... e.g., gypsum Vitreous: glassy, e.g., quartz, feldspar Transparency: Passing of Light Transparency is |  | | Catalog/List | | black-brown cleavage Yakutia. Russin 5mm£2 Rawhide Mine, MohavcCounty, ½xY,£3 Arizona , US.A . l.x2 50p...DESCRIPTON Pyroxene Na Fe TiSiO MnS PbSi0/3 Feldspar ALLANITE Cc Cc Ca Y Al Fe SiO ALLOPHANE pure...ALSiO ALMANDINE garnet group AlS0/4 Al S0/4 ✓ New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon .England Madagascar...r, I 1.J 3 Ca Al C0/3 ALUNITE K AlS0/4 OH Feldspar Li Na Al P0/4 F OH Zeolite TiO Kcystonc. South...in Porphyl)·. Pure grey metallic mass San Jose Mine. Oruro, Bolivia 6x6mm £3 23 ANHYDRITE Rich white |  | | Book | | museum quality but many minerals can be found on mine dumps or can be purchased or traded. After introducing...black rock, containing no quartz but rich in the feldspar minerals pyroxene and olivine. Old basalts with...rocks contain large crystals, often of the feldspar group and are known as porphyries. The individual...traprock is diabase in which lath-like crystals of feldspar grow first and darker minerals grow round them...structure. It contains mostly quartz and orthoclase feldspar with some smaller amounts of a darker mineral |  | | Book (edition) | | and released, they reassume their initial shape (mica). Hardness is the property of resisting abrasion...swell and emit bubbles (zeolite group, epidote group, scapolite group), some shed flakes (vermiculite...mineral is part of an isostructural mineral group, the group is listed in parentheses after the mineral...class: Almandine, Silicates (nesosilicates, garnet group). A specific problem is posed by the silicates,...occurs solely at the apices of the tetrahedral 4 group [SiCU] ", and the differentiation of the groups |  | | Book | | the bui lding of a n1ountain chain that produces mica schist fro1n previous sedi1nentary rocks. The fcnn1ation...groups: Minerals that have oxygen tightly bonded in a group around a central non-metallic ion. Oxides or carbonate...Silicates: Minerals have oxygen tightly bonded in a group around a central silicon aton1. Olivine, garnet...talc, clay, cb.rysotile, ch tysocolla, quartz, feldspar, nepheline, zeolite, sodalite, lazurite are the...e.g., gypstun Vitreous: glassy, e.g., quartz, feldspar Transparency: Passing of Light Transparency is |  | | Catalog/List | | slightly crystalline masses in matrix (M~:!a~hderg,County D~~ega.l,Irel~nd) lil fl lx2 f2 023 ~!~YDBITEC2lciumSulphate...rich2r ~s~ses in ~~trix lxl f] 006 .i\LDITSF~ld~p?.r Group. rich ora:i<}e:r:eJr::~scs with darker ;1ornble1...cl~,1·-.:2~l1: r2ss. (lZeysto":c,South r::';Gtil, USA) l~l 701 lx2 f1.20 L2 f2. -:~· ~::3 f.~. 50 OJ.9...El.00 311 fl.60 411 f).80 017 ANALClTE. Zeolite Group White crystals well covering Basalt. {Talisker Bay...Hidalgoite_. rich matrix. (Gold Hill Hine,Tooel County, Utah, USA) lxl f2.50 lx2 ES .. 066 ASTROPHYLLITE |  | | Catalog/List | | Africa AMBLYGONITE 1073 Near Chclan, E.Washinglon USA ACTlNOLITE Pure white cleavage mass Green crystal...South Larvik near CITE 13ratthagcn, ANAL 1098 Ojucla Mine, Mapimi, Mexico ADAMITE 88 Unusual rich yellow vitreous...ALABANDffE 15 Black micro crystals in cryslalline feldspar with minor 0uorite. X 2 0 needed Pure black-brown...cleavage Ti0/2 Mn S 1.5cm£4 5mm£2 ANATASE Virtuous Lady mine,Devon 26 ALBITE Kragcro Norway 6 single dark blue...Hornblende Ti0/2 Ix! £4 feldspar Ix2£ 1.20 Ix I 50p 68 2 963 AI.BITE Maine USA variety CLEA VELANDITE |  | | Book | | made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional...white Sylacauga marble from Sylacauga, Talladega County, is considered among the finest white marble in...the Lincoln Memorial. Marble from Chewacla, Lee County, near Auburn, Alabama, is a coarse grained dolomite...year old whale fossil was discovered in Washington County, Alabama; and WHEREAS, this ancient whale fossil |  | | Book (volume) | | 5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...the Southern Gem and Mineral Company of El Paso, Texas. Information on the Virgin Valley opal deposits...L. Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri. The well-known Texas agate localities of the Alpine Region were described...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken |  | | Catalog/List | | ferroedenite ✓767 ■■ 62 AJOITE Christmas Mine, Gila County, Arizona USA / ' Blue -green veinlets with some...across £10 766 ■■ DIOPTASE Christmas Mine, Gita County, Arizona ,USA Green elongated micro crystals, Ok...£24 Hydrocarbon 1129 ■■ ALMANDINE Brastad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Rich fine grained mass like...crystal. ½"£6 5mm£3 · AgFeS 768 ■■ AXINITE Obira Mine, Oita Prefecture,Japan Brown mass, with one or two...interest. ½" £3 Ix! £5 lx2 £8 1 ■ BANALSITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn, Wales rich brown mass with red-grey HEMATITE |  | | Report (volume) | | (kunzite, hiddenite), zircon, and gem varieties of feldspar, topaz, and quartz. Gem stones maybe weathered...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | was recovered about 1905 from the Barringer Hill, Texas locality, which measured 43x28x15 inches and which...Carolina; at Amelia, Virginia, near Clayton, Rabun county, Georgia; etc. The old localities near West Chester...at Shaw and Esray's quarry near Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, and is now in the collection of...at the Fisher quar- occurred at the Little Three mine, Ramona, ry, Topsham, Maine, to sixteen inches in...the Mountain, Stark, New Hampshire. Crys- McGinnis mine near Rumney in New tais to a foot in length have |  | | Book (edition) | | (Brazil). Malcolm Back (Canada), Henry L. Barwood (USA). Dmitriy Belakovskiy (Russia). Fabio Bellatreccia...(Italy), T.S. Ercit (Canada). Alexander Falster (USA). Jeffrey de Fourestier (Canada). Robert Gault (Canada)...Henderson. Jr. (USA). D.D. Hogarth (Canada). J.L. Jam bor (Canada), Anthony R. Kampf (USA). Pave! M. Kartashov...Karnp-Moller (Denmark). Akira Kato (Japan). Lance E. Keams (USA). Elisabeth Kirchner (Austria), Uwe Kolitsch (Austria)...Republic). Per Nystcn (Sweden), David O'Hanlcy (USA). Filippo Olmi (deccased) (ltaly). Werner H. Paar | | | | | world-renowned gem and mineral collection at Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History since 1980. Joan Kaylor...JOIDES Resolution (below), which is operated by Texas A&M University. This scientific vessel carries enough...ions enter feldspar, for instance, they take the place of potassium ions, changing the feldspar to a clay... Because of its primary mineral constituents, feldspar and quartz, granite is a very hard rock that resists...that its individual minerals—such as quartz, feldspar, mica, and chlorite—cannot be seen without a microscope |
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