 | | Report (issue) | | University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Conservation and Survey...Gemstones of Nebraska: A Handbook for Students and Collectors Roger K. Pabian University of Nebraska - Lincoln...Lincoln, rpabian1@unl.edu Allan Cook University of Nebraska - Lincoln Follow this and additional works at:...K. and Cook, Allan, "Minerals and Gemstones of Nebraska: A Handbook for Students and Collectors" (1976)...Resources, School of at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | discovery of compact, translucent Prase Opal from Napa County, California. Gem quality, 75c to $1.50 per lb....McCampbell, Calexico. California. THUNDER EGGS-LARGE AGATE-OPAL NO· dules in matrix. \12 to 3 lbs. each. Unpolished...WROUGHT Sterling Silver rings, set with genuine moss agate and other semi-precious stones. Prices from $1... Smith. Kimball. Nebraska. LAPIDARY SERVICE CABOCHON CUTTING AND POLISHING. Agate cutting a specialty...Correspondence invited. W. O. Smith. Kimball. Nebraska. AMATEUR GEM CUTTERS-SEND $1.00 FOR one of my |  | | Journal (issue) | | at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...500,000 and about two hours drive southeast of Prague, is the attractive, yet little known museum of...perfect bound for just: $35.00 Postage $5.00 in the USA; $23 for foreign. Excalibur Mineral Corp Tel: 434-964-0875...book filled with historical work involving Oxford County, describing and intertwining its minerals, miners...mineral display at the Czech National Museum in Prague has far more specimens on display, about 5000, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Italy, Spain, Canada, Poland, Rumania, the USSR, the USA, Finland, France and the FRG, to mention a few. The...Committee unanimously expressed the opinion that Prague (Czechoslovakia) be recommended for the IX Congress...No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. The Agate 40c My Minerals Discoveries Since 1879 40c Mineralogy...of Colorado 60c 148—Nov. 1943. Some minerals of Nebraska 60c 200—March 1948. Skull Valley area, Utah —...Amazentte Wernerife Purpurite Amber W Opal Trona Agate Prase Jasper Jadeite Thulite Olivine Ulexite Peridot |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Czech Republic, V Holešovičkách 41, 182 09 Prague 8, Czech Republic 2 Institute of Geology and Palaeontology...Sciences, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech Republic *Corresponding author, e-mail:...chalcedony with pinkish-purple or light violet CL, and agate-like structures sometimes crystallized as hyperblastic...organic matrix would have been destroyed and rather agate-like casts would have been formed. Surprisingly...palaeontological collections of the National Museum, Prague, Czech Republic. The samples were originally collected |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Slawsonite-celsian-hyalophane assemblage from a picrite sill (Prague Basin, Czech Republic) Zuzana Tasáryová1,2,*, Jiří...Republic Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6, Praha 2, 128 43, Czech Republic 2...picrite sill within Upper Ordovician strata of the Prague Basin near the village of Rovina, Czech Republic...hydrogrossular, rodingitization, serpentinization, Prague Basin Introduction Feldspar can be assigned as...slawsonite from metamorphosed limestones in Wallowa County, Oregon (Griffen et al. 1977; Matsubara 1985), |  | | Journal (issue) | | Goldsl.,n lmpons Inc By Tom Harmon Harmon ' s Agate and Silver Shop Crane, Montana Part One OfTwo In...some of the exquisite work by Tom Harmon, Harmon's Agate and Silver Shop, Box 94, Crane, MT 59217. More of...engraving, when, as a young man hunting Montana moss agate on the Yellowstone River, 1 would find a nice scenic...one of the finest collections of scenic Montana agate in the country, all set in his own handmade, engraved...Lodge in Glendive, Montana.) Everytime I toot some agate to Ed, I would "drool" over his showcase of handmade |  | Kříbek, Bohdan, Knésl, Ilja, Dobeš, Petr, Veselovský, František, Pořádek, Přemysl, Škoda, Radek, Čopjaková, Renata, Leichmann, Jaromír, Košek, Filip (2022) The Origin of Synchysite-(Ce) and Sources of Rare Earth Elements in the Rožná Uranium Deposit, Czech Republic. Minerals, 12 (6) 690 doi:10.3390/min12060690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Czech Geological Survey, Geologická 6, 152 00 Prague, Czech Republic; ilja.knesl@geology.cz (I.K.);...Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague, Czech Republic; filip.kosek@natur.cuni.cz Correspondence:...individualsamples samples(n(n== 15) 15) were were crushed and agate mill to atosize of <0.063 mm. Whole-rock analyses...(major crushed andpulverized pulverizedininanan agate mill a size of < 0.063 mm. Whole‐rock analyses components)...in an agate For stable isotope studies, samples of vein carbonates were gently spread in an agate bowl |  | Matysová, Petra, Götze, Jens, Leichmann, Jaromír, Škoda, Radek, Strnad, Ladislav, Drahota, Petr, Grygar, Tomáš Matys (2016) Cathodoluminescence and LA-ICP-MS chemistry of silicified wood enclosing wakefieldite – REEs and V migration during complex diagenetic evolution. European Journal of Mineralogy, 28 (5) 869-887 doi:10.1127/ejm/2016/0028-2556 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 182 09 Prague 8, Czech Republic 2 Faculty of Science, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech...Agathoxylon HARTIG, from the National Museum in Prague, Czech Republic and scans of transversal thin sections...stored in collections of the National Museum in Prague and numbered as #E6362 (Fig. 1). From a taxonomic...Gaussian bands using the OriginPro 7.5 (OriginLab, USA). The procedure served to separate spectral components;...microprobe (NewWave Research, Fremont, USA) at Charles University in Prague. The sample introduction system |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the American Ceramic Society, Baltimore, MD, USA. Details: Mark Mecklenborg. Tel.: 614-794-5829; e-mail:...Matter at Extreme Conditions (SMEC), Miami, FL, USA. E-mail: hennesse@fiu.edu; web page: www.cesmec.fiu...Newsletter, P.O. Box 666, Hadley, MA 01003-0666, USA. Tel.: 413-256-8942; fax: 413-256-3746; e-mail: wc2005@...halifax2005.ca/ May 20–25 Goldschmidt 2005, Moscow, Idaho, USA. E-mail: gold2005@uidaho.edu; web page: www.uidaho...Louisiana, USA. Details: AGU Meetings Department, 2000 Florida Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20009, USA. Tel.: |  | | Journal (issue) | | SECONDS THIS? I am enclosing $1.00 for the Special Agate Number. It waa a very, very fine issue and certainly...locality for quartz crystals, the famous Herkimer County "diamonds". I engaged Mr. Raithel in conversation...mountains loomed up in the As the men were from the County distance, on the right, which I believe Poor House...W. CASSIRER (Mr. Casstrer ts a newspaper man ln Prague, Bohemia and a mineral collector with many years...the cut into pieces by the ploughs. porthwest of Prague, the beautiful Not far away alt Horni Slavkov capitol |  | | Book | | Gives a sodium flame. Nearly insoluble. COMANCHE COUNTY: SE%, Sec. 4, T.3N., R.15W. The xtals are i to...bounded on each side by granite, AGATE (See Quartz) CANADIAN COUNTY: South Canadian Rivers. In the...dumps. CIMARRON COUNTY: Secs. 7, 8, 9, 10; T.5N., R.2E. Cimarron Meredian Rose agate, algae, jasper,...Cimarron River. Agate is widely scattered in the Black Mesa area. DEWEY COUNTY: Agate is found 2 miles...at Taloga in the South Canadian River. HARPER COUNTY: Secs. 17, 20; T.27N., R.23W.. Jaspagate. Secs |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Clay Minerals Society, Burlington, Vermont, USA. Details: Peter C. Ryan, Geology Department, Middlebury...Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont 05753, USA. Tel.: 1-802-443-2557; e-mail: pryan@middlebury.edu;...Conventions Dept., P.O. Box 979, Tulsa, OK 74119, USA. Tel.: 918-560-2679; fax: 918-560-2684; e-mail: convene2@...Craters, The Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, USA. Details: Nadine Barlow, Northern Arizona University...Systems: Sources, Transport, Deposition, Andover, NH, USA. Attendance by invitation. Contacts: Steve Garwin |  | Žáček, V., Rapprich, V., Šíma, J., Škoda, R., Laufek, F., Legesa, F. (2015) Kogarkoite, Na3(SO4)F, from the Shalo hot spring, Main Ethiopian Rift: implications for F-enrichment of thermal groundwater related to alkaline silicic volcanic rocks. Journal of GEOsciences, 60 (3) 171-179 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 21 Prague 1, Czech Republic; vladimir.zacek@geology.cz Aquatest a.s., Geologická 4, 152 00 Prague 5,...the Hortense hot springs, Chalk Creek, Chaffee County, Colorado (Pabst and Sharp 1973) and in the Shalo...X’Pert diffractometer (Czech Geological Survey, Prague) in the Bragg-Brentano arrangement using CuKα radiation...was gently pulverized together with acetone in an agate mortar. To minimize the complicated shape of the...the Hortense hot springs (up to 83 °C) in Chafee County, Colorado (Pabst and Sharp 1973). The local geology |  | | Journal (issue) | | basalt flows which form the mountains and mesas are agate-bearing. It has been 30 million years since this...found some really nice biscuits – amygdules of agate in place or newly released from the basalt, many...stainless steel. I received a gift of 50 pounds of agate from Alpine, Texas. It was not very good material...opportunity was to work with the Czech National Museum in Prague, to help determine correct stratigraphy for his...in the American West, 18501950 (University of Nebraska Press: Lincoln & London, 1997) • Tom Murray, "A |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Albertov 6, Prague 2, 128 43, Czech Republic 2School of Art Restoration, Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, U akademie...akademie 4, Prague 7, 172 22, Czech Republic 3Czech Geological Survey, Geologická 6, Prague 5, 150 00,...medieval Charles Bridge in the historic city centre of Prague – is enclosed with sculptures carved from local...General view on studied objects. A.– Charles Bridge (Prague), B.– sculpture of ‘St. Wenceslas’; C.– group of...computer program (SIGMASCAN, Jandel Scientific, USA). The results (grain size distribution, grain shape) |  | Hradil, David, Grygar, Tomáš, Hrušková, Michaela, Bezdička, Petr, Lang, Kamil, Schneeweiss, Oldrich, , (2004) Green Earth Pigment from the Kadañ Region, Czech Republic: Use of Rare Fe-rich Smectite. clays and clay minerals, 52 (6) 767-778 doi:10.1346/ccmn.2004.0520612 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech Republic 2 3 Abstract—A collection of...Verona, Italy, and sedimentary glauconite from Prague. In those localities, mining for fine-art purposes...mined 767 768 Hradil et al near Hloubětı́n, Prague, from the 19th to the 20th century. In this study...analyzed separately. The rest was ground in an agate mortar and analyzed as a bulk sample. A separate...Glauconite from Prague A sample of marine sedimentary glauconite was collected from Vidoule, near Prague. The layer |  | | Report (issue) | | Publisher Lithographie, Ltd. Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria A. Staebler © 2012 Lithographic...Lithographic, Ltd. PO Box 11613 • Denver, CO 80211 • USA Phone: 1.303.495.5521 • Fax: 1.303.482.1238 W\\w...of St. Wenceslas in St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague Castle, Prague, are inlaid with more than 1,300 slabs of...Cathedral that was constructed in 1372 and is part of Prague Castle. The large plaques of polished chrysoprase...Hallelujah Junction (aka Peterson Peak), Washoe County, Nevada, was cut by Bob Spomer and offered for |  | Mihaljevič, Martin, Baieta, Rafael, Ettler, Vojtěch, Vaněk, Aleš, Kříbek, Bohdan, Penížek, Vít, Drahota, Petr, Trubač, Jakub, Sracek, Ondra, Chrastný, Vladislav, Mapani, Benjamin Siyowi (2019) Tracing the metal dynamics in semi-arid soils near mine tailings using stable Cu and Pb isotopes. Chemical Geology, 515. 61-76 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2019.03.026 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Science, Charles University in Prague, Albertov 6, CZ-128 43 Prague 2, Czech Republic (*corresponding...Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Prague 6, Czech Republic Czech Geological...Geological Survey, Geologická 6, 152 00, Prague 5, Czech Republic 5 AC Department of Geology, Faculty of Science...Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, 165 21 Prague 6, Czech Republic 6 Department of...compositions was ground to analytical fineness in an agate mortar (Fritsch, Germany). NU All of the chemicals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | which is in Imperial County—the remaining northern part is in Riverside County. The sample is a dark...the Riverside County-Imperial County line. I believe this material is from Imperial County, although identical...extending into the Coachella Valley area of Riverside County. Coachella, by the way, is thought to be a corruption...dated Feb. 26, 1957 from Lila Mae Victor (Victor Agate Shop), ROCKS AND MINERALS 1709 South Cedar, Spokane...and about 1 mile east of the Camden-Gloucester County line in Camden Co., N . J. (about 1 mile north |  | | Book | | proviennent des collections du Musée national à Prague. Les clichés 1 et 4 ont été exécutés grâce à l'aimable...Nâprstek de Prague, le cliché 3 avec l'autorisation du Musée des Arts et Métiers de Prague et le cliché...cliché 5 avec l'accord du Musée ethnographique. de Prague. Les clichés 6, 7, 8, 9 et 10 représentent les...graphique par Frantisek Prokes @ 1977 by ARTIA, Prague Toute reproduction d'un extrait quelconque de ce...2-7000-1310-7 Imprimé en Tchécoslovaquie par Svoboda, Prague 3/11/03/53-11 TABLE Un mot au lecteur L'homme |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2 * Czech Geological Survey, Klárov 3, 118 21 Prague 1, Czech Republic; marcela.starkova@geology.cz...BOB CWBB CWBB 50°N Fig. 2 B KPB KP ISB B IS Prague OB OB Czech Republic N BB BB 49°N 100km Fig...content seems to be overestimated due to presence of agate mineralization in amygdales. Chemical composition...microanalytical laboratory of the Czech Geological Survey in Prague. 4. Results 4.1. Hvězda quarry (50°31‘38“N, 15°29‘42“E)...secondary minerals like calcite, zeolite, chlorite and agate. Upwards, the amount of pillows increases, whereas |  | Vítek, Petr, Jehlička, Jan, Edwards, Howell G.M., Hutchinson, Ian, Ascaso, Carmen, Wierzchos, Jacek (2012) The Miniaturized Raman System and Detection of Traces of Life in Halite from the Atacama Desert: Some Considerations for the Search for Life Signatures on Mars. Astrobiology, 12 (12) 1095-1099 doi:10.1089/ast.2012.0879 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Mineral Resources, Charles University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic. Centre for Astrobiology and...parts were crushed, powdered, and homogenized in agate mortar. Then, the flattened surface of the powder...Advantage and Rock Hound by DeltaNu (Laramie, WY, USA), were employed. The 3.1. Direct analysis on the...Mineral Resources Charles University in Prague Albertov 6 128 43 Prague 2 Czech Republic E-mail: petr.vitek@natur |  | Kříbek, Bohdan, Šípková, Adéla, Ettler, Vojtěch, Mihaljevič, Martin, Majer, Vladimír, Knésl, Ilja, Mapani, Benjamin, Penížek, Vít, Vaněk, Aleš, Sracek, Ondra (2018) Variability of the copper isotopic composition in soil and grass affected by mining and smelting in Tsumeb, Namibia. Chemical Geology, 493. 121-135 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2018.05.035 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ondra Sracek5 Czech Geological Survey, 152 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic 2 Charles University, Institute...Resources, Faculty SC RI 1 of Science, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech Republic 4 Faculty of Earth Sciences...Resources, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 21 Prague 6, Czech Republic Department of Geology...samples were homogenized in the laboratory in an RI agate ball mill to a size of <0.063 mm. All the grass...dried at room temperature and homogenized by in agate ball mill. Altogether, NU In addition, to assess |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Science Ltd Printed in the USA. All rights reserved 0016-7037/03 $30.00 ⫹ .00 Pergamon...Resources, Charles University, Albertov 6, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech Republic 2 Institute of Organic Chemistry...Czech Republic, Flemingovo námĕstı́ 2, 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic 3 Institute of Physical and Macromolecular...Chemistry, Charles University, Hlavova 8, 128 43 Prague 2, Czech Republic (Received July 5, 2002; accepted...25 km southeast of Pilsen and 80 km southwest of Prague (Fig. 1). Samples were taken from within basalt |
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