 | | Book (edition) | | A GUIDE TO FOSSICKING IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY NORTHERN TERRITORY DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND ENERGY...FOSSICKING IN THE NORTHERN TERRITORY This book was prepared by the staff of the Northern Territory Geological...updated by Dick Thompson. Darwin 1986 NORTHERN TERRITORY DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND ENERGY MINISTER:...0965 8 © Northern Territory Government Published by the Government Printing Office of the Northern Territory...L Duffietd. Government Printer of tne Nonhem Territory THE DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND ENERGY I Head |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pty Ltd PO Box 537, Torrensville Plaza, South Australia 5031 i\\l MINELAB Visit our website www.mlnelab...better 8 THE HELl!S GATE TRACK The road to the Palmer River goldfield was, quite literally, murderous...Dates for your diary 26 A NEVER-ENDING SEARCH FOR QUARTZ If you think age is a barrier to gem and mineral...FOR GEM & MINERALS IN THE NEVER NEVER The Northern Territory is a treasure trove of gems Managing Editor...45unda'f, Ma'( t'fth 1-001- at 'Pa\mer, 45outh Australia. 6.arrett Meta\ Detet.tors and Other 'Priz.es |  | | Journal (issue) | | FOSSICKING IN THE HARTS RANGE Ivan Mumme explores the mineral wonders of Central Australia 36 A GOLDEN...ADRENALIN RUSH Back on the northern gold trail with Jack Lange 40 THE POVERTY REEF MINE WAS ANYTHING BUT POOR...clubs, societies and associations throughout Australia 68 TAILINGS Some interesting snippets 69 BACK...big nuggets than I thought tt possible for the region to produce. Sure. some of these nuggets are being...where bigger nuggets have been found using the SO range and finding large nuggets at depth that had been |  | | Book | | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE...Allgood, C. Williams: Ramsdellite from the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALLGOOD, ROBERT W. -with G...the Mistake mine [Arizona] 14:333-335 ALMA Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine, [near Alma |  | | Journal (issue) | | commemoration of GIA's 60 years of service. The range of topics at Symposium -from localities to synthetics...are in the 0.5- to 2.0-ct range, with about 10% in the 2.0- to 5.0-ct range. After cutting, Stone World...Opticon treatment and green dye in a colorless quartz similar to the stone on the left produced a radical... placed in a pan of water and heated on a gas range until the water started to boil; in a few minutes...balsam (1.520)we used and thus closer to the R.I. range of natural emerald (1.577 to 1.583 0.017). Opticon |  | | Journal (issue) | | Affiliated Associations: Genu:nological Association of Australia: Canadian Genu:nological Association: Rhodesian...rough gem diamonds are marketed by the D e Beers Central Selling Organisation. Before these diamonds can...is initially used to divide the incoming "run-of-mine" shipments of diamonds into two groups called smalls...consists of a sieving frame to which can be clamped a range of sieves. The frame is mounted resiliently onto...fall through an optical "box". This box contains quartz halogen lamps and photomultipliers, which measure |  | | Journal (issue) | | Artificially Induced Color in Amethyst-Citrine Quartz Kurt Nassau REGULAR FEATURES 40 47 56 59 Gem...water at all; one may justly describe it as a "desert island." In fact, apart from low-growing shrubs...mainland. an actual stockwork that occupies an oval region of considerable extent. The peridot crystals must...characteristically placed bands i n the blue to bluegreen region at 453, 473, and 493 nm. Diagnostically important...this permits a more precise study of a broader range of properties and often leads to additional uses |  | | Catalog/List | | museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...Feldspar. And then there is another Rose Quartz, smaller than the “Madona Rosa”, but just as choice. There...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern...Press Publishing Company P.O. Box 2399, Missoula, MT 59806 1-800-234-5308 + IDE DS AED 3) June Culp...market and fetch prices comparable to similar size-range emeralds. The United States continues to supply...certain other areas, as around the Great Lakes region. Numerous small discoveries of gem materials took...operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine, Laytonville, CA; Ralph |  | | Book | | Illustration: The Whitney (Muir) Crest Nevada. Mt. Whitney 4521.247 m), highest peak in the coterminal...serrated and fluted ridgeline of this great mountain range. The steep descent from crest to Owens Valley to...the Sierra ravines in the eastern facade of the range. The jointed granitic rock that composes much...Interest Features, 50 3. Northern Provinces Klamath Mountains, 69 69 Cascade Range, 76 Modoc 4. Plateau...Plateau, 84 Basin Ranges 91 Drainage, 96 Rocks and Geologic History, 96 Structure, 101 Subordinate Features |  | | Journal (issue) | | . •. $ l.50 BOURNONITE, Co,nw•U. FIMly xld. w. Quartz xis. 2 x l ¼ . . • . • . • • 3.50 MEIONITE, Monte...SCHEalTE, Zlnnwald. Good small xis. on ZIMWaldlte and Quartz. 3x 2 5 .00 CERARGYRITE, Broken HIii, N.S,W. Smalt...00 BISMUTHINITE, Tasmania. Xlline. mass w. some Quartz. 3 x 2 ¼ . . . . 4 .00 ZIRCON, Urals. Good ½" yellow...APOPHYLLITE, Mexico. Small xis. on drusy amethystine Quartz. 3 x 2 1.50 COERULEOLACTITE, Chester Co., Pa. 2...Xlline. w. some xis. 3 x 2 x 2 . ........ . . . .. . QUARTZ, Buckfield, Me. Doubly-terminated milky xi. 5 x |  | | Journal (issue) | | B. MCGUIRE Ventura, California Last night the desert lay below. Today at dawn there was a lake Of kapok...KATHARINE BUOY KEENEY Portland, Oregon Out in the desert It stands alone, Beaten by stormwinds Long ago...BERGER, JR. Photograph by Dick Freeman MIGRATION DESERT DISCOVERY By HELEN BURBANK BY DOROTHY LA TRAILLE...brought flights of geese. It's time to seek the desert To find a swift release From winter's chill that...By GRACE BARKER WILSON Kirtland, New Mexico The desert land resents the hurried strangei> Who streak on |  | | Book (edition) | | 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Spodumene Quartz Opal Turquoise Lapis Lazuli Jade – Geology and...to note that these include contributors from Australia, Canada, Germany, Thailand, Vietnam, the UK and...There have also been a number of additions to the range of synthetic gemstones produced by Pierre Gilson...of glass closely resembling opal in appearance. Quartz, which for many years has been manufactured in...prophetically named Kimberley district of Western Australia promise to be of world importance when production |  | | Catalog/List | | Auction #5386 Nature & Science Exclusively from the Central Coast Collection May 5-6, 2018 | Dallas Signature®...Enthusiast, Heritage Auctions is proud to present the Central Coast Collection during our Spring Nature & Science...Internet-only auction of 150 select specimens from the Central Coast Collection. An impressive assortment is being...consideration. I wish you good luck in bidding. Enjoy the Central Coast Collection! Sincerely, Craig C. Kissick...$250 72002 Libyan Desert Glass Libyan Desert Glass Area Great Sand Sea Western Desert, Egypt Associated |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineralogical Record Inc. Articles The Bunker Hill mine, Kellogg, Shoshone County, Id a h o 339 by N....by R. S. W. Braithwaite Barite from the Niobec mine, Chicoutimi, Quebec .....................355 by...Yates uranium mine, Pontiac County, Quebec . 359 by D. L. Leavitt Shavano Peak . . . a new Mt. Antero? ...Deuzeldlaan 16-bus 1 B-2120 Schoten COVER: ROSE QUARTZ with elbaite from Lavra da llha, Minas Gerais...Record, November — December, 1981 Bunker Hill the mine kellogg, shoshone county, idaho by Norman Radford |  | | Journal (issue) | | Jr & J. S. White, Jr. Inesite from the Hale Creek mine, Trinity County, California.......................article “on the chondrodite from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Brewster, New York.” Two of the plates show 21...Connecticut Academy of Art! and Sciences, Box 93-A Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 (Mention this offer of the...6-12 cm, Adamite with Hemimorphite from the Ojuela mine, pale green and purple Naica fluorites in small...Changma in Shandong Prov ince. Here the Victory No. 1 mine annually produces 1500 carats of gem quality diamonds |  | | Book | | Refractive 194 196 Light, Refractive Index Ranges, Optical First Order Prism, 194 and Asterism...Argentina, 361 Lapidary Treatment for Cabochons, Australia, 363 331 Austria, Beryl Carvings, 332 Faceted...485 Pakistan (West), United Arab United 482 Northern Ireland, Peru, 511 513 New Guinea, 485 Nigeria...gemstone pebbles, is also known in from Colors range from paler varieties of beryl that accompany the...exploitation but Egyptian records, is still exploited desert, far translation a Instruction of the Nearly |  | | Catalog/List | | A beautiful Crystallized Gold from the “16-to-1” Mine • A huge cut and polished Apache Agate weighing...Meteorite Iron, Coarse Octahedrite - IIAB Maritime Territory, Siberia, Russia - (46°09’36”N, 134° 39’12”E)...Meteorite Iron, Coarse Octahedrite - IIAB Maritime Territory Siberia, Russia (46°09’36”N, 134° 39’12”E) Witnessed...“Shrapnel” Iron, Coarse Octahedrite - IIAB Maritime Territory Siberia, Russia (46°09’36”N, 134° 39’12”E) Witnessed...Meteorite Slice Iron - IAB Complex Novosibirsk Region, Russia - (54° 20’N, 84°12’E) The find of the Maslyanino |  | | Book (edition) | | an entrance.] The horizontal entrance to a mine. An oxyd Alkali, and taste, having an acrid...Capable of combining with oxygen. Xt Containing quartz as Quartzose. a principal ingredient. . Oxydating...Silicate, 74. Consisting of, or containing silex, or quartz. Siliceous. Chequered. quered.) Silky, 56....(feldspar) will be easily distinguished from others (quartz) that have a glassy appearance. Yet the absence...these gems of nature’s workmanship. The mineral quartz sometimes occurs in crystals consisting of two |  | | Catalog/List | | include: • The Madona Rosa – the most imposing Rose Quartz specimen ever to be unearthed: a deserving competitor...competitor for the title of the world’s finest Rose Quartz. • One of the fabled Medina Aquamarines – once...com/5110 87003 CYANOTRICHITE Grandview (Last Chance) Mine, Grand Canyon, Coconino Co., Arizona, USA Fuzzy...87004 KROEHNKITE Chuquicamata Mine, Calama, El Loa Province, Antofagasta Region, Chile A very sizable, old...MALACHITE PSEUDOMORPH after AZURITE New Cornelia Mine (Ajo Mine), Ajo, Little Ajo Mts, Ajo District, Pima Co |  | | Book | | of quartz and its a great gems other than and varieties, with favorite location of quartz agate...beautiful in BOX 244 3BURY, VT 0581Q «r and Other Quartz Gems by ! the field and useful gems or novelties... THE HOOF. OF AGATES And Other Quartz Gems And Other Quartz Genis liy Lelande (Juich CHILTON...author believes that this is a needed book on the quartz gem minerals. Needed by whom? Needed by the more...cut into cabochons or faceted stones are in the quartz family, a book is needed that gives complete details |  | | Journal (issue) | | with an energy dispersive detector system (Tracor Northern), using an acceleration voltage of 15 kV and a...microprobe; these elements were checked too in the ppm-range by EDS-XRFtechniquef Only minor amounts of Fe (500-1000...figures (Table 3) are consistent with the well known range of optical data for tourmaline. The axial image...dravite crystal bonanza of Yinnietharra, Western Australia. Mineral.Rec., 8, 2, 109-10. Deer, W. A., Howie...importance. According to Kanis (1980), the first mine (Miku) was given up in 1972. In the neighbourhood |  | | Book | | no sense of the word in the backwoods. This region has a pleas- ant and healthy climate, and while...Divisions of Colorado The Snowy Range, The Foot-hills, The Valley, and Over the Range Characteristics of the ... Mineral Belt Snowy Range, —Metalliferous of the Foot-hills Veins — —The Great —Mode of Occurrence...and Bar Diggings First Mining Laws Russell Gulch Quartz Mining Gregory District Organized and Code of Laws...Attempted Organization of Government Jefferson Territory Mail, Passenger, and Express Facilities OverQuartz |  | | Catalog/List | | – 6:00 PM MT Session 1 Fossils & Meteorites Tuesday, September 15 • 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM MT Sunday, October...Ordovician, Asery Level Formation Wolchow River Region, St. Petersburg, Russia As if it were not enough...Trilobite Isotelus maximus Ordovician, Richmond Formation Mt. Orab, Ohio, USA This classic specimen of Isotelus...“Brittle” Starfish Plate Ophiura sp. Ordovician Sahara Desert, Morocco This large and shapely mass mortality...with Ophiura sp. from the Ordovician of the Sahara Desert of Morocco. It seems ironic that so many marine |  | | Journal (issue) | | Leather-Winged Bat Emerging from its inky desert cave in the Mule Mountains west of Blythe, California...8x10 Eastman View Camera, f. 6.4 at one second. DESERT CflLEriDRR April 28-29, May 5-6—Ramona Pageant...20—22nd Annual Junior Indian Art Show, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff. May 1—San Felipe, New Mexico...Along Border. May 5 — Palm Springs, California, Desert Museum Field Trip to Mission Canyon. May 5-6 —... California. May 6—Annual Rose Festival, Tombstone, Arizona. May 6—Desert Vegetation Tour and Palo Verde |
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