 | | Report (issue) | | Rynersonite Ca(Ta, Nb)2O6 c 2001-2005 Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Orthorhombic...white to pale reddish pink; pale yellowish brown to dark brown. Streak: White. Luster: Dull, earthy in aggregates...370(1) Z=4 X-ray Powder Pattern: San Diego mine, California, USA. 3.038 (100), 4.835 (90), 2.964 (90), 3...35 8.50 Total 97.9 96.62 (1) San Diego mine, California, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as FeO;...Ca1.11 (Ta1.44 Nb0.51 )Σ=1.95 O6 . (2) Wampewo pegmatite, Uganda; by electron microprobe, total Fe as FeO; |  | | Report (issue) | | Semitransparent. Color: Dark brown to light yellowish brown; reddish yellow, reddish brown, greenish yellow; in...light, pale yellow-brown to brown, may be zoned. Streak: Pale yellow to yellow-brown. Luster: Resinous...Greenbushes, Western Australia. (2) Mesa Grande district, California, USA; by electron microprobe, corresponding...Distribution: From the Greenbushes tin placers, Wodgina district, Western Australia. Large crystals at the Muiâne...Ligonha, Mozambique. From the Benson mine, Mtoko, Zimbabwe. In the USA, from Topsham, Sagadahoc Co., Maine; |  | | Journal (issue) | | 199~ Weird The Mineral and Wonderful from Quartz Alberta's Collector's Newsletter in Septarian...(though a little skeptical) to learn of a nearby quartz collecting locality. It is a three-hour drive northeast...locomotive cxursions. My first collecting specialty was quartz, for which I've retained a soft spot, and I was...produced a wide variety of interesting and unusual quartz crystals. These are found in abundant ironstone...nodules that weather out of Fig. 1 Partial, hollow quartz crystal 11/4 inches (3 cm) across, with multiple |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | February 2015 MINERALS FROM THE HYATT MINE, TALCVILLE, ST. LAWRENCE COUNTY, NEW YORK. S. C. Chamberlain, Department...Zinc Corporation of America operates the new Hyatt mine on an orebody just south of the Oswegatchie River...Talcville in the Town of Edwards, St. Lawrence County, New York. The orebody consists of massive iron-rich...of sepiolite in the form of mountain leather, the mine has not, until recently, produced anything of particular...particular interest to collectors. In early 1994, mining operations encountered cavities lined with crystallized |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | stagesof granitic pegmatite evolution by manganotantalite and fersmite or rynersonite, indicating increasingdq^z*...r, and low a".. during alteration by evolved pegmatite fluids at 350-550'C and 2-4 kbar. Secondary(w...mineralassociation Rutherford pegmatite,Amelia, VA, second intermediate zone Tin Mountain pegmatite,Custer, SD, quartzspodumene-mica...goethite Brown Derby pegmatite,Gunnison County, CO, fepidolite{u aftz zone Opportunity pegmatite,GunnisonCounty...GunnisonCounty, CO, quartz zone Pidlite pegmatite, Mora County, NM, lepidolite4uartz zone Fungwe district, Zimbabwe |  | | Journal (issue) | | Newsletter Pebble Beach Pegmatites Lake Buchanan, Llano County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Str. Houston, Texas...Canine Road Marble Falls, Texas 78654 .7 l Llano County has long been known for its rare-earth granitic...year. Continued on page 6 l. • Figure 1. Smoky quartz crystals from Pebble Beach pegmatites; Art Smith...Geologist for Texas Gulf at their Frasch sulfur mine at New Gulf, Texas, I noticed a small vial with...symposia held by other FM chapters is planned: "Pegmatite Mineralization in the Southeastem U.S." to be |  | | Book | | nearly all metals and the inevitable closing of many mining operations, it is a matter of the industry's survival...decision, not only is a handy volume affered to the mining and processing community but also duplication of...another oxide, "yttria", from minerals found in the pegmatite at Ytterby, Sweden. Both supposed oxides were...Swedish ehernist Ekeberg in the eourse of analyzing pegmatite minerals from Ytterby, Sweden and Kimito, Finland...minerals from the same loeality, the farnaus pegmatite at Ytterby, Swcden. This faet stresses the geoehemieal |  | | Book (edition) | | Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere nee Not to...Sagtiache Co1tntr Publlc I...ibran' Saguache, Colorado ~ VANNOSTRAND REINHOLD ~ - - - - N e w York...Cal and Kerith Graeber Cureton Mineral Company Colorado School of Mines cw Charles and Marcelle Weber |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz or cinnabar. Current practice most often names...polished mineral surface, expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g. | | | Book (edition) | | Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For Reference Not to...Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD New York ...Cal and Kerith Graeber Cureton Mineral Company Colorado School of Mines Charles and Marcelle Weber Dan |  | | Book | | occurs at Trimouns as colorless, pink and pale brown, translucent to transparent, tabular microcrystals...AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | B. Hoover: U.S.G.S., Federal Center, Lakewood, Colorado. John M. Hughes: Dept. of Geology, Miami University...Louise Reif: U. S. G. S., Federal Center, Lakewood, Colorado. Charles B. Sclar: Dept. of Earth Sciences, Lehigh...Especially when the mineral species is common, such as quartz (75.1.3.1), many varieties (jasper, onyx) are known...chemistry and structure are identical to those of quartz. 5D. Polytypes Materials whose basic structural...only with fibrous minerals Columbite, wolframite Quartz Opal, some yellow varieties of sphalerite Nepheline |  | | Book | | much biased by science with too little sense of mine for beauty) will keep his memory and work, alive...constituents the three rock-forming minerals feldspar, quartz and mica, which in places develop mega-crystals...material extracted from pegmatites is feldspar, quartz and mica, and only a tiny fraction of pegmatites...so as to render mining of these rare-element pegmatites feasible. The traditional mining of pegmatitic...aplitic rocks. In light of more than 1000 years of mining and an intensive study of the deeper parts of the |
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