 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The Pederneira Mine São José da Safira, Minas Gerais, Brazil Dedication This article is the culmination...the Pederneira mine and with the people who live and breathe the project every day. The Pederneira mine...collaboration and belief in our project, the Pederneira mine would have been closed long, long ago. Thank...me (and the world) your culture and this amazing mine with all its incredible treasures. Thanks also to...wife Marisa, without whose support and input the Pederneira rollercoaster ride (and others) would not have |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystal, 75 mm long, from the Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gérais, Brazil. See 'The location, geology and mineralogy...mineralogy of gem tourmalines in Brazil' on pp. 263-98 ISSN: 1355-4565 262 J. G e m m , 1996, 25, 4 ...location, geology and mineralogy of gem tourmalines in Brazil Jacques P. Cassedanne, Dr. Sc. *, and Maurice Roditi...tourmaline is the 'Eastern pegmatitic province' of Minas Gerais. One general and three detailed maps of specific...Non-pegmatitic deposits of tourmaline include the Brumado mine (Bahia) which produces fine red uvite crystals and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | heulandite). Stilbite-Ca from the Little Three mine, California, (Table 9 of London et al., 2012) is...include topaz, fluorite, beryl variety aquamarine, zinnwaldite, and other rarer phases (e.g., Heinrich, 1958)...pegmatites from Maine, California, Afghanistan, and Brazil that were part of this study), contain spodumene...in a third. At the mineralogically similar Havey mine, Maine, the clays are exceedingly pure white kaolinite...tourmaline-bearing pegmatite of Alto dos Quintos Mine, northeast Brazil. Clay Mineralogy, Jo 46, 473–485. Eby |  | | Book | | MINERALS & PRECIOUS STONES OF BRAZIL Sponsored by: VALE MINISTER.IO DA CULTURA © 2009 - CARLOS CORNEJO...Lavra do Sapo, Ferruginha, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais. Collection of Alvaro Lucio. Photograph taken...photographs: "Parafba" tourmaline (25 x 6 mm), Sao Jose da Batalha, Parafba. Courtesy of Bruno and Rolando Gioia...Brasileira do Livro, SP, Brazil) Cornejo, Carlos .Minerals & precious stones of Brazil. Carlos Cornejo, Andrea...3. Minerals - Brazil 4. Minerals- Classification 5. Mineralogy 6. Mineralogy - Brazil - History 7. Precious |  | | Journal (issue) | | specimen mining in Pederneira, many exceptional pockets have been discovered. The mine is renowned for the...One of the most remarkable pockets found at the mine was the Afghan Pocket, collected in 2001; it did...to 5 cm” Continued on page 6 Pederneira Mine (Brazil) The Pederneira Mine is one of the most important...crystals on matrix are the signature specimens for this mine. Associated Photographer: Jeff Scovil (USA) Topaz...view of the enitre Pederneira Mine camp from higher up the mountain. The Pederneira Mine, and the equally-famous |  | | Catalog/List | | 5x2x5/8", £8.75 A/4. ADAMITE. Kameriza Central Mine, Laurium, Attica, Greece. A sparkling lime-green...some minor matrix. £3.00 ALBITE. Morenho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Lustrous surfaced, pale-cream coloured...4x3.5x2", £8.50 ALBITE/LEPIDOLITE. Pederneira, Minas Gerais. Brazil. Charming matrix free, pale-green...5x2x1", £10.00 6. ANDRADITE GARNET. Belstone Consols Mine, Sticklepath, Devonshire. A vitreous brownishgreen...25x5/8", £15.00 12. ANDRADITE/URALITE. Cornwall Iron Mine, Lebanon Co, Colorado, U.S.A. Lustrous coffee brown |  | | Journal (issue) | | Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands...that men would be hired as laborers to work the mine and help develop it, but that no men would be involved...September–October, 2019 7 HISTORY had declined and the mine was sold. Today it is formally owned by “the children...time collection,” he said, “collected by a former mine superintendent over a period of many years. Nearly |  | | Report (issue) | | for scale next to a giant beryl crystal at Senhora da Assun9iio in Portugal uncommonly seen in beryl and...crystal weighed 455 kilograms. 2m: The Queen Anne mine in Zimbabwe has produced crystals up to 2 meters...long by 1.5 meters wide have been found at Senhora da Assun�io, Portugal. Pegmatites at Mahajamba, Madagascar...from some pegmatites. This specimen, from Minas Gerais, Brazil, is housed in the Deutsches Edelstein Museum...crystals are found in soils and stream gravels in Brazil. On the other hand, at high temperatures and pressures |  | | Journal (issue) | | from Brazil shows chatoyancy caused by flat hollow channels. Four-rayed star aquamarine from Brazil has...the c-axis. A tourmaline-quartz combination from Brazil has an iridescent chatoyancy Grey orthoclase moonstone...cat's-eye from Brazil A very unusual example of a cat's-eye was purchased in Brazil by the author in...measuring Figure 1: Chatoyant pale blue topaz from Brazil weighing 152.15 ct. Photo by J. Hyrsl. 32.94 x...described two topaz cat'seyes, one blue of 7.98 ct from Brazil and another colourless of 12.20 ct from Sri Lanka |  | | Journal (issue) | | find a pegmatite a “half-mile” from the Palermo mine, in New Hampshire. It was originally identified...removal or partial change of some reference points (mine dumps, for example), or all simple reference points...unwise in this instance. Small quarry owners and mine operators are, for the most part, unfamiliar with...Stone-Moss. • CR Y ST A L L IN E L E A D , fro m the Mine. So I call it, n ot that it is clear [in o th er...interesting to the serious collector. The Franklin mine closed in 1954 and only scattered structures remain |  | | Journal (issue) | | Johnston & E. R. Swoboda Sulfur from the Perticara mine area, Pesaro-Urbino, Italy . . . . . . . . . . ...Pezzotta Famous mineral localities: The Lord Brassy mine, Tasmania . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... John Sinkankas (1915–2002) at the Pala Properties Mine Bash, 1977. Van Pelt photo. NOTICE Died, John Sinkankas...Characterization of New Species, Twinning, Axinite (Brazil), Green River (WY) $12 v.9/#3 Kalahari rhodochrosite...County $12 Museum, Himalaya mine $12 (Brazil), Bosch Collection v.10/#2 Jeffrey mine (Quebec), Alpine Rodingites |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | Springfield show ( 1995: 582). Madawaska [Faraday] mine near Bow Lake, Hastings County. Some of the world's...property of, the old Madawaska uranium mine (called the Faraday mine before 1964). The mineral assemblage...Trimble and Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized minerals...Oblast. Alpine-type clefts in the famous Dodo quartz mine commonly contain ilmenite, occurring as lustrous...ilmenite crystals as described here for the Dodo mine. In general, ilmenite crystals from the Subpolar |  | | Journal (issue) | | where found in large deposits, such as in the copper mine at Rio Tinto in south-western Spain, it is still...Well-formed crystals also occur in Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Brazil, Japan and Mexico. 'Sand dollars' are particularly...wheel-lock mechanisms are those drawn by Leonardo da Vinci18. Several variations of the mechanism appear...was the rose cut. The discovery of diamonds in Brazil in the early decades of the eighteenth century...diamond-cutting industry based on rough being imported from Brazil. Bauer39 also quotes Geneva as the source of cut |  | | Report (issue) | | and trapiche emerald Rupert Hochleitner Brazil: Minas Gerais, Bahia, Ceara, Goias and Tocantins . . ...Asia: Pakistan, Afghanistan and India .......6 0 Old Mine Emeralds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Maharajahs and Maharanis held large emeralds (see "Old Mine Emeralds" page 62). The Color of Islam Emerald...quality. It was the gift of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil to the 6 th Duke of Devon- shire. Also housed...some of the most productive emerald localities in Brazil, for example, more than 77 percent of the emerald |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Famous mineral localities: The Bristol copper mine, Connecticut......................................in the U.S.A. notesfrom th r EDITORS OLD YUMA MINE Another great mineral locality has now been closed...longfamous Old Yuma mine near Tucson (see R. L. Jones, “Famous mineral localities: the Old Yuma mine,” in vol....period of activity, access to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro...and Mining Company for the sum of $558,000. The mine is now owned outright by the Federal Government |  | | Book (edition) | | Salinas, Peru, H Variscite, xx 5 mm, Iturnbiara, Brazil, H Rhodocbrosite, polished, 50 mm, Capillitas,... China, H Page 1: MuscO\ite. 45 mm, Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 2: Vivianite, I 00 mm, Huanzala, Bolivia...Brazilianite, 35 mm, Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO...Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co .. Utah. Also at Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 20013 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Part 2 Huanggang Mine, Inner Mongolia, China T he first part of this...northern England, particularly from the Rogerley mine, has made these classic specimens available once...made of the complex crystals from the Trevaunce mine, St. Agnes. The crystals on the Smithsonian specimens...crystals to 2 cm have been recorded.The East Pool mine has produced crystals to 6 cm in colors ranging...and purple to colorless. In the St. Ives Consols mine, West Penwith, some of the largest fluorite crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | .................................... 17 DAOPING MINE Guanghua Liu and Berthold Ottens .................crystal, 2.1 cm, from the Dadongla (Yunchangping) mine near Tongren, Guizhou Province, China. Marcus Budil...Xikuangshan, the site of the world’s largest stibnite mine. Berthold Ottens is a German dealer and author of...today, near the ancient mine workings, there is a large open-pit copper mine which provides small calcite...1121 B.C. There in 1973 a 3,000-year-old copper mine with smelting facilities was discovered on Mt. Verdigris |  | 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) | | Connecticut. Luiz A. D. Menezes: Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. William C. Metropolis: Mineralogical Museum...Potosi SLP Mato Grosso Sul MS Sinaloa SIN Minas Gerais MG ee abasco Tamaulipas Tlaxcala Veracruz...Wokitecas eel TMPS Tia VER YUC ZAC States, Brazil Acre Alagoas Amapa Amazonas Bahia Ceara Para...Canada, Short Course, Vol. 1 Marine Geology Memorias da Academia das Ciencias de Lisboa, Classe de Ciencias...Spotsylvania Co., and Partridge mine, Orange Co., VA, and at Dahlonega, GA; Homestake mine, Lawrence Co., SD; Silver |  | | Book | | (left) from the /Iha claim near Taquaral. Hinas Gerais/Bra::.il might make the specimen more pref(\' -...point of discovery (vein, pocket. alpine Yein, or mine tailings) are usually sufficient. Precise GPS location...marine salt or coal deposits. and recently in old mine tunnels. Such minerals typically are salts or salt...this is the removal of natrolite from Dallas Gem Mine (San Benito County, California) The Mineral Cleaning...'rust' stains were easily removed from a Lavrion Mine, Greece smithsonite on a thick limonite matrix. |
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