 | | Journal (issue) | | n et The Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Lualaba Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo ........... 6.6 cm, from the Musonoi mine, Kolwezi District, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Scott Rudolph collection;...Charelle Webb (2012-2018) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Dr. and Mrs. Don Lum (2017) Bryan Swoboda (2012-2017)...Schreiber (2013-2017) Richard Nahas (2018) (2009-2018) Dr. Nikolas Golosow (2013-2017) Kulin Pandey (2018)...and on the best grossular garnets from the Jeffrey mine (2015). The Yukon Territory has been one of Rod's |  | | Journal (issue) | | row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...from the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino |  | | Catalog/List | | and masses. 3x4½x2½" $125. 00. 2. SILVER Amethyst mine, Creede, Mineral Co., Colorado. Dull silvery metallic...locality. 1¾x2x¾11 $600. 00. 14. DIAMOND Roko, Congo Republic. Superb lustrous olive-gray macle type...or display. 8x7x4 mm. $75.00. 15. DIAMOND Itoko, Congo Republlc. Superb ollve-gray twinned cube. 8x8x7...terminations. 3x3½x2" $35.00. 30. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico. radiating elongated etched...minor muscovite. 2½x3½xh" $150. 00. 33. AZURITE Czar mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona. Choice dee~ blue | | | Catalog/List | | and masses. 3x4½x2½" $125. 00. 2. SILVER Amethyst mine, Creede, Mineral Co., Colorado. Dull silvery metallic...locality. 1¾x2x¾11 $600. 00. 14. DIAMOND Roko, Congo Republic. Superb lustrous olive-gray macle type...or display. 8x7x4 mm. $75.00. 15. DIAMOND Itoko, Congo Republlc. Superb ollve-gray twinned cube. 8x8x7...terminations. 3x3½x2" $35.00. 30. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico. radiating elongated etched...minor muscovite. 2½x3½xh" $150. 00. 33. AZURITE Czar mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona. Choice dee~ blue |  | | Journal (issue) | | crystals to 5 mm, with uranophane, from the Shinkolobwe mine, Shaba (formerly Katanga), Zaire. Sorbonne collection...great mineralized areas. Locality names such as Musonoi and Shinkolobwe are today famous fo r some o f...nearly 50 km in width. It extends from the town of Kolwezi in the west to the city of Lubumbashi in the east...outside the Shaba Crescent, as does the large Kipushi mine, which has yielded lead, zinc, silver, copper, cadmium...to Shaba about 20 years ago, after the Belgian Congo became Zaire in 1960. “ Shaba” means “copper” in |  | | Catalog/List | | 2x3xl-3/4" $ 20.00 4. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico Choice pale lustrous sky-blue... l-3/4x3x3/4" $ 30.00 6. APOPliYLi.,ITE No. 3 mine, Cornwall, Pennsylvania Choice milky white 1/2"...single white frosted 9. BENITOITE The Dalles Gem mine, San Benito Co., California Superb deep blue to...3/4x3/4" matrix$ 30.00 11. BRAZILIANITE Galilea mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil Choice pale golden-yellow...1-1/4x2" $ 25.00 coating over 16. CROCOITE Red Lead mine, Dundas, Tasmania New Discovery (A) Superb bright |  | | Journal (issue) | | San Diego County, CA Rhodochrosite – Sweet Home Mine, Colorado Amethyst – Due West, SC All are Smithsonian...Gem and Mineral Show. PbMoO4 is LOVE Red Cloud Mine PbMoO4 is LOVE Four mineral stamps designed by...Americans mined wulfenite and silver at the Red Cloud Mine in Arizona from the 1860’s until 1890, and then...(polished) Garnet (grossular) Colonial Copper Mine, Cap D’Or, Nova Scotia Flamboro Quarry, Wentworth...Klondyke District, Yukon Princess Mine, Hastings Co., Ontario Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quebec Kenya – Scott |  | | Catalog/List | | lxl-3/4" to 1-1/2x2-3/4" $ 10.00 BOLEITE Amelia mine, Boleo, Baja California, Choice bright blue single...to lxl-1/2" 5 Specimens $ 10.00 CROCOITE Red Lead mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia Bright orange-red crystalline...terminations .. 1/2xl" to 1/2xl-1/4" 7 Specimens $ 12.50 DIOPTASE Mindouli, Central Africa Republic Superb dark...2x10 mm 10 Specimens $ 7.50 KALIBORITE Enrique mine, Sallent, Spain Choice pure white granular micro...inclusions. l-l/4x2" and 2x2-l/2" MALACHITE Musonoi mine, Kolwezi, Shaba, Zaire Choice pure green single elongated |  | | Catalog/List | | hydroxyl-apatite with large niobian perovFaraday Mine (now Madawaska Mine), crystal specimens, these two were worthy...quartz matrix (4 .5 x 4.1 cm); type locality . Moss Mine, Nordmark, Sweden . Nice miniature (8 x 5 cm) of...crystals ever collected in North Near Kamiaba River, Kolwezi District , America! The single vug discovered was...crystals, excellent reference. Beta-Uranophane Rossing Mine, near Arandis, Republic of 84A45(a) 30.00 South...crystal. 84A39 84A45(c) 300.00 Galena Ballard Mine, Baxter Springs, Kansas. Good parallel-growth gray |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when...originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham, New Mexico. Oh, for those simpler times...fine brochantite from the abovementioned Blanchard mine has been selected for this issue. Brochantite, a...Brochantite is relatively common in the oxidized zone of Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals...with langite and posnjakite occurs in the Ecton mine, Montgomery County (Smith 1978); and brochantite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | copper silicates are such aesthetic minerals as dioptase, plancheite, and the rare minerals apacheite,...few millimeters in length. It is orthorhombic (2/ Dr. Rob Bowell, a consultant geochemist in the mining...minerals formed in the oxide zone of mineral deposits. Dr. Robert B. Cook, an executive editor of Rocks & Minerals...the type locality, the Shattuck or Shattuck-Denn mine at Bisbee, Warren district, Cochise County, after...which the mineral in named (Schaller 1915). The mine itself was developed by one of the Bisbee copper |  | | Catalog/List | | 94403 U.S.A. Old No. l Headfnme. Whi ■ key Hlll Mine, Tuohnne County, CaUfomla (r■-,u. .SV•t- tor cr11•t•J...association. Few of the minute crystals you see on mine or quarry dumps or even on cabinet specimens will...dumps or surface float. Mirute crystals seen on a mine dump are a clue but nearly always tao weathered...the first written use af micromounts. At that time, Dr. Wills adequately defined micro material and micromounts...micromount in the traditional sense as written by Dr. Wills. In later years, lang after the publication |  | | Other Paper | | ancienne colonie belge « La République Démocratique du Congo » avec une exposition intitulée : Na de mineralen...voormalige Belgische kolonie «De Democratische Republiek Congo» met een tentoonstelling getiteld: « Les merveilles...aarde). In de periode van de “Etat Indépendant du Congo” van Leopold II en later van de Belgische Kongo...XIIIde eeuw in Zuid Katanga. Geologie van DRC. La mine de Shinkolobwe De ondergrond van de DRC, en bijzonder...het N-O en het Z-O van het land (Kivu, Kasai, Bas-Congo en niet te vergeten Katanga). Daar zijn de meest |  | | Book | | particularly the hexagonal prisms (proustite, dioptase). Each crystal system has a corresponding optimal...Somithsonite ase eenea 66 Copper Arsenates Plancheite Dioptase yi... u-eenes Nickel-Cobalt...... Erythrite...Cyanotrichite....... Cuprosklodowskite. . . . Dioptase ......... Doloinitc susan PYEUMOMe Epidoter...ornamental purposes since Roman times (Blue John Mine). It some- times displays the phenomenon of dichroism:...of the crystals can be quite brilliant. In Morgan Mine, Carson Hill (Calaveras County, Colorado), in the | | | Book | | particularly the hexagonal prisms (proustite, dioptase). Each crystal system has a corresponding optimal...donite 98 Copper Arsenates ... 100 Plancheite 100 Dioptase 102 Nickel-Cobalt 104 Erythrite 104 Annabergite...114 Cyanotrichite 98 Cuprosklodowskite. . . .126 Dioptase 102 Dolomite 54 Diamond 14 Epidote 44 Eosphorite...ornamental purposes since Roman times (Blue John Mine). It some times displays the phenomenon of dichroism:...of the crystals can be quite brilliant. In Morgan Mine, Carson Hill (Calaveras County, Colorado), in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | on p. 327 COVER: BARITE, 17 cm, from the Miekle mine, Nevada. (See the article in the previous issue...rediscovered the Moctezuma mine that was first opened for gold in 1937. This mine, though small, provided...many new mineral species. Dr. Gaines wrote a compre hensive review of this mine for The Mineralogical Record...influenced his life’s work. Toward the end of 1966, Dr. Arthur Montgomery, chairman of the geology department...retirement from the Cabot Corporation in 1987. In 1975 Dr. Gaines was invited to join the editorial board of |  | | Catalog/List | | Signed Client# (if known) Mr. Mrs. Ms. Dr. Bidder# name Address city STATE...directly from the miners at the Elmwood Mine in Tennessee, when the mine was actively producing twenty years... 52002 SZENICSITE with POWELLITE Jardinera No. 1 Mine, Inca de Oro, Chañaral Province, Atacama Region...mineral came from one pocket in the Jardinera No. 1 Mine. That find was roughly one cubic meter in volume...000-$3,000 52006 MIMETITE Var. CAMPYLITE Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fells, North and Western Region (Cumberland) |  | | Catalog/List | | 3¼x3½x1½11 $ 35. 00. for REFERENCE 3. ALTAITE Hilltop mine, Organ Mountains, New Mexico Select silvery metallic...1½x2x1 11 $ 40.00. 13. BERYL-EMERALD Crabtree mine, North Carolina Rich bright green 3x10 mm crystal...1985 termina ted crystal. ARAGON ITE Mai den Rock mine, Mel rose, Montc.1nu Choice elongated snow-white...15.00 17. 18. 19 . 20. 2 - BROCHANTITE Czar mine, Bisbee, Cochise Co., Arizona Superb dark green...18.50. (C) 2x3xlt" $ 20.00. CALAVERITE Cresson mine, Cripple Creek, Teller Co., Colorado Rich silvery-gray |  | | Journal (issue) | | Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than...Morgenstern photo. Calcite, 5.8 cm, from the Mariposa mine, Terlingua; Roh Lavinsky (The Arkenstone) specimen...Calomel crystals on terlinguaite, 3 mm, Mariposa mine, Terlingua. Celestine, 4.5 cm, Burnet, Burnet County; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on Market Street, bringing the collection with it. Dr. David Draper, who was to play a pivotal role in...members, all preeminent geologists, were Dr. A. L. Hall, Dr. S..H. Haughton, Mr. S. H. H q e r , and... These are the original cases acquired in 1934. Dr Bruce Cairncross, a well-known mineral photographer;...of bright pink cobalt-dolomite, two outstanding dioptase specimens with crystals up to 1 cm on crystalline...overgrown these dolomite casts. One case containing dioptase, malachite, mottramite, and azurite. From Other |  | | Book | | quelques uns des premiers cristaux sur roche de la Mine Premier en Afrique du Sud (sur kimberlite alteree...Une nagyagite {mine d'or arsenicale de Nagyag) s'est payee 122 livres ; une proustite {mine d'argent rouge...a 72 livres a !'exception d'un "grand plateau de mine de plomb verte de Fribourg" paye 300 livres ! Le...livres. Il est precise qu'un "superbe morceau de mine d'antimoine en aiguilles qui reflechissent les plus...region, connue des anciens mineralogistes pour sa mine d'argent decouverte par hasard en 1 76 7 par Marie |  | | Journal (issue) | | FLUORffE Tue largest crystal measures 3 cm Heights mine, Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife...photo Backcover: (upper left) Elbaite, 4.5 cm, Sapo mine, Goiabeira, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Gus Eitler collection;...Rhodochrosite, 11.5 cm, Good Luck pocket, Sweet Horne mine, Alma, Colorado. Ex Steve Smale collection. Joe...Daoping mine, Guilin, Guangxi, China. Ex Steve Smale Kunzite spodumene, 11 cm, Urucum mine, Minas Gerais...Republic of the Congo. Joe Budd photo. Benitoite on natrolite, 5.5 cm, Dallas Gern mine, San Benito County |  | | Journal (issue) | | Front cover: Sulfur on Aragonite, 25 cm Cozzodisi mine, Casteltermini, Agrigento, Sicily, Italy. Adalberto...mutual exchange of knowledge. We are grateful to Dr. Federico Pezzotta, curator of mineralogy at the...place in the Sardinian mines and the Traversella mine (Piedmont). The second edition of the Catalogue...chalcopyrite and various rare sulfosalts from the Bottino mine in Tuscany. MINERAL COLLECTING FROM THE POST-WAR...exploring the underground workings of an historic gold mine in the Brusson area, Val d' Ayas, western Alps. |  | | Catalog/List | | Italy. massive, green 2 variety ADAMITE: Ojuela Mine, Mapimi, Durango, Mexico. crystals ADAMITE,variety...Index, Washington, USA. crystals ALBITE: Jeffrey Mine, Asbestos, Quobcc, Canada. crystals ALBITE: St....good crystal sections AS ,'\BOVE ALGOOONITE:Calumot Mine, Michigan, USA. massive ALL'\NITE: . Quadeville...1-:incrva .i'l Mine, Cavo-ln-Rock, Illinois, USA. good crystals ALT/1ITE: Hilltop Mine, Organ Mountain...Wickcnburg, Arizona, USA. massiv0 ALUNOGEN fuxtor l/7 Mine, san Rafael Sw01l, Utah, USA. massivo AMBER: Phillipina |  | | Catalog/List | | RICHARD W. ARSTOW Dr akewa lls HOUSR, Dr akewalls , Gunni slake , Cornwa ll , Engl and. TEL. I\().... 3tx<$<2 " , f.11 . oo 4. NATIVE ARSENIC. Kusa Mine . Oau , Sar awak. SpeCi me n A: Gr eyish- bl ack...ndstone. C7x2", £4 . 7Sp 19. CASSI TERI TE. Dolcooth Mine CambornB, Cor nwo ll . Lus t rOUs dar1 br own s...SODDYITE . 1-txlt" , £.12. 00 34. CUPROSKLODOWSKITC Musonoi , KLltL\ngo, ZQi rG. SpecimGn A: OT'ight epple-...~iwrthDzite . 2ix2x17", £,26.00 35. DIOPTASE . t"d.ndouli , Ni ari, River, Congo. Ori ght emera ld- green sharp |
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