 | | Journal (issue) | | 2011 t Mineral Observer Mineral News from Russia and Beyond Mineralogical Alamanac volume 16, issue...5-900395-34-0 Published with support: Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Geological Society Musee...Mineral News from Russia and Beyond. Mineralogical Almanac, volume 16, issue 2, 2011. Moscow: Mineral-Almanac...News from Rubtsovskoye deposit and recent finds in Moscow region have included in the issue. Project Leader...crystals cluster, 3.0 x 1.8 cm. Rubtsovskoe, Altai, Russia. Specimen: Russian Minerals Ltd. Photo: Michael |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | granites in 1946, N. K. Yerdzhanov first noted the quartz-feldspar pegmatites with tourmaline, apatite, fluorspar...Lomonosov Moscow State University and has one of the finest systematic collections in Russia. ROCKS &...Building 1 Moscow, Russia 123423 VICTOR V. PONOMARENKO 12 Dovatora Street, Apt. 29 Moscow, Russia 119048...IGOR V. PEKOV Lomonosov Moscow State University Leninskiey Gory, GSP-2Moscow, Russia 119992 igorpekov@mtu-net...veinlike pegmatites, conformable pegmatites, and quartz-dominated bodies; the most widespread are the first |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Approach to the Resolution of Gemological Problems of Quartz and Its Colored Varieties O. V. Balitskaya Presented...1134/S1028334X08060299 At present, in addition to natural quartz and its colored varieties, their synthetic analogs...and colored quartz. Exceptions are only green “amethyst,” radiation citrine, and quartz with decorative...such as blue cobalt-bearing quartz, yellow-green and yellowgreen-violet quartz, and Cu-bearing aventurine...synthesize polycrystalline aggregates similar to gangue quartz and chalcedonylike formations. However, it is not |  | | Journal (issue) | | steve@collectorsedge.com www.collectorsedge.com Subpolar Urals, Russia. Photo Nest 15.2 cm. Pu Mess Mineralogical Almanac...Lomonosov Moscow State University Russian Geological Society Mineral Observer. Mineral News from Russia and...Mineralogical Almanac, volume 19, issue 1, 2014. Moscow: Mineral—Almanac Ltd. 88 pages, 262 illustrations...show reports cover autumn Shows in Denver, Munich, Moscow and Saint—Peterburg. Our Personalities in Mineralogy...mine, Saranovskoye deposit, Perm' region, Urals, Russia. Specimen: Nazarovs. Photo: Michael B. Leybov. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | microblock with its system of Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991 Russia *e-mail: ernstspiridon@gmail...effect. A good example is splitting and twisting of quartz in crystal-bearing Alpine veins in the circumpolar...neither bitumoides nor twisted rock crystals and smoky quartz crystals. In the other ones, the fluid contained...with well-developed twisted rock crystals and smoky quartz crystals. It is evident that the natural manifestation...Mineralogy (Joint Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, 1936) [in Russian]. 2. D. P. Grigor’ev and A. |  | | Journal (issue) | | 5-900395-55-3 Published with support: Lomonosov Moscow State University; Russian Geological Society Mineral...Mineralogical Almanac, volume 24, issue 3, 2019. Moscow: Mineral-Almanac Ltd. 96 pages, 240 illustrations...Kazan University, one of the oldest museums in Russia. Yurgenson, a famous mineralogist, studied in this...Nikolae-Maximilianovskaya pit, Southern Urals, Russia. Stuckenberg Geological Museum of Kazan Federal...unrivaled size 22 x 22 cm. Nizhnaya Tunguska River, Russia. Stuckenberg Geological Museum of Kazan Federal |  | | Report (issue) | | The Land of Topaz DIETMAR SCHWARZ 68. Topaz from Russia VALENTINA I. POPOVA & VLADIMIR A. POPOV 79. The...the term "topaz" in reference to the olivines, quartz, and other Topaz crystals can be extraordinarily...gold-color quartz ("citrine") is often labeled "topaz quartz" and brown, smoky quartz is sold as "smoky topaz...topaz originally referred to rare pink topaz from Russia (see page 68) that was coveted by the nineteenth...Fossil specimen, Scovil photo Middle left: Topaz and quartz, 2.7 cm tall; Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, Brazil; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, mineral@fmm.ru A brief history of the Ekaterinburg...photos, 20 references The Urals Stone Belt of Russia, extending for thousands kilometers, was the first...mountain (Semenov, 2001). The early 18th century, Russia was affirmed as a mighty empire that demanded the...ornamental materials that were practically unknown in Russia at the beginning of the century. The Revel' granite...crystal, amethyst, smoky quartz, aquamarine, beryl, tourmaline, and topaz were known in Russia, mostly in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Chikoy, Transbaikalia, Eastern Siberian Region, Russia .................................................(Theater) Rubellite, 25.5 cm Malkhan pegmatite field, Russia Rudolf Watzl Freistadt, Austria Visit our website...Chikoy, Transbaikalia, Eastern Siberian Region, Russia Jindr=ich Kynický,1 Jan Kynický,2 Bryan Lees,3...of gemgrade and specimen-quality tourmaline in Russia. Since their discovery in the 1980s, the Malkhan...wonderfully large crystals of wine-red tourmaline with smoky quartz and cleavelandite that rival the great historical |  | | Journal (issue) | | Peninsula, Russia Igor V. Pekov & Anna G. Turchkova Dept. of Mineralogy, Moscow State University Moscow, Russia...located in southwestern part of the Kola Peninsula (Russia), about 40 km south-west of famous Khibiny alkaline...fergusonite-(Y) gadolinite-(Y) Color black to smoky brown-black brownish, rarely black greenish black...evident that they had already been dug out. The smoky quartz crystals were taken and then they were filled...microcline crystals. Some places however had smoky quartz and other minerals littering small areas on |  | | Journal (issue) | | “imitation controlled substance” was actually tiny quartz crystals (probably “Herkimer diamonds”) given to...tourmaline, axinite and quartz; the Collier Creek mine in Arkansas for quartz and wavellite; and the Black...1988 in Harris Park, Colorado for amazonite, smoky quartz and topaz. At first sharing booth space with...in Cooper Canyon in Riverside County; Japan-law quartz twins near Patagonia, Arizona; amethyst in the...the Kingston Mountains, California; and quartz scepters on Peterson Mountain, Nevada. A dedicated field |  | | Report (issue) | | Simmons and Alexander Falster Page 49 Gem Beryl from Russia and Ukraine Peter Lyckberg Friedrich August Breithaupt's...phosphate type pegmatites, beryl is associated with quartz, microcline, albite, muscovite, biotite, ferrocolumbite...Alpine and hydrothermal veins, it is found with quartz and feldspar. In topaz rhyolites where red beryl...beryl is found, topaz, high-temperature quartz, and bixbyite are common associates of beryl. Alteration...2.87 1 (50) A bove: Beryl, topaz, a/bite, and quartz; 15 cm from the Shigar Valley, Skardu district |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2011, I was fortunate to be able to travel to Moscow, Russia, three times, and during these trips I visited...at the number and the quality of the museums in Moscow, both public and private. The following is a description...England jolyon@mindat.org Mineral Museums of Moscow Figure 1. Entrance to the Fersman Mineralogical...and Curator Dmitry Belakovskiy discussing a large quartz specimen at the Fersman Museum. about 12,000 are...Mineralogical Museum Address: Leninskiy Prospect 18-2, Moscow 119071 Hours: Wednesday to Sunday 11 a.m.–5 p |  | Zagorsky, Victor Y., Peretyazhko, Igor S., Sapozhnikov, Anatoliy N., Zhukhlistov, Anatoliy P., Zvyagin, Boris B. (2003) Borocookeite, a new member of the chlorite group from the Malkhan gem tourmaline deposit, Central Transbaikalia, Russia. American Mineralogist, 88 (5) 830-836 doi:10.2138/am-2003-5-611 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gem tourmaline deposit, Central Transbaikalia, Russia VICTOR Y. ZAGORSKY,1,* IGOR S. PERETYAZHKO,1 ANATOLIY...Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Science, Irkutsk, Russia Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography... and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow ABSTRACT Borocookeite, ideally Li1+3xAl4–x(BSi3)O10(OH...tourmaline deposit, Chikoy district, Chita oblast, Russia. Borocookeite proper, as well as boron-rich cookeite...thin crusts and snow-like coatings on crystals of quartz, tourmaline, and feldspars from miarolitic cavities |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Aluminum and Germanium Paramagnetic Centers in Vein Quartz and Rock Crystals from the Subpolar Urals E. N...Syktyvkar, 167982 Russia Received August 18, 2006 Abstract—The major economic types of vein quartz and rock crystals...studied using electron paramagnetic resonance. Quartz is characterized by widely variable concentrations...concentrations increase from older to younger generations of quartz. The lowest content of aluminum and germanium paramagnetic...granulated and primary fine-grained quartz; in coarse-grained quartz and rock crystals, the content is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | K-feldspar rims, perfectly faced dipyramids of smoky quartz, and sporadic translucent topaz crystals with...groundmass consists of uniformly distributed isometric quartz grains (20–30 µm) and tabular albite crystals (30–80...microporous spots of the groundmass, while microlites of quartz Ongonite is a subvolcanic analogue of rare metal...of Sciences, ul. Favorskogo 1a, Irkutsk, 664033 Russia; e-mail: pgmigor@igc.irk.ru 315 316 PERETYAZHKO...ingrowths in the fluoritic phase. In aphyric rocks, smoky quartz and sanidine phenocrysts are scarce. In some |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ions on Al and Ti Isomorphism in Quartz L. T. Rakov Fedorovskii All-Russia Institute of Mineral Resources...Resources (VIMS), Staromonetnyi per. 31, Moscow, 109017 Russia; e-mail: rakovlt@mail.ru Received February 7,...between the concentrations of structural Al and Li in quartz was identified in [1] using nuclear paramagnetic...isomorphous alkaline metals are distributed in quartz. We arrived at this conclusion based on studying...concentrations of isomorphous Al and Ti admixtures in quartz on the proportions of concentrations of the Li+ |  | | Journal (issue) | | Spruce claims in Washington, digging for pyrite and quartz specimens. According to Sandy Ludlam, the project...years and produced many outstanding specimens of quartz and pyrite, separately and in combination. John...in a 1978 article for the Mineralogical Record: “Quartz and pyrite from King County, Washington.” Because...Mineralogical Record. In 1991, John heard that smoky quartz had been found on Sierra Blanca Peak in New...John and his sons ever collected is a 900-pound quartz cluster from Herkimer, New York that the Smithsonian’s |  | | Journal (issue) | | and club member, Art Reese, begin collecting smoky quartz, amazonite, and topaz at Glen Cove on Pikes...Stoneham, Colorado; 3) and a variety of amazonite, smoky quartz, goethite, fluorite, and topaz from a number...the white albite, and a few were found with smoky quartz. At the time area near Edlo, between Woodland...crystal groups ever found, in addition to Albite, Smoky Quartz, Goethite, Fluorite, and many rare species all...and coming to you from an unexpected friend in Russia. There is a really great story behind Jack's most |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Russian Academy of Scieiiccs 18-2 Leninski Prospect Moscow, Kussia 11 7071 mgen@minmuz.msk.su photos \qj Miclzmel...Ernbassg of the Mineral Kiagdom in Russia T here is one place in Moscow where. over the span of 100 meters...place-along a wide greenbelt that parallels the Moscow River. It is marked by sloping, carved gullies...eighteenth century, when this place was chosen by Moscow aristo- crats for their country homes, i t has...capital began his invasion of city, Saint Petersburg, Russia. During this period near the mouth of the the mineralogical |  | | Report (issue) | | tourmaline, and in blebs between garnet, tourmaline, and quartz. Twinning: Fine scale visible in thin section....coarse-grained, non-graphic, miarolitic albite-microcline-quartz pegmatite veins cutting amphibolite and epidote-amphibolite...epidote-amphibolite facies slates and marbles. Association: Smoky quartz, Sc-bearing spessartine, Sc-bearing tusionite...Mineralogical Museum, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia (5235/1). References: (1) Pautov, L.A., M.A |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | larg est deposits of vein quartz in Russia. This deposit includes a quartz body with a size of 150 ×...ical structure of the deposit and mineralogy of quartz are considered by E.P. Mel’nikov et al. [1, 2]...formation, the authors of these studies related quartz of the Gora Khrustal’naya deposit to the socalled...of the authors crystallized from a monomin eral quartz melt at 1000°С and ≈10 kbar. Such high parameters...investigation of gas–liquid inclusions (GLI) in quartz of this unique deposit, which allow us to specify |  | Popov, V. K., Grebennikov, A. V., Kuzmin, Ya. V., Glascock, M. D., Nozdrachev, E. A., Budnitsky, S. Yu., Vorobey, I. E. (2017) Geochemistry of obsidian from Krasnoe Lake on the Chukchi Peninsula (Northeastern Siberia) Doklady Earth Sciences, 476 (1) 1099-1104 doi:10.1134/s1028334x17090288 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Vladivostok, 690022 Russia b Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok, Russia c Sobolev Institute...Sciences, Novosibirsk, 630090 Russia d Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russia e University of Missouri Research...Magadan Regional Museum of Local Lore, Magadan, Russia *e-mail: vladpov@fegi.ru tonic, volcanic, or thermokarst...occurrence of obsidian over the northeastern part of Russia [4, 5]. Thus, final conclusions may be obtained...archeological sites of the northeastern regions of Russia, which is, in fact, the subject of the present |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Universitetskaya nab. 7/9, St. Petersburg, 199034 Russia bInstitute for Mineralogy and Economic Geology...early stage gave rise to the crystallization of quartz–feldspar aggregates including K-feldspar block...garnet, danburite, hambergite, pollucite, and smoky quartz. Along with Li–Cs–B–F–Be-bearing minerals, some...pegmatite; (4) quartz core; (5) lepidolite– albite assemblage; (6) miaroles; (7) quartz metadiorite; (8)...colored stones. Graphic and fine-pegmatoid quartz–oligoclase and quartz–potassium–feldspar aggregates are the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Murzinka pegmatite field, Middle Urals, Russia ELLA V. SOKOL1,*, YURII V. SERYOTKIN1,2 and TARAS...Academy of Sciences, Koptyuga 3, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia *Corresponding author, e-mail: sokol@uiggm.nsc...State University, Pirogova 2, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia Abstract: Na-Li-Be-rich cordierite (0.16 Be, 0...granitic pegmatites in the Middle Ural Mts of Russia. The crystal-chemical formula of the cordierite...pegmatite field located in the Middle Ural Mts of Russia. Beryllium, though a trace element of low cosmogenic |
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