 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. The state of Iowa map; prepared by William Besse. IOW AITE Sioux County, Iowa BRUCE CAIRNCROSS ...1,000–1,500 feet below the surface in Sioux County, Iowa (Kohls and Rodda 1967); approximately thirty-five...finest examples known were collected at the Palabora mine, Limpopo Province, South Africa (Southwood and Cairncross...post-serpentinization chrysotile, dolomite, brucite, calcite, magnesite, and pyrite. Since the description of...formula of iowaite using crystals from the Palabora mine. Dr. Bruce Cairncross, a consulting editor of Rocks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Postcard view of the Waukon iron mine, Allamakee County, cia. 1912. John Taylor collection. ARTHUR...Unfortunately. with today’s environmental laws and mine and quarry regulations. the prolific collecting...HAROLD L. PRlOR P.O. Box 111 Columbus Junction, Iowa 52738 halprior@ louisacomm.net When we began this...too, could be cited with many other localities. Iowa contains the type locality for one mineral, iowaite...December 2014 Figure 2. Map of Iowa showing the counties. Courtesy Iowa Geological Survey. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BARITE FROM THE LINWOOD MINE Scott County, Iowa JARED T. FREIBURG Illinois State Geological Survey...MINERALS Figure 2. Map of eastern Iowa showing the Linwood mine northwest of the Mississippi River....collectors, the Linwood mine was previously best known for its exceptional calcite and marcasite, as...the world. Here, we review the geology of the Linwood mine and its relationship to the mineralogy, fluorescence...origin of barite. Mine History The Linwood mine is owned and operated by the Linwood Stone and Cement |  | | Report (issue) | | panting-dog days. Durangite, 2.7 cm, from the Barranca mine, Coneto de Comonfort, Durango, Mexico. Arkenstone...Budd photo. Durangite, 1.7 cm, from the Barranca mine, Coneto de Comonfort, Durango, Mexico. Arkenstone...see in the Mineralogical Record a brief report of mine from the new New York City Metro Show, which happened...the type locality for the species, the Barranca mine, Conete de Comonfort, Durango, Mexico. At this point...for this species. Barite, 4.7 cm, from the Muzo mine, Vasquez-Yacobi district, Boyaca Department, Colombia |  | | Journal (issue) | | & C. R. Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County, Iowa ............. 231 by P. L. Garvin...in the still open underground workings of the Gem mine. He encountered an open pocket containing well formed...conglomerate. The stories of these early discoveries and mine developments, some of which were conducted under...,,.•• MINE r •• •• ' ··, . TRANSVAAL e e e \ . ...deposits in the Transvaal Province. The Eersteling mine was the first deposit to be seriously exploited | | | Journal (issue) | | C. R. Anhaeusser Minerals of the Linwood mine, Scott County,Iowa ..................... 231 by P. L....in the still open underground workings of the Gem mine. He encountered an open pocket containing well formed...conglomerate. The stories of these early discoveries and mine de velopments, some of which were conducted under...examples 209 MESSINA \ / *• \ / EERSTELING MINE y • PETERSBURG \ k PHALABORWA ii / ■ • r...deposits in the Trans vaal Province. The Eersteling mine was the first deposit to be seriously exploited |  | Huizing, Terry E., Richards, R. Peter, Clifford, Janet H., Cook, Robert B. (2017) Connoisseur's Choice: Calcite from the American Midwest, Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Rocks & Minerals, 92 (1) 46-63 doi:10.1080/00357529.2017.1241690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | janet15cliford@gmail.com CALCITE from the American Midwest Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee ...minerals as barite, fluorite, galena, and sphalerite. Calcite crystals are classic components of Mississippi...the continent can boast the same diversity of calcite. Yet, connoisseurship of fine minerals is not just...may occur. With this in mind, we have nominated calcite from the interconnected Elmwood/Cumberland/Gordonsville...best calcite-producing localities in the world (see fig. 1). From a technical perspective, calcite is calcium |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Quartz (4.8 cm) from Middleville, Herkimer County, New York. Joel and Jason Baskin specimen. 22...in marl (6.7 cm) from the Ampliación a Victoria mine, Navajún, La Rioja, Spain. Chris and Agatha Galas...characteristic of hopper crystals from the Zapata mine, Santa Elena de Uairen, Bolivar, Venezuela. Keith...(3.4 cm) from the North Geronimo mine, Trigo Montains, LaPaz County, Arizona. Dick Morris specimen. ...tall) from Mill River, Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Don Windler specimen. Figure 6 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE CONCO MINE North Aurora Kane County Illinois JARED T. FREIBURG Illinois State Geological Survey...Illinois 61820 freiburg@illinois.edu Figure 2. Calcite with inclusions of marcasite and pyrite; the specimen...rakovajf@muohio.edu A discovery of exceptional calcite crystals, concentrically zoned with marcasite...made in the Chicago metropolitan area at the Conco mine, North Aurora. Crystals are found in massive solution...America, owner of the Conco mine, accepted a proposal from Saga Minerals, Inc. to mine the solution cavities |  | | Journal (issue) | | KRISTALLE Est.1971 Laguna Beach, California, USA • Tel: +1 949 494 5155 • Email: info@kristalle.com...371 by C. J. Stefano Featured Collection Pages Scott Rudolph Collection ...............................only): $139/one year (Canada) $231/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $325 for one year Subscription...Philip G. Rust (deceased) SENIOR FELLOWS Gold Level Scott A. Rudolph (2021) Paradise Woods (2019) Gail & Jim...Maria Fiske (2021) Dona and Kim Niederman (2021) Scott Werschky (2021) Noel De Dora (2021) Sean P. Sweeney |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | figure 2, center block figure 9 ------------[calcite, quartz] axis or by pairing on opposite sides...Specimen is 1.2 cm wide and is from the König David mine, Gallenbach valley, Wittichen, Black Forest, Germany...6 cm high and is from the Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Alex Schauss specimen, Jeff...13.4 cm high and is from the Sedalia mine, Salida, Chaffee County, Colorado. Colorado School of Mines...high and is from the Tarryall Mountains, Jefferson County, Colorado. Ian Merkel specimen, Jeff Scovil photo |  | | Journal (issue) | | $315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...(deceased) Salim Edde Daniel Trinchillo Lyda Hill Scott A. Rudolph Daniel J. Record Gail & Jim Spann Rob...level of the underground mine was refurbished to accommodate visitors, showing mine workings dating from...village of Almadenejos we find: The Vieja Concepción mine. Here it is possible to visit part of the historic...(dating from 1755 to 1757). The Nueva Concepción mine. The Baritel de San Carlos (San Carlos shaft house) |  | | Book | | mineral resources . However, a knowledge of the old mine workings is essential when planning for development...present district from Auchensail Quarry [342 798] (Scott et al. , 1 976) and Psilophyton has been found at...No. Ca% 15 Carbonate, (mixtures largely of calcite and dolomite, see Table 4 and Figure 4), occurs..... Calcite n = 5 CaC03 .. Calcite n = 14 FeC0 3 KINN ESSWOOD FORMATION CaCO 3 Calcite MgC0...mudstones. In addition to calcrete horizons, pale grey calcite mudstone (cementston�) occurs as lines of nodules |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have been found along the Cahaba River in Shelby County, Ala. The colors are gray with red veins, red and...abandoned diamond mine near Murfreesboro, Pike Co., Ark. Murfreesboro has the only diamond mine in the United...United States and though the mine is no longer in operation it has been "opened up" as a tourist attraction...close by, quartz crystals, of odd, ago at the same mine in Arkansas. Howard A. Millar, Manager, Crater of...millerite, one with pink dolomite and two with calcite for ourselves. The others will be for sale or trade |  | | Journal (issue) | | interest were: Stolzite (PbWO4) from Brandy Gill mine and Wulfenite (PbMoO4) from Poddy Gill. Generally...with a crude hexagonal outline - from the Carrock mine The very rare tsumebite from Roughton Gill. Pale-green...crystals of brochantite. Duftite from Brandy Gill Mine. Dull grey-green coloured crystals with acute terminations...pyromorphites from the Driggith and Roughton Gill mine tips, linarite from Red Gill and blocky yellow pyromorphite...the Carrock Mine tips and the intense blue-white fluorescent scheelite from inside the mine. Guided by |  | | Journal (issue) | | (a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Tucson Show, held in a quonset hut at the old Pima County Fair and Rodeo Grounds. I’ve known all of the great...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Devonian ages of Iowa, for minerals or fossils from other states. Amel Priest, Peru, Iowa. EXCHANGE. Tumbled...crystals (sphenoidal) in mountain leather and calcite. Trade for other minerals. Send list. George R... MINERALS OPALS, B R I L L I A N T COLORS—Direct f r o m mine, 15 for $ 5 . 0 0 . 10 ringsize cabochons (opal...B U T ' S A G A T E SHOP. R.R. # 6 , Muscatine, Iowa. 1 " x 1 " SPECIMENS A N D LARGER — Of the f o l... Galena, tiger eye, asbestos, calcite xls., double refractive calcite, carnotite, agate, satin spar, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sylacauga, Talladega Co., Ala. ARIZONA—The old Yuma mine, famous for its wonderful specimens of vanadinite...vanadinite and wulfenite, is located in Pima County, Ariz., about 15 miles N . W . of Tucson. Although abandoned...am sending some wulfenite xls from the old Yuma mine in the Tucson Mts. These xls range anywhere from...single xls. This mine quit working about 1920 and was mainly a gold, silver, and lead mine." ARKANSAS—Billy...fenced in. I managed, however, to get specimens of calcite, biotite, protovermiculite, perovskite, aegirite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimen of hexagonal and flat topped calcite, a rather rare type of calcite from N . H . That strike of tourmaline...reported as having discovered recently in Berks County, Pa., is 381 Downloaded by [JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY]...help comes from Mrs. Hilda Chance of Linwood, Pa., in Delaware County. She would like to duplicate a very...supply. W e revisited a very old locality in Chester County some weeks ago just to see if we still knew where...(Wavellite) mine which used to be quite near the famous Foote Mineral property. Chester County, Pa., is |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chocolate-brown crystalline Please Send Them In. calcite from the West End quarry, Inyo Co., Calif., and...of black, crystallized ferberite from the Conger Mine, near Nederland, Boulder Co., Colo. It is good to...in Georgia at the fo'lowing localities: Cherokee County —2V2 miles northeast of Ball Ground, 1 mi'e northwest...of Cherry Grove School; Fayette County—near Fayetteville; Fulton County—near College Park. (Georgia Mineral...dogtooth crystals of calcite occur in vugs in a dark gray fossiliferous limestone. Iowa—A. J. Alessi, 430 |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | “Mineral Galleries on Lester” to the neighborhood. Scott with the success of last year’s concert and party...private appointments Topaz, Cleavelandite Mokrush Mine, Russia Thomas Spann Photo 2 3 CONTENTS 06...written by Bryan Swoboda. 12 Väyrynenite. Lolu Dahku mine, Roundu Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan...specimens from the mim museum Stibiotantalite. Urandu mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan... James Elliott photo 14 Malachite. Kalukuluku mine, Lubumbashi, Katanga, D.R. Congo. 60 x 48 x 26 cm |  | | Journal (volume) | | accepted county the of divisions artificial As the Watsonian vice-counties were preserved the county, a...obtained from Lincoln. Mr. A. Smith, f.l.s., the County Museum, '*' If plant ecology may be defined...special work. own It is soils, drift maps of this county-and out of the 50 found on the been worked out... for instance, the the year Herbarium, take county Skivheck Hundred This printed list, a which...except are fortified by the original specimens. county Herbarium, and to the my own workers, the present |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...crystal, 10.5 cm, with quartz, from the Yaogangxian mine, Hunan, China. Private collection; Jeff Scovil photo...well before the moisture and dust of an operating mine had had time to exert their destructive influences...the Karnasurt mine. On the following day, Nickolay Pavlov, chief geologist of the mine, and geologist...e zone is seen to extend into the bottom of the mine workings (i.e. its thickness is more than 1.5 meters) |  | | Journal (issue) | | r t. c. '5 I() d ,. At the north end of Linwood, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio, a ridge-like remnant...fee t in diameter , of fine sand cemented with calcite and limonite. These patches show kettle or trough-like...protection it would rush through, lea,1 ing behind no calcite as binding material. In all these nu111erous blocks...openings between pebbles were then deposited fihus of calcite in the forn1 of flat <·oucenh·ic arches, generally...Tlle a rches are composed of acicular crystals of calcite, botb top and bottom surfaces of the arches presenting |  | | Journal (issue) | | & J. N. Alves Minerals of the Black Pine mine, Granite County, Montana .................................and attended by mining industry representatives, mine owners, representatives from all o f Vermont’s mineralogical...California mineral collector, specializing in San Diego County and Baja California spec imens through purchase...largest land transactions in the history of San Diego county, and moved to the Hi Hope Ranch near Oceanside...building up the M useum ’s collection of the San Diego County minerals. The Museum recently reopened its remodeled |
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Linwood Mine, Buffalo, Scott County, Iowa, USA