 | | Report (issue) | | Chief Geologist i FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian...have made them sound financial investments. The emerald, considered by many to be the most beautiful of...the largest emerald crystal in North America — 1,438 carats. The most expensive cut emerald also comes...North Carolina. This is the 15.14 carat Carolina Emerald owned by Tiffany f, Company of New York and valued...valued at $100,000. First thought to be emerald but later identified as a chromium spodumene, the mineral | | | Report (issue) | | AND TORBERNITE THULITE AND PYRITE MONAZITE EMERALD CUPRITE SMOKY QUARTZ ZIRCON TORBERNITE ~/...Allen, Chief Geologist FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian...have made them sound financial investments. The emerald, considered by many to be the most beautiful of...the largest emerald crystal in North America -- 1,438 carats. The most expensive cut emerald also comes...North Carolina. This is the 13.14 carat Carolina Emerald owned by Tiffany valued at $100,000. & Company |  | | Book | | Dietrich Klemm Gold and Gold Mining in Ancient Egypt and Nubia Geoarchaeology of the Ancient Gold Mining...a joint project with the University of Assiut, Egypt, our attention was drawn to this aborted program...and ascribing them to the chronologies of Ancient Egypt and Nubia • Investigating the geology of ore deposits...out to spread far beyond the southern borders of Egypt and well into the Nubian territories of NE Sudan...which gold quartz ores previously collected from wadi sediments had been processed in the same way as |  | | Journal (issue) | | minerals G eology M useum Colorado School o f Mines Curator: Virginia A. Mast Tel: (303) 273-3823 G...& gems Arizona-Sonora N ew M exico Bureau o f Mines & Mineral Resources— Desert M useum Collections...Bjork Tel: (605) 394-2467 South D akota School o f Mines & Technology 501 E. St. Joseph Street R ap id City...inerals Todd Schowalter Fossils Plus H allelujah Mines Jeff Scovil Photography Jeff & G loria's M inerals...mineralogical and mining literature revealed the following mines and towns that fit these variants: Ruda, south-southeast |  | | Book | | FRANCE; Curator, School of Mines, Paris %e F. HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, EAST GERMANY...SCHUBNEL, Pro- Ye JOHN fessor and author, School of Mines, Paris, FRANCE SINKANKAS, author and collector...scorodite (dark blue), and vanadinite (dark red)—lose much of their attractiveness when reproduced...to include minerals mined in Canada, Mozambique, Egypt, Ecuador, and Alaska, but selection was by quality...localities: the Egyptians were working gem and gold mines on the Upper Nile River, the Greeks were busy with | | | Book | | FRANCE; Curator, School of Mines, Paris 4 F. HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, EAST GERMANY...H. J. SCHUBNEL, Professor and author, School of Mines, Paris, FRANCE ¥& JOHN SINKANKAS, author and collector...green), scorodite (dark blue), and vanadinite (dark red)—lose much of their attractiveness when reproduced...to include minerals mined in Canada, Mozambique, Egypt, Ecuador, and Alaska, but selection was by quality...localities: the Egyptians were working gem and gold mines on the Upper Nile River, the Greeks were busy with |  | | Book | | of thy making: they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and...multiple colors in the same specimen including white, red, orange, purple, pink, blue and more. Above: Colorful...Colorful, banded agate from California. Left: Brown, red and orange agate from Australia. Right: Colorful...Mexico. Color each band a different color (blue, red, orange, white, brown, yellow). Amber And I looked...can also be white, brown, black, pale yellow, deep red and very rarely, blue. The amber mentioned in the | | | Book | | FRANCE; Curator, School of Mines, Paris ^ F* HOFMANN, Professor, School of Mines, Freiberg, east Germany...j. schubnel, Pro fessor and author, School of Mines, Paris, FRANCE ^ JOHN sinkankas, author and collector...green), scorodite (dark blue), and vanadinite (dark red)—lose much of their attractiveness when reproduced...to include minerals mined in Canada, Mozambique, Egypt, Ecuador, and Alaska, but selection was by quality...localities: the Egyptians were working gem and gold mines on the Upper Nile River, the Greeks were busy with |  | | Journal (issue) | | Pisciotta The Wadi Natrun evaporite deposits, Western Desert, Buhayara Governate, Egypt ................Ohio, in the northern Michigan iron and copper mines, at Magnet Cove in Arkansas, and at various other...Kjellman2 Jörgen Langhof 3 The ancient Nordmark mines in the Bergslagen District of south-central Sweden...15 mining fields, each containing several iron mines, have been worked there over the centuries. The...may have been widespread in the various Nordmark mines (Flink, 1885, 1914). 1 The Mineralogical Record |  | | Book | | particularly in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia, North America, and China. Many of these...materials excavated in Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, China, and North America. The word “lithology”... Gerzean period, Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . 72 4.4 Chert Levallois core from Wadi Barramiya, Egyptian...Edfu, Upper Egypt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 4.7 Predynastic Agate blade from Wadi Bezeh, Egyptian...List of Figures Predynastic quartz blade from Wadi Abu Wasil, Egyptian Eastern Desert . . . . . . . |  | | Book | | EMERALD and OTHER BERYLS by JOHN SINKANKAS This is Beryls jewelers, gists, geologists, earth ...sciences, yet eminently facet and widely a Emerald historians, gemological Sinkankas, the permanent...metal beryllium. with Beginning author traces emerald—from its less ite, role of history’s pendix...Unmatched third is knowledge from author one emerald cutting and of exotic composition, physical...mineralogical once events. languages for beryl emerald logical to and part, Sinkankas explores and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | was first discovered and mined at Hid denite. Emeralds have been found in at least three localities;...the present time, the 84 ROCKS AND MINERALS Emerald Valley mine is open to the public for a collecting...are plowed several times a year and may yield emerald, hiddenite, rutile, and quartz crystals. The following...mineral collecting sites in Alexander County: 1) Emerald, rutilated quartz, smoky quartz, and rose quartz...of SR 1492. 2) Emerald, aquamarine beryl, rose quartz, and rutile occur at the Emerald Valley mine, which |  | | Book | | "Patricia Emerald," Colombia, 629 carats, 6.6 cm ( I ½ in.) high. Right: The "Schettler Emerald." See page...Gemstone crystals including tourmaline, aquamarine, emerald, morganite, heliodor, topaz, kunzite, spodumenc..."semiprecious" have been used to separate diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and sapphires from all other gems, but...or crystal shape. For exarnple, ruby is Lhe blood-red variety of corundum as well as the nan1e of the gem...stones were eventually recovered, but a number of emeralds and all of the diamonds were never returned-a |  | | Book | | Silicates Topaz Jade Jasper falls Ruby and sapphire Emerald Feldspars Mineraloids Amber Opal Decorative stones...fossils and beautiful shells. Growing up by the sea in Wales, I was fascinated by the things that the...shells. The hi1ls around were dotted with lead mines, and I was obsessed with the idea of finding gold...rocks), the formation of sediments in places like the sea floor (sedimentary rocks), and changes in form brought...Sediments transported as the rock cycle. to lhe sea build up inlo layers on the edges of the continems |  | | Journal (issue) | | the 1980s Richard T Liddicoat FEATURE ARTICLES Emerald and Gold Treasures of the Spanish Galleon Nuestra...carats of rough and jewel-set emeralds. This rosary was one of the many emerald treasurers b~oughtup from...their colleagues have examined several of the emerald and gold treasures recovered from the shipwreck;...cleavages in diamond, the appearance of new synthetic emeralds and corundum, and the unprecedented commercial...Editorial GEMS &. GEMOLOGY Winter 1989 195 EMERALD AND GOLD TREASURES OF THE SPANISH GALLEON NUESTRA |  | | Book | | tangled mass of fine, blackishgreen needles with shiny red grains between them. The freshly fractured surface...name to you. The green needles are hornblende, the red grains are nothing else but garnets, the same 'garnet'...found and smelted. Remains of Bronze Age copper mines can be found, for instance, in various parts of...choice of three colors: black, red and yellowish-brown. Two of these, red and yellowish-brown, were supplied... i~ also known as sapphire and ruby, beryl as emerald and aquamarine, and quartz has dozens of varietal |  | | Book | | ABOVE A selection of cut sapphires from Australian mines; sapphires are Australia's most profitable crystal...happens when the inlet or outlet of an inland lake or sea is altered by geological uplift and the resulting...wavelengths; these produce the colours of the spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet)...hollow out the back of deep coloured stones, such as red almandine garnet, for the opposite effect. Artificial...effect to natural light; it enhances the beauty of emeralds and rubies, but diminishes the appeal of sapphires |  | | Book (volume) | | gravel pit to SWagate. FURNAS COUNTY BEAVER CITY, red and green material in the Niobrara chalk depositchert...riversagate, chalcedony, jasper, silicified wood. RED WILLOW COUNTY McCOOK, in Republican R. basin as far...Pine Co. after 1868. The enormously rich Silver mines of Virginia City and later Aurora (in present day...( 25 mi. SE of Lovelock in Pershing Co.), area minesIron and Mercury minerals; far NW part of Co....Frenchman on US 50): NW to old camp of Buena Vista, mines in Triassic sedimentaries cut by granite intrusivesIron |  | | Book (volume) | | rising only to a altitude of 900 to 1,000 feet above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois...COUNTY CAVE-IN ROCK: c area Fluorspar mines, and d NW 4½ mi., mines⎯Barite, Calcite, Cerussite, Chalcopyrite...area⎯Aragonite (fluorescent) ROSICLARE: c area mines, especially Ozark Mahoning mine⎯Calcite crystals...the Empire and Fairview mines⎯Fluorite, Galena, Pyrite; e E, numerous mines⎯Cerussite, Chalcopyrite,...dumps⎯Fluorite crystals; g Fairview Landing, area mines⎯Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite |  | | Book (volume) | | rising only to a altitude of 900 to 1,000 feet above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois...COUNTY CAVE-IN ROCK: c area Fluorspar mines, and d NW 4½ mi., mines⎯Barite, Calcite, Cerussite, Chalcopyrite...area⎯Aragonite (fluorescent) ROSICLARE: c area mines, especially Ozark Mahoning mine⎯Calcite crystals...the Empire and Fairview mines⎯Fluorite, Galena, Pyrite; e E, numerous mines⎯Cerussite, Chalcopyrite,...dumps⎯Fluorite crystals; g Fairview Landing, area mines⎯Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite |  | | Book (edition) | | result of fire and pressure, temperature changes, sea wave or current and the fickle fingers of the storm...marl or the glowing crystals we term ruby and emerald and opal, are examples, respectively, of the types...greywacke pebbles were born in the bed of an ancient sea; a rounded limestone is the cemetery of marine culae...beauty, only a brown, dusty pebble. Green-fire emeralds, the costliest objects known, were dug from caves...by boring and the bulldozer. Though diamond and emerald fields evade search, though bitumen, graph ite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | everybody's satisfaction, so that a vast part of the sea has still to be considered as an area of scientific...heliodor, goshenite, morganite, rosterite, bixbite, emerald Berzelianite Bicchulite Bikitaite (continued on...Ceriopyrochlore Cerite Cerussite Chabazite-(Ca) Chalcedony Chalcocite Chalcomenite Chalcophanite Chalcopyrite Chalcostibite...Al2O3 into ruby, displaying different shades of red, and Fe and Ti added to this Al oxide convert corundum...gemstones s.s. (diamond, precious corundum, topaz and emerald), semiprecious stones or gemstones s.l. down to | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | everybody's satisfaction, so that a vast part of the sea has still to be considered as an area of scientific...heliodor, goshenite, morganite, rosterite, bixbite, emerald Berzelianite Bicchulite Bikitaite (continued on...Ceriopyrochlore Cerite Cerussite Chabazite-(Ca) Chalcedony Chalcocite Chalcomenite Chalcophanite Chalcopyrite Chalcostibite...Al2O3 into ruby, displaying different shades of red, and Fe and Ti added to this Al oxide convert corundum...gemstones s.s. (diamond, precious corundum, topaz and emerald), semiprecious stones or gemstones s.l. down to |  | | Journal (issue) | | issue 2, 2009 I Vladimir I. Zhemakov URAL EMERALD MINES (Izumrudnye Kopi): Notes on Mineralogy Mineralogical...Geological Society The Mineralogy Museum of Ecole des Mines de Paris, France FAMOUS MINERAL LOCAUTIES SERIES...SERIES Vladimir Ivanovich Zhernakov Ural Emerald Mines: Notes on Mineralogy. Mineralogical Almanac , volume...current issue dwells on Mineralogy of Ural Emerald Mines: a deposit which Russain geologists and mineralogists...belongs to authors, 2009 0 Front Cover Photo Emerald President. 13.6 x 9.0 x 7.7 cm, weight 1172 g. |  | | Report (issue) | | five years ago by producing some odd-looking chalcocite/djurleite/chalcopyrite specimens from a single...crystals, how about some super examples of the famous red beryl from the Wah Wah Mountains of Utah? The Utahbased...(lehighminerals.com) has a selection of exquisite red beryl specimens which, though hardly “new”—the update...loose, doubly terminated, partially gemmy, deep red 1.9-cm crystal with spots of adhering rhyolite is...is just about as nice a specimen of Utah red beryl as you could ask for, priced at $4500. But if you want |
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