 | | 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...omitted, how is it possible to select two golds, two silvers, two rhodochrosites, and two siderites? When the...occurred with a white mineral such as quartz or calcite. 5. Color. The shade, hue, and intensity of a...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 ^ 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...omitted, how is it possible to select two golds, two silvers, two rhodochrosites, and two siderites? When the...occurred with a white mineral such as quartz or calcite. 8 J 5. Color. The shade, hue, and intensity...localities: the Egyptians were working gem and gold mines on the Upper Nile River, the Greeks were busy with |  | | Book | | You will be told that these are fragments of calcite crystals. Three minerals will be mentioned to you...not always a rock. On the other hand, gold and silver, found pure or in the 'native' state, are indeed...consisting (apart from impurities) only of the mineral calcite. Granite is the bestknown example of a rock consisting...found and smelted. Remains of Bronze Age copper mines can be found, for instance, in various parts of...derives its name from the saltmining district of Hallstatt in Upper Austria, where many prehistoric finds have |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Famous mineral localities: Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria ...........................................6 cm, from the Stefanie mine at Bleiberg, Carinthia, Austria. Photo by Werner Lieber. For a detailed review...1 famous mineral localities: Bleiberg Carinthia, Austria Gerhard Niedermayr* Department of Mineralogy-Petrology...History Museum of Vienna Burgring 7, A-1014 Vienna, Austria leiberg is among the most famous o f European...Bleiberg is located in southern Austria, in the province of Karn;n (Carinthia), just a few kilometers north |  | | Book | | organic origin; the most prominent example is CaC03, calcite. The triangular C03 group gives threefold symmetry...‘perfect’ is used for -34- Twinned crystals Calcite Cassiterite Chrysoberyl Albite -35- cleavage...Topaz 7 Quartz 6 Feldspar 5 Apatite 4 Fluorite 3 Calcite 2 Gypsum 1 Talc All that the scale tells us is...compound with two components, such as sodium chloride, silver sulphide. When two valence states exist for the...pressure conditions appropriate for growth. Quartz, calcite, zeolites and clay minerals grow Vanadinite (Morocco) |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mateo, CA) Thomas N. McKee, Arizona Turquoise and Silver (Scottsdale, AZ) John C. Medici (Dublin, OH) Frank...lous photos of the abandoned Japanese stibnite mines,” he said to me when I visited him in Fallbrook;...demonstrates the value of personal encounters with the mines and the miners. American Sapphire mine, Yogo Gulch...Monster mine, Prince of Wales Is., Alaska Joplin District, Joplin, Missouri Coleman mine, Jessieville, Arkansas...mine, Hiddenite, North Carolina Franklin/Sterling mines, Franklin, New Jersey Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine |  | | Journal (issue) | | by B. P. Kent & B. Butkowski Mineralogy of the calcite-fluorite veins near Long Lake, New Y o r k ......However, if you have a special Afghanistan, Nuristan mines Arizona, Blue Ball mine Castle Dome dist. Fat Jack...Geronimo mine Purple Passion mine Red Cloud mine Silver District Tonopah-Belmont mine Western Union mine Arkansas...mine Broken Hill mines Burra Burra mine Gold localities Kingsgate mines Moonta district Mount Bonnie mine...Island Tasmanian mines Wallaroo district Widgiemooltha Austria, Annaberg dist. Bleiberg mines Knappenwand |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on the structure, chemistry, and texture of wire silver for a master’s of science degree at Miami University...ander210@miamioh.edu rakovajf@miamioh.edu & Wire Silver Kongsberg, Norway Wire Gold Ground Hog Mine, Gilman...Gilman, Colorado S ince the dawn of civilization, silver and gold have been treasured for their surpassing...coins are Figure 1. Section cut through a wire silver from Kazakhstan shows roughly equigranular texture...alloy of silver and gold (Wallace 1987). Throughout history and around the globe, gold and silver have been |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology S ilver was one of the first metals to silver has the highest-known reflectivity of visible light...used by humans, with records Silver crystallizes in the isometof silver mines dating back at least six ric...the When pure, the mineral is simply elemental silver (Ag). However, it Andean mineral theme of the 2003...excepof Au and Hg and, less commonly, tional Peruvian silver has been selected as this issue’s Connoisseur’s...Choice. Figure 1. An unusually aesthetic 8.3-cm silver As, Sb, Bi, Pt, and Cu in solid soluAdditional | | | Journal (issue) | | CA) Thomas N. McKee, Ari-1:.ona Turquoise and Silver (Scottsdale, AZ) John C. Medici (Dublin, OH) Fran...lous photos of the abandoned Japane e stibnite mines." he said 10 me when I visited him in Fallbrook:...demonstrate the value of personal encounters with the mines and the miners. American Sapphire mine, Yoga Gulch...Monster mine, Prince of Wales Is., Alaska Joplin District, Joplin. Missouri Coleman mine, Jessieville. Arkansas...mine, Hiddenite. Nonh Carolina Franklin/Sterling mines, Frartklin. New Jersey Pulsifer quarry, Auburn |  | | Journal (issue) | | (“Hat Yai”) mine near Tham Thalu, Bannang Sata District, Yala Province, Thailand .......................FineMineral.com NATIVE SILVER WITH PYRRHOTITE AND CALCITE Kongsberg Silver Mines, Kongsberg, Buskerud,...supplement showing many details of the Berezovsk mining district, the subject of the July–August 2016 issue. We...occurrences in the larger Ekaterinberg district (including the Berezovsk district). Figure 26. The gold mining...of the Berezovsk mines. Figure 30. Overview of gold occurrences in the Mias district, southern Urals. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mine, Elsa, Yukon Territory, Canada T he ruby silvers are certainly some of the most collectible of all...mineral species, and the two most familiar ruby silvers, proustite and pyrargyrite, have been covered previously...informal family is polybasite, a relatively common silver ore mineral that is rare as fine specimens. Although...essentially a silver antimony sulfide in which copper occurs in substitution for silver in amounts up...(Ag,Cu)16(As,Sb)2S11. Pseudomorphs of stephanite, silver, pyrite, and marcasite after polybasite have been |  | | Book (volume) | | Limits and Rocks 5 Kingdom .... 7 Form of Silver Native Minerals. site and Crystal-forms Combinations...90. dite 87. 87 Ores Silver and Proustite of 86. Iridosmine silver 9 Crystals The 85 86... 371 371. Nitre 373. 374 Fluor-spar 377 Calcite Aragonite 379 Dolomite 393. Barytes 378 Groups...365. Boron the 360. Epidote the 343. 344 Calcite and ol Agalmatolite Ilvaite 250 Rock-crystal...3a. 4. of Double in refraction group of Calcite. 24. of Interference-figures Bismuth-ores and |  | | Journal (issue) | | P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto The Messina mining district, South A frica .................................Cairncross Famous mineral localities: The Idria mines, Slovenia, Yugoslavia ............................201 by P. Bancroft, /. Car, M. Zorz & G. Kobler Silver minerals of the Trebsko deposit, Pribram orefield...mined or its silver value except for Mr. Clinton’s assay results of 300 ounces of silver per ton. From...these small, silver-bearing deposits was made economical only by relatively high silver prices which |  | | Journal (issue) | | .3 by W. E. Wilson The Keweenaw County Fissure Mines...................................................presents a well-illustrated overview of the copper mines, minerals and history of Michigan’s famous Keweenaw...gathered photos of many of the finest copper and silver specimens known. The cover photo depicts the incredible...by the Cliff, Central, Copper Falls and Phoenix mines. An 1874 article in the Detroit Free Press listed...total production of all Keweenaw County copper mines for that year, and these four fissure veins top |  | | Journal (issue) | | Slovenia, Olaf Medenback Yugoslavia (top); and silver Eric Offermann from the Anton mine, Wieden, West...from the including photocopying —without emerald mines on the written permission from the Takowaja River...Eastern Bloc tend to favor minerals from local mines. Because most o f the best crystals from the Harz...very old. Celtic tribes first worked the gold, silver, lead, copper and zinc orebodies which surfaced...identifies Banska Stiavnica as the oldest mining district in all of Czechoslovakia. Early miners built homes |  | | Report (issue) | | 15 of these specimens to the 2019 Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines Show in June, and maybe a dozen dealers had the...golden orange-yellow, twinned, silkily lustrous calcite from the Roosevelt Avenue quarry (also called the...York, Pennsylvania. This beautiful brute of a calcite specimen was collected ca. 1992 by famous Pennsylvania...there are more, almost as good, on his site. Calcite, 10 cm, from the Roosevelt Avenue quarry, York...workings being left over from ancient mining for silver, especially during the Greek “golden age” of the |  | | Report (issue) | | and a regular setter-upper at the Ste.-Marie-aux-Mines and Munich shows, has started a website, Mintreasure...Vale das Gatas mine group, Sabroda, Vila Real district, Norte Region, Portugal. Fabre Minerals specimen...but from several mines in the Vale das Gatas mine group, Sabrosa, Vila Real district, Norte Region. These...appear in supporting roles. The Vale das Gatas district is the subject of an article by Pedro Alves in... Mimetite, 3.5 cm, from the Gowd mine, Anarak district, Isfahan Province, Iran. Fabre Minerals specimen; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral collector, silver and Kongsberg are synonymous, and the place to see the best silver specimens is the...fantastic specimens of native silver mined over many centuries from the great silver deposits of Kongsberg,...grand old silver mine. Explore the History The name Kongsberg has been associated with fine silver for centuries...centuries. Mines in the Kongsberg area, about 80 kilometers west of Oslo, produced more than 1,350 metric...metric tons of silver from the beginning of production in about 1623 until the last mine closed in 1956 |  | | Journal (issue) | | against an estimate of $35-50. He also purchased five silver specimens for a total of $160. The grand total...five mineral specimens. JO Figure 6. Silver crystals in calcite, 9.5 cm, from Batopilas, Mexico. The...the collection." Figure 7. Wire silver, 4.29 cm, one of 16 silver specimens from Mineral Park, Arizona...mineral specimens, including 372 golds and 212 silvers . There were also 105 gemstones, 98 fossils and...Californian, from many different mines and prospects (see Table 1). His silvers included over a hundred specimens |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Country Eleventh in a series of articles on the mines and minerals of Michigan’s Copper Country Figure...shoreline shift with Lake Superior storms, exposing calcite/quartz veins in the Copper Harbor Conglomerate...terminated scalenohedral calcite crystals on crystallized quartz. The longest calcite crystal is 7.9 cm and...and was collected from the calcite/quartz vein by Bob Williams in July 1975. Pam and Jerry Hall specimen...Superior Copper District Figure 3. A generalized map of the Michigan copper district showing the location |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Australia’s best specimen minerals. The Elura lead-zinc-silver deposit in western New South Wales has produced...green mimetite crystals and Australia’s best wire silvers (Chapman and Scott 2005). The New England region...molybdenite specimens from the Deepwater and Kingsgate mines (see Cook in press) and has also produced beautiful...cassiterite crystals, to 6 cm across, from the tin mines around Elsmore (Lawrence 1998a,b). In the Northern...atacamite specimens (see Pring this article). These mines Downloaded by [Korea University] at 06:33 08 January |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2005 The Mineral Collector's Newsletter Native Silver $3.00 First in a Series Bill Shelton & Jeff...of the most popular among mineral collectors is silver. Some very fine examples have recently been recovered...penetration twin). While silver crystals are not common from Mexico, silver wires from Mexico are spectacular...(Continues on page 2) An extremely fine matrix wire silver from Mexico. How NOT to Disperse a Collection...like Peru, has recently produced some nice wire silver specimens. The illustration shows one of the best |  | | Journal (issue) | | coins in the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria, revealed that they have suffered serious corrosion...Benitoite, Gold L.A. County Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Museum, Himalaya mine $10 (Brazil), Bosch Collection...Cunha Baixa mine, Paulkerrite $10 .16/#4 Kingsgate mines v .17/#4 National Belle mine (CO), Tip Top mine...and much color photography! v .17/#6 Bleiberg (Austria), v,19/#6 Australia Issue! 152 pages and much...Bancroft (Ont.), Franklin .17/#3 Knappenwand (Austria). Laurium (Greece), Senaite (Brazil), Chalcophyllite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | several in North Carolina, including the well-known Silver Hill occurrence in Davidson County, and the McMakin...and mines of the Virgilina district, Halifax County, Virginia (Dietrich 1990). The great silver occurrences...widespread and locally abundant acanthite. Many mines of the Colorado mineral belt contained important...although it was apparently sparse in some famous silver districts, such as Leadville, whereas others that...1997). Some wire silver from the White Raven and Black Jack mines of the Ward district, Boulder County |
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