 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ +./8...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5...3/. 0/0% (!2$). -!33!# 05,!3+) %8 !. $% 2 Illinois Mineral Locality Index 7)..%"!'/ /',% #!22/...(above). Map showing the counties in Illinois, courtesy the Illinois Geological Survey. 96*2:...he bedrock under Illinois is predominantly composed of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. In the southern portion |  | | Catalog/List | | towards the brilliance, color, and beauty of stones in the sunlight. Within their enchanting aesthetic holds...Pocket, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Park Co., Colorado, USA 4 cm tall x 5.1 cm wide 7 Tourmaline Tourmaline...meeting a thin white stripe and then terminating in the most vivid fiery red. The strength of color,...crystal one among very few. Tourmaline, Jenipapo District, Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil 6.7 cm tall x 6...precious opals of Ethiopia were only discovered recently in 2008. Opals are formed over thousands of years when |  | | Journal (issue) | | Wilson T he Circulation Manager Mary Lynn Michela M in e r a l o g ic a l R ecord Associate Editors Pierre...Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael...S-M SA S y m p o siu m o n cop p er and cop p er m in e r a ls ................................................. 51 Chairman: K. Wenrich W hat's n e w in m in erals D en v er S h o w 1996 ................. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fluorite in Mississippi Valley–type Downloaded by ["Queen's University Libraries, Kingston"] at 08:16...Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England. This transparent, dark green twinned...specimen is 5.5 × 4.5 × 3.5 cm and was recovered in July 1977 by British collector Richard Barstow. Jesse...The specimen is 3.5 × 4 × 4 cm and was recovered in 1970. Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka specimen, Jesse...level, Denton mine, Harris Creek district, Hardin County, Illinois. The specimen is 8.5 × 7.5 × 7 cm |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure I: Galena, Treece, Kansas, Tri-State district; specimen 5Vi cm tall; Na tional Museum of Canada...Galena. Crawford mine, Pirher, Oklahoma, Tri-State district; 6' 2 cm across; Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Lead mine, Viburnum, Missouri, Viburnum Trend district; 6 cm on edge; James Madison Uni versity photo...prolific are these deposits that in 1985 the mines of the Viburnum Trend in southeastern Missouri accounted...characteristics that were first recognized as such in the mid-continent region of the United States. Geologists |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimen consists of gemmy anglesite crystals up to 2.5 cm long. They line a vug in galena and clearly illustrate...paragenetic relationship hetween the two minerals, in which lead sulfide is oxidized to lead sulfate. The...The specimen 122 ROCKS & MINERALS was found in June 1988 at shaft 9, Touissit mine, Oujda, Morocco...Later that year it was acquired hy Dr. Marvin Rausch, in whose collection it remains. Photo hy Jeff Scovil...collectors have at least some familiarity with anglesite due to its widespread occurrence as a secondary |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOLOGY OF THE FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS OF . ILLINOIS BY J. IA.R\' IN \YELLER, ROBERT M. GROGAN, AND FRANK...PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS URBANA, ILLINOIS 1 9 52 MANUSCRIPT COMPLETED FEBRUARY...FEBRUARY 1951 ORGANIZATION STATE OF ILLINOIS HON. ADLAI E. STEVENSON, Governor DEPART 1ENT OF REGISTRATION...he University of Illinois DEL YTE W. MORRIS, PH.D., President of Southern Illinois University GEOLOGICAL...EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION GILBERT 0 . RAASCH, PH.D., Geologist in Charge MARGARET HAYES, B .S., Research Assistant |  | | Report (issue) | | Fluorspar Deposits in Western Kentucky Part 1 A. Introduction By JAMES STEELE WILLIAMS and HELEN DUNCAN...Crittenden and Livingston Counties By GEORGE C. HARDIN, Jr. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1012-A, B...00 (paper cover) ^A,V- ' ! Fluorspar Deposits in Western Kentucky Part 1 A. Introduction B. Babb fault...SURVEY BULLETIN 1012-A,B FLUORSPAR DEPOSITS IN WESTERN KENTUCKY INTRODUCTION By JAMES STEELE WILLIAMS...WILLIAMS and HELEN DTJNCAN The need for fluorspar in the manufacture of open-hearth steel, hydrofluoric |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Drive Lexington, Kentucky 40504 T o those interested in minerals, the state of K e n t u c k y gen erally...t u c k y . Some localities are covered in other articles in this issue; those I will pass over lightly...well-known mineral localities o f K e n t u c k y are in mineralized limestones and dolomites and are related...deposits share certain char acteristics. The host rock is a carbonate (limestone or dolo mite); there...concentration of sulfur can be deposited as sulfates in a fracture system as the pressure and temperature |  | | Journal (issue) | | Record, September-October 201✓ Mineral Collections in Texas A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September-October...September-October 2014, Volume 45, number 5 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Wendell E. Wilson Editors: Thomas P. Moore...abundance of great mineral localities like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil...Texas collections generally tend tobe very broad in scope, and focused predominantly (though not exclusively)...display specimens. The vitality of mineral collecting in Texas today has already been weil demonstrated by |  | | Report (issue) | | green, pale brown, black; colorless or faintly tinted in transmitted light. Luster: Vitreous, pearly on cleavages...ground water or basinal brines in carbonate rocks, concretions and nodules; in hydrothermal veins and mafic... dolomite, anhydrite, gypsum, fluorite (cavities in carbonate rocks); analcime, natrolite, hydroxyapophyllite...are listed; in the USA, from near Bellwood, Blair Co., Pennsylvania; in Crystal Cave, Put-in-Bay, South...Clay Center, Ottawa Co., Ohio; from Cave-in-Rock, Hardin Co., Illinois; at the Scofield quarry, Maybee, |  | | Journal (issue) | | Private Mineral Collections • in TEXAS Witli an I ntroauction 6y Wenae[[ Wifson, Wa[[y ?vtann et...MINERAL COLLECTIONS Private Mineral Collections in Texas A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record January-February...January-February 2009 Volume 40, number I Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Wendell E. Wtlson Associate Publisher: Thomas...Weardale, County Durham, England. Stuart Strife collection; self-collected by Richard Barstow in 1977; ex...right) Elbaite, 7.8 cm, Himalaya rnine, San Diego County, California; Kevin Brown collection; Jeff Scovil |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Harold and Erica Van Pelt photo. March-April: Anglesite, Morocco. Houston Museum of Natural Science specimen...calcite, Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave in Rock district, Har din County, Illinois. Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Quartz and chalcopyrite, Bandora mine, San Juan County, Col orado. Barbara and John Muntyan specimen...November-December: Gold, Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California. California State Mining and Mineral Exhibit specimen;...Index, A . E . Smith, Jr., 104 Articles on Illinois Published in Rocks & Minerals: An Annotated Bibliography |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...Permian-age deposits. Cretaceous and Cenozoic rocks in the westernmost portion of the state consist of unconsolidated...highest point in the Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet...the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...are some noteworthy mineral occurrences in the sedimentary rock that encompasses more than 99 percent of |  | | Catalog/List | | at HA.com/NaturalHistory LIVE FLOOR BIDDING Bid in person during the floor sessions. LOT SETTLEMENT...details in the back of this catalog. “HERITAGE LIVE” BIDDING Bid live from your location, anywhere in the...but it is not uncommon to sell 50 lots or 95 lots in any given hour. This auction is subject to a 19.5%...27, 2008. Please see “Choose Your Bidding Method” in the back of this catalog for specific details about...Avenue, 17th Floor • Dallas, Texas 75219 Design District Annex • 1518 Slocum Street • Dallas, Texas 75207 |  | | Report (volume) | | Fluorspar Deposits, Big Four Fault System, Crittenden County, Kentucky GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1042-S...BIG FOUR FAULT SYSTEM, CRITTENDEN COUNTY, KENTUCKY By GEORGE C. HARDIN, JR., and EGBERT D. TRACE ABSTRACT...fault system, near Marion, Ky., in the Kentucky-Illinois fluorspar district, is a complex northeastward-trending...dipping normal faults. Mining activity started in the area at the LaRue mine in 1874, and as of January...sandstone of early Pennsylvanian age. Displacements in the area mapped range from a few feet to more than |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1998 The Mineral Collector's Newsletter The Illinois KentuckyFluorsparDistrictis Dead!Long Live the...University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana to commemorate the recent history of the Illinois-Kentucky fluorspar...fluorspar district. I had wanted to hold this gathering since the moment I had heard that Ozark-Mahoning...pulling out. That was the death-knell for fluorite mining in the United States, the e~d of 163 year-long era...77036 In April, 1998, Clyde Hardin of Malvern, Arkansas sent me some specimens he had received in trade |  | | Book (volume) | | A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes...the highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the...forests lie some of the oldest crystalline rocks in the East, both igneous and metamorphic, strongly...coastal lowlands in the Atlantic Coast Fall Line, so named from the falls or rapids in rivers at places...and Columbus. The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries |  | | Report (volume) | | useful minerals in the United States. No similar lists have been published by the Survey in the last quarter...increase in production have taken place during the last quarter of a century. Aluminum was not made in the...the United States in 1887, so that the deposits of bauxite, now the source of material that maintains a...great industry, were untouched and were not included in the Survey's lists. Twenty-five years ago the imports...about 1,250,000 barrels. The production of natural rock cement was five tunes the combined production and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | California 92651 dona@kristalle.com MIM Museum Opens in Beirut Mineral Event of the Century Map prepared...husband, Wayne, have owned and operated Kristalle in Laguna Beach, California, since 1971. 134 ROCKS...around the world—a new museum devoted to minerals. In Lebanon, you say? Who is the person behind it? Where...engineer and graduate of the École Polytechnique, began in 1997 to put together a mineral collection like no...representing 300 species from sixty different countries in nine galleries. Figure 2 (center spread). Nine superb |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OCCURRENCES Items on new finds wanted. Please send them in. Abbreviations: xl—crystal xled—crystallized ALABAMA...Ala., interesting cherty halloysite has been found in dolomitic limestone. ARIZONA — A most interesting...have found Arizona to be a "rockhound's paradise'' in the 16 years that I have been here, especially Central...note of Feb. 11th at hand. Thanks for your interest in this matter. Yes, I can give you the location of...of the aragonite crystals. "The locality is in a very rough country, definitely no place for an amateur— |  | | Journal (issue) | | articles of interest to mineralogists, collectors and mining historians. Contributions or suggestions for articles...imply access is available. This should be e~tablishcd in all cases through the appropriate channels. 50 PREISINGERITE...2EE ExrnA PAGES IN THIS JOURNAL WERE PRODUCED USING FUNDS FROM THE SALE OF SPECIMENS IN THE COLLECTION...COLLECTION OF THE LATE JOT-IN DICKlNSON. UKJoumal ofMiucs & Miucrals No. 28 -1- EDITORIAL SPECIALISATION or...popular specialisations are in the minerals of a particular locality or area and in a particular species or |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN Organizea 6y EVAN JONES AND JIM & IMELDA KLEIN witli an I ntroauction 6y WENDELL...MINERALOGICAL RECORD, MAY-JUNE 2013 Mineral Collections in Arizona A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record...May-June 2013 Volurne 44, number 3 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Wendell E. Wilson Associate Publisher: Thomas...on Barite 5.1 cm, from the Rowley mine, Maricopa County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection; Jeff Scovil photo...(only one known) for The Red Cloud Gold & Silver Mining Company (1880) Mark Hay collection Introduction |  | | Book | | of the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Minerals and gems form naturally in the immense heat and pressure...publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic...Publisher Cataloging-in-Publication Data (U.S.) Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Tait...C2011-902340-7 Published in the United States by Firefly Books (U.S.) Inc. Published in Canada by Firefly Books...of the minerals, gems and meteorites in this book are on display in Editing and Index: Gillian Watts |  | | Report (issue) | | 400 Foot Level, Kelly Mine, Magdalena District Socorro County, New Mexico Steve Neely collection (ex...978-0-9790998-6-1 Publisher Lithographie, LLC Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria Staebler Gunther Neumeier...C O 80211 • USA Phone 1.303.495.5521 • Fax 1.303.482.1238 www.lithographie.org Printed in the United States...When Brent acquired this specimen, it was wrapped in a German-language newspaper dated 1927, a possible...particular mineral are faced with a road with a fork in it. One path leads to a strict mineralogy, giving |
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