 | | Catalog/List | | Sunday, June 7, 2015 | 12:00 PM CT 23 73020 MALACHITE Liufengshan Mine, Guichi District, Chizhou Prefecture...Anhui Province, China Good Chinese stalactites of Malachite have never been all that common. Usually the pieces...the working miners. This stalactitic group of Malachite growths shows a subtly chatoyant and velvety luster...contrasting cradle of lighter green and crystalline Malachite “fans.” Condition is excellent with only miniscule...against bright blue, massive Azurite hosted by a Malachite/Limonite matrix. The condition is pristine, and |  | | Book | | crandallite from the Alto Benedeto pegmatite, Parai'ba, Brazil (by J.P. Cassedanne & L. Barreto) 22: 183-185 ALTO...Burian goyazite from [Alto Bernardino, Paraiba,] Brazil (by J. S. White, Jr.) 12:379 ALUMOHYDROCALCITE...muscovite from the Ze Pinto prospect, Minas Gerais, Brazil 21:405-408 --with J.P. Cassedanne: Crystallized...Gerais, Brazil 21:409-412 --with J. P. Cassedanne: The Jaguara~u pegmatite, Minas Gerais, Brazil 25:165-170...platinum from C6rrego Born Sucesso, Minas Gerais, Brazil 23:471-474 AMARGOSA DESERT Hydroboracite from the |  | | Journal (issue) | | tourmaline pockets were encountered at the Dunton gem pit in Newry, Maine. Dean McCrillis joined the dig, at...around the corner and drilled in the floor of the pit where the dump had been. We quickly got into what...quality. Now wild horses couldn’t tear me from the pit! “The pocket went back into the solid quarry wall...kaolin-producing pegmatite, Vila Remo, São Paulo, Brazil; collected in 1964 with my classmate Carlos Isotta...stalactite, 3.5 cm, from Curionópolis, Serra dos Carajas, Pará, Brazil. All specimens are still in my collection |  | | Catalog/List | | to 1.88 inches (4.74 cm) long. • Old Bisbee Malachite – a very large and extremely fine cabinet specimen...deposits of Butte ultimately resulted in an open pit mine that swallowed a good portion of the town of...Butte. When the mines closed in 1982, the Berkeley Pit measured 0.5 mile x 1 mile wide and 1,780’ deep....mines that were engulfed by the expanding Berkeley Pit and are now gone. This choice Enargite specimen displays...com/5168 52053 MAGNESITE Brumado (Bom Jesus dos Meiras), Bahia, Brazil As prevalent as Magnesium Carbonate |  | | Journal (issue) | | 0026-4628 'Continued on p. 415 Articles Diamonds in Brazil .................................................Universitaria, Ilha do Fundao 21.910 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Since their discovery in Minas Gerais, near the...mining, fables and dreams. By the end of the 1700’s Brazil had become the world’s leading producer of diamonds...century. fficially the discovery of diamonds in Brazil is dated at 1727. Gold prospectors had found occasional...false idea that Brazil is a producer.” The sheer volume of diamonds coming from Brazil soon overwhelmed |  | | Book | | Watson, Trimble and Cowgill, 1977). LATINAMERICA BRAZIL Jacupiranga mine, Sao Paulo. Among the crystallized...lesser specimens, from the boron workings of the Bar Pit (Grant and Wilson, 2001; Moroshkin and Frishman,...underground mine in 1924, then became a giant open-pit operation in the late 1950s (Puffer, 1975;Bancroft...crystals from 1960 through the mid-1970s, after open-pit mining took over from underground mining at the great...recently brought out from the small, shallow open-pit borate mine at Monte Azul were marketed at that year's |  | | Journal (issue) | | section to indicate localities. Except for open-pit mines, many western localities are underground so...the Noble pit or Noble mine. It was worked from 1860 to 1870 for hemimorphite. The larger pit, north of...south of the cross-member. It was called the Passaic pit or Passaic mine and was worked by the Passaic Zinc...limb; they also mined hemimorphite in the Passaic pit. Later, the Passaic Zinc Company sunk a 152-meter...Rainbow Tunnel at the north side of the Passaic pit. The west limb of the orebody is to the left. Figure |
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Pomba pit, Serra das Éguas, Brumado, Bahia, Brazil