| | Journal (issue) | 2024 Articles The Berbes Fluorite District, Asturias, Spain..............................................Moore COVER: FLUORITE, 4.3 cm, from the Valdelmar area of the La Cabaña zone at Berbes. Will Johnson collection...Chris Coy (2023) SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009–2024) Mineralogical...the collectors and dealers in the entire Tri-State area. A typical weekend was spent driving their Mercury...Ruslan Adamovsky, who was living in the Rockaway area of New York. Ruslan was an intriguing character | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Un Siglo de Minería en Asturias (The Fluorite: A Century of Mining in Asturias), by M. Gutiérrez Claverol...Rodríguez Terente. Published by the authors, Oviedo, Spain. 565 pages; 2009; 75€ (padded hardcover). In Spanish...interviews with miners and mining companies, visits to old and new mining works, and searches in the...the historical Asturian archives and other mining-related Spanish institutions, we have in our hands this...enthusiastic lovers of Asturian mineralogy and mining history. At 3.2 kilograms, this is not a pocket-sized | | | Catalog/List | SMSoct messqe 07791 63 ◄3 61 1 COBALTOAN CALCITE Mashamba West Mine, Shaba, Zaire. Crystals to 9mm. 48x30x17mm...48x30x17mm. £48 2 BRAZILIANITE Tefirio Mine, Linopolis, Divno das Laranjelras, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Very...7mm. Now very rare material. 52x40x25mm. £225 5 CALCITE Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang AR., China. Crystals to...CUPRIAN AOAMITE on 7 ORPIMENT MOTTRAMITE Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia. 70x33x30mm. £48 Luchuml, Caucasus...balls to 5mm. 30x29x18mm. £55 9 FLUORITE Okurusu Mine, Namibia. Gemmy green/purple crystals to 18mm.Hlghest | | | Journal (issue) | because the sun came out later. ·· Chalk in the area between Folkestone and Dover is well known for its...161 - Sept/Oct 1999 SMLS FIELD TRIP TO NORTHERN SPAIN July 17 - 30th July 1999 Part I. An Overview This...This was geotourism at its best. Northern Spain is the home of the famous quality fluorites with their...colours and variously modified crystal edges; also the area of the zinclead mines in the Picas mountains. We...massifs and separate the rest of Spain from the principality of Asturias, a land of bagpipes and cider, | | | Journal (issue) | . . . . . . . . . 19 by J. A. Scovil The Machow mine, Tamobrzeg, Poland . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. ...Pelt Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...geologic setting and mineralogy of the mine site. The Harding mine catalog will provide researchers and | | | Report (issue) | as though the new color were passing through the vein. Some people particularly appreciate the edges of...United Kingdom BY IAN JONES 38 Fluorite from Spain: Every Color Under the Sun BY GUIOMAR & MIGUEL CALVO...Brian Stefanec explores a pocket at the Elmwood mine. Photo Mark Kielbasa Switzerland BY HANS ANTON...108 Morocco's El Hammam: Six Decades of Fluorspar Mining BY PIERRE CLAVEL & GUNTHER NEUMEIER 112 Faceting...MICHAEL GRAY 54 Elmwood-Gordonsville-Cumberland Mine Complex Of Eastern Tennessee BY ARVID PASTO 56 | | | Journal (issue) | Pelt Fluorite and associated minerals from Asturias, Spain .............................................after argentite, 10 cm tall, from the Las Chispas mine, Arizpe, Sonora, Mexico. Houston Museum of Natural...altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...geologic setting and mineralogy of the mine site. The Harding mine catalog will provide researchers and...citations on the Harding mine and information about other collections of Harding mine specimens. The museum | | | Journal (issue) | ........................ Sussex go to Northern Spain Roger Kemp/en & John Pearce 34 ..................have a bloody good scramble up a hill or down a mine and rid myself of the rigours of everyday life....members have taken parties into the same quarry or mine to look at the same granite or rock face and been...Dist. (probably originates from nearby Harrybecca Mine) N. BARTLETTCE. e.mail The two positions recently...Society Aldcrlcy Edge Visit We went on a trip 10 a mine'. It was at 111gh1.\Ve went 11110 groups Ian had | | | Journal (issue) | Tampa, FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P....Pohs was well known to every serious collector of mining antiques and memorabilia in the U.S. In the late...the first book on the subject: Early Underground Mine Lamps', it became the “bible” of lamp collecting...of learning and research on all types of antique mine lamps. He was truly a pioneer in his field. 0 The...1999 River area, Yukon Territory, Canada (Montgomery, 1960); the Big Creek-Rush Creek area, Fresno County | | | Book | On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...18:65-74 Phosphate microminerals of the Indian Mountain area [Georgia and Alabama] (by J.B. Gordon, Jr. & C....biotite and albite-antiperthite crystals in calcite-cored vein-dikes (by L. Moyd) 21:235-248 ALICE GLORY...ALLEN, GEORGE B. --and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE | | | Journal (issue) | Moore COVER: EMERALD crystal with calcite, 6.5 cm, from the Cosq uez mine, Colombia; found in 1998. Scott...(deceased) Eric D. Long SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS Houston Area Mineral Society (HAMS) (2009-2014) Mineralogical...Fact ........................ 8 The Age of New Spain ............................................ 10............................................... 22 Mine Exploitation (or not) Today ................................................................. 28 Mining Methods ...................................... | | | Journal (issue) | Tampa, FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P....microthin coating of bomite, 5.7 cm, from the Flam beau mine, Ladysmith, Wisconsin. William Larson collection;...Weardale fluorite miniature for $140, a beautiful 79 mine aurichalcite (2.75 inches) for $140, a Zambian libethenite...subject of the 1999 Mineral Symposium. Mexico has a mining specimen collecting history dating back nearly...geologic environments present, the multitude of major mining districts, and the high level of specimen exploitation |
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Jaimina Mine, Carrales, Obdulia vein, Caravia mining area, Asturias, Spain