 | | Journal (issue) | | Mine Vol. 35 No. 1 January 2019 News The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $6.00 Albert Edward Foote...Congress representing the Anti-Monopoly Party (Sioux County Herald I 874). Luckily, he was unsuccessful at...NewYork. Silver Ore from the Eagle Mine Red Cliff District, Eagle County, Colorado Bob Werner werner@lcturbonet...location. The specimen came from the well-known Eagle Mine (fig. 2 on page 3) of Empire Zinc Company, a subsidiary...subsidiary of New Jersey Zinc Company. The mine is located at Gilman, Red Cliff District (also known as |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | partitioning: Whitlockite/liquid influence of actinide concentration levels T. M. BENJAMINâ, J. H. JONESâ...actinide elements Th, U, and Pu between synthetic whitlockite and coexisting âhaplobasalticâ silicate liquid...coefficients for Pu+â, Pui4, Th+4, Ut4, and Vh are, for whitlockite 3.6/<~0.6/1.2/0.5/~0.002. The effect of changing...reflects a weak temperature dependence for D (whitlockite) but possibly could be due to cancellation of...that Si is involved in the substitution of U in whitlockite with U + 2Si e Ca + 2P being the most likely |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 51 58. IMA No. 2014-061 Erazoite Cu4SnS6 Soledad mine, El Guanaco ore deposit, Antofagasta Province, Chile...California, USA (36Âș58â25ââN, 119Âș15â01ââW) and Trumbull Peak, Mariposa Co., California, USA (37Âș41â31ââN...Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, California 90007, USA, catalogue numbers...2014-064 Flurlite Zn3Mn2+Fe3+(PO4)3(OH)2·9H2O Cornelia mine, Hagendorf-SuÌd pegmatite, Hagendorf, Oberpfalz...River, approximately 1.5 km west of Milan, Ohio, USA (41Âș17â42ââN, 82Âș37â30ââW) Anthony R. Kampf*, R. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | large ~n~ntrations of fission-type xenon in the whitlockite [Cal(PO.&] of the St. Severin (LL6) chondrite...measured by Wasserburg et al. (1969a) on the whitlockite of the same meteorite (0.035)-implying Pu-U fractionation...showed that the Th/U ratio of the St. Severin whitlockite was 11 and that the Th/U ratio of St. Severin...assumption of no Pu-U fractionation. The experiments of Benjamin (1979) showed in some detail that U is not a good...*44Pu/238U ratios of chondrites, achondrites and Ca-Al-rich inclusions wili he compared and critiqued. This |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | different systems (Mysen 1 978, Harrison & Wood 1 980, Benjamin 1980), making it premature to conclude that D...semiquantitative identification of small (;510 J1) U-rich phases can be made for grains containing as few...have been carried out for Pu as well as Th and U (Benjamin et al 1 980, Jones 198 1). These are summarized...important. For example, 230Th alpha autoradiography (Benjamin et al 1980) is more practical than 229Th fission...whereas U and Th are tetravalent (Boynton 1 978, Benjamin et aI 1 978). The fractionations between U and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | partitioning for clinopyroxene and Ca3(P04)2 T. BENJAMIN,*W. R. HEUSER,D. S. BURNETT Division of Geological...Th, U and Pu between diopsidic clinopyroxene, whitlockite [&Ca, (PO,),] and silicate liquid at 20 kbar...measured for clinopyroxene and 1.2/0.5/3.4 for whitlockite. At an oxygen fugacity of 10-8.5, Pu is much...Washington, DC 20008, U.S.A. G.C.A. 44p * 1252 T. BENJAMIN ei al concentration zoning in crystals grown...25% CaJPO& composition was chosen to produce whitlockite as the liquidus phase, although, for the final |  | Schumer, Benjamin N., Yang, Hexiong, Downs, Robert T. (2017) Natropalermoite, Na2SrAl4(PO4)4(OH)4, a new mineral isostructural with palermoite, from the Palermo No. 1 mine, Groton, New Hampshire, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 81 (4) 833-840 doi:10.1180/minmag.2016.080.133 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | palermoite, from the Palermo No. 1 mine, Groton, New Hampshire, USA BENJAMIN N. SCHUMER*, HEXIONG YANG AND...Arizona, 1040 E 4th Street, Tucson, AZ 85721-0077, USA [Received 6 October 2015; Accepted 28 June 2016;...new mineral from the Palermo No. 1 mine, Groton, New Hampshire, USA. Associated minerals are palermoite...natropalermoite, new mineral, phosphate, Palermo No. 1 mine, pegmatite. Introduction A new mineral species...Na2SrAl4(PO4)4(OH)4, was found in a sample from the Palermo No. 1 mine, Groton, New Hampshire. The name reflects the presence |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with biodegradation of crude oil in the Ouachita Mountains, Oklahoma 1, DISTAL, C, DIJPVY,J. P, CARRON,M...The chemistry of geothermal waters in Iceland. II. Mine~I equilibria and in~~ndent variables cont~lljng...,.... 989 G. D. GARLAND:âThe Earth and its Mountainsâ by R. A. Lyttleton 990 WrLLt~MJ. SNODGRASS:...geothermal activity in a karstic terrain: Rocky Mountains, Canada 1111 GERTOBERHEUSER, HENDR~K KATHREIN...a~mp~ying surface reactions and diffusion 168f T. M. BENJAMIN, J, H. JONES,W. R. HEUSERand D. S. BURNETT:Laboratory |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Moffett Field, Mountain View, California 94035, USA E-mail: derek.sears@nasa.gov (Received 21 June 2013;...Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. 1716 D. W. G. Sears Fig. 1. Donald S. Burnett...scene 1966 or â67, extolling the virtues of whitlockite. Paul was a mineralogist with an extremely good...microscope with a crushed meteorite and pick out the whitlockite grains. It was remarkable. He taught Jerry how...the fission tracks. So, Jerry separated the whitlockite, I did the tracks, and John Huneke did the Xe |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mesosiderites except Bondoc where none was observed. No U-rich phase was identified in six of the seven pallasites...work was to identify in a given meteorite as many U-rich phases as possible which could then be used to help...Boynton (1978) and as shown experimentally by Benjamin et al. (1979; 1980), Pu behaves more as a lanthanide...phosphates, usually merrillite (formerly called whitlockite) and/or chlorapatite, are enriched in uranium...different track registration properties of uranium-rich grains and adjacent uranium poor minerals. Their |  | | Journal (issue) | | at Bowie, Md. VANADINITE from the Apache Mine, Gila County, Arizona. The largest crystals in the group...lovely pocket of crystals was recently exposed in a mine in Spain. The foreman was a highgrader who realized...have join ed in. So he called a strike, closed the mine, and made off with a valuable collection of minerals...pegmatite locat ed near Custer, South Dakota. This mine will be opened to mineral collectors next Summer...large number of minerals have been found in this mine including rose quartz, schorl, muscovite, columbite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in phosphates, usually whitlockite and/or chlorapatite. Wherever whitlockite and chlorapatite coexist...enriched in U (4 0.2-0.3 ppm) is usually found in Ca-rich achondrites. The Th/U ratios of phosphates differ...CROZAZ(1974) showed that Th was indeed enriched in the whitlockite and concluded that 244Pu probably followed Th...of a study designed to characterize the uranium-rich phases in stony meteorites are given. A major motivation...to use uranium-poor minerals adjacent to uranium-rich grains as the track registering media. Provided |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | present. Harold Arnd.t announced the death of Dr. Benjamin L. Miller of Lehigh university and Harry Trudell...Trudell read. a mernorial: "With the passing of Dr. Benjamin L. Miller the Philadelphia Mineralogical Society...,28, 2 1S-2 32 (lg 43). Pyrophosphorite ( : Whitlockite) Cr,rrlono Fnoxnnt . A m. M i,neral., 28, 215...DrscussroN: Frondel shows that martinite and whitlockite give identical *-ray powder patterns and difier...martinite (Kloos, 18gg) not only has priority over whitlockite (1941), but the original description and the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1994 SUBJECT TNDEX, VOLUME 79, 1994 n At. 261 Al-rich intermetallic compounds, Analysis, chemical (mineral)...scapolite, 878 staurolite, 154 nlzlaite, 562 whitlockite, 375 Analysis, chemical (rock) basaltic glasses...Charles, 190 Nolan, Thomas Brennan, 575 Shaub, Benjamin M., 1017 Wenden, Henry Edward, 392 Winchell, Horace...I 0 znucalite, 1210 New minerals (abstracts) Al-rich intermetallic compounds, 185 AuAgTe3, 570 Au(Te...Scapolite, 478, 878 Scawtite,387 Seelite, 1009 Shaub, Benjamin M., Memorial of, 1017 Shomiokite-(Y), 763 Siderite |  | | Journal (issue) | | 2019 Articles The Candelaria District Mineral County, Nevada .........................................by P. M. Adams Atacamite from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia .........................COVER: ATACAMITE, 10.5 cm, from the New Cornwall mine, Kadina, South Australia. Collection of (and photo...$315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...grew up there in the midst of Arizonaâs mineral-rich landscape. His interest in minerals was kindled |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | partitioning of Pu and Sm between diopside/liquid and whitlockite/liquid has been investigated experimentally to...ââDISââDis -2 for both diopsidic pyroxene and whitlockite. This small amount of fractionation would be...compositions except Pu 15, whose liquidus phase is whitlockite. During Pu 14 and Pu I7 experiments, the stability...the starting composition, using the method of BENJAMIN (1979). A compilation of the thermal histories...there is a significant increase in Pu+~/Pu+~ (BENJAMIN, 1979): it also appears that variable amounts |  | | Journal (issue) | | just recently and we have made ar rangements to mine all that may be in the deposit. At the present we...of gypsum crystals from the Cornwall Iron Mine, Lebanon County, Pennsyl vania. The entire duster measures...welcome glimpses into a fascinating world full of rich intellectual rewards, a world from which they have...come out of a mineral collection, but rather from Benjamin Franklinâs pocket â it is a purse woven from asbestos...extensive that from nearly every newly discovered mine in the country he was Spring, 1970 immediately |  | | Catalog/List | | The nuclei of comets have been determined to be rich in carbon, nitrogen , and oxygen compounds. Reports...meteorites were not parts of meteors . After reading Benjamin Silliman 's and J. L. Kingsley's account of the...- METEORITE SLABS! STONEY-IRONS Odessa, Ector County, Texas Belle Plaine, Kansas (found pre-1922)...tektite. âą83A14 1 x 1 cm ... $6.50 Forsterite, Lyon County, Kansas This olivine is a separate from the Admire... $45.00 WYARTITE, Shinkolobwe , Shaba , Zaire Rich crystallized brown wyartite with yellow schoepite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | localizations of U are in olivine-poor,-drthopyroxene-rich âclastsâ. Our data coupled with those of POD~SEK...high (0.03) 244Pu/ 23*U ratio in a separate of whitlockite [Ca3(P04)2] from the St. Severin chondrite (WASSERBURG...indicating that Pu was enhanced relative to U in whitlockite and that 0.015 should be used for the solar system...questioned this interpretation, arguing that the whitlockite Pu/U ratio was difficult to understand relative...CROZAZ (1974) reported a high Th/U = 10 for whitlockite from St. * Caltech Contribution No. 3211. Severin |  | | Report (issue) | | Progress in Experimental Petrology, 6, 12-19. Benjamin, T.M., Burnett, D.S., Seitz, M.G. (1976) Experimental...assemblages. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Year Book 75, 684-687. Benjamin, T.M., Burnett, D.S., Seitz, M.G. (1977) Laboratory...fractionation. Lunar Planet. Sci., VIII, 94-96. Benjamin, T.M., Burnett, D.S., Ng, A., Seitz, M.G. (1977)...fractionation. Carnegie Inst. Wash. Year Book 76, 584-588. Benjamin, T.M., Heuser, R., Burnett, D.S. (1978) Solar...abundances I. Laboratory partitioning between whitlockite, diopsidic clinopyroxene and anhydrous melt. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | compositions and metal-silicate relationships* BENJAMIN N. POWELL~ Lament-Doherty Geological Observatory...the similarities and genetic relationship to Ca-rich achondrites, appear to have no affinities to other...Geology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, 77001. 5 BENJAMIN N. POWELL Table 1. Known mesosidorites (1970)...communication), in Estherville. The phosphate whitlockite has been reported in Vaca Muerta (MARVIN and...distributed throughout the meteorites (Fig. l), but BENJAMIN 8 Table 3. Mineral Cd& plagioolasa Orthopyroxem |  | | Journal (issue) | | in Maud Carter Clement's History of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Lynchburg, VA, (1929). Dr. Watsonâs...Duffel (granddaughter ofThomas Leonard, who was Benjamin Franklin's secretary). Thomas Leonard Watson was...became superintendent of Schools in Pittsylvania County, a position that one of his sons (and T.L. Watsonâs...fully outfitted Waddell Display Cases! Available in rich hardwoods with full mirror backs, matching fluorescent...___ i*t Hardwood finishes include Honey Maple, rich Cordovan Cherry and dark Danish Walnut Eight (8) |  | | Report (volume) | | Bull.; County Rpt.-Maryland Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources Bulletin; County Report...Washington. Utah Acad. Sci. Proc.-Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Proceedings. Provo, Utah. Utah...City, Utah. 10 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICAN GEOLOGY, 1949 Utah Geol. Miner. Surve~-Utah Geological...Survey. Utah Geol. Soc. GuidebooK.-Utah Geological Society Guidebooks. Salt Lake City, Utah. Va. Acad...resources of the valley-fill deposits of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania: Pa. Geol. Survey, 4th ser. Bull |  | Palme, H, Schultz, L, Spettel, B, Weber, H.W, WĂ€nke, H, Michel-Levy, M.Christophe, Lorin, J.C (1981) The Acapulco meteorite: Chemistry, mineralogy and irradiation effects. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 45 (5) 727-752 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(81)90045-4 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | track densities indicate mobilisation of U and Pu-rich phases shortly after formation of the parent material...Clinopyroxene Feldspar Chromite Chlorapatite Whitlockite 40.4 56.3 52.5 65.1 n.d. n.d. n.d. 0...described from enstatite achondrites (e.g. Norton County) where it has been regarded as the results of reduction...supported by the fact that the composition of the metal-rich pyroxene core is identical to that of the metal-free...meteorite (Tables 7 and 9). In ordinary chondrites. whitlockite constitutes a large fraction of the phosphates |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to nebular as well as igneous fractionations. Benjamin et al. [15,16] measured partition coefficients...Sm were not identical within the system used by Benjamin et al. [15,16]. Considering all the available...spectroscopy that merrillite was identical to whitlockite [26]). The analyses in Table 1 agree well with...tracks and fission-type xenon in meteoritic whitlockite, J. Geophys. Res. 74, 4221, 1969. 2 Y. Cantelaube...1967. 3 R.S. Lewis, Rare gases in separated whitlockite from the St. Srverin chondrite: xenon and krypton |
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