 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fluorite in Mississippi Valley–type Downloaded by ["Queen's University Libraries, Kingston"] at 08:16...Deposits Figure 1 (top left). Fluorite, Heights mine, North vein, near Eastgate, Weardale, County Durham, England...England. This transparent, dark green twinned fluorite crystal is perched on a triangular piece of ironstone...specimen is 5.5 × 4.5 × 3.5 cm and was recovered in July 1977 by British collector Richard Barstow. Jesse...photo. Figure 2 (center left). Fluorite, Dow Scar level, Hilton mine, near Appleby, Scordale, Cumbria |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS OF THE Harris Creek Fluorspar District Hardin County, Illinois ROSS C . L I L L I E P . O . B o x...O V E R 140 Y E A R S , the mines of southern Illinois have been producing lead, zinc, and fluorspar...come from the renowned district of Cave in Rock and adjacent deposits. Mining activity is presently restricted...new orebodies recently discovered in the Harris Creek district (figure 1). History The earliest known use...use of fluorspar, the commercial name for fluorite, was by Indians who used it for carving or namental |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 054.!- Figure 1 (above). Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie...Figure 2 (below). Fluorite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen...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 |  | | 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...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 ................. |  | | Report (issue) | | Paleozoic Geology and Ore Deposits in the Midcontinent Region Rosiclare, Illinois to Ironton and Viburnum, Missouri...0-87590-588-9 Printed in the United States of America Leaders: James W. Baxter Illinois Dept. of Energy and...MO 65401 Associate Leaders: James C. Bradbury Illinois Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources State Geological...PALEOZOIC GEOLOGY AND ORE DEPOSITS IN THE MIDCONTINENT REGION James W. Baxter 1 , James C. Bradburyl, Eva B...Missouri. lIllinois State Geological Survey, Urbana, Illinois. 2Missouri Geological Survey, Rolla, Missouri |  | | Catalog/List | | 1 7 3 1 0 t h Ave n u e , N e w Yo r k , N Y 1 0 0 1 1 wilensk yminerals.com 6 4 6 - 8 2 2- 0 8 3 7 ...towards the brilliance, color, and beauty of stones in the sunlight. Within their enchanting aesthetic holds... We always have been. Understanding beauty needs no explanation. It is a spontaneous discovery that rises...Tetrahedrite, Good Luck Pocket, Sweet Home Mine, Alma, Park Co., Colorado, USA 4 cm tall x 5.1 cm wide 7 Tourmaline...meeting a thin white stripe and then terminating in the most vivid fiery red. The strength of color, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | relatively abundant and widely distributed element in the Earth’s crust, barium is a major component of...widespread and is usually available to collectors in good specimens from several interesting localities...historical British occurrences and the Illinois-Kentucky fluorite district. A fine witherite from Fallowfield...white to pale gray although it is occasionally seen in shades of pale yellow, brown, or green. It is typically...universal repeated twinning on {110} that results in characteristic pseudohexagonal dipyramidal (hereafter |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1. Galena crystal, 3.2 cm across, with chalcopyrite and dolomite, Brushy Creek mine, Viburnum...Viburnum Trend, Reynolds County, Missouri. Dan Weinrich specimen and photo. Mississippi Valley–Type Deposits...lead-zinc ore deposits that are characterized by (1) low-temperature formation (50°–200°C, but usually...brines, and (4) the presence of barite and/or fluorite gangue mineralization (Leach and Sangster 1993;...are the largest and were the first to be studied in detail—thus the origin of their name. MVT deposits |  | | Journal (issue) | | MineralNews VoL14 No. 8 August, 1998 The Mineral Collector's Newsletter The Illinois KentuckyFluorsparDistrictis...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 Company...pulling out. That was the death-knell for fluorite mining in the United States, the e~d of 163 year-long...on page 5 Fig. 1. Field trip members turning fluorite slabs searching for fluorite crystals at Hastie's |  | | 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...Laura Aaron collection, page 11. (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite-Bruce and Marcia Friedman collection, page 105;...collection, page 155; Fluorite-Samuel Cooper collection, page 67. (rniddle colurnn) Fluorite, 5.3 cm, from Naica...abundance of great mineral localities like those found in neighboring Arizona and New Mexico; Texas is oil |  | | Report (issue) | | ©eouHWM S SURVFV " r 14.GS: ' CIR 420 c. 1 STATE OF ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF REGISTRATION AND EDUCATION...State Mineral of IN ILLINOIS Illinois J. C. Bradbury G. C. Finger R. L. ILLINOIS STATE John C. Frye...by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign http://archive...rad FLUORSPAR IN ILLINOIS Cover -photo: Cluster of cubic crystals of fluorite approximately one-third...one-third actual size, from a cavity in an Illinois fluorspar deposit. FOREWORD The Seventy-fourth General |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Diagenetic Features Their Role in the Interpretation of the Southern Illinois Fluorspar Deposits WoN C. PaRK...beds with fluorite and sphalerite occur in the Cave-In-Rock fluorite district, Illinois in the upper...System; in the upper parts of the Fredonia and Joppa Members of the Ste. Genevieve Formation and in the upper...pieces of dolomite, limestone, shale, sandstone, fluorite and sphalerite. Some of the channels show geopetal...mechanically filled from above into an open crack formed in the hydroplastic carbonate mud below. A number of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Figure 1: Purple, zoned fluorite cubes with galena on sphalerite from the HillLedford mine: 11 by 9...9 by 6 cm: HMM #117417. Southern Illinois, as amply demonstrated by the Bannister Collection, is a source...All specimens are from mines in the Cave in Rock district, Hardin County, Dlinois. Clive Russ, photographer...Rosiclare mine. John Carlon, photographer. Figure 4: The sign near the front gate of the Rosiclare mine. John...n Fluorite and southern Illinois have become syn onymous for the mineral connoisseur. Fluorite, one |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Fluorite Specialist Jim Gebel All photos by Jeff Scovil unless otherwise noted CARL A. FRANCIS Maine...carlfrancis62@gmail.com T hat really friendly fluorite guy in his signature striped jersey, who exhibits...Mineral Symposium, is Jim Gebel (pronounced “gable”). In his professional life he is James Gebel, MD, a Cleveland...pot-bellied pigs. His life is full, busy, and intense. In mid-August Gebel will be the featured exhibitor,...Mineral, and Fossil Show in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Figure 1. Yellow fluorite cubes overgrown by |  | | Report (issue) | | Soft Myrrhine The Barber Cup Carved of banded fluorite, the Barber Cup is thought to be one of only a...9.5 x 13.5 cm and is housed at the British Museum in London (GR 2003.12-2.21). Photo© The Trustees of...reserved. byAlbertGilg Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE), in his well-known work Natural History, described luxury..."myrrhine" or "murrhine" ware, writing "their value lies in their varied colors: the veins, as they revolve,...where colors may be reflected such as we observe in the inner part of a rainbow." (translation Rackman |  | | Catalog/List | | 4461_txt.indd 1 1/18/21 11:02 AM 4461_txt.indd 2 1/18/21 11:02 AM If art is an expression of...4461_txt.indd 3 3 1/18/21 11:02 AM 4461_txt.indd 4 1/18/21 11:02 AM Contrast In the world of aesthetic...how crystals and matrix contrast with each other in color and texture, such as dark on light, clear on...honored tradition in all forms of art. It is one of the most important design principles in art training...multidimensional world on a flat surface. “There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one Winter 2021 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | liebetrauam@msn.com Youth, Poverty & Fluorite Collecting A Memoir Figure 1. Fluorite with calcite, 15 × 10 × 10...the Taiping mine, Xianghualing, Hunan Province, China. Purchased from Helmut Bruckner in 2000. This more...technical editor. She and her husband, Albert, live in central Oregon, where they enjoy field-collecting...were young; we were poor; and we were in love—with minerals! In this brief memoir, I recall the 1960s...I WERE IN OUR TWENTIES and had been married for about three years in 1963 when we settled in Elgin, Illinois |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral NeWSVol. 21 No. 4 April 2005 The Mineral Collector's Newsletter $3.00 Mapping the Minerals... with a resolution of 7 nm in the visible spectrum, going to 14-20 nm in the near-infrared. It "sees"..."sees" objects on the ground ranging in size from 300 m to 5 km, depending on the altitude of the spacecraft...2) Re-exainination of Some Minerals from the Cave-in-Rock Area Alan Goldstein 1607 Washington Blvd. Louisville... I have been photographing my mineral collection in order to upload images to the web site: www.mindat |  | Huizing, Terry E., Richards, R. Peter, Clifford, Janet H., Cook, Robert B. (2017) Connoisseur's Choice: Calcite from the American Midwest, Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Rocks & Minerals, 92 (1) 46-63 doi:10.1080/00357529.2017.1241690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Midwest Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee C alcite is ubiquitous in the American Midwest...Midwest where it occurs in a wide range of geological environments and frequently forms crystals of high... It is the major constituent of limestone, most cave formations, and many fossil shells. North America’s...are predominantly found in the American Midwest where large crystals occur in aesthetic combinations with...such other well-crystallized minerals as barite, fluorite, galena, and sphalerite. Calcite crystals are |  | | Report (issue) | | Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point Group: 32. As hexagonal pyramids bounded...divided by slightly re-entrant, irregular sutures, to 1 mm. Physical Properties: Fracture: Uneven. Tenacity:...Color: Colorless, smoky white to pale gray; colorless in thin section. Streak: White. Luster: Vitreous. Optical...Space Group: P 321. a = 8.692(3) c = 6.148(4) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Minerva No. 1 mine, Illinois...Illinois, USA; essentially identical to alstonite. 3.550 (100), 2.510 (67), 2.048 (21), 6.15 (18), 1.943 (18) |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN TEXAS III A SUPPLEMENT TO THE MINERALOGICAL RECORD, NOVEMBER–DECEMBER 2020 ... Mineral Collections in TEXAS UVolume IIIV With an Introduction by Wendell Wilson A Supplement to...November–December 2020 MINERAL COLLECTIONS IN TEXAS Mineral Collections in Texas Volume III A Supplement to...November–December 2020 Volume 51, number 6 Publisher & Editor-in-Chief: Wendell E. Wilson Associate Publisher & Circulation...Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department, Colombia. Gail |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Index to Volume 63 (1988) No. No. No. No. No. No. 1 Jan.-Feb. 2 Mar.-Apr. 3 May-June 4 July-Aug. 5 Sept...6 Nov.-Dec. Pages Pages Pages Pages Pages Pages 1- 96 97-176 177-264 265-352 353-432 433-512 Downloaded...Photographs January-February: Aquamarine, Pioneira mine, Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Keith Proctor...May-June: Fluorite and calcite, Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave in Rock district, Har din County, Illinois. Harvard...July-August: Quartz and chalcopyrite, Bandora mine, San Juan County, Col orado. Barbara and John Muntyan specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bravoite and Vaesite from the Cave-In-Rock Fluorspar District, Southern Illinois WON C. PARK Mineralogisch-Petrographisches...portion. About 5% of all pyrite grains pyrite framboids in sedimentary rocks are inter- consists of spherules...1953; LOVE and A~aST~TZ ranges from 5--20 microns in dia., with an 1966). This interpretation is supported...8--10 microns. Pyrite presence of pyrite framboids in recent sedi- "seeds" within framboids are usually...interface, 1 micron in dia., although some, 2--5 microns where reducing conditions are prevailing. A in dia |  | | Report (issue) | | Mineral Data Publishing, version 1 Crystal Data: Hexagonal. Point Group: 3. cleavable masses with a fine...fine mosaic structure. Rhombohedral crystals, to 1 cm; typically as Physical Properties: Cleavage: On...Class: Uniaxial (–). ω = 1.690(1) = 1.527(1) Cell Data: Space Group: R3. a = 18.280(9) c = 8.652(8)...Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Magnet Cove, Arkansas, USA. 3.08 (95), 3.92 (38), 2.536 (28), 2.127 (23), 1...SrO BaO (1) 31.35 0.35 1.69 19.52 4.02 43.05 (2) 30.61 2.16 18.00 49.23 Total 99.98 100.00 (1) Magnet |  | | 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 |
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Minerva No. 1 Mine, Ozark-Mahoning group, Cave-In-Rock Mining Sub-District, Hardin County, Illinois, USA