 | | Report (issue) | | of dioptase from a recent find at Kimbedi, Pool Region, Republic of the Congo. The Kimbedi dioptase specimens...without matrix. Dioptase, 2.4 cm, from Kimbedi, Pool Region, Republic of the Congo. Mineral Classics specimen...in the Imiter mine, Ouarzazate, Morocco in the first half of that year. Acanthite from Imiter has since...since become fairly familiar (see our Imiter article in March-April 2011), and specimens have been distributed...comparably large strike of good acanthite specimens at Imiter these past six years (though small numbers of more |  | | Journal (issue) | | Acanthite with silver, 2.6 cm, from the Uchucchacua mine, Peru; Allan Young collection and photo. Amethyst...prospectors. All of this activity gave a jump-start to mining interests and prospecting in the lands of the Pacific...collecting has flourished throughout the Northwest region in recent decades; a history of the mineral discoveries...the estate. Many early minerals collected in the region about Spokane, Washington, are represented in the...Alaska, ca. 1906. She organized her own company to mine the garnets, and may have distributed thousands |  | Levresse, G, Cheilletz, A, Gasquet, D, Reisberg, L, Deloule, E, Marty, B, Kyser, K (2004) Osmium, sulphur, and helium isotopic results from the giant Neoproterozoic epithermal Imiter silver deposit, Morocco: evidence for a mantle source. Chemical Geology, 207 (1) 59-79 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2004.02.004 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the giant Neoproterozoic epithermal Imiter silver deposit, Morocco: evidence for a mantle source G. Levresse...giant epithermal Ag – Hg deposit of Imiter (Anti-Atlas, Morocco) was investigated to study the transfer...Helium; Fluid inclusions; Epithermal deposit; Imiter; Morocco * Corresponding author. CRPG – CNRS UPR A2300...helium isotopes in ore and gangue minerals of the Imiter Ag – Hg giant deposit (stock metal estimated at...metric tons Agj) located in the Anti-Atlas range of Morocco. This deposit has recently been recognized to be |  | Hazen, R. M., Golden, J., Downs, R. T., Hystad, G., Grew, E. S., Azzolini, D., Sverjensky, D. A. (2012) Mercury (Hg) mineral evolution: A mineralogical record of supercontinent assembly, changing ocean geochemistry, and the emerging terrestrial biosphere. American Mineralogist, 97 (7) 1013-1042 doi:10.2138/am.2012.3922 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ma. Since the first terrestrial appearance of cinnabar more than 3 billion years ago, mercury minerals...effectively sequestered as insoluble nanoparticles of cinnabar (HgS) or tiemannite (HgSe) during the period of...biosphere at ~400 Ma. Keywords: Ocean geochemistry, cinnabar, tiemannite, biosphere, supercontinent cycle,...contain linear S–Hg–S configurations, for example in cinnabar, which has infinite helical chains (–S–Hg–S–)∞...(see Table 2 for key) Oldest (Ma) Youngest (Ma) Cinnabar HgS >2000 known localities: AU02, AU04, AT02, |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Top right: Benitoite, 2 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, California...N‘Chwaning I mine, Kuruman, South Africa. Bottom right: Mimetite, 2.7 cm, from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia....Record: (1) Stephanite, Husky mine, Canada. (2) Wulfenite, Rowley mine, Arizona. (3) Diaspore twin, Pinarcik...Adelaide mine, Tasmania. (5) Andradite, Antetezambato, Madagascar. (6) Calcite, Mashamba West mine, Congo...Afghanistan. (8) Scorodite, Tsumeb mine, Namibia. (9) Shigaite, N’Chwaning II mine, South Africa. v This special |  | | Book | | of Earth Sciences Mohammed Ist University Oujda Morocco ISSN 2365-0559 Mineral Resource Reviews ISBN 978-3-319-31731-1...data on diverse types of metallic deposits in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Mali, Mauritania, Egypt, Sudan...terms of regional metallogeny and potential future mining activity. The lead paper, by M. Bouabdellah and...the setting and origin of major deposits in the region, together with information on tonnages and grades...Tritlla, D. Banks, and A. Samir describes the giant Imiter silver-mercury vein deposit and suggests that degassing |  | Tuduri, Johann, Chauvet, Alain, Barbanson, Luc, Labriki, Mohamed, Dubois, Michel, Trapy, Pierre-Henri, Lahfid, Abdeltif, Poujol, Marc, Melleton, Jérémie, Badra, Lakhlifi, Ennaciri, Aomar, Maacha, Lhou (2018) Structural control, magmatic-hydrothermal evolution and formation of hornfels-hosted, intrusion-related gold deposits: Insight from the Thaghassa deposit in Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Ore Geology Reviews, 97. 171-198 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.04.023 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Thaghassa deposit in Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco. Johann Tuduri, Alain Chauvet, Luc Barbanson, Mohamed...from the Thaghassa deposit in Eastern AntiAtlas, Morocco., Ore Geology Reviews (2018), doi: https://doi...from the Thaghassa deposit in Eastern Anti-Atlas, Morocco. JOHANN TUDURIA,*, ALAIN CHAUVETB, LUC BARBANSONC...d’Ascq, France F Department of Civil, Geological & Mining Engineering, Polytechnique Montréal, Montréal QC...magmatic-hydrothermal transition; Anti-Atlas; Morocco 2 1. Introduction Within orogenic domains |  | | Catalog/List | | colourless calcite. 70x40xl5mm. £35. 2) ANNABERGITE. KM 4 Mine, Laurion, Greece. Cavities in gossan matrix showing...matrix. 30x20x7nun. £10. 5) AURICHALCITE. Royal Mine, Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Calcite matrix with some...130x70x80mm. £475. 9) BOURNONITE on SIDERITE. Mure Mine, lse:re, Rhone-Alpcs, Frauce. A 15mm lead grey cog...colour. 140x80x90mm. £85. -12) CASSITERITE. Old Beam Mine, Goonbarrow Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. An approx...90x60x35mm. £45. 15) CHALCOPHYLLITE. Old Gunnislake Mine, Calstock, Cornwall. Veinstone matrix witl1 a scattering |  | | Journal (issue) | | ............................................ 3 MINING IN CHINA Berthold Ottens ............................................................ 17 DAOPING MINE Guanghua Liu and Berthold Ottens ................................................... 59 CHINESE CINNABAR Guanghua Liu ...................................Cover CINNABAR crystal, 2.1 cm, from the Dadongla (Yunchangping) mine near Tongren, Guizhou Province, China...Xikuangshan, the site of the world’s largest stibnite mine. Berthold Ottens is a German dealer and author of |  | | Catalog/List | | and Nevada were his favorites because of their mining and coin minting history. During his second year...the university, Kevin delved into mineralogy and mining history, and began to update his mineral collection...country as well as exploring scores of abandoned mining towns from California to New Mexico to Montana...and in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin...Kevin Ward Minera! on QUARTZ RHODOCHROSITE District Mine. Climax Climax olTolg-Yole Lake. County. ncredibly |  | | Journal (issue) | | mines, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province, South Africa ..................................crystals on matrix, 17.2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, collected in 1978. Private collection and photographer...FineMineral.com APATITE Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan, 11.5cm. Fine Minerals...Show and Riverpark Inn Rhodochrosite, Sweet Home Mine, USA, 10 cm Photo: Malte Sickinger MARCUS BUDIL...budil-minerals.com Chrysocolla on Malachite Mashamba West Mine Democratic Republic of Congo 26 cm - Joe Budd Photo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 4.3 cm high, from shaft IX, Touissit, Oujda, Morocco; mined ca. 1995. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 3 (above...(top right). Silver, 12 cm high, from Imiter, AntiAtlas, Morocco; mined ca. 1990. Jordi Deusedes photo...mimetite, 6 cm high, from Taouz, Er Rachidia, Morocco; mined 2003. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 8 (right)...Azurite, 4.6 cm high, from Kerrouchen, Khénifra, Morocco; mined 2007. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 10 (left)...malachite, 9 cm wide, from shaft IX, Touissit, Oujda, Morocco; mined 1999. Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 11 (above) |  | | Book | | organisations, 81-30 = Lurgi provides modern mining technology Seas = : = ~~ === based on 100... convert, refine and treat whatever you want to mine. From the initial evaluation and planning to the...plants, Lurgi covers the full spectrum of modern mining technology. If you would like further details,...Lebanon 29 31 8 Libya 32 35 9 10 Mauritania Morocco 11 12 Saudi Arabia Somalia 13. Sudan 9 36...branch of the Process Industries, from tin mining production, you can benefit from reading International |  | | Catalog/List | | good wiry micro crystals in and on Dolerite. (Imiter Morocco) half x half ins £3.50 407 TADZHIKITE Ce Ca...Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | interaction increasing toward the periphery of a province. The extent of oxidation of melts and fluids increases...affected the metallogeny of associated large igneous province. As shown previously (Borisenko et al., 2006;...development can be correlated with the Kamenka province of the subalkaline mafic magmatism, which lasted...mafic-ultramafic intrusions (Noril’sk area and Maimecha–Kotui province) are found only in the northern part of the Siberian...ultrapotassic lamprophyre dikes on the periphery of the province (Gorny Altai, Taimyr, Urals). Similar K-rich lamprophyres |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles The 100-year history of the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California . . . . . . . . ...known as “the Wreath,” 6 cm, from the Benitoite Gem mine, San Benito County, California. Natural History...Benitoite Gem mine will note the portion of the story devoted to the 1935 visit to the mine by collecting...interest in science led him to the Michigan College of Mining and Technology (Michigan Tech) in Houghton, where...2000 was inducted to the Academy of Geological and Mining Engineering and Sciences at his old alma mater |  | | Catalog/List | | 107 CllflABlRexcellent 2lllDsize red tt}ltals on Cinnabar, somewith Stlbnite crystals.All nlce pleces {Xltltovka...Pb Te minute silvery apots in lca matrix (HillTop Mine. OrganHountains DonaAnnaC-Ounty,NewMexico) u OSSBIMDHEIHITE...brownhexagonal ctystab on latytu or rock. (Nlbliden Morocco) 112 f.4 212 El 128 DUUDASJTE Pb Al C0/3 OHH/20...Rich ycllow to brownmasseswith Cerussite. (Terrible Mine, Isle Colorado, USA)2x2cmEl5 lCII(10 less rich lem...limonitic matrix. with Barytes Crystals • (BrandyBottle Mine, Yor~shire) quite rich assemblage lx2 ES 238 DESCLOIZITE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | German]. Both in the oxidation zone at Kamariza mining district nr. Laurion, Greece, as spherical aggregates...1984. Schweiz. Min. Pet. Mitt. 64, 11. At the Clara mine, nr. Oberwolfach, central Black Forest, W. Germany...lavrentievite [this List], with milky kaolinite, cinnabar, and other mercury minerals. Monoclinic, P2/m...Hero Town (420 m, 44 ~ west of south), QalaDizeh region, NE Iraq, in melilite skarn in contact with banded...M. 50, 681. At the dumps of the disused Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, as monomineralic crusts |  | | Journal (issue) | | can be applied to labels. They are as follows: Mining Engineer Shortage The decline in the number of...an effect on at least one profession: mining engineering. Mining engineers obviously have to know their...continues to grow while the number of new graduates in mining engineering has fallen so low that it is no longer...retire. “The mining engineering workforce is short by 300%,” says University of Arizona Mining Engineering...are [graduating] students to fill them.” Only 86 mining engineers graduated nationwide last year, and the |  | | Journal (issue) | | Articles Topaz from near El Chaltén, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina. . . . . . . . . . . . ...21 by G. Steger George Wade Foott: Contemporary mining artist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...cm (4 inches), from the Morro da Mina manganese mine, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Probably...2008 issue for his article on the Mockingbird gold mine). Like the rest of us on the staff, he will be striving...2009 5 Topaz from near El Chaltén Santa Cruz Province, Argentina Robert Brandstetter Auweg 1, A-2831 |  | | Catalog/List | | pinkish fine grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4...guite rich black masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...CO/3 0 Quite rich yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins...MINERAL !I dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7 |  | | Book (volume) | | both those of the Department of Geological and Mining Engineering (collected successively by Profs. I...mineral genesis) and for a practical approach (e.g. mining exploration and minerallurgy). Mineral processing...approach (from outcrop through to orebody and district scales, to support textural interpretation), the...of the isotropic sk (cubic). Rub404, Bou Azzer, Morocco. e, f (d + p/ci and dsp, resp.). Zoned pyrite porphyroclast...polishing; the gray mineral is proustite. CR329, Imiter, Morocco (dsp) 1.2 Classification Criteria for Textural |  | Sönmez, Fatma Nuran, Yılmaz, Hüseyin, Çiçek, Mustafa, Koralay, Osman Ersin, Niedermann, Samuel, Kirk, Jason (2020) Age and source of the Küre/Ödemiş arsenopyrite-gold mineralization (Menderes Massif, Turkey) determined by Re-Os-He isotopes. Ore Geology Reviews, 118. 103333 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103333 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gangue minerals in the giant Imiter epithermal silver deposit (Morocco) yielded 3He/4He ratios ranging...showed that the ore-forming fluid of the Daping mine (Yunnan/China) was a mixture of mantle-derived fluids...Gölcük villages (Fig. 1) south of Koçarlı (Aydın province). The veins having 1 m thickness and 100 m strike...authors pointed out that mineralizations in the region may have been related to already-metamorphosed...metal sulfides, marcasite, realgar, orpiment and cinnabar. The authors suggested that the initial fluids |  | | Book | | marokkanischen ses Buches die äußerst mineralreiche Region in Nordafrika nicht wiedergeben. Mineralien aus...r, al so wieder zurück zur Hauptstraße. Nahe der Mine von Guemassa können wir im Gelände noch kleine Achatkugeln...jedoch weder etwas über die aktuelle Situation der Mine in Erfahrung bringen noch irgendwelche Mineralien...müssten, der uns dann die Mineraliensammlung der Mine zeigen würde. , der Mineralienjagd und lässt durchblicken...Bergwerksverwaltung versuchen. Bereits vor der Ankunft an der Mine werden wir von fliegenden Händlern mit Heimlichtuerei |  | | Conference Proceedings (Volume) | | copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started in 1968 and the current mining depth...ore-bearing intrusions in the Emeishan large igneous province ......................................... 975...superdomain: a new metallotect within the Superior Province ................................................two orebodies in the Jinchuan intrusion, Gansu province, NW China . . ....................... 1032 ...Petrology of low-sulphide PGE ores of the Norilsk region ............................................. |
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Imiter mine, Imiter mining district, Tinghir Cercle, Tinghir Province, Drâa-Tafilalet Region, Morocco