 | | Journal (issue) | | 199~ Weird The Mineral and Wonderful from Quartz Alberta's Collector's Newsletter in Septarian...little skeptical) to learn of a nearby quartz collecting locality. It is a three-hour drive northeast from...was quartz, for which I've retained a soft spot, and I was not disappointed in this new locality. Several...produced a wide variety of interesting and unusual quartz crystals. These are found in abundant ironstone...nodules that weather out of Fig. 1 Partial, hollow quartz crystal 11/4 inches (3 cm) across, with multiple |  | | Journal (issue) | | . ................................. ...882 VESUVIANITE. By Dr. Lloyd W . Fisher ......................····························905 VESUVIANITE CRYSTALS FROM ESSEX COUNTY, N. Y. By E. B. Rou iey 906 MONAZITE...some matrix. is an attractive mineral specimen. Vesuvianite is generally mentioned in textbooks as a fairly...metamorphosed limestone. But the literature on Vesuvianite insofar as its specific localities and types...1787-1918, by Nickels, there is no mention of Vesuvianite (or idocrase ) . The subsequent appendix to this |  | | Report (edition) | | cover photograph: Pink tourmaline (elbaite) on quartz crystals, 24 x JO mm;Jrom the Bennett Quarry, Buckfield...CHAPTER l. INTRODUCTION . . . . .I .I Format of locality descriptions How to use the maps . . . . . . ...Techniques . . . . •. . . . . Collecting in the Wbi Mountain National Forest Sources of additional information...11 11 11 11 12 12 13 13 13 CHAPTER 3. MINERAL LOCALITY DESCRIPTIONS AND MAPS . . 21 CHAPTER 4. CHECKLIST...INDEX . . .. . .. . . 105 105 106 Locality index (by town) Locality index (by name of site) . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | "This agate comes from the top of a mountain in Fulton County, about 5 miles southwest of Elizabeth...the road."—on label. Elizabeth is in S/W Fulton County in northern Arkansas. CALIFORNIA—Art Tatum. Rock...call it black jasper. Some rockhounds from Kern County here have complete displays with the coal-black...slab of deep black color. They are both basanite (quartz) ; can also be called black jasper. Another name...inch in diameter. Bakersfield is in western Kern County in S.W. California. COLORADO—"I got this specimen |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to right: Sunstone cabochon, Owls Head Mountain, Franklin County, 18 × 25 mm, G. and S. Robinson specimen...Robinson photo; blue fluorite, Penfield, Monroe County, 46.6 carats, A. E. Seaman Mineral Museum specimen...photo; peristerite cabochon, Macomb, St. Lawrence County, 12 × 18 mm, G. and S. Robinson specimen, G. Robinson...Titanite (sphene), Tilly Foster mine, Brewster, Putnam County, 6.70 carats, Harvard Mineralogical Museum specimen...Robinson photo; diopside, DeKalb, St. Lawrence County, left—kite cut 3.96 carats, right—oval cut, 10 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California ............................101 by...Spaulding R. A. Mason & R. F. Martin , California locality index ..........................................California Chapter of the Friends of Mineralogy, Locality Index Committee Gypsum crystals from near Zaragoza...Three property in the Ramona district, San Diego County, California. This mine, strictly speaking, is developed...H. W. Robb of Escondido, who took two partners, Dan Macintosh of Ramona and Charles F. Schnack o f Escondido |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Denmark takes between 2-2 'h hours. The Eg vesuvianite locality is one of the classic European mineral localities...mentioned in a manuscript by Esmark in 1818. Eg vesuvianite specimens appeared on the European mineral trade...of finds produced some marvellous greenish brown vesuvianite crystal with lengths up to 30 em. The first..."The Worlds Minerals" by Spencer (1911). The vesuvianite, however, was still to be found in the Kristiansand...described in this article. Local ities All the vesuvianite locations described in this article are located |  | | Book (volume) | | .......... 83 The History of Lord Hill, Black Mountain, Mount Apatite, and Nathaniel H. Perry . .......Duane L. Leavitt The Bennett Pegmatite, Oxford County, Maine . .............................................. 341 Neil A. Wintringham Maine Mineral Locality Index ..........................................tourmalinebearing Himalaya pegmatite at Mesa Grande, San Diego County, California. Most recently, Gene was gratified...Bennett pegmatite, agreed to write about that locality. Carl Francis, curator of minerals and meteorites |  | | Journal (issue) | | severalof the Arkansas antimonymines in Sevier County,Arkansas (Smithand Staszak, 1996).This districtis...hiddenon the wocxledeast side, we collectedvein quartz with some llow secondary antimony minerals. These...Carpenter, who lived not r from the famous vesuvianite locality of Sanford, Maine, ied to collect a sample...Thus, she as- sembled a suite of species from a locality, with others to compare them. Such a collection...trimming down the milk.')'quartz vein material, I noticed some minute yellow to pale brown crystals. At 40X, |  | | Book | | appear after page numbers. () Reported from this locality; no further information b Book review c Crystal...Historical information m A map of the locality or a map on which the locality appears n Brief descriptive note... etc.) s Specimen locality attribution only; no information about the locality itself In the case...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...14:283-298 ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | information is both accurate and pertinent to the locality under discussion. The twelve parts are: What is...xray powder pattern.” In 1960 we had idocrase (vesuvianite), whereas the change in nomenclature preference...edition as vesuvianite (idocrase). The new edition also adds the important vesuvianite locality at Asbestos...(expansion of life onto land, birth of the Appalachian mountain chain); From Pangea to (Almost) the Modem World:...Mountains and Ice: The Cenozoic Era (rise of mammals, mountain-building in Asia); The Great Ice Age (global glaciation |  | | Book (volume) | | traced, however, and the search still continues. Locality reports for already established Maine species...town where a find was made. The reader will note locality and species reports, gemstone records, etc., in...in various journals concerning the species and locality lists of Maine, prompting a few individuals to...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has |  | | Book | | difficulties in achieving uniformity in any compilation. Locality names and spellings differ in time or with boundaries...Therefore no attempt was made to revise and update all locality data to conform with present political designations...present country to which they belong. As a rule, the locality designations given in the original published papers...as varietal names (for example, the varieties of quartz known as agate, amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony...about the mineral, depending upon the kind of locality name used. The name franklinite, for Franklin |  | | Book | | •• ROADSIDE EOLOGY INE D. W. Caldwell • • Mountain Press Publishing Company M issoula, Montana 1998...Patten-Baxter State Park 267 Northern Maine and The County 277 U.S. 1: H oulton- For t Kent 283 Maine 11:...Boundary 66 mya* Cretaceous Igneous rocks in York County. 68 to 100 mya Jurassic Basalt dikes near coast...Sebago granite and pegmatite deposits in Oxford County. 325 mya Devonian Acadian orogeny: Folding and...important role in determining the intensity of mountain building and the timing of deformation while the |  | | Journal (issue) | | garnets the size of a pea are scattered thru the quartz ledges. lhe mine dump contains much fine massive...frequently wish you had been, and it was all over. The locality near Hailesboro of which Valiant spoke, or rather...hexagonite. So 1nucb has been written on this locality it would seem hardly necessary, even if possible...Unfortunately I must relate that the dumps consisted of quartz, var. milky, massive; talc, soft and powdery ;...green serpentine which I coUected and some tiny brown crystals which I believe to be garnet or tourmaline |  | | Journal (issue) | | R, Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...& W. L. Roberts An author's guide to writing locality articles for the Mineralogical Record...........by Werner Lieber. For a detailed review of this locality see the article by Niedermayr in this issue, beginning...fo r more than 2000 years; and it is the type locality fo r wulfenite, hydrozincite and ilsemannite....B INTRODUCTION Bleiberg (the name means “Lead Mountain”) stands prominently imong the classic mineral |  | | Report (volume) | | magmas: Dravite 376 Tourmaline stability in magmas: Quartz-tourmaline assemblages 376 Tourmaline stability...Non-stoichiometric Trigonal and Tetrahedral Boron Borian vesuvianite Borosilicates with Unknown Boron Coordination...EPMA Analysis of Minerals for Boron Kornerupine Vesuvianite Tourmaline Summary and Future Considerations...borofluorosilicate from the Golden Horn batholith, Okanogan County, Wahington. Am Mineral 65:1138-1142 Bogomolov MA...Fleischer M (1960) New Mineral Names. Am Mineral 45:478 Brown GE, Clark JR (1978) Crystal structure of hydrochloroborite | | | Report (volume) | | :cceeeeeeeeeeees Tourmaline stability in magmas: Quartz-tourmaline assemblages...... Tourmaline stability...borofluorosilicate from the Golden Horn batholith, Okanogan County, Wahington. Am Mineral 65:1138-1142 ; Bogomolov...Fleischer M (1960) New Mineral Names. Am Mineral 45:478 Brown GE, Clark JR (1978) Crystal structure of hydrochloroborite...of the ludwigite-pinakiolite group from Fresno County, California. Can Mineral 26:911-916 Erd RC, McAllister...Three mine pegmatites, Ramona District, San Diego County, California. Mineral Rec 20:101-127 Foord EE, Martin |  | | Journal (issue) | | ra y, m etallic luster, n early pure Scholzite Quartz hydrous calcium zinc phosphate 40 miles S .E ..................................5 Brian Lloyd Locality— Minas Gerais, Brazil: A Response..............Gaines Minerals O f The Spinel Group From Alleghany County, North C a ro lin a .............................the tive of the Friends of M ineralogy as well. county schools during the com ing school A frequent lack...In contrast, a really fine group of long, clear quartz crystals from D auphine fetched $432 ( £ 180). |
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