| | Report (issue) | 16.1986(8) X-ray Powder Pattern: Daniel mine, Schneeberg, Germany. 3.131 (10), 1.647 (9), 1.918 (8)...(1) Daniel mine, Schneeberg, Germany; average of three partial analyses, after deduction of quartz; corresponds...Torgovsk mine, Russia; recalculated to 100% after removal of ∼25% bismuthinite, wulfenite, and quartz; corresponds...Association: Bismuth, skutterudite, quartz (Daniel mine, Schneeberg, Germany); molybdenite, bismuthinite, aikinite...wulfenite, quartz (Torgovsk mine, Russia). Distribution: In the Daniel mine, Schneeberg, Saxony, and the | | | Journal (issue) | (2009-2017) Keith and Diane Brownlee (2015-2017) Daniel Trinchillo Richard J. Rossi (2009-2018) Mark Hay...M. Goldfine & Helen Buchanan Davis (2010-2018) Daniel J. Record Deborah R. Deitsch-Perez (2016-2018)...Schneeberg Mining District, Western Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany ....................................... 620...737 ►• - COVER: Erythrite spray, 4.4 cm, in a quartz-lined pocket, from Schneeberg. Gail and Jim Spann...Schneeberg District in the famous Saxon Erzgebirge of Germany has been a source of mineral specimens and mineral | | | Journal (issue) | Austria. (3) Boracite, 2.9 cm, from Lüneburg, Germany. (4) Native silver, 3.5 cm, from PotosÃ, Bolivia... Harz Mountains, Germany. (9) Pyrite, 2.4 cm, from Gerensegen, Schwarzwald, Germany. (10) Hematite “iron...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 | | | Journal (issue) | (a variety of zoisite), 9 cm, from the Merelani mine, located on the slopes of the Lelatema Mountains...cover: Top left: Euclase, 2.2 cm, from the La Marina mine, Colombia. Top right: Topaz, 8.4 cm, from Ouro Preto...left: Phosphophyllite, 2 cm, from the Unificada mine, Potosi, Bolivia. Bottom right: Grossular, 3.5 cm...Fluorapatite on elbaite, 5.5 cm, from the Alto da Cabeca mine, Parelhas, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. Will Johnson...discovery of morganite at the famous Corrego do Urucum mine in 1973. Will Johnson collection (I had to trade | | | Journal (issue) | cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...Tibbits Mason Kaminski Greg Toomey Max Kaminski Daniel Ulibarri Jim & Imelda Klein Lawrence E. Violett...custom jewelry. Wulfenite, 5.4 cm, from the Defiance mine near Gleeson, Cochise County, Arizona. Ken Donn...photo. Wulfenite (hot-pink), 3.7 cm, from the Glove mine, Tyndall district, Santa Cruz County, Arizona. Collected...pseudomorph after azurite, 4 cm, from the Inspiration mine, Globe-Miami district, Gila County, Arizona. Ken | | | Catalog/List | 2.5 cm high and 1,5 cm across. £25 Tonca de Onca Mine, Virgem de Lapa Minas Gerais Brazil This is the...crystals with some pink Hureaulite 7x7 mmCigana Mine, Galileia Minas Gerais £36 4 BRUCITE clear silvery...inch drusy quartz crystals on matrix, not a visually attractive piece ! Ollinghouse Mine, washoe County...ore sample. Hartenstein Schacht 371 Erzebirge Saxony Germany 2x2.5 (380 grams) £38 8 NATIVE ANTIMONY rich...large lx2 inch £20 Ilimaussaq Greenland Sapucai Mine, Galileia Minas Gerais about 8.5mm Seinajoki Laani | | | Journal (issue) | row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Spann collection; Tom Spann photo. Fluorite with quartz, 11 cm, from Fujian Province, China. Keith & Diane...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Jordan Root photo. Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler | | | Catalog/List | .... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro crystals on limonite gossen...silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on monzonite . ...silicate CLEAVELANDITE Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine #2 Lustrous white twin xl groups, minor muscovite...and antimony Germany Harz Mountains, Andreasberg Rich gray botryoidal aggregates in quartz . ALTAITE Lead...Saguache County, Klondike mine Brilliant metallic tin white cleavable mass in quartz with minor coloradoite | | | Report (issue) | c = 23.47(2) X-ray Powder Pattern: Wittichen, Germany. 14.0 (FFF), 3.89 (FF), 3.01 (FF), 2.90 (FF), 3...erythrite, quartz, calcite. Distribution: In Germany, from the Daniel mine, Schneeberg, Saxony; at the...Bauhaus district, Richelsdorf, Hesse; from the Anton mine, Heubachtal, near Schiltach, and at Wittichen, Black...Ogdensburg, Sussex Co., New Jersey, and in the Getchell mine, Potosi district, Humboldt Co., Nevada. Name: Honors | | Staude, S., Mordhorst, T., Neumann, R., Prebeck, W., Markl, G. (2010) Compositional variation of the tennantite–tetrahedrite solid-solution series in the Schwarzwald ore district (SW Germany): The role of mineralization processes and fluid source. Mineralogical Magazine, 74 (2) 309-339 doi:10.1180/minmag.2010.074.2.309 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | solidsolution series in the Schwarzwald ore district (SW Germany): The role of mineralization processes and fluid...Tübingen, Wilhelmstrasse 56, D-72074 Tübingen, Germany [Received 30 October 2009; Accepted 28 April 2010]...locations in the Schwarzwald ore district of SW Germany. Electron microprobe analysis is used to correlate...1980). From the Middle Triassic to Jurassic, SW Germany was part of a shelf platform with distinct time...Lörrach, Karlsruhe and Stuttgart in Southern Germany is well suited to understanding the controls on | | | Report (issue) | thumbnail-size azurite specimen from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece, which I acquired at the...from the very small 2017 find in the Christiana mine which yielded the specimens seen in Munich later...harm either: Azurite, 4.2 cm, from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece. Greekrocks specimen and...========ï‚¥ Azurite, 1.8 cm, from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece. Greekrocks specimen and...material handled by Dan consisted of epidote and quartz specimens which Doug and his partner Tom Hanna | | | Catalog/List | MINERAL LIST ELEMENTS 1. ARSENIC Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Solid gray dense metallic cellular mass with...and masses. 3x4½x2½" $125. 00. 2. SILVER Amethyst mine, Creede, Mineral Co., Colorado. Dull silvery metallic...Province of Antonio) Chile. vein in pyrite and quartz mat.rix. l½x2¾:! ~150. 00. Choice dense dull golden...terminations. 3x3½x2" $35.00. 30. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico. radiating elongated etched...gray metallic intergrown crystalline mass with quartz crystals and minor native sil ver. 2x3½xl¾"250 | | | Catalog/List | MINERAL LIST ELEMENTS 1. ARSENIC Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany. Solid gray dense metallic cellular mass with...and masses. 3x4½x2½" $125. 00. 2. SILVER Amethyst mine, Creede, Mineral Co., Colorado. Dull silvery metallic...Province of Antonio) Chile. vein in pyrite and quartz mat.rix. l½x2¾:! ~150. 00. Choice dense dull golden...terminations. 3x3½x2" $35.00. 30. ANHYDRITE Eagle Picher mine, Niaca, Chihuahua, Mexico. radiating elongated etched...gray metallic intergrown crystalline mass with quartz crystals and minor native sil ver. 2x3½xl¾"250 | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | building block - a mineralogicaljourney through Germany in the 'Kr0ger Haus', also located in the castle...to supply the collection with new material from Germany and abroad. lts first administrator, C. H. Lommer...'Reiche Zeche' ('rich pit') training and research mine. These will each be introduced after the developments...The 'find of the decade' of the 'WeiBer Hirsch' mine in Schneeberg in 1871 is worthy of mention in this...identified five new secondary uranium minerals in this mine. by which time the collection had grown to around | | | Journal (issue) | Pyromorphite-Carol & Karl Waming collection, page 276; Elbaite-Daniel Nowak collection, page 201; Diamond-Rob Lavinsky...Calcite-Kevin & Mark Brown collection, page 52; Smoky quartz gwindel-Brent Lockhart collection, page 175; Aquamarine-Wally...Foote also made several collecting visits to the mine in 1890-1891, and brought back many good specimens...chemist and physicist). In 1895 Niven purchased the mine from its owner, on behalf of Thomas Edison. In the...unearthing many fine specimens of gadolinite, smoky quartz, fluorite, feldspar in crystals to five feet across | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | pebble.art@outlook.com M Figure 1. Rock Crystal (Quartz), Cavnic, Romania; 2017; specimen size 7.5 × 14...resides, in the Erzgebirge Mountains region of Saxony, Germany. Although this area has a long history of collecting...Thierfelder works as a chemical lab technician in Germany. In his spare time, he is either collecting in...2020 247 Figure 2. Smoky Quartz with Adularia, Penig, Saxony, Germany; 2018; specimen size 9 × 6 ×...Tourmaline, variety Schorl, Amerika Quarry, Penig, Saxony, Germany; 2018; specimen size 7 cm; watercolors. Markus | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 20013 pohwatp@si.edu FLUORITE Part 2 Huanggang Mine, Inner Mongolia, China T he first part of this...include sphalerite, galena, siderite, and quartz. Casts of quartz after fluorite are common from here. Recent...northern England, particularly from the Rogerley mine, has made these classic specimens available once...made of the complex crystals from the Trevaunce mine, St. Agnes. The crystals on the Smithsonian specimens...crystals to 2 cm have been recorded.The East Pool mine has produced crystals to 6 cm in colors ranging | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Baden (HMM, 82409). FIG. 6. Emplectite,Tannenbaum,Saxony (ROM, M 12328). FIG. 7. 3Cu..S'5Bi_•S•,artificial...When comparedwith powderdata for emplectite from Saxony(ROM, M 12328) indexedon Hofmann'scell (Table III)...andKupferwismuth#lanz (Schneider,1853,in 7, p. 997) from Saxony. On the basisof the originalanalysis,by Klaprothin...investigations of the copperbi'smuthore from the Daniel Mine, Wittichen,Baden. Accordingto Schneider(20) the...copper-bismuth ores from variousmines,includingthe Daniel Mine, at Wittichen,Baden, were obtainedthroughthe | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | calcite, dolomite, siderite, barite, fluorite, and quartz. There are occurrences where exceptionally rare...familiar to mineral collectors is the intergrowth of quartz and feldspar known as graphic granite. Pseudomorphs...and complex tennantite crystals with quartz from the El Cobre mine, Concepción del Oro, Zacatecas, Mexico...exceptional 9-cm tennantite specimen from the Longfellow mine, Red Mountain Pass, Ouray County, Colorado. Dave...chalcopyrite and are associated with siderite, pyrite, and quartz. Some of these specimens have a sooty coating that | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Mineralogy, Brennhausgasse 14, 09596 Freiberg, Germany The Open University of Israel, Department of Natural...Technology, Halsbrücker Str. 34, 09599 Freiberg, Germany [Received 7 October 2014; Accepted 2 March 2015;...Southern America reveals that macrocrystalline quartz and chalcedony within them have an unusually high...contain >70 ppm of U, quartz from magmatic and metamorphic rocks as well as pegmatite quartz commonly exhibit...photoluminescence, uranium, uranyl, agate, chalcedony, quartz. Introduction BANDED chalcedony is known as agate | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | â– â– Roscherite-Group Minerals yÜÉÅ UÃœté|Ä Daniel Atencio* and José M.V. Coutinho Instituto de Geociências...of roscherite-group minerals include the Sapucaia mine, Lavra do Ênio, Alto Serra Branca, the Córrego Frio...pegmatite, the Lavra da Ilha pegmatite, and the Pirineus mine. We report here the following three additional occurrences:...crystallized rose quartz in the 1970’s. Figure 1. (left) Yellow zanazziite from Pirineus mine, Itinga, Minas...tourmaline, albite, quartz, and lepidolite. Figure 2. Yellow zanazziite from Pirineus mine, Itinga, Minas | | | Journal (issue) | ...............363 by C. J. Stefano The Nakhlak Mine, Anarak District, Esfahan Province, Iran..........Struthers Sandor Fuss Paul Geffner Robert Lavinsky Daniel Trinchillo Stuart Wilensky Contact PAUL GEFFNER...A. Rudolph (2022) Gail & Jim Spann (2021-2022) Daniel Trinchillo (2022) Arkenstone (2022) Dylan Stolowitz...Long (2022) SENIOR FELLOWS Salim Edde Lyda Hill Daniel J. Record Rob Lavinsky Wilbert A. Danner (bequeathed)...L. Allred (2022) Brice Gobin-Mineral Art (2023) Daniel Mancano Mineral Nation (2023) Marcus Budil (2023) | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | hydrothermal silver-lead-zinc vein, Lucky Friday mine, Coeur d’Alene mining district, U.S.A—Patrick Nadoll...properties and trace element signature of hydrothermal quartz: A fingerprint of growth dynamics— Thomas Götte...Bicarbonate-rich fluid inclusions and hydrogen diffusion in quartz from the LibcÌŒice orogenic gold deposit, Bohemian...composition of the Platreef at the Sandsloot–Mogolakwena mine, Bushveld complex, South Africa—Laurie Reisberg...hydrothermal uranium deposits of the Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany—V I. Velichkin and B.P. Vlasov 1 27 58 74 | | | Journal (issue) | • Email: info@kristalle.com Harz Mountains, Germany by Günter Grundmann Thomas P. Moore Wendell E...COVER: PROUSTITE, 3.5 cm, from St Andreasberg. Germany, found in 1899; ex collection of Richard Baldauf...Peter L. Via Salim Edde Daniel Trinchillo Lyda Hill Scott A. Rudolph Daniel J. Record Gail & Jim Spann...District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany ........................... 300 by G. Grundmann...District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany Günter Grundmann Eschenweg 6 D-32760 Detmold grundmann | | | Report (issue) | United States of America PHOTO CREDITS Cover: Quartz variety amethyst, 10.5 cm tall Goboboseb Mountains...photo © 2009 GIA Page 2 Quartz variety amethyst, 3.5 cm tall Kakamunurle Mine, Kar0r, Tamil Nadu, India...collection, Marie-Lan Nguyen photo Upper middle: Quartz variety amethyst (Japan-law twin), 1.6 cm tall...photo, circa 2004 Bottom: Quartz variety amethyst, 6.7 cm tall Wattika Mine, Murzinka, Sverdlovskaya Oblast'...the word "amethyst" refers to macrocrystalline quartz that is violet or purple and is derived from the |
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