| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | vari- 3 eties. In the Joplin lead and zinc district of southwest Missouri the minerals crystallizing...covellite (copper sulfide) by heating powdered sphalerite (zinc sulfide) in a water solution of copper sulfate...blueblack powder (covellite) appears. In the Joplin district covellite after sphalerite has been found, so...naturally are the minerals which have been formed on .mine-tools, prehistoric implements, old coins and other...Museum may be seen vases and artifacts made of copper showing traces of the green coloring of malachite | | | Journal (issue) | MINERAL OBSERVER ) 17 7 • 9 't( C S 1 7 /IC • Copper.13 cm.HoughtonCounty,Michigan,USA.Jeff Scovil photo...Saxon minerals in the Terra Mineralia Museum (Germany). A group of Italian mineralogists presents a new...Stefano Dallabona, Ivano Rocchetti Fiemmeite: a New Copper Oxalate from San Lugano (Trentino, Dolomites, Italy)...crystals. 31 x 28 cm. Urals, Russia. GM KFU#6008. 13. Copper. 7.5 x 7.5 cm. Turyinsky mines, Northern Urals...Fluorite (with old labels). 7 x 5 cm. Schwarzwald, Germany. GM KFU #7461. 15-16. (on page 10). 15. Set of | | | Journal (issue) | worth mentioning the outstanding chalcedony and agate specimens from the vicinities of the village of...Z. Kantor (leftmost) with miners at the Lukhumi Mine, Gornaya Racha, Georgia, 1975. Photo: Leo V. Bulgak...the pen-name ofSergey Pevtsov) [in Russian]. 6. Agate chambers keep their secrets// Techniques to the...Almanac, 2000, vol. 2, pp. I I0-119. 16 11. Agate and its enigma// Chemistry and Life - 21st Century...54--59. 39. Quartz Twins by Japan Law and Native Copper// Mineral Observer. Mineralogical Almanac, 2018 | | | | by Franckh’sche Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Adapted by Anthony C. Tennissen. Revised Edition...222 Index to Minerals.224 13 ELEMENTS name: Copper formula: Cu physical properties: Color: Pale...assembled. Often found in the oxidized portions of copper-sulfide ore bodies. In U.S. nicely shaped crystals...England. Native copper wires occur at Tsumeb, South West 'Africa. occurrences: 14 10 X Copper 15 ELEMENTS...pitchblende at Great Bear Lake. Also with native copper as cavity-fillings in basalt at Keeweenaw Peninsula | | | Book (edition) | Lieber, © 1969 by Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart, W. Germany. Anthony C. Tennissen. der schénen* Franckh’sche...MINERALS CHART ae meek 13 ELEMENTS NAME: Copper FORMULA: Cu PHYSICAL PROPERTIES: Color : Pale...occuRRENCES: Often found in the oxidized portions of copper-sulfide ore bodies. In U.S. nicely shaped crystals...crystals are found in Cornwall, England. Native copper wires occur at Tsumeb, South West “Africa. 14...pitchblende at Great Bear Lake. Also with native copper as cavity-fillings in basalt at Keeweenaw Peninsula | | | Book | For each fine mineral specimen recovered from a mine, quarry, or canyon wall there must be millions lying...it was first discovered, in a zinc-iron-manganese mine. aly If we imagine one axis of a cube shortened...isometric * lead sulfide Neudorf, Harz Mountains, Germany One of the obvious properties used in characterizing...Cerussite * orthorhombic ° lead carbonate Tintic district, Utah Another example of reticulated twinning...resembling sheets or branching and twisted wires. Copper, 17. Gold ° isometric ° gold Grass Valley, Nevada | | | Journal (issue) | Rhodochrosite- Marc & Janis Countiss collection, page 76; Copper-Paul Bordovsky collection, page 33; Elbaite-Jeremy...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...dozen mines were opened, one of which (the Mariposa mine) produced a wider variety of mercury minerals than...scalenohedral calcite crystals. The Terlingua mercury district, with a few smaller, adjacent districts in Texas | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | crystal'ized cinnabar which comes from the Culver-Baer mine, Sonoma Co., Calif. Colorado—An interesting article...Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.) The Micanite pegmatite district lies across the Park-Fremont County line in south-central...village of Micanite. The pegmatite of the Micanite district contains unusually large 378 ROCKS AND MINERALS...operating a cobalt mine in the Blackbird district of Lemhi Co., Idaho. This mine is reported to be the...the largest cobalt mine in the U. S. Reliable reports say that plans are being made to construct a large | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Review Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Genesis of Agate—A Review Jens Götze 1, *, Robert Möckel 2 and Yuanming...Bergakademie Freiberg, Brennhausgasse 14, 09599 Freiberg, Germany Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Hemholtz...Technology, Chemnitzer Str. 40, 09599 Freiberg, Germany; r.moeckel@hzdr.de Department of Geological Sciences...20 November 2020 Abstract: Agate—a spectacular form of SiO2 and a famous gemstone—is...interstitial molecular H2 O and silanol groups. Most agate occurrences worldwide are related to SiO2 -rich | | | Catalog/List | mineral, "At were of large, prisms, of this mine have been obtained, more Note. - Galena offer...in the specimens Dundasite, bunches samples Mine, of occurs lode. beautiful white large more...originally Cornish mining ceeding by colour, Mine fractures of great the mineral often Mount ...extremely some rarely Anglesite. Embolite, back Mine. with minute of small of capping gossan the... 'holy fallen filled with the olivine it district: from or at regarded The moderate a at high | | | Book | Nati 'fe Copper. -.. Red and Black Oxides Blue and Green Carbonates Silicate of Copper - COPPER. ......Arseniates of Copper Phosphate of Copper Copper Glance Copper Pyrites .. Purple Copper Ore - Tennantite...54 55 56 56 57 59 • FOREI'GN ORES. . • I •• COPPER -" -... - - Galena Anglesite,- &c. Cerussite... • Page . Wall-cases 15 to 23. .. ~ Native Copper Red Oxide - Black Oxide .. - Chrysocoll a...Phosphates, Arseniates, &c. Copper Glance and Pn.rple Ore Kupfer Schiefer Copper Pyrites ... ... ·· Fahlerz | | | Book | Yuanming Pan Mineralogy, Geochemistry and Genesis of Agate—A Review Reprinted from: Minerals 2020, 10, 1037.... . . . . 5 Terry Moxon and Galina Palyanova Agate Genesis: A Continuing Enigma Reprinted from: Minerals...Gemological Characteristics and Origin of the Zhanguohong Agate from Beipiao, Liaoning Province, China: A Combined...Evgeny Sidorov, Andrey Borovikov and Yurii Seryotkin Copper-Containing Agates of the Avacha Bay (Eastern Kamchatka...source of the silica required for the growth of agate remains largely unknown. The first known descriptive | | | Catalog/List | ...... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen with minor...resembles lapis AJOITE Copper aluminum silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls...Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...ALLEMONTITE An intergrowth of arsenic and antimony Germany Harz Mountains, Andreasberg Rich gray botryoidal...Lead telluride Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Cleavage plates in quartz with pyrite ......... | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | barytes and cerussite in the Bogosiowskoi mine in the district of Karkalinsk. It also occurs in the gold...finest calcite crystals are found in the Turjini copper-mine, near Bogoslowsk, exbibiting the following combinations...occurred with parallel systems of axes. In the copper mine of Kirabinsk, the crystals of calcite exhibiting...of intersection of two twin lamin=. I n the copper-mine of Gumeschewsk, calcite occurs in the form -...ore. In the Altai Mountains, at the Smeinogorsk mine, calcite crystals occur in drusy spaces of barytes | | | Book | A CHANGING PLANET 11 Vanadinite, San Carlos district, Chihuahua, Mexico * 8 x 4 x 2 cm Mineral Species...sulfate). Azurite (blue copper carbonate) can react to form malachite (green copper carbonate). If malachite...banded growths in thodochrosite (page 112) and agate (page 167), document these changes. Such features...some of the world’s finest crystals of amethyst, agate and a large family of silicate minerals known collectively...of malachite and blue of azurite are both due to copper, an element that can produce different colors in | | | Journal (issue) | cavity of dolomite carbonatite. 6 x 5 cm. Zheleznyi Mine, Kovdor, Kola Peninsula, Russia. Fersman Mineralogical...8. Outcrop of quartz vein with supergene green copper minerals . (a) 3189 m a.s.l., (b) 3185 m a.s.l...Administratively, the Imeretinsky site is located in the Urup district of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic, 60 km SW of...malachite. kcording to Lavrishchev et al. (2002), copper mineralization is genetically related to the Early...It corresponds those of leadhillite from Mammoth Mine , Arizona, USA and to the empirical formula Pb | | | Journal (issue) | 2014 Cover Image: “Saturn’s Rings” Inclusions in Agate Photo and Collection of Tom Shearer 3 Agates and...Göetze, Mineralogist TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany Introduction Agates are some of the most fascinating...ancient times, the question concerning the genesis of agate is still in discussion today. Both in historic and...a lot of data about certain agate occurrences or specific aspects of agate formation have been published...genesis of agates. 7 The results document that agate formation is a very complex and often a multi-step | | | Book | [(OH)5 (P04)4]' 6 H20 (monoclinic, brown) Rotlăufchen Mine near Wetzlar/FRG Original size 5 x 6 mm ISBN-13:...a deeper view of the crust in mines. The deepest mine shafts are those of the gold mines in the Witwatersrand...coal. Minerals can occur as simple elements like copper, silver, gold, graphite, diamond or sulfur; but...and clays to form simple bowls. The working of copper and tin during the Bronze Age (1800-800 Be) to...smelters would be useless, we would have no steel, copper, or aluminum, and the most important technological | | | Report (issue) | amethyst and agate. Chrysocolla and dioptase are recovered from the oxidation zone of a small copper deposit...Quartz 10.2. Finely crystalline varieties 10.2.1. Agate 10.2.2. Carnelian 10.2.3. Chalcedony 10.2.4. Chrysoprase...Chrysoprase 10.2.5. Jasper 10.2.6. Moss Agate 10.3. Semicrystalline varieties 10.3.1. Hyalite 10.3.2. "Tiger's...scale to the north of Rossing Siding, Swakopmund District (Martin, 1965). The mineral has also been reported...Marmor Pforte 37, Swakopmund District. On Neuhof 100 in the Maltahohe District, amazonite is found in granitic | | | Journal (issue) | ...............53 60 Gems and Minerals of Post Mine Closures The Maine (Part I) Popularity of Bisbee...without notice. On The Cover Specimen of Bear Canyon agate, with chalcedony bands/ amethyst point from the...Jocinto Neto specimen.” - Rock H. Currier Topaz Xanda Mine, Virgem da Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil Overall Measurements:...petriied wood. I shared this with an old friend of mine who belonged to the Shasta Gem and Mineral Society...cutting performance for hard materials such as agate, petrified wood or jade. MK-303 Professional grade | | | Book | answer the purpose extremely well, and are sold in Germany at a — — — — very cheap rate. Besides occurring...light, but without producing an image, as in Talc, Copper Pyrites, &c. (4.) Glimmering : when the reflection...platinum. 2nd. A small spoon of platinum. 3rd. An agate pestle and mortar. 4th. Thin platinum wire and holder...phosphoric acid and of small quantities of lead in copper. " 6th. Nitrate of cobalt, in solution, to distinguish...alumina, magnesia, and oxide of zinc. " 7th. Oxide of copper for determining small quantities of chlorine in | | | Book | however, are composed of a single element, such as copper, gold, sulphur, or carbon. The latter is better...later stage they often become filled with quartz, agate or chalcedony. The largest part of the gases and...damaged by the finger nail. A piece of 19 copper wire or a copper coin (hardness approx. 3) scratches minerals...a piece of copper in one hand, and a piece of amber in the other, we can feel that copper is colder....interesting minerals can also be found on heaps of mine refuse, but never enter abandoned shafts or caves | | | Book | immensely popular handbook of minerals appeared in Germany I obtained a copy fo! my personal library and was...times, and there is evidence of at least one flint mine dating from this period. Finely worked and polished...production clearly ranked with that of food supplies. Copper and gold were the first known metals. Gold occurs...metal tools were made of copper, occasionally found native, but pure copper is also too soft. Only by...pure metal. In order to obtain copper in sufficient quantities copper ores had to be found and smelted | | Kötschau, A., Büchel, G., Einax, J.W., Mirgorodsky, D., Meißner, R., von Tümpling, W., Merten, D. (2014) Element contents in shoots of sunflower (Helianthus annuus): Prediction versus measuring. Geochemistry, 74 (3) 385-391 doi:10.1016/j.chemer.2014.02.006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Geosciences, Applied Geology, Burgweg 11, 07749 Jena, Germany Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Institute of...Environmental Analysis, Lessingstraße 8, 07743 Jena, Germany c Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –...Station Falkenberg, Dorfstraße 55, 39615 Falkenberg, Germany d Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research –...Chemometrics, Brückstraße 3a, 39114 Magdeburg, Germany b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...grown in plots situated at two different sites in Germany and treated with different amendments (NPK-fertilizer | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | photo March/April: Fluorite, Dow Scar vein, Hilton mine, Scordale, Cumbria, England; Jesse Fisher specimen... quartz, and albite, Kestral Pocket, Smoky Hawk mine, Teller County, Colorado; Martin Zinn specimen,...September/October: Gold and quartz, Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California; Scott Rudolph specimen...Actinolite, New York, 221, 454 Adularia, Michigan, 39 Agate, 160–65 Albert Laws Kidwell (1919–2008), A. E. Smith...Natural (and Not-SoNatural) History of “Turritella Agate,” 160–65 Almandine, New York, 222–24 Alamandine |
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