 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | PEGMATITE MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York...tourmalines are rubellite, the pink or red variety; indicolite or the blue variety; achroite, the colorless...found in all types of pegmatite from the common granite type to the lithium pegmatite. Many localities have...near Bedford and Overlook, New York; near Golden, Colorado and elsewhere. A fine crystal measuring 4x4x10...tourmaline crystal was noted in the Luella mine near Avon, Latah county, Idaho, which measured 3x3x8 feet. Other |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE WALDEN GEM MINE By DAVID M. SEAMAN American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y. The Walden...Walden Gem Mine is located on the Walden farm just off of Cotton Hill road about five miles northeast of...the hill and on top of the hill you will find the mine (quarry). Please close all gates after you. This...species of minerals only present in this type of pegmatite. The quarry was opened up early in 1962 by two...tubes, and other electronic equipment. The Walden pegmatite appears to be located along the contact of the |  | | Report (issue) | | International, LLC P.O. Box 263, East Hampton, CT 06424, USA Phone 1.860.267.1512; fax 1.860.267.7225 www.lapisint...elbaite crystals with lepidolite from the Golconda Mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil by Eberhard Equit, 1993...CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA Tourmaline ♦ History ♦ Mineralogy • Tourmaline...mineralogical terms such as tourmaline garnet. indicolite (1800). Various systematic mineralo gists accepted...from nearly colorless through green, red, blue, brown and black. Acceptance of this variability lay in |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...very old origin, often without lrnown source. e.g. quartz or cinnabar. Current practice most often names...polished mineral surface, expressed in clase. 7 - quartz. 8 - topaz, 9 - corundum, 10 - dia- percentage...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g. |  | | Book (edition) | | Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page...Calcjte 4 Fluorite 5 Apatite 6 Orthoclase 7 8 9 10 Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond In a few descriptions we...crystallize with right- or left-handed forms (e.g., quartz). epitaxy Overgrowth of one crystal on another...(4) fluorite, (5) apatite, (6) orthoclase, (7) quartz, (8) topaz, (9) corundum, (10) diamond. monochromatic...of weakness caused by deformation or twinning. pegmatite Very coarse-grained granitic rock representing |  | | Book (edition) | | Morocco; (center, left) wulfenite, San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) ameihyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud mine, Arizona; (lower...Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For Reference Not to...Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD New York ...Cal and Kerith Graeber Cureton Mineral Company Colorado School of Mines Charles and Marcelle Weber Dan | | | Book (edition) | | Morocco; (center, left) wulfen ite San Francisco mine, Sonora, Mexico; (center) amethyst, Veracruz, Mexico;...Mountains, Utah; (lower le ft) rhodochrosite, N'Chwaning mine, Sou th A frica; {lower left, center) wulfenite...Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere nee Not to...Sagtiache Co1tntr Publlc I...ibran' Saguache, Colorado ~ VANNOSTRAND REINHOLD ~ - - - - N e w York...Cal and Kerith Graeber Cureton Mineral Company Colorado School of Mines cw Charles and Marcelle Weber |  | | Book | | occurs at Trimouns as colorless, pink and pale brown, translucent to transparent, tabular microcrystals...AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns |  | | Journal (volume) | | De Agostini website at: UK: AUS: SA: NZ: Rose quartz RO Ruby RU www.deagostini.co.uk www.deagostini...Story of the Earth, Editorial and Design by T he Brown Reference Group pie ISBN O 7489 7935 2 NO i 07 04...Mexico. Eight-sided crystals from the Traversella mine, Piedmont, Italy. .&. crystals. It can also be...surface . u, tD -·3 se uar Rose quartz is an uncommon form of quartz that is often used in necklaces...shapeless specimens. D espite its name, rose quartz can in fact range in colour from pink through to |  | Gaines, Richard V., Skinner, H. Catherine W., Foord, Eugene E., Mason, Brian, Rosenzweig, Abraham, King, Vandall T. (1997) Dana's New Mineralogy (8th ed.) Wiley-Interscience. p.1872 | Book (edition) | | B. Hoover: U.S.G.S., Federal Center, Lakewood, Colorado. John M. Hughes: Dept. of Geology, Miami University...Louise Reif: U. S. G. S., Federal Center, Lakewood, Colorado. Charles B. Sclar: Dept. of Earth Sciences, Lehigh...Especially when the mineral species is common, such as quartz (75.1.3.1), many varieties (jasper, onyx) are known...chemistry and structure are identical to those of quartz. 5D. Polytypes Materials whose basic structural...only with fibrous minerals Columbite, wolframite Quartz Opal, some yellow varieties of sphalerite Nepheline |  | | Journal (issue) | | mechanisms of many watches contain diamonds, rubies or quartz. Th ese gemstones are very hard and wear down much...many uses. The laser in the photograph is checking quartz windows to ensure that they are flawless. Left:... miners drill holes in the rock at Taxco silver mine in Mexico. Right: North Sea drilling rig 'Claymore-A'...England. The British coast is worked extensively for quartz grains, which are used in glassmaking, and for...suffic ient size and qual ity to make them worth mining commerci ally. In Treasures of the Earth we will |
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