 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Aquamarine in the United States The Search Continues MARK I. JACOBSON Amoseas Indonesia, Mulia Tower...collectors seeking aquamarine are information about the geologic environment where aquamarine is found and...PROSPECTORS have spent countless time searching for aquamarine, the blue to bluegreen gemstone of beryl. The...The glassy blue appearance of natural aquamarine has an intoxicating effect, making it a favorite among...gemstone. This article reviews the best-known aquamarine localities of the United States and notes a few |  | | Journal (issue) | | Switzerland photomicrography Julius Weber Mamaroneck, New York COLORADO ISSUE #2 Articles Colorado locality..................... 323 by B. L. Muntyan What’s new in Colorado minerals? ............................. Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................Foord and R. F. Martin Mineral collecting at the Sunnyside & Idarado m in e s .............................quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by |  | | Book (edition) | | org/details/mineralsofnewmexOOnort MINERALS OF NEW MEXICO Before all things, there which has them ...that 1825 mining opened the West- . —Charles W. Henderson, 1933 MINERALS of New Mexico STUART A...Mew Mexico PROPERTY OF HBSIER JR. HIGH SCH LIBRARY Revised Edition UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS...ALBUQUERQUE © 1944. 1959. UNIVERSITY OFNEW MEXICO PRESS ALL RIGHTS RESERVED REVISED EDITION LIBRARY...BOUND AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRINTING PLANT ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, U. S. A. FOR IVAH 1 |  | | Book | | MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Sine —_—< ¢ te om At _SHT 40 MADIASIMA...MINERALS OF THE GREAT AMERICAN RIFT (COLORADO-NEW MEXICO) Richard Walker Holmes and Marrianna B. Kennedy...Kennedy [aN VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATl TORONTO LONDON MELBOURNE Copyright © 1983...Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 135 West 50th Street, New York, N.Y. 10020 Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing...minerals of the Great American Rift (Colorado-New Mexico). Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mines |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Emphasis is on any new information-for example, the peridot discovery in Park County and updates on property...species from Colorado were described, and a few new ones have since been added to the list. There are...deposits-gold and silver. During the course of metal mining, numerous splendid mineral crystals were found...region beginning in the 1870s, and in the 1880s aquamarine, smoky quartz, and the associated feldspar and...such as the zircons at Saint Peters Dome, El Paso County. Although blue corundum (sapphire), zircon, and |  | | Journal (issue) | | stock certificates for mines in the Cripple Creek District, Colorado, in 1898 and 1901. Sponsorship: This...Kile Brian Kosnar Bryan & Kathryn Lees Ian Merkel Mining Hall of Farne, Steve Whittington curator Nick North...did not escape the notice of some of the earliest mining men to work in there. Unlike the neighboring states...is basically a hardrock state where mining (and specimen mining) must typically cut through granite and...localities like the Sweet Horne mine, Breckenridge, Mount Antero, the Sunnyside mine, Creede, Cripple Creek, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs by R. W. Wright, unless otherwise noted. The new Coors Hall of Minerals at the Denver Museum of Natural...are found in nature are special features of the new hall, as are expanded exhibits of minerals for which...which Colorado is famous—amazonite, aquamarine, rhodochrosite, topaz, and native gold. The geology department...minerals—four-inch purple cubes of fluorite from the Weardale district, hematite from Cumberland, barite from Frizington...has been completely remodeled and modernized. A new alarm and security system allows for the exhibition |  | | Book (edition) | | sand localities in the United States, Canada, and Mexico where gems have been and can be found. This is...describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton A....Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Colorado quartz is inextricably tied to the state's mining history because so many superbly crystallized quartz...specimens originated from its innumerable mines. The mining industry and resultant mineral wealth directed...more authoritative accounts of the state's early mining and economic resources, provides a timeless perspective...Other comprehensive overviews of Colorado's mines, mining his tory, and/or economic geology are provided...rhyolite at Ruby Mountain near Nathrop in Chaffee County, Colorado). Striatums (which are perpendicular |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINES OF DEATH VALLEY by Harold Weight. This is a new approach to the enigma of Death Valley Scotty's life...more valuables left in California, they will find a new field in this informative book. Includes marketing...by John D. Mitchell. The first of Mitchell's lost mine books is now available after having been out of...littleknown areas, is explored by the author in this new book which is a first-hand account of his travels...Beaty and the men and women who ished the famous mining town near Valley. Paperback, historic photos, 40 |  | | Book (volume) | | Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area around the confluence of the Loup River with the...jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...wood). CHEYENNE, DEUEL, GARDEN & KEITH COUNTIES AREA, between North and South Platte rivers and in all |  | | Journal (volume) | | on some Microminerals from the Ohio pit, Baraga County, Michigan Al Falster 920 McIntosh Wausau, Wl 54401... i The Ohio pit in Baraga County, Michigan, is an old open-pit iron mine. In vugs and cavities of the...minerals can be collected. Due to the fact that the mine has been abandoned for several years, the lower...zone of this kind is exposed in the upper western area. Palygorskite is a common constituent in the crystal-bearing...see where it leads us. At least we can say that Mexico continues to offer much of interest to collectors’ |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel...jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel...jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E, regional...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods |  | | Catalog/List | | PST CATALOG $30.00 United States $45.00 Canada/Mexico pee - PRICE: yarene SUPERIOR A DGSE GALI...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...exploring scores of abandoned mining towns from California to New Mexico to Montana. He did extensive...and in particular, the towns of the Hwy 95 mining district from Rhyolite to Goldfield and Tonopah. Kevin |  | | Report (volume) | | gem stones, such as tourmaline, beryl (emerald, aquamarine), spodumene (kunzite, hiddenite), zircon, and...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Edition Russell P. MacFall Thomas Y. Crowell New York / Company Established 1834 Copyright ©...West, the broad plains and the verdant hills of New England hold inestimable treasures of living things...doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable...and Florida. Still others are found in Canada and Mexico. Every state, as a glance at the list of gem locations |  | | Book (edition) | | Delta Gunnison Gunnison Pike Colorado Springs Rio Grande Monte Vista Roosevelt Fort Collins Routt...Montrose County Colorado National Monument Mesa County Dinosaur National Monument Moffat County Florissant...Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Teller County Great Sand Dunes National Monument Saguache and...National Monument Montezuma County Yucca House National Monument Montezuma County NATIONAL PARKS IN COLORADO...COLORADO Mesa Verde National Park Montezuma County Rocky Mountain National Park Grand and Larimer Countie~ |  | | Book (edition) | | Arapaho Golden Grand Mesa Gunnison Delta Pike Rio Grande Colorado Springs Gunnison ; Monte Vista...Colorado National Monument Mesa County Dinosaur National Monument Moffat County Great Sand Dunes National... Montezuma County NATIONAL PARKS IN COLORADO Mesa Verde National Park Montezuma County Rocky Mountain...collecting on a popular level. They report new finds and new facts. Gems and Minerals, P.O. Box 687, Mentone...editor. Rocks and Minerals, P.O. Box 29, Peekskill, New York. $4.00 per year. Peter Zodac, editor. The Lapidary |  | | Book | | Photographs by Mike Caggiano ASSOCIATION PRESS • New York FINDING AND PREPARING PRECIOUS AND SEMIPRECIOUS...James A. Peterson Association Press, 291 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10007 All rights reserved. No part of...nature of the rock itself, the emergence of new chemicals and new formations. An example of the radical change...often are arrested there. At the Eldorado sapphire mine in Mon¬ tana the action of a million years is readily...intrudes a sloping bed of limestone. As the Yogo mine has been worked at various times in the past hundred |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sterrett, circa 1908. The most productive collecting area is the low peak in the center. This is probably...pegmatite prospecting on Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado, gives a detailed account of fine min...pegmatites with their world-renowned crystals of aquamarine, fluorite, phenacite, and betrandite represent...Antero area. Less well publicized is the discovery of a variety of beryllium de posits in the area in the... This type includes the veins at the California mine in Browns Creek (Landes, 1934) and those along the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hematite after siderite, quartz, Lake George, Park County, Colorado. Large pseudomorph of hematite with a...than those of either geothite or limonite in this area. Overall size: IVi by 2 inches. Collection: Anonymous...Native gold, Farncomb Hill, Breckinridge, Summit County, Colorado. Specimen of box-work leaves of gold...rhodochrosite, American Tunnel, Sunnyside mine, Silverton, San Juan County, Colorado. Large, pale green...Barite, Book Cliffs, near Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado. Large, double-terminated crystal of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cover Photographs January-February: Aquamarine, Pioneira mine, Teofilo Otoni, Minas Gerais, Brazil....Fluorite and calcite, Minerva No. 1 Mine, Cave in Rock district, Har din County, Illinois. Harvard Mineralogical...July-August: Quartz and chalcopyrite, Bandora mine, San Juan County, Col orado. Barbara and John Muntyan specimen...and photo. September-October: Grossular, Jeffrey mine, Asbestos, Quebec; painting by Susan Robinson. November-December:...November-December: Gold, Jamestown, Tuolumne County, California. California State Mining and Mineral Exhibit specimen; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 0.75 inch on edge, from the Henderson mine, Clear Creek County. Figure 2 (right). Green fluorite encrusted...the Needle Mountain Wilderness area near Columbine Lake, La Plata County; largest crystal measures 1.25...C*O*L*O*R*A*D*O FLUORITE BARBARA L. MUNTYAN Ouray County Museum Ouray, Colorado 81427 Mineral photographs...several locations in Mexico; in Elmwood, Smith County, Tennessee, and in Hardin County, Illinois, in the...Fluorite occurs in significant amounts in many of the mining districts of the Colorado mineral belt. [The Colorado |
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