| May–June, 2017 Contents The St. Andreasberg Mining District, Western Harz Mountains, Niedersachsen, Germany...working in the lode” (Simonin, 1869). The Mining District Western Harz Mountains Niedersachsen, Germany...minrecord@comcast.net The geographically tiny St. Andreasberg District of silver mines has an outsized reputation: it...century after mining ceased in the St. Andreasberg District, the locality remains secure in its fame among...samsonite emerged from just two pockets in the Samson mine. St. Andreasberg is also known for its fine specimens |
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(2003) The Mineralogical Record Vol. 34 (3). The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| Cd-bearing phosphate mineral from the Gold Quarry mine, Eureka County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . ...crystal cluster, 7.3 cm, from near Bapu, Guangdong Province, China. Rob Lavinsky specimen, now in the Tom...recovered from the dumps of this small mine. Local collectors reworked the mine dumps many times in search of...about 325 meters southwest of the Bishop manganese mine. The locality was early on referred to as a “copper...spatially distinct from the nearby Bishop manganese mine. The dumps do not contain significant manganese |
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(2017, July) Rock & Gem Vol. 47 (7) Beckett Media |
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| Mountains. By Tim Miller 34 THE TALE OF A TOURIST MINE A new life for Colorado’s Last Chance. 34 By Steve...Cover This bournonite specimen from the Herodsfoot mine (Lanreath, Cornwall, England) is a really fine example...Benitoite Mine Update I’d like to clarify some information about the California State Gem mine and about...about present-day access to the mine that was published in Bob Jones’ article Benitoite (June 2017). People...the benitoite mine is a patented mining claim and is private property. Accessing the mine without written |
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O'Donoghue, Michael (1994) The Colour Dictionary of Gemstones & Minerals. The Black Cat, London. |
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| Keweenaw area of north Michigan; at the Copper Queen mine, Bisbee, Arizona and at Georgetown, New Mexico....areas including Kimberley, Pretoria (the Premier mine is in this area), and Jagersfontein in the Orange...Localities. Lead is found in Sweden at the Harstig mine, Pajsberg; from the gold placers of the Ural Mountains...several localities in Chile, and from the Mohawk mine, Keweenaw County, Michigan; also from Lake Superior...the Calabona mine, Alghero, Sardinia; other localities are Chile, Bolivia, Argentine and Peru. It is also |
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(1980, March) Monde et Mineraux 35. Archéologia S. A. |
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| Ti:lt·plm11<' iJt,.95.·16 • DIRECTEUR 28 LES VIÉ. Nive mine 33 ITINÉRAIRES MINÉRALOGIQUES AU BRÉSIL. par J...prolongée à la lumière soJaire. Hanshu. INDE Chikla, district de Bhandara. NOUVELLE-ZÉLANDE Otago. Texte et...VIEILLES MINES BASQUES ONDAROLLES L'existence de cette mine semble avoir été mentionnée pour la première fois...cuivre ... ,. (3). En surface, à l'est-sud-est de la mine, de belles manifestations de fer, et beaucoup plus...d'une autre faille « sécante ». Carte Michelin La mine, disativn, ~-n territoire espagnol n'a j :mais f::iit |
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Pracejus, Bernhard - Ed. (2014) The Ore Minerals Under the Microscope (2nd ed.) Elsevier. doi:10.1016/c2012-0-01360-9 |
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| Mineral Descriptions Molybdenite in Graphite; Bogala Mine, Sri Lanka 51 Copper, native Synonym(s): Cuivre...of cuprite (bluish grey); North Mine (North Broken Hill Mine; NBH Mine), Broken Hill, Yancowinna Co.,...(red internal reflections); Madenköy Mine, Çayeli, Rize Province, Black Sea Region, Turkey (sample: Halbach);...(greenish grey; arg); Monte Narba Mine, San Vito, Cagliari Province, Sardinia, Italy; PPL B Same sample...matrix (dark grey); Himmelsfürst Mine, Brand-Erbisdorf, Freiberg District, Erzgebirge, Sachsen, Germany |
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(2019, Summer) Gems & Gemology Vol. 55 (2) Gemological Institute of America |
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| the Thomas Mountains, Utah • Quarterly Crystal: Dioptase in and on quartz 270 Diamonds from the Deep...Aquamarine and morganite are mined in Zambezia Province, while copper-bearing tourmaline is found at the...the Alto Ligonha field in Nampula Province (Rondeau and Delaunay, 2007; Laurs et al., 2008). Garnets...Reserve in 2008. Near Ruambeze, in Cabo Delgado Province, cabochon-grade rubies were reportedly discovered...discovered near the city of Montepuez in Cabo Delgado Province. This city is linked to the coastal city of Pemba |
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Galopim de Carvalho, Rui (2024) Gempedia. AIGS. |
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| of a considerable portion of the industry, from mine to market, and hence a reference for terminology...referred to as a dye test. achirite Trade name for dioptase. achroite Trade name for colourless or near colourless...the Panjshir valley, north of Kabul, and Laghman Province. Other gem materials reported from Afghanistan...cut and polished in Alabanda, in today's Aydin Province, Turkey. 'alabandine ruby' Misnomer for almandine...dian10nd cut from a rough most likely from a De Beers' mine in South Africa. Purchased at its original weight |
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O'Donoghue, Michael - Ed. (1976) The Encyclopedia of Minerals and Gemstones. Orbis Publishing Ltd. |
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| In the shafts and tunnels of a sixteenth-century mine INTRODUCTION arabic^groffcvinditaris.f} norrafludd9...want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...Collectors working on the spoil tip of a mine. Quarries and mine workings remain a fruitful source for the...metal or commodity markets, so it may be economic to mine a deposit one year but not the next. Abundance and |
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O'Donoghue, Michael - Ed. (1976) The Encyclopedia of Minerals and Gemstones. Orbis Publishing Ltd. |
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| want to check this, you will have to visit a salt mine; halides are dissolved by groundwater if they are...walking and for work in such places as quarries and mine dumps. The second requirement is for old, expendable...Collectors working on the spoil tip ofa mine. Quarries and mine workings remain a fruitful source for...metal or commodity markets, so it may be economic to mine a deposit one year but not the next. Abundance and...may now be of sufficient economic value for old mine waste tips to be reworked for, it. A good example |
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Arem, Joel E. (1987) Color Encyclopedia of Gemstones (2nd ed.) Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc., New York. |
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| natural or synthetic but also to indicate the very mine from which it came! Inclusions are the most powerful...1 -20.2 7.9/2.1 8.4 4. 4. Beryl Aquamarine Mine, Brazil dark blue dark blue antique Brazil medium...Brazil Africa cut cut Colombia Colombia Chivor Mine, 8B 3.7/2.3 5PB 5.3/2.8 8. 2B 7.9/2.7 2. 6PB 6...brown yellow Calcite dark brown-orange — Muzo Mine, Colombia Zambia triangle Brazil 19.09 4.54...Crocoite Cuprite Diaspore Diopside chrome chrome Dioptase pale gray-yellow medium green dark green dark |
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Roberts, Willard Lincoln, Rapp, George Robert Jr., Weber, Julius (1974) Encyclopedia of Minerals (1st ed.) Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. |
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| (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3, column 2). Color, page 117 Transpose...instructive specimens, especially the rarer sulfo salts of Peru. John van ltallie- lover of nature and scholar of...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...Pelican Dives rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise...Juab County, and with austinite at the Gold Hill mine, Tooele County, Utal1; in Inyo, San Bernardino, |
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Cornejo, Carlos, Bartorelli, Andrea (2009) Minerals & Precious Stones of Brazil. Solaris Cultural Publications, São Paulo. |
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| The auriferous claims 148 The gold mine of Morro Velho 153 The Mine of Passagem 155 The/old rush in P'ianc6...topaz 385 T he imperial topaz of Ouro Preto 393 The Mine of Capao do Lana 397 The imperial topaz of Antonio...of the pyralspite series 411 essartine 414 ~ he Mine of Pedra Bonita 416 Garnets of the ugrandite series...Lavra da Pederneira 526 District of Santa Rosa, Francisc6f olis 534 District o Golconda, Governador Valadares...539 District of Coronel Murra, Rubelita, Salinas, Virgem da Lapa, Ara(uaf and ltinga 554 District o Conselheiro |
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O'Donoghue, Michael (2006) Gems : their sources, descriptions and identification (6th ed.) Butterworth-Heinemann. |
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| extensive fields in the prophetically named Kimberley district of Western Australia promise to be of world importance...First Edition For two decades, an earlier work of mine – Practical Gemmology – has proved a useful elementary...intermediate and acid members of the volcanic province in southern Brazil and Uruguay, and the fire opals...particularly in the Yun Yang deposit in Hubei Province, China. For many years on the basis of experimental...similar geological setting also occur at the Menzies mine in Western Australia and these rocks also have been |
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Bernard, Jan, Hyršl, Jaroslav (2004) Minerals and their Localities (1st ed.) Granit, Prague. |
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| SphaJerite. xx 12 mm, Morococha, Peru, H Gypsum, xx 40 mm, Las Salinas, Peru, H Variscite, xx 5 mm, Iturnbiara...Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...expressed in abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture)...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....the revolution in 1997. Its mineral rich Katanga province was renamed Shaba by Mobutu, and is now the Katanga |
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Roberts, Willard Lincoln, Campbell, Thomas J., Rapp, George Robert Jr. (1990) Encyclopedia of Minerals (2nd ed.) Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. |
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| 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...Pe Wr * se vat © C6 tad GAa Snive Sr Certain Mine (ax agry wh Oe ee — SS 4 eae wid Bharce ©...ye ty a ara id (ean ® “1 le hI AAP : oo A Mine seh Ranier “i i : lever vei ekealps ; cet ...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely |
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Roberts, Willard Lincoln, Campbell, Thomas J., Rapp, George Robert Jr. (1990) Encyclopedia of Minerals (2nd ed.) Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York. |
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| 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...coating fractures in sandstone at the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely...Silver Plume district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise mine, Dolores County;...lode, Summit County, and in the Cripple Creek district. It is also found in Canada; Mexico; Bolivia; |
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Arem, Joel E. (1977) Color Encyclopedia of Gemstones (1st ed.) Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc. |
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| natural or synthetic, but, also to indicate the very mine from which it came! Inclusions are the most powerful...from the Mohawk Mine, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Domeykite is from the Mohawk Mine, Michigan; Lake...Lake Superior district, Ontaria, Canda; Guererro, Mexico; also from Chile, Germany, Sweden, and from Cornwall...Quartz. ALABASTER ALLANITE After the Aigodones Mine, Coquimbo, Chile. 2-2.5. Density: 1.05—1.096...Tintic, Utah; Arizona; New Mexico; Coeur d’Alene district, Idaho. Chihuahua, U.S.S.R.; Comments: Andalusite |
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O'Donoghue, Michael (1988) Gemstones. Chapman and Hall. |
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| stone came from — some¬ times down to the actual mine. Today it is commonplace to see in sale catalogues...stones). The fine dark blue beryls from the Maxixe mine and also the irradiated Maxixe-type beryl seen in...stabilized. The original stones were found at the Maxixe mine in Brazil in 1917 and in about 1971 stones of a...moonstone. Star stones and cat’s-eyes are also the province of the lapidary. Very low-cost material may be...some exceptional diamonds from the Jagersfontein mine; the stones, which are extremely rare, gave so strong |
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O'Donoghue, Michael (1988) Gemstones. Chapman and Hall. |
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| the stone came from - sometimes down to the actual mine. Today it is commonplace to see in sale catalogues...stones). The fine dark blue beryls from the Maxixe mine and also the irradiated Maxixe-type beryl seen in...stabilized. The original stones were found at the Maxixe mine in Brazil in 1917 and in about 1971 stones of a...moonstone. Star stones and cat's-eyes are also the province of the lapidary. Very low-cost material may be...some exceptional diamonds from the Jagersfontein mine; the stones, which are extremely rare, gave so strong |
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Arem, Joel E. (1977) Color Encyclopedia of Gemstones (1st ed.) Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, Inc. |
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| natural or synthetic. but. also to indicate the very mine f ram which it came! I nclusions are the most powerful...from the Mohawk Mine, Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan. Domeykite is from the Mohawk Mine, Michigan; Lake...Lake Superior district, Ontaria, Canda; Guererro, Mexico; also from Chile, Germany, Sweden, and from Cornwall...Quartz. ALABASTER ALLANITE After the Algodones Mine, Coquimbo, Chile. Occurrence: In sedimentary deposits...Tintic, Ucah; Arizona; Ne¼' Mexico; Coeur d'Alene district, Idaho. Chihuahua, Mexico; England; Scotland; |
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Heinrich, E. William (1958) Mineralogy and Geology of Radioactive Raw Materials. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York. |
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| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Basin and Range Province . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....deposit, Great Bear Lake, Canada; Gold.fields district, Canada) (Fig. '2.7). Brecciated pitchblende 111ay...and quartz (black) which also replaces core. Bigay mine, Lachaux, Auvergne, France ( X 100) ( Geffroy and...Canada and Schneeberg, Saxony. In the Blind River district of Ontario :fine-grained euheclral uraninite occurs...Dak.; Hyatt Beryl pegmatite, Crystal Mountain district, Colo.; Lac la Ronge, northern Sask.; Villeneuve |
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Voudouris, Panagiotis, Karampelas, Stefanos, Melfos, Vasilios, Graham, Ian - Eds. (2020) Mineralogy and Geochemistry of Gems. MDPI. doi:10.3390/books978-3-03928-077-3 |
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| Alluvial Sapphires from the Orosmayo Region, Jujuy Province, Northwest Argentina: Insights into Their Origin...Cenozoic Alkaline Basalts of the Ratanakiri Volcanic Province (Cambodia), Southeast Asia—Trace Element Geochemistry...pegmatite situated in the Borborema Pegmatitic Province (BPP) from Rio Grande do Norte in Northeast Brazil...alluvial sapphires from the Orosmayo region (Jujuy Province, NW Argentina) and importantly shows that there...zircon xenocrysts from alkali basalts in Ratanakiri Province (Cambodia) suggest that their genesis involved |
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(1933) Supplement: J-O. In Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) Vol. 7. |
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| prospects of obtaining Artesian Water in the Kimberley District, pp. 46 : GEOLOGI1 map (geol. col.). See WESTERN...on the Palmer as a reefing GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. district, pp. 8. See QUEENSLAND. 8. 1897. G. Bulletin Xo...Jack (ROBERT LOCKHART) (ARTHUR illiml. of the district, pp. 135 : See SOUTH AUSTRALIA. bulletin No. 0...0. and Wallaroo mining of .SVr South port district.) BRITISH ASSOCIATION, (Guides and Ifandlionks...prospecting of the Cretaceous Coals of the Cook district. West Coast of pp. 27 : 12 QUEENSLAND. pis |
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(1911) Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.) Vol. 18 - Medal to Mumps. The Encyclopedia Britannica Company, Ltd, Cambridge. |
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| the east (Khorasan, Parthyaea) only by a narrow district (Choarene and Comisene), where human dwellings...of the mountainous highland of Paraetacene, the district of Isfahan, and the Magoi, i.e. the Magians, the...Paricanians and Orthocorybantians; the north, the district of Matiane (see above), together with the mountainous...times the country seems to have become a Parthian province. Atropatene is that country of western Asia which...the non-Aryan tribes. Southern Media remained a province of the Seleucid Empire for a century and a half |
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