| Mexico ineralogical Record September-October 2003 ❖ Volume 34 Number 5 ❖ $20 Wayne & Dona Leicht,...Van Pelt, Los Angles Mexico Special Issue II The Ojuela Mine Preface to _Mexico_-II1............................................................... 24 Mapimí District Geology .................................... 32 Sidebar: First Discovery of Adamite at Ojuela................................ 43 Sidebar: Purple...find in the San Judas chimney, Level 6, of the Ojuela mine. Houston Museum of Natural Science collection; |
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(2020) Mineral Collections in Arizona - II. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 51 (1.1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| cover Vanadinite 3.4 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Dick Morris collection;...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...Cerussite twins on matrix, 6.5 cm, from the Grand Reef mine, Aravaipa district, Graham County, Arizona. Ken |
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Moore, Thomas P. (2020, October 23rd) What's New in the Mineral World? 58. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| a whiff of Mexico too. There are many good things here from the famous Little Three mine, Ramona district...blue topaz: Topaz, 6 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....impressive: Axinite, 5 cm, from the Little Three mine, Ramona district, San Diego County, California....County, especially from the Stewart mine. And from the Himalaya mine, Mesa Grande district, San Diego County...(besides plenty of elbaites) such rarities from that mine as cassiterite, hambergite, and a large, superb |
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Neumeier, Günther (2019) Through the 'Scope: Wee Wulfenites—Not Only a Micromounter's Delight!. Rocks & Minerals, 94 (1) 96-100 doi:10.1080/00357529.2019.1519681 |
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| Wulfenite and herbertsmithite from the Kali Kafi mine, Anarak district, Nain County, Esfahan Province...photo. Figure 4. Wulfenite from the Adami No. 2 mine, Plaka mines, Plaka, Lavrion district, Attikí Prefecture...specimen and photo. Figure 2. Wulfenite from the Laura mine, Albuñuelas, Granada, Andalusia, Spain; field of...Figure 3. Wulfenite and baryte from the Maoniuping mine, Mianning County, Liangshan Autonomous Prefecture...from the Erupción mine, Los Lamentos Mountains, Munícipio de Ahumada, Chihuahua, Mexico; field of view 1 |
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Pohwat, Paul W. (2015) Connoisseur's Choice: Conichalcite, Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto Region, Namibia. Rocks & Minerals, 90 (6) 552-559 doi:10.1080/00357529.2015.1080536 |
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| Washington, DC 20013 pohwatp@si.edu Conichalcite Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb Otjikoto Region, Namibia A n article appeared...Conichalcite on malachite, 10.5 cm across, from the Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Otjikoto region, Namibia. Fine spherules...green crusts of fibrous spheres at the Cap Garonne mine, Le Pradet, Var, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France...chrysocolla and cuprite has come from the Clara mine, Oberwolfach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Conichalcite...spherules associated with, and often encrusting, calcite have Volume 90, November/December 2015 553 Downloaded |
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Moore, Thomas P. (2020, March 30th) What's New in the Mineral World? 55. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| 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...======== Azurite, 1.8 cm, from the Christiana mine, Laurium, Attika, Greece. Greekrocks specimen and...specimens from an autumn 2019 find in the Huanuni mine, Dalence Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia: these |
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Scovil, Jeff (2020) Jeff Scovil's Selection of World-Class Mineral Specimens. Rocks & Minerals, 95 (1) 12-25 doi:10.1080/00357529.2020.1670560 |
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| Figure 4. Twinned calcite with sphalerite and celestine, 17 cm high, Cumberland mine, Smith County, Tennessee...Wulfenite, 14.5 cm wide, Ahumada mine, Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scott Rudolph specimen. Figure...Wayne Thompson specimen. Figure 10. Diopside with calcite, 6 cm high, Arusha, Merelani district, Tanzania...hemimorphite, 7.8 cm high, San Antonio mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Scott Rudolph specimen. Figure...Fluorapatite with arsenopyrite, 13.5 cm high, Panasqueira mine, Beira Baixa, Portugal. Marcus Budil specimen. Figure |
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Moore, Thomas P. (2016, August 10th) What's New in the Mineral World? 44. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| most cherished products of the Ojuela mine at Mapimí, Durango, Mexico: of the several styles of “old”...“old” fluorite specimens from the great mine, the best known shows deep purple, transparent, cubo-dodecahedral...beginning around 2008, fresh ore exploitation in deep mine levels has yielded beautiful groups of gemmy, lustrous...shows 13 excellent fluorite miniatures from the Ojuela mine, nine “new” and 4 “old,” the “old” showing typical...galena crystals with the fluorite: a rarity for Ojuela, where massive galena at depth is an important |
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Ferry, Elizabeth Emma (2013) Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexico Border. Indiana University Press. |
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| Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the U.S.-Mexico Border TRACKING GLOBALIZATION Robert J. Foster... Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the U.S.-Mexico Border elizabeth emma ferry Indiana University...Minerals, collecting, and value across the U.S.-Mexico border / Elizabeth Emma Ferry. pages cm — (Tracking...States. 2. Minerals—Collection and preservation—Mexico. 3. Rock collectors. 4. Mineral industries—Social...industries—Social aspects. 5. United States—Commerce—Mexico. 6. _Mexico_—Commerce—United States. I. Title. QE392.5.U5F47 |
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(2023) Villyaellenite. Handbook of Mineralogy. Mineralogical Society of America |
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| 10)Σ=4.84 (H2O)4(AsO3OH)2.31(AsO4)1.69. (2) Mapimí, Mexico; by electron microprobe, average of five points...sainfeldite-miguelromeroite series. Occurrence: A rare post-mine low-temperature reaction product of carbonate gangue...zone of an arsenic-rich base metal deposit (Mapimí, Mexico); on a single specimen from a metamorphosed...chalcophanite, adamite, Fe-Mn oxides (Mapimí, Mexico); manganoan calcite, willemite, franklinite (Sterling...Large crystals at the Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. In the Veta Negra mine, Pampa Larga district |
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Moore, Thomas P. (2017, July 21st) What's New in the Mineral World? 47. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| in 2016 in a disused tunnel of the Sieroszowice mine, and the Spirifer website, with typical conscientiousness... Ag, and Pt-group elements. In the Sieroszowice mine, which exploits both halite and Kupferschiefer,...crystals. Halite, 3.5 cm, from the Sieroszowice mine, Lubin district, Lower Silesia, Poland. Spirifer...======= Halite, 6.5 cm, from the Sieroszowice mine, Lubin district, Lower Silesia, Poland. Spirifer...the same region—the locality is given as the Rudna mine, Lubin district, Legnica, Lower Silesia, Poland—come |
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Moore, Thomas P. (2014, July 19th) What's New in the Mineral World? 38. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| pale blue barite from the Ouichane (or Sidi Lahcem) mine in Nador Province, and furthermore I cautioned against...this with the barite from the Bou Nahas (or Afrou) mine in the Oumjrane-Alnif district near Meknes. Really...These new specimens come from the Shijiangshan Pb-Zn mine, which Jordi locates close to “Jipeng” in the Huanggang...much, much more than the famous Huanggang Sn-Fe mine, see the articles in our September-October 2012...resembling tarbuttite crystals from the old Broken Hill mine at Kabwe, Zambia. Mixed with them, on matrix plates |
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Moore, Thomas P. (2020, June 6th) What's New in the Mineral World? 56. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| from a recent chalcocite find in the Las Cruces mine, Gerena near Seville, Andalusía, Spain—and I wrote...pyrite, and Sb-rich tennantite, with a little white calcite mixed in. Really good Spanish chalcocite is indeed...=========================== an open-pit copper mine still under active development: it’s for sure that...there. Chalcocite, 3.1 cm, from the Las Cruces mine, Comaria Sierra Norte, Seville, Andalućia, Spain...clusters of fluorite crystals from the La Viesca mine, La Collada area, Asturias, northern Spain, all |
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(2017, March) Pick & Pack Vol. 57 (2) Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society |
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| the Mina Ojuela, Mapimí, Durango, México. Moore and Megaw (2003) described the Ojuela Mine as Mexico’s...aurichalcite, rosasite, fluorite, calcite, wulfenite and other species. Mina Ojuela is also the type locality...Collector that “of all the species from the Ojuela mine, perhaps the least eye-appealing is köttigite... Famous mineral localities: The Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico: Mineralogical Record, v. 34, September...that flow eastward to the Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico. The sparkling streams of Colorado not only shape |
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Moore, Thomas P. (2018, December 5th) What's New in the Mineral World? 51. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| #50. His style differs in several respects from mine, but everyone—writers and readers alike—needs a...rhodochrosite crystal group from the N’Chwaning I mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province...$1680. Rhodochrosite, 2 cm, from the N’Chwaning I mine, Kalahari Manganese Field, Northern Cape Province...classic localities for the species: the San Andres mine, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba Province...anyway. Pyromorphite, 3.1 cm, from the San Andres mine, Espiel, Comarca Valle del Guadiato, Córdoba Province |
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(2020) Mineral Collections in Texas III. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 51 (6.1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| row, from left: Euclase, 2.3 cm, from the Gachalá mine, Guavió-Guatéque mining district, Boyacá Department...Budd photo. Tanzanite, 7.6 cm, from the Merelani mine near Arusha, Tanzania. Barry & Beth Kitt collection;...Fluorite on quartz, 13 cm, from the Yaogangxian mine, Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China. The...Spodumene (variety kunzite), 9 cm, from the Urucum mine, Galiléia, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Gus & Jane Eifler...the Musonoi mine, Zaire (#950). Jerry Cone photo. Adamite, 5-mm view, from the Mohawk mine, San Bernardino |
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Moore, Thomas P. (2013, November 14th) What's New in the Mineral World? 36. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| evenings… Clinoatacamite, 5.6 cm, from the Lily mine near Pisco, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru...clinoatacamite in the Lily mine, Pisco Province, Ica Department, Peru. In 1998 this copper mine began giving up...walls with drusy quartz and chrysocolla-stained calcite. At Munich, John Veevaert of Trinity Minerals was...and he landed the two superb miniatures of Lily mine clinoatacamite now offered on his site (trinityminerals...in arsenic from the 1991 find in the Tellerhäuser mine near Pöhla, western Erzgebirge, Upper Saxony, Germany |
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Moore, Thomas P. (2019, April 13th) What's New in the Mineral World? 52. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| there is new work afoot at the famous Red Cloud mine in the Trigo Mountains, in the southwestern part...backgrounds on the history of wulfenite from the Red Cloud mine, see the essay by Szenics just quoted (“Ed Over...headed by Wayne Thompson (“Bonanza at the Red Cloud mine,” in the SeptemberOctober 1996 issue). The Thompson...notable wulfenite would be found at the Red Cloud mine. But 14 years ago Robert Bell, a mineral collector...collector who lives in Kansas, purchased the mine anyway, and now he has contracted for experienced field man |
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(2024) The Mineral City Show Guide, Mineral City. |
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| private appointments Topaz, Cleavelandite Mokrush Mine, Russia Thomas Spann Photo 2 3 CONTENTS 06...written by Bryan Swoboda. 12 Väyrynenite. Lolu Dahku mine, Roundu Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan...specimens from the mim museum Stibiotantalite. Urandu mine, Shigar Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan... James Elliott photo 14 Malachite. Kalukuluku mine, Lubumbashi, Katanga, D.R. Congo. 60 x 48 x 26 cm...quality similar to the best specimens from the Shilu mine in China with the same ‘chatoyant’ effect. And being |
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Moore, Thomas P. (2014, December 6th) What's New in the Mineral World? 39. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| elbaite, amethyst, Tsumeb minerals, and Sweet Home mine minerals. Also scattered on these pages are items...==================================== work as a mine supervisor at Boron) for what turned out, by the...“presence.” Stolzite, 3 cm, from the Proprietary mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Ex-Minette...distinctive blue fluorite on quartz from the Huanggang mine, Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia, China. These... Fluorite on quartz, 15 cm, from the Huanggang mine, Kèshíkèténg Banner, Chifeng Prefecture, Inner Mongolia |
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Moore, Thomas P. (2020, August 30th) What's New in the Mineral World? 57. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| colored arsenates (mostly adamite) from the Ojuela mine. The sterling pale purple example shown here...$615). Adamite, 2.2 cm, from the Ojuela mine, Mapimí, Durango, Mexico. Key’s Minerals specimen and photo...fluorapatite/fluorite “combination” piece from the Sauberg mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Obersachsen—i.e. Upper Saxony...rarity as time goes by. The Sauberg tin/tungsten mine closed for good when the Berlin Wall came down in...Fluorapatite and Fluorite, 2.3 cm, from the Sauberg mine, Ehrenfriedersdorf, Saxony, Germany. Key’s Minerals |
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Pohwat, Paul W. (2015) Connoisseur's Choice: Aragonite. Rocks & Minerals, 90 (2) 164-175 doi:10.1080/00357529.2015.997155 |
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| minerals, or they may specialize in just one species—calcite is a popular mineral for this. Other collectors...Pseudohexagonal twins of aragonite on calcite, 10.3 cm across, from the Agrigento mine, Agrigento, Agrigento Province...(1743–1822) who distinguished between aragonite and calcite based on cleavage, specific gravity, and crystallography...composition were responsible for the differences between calcite and aragonite. It wasn’t until 1822, when Eilhardt...time, that the relationship between aragonite and calcite was first understood (Gossner 1930; Palache, Berman |
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(2013, October 19th) The Hoppel Collection of Fine Minerals Auction 2. Heritage Nature & Science Auction 5141. Heritage Auctions |
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| museum-quality Tourmalines, including the 2nd largest Sapo Mine “shaving brush” and an exceptional Elbaite on Feldspar...Auction 2 53001 CALEDONITE Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal Co., Arizona, USA Named by the Romans...This example hails from the Mammoth-Saint Anthony Mine: a legendary Arizona locality. Unlike the vast majority...Caledonite and a dash of azure blue Linarite. The mine is now collapsed and only a memory for the lucky... 53002 CHALCOCITE Lucky Friday Pocket, Flambeau Mine, Ladysmith, Rusk Co., Wisconsin, USA This is one |
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Leicht, Dona (2014) MIM Museum Opens in Beirut: Mineral Event of the Century. Rocks & Minerals, 89 (2) 132-147 doi:10.1080/00357529.2014.865432 |
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| conglomerate of tiny crystals of calcium carbonate called calcite. “In some cases, however, the crystals become quite...0 × 17.5 × 14.0 cm, Graham’s Pocket, Sweet Home mine, Alma, Park County, Colorado; Augustin de Valence...Figure 12. Elbaite, 20.5 × 19.5 × 21.0 cm, Paprok mine, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan; Augustin de Valence...Figure 11. Cerussite, 10.5 × 7.5 × 7.5 cm, Kombat mine, Grootfontein district, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia;...Pyragyrite, 5 × 13 × 13 cm, Valenciana mine, Guanajuato, Mexico; Augustin de Valence photo. Figure 14 |
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Moore, Thomas P. (2011, November 25th) What's New in the Mineral World? 30. The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| crisp despite partial dehydration) from the Margabal mine, Entraygues, Aveyron Department, France. 1 ==...======= Torbernite, 5.3 cm, from the Margabal mine, Entraygues, Aveyron, France. Trinity Minerals specimen...specimen and photo. This small uranium mine, in a small deposit discovered during a survey by the French...locality began in June 1997 when, somewhere in the old mine, about 1,000 fine specimens were recovered, with...$250. Vanadinite, 2.3 cm, from the North Geronimo mine, La Paz County, Arizona. Key’s Minerals specimen |
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