| Science University of Arizona, Tucson INTERESTING QUARTZ I published a column in the September/ October...example of epitaxy in which the orientation of the quartz crystals has been dictated by their having grown...With strong lobbying support from the mineral and mining community and a bipartisan coalition of legislators...the state mineral. Two odd quartz specimens from Mount Malosa, Zonba district, Malawi. Left: 8 × 3.5 ×...cm; right: 9.2 × 4 × 4 cm. Mayo mining district, Yukon Territory, Canada. So perhaps such quartzes are |
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(1997, April) Mineral News Vol. 13 (4) L.R. Ream Publishing |
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| each year to comb the dumps and catch up on the mining operation. This year's trip proved both interesting...the slides of mineral collecting at Sceptre claims, near Emerald Lake, YT at our I 996 Friends of Mineralogy...Tyson had a selection of material from the Sceptre claims in his room at the Executive Inn and I purchased...purchased an apatite and a zoned smoky quartz crystal. The smoky quartz crystal is a 21/4 inch long, nearly...crystal with nice shiny faces unlike the larger smoky crystals from that locality. I was happy with my |
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(2022, May) Eureka! Self-Collected Minerals. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 53 (3.1) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| Front cover: Fluorite on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim, Colorado. Collected by the Dorris family;...pocket in 1955 at least 25 others were found as mining progressed. The contents of these, which ranged...Colorado, and their most publicized effort, the mining of variscite nodules at Fairfield, Utah (the type...he carefully pried away the jagged, iron-stained quartz rock from the ever-widening seam. It finally opened...came from a single cavity lined with crystals of quartz, orthoclase and lepidolite, accompanied by small |
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(1997, December) Mineral News Vol. 13 (12) L.R. Ream Publishing |
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| 199~ Weird The Mineral and Wonderful from Quartz Alberta's Collector's Newsletter in Septarian... 1901 Varsity Estates Dr. NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada, T38 4T7 menziesm@tcel.com • Since moving to...(though a little skeptical) to learn of a nearby quartz collecting locality. It is a three-hour drive northeast...locomotive cxursions. My first collecting specialty was quartz, for which I've retained a soft spot, and I was...produced a wide variety of interesting and unusual quartz crystals. These are found in abundant ironstone |
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(1995) The Journal of Gemmology Vol. 24 (8) Gem-A |
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| world's finest blue sapphires. Burmese sapphire mining is reviewed, along with some of the most important...by artificial light. During an extensive native mining rush to Bernardmyo in 1913 a number of these stones...This area now appears to be exhausted, and little mining is carried on there today except for peridots,...Unknown Author, R.W.H. Unnamed 41.04ct; faceted; _emerald_-cut; sold at Sotheby's New York, October 1986 for...pp, RWHL Brown, J.C., 1933. Ruby mining in U p p e r Burma. Mining Magazine, June, pp. 329-40, RWHL* |
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(1995) May - June 1995. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 26 (3) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham...indigenes serving as guides. In 1915, the Kipushi district was delineated by the famous prospec tor Major...is at the limit of profitability in underground mining is not applicable at Kipushi. If the deposit had...was probably the weakest aspect of the overall mining plan); work had to be suspended several times for...Magnee and Francois, 1988). The early “feldspar-_quartz_-mica phase” of Thoreau (1928) cropped out as a |
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(1995) November - December 1995. The Mineralogical Record Vol. 26 (6) The Mineralogical Record, Inc. |
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| Roberts Geol. Surv. of Canada Ottawa George W. Robinson Natl. Museums of Canada Ottawa, Ontario Abraham...on the M agnet m ine (Tasmania), the M t. Isa district (Queensland), an obituary o f Blair Gartrell,...Helen Tyson 10549 133rd Street Edmonton, Alberta Canada T5N 2A4 (403) 452-5357 HAWTHORNEDEN f in e m in...province Kazakh version o f O blast’ OKpyT district o3epo lake no/iyocrpoB peninsula pafioH area peica river...km w est o f Borzya A quam arine, topaz, sm oky quartz, fluorite, elbaite (See also Soktuy and Shirlovaya |
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