The Mineralogical Record articles from January 2005

The Mineralogical Record archives from January 2005

China.(mining industry)
January 1, 2005... For most of our lifetimes, except for those of us who can remember the years before World War II, China has been a relatively closed society. It appeared that the paranoia of the Cold War period which followed WWII led the Chinese government to...

Mining in China: a 3000-year tradition.(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2005... The mining of metals and coal in China goes back at least 3,000 years, but Chinese mining technology has remained primitive by western standards for almost all of that time. Today, rapid industrialization, a rapid growth in geological and...

Geology of China.
January 1, 2005... China has 96 million k[m.sup.2] of land with various geological provinces ranging from high mountain chains in the western regions (including the Himalayas) to the basin and range systems in the southern and northeastern regions to the northern...

Mineral dealing in China.
January 1, 2005... Ever since China began to "open" in the early 1990's, dealing in local mineral specimens, like other forms of capitalism in China, has flourished. Western collectors owe the present abundance of Chinese specimens on the mineral market to...

Daoping mine: Guangxi, China.
January 1, 2005... Discoveries of bright green pyromorphite in China beginning in 1999 aroused great interest in the worldwide collector community. These discoveries produced not just a few, but great numbers of wonderful specimens! The color of the pyromorphite...

Tongbei: spessartine localities, Fujian Province, China.
January 1, 2005... Specimens in which beautiful, commonly gemmy, red-orange spessartine crystals form coatings on orthoclase and smoky quartz crystals have become quite familiar on the market during the past few years. These specimens are collected from granite...

Xuebaoding: Pingwu County, Sichuan Province, China.
January 1, 2005... Beautiful specimens showing large, lustrous, deep orange crystals of scheelite associated with brilliant black twinned cassiterite crystals and tabular, gemmy crystals of aquamarine beryl on beds of muscovite crystals are characteristic of...

Chinese fluorite.(mining industry)
January 1, 2005... Of all the minerals which have come from China in fine specimens since about 1990, fluorite has thus far been the most abundant and most varied in habit, color and associations. Many specimens are oiled or otherwise objectionably enhanced by...

Chinese cinnabar.(mercury-mining region)
January 1, 2005... For thousands of years a mercury-mining region centered on Wanshan, in Guizhou Province, has produced cinnabar ore, ornamental and "medicinal" cinnabar, and cinnabar crystal specimens which clearly are the world's finest. The reappearance of...

A guide to mineral localities in China.
January 1, 2005... China is the world's third largest country in land area, so it is not surprising that, with its opening to the West, there has appeared on the world market a flood of specimens from an increasing number of localities. Unfortunately this flood...

Died, Jesse L. Lininger, Jr., 64.(notes from the EDITORS)(Brief Article)(Editorial)(Obituary)
January 1, 2005... Jesse "Jay" Lininger was born on December 9, 1939 and died unexpectedly at his home in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania on October 18, 2004. Jay, with the help of his wife Paula, was the founder and President of MATRIX Publishing Services and MATRIX Art...

Died, Richard A. Bideaux, 69.(mineralogists)(obituary)(Obituary)
January 1, 2005... Richard August Bideaux, well known and respected mineralogist, author, collector and former mineral dealer, was found dead on October 26, 2004 at his summer residence in Prescott, Arizona. Through his books and articles on mineral-related...

Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines Show 2004.(What's New in Minerals)
January 1, 2005... [June 24-27] What shall I say about the 2004 Sainte-Marie Show that is different from what I've said about this event over the past several years for the Mineralogical Record? It's still my favorite show to attend in Europe, or perhaps...

Springfield Show 2004.(What's New in Minerals)
January 1, 2005... [August 13-15, 2004] As I approached the East Coast Gem and Mineral Show at the Eastern States Exposition Center in West Springfield, Massachusetts, I breathed a sigh of relief for having beaten the edge of the most recent hurricane that...

Denver Show 2004.(What's New in Minerals)
January 1, 2005... [September 14-19, 2004] Some said that snow had already been spotted in some high places back in the mountains, but the days of the Denver Show were unseasonably hot down around the Holiday Inn and Denver Merchandise Mart, and the...

Munich Show 2004.(What's New in Minerals)
January 1, 2005... [October 29-31] My visit to the 2004 Munich Show marked my first time in Germany since leaving that country in 1991 after 15 nearly continuous years of residency--so the reader will just have to bear with me here for a line or two, before...