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The Mineralogical Record articles from January 2007
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The Mineralogical Record archives from January 2007
Editorial note.
January 1, 2007... This is our second special issue on the mines and minerals of China, a land which is proving to be an incredible storehouse of fine mineral specimens. And thankfully, China is populated by a people who readily catch on to specimen values and...
Chinese stibnite: Xikuangshan, Lushi, Wuning and other localities.
January 1, 2007... Among the most dramatic of all Chinese mineral specimens are the extraordinary stibnite crystals and crystal clusters from the Xikuangshan, Lushi and Wuning mines which reached the market in the 1990's and early 2000's. These three (among many)...
The Pingtouling mine: Liannan County, Guangdong Province, China.
January 1, 2007... World-class yellow-orange mimetite crystals to more than 2 cm, found at a mine in Guangdong province, China, first reached the world mineral market in January 2003. A total of several thousand mimetite specimens were recovered, as well as about...
The Fengjiashan mine: Daye District, Ezhou Prefecture, Hubei Province, China.
January 1, 2007... The Fengjiashan mine, also known as the Daye mine, is famous among mineralogists and mineral collectors as the type locality for hubeite and the source of some of the world's best crystallized inesite. Opened as a copper mine in 1966, it became...
The Shimen mine: Jiepaiyu, Shimen County, Hunan Province, China.
January 1, 2007... The Shimen realgar mine, which has been in more or less continuous operation for nearly 1500 years, has yielded world-class specimens of realgar and orpiment, associated with fine calcite crystals, at least since 1988 and as recently as 2006....
The Xianghuapu mines: Chenzhou Prefecture, Hunan Province, China.
January 1, 2007... Thousands of beautiful clusters of lustrous, transparent, cubic to cubo-dodecahedral crystals of green fluorite have come from the Xianghuapu deposit in Hunan province. The mines continue in operation, and even more specimens will probably be...
Red wulfenite: from the Kuruktag Mountains, Xinjiang Uygur, China.
January 1, 2007... Wulfenite appears to be quite rare in China. Until recently, only a few mediocre specimens with small yellow to red crystals have reached the specimen market, from a rare-earth mine in the Mianning area, Sichuan province. In October 2006,...
The museum directory.(geological museums)(Directory)
January 1, 2007... Colburn Earth Science Museum
Curator: Phillip M. Potter
Tel: (828) 254-7162
Fax: (828) 257-4505
Website: www.colburnmuseum.org
Pack Place Education, Arts & Science Center
2 South Pack Square
Asheville, NC 28801...
Ottensite: a new mineral from Qinglong, Guizhou Province, China.
January 1, 2007... ABSTRACT
Ottensite, [Na.sub.3]([Sb.sub.2][O.sub.3])[.sub.3](Sb[S.sub.3])x3[H.sub.2]O, is hexagonal, space group P[6.sub.3], with unit-cell parameters derived from X-ray powder data: a = 14.1758(2), c = 5.5712(1) [Angstrom], V = 969.57(3)...
A note on the paragenesis of ottensite.
January 1, 2007... INTRODUCTION
During the Denver mineral show of 2005, the senior author noticed a specimen of stibnite with red and yellow encrustations, identified as "cetineite" and "cervantite," respectively. The specimen owner, Guanghua Liu, could not...