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The Mineralogical Record articles from July 1996
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The Mineralogical Record archives from July 1996
The Higher Pitts mine, Mendip Hills, Somerset, England.
July 1, 1996... Until the much larger deposits of mendipite were discovered at Merehead quarry, the Higher Pitts mine at Priddy was the main source of specimens of this mineral in the Mendip Hills. The mine is the type locality for the minerals chloroxiphite and...
The Engineer Mine, Tagish Lake, British Columbia.
July 1, 1996... The Engineer mine is a Dana locality for classic, botryoidal "allemontite" (stibarsen and native arsenic). Several other minerals of interest to the collector are also found, including crystallized auriferous silver ("electrum"). The site is...
The Rio Tinto mines, Huelva, Spain.
July 1, 1996... Rio Tinto, perhaps the oldest major mine in the world, exploits huge massive pyrite orebodies and their associated gossans. Fine native copper, large barite crystals, gratonite crystals, spectacular formations of post-mining sulfates, and the...
Pumpellyite and clinozoisite from the McKinney mine, Spruce Pine district, North Carolina.
July 1, 1996... Pumpellyite, clinozoisite and chlorite are the principal minerals of a lower-temperature assemblage not ordinarily found in a pegmatite environment. Euhedral crystals of these minerals occur in cavities lined by albite crystals. This is the first...
Calcioaravaipaite, a new mineral, and associated lead fluoride minerals from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County, Arizona.
July 1, 1996... The Grand Reef mine in southeastern Arizona, best known to collectors for superb crystals of linarite, is also the type locality for a unique suite of lead fluoride minerals. Grandreefite, pseudograndreefite, laurelite, aravaipaite, and artroeite...
Minerals of New Mexico, 3rd ed.
July 1, 1996... New Mexico was among the first states (in 1944) to have a substantial state mineralogy published, and justifiably so. The region is rich in mineral occurrences, and is a paradise for the micromounter and field collector. Stuart Northrup's second...
Rocks from Space: Meteorites and Meteorite Hunters.
July 1, 1996... This book, written by a former director of the Grace Flandrau Planetarium and Science Center at the University of Arizona and the Fleischmann Planetarium at the University of Nevada at Reno, appears to have a tough time deciding whether to be an...