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The Mineralogical Record articles from March 1996
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The Mineralogical Record archives from March 1996
Mineral collecting in the cyber age.(Editorial)
March 1, 1996... Hardly a day passes without another headline touting the coming of the "information superhighway" and how it is going to change the world as we know it. Everything from banking and shopping to entertainment can be accessed from a personal...
The Onganja mining district: Namibia.(Famous Mineral Localities)
March 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION
The Onganja mining district, famous among mineral collectors for some of the world's finest cuprite and malachite crystals, is situated in Namibia about 60 km northeast of the capital city of Windhoek and about 30 km north of the...
Blue quartz from the Antequera-Olvera ophite, Malaga, Spain.
March 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION
The Triassic rocks between the Antequera and Olvera regions in the Andalusian provinces of Malaga and Cadiz have yielded many interesting, unstudied mineral occurrences in recent years. Three different varieties of quartz are also...
Afghanite from Mount Vesuvius: a rediscovery.
March 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION
Afghanite [[(Na,Ca,K).sub.8][(Si,Al).sub.12][O.sub.24][(S[O.sub.4],Cl,C[O.s ub.3],[H.sub.2]O).sub.3]] is a feldspathoid of the cancrinite group. Minerals of this group (see Table 1) are hexagonal silicates having the general...
Abstracts of new mineral descriptions.
March 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION
Shortly before I retired from the two jobs noted above, I approached Wendell Wilson to see if he would like to publish abstracts of new mineral descriptions in The Mineralogical Record. His reaction was positive and the abstracts...
The Lac Nicolet antimony mine, South Ham, Quebec.(Famous Mineral Localities)
March 1, 1996... INTRODUCTION
The locality described herein has been variously referred to as "Ham Sud," "South Ham," "Quebec Antimony mine" or "Lac Nicolet" antimony mine by different people at different times. The first of these is simply the French...
Munich Show 1995.(What's New in Minerals)
March 1, 1996... [October 27-29]
The dwindling state of the pound sterling against the Deutschmark would be enough to give anyone from the UK pause when contemplating a trip to Germany, but when the Munich Show's special exhibits are worldwide fluorites, and...
Exchanging with Italian micromineral collectors.
March 1, 1996... For its size, Italy has a wide variety of rock types and geological settings. These have produced a surprising number of well crystallized and/or rare minerals and mineral suites. Many of these species occur as superb microspecimens, and Italian...
Mineralogy of Arizona, 3d ed.
March 1, 1996... Many of the best topographical mineralogies are defined by political boundaries. In geological terms these boundaries are meaningless, but not to the mineral collector. Some of the most fanatical collectors use state or province boundaries to...