The Mineralogical Record articles from November 1999

The Mineralogical Record archives from November 1999

BARIUM SILICATE MINERALS FROM TRUMBULL PEAK, MARIPOSA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA.
November 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Trumbull Peak is one of several barium silicate occurrences located along the western margin of North America; it hosts such minerals as alforsite, celsian, gillespite, macdonaldite, pellyite, titantaramellite and witherite,...

THE DODO DEPOSIT SUBPOLAR URALS, RUSSIA.(Dodo mine)
November 1, 1999... INTRODUCTION Fine specimens of quartz, titanite, brookite and other minerals from the Dodo mine have been reaching the Western mineral market more or less since the end of the Cold War period; the Fersman Mineralogical Museum in Moscow...

THE PUIVA DEPOSIT SUBPOLAR URALS, RUSSIA.
November 1, 1999... The Puiva mine in the Subpolar Ural Mountains is an extraordinary Alpine cleft-type deposit which has yielded the world's finest specimens of ferro-axinite, world-class quartz gwindels, excellent titanite crystals, and a variety of other...

New Jersey Shows 1999.(mineral exhibitions)
November 1, 1999... During the last nine months (December-August 1999) I have traveled to mineral shows in Maryland, Long Island (New York), Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. With the exception of the New Jersey Earth Science Show in April, all were typically...

Rochester Mineralogical Symposium 1999.
November 1, 1999... [April 15-18] For me, the spring show schedule starts off with the Rochester Mineralogical Symposium. The event this year was enjoyable as usual, with enlightening presentations (Al Falster's included rat-killing techniques in Madagascar...

The Baron's Diamonds.(fake diamonds)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... This story dates back about 20 years. Things have changed a lot since then: the hero is dead and South African apartheid is gone. But the risks of the trade (I mean diamond faking) are still there, and will be for a long time ahead. We...

Strained Friendship.(professional jealousy)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Do you ever feel, as I do, that life has a tendency to be a series of "if onlies" and missed opportunities? You know those days... if only I had set out to work five minutes earlier I would have missed this traffic jam. Don't you feel that...

The Lepidolite Boulder (II).(boulder rolling as sport)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... I read with great interest the story of the lepidolite boulder in the May-June issue, in part because I was partly responsible for making that mine dump. The mine referred to is obviously the Stewart Lithia mine, so famous for the typical...

Rock-Rolling (III).(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Terry Szenics' notes on rock-rolling brought back fond memories of my own from 1969. I was then taking part in the University of Minnesota's Wasatch-Uinta Summer Geology Field Camp in the Utah Rockies, a six-week ritual which all geology...

The Mesolite Boulder.
November 1, 1999... The mineral story entitled "The Lepidolite Boulder" by Rolf Luetcke in the May-June 1996 issue reminded me of a rather similar event that occurred 30 years ago. It was during the Fourth of July holidays that Al McGuinness and I had decided...

The Blue Topaz.(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... My mother was a great encouragement to me in my mineral hobby when I was a kid. She was not very knowledgeable, but she loved to go places and look for pretty stuff whether she knew what it was or not. Her favorite mode of cracking rocks was...

Careless Culling.(mineralogy)(Brief Article)
November 1, 1999... Just about everyone in the hobby has probably done things when they first started collecting that still haunt them, and wish they could have another chance to do things differently. In the summers of 1958 and 1959 when I was working nights...