The Mineralogical Record articles from November 2005

The Mineralogical Record archives from November 2005

Hand-held Raman spectrometer.(notes from the EDITORS)
November 1, 2005... For the field-oriented mineral collector and mineral show-goer who wants to have all the latest equipment (i.e. the best toys), there is now "The Rockhound," a portable hand-held device that promises to non-destructively identify minerals in...

Died, Prosper J. Williams, 91.(notes from the EDITORS)(Obituary)
November 1, 2005... Many people in the mineral world remember Prosper ("Prop") Williams, the gracious and understated, silver-haired mineral dealer with the indefinable British/Australian/South African/Canadian accent. Prosper was famous for his Tsumeb specimens,...

Abstracts at MineralogicalRecord.com.(notes from the EDITORS)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2005... We are pleased to announce the addition of another new feature to the Mineralogical Record website: Abstracts of New Mineral Species prepared by Dr. Joseph A. Mandarino, former Chairman of the International Mineralogical Association's Committee...

The Jackson's Crossroads amethyst deposit: Wilkes County, Georgia.
November 1, 2005... The Jackson's Crossroads occurrence in east-central Georgia, discovered in 1988, has recently produced some of the finest amethyst ever found in the United States. Rich purple color, brilliant luster, large crystal size and attractive clusters...

Alpine "iron roses".
November 1, 2005... Brilliant black hematite and rarely ilmenite occur in some Alpine-type clefts as flower-like subparallel aggregates of offset crystals, aptly called "iron roses," which in turn are classifiable into a few types on the basis of morphology. Most...

Collecting cavansite in the Wagholi quarry complex Pune, Maharashtra, India.
November 1, 2005... Beautiful specimens of deep blue cavansite from the Wagholi quarry complex have been a staple of the international mineral specimen market for a number of years. The excitement began in 1988, when abundant cavansite mineralization was...

The museum directory.(Directory)
November 1, 2005... New York State Museum Curator (Geol.): Dr. William Kelly Tel: 518-474-7559 Collections Mgr. (Geol.): Michael Hawkins Tel: 518-486-2011 Fax: 518-486-3696 3140 Cultural Education Ctr. Albany, NY 12230-0001 ...

Reinvestigation of dioptase-plancheite pseudomorphs after calcite from the Tantara copper deposit Katanga, Republique du Congo.
November 1, 2005... In 1920 some very interesting and attractive pseudomorphs were recovered from the Tantara copper desposit in what was then the Belgian Congo. While showing the scalenohedral morphology of calcite, the crystals consist instead of dioptase,...

Pencil garnet: from the Haramosh mountains near Gilgit, Pakistan.
November 1, 2005... Some unusual garnet crystals from the Haramosh mountains, near Gilgit, Pakistan, show what at first appears to be an impossible morphology for a garnet: a first-order hexagonal prism terminated by a second-order hexagonal pyramid. However,...

Memoirs of a mineral collector--Part 1: fifty-nine treasure hunts in Minas Gerais, 1969-2005.
November 1, 2005... The author has been visiting mines and mineral occurrences in Brazil for 36 years, and has seen many now-famous discoveries. Fifty-nine (and counting) mineralogical tours have taken him from his home in Austria to such enticing sites as the...