Cheryl & Richard Sittinger chat with mine geologist Dean Misantori
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'97, when we featured Sweet Home rhodochrosite in our Mineral of the
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STILL AVAILABLE: APRIL 2011
MINERAL OF THE MONTH: KYANITE
Kyanite
Capelinha Mine
Jequitinhonha Valley
Minas Gerais, Brazil
APRIL 2011 KYANITE from Brazil.
Our kyanite specimens were collected at the Capelinha
Mine near Capelinha in the Jequitinhonha Valley in the Brazilian state
of Minas Gerais, which is one of the world’s premier sources of mineral
crystals and gemstones. Our specimens were obtained as a by-product of
mining pegmatite gemstones. In the early Paleozoic Era some 490 million
years ago, the present-day surface of Minas Gerais was buried to a depth
of about 12,000 feet. The basement rock, which consisted of highly
metamorphosed gneiss, schist, and quartzite, was intruded by granitic
magma that created gemstone-bearing pegmatites and provided the
pressures that formed our kyanite crystals in the adjacent schist.
Capelinha has three pegmatite gemstone mines, the Capelinha, Campo do
Boa and Fazenda Rubin Pimenta mines, which are worked by both open-pit
and underground methods. These mines yield crystals of topaz, titanite,
and the tourmaline mineral elbaite. In their search for gemstones,
pegmatite miners remove large quantities of surrounding schist, which
sometimes contains well-developed, blue kyanite crystals. This is just a
portion of what you will read in this month's write-up!
STILL AVAILABLE: MARCH 2011
MINERAL OF THE MONTH: AXINITE-(FE)
Axinite-(Fe)
New Melones Dam
Calaveras County, California
MARCH 2011 AXINITE-(FE) from California. The
September-October 1982 issue of the Mineralogical Record contained an
article on a new find, stating: "In the fall of 1981, very fine
Ferroaxinite specimens were collected from the spillway adjacent to New
Melones Lake near Copperopolis in Calaveras county. Since its discovery,
this locality has produced some of the finest ferroaxinite specimens
ever found in North America." We are delighted to have obtained a nice
lot from this find! (The name of the mineral has been changed from
Ferroaxinite to Axinite-(Fe) in the intervening years.) Gold-level
specimens are much smaller than usual--small crystals on small matrix,
most about 1" to 2". We're mounting the smaller pieces on the Acrylic
squares we offer, which makes then much showier.
STILL AVAILABLE: JULY 2010 MINERAL
OF THE MONTH: QUARTZ (JASPER) AFTER ARAGONITE
Quartz variety Jasper Pseudomorph after Aragonite
Valle de las Plumas
Paso de Indio
Chubut Province
Argentina
July 2010. Pseudomorphs of quartz after aragonite from Argentina,
another unusual find! The outside crystal form is that of aragonite, but
the original mineral has been completely replaced by the Jasper variety
of chalcedonic quartz! The corresponding write-up explains exactly how
and why this type of replacement occurs in nature in a special section
entitled "The Phenomenon of Mineral Pseudomorphism." You'll find both
the mineral and the write-up quite fascinating! And Platinum-level
member have the opportunity to obtain a piece that has been cut in half
and polished to show off the inner beauty of the jasper and the drusy
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Pyrite Concretion
Hengyang Baifang Coal Mines
Hengyang County
Hengyang Prefecture
Hunan Province, China
Pyrite is one of those amazing minerals that continues
to come out of the ground in unusual forms and shapes! Our specimens are
from a new find in China, where the pyrite crystallized in unusual
spherical and ovoidal concretions, some of which look like acorns,
muffin tops, turtle shells, brains, and snowmen! The accompanying
write-up explains in depth how pyrite crystallizes in such odd shapes in
the section on "About Our Specimens" and in the special section on "The
Many Forms of Pyrite." You'll find the concretion and the write-up quite
fascinating!
Gold-level specimens are complete concretions about
2.5" by 2"
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allowing you to really see the radiating crystal structure
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SEPTEMBER 2010 MINERAL OF THE
MONTH: HEMATITE PSEUDOMORPH AFTER MAGNETITE
 
Hematite after
Magnetite, Payún Volcano, Altiplano de Payún Matru, Mendoza, Argentina.
Two photos showing two of the habits we have on hand for Club
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September 2010
Hematite after Aragonite, Payún Volcano, Altiplano de
Payún Matru, Mendoza, Argentina. Another amazing pseudomorph from
Argentina, and one that has generated tremendous interest in the mineral
community! Our pseudomorphic specimens were collected at an extinct
Argentinean volcano. Our write-up explains their unusual fumarolic
origin, the chemical oxidation of magnetite into hematite, and some of
the basics behind the phenomenon of volcanism.
STILL AVAILABLE: AUGUST 2010
MINERAL OF THE MONTH: VESUVIANITE
Vesuvianite
Jeffrey Mine
Quebec
Canada
August 2010 Vesuvianite, Jeffrey Mine, Quebec, Canada.
Though the specimens we're sending this month
are much smaller than usual this month, they have exceptionally lovely
color and excellent crystal forms! We first featured vesuvianite from
this classic locality in March 2000, and are thrilled to have gotten
another large lot of beautiful pieces! Our write-up explains the unusual
metamorphic origin of vesuvianite and its use as a gemstone, along with
the facts and fiction surrounding asbestos and the rich history of what
was once the world’s largest asbestos mine--the Jeffrey Mine in Canada!
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STILL AVAILABLE: APRIL 2010
MINERAL OF THE MONTH: TOPAZ
April 2010 Topaz, Maynard's Claim, Thomas
Range, Juab County, Utah.
This was another outstanding month! “I pulled out a section of brush
and there, stuck to the roots, were two rather large, perfectly
flawless topaz crystals. Thus began the most exciting mineral
collecting adventure of my life.” Our 10-page Topaz write-up
explains why a graduate student made this statement in 1973! In a
special section, it also explains why commercial mineral collecting
is such a risky business. And as always, the write-up discusses in
detail topaz' chemical make-up, crystal form, important collecting
sites, gem use. history, and lore, and much more.
And remember, store your topaz crystal away from sunlight
to preserve its color!
Gold-level specimens are about 1" to 1.5" long
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FEBRUARY 2012 MINERAL OF THE MONTH:
MUSCOVITE
Muscovite with Fluorite
White Mountains
Inyo County, California
FEBRUARY 2012 MUSCOVITE and FLUORITE
A new find! Our composite
muscovite-fluorite specimens were collected in the White Mountains in
Inyo County, California. The White Mountains are a 60-mile-long,
20-mile-wide, north-south-trending, fault-block mountain range with two
peaks above 14,000 feet and six peaks above 13,000 feet. Some 500
million years ago during the Paleozoic Era, the ancient sea that covered
this region deposited thick layers of sediments that later lithified
into sandstone, dolomite, and other sedimentary rocks. Crustal stresses
generated from distant tectonic collisions then slowly, but
dramatically, uplifted sections of the crust to create geologically
complex mountains. Our muscovite specimens formed during the uplift of
the White Mountains when granitic magma intruded country rock. This
magma cooled slowly and solidified into large bodies of granite that
retained a central core of residual magma enriched with such unusual
elements as fluorine. This residual magma forced its way into
surrounding fissures and cracks to form pegmatite veins with muscovite
in an unusual combination with purple fluorite.
JANUARY 2012 MINERAL OF THE MONTH:
STILBITE-CA
Stilbite-Ca
Jalgaon District
Maharashtra
India
JANUARY 2012 STILBITE-CA Our stilbite-Ca specimens were collected at
basalt quarries in the Jalgaon District in the state of Maharashtra in
the Republic of India. Jalgaon is located within the Deccan Traps, a
huge volcanic province that formed some 65 million years ago and
consists of basalt formations as thick as 6,000 feet. Our specimens were
extracted from vesicles that formed from gas bubbles in the original
magma. Later, these cavities filled with mineral-rich groundwater that
precipitated crystals of quartz, calcite, and various zeolite minerals.
Basalt quarrying is an important industry throughout the Deccan Traps
region of India. Crushed basalt is used as ballast and fill for roads,
rail beds, foundations for buildings and dams, and cement additives. Our
stilbite-Ca specimens were recovered by professional specimen miners who
contract with quarry managers for permission to extract zeolite
specimens when they are exposed by quarrying operations.
STILL AVAILABLE
Carnelian, Amberjeby, near the seaport city of Mahajanga in the
Boeny Region of northeast Madagascar.
DECEMBER 2011 CARNELIAN Our Gold- and Platinum-level specimens are
from the Amberjeby quarry, in a formation of heavily weathered, volcanic
rock. When this rock was emplaced, it contained numerous barren vesicles
that later filled with groundwater solutions rich in silica and
hematite. These solutions eventually formed silica gels that solidified
into the reddish carnelian variety of microcrystalline quartz. As
erosion and weathering reduced the basalt formations into a coarse earth
and gravel, the harder, more resistant carnelian survived as nodules
dispersed through the sediments. Mining is conducted mainly by shallow
digging, with blasting employed only when necessary. For the first time
in many years, Silver-level specimens are from a different locality--the
Bobonong District, Central District, Botswana.
STILL AVAILABLE! NOVEMBER 2011
MINERAL OF THE MONTH: ATACAMITE
Atacamite
Mt. Gunson
Stuart Shelf area of the
Andamooka Ranges-Lake Torrens Region
South Australia, Australia
NOVEMBER 2011 ATACAMITE A brief portion of the write-up
on Atacamite that Club members will receive with their specimen: "Copper
ore was discovered at Mt. Gunson in 1875; production began in 1899 from
an open pit called the Main Open Cut. Production increased sharply
during World War II to help satisfy the critical Allied demand for
copper. Mt. Gunson shut down after the war as ore grades and metal
prices declined. The mine reopened in 1970 on a larger scale with a new
flotation-separation concentrator to treat lower-grade ores. In 1974,
the Cattlegrid Deposit, the source of our specimens, opened adjacent to
the Main Open Cut. By the time the Cattlegrid Pit shut down in 1986, it
had produced 7.2 million metric tons of ore grading 1.9 percent copper
that yielded 127,000 metric tons of copper and 62 metric tons (more than
1.9 million troy ounces) of silver. The Mt. Gunson copper deposit lies
within a rift valley and is part of South Australia’s Stuart
Shelf-Adelaide Geosyncline Copper Province. These copper deposits formed
early in the Proterozoic Eon some 1.5 billion years ago when copper-rich
hydrothermal solutions surged upward from basement rock into an
overlying formation of layered sediments that is now known as the Stuart
Shelf. Atacamite formed when shallow deposits of copper-sulfide minerals
oxidized in the presence of chlorine ions from saline lake-bed evaporite
minerals. Current geological exploration has revealed a massive ore body
grading almost three percent copper along with lesser amounts of silver,
lead, zinc, and bismuth. Full-scale mining at Mt. Gunson will resume in
2014." The full write-up contains much more fascinating
information!
STILL AVAILABLE! OCTOBER 2011
MINERAL OF THE MONTH: BARITE
Two photos representing typical Gold-level specimens that
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Barite
Cerro Huarihuyn
Miraflores District
Huamalies Province
Huanuco Department, Peru
Our barite specimens were collected at Cerro Huarihuyn
(also spelled Warihuayin) in the Miraflores District, Huamalíes
Province, Huánuco Department, Peru. Located in central Peru, the remote
Miraflores District covers 1,214 square miles and has 3,700 residents
and an average elevation of 8,000 feet. It is 200 air miles
north-northeast of the national capital of Lima and 125 air miles east
of the Pacific coast. Miraflores is not a major mining district, but is
rather one of many lesser-mineralized areas of the greater Andes region.
Spanish prospectors first visited what is now the Miraflores District in
the late 1500s, discovering mineralized outcrops that were of
insufficient size and richness to warrant mining. Our barite specimens
were collected at Cerro Huarihuyn (Huarihuyn Mountain), an
8,835-foot-high mountain that is really a “hill” by Andean standards.
Barite specimens from Cerro Huarihuyn first reached international
markets in the late 1990s, but attracted little interest. Then in spring
2005, barite specimens (including ours) with water-clear transparency
and superb crystal development were collected in quantity.
STILL AVAILABLE: SEPTEMBER 2011
MINERAL OF THE MONTH: ANHYDRITE
Photo by Jeff Scovil
Anhydrite
Naica Mine
Naica
Municipio de Saucillo
Chihuahua, Mexico
SEPTEMBER 2011 ANHYDRITE Our specimens are from the Naica
Mine at Naica, Municipo de Saucillo, Chihuahua, Mexico, an area that is
230 miles south of El Paso, Texas. Spanish prospectors discovered the
Naica multi-metal deposit in 1794 and mined it for silver. The Naica
Mine has operated more-or-less steadily for more than 200 years and
produces lead, zinc, and smaller amounts of silver, copper, and gold.
Its historic production exceeds 40 million tons of ore. Naica is
Mexico’s oldest producing mine, its leading source of lead, and southern
Chihuahua’s biggest private employer. Naica first became recognized in
the 1970s as a source of mineral specimens, initially for crystals of
fluorite and pyrite. In 1981, miners blasted into a fault that was lined
with thousands of flat, square-terminated, pale, blue-gray anhydrite
crystals that established Naica as a classic locality for anhydrite. In
2000, Naica miners discovered a natural geodic (geode-like) cave now
known as La Cueva de los Cristales Gigantes (the Cave of the Giant
Crystals). Our write-up includes a special section on this amazing
discovery!
STILL AVAILABLE: AUGUST 2011
MINERAL OF THE MONTH: DOLOMITE
Dolomite
Shangbao Pyrite Mine
Leiyang County
Hengyang Prefecture
Hunan Province, China
AUGUST 2011 DOLOMITE Our dolomite specimens are from the
Shangbao Pyrite Mine in Leiyang County, Hengyang Prefecture, Hunan
Province, People’s Republic of China. The Shangbao Pyrite Mine is
located 15 miles southeast of the city of Leiyang in a historic
iron-mining region. In 1972, several small, iron-sulfur mines were
consolidated into the Shangbao Pyrite Mine, which used a combination of
open-pit and underground mining methods to extract pyrite ore as a
source of both iron and sulfur. Shangbao exploits a skarn-type pyrite
deposit that formed through the contact metamorphism of limestone and
dolomitic limestone. Mineral specimens from the Shangbao Pyrite Mine
first reached international markets in the 1980s. When Shangbao ceased
commercial operations in 1995, it was one of the world’s few remaining
mines that still exploited pyrite as a source of iron. Immediately after
the mine closed, a group of former pyrite miners formed a syndicate and
leased parts of the mine specifically to collect specimens. Our
specimens were recovered from a skarn pocket that was opened in 2008.
The write-up you will receive with your dolomite specimen will have lots
more information, including a special section on the unique element
magnesium.
STILL AVAILABLE: JULY 2011 MINERAL
OF THE MONTH: AQUAMARINE
Aquamarine
Erongo Mountain
Usakos and Omaruru Districts
Erongo Region, Namibia
JULY 2011 AQUAMARINE For the second
month in a row, we're featuring well-formed crystals collected in
dangerous conditions from pockets of sheer cliffs in a South African
country! Our aquamarine specimens were collected at Erongo Mountain in
the Usakos and Omaruru districts, Erongo Region, Namibia. Erongo
Mountain, a prominent, semicircular mountain 18 miles in diameter, is
located in west-central Namibia about 125 miles northwest of the
national capital of Windhoek. The origin of our specimens goes back 135
million years ago to the late Jurassic Period when a volcanic system
subsided and collapsed to form a caldera. This fractured caldera was
then intruded by magma that emplaced the alkaline (silica-poor) Erongo
granite formation. This intrusion solidified very slowly, leaving
pockets of residual magma that were enriched with such unusual elements
as tin, tungsten, boron, fluorine, and beryllium. In areas where gases
created cavities, final solidification of the residual magma took place
on a mineral-by-mineral basis with the growth of large, well-developed
crystals. The write-up you will receive with your aquamarine crystal
will have lots more information, including a special section on the
unique element berylium. Because of their rarity and value, the
aquamarine crystals are smaller than what we typically send Gold- and
Platinum-level members.
And we still have some left of the
long, thin, lustrous black blades of aegirine from Mount Malosa, Zomba
District, Malawi, that we featured in June. Why not get a membership
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STILL AVAILABLE: MAY 2011 MINERAL
OF THE MONTH: RHODONITE
Rhodonite
San Martín Mine
Huallanca
Bolognesi Province
Ancash Department, Peru
We are very excited about the gorgeous specimens we will
be sending you in May! And we are not exaggerating--the May-June 2007
Mineralogical Record calls these "Gorgeously deep pink aggregates of
bladed rhodonite crystals." Since these are exceptional, gorgeous, and
rare, they are especially valuable--and as a result, our specimens on
all levels will be significantly smaller than usual. If you are a
Silver- or Gold-level member who is interested in obtaining a
Platinum-level specimen on a one-time basis, please let us know, and
we'll forward you a copy of the Email we send to Platinum members with
sizes, prices, and photos of our best pieces.
Our rhodonite specimens were collected at the San Martín
Mine at Chiurucu, Huallanca District, Bolognesi Province, Ancash
Department, Peru. Huallanca District, with an average elevation of 6,000
feet and covering 337 square miles, is 80 miles east of the Pacific
Coast and 125 miles north-northeast of the national capital of Lima.
Local mineralization was emplaced following the crustal fracturing that
accompanied the uplift of the Andes some 60 million years ago.
Mineral-rich, hydrothermal solutions surged upward in multiple phases
into fractures within quartz-monzonite and granitic country rock to
precipitate an array of minerals in complex vein systems. Both the Incas
and the colonial Spanish mined silver at Huallanca. Zinc mining became
prominent at Huallanca in the 1960s when several underground mines were
developed, including the San Martín Mine, a small, multi-metal operation
that produces zinc and lesser amounts of silver, lead, and copper.
Crystals of rhodonite, a gangue mineral at the San Martín Mine, gained
popularity with collectors in the early 1990s. Miners found major
rhodonite pockets in 1991, 1995, and 1997, and again in 2007 when our
specimens were collected. The San Martín Mine has since closed and is
unlikely to reopen. The write-up we will be sending along with the
beautiful rhodonite specimens contains much additional information,
including a special section on "Decorative Stones" like rhodonite.
STILL AVAILABLE: FEBRUARY 2011
MINERAL OF THE MONTH: AZURITE
Azurite
Morenci Mine
Greenlee County, Arizona
We're very excited about this month! We're featuring azurite, a
colorful, hydrous copper carbonate from Arizona’s famed Morenci Mine. Our
write-up explains azurite’s mineralogy, its use as both an ornamental stone
and an early ore of copper, and the history and technological development of
one of the world’s greatest copper mines.
STILL AVAILABLE:
JANUARY 2011 MINERAL OF THE MONTH:
SCOLECITE
Scolecite
Sangamner
Ahmadnagar District
Maharashtra, India
January 2011 This month’s mineral
is an uncommon zeolite group mineral from India that can forms delicate,
lovely, colorless-to-white blades, as seen in the photo above These long,
thin crystals are an external manifestation of the internal structure of the
long, aluminosilicate chains that comprise scolecite, as our write-up
discusses. It also explains scolecite's origin as a secondary mineral in
volcanic host rocks, the difficulty of collecting this fragile mineral, the
unusual properties of the zeolite-group minerals, and why mineralogists
recently revised the system of zeolite classification and nomenclature.
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