Collecting at the Canal Dump (Montrose Occurrence) Niagara FallsBy: Michal Adamowicz, rockhoundHail all. Here is an article regarding a great collecting site that soon will be gone.The Montrose Occurrence (also known as the canal dump) is an excellent collecting site for people of all ages as it is very easily accessible. This site is also located within an hours drive to multiple major cities in Southern Ontario, Canada: GTA, St. Catherines,& Ha..

We started a minerals hunting trip in Jiangxi province during the 21th,Jan-25th,Jan 2010. Weather is a little bit cold now and our spring festival is coming, during these days, we have had wonderful time there, though a little rainning there...Here is a short report, hope you would like to have a look.You can found some info show spring will coming after the winter, still some cute green, the landscape around the miner or miner dealer home.Photo ..

Bernardo Hariat, Pedro Fiflet, and Frank Salmons, discoverers and owners of Pala kunzite mine in San Diego County, California—The only deposit of its kind in the worldKunzite the PreciousBy William B. GrossThe discovery of a new gem is always extremely interesting and scientists throughout the world are always anxious to know the gem‘s analysis, its various properties and in what form nature has produced her latest novelty. At present the ..

Below is a synthesis of all the known zeolite occurences in the French Massif Central. Well, “all“ is a big word, and I am sure I missed some, but I am trying to be as exhaustive as possible. Localities have been compiled from Lacroix, Tschernisch, mindat, and my own field collecting. For each zeolite, I first list the confirmed localities where I (or friends) have been collecting. Then I list litterature entries, which will stay there until I ..

An Overview to the Fluorescing Minerals of Australia.By Mark Willoughby.Recently I was asked if I could convey some information about fluorescent minerals of Australia to a collector in the U.S.A.What resulted were the following notes;An outline of the most common, as well as an overview of the lesser-known fluorescent minerals of all but Western Australia. I unfortunately I have very little knowledge of the fluorescents from Western Australia.(I..

I have updated this article with a more thorough description of the geological environment, some photos of the quarry, and I have added a description and a few photos of the prehnite found here. The plan is to gradually extend the article to contain all the minerals that I know from this location.The Ravneberget quarry is located in the Bamble sector, one of many orogene belts on the Precambrian Baltic shields. The onshore part of the Bamble sect..

It all started here. This photograph was made in 1904 and shows the original ledge of the Himalaya Mine. The worked out pockets can be seen in the dike. Note the blocks of pegmatite in the foreground. (Courtesy of Ralph Potter.)Many are the reports on San Diego‘s famous pegmatites, but none of them tell about the legends and lore of —The Treasure of the Himalaya MineBy Veryle CarnahanPresident, California FederationMiner removing debris fr..

As of 1975 ore reserves were proven & probable at 1,023,086 tons averaging 2.9 pounds U3O8 per ton, plus inferred 1,600,000 tons averaging 1.85 pounds U3O8 per ton.The geology here is made up of extremely irregular bodies of sheared granite pegmatite, pegmatitic granite, & syenitic pegmatite occupying an area approximately 1800 meters long by 150 meters wide. The pegmatite conformably intrudes metagabbro, amphibolite, amphibole gneiss, biotite gn..

This is the sixth installment in a series of articles detailing my recent rock-collecting trip. You may want to read my articles #’s 1-5, and start at the beginning of the story. The story begins in Pittsburgh, Pa, takes you to and through North Carolina ending in Arkansas. We traveled over three thousand miles in a two-week period in August of 2011.According to Google Maps, it is over 700 miles and a 12-hour drive from where we were stayin..

Using as references, Molybdenum Deposits of Ontario by F. J. Johnson, 1968, Mineral Occurrences in the Haliburton Area by J. Satterly, 1943, Annual Report Volume dated 1918 of the Ontario Dept. of Mines, Sabina’s Rocks and Minerals, Report 39, and my own personal story, I would like to offer you, the reader, a little incite into molybdenum and three of many mines that produced some of the ore in Monmouth Township, Haliburton County. This ar..