JANUARY 2021
LOAFING AROUND WITH ALBITE, SCHORL, AND MONAZITE
PAPAGOITE AND AJOITE FROM AJO, AZ
COLORADOITE, STEGOSAURUS, AND THE COMPROMISE OF 1877 + SILVER DOLLARS
PHOSPHATES ARE PHUN: STEWARTITE
DECEMBER 2020
THE SELENIDE MINERALS: TOUGH TO ID--KLOCKMANNITE, CLAUSTHALITE, BERZELIANITE
FAIRFIELDITE: UNCOMMON PHOSPHATE
SMALL SPECIMEN; TINY ZEOLITES FAUJASITE-Na AND PHILLIPSITE.
NOVEMBER 2020
BROCHANTITE, LINARITE & FLUORITE: BLANCHARD MINE
AZURITE & BARITE: SHERMAN TUNNEL
VOLKOVSKITE: THE BEST BUY IN DENVER
LEAD OXIDE (MINIUM), WITCHES, PUMPKINS, BLUE FULL MOON, AND A HEADLESS HORSEMAN.
OCTOBER 2020
SYLVANITE: Au! IT'S GOLD
A FRESH AIR TRIP TO THE KANSAS CHALK BEDS
ARTINITE CRYSTALS SPICE UP A QUARANTINE DAY
DESAUTELESITE AND ZOOMING WITH THE MICROMOUNT SYMPOSIUM
WOW DINOSAURS AND THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
SEPTEMBER 2020
DENVER FALL 2020 SHOW BY A NOSEHAIR
ANAPAITE: NOTHING TO WRITE HOME TO MOMMA ABOUT
AUGUST 2020
TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD, LUCIN, AND UTAH MINYULITE: A RARE PHOSPHATE
DUSSERTITE? (BARIUM IRON ARESENATE) FROM THE CARLIN TREND, NEVADA
MINERALS OF THE BRIDING ESTATE SALE: PART II
MINERALS FROM THE BRIDING ESTATE SALE: PART I
THE HOLY GRAIL: LEGRANDITE FRON MEXICO
LEARNING FROM ANTIMONY MINERALS
JULY 2020
ALUM MINERALS, ELEGANT TROGANS, AND SHAVING CUTS
THE BLUES: MINERALS AND MUSIC ALONG WITH ELWOOD AND JAKE
GRAND CANYON MINING: ORPHAN MINE & HALOTRICHITE
BIRDS OF A FEATHER: CARMINITE AND ARSENIOSIDERITE
RED GILLESPITE: MORE BARIUM SILICATES PLUS AN IDIOM OR TWO
LITTLE SPHERES OF MINERALSLITTLE SPHERES OF MINERALS
GAHNITE: ZINC SPINEL.
JUNE 2020
RARE BARIUM SILICATES:SANBORNITE AND MACDONALDITE
FLUORAPATITE, BERTRANITE AND MUHAMMAD ALI
TO THE ARCHIVES: LAZARD CAHN LABELS
MAY 2020
TELLURITE, A TELLURIUM OXIDE
BYE BYE DICK'S ROCK SHOP; WORMY ALUNITE
20 MULE TEAM BORAX & DUMORTIERITE
APRIL 2020
A BREAK FROM THE MINERALS: SCIENCE WILL WIN
AN OUNCE OF OSUMILITE (NIFTY MINERAL)
A CUP OF CUPRITE
A TANKARD OF TARBUTTITE
A SHOOTER OF SCHALENBLENDE; 22ND ST. SHOW; SUPERMOON
TUCSON 2020: A MENAGERIE OF MINERALS
MARCH 2020
TUCSON: A SCHOONER OF SCHUETTEITE
TUCSON: A MASS OF MILLERITE. NICKEL SULFIDE
TUCSON MINERAL CITY AND BERZELIANITE
CSMS UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH GRANTS: 2020 APPLICATION
TUCSON: PUEBLO--CAMPYLITE AND WULFENITE AND HAPPY DAYS
FEBRUARY 2020
TUCSON INN SUITES: KARIBIBITE & FRANCKEITE
TUCSON KINO JERRY GARCIA,:VLASOVITE, & FLUORBUERGERITE
TUCSON: BEYERITE, TALMESSITE, & HIDALGOITE
NEWS FROM TUCSON; 2020 SHOWS HAVE STARTED
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APRIL 2017 PARISITE: CERIUM RARE EARTH MINERAL
MARCH 2017
AUGELITE: AN UNCOMMON GREEN PHOSPHATE PURPURITE (PHOSPHATE) FROM SOUTH DAKOTA AND COLORADO FEBRUARY 2017 VOLBORTHITE; BRIGHTLY COLORED VANADIUM MINERAL POTTSITE; A YELOLW LEAD BISMUTH VANADATE S. F. EMMONS, EMMONSITE, MT. EMMONS & TELLURIUM JANUARY 2017 CYLINDRITE: A CIGAR-ROLLED SULFIDE IMPORTING GEMS, IVORY AND CORAL; QUESTIONS, I GET BLUE SAMPLEITE; COPPER PHOSPHATE 2016 POSTINGS DECEMBER
SEPTEMBER BLACK HILLS: HOMESTAKE GOLD AND SCRIPOPHILY
CAMP BIRD SPHALERITE BOLEITE & DIABOLEITE: CSMS SHOW STICHTITE: PIKES PEAK GEM AND MINERAL SHOW MAY THE 2016 RMFMS MEETING: THE NITTY GRITTY Ar-kan-saw to ar-KAN-zes: THE ROAD TO WICHITA BLUE AZURITE: TUCSON 2016 TUCSON MAIN SHOW 2016 APRIL BLUE CARLETONITE: TUCSON 2016 MARCH BLUE SERPIERITE: TUCSON 2016 BLUE LAVENDULAN: TUCSON 2016 BLUE AFGAHNITE: TUCSON 2016 COLLECTING AMMOLITE IN ALBERTA FEBRUARY BLUE CAVANSITE; ZEOLITES: TUCSON 2016 BLUE CHALCEDONY: TUCSON 2016 BLUE QUARTZ: TUCSON 2016 JANUARY STROMEYERITE, SILVER AND KEVIN BACON GREEN ARSENATES II: LIBENTHENITE, CORNWALLITE, PSEUDOMALACHITE GREEN ARSENATES I: ADAMITE, OLIVENITE CADMIUM, GREENOCKITE AND NI-CAD BATTERIES 2015 POSTINGS DECEMBER CACTUS SELENITE: GREAT SALT LAKE DUGWAY GEODES, ANTLERITE, SCARY PLACES CRIPPLE CREEK, SCRIPOPHILY AND GOLD SHARES NOVEMBER FUSULINIDS, BRACHIOPODS, SOUTHEAST ASIA AND MUNGO JERRY CLINOCHLORE & SERAPHINITE: CRUD ON THE QUARTZ COOKEITE: CRUD ON THE QUARTZ MAMMOTH MINE, UTAH: TYROLITE (ARSENATE) OCTOBER KANSAS FIELD TRIPS: CAVES AND ROCK CITY CONCRETIONS KANSAS FIELD TRIPS: HALITE AND CONE-IN-CONE RARE EARTH ELEMENTS: COLORADO TROUT CREEK FIELD TRIP SEPTEMBER DENVER SHOW 2015: COBALT MINERALS DENVER SHOW 2015 CAHNITE AND LAZARD CAHN BLACK HILLS COSMOS AND HUREAULITE GOLD HILL HIDALGOITE (ARSENATE) AUGUST FOLDS: ANTICLINES, SYNCLINES, MONOCLINES WHY A GEOLOGIST? VALLERIITE: AN EXTRA-SOFT MINERAL JULY VIVIANITE: COLOR-CHANGING IRON PHOSPHATE COBALT RED & NICKEL GREEN ARKANSAS PHOSPHATE: KIDWELLITE MANGANESE: STURMANITE FROM THE KALAHARI CORNETITE: BLUE COPPER PHOSPHATE JUNE MISSOURI MOZARKITE, COAL & GEODES NEW FOREST SERVICE RULES FOR COLLECTING FOSSILS ARKANSAS: QUARTZ: DIAMONDS AND MORE GEOLOGY FIELD CAMP: RITE OF PASSAGE 50 YEARS LATER ARKANSAS: VARIETY OF GEOLOGY MAY TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT APRIL NON-GEOLOGY: CONNECTING BEECHER ISLAND & BLACK HILLS NON-GEOLOGY: 1876 KILLINGS--BLACK HILLS SAND: SMALL STONES NON-GEOLOGY POST: THE BATTLE OF BEECHER ISLAND--WEAPONS. AJOITE: BLUE-GREEN COPPER CARBONATE THE DESERT AND PRECAMBRIAN ROCKS; CAVE CREEK CHASING ARIZONA ONYX CALEDONITE: RARE BLUE COPPER-LEAD CARBONATE CONNELITE: ANOTHER RARE BLUE COPPER MINERAL BABINGTONITE: MA STATE MINERAL RARE LEAD COPPER OXIDE: MURDOCHITE FEBRUARY PEROVSKITE: CALCIUM TITANIUM OXIDE PARATACAMITE: TUCSON GEM SHOW REPORT: THE END LAZULITE: TUCSON GEM SHOW: MAIN SHOW TUCSON GEM SHOW: 2015 MAIN SHOW PARGASITE: TUCSON GEMS SHOW REPORTS: WHOLESALE BOURNONITE: TUCSON GEM SHOW REPORT: TUCSON CITY CENTER KUTNOHORITE: TUCSON GEM SHOW REPORTS: KINO RUBY & SPINAL: TUCSON GEM SHOW REPORTS: 22nd STREET PYROPHYLLITE: TUCSON GEM SHOW REPORTS: MINERS CO-OP CRANDALLITE: TUCSON GEM SHOW REPORTS & PALEO VANADINITE: TUCSON GEM SHOW REPORTS: MAIN STREET JANUARY STRATIGRAPHY TERMINOLOGY: GROUPS, FORMATIONS, MEMBERS GOLD HILL, UTAH, ARSENATES 2014 POSTINGS DECEMBER TV PROSPECTORS & ZEBULON PIKE BLACK HILLS: STRENGITE & APATITE NOVEMBER BLUE COPPER SILICATES; KINOITE & STRINGHAMITE GRAB THE BLASTING POWDER: OFF TO THE FIELD BUTTE, MONTANA: COPPER MINERALS OCTOBER MAJUBA HILL: CLINOCLASE & ARTHURITE: COPPER ARSENATES STRASHIMIRITE: RARE COPPER ARSENATE MORE CHLORIDES: SYLVITE & CHLORARGYRITE CARLTON TUNNEL: CRIPPLE CREEK-VICTOR ROAD TRIP: COLORADO SPRINGS WEST ATACAMITE: A RARE COPPER CHLORIDE TRUCKIN THRU BLACK HILLS FAIRBURN AGATES, BARITE AND SNAILS SEPTEMBER DENVER MINERAL SHOW: 2014 CONCERNING THE GEOLOGY OF COLORADO JULY ROADTRIP: OKLAHOMA CENTRAL PLAINS AND PANHANDLE ROADTRIP: OKLAHOMA WICHITA AND ARBUCKLE MOUNTAINS. PYRRHOTITE: A "STRANGE" IRON SULFIDE ROAD TRIP: EASTERN OKLAHOMA GARNIERITE: LATERITIC GREEN NICKEL "MINERAL" COLORADO PSEUDOMORPH: HEMATITE AFTER SIDERITE THE HIGH PLAINS: FULL OF CHARACTER JUNE SIEGENITE: ANOTHER RARE NICKEL SULFIDE MILLERITE & ?POLYDYMITE: RARE NICKEL SULFIDES HOLMQUISTITE: RARE LITHIUM SILICATE CORNWALLITE: ANOTHER GREEN ARSENATE WYOMING YOUNGITE AND OTHER ODDITIES MAY PEACOCK ORE; BORNITE OR CHALCOPYRITE? CARMINITE: A NICE RED ARSENATE QUARTZ: RED AND AUTHIGENIC DUFTITE: A NICE GREEN ARSENATE CALLAGHANITE; A RARE BLUE CARBONATE APRIL DESERT VARNISH & THE COLORADO PLATEAU THE ARIZONA HILLS NEAR ORACLE DOTSERO VOLCANO & UNIFORMITARIANISM GOING TO TUCSON: ROAD LOGS ISINGLASS AND MUSCOVITE: BLACK HILLS SELENITE ROSES; BLACK HILLS MARCH MOAB: GEM CITY OF THE COLORADO PLATEAU ROADSIDE KANSAS: UNDERSTANDING THE GEOLOGY BLACK HILLS PUDDINGSTONE AND LAME JOHNNY GARNETS: RUBY MOUNTAIN COLORADO UNITED KINGDOM ROCK & MINERAL CLUBS PIKES PEAK AMAZONITE & CLARENCE COIL PIKES PEAK GEOLOGY AND GIRL SCOUTS FEBRUARY TUCSON 2014: SATELLITE SHOWS ON THE ROAD TO TUCSON: FOUR PEAKS AMETHYST TUCSON 2014: GEM & MINERAL SHOW TUCSON 2014: WHOLESALE SHOW RED RIVER SELENITE ROSETTES JANUARY GEOLOGY: EASTERN SOUTH DAKOTA UTAH AZURITE & LACCOLITHS CALCITE SAND CRYSTALS: SOUTH DAKOTA 2013 POSTINGS DECEMBER COLORADO GEOLOGY: I-25 CORRIDOR SOUTH ARIZONA MINERALS AND THE GADSDEN PURCHASE BLACK HILLS: LARAMIDE INTRUSIONS ARKANSAS PHOSPHATES: WAVELLITE, VARISCITE, CACOXINITE, ROCKBRIDGEITE HUERFANO BUTTE, COLORADO: THE ORPHAN NOVEMBER "ZINNWALDITE": MICA PIKES PEAK BATHOLITH ARKANSAS BAUXITE HAHNS PEAK, COLORADO ZEOLITE: MORDENITE TABLE MOUNTAIN, ZEOLITE, and COORS BEER OCTOBER ZEOLITE: LAKE SUPERIOR THOMSONITE SPURRITE: LILAC-COLORED CALC-SILICATE ARAGONITE, FAULTS AND JACK SLADE COLORADO CAVALRY: WM. E. THOMPSON RUBY RED SILVER; PROUSTITE & PYRARGYRITE HORSESHOE CIRQUE: A COLORADO TREASURE BRAZILIANITE; AN UNCOMMON PHOSPHATE GEOLOGICAL SCENES FROM THE BLACK HILLS FAIRBURN AGATE: WYOMING REALGAR--PARAREALGAR BLACK HILLS, SD SEPTEMBER FORT HAYS LIMESTONE: THE NATIVE KANSAS CONCRETIONS (CRETACEOUS) PHONOLITE AT SPEARFISH PEAK, BLACK HILLS AUGUST THE GANGPLANK & THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD SLIM BUTTES, SOUTH DAKOTA--GEOLOGY, CROOK AND CUSTER SOUTH DAKOTA LAKE SUPERIOR AGATE BLACK HILLS: A MIGHTY BIG CORAL WISCONSIN LAKE SUPERIOR AGATES JULY OPAL: QUEEN OF THE GEMS KANSAS BARITE ROSES MORE SERPENTINE! PECOS DIAMONDS: AUTHIGENIC QUARTZ UVITE: AN UNCOMMON TOURMALINE I LOVE THE BLACK HILLS JUNE FAULTS: I FEEL THE EARTH MOVE UNDER MY FEET... SERPENTINE AND HYDROMAGNESITE GOETHITE FROM GRAVES MTN, GEORGIA HUNTING FOR TOPAZ: UTAH AND COLORADO ILVAITE: WHODA THOUGHT MAY ROAD TRIP: ARIZONA GHOST TOWNS ROAD TRIP: SALT LAKE CITY WOLLASTON, WOLLASTONITE, AND A CAMERA LUCIDA PYRITE, STARTING FIRES, AND FLAGAN SACKETT PIETERSITE: THE BEAUTY AND THE BEAST RARE EARTH MINERALS: PIKES PEAK REGION A SEARCH FOR SHARPENING STONES AND NOVACULITE A HUNT FOR COLORADO SAPPHIRE APRIL LAIHUNITE: EL PASO COUNTY, COLORADO SKUTTERUDITE: COBALT-NICKEL ARSENIDE A NICE BLUE BORON MINERAL: DUMORTIERITE ANTIMONY MINERALS LIZARD HEAD: FILL YOUR HAND YOU SOB! DENVER GEM SHOW: COPPER 2012 ARROJADITE: A RARE PHOSPHATE--BLACK HILLS KANSAS MINERALS: WEST MARCH KANSAS MINERALS: EAST AEGIRINE: INTERESTING MINERAL GILSONITE, A COLLECTABLE HYDROCARBON VALENCIANITE: ADULARIA (K-FELDSPAR) FEBRUARY LOST DUTCHMAN & SUPERSTITIONS ZUNYITE: A COLORADO TYPE MINERAL TUCSON GEM AND MINERAL SHOW: 2013 KINO SPORTS COMPLEX ROCK SHOW TUCSON: 2013 ARIZONA DESERT ROSES JANUARY DARWIN, LYELL & NEWTON BOOK CLIFFS: BARITE 2012 POSTINGS DECEMBER PRECAMBRIAN WYOMING: SNOWY, MEDICINE BOW, LARAMIE & HARTVILLE RANGES DIOPSIDE-ACTINOLITE AT CALUMET MINE NOVEMBER CINNABAR and MERCURY HIKING PULPIT ROCK IDOcrase: WHERE HAVE YOU GONE ? BLUE-PURPLE HALITE SPINEL: THE FORGOTTEN GEMSTONE GREEN RIVER: GATES OF LADORE OCTOBER BADGERS, STONEHENGE, AND A FURSTY FERRET OLD THUMPER & THE THAMES RIVER SPHENE: A NICE GEMSTONE COLUMBITE & TANTALITE MT. ANTERO: HELIODOR & EUCLASE CALCITE FROM LA GARITA SEPTEMBER MT. GUYOT JELINITE (AMBER): THE HOLY GRAIL OF KANSAS MINERALS ARIZONA GLAUBERITE PSEUDOMORPHS AUGUST PETRIFIED WOOD: WHAT ARE THE STRUCTURES? GOETHITE, GOETHE, AND KANINCHEN UTAH PETRIFIED WOOD AND FLOWER CHILDREN STUMBLING UPON A FAIRBURN AGATE POLYMORPHS: ANATASE AND BROOKITE CRACKING ROCKS AT TEEPEE CANYON:AGATES CROW PEAK: A POCKET LACCOLITH WOW--SOUTH DAKOTA ARTESIAN WELL GONIOBASIS SPHERE SOUTH PARK: MAMMILLARY CHALCEDONY A MODERN MINING BOOM WHAT IS THAT GREEN STUFF? "MEDMONTITE" AGATES AT THE AFMS JULY WHOA, NICE CEPHALOPODS! COLORADO FIRE II JUNE COLORADO FIRE FAIRBURN AGATES: GEM OF SOUTH DAKOTA ASTROPHYLLITE: A MINERAL FROM THE STARS? NO, ST. PETERS DOME, COLORADO. BEAR BUTTE; A LACCOLITH ON THE PRAIRIE LARGE ZIRCON CRYSTALS FROM ST. PETERS DOME, COLORADO RIEBECKITE; AN INTERESTING MINERAL MAY FOX HILLS FORMATION COLORADO SILVER, THE SHERMAN BROTHERS, AND MORGANITE BLM RAC: LOOKING FOR A FEW GOOD MEN AND WOMEN UTAH AMETHYST AND GEORGE CLOONEY THE U.S. CIVIL WAR AND UTAH LANDSCAPE APRIL AZURITE AT GOLD HIL L WENDOVER WILL AND ADAMITE STRANGE MARKINGS IN THE THE MOENKOPI FORMATION TRAVERTINE AT UTAH GEYSERS MARCH BROOKITE: TITANIUM DIOXIDE ADD SOME MAGNESIUM: GET A MOON ROCK FEBRUARY WELCOME TO CHAOTIC FUN: QUARTZSITE, ARIZONA THE 79 MINE: AURICHALCITE 9th CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS COPPER RIVET MINE: COLORADO KINO SPORTS COMPLEX SHOW 2012 JANUARY BAKING NEW MEXICO SHALE A NEW TOY 2011 POSTINGS DECEMBER CALCITE SAND CRYSTALS: WYOMING EXOTIC WATERFALL IN COLORADO CONICHALCITE: A PRETTY GREEN ROCK NOVEMBER THE MYSTERY ROCK: FECAL CASTINGS COLORADO AMETHYST RMFMS: A GEOLOGICAL MENAGERIE BUYING MINERALS FRUGALLY POUDRE RIVER CANYON & LAKE AGNES OCTOBER WALKING THE CREEK: COLORADO SPRINGS DIKES AT WILLOW CREEK TRACKS/TRAILS WISCONSIN LIMESTONE THE OTHER RHODOCHROSITE GEOPHILIA: COMMUNING WITH THE ROCKS SEPTEMBER KEEP YOU EYES ON THE GROUND: CHIPPING SITES JUNE MINING FOR MANGANESE COLLECTING AT THE GATOROSA NOTCH PEAK: GREAT GEOLOGY MAY HOT BATH ANYONE? THERMOPOLIS, WY THE END: FOX HILLS FORMATION CAMPBELLITE PROTECTING PYRITE APRIL CSMS SILENT AUCTION IT IS NOT AN AGATE! UTE VALLEY PARK AND THE LARAMIE FORMATION BIXBYITE: A MINERAL FOR YOUR COLLECTION; & RED BERYL MARCH LOWER COLORADO RIVER TRENCH BUCKET LIST FOR KIDS CIENEGA MINING DISTRICT A HOHOKAM VILLAGE BASALT AT PICACHO PEAK BACK IN THE SADDLE AGAIN FEBRUARY HIKING PICACHO PEAK RAGGED TOP: TERTIARY RHYOLITE CSMS and RMFMS Annual Show FACETED SPURS: SIGNS OF MOVEMENT HOHOKAM PETROGLYPHS SANTA CATALINA MOUNTAINS GOLD, GOLD, GOLD AT TUCSON TUCSON ELECTRIC PARK SHOW SIGNAL BUTTE: A GEOLOGICAL ODDITY |