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The BULLETIN OF THE NEW YORK MINERALOGICAL CLUB, INC

Volume 132 No. 8 August 2018

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America’s Oldest Gem & Club Founded 1886  Incorporated 1937 Bulletin of the New York Mineralogical Club Founded 1886 Ë New York City, New York Ë Incorporated 1937 Volume 132, No. 8 America’s Oldest Mineral & Gem Club August 2018

Scheduled Summer Event: Special NYMC Benefit Sale NYMC Directors Make Plans for For Members Only! (& their Friends & Family) Second Half of 2018 & Beyond By Mitch Portnoy 9. November 2019 NYC Mineral Show On Sunday, July 15, 2018 most of the New decorative banners used Club’s officers and several invited members Roland Scal lecture on sawing things met at my apartment on the Upper West Vivien Gornitz lecture on “wet” Mars Side to finalize the Club’s activities, 10. November 2018 Meeting (Scal) meetings, and events for the remaining 11. December 2018 Meeting (Baker) months of 2018 and for 2019. 12. 2019: Overall Lecture Program The meeting began earlier than usual, Leveling Up Continues at 11:00 am, and lasted until 3:30 pm. A 13. January 2019 Meeting (Movie Night) pizza lunch was served so as to keep up the New NYMC Post Card Series begins Date: Sunday, August 5, 2018 strength and spirits of the attendees. 14. February 2019 Show & Tell th Time: Starting at 9:00 AM Also 5 Annual Chinese Auction Place: 46 West 83rd Street #2E Here is an abbreviated agenda with some 15. 2019 March Gem & Mineral Show (Mitch’s Apartment) notes, comments, announcements, etc.: Possible mineral/gem ID offering Tele: (212) 580-1343 1. Introduction 16. More 2019 Meeting Lectures/Events “Club Designations” was played and Cheryl Neary will sponsor Open House suggested changes and additions made Eric Rampello display in July Including Items from the: 2. June 2018 Auction Debriefing Only September is Open ‚ Michael Walter Donation Excellent results 17. 2019 June Gem & Mineral Show 3. June 2018 NYC Mineral Show Continue half-year membership rate Acceptable attendance Eliminate free admission for members 4. July 2018 Meeting Debriefing 18. Website Update Excellent talk indeed! We will be adding a NYC Mineral Show 5. August 5, 2018 Special Benefit Sale Page and an Endowment Building Page. Lots of great stuff; esp Ellenville quartz 19. Newsletter Update 6. August Bus Trip to Springfield All good; keep as is Nope. Alas! Maybe next year . . . 20. Mindat.org Sponsorship 7. September 12, 2018 Meeting We will sponsor at least 1 page (kunzite), Ellenville, NY Quartz gift for all maybe 2. 8. Banquet (Oct. 17, 2018) 21. Other Topics “More Party, Less Meeting” Revisit 501(c)(3) status for Club The discussion about this upcoming event occupied the bulk of the meeting. It will be, Issue Highlights to say the least, a multifaceted event indeed! I have added a few notes here but details are President’s Message ...... 2 intentionally left out so that the evening and Meeting Minutes...... 2 all its surprises will be enjoyed by all during World of Minerals: CLIPPIRs...... 3 Local (Self-Collected) Minerals the evening itself. Bending Diamonds ...... 4 In Advance Jewelry, IBM & Blockchain...... 4 Postcard invitations New ...... 5 Part I: Registration & Silent Auction Ice Farmer...... 5 New “Buy it Now” option June ‘18 Show Dealer Donations. . . . 6 Part II: The Dinner Sotheby’s Gems Auction ...... 7 Pumpkin ravioli as an appetizer? Ancient Mars ...... 7 Special “Carnelian/Halloween” dessert Topics in : Demantoids. . . 9 Part III: The Meeting Largest Freshwater ...... 10

No lecture this year Capturing CO2 in Natural Rocks . . . 11 Many new games and fun activities Banquet ‘18 Reservation Form . . 12 Spectacular “Rough” Future Banquets Club & Show Calendars...... 13 (Continues on page 6) 2019: ; 2020: many options! 2 Bulletin of the New York Mineralogical Club, Inc. August 2018

President’s Message ‚ The newest club postcards, featuring the Pennsylvania. Clinochlore, a common, By Mitch Portnoy “Subway ,” were shown and widespread greenish member of the chlorite An Embarrassment of Riches distributed as well as remaining group, claims Brinton’s Quarry, West Chester, NYMC members, for the most part, have postcards from the past. A tentative new W esttown Township, Chester C o., displayed a unbounded generosity for many series of cards, beginning next year, Pennsylvania as its type locality. Wheatleyite, decades. However, over the past few months, about NYC minerals, was shown. a pale blue hydrated sodium oxalate, ‚ the quality and quality of donations has Upcoming club events were gone over, hails from the Wheatley Mine, Phoenixville achieved a new level! with a focus on the details of the October mining district, Schuylkill Township, Chester As a result, for the next few years (yes, Carnelian Banquet. Co., Pennsylvania. ‚ years!) all of our standard donation The 2019 Gift Calendar (Mining New Jersey is host to over 400 different distribution channels – the benefit voice Postcards) was passed around and early species and the Franklin, Sterling Hill mining auction, the banquet silent auction, the designs for the 2020 and 2021 gift district has yielded a large number of new Chinese auction, the monthly raffles, the calendars were previewed. species. Among these are franklinite, zincite, ‚ special sales, meeting door prizes, etc. – will Designs for the colorful decorative and esperite, that fluoresces a vivid yellow. be FILLED with these numerous wonderful banner series for use at the November New York is home to a number of mineral items! NYC Gem & Mineral Show were shown. type localities, including brewsterite, clintonite, ‚ It is a good time to be a member of the Karenne Snow was introduced with a edenite, fluoro-pargasite, , and New York Mineral Club, indeed! “Type Localities” song sung to the tune warwickite. Brewsterite, a zeolite, is found at Our Newest Website Page! of Nat King Cole’s Unforgettable. the Gouverneur Co. quarry, Lewis Co., Special Lecture – Karenne Snow New York. Edenite, a sodium, calcium, “Collecting Type Localities” magnesium amphibole, boasts Edenville (no Karenne Snow, geologist, paleontologist, surprise here), Town of Warwick, Orange Co., and President of the Philadelphia New York as its type locality. Similarly, Mineralogical Society, has various collecting warwickite, a dark brown-black magnesium, interests, including native copper, crystals , , chromium, aluminum borate is with overgrowths of other minerals, species, named after its type locality—Warwick, Town and type localities. Over the years, she has of Warwick, Orange Co., New York. become an expert on the mineral diversity of We thank Karenne Snow for presenting a Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, different perspective on mineral collecting and and spent the evening discussing type enlightening us on the importance of type Club Meeting Minutes for localities from these three states. localities. Over 5,400 mineral species are currently July 11, 2018 Members in the News known. Mineral naming follows no particular ‚ Vivien Gornitz lectured to the Stamford By Vivien Gornitz, Secretary logic. A mineral can be named after its Mineralogical Society on June 12, 2018 Attendance: 45 chemistry, a person—its discoverer, a famous with the topic The Case for a “Wet” Mars. President Mitch Portnoy presided mineralogist, or chemist, a locality, or some She will repeat this talk at the NYC Announcements: characteristic physical property. Many mineral Mineral & Gem Show in November. ‚ The monthly raffle was held. names end in “-ite”, from the Greek “lithos” ‚ Pauletta Brooks was featured in an article ‚ The picture of Sidney Horenstein that for rock, or stone (“litho” appears in other entitled published on the appeared in a recent New York Times words too, e.g., “lithosphere, paleolithic, June 25 Ocotur.com website. article about Ice Age NYC was shown. neolithic”, etc.). ‚ Mitch Portnoy delivered his “Fakes & ‚ Details about the Michael Walter Some common, abundant minerals, Frauds” presentation to the Orange donation were given and the August known since antiquity such as quartz or County Mineral Society on Friday, August Special Sale announced. All comers will calcite, have no specific assigned type 10, 2018. receive an Arizona pseudomorph. localities. A type locality is usually, although ‚ A short presentation about Ellenville, NY not always, the place a mineral was first Welcome New Members! as a mineral location was given and all discovered, but rather the place of origin of Nicholas Longo...... Staten Island, NY meeting attendees were given a small gift the specimen that was first named, accurately of Ellenville quartz. described, and ultimately approved by the ‚ There was a brief discussion about the International Mineralogical Association. For Mineral News June Benefit Auction and the Summer example, the type locality for eastonite, a pale The Mineral Collector’s Newsletter (June) NYC Gem & Mineral Show. yellowish-green potassium, magnesium A monthly publication filled with ‚ There will be a new page added to the aluminum member of the group is listed descriptive articles, historical tidbits, website about each upcoming NYC Gem as the Scherrer Quarry, Chestnut Hill, Easton, new mineral finds and more! & Mineral Shows with a printable Pennsylvania. coupon. (See image above.) Karenne then described some regional All in full color! ‚ The day’s historical notes were given. mineral type localities. Pennsylvania is home Subscriptions are just $30 per year (12 ‚ A game about type localities was played to various common and rare minerals among issues) in the USA. Checks and major with special type locality note cards as which are eastonite, clinochlore, desautelsite, credit cards accepted. Order from: prizes. downeyite, , celestine, matulaite, and Mineral News ‚ The Club’s newest publication, “The wheatleyite. Celestine, strontium sulfate, 1885 Seminole Trail—Suite 202 100'” was available for sale and the next named after its characteristic pale blue color, Charlottesville, VA 22901-1160 publication (2020?) celebrating Vivien produces better-known lovely collectible www.mineralnews.com Gornitz’s 25 years of bulletin columns, crystals from Madagascar. However, its type [email protected] was announced. locality is in Bells Mill, Bellwood, Blair Co., August 2018 Bulletin of the New York Mineralogical Club, Inc. 3

The World of Minerals The World of Minerals is a monthly column written by Dr. Vivien Gornitz on timely and interesting topics related to geology, gemology, , mineral history, etc.

Inclusions in Giant Diamonds: What the CLIPPIRs reveal about the Earth’s interior A Window into the Earth’s Interior The CLIPPIR inclusions greatly expand our understanding of CLIPPIRs—a new class of diamonds deep mantle processes. The Earth’s core is essentially composed The world’s largest and purest diamonds—the Cullinan, 3106 of metallic iron admixed with a number of other elements, whereas carats when found in 1905, the second largest—a 1,111 giant the mantle consists of various silicate minerals that undergo from the Karowe Mine, Botswana, and the sixth largest, the 812 changes in composition and depending on carat Constellation from the same mine (auctioned in 2016 for temperature, pressure, and depth. CLIPPIR diamonds modify this $63.1 million) belong to a recently recognized elite class of traditional view. Molten iron, once thought confined to the upper diamonds—the CLIPPIRs. These exceptional core, appears to be widely dispersed are characterized by the large throughout the lower mantle transition zone. size, high degree of purity, overall scarcity of There, the molten metal plays an important inclusions, and irregular shapes that bear geochemical role in influencing the signs of dissolution and etching. What few distribution and recycling of many elements inclusions they harbor unveil the story of the such as oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen, origins—one that differs considerably from and sulfur that dissolve in it. The metallic most other diamonds and sheds new light on iron also helps regulate the oxidation state of the deep Earth. the mantle, because iron is chemically Ordinary diamonds, in stark contrast to reactive and can exist as the neutral metal, 3+ 2+ CLIPPIRs, crystallize within the mantle keel, Fe , and Fe . a cold, rigid region of the Earth’s upper mantle, 150-200 km (95- The carbon in CLIPPIRS offers other important clues. The 12 13 125 mi) deep. They are later brought to the surface by kimberlite1, carbon is strongly enriched in the lighter C isotope relative to C. a magmatic rock composed of a mix of mantle minerals, volatiles, Various geological and biological processes can alter the 13 12 peridotite and eclogite— host rocks, along with fragments proportions of these two isotopes. Mantle C/ C isotope ratios 12 of other rocks encountered on the upward journey. Characteristic vary over a very narrow range. By contrast, a strong C 13 inclusions differentiate diamonds from these two host rocks. enrichment relative to C is characteristic of crustal materials of Common peridotitic inclusions in diamond include olivine, biologic origin, since living organisms preferentially incorporate 12 13 green Cr-, purplish-red Cr-pyrope, and sulfides. more C than C into their metabolism. Eclogitic diamonds also On the other hand, orange grossular-almandine-pyrope and green display a broad range in carbon isotope ratios, veering toward omphacite (a diopside-jadeite pyroxene) typify an eclogitic origin. enrichment in the lighter C. Eclogites generally originate as slabs A completely different suite of inclusions reside within of oceanic basalts and deep sea sediments dragged into the mantle 12 CLIPPIRs. Among scarce inclusions, most commonly present is a by subduction. The C enrichment in CLIPPIRs therefore implies metallic mixture of iron, , carbon, and sulfur. These that subduction processes may have extended to greater depths in irregularly-shaped inclusions exhibit strong magnetism. A thin the mantle than usually assumed. A subduction origin may also account for the presence of calcium in the silicate inclusions. fluid film of methane (CH4) and hydrogen (H2) envelopes the inclusions and separates them from the surrounding diamond. Oceanic sediments containing calcite, CaCO3, may have been the Upon closer inspection, the inclusions consist of cohenite (Fe, ultimate source of the Ca, although this is still speculative. The largest diamonds, predominantly CLIPPIRs, Ni)3C, Fe-Ni metal, pyrrhotite (Fe1-xS), with minor iron chromium oxide, iron oxide (wüstite, FeO), and iron phosphate. These disproportionately classify as type IIa diamonds, often of D color minerals, some of which also occur in , indicate a fairly grade (perfectly colorless in the GIA classification). Type IIa oxygen-deficient source. Furthermore, the inclusions probably diamonds are nearly devoid of nitrogen, N, impurities that often represent remnants of the molten metallic liquid associated with give the gemstones an undesirable yellowish hue. The lack of N the growth of the diamonds. The observed assemblage of minerals implies that either the lower mantle is deficient in this element, or within the inclusions presumably crystallized from the melt as that the metallic mineral inclusions may have scavenged any N. pressures decreased on the way up to the surface. CLIPPIR diamonds, by virtue of their large size and near Silicate inclusions have also been observed. These include a flawless character, represent highly desirable and expensive gemstones. However, these special treasures also offer an CaSiO3-walstromite, larnite (â-Ca2SiO4), a CaSi2O5 analog of important window into the deep mantle, an otherwise remote and titanite (which contains Ti), and wollastonite (CaSiO3). The silicates are assumed to have recrystallized from a precursor inaccessible region of the Earth. Further Reading CaSiO3 analog of perovskite (CaTiO3) during diamond transport upward toward lower pressure regimes. Majorite garnet—a high Smith, E.M., Shirey, S.B., and Wang, W., 2017. The very deep origin of the world’s biggest diamond’s. Gems&Gemology, Winter 2017, 53(4):388-403. pressure form of garnet—also appears. The inclusions originated Smith, E.M., Shirey, S.B., Nestola, F., Bullock, E.S., Wang, J., Richardson, S.H., at estimated depths of 360 to 750 km (220-470 mi), which overlaps Wang, W., 2016. Large gem diamonds from metallic liquid in Earth’s deep with the mantle transition zone (410-660 km; 255-410 mi) which mantle. Science 354(6318):1403-1405. lies between the upper and lower mantle. “CLIPPIR” is an acronym for Cullinan-like, 1 Two other rock types—lamproite and lamprophyre–less commonly also Large, Inclusion-Poor, Pure, Irregular, and Resorbed transport diamonds to the surface. 4 Bulletin of the New York Mineralogical Club, Inc. August 2018

Scientists Have Managed to Physically Bend “The surprise of ultralarge elastic deformation in a Diamonds hard and brittle material – diamond – opens up unprecedented By Josh Davis possibilities for tuning its optical, optomechanical, magnetic, Diamonds are one of the hardest substances that we know of, phononic, and catalytic properties through elastic strain so trying to bend a bit of one might sound like attempting the engineering,” says Yonggang Huang, a professor of civil and impossible. Yet that is exactly what a team over at MIT have just environmental engineering and mechanical engineering at managed to do. Northwestern University, but who was not actually involved in the study. Hopefully, this work can go on to be used in a whole range of new technology at some point in the future. Source: IFLScience.com from April 20, 2018

Diamonds are normally thought of being solid, but occasionally they can be bent. Bjoern Wylezich/Shutterstock The impressive new work has found that when diamonds are grown into nanoneedles, the structures can be bent and stretched before snapping back into shape, not unlike rubber. Publishing their results in the journal Science, the researchers hope that the findings could allow for diamonds to be used in a whole host of new technologies, from drug delivery and data storage to sensing and optoelectronics. We think of diamonds as a solid structure that forms the hardest known natural material, but researchers can grow the mineral into other shapes. The researchers of this latest study got the diamond to form tiny needles similar in shape to the rubber tips on the backs of some toothbrushes, just a hell of a lot smaller.

Jewelry Companies Team up with IBM on Blockchain Platform By Anna Irrera

They then tested the strength of these minuscule projections NEW YORK (Reuters) - and diamond companies including by pushing down on them with an equally small tool. Amazingly, Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s Richline Group Inc joined with IBM to they found that the diamond spikes were not as solid or brittle as develop blockchain technology to track the origin of jewelry and you might expect, but could instead be flexed and stretched by as ensure it is ethically sourced, the companies said on Thursday. much as 9 percent without snapping, before then returning to their The joint initiative dubbed TrustChain aims to make it easier original shape. for consumers to track diamonds and precious metals through the Diamonds in their traditional bulk form can only flex below various steps of the supply chain as they become finished pieces 1 percent, meaning that the team managed to alter radically the jewelry, the companies said. properties of the hard material. “It was very surprising to see the The technology will initially help track six styles of diamond amount of elastic deformation the nanoscale diamond could and gold engagement rings and is expected to be available to sustain,” explains co-author Daniel Bernoulli. consumers by the end of 2018, the companies said. This newfound bendiness could have all sorts of implications. Other firms involved in the initiative include precious metals The deformation of the crystal can alter the mechanical properties, refiner Asahi Refining, jewelry retailer Helzberg Diamonds, as well as the thermal, optical, electrical, and chemical reactions precious metals supplier LeachGarner and third-party verification of the substance, potentially expanding what the nanostructured provider UL. diamonds can be used for. August 2018 Bulletin of the New York Mineralogical Club, Inc. 5

There are exceptions, situations in which carbon can do more than four bonds. The element in those cases is nicknamed hypercarbon. In the 1950s, it was shown that carbon can sometimes form five bonds. And in 2016, a German team showed how to make a six-bond hypercarbon. This paper was the start of this discovery. Dr AK Fazlur Rahman was giving a lecture on carbon at Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics in Oklahoma City. He used the 2016 paper to challenge his students on thinking about the possibility of carbon with more than six bonds. Unexpectedly, one of his students, George Wang, did more than just imagine it. He showed that six was not a strict limit. It was possible to have a carbon with seven bonds. Do you know where your diamonds came from? Image Credit: Richline As reported in Inverse, Dr Rahman asked to see Mr Wang's calculations and not only did it show the stability of the Blockchain, which first emerged as the system powering seven-bond configuration of carbon and hydrogen, It also showed cryptocurrency bitcoin, is a shared database that is maintained by that an eight-bond version with just the same two elements would a network of computers connected to the internet. be unstable. These calculations are now published in the Journal of Because it makes it easier for multiple parties to jointly create Molecular Modeling. and update tamper-proof records, the firms involved in the project The team showed that it is possible to construct a pyramid believe it is well suited to securely and efficiently track and prove shape made of carbon atoms. The base would be a hexagonal the origin and ethical sourcing of jewelry. carbon and the vertex would connect with all six of these Richline Group had previously attempted to create a similar . Since every carbon would also link to a hydrogen atom it database using different technology, but the process was still ends up that the vertex carbon has seven bonds. heavily manual and prone to inaccuracies, Mark Hanna, the Molecules sporting hypercarbon atoms are extremely unusual company’s chief marketing officer, said in an interview. compounds, so this could turn out to be revolutionary. Such “We were always very enamored with it but there wasn’t the structures could lead to a completely new approach to organic right platform,” Hanna said. “Then along came blockchain.” chemistry. Hydrogen storage is a potential application. New The TrustChain platform was tested last week to track the avenues for chemical synthesis are also possibilities mentioned in provenance of a diamond ring across the supply chain. the paper. Exciting stuff. Other companies in the industry have started to explore using Source: IFLScience.com from May 1, 2018 blockchain technology. Anglo American’s diamond unit De Beers The Ice Farmer: a Techno-Whiz Who Grows said in January that it aims to create an industry wide blockchain Gem-Quality Diamonds to track gems each time they change hands starting from the By Jeanhee Kim moment they are dug from the ground. When the Indian Institute of Computer Science first Source: Reuters.com from April 25, 2018 introduced computers to grade-schoolers in the Gujurat town of A High School Kid from Oklahoma Just Made Surat in the 1980s, 11-year-old Amish Shah kept standing up to a Massive Breakthrough in Chemistry ask questions. By age 12, he was teaching computer science at the By Alfredo Carpineti institute part time. Shah didn’t pursue a college degree in the A high school student from Oklahoma has just discovered subject, though, because his father and grandfather persuaded him something completely unexpected in chemistry. He found out that to study business. carbon, which usually only forms four bonds, can end up forming a mind-boggling seven bonds, a higher number than ever considered possible for the element.

Shah produces a rainbow of lab-created diamonds such as the 4-carat Asscher-cut A simple representation of what the hypercarbon atom with seven bonds might above. look like. C. Carpineti/IFLScience “When you are born into a family of jewelers,” he said, “the High school chemistry tells us all about the versatility of attitude is that you do everything else for fun, but at some point, carbon. You might recall that carbon is missing four electrons in you have a factory to run.” its outer shell so it's looking to form up to four bonds. Having this The elder son in his family, Shah was 16 when he started at ability makes it very useful as the basis for anything biological. the diamond-trading and fine jewelry–making business his These four bonds are found in so many important molecules, from grandfather began in 1933. Eventually he found a way to have fun DNA to alcohol to diamonds. But that’s not the whole story. running the factory by applying his passion for technology to upend centuries-old jewelry-making traditions. 6 Bulletin of the New York Mineralogical Club, Inc. August 2018

A pioneer in growing gem-quality diamonds in the lab, Shah Khyber Minerals debuted a line of jewelry set with them at a 2006 trade show in Las ‚ Brucite in Matrix...... Pakistan Vegas. Mahalo Minerals “We were the first in the world to put this out there,” he said. ‚ Rough Slabs ...... Misc Those diamonds, which had a pumpkin-orange hue, made a splash, ‚ Selenite Candle Holder ...... NA though not necessarily the right kind. “Just as with any change, & Gems of Africa people laughed,” Shah recalled. “Some said I was crazy.” ‚ Malachite Box ...... Congo In 2011 Shah and his brother, Ritesh, formed R.A. Riam Nature’s Collectibles Group, a diamond and fine-jewelry manufacturer and distributor ‚ Gemstone Bird Carving ...... NA in New York that absorbed two other companies, including their Ozzie Boulder 85-year-old family business in India. Seeking growth ‚ Bounder ...... Australia opportunities, they aimed to disrupt the $80 billion diamond Raj Minerals industry by manufacturing the perfect white diamond. “For me the ‚ Eye ...... India question wasn’t, Can this happen?” he said. “It was, Can we lead ‚ ...... India this innovation?” Rocko Minerals After four years of R&D, Shah began selling ‚ Red ...... Brazil man-made-diamond jewelry through retailers in 2016. The gems ‚ Green Tourmaline ...... Brazil are grown by applying tremendous heat and pressure to a sliver of ‚ Red ...... Tanzania a natural diamond. The company then cuts, polishes and sets the stones in designs it makes from recycled gold. Sales for ALTR, the Howard & Betsy Schlansker ‚ created- diamond division of Riam, have exceeded projections. Large Selection of ...... Madagascar This year, Shah said, ALTR’s revenue will exceed Riam’s Special NYMC Benefit Sale natural-diamond sales. (Continued from page 1) The allure is simple, he said. Identical to mined diamonds but up to 30% cheaper, ALTR stones carry little environmental or human-rights baggage. “Science and innovation,” he said, “change life for the better.” Source: CrainsNewYork.com from May 3, 2018 June Show Dealer Donations for the October 2018 Banquet Silent Auction or June 2019 NYMC Benefit Voice Auction & Other Books Display & Other Supplies The following list includes all the donations that the ‚ June 2018 NYC Mineral & Gem Show Richard Blackman Donation dealers made to the Club this year: Amazon Imports ‚ Unusual Cut Citrine...... Brazil Aurora Minerals ‚ ...... Brazil AYS International ‚ Chrysocolla Bead Strand ...... NA Minerals Philatelic Items Bary Gems ‚ ‚ Opal Cabochon (0.6 carat)...... Ethiopia Irving Horowitz Donation Crystal Circle ‚ Fossil Coasters...... Morocco ‚ in Zoisite ...... Tanzania ‚ Sugilite ...... South Africa ‚ Pyrite in Quartz Cabochon...... Brazil Crystal Passion ‚ Star Garnet Sphere ...... NA Classic Worldwide Minerals Excalibur Minerals ‚ Arlene Joseph Donation ‚ (15) WW Specimens ...... Misc Exotic Russian Minerals ‚ Light Blue Synthetic Quartz ...... Russia Bill Gangi Gems & Lapidary Arts ‚ Petrified Wood...... Colorado Highland Rock & Fossil ‚ Mounted Picture Jasper ...... China ‚ Turtle Poop Fossil ...... Madagascar ‚ Several Small Spheres ...... Misc Rings and Other Beautiful Things ‚ (3) Misc. Specimens, Lapidary Arts...... Misc August 2018 Bulletin of the New York Mineralogical Club, Inc. 7

Farnese Fetches $6.7 Million but White and fancy colored diamonds, signed pieces and jewels with Two White Diamonds Top All Sales aristocratic provenance all sold well. The five auction records set are as follows: By Anthony DeMarco ‚ The Farnese Blue Diamond had by far the best story of A 2.63-carat fancy vivid purplish pink diamond realized $2.4 Sotheby’s Geneva Magnificent Jewels and Noble Jewels sale. The million, an auction record for a fancy vivid purplish pink diamond. 6.16-carat pear-shaped blue diamond was given to Elisabeth ‚ Farnese, Queen of Spain, as a wedding present in 1715 and was A diamond pendant, set with an oval pink weighing passed down through four royal families in Europe before 95.45 carats brought in $2.29 million, an auction record for a appearing on the market for the first time Tuesday. The pink sapphire and more than double its $1 million high estimate. 300-year-old stone sold accordingly, fetching $6.7 million, easily ‚ surpassing its $5.2 million estimate. A 9.70-carat fancy light purplish pink diamond sold for $2.59 million, setting an auction record price and an auction record price-per-carat for a fancy light purplish pink diamond, while smashing its $700,000 high estimate. ‚ A 5.04-carat fancy purple-pink diamond ring sold for $1.4 million, setting a new auction record price and a new auction record price-per-carat for a fancy purple-pink diamond. ‚ A 2.52-carat fancy vivid yellowish green diamond was purchased for $938,174, setting a new world auction record price for a fancy vivid yellowish green diamond. Kashmir were high in demand, according to the auction house. One of the top lots in this category was a 1930s ring adorned with a 4.01-carat gemstone boasting highly coveted “royal The Farnese Blue blue” color that realized an above-estimate price of $1.8 million; However, the bigger story was that two colorless diamonds of and an 11.64-carat step-cut sapphire that sold for $1.4 million. more than 50 carats each; and possessing D Color, Flawless and In addition to The Farnese Blue, the sale included a selection Type IIa characteristics—making each of them the second largest of very fine period jewels with illustrious aristocratic provenance, of their kind ever to come to auction—surpassed the sale of the which totaled $9.5 million, far exceeding the pre-sale expectations blue diamond, even with its exceptional royal provenance. It took of $6 million - 8.7 million. It was led by a 19th-century emerald extraordinary large and pure stones to achieve this feat. cameo and diamond that sold for $249,780, four times the high estimate. Anthony DeMarco is a freelance writer and founder of Jewelry News Network. Source: Forbes.com from May 15, 2018 Ancient Meteorite Tells Tales of Mars Topography By Anne M. Stark By looking at an ancient that landed in the The top lot was a 51.71-carat round The second stone is a 50.39-carat oval Sahara Desert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) diamond that fetched $9.2 million. It diamond that sold for $8.1 million. This scientists and collaborators have determined how and when the red ranks as the second largest D Flawless gem ranks as the second largest D planet’s crustal topographic and geophysical divide formed. brilliant-cut diamond ever to have Flawless diamond of its shape ever to appeared at auction. have come to auction. The round and oval diamonds were discovered in Botswana as rough diamonds of 196 carats and 155 carats, and cut in Antwerp. The Gemological Institute of America report says they both have excellent cut, polish and symmetry. “The timeless appeal of diamonds was reasserted tonight in Geneva, with three exceptional stones cut centuries apart capturing the attention of international collectors,” said Daniela Mascetti, deputy chairman, Sotheby’s Europe and senior international jewelry specialist. “The Farnese Blue is quite simply an unforgettable diamond, and everyone who set their eyes on it was mesmerized by its extraordinary color . . . We were also delighted be the results achieved by the two white diamonds over 50 carats in the sale, whose color, cut and clarity are synonymous with Martian meteorite Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034, nicknamed "Black Beauty," 21st-century perfection.” weighs approximately 11 ounces (320 grams). Credit: NASA Northwest Africa (NWA) 7034 is the oldest Martian meteorite Sotheby’s Geneva sale of 372 lots achieved $85.6 million, discovered to date, at approximately 4.4 billion years old. The with 82% of the lots sold and 70% of the lots exceeding their high meteorite is a (it contains a variety of different crustal estimates. In a testament to the increasingly global nature of the rocks that were mixed together and then sintered by heating) and market, 650 bidders from 50 countries participated in the auction is the only sample from Mars with a composition that is at the Mandarin Oriental, Geneva hotel. A total of 15 lots sold for representative of the average Martian crust. The meteorite more than $1 million and at least five auction records were set. 8 Bulletin of the New York Mineralogical Club, Inc. August 2018 provided the researchers a unique opportunity to study the ancient Collections, principal curator of meteorites at the Natural History crust on Mars. Museum and another author on the paper. The team applied a number a radioisotopic dating techniques This team’s results have important implications for our to determine that the divide (or dichotomy) between the heavily understanding of when and how one of the oldest, and most cratered southern highlands of the planet and the smoother plains distinctive, global geologic features on Mars was formed. of the northern lowlands formed prior to the formation of NWA “This study demonstrates that multiple radioisotopic dating 7034 at 4.4 billion years ago. This ancient age is consistent with a systems that are reset by different metamorphic processes can be giant impact origin for the crustal dichotomy. The research appears used to tease out the thermal history of a sample over billions of in the May 23 edition of the journal Science Advances. years,” Cassata said. “If the Martian crustal dichotomy formed as a result of a giant Other Livermore researchers involved in the study include impact, and available data and modeling suggest this is likely, the Reto Trappitsch, Carolyn Crow and Joshua Wimpenny. Scottish history of NWA 7034 requires that it formed very early in the Universities Environmental Research Centre, the University of planet’s history, before 4.4 billion years ago,” said LLNL Glasgow, the University of St. Andrews and the Natural History cosmochemist Bill Cassata, lead author of the paper. Museum also contributed to the research. Source: www.llnl.gov from May 25, 2018

Backscattered scanning electron microscope image of NWA 11522, a meteorite similar to NWA 7034. Part of a large impact melt clast is visible in the lower left of the image. Some of the more prominent clasts are indicated by dashed outlines. The dichotomy is a sharp contrast between the southern hemisphere and northern. The two hemispheres' geography differ in elevation by 1 to 3 kilometers (km). The average thickness of the Martian crust is 45 km, with 32 km in the northern lowlands region and 58 km in the southern highlands. The northern lowlands comprise about one-third of the surface of Mars and are relatively flat. The other two-thirds of the Martian surface are the highlands of the southern hemisphere. The difference in elevation between the hemispheres is dramatic (the highlands are very mountainous and volcanic). Three major hypotheses have been proposed for the origin of the crustal dichotomy: endogenic (by mantle processes), single impact or multiple impacts. The team set out to determine when and how the crustal dichotomy formed. Based on new radioisotopic measurements and in conjunction with other published data, the team determined that all the rocks that eventually were incorporated into the NWA 7034 breccia were emplaced about 4.4 billion years ago in the “source terrain” (the crustal source region that the different breccia components are derived from). The results show that this terrain was subject to prolonged metamorphism associated with a large plume-fed volcanic center from ~1.7 to 1.3 billion years ago. The areal extents of large, plume-fed volcanic centers on Mars are thousands of square kilometers, and the source terrain was likely comparable in size. Finally, they showed the rock was brought together ~200 million years ago or more recently. When viewed together, the data from NWA 7034 demonstrated that large volcanic terrains survived within a few km of the Martian surface since >4400 million years ago. This indicates that the dichotomy formed prior to 4.4 billion years ago, as near surface rocks would have been buried or destroyed by the dichotomy-forming event. “This multi-disciplinary study, combining both traditional and innovative geochemical techniques has provided us with some exciting new insights into the timings of major processes that shaped young Mars,” said Caroline Smith, head of Earth Sciences August 2018 Bulletin of the New York Mineralogical Club, Inc. 9

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All Tail, No Horse anything fun including wearing jewelry. Those were some dark are an uncommon lot and highly days. Fortunately they are in everyone’s rearview mirror, and the collectible not just for their rarity but also for their dazzling green stones are back in vogue everywhere. In the 1970’s to color. This garnet family member is an mineral rich in 1990’s, a greater hoard was discovered in Russia’s Bobrovka calcium and iron. A chromium substitution causes the iconic River region. In the late 90’s a significant Namibian find was demantoid green tint. located in what is now known as the “Green Dragon” mine.

Demantoid garnet dragonfly ; Horsetail inclusions in a Russian Credit: 1st Dibs demantoid garnet; Credit: Apsara Co

Tell-Tale Tail Like many gemstones, certain tell-tale inclusions help establish the identity of a stone and many times its provenance. Russian demantoid often contained curious inclusions dubbed ‘horsetails’ as they were thought to mimic the equine’s plumy back end. They are considered diagnostic for identification of a demantoid garnet since they do not appear in any other gemstone. Thought to be the sole identifier of Russian demantoid, horsetail included demantoid from Namibian has yet to be found bearing these rare inclusions. Many collectors and sellers believe that horsetail inclusions in demantoid goods increases their value and that may be true since it is part of the gemstone’s story. While some inclusions in gemstones are undesirable, and detract from their overall beauty – these inclusions are attractive in their own right. Seen through a microscope, the horsetail inclusions appear like golden threads that may fan out like the spray of an actual horse’s tail.

What to Collect So, while die-hard collectors seek out demantoid garnet with its iconic horsetail inclusions, all demantoid is worthy of adulation. According to AJS Gems, a leading loose gemstone purveyor based in Bangkok, there are plenty of reasons to collect this jewel. “The rarest and most valuable demantoid comes from Russia, and for serious gem investors only the Russian material is worth notice.” Demantoid Specimen, Mineralogisches Museum, Bonn, Germany But for jewelry fans drawn to the stones’ extravagant dispersion and distinct color, there are still plenty of other What Have We Found Here? sources to look for this jazzy jewel. Keep in mind; it is rarely In general garnets have been around for thousands of found in large carat sizes whatsoever. AJS explains. “Demantoid th years—but the demantoid variety not so much. Late in the 19 garnet is found mainly in small sizes, with most stones less than century, Russian miners picking around the Ural mountain range 1 carat. Gems over 2 carats are considered extremely rare, and came upon these remarkable highly refractive bits—not at all market prices reflect that. Among the rare garnets, fine like the garnet of any color they were used to seeing. The name demantoid is substantially more valuable than tsavorite or demantoid stuck as a reference to its diamond like high spessartite.” dispersion. Russian, Namibian or Madagascar; demantoid garnet from Russian jeweler to the aristocracy Carl Fabergé made good any of these locales are sure to attract a collector looking for a use of the sparkly bits, incorporating them into his regal suites hard to find and breathtakingly fiery gemstone. until the austerity of the Russian Revolution put the kibosh on 10 Bulletin of the New York Mineralogical Club, Inc. August 2018

World’s Largest Freshwater Pearl up for “The Sleeping Lion Pearl will probably not be on sale for the Auction in the Netherlands coming 200 years or so,” Meefout said. “It’s the last chance for the By Spencer Feingold Dutch public to view this wonder of nature.” Source: CNN.com from May 24, 2018 The world’s largest known freshwater pearl is going on sale Result: $374,000 (did not reach its estimate) at a public auction in the Netherlands next week. Known as “The Sleeping Lion” due to its unique shape, the rare natural object Dear Fellow NYMC Members, weighs almost 120 grams (4 ounces) and is over 2.7 inches long. My name is Morgan Vlad-McCabe and I am seeking some career advice from fellow members. I currently work for a translation company in a project management position, but am contemplating a change of industry. I graduated from McGill University with a major in International Development and double minor in Russian Language and Humanistic Studies. If anyone has any experience in the following fields, I would greatly appreciate an opportunity to chat and learn more about what your day-to-day responsibilities are/were like, and what you enjoy(ed) most about working in that field. 1. Environmental Conservation/Regulation 2. Renewable Energy Technologies 3. Resource Extraction/Mining 4. Geological Engineering 5. Space Mining Along with its size and animal-like appearance, the pearl is 6. Consulting Services renowned for its approximately 300-year history, during which it 7. International Relations changed hands between colonial merchants, noble jewelers and As I am in an information gathering stage, I am hoping to learn European royals, including Catherine the Great. about all sectors, be it public, private, or non-profit. I can be The Sleeping Lion will be sold at the Venduehuis auction reached via email at: [email protected] house in The Hague on May 31, with top estimates valuing it at Thank you!! €540,000 ($632,000). The pearl is of Chinese origin and is believed to have formed between 1700 and 1760, during the Qing dynasty, according to Coming in September Venduehuis. Following its discovery, the Sleeping Lion was moved by Dutch merchants to Batavia, present-day Jakarta, before being shipped to Europe – a move believed to have violated the Chinese Emperor Qianlong’s ban on the export of large . The item was first auctioned in 1778 in Amsterdam following the death of its owner, a wealthy merchant from the Dutch East India Company. Advertised on the auction flyer as a “well-known royal cabinet piece, depicting a sleeping lion, created by nature itself,” the pearl was purchased on behalf of the Empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, and moved to St. Petersburg, according to the Venduehuis catalog. The Sleeping Lion resurfaced in Poland in the mid-1800s and was bought by a jeweler working for Victor Emmanuel II, the first king of a united Italy. It was then held by several other European jewelers, only to settle back in the Netherlands when the Russian Revolution of 1917 prevented it from returning to St. Petersburg. In 1979, the pearl was bought by its current owner, the Amsterdam Pearl Society. “What makes this object even more interesting is that it has traveled a long way since the 18th century,” Peter Meefout, director of Venduehuis, said by email. In recent decades, the pearl has been the subject of studies by both historians and gemologists. A 2014 paper, published in the Journal of Gemology, found that while the object’s shape and remarkable size are highly irregular, its interior layering is consistent with naturally occurring freshwater pearls. The auction lot includes a copper box built specifically for the pearl upon its discovery centuries ago. Both items will be on display this weekend, before being auctioned off for only the second time in nearly 240 years. August 2018 Bulletin of the New York Mineralogical Club, Inc. 11

played-out wells. The process has been used for over 20 years for Turning CO2 to Stone By Rebecca Fowler storage and longer for oil recovery, but there has been a lingering question: could stored CO2 leak out? At Iceland’s Hellisheidi Power Plant, Lamont hydrologist Martin Stute, Adjunct Senior Research Scientist Juerg Matter, and colleagues

tried something different. They used CO2 captured at the power plant, and mixed it with water and hydrogen sulfide, creating soda-like carbonation, then injected the mixture into porous basalt rocks 400 to 800 meters underground. Basalt, which is created as lava cools, contains calcium, iron, and magnesium, which react naturally with

CO2 to form solid carbonate minerals. Within two years, 95% of the injected CO2 had turned to mineral – far faster than the 8–12 years originally expected. “We knew that under natural conditions this process was happening, but we did not know on what time scale,” said Stute, who also teaches at Barnard College. “The energy company we were working with was so impressed by the success that they decided to adopt it.” Reykjavik Energy expects to inject 10,000 tons per year starting Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory scientists have developed ways to relatively this year and increase that level. The continuing experiment will also quickly turn carbon dioxide captured from power plants to a solid for long-term test some remaining questions, such as whether the pore spaces could storage. Peter Kelemen and his team examine carbonate veins in mantle rock that clog over time. The researchers have found that the pressure from the could provide another way to permanently store CO2. Photo: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory process itself creates tiny fractures, expanding the area where newly injected CO2 can flow in and mineralize, which they expect to Earth has limits to the amount of carbon dioxide in its atmosphere minimize clogging. Exploring Off Shore before the environment as we know it starts to change. Too much CO2 absorbed by the oceans makes the water more acidic. Too much in the Basalt, which made Iceland the ideal location, is also abundant atmosphere warms the planet. With emissions from our carbon-based beneath the oceans, including just off shore from coastal power plants. economies rising, scientists at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory are David Goldberg, a geophysicist at Lamont, has been leading off-shore studies to map basalt reservoirs with the potential to store developing way to prevent CO2 produced by power plants and industries from ever entering the atmosphere, and they are exploring carbon that would mineralize over time. He has proposed burying CO2 in several sites off the U.S. East Coast about a mile below the seafloor, ways to take CO2 out of the environment. There are places in the world where carbon dioxide reacts and he is now working on one of five Department of Energy projects naturally with the local rock, turning the planet-warming gas to using seismic data to determine how much CO2 could be stored in mineral. It’s a slow process in nature, but Lamont scientists have those and other off-shore reservoirs. found a way to harness that reaction and speed it up so they can take Goldberg’s team is also proposing the first test of off-shore basalt storage, a project that would pump 1 million tons of CO2 into basalt off CO2 from power plants and lock it away quickly and permanently. In a ground-breaking study that holds new potential for the Pacific Northwest. combating climate change, the scientists announced this spring that, “Iceland was a key demonstration. The holy grail is off-shore,” Goldberg said. The storage potential in the oceans is immense, and it for the first time, CO2 captured from a power plant in Iceland and pumped underground had mineralized into a white, chalky substance moves the process away from communities. It also avoids the need for for permanent storage, and this conversion happened far faster than water resources. Where the Iceland project added fresh water to the anyone expected. captured CO2 , off-shore projects could mix seawater with purified Lamont scientists are now exploring similar possibilities with CO2 to speed up the reaction time. vastly greater storage potential beneath the oceans off the U.S. coasts, Pulling CO2 from the Environment and they are experimenting with a type of rock found in abundance in It is increasingly apparent that we will need to do more than just Earth’s mantle that could be used to go the next step and begin taking capture CO2 from power plants to keep temperatures from rising beyond 2° Celsius – we will also need to start taking CO2 out of the CO2 out of the environment. “It’s clear that, no matter what we may wish, we will not put the environment, as reports from the IPCC and the National Research brakes on the carbon economy fast enough to avoid overshooting safe Council (NRC) and National Academy of Sciences have warned. CO limits in the air,” said geologist Peter Kelemen, who is leading In addition to basalt, Kelemen has been working with peridotite, 2 a fast-reacting rock that comprises much of the Earth’s upper mantle studies on mantle rocks and their potential for CO2 removal. “On the bright side, our research into Earth processes is showing that there are and can be found near the surface on all continents and beneath the sea things we can do that emulate natural systems to address the carbon floor. This winter, he will be leading an international drilling project problem.” in Oman, where a large block of mantle has been pushed to the surface The Iceland Project by plate tectonic forces and is exposed to weathering. The Oman formation naturally sequesters 10,000 to 100,000 tons of CO2 every Scaled up, the process of capturing CO2 from power plants and factories and turning it into a solid could buy time as countries year, leaving magnesium and calcium carbonate veins in the rock. worldwide shift away from fossil fuel use and toward cleaner energy Kelemen estimates that by speeding up the process, peridotite could be sources. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has used to store 1 billion tons of CO2 per cubic kilometer of rock per year. described carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a critical technology Fossil energy industries recognize the challenges ahead as the for keeping climate change in check. There are challenges, though. In planet warms and the international community begins to take action. “They know they’re going to have to protect their investment by most of the 15 large-scale CCS operations functioning today, CO2 is stored as either a gas or a supercritical fluid in natural subsurface getting involved in carbon management,” Kelemen said. repositories, typically sandstone, or reused to force oil or gas out of Source: climateandlife.columbia.edu from October 31, 2016 12 Bulletin of the New York Mineralogical Club, Inc. 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2018-19 Club Calendar Date Event Location Remarks & Information

Sunday 46 West 83rd Street, #2E, NYC Spectacular variety, quality and quantity Special Benefit Sale August 5 (Mitch’s Apartment) of items from Michael Walter donation

First Wednesday! Special Lecture: Dr. Peter Kelemen – Meeting at 6:00 pm Watson Hotel, Manhattan September 5 “Capturing CO2 in Natural Rocks”

Third Wednesday! Mezzanine B & C Theme: Carnelian ; Silent Auction; Awards; Annual Gala Banquet October 17 Watson Hotel, Manhattan Fun & Games; Gifts & MANY Surprises!

Special Lecture: Roland Scal – November 14 Meeting at 6:00 pm Watson Hotel, Manhattan “The Microscope and Minerals”

Special Lecture: David Baker – December 12 Meeting at 6:00 pm Watson Hotel, Manhattan “The Diverse World of the AGTA”

Modern Marvels: “Rocks”; January 9, 2019 2nd Annual Movie Night Watson Hotel, Manhattan More Details to Follow

Annual Members’ Show & Tell; February 13 Meeting at 6:00 pm Watson Hotel, Manhattan 5th Annual Chinese Auction

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LIMAGS Annual Gem & Mattituck High School, Sponsored by the Long Island Mineral & July 28-29 Mineral Show 15125 Main Road, Mattituck, NY Geology Society

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