The
Emerald Mining Company of Colombia was reorganized during the year 1891
in London, and it was believed by the company that emeralds quite as
fine as those from the famous Muzo mine would be found. The property
was purchased for $1,100,000, all of which, except $10,000, was paid
for by the shares of the company, in the expectation that emeralds
would be obtained much sooner than they have been,
Mr.
A. M. Field, of Asheville, North Carolina, reports that he has sold 89
beryls from Mitchell and Yancey counties, value $311.40. The prices
vary from $1 to $20 per carat.
GARNET.
Mr.
Field also found 118 garnets, worth $117, in Burke and Macon counties,
North Carolina. The value per carat was from $1 to $10.
The essonite locality in Phippsburg, Maine, was worked by Mr. T. P. Lamb in 1893, and specimens valued at $250 were obtained.
MOSS AGATE.
At
Hartville, "Wyoming, large masses of moss agate, weighing from 40 to 50
pounds each, and covered on the outside with a white calcareous
incrustation, have been found in a limestone rock on a 100-acre claim.
When they are cut into translucent slabs, they show the magnificent
black dendritic or moss-like markings in a most striking manner. Some
table tops of this elegant material were exhibited in the Wyoming
section of the Mining building at the World's Columbian Exposition.
About 4,000 pounds have been found.
HYDROLITE.
Some
remarkable specimens of hydrolite from the Cowlitz district, Washington
State, were shown the writer by Mr. J. P. H. Morris, consisting of
agate replacing fossil marine shells. Some of these silicified shells
were nearly 2 inches across and of a beautiful white color, and were
replaced by quartz and chalcedony, and filled with water and moving
bubbles of air. They were valued from $1 to $15 each.
DUMORTIERITE.
Mr.
John Stewart, of Los Angeles, California, informs me that he has found
dumortierite in quartz on the land of Mr. Carey, 50 miles north of
Yuma, and 11 miles west of the Colorado river on the Colorado desert,
and about 25 miles from the Southern Pacific Railroad track. Here it
occurs in blocks weighing several hundred pounds and upwards, and
varies from dark blue to light blue and a mixture of blue and white,
the occurrence being similar to that at Clipp, Yuma county, Arizona.
Mr.
Stewart believes that this material can be delivered for $200 per ton
on cars, and as the dumortierite thoroughly impregnates the quartz
