From owner-rockhounds-digest@drizzle.com Sun Mar 4 12:11:30 2001 Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:49:02 -0800 From: rockhounds-digest Reply-To: rockhounds@drizzle.com To: rockhounds-digest@drizzle.com Subject: rockhounds-digest V1 #781 rockhounds-digest Sunday, January 28 2001 Volume 01 : Number 781 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 09:49:25 -0500 From: "J Bryan Kramer" Subject: Re: UV laser = UV LED, correction For those interested this months Scientific American has an article on LED's and a brief mention of Laser Diodes. Bryan - ----- Original Message ----- > hi greg > > as a follow up to your question, Class 4 CO2 lasers, depending on their > use, are in the ultraviolet light portion of the light spectrum. > > I have a fact sheet from the Worker's Health and Safety Centre which says > that the lasers can emit harmful ultraviolet and infrared light. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 09:55:40 -0500 From: "J Bryan Kramer" Subject: Re: UV laser = UV LED, correction I understood that the CO2 welding laser operated at 10600 nm which is far into the infrared, uv is below 400 nm. Bryan - ----- Original Message ----- > > as a follow up to your question, Class 4 CO2 lasers, depending on their > use, are in the ultraviolet light portion of the light spectrum. > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 10:33:21 -0700 From: "Peter J. Modreski" Subject: diaoyudaoite revisited Hi to the list and esp. to Lanny Ream, I can't resist commenting again on diaoyudaoite, which is this time the subject of the lead item in Josef Vajdak's column in the latest issue (Jan. 2001) of Mineral News. I was going to just write this note by email to Lanny, but what the heck, I'll share it with the rest of the list. I guess I'm still very skeptical of the origin of this material as a natural mineral. Diaoyudaoite, Na Al 11 O 17, originally reported as sub-millimeter size loose crystals in deep-sea mud off Taiwan, presumably as grains eroded out of alkali basalts, has now been found as inch-or-more size specimens of solid masses with 1/2-inch platy crystals. Also, the mineral is fluorescent (brilliant magenta pink, SW), which should attract a lot of attention from fluorescent collectors. Also, although the original brief description which was noted and commented on here in "Rockhounds" said that the mineral was found near Port Elizabeth, which is in the coastal plain near the southern tip of New Jersey, the description in Mineral News now says the material was found "on a road-cut in the vicinity of the Jersey Gardens Mall in Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey", which is in the urban area bordering New York City, in northeastern N.J. I always consider myself to have an open mind and I certainly do not want to reject anyone's find of something "really new", but I'm really skeptical of this occurrence. Because of the location, and large size and evident purity of the crystal masses, and the unusual nature & composition of this mineral, my first reaction is still to think that this material is much more likely to be some kind of industrial mineral by-product, buried in a roadside or landfill. This part of New Jersey is certainly an source area for both of the above! (Hey, I'm not knocking New Jersey, I'm a native of New Brunswick, NJ!) I think it might be worthwhile to look up this chemical compound in some of the chemical indices, and see what information is reported or published about the possible synthesis or industrial preparation of Na Al 11 O 17 Josef states in the MN article that material has been sent to Dr. Hatten Yoder of the Geophysical Laboratory in Wash. D.C. to examine, and that is great, Hatten Yoder is a superb authority on mineralogy and petrology, and should be a perfect person to examine this material (yoderite, an Mg-Fe-Al silicate, is named after him). (I know Dr. Yoder personally; I worked with him at the Geophys. Lab. for part of a year, while I was finishing my Ph.D. thesis.) However, it seems rather unlikely that Dr. Yoder will be able to "determine the age of the specimen" as suggested in MN, because not every mineral can readily be age-dated (most cannot). And of course, simply verifying the identity of a mineral does not necessarily confirm that it is a natural mineral and not a man-made product; but I'm sure Dr. Yoder would have some educated opinion on that, once he has examined it. Well, there is your "skeptical scientist" comment for the day! Please know that I intend no disrespect or anything like that to anyone involved in the finding and study of this mineral; I am just voicing a valid query as to how the material actually originated and came to be in the roadcut in which it was found. Sincerely, Pete Modreski, pjmodreski@worldnet.att.net and U.S. Geological Survey, Denver CO, pmodresk@usgs.gov ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 12:28:38 EST From: CRAZYDOVE@aol.com Subject: Re: diaoyudaoite revisited - --part1_f2.6f49363.27a5b0c6_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Pete..is it possible..that the author of that article did the same thing we on the list did..(New Jerseyans), our first thought was Port Elizabeth in Northern NJ? Maybe they didn't do the research? Or did they get this from the "finder" of the mineral? Interesting tho..and I have been to that mall..and maybe should check out the area for road cuts etc. Jackie In a message dated 1/28/01 12:22:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, pjmodreski@worldnet.att.net writes: > the description in Mineral News now > says the material was found "on a road-cut in the vicinity of the Jersey > Gardens Mall in Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey", which is in the urban > area bordering New York City, in northeastern N.J. > - --part1_f2.6f49363.27a5b0c6_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Pete..is it possible..that the author of that article did the same thing
we on the list did..(New Jerseyans), our first thought was Port Elizabeth in
Northern NJ?  Maybe they didn't do the research?  Or did they get this from
the "finder" of the mineral?  Interesting tho..and I have been to that
mall..and maybe should check out the area for road cuts etc.  
                                                               Jackie

In a message dated 1/28/01 12:22:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,
pjmodreski@worldnet.att.net writes:


the description in Mineral News now
says the material was found "on a road-cut in the vicinity of the Jersey
Gardens Mall in Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey", which is in the urban
area bordering New York City, in northeastern N.J.


- --part1_f2.6f49363.27a5b0c6_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:19:51 EST From: MinPhoto@aol.com Subject: Re: diaoyudaoite revisited Pete & list: To comment on at least on point in your message: I received a personal letter from Josef clearly stating that the locality was near the Garden State Mall, near Elizabeth (referred to 'Port Elizabeth') in the northern part of New Jersey. There was some debate as to what county, as the Garden State Mall apparently (if my memory is still good) straddles the border of Union and Essex counties. I am anxiously awaiting a more information about this occurrence, natural or not! Regards, Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:46:16 -0500 From: Don Subject: Re: diaoyudaoite revisited Hi all, Having had some minor involvement with the article, and as the person who researched the locality, I can address some of these issues. After numerous phone calls back and forth, between Dr. Vajdak and myself and between the original finder, we determined without a doubt that the find was made near the Jersey Garden Mall, Elizabeth, New Jersey. This item alone brings up several important points: exactitude is crucial, and the discussion of new finds before they are published can lead to the dissemination of erroneous information. Rest assured I spent some time on the phone with the city hall of Elizabeth to verify the accuracy of the information, and in the process bewildered the poor clerk who couldn't figure out all the excitement over finding a rock at a construction site. Unfortunately, as fate would have it, there is actually a municipality in South Jersey (as we down here like to call it) officially named Port Elizabeth. There is also a municipality named Elizabeth--or the City of Elizabeth, as the clerk told me it is preferentially called--and there is a port there, which is locally called "port Elizabeth" but which carries no official municipal registration for that name. Therefore, the finder was being colloquial when he described the location as "Port Elizabeth." It is also on the border between two counties, a fact which caused even more distress but need not be discussed here. To compound the problem, I kept asking Josef "are you SURE that's what he said?", and he assured me he was. Finally, after hearing "near the Jersey Garden Mall" as a more precise locator, I pleaded with Josef to call the finder one more time (it was New Year's Day by this point, after I had spent until 2 AM the night before researching the damned thing since there is precious little written on the type find), and he did, confirming as I asked that the general location was Elizabeth, the one near Newark, off the NJ Turnpike, near Newark Airport. It was. A few frantic calls to Lanny Ream, and we got the article corrected just in time for press. The finder apparently went back to the site to see if he could find more, but the cut was constructed over by then and he reported finding none. The finder did not give Dr. Vajdak a more precise location. We may never be able to investigate this occurrence further. The piece photographed by Jeff Weissman for his photo CD was donated by Dr. Vajdak to the Thomas S. Warren Museum of Fluorescence at the Sterling Hill Mining Museum Foundation, in Ogdensburg, New Jersey. It is currently in my possession and I am preparing a special display for it, and while I have your attention I humbly thank Josef once again for his generous and selfless donation to the museum. I own the piece photographed under UV that may or may not appear in Mineral News (Lanny said he would print it, though I haven't received my MN yet; it should be shown in color on the web version of MN, however); this has been offered to the Smithsonian Institution. As Josef and I said on the phone to each other, these specimens are bigger than either of us. As far as the nature of the mineral, it certainly has that "natural" look and feel to it. I'm sorry that is such a subjective judgement, and I cannot put into words just what makes something look natural, but there it is. My research revealed that some of the area near Elizabeth, and around the Jersey Garden Mall in particular, was filled with dredgings from the harbor floor. We now have our doubts as to whether the material was found in situ--most likely not. I discovered this after the article had gone to press. The luminescence poses quite a puzzle. Not only are the primary crystals fluorescent a pinkish magenta, there are included tiny spots of a substance that fluoresces a pale greenish white (SW UV) and phosphoresces the same, briefly. This included material has the characteristics of aragonite or other miscellaneous calcium carbonate minerals that luminesce the same way the world over. Since this material only illuminates under SW UV, it was never analyzed separately. If this material was included in the original growth of the diaoyudaomite, and not infiltrated later between the thin lamellar plates, then it may give a clue to the age and origin of the material. At this point, however, the methods of analysis far exceed my knowledge of the subject, so this paragraph should not be considered authoritative but rather a basis for further study and discussion. Regarding the type material, Tony Nikisher of Excalibur Minerals has some, but reported no luminescence under SW UV when specifically asked to check for it. Unfortunately, this is all we know of the occurrence. The research being done to determine the age may or may not reveal something conclusive. I know one thing: when the pencils were down and we discussed the findings, Dr. Vajdak had more questions than answers. I only hope that further investigation reveals something fruitful and conclusive. Don ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:56:20 -0800 From: "Jim and Carolyn Ebsary" Subject: Re: UV laser = UV LED, correction The information I have from the Workers Health and Safety Centre doesn't distinguish what the laser is used for, it merely states that if the laser is used at wavelengths of 400 nm or less, then it is in the uv range. If it is used at 1400 or more, then ir. Jim - ----- Original Message ----- From: J Bryan Kramer To: Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 6:55 AM Subject: Re: UV laser = UV LED, correction > I understood that the CO2 welding laser operated at 10600 nm which is far > into the infrared, uv is below 400 nm. > Bryan > ----- Original Message ----- > > > > as a follow up to your question, Class 4 CO2 lasers, depending on their > > use, are in the ultraviolet light portion of the light spectrum. > > > > > > ################################################################# > # Rockhounds@drizzle Mailing Alias: rockhounds@drizzle.com # > # Web: http://www.drizzle.com/~afox/rockhounds/ # > # Subscription Services: majordomo@drizzle.com # > ################################################################# > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 11:02:52 -0800 From: "Lanny R. Ream" Subject: Re: diaoyudaoite revisited Actually the locality was a problem due to a misunderstanding (near the port at Elizabeth not at Port Elizabeth).This diaoyudaoite came from Elizabeth, NJ, which is in northern NJ just as Pete described; Port Elizabeth is in southern NJ. The Jersey Gardens Mall is near the port at Elizabeth. There was further confusion as to the county because the Union Co./Essex Co. line is a short distance north of the mall. Actually it is something like 2 miles north to the county line (look at your MapQuest web site to see just how all this lies). Pete's concerns certainly make sense, these specimens are quite a change from the original and only other known occurrence of the mineral. However, unlike Pete, I'm not as skeptical; that part of NJ, as is typical of the coastal area is sedimentary, so likely was down a few hundreds to thousands of meters at the sea floor in the past. Also, this won't be the first time subsequent discoveries of a mineral were of much larger, and somewhat physically different (in this case being fluorescent) than the original discovery. Josef Vajdak and others are planning on visiting the Elizabeth location to determine more about it, and perhaps find some more specimens or at least get an idea of the geology. Between that and Dr. Yoder's study of the mineral, hopefully, we will get some answers, Lanny >Hi Pete..is it possible..that the author of that article did the same thing >we on the list did..(New Jerseyans), our first thought was Port Elizabeth in >Northern NJ? Maybe they didn't do the research? Or did they get this from >the "finder" of the mineral? Interesting tho..and I have been to that >mall..and maybe should check out the area for road cuts etc. > Jackie > >In a message dated 1/28/01 12:22:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, >pjmodreski@worldnet.att.net writes: > > > >the description in Mineral News now >says the material was found "on a road-cut in the vicinity of the Jersey >Gardens Mall in Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey", which is in the urban >area bordering New York City, in northeastern N.J. > > > ********************************************* Lanny R. Ream - lanny@mineralnews.com Owner/Publisher - LR Ream Publishing Publisher of gem & mineral references and guides, Mineral News - printed and online, Mineral software: The Mineral Database and the Mineral-Periodical Index Visit our Web pages at http://www.mineralnews.com ****** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:26:22 EST From: CRAZYDOVE@aol.com Subject: Re: diaoyudaoite revisited - --part1_d7.19b952d.27a5cc5e_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In regarding to what you have said here..my husband is a Longshoreman/Crane Operator at Global terminal and Container in Bayonne, but, he has worked at Port Newark which is near the area in discussion. I asked him today if they ever received Taiwanese ships there, he said they definately have gotten Taiwanese containers, and possibly Taiwanese ships in there. He also said it's possible that the way containers are grounded, they could pick up rocks and gravel in certain spots and then if it rains etc could depost these "findings" in a new area. It's possible that this mineral came over in that way on a Taiwanese container or from the ballast in a Taiwanese ship or a ship that stopped in a Taiwan port. I realize that it would be far-fetched, but it got here somehow and that's one scenerio that may explain it's occurence. Jackie In a message dated 1/28/01 1:42:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, morningstar@worldnet.att.net writes: > My research revealed that some of the area near Elizabeth, > and around the Jersey Garden Mall in particular, was filled with > dredgings from the harbor floor. We now have our doubts as to whether > the material was found in situ--most likely not. I discovered this > after the article had gone to press. - --part1_d7.19b952d.27a5cc5e_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In regarding to what you have said here..my husband is a Longshoreman/Crane
Operator at Global terminal and Container in Bayonne, but, he has worked at
Port Newark which is near the area in discussion.  I asked him today if they
ever received Taiwanese ships there, he said they definately have gotten
Taiwanese containers, and possibly Taiwanese ships in there.  He also said
it's possible that the way containers are grounded, they could pick up rocks
and gravel in certain spots and then if it rains etc could depost these
"findings" in a new area.  It's possible that this mineral came over in that
way on a Taiwanese container or from the ballast in a Taiwanese ship or a
ship that stopped in a Taiwan port.  I realize that it would be far-fetched,
but it got here somehow and that's one scenerio that may explain it's
occurence.
                                                         Jackie


In a message dated 1/28/01 1:42:07 PM Eastern Standard Time,
morningstar@worldnet.att.net writes:


My research revealed that some of the area near Elizabeth,
and around the Jersey Garden Mall in particular, was filled with
dredgings from the harbor floor.  We now have our doubts as to whether
the material was found in situ--most likely not.  I discovered this
after the article had gone to press.
- --part1_d7.19b952d.27a5cc5e_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 14:48:52 EST From: MinPhoto@aol.com Subject: Re: diaoyudaoite revisited In a message dated 1/28/01 1:02:29 PM Central Standard Time, lanny@mineralnews.com writes: > Pete's concerns certainly make sense, these specimens are quite a change > from the original and only other known occurrence of the mineral Actually, there is a third known locality for this mineral, at an undesignated locality in Novosibirsk oblast, Russia. Although the specimens I have seen are apparently just cleavages, they have a distinct resemblance to the NJ material - same luster, appearance of cleavages, only the Russian material is a deep green color. Did not check them for fluorsence. Also, Novosibirsk is very far from any existing oceans or seabeds... Regards, Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 13:23:26 -0800 From: "Lanny R. Ream" Subject: Re: diaoyudaoite revisited Interesting thought, but not likely. The diaoyudaoite is very scarce from the type locality, only tiny scales, and it also occurs at 5,000 feet depth. Lanny >In regarding to what you have said here..my husband is a Longshoreman/Crane >Operator at Global terminal and Container in Bayonne, but, he has worked at >Port Newark which is near the area in discussion. I asked him today if they >ever received Taiwanese ships there, he said they definately have gotten >Taiwanese containers, and possibly Taiwanese ships in there. He also said >it's possible that the way containers are grounded, they could pick up rocks >and gravel in certain spots and then if it rains etc could depost these >"findings" in a new area. It's possible that this mineral came over in that >way on a Taiwanese container or from the ballast in a Taiwanese ship or a >ship that stopped in a Taiwan port. I realize that it would be far-fetched, >but it got here somehow and that's one scenerio that may explain it's >occurence. > Jackie > > >In a message dated 1/28/01 1:42:07 PM Eastern Standard Time, >morningstar@worldnet.att.net writes: > > > >My research revealed that some of the area near Elizabeth, >and around the Jersey Garden Mall in particular, was filled with >dredgings from the harbor floor. We now have our doubts as to whether >the material was found in situ--most likely not. I discovered this >after the article had gone to press. > > > ********************************************* Lanny R. Ream - lanny@mineralnews.com Owner/Publisher - LR Ream Publishing Publisher of gem & mineral references and guides, Mineral News - printed and online, Mineral software: The Mineral Database and the Mineral-Periodical Index Visit our Web pages at http://www.mineralnews.com ****** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 17:02:59 EST From: CRAZYDOVE@aol.com Subject: Re: diaoyudaoite revisited - --part1_c.10876f84.27a5f113_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well..I thought it was worth a shot..Thanks for your reply Lanny! Jackie In a message dated 1/28/01 4:27:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, lanny@mineralnews.com writes: > Interesting thought, but not likely. > > The diaoyudaoite is very scarce from the type locality, only tiny scales, > and it also occurs at 5,000 feet depth. > - --part1_c.10876f84.27a5f113_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well..I thought it was worth a shot..Thanks for your reply Lanny!
                                                     Jackie

In a message dated 1/28/01 4:27:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,
lanny@mineralnews.com writes:


Interesting thought, but not likely.

The diaoyudaoite is very scarce from the type locality, only tiny scales,
and it also occurs at 5,000 feet depth.


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