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Dickite from
Willis Mountain Mine, Sprouses Corner, Farmville Mining District, Buckingham County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Dickite
Formula:Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dickite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Willis Mountain Mine, Sprouses Corner, Farmville Mining District, Buckingham County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:368414
Long-form Identifier:1:3:368414:6
GUID (UUID V4):4c783820-49ac-4c02-a230-8b21ae648116
Nearest other occurrences of Dickite
70.3km (43.7 miles) ⓘOhio Sulphur Mining Company Mine (Proffit Mine; Old Pyrite mine), Proffit, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
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sillimanite, and andalusite____________ History of mining. _____________________________________________________..._ ________________ Virginia - __ -__ _ ___________ Farmville district, Buckingham, Prince Edward, and...39 Kyanite deposits Continued Virginia Continued Farmville district, etc. Continued Rock types Continued...__-___-_____- __ Willis Mountain and vicinity____________ Woods Mountain and vicinityBaker Mountain-Madisonville...Mountain-Madisonville area____ Leigh Mountain __ __ _ _ Southern Prince Edward CountyOrigin of kyanite deposits Other
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Kyanite Quartzites in the Piedmont Province of Virginia: Evidence for a Possible High-Sulfidation System...Geology, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia 23187 AND MATTHEW A. PASEK Department of Planetary...world’s largest kyanite mine is hosted within kyanite quartzite at Willis Mountain in the Piedmont Province...Province of Virginia, and numerous smaller bodies occur throughout this region. Most occur in the Ordovician...central Virginia, and the only active kyanite mine in the United States is at Willis Mountain in Buckingham
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the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho­ tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound
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Procedures Members who’ve participated in Northern Virginia Mineral Club auctions know that they are a lot...rule; items with multiple bids on The Northern Virginia Mineral Club November 2010 Bid Slips - Please...line and bring one for each item The Northern Virginia Mineral Club NAME BID __________ __________...countless thousands of fossils each The Northern Virginia Mineral Club November 2010 THE MINERAL NEWSLETTER...to protect it during the winter. The Northern Virginia Mineral Club After a long, hot day of digging
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----------General geology of the Pilot Mountain-Fox Mountain region (Ramseur 7 t' Quadrangle) ------...----------Pilot Mountain porphyry gold system High-alumina deposits in Moore County ----------------...Hydrothermal alteration at the Brewer mine, Chesterfield County, South Carolina ---------------------...--6. Hydrothermal alteration atPilot Mountain, Randolph County, North Carolina ---------------------...---------------7. Soil sample analyses, Pilot Mountain area ---------------------------1. Page 3 III
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• • • • • • Grade and Reserves •• • • • • • • • Mining and Beneficiation • • • • • • • Calcination .....individuals, firms and organisations, as well as to the mining and geological departments, both in Commonwealth...origin. The Henry Knob kyanite deposit4 in York County, South Carolina, was previously considered to be...Henry Knob deposit, as well as others in the same district, is thought to have been formed by the metamorphism...beneficiation of disseminated schists is that at Willis Mountain, Virginia, where very large reserves containing
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the Geology of Industrial Minerals: Virginia Palmer Sweet, Virginia Division of Mineral Resources . .....tion ; Eagle-Picher Minerals, Inc.; the Northwest Mining Association; and the Society of Economic Geologists...markets. The estimated total value o f nonfue l mine ral productio n in Oregon in 1988 was $169 million...private companies and variow. federal. l>tatc. and county agcn c ic~ . ru\ llcd l>tone. al mo~t exc lu ~...and pa' ing bricks from clays mined in Klamath County and several other western counti e~. X X X X
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ee as Edited by Kula C. Misra 3 KENTUCKY ay VIRGINIA\ ee fi MCA SOT TENNESSEE RANDATHER QUNTAN...Kula C. Misra _———— VIRGINIA KENTUCKY OVERLAP \ GRANDFATHER TENNESSEE ~~ MOUNTAIN KIOKEE BELT SOUTH...the South-Central Sulfide Mineralization along Mountain, Cleburne Co., Marc OF CONTENTS Metal Deposits...Copper Anomaly at the Peachbottom Deposit, Alleghany County, North Carolina (John E. Callahan, J. Hatten Metal...Carolina Robert Butler) District, 78 Southernmost at Four Gold Slate Belt Mine, 97 F. Hollister)
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present of mining and metallurgy of lead . . . . . . . . . . . 18.7.2. Past and present of mining and metallurgy...hampering our access to mineral deposits, such as mining depth controlled among others by the geothermal...Hewett in 1927 who was able to demonstrate that in mining countries exploitation, export and import of metals...passed its climax. At the very end the domestic mining industry can no longer cater for the needs and...looked up in various publications such as the “World Mining Data”, a yearbook issued by Weber and Zsak (2007)
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present of mining and metallurgy of lead . . . . . . . . . . . 18.7.2. Past and present of mining and metallurgy...hampering our access to mineral deposits, such as mining depth controlled among others by the geothermal...Hewett in 1927 who was able to demonstrate that in mining countries exploitation, export and import of metals...passed its climax. At the very end the domestic mining industry can no longer cater for the needs and...looked up in various publications such as the “World Mining Data”, a yearbook issued by Weber and Zsak (2007)
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boundaries of the mineral industry are clear: the mining and milling of feldspar, for example, belong to...does not. But how does one draw the line between mining and manufacturing where brine from a salt well...districts, or a representative district if there are many. We name the chief mining companies, and give production...supply must come not merely from one district but from a single mine. Thus the physical properties of many...government may even decide to go directly into mining, as Saskatchewan has done with potassium minerals
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Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Proceedings of the 31st Forum on...87801 SOCORRO, 1996 11 NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING & TECHNOLOGY Daniel H. Lopez, President NEW MEXICO...ESSER, Lab Technician ROBERT W. EvELeth, Senior Mining Engineer NANCY S. GILSON, Assistant Editor KATHRYN... CHRISTOPHER G. McKim, X-ray Facility Manager VIRGINIA T. MCLEMORE, Senior Economic Geologist NORMA J...University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA Abstract—Industrial minerals and rocks in the tri-state
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(25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Dosen ONN/ QBI96-40247 Trade Distribution by Mountain Press Publishing Company P.O. Box 2399, Missoula...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout
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United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese
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Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout... most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing gravels in Montana is beginning...operators, Morefield Mine, Amelia, VA; Max & Suzy Berchtold, Royal Rainbow Mine, Laytonville, CA; Ralph...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache
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Geology, University of and State Geologist of Virginia. Fourth Cloth; 6 by 9; 708 pages; 253 figures...the 83 plates, comprising 154 figures. Watson, Virginia, Edition. text, and Elements of Engineering Geology...the 100th meridian, particularly in the Rocky Mountain region. It is also mined in the western Great...blue. Semianthracite is mined in Pennsylvania and Virginia, and is known in western Canada. Anthracite Coal...coke.”’ Natural coke is also found in New Mexico, Virginia, and IIli- nois.” Rank and Grade.—The term rank
Report (volume)
KING, ELISABETH S. LOUD, MILDRED CHALLMAN MEAD, VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN, and GEORGIANNA D. CONANT PART 1. BIBLIOGRAPHY...KING, ELISABETH S. LOUD, MILDRED CHALLMAN MEAD, VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN, and GEORGIANNA D. CONANT INTRODUCTION...Oftedahl, Margaret Cooper, Margaret E. Barcroft, Virginia E. Rees, Henry J. Ferry, Karlyn Shoemaker, and...are as follows: COLORADO. Mineralogy. Montrose County, uranium-vanadium deposits: Weeks, A. D., 13R....Iron, Cook County, titaniferous magnetite: Grout, F. F., 5. IRON. Minnesota, Cook County, titaniferous
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INSTITUTE METALLURGICAL New York 1949 OF MINING ENGINEERS Copynicur, 1949, py THE American ...and the consequent more elaborate mining methods; the need for mining ores of lower grade, resulting...heavy concrete structures such as dams, for stope mining, explosive demolitions under special conditions...20 Turkey: Kalah. .. Gumuch. Samos..... USA. Virginia... Chester, Mass..| New York New York ...hydrous mica. This kind is mined in New York and Virginia in the United States. Feldspathic emery is similar
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BSc, PhD, MIMM, FGS Fonnerly Senior Lecturer in Mining Geology University of Leicester THIRD EDITION...PUBLISHING 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ UK 550 Swanston...former in response to the changing situation in tin mining following the recent tin crisis and the latter...the subject, and the intending practitioner of mining geology would be wen advised to accompany his study...journals as World Mining,* the Mining Journal, the Engineering and Mining Journal and the Mining Magazine,t
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industri a l expansion. "Agriculture waited on mining, the need of foodstuffs stimulated farming; a complex...For years British Columbia called h erself the mining province, and she had a right to the name.' lt...seventeenth century. Small coal mines were opened in Virginia and Ohio early in the eighteenth century and in...1800. All these deposits, along with goJd from Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, aided early industrial...considered to be a natural accumulation of useful mine ra l materials that can be profitably extracted
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economically. As a part of our response to the Mining and Mineral Policy Act of 1970, the Geological...resources into minable reserves-"rock in the box," in mining parlance; a few examples are the discoveries of...equivalent of the southeast 3 INTRODUCTION Missouri district can be expected to turn up in the future ; the...mid-1950's on the west side of the Southeast Missouri district resulted in the discovery of the large unexposed...part of the district. With the phoenixlike rejuvenation of the Southeast Missouri district, the Viburnum
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Š 2006 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. All rights reserved. Electronic edition...edition published 2009. Š 2006 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. All rights reserved...edition published 2009. Š 2006 by the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration. All rights reserved...for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. (SME) 8307 Shaffer Parkway Littleton, Colorado, USA 80127...763-3132 www.smenet.org Copyright Š 2006 Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc. Eletronic edition
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effective research into the extensive area of mining technology (mining methods, mechanization1 transportation...or more efficient extraction methods, either in mining or metallurgy, coupled with ne,v or improved sources...small compared to current and prospective demand. Mining technology offers important possibilities where...to make better use of this major fuel resource. Mining methods should be improved to increase recovery...and consumption) and geographic areas (such as mining districts or industrial centers) in the United
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improved technology that has made it profitable to mine material of lower anq lower grade. Reclamation is...for effective research in 1nining technology ( mining methods, mechanization, tranSJ?Ortation, rock breaking...larger and cheaper supply through more economical mining methods. Whereas generation of electricity and...discovery of new sources and the solution of numerous mining ,a nd metallurgical problems. A challenging problem...producers in the ¡Western Hemisphere. Although bauxite mining started as late as 1952 in Jamaica, the country
 
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