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Calcite from
Hoosier Quarry, Salem, Washington County, Indiana, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Comments:Occurs in Harrodsburg & Salem Limestones (Mississippian).
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Celestine6 photos of Calcite associated with Celestine at this locality.
Strontianite3 photos of Calcite associated with Strontianite at this locality.
Quartz3 photos of Calcite associated with Quartz at this locality.
Sphalerite2 photos of Calcite associated with Sphalerite at this locality.
Dolomite1 photo of Calcite associated with Dolomite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hoosier Quarry, Salem, Washington County, Indiana, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:68627
Long-form Identifier:1:3:68627:1
GUID (UUID V4):08603064-ca4b-4c92-b02c-8fbf0c0e5024
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
13.2km (8.2 miles) SR 56, Canton, Washington County, Indiana, USA
14.1km (8.7 miles) Pekin, Washington County, Indiana, USA
29.0km (18.0 miles) Baltimore and Ohio Railroad quarry and cut, Buddha, Lawrence County, Indiana, USA
30.2km (18.7 miles) Paoli, Orange County, Indiana, USA
31.0km (19.3 miles) Marengo Cave, Crawford County, Indiana, USA
32.4km (20.2 miles) Lehigh Portland Cement Co. Quarry, Mitchell, Lawrence County, Indiana, USA
39.0km (24.2 miles) Corydon Stone Co. Quarry, Corydon, Harrison County, Indiana, USA
39.0km (24.2 miles) Essroc Speed Quarry (Louisville Cement Co. Quarry), Clark County, Indiana, USA
40.8km (25.3 miles) Sellersburg Stone Quarry, Clark County, Indiana, USA
42.7km (26.5 miles) Sphalerite Occurrence Z81, Lawrence County, Indiana, USA
References
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Report (issue)
SALEM LIMESTONE AND ASSOCIATED FORMATIONS IN SOUTHCENTRAL INDIANA by THOMAS G. PERRY, NED M. SMITH...SMITH, AND WILLIAM J. WAYNE Indiana Department of Conservation GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Field Conference Guidebook...Guidebook No. 7 1954 STATE OF INDIANA George N. Craig, Governor DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Doxie Moore,..._______________ SALEM LIMESTONE AND ASSOCIATED FORMATIONS IN SOUTH-CENTRAL INDIANA By Thomas G. Perry...Geological Survey, Indiana Department of Conservation, and Department of Geology, Indiana University, CONFERENCE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The most abundant minerals in these rocks are calcite, clay minerals, dolomite, glauconite, goethite...first re­ ported occurrence of smythite was from Indiana ( E r d , 1957), where it was found as inclusions...inclusions with pyrrhotite and other iron sulfides in calcite, barite, dolomite, and quartz in geodes. Other...Other species reported as occurring in Indiana, 136 ROCKS AND MINERALS { RICHARD E . RUSSELL 7843 Montreal...left): Calcite, twinned on {0221}, 4 cm across; Meshberger Stone, Inc. quarry, Bartholomew County. Richard
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
along old IN-37, near Harrodsburg, Monroe County, Indiana. Note the semispherical opening, lower left...his personal mineral collecting activities on calcite, pseudomorphs, and minerals from the American Midwest...are now broadly described as the Borden Group in Indiana, the Fort Payne, WarsawSalem, and Borden formations...An 8.5-cm-tall cluster of manganese-rich, pink calcite scalenohedra with rhombohedral terminations, on...commercial geode mine at St. Francisville, Clark County, Missouri. This specimen appeared on the dust jacket
Report (issue)
The Lime Industry of Indiana BULLETIN 42-J SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL STAFF OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...northwest of Stinesville in Monroe County. The Lime Industry of Indiana By CURTIS H. AULT, LAWRENCE F....PRINTED BY AUTHOR ITY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA : 1974 ST ATE OF INDIAN A Otis R....production in Indiana / 7 Methods of production / 7 Regional production in Indiana / 12 Northern Indiana / 12...localities / 17 Southern Indiana / 19 Bedford and Mitchell / 19 Milltown / 24 Salem / 26 Greencastle / 29
Journal (issue)
written content Paul E. Desautels Washington, DC Pete J. Dunn Washington, DC Peter G. Embrey British Museum...Weber Mamaroneck, N.Y. Articles Celestite from Salem, Indiana..............................................uncommon lithium-mica from Coyote Peak, Humboldt County, California .....................................tour of the mineral facilities at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History (where Tony is curator)...Record, January-February, 1983 Celestite from Salem, Indiana by Lawrence D. Wells 761 Bravington Way Lexington
Report (issue)
Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. This little-known locality is an abandoned road-fill quarry where the...= Quartz, 3.1 cm, from Boylston, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Tyson’s Fine Minerals specimen...yellow calcite crystals and bursts of white strontianite, from the Faylor-Middlecreek quarry, Winfield...Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania. (The Faylor-Middlecreek is a road-fill quarry in limestone, commercially...kind. Calcite and Strontianite, 11.5 cm, from the Faylor-Middlecreek quarry, Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania
Report (chapter)
Geological Society, London, Special Publications Indiana Limestone: America’s Building Stone Nelson R. Shaffer...January 11, 2019 Indiana Limestone: America’s Building Stone Nelson R. Shaffer* Indiana University, Retired...Retired, 530 N. Cabot Ct., Bloomington, Indiana 47408 *Corresponding Author (e-mail: nelson.r.shaffer@gmail...shaffer@gmail.com) ED M A N U SC RI PT Abstract: Indiana Limestone is one of the most used and versatile...is available in pleasing colors and textures. Indiana Limestone is used extensively for important buildings
Report (issue)
Indiana Limestones and Dolomites for Flue Gas Desulfurization Indiana Geological Survey Special Report...Report 67 . ,·,·. . INDIANA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDIANA UNIVERSITY Indiana Geological Survey Staff Administration...For sale by the Indiana Geological Survey 611 N. Walnut Grove Ave., Bloomington, Indiana 47405-2208 phone:...IGSinfo@i ndiana.edu Web: http:/ /igs.indiana.edu Indiana Limestones and Dolomites for Flue Gas Desulfurization...Sadowski Indiana University Indiana Geological Survey Special Report 67 BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA: 2009
Report (issue)
Indiana Limestones and Dolomites for Flue Gas Desulfurization Indiana Geological Survey Special Report...Report 67 . ,·,·. . INDIANA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY INDIANA UNIVERSITY Indiana Geological Survey Staff Administration...For sale by the Indiana Geological Survey 611 N. Walnut Grove Ave., Bloomington, Indiana 47405-2208 phone:...IGSinfo@i ndiana.edu Web: http:/ /igs.indiana.edu Indiana Limestones and Dolomites for Flue Gas Desulfurization...Sadowski Indiana University Indiana Geological Survey Special Report 67 BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA: 2009
Book
Fossil and Mineral Trails Lakes States Wisconsin, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, by June Culp Zeitner $5...knowledge and enjoyment of this great owners, mine and quarry operators and science by collecting. Thanks too...species of fossils have been collected in Illinois, Indiana, and Michigan. Dow Chemical has reported finding...and Huron virtually surrounding it. Illinois and Indiana are bordered in part by Lake Michigan, and Ohio...peninsula of Michigan. Southern Illinois, southern Indiana and southern Ohio have milder winters than the
Report (issue)
CRUSHED LIMESTONE PRODUCERS IN INDIANA by DUNCAN J. McGREGOR Indiana Department of Conservation GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Directory No. 4 1956 ST A TE OF INDIANA George N. Craig, Governor DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION...PRODUCERS IN INDIANA by Duncan J. McGregor Printed by authority of the state of Indiana BLOOMINGTON...BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA October 1956 For sale by Geological Survey, Indiana Department or Conservation, Bloomington...Bloomington, Indiana Price 25 cents SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL STAFF OF THE 2 - - GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Charles
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Drive Clarksville, Indiana 47129 agoldstein@dnr.in.gov Figure 1. Twinned calcite, 8 cm, Caldwell Stone...Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky is underlain...Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers...Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level. There are some noteworthy mineral...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden
Book
caves and karst of indiana Samuel S. Frushour IN coNJUNctIoN WItH tHe Indiana Geological Survey WItH...coNtrIBUtIoN BY Julian J. Lewis and Salisa L. Lewis INDIANA UNIVERSITY PR ESS Bloomington & Indianapolis GuideTCAKOI...publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, Indiana 47404-3797 USA iupress...800-842-6796 Fax orders 812-855-7931 © 2012 by The Indiana Geological Survey All rights reserved No part of...Formation of Indiana Caves 3 Cave Deposits and Cave Minerals 8 Cave Climate 13 The Cave Fauna of Indiana (by Julian
Report (issue)
Mineral Resources of Washington County, Indiana BULLETIN 39 ,·, STATE OF INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL...Geologist Geology and Mineral Resources of Washington County, Indiana By JACK A. SUNDERMAN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL...AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA: 1968 STATE OF INDIANA Roger D. Branigin, Governor...Limestone - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 23 Salem Limestone - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -...Structure- -Continued Structural features in Washington County - - - - - - - - - - - - 42 Mt. Carmel Fault
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copy. INDIANAIndiana Geological Survey has released "Fossils: Prehistoric Animals in Hoosier Rocks"...locations of some excellent fossil-collecting sites in Indiana are given. Most of the illustrations are of fossils...fossils that collectors may find in Hoosier rocks. This handbook should appeal especially to high school...MINERALS tion, Geological Survey, Indiana Department of Conservation, Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind...Ohio. OKLAHOMA—"The Dolese Bros. Richard's Spur quarry, north of Lawton (Comanche Co.), Okla., has a number
Report (issue)
MINERALS OF INDIANA by RICHARD C. ERD AND SEYMOUR S. GREENBERG Indiana Department of Conservation GEOLOGICAL...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Bulletin No. 18 1960 STATE OF INDIANA HAROLD W. HANDLEY, GOVERNOR DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION...________________________________ MINERALS OF INDIANA BY RICHARD C. ERD AND SEYMOUR S. GREENBERG PRINTED...PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA September 1060 _____________________...______________ For sale by Geological Survey, Indiana Department of Conservation, Bloomington, Ind. Price
Book
ACPL ITEM DISCARDED Indiana I■ 3 1833 04665 0583 ROADSIDE EOLOGY Of INDIANA Mark J. Camp Graham...n Data Camp, Mark J., 1947Roadside geology of Indiana / Mark J. Camp, Graham T. Richardson. p. cm. —...paper) 1. Geology—Indiana Guidebooks. I. Richardson, GrahamT., 1946QE109.36 . 2. Indiana Guidebooks. II... We respectfully dedicate this volume to the Hoosier geologists who collected the data that made our...our work possible, and to the citizens of Indiana. . . I_ake Michigan , Michigan / MICHIGAN C'%
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Calgary] at 13:58 04 February 2015 Maybee Quarry, Monroe County, Michigan C elestine, the only commercially...variety of minerals, including strontianite, gypsum, calcite, dolomite, fluorite, and sulfur; clastic rock units...gypsum and as casts after halite and calcite are known, as are calcite, quartz, barite, and sulfur pseudomorphs... Celestine, Michigan Stone Company quarry, Maybee, Monroe County, Michigan. Unusual celestine and associated...Stone Company quarry, also known as the Woolmith quarry, Borin Brothers quarry, Maybee quarry, and Scofield
Report (issue)
Resources of the Blue River Group (Mississippian) of Indiana BULLETIN 52 SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL STAFF OF...Resources of the Blue River Group (Mississippian) of Indiana By DONALD D. CARR, R.K. LEININGER, and MARGARET...PRINTED BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA BLOOMINGTON, INDIANA: 1978 ST ATE OF INDIAN A Otis R. Bowen...River Group in Indiana 71 Appendix 2. Underground mines in the Blue River rocks in Indiana 72 Appendix 3...from the Blue River bedrock area on file at the Indiana Geological Survey 73 Appendix 4. Selected published
Journal (issue)
Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing...15 feet to the left, parallel to the wall of the quarry. This tube varied from 6 inches to 2 feet wide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1 (above). Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5 ....limestone may have vugs or cavities with crystals of calcite, pyrite, or other minerals. An added bonus are...that contain sprays of millerite associated with calcite. The coal mine dumps and waste piles scattered...the state also have collectible septaria with calcite, pyrite, and marcasite. The coal mines in the Sparta
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
as specimens. Clarksville is in southern Johnson County in N / W Arkansas. COLORADO — "Recently we took...located one mile west of Wilbur Springs in S/W Colusa County in North California. The ore of the Manzanita Mine...red cinnabar but other minerals as native gold, calcite, marcasite, chalcopyrite and stibnite also occur..." — from Henry G. Schef- 30 "Even though this quarry has been collected in for many years, with a little...garnet mine at Roxbury Falls, in Southern Litchfield County of western Connecticut. Mrs. Scheffer's crystal
Report (volume)
Ore Deposits of the Upper Blue River Area Summit County Colorado • By QUENTIN D. SINGEWALD . GEOLOGICAL...Fund UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1951 UNITED STATE S DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR... _____ ··- ___ .. _________ -_---Structure of Hoosier Pass area _________ .. ____ . _____ - _- _----...located three-quarters of a mile north-northeast of Hoosier Pass----------------------------------------------~----...Hunter Boy workings---------------------------Indiana Gulch ________________.________________________________
Journal (issue)
Barrel Calcites from Lohr Quarry Dennis W. Haas DennisDWH2001@aol.com Calcite comes in diverse crystal...variety is the barrel-shaped calcite. In Keokuk, Iowa area geodes the barrel calcite does not seem to be a dominate...Lohr Quarry one finds barrel-shaped calcites irr geodes from the Warsaw Formation. Lohr Quarry is located...The walls of the quarry are Salem Limestone and St. Louis Limestone. Below the Salem Limestone is the...makes up most of the floor of the quarry, found in the center of the quarry in an area that is not being actively
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals and tellurides). Joseph E. Balaban, Old Hoosier Crts. 2-7, Bloorr.ington, Ind. (Aurichalcite xls...Ramsey, N. J. (will trade Franklin fluorescent calcite - wiHemite for antique clocks). G. L. Susteric...MINERALS TRADING POST (Continued) Don Stelk, 412 Salem Ave., Spring Lake N.J, (New Jersey and Virginia...minute garnet and diopside xls. Don Stelle, 412 Salem Ave., Springfield', N . J. (Will trade minerals... (Green cocolite xls in blue calcite. Tan coccolite xls in blue calcite. Plus list of 30 others). Ronald
 
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