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Fortification Agate from
Humboldt County, Nevada, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Fortification Agate
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Fortification Agate data
Locality Data:Click here to view Humboldt County, Nevada, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:155202
Long-form Identifier:1:3:155202:7
GUID (UUID V4):955d3f99-39bf-4529-afe8-1a7f14c002c9
References
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lapidary field. Beginning with a description of agate, he proceeds to an interesting account of the history...ever been written before. Tracing the history of agate from prehistoric days through events of the Bible...growing hobby. Chapters are devoted to the details of agate collecting, the varieties and forms of quartz and...varieties, with favorite location of quartz agate, opal wood — collectors. The petrified gems throughout...information on the rockhound’s favorite gem — the agate. Lelande Quick La Jolla (San Diego), California
Book
lapidary field. Beginning with a description of agate, he proceeds to an interesting account of the history...ever been written before. Tracing the history of agate from prehistoric days through events of the Bible...the details of agate collecting, the varie ties and forms of quartz gems other than agate, opal and its...infor1nation on tl1c rockl1ouncl's favorite gem-tl1e agate. THIS IS LELAND£ QUICK La Jolla ( ,5an l)irgo)........................... . 4 Cl1a1)ter .3. Agate Collecti11g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...Canyon, diggings on N of hwy. Extending up canyonagate, Beryl, Almandite garnets, Lepidolite, Staurolite
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mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
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mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay
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QUARTZ FAMILY MINERALS Section of polished agate, showing natural color at the lower end, and on...Chapter uartz xiii . . . 13o Contents Agate —Chalcedony Chapter X 157 Chapter XI Geodes...Illustrations Section of Polished Agate (Frontispiece) iv Axhead Fashioned from Agate 14 Representative Minerals...Crystals Arrowheads of Common 119 Opal and Agate Display of Quartz Minerals Jasper Jasper 130... l6l Nodular Growth 164 Banded Agate 166 Fortification Agate 170 Cabochon-style Cut Agates 175
Journal (issue)
vacation season, Phoenix, Arizona. Oct. 1—Santa Cruz County Fair and Rodeo, Sonoita, Arizona. Oct. 1-7—Annual...5-6-7 — Nevada State Medical association annual conference, Las Vegas. Oct. 5-8—Graham County Fair, Safford...Cochise County Fair, Douglas, Arizona. Oct. 7-8—Mass field trip sponsored by the Clark County Gem Collectors...Collectors, Las Vegas, Nevada. Camp ground at Boulder Beach on shore of Lake Mead. Oct. 16-19—Southwestern...gathering, Roswell, New Mexico. Oct. 18-23—Pima County Fair, Tucson, Arizona. Oct. 19-21 — Grand Chapter
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desert, through the Mojave desert to Inyo county, southern Nevada and southern Utah, and Arizona, on sandy...ranging into the desert areas of eastern San Diego county and on to the edge of the Colorado desert. Blooms...7000 feet, in Arizona, New Mexico and southern Nevada, to be looked for from March to May. THE DESERT...Fe, New Mexico. Sept. 2-3-4-5—Nevada State Fair and Rodeo, Fallon, Nevada. Sept. 3-4—Third Annual Gem and...California BOTANY Sept. 3-4-5—Nevada Rodeo, "The West at Its Best," Winnemucca, Nevada. Dolphin-Flower or Cavalier's
Journal (issue)
Zion Canyon By MILDRED BREEDLOVE Las Vegas, Nevada. 1 came unto a place where scarlet peaks, Like...Dances, La gun a Pueblo, N. M. March 19-23—Maricopa County Fair, Mesa, Arizona, March 21-23—Dons Club Bus...desert areas of southeastern California, southern Nevada, western Arizona, northwestern Sonora and northern...rimmed on three formed this was a land of winding An agate field stretches from the streams and blue lakes...located to the other col- the higher ground the agate specimens DESERT MAGAZINE Some of the holes dug
Book (volume)
...........................................283 Nevada ................................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map ................................................................................49 Arkansas County Map ..........................................
Book (volume)
thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond...of the Mississippi R.⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book (volume)
thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond...of the Mississippi R.⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason
Book
A FIELD GUIDE Rockhounding Nevada is a must-have book for anyone interested in collecting rocks, minerals...Globe Pequot Press NEVADA A Guide to the State’s Best Rockhounding Sites NEVADA 2nd Edition Essential...experience—concisely describes the best places to locate agate, opal, jasper, fossils, fluorescent minerals, obsidian...and minerals WILLIAM A. KAPPELE Rockhounding Nevada RockhoundingNV 3pp.indd 1 6/27/11 3:02 PM Help...RockhoundingNV 3pp.indd 2 6/27/11 3:02 PM Rockhounding Nevada A Guide to the State’s Best Rockhounding Sites
Journal (issue)
"Chief Turkey Foot," by Ted Jerome, Las Vegas, Nevada. "Lizard Eye View of Yucca," by Joe Orr, Los Angeles...Landmark contest is Theodore Jerome of Las Vegas, Nevada. He identified the accompanying picture as Elephant...;> w \ By THEODORE JEROME ^ / / REAK rocks in Nevada are as common as boulders on a Vermont farm. The...excavated. First, the Haviland crater in Kiowa county, Kansas. Afterwards one in Australia and some in...17—Going from Needles, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada, by the most direct improved road, you would pass
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Gemstone-Freshwater Pearl Soil-Crider Series Mineral-Coal Rock-Agate * Maryland Fossil Shell-Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae...Gemstone-Lake Superior Agate Vil * Mississippi * Louisiana Gemstone-Agate Fossil-Petrified Palmwood...Montana Agate Fossil-Maiasaura peeblesorum * Nebraska Rock-Prairie Agate Gemstone-Blue Agate Fossil-Mammoth...Fossil-Mammoth Soil-Holdrege Series River-Platte River * Nevada Fossil-Ichthyosaur Metal-Silver Precious Gemstone-Virgin...South Dakota Mineral-Rose Quartz Gemstone-Fairburn Agate Fossil-Triceratops Jewelry-Black Hills Gold Soil-Houdek
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...........................................243 Nevada ..................................................459 Appendix C - The Various Names & Forms of Agate.....................................467 Appendix...rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a
Book (volume)
...........................................243 Nevada ..................................................461 Appendix C - The Various Names & Forms of Agate.....................................469 Appendix...rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a
Book (volume)
particolor amethsyt (78.70 ct), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California;...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy
Book (edition)
from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...cryptocrystalline varieties of quartz, such as agate and petrified wood, extend over thousands VI Preface...Murphy, Nebraska Conservation and Survey Division, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Harold Noble, Leo...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and...View of Clear Creek, San Benito County, California 55. Monterey County jade-producing shoreline, California
Report (issue)
Valley Union, Nevada County, California. Daily Evening Gazette, Reno, Nevada. Sierra County Tribune, California...California. Humboldt Standard, Eureka, Humboldt County, California. Inyo Independent, Inyo County, California...00 Copper Ore, Pioneer Mine, Boliuas Bay, Marin County 3358. Silver, per ton $22 00 Trace Gold Copper...Township 13 north, Range 8 east, M. D. M., Placer County, California. This marble has been used in San Francisco...Cement 2035. rock, Washington Corners, Alameda County, California: Silica .05 .16 .65 Sesquioxide
Journal (issue)
San Mateo, CA International Gem & Jewelry Show County Event Center • Expo Hall, Booth #700, 2495 S. Delaware...1111ems. Authenticity guaranteed. Colar Catalog S3 USA, Canada and Mexico S6 Foreign 1/e/undabfe with order...patterned jasper is Morgan Hill in Santa Clara County. It produces orbicular jasper, consisting of tan...stones. The more common ones are thunder eggs, agate and opal. There are several very popular fee-digging...Good jasper and what is called jasp-agate is also found here. )asp-agate is a term that was undoubtedly devised
Journal (issue)
stabbed t\o'fl (\ ,.._.,, ,'rl) stone - Jade, quartz, agate, glass. etc. Works 9 6 ~o 6 ot,O T-"-e(\,... well...Various types of jasper, picture rock, rhodonite and agate are the materials that have proven the most productive...38th Annual show and convention of CFMS In Reno, Nevada. Photo, Fred Elsnau Roulette Wheel to be Special...show and convention which was held in La s Vega, Nevada. A wheel was purchased from a Los Angeles firm...4590 South Virginia Street (Highway 395), Reno, Nevada, June 17, 18 and 19. The Centennial Coliseum is
Journal (issue)
Art Reno Gem and M ineral Societ y of San Mateo County things which cannot be broken down to any further...subspecies known as chalcedony of which the beloved agate is a variety, as is jasper. The northern part of...crystals; and the Crystal Peak location near Verdi, Nevada, noted for its many years of production. Also in...Thomsonite Slderite Alabaster Apophylllte Meyerhofferlte Agate Barlt&-"Rose" Form Aventurine Selenite Rhodonite..."Turitella" Agate •coqulmblte Sunstone Marcaslte Chrysocolla Carrara "Marble" Jadeite Indian Moss Agate Pyrrholite
Book (volume)
Oregon. Information was also supplied by Dowse’s Agate Shop, Salt Lake City, Utah, by William J. Bingham...Wisconsin, and by A. L. Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri. The well-known Texas agate localities of the Alpine Region...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...Montana moss agates . Oregon moss agate (color) . New Mexico plume agate (color) . . . . . . . . . . .
Book (volume)
parricolor amethsyt (78. 70 et), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25 .30 et), Ra1nona,...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA...........................................
 
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