 | | Report (volume) | | .............................................. Maine........................................................................................... Rhode Island..................................................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Report (volume) | | Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman, Bangor. Maryland....Beaver. Prof. Florence Bascom, Bryn Mawr. Rhode Island.... .Prof. Charles W. Brown, Providence. South...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton; |  | | Book (volume) | | Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Rock Bottom Pacts, Roslyn and Kenneth Hancock, Editors, Island Rockhounds. Rocky Echos, Sue Pitts, Editor...Rochland Nuggets, Marvin Klibinoff, Editor, Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Inc. Neivlapso, Dr. Philip...Jersey Lapidary Society. Empire Geology Club News, Helen Coman, Editor, Empire Geology Club. Bulletin....Jerry Fever, Editors, Junior Division, Rockland County AJneral and Gem Society, Inc. Lack of a large attendance...Merit A-3 MINERALS- ANY TYPE AND SIZE Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, Ine Newark Mineralogieal |  | | Report (issue) | | MINERAL RESOURCES Cl'Jl::1- REFERENCE TO THE ISH EMPIRE THE DIRECTION OF THE • CES COMMITTEE CF THE UTE...RESOURCES WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE BRITISH EMPIRE PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MINERAL RESOURCES...Kingdom and elsewhere in the Empire. Important minerals from within the Empire are exhibited in the respective...respecting supplies of minerals, especially within the Empire, new methods of usage and other commercial developments...important minerals, particularly in the British Empire. No attempt has been made to give details of mining |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | objects in the eyes, Essex Mineral Club, Inc., of Verona, New and on acid burns. Buy and heed the Jersey...from Sam Brown, President of Verona, N. J., has just moved into larger the Blue Ridge Mineral and Lapidary...Lapidary quarters in the Verona Junior High Club, Henderson, N. C , tells of another School, 600 Bloomfield...Bloomfield Avenue, Verona, job Sam is doing. He is Vice-President N. J. Meetings will continue on the of a club...spoke on "The Strange Properties of Minerals". The Empire Geology Club, Smyrna, N. Y., met in the home of |  | | Book (volume) | | gold-bearing areas. Lode deposits usually consist of Quartz veins in solid rock, while placer deposits occur...Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and  the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE: |  | | Report (issue) | | ........................... Granite in Seneca Township....................................................................:... Rhyolite in Marcellon Township.................................................Merrimac Township......................^................................ 61 Granite in Sumpter Township........................................... 145 Verona Township....................................................................... 145 Montrose Township..................................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | conducted an interesting program for the Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club, Marietta, on the giant animals...High Point Mineral Club, and displayed blue quartz from the Blue Ridge Mountains, unakite from Vesuvius...on the minerals of the Buchanan Valley of Adams County (Pa.). Dr. John H. Way, Jr. spoke on the Geology...The Wayne Austin, Texas. Frances Kontzen conduc County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, ted a program on...student at the employee of the Crabtree Emerald Mine University of South Alabama. (N.C.) when visiting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | xls, pyrrhotite (massive), hornblende, pyrite, blue quartz, garnet, calcite, byssolite, and calcite with...Spectacular Victoria Falls was one of the subjects. RHODE ISLAND Chester Teachman of the Boston Mineral Society...Europe for the Rhode Island Mineral Hunters, Central Falls. A Field Trip to the Island of Jamestown for staurolite...Schabilion on a trip to the General Dynamics plant where quartz crystals are cut into postage stamp size for use...different than any found before — doubly terminated quartz crystals. Another Trip to Cartersville, Georgia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | unakite, and on the Robinson we located a vein of blue quartz. Then to the hearty souls who love the challenge...the Certificates as One Hundred Percenter Clubs: Island Rockhounds, Gem Cutters Guild of Baltimore, Inc...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Maryland, Wheaton, was one by John Greisback on...Jade; Earl Williams for Opai; James Leight for Quartz and Ben Schmidt for faceted stones. VIRGINIA Being...its members went to the Mica Mine Farm. The material found was clear quartz, clear enough to cut stars |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Point, Maryland can be found some water washed quartz, some of which is clear enough to facet. The Keystone...crystals, chalcopyrite, fluorescent calcite, blue quartz, garnet and other associated minerals. New Jersey...and marcasite; to Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania for quartz crystals; for serpentine at Lake Valhalla; to the...Societies enjoy going to Fonda to collect the clear quartz crystals known as "Herkimer Diamonds". Morris Dam...Dam, East Morris, Connecticut, for smoky quartz crystals, columnar beryl and other pegmatite minerals |  | | Journal (issue) | | "01ii;'fllcd mine I, r Lhcr Uuu, 11 roi:t:lure-,amorpl1.0miblob or...(14 meters) in length were reported from the Etta Mine in South Dakota (see figure 2). and one large crystal...recent mean-spirited poke in the eye to E. P. Hancock by changing hancockite to epidote-(Pb) is case...informative mineral features". The authors describe quartz, feldspar, mica and others in terms of what the...Huizing, 534 I Thrasher Dr, Cincinnati OH 45247 USA Please, make checks payable to Mineralogical Almanac |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...from Alaska to the Mexican border and eastward to Maine and Florida. Still others are to be found in Canada...In Renaissance times, greatly admired, but today blue turquoise is the only ac- ceptable kind. Belief...with respect to one another. gem minerals The quartz gems, such as amethyst, form crystal prisms with |  | | Book | | 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...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALASKA Famous mineral localities: Prince of Wales Island, Alaska (by P. B. Leavens & R. W. Thomssen) 8:4-12 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | were sent to Mineral and Lapidary Societies from Maine to Florida. With the ground work laid several Societies...Society ( New Jersey), Oxford County Mineral and Gem Association (Maine) and the Newark Lapidary Society...slides from Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine was the fare for members of the Mineral Section...that great New York Show of the E.F.M.L.S. The Empire Geology Club, New Berlin, reported an interesting...entertaining fare for the 295 members of the Island Rock Hounds, Rockville Centre. Dr. Michael Fleischer |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...it a veritable not just a picof informa- is mine tion, telling everything the collector needs to...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it should...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic |  | | Journal (issue) | | Owrbrook, Philadelphia. Brilliant reticulated xis. on Quartz· xla. 2x1 ¾ •• • . • •. .. . . •.••• • ••••••••••••••...x 1 ½ •••••• •• •••••.• 12.50 ... r:r,.. Wood's Mine, Pa. Xlllne. mass. 4 x 2 ½ •••••• • .••••••••••...unct.r microscope. 3 x 2 . .....••.. 2.50 I •••• Maine. ur. . brilliant xis. up to 1". 4 x 3 •.•..•.••...xi . in rock. 3 x 2 . .... . .. . Is plunllJi, Maine. ~., xi. f,..n•nt •....•••••••• .••• •• . .•••••••...timer". ◄ x 3 .. ..• . . .... . 7.50 fJL:Js.llu. Maine. Solid mass. 3 ½ x 2 .... ... .. ... . .... . . |  | | Report (volume) | | ___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________...granite and finished product Continued. Washington County _____________________ 121 Barre and Williamstown________________...______ Windham County ___. .________ ± ________ Dummerston___ ____ ____________ Windsor County __._.____________________...granite and finished product___'.___ 164 Carroll County ___________ ______________ 164 Con way ______ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Lapidary and Mineral Society of Prince Georges County, Hyattsville, has scheduled twenty-four field trips...Frederick County Rock and Mineral Club, Frederick, made an early spring trip to the Bishop mine, Lynch Station...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Rockville, made a trip to Cavetown (Md.) for brown...film, Diamond, King of Jewels, courtesy of the Empire Diamond Corpor ation Sister Mary Ellen Murphy...in the Pingry School, Elizabeth, N. J The Bergen County Mineralogy and Paleon tology Society, Paramus |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...price increases, which make it more attractive to mine domestic deposits at a profit. Foreign labor is...are so widespread, as in the case of the alluvial quartz gemstones of the Midwest, that it is impossible...formations containing cryptocrystalline varieties of quartz, such as agate and petrified wood, extend over...(V esuvianite), The Garnet Group. 199 246 III QUARTZ FAMILY GEMSTONES IV RARE AND UNUSUAL GEMSTONES |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1 1/2x2 $1.25, 2x2 $1.50, 2x3 $2.50 BROOKITE, QUARTZ, Magnet Cove. Ark. We selected these while we were...paramorphs after brookite. These on the corroded smoky quartz masses and crystals typical of the Magnet Cove...crystals of about 2x2 to 2x3 size @ $4.50 each. SMOKY QUARTZ CRYSTALS, Mex. Very fine and brilliant smoky Crystals...crystal prisms in and on trans lucent to transparent quartz. Most speci mens showing many tourmaline xl prisms...RHODE ISLAND HOLDS ANNUAL CORN BOIL—Gardiner E. Gregory.... 810 SOME NOTES ON ASTERIATED QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA—R |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...Amethysts, or Quartz crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | Book | | Rock-Marble Fossil-Basilosaurus cetoides Gemstone-Star Blue Quartz Soil-Bama Series Mineral-Rhodochrosite Rock-Yule...Florida Gem-Moonstone Stone-Agatized Coral Mineral-Quartz Crystal Soil-Myakka Fine Sand Series Rock-Bauxite...Mineral-Gold Mineral-Staurolite Fossil-Shark Tooth Gem-Quartz 35 36 36 38 38 38 Rock-Serpentine * Hawaii ...Dinosaur-Hypsibema missouriensis 83 83 84 85 * Maine Mineral-Tourmaline Fossil-Pertica quadrifaria...peeblesorum * Nebraska Rock-Prairie Agate Gemstone-Blue Agate Fossil-Mammoth Soil-Holdrege Series River-Platte |
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