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Amazonite from
Greenville County, South Carolina, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Microcline var: Amazonite
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amazonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Greenville County, South Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:355259
Long-form Identifier:1:3:355259:9
GUID (UUID V4):0cf31aac-8b93-4368-915e-ea2caf1190e9
References
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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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA
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the state, insomuch as both the Black Hills of South Dakota and the scenic Badlands thrust long spurs...the color of the rainbow. The western Nebraska-South Dakota borderland from Sheridan Co. to the Wyoming...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townď‚ľagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza
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6 CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________.........._........... 7 3 6 CHAPTER 9 North Carolina 4 2 3 3 9 6 3 CHAPTER 1 GEM H U N T I N...g e s w h i c h c r e s t a t M t . N o r t h Carolina, a n d C l i n g m a n ' s Dome, Tennessee. Because...n d m 1799 i n Cabarrus C o u n t y, N o r t h Carolina, b y a s m a l l b o y w a l k i n g along a m...o o r e , M o n t g o m e r y, Randolph, Macon South C a r o l i n a : Chesterfield, L a n c a s t e
Report (issue)
of SenegaL ___________________ ----Republic of South Mrica ___________________ _ Cape of Good Hope Province...omali Republic ________ - ____ -_---------- -- South-VVestAfrica _________________________ _ Swaziland...-----------------Queensland and New South Wales _______ _ South Australia ____ -------------------Tasmania...------------------New Zealand ______ -----------------------South Island_----------------- ________ _ North Island_____...________ _ Southeastern Alaska ___ ------------South-central Alaska _______________ _ East-central Alaska
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Wash., J. Harry Howard and James W. Durst of Greenville, S. C, Lucien Beckner of Louisville, Ky., U....through matrix rock. Polished Fairburn agate from South Dakota. \\ jfc^ ^ ^ * Emerald in matrix. Emerald...Diamonds have been found in the United way from North Carolina to California and from Wisconsin. Some are found...source near the east of James' summit bay and south of Hudson bay in Labrador. Only by coming from...place Table North Carolina and Georgia Diamond Locations E: NORTH CAROLINA weight plac« date
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MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Colorado; and Professor Jack Hanahan of Belmont, North Carolina, with locations in their respective states. ...basketful in Maine and California; emerald in North Carolina, a big diamond or two in Arkansas, opal in Idaho...lost some of its high status when the abundant South American supply came on the market. Promotion of... Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina. In the West, the Rockies, the Sierra Nevada,
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Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and...Allgood, J. Pradenas: Gold occurrences in Tuolumne County, California 18:41-45, 18:62-64 --with W. H. Wilkinson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lincoln Ridler Page, U. S. Geological Survey, Custer, South Dakota. Percy Dudgeon Quensel, University of Stockholm...Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, and South Africa' The accompanying Table 1 summarizes in detail...quantitatively, the selection comprising lepidolite, amazonite, hydrothermal pegmatitic microcline, primary pegmatitic...quartz monzonite of the chelan batholith extend south and west from the Methow along the Columbia River...and twenty miles west of Green River, Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Loughlinite occurs in veins in low-grade
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bands excited by long waves and green light. AMAZONITE. The gemstone responds to X-rays, but is inert...so as to be distinc tive. Found only in Benito County, Cali fornia, the mineral is reported to fluo resce...With short waves, rubies from Frank lin, North Carolina, do not emit as strongly as some of the specimens...Association for the Advancement of Sci ence, at Kimberly, South Africa, discussed the luminescence of the diamond...diamonds phosphoresce of differ ent colors, most South African diamonds shining with a bluish light. Diamonds
Journal (issue)
in a g eo d e from Hall's G ap, Lincoln County, Kentucky. Photom icrograph by Ben K inkead. The...2 large incomplete ruby xls (Franklin, N orth Carolina) brucite, large platy xl cluster (Texas, Penna...fill a first class quality) Amelia, Virginia (amazonite, cleavelandite, columbite, microlite) Antwerp...New York (chalcopyrite, quartz) Franklin, North Carolina (cleavable corundum, including ruby and sapphire)...in quality to those from Brooks Farm in N orth Carolina. A few poorly formed ilmenite plates plus quartz
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HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic...to a pocket of crystals. North Carolina and the Black Hills of South Dakota are also regions attractive...mines: 3 Mine portal at Fenice Capanne, Grosseto, south of Florence, Italy. f ..1.': * * •• *> ^'^
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the out- standing shows of the annual San Diego County Fair at Del Mar, California. In addition, the collections...California, E. M. Gunnell, Ltd., Woodville West, South men Minerals, and Company, London, Filer’s...for whom the emerald-green spodumene from North Carolina, hiddenite, is named; George Frederick Kunz (1856-1932)...crystals, 5” by 4”, lron Station, Lincoln County, North Carolina. CRYSTAL GROWTH 73 light from one face...the San Pedro Mine, Hiriart Hill, Pala, San Diego County, California, showing the many steps and offsets
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topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...to a pocket of crystals. North Carolina and the Black Hills of South Dakota are also regions attractive...Solenhofen Germany (Right) Stalacllte of chalcedony from South Africa ~ • Z,~ J; • 1- _,.. - ... ( , •'...aventunne from Brazil and sodahte from the Union of South Africa (Top) To polish stones. mix them with abrasive...mine , canyon) district where found (township, county, state) how obtained (found , given , etc., with
Report (issue)
C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com­ mon rock-making materials...to occur only as traces. ACCOMACK COUNTY: none given. ALBEMARLE COUNTY: actinolitc, agate, almandine, amethyst
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long (Marty, 2004 ). AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described...Lake Road occurrence, Faraday Township, Hastings County. In fall 1994, Dan and Shelley Lambert extracted...which they called the Bentley Lake Road occurrence, south of Bancroft. Sharp, flattened rhombohedral ilmenite
Book (edition)
Utah; (lower /eft) rnodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, South Africa; (lower left, center) wulfenite, Red Cloud...Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;
Book (edition)
Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...England Thomas Nelson Australia 102 Dodds Street South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia Nelson Canada...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. SELECTED REFERENCES: Thompson, M. E...oil shale of the Green River Formation, Uintah County, Utah, associated with authigenic orthoclase, pyrite;
Book (edition)
Mineralogy, Museum of Geology South Dakota School of Mines & Technology Rapid City, South Dakota GEORGE ROBERT...the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson, M. E...Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine, Dolores County; and at the Double Header lode...lode , Su1nmit County . rt is also found in Canada, Mexico, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. Acanthite is
Book (edition)
bands excited by long ,vaves and gree11 light. AMAZONITE. Tl1c gemsto11e re­ SJ)onds to X-rays, l>ttt is...so as to be distinc­ tive. Found only i11 Benito County, Cali­ fornia, the mineral is reported to fluo­...short '\\·aves, ru1)ie:-; from Frank­ lin, North Carolina, do 11ot en1it as stro11gly as son1e of the specirnens...e1nission spectra i 11 Science, at Ki111berly, South Africa, dis­ the regio11 2800-4600 A. U. of 33 diamonds...mining district, N e\·ada, flu­ ent colors, most South Africa11 diamonds oresces a doubt£ul v.r eak flesh
Report (volume)
Museum Recs.-Albany Museum, Records. Grahamstown, South Africa. Am. Acad. Arts and Sci., Proc.-American...National Research Council. Science House. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Bolgar. Akad. Nauk Doklady-Doklady...the Geological Society of Australia. Adelaide, South Australia. Geol. Soc. China Bull.-Geological Society...XIX Geol. Soc. South Africa Trans.-Transactions of the Geological Society of South Africa. Johannesburg...Johannesburg, South Africa. Geol. Soc. Tokyo Jour.-Journal of the Geological Society of Tokyo. Tokyo Chishitsu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quantitatively, the selection comprising lepidolite, amazonite, hydrothermal pegmatitic microcline, primary pegmatitic...MINERALIZATION AT THE IMA MINE, BLUE WING DISTRICT, LEMHI COUNTY, IDAHO ALFRED L. ANDERSON Cornell University, Ithaca...quadrangle is three quadrangles west and a little south of Devils Lake, North Dakota. It shows the disorganized...then turns abruptly east about 5 miles farther south. Near the west margin of this quadrangle, this moraine...present course of the river but a few miles farther south. The abandoned channel starts eastward where the
 
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