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Molybdenite from
Hunting Hill Quarry, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Molybdenite
Formula:MoS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Molybdenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hunting Hill Quarry, Rockville, Montgomery County, Maryland, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:338740
Long-form Identifier:1:3:338740:5
GUID (UUID V4):4d80a9fe-bb37-4132-9ef0-6397ccae4aa0
Nearest other occurrences of Molybdenite
36.3km (22.6 miles) Bull Run Quarry, Conklin, Loudoun County, Virginia, USA
38.1km (23.7 miles) Ruby Quarry; Ruby Flint, Carroll County, Maryland, USA
53.3km (33.1 miles) Hilton Quarry, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
58.1km (36.1 miles) Jones Falls Quarries, Baltimore City, Maryland, USA
65.7km (40.8 miles) Bluegrass Company Quarry (H.T. Campbell Quarry; Campbell Quarry), Texas, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...G. Tribbey The minerals of the Hunting Hill quarry, Rockville, Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....transparent, blade-like crystals to 3 mm long. Molybdenite MoS2 Molybdenite occurs rarely as hexagonal platelets...Henderson County, Illinois, and near the towns of Dallas City, Hamilton and Plymouth in Hancock County, Illinois...examples include the Dallas City High School (Hancock County), The Mineralogical Record, volume 36, September–October
Report (issue)
^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...of the Baltimore Gabbro Complex at Ilchester, Maryland. Figure 6. Triassic diabase dike forming a ridge...Arundel, Prince George's/and Baltimore Counties, Maryland (Sterrett, 1911). Figure 9. Distribution of
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Collector's Newsletter $3.00 Barrel Calcites from Lohr Quarry Dennis W. Haas DennisDWH2001@aol.com Calcite comes...Lohr Quarry one finds barrel-shaped calcites irr geodes from the Warsaw Formation. Lohr Quarry is located...Illinois on Illinois Route 267. The walls of the quarry are Salem Limestone and St. Louis Limestone. Below...makes up most of the floor of the quarry, found in the center of the quarry in an area that is not being actively...the third time to visit the quarry during a club field trip to Lohr Quarry. It is nearly impossible to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Humboldt County, Nevada, as well as some new area east of their Mosquite mine in Im­ perial County, California...cookeite at the Stand on Your Head #1 mine in Saline County. The cookeite occurs as nearly featureless botryoids...still being found at the Coon Creek mine in Polk County, but the finds are not as prolific as in former...aesthetics. He has found several species in Litchfield County which have not been reported in Sohon's book on...the change seems irreversible. Maryland Calcite John Ertman of Rockville reports that he has had some extraordinary
Book (volume)
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:...(banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway
Journal (issue)
a parent or legal guardian. This is a hard rock quarry and you will need steel toed boots, hard hat, safety...through. Inside this issue: Field Trip Report Hunting Hill Quarry 2 GMMC Report NVMC Mineral Show Chesapeake...Report - Hunting Hill Quarry May 4th, 2008 By Robert Winsor This years first visit to the Hunting Hill Quarry...Quarry, aka the Rockville Crushed Stone Quarry, had a total of 29 members attending. There was an initial...families bringing spouses or children, Jeff, the Quarry manager, agreed to allow more people to show up
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...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)
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...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
Journal (issue)
R. Kampf Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County George Robinson National Museums of Canada Arthur...Vanadinite from the J. C. Holmes claim, Santa Cruz County, A rizona........................................other unnamed species from Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey ......................126 by P. J....Dunn McGuinnessite from a serpentinite body in Maryland ......................127 by F. Magnusson Native...currence. Sometimes a village or township and a county, or a village and a state have the same name and
Journal (issue)
CONTENTS HISTORIC MINERAL FEATURE The Mineralogy of Maryland: A Hiswrical Sketch by Jay L. Lininger HISTORIC...MINERAL FEATURE A History of Chromite and Copper in Maryland: The Tyson Years by Sally Newcomb HISTORIC MINERAL...Mine at Bare Hills, Maryland by Herbert C. Moore HISTORIC MINERAL FEATURE Maryland GOLD by Walter A. Goetz...FEATURE William Keith's Copper Mine: Prelude to the Maryland-Pennsylvania Border War by Paul Chrastina 112...Lininger 125 HISTORICAL MINING CERTIFICATES The Maryland Gold Company by Walter A. Goetz 128 ON THE COVER
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preparation by Capitol Communications, Crofton, Maryland. Printed in the United States by Bookcrafters...ADULARIA Adu 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...localities: Baveno, Italy 14:157168 ALBITE Davis Hill near Bancroft, Ontario: an occurrence of large nepheline...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187
Book
PREFACE V TABLE OF CONTENTS V I CHAPTER 1 Gem Hunting In The Appalachians CHAPTER 2 New Jersey ........Pennsylvania___ _ _ _ 1 _ 2 _ 2 1 CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West...n g y e l l o w " c o l o r " i n y o u r pan. Maryland: M o n t g o m e r y, Frederick, H o w a r d ...n d a n assortment o f fossils. Photograph b y Maryland Board o f Natural Resources. 2 K e n t u c k...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and
Journal (issue)
Mineralogical Notes Light green zincite from Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, New Jersey ..........................address The Mineralogical Record P.O. Box 783 Bowie, Maryland 20715 published bimonthly by the Mineralogical... Special Second Class postage paid at Bowie, Maryland notesfrom they H TBJR THE (LONG, LONG) FUTURE...Wilson The Mineralogical Record P.O. Box 783 Bowie, Maryland 20715 n recent years two Brazilian localities...Bavaria, Germany (1) Blue Chihuahua mine, San Diego County, 57-59% California (2) 67-80% Poland, Maine (3)
Report (volume)
Rock ................................. 22 Dexter quarry............................................ 24...inclosed Cambrian schists at the Saylesville granite quarry .........:......................... 31 Contact......'.................... Vein quartz at Diamond Hill.............................. "Warnsutta group"...Baveno twin from quartz porphyry south of Spencer Hill.. 5 23 24 24 35 61 61 THE GREEN SCHISTS AND...from southwest to northeast through the limestone quarry. Prof. W. 0. Crosby, as the result of a brief visit
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...COLLECTORS AND GUIDE T( HUNTING LOCATION 0-690-00687-X $17.50 263 color photographs 20 tables and charts...charts 100 detail maps 1500+ hunting locations: sites in North America A directory to coUpcfing O E Pi...are 100 maps geared to leading the "hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...on back flap) vb 00 m o o n AND GUIDE TO HUNTING LOCATIONS Minerals and Gems \o collect'^- his
Report (volume)
Pond Schist___---_--_-____--__--_-_----_-_----_ Hunting Hill Greenstone_______________________________ Blackstone...Granite Gneiss...-__-_--_-___-.....-.....-_ Potter Hill Granite Gneiss...-._-__________.-_ Quartz diorite...Group...----___--_--_-_.-_-_-_____________ Spencer Hill Volcanics__-__-_--__-____--_-___-_-_-.-_ Maskerchugg...quartzite, the overlying Sneech Pond Schist, and the Hunting Hill Greenstone. We accepted Emerson's correlation...undivided. Only the Quinnville Quartzite and the Hunting Hill Greenstone are readily distinguished lithologically
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MineralogicalRecord.com I IIMORIITE-(Y) EUROPE FRANCE Trimouns quarry, Luzenac, Ariege. Operated for talc since the beginning...beginning of the 20th century, the Trimouns quarry became well known to collectors around 1990 for the...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
Catalog/List
ALABANDITE dark tarnished massive en Calcite. (Broken Hill, Austr�lia) 1x1 £1,30 ALBITE var PF.:RISTERITE grey...massive. (Tush;:rr Mts, Nr. Marysville Pilute County Utah, USA) 1x1 £1 1x2 £2 2x2£4 2x3 £6 AMBLYGONITE white...rich yellow masses with minor Qµartz.(Pershing County, Nevada U.S. A) 1x1 60p BINDHEHUTE quite rich yel10w...white micro crystals in and on Natrolite.(Saga Quarry Tvedalen Norw�y) 1x1 £2.50 1x2 £5 BORNITE rich...CELS IAN erey granular mass. (Big Creek Fresno County , Cal i fornia U.S.A) 1 x 1 £ 1 .70 82 CH .® AZ
Book
,s 20 tables and charts 100 detail maps 1500+ hunting locations: A directory to co!le.cling sites in...GEMS A COLOR TREASURY FORCOLLECTORS AND GUIDE TO HUNTING LOCATIONS Russell P. Macfall MINERALS AND GEMS...100 maps geared to leading the " hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...GEMS: A Co/or Treasury for Collectors and Guide to Hunting Locations •• Digitized by the Internet Archive... A COLOR TREASURY FOR COLLECTORS AND GUIDE TO HUNTING LOCATIONS AND Russell P. MacFall THOMASY. CROWELLCOMPANY
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Rare-with scorodite in U-bearing lignite in the Caves Hill and Slim Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South...Menzenschwand Scbwarzwald Mts., in the Sailauf quarry, Spessart Mts., Bavaria. both Germany, and from
Journal (issue)
Sabelli & G. Brizzi Osarizawaite from the Silver Hill mine, Arizona ........................ 311 by C... Mira Loma, Cali- RED CLOUD MINE SITE, YU M A COUNTY. ARIZONA WULFENITE, Red Ckud M m 7 JTQ MINERAL...(1st in USA) of this rare sodium phosphomolybdate! Rich yellow in schorl/moly matrix. Gold Hill, Utah....Wilton, CT 06897 (203) 762-0796 • Dept. MR Gold Hill, Utah. Over 750 Mineral Listings — Send three stamps...hardware 196 Beechwood Ave. Bogota, N .J. 07603 USA (201) 487-3254 The Mineralogical Record , volume
Book (edition)
from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...Ruby mine, Cowee Creek, North Carolina 6. Corundum Hill, North Carolina 7. Eldorado Bar, Montana 8. W. D...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and..."ariscite rough, A ma trice mine, Utah 51. Jade hunting, Fraser River, British Columbia 52. Map of nephrite...View of Clear Creek, San Benito County, California 55. Monterey County jade-producing shoreline, California
Book (volume)
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...sne-aseseeateeCounty, Can tess ccraccacaerscsascn enaeantsrse Figure
Report (volume)
Md. Dept. Geology, Mines and 'Vater Res. BulL-Maryland Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources...aquifers of the upper James River Valley, Brown County, South Dakota [abs.]: Geol. Soc. America Bull....pitchblende deposits in Golden Gate Canyon, Jefferson County, Colorado: U. S. Geol. Survey Bull. 1030-G, p....1890-1956. Cretaceous section, Medina County, Texas, to Val Verde County, Texas, in San Angelo Geol. Soc....earth. V. 1, viii, 317 p., illus., New York, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1956. Includes papers by J. Verhoogen
Report (issue)
listed on pages A263-A268. Numerous Federal, State, county, and municipal agencies and other organizations..._____ Pennsylvania __ _______________________ Maryland. __ _________________ _ _____ North Carolina_..._ New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.__._ Maryland. _________________________________ Virginia, North...cooperators-____-_______-__-___-__-__-__ State, county, and municipal cooperators---------Other cooperators...content of molybdenum ores, and association of molybdenite with copper Unsuspected concentrations of rhenium
 
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