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Granite (commodity) from
Green Granite quarry, McGees Station, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Commodity:Granite (commodity)
Data
Commodity Data:Click here to view Granite (commodity) data
Locality Data:Click here to view Green Granite quarry, McGees Station, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1201295
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1201295:6
GUID (UUID V4):34917e1c-fa6a-406a-bc96-62223f32bef1
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA Nils Boe, Governor MINERALOGY OF THE BLACK HILLS by WILLARD LINCOLN ROBERTS...Associate in Mineralogy Museum of Geology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and GEORGE RAPP...Department of Geology and Geological Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology With the Editorial...Mineralogy South Dakota School of Mines and Technology BULLETIN NUMBER 18 of the South Dakota School of...of Mines and Technology Rapid City, South Dakota PUBLICATIONS STAFF F. L. Partlo J. T. Thomas President
Book (edition)
describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...gem materials to include more species, such as granite and satin spar, and a wider choice of quality....pearls are a product of animals and amber of as granite — ancient trees. More than 1,500 distinct ...yellow and preferred green gems Romans scorned others. all gem to identify green turquoise was In...create a steady market and a sentithe abundant South mental regard for that gem. make Rarity helps
Book (volume)
the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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
Book (volume)
the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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
Report (issue)
may be interested in his state's resources. The quarry operators and cut-stone dealers must bear the responsibility...illustrations: the Cold Spring Granite Company, the North Star Granite Company, the T. R. Coughlan Company..... ST. CLOUD PINK GRANITE .................................. ST. CLOUD RED GRANITE ....................................... ST. CLOUD GRAY GRANITE .................................. v . . . . 68 (i5 76... . . • . . . . • . . . . . . . . . . . .. THE GRANITE FALLS AREA. . • • . . . . . . . . . .. . • . .
Book (volume)
Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies...western counties of Lawrence, Meade, Custer and Pennington the land rises abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi...Alleghenies, culminate in Harney Peak in southern Pennington Co. At 7,242’ this peak is the highest point...mountain system. The rising granite mass intruded the famed Cretaceous Dakota sandstone, which underlies...continental seas were advancing from the south, the Dakota sandstone represents topset beds, wave reworked
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...gem materials to include more species, such as granite and satin spar, and a wider choice of quality....scorned yellow and preferred green gems to all others. In Renaissance times, green turquoise was greatly admired...lost some of its high status when the abundant South American supply came on the market. Promotion of...they are typically associated, such as which granite. Kunzite has two perfect cleavages that make cutting
Report (volume)
............................................. Granite.................................................."St. Cloud red" granite.................................. 50 " St. Cloud gray" granite.................. 51 Rockville granite......................................... 52 Porphyritic granite....................................... Mixtures of red granite and gray granite .................... Diabase or trap dikes........... 57 57 58 59 59 60 61 62 62 63 64 64 Quarry methods............... .......................
Report (issue)
of :Mines and the staff of the Mines Experiment Station. particularly from E. W. Davis. H. H. Wade . .T............................................... , Quarry Methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....valley of the Minnesota River at lVlorton, showing granite hills exposed by stream crosion. . . . . . .. ... 75 17. Cross section through T. R. Coughlan quarry, Mankato, Minnesota .............................was mined from such a body near Warroad in Roseau County, and magnetite, an ore mineral of iron, occurs
Report (issue)
DEPARTMENT OF MINES BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PARTY GRANITE AND GNEISS By D. F. HEWITT INDUSTRIAL MINERAL...IV V Introduction Limestone Marble Sandstone Granite &1 Gneiss Industrial Mineral Report No. 19, paper-bound...acceptable. BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PART V - GRANITE AND GNEISS TABLE OF CONTENTS Southern Ontario..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Betz Green Granite.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Findley Station Quarry...................... Lot 3* Concession I,
Report (issue)
besides samples of building stone, clays, and other quarry products. In many instances it has been necessary...Stone Gap, Va. 4. Oolitic limestone at Bowling Green, Ky. 5. Subcrystalline limestone at Batesville,...containing developed and undeveloped deposits of granite, slate, Portland cement materials, and gypsum,...within 100 miles of Minneapolis which produce granite, sandstone, and magnesian limestone, all of which... STONE. DIMENSION STONE. GRANITE. Minnesota is well supplied with, granite suitable for building purposes
Report (volume)
..................................... 7 9 9 Granite proper................................................................ Text-book references on granite and black granites.................. Special features...texture and colors............................... Granite discoloration, its causes........................................ Dikelike masses of schist in granite.............:.................... Riebeckite and...minerals on joint faces......................... Granite contacts in relation to sheet and flow structure
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242... ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire, the Granite State, is one of our smaller states, with an area...mineral localities for the collector. Prospecting, granite quarrying, and mining probably peaked before the...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz...Hill, crystals). Belmont area: fluorapatite (blue-green), and orthoclase (road cut, village bypass), epidote
Report (volume)
______ PABT I. Scientific discussion_______ _ Granite proper______________________ General features____...examples_________________ Fluidal cavities in granite gneiss.________ Fluidal cavities in small dikes...Colors______________________________ 80 Olive-green granite ___________________ 81 Minerals on joint ... Physical properties _ Textbook references on granite and " black granites " PAI*T II. Economic discussion_...discussion_ General features________~ __ Tests of granite _ Chemical analysis Determination of CaCOs Test
Book
100 maps geared to leading the " hunter to his quarry" and more than eighty photographs of minerals in...easier for you If you plan to vIsIt an operating quarry or mine where a permll Is required make the necessary...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...be discovered by locating the porous layers In a quarry or other exposure and following them along the...other gem minerals These occur in a coarsegra,ned granite known as pegmat1te Prospectors look for pieces
Book
Classes of Rocks; Minerals Found in Igneous Rocks; Granite Pegmatite Gems and Minerals; Hydrothermal Mineral...Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee...and steatite (massive talc), as well as basalt, granite, limestone (and/ or sandstone), marble, and the...to have owned emerald mines, and this glistening green gem has often been found in Bronze Age burial jewelry...red in color; assigned to Gad), agate (perhaps green · chalcedony or "chrysoprase"; Foreword xvi i
Book
Kentucky 6 CHAPTER 8 Tennessee 8 7 6 CHAPTER 10 South Carolina ......... _ .......... _ _ .... ____________________...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...m w e r e f a n c y colors s u c h a s yellow, green, and even black, and were a long w a y f r o m the...Mecklenburg, Rutherford, F r a n k l i n , Cleveland South Carolina: Spartanburg, Pickens Georgia: H a l l...Board o f Natural Resources. 2 K e n t u c k y : Green, Tennessee, O h i o Tennessee: Tennessee, C l i
Report (issue)
OF CALERA, SHELBY COUNTY, ALABAMA. By CHARLES BUTTS. About 3ÂŁ miles a little south of east of Calera...examined by the writer is one-fourth of a mile south of Buxahatchee Creek, in the NW. 1 NE. J. sec. 8....................... Shale, weathers yellowish-green................................. Marble, thick-bedded...body of marble could be obtained in an open-cut quarry, but ultimately the rock would have to be mined... NELSON DALE. INTRODUCTION. The granites and granite quarries of Milford, Quincy, Rockport, and Becket
Report (volume)
National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 1580 SOUTH DAKOTA WYOMING I -«*&...Geology of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming We st from. Washington SHOWING...Geology of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming By ED DEWITT, J. A. REDDEN, ANNA...Archean rocks 12 Older metasedimentary rocks and granite (units Wos and Wgr) 12 Oldest part of iron-formation...potential of the Black Hills National Forest, South Dakota and Wyoming, was made to assist the U.S. Forest
Report (issue)
writer published a Report on the Marble, Slate and Granite Industries of Vermont. This report was much less...since the same great industries, marble, slate and granite, are again considered and more recent facts given...Vermonters may reasonably be proud of the marble, granite and slate beds which are their possession, but...approach that which is going forward in the great quarry regions. has been to some extent mined in Vermont...Ely mine in Vershire, at the Elizabeth mine in South Strafford, at the Reynolds mine in Strafford, and
Report (volume)
granites .............................. Biotite granite .......................................................... ................. Hornblende-augite granite ........................................ 12 Geologic...................................... Orbicular granite........................................................ .................................. The granite railroads .......................................quarries................................ Caledonia County ..............................................
Report (volume)
5 in., inch or inches. Circ., Circular. Co., County or Company. Indus., Industrial. Inst., Institute...Roy.., Royal. R. R., Railroad. Ry, Railway. S., south. Sci., Science, Scientific, Sciences. sec., section...Special. ss., sandstone. sss., sandstones. Sta., Station. strat., stratigraphy, stratigraphic, or stratigraphically...Abbeville-York zone. Pre-Cambrian : Northwestern South Carolina. E. Sloan, 1905 (S. C. Geol. Surv. geognostic...of Saluda River. Rocks consist of gneissoids, granite, syenite, quartz, mica and hornblende schists and
Report (issue)
below the quarry so as to make handling economical. A sample weighing 2,150 pounds from this quarry was milled...those of the principal mines in Canada. In the south quarry of the mine now being worked there is a 4-foot...and Smith Creek asbestos areas. 8 miles directly south of Casper, and the other on Smith Creek, about 20...same rocks, among which serpentine, diorite, and granite are perhaps the most important. STRUCTURE. The...asbestos areas are hornblende schist, diorite, granite, and serpentine. The black hornblende schist is
Report (issue)
Introduction 1 Kinds of stone available 3 Granite, gneiss 3 Schist, trap, serpentine 4 Lava,...Adams County Allegheny County Armstrong County Beaver County 19 1" -<» -- 24 -7 Bedford County -'•'...-;"» SO Perks County ;>- Blair County Bradford County Pucks County Butler County 00 03 07 77 Cambria...Cambria County ^- Cameron County Carbon County Centre County Chester County Clarion County Clearfield...Clearfield County Clinton County Columbia County Crawford County Cumberland County ^7 ^ J,0 5);"i 1'^' Ill HO
Report (issue)
dimension stone rock types include granite and metamorphic rocks, black granite, marble, and sandstone, together...sculpture is a whimsical interpretation in grey granite and bronze of quarrymen at work by Danish sculptor...Orbicular granite from the Mount Magnet district. This rare and visually attractive granite with its distinctive...................................4 Chapter 2 Granite and metamorphic rocks Southern region .............................................5 Albany — granite ..............................................
 
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