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Agate from
Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA


Locality type:Parish
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Agate
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Agate data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rapides Parish, Louisiana, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:121773
Long-form Identifier:1:3:121773:5
GUID (UUID V4):02d62b18-3e3b-4939-ad49-5384ba92d166
Nearest other occurrences of Agate
56.8km (35.3 miles) Turkey Creek, Evangeline Parish, Louisiana, USA
85.1km (52.9 miles) Harrisonburg, Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Co., Mich. LOUISIANA—There is a large limestone quarry near Alexandria, Rapides Parish, La. We hope...minerals occur in it. MINNESOTA—A nice reddish banded agate pebble from near Two Harbors, Lake Co., Minn., was... Lyon Co., Nev. OREGON—Nice specimens of moss agate have been found at Eagle Point, Jackson Co., Ore...have been purchased. N O R T H DAKOTA—Brownish agate pebbles occur along the west bank of Knife River...Wise. W Y O M I N G — Excellent pebbles of moss agate occur at Medicine Bow, Carbon Co., Wyoming. ALASKA—Frank
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1952, from Charles E. Hill, owner of the Arizona Agate Mines at Cave Creek, Maricopa Co., Ariz., is the...tons of the world's most beautiful and colorful agate that anyone would care to see. I have one chunk...6 that will weigh from 4 to 8 tons of beautiful agate and in just all colors, mixed and blended. I sure...have been to agate localities in other states when they come here and look at my agate. Talk about fine...fine gem and rich colored agate? Bub, I have it!" ARKANSAS — Mrs. John Roder, Pinebrook Trailer Park,
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QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah...slope of the mountain at elevation 1600’ to 1700’. Agate, fire. Chalcedony: white, pink; roses. Quartz, rock:...found at this site— agate, chalcedony, and rock quartz; the agate is the fire agate variety; the chalcedony...the Forest Service road to the New Mexico border. Agate, plume. (1) APACHE DIVIDED COUNTY, INTO SEPARATE...ONE 10 Miles 0 Jo Kilometres 2. Concho area. Agate: dendritic. (2) 3. Ganado area: just south. Petrified
Book
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...South Dakota Mineral-Rose Quartz Gemstone-Fairburn Agate Fossil-Triceratops Jewelry-Black Hills Gold Soil-Houdek...Fossil-Pterotrigonia (Scabrotrigonia) thoracica Mineral-Agate *Wexas Gem-Blue Topaz Stone-Petrified Palmwood
Book (volume)
KINGSTON, S, in area fields, streams, rd. cuts, etc.agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY...COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway airport at rd. jct.Beryl. BURKE COUNTY...along the GA side of the SC borderSavannah River agate, chalcedony, Quartz gemstone, silicified oolite...27: (a) along both sides of Hwy.agate; (b) quarry on W side of rd.agate, chalcedony, chert, opal;  area...area of state fish hatchery on Cloudland Rd.agate (cloudy, vivid red-banded);  W 3 mi. and 2 mi. N:
Report (volume)
Hoeing, Frankfort. Mr. J. H. Gardner, Lexington. Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine...Smithsonite, Sphalerite, and Willemite. ARKANSAS. Agate. Montgomery County, finely variegated; has been...Diego County, near Encinitas. Agate, moss. San Bernardino County, jaspery agate in San Bernardino Mountains...silver ores; Dolorea County, Enterprise mine, Rico. Agate. Fremont County, mined at Garden Park 7 miles north...manufacture of fire bricks at Golden. Quartz (moss agate, silicified wood, and smoky quartz). Very common
Book (edition)
Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl *"» Agate ** Jade =p Amethyst ^ X ) y ' £f h % ^...stones will remain." On my own table is a section of agate, cut and polished, its concentric rings of rose...color, as in emeralds; their pattern, as in moss agate; or their play of color, as in opals. Fashion plays...sharp sliver of agate, such as Montana moss agate, is also useful to test minerals near agate in hardness...sort, such as agate and jasper, are described as cryptocrystalline. For example, an agate nodule may contain
Book (edition)
Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl ^"^ Agate ** Jade Amethyst nq -* % Gem Hunter's...Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton A. Young of Michigantown, Indiana, George...color, as in emeralds; their pattern, as in moss agate; or their play of eral color, as in opals. Fashion... such as agate and jasper, are described as cryptocrystal- line. For example, an agate nodule may...cat's- more but inexhaustibly various patterns of agate and jasper. So typical are their patterns that
Book (volume)
ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel...pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores...HAMILTON: c area gravels and glacial drift deposits⎯agate, jasper, geodes (containing blue gray chalcedony);...of the river to include AI) ⎯agate. GALVA, N, at Bishop Hill, area⎯agate, jasper. JEFFERSON COUNTY MT...gems and minerals there are in Indiana, mainly agate, jasper, fossilized corals and petrified wood. Copper
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ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare alluvial Diamond. THEBES: c area gravel...pits, bars of the Mississippi R.⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores...HAMILTON: c area gravels and glacial drift deposits⎯agate, jasper, geodes (containing blue gray chalcedony);...of the river to include AI) ⎯agate. GALVA, N, at Bishop Hill, area⎯agate, jasper. JEFFERSON COUNTY MT...gems and minerals there are in Indiana, mainly agate, jasper, fossilized corals and petrified wood. Copper
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thunder eggs dug beds in Oregon are nodules of agate, walls. TWIN CRYSTALS commonly develop Crystals...aggregate psilo- melane on rock 10 Banded aggregate: agate. 11 Arborescent aggregate: copper 12 Lamellar radiating...freeform molded copper. (Right) A slice of Brazilian agate framed with plastic and stainless steel. own ...quartz from Brazil: carnelian from India Bottom row agate and aventunne from Brazil and sodalite from the...Kentucky: University of Kentucky. Lexington. Louisiana: State Museum, and Tulane University. Maine: Hamlin
Report (volume)
............................................ Louisiana.................................................USEFUL MINERALS OF UNITED STATES ABIZONA. ARIZONA. Agate. In the Kaibab limestone of the Aubrey group in...MINERALS OF UNITED STATES ARKANSAS. Jrv\\ ARKANSAS. Agate. Montgomery County, finely variegated; has been...Diego County, near Encinitas. Agate (moss). San Bernardino County, jaspery agate in San Bernardino Mountains;...Angeles. Del Norte County, handsome varieties of agate, chalcedony, and jasper at Pebbly Beach? Crescent
Report (issue)
Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, USA, phone (978) 750-8400, http://www.copyright.com...unit of the Hemingford Group in the vicinity of Agate National Monument (Runningwater Formation, Cook...Formation in Plain, chiefly from Florida and Texas-Louisiana; these coastal Nebraska and South Dakota, and...Tertiary, based on the standard for the Great Plains (USA) and interconti- nental correlations; in 9th Congress...on the MPTS. The world-famous, exceedingly rich Agate waterhole bonebed occurs at the top of Chron C6
Report (issue)
Springfield Indianapolis Des Moines Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Topeka Frankfort Baton Rouge Augusta...Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Twiggs Hawaii Custer Logan Boone Story...100 3,030 5,000 700 700 Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Sec. 29, T. 100 N., R. 41 W. Mount Sunflower...315 1,885 1,875 1,450 1,450 1,306 1,214 Red (Louisiana) Brazos Snake Ohio Pecos 1,222 1,210 1,000 981...Abbeville (county Abbeville (county Abbeville (parish Abbeville Abbeville (county Abbeville County ppl
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Georgia Idaho Illlnois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...Building Lexington, Kentucky, 40506 1 , / v' ✓ Louisiana Geological Survey GcoJow Btriltling t3<1 y G 1...Iv 1-mPsiana State I-Tni¥@Fsity Baton Rouge, Louisiana 7 08 0 ly J/c..lroh 3 Maine Geological Survey...E. E . Bonewits. 1930. trated by the Arkansas-Louisiana 422 Gas Company No. 1 Barton Well B. 5 Geomagnetic...by H. L. Olin, J. D. Wadtesting plant at the Louisiana dell, and J. N. Ambrose. 1930. Purchase Exposition
Report (volume)
New Orleans, Louisiana, for helpful references and suggestions. Grace King, Louisiana Historical Societj^...Societj^, New Orleans, Louisiana, for additions to and corrections of parish names. Francis E. Sparks,...Kentucky, by Lewis Collins, 1848. LOUISIANA. A Description of Louisiana, by Father Louis Hennepin, Translated...Massachusetts, and several other places, named from the parish of Cambridgeshire, England. Ableman; village in...found roots which they prized. . ' < Acadia; parish in Louisiana, and villages in Aroostook County, Maine
Report (issue)
............................... . 15. Map of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, showing approximately...flotation process. A small meters of water in an agate mortar by a mechanamount of Wyomingite was crushed...(Vicksburg and Catahoula) floras of Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas nor to the Chesapeake Miocene floras...WilOccurrence: I-Iattiesburg clay, Raglan, For- cox of Louisiana and Arkansas by excellent rest County, Miss. (collected.... . . . Swamps and pond borders; Maryland to Louisiana near coast. -- . - - - . . Vaccinium textum Heer
Report (issue)
1937. Avery, Ollver Perry. How a forest turned to agate, an episode of 35 million Year!! ago: Mineralogist...Parishes, West Filicia.na Parish, and east Baton Rouge Parish, La.: Louisiana Dept. Conserv., Geol. Survey...Collection of Fossil Plants from Northwestern Louisiana: Louisiana Geol. Survey, Prelim. Rept., pt. 5, 276-288...Description of two species of Paimoxylon"7>ne newfrom Louisiana: U.S. Nat. Museum Proc., vol. 11 , 8991, pl. 30...determinations of fossil plants from Kentucky, Louisiana, Oregon, California, Alaska, Greenland, etc.,
Book (volume)
Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Amethyst Mine......... 312 Figure 66. Collecting agate nodules along shore of Lake Superior... cece 316...schleifwiirdiger Augelith vom White Mountain (Kalifornien/USA). Zs. Dt. Gemm. Ges. 24, 2, p. 88-9. GROSS, E. B...H. (1982) Schleifwiirdige rote Beryll aus Utah, USA mit niedrigen Brechungs- sindizen. Zs. Dt. Gemm...(col.). LOUISIANA. No new developments. MOUNCE, C. E. (1969) Large diamond found in Louisiana. Gems
Book (volume)
Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Amethyst Mine......... 312 Figure 66. Collecting agate nodules along shore of Lake Superior..............schleifwurdiger Augelith vom White i\1ountain (Kalifonuen/USA). Zs. Dt. Gemm. Ges. 24, 2, p. 88-9. GROSS, E. B... (1982) Schleifwi.ird.ige rote Beryli aus Utah, USA mit njedrigen Brechungs,, sindiien. Zs. Dt. Gemm...(col.). LOUISIANA. No new developn1ents. MOUNCE, C. E. (I 969) Large diamond found in Louisiana. Gems &
Report (issue)
Jefferson's administrations, 1801-1809 Purchase of Louisiana, 1803 War with Tripoli, 1801-1805 Neutral trade...Mississippi Mississippi River and Valley. Middle West Louisiana Texas Old Southwest. Lower Mississippi Valley...Guiana, see F2441 + French West Indies, see F2151 Louisiana, 1698-1803, see F372 New France and Acadia, 1600-1763...Labrador Little Colorado River Valley (New Me Louisiana Mackenzie Maine Manitoba Maritime Provinces Maryland...Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana 54 UNITED STATES 185.93. M15 185.93. M2 185
Report (volume)
New Orleans, Louisiana, for helpful references and suggestions. Grace King, Louisiana Historical Society...Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, for additions and corrections to parish names. Francis E. Sparks, Maryland...Kentucky, by Lewis Collins, 1848. LOUISIANA. A description of Louisiana, by Father Louis Hennepin, translated...Massachusetts, and several other places, named from a parish of Cambridgeshire, England. Ableman; village in...Indians found roots which they prized. Acadia; parish in Louisiana, and villages in Aroostook County, Maine
Book (volume)
Oregon. Information was also supplied by Dowse’s Agate Shop, Salt Lake City, Utah, by William J. Bingham...Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri. The well-known Texas agate localities of the Alpine Region were described in...Montana moss agates . Oregon moss agate (color) . New Mexico plume agate (color) . . . . . . . . . . . ...Tampa Bay coral geode Turritella specimen Polished agate slices Quartz crystal Quartz sceptre crystal Three...petrified wood Map of Yellowstone River agate area, Montana Moss agate slab Petrified Forest, Arizona Map
Report (volume)
Avery, Oliver P. 1937. How a forest turned to agate: Mineralogist, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 3-4, 26-27. 8...collection of fossil plants from northwestern Louisiana: Louisiana State Exp. Sta., Geol. and A'gric., pt....Description of two species of Palmoxylon, one new, from Louisiana: U. S. Nat. Mus. Proc., vol. 11, pp. 89-91, il...determinations of fossil plants from Kentucky, Louisiana, Oregon, California, Alaska, Greenland, etc.....1924, 43, pi. 3, f. 4; Yegua: Columbia, Caldwell Parish, La. Acrostichum mexicanum Berry, 1923b, 4, pi
Report (volume)
Museum Publications 1-3. Los Angeles, Calif. Louisiana Department of Conservation: Biennial Reports 10th-13th;...Orleans, La. Louisiana Conservation Review vols. 1-8 (no. 3). New Orleans, La. Louisiana Engineering Society...(Eocene) of southwest Arkansas and northwest Louisiana: Am. Assoc. Petroleum Geologists Bull., vol. 19...section through southwestern Arkansas and western Louisiana [abstract]: Oil and Gas Jour., vol. 36, no. 44...Ames, E. R. 1. Present activities among southern Louisiana salt domes [abstract]: PanAm. Geologist, vol.
 
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