 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology, and Mineralogy of the BAYPORT LIMESTONE QUARRIES 8313 Hartel Road Grand Ledge, Michigan 48837...Bellevue Eaton County Michigan Figure 2. Location of quarries in the Bellevue area. 1, 2, and 3 = Michigan Alkali...Cement Company and Alpha Portland Cement Company quarries, with location of the Keehne Environmental Area...the celestine and sulfur crystals from the limestone quarries in Monroe County, which are among the finest...are limited. Despite these limitations, the limestone quarries located near the village of Bellevue, in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the veins are exposed by road cuts and by active quarries where minerals can still be collected. The potential...of lesser interest in joint fractures) in limestone quarries throughout Kentucky. State law forbids collecting... and Wayne. Sedimentary geodes are exposed in quarries, road cuts, and streambeds plotted on 118 geological...and Devonian rocks. They are associated with limestone and siltstone deposits and rarely occur in shale...including copiapite, goethite, halotrichite, marcasite, melanterite, and pyrite. Kentucky has extensive |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | variety of minerals, such as barite, fluorite, marcasite, dolomite, calcite and pyrite. However, one of...the most outstanding minerals found in the limestone quarries of this region is celestite. This strontium...state ever since. Although there are numerous limestone quarries in this area which may furnish just as fine...specimens as those in "Crystal Cave", many of these quarries are forbidding rockhounds to collect there due...problems. The insurance agencies that cover these limestone companies will cancel a policy if people other |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral collecting heritage. Its numerous limestone quarries, gravel pits, strip mines. and rock outcrops...(crystals), dolomite, galena, goethite, hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz (drusy), smithsonite (Garvin,...yellow to purple color-zoned, cubic), gypsum, marcasite, pyrite, siderite, sphalerite (Prior 1994). Waukon...(coatings), galena, goethite (after marcasite and pyrite), hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz (drusy), sauconite...chalcedony as “coldwater agate”). Shellsburg area, most quarries, road cuts, and natural outcrops; Devonian-age |  | | Book (volume) | | ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite, and second in the production of...Other collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center...Dolomite crystals, Fluorite (fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT...COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co. |  | | Book (volume) | | ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite, and second in the production of...Other collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center...Dolomite crystals, Fluorite (fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT...COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE, area Co. |  | | Book (volume) | | sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...these coal seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet...BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS CITY: on the Dallas...top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined with Marcasite & Pyrite with rhombs of Calcite, Sphalerite);...Chalcopyrite, pink Dolomite, Goethite, Jarosite, Marcasite, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Selenite |  | | Book (volume) | | sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...these coal seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet...BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS CITY: on the Dallas...top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined with Marcasite & Pyrite with rhombs of Calcite, Sphalerite);...Chalcopyrite, pink Dolomite, Goethite, Jarosite, Marcasite, Malachite, Pyrite, Pyrolusite, Quartz, Selenite |  | | Book (volume) | | Stone Mt.), areaQuartz crystals. LITHONIA: area quarriesCalcite, Epidote, Fluorite, Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline...Feldspar, Quartz. STONE MOUNTAIN: two area granite quarriesBeryl, Feldspar, Hyalite opal; area granite...jct., many area minesBauxite, chert, jasper, Marcasite. ROME: W on Rte. 20 to the Rice Springs Farms...halfway to Refuge ChurchKyanite. TATE: area quarries in the Tate-Marble Hill dist.Almandite garnet...minesMica, Beryl, Quartz; SE 4 mi.: (a) area of the Germany Mt.; (b) at Wilson farmAmethyst (gem quality); |  | | Book (volume) | | are all undisturbed sedimentaries: sandstone, limestone, shale and clay, with the oldest formation lying...Eastern Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout...geodes, chert nodules, fossils, Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area around the confluence...Blue Springs): all regional gravel pits and quarriesCalcite, Quartz crystals; SE 3 mi., quarry on...petrified wood. STEELE CITY, area gravel pits, quarries, and stream gravelsagate, chalcedony, jasper |  | | Report (issue) | | All-Metals mine Gibson Road (western) occurrence Gill quarries Highway 507 road-cut Fraser quarry Nu-World uranium...quarry Cruikshank quarry Wiarton-Oliphant Road quarries Albemarle zinc occurrence Hope Bay quarry Collingwood...Ojibway Mine St. Marys quarries Ingersoll quarries Drumbo Mine Guelph-Hespeler quarries Georgetown-Forks of...quarry Credit Forks celestite occurrence Milton quarries Waterdown area Mount Nemo quarry Nelson quarry...179 Port Colborne quarries Cayuga-Caledonia area Cayuga quarry Haldimand quarries Hagersville mine Caledonia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | calcite ; the other a dark (almost black) compact limestone. Burtwo west One and gray CALIFORNIA — Col....produced enought material for description." The limestone quarries at Crestmore, Riverside Co., Calif., considered...star in the white quartz. Though it resembles marcasite in structure it was demonstrated by Ransom to...large jointing cracks in massive to thin-bedded limestone of the Kinderhookian Series of ROCKS AND MINERALS...Mississippian age at one of the old abandoner limestone quarries near Legrand (Marshall Co.), Iowa. These |  | | Book | | new construction covers up old sites, or because quarries or mines have changed hands. Large construction...regulation and insurance costs make it difficult for quarries to allow visitors. And, of course, many once productive...glaciated, and all have great rivers and valleys. Limestone built up from ancient seas is the common surface...are a must. Safety shoes are required in some quarries and are sensible formine dumps too. Safety goggles...for fossils which must be worked out of thick limestone layers, heavy mauls, crowbars, or mattocks should |  | Pfaff, Katharina, Hildebrandt, Ludwig H., Leach, David L., Jacob, Dorrit E., Markl, Gregor (2010) Formation of the Wiesloch Mississippi Valley-type Zn-Pb-Ag deposit in the extensional setting of the Upper Rhinegraben, SW Germany. Mineralium Deposita, 45 (7) 647-666 doi:10.1007/s00126-010-0296-5 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | extensional setting of the Upper Rhinegraben, SW Germany Katharina Pfaff & Ludwig H. Hildebrandt & David...Zn–Pb–Ag deposit in the Wiesloch area, Southwest Germany, is controlled by graben-related faults of the...Geowissenschaften, Wilhelmstr. 56, 72074 Tübingen, Germany e-mail: markl@uni-tuebingen.de L. H. Hildebrandt...und Umweltschutz, Im Köpfle 7, 69168 Wiesloch, Germany formation waters. The ascending brines originally...of the pore and fracture fluid residing in the limestone aquifer, which had a pH between 8 and 9 in equilibrium |  | | Book (volume) | | Fall River Co., all regional side rds., look for limestone outcrops and ridgesFairhill agates; in Bull...Ilsemannite (as deep blue coatings), Jordisite, Marcasite & Pyrite, Meta-Hewettite, Montroseite, Paramontroseite...pitsCarnotite. 439 South Dakota HOT SPRINGS: area quarriesCalcite and chalcedony (both fluorescent), Gypsum;...(purple), Silver, Tellurium. SPEARFISH: area quarriesGypsum; S, in gravels of adjoining Spearfish...formations are mainly Cambrian and Ordovician limestone, dolomites, sandstones and shales dipping toward |  | Huizing, Terry E., Richards, R. Peter, Clifford, Janet H., Cook, Robert B. (2017) Connoisseur's Choice: Calcite from the American Midwest, Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Rocks & Minerals, 92 (1) 46-63 doi:10.1080/00357529.2017.1241690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | complexity of form. It is the major constituent of limestone, most cave formations, and many fossil shells...State The dominant rocks of the lower Midwest are limestone and dolostone—carbonates of calcium and magnesium—...veins and vugs in dolostone at the Black Rock quarries of the Lawrence County Zinc district. Specimens... Mark Mauthner photo 50 ROCKS & MINERALS limestone that contains abundant geodes, outcrops in Illinois...large solution cavities with minor amounts of marcasite and other sulfides. Crystals are dominated by |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | between the outer geode wall and the enclosing limestone, which helps explain the ease with which it separates...cuts (see fig. 1), commercial digs, and active quarries. This article focuses on three important geode...Iowa, Illinois, and Missouri where streams, rock quarries, and even commercial geode dig sites have for...goethite, gypsum, jarosite, magnetite, malachite, marcasite, millerite, pyrolusite, and smithsonite have been...more interesting by zones of finely dispersed marcasite inclusions. Geodes occur at outcrops near the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Keller discoveredwhat he thought was dickite in a limestone quarry south of Columbia, and a few days later...the same mineral was found by Tarr in another limestone quarry southwest of Columbia. Microscopic studies...mineral in geodes and geodial cavities in several quarries and cuts but, altho some of the material possessedthe...nodule containing the dickitewas residual from limestone and occurred at the bottom of a white clay deposit...AMEKICA ltt sociated with galena in cavities in marcasite, but is found also in cavities in the Bonneterre |  | | Book | | the prismatic system it is known by the name of Marcasite. Several other sub stances, such as the following...Susannite, rhom bohedral. Fe 82. Pyrite, cubic. Marcasite, prismatic. Sulphur also, whose ordinary form...15:30 Oxide of Copper LIROCONITE 1 Water See Marcasite. : Oxygen 72:41 27.59 : : { : Iron MAGNETITE... INTRODUCTION . 20 Iron { 46.67 .. 53.33 :: MARCASITE Sulphur Sub -species of - Lonchidite. 55:47...Erythrine. Jasper. Opal. Constantine. (Granite quarries.) Beryl. Schorl. Topaz. Crowan . (Huel Abraham |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | quartz (chert and jasperoid), dolomite, pyrite, marcasite (cobaltian), sphalerite,galena,chalcopyrite, barite...faults of small displacement,or are replacementsof limestone, shale and dolomite of the Platteville, Decorah...zinc-leaddistrict is quartz, dolomite, pyrite, marcasite,sphalerite,galena,barite, chalcopyrite,millerite...to the walls of small fractures in dolomitized limestone breccias.l{ilkwhite coarsely crystallized calcite...millerite clusters (Figs.4 and 5). Octahedral galena' marcasite, sphalerite,and chalcopyriteaccompanythe millerite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimen with drusy quartz. At Crystal River limestone quarry (Crystal River), nice sharp calcite xls...brown xled sphalerite, associated with xline marcasite, and coming from the noted Blackjack mine at Galena...dolomite. Accessory minerals are chalcopyrite, marcasite, sphalerite, calcite, dolomite and rarely, siegenite...zonal growth of calcite showing enclosures of marcasite is typical. I have never seen well crystallized...consisted of calcite (pale golden crystals with marcasite inclusions), chalcopyrite (tiny lustrous 10 pounds |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | but take a fishing pole." CONNECTICUT-From a limestone quarry near Canaan, Litchfield Co., Conn., we...white xline limestone that was sent in by Jason G. Clark, West Cornwall, Conn. In the limestone are large...specimens of green fuchsite in limestone have been found in the marble quarries of the Georgia Marble Co....SFC. William J. Malarkey, who is stationed in Germany, we have the following item: "While stationed at...(Hardin Co.), Ky., I did some collecting in the limestone quarries on the reservation. I found white cubical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1894). rite, MILLERITE crystals to 50 x 4 mm, MARCASITE to 6 mm, PYRITE (Tucker 1989). Columbia, in quartz-chalcedony...cube, octahedra, and pyritohedron; pyrite after marcasite), copiapite, GYPSUM, melanterite (Jenni 1963)...scattered over northem Boone County: GYPSUM crystals, marcasite, pyrite (Unklesbay 1952). Finger Lakes State Park...COPIAPITE, GYPSUM, HALOTRICHITE, melanterite, MARCASITE,PYRITE. Loutre Formation (39-13-54N 092-25MW)...(38-40-23N 092-13-54W), an agricultural and road limestone quarry between Ashland and Jefferson City on U |  | Robinson, George W., Dix, George R., Richards, R. Peter, Picard, Michel (2011) Minerals of the Beekmantown Group, Southeastern Ontario, Southern Quebec, and Northwestern New York. Rocks & Minerals, 86 (6) 546-562 doi:10.1080/00357529.2011.622227 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | minerals found in a handful of widely scattered limestone quarries in the same region have received only modest...localities and the specimens they have produced. The quarries referred to above are worked principally for crushed...early quartz deposition (plus or minus pyrite/marcasite Dr. George W. Robinson, a consulting editor of... and minor sulfides (mostly chalcopyrite and marcasite). In some localities, this latter stage of calcite...such exposures most often occur in road cuts or quarries where a large number of layers have been excavated |  | | Book | | steatite (massive talc), as well as basalt, granite, limestone (and/ or sandstone), marble, and the clay minerals...from an ox tail. The fourth bracelet had brown limestone beads mingled with amethyst and turquoise. About...delving beneath the surface or looking into nearby quarries, road cuts, and bluffs beyond the immediate boundaries...engineers as "traprock''); granites; sandstone and limestone (including dolomite) , both of which are also...within rocky confines. Even though sandstone, limestone, and dolomite are homogenous "rocks" which occur |
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Limestone quarries, Rüdersdorf bei Berlin, Märkisch-Oderland, Brandenburg, Germany