| | Book | Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I •( 11 o •« c »««ou cxi ju4«iO«J...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute Quadrangal...Quadrangal Map index. V Contents and Locality Index Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types....Location 1 Montgomery County quartz deposits................. Other Montgomery County quartz mines...... | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | crystals, Arkansas also boasts an array of other minerals, as evidenced by this county-by-county description...continued with mining in north ern and western Arkansas and Magnet Cove during the Civil War, and peaked...in full swing and the demand for and price of Arkansas quartz crystals has skyrocketed. In October 1987...exploited. Continued interest in and study of Arkansas minerals, par ticularly the microminerals, will...for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting. Particular thanks goes to these hardcore | | | Report (edition) | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 S P EC I ES O F A RKA N SA A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard \ 1987... / ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist s·' , STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...23 SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION...State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission | | | Report (volume) | Resources of the Caney Creek Wilderness, Polk County, Arkansas By GEORGE E. ERICKSEN and SAM H. PATTERSON...resources of the Caney Creek Wilderness, Polk County, Arkansas. (Geological Survey bulletin; 1551) Bibliography:...no.: I 19.3:1551 1. Mines and mineral resources-Arkansas-Caney Creek Wilderness. 2. Caney Creek Wilderness...mineral survey of the Caney Creek Wilderness, Arkansas, in the Ouachita National Forest. Caney Creek...RESOURCES OF THE CANEY CREEK WILDERNESS, POLK COUNTY, ARKANSAS By GEORGE E. ERICKSEN and SAM H. PATTERSON | | | Report (edition) | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 MINERAL SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised...Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised 2007 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL...Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission | | | Report (volume) | Alabama.........Dr. Eugene A. Smith, University. Arkansas..........Dr. A. H. Purdue, Nashville, Tenn. California...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby | | | Report (volume) | ............................................. Arkansas.................................................mineralogic reports, especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South...examination of the geology of western central Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1888, vol. 1...J. C., The zinc and lead region of north Arkansas: Arkansas Geol. Survey Ann. Kept, for 1892, vol. 5...relative to the economic-geologic products of Arkansas, prepared for the Southern Commercial Congress | | | Report (volume) | 1872, 1902, and 1914 respectively. Deposits in Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, and New Mexico...been mineralized with barite and small amounts of galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and calcite. Deposits...district, Calhoun County: 2, 65, 102, 118. 2. r Beaver Creek Valley, St. Clair County and Greens Valley...Valley, Etowah County: 2, 102, 118. 3. r Leeds, Jefferson County: 2, 102. 4. r Longview-Saginaw district...district, Shelby County: 2, 102. 5. r Sinks district, Bibb County: 2, 28, 54, 67, 74, 102, 118, 143. 6. v Southeastern | | | Book (edition) | mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | states at its 2017 February show (add Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee); hence, they will all...states— Michigan, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Arkansas—at the periphery of the area tally over three...inclusions or mixtures (e.g., yellow smithsonite from Arkansas), or bizarre growth habits (e.g., twists and elongations)... Marion County, Tennessee Shepard 1835 1835 Nitromagnesite Nicajack Cave, Marion County, Tennessee...1846 Schorlomite Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas Shepard 1846 1880/2002 Destinezite, structure | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals are a traditional favorite...specimen was a wavellite from one of the traditional Arkansas localities, for these have been available from...wavellite from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas; kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd photo courtesy...Limestone Company quarry, Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The 2.8 × 2.7 × 1.5-cm specimen...Day Township, Saratoga County, New York; another at Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island; and one | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | marcasite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, ferroan dolomite, galena, chalcopyrite, argentian tetrahedrite, native antimony...siderite, tetrahedrite, pyrrhotine, pyrite, marcasite, galena, sphalerite, meneghinite, ullmanite, pentlandite...halite, trona, 34 I Sfibren-kalaalan Eskisehir county, deerite, 25i Iraq Sinjar, Mosul, sinjarite, 643...INDEX lO83 Sterling Hill mine, Ogdensburg, Sussex county, New Jersey, sarkinite, 68 I Victory mine, Custer...230; arrojadite, 232 Ward Creek, Cazadero, Sonoma county, California, blueschist-facies amphiboles, 741; | | | Journal (issue) | Newsletter $2.00 from the Mill Creeli. Quarry Polk County, Oregon John Cornish 40 Cedar Glen Lane Port...of these. The Mill Creek quarry is located in Polk County, off of Highway 22, just east of Buell (Fig....Approximately two miles from the highway one passes the county-maintained Mill Creek Picnic Area. Just beyond...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...reported mineral for the locality. Collecting Arkansas Minerals By Arthur E. Smith, Jr., Available now | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | FIG. 54K•:¾ 7o FI•. 54. FI•. 54- X 45. (a) Polk County Mine ore, Ducktown, Tenfl. Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite...presentinvestigation,specimenswere examined from the Polk CountyMine and the Mary Mine. The order of origin...chalcopyrite. Pyrite was not observedin the specimensand galena occurred in such small amountthat its relationshipwas...relationshipwas obscure. Specimens from the Polk County Mine consistedof crystalline and irregularmassesof shatteredgangue...foundin similarrelationship to chalcopyriteas in the Polk CountyMine ore. I58 ARTHUR PERRY THOMPSON. | | | Journal (issue) | Mineral Collector's Newsletter $3.00 2008 Arkansas Aluminum Phosphates: Wavellite with Variscite... Introduction Wavellite has been collected in Arkansas since the middle of the 1800s. A drawing of a...wavellite specimen is included in Harvey ( 1886), Arkansas' first state mineralogy. Although way behind quartz...collectable mineral as specimens in Arkansas. Dug Hill in Garland County was the source of most early wavellite...Hot Spring County or from Montgomery County. Dug Hill was in fact part of Hot Spring County until December | | | Catalog/List | ••••• Thuabnall El USA. 3. ALTAITE,Hilltop Hine, Oona Ana County, Nev Hexico, USA. PbTe. Tin vhlte silvery...E24 s. ANDRADITE Garnet, Stanley Duttes, Orahaa county, Arizona, UIA. Very attractlve display of luatroua...AIUIIITS, Henderson Nine, Blsbee, coehlse county, Arizona, USA, Flne display speelaen of pure a99re9ate...PLUORITE,Bethel Level, Annabel Lee Hlne,Hardln County, llllnols, USl. Lustrous erea ■y zoned sheave,...Reference speclaen aatrlx. SOxJO f6 exhlbltlng USA, blulah groen cryatala In vhlte haat JO. CARROLLITE | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard...Sevier County (Coskren and Lauf 2000). The following index is arranged alphabetically by county. It is | | | Book | M>f*es MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE v MAP OF ARKANSAS Rur Reproduced on a reduced scale from map by...1 /. I y & ..vu. t u.vy UNIVERSITY OF I Arkansas," Washington, D. C., 1 907. , / \/ QUATERNARY...Mississippian ECONOMICS & SOCIOLO, Rocks MINERA IN ARKANSAS INCLUDING A REVIEW OF OIL AND GAS CONDITIONS...MINES, MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE STATE OF ARKANSAS LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 1922 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page...Features Principal Arkansas Minerals and Their Location by Counties Counties of Arkansas and Their Mineral | | | Report (issue) | and Eureka mines _____________________ _ 51 Polk County mine ______________________ ------_ 51 Ruti...----- __ _ Sphalerite ___________________________ _ Galena------------------------------Bornite----------...district: A, View a short distance west of the Polk County mine; B, View from road between Ducktown and...bodies of pseudodiorite in graywacke, near the Polk County mine______________ 20 VIII. Typical pseudodiorite...and· fractured crystals of zoisite from the Polk County mine; B, Mass of curved fibrous quartz from the | | | Journal (issue) | Another good Web Site This time, we take a look at Arkansas. I was checking out the links on the Mineral News-LR... Michael Howard i a geologist employed by the Arkansas Geological Commission. Darcy Howard i a scientific...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 Email: lanny@mineralnews.com...web users, it is still a poor site. Rockhounding Arkansas is one of those rare sites that uses quite a few...minerals. and other rockhounding activities in Arkansas. There even is a special page "Ask Mikey•· where | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 77, 1982,pp. •35--351 Lead IsotopicPatternsof Galena in the Piedmontand BlueRidgeOre Deposits,SouthernAppalachians...the central Virginia Pb ISOTOPIC PATTERNS OF GALENA, SOUTHERN APPALACtflANS $$7 at the labPiedmontis...a major producer within the same district has a Galena samples were dissolvedin HNOa and greaterlikelihoodof...Central Virginia Piedmont 1. Mineral district, Louisa County, Virginia 14. Virginia gold pyrite Py, sp, gn...others Quartz-huebneriteveinsalongcontactof Vance County albite granodioriteand lower Paleozoie(?) slatesand | | | Report (volume) | GEOLOGY OF THE DE QUEEN AND CADDO GAP QUADRANGLES, ARKANSAS BY HUGH D. MISER AND A. H. PURDUE *"**» » ..._______ General geography and geology of the Arkansas Valley _________ ____ 12 General geography...Bigfork chert..__--______-______--_____---______-_---_ Polk Creek shale.-____--_____.____________-. Silurian...system_________________ __________.____________ Arkansas novaculite.___---____-_-___-__-_--____-_-_-__...rocks of Arkansas. Age of the peridotite-_____________________________________ Comparison of Arkansas and | | | Catalog/List | tufts ACTINOLITE: Bull Run Quarry, Loudon County, Virginia, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE,variety AMIANTHUS:Steintal...ACTINOLITE,variety BYSSOLITE: French Creek, Pennsylvania, USA. sprays and tufts ACTINOLITE SMARAGDITE:Micciano...crystals ADAMITE,variety CUPROAN:Gold Hill, Utah, USA. crystals AEGERINE: Kola Peninsula, USSR. crystal...AFWILLITE: Crestffiore Quarry, Riverside, California, USA. massive AGRELLITE: KipawQ River, Villodieu Township...ALABANDITE:Tombstone. Arizona, USA. massive ALBERTITE(HYDROC,\RBONl: Prince Albert County. Nova Scotia, massive | | | Journal (issue) | News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...http://www.iea.com/-lream Web address change for Arkansas site A few months ago, the Mineral News ran a...informed me that there is a new address for the Arkansas Rockhound: http://RockhoundingAR.com Tax time...blast!G> Collecting Arkansas Minerals By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. The only book on Arkansas Minerals: 149 pages...maps, covers the Ouachita Mtns. area where most Arkansas minerals occur, with most quartz, localities, | | | Report (issue) | the Kings Mountain belt 225 Lead isotopes in galena vi. 233 U-Th-Pb whole-rock systematics in metaigneous...sulfide deposit galena lead isotope ratios. 21. 123 Blue Ridge K-feldspar and galena data on lead isotope...bodies. 24. Lead isotope ratio diagrams showing galena lead ratios from the Mineral district, Virginia...isotopic composition of Stone Hill and Pyriton galena, whole-ore, and amphibolite lead. 39. 210 Secondary...Lead isotope ratio diagrams of Kings Mountain belt galena and whole-rock data. 45. 241 Pb-Pb isochron |
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