 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the --------Arkansas Magnet Cove locality. - - - - - - - - Minerals of the Wilson Springs Vanadium Mines...Mines POTASH SULPHUR SPRINGS, ARKANSAS J. MICHAEL HOWARD Arkansas Geological Commission 3815 West Roosevelt...Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 DON R. OWENS Earth Science Department University of Arkansas at Little Rock...Rock 2801 South University Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 Unless otherwise noted, all photos by J. Michael...Owens collection 154 ROCKS & MINERALS Sulphur Springs was taken by William H. Lewis in 1844. By 1855 |  | | 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) | | evolution of carbonatitein the Potash Sulphur Springs complex, Garland CountyoArkansas Rrcn,cnoC. HnnrHcorE...relationships among three carbonatite units in the Potash Sulphur Springs alkaline complex are interpreted using...sive comprex, west-centrar (Fig. Arkansas r), in the So'iet union occulrences 9"1"j:-1If"sh,1972), ...describedfor three carbonatitesof the Plt*t::: Sulphur Springs complex' and the nature of mafotasf J-:,t-*:ll-l...the Potash Sulphur Springs carbonatites are the ijolitic rocks and the fenites. Mnrrrons ARKANSAS oF |  | | 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...trip to the Little Rock, Hot Springs, and Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike |  | | Other Paper | | MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS: COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS, STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS...Michael Howard MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS: COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS,...Michael Howard 16001 Vimy Woods Road Mabelvale, Arkansas 72103 E-mail: jmichaelhoward@sbcglobal.net ©...……………... 38 Christy Brookite Deposit (Vanadium Mine)………………………… 38 Old Highway Outcrops………………………………………………...Kimzey Magnetite Mine (Pit) and Surrounding Area………………………... 44 Chamberlain Creek Barite Mine…………………………………………… |  | | Journal (issue) | | were some of the words used to describe a lluorite mine in the San Andres Mountains of New Mexico. The author...location for a possible collectin_g ve~ture. The mine was determined to be the Bohrnstedt lluonte mme...for us to reach the mine. This was accomplished and we eventually reached the mine (which included a hike...crystals covered the mine area and it appeared that no one had visited the mine since the U. S. Army...Army had closed the area in the 1940s. The "mine" was really a prospect as it consisted of a trench cut through |  | | Catalog/List | | Greenish, sparse, acicular micros in Penberthy Croft Mine, St 1cm £4 s AGARDITE Y Ca Cu As_O_O_H_____c_a_v_iti_e'-s-'in'-'-...215 69 3 11 Rich white crusts on matrix. Rawhide Mine, Mohave ½x½£3 _P_b_S_iO_13 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...Hornblende ALLANITE Black areas in actinolite Bastnas Mine Sweden lxl £1.20 CeYFeSiO Quite attractive blue-grey...Grey veins in and on matrix, some with Fallowfield mine, Ix½ ALSTONITE BaCaCO/3 Alstonite micros. Hexharn...SO/4 OH magnification there arc small crystals County, Arizona -------------"'--------'-'--'----'--____;; |  | | Catalog/List | | plus post 1147 ■■ ALTAITE Organ Mts, Dona Anna County, New Mexico a few silvery I mm spots in dark matrix...- - - - -~ ---1152 ■ AL UNITE Marysvale, Piute County, Utah Pure orange-pink crystalline mass KAISO/4OH...OH Ix! £3 lx2 £6 2x2 £10 34 ■ ANDRADITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn Wales Pale beige fine grained mass with reddish...serpentine. Ix! £5 lx2 £10 38 BANALSITE Benallt Mine, Lleyn Wales Rich brown mass with approx 5 % Cymrite...£15 2x2 £30 Ba Na Al SiO 22 BANNISTERITE Benallt Mine. Lleyn, Wales Dark brown veinlets throughtout calcite/ |  | | Journal (issue) | | d'Ossola, Italy; Lyangara, Uzbekistan; and the Emma Mine, Little Cottonwood District, Salt Lake Co., Utah...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 • 3 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea...Dealer spaces are full. Exhibitors may contact Marc Wilson, Section of Minerals. Fax 412-622-8837. See some...V anadiun1 l\'line, l\fagnet Cove, Hot Springs County, Arkansas is Reclaimed and Collecting Ceases ...Located on the east rim of Magnet Cove, the Christy Mine, fonnerly known as the Christy brookite locality |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1984. Schweiz. Min. Pet. Mitt. 64, 11. At the Clara mine, nr. Oberwolfach, central Black Forest, W. Germany...M. 50, 681. At the dumps of the disused Bambolla mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, as monomineralic crusts...of Te-bearing ore from the Good Hope mine, Vulcan, Colorado, USA, as grey metallic, opaque, anhedral grains...Geology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, who in 1961 first realized that the mineral was...Walenta, 1984. Chem. d. Erde, 43, 255. At the Clara mine, near Oberwolfach, central Black Forest, W. Germany |  | | Catalog/List | | Cu UO PO/4 slightly radioactive. (Old Gunislake Mine Cornwall) a) green 3mm area on ropk, £3 ( b) IxhaJ...Phlogopite Mica. (Possibly slightly radioactive)(Palabora Mine,S.Africa lxl £5 1x2 £10 WITH UNUSUAL ELEMENTS...sections in matrix with Eudialyte.Rare not Rich (Umba Mine,Lovozero Massif,Kola Russia) lxl £4 1x2 £7.50 239...silvery areas in matrix with Tellurite. (La Bambolla Mine Moctezuma, Sonora Mexico) lxl £10 14 x 54 ins £5...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) lx)4ins £4 063 CAVANSITE |  | | Catalog/List | | grained mass in Calcite.(Dark Star Mine,Ravalli County, Montana USA) 1 x 14 £2.50 1x1 £4 1x2 £10 156 NATIVE...masses in matrix (Union Carbide Mine, Wilson Springs Garland County, Arkansas USA) 1x1 £4 1x2 £7.50 360...fairly sparse, green crusts on matrix. (San Miguel Mine Moctezuma Mexico) 1cm piece £ 5 5mm £3 WITH UNUSUAL...yellow crusts on matrix. (Outpost Mine, San Domingo Wash Maricopa County Arizona) Ixliins £4 107 CHLORARGYRITE...dark red micro's on matrix. (Getchell Mine,Humboldt Co . Nevada USA) 5mm £4 up to 1.5cm £7 242 KOLBECKITE |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...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...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO |  | | Journal (issue) | | Tucson, Arizona 85741 Editor & Publisher Wendell E. Wilson Associate Editors Bill Birch Museum of Victoria...85740 602-297-6709 Editing, advertising Wendell E. Wilson 4631 Paseo Tubutama Tucson, AZ 85715 602-299-5274...paragenesis of the Little Three mine pegmatites, Ramona district, San Diego County, California .................................................100 by W. E. Wilson Notes from Germany ................................................................149 by W. E. Wilson & M. Dietrich Microminerals Letters ........ |  | Dunn, Pete J., Fleischer, Michael, Langley, Richard H., Shigley, James E., Zilczer, Janet A. (1985) New mineral names. American Mineralogist, 70 (7-8) 871-881 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Acta Crystallogr. A40, Supplement,International Union of Crystallography, Thirteenth Intemational Congress...open pit at Asbestos,Shipton Township, Richmond County, Quebec,Canada.It is colorless,transparent, and... Twinning on (100). The name is for the Jeffrey mine. Type material is preserved_at the National Museum...leucite; in addition a little secondary calcite and titanite are present. NEW MINERALNAMES Jeppeite is named...galena,quartz, and scotlanditein the Argentolle Mine, Saint-Prix, Saone-et-Loire,France. Here it occurs |  | | Catalog/List | | lx2 £2 lxl£3 2x2£12 lx2£5 lxl £1 ----· Hawkswood Mine, Cornwall ANDALUSITE Cabracao, Minl10, Portugal...Andalucia Spain. Type Location New East Whcal Russell mine, Devon ,England 140 grey bleby small botryoidal..._lx2_ _80 _ _____ _,o 1129 ALMANDINE Braslad iron Mine near Arendal ,Norway Unknown location I 1 63 □a...lxl£2 2x3£6 3x4£8 feldspar ALSTONITE Fallowfield Mine, Northumberland ANDRADITE Grua. Oppland Norway 5...2x3£15 Gamet ½" £3 ALTHAUSITE ANDRADITE Benallt Mine,Lleyn ,Wales Modum, Buskerud,Norway 975 44 Brown-purple |  | | Journal (issue) | | Number Six November-December 1979 Wendell E. Wilson associate editors written content: Paul E. Desautels... Famous mineral localities: the Home Sweet Home mine ..................................................tynn White Departments designed by Wendell E. Wilson Mineralogical Record Notes from the e d ito r...quartz, 10 cm tall, from the Yucca Hill claim, Park County, Colorado. Richard A. Kosnar specimen; photo by...significant mineral localities in C o l o r a d o ,by county. In addition, there is a complete listing o f all |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chrysotile, was mined from two open pits by Union Carbide Corporation (later sold to the King City Asbestos...life of the New Idria mine, about 570,000 flasks of mercury were produced. The mine closed in the early...the serpentine body was uplifted and New Idrla Mine f. Jil t:... , ..-,,"" Mineralogy The minerals...deposit, was discovered and developed by the Union Carbide Corporation, now owned and operated by the King...King City Asbestos Company. The other mine is owned but no longer operated by the A1tas Asbestos Company |  | | Report (volume) | | and evaluation of the Pea Ridge iron ore mine (Washington County, Missouri) for rare-earth element and precious...oxide-dominated matrix. On the basis of drilling prior to mine development these rocks were thought to be conglomerates...b). Indeed, in 1981 UMETCO, a subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation, began an exploration project in...on the permissive Midcontinent terranes, and on Union Carbide's exploration program, and (2) to design...direct and indirect ties to Olympic Dam, the Union Carbide program, and the Missouri and Kansas State geological |  | | Book | | 1-:XXV 1970-1994 by Edwin L. Clopton Wendell E. Wilson THE MINERALOGICAL TUCSON 1995 RECORD The Mineralogical...community well for many decades to come. Wendell E. Wilson Tucson May 24, 1995 5 KEY TO ABBREVIATIONS ...by W. E. Wilson) 21:2-4 ADELAIDE M1NE On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas,...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298 |  | | Journal (issue) | | B & B mine, Esmeralda County CALIFORNIA: burnt ore dump, Oceanic mine, San Luis Obispo County TEXAS:...TEXAS: Chisos furnace, Terlingua district, Brewster County The Texan material was used in the initial X-ray...H ) 7 Status: valid Type Locality: Belmont, Nye County Further analysis of the type material showed it...(Laubanite?) Type Locality: near Manhattan, Nye County This species was never recognized by anyone except...Type Localities: NEVADA: Comstock Lode, Storey County U.S.S.R.: Smeinogorski (Schlangenberg), Altai INDONESIA: |  | | Catalog/List | | rich black pitch like mass in blue Chrysocolla Star Mine, L_u/lwmbashi South Katanga C;fi/40 small 2x2 £25...tabular twinned crystal about 8 mm size ( Telino Mine, Linopolis, Minas Gerais Brazil) £40 Na Be PO4 11...( small hollow tubes or epimorphs) Toca da Onca Mine, Virgem da lapa, Minas Gerais Brazil £35 12. HOLMQUISTlTE...micro crystals on l xl .5 inch matrix Schoeller Mine Kladno. Czech Republic . a 15. KTENASITE blue...blue micros and coatings on l xl inch Glomrudkollen Mine, Modum Norway l xl £12 16. CORNETITE rich coverage |  | | Report (volume) | | of the booming White Oaks gold district, Lincoln County, N. Mex. Gold was probably the first metallic commodity...commodity to be commercially mined in the Lincoln County porphyry belt and has the highest production value...Intrusive and Extrusive Alkaline Rocks of the Lincoln County Porphyry Belt, by Theodore J. Armbrustmacher ..................................... .. Roosevelt County Fault. ............................................... . Pre-Permian Paleozoic Rocks of Lincoln County ................................. . Pre-Permian |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | bauxites, associatedclays and parent rocks from Arkansas, France, Jamaica, Oregon, Ireland and Surinam...although the modes of alteration are more varied in Arkansas bauxite than in bauxite from the other localities...brookiteand anatase). Samplesfrom six districts--Arkansas, France,Jamaica,Oregon,North Ireland and Surinam--have...ReynoldsMetalsCompany and AluminumCompanyof America (Arkansas),especiallyDr. John H. Mosesand Mr. Otis Clarke...(SouthernFrance); ReynoldsJamaica Mines, Ltd. (Jamaica); Dr. Wilson D. Michell (Surinam); and Dr. E. N. Cameron(North |
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