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Microcline from
Chapman Quarry, Lithonia Mining District, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Microcline
Formula:K(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Microcline data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chapman Quarry, Lithonia Mining District, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1533834
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1533834:1
GUID (UUID V4):2e4e268e-48b0-4afc-8ce1-011d47e971b1
Nearest other occurrences of Microcline
1.0km (0.6 miles) Coffey Quarry, Stone Mountain-Lithonia Mining District, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA
4.0km (2.5 miles) Wells Quarry, Stone Mountain-Lithonia Mining District, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA
7.9km (4.9 miles) Stone Mountain Quarry, DeKalb County, Georgia, USA
37.8km (23.5 miles) Red Oak Quarry, Red Oak, Fulton County, Georgia, USA
62.2km (38.6 miles) McCollum Quarry, Newman, Coweta County, Georgia, USA
68.4km (42.5 miles) Bell Cochran Prospect, Jasper County, Georgia, USA
68.5km (42.5 miles) Amphlett Mica Mine (Franklin Mine), Ball Ground, Ball Ground Mining District, Cherokee County, Georgia, USA
68.8km (42.8 miles) Enon Church Mine, Monticello, Jasper County, Georgia, USA
68.9km (42.8 miles) Arnall Prospect, Jasper County, Georgia, USA
77.8km (48.3 miles) Turner Prospect, Jasper County, Georgia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
GEORGIA STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY GARLAND PEYTON, Director...No. 61 GEOLOGY OF THE STONE MOUNTAIN-LITHONIA DISTRICT, GEORGIA By Leo Anthony Herrmann ATLANTA 1 9...4 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Department of Mines, Mining and Geology Atlanta, April 15, 1954 To His Excellency...herewith Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin No. 61, "Geology of the Stone MountainLithonia District, Georgia"...__________ . __________________ _ Location of the District .. _________ ·------------------------- __ _ Physiography
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEORGIA Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX JENNINGS...JENNINGS B. GORDON, JR. P . O . Box 6214 Rome, Georgia 30162 Although perhaps best known for its gold, rutUe...rutUe, and staurolite (the state mineral), Georgia has, in fact, almost two hundred mineral species. ...have been reported and verified from the state of Georgia. The index has been compiled from the literature...be either a report on the economic geology of Georgia or a field guide for lapidaries, it excludes commercial
Report (issue)
Natural Resources Environmental Protection Division Georgia Geologic Survey Cover and title page photo: ...Division Harold F. Reheis, Assistant Director Georgia Geologic Survey William H. McLemore, State Geologist.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . New Georgia Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... Variation diagrams of mafic rocks of the New Georgia Group ...........................................FeO*, MgO+Mnoplotofmeta-igneousrocksofthe New Georgia Group ........................................
Report (issue)
COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right - Magnetite crystal face showing...Geophysical studies Hydrology Economic geology Mining directory Environmental studies Engineering studies... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF.......... · . · . · · · · · · · · ....... -160 Microcline ....................................... · · ·
Report (issue)
DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA CUT ON FLAT SHOALS ROAD NEAR SCHOOL HOUSE, LOT 110, 15th DJST., DeKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA...SCHIS'.r. FRONTISPIECE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA S. W. McCALLIE, State Geologist BULLETIN No....REPORT ON THE FELDSPAR AND MICA DEPOSITS OF GEORGIA BY !3. L. GALPIN, Ph. D., Assistant State Geologist... THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE Geological Survey of Georgia IN THE YEAR 1915 (Ex-Officio) HIS ExCELLENCY,... JOHN M. SLATON ......... Governor of Georgia PRESIDENT OF 'I'HE BOARD HoN. PHILIP COOK ...........
Report (issue)
STATE GEORGIA DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY A. S. Furcron, Director...Bulletin Number 79 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEORGIA GEOLOGY THROUGH 1959 by Howard Ross Cramer, Arthur...University, Atlanta, Georgia ATLANTA 1967 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Department of Mines, Mining and Geology September...Governor of Georgia and Commissioner Ex-Officio State Division of Conservation Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Dear...Department of Mines, Mining and Geology entitled, "Annotated Bibliography of Georgia Geology Through 1959
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-seaimtntary rocks of Georgia ............. 12 Table 4 Uranium occurrences in...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Georgia.......................................15 Figure...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a...beyond the old canal. Schairer, 1931. Fairfield County. Proceed up hill Cameron, et on Portland Ave. from
Book (volume)
Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes it the...highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the Lookout...mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily divides into five major physiographic provinces...The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries of Gold... some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively prospected for gold since colonial
Report (issue)
GEORGIA STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES. MINING AND GEOLOGY GARLAND PEYTON, Director...BULLETIN NUMBER 48 MICA-BEARING PEGMATITES OF GEORGIA By A. S. FURCRON Assistant State Geologist and...Early-Vaughn mine, Lamar County. J '\ LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY ATLANTA...herewith Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin No. 48, "The Mica-Bearing Pegmatites of Georgia," by Dr....connection with the prosecution of the present war. Georgia is one of four or five states in the nation which
Report (issue)
I I GEORGIA STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY GARLAND PEYTON...HART COUNTY, GEORGIA by Willard Huntington Grant ATLANTA 1958 ABSTRACT GEOLOGY OF HART COUNTY, GEORGIA...GEORGIA Hart County is in northeastern Georgia, where the Seneca and Tugaloo Rivers join to form Savannah...Survey Bulletin No. 67, "The Geology of Hart County, Georgia," by Willard H. Grant. This investigation was...Hopkins University. The project was sponsored by the Georgia Geological Survey. Previous investigations by this
Journal (issue)
Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such story, published in the Mineralogical...ever be seen there again is extremely remote.” Chapman, of course, was wrong in that prediction. In August...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Clinton, NY 13323, USA New York State Museum, Research and Collections, Albany, NY 12230, USA; marian.lupulescu@nysed...New York, College at Cortland, Cortland, NY 13045, USA; robert.darling@cortland.edu Earth & Environmental...12180, USA; singej2@rpi.edu Center for Mineralogy, New York State Museum, Albany, NY 12230, USA; sccham2@yahoo...Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA. Individual mineral grains were epoxy mounted, polished...Locality Name Town County Russell St. Lawrence Macomb St. Lawrence Dekalb St. Lawrence Diana
Book (volume)
..........................................122 Georgia .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Book (volume)
..........................................122 Georgia .................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SETTING OF THE GRANITIC PEGMATITES OF NEW YORK STATE, USA Marian V. LUPULESCU§ Research and Collections, New...New York State Museum, Albany, New York 12230, USA Jeffrey R. CHIARENZELLI Department of Geology, St...13617, USA David G. BAILEY Geosciences Department, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York 13323, USA Abstract...mlupules@mail.nysed.gov Bedford in Westchester County around 1878 (Newland 1905). The second stage of...York. A brief history of pegmatite discovery and mining in New York is summarized in Table 1. Geographically
Report (issue)
geology in 1816. Amos Eaton had surveyed Rensselaer County, N. Y., and the route of the Erie Canal; further...OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST In Troy, Orleans County, titaniferous magnetite had been discovered in...value as a building stone." He notes that Essex County is practically all granite and gneiss. Gneiss he...resting upon the crystallines (Pre-Cambrian) in Essex County, N. Y., and was supposed for many years to be the...Hitchcock was to make the same mistake in his Georgia section (seep. 28). Adams briefly discusses the
Report (volume)
M.E., Mining Geology GeopJiysics ·v. Ann. Mtg., Abs. Tech. PapersAmerican Institute of Mining a d Metallurgical...Metallurgical Engi:peers, :Mining Geology Geophysics Division Ann I Meeting, Abstracts of Techpical Papers...Alberta. Canadian Inst. Mining and Metallurgy Trans.-Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Transactions...-Canadian Mining and Metallurgi~al Bulletin. Montreal, Quebec. Canadian Min. J our.-Canadian Mining Journal...Austin, Texas.· .. · , .· Ga. Acad. Sci. Bull.-Georgia Academy of Science Bulletin. Emory University,
Journal (issue)
Conklin Famous mineral localities: the Gillette quarry, Had dam Neck, Connecticut . . . . . . . . . ....altered either by nature, by construction, by further mining, or by subsequent collecting. If there is the slightest...venerable firm of rare coin auctioneers, S. & H. Chapman, 1 also of Philadelphia. The collection was listed...magnificient collection was given to the 'It was the Chapman Brothers who auctioned Clarence Bement's superb... CAI.,, CA TA L ()(.; lJ £0 li Y S. H. & H. CHAPMAN, 2009 Art h St, Phi!adelphi'a. ANO TO BE SOLD
Report (issue)
AND ORIGIN OF PEGMATITES CHEROKEE-PICKENS DISTRICT, GEORGIA Alexander J. Gunow and Gregory N. Bonn DEPARTMENT...NATURAL RESOURCES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION DIVISION GEORGIA GEOLOGIC SURVEY BULLETIN 103 Cover photo: Pegmatite&...Cherokee County. THE GEOCHEMISTRY AND ORIGIN OF PEGMATITES CHEROKEE-PICKENS DISTRICT, GEORGIA Alexander...Alexander J. Gunow and Gregory N. Bonn Georgia Department of Natural Resources J. Leonard Ledbetter, Commissioner...Division Harold F. Reheis, Assistant Director Georgia Geologic Survey William H. Mclemore, State Geologist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Werner (1749–1817), the influential professor of mining and mineralogy at the Bergakademie in Freiberg...Baicheng. Diopside from the Handan iron mine, Wu’an County, Handan Prefecture, Hebei Province, occurs in crystals...specimens is from the Dattaw mine, Mogok, Pyin-Oo-Lwin district, Mandalay Division. It consists of green crystals...very fine crystals of diopside associated with microcline have come from Alchuri (sometimes spelled Alchori)...found at Khapalu (also spelled Khaplu), Ghangche district. Other Pakistani localities that have produced
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sachusetts : 708 Batholith, Casto quadrangle, Idaho 686 Lithonia gneiss (and Stone Mountain granite Boulder-San...Boulder-San Juan discordant belt of pluof mesozone), Georgia 710 Prospect porphyritic granite gneiss (and tons...Bald Rock batholith, California 705 Mackenzie district, Northwest TerriSnowbank stock, Minnesota 707...Paleozoic pluton of mesozone (Stone Mountain granite, Georgia) Geology of part of Haliburton-Bancroft area, Canadian...associated with a diorite stock in the La Plata district (Eckel, 1949, p. 39) and breccia zones on one
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
parked in the road leading to the quarry which stopped the quarry trucks from entering." —Noie dated...label with specimen. GEORGIA — We have received a packet of the famous Georgia staurolites (Fairy Crosses)...Crosses) which come from Fannin County, Georgia. There were 25 xls in the packet—all loose with sharp edges...Peoria, 111., reads: "Went down to the fluorite district around Rosiclare, (Hardin Co.) 111. Found 22 more...Brown's letter. Part of the clipping reads: Strip-mining operations 5 miles southeast of Knoxville are unearthing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
arch of the Palermo mine, North Groton, Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242...large scale, there has been enough prospecting and mining activity to uncover many important mineral localities...collector. Prospecting, granite quarrying, and mining probably peaked before the turn of the twentieth...pegmatite prospecting and mining were revived during World War II, with some mining continuing into the early...at 15:01 05 January 2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz
Report (volume)
it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish...Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards, Tallahassee. Georgia..........Dr. S. W. McCallie, Atlanta. Illinois...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
K-feldspar textures observed during the sanidine-microcline transition across metamorphic zones. This study...sanidine, “tweed” orthoclase, irregular microcline, and regular microcline. A comparison is made [14] with the...K-feldspars, but not all, are pseudomorphs of microcline after sanidine, with complex intergrowth textures...in the 16th century [20,21], the Guanajuato Mining District is a rich belt of silver-lead-zinc mineralization...famous epithermal silver-gold mineralization of the district. The stratigraphy, tectonics, and geochronology
 
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