 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | New Hampshire Mineral Locality Index Downloaded by [University of Newcastle, Australia] at 15:01 05...Grafton County. Rob Lawrence photo, courtesy Bob Whitmore. 242 ROCKS & MINERALS lthough New Hampshire...reading Jackson (1844) on the mineralogy of New Hampshire that even at this early date there was already...activity produced new localities, renewed some old localities, and resulted in new minerals being discovered...2015 LOCATIONS BY COUNTY Belknap County Alton area: arsenopyrite, galena, quartz (crystals), sillimanite |  | | Book (edition) | | gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE |  | | Report (volume) | | Director Bulletin 738 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NEW ENGLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT...___ 89 Waldoboro, Maine____________________ Milford, N. H________________________ Westerly and Charlestown...expansion____^_________________ Geographic distribution of New England granite quarries____ Descriptions of the...___ Groton____________________________ Oriinge County __________________________ Topsham___________________________..._ Randolph ___________________________ Orleans County- _______________________ Derby Barton _ _________ |  | | Journal (issue) | | Minerals 1998: What's New Dan Weinrich www.danweinrich.com China One of the exciting new finds from China...small black micro crystals of manganbabingtonite, quartz, calcite, datolite, and inesite (identity confirmed)...(8 cm) tall, and J5/g inches (4 cm) thick. The quartz from here can also be nice; I had one large clear...specimens belong. A more recent find involves a new locality for spessartine 1998 California Show at...more than the kids, and hopefully may have started new "collecting families." 2 Mineral News I found |  | | Report (volume) | | CHIEF COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF MASSACHUSETTS, NEW HAMPSHIRE AND RHODE ISLAND BY T. NELSON DALE WASHINGTON........................................ Granitic quartz, its texture and colors....................................................................... Milford............................................................................................ New Hampshire...............................................quarries........................................... Milford............................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED $ _ . . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ALABAMA—"Received your...purple, and grey. These géodes are found in Pike County, Ala., which is about 50 miles north of Montgomery...Montgomery. I have found them scattered all over the county, but they are especially abundant just south of...rattlebox. ARIZONA—Flat doubly terminated loose smoky quartz xls coated by dark brown drusy dolomite which...made several trips to Magnet Cove (Hot Springs County) which is about 15 miles east of Hot Springs on |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | $Sl ON ^~^ -^^r^ Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS AREL DESIRED PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations:...about 35 miles northwest of Flagstaff, in Coconino County, a pineforested volcanic area. The elevation is...our intruding." ARKANSAS—"Enclosed is a very odd quartz crystal (s). It seems to be above 7 in hardness...hardness. It will make a mark on any average quartz crystal. What do you think of it? It comes from about 7...more like the average epidote group than quartz but it is quartz."—letter dated March 27, 1958. from Capt |  | | Report (issue) | | BUILDING STONE AND ROAD METAL. RECENT WORK ON NEW ENGLAND GRANITES. By T. NELSON DALE. AREA CONSIDERED...centers of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, namely, Concord, Conway, and Milford, in New Hampshire;...Hampshire; Milford, Quincy, and Rockport, in Massachusetts, and Westerly and Niantic in Rhode Island. The...also make known to geologists 356 RECENT -WOBK ON NEW ENGLAND GRANITES. 357 the results of such scientific...STATES. A report on the granite quarries of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island will follow |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE DESIRED $ _ . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ALABAMA—"For as many...Riddle's Mill Dist. (gold deposits) of Talladega County, Ala. It is 8l/ 2 x 11 and sells for Si, we believe...several recent trips to Clear Creek, San Benito County, Calif., have shown that the jadeite boulders in...Diablo Meridian, Calif., in southeastern San Benito County. The town of Hollister is 80 miles northwest of...northern San Juan County, Colorado. The mine was in a rather remote section of the county and was never worked |  | | Report (volume) | | the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green...sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully synthesized |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cm long), Beebe Hall, McCain Valley, San Diego County, California. Cal and Kerith Graeber specimen; Jeffrey...crystals that are rooted in the microcline-plagioclase-quartz wall zone Downloaded by [] at 04:12 15 May 2015...project into the white quartz core. The portion of beryl enclosed by the quartz core is often sharply...cavity suFounded by graphic granite.) Typically, smoky quartz, albite, muscovite, and microcline line the...Aquamarine (6.7 cm long), Mount Antero, Chaffee County, Colorado. Martin Zinn specimen; Jeffrey Scovil |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...4B^ Diamond M Tourmaline ^P Ruby. Sapphire O Quartz crystal ^J^ Garnet __ Azurite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | miles northeast of Wynne, Ark. They were found in a new gravel pit and are part of a log that was 24 inches...wide and 1 inch thick. Wynne, in southern Cross County, is in eastern Arkansas. CONNECTICUT—A tiny but...black columbite xl perched on top of massive smoky quartz was sent in by Mrs. Cecil B. Hoisington, Richmond...Conn."-—on label. Haddam, in central Middlesex County, is in southern Connecticut. DELAWARE — "Enclosed...intersection of Rt. 95 and Naaman's Rd., Claymont, New Castle County, Del."—item from Ed Carvalho, 1307 Penna. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...mostly in small amounts. A bed near Pyriton, Clay County, Ala., was worked for copper. One was mined near...near Stone Hill in the southern part of Cleburne County at what was called Wood's copper mine and also...some nice specimens of mariposite, and a few small quartz xls. A person has to be almost half meuntain goat...stuff and mebbe that's enuff! Broke it out of a quartz vein in mica schist (a few scattered xls of ilmenite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | World News en Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...arsenopyrite, galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite with quartz, feldspar, limonite, siderite, muscovite, biotite...road. Yellville is the county seat and is situated in about the center of the county. I do not know if this...Sea (in southern California —chiefly in Imperial County) one of the World's great geological freaks of...shores." ARKANSAS—The Morning Star mine, in Marion County, Ark., has furnished many handsome specimens of |  | | Journal (issue) | | wrote for Rocks & Minerals in 1938 about finding smoky quartz in the Crystal Peak area (Hurianek 1938). Jerry...Florissant and Lake George for amazonite and smoky quartz for the past 150 years, but few have had the...substantial cabinet-size combination of amazonite and smoky quartz, composed of large, well-formed crystals associated...aesthetic small-cabinet cluster of transparent smoky quartz and lustrous amazonite, ca. 13 cm across. tif#l:i...Author's photo. SPECIALIZING IN AMAZONITE & SMOKY QUARTZ SPECIMENS JERRY HURIANEK THELMA HURIANEK CALL |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Diamond M Tourmaline fQl Ruby, O Sapphire Quartz crystal 'y^ Garnet — Azu rite, Malachite, Chrysocolla...Edition Russell P. MacFall Thomas Y. Crowell New York / Company Established 1834 Copyright ©...West, the broad plains and the verdant hills of New England hold inestimable treasures of living things...doorstep in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable |  | | Book (edition) | | channels of trade, transportation and consumption, new utilizations, and recent discoveries, have, to a...most part, have been progressive. In addition to new finds of valuable deposits, many of the occurrences...has therefore seemed advisable to pre sent such new information as may bring the whole subject more nearly...gas fields occur in almost every State except in New England and a few Southern States, but the discoveries...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | World News on Mineral Occurrences Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...turned out to be selenite xls and tiny calcite, quartz, and fluorite xls. These crystals are micro mounts...thickness, which were composed of plagioclase, quartz, and a glassy cleavable mineral. A cavity of crystallized...been quarried 2\/2 Newark, New Castle ground at Tweed's mill, granular quartz miles north of Co., Del...., and near Newark. FLORIDA—Brownish jaspery quartz pebbles, found at Panama City, Bay Co., Fla., have |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINDS ARE DESIRED £ . . . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations: x l...agate comes from the top of a mountain in Fulton County, about 5 miles southwest of Elizabeth, Ark. W e...the road."—on label. Elizabeth is in S/W Fulton County in northern Arkansas. CALIFORNIA—Art Tatum. Rock...call it black jasper. Some rockhounds from Kern County here have complete displays with the coal-black...slab of deep black color. They are both basanite (quartz) ; can also be called black jasper. Another name |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items On New Finds Are Desired. Alabama—J. R. Lee of Bridgeport...few rock crystals, also pale smoky crystals, from the Center, Cherokee County, Ala., locality and that they...Madison County. "Beryl: as light golden crystals, fractured but gemmy, from near Hissop, Coosa County." Arizona—A...Las Vegas, Nev., publicity director of the Clark County Gem Collectors, carried the following paragraph...locality is the south shore of Lake Mead, Mohave County, Ariz. Another letter from Mr. Drury contained |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Mineral Occurrences ITEMS ON NEW FINOS ARE. DESIRED $ . . . PLEASE SEND THEM I N . Abbreviations: xl=crystal...tourmaline in quartzite, lound in an old roadbed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, on Highway...at the barite mines at Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. "A sample was sent to the Smithsonian...xline=crvstalline the literature, I find this to be not only a new record for Magnet Cove, but also for Arkansas." "Pickeringite...mineral books I have, and that is Tumucari, Quay Co., New Mexico, and Colorado City, Colorado." CALIFORNIA |  | | Journal (issue) | | 00 Lunar Mineral Found at Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey Tony Nikischer tony@excaliburmineral.com ...recently been confirmed from Franklin, Sussex Co., New Jersey. Samples of pyroxferroite were originally...mission rocks, and the mineral was described as a new species in 1970. Recent work on pyroxmangite [Mn2+SiO3]...[Mn2+SiO3] and related species found at Franklin, New Jersey, unequivocally confirms the presence of the...the well known Mn-end member pyroxmangite, and the new Fe-end-member pyroxferroite, be considered a series |  | | Report (volume) | | Geodes______________________________ 51 Secondary quartz on joint faces______________ Veinlets of zeolite_______________...quarries and their product Continued. Litchfiekl County Continued. Page. Warren _______________________...Comstock prospect ____________ ____ 76 Middlesex County-_ _______ 70 Middietowu_______________1___________...__ 76 Ben venue quarries____________ _ 76 New Haven County - __________ 78 Ansouia _______________________..._____ Holhrook quarry_________________________ New London County____________________________ Groton |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...landsvertebrate fossil remains; Pine Ridge, areaQuartz concretions, agates, petrified wood, fossils, etc |
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