 | | Report (issue) | | specimens of grayish green, botryoidal, copper-rich aragonite collected in 2012 on levels 07-08 of the Lina...job of augmenting one’s suite of “odd-looking aragonite” (this could be a major collecting specialty)...after azurite specimens from Chessy, France. Aragonite (copper-rich), 7 cm, from the Lina mine, Alzen...Gremmelsbach, Oberrötenbacher Tal, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Mintreasure specimen and photo. And before leaving... from Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany. Mintreasure specimen and photo. Yes indeed, one |  | | 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...Mineral Occurrences' column. The specimens sent are aragonite and all react under both long and short wave and...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collecting value remains. Probably much of this bad reputation is due to the more or less novice collectors...) , Psilomelane, Quartz, Zincite Carbonates: Aragonite, Calcite, Dolomite, Hydrozincite, Malachite Silicates:...Sphalerite xls.: W e turn now to the familiar dolomite limestone which furnishes Franklin collectors with most...usually found in the aforementioned dolomite limestone. The specimens found ranged up to clear crystals...graphite, in contrast to the usual scales in limestone found at Franklin. It is unnecessary to mention |  | | Report (issue) | | ........ ...... ..... .................... 7 Limestone mines .................... ....... ............................. .. ... .. ... .. ....... 17 Limestone reactivity with SO 2 ••.•••••••.• •..•.•• ••••••...of six-state area showing: A) Outcrop area of limestone and dolomite in the Ohio River Valley; B) Outcrop/subcrop...formations containing mineable thicknesses of limestone having more than 90 percent CaCO 3 .............10-11 5. Map of Indiana showing locations of stone quarries and coal-fired electric-generating stations . |  | | Report (issue) | | ........ ...... ..... .................... 7 Limestone mines .................... ....... ............................. .. ... .. ... .. ....... 17 Limestone reactivity with SO 2 ••.•••••••.• •..•.•• ••••••...of six-state area showing: A) Outcrop area of limestone and dolomite in the Ohio River Valley; B) Outcrop/subcrop...formations containing mineable thicknesses of limestone having more than 90 percent CaCO 3 .............10-11 5. Map of Indiana showing locations of stone quarries and coal-fired electric-generating stations . |  | | Report (issue) | | CT Concept & Design Maximilian Glas, Starnberg, Germany English Edition © 2003 by Lapis International,...Connecticut, wrote the text for a photo essay on limestone cave formations that appears in this issue (page...Collection Victor Yount; photo Jeff Scovil Printed in Germany Licensed edition in the English language of extraLapis...Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany German Edition © Christian Weise Verlag, Munich, Germany ISBN 3-921 656-44-3...COLLABORATION WITH LAPIS MAGAZINE, CHRISTIAN WEISE VERLAG, GERMANY AND LAPIS INTERNATIONAL, USA To Our Readers: |  | | 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...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);...any of the islands are sands, some gravel, and limestone, including deposits of calcareous algae and the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral collecting heritage. Its numerous limestone quarries, gravel pits, strip mines. and rock outcrops...chalcedony as “coldwater agate”). Shellsburg area, most quarries, road cuts, and natural outcrops; Devonian-age...quarry = Moscow quarry, Muscatine Co. West Chester limestone quarry, Washington Co. Westfield, Plymouth Co...Pints quarry, N of U.S. 20 in Raymond, large limestone quarry now closed and flooded; Devonian-age Little... Buchanan County Brandon and Littleton areas, quarries, road cuts, and natural outcrops; geodes in 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...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....countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered crystals sharply |  | | 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...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....countywide exposures of blue clay in rd. cuts, pits, quarries, excavations⎯Pyrite (clustered crystals sharply |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...employees are allowed in the quarries. For this reason alone, more quarries are closing their doors to |  | | Journal (issue) | | P.M. Saturday May 21st Field Trip - FARBER Limestone Quarry, Cork Hill Rd., Franklin, N.J. 9:00 A.M...years ago, The Farber White Limestone Quarry. Now owned and operated by Limestone Products Corp. of America...opportunity to express our thanks to the people of Limestone Products Corp. for permitting us to, once again...zinc minerals was mined in shallow pits in the limestone adjacent to the outcroppings of the primary ore...bodies on nearby Ball's Hill; and the Franklin limestone, the parent formation of the zinc ore, when within |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | Tourmaline is called Rubellite. ( Form .) Coralloidal Aragonite is called Flos Ferri. : ( Transparency.) Transparent...Barytocalcite when oblique. Ca Ö. Calcite, rhombohedral. Aragonite, prismatic. Pb 8 + 3 Pb. Ö. Leadhillite, prismatic... .. 5:36 16:35 44.00 56.00 Carbonic acid ARAGONITE { { ARGENTITE Lime .. Silver .. .. Sulphur...Erythrine. Jasper. Opal. Constantine. (Granite quarries.) Beryl. Schorl. Topaz. Crowan . (Huel Abraham...mine .) Anglesite. Just, St. Granite. Apatite. Aragonite. Asbestos. Axinite. Bismuth . Bismuthine. Bornite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bloomington, which is on U. S. Highway 70-99, the limestone quarries represent the third most highly mineralized...societies and school groups may enter just one of the quarries, and then only on Saturdays between the hours...1927). Rocks Exposed in Commercial Quarry The limestone of the Commercial quarry has two distinct faciès...color change in the limestone ( 1 2 ) . This rock was called the Sky Blue quarry limestone by Daly ( 8 ) ...is one of the most difficult to find in these quarries. AMPHIBOLE var. ACTINOLITE Monoclinic. In crystals |  | | Book (volume) | | sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...town on Crystal Glen Creek⎯geodes (lines with Aragonite, Barite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, pink Dolomite...City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...minerals⎯Alstonite, Barite, Strontianite. ELIZABETHTOWN, area⎯Aragonite (fluorescent) ROSICLARE: c area mines, especially...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine |  | | Book (volume) | | sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...town on Crystal Glen Creek⎯geodes (lines with Aragonite, Barite, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, pink Dolomite...City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...minerals⎯Alstonite, Barite, Strontianite. ELIZABETHTOWN, area⎯Aragonite (fluorescent) ROSICLARE: c area mines, especially...area⎯tripoli. VERMILION COUNTY DANVILLE, area quarries in dark shale⎯Marcasite replacement of marine |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the island and said to consist of jasper and limestone. Two nice cabochons, each iy2 inches in length... Quartz (Milky). Nice pebble found on beach. Limestone. Grayish pebble with holes bored by various marine...sists of poorly xled white calcite on dark gray limestone; the calcite fluoresces pink under the Mineralight...Mineralight. The other is a brownish impure limestone containing veins of white xline calcite; this calcite...all my fossils around Delphi, mostly in the limestone quarries, of which one is working. The rock is used |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Included is a short note on cleaning calcite and aragonite, and one on biomineralization in echinoderms (p...a focus on fabulous twins; Saint Andreasberg, Germany, to which ancient mining region in the Harz Mountains...diversity and quality of calcite crystals from limestone quarries in the American Midwest; Michigan, U.S.A...beautiful photo essay on the truly bizzare world of limestone cave formations by Sarah Bronko, a student of...technical note by R. Duthaler on cleaning calcite and aragonite comes as a distinct anticlimax, but this is succeeded |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | Minerals Apatite .............................. Aragonite.......................... Axinite ..............bodies were completely enclosed in metamorphosed limestone and could not, therefore, have an igneous source...wall and, southward of it, an area of barren limestone partly encircled by Pegmatite. The mud zone has...single crystals weathered from the sur rounding limestone in which they primarily occur. To the author’s...thought. Some collectors will remem ber the large limestone boulder that rested in one comer of the Parker |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | dolomite while the lighter portions are almost pure limestone. This condition has inspired some university students...gathered most anywhere in the quarry. The limestone quarries in this region frequently blast into old...have been found in coarse xline limestone at the Campbell limestone quarry, Texas, Baltimore Co., Md...Dark gray fossil corals have been found in the limestone at St. Paul, Ramsey Co., Minn. ROCKS AND MINERALS...NEBRASKA—Fibrous crusts of aragonite have been found in joints of limestone in the limestone quarries near Roca, Lancaster |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | to Tampa, Florida, Mr. McKown brought lovely Aragonite crystal groups, which fluoresce pale blue under...day was down into one òf the canyon-sized limestone quarries that abound in the Joliet region. The second...was generously donated by Mr. and Mrs. Richard Stromberg. Baseball, horseshoes and much 'swapping' of rocks |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have been produced from a large number of limestone quarries within the central and eastFigure 1. Celestine...associated sulfur specimens have been known from quarries exploiting Devonian-age dolostone in the immediate...Ottawa County; the Portage area of Wood County; quarries in the Lime City area; and at Put-in-Bay on South...thousands of specimens from dolomite and sandstone quarries, including the Ottawa Silica Company quarry near...Westphalia, Saxony, and the Hannover vicinity, Germany; the Haute-Mame and Wassy regions of France; and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Celestite should be anticipated at any Ohio limestone quarry. In New York state there are several localities...transparent crystals of textbook habit. In a very hard limestone along the highway near Chittenango Falls, N ....A N D MINERALS aragonite, calcite, and other minerals in the limestone quarries of Sicily. This material...maintained by local collectors working the old quarries rather than by actual quarry operations unearthing...EuroROCKS AND MINERALS pean sources such as Germany and Rumania are not producing but an occasional |
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