 | | Report (issue) | | Weinrich Minerals (danweinrich.com) had many superb galena specimens from a strike “within the last few months”...show large, sharp, lustrous spinel-law twins of galena. Now an April 8 update to the Weinrichs’ site announces...announces that more, brand-new (i.e. post-Tucson) galena specimens have been taken from the same occurrence...other specimens showing brilliantly lustrous cubic galena crystals set among much smaller crystals, with...$75—but both represent an upwelling of serious galena specimens from this famous leadmining region. |  | Pfaff, Katharina, Hildebrandt, Ludwig H., Leach, David L., Jacob, Dorrit E., Markl, Gregor (2010) Formation of the Wiesloch Mississippi Valley-type Zn-Pb-Ag deposit in the extensional setting of the Upper Rhinegraben, SW Germany. Mineralium Deposita, 45 (7) 647-666 doi:10.1007/s00126-010-0296-5 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | extensional setting of the Upper Rhinegraben, SW Germany Katharina Pfaff & Ludwig H. Hildebrandt & David...Zn–Pb–Ag deposit in the Wiesloch area, Southwest Germany, is controlled by graben-related faults of the...bodies consisting of sphalerite, banded sphalerite, galena, pyrite, sulfosalts (jordanite and geocronite)...Geowissenschaften, Wilhelmstr. 56, 72074 Tübingen, Germany e-mail: markl@uni-tuebingen.de L. H. Hildebrandt...und Umweltschutz, Im Köpfle 7, 69168 Wiesloch, Germany formation waters. The ascending brines originally |  | | 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...Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite (fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A...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. |  | | 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...Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite (fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A...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. |  | | Journal (issue) | | windstorm. In the moming 4 Weaver and a soldier bad to go looking for the horses, some of which could...great "collecting" story nonetheless. Other minerals bad been collected even earlier in Arizona, almost immediately...Silliman at Yale College in Connecticut. Silliman, who bad himself visited Arizona and collected specimens in...included a detailed review of all the species that bad been discovered in Arizona Territory up to that time...with linarite and chrysocolla." Bixby must bave bad a collector working for him in Arizona, because in |  | | Book (volume) | | are all undisturbed sedimentaries: sandstone, limestone, shale and clay, with the oldest formation lying...Eastern Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout...petrified wood, etc.; N 20 mi., all area of the Little Bad landsvertebrate fossil remains; Pine Ridge, areaQuartz...Blue Springs): all regional gravel pits and quarriesCalcite, Quartz crystals; SE 3 mi., quarry on...petrified wood. STEELE CITY, area gravel pits, quarries, and stream gravelsagate, chalcedony, jasper |  | | Book | | INDUSTRIAL MINERA THE LEAD MINES AND QUARRIES OF MINERA Produced by the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust... i I II. Geology, Mining Development and Limestone Caves Peter Appleton . . . . . . . . . . . . ...volume will learn, the history of lead mining and limestone quarrying in and around Minera embraces many centuries...legends of a Roman presence may yet be found. Limestone quarrying equally has a long and distinguished...Township, but this volume describes mines and quarries outside that strict confine - especially the ventures |  | | Book (volume) | | in association with Gold, such as Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite and some Sphalerite. BALDWIN...quarry Barite, Calcite, Fluorite (purple cubes), Galena. CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY AREA: stream gravelsgemmy...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...between Lavonia and Bowersvilledark green Muscovite, Galena, Quartz. FULTON COUNTY BIRMINGHAM, area of N part |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral collecting heritage. Its numerous limestone quarries, gravel pits, strip mines. and rock outcrops...anglesite, calcite, cerussite (crystals), dolomite, galena, goethite, hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz...Waukon, Mineral Creek = Clem Byrnes farm and New Galena, 9 mi. N of Waukon, W 112 N W 1/4 sec. 13, T. 99...anglesite* (pseudomorphs after galena), calcite (crystals), cerussite (coatings), galena, goethite (after marcasite...National Gypsum mine, Fort Dodge, Webster Co. New Galena = Waukon, Mineral Creek, Allamakee Co. North Buena |  | | Book (volume) | | sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...mines⎯Barite, Calcite, Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Smithsonite, Strontianite, Witherite;...mines⎯Fluorite, Galena, Pyrite; e E, numerous mines⎯Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite, Silver...area mines⎯Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Smithsonite, Witherite. This Fluorspar |  | | Book (volume) | | sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...City Geode Location WARSAW, area rd. cuts, pits quarries, gravels, banks along regional creeks and streams...mines⎯Barite, Calcite, Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Smithsonite, Strontianite, Witherite;...mines⎯Fluorite, Galena, Pyrite; e E, numerous mines⎯Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite, Silver...area mines⎯Cerussite, Chalcopyrite, Fluorspar, Galena, Pyrite, Silver, Smithsonite, Witherite. This Fluorspar |  | | 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 (volume) | | Fall River Co., all regional side rds., look for limestone outcrops and ridgesFairhill agates; in Bull...pitsCarnotite. 439 South Dakota HOT SPRINGS: area quarriesCalcite and chalcedony (both fluorescent), Gypsum;...US 14A, the Broken Butte Gold MineArsenopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite. Visitors tour the mine...(b) other area minesArsenopyrite, Cummingtonite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite. Visitors tour the mine...minesAtacamite, Cerargyrite, Cerussite, Fluorite, Galena, Lead carbonates, Matlockite, Plattnerite, Pyromorphite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | pdf 5 4 3 2 1 VOL. 29, 1917, P L . 20 GALENA LIMESTONE QUARRY, NEENAH, WISCONSIN View looking southwest...B E R 30, 19 18 FLUORSPAR IN THE ORDOVICIAN LIMESTONE OF W ISCONSIN 1 BY RUFUS 'MATHER Ba GG ( Read............................ 393 Location of the quarries and glacial deposits therein....................summer by the writer while examining the galena limestone quarries at Neenah, Wisconsin, when on a field...great expanse of territory covered,by the Niagara limestone in Illinois and Iowa.” Twenty years later, when |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | as the recrystallized material of crystalline limestone such as marble, a metamorphic rock. Not only the...usually exhibit the following sequence: dolomite, galena, sphalerite, chalcedony, marcasite, and calcite...alterations, many of them occurring as pseudomorphs : galena to cerussite, pi. 2, fig. 1 sphalerite to smithsonite...lead carbonate cerussite from the lead sulfide galena, (plate 2, fig. 1) or of chlorite from garnet,...granular galena with the form and structure of limestone and formed by the replacement of the limestone by |  | | Book | | except with a competent guide. Sometimes the air is bad in abandoned mines and is not safe to breathe. ...was not mined until 1842. Lead has been mined at Galena in Jo Daviess County area since the year 1700....—The Midwest Div. of Vulcan Materials Co. has a limestone quarry 15 miles southwest of Chicago’s Loop area... LEGEND 1— Limestone quarry 2— Sand and gravel plant 3— Limestone quarry 4— Limestone quarry S— Limestone...Limestone quarry 6— Limestone quarry 7— Limestone quarry 8— Limestone quarry 9— 10— 11— 12— 13— 14— 15— |  | | Report (issue) | | All-Metals mine Gibson Road (western) occurrence Gill quarries Highway 507 road-cut Fraser quarry Nu-World uranium...quarry Cruikshank quarry Wiarton-Oliphant Road quarries Albemarle zinc occurrence Hope Bay quarry Collingwood...Ojibway Mine St. Marys quarries Ingersoll quarries Drumbo Mine Guelph-Hespeler quarries Georgetown-Forks of...quarry Credit Forks celestite occurrence Milton quarries Waterdown area Mount Nemo quarry Nelson quarry...179 Port Colborne quarries Cayuga-Caledonia area Cayuga quarry Haldimand quarries Hagersville mine Caledonia |  | Cooper, D. C., Cameron, D. G., Young, B., Cornwell, J. D., Bland, D. J. (1991) Mineral exploration in the Cockermouth area, Cumbria. Part 1: regional surveys. Mineral Reconnaissance Programme Report 118. British Geological Survey | Report (issue) | | the survey area Lateral variation in the Fourth Limestone Direction of ice movement deduced from glacial...abandoned and restored. Two large modem quarries produce limestone, mainly as crushed rock aggregate and...roadstone, and the area includes many abandoned limestone quarries. Sandstone was formerly worked for building...most detailed recent study of the Carboniferous Limestone is that by Stabbins (1969). The geochemistry of...revision geological mapping of the Carboniferous Limestone north of Cockermouth during 1986-7 revealed that |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | argeittiferous galena and the second for hiibnerite ($or tungsten). Minerals reported: galena, hiibnerite...1943. Species reported: barite (clear crystals), galena, and chalcopyrite. (Map.) . 1946. The Alice zinc...snzithsonite, greenockite, limonite, dolomite, and galena. . 1946. Minerals of the Fredericktown, Missouri...miles south of St. Louis. Major species reported: galena, marcasite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, siegenite, sphalerite...Minerals column on page 478 of the same issue. . 1989. Galena from Mississippi Valley-type deposits. Rocks & |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | -#..., PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ALABAMA—Galena occurs in limestone 5 miles west of Jacksonville in Calhoun...coating colorless calcite xls and all on dark gray limestone. "Found at a coal strip mine about 5 miles southwest...his town. KENTUCKY—Golden calcite xls in brown limestone were found around Fort Knox, Hardin Co., Ky.,...other." MARYLAND — Azurite, as bluish veins in limestone, have been found at the old Liberty Copper mine... (gypsum). The specimen comes from the gypsum quarries at Alabaster, Iosco Co., Mich. MINNESOTA—Manicato |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 705 A galena-wulfenite-uraniferous-asphaltite horizon in the Magnesian Limestone of Nottinghamshire...Summary. The top 2 inches of the Lower Magnesian Limestone is feebly but persistently mineralized along its...from Nottingham to Doncaster, predominantly with galena and a little cerussite, frequently with uraniferous...small amounts of metallic sulphides, principally galena, blende, and pyrite, and while studying these,...persistent galena horizon was recognized in the topmost inch or two of the Lower Magnesian Limestone, immediately |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cryolite Cyanite Dolomite Enstatite Epidote Fluorite Galena Garnet Glaucophane GoId2 Grithite Graphite Hematite...epiilote and hematite are common while fluorite and galena are more or less abundant. Locerrrv Beacon Pole...Chlorite Cryolite Cumberlandite Epidote Fluorite Galena ' Hematite Hornblende Ilmenite Limonite Magnetite...boulders with sphalerite, silerite and cryolite. With galena and sphalerite. Altering to magnetite and ilmenite..." crystalline, with chalcopyrite, fluorite and galena. 6 Schorl in quartz at contact with gneiss, dichroite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Keller discoveredwhat he thought was dickite in a limestone quarry south of Columbia, and a few days later...the same mineral was found by Tarr in another limestone quarry southwest of Columbia. Microscopic studies...mineral in geodes and geodial cavities in several quarries and cuts but, altho some of the material possessedthe...nodule containing the dickitewas residual from limestone and occurred at the bottom of a white clay deposit...from lead ores, Flat River, Mo. Black square is galena. X450. Frc. 4. Dickite from chert nodule, Katy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and wurtzite. Pseudomorphs of sphalerite after galena, tetrahedrite, barite, and calcite have been found;...diverse array of deposit types that include skarns, limestone replacements, Mississippi Valleytype, volcanogenic...crystals to 2 cm associated with blue fluorite, galena, and water-clear gypsum have been found in recent...2 cm from the Bull Run and Virginia Trap Rock quarries, Loudoun County; the Manassas quarry in Prince...including fluorite, barite, calcite, dolomite, and galena (Kearns and Campbell 1978). Similar though less |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | cerussite, chalcopyrite, fluorite, argentiferous galena, sphalerite, pyromorphite Old Dominion soapstone...chalcopyrite, chlorite, cobaltite, dolomite, erythrite, galena, ilmenite, magnesite, magnetite, talc Stony Point...dolomite, pyrite, sphalerite Augusta County Belmont limestone quarry—Staunton calcite crystals (some with pyrite...cryptomelane, psilomelane, pyrolusite Simons limestone quarry (Valley stone quarry)—Staunton aragonite...River albite, apatite, chalcopyrite, clinozoisite, galena, garnet, sphalerite, sphene, zoisite Little Friar |
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