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Zircon from
Baringer Hill Mine, Bluffton, Llano County, Texas, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fergusonite2 photos of Zircon associated with Fergusonite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Baringer Hill Mine, Bluffton, Llano County, Texas, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (3 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:196453
Long-form Identifier:1:3:196453:0
GUID (UUID V4):e516f324-f740-4f75-b249-7465849832e8
Nearest other occurrences of Zircon
4.4km (2.7 miles) Kingsland Granite Company Quarry (Petrick Quarry), Llano County, Texas, USA
7.2km (4.5 miles) Badu Hill quarry, Llano, Llano County, Texas, USA
10.9km (6.7 miles) Clear Creek pegmatite, Burnet County, Texas, USA
11.4km (7.1 miles) Silver Creek Mine, Burnet County, Texas, USA
36.2km (22.5 miles) Rode Ranch pegmatite, Llano County, Texas, USA
References
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Journal (issue)
collection. Photo: 5.1.Pekov. The Baringer Hill Pegmatite Llano County, Texas Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com...com Introduction This article on the Baringer Hill pegmatite does not contain new or addition historical...put together for two reasons. Recently some Baringer Hill specimens from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural...purchased along with other Texas minerals. Also a collecting field trip to the Llano area was carried out during...possibly similar rare-earth pegmatite collecting in Llano and Burnet counties. It was hoped that such a compilation
Journal (issue)
..................... 5 The Baringer Hill Pegmatite, Llano County, Texas ..............................online and find a list of U.S. Representatives from Texas. There will be addresses, phone, and FAX numbers...in their district. Fortunately we have several Texas Representatives who will accept an e-mail from you...increase. Rep. Ted Poe (R) also allows emails from Texas constituents, not just his District. I believe Gene...Gene Green (D) does also. The following additional Texas Representatives appeared to accept my e-mails to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(1889) for material from the pegmatite at Baringer Hill, Texas. If a true type species existed, it would...(1953) utilized Harvard Museum specimens from Baringer Hill in his study, all of which matched the descriptions...Frondel also collected material to augment the Baringer Hill samples, but this additional material no longer...Frondel from Iimori); and (4) Baringer Hill pegmatite, Bluffton, Llano, Texas (four, one of which is known...Frondel (1953), one each from Wodgina and the Baringer Hill pegmatite, and are likely included in the samples
Report (volume)
BULLETIN 450 MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE LLANO-BURNET REGION, TEXAS WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE PRE-CAMBRIAN GEOLOGY........................ 14 Schists and gneisses (Llano series).................................. . 14 Divisions... ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. PLATE I. Geologic map of Texas............................................ 7 II...economic map showing locations of Burnet and Llano quadrangles, Texas.........................................Economic and geologic map of I/lano quadrangle, Texas........ In pocket IV. A, Assimilation of schist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NEBRASKA NORTH DAKOTA, OKLAHOMA, SOUTH DAKOTA AND TEXAS BY MARGARET COOPER CONTENTS Page Page 1. Foreword...Part 2, and Part 3 258 Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas and Section 2. Additional References 259 United...South Dakota, and Texas 262 souri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas 299 FOREWORD...Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas. It is Part 4 of a comprehensive bibliography planned...Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Texas; Index II, Geographical Index for Arkansas, Iowa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology Vol. 59, 1964, pp. 1348-1360 A NEW, BARINGER HILL-TYPE, FROM THE CENTRAL A. J. EHLMANN, RARE-EARTH...RARE-EARTH MINERAL PEGMATITE REGION, TEXAS J. L. WALPER, AND J. WILLIAMS CONTENTS PAGE Abstract ....Ranch pegmarite, in the Central Mineral Region of Texas has made possiblethe detailed study of an occurrencequite...occurrencequite similar to the famous Baringer Hill pegrnatite,now floodedby the waters of BuchananLake. The...apparently similar to the "red rock" of the Baringer Hill pegmatite. Cyrtolite and fergusoniteoccur disseminatedin
Journal (issue)
Pegmatites Lake Buchanan, Llano County, Texas Art Smith 9118 Concho Str. Houston, Texas 77036 Ray Stegemoller...Box 201, Canine Road Marble Falls, Texas 78654 .7 l Llano County has long been known for its rare-earth...nl996 .. Texas resulted in extremely low water levels in Lake Buchanan...Mexico • Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston, Texas 77036 In the fall of 1996 when I purchased part...former Chief Geologist for Texas Gulf at their Frasch sulfur mine at New Gulf, Texas, I noticed a small vial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CONCENTRIC PATTERNS IN THE GRANITES OF THE LLANO-BURNET REGION, TEXAS BY DAVID K E P P E L CONTENTS Abstract.................... Fine-grained granites of the Llano region............................................993 994 994 972 DAVID KEPPEL----GRANITES OF LLANO-BURNET REGION General statement................................................ 8. Index map of Llano-Burnet uplift.....................................pre-Cambrian coarse-grained granites in the Llano-Burnet uplift of central Texas have been studied with special attention
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HYDROXYL SUBSTITUTION IN THORITE AND ZIRCON* Cr.rrrono FnoNoet, H araard lJ n'itersity, Cambr'idge...stands in an analogous relation to zircon. INrnorucrroN Thorite, like zircon, is surrounded by a difiuse nomenclatural...Machintosh (Am. Jour. Sci.36, 461, 1888). Henderson County, North Carolina. Calciothorite Brdgger (Geol. fd...(New York Acad. Sci. Trans. 8, 185, 1889). Baringer Hill, Texas. [Name intended as a synonym of thorogummite...Mackintosh (Am. Jour. Sci.46, 98, 1893). Baringer Hill, Texas. A supposed later occurrence described by
Journal (issue)
"01ii;'fllcd mine I, r Lhcr Uuu, 11 roi:t:lure-,amorpl1.0miblob or...(14 meters) in length were reported from the Etta Mine in South Dakota (see figure 2). and one large crystal...cadmium sulfide. They are both found at Sterling Hill and Franklin (New Jersey) almost exclusively as...Huizing, 534 I Thrasher Dr, Cincinnati OH 45247 USA Please, make checks payable to Mineralogical Almanac...1907, Endicott discoYered amazon stone in Custer County, aquamarine and rose quartz at the Wild Rose claim
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
uraninite in vein depositsin the copper King mine, Larimer county, colorado. It is also associatedwith asphaltic...asphaltic pellets from sediments in Texas and Oklaholna. In many Colorado Plateau mines cofiinite and uraninite...and isostructural with zircon; material from the Arrowhead mine in Mesa County, Colorado, has ao:6'94...ore from the La Sar No. 2 mine, Mesa County, Colorado, which gave a zircon-typ e tc-raydifiraction powder...of high-grade uranium ore from the La Sal No. 2 mine was received at the U. S. vanadium company processingmill
Report (issue)
100.00 81.46 (1) Tuolumne River, California, USA; recalculated to 100.00% from original total of 97...a detrital mineral in sediments. Association: Zircon, monazite, gadolinite, fergusonite, uraninite,...elsewhere. In the USA, from the Baringer Hill pegmatite, 26 km west of Burnet, Llano Co., Texas; at St. Peters...Canada, as large but crude crystals from the McDonald mine, Hybla, and at Wilberforce, Ontario. Additional
Report (issue)
379(3) X-ray Powder Pattern: Kingman, Arizona, USA. 3.104 (vs), 2.808 (m+), 5.52 (m), 3.79 (m), 3.276...microcline. Fluocerite, fergusonite, gadolinite, zircon, magnetite, allanite, °uorite, quartz, Ä Distribution:...Russia. In the USA, in the Baringer Hill pegmatite, 26 km west of Burnet, Llano Co., Texas; in the Snow°ake...Snow°ake feldspar mine, Teller Co., and the White Cloud pegmatite, South Platte district, Je®erson Co., Colorado;
Report (issue)
Monazite, gadolinite, thalenite, euxenite, allanite, zircon, biotite, magnetite. Distribution: Widespread...Falun. In Finland, from Laurinmäki. From the Blum mine, Ilmen Mountains, Southern Ural Mountains, Russia...elsewhere. In the USA, from the Baringer Hill pegmatite, 26 km west of Burnet, Llano Co., Texas; in the Champion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geochronologie Study of the Lone Grove Pluton from the Llano Uplift, Texas1 by R. E. ZARTMAN2 Division of Geological...some igneous and metamorphic rocks from the Llano Uplift, Texas, was undertaken to investigate, in detail...granitic pluton and surrounding rocks from the Llano Uplift, Texas, suggests that this area has been involved...earliest recognition of Precambrian rocks in central Texas was by T. B. Comstock (1890), who applied the terms...Sidney Paige (1911, 1912) made a geologic map of the Llano-Burnet quadrangles and redefined the major metamorphic
Report (issue)
By FRANK L. HESS. GEOGRAPHY. The Brinton arsenic mine is located on the south slope of Lick Ridge, one...of the Appalachian Mountains, at Brinton, Floyd County, Va., about 14 miles southeast of Christiansburg...(See fig. 33.) So far as is known this is the only mine in the eastern United States which has mined arsenic...shipment to arsenic plants located at other points. The mine is reached from Christiansburg by a very good mountain...which the only steep grades are within a mile of the mine. According to the Survey's topographic map of this
Report (issue)
(1) Ytterby, Sweden. (2) Douglas Co., Colorado, USA. (3) Near Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture, Japan; by electron... °uorite, fergusonite, yttrialite, chevkinite, zircon. Distribution: Numerous localities worldwide:...Salzburg. In the USA, in the Clear Creek pegmatite, Burnet Co., and the Baringer Hill pegmatite, 26 km...of Burnet, and at Rode Ranch, near Blu®ton, Llano Co., Texas; in Arizona, near Hackberry, Mohave Co.; on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
North America; the rare earth pegmatitesb of Llano County (Texas), Minas Geraes(BraziI), Ytterby (Sweden)...A. L Genesis of mica pegmatite deposits, Latah County, Idaho: , Econ. Geology,vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 41-58...30Lovering, T. S., Magmatic chalcopyrite, Park County, Montana: Econ. Geology,vol 19, pp 636-640, 1924...Geology and mineral resources of eastern Cassia County, Idaho: Brill. Id.aho Bta. Mines ond.Geology,vol...Flint, George M., Famous mineral localities; Beryl Hill, Grafton, New Hampshire: ,42. Mi.neral,., vol. 4
Report (issue)
which have been formed to exploit them. WASHINGTON COUNTY. AMERICAN MOLYBDENUM COMPANY'S PROPERTY. Location...deposit is situated on the south slope of a gentle hill 500 or 600 feet high, overlooking the stretch of...Molybdenum Company. HANCOCK COUNTY. The known deposits of molybdenum in Hancock County lie along the north and...high, known as Catherines Hill, has been prospected to some extent. The hill shows several benches with...to the top of the hill. Molybdenite is said to be found also at the foot of the hill. It occurs in flakes
Journal (issue)
............ 3 Spring Collecting Trip to the Texas Hill Country .......................................and desserts. I Spring Collecting Trip to the Texas Hill Country by Art Smith artsmithite@msn.com Member... knew that making a collecting trip to central Texas May 12–18 might be pushing my luck a bit as far...still there but not as strong. Heading northeast to Llano, I decided to take the Willow City scenic loop and...right, though I was close to it. In Llano, I stopped by the Llano Uplift Rockshop and saw that it had
Report (volume)
Monazite deposits in calcareous rocks, northern Lemhi County, Idaho: Idaho Bur. Mines and Geology Pamph. 99... p. 76-77. Gadolinite from Llano County, Tex., and from Henderson County, N. C., has been mined and used...Minerals of the rare-earth metals at Baringer Hill, Llano County, Tex.: U.S. (}eol. Survey Bull. 340,...eschynite, ellsworthite, columbite, monazite, and zircon have been found in the gold-tin placer deposits...deposits of the Mountain Pass district, San Bernardino County, Calif: U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 261, 75
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sfrom Mariposa County, Californi.a, The North Duncan gold mine near llornitos, Mariposa County, California...collected in April 1931, from the Chestnut Flat Feldspar Mine near Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The flattened...Boringer Hill, Teras, Pegmatite. The Baringer Hill pegmatite lies near the center of the Llano or Cbntral...Mineral Region about 100 miles northwest of Austin, Texas. The pegmatite is intruded into granite which in...intruded into pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks. Baringer Hill is famous for its yield of rare earth minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
War II induced operators to work the long dormant mine in 1943 and 1944. Unwatering and underground mining...pegmatite as a whole has previously been made. The mine lies 550 feet N. 48o E. of the railroad station...all of North Branford, Connecticut, operated the mine for mica, and the Sandy Ridge Mica and Mining Company...15th Street N. W., Washington, D. C., worked the mine in November and December 1944' The main working...in mapping, and the operators of the Branchville mine also cooperated generously and wholeheartedly. Srnucrune
Report (volume)
North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel Hill. North Dakota... .Dr. A. G. Leonard, Grand Forks..........Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C. Texas............Dr. William B. Phillips, Austin. Vermont...See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Report (volume)
uranium in the Lassen lavas is concentrated in zircon. 207 208 3 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF URANIUM...proportion of minor accessories (sphene, apatite, and zircon). Part of the uranium and thorium is interstitial...for the following observation. At the W. Wilson mine, "a few secondary minerals, mainly metatorbernite...and secondarily by an increase in the amount of zircon. The rocks of the New Hampshire magma series of...certain accessory minerals of granite, such as zircon, allanite, sphene, and apatite. Much of the uranium
 
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