 | | Book (volume) | | THE SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...Search of a Whale Wild Season Incident at Hawk’s Hill Wilderness Empire Johnny Logan The Wilderness...The Southwestern Quadrant Arizoni, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisicna, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma...Mineral Location Numbers Arizona Arkansas California Colorado 258 Louis B30 ana HOW TO USE...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible |  | | Report (volume) | | and sapphire are considered precious gems. Some opal is precious, but most varieties are semiprecious...OP HARDNESS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Talc Gypsum Calcite Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz...streams, and eventually deposited as alluvial gravels. Opal and agate are formed from aqueous solutions. Diamonds...localities in California where diamonds have been found are: Smith River, Del Norte County; Trinity River... Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville and Webber Hill, El Dorado |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...included contain such specific details as farm roads, mountain paths, stretches of stream beds, and easily identifiable...Johnson, of Napa, California; Norman and Betty Lemkau of Castro Valley, California; Herbert V. Corbett...thousands of amateurs venture every year into the mountains and deserts of North America, they enjoy not only...and Washington beaches, the Mojave desert of California and the Sonoran desert of Arizona, the lake beaches |  | | Book (edition) | | America's Mountain: Pikes Peak and the Pikes Peak Region Seven Keys to the Rocky Mountains Historical...Montrose County Colorado National Monument Mesa County Dinosaur National Monument Moffat County Florissant...Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Teller County Great Sand Dunes National Monument Saguache and...National Monument Montezuma County Yucca House National Monument Montezuma County NATIONAL PARKS IN COLORADO...COLORADO Mesa Verde National Park Montezuma County Rocky Mountain National Park Grand and Larimer Countie~ |  | | Book (edition) | | Guide Colorado Rocks, Minerals, Fossils America’s Mountain: Pikes Peak and the Pikes Peak Region American...Colorado National Monument Mesa County Dinosaur National Monument Moffat County Great Sand Dunes National...Montezuma County NATIONAL PARKS IN COLORADO Mesa Verde National Park Montezuma County Rocky Mountain National...facts. Gems and Minerals, P.O. Box 687, Mentone, California. $3.00 per year. Don MacLachlan, editor. Rocks...published in 1955 (and paperbound in 1963) by McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, and in a Signet Science |  | | Book (volume) | | colorful and fabulous tourmalines and kunzites of California and Maine, the sparkling sapphires of Montana...to the end of 1974. John Sinkankas San Diego, California July, 1975 JOHWSTUPAW.N19,901 Gene ay Derek... 5 = fii? i a j — » ya y _— ’* : i mine in. q)! Y eit iia -...with digging vast quantities of coal, leveling mountains of iron ore, and tapping subterranean lakes of...El Paso, Texas. Information on the Virgin Valley opal deposits was given by G. Keith Hodson of Scottsdale |  | | Book (volume) | | The Bowers Museum of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller... TOP GROUP. Green fluorite (121.39 ct), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 ct), Illinois;...Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California; brownish yellow octagonal calcite (21.30 ct)...ct), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless...Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink kunzite (26.61 ct), Pala, California. NECKLACE |  | | Book | | 353-416 257-320 321-384 225-288 137-224 CALIFORNIA ] 273-336 ARIZONA-IV ] 1-102 [ 17 / 1986...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...ALABAMA Iron phosphate mineral locality at Indian Mountain, Alabama (by H. Harwood) 5:241-244 Iron-manganese |  | | Book | | HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...it a veritable not just a picof informa- is mine tion, telling everything the collector needs to...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it should...a THE MOST FAVORABLE CONDITIONS Summer is mountains, for hunting minerals is recommended for trips |  | | Book | | position of igneous rocks. Anyone who walks in the mountains will be familiar with the natural processes going...often are arrested there. At the Eldorado sapphire mine in Mon¬ tana the action of a million years is readily...intrudes a sloping bed of limestone. As the Yogo mine has been worked at various times in the past hundred...structure of mineral-bearing deposits. On many mountains the pegmatites have been covered with vegetation...desires. Sometimes the talus slopes at the base of a mountain contain rich indications of a dike or sill above | | | Book (volume) | | The Bowers Museurn of Cultural Art Santa Ana, California GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller... TOP GROUP. Green fluorite (121.39 et), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 et), Illinois;...red-orange spessartine garnet ( 16.62 et), Ramona, California; deep red cushion cut rho...Kern Cowny, California; octagonal seep cut violetish pink kunzite (26.61 et), Pala, California. NECKLACE...blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75 diainonds | | | Book | | not just a picture book. Rather, it is a veritable mine of information, telling everything the collector...fall Summer Is recommended for trips to the high mountains when the heat makes collecting ,n caves and rock...you If you plan to vIsIt an operating quarry or mine where a permll Is required make the necessary arrangements...LAKE BAILEY N I DELAWARE MINE DUMPS IOATOUTE CHLORASTROUTEI 2 AMYGDAlOID MINE DUMPS 3 AGATE HARBOR (AGATES...(AGATES THOMSONITE ON BEACH\ )l MUD VLAKE TO MANDAN MINE - HARD SURFACE Field drawing to locate a collecting |  | | Book | | containing fresh glass, montmorillonite clay, and opal; a transition zone (up to 20 mOl thick) composed...(up to 12 meters thick) that contains fresh glass, opal, and montmorillonite; a middle zone (up to 10 meters...potassium-rich feldspar, carbo,nates, quartz., fluorite, dawsonite, trona, nahcolite, plrssonite, gaylussite...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....spring areas. Chabazite, phillipsite, natrolite, opal, chalcedony, calcite, apophyllite, and plombierite | | | Book | | containing fresh glass, montmorillonite clay, and opal; a transition zone (up to 20 mOl thick) composed...(up to 12 meters thick) that contains fresh glass, opal, and montmorillonite; a middle zone (up to 10 meters...potassium-rich feldspar, carbo,nates, quartz., fluorite, dawsonite, trona, nahcolite, plrssonite, gaylussite...assemblages have been mapped in exposed basaltic rock in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, and eastern Iceland....spring areas. Chabazite, phillipsite, natrolite, opal, chalcedony, calcite, apophyllite, and plombierite |  | | Report (volume) | | identified in Colorado-more than in any State except California. In addition to these true species, dozens of...had been recently found in the Tenmile district, Summit County. In his booklet, which today would be classed...feldspar, and mica, occur in some form in every county in the State. Among mineralogists, Colorado is...southwestward from Boulder County to the southern limits of the San Juan Mountains. They have yielded much...South Table Mountains, lefferson County, the contact-metamorphic minerals of Italian Mountain, Gunnison |  | | Book | | varieties, with favorite location of quartz agate, opal wood — collectors. The petrified gems throughout... tell about other quartz varieties such as the opal, and petrified wood; and to give him the most complete... agate. Lelande Quick La Jolla (San Diego), California Vll Acknowledgments After book a is written...collecting in several states, par- ticularly in California. To refresh been made my memory and to ...Boyer of La Jolla, California. Lelande Quick La Jolla (San Diego), California IX Contents Preface |  | | Book (volume) | | Where & How to Djg, Pan and Mine Your Own Gen1s & Minerals Where & I-low to 1-Iunt for Treasure From...vacation stops at a roadside "dig your own" gem mine. Junior finds a sapphire the size of a p ach and...) Many an unsuspecting tourist has stopped at a mine to try his or her luck and become a rockhound for...VOLUME. I: Northwest States VOLUME2: Arizona California Colorado Hawaii Kansas Nevada New Mexico Oklahoma...VOLUME4: Northeast States Co1mecticut Delawar District of Columbia IUinois Indiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts |  | | Book | | copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular, Lake Superior, USA, the largest being I 5 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23...140mm (5½ in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbee, Arizona, USA. Very fine spinel-law twins up to...dendritic aggregates come fron1 Mednorudnyansk, Ural mountains, Russia; crystals up to 30 mm ('3/i6in) were found...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Genaro Mine in Huancavelica... 48 mm, El Dorado, California, US.A. Gold, 68 mm, Eagle's Nest Mine, California, US.A. Gold gold on |  | | Book | | copper are in the Keweenaw Peninsular. Lake Superior, USA, the largest being 15 x 7 x 3m (approx. 50 x 23 x...(5'A in) long occurred in the Ray mine and in Bisbce, Arizona, USA. Very fine spincl-law twins up to...dendritic aggregates comc from Mednorudnyansk, Ural mountains. Russia; crystals up to 30 mm ( : Vie in) were...Superior, Michigan, USA. Wires, up to 100 mm (4 in) long, come also from the San Gcnaro Mine in Huancavclica...jewelry, electronics. Gold, 411 mm. El Dorado, California. U.S.A. Gold Au CUBIC • • Properties: C |  | | Journal (issue) | | Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA Steven R. Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...Zoned eosphorite from Lavra da Ilha, Taquaral district, M inas Gerais, Brazil .........................cm tall, and came from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. The specimen, now in the Smithsonian... Bourget Bros. 1636 1 1 th Street Santa M onica, California 90404 Tel: (213) 450-6556 Coogan Gold Company...Frazier Suite 306, 6331 Fairm ont Ave. El C errito, California 94530 396 The Mineralogical Record, volume |  | | Journal (issue) | | Geological Survey Menlo Park, CA Steven R. Morehead Riverside, CA Donald R. Peacor University of Michigan Ann...Zoned eosphorite from Lavra da Ilha, Taquaral district, M inas Gerais, Brazil .........................cm tall, and came from the Eureka mine, Tuolumne County, California. The specimen, now in the Smithsonian... Bourget Bros. 1636 1 1 th Street Santa M onica, California 90404 Tel: (213) 450-6556 Coogan Gold Company...Frazier Suite 306, 6331 Fairm ont Ave. El C errito, California 94530 396 The Mineralogical Record, volume |  | | Journal (issue) | | Caudle (RMFMS) P.O. Box 1512, Clifton. AZ 85533 CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES Otflcere...Gemac Corporation. 1797 Capri Ave.. Mentone, California 92359. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: $6.50 per year. $12..................... 6 New Hampshire'• lncredlble Mine by Harry and Linda Sweeney........................shop. Fire Obsidian Is from a remote mountain region In California. Cutting and polishing Instructions...with dark green webbing on light green. This California material takes a good polish and Is available |  | | Book (edition) | | rockhounding for eight years* We have followed maps up hill and down dale to free spots to dig. We have also...under 100 lbs., 400/lb. over 100 lbs. Black Mountain Opal Mine. Write Lander's Turquoise, 321 East Andy...rockhound ranch. $5-00/yr. dues- Petrified wood Fire opal Fire agate, desert roses Flower agate, snowflake...Phone (501) 262-2058. Fee: $2.00. Coleman Crystal Mine, Jessleville. AR 71949. Fee: $2-00. Under 12 yrs*...camping. **John Moundy, Mt. Ida. AR. Mine on High Peak Mountain. Ocus Stanly, P.0. Box I63, Mt. Ida. |  | | Journal (issue) | | For Your Supply of write to: Mintabie Black Opal Company P.O. Box 243-DG Epping 2121 Australia We...Gems, the 46th annual Convention and Show of the California Federation of Mineralogical Societies. More Information...state by W.G. Masoner CLEANING UP AT SOAPSTONE HILL A collecting location near the CFMS show site by...Information and requests to the American Federation CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES FIELD...Pictured on our cover are a magni- County, California; Baja California and ficent faceted gem of benitoite |  | | Journal (issue) | | pyromorphite from the recently closed Les Farges mine In France. Cover photo by Jack A . Crowley , whose...)ff1'\AhOn And reQuPSh 10 tn1 AmN an FP-dt-t,lhon CALIFORNIA FEDERATION OF MINERALOGICAL SOCIETIES Ch;Hlt'...lrlllll, 280 11111:l■tll . .. . . . $l0.00 1. 20 CALIFORNIA CUSTOMERS: Please add 11% SUBSTITUTIONS - Wa...CASES UNLIMITED DIV. or TAWA TRADERS 3238 E. DISTRICT ST. 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