 | | Book (edition) | | though the more exten sive deposits, such as coal and iron fields, gold belts, etc., are mentioned in general...mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater |  | | Report (volume) | | STATES COMPILED BY SAMUEL SANFORD AND RALPH W. STONE WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1914 USEFUL...STATES. Compiled by SAMUEL SANFORD and RALPH W. STONE. INTRODUCTION. By EDWARD W. PARKEH. The final...deposits of some others, such as clay, coal, and iron ore, are mentioned only in general terms. One material...supervision the final revision has been made by Ralph W. Stone. Acknowledgments are due to the following State...A. F. Rogers, Stanford University, Palo Alto. Colorado.........Prof. R. D. George, Boulder. Connecticut |  | | Report (volume) | | STATES**-^ COMPILED BY FRANK C. SCHRADER, RALPH W. STONE AND SAMUEL SANFORD A revision of Bulletin 585 ................................................ Colorado.................................................STATES. Compiled by FRANK C. SCHRADER, EALPH W. STONE, and SAMUEL SANFORD. INTRODUCTION. The volumes...has led to the publication 1 Sanford, Samuel, and Stone, R. W., Useful minerals of the United States: U...deposits of some others, such as clay, coal, and iron ore, are mentioned only in general terms. One material |  | | Book | | Buffalo, New York 14205 66 Leek Crescent Richmond Hill, Ontario L4B 1H1 Design and Layout: Joseph Gisini/PageWave...to be minerals. Microcline, Crystal Peak, Colorado, USA * 12 x 9x 5 om MINERALS: PRODUCTS OF A CHANGING...zeolites. Calcite (septarian nodule), San Juan County, Utah, USA * 18 x 24x Bem 14 | MINERALS: PRODUCTS...gems by creating small polished surfaces on the stone called facets, which play a trick with light. Facets...maximize their size. The bigger and more perfect the stone is, and the rarer it is on Earth, the more valuable |  | | Journal (issue) | | at Silver Reef in southwestern Utah’s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...in SW Utah. US I-15 between St. George and Salt Lake City cuts right through the middle of the Mining...its 248 m sharp spires and impressive towering stone walls that can be seen from many km away and from...perfect bound for just: $35.00 Postage $5.00 in the USA; $23 for foreign. Excalibur Mineral Corp Tel: 434-964-0875...book filled with historical work involving Oxford County, describing and intertwining its minerals, miners |  | | | | surrounded ce ne white calcite, from!iheBluebell Mine; Riondel, Digitized by the Internet Archive...fractions. The more mafic fractions with darker iron- and magnesium-rich minerals crystallize first and... often with a semi-metallic lustre. Goethite, hematite, magnetite, pyrolusite, ilmenite, chromite are...known mineral samples. For example, steelgrey hematite has a red-brown streak, while steel-grey molybdenite...Dull or earthy: not shiny or brilliant, e.g., red hematite, clay Greasy or oily: not shiny, not bright, e |  | | Book (volume) | | Plains state varies from nearly level farmland to hill ridges, increasing steadily in elev. From 1,000’...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...production of minerals, principally Gold, Silver, Copper, Iron, Lead, Manganese and Zinc, along with lesser amounts...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurrences. These localities have been listed by county; and, strictly for convenience, the list has been...None theless, with the aid of a good state or county map, plus local inquiries, the list could be helpful...that published by the Colorado Chapter (see Min. Record 10:323-328). Like the Colorado group, our chapter...micromounting PENINSULA Wayne County International Salt C o . mine—Detroit Alpena County National G y p s u m...dolomite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz, sphalerite Eaton County anhydrite, carnallite (r), celestite, dolomite |  | | Book | | before our very eyes, as a result of deposits in sea, lake and river water, often under the influence of biological...low iron and magnesium content, basalt is black, contains little silica, but a great deal of iron and...Nickel-Cobalt 104 Erythrite 104 Annabergite 104 Iron 106 Hematite 106 Tin 108 Cassiterite 108 Uranium 110 Becquerelite...76 Galena .... 36 Garnets 42 Herderite .... 106 Hematite .... Hydromagnesite 56 Kasolite 124 Lazurite (Lapis-Lazuli)...basic rocks, with a low silica content, but rich in iron and magnesium (kimberlites), in chimneys rising |  | | Book (volume) | | in the production of clays. Lesser production of iron, petroleum, natural gas and coal from thick beds...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Book (volume) | | in the production of clays. Lesser production of iron, petroleum, natural gas and coal from thick beds...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Photographs JanuaryFebruary: Rhodochrosite, N’Chwaning mine, Hotazel, South Africa. Martin Zinn specimens, Erica...Cryo-Genie mine, San Diego County, California. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen,...Ground Hog mine, Gilman, Eagle County, Colorado. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County specimen...Acanthite-argentite, Colorado, 307 Actinolite/tremolite, Michigan, 344 Adularia, Michigan 341 “Alaskaite,” Colorado, 307...395 Allanite-(Ce), California, 162 Allophane, Colorado, 307 Almandine, Connecticut, 261 Almandine-spessartine |  | | Journal (issue) | | Mineral Localities: The Soudan mine, Vermilion Range, St. Louis County, Minnesota ......................Wallace Famous Mineral Localities: The Old Gunnislake mine, Callington District, Cornwall, England ..........with red hematite inclusions, 4.5 cm, from the Soudan mine, Vermilion Range, St. Louis County, Minnesota...FineMineral.com AQUAMARINE ON MUSCOVITE Chumuru Mine, Nagar, Hunza Valley, Gilgit District, Northern...$327/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals |  | | Report (volume) | | precious gem stone has beauty, durability, and rarity, whereas a semiprecious gem stone has only one...varieties are semiprecious. The beauty of a gem stone is determined by personal taste. In ancient times...however, are colorless. The durability of a gem stone depends upon its hardness and lack of ready cleavage...important factors in establishing the price of a gem stone. Such gems as the diamond and ruby are rare, in...dispersion. Color is the first property noticed in a gem stone. Minerals of constant chemical composition usually |  | | Journal (issue) | | on Amazonite 7.5 cm, from the Smoky Hawk claim, Colorado. Collected by the Dorris family; Tom Spann photo...Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona. Collected by Evan Jones; Jeff Scovil photo...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MICHAEL J. GOBLA 19055 East Bethany Place Aurora, Colorado 80013 gobla@copper.net Unless otherwise noted...view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS & MINERALS Downloaded...mines at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal...Beaverhead County, the pegmatites of Jefferson County, and the Snowbird mine in Mineral County continue...Highlands Centennial Nugget in 1989 in Silver Bow County. The seventh largest gold nugget found in Montana; |  | | Report (volume) | | The New World or Cooke City mining district, Park County, Mont., by T. S. Levering_____________________...The Rawlins, Shirley, and Seminoe iron-ore deposits, Carbon County, Wyo., by T. S. Lovering*..._____:__...the top of Sheep Mountain, Mont. _ 4. A, Corinnes Lake, a steep-walled tarn near Grasshopper Glacier, Mont...Copper King mine, New World district. ____ _____________ _____________________ 58 18. Mine map of Homestake...Glengarry mine, New World district; B, Concentric and radial textures in ore from Republic mine, New World |  | | Journal (issue) | | described from slags at Le Celine di Cotoriano Mine (Rosia, Siena Province, Tuscany, Italy). I have...iesel'· (quartz with intergrown, fine-grained hematite). The amethyst resembles material from Rio Grande...aesthetic end we saw the best stibnite from Xikuangshan Mine (Lengshuijiang, Shaoyang, Hunan Province, China)...on the This year, giYe the gift of information! Mine al The Mineral Collector's Mineral News, The Mineral...emptor! The new find of golden rutile, epitactic on hematite, from Novo Horizonte (Bahia, Brazil), appearing |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Jefferson Co. Hematite BIRMINGHAM, Jefferson Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24...Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount...Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE I I COAL CITY,...Co. Hematite DUDLEYVILLE, Tallapoosa Co. Asbestos, with Corundum FORT PAYNE, DeKalb Co. Hematite FREDONIA |  | | Journal (issue) | | the month NOVEMBER 2017 W hen I started making stone pens, I didn’t have any applicable equipment for...of the stone, bore the hole through the center, and grind it round. First, I pick out the stone I want...this project, I used turritella agate. I cut the stone to size, usually 2 inches by 5∕16 inches by 5∕16...inches. I make two of these blanks for each pen. The stone blanks are then chucked up in the first modified...system. I use this machine to square the ends of the stone flush with the brass tube. Then I take the blanks |  | | Book | | fractions. The more ma.fie fractions with darker iron- and n1agnesiun1-rich 1ninerals crystallize first...often with a se1ni -1netallic lustre. Goethite, hematite, 1nagnetite, pyrolusite, ilmenite, chron1ite are...known n1ineral san1ples. For exan1ple, steelgrey hematite has a red-brown streak, while steel-grey n1olybden...(dark red, black), p. 116 chromite (black), p. 80 hematite (steel grey to red), p. 66 ilmenite (brownish...yellow), p. 92 goethite (yellow, red), p. 72 hematite (red, black), p. 68 ilmenite (red to brownish |  | | Book | | the geysers at Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, USA. Silica-rich minerals are deposited by the hot water...has exposed sand and gravel banks. You will see stone upon Below: Beautiful m ineral specimens like these...also known for obvious reasons as 'fool's gold'. stone lying there. To start with, they probably all look...its own fascinating story to tell. The pale cream stone could be limestone. Look at it through a magnifying...of millions of years ago. Here and there in the stone you may actually see fossils of the sea creatures |  | | Report (issue) | | 978-0-9836323-2-0 Publisher Lithographie, Ltd. Denver, Colorado, USA Design and Layout Gloria A. Staebler © 2012...Lithographic, Ltd. PO Box 11613 • Denver, CO 80211 • USA Phone: 1.303.495.5521 • Fax: 1.303.482.1238 W\\w...Quartz variety amethyst, 3.5 cm tall Kakamunurle Mine, Kar0r, Tamil Nadu, India Bill Larson collection...Bottom: Quartz variety amethyst, 6.7 cm tall Wattika Mine, Murzinka, Sverdlovskaya Oblast', Russia Peter Lyckberg...Amethyst-Uncommon Vintage. Amethyst: Wine, Women and Stone Si and Ann Frazier California N early every reference |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation, |  | | Book (edition) | | hydrated silica; and limonite, an amorphous hydrated iron oxide. CRYSTALLOGRAPHY AND CRYSTAL CHEMISTRY The...prism hexagonal prism corundum scalenohedron hematite hexagonal prism basal pinacoid + basal pinacoid...result take different names depending on the ratio of iron to magnesium (breunnerite, mesitite, pistomesite)...affinity the new cations have with magnesium and iron. Solid solubility is a very complex phenomenon,...minerals, such as the "hourglass" in augite and the "iron cross" in anular dalusite (chiastolite). Certain |
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