 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (1949)A Te*lbookof Mineralogy.John Wiley & Sons,Inc' New York, 4th ed', p. 580. Optics,1,37. GnrnrrseN,H....(1888)Compt.rend. lO6, 1800. Pitman Publishing Co., New York, 13th ed', SrtTn, G. F. Hnnennr (1958) Gemstones...SOMEOPAL OF NEW MEXICO Merico Institute of Mining and' Technology, MrNc-Sn.q.NSuN, Iy'ezs, Socorro,New Mexico...Mexico. INrnooucrroN Many opal samples from New Mexico were studied, and it was found that none of these...the San Mateo Mountains district, Sierra County, New Mexico contains 25.5per cent calcite,both in megascopic |  | | Report (issue) | | ·87125' . ,·~'->"····~~~ Uranium in eastern New Mexico .. By Warren I~ Finch • Open~file report...--Index map ·of uranium_ localities in eastern New Mexico--------------~---------------~-----------------...eastern New Mexico By Warren.!. Finch Abstract. Known uranium occurrences in eastern New Mexico are all...Colorado Plateau ·region extended into eastern New Mexico where the chief uranium-bearing rocks of the...feet of exploration drilling was done in eastern New Mexico. Although results of that exploration havenot |  | | Report (issue) | | Bulletin 63 New Mexico Bureau of Mines & Mineral Resources A DIVISION OF NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING...Studies of Union County, New Mexico by Brewster Baldwin and William R. Muehlberger SOCORRO 1959 NEW MEXICO...MINING & TECHNOLOGY KENNETH W. FORD, President NEW MEXICO BUREAU OF MINES & MINERAL RESOURCES FRANK E....OF REGENTS Ex Officio Bruce King, Governor of New Mexico Leonard DeLayo, Superintendent of Public Instruction...Authority of State of New Mexico, NMSA 1953 Sec. 63 -1- 4 Printed by University of New Mexico Printing Plant |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and on the west by the Pedernal land mass of New Mexico. The Dalhart Basin is a northwestern extension...Wolfcamp shown in the section in northern Hockley County, Texas, is due to steeply dipping sediments. The...common. The clastic phase of the Cambrian in King County, Texas (Fig. 3), is arkosic. Near later erogenic...dolomite, probably secondary, and some variegated chert, usually oolitic. In the northwestern portion of...lithographic and calcareous, milky or translucent chert, and thin beds of bright-green shale. Some of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | their properties, and he learned that the dull chert might grade into an agate; how frost and wave could...them were large: one near St. Charles, Saginaw County, was about nine feet long, three feet wide and...Frederick, Gems and Precious Stones of North America, New York, (1892> : p. 65. 10 Kunz, George Frederick,...able to the Indian, and aside from an occasional chert nodule which shaded into a grey agate, an occasional...of jasper, agate, chalcedony, dendritic chert, dark blue chert, Indian stone, plasma and a single exquisite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | extends from southern Mercer County on the north to northern Madison County on the south. Throughout this...Missouri. 281 282 STUART WELLER Valmeyer in Monroe County, are any formations other than the Mississippian...exposed. The greatest width of this area is in Monroe County, where the Mississippian formations form the sur:...fifteen to thirty or more miles in width, across Union, Johnson, Pope, and Hardin counties. The greater...lower formations do occupy considerable areas in Union and Hardin counties. The northwestern corner of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | many years ago for a sandstone in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, and has been revived by Butts' at a...been carried, and it doubtless continues into Union County. The sandstone is variable in character. In...this is especially true in some portions of Hardin County. Elsewhere it is nearly all thin-bedded. Much of...Springs sandstone varies considerably. Hardin In County it is one hundred feet or more thick, perhaps as...STUART WELLER the west, and in western Johnson County there are places where it is apparently not more |  | | Report (issue) | | Stephens County, Tex., its south line corresponding approximately with the south border of the county and...line lying 6 miles west of the east border of the county. (See fig. 50.) The village of Lacasa, after which...of them are foreign quartzite, vein quartz, or chert. Where the conglomerate has withstood LACASA AREA...Texas. 1 It is made up of quartzite, quartz, and chert sand Ranger limestone grains and pebbles reach1...grades into a conglomerate composed of light-colored chert pebbles with quartz sand filling the interstices |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | left). Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo....Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure 4 (right). Cumberland mine, Smith County. Travis...and other nearby orebodies were discovered by the New Jersey Zinc Company when it was exploring for zinc...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard |  | | Book (volume) | | settled counties will pay to investigate for geodes, chert nodules, fossils, Calcite crystals, Marcasite and...chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford |  | | Report (volume) | | 2. 3. 4. 5. Sandstone, siltstone, quartzite, chert, and conglomerate_______ Limestone, dolomite, chalk... Locality 1.-Sandstone, siltstone, quartzite, chert, and conglomerate Source of material or depth (feet)...Hill well, Wood 13,005-13,165 __ _ (dolomitic). County, W.Va. Southern "Potsdam'' Wisconsin _______ ----------...Locality 0') !.-Sandstone, siltstone, quartzite, chert, and conglomerate-Continued Source of material or...Hill well, Wood 17,833 _________ _ 2.68 1. 2 2.67 County, W.Va. St. Peter Sandstone _______ _ Wisconsin_________________ |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Report (issue) | | NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MINES STATE BUREAU OF MINES AND MINERAL RESOURCES RICHARD H. REECE President and... Pennsylvanian System in New Mexico by M. L. THOMPSON SOCORRO, NEW MEXICO OCTOBER, 1942 CONTENTS...------------------- 87 List of Publications, New Mexico Bureau of Mines ----------------------------------------... ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES Plate Facing page 1. Map of New Mexico showing the locations of some of the principal...contact in central New Mexico ------------20 FIGURES Figure Page 1. Outline map of New Mexico ------------ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ........................................ 501 New Mexico Strait..................................................................................... New Mexico Strait........................................................................................ New England........................................................................................ New Mexico-Arizona Strait.................................center of the United States from Minnesota to New Mexico. For the sake of con venience, we may divide |  | | Report (volume) | | Prof. H. E. Gregory, Sheffield Scientific School, New Haven. Delaware.........Prof. B. L. Miller, Lehigh...Tangier Smith, Berkeley, Cal. New Jersey...... .Dr. H. B. Kummel, Trenton. New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland...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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | In Prof. Cyrus Thomas' description of remains in Union and Alexander counties an account is given of t...spades this author cites numerous examples from Union county and refers t o series of unfinished forms obtained...Illinois and eastern Missouri-several varieties of chert o r f l i n t reappear constantly as materials used...gray, yellow, brown and grayish-brown flint and chert, nodular bluish-gray hornstone, etc. T h e large...into smaller examples of the same class, T h e chert obtained from the Mill Creek quarries was the least |  | | Report (volume) | | (Calycoceras) obrieni Young, 1957 from Arizona and New Mexico William A. Cobban and W. james Kennedy CHAPTER...the Bird Mountain 7 .5-min quadrangle in Brewster County, Texas, is shown (fig. 3). The upper Cathedral...._ 0 30 l NORTHERN DEL NORTE MOUNTAINS I COUNTY 50 KM I 50 Ml I ., Figure 1. Location of the...hematitic sandstone, siliceous cement, and quartz and chert grains. All sandstones but the lowest bed contain... composed mostly of quartz but containing some chert grains and sedimentary rock fragments. Wavy bedding |  | | Book (volume) | | excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...quality, colorful flint that is mostly a mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...quality, colorful flint that is mostly a mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Journal (issue) | | each ing, toughness and hardness. Obsistate in the union, but when I wrote dian possessed the first in higli...even together with a large amount of lit- where chert was abundant, as in the erature on the subject,...clusive of Michigan, consisting of every state of the Union. It may be about five hundred arrowpoints oc roughly...Minnesota ; the three Pacific sard: in the last, chert, while jasper states, and all of the interior states...both as to locality and type minerals, Mountains, chert is the characteristic and I am endebted to many |  | | Report (volume) | | ...... New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.............. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;... Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico mines and minerals, World's Fair edition, 1904 |  | | Report (volume) | | only from the titanium-apatite deposits of Nelson County, Va. (ref. 22). So far as is known this rock has...been deposited in the bat caves of Texas and New Mexico. The deposits are rich in phosphate but are too...fertilizer. A few tons have been mined from the New Mexico deposits. As far as is known, guano contains...of carbonate rocks, with interbedded layers of chert, sand, limestone, and low-grade phosphatic rock...mine at Homeland, Polk County, Fla. 3. Anomalous radioactivity, Manatee County, Fla. 4. Area of phosphorite |  | | Report (volume) | | limestone samples from the Faircloth vein, Woodford County, Ky _. 5. Mercury content of limestone wallrock...wallrock from the Hoover vein, shaft 1, Cannon County, Tenn _____ 6. Mercury content of a wallrock suite along...Valley sphalerites, whereas the higher temperature New England vein and massive sulfide sphalerites, which... B. Strow in a freshly dug basement in Kanawha County, W. Va. Subsequent examination by the U.S. Bureau...private company geologists, especially from the New Jersey Zinc Co., American Zinc Co., Dennison Mines |
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