 | | Report (issue) | | GEORGIA STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY GARLAND PEYTON, Director...Bulletin No. 61 GEOLOGY OF THE STONE MOUNTAIN-LITHONIA DISTRICT, GEORGIA By Leo Anthony Herrmann ATLANTA...4 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Department of Mines, Mining and Geology Atlanta, April 15, 1954 To His Excellency...herewith Georgia Geological Survey Bulletin No. 61, "Geology of the Stone MountainLithonia District, Georgia"...__________ . __________________ _ Location of the District .. _________ ·------------------------- __ _ Physiography |  | | Report (volume) | | ................................ 49 Individual quarry areas.................................................. 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County.......................................................... Individual quarry areas. ................................................ Chesterfield County (south of James River)................ Henrico County (north of James River)......................................... Fairfax County area ......................................... |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA W. S. YEATES, State Ce()logist BULLETIN No. 9-A A Preliminary Report on...on a Part of the Granites~~ Gneisses OF GEORGIA BY THOMAS L. WATSON, Ph. D. Assistant Geologist ...Atlanta, Georgia THE GRANITES ANiJ GNEISSES OF GEORGIA FRONTISPIECE PLATE I STONE MOUNTAIN, DEKALB COUNTY...GEOHGIA, I6 MILES NORTHEA T O F ATLANTA , 0 TilE GEORGIA RAILROAD. A GRANITE BO RISI TG 686 FEET ABOVE THE...URROUNDING PIEDMONT PLAIN • • GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF GEORGIA W. S. YEATES, State Geologist BULLETIN NO. 9- |  | | Report (issue) | | COVER PHOTO : Gold nugget from Dukes Creek, White County, weight 5 oz., 12 dwt., approx. 2x. BACK COVER...crystal from Graves Mountain, approx. 1.5x. Lower left - Goethite from Pulaski County, approx. lx. Right...Geophysical studies Hydrology Economic geology Mining directory Environmental studies Engineering studies... MINERALS OF GEORGIA: THEIR PROPERTIES AND OCCURRENCES by Robert B. Cook STATE OF GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF............................................. 170 County Index ........................................ |  | | Report (issue) | | GEORGIA STATE DIVISION OF CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINING AND GEOLOGY A. S. FURCRON, Director...Governor of Georgia and Commissioner Ex-Officio State Division of Conservation Atlanta, Georgia Dear Governor...herewith Bulletin 80 of the Department of Mines, Mining and Geology entitled, "PaleozoicPrecambrian Appalachian...report contains a number of articles prepared by Georgia geologists and by some geologists working outside...Structure of an Area in the Vicinity of Adairsville, Georgia, by K. 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Furcron, Director...Bulletin Number 79 ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF GEORGIA GEOLOGY THROUGH 1959 by Howard Ross Cramer, Arthur...University, Atlanta, Georgia ATLANTA 1967 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL Department of Mines, Mining and Geology September...Governor of Georgia and Commissioner Ex-Officio State Division of Conservation Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Dear...Department of Mines, Mining and Geology entitled, "Annotated Bibliography of Georgia Geology Through 1959 |  | | Book (volume) | | Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States GEORGIA Georgia’s nearly 59,000 square miles makes it the...highest elevation in the state at 4,784 feet. 145 Georgia Beginning in the northwest, where the Lookout...mountains loom over rich agricultural valleys, Georgia easily divides into five major physiographic provinces...The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous discoveries of Gold... some Ruby-red Corundum, Spodumene and Topaz. Georgia has been actively prospected for gold since colonial |  | | 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...it helpful to refer to Survey Bulletin 507, "The mining districts of the western United States," and to...abundant, it may have been completely exhausted by mining or quarrying. Deposits of minerals of wide distribution...because they occur in sufficient quantity to warrant mining for their usual products but because they furnish |  | | 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... minerals, and mineral resources of the state. Mining has been an important part of Tennessee industry...not seem to filter down to the collector. Major mining districts that are mineralogically simple occur |  | | Journal (issue) | | Fluorapatite, 3.3-cm crystal, from the Pulsifer quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil...and Cyndy Plambeck Demetrius Pohl Shiela Ronspees Powell Tomasz Praszkier John Rakovan Marjory “Marge” Regel...rosette, with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...C6649; Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next weekend. Nothing |  | | Report (volume) | | STATES**-^ COMPILED BY FRANK C. SCHRADER, RALPH W. STONE AND SAMUEL SANFORD A revision of Bulletin 585 .......................................... 102 District of Columbia ................................................................................. Georgia..................................................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 |  | | Book (edition) | | ONYX • PERIDOT* • ZIRCON • CARNELIAN TOURMALINE OPALS • AOATI • • AMETHYST URINE • •...and often gems can be found. valuable For the mountain ranges and level for the ist to States contain...minerals Characteristics of important gem 4 9 stone materials Formations in which gems occur 26 How...to its sim- the distinguishing characteristics stone minerals, and something about the means which nature...To ful qualify as gem and rare enough stand stone material, a mineral must be beautito be worth keeping |  | | Book | | _ _ .... ____________________ ..... CHAPTER 11 Georgia 1 CHAPTER 12 Alabama 0 0 . . . . . . . . _...y ' s f i r s t g o l d r u s h a t Dahlonega, Georgia. S o m u c h gold w a s f o u n d b y eager prospectors...t a r t o f t h e C i v i l W a r . O t h e r Georgia counties a n d n e i g h b o r i n g s t a t e...f gold! Gold c a n s t i l l be f o u n d i n Georgia a n d i n t h e r i v e r s a n d streams o f i...e , S p a r t a n b u r g , U n i o n , Oconee Georgia: Cherokee, Dawson, L u m p k i n , M c D u ff i |  | | Journal (issue) | | University of South Carolina Frank Mayo Atlanta, Georgia Arthur J. Ehlrnann Texas Christian University...California, Berkeley A. A. Giardini University of Georgia William Pinch Rochester, New York Bruce K. Goodwin...Alice L. Krai~ Hackensack, New Jersey Dwayne D. Stone Marietta College Susan Tufts U.S. Geological Survey...STORY : Fairfieldite from the Foote mine in Kin!!$ Mountain, North Carolina. Now part of the Smithsonian Collection... ISSN 0035-7529 1978 by The Foote Quarry in Kings Mountain, by LAURA MARBLE 102 Dorset Way Lyman |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | location a~ included at the end of each entry. Adair County Chariton River (40-04-05N 92-4 I -23W). septarian...septarian concretions about 2 miles north of the Macon county line. CALCITE crystals enclosing bundles of acicular...hematite, quartz (Broadhead 1873b, 1877). Audrain County Mexico, in fire clay pits and spoil piles: PYRITE...University Library] at 19:58 29 October 2014 Barton County McKarrow’s coal bank (37-37N 94-28W), 2.5 miles...PICKERINGITE, pyrite, siderite (Broadhead 1873b). Bates County Panther Creek, northwest of Rockville in coal deposits: |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | during highway construction, Hull Township, Gatineau County, Quebec. P. M. Bellev, R. Rowe & M. Picard. 2:45...mineralogical and historical study of the McLear pegmatite, Dekalb Junction, New York. R. W. Munschauer II & D. G...e " from the Harder Farm, Hammond, St. Lawrence County, NY. M. Lupulescu. 3:45 H i s t o r y of the Powers...Powers farm streamside veins, St. Lawrence County, New York. M. R. Walter & S. C. Chamberlain. 4:00 M...Louisa County, Virginia. L. E. Kearns & M. D. Dunn. 4:30 B l u e wavellite from the De Linde quarry, Garland |  | | Book | | Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite VILLAGE SPRINGS...Tallapoosa Co. Asbestos, with Corundum FORT PAYNE, DeKalb Co. Hematite FREDONIA, Chambers Co. Magnetite GADSEN...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...Calhoun Co. Bauxite ROCKFORD, Coosa Co. Beryl ROUND MOUNTAIN, Cherokee Co. Hematite SPRINGVILLE, St. Clair |  | | Book (volume) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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) | | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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) | | rocks are exposed as thick bands around the entire mountain system. The rising granite mass intruded the famed...an inexhaustible supply of cold artesian, Rocky Mountain snow melt water. Harney Peak is the crest of the...addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals, Topaz and Tourmaline add to the fascination of these pegmatites. ...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) | | parked in the road leading to the quarry which stopped the quarry trucks from entering." —Noie dated...label with specimen. GEORGIA — We have received a packet of the famous Georgia staurolites (Fairy Crosses)...Crosses) which come from Fannin County, Georgia. There were 25 xls in the packet—all loose with sharp edges...Peoria, 111., reads: "Went down to the fluorite district around Rosiclare, (Hardin Co.) 111. Found 22 more...Straight of Adel, Iowa, and sliced by Rowatt Cut Stone Company with their 2 inch thick gang saw. One side |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Most specimen collecting is done in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift...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 |  | | Book (edition) | | follows the format of the first: each class of stone-precious, industrial, rare, massive, and organic-is...interesting facts about the people involved in mining, current price lists of various stones, and numerous...crystals and quanz, from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink...information is included on the persons involved in mining the deposits, with dates and other pertinent information...ANT GEMSTONES The Feldspar Group, Spodumene, Tourmaline, Sodalite, Olivine (Peridot), Turquois, Prosopite |  | | Report (volume) | | title: United States geological survey | J. W. Powell, director | | The | minerals of North Carolina...Augustus). United States geological survey | J. W. Powell, director | | The | mineralsof North Carolina |...survey.) United States geological survey | J. W. Powell, director | | The | :aainerals of North Carolina...United States Geological Survey, 1881-'82, by J. "W. Powell. 8°. xviii, 564 pp. 67 pi. and maps. IV. Fourth...United States Geological Survey, 1882-'83, by J. W. Powell. 8°. xxxii, 473 pp. 85 pi. and. maps. V. Fifth |
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