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Quartz from
Morriston Mine, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Morriston Mine, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:344341
Long-form Identifier:1:3:344341:5
GUID (UUID V4):5813cede-1b20-4761-a832-57ac222e1c09
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
1.3km (0.8 miles) Belden Prospect, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
1.4km (0.9 miles) Arminius Mine, Mineral, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Chick Mine, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
1.7km (1.0 miles) Lett Mine, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
1.8km (1.1 miles) Triple Fork Prospect, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
2.0km (1.2 miles) Hemmer Mine, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Boyd-Smith Mine (Groome Mine; Lennig Mine; Smith Mine), Mineral, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
2.2km (1.4 miles) Harris Mine, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
2.4km (1.5 miles) Bibb Prospect, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
2.6km (1.6 miles) Hunter Prospect, Gold-Pyrite Belt, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 19 GOLD IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet COM MONWEALTH...CHARLOTTESV]LLE, VIRGINIA 1980 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 19 GOLD IN VIRGINIA Palmer...Palmer C. Sweet COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION OF...Geologist CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA 1980 FRONT covER: Large open-cut County, as photographed in 1939...London and Virginia mine, Buckingham VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 19 GOLD IN VIRGINIA
Report (issue)
the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho­ tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound
Report (issue)
VIRGINIA DIVISION OI MINERAT RESOURCES PUBTICATION 45 VIRGINIA GOID-RESOURCE DATA Polmer C. Sweet...Sweet ond Dqvid Trimble CO'N'NONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTAAENT OF CONSERVATION AND ECONO'vlIC DIVISION... VIRGINA 1943 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAT RESOURCES PUBTICATION 45 VIRGINIA GOLD-RESOURCE DATA Polmer...at the old Melville mine near l,Jilderness, 0range County. (photograph from "Gold Seekers Turn Again to...volume 39,.|934). VIRGINIA DIVISION OF RESOURCES PUBLICAIION 'YIINERAI VIRGINIA GOID.RESOURCE DATA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
"Limonite after pyrite, I have found in fairly nice specimens in an old road bed in Lee County, Alabama, about...malachite is usually present as an alteration. Quartz veins, traversing the Glastonbury gneiss, are liable...of Milledgeville who discovered them in Baldwin County, Ga., between the State Sanitarium and Oconee River...muscovite. The porphyroblasts are in biotite-muscovite-quartz schist. They range in size from one to ten mm and...interesting specimen consisting of white feldspar, smoky quartz, and silvery muscovite. Green incrustations of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tributary of the Taft rises on the south of the faulted Quartz Conglomerate (Millstone Grit) ridge of Cefn Cadlan...is reached. This is almost a horizontal tract of Quartz Conglomerate (Millstone Grit) covered with drift...part of Cwm-Rhyd-y-Ceirw to Morriston, and will be referred to as the Morriston gap. This gap has a maximum...Clase House (on drift) and at Llewelyn Park, Morriston. The Llan to the north of Llangyfelach still flows...so higher it would have overflowed along the Morriston gap into the Tawe valley. Beyond this gorge the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
......................................... 434 Virginia and West V irginia..............................107). 95. Dark limestone, with schistosity and quartz, 1,896 miles above mouth of Gens de Larg river;...(No. 179). 126. On Tasnuna river. Quartz gash veining in blue quartz schist bedrock, >} mile above canyon...looking north­ west (No. 242). 132. Sluicing the gold placers by Elsingson party on claim 1 1 , M yrtle...creek; look­ ing north-northeast (No. 229). 133. Gold-bearing schist, showing cleavage and attitudes of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
dominantly composed of quartz, but very small percentages of feldspar, mica, magnetite, pyrite, and calcite, dolomite...with small percentages of haematite, limonite, pyrite, and sometimes carbonaceous materials. The mean...factors which controlled their strength were their quartz content and degree of compaction. For this particular...The inter-relationship between uniaxial strength quartz content and degree of compaction is indicated in...Text-fig. 1. It will be seen that, for a given quartz content, the smaller the volatile content of the
Book
The The The The V Central Cacrnaivonshire Slate Belt Blaenau Ffcstiniog District Llangollen, Corwen and...OP THE XIV OF GLAMORGAN Features Llanharry Mine 183 Activity 185 COAL MEASURES 186 The South... CONTENTS Ch:ipter xv GOLD AND TIIE XVI GOLD Pare 209 MINING DOLGELLAU GOLD Tim Pm,1rsAINT AREA...AREA Tim CLWYDJAN RANGE COPPER Xl 209 BELT OF NORTHERN CARMARTI-IENSHIRE 213 ORES FORMER COPPER...ECONOMIC DEPOSITS OTHER SIGNIFICANCE OR ORES PYRITE NATURAL 226 226 227 PHOSPHORITE 228 BARITE
Journal (issue)
involved at Swansea was the Forest Copper Works at Morriston, 3 miles upstream from the port of Swansea (Fig...professional interest in geology were first formed at Morriston, site of the Forest Works. This had been earlier...coal field (Taylor, 1835). These won Taylor the Gold Medal of the London Society for the Encouragement...Harding, 1996, p. 8385). His Forest Works at Morriston had passed, under a new lease, to the new English...What I gave [then] to the fishes was as yellow as gold" (in Logan notebook titled "Chaleur Bay-Bay of Fundy"
Report (volume)
with the idea of gathering a complete series of mine descriptions to form part of the report. Not until...illustration of the last statements, in the Southeast, Mine La Motte, which has been worked over 170 years,...lead to the value of about $10,000,000; the St. Joe mine, which has been worked for only 30 years, has produced...did not permit this being carried out. In Jasper county, small tracts, 100 ft. or 200 ft. square, are usually...Yale, Prof. E. 0. Ulrich for observations on the Mine La Motte Lingulella. Mr. Arthur Thacher of St. Louis
Journal (issue)
Shipments by mines for 1958, 1959, 1960 B96 Open Pit Mine Production ef 3 Technological ; Advances Tons...Tons mined and stripped & 99 Underground Mine Production from 1955 through 1960 > 101 Geology and...built for heavy off-highway service in construction, mine, quarry and industrial tons For work under large...the 1961 FOR 1960 Blue Ribbon Equipment U. S. MINE Awards Services Supplies REVIEW L. Rice Henry...Diamonds, A. F. Daily Fluorspar, Delmus F. Cardin Gold, John W. Carrington Iron, M. E. Volin lead, C. E
Journal (volume)
zcv >- IIMDEX: Page. of Costa Rica Abanearez Gold Fields 206, 358, 511, 666, 1032 833 **2, 34, ...Abbontiakoon Mines, Ltd., company report Abosso mine. West Africa Acacia Mining Co., Colorado 270, ...prevention . . . Queen Co.'s mine, Arizona Accident Gold Mining Co., Subil mine, French Gulch, Rules, Copper...Accidents, coal-mine in United States Compensation for Workingmen's compensation Acid mine water Acidity...Co., Colorado Mine, Victor, Colorado, electric mine-signal system.. 49 Olancho county, Honduras. Akin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
party left Swansea at 9 a.m. and proceeded via Morriston to Clydach, where a good view of the Glais recessional...(Halt 5). These beds include white quartzites and quartz-conglomerates, which give rise to characteristic...marine fossils were discovered in the uppermost quartz-conglomerates. In the traverse across Cefn Bryn...Rumney, on the line of the Usk-Cardiff anticlinal belt, was noted in passing. On reaching the River Ebbw
Book
S(JS'l'() Nt: G RO l)P l'ilNNARD CONCl.0Me.RA12 FM Quartz conglomerate and quart'titic sal'td$h'.>tle ,...principal rock types are quartz conglom.erate and quartz arenite. The quartz conglomerate is composed...composed 1nainly of white vein-quartz pebbles, with a few quartzite and volcanic pebbles and more co1111non jasper...jasper pebbles, set in a 1natrix of mediu1ngrained, quartz arenite. Impregnation by hematite to varying degrees...stratigraphical significance. The quartz arenite is dull purplegrey with sporadic quartz pebbles. Lenticular interbeds
Report (edition)
ia the Wholesale Agent to the Trade outside the County of London. 1918. Price 7s. 6d. Net. CONTENTS...<1.NISTER (contd.):-North-eastern . Dis• trict---County Durham anc!. part of Nort-humberland with North...and these were followed by an examination of every mine· or· quarry in which the raw material is produced...whole mass, 12 per cent. of which is in the form of quartz; it occurs in a free condition ill several distinct...important sources of silica exist in the deposits of quartz-sands, sandstone, grit and quartzite which occur
Report (edition)
(contd.) :-North-eastern Dis­ G.urrsTER trict-County Durham and part of Northumberland with North Cleveland...these were followed by an examinat.ion of every mine or quarry in which the raw material is produced...mass, 12 per cent. of which is in the £or111 of quartz ; it occurs in a free condition in several distinct...important sources 0£ silica exist in the deposits of quartz-sands, sandstone, grit and quartzite which occur...amount a.nd kind of mineral matt.er other than quartz in these deposits usually determines the suit­
Book (edition)
SOURCES OF AGG R EGA TE THE sources are given under county headings, with all the counties of England, Wales...Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within each county the crushed rock quarries, gravel pits and slagworks...teschenite Epidiorite Hornblende-schist Lamprophyre Quartz-dolerite Spilite 2 SOURCES OF ROAD AGGREGATE...Gneiss Granite Granodiorite Granulite Pegmatite Quartz-diorite Syenite Gritstone group Agglomerate Arkose...Felsite Granophyre Keratopbyre Microgranite Porphyry Quartz-porphyrite Rhyolite Trachyte Quartzite group Ganister
Book (edition)
OF SOURCES OF AGGREGATE sources are given under county headings, with all the counties of England, Wales...Scotland in one alphabetical list. Within each county the crushed rock quarries, gravel pits and slagworks...group Epidiorite Hornblende-schist Lamprophyre Quartz-dolerite Spilite Flint group Gabbro group Basic...Gneiss Granite Granodiorite Granulite Pegmatite Quartz-diorite Syenite Gritstone group Agglomerate Arkose...Felsite Granophyre Keratophyre Microgranite Porphyry Quartz-porphyrite Rhyolite Trachyte Quartzite group Ganister
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Discovery of marine Cretaceous in boring at Norfolk, Virginia [abstract] ; by N. H. Darton................................... 700 00 M ay 1, 1895, tw o 10-20 gold bonds o f Tunnelton, K ingwood and Fairchance railroad...[Abstract] There is now in progress at Norfolk, Virginia, a boring which is intended to pass ' through...deep borings have been made in southeast­ ern Virginia, at Fort Monroe and North End Point, and although...short distance south o f Washington. In eastern Virginia the Pamunkey (Eocene) formation lies directly
Report (issue)
_____________________________________________ _ Gold, by James E. Be!L __ _________ .: _____________...ChandlC'r__ _____________________________ _ -----------Quartz crystal (electronic grade), by \Valdemar F. Dietrich...has developed some promising synthetics, such as quartz crystals precipitated artificially, synthetic mica...presentations on output ordinarily are confi ned to mine production for Telatively recent years and for the...Strategic considerations also include problems of mine production and processing capacity, vulnerability
Book (edition)
teschenite Epidiorite Hornblende-schist Lamprophyre Quartz-dolerite Spilite GABBRO GROUP Basic diorite Basic...Gneiss Granite Granodiorite Granulite Pegmatite Quartz-diorite Syenite HORNFELS GROUP LIMESTONE GROUP...Felsite Granophyre Keratophyre Microgranite Porphyry Quartz-porphyrite Rhyolite Trachyte 2 SOURCES OF ROAD...Cretaceous limestone known as the Kentish Rag, along a belt through Sevenoaks, Maidstone and Ashford. BASALT...BASALT TRADE GROUP (B )* The series of intrusive quartz-dolerite sheets, of Permo-Carboniferous age, collectively
Report (issue)
capital has frequently resulted from attempts to mine in localities, where a little kno\vledge of wl1at...existence and exact extent of old and abandoned mine-workings, great danger to the mine1· is frequently...MiscELLU.�ous MlNERAts.-Summary of Returns - - - GOLD COPPER and SILVER PRECIPITATE .. .ABSENIC ( chlefly...Blast Eurnaces and Production of Pig Iron in each County .. Market Prices of Pig Iron .. • .. • Detmls of...------------• 57,833,, 013 UNITED KINGDOM . • Values. • GOLD •... PIG IRON • COPPER COPPER and SILV.Eit P:RECIPITATE
Report (issue)
quantity of mineral wrou~ht during the year, and every mine under the Metalliferous Mines Act is required to...person making the return or of the owner of the mine to which it relates, but the aggregate results of...vith respect to any particular county, or any large portion of a county or Inspector's district. The i\'ietaUiferous...this restriction, and the details relating to each mine are given under certain circumstances. In the case...quantity of ore and coal used to be given for each county. The General Summary makes it evident that coal
Report (issue)
ALTITUDES IN VERMONT, /GEOLOGY OF GRAND ISLE COUNTY, THE OLDEST CORAL REEF, P. E. TERRANES OF BETHEL...Schist and Barnard Gneiss .................. 99 XI—Quartz Vein in Phyllite ................................some further account of the Geology of Grand Isle County. Following this is an inter esting study of an...This map covers most, though not all of Franklin County, of which St. Albans is chief, thus giving the...Enosburg Falls map includes an area wholly in Franklin County, going east through much of Berkshire, Enosburg
Report (edition)
Devonian area towards the Welsh Borderland. A 1hird belt of disturbance traverses the Careg Cenncn area,...Cross Hands take A476 towards Llandeilo. Note the mine-workings in the Lower Coal Measures. At 588152 the...Basal Grits contain pockets of plastic clay and quartz sand, which are quarried at 588158. They seem to... with pebbles consisting mainly of milky white quartz. These overlie well-bedded fawn grits, which in...striking displacement of the narrow outcrop of the quartz-conglomerate, which forms the top of the Old Red
 
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