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Quartz from
Empire Mine, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Warren 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 Empire Mine, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Warren County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:345204
Long-form Identifier:1:3:345204:2
GUID (UUID V4):6f887e23-2c8e-4375-8a7c-20cb7f83fa63
Nearest other occurrences of Quartz
2.1km (1.3 miles) ā“˜Martin Mine, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Warren County, Virginia, USA
5.7km (3.5 miles) ā“˜Runion agate mines, Warren County, Virginia, USA
10.0km (6.2 miles) ā“˜Rudacill Prospect, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Warren County, Virginia, USA
10.9km (6.8 miles) ā“˜Jarmans Run Prospect (Jeremys Run Prospect), Page County, Virginia, USA
11.3km (7.0 miles) ā“˜Gooney-Manor Mine, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Warren County, Virginia, USA
12.8km (7.9 miles) ā“˜Rust Property Mine, Page County, Virginia, USA
13.9km (8.6 miles) ā“˜Virginia and Pittsburgh Copper Company Prospects, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Warren County, Virginia, USA
16.8km (10.4 miles) ā“˜Manassas Gap Mine, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Fauquier County, Virginia, USA
18.3km (11.3 miles) ā“˜Ambler Mine, Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Fauquier County, Virginia, USA
19.0km (11.8 miles) ā“˜Sealoch Mine (Ravenswood Mine; Sealock Mine; Marshall Mine; Old Sealoch Mine), Northern Section-Blue Ridge Province, Warren County, Virginia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
Geologic Cross Section Dā€“Dā€™ through the Appalachian Basin from the Findlay Arch, Sandusky County, Ohio, to...to the Valley and Ridge Province, Hardy County, West Virginia By Robert T. Ryder, Robert D. Crangle, Jr...Acting Director U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia: 2009 For more information on the USGSā€”the Federal...Geologic cross section Dā€“Dā€™ through the Appalachian basin from the Findlay arch, Sandusky County, Ohio, to...to the Valley and Ridge province, Hardy County, West Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations
Report (volume)
............................................. Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...See Bauxite and Halloysite. 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;
Book (edition)
McDonald Co\Ā·er photo: \\ 7 ulfenite, Rowley Mine, Maricopa County, 4 cm high specimen, Evan and Melissa Jones...discredited and are no longer found in the occurrences section. Many are discussed in some detail in appendix...significant source of information in updating this section (http://rruffinfo). In addition, several extensive...source of information. The mineral occurrence section has also benefited from the work and obsen-ations...gemandmineralmuseum.arizona.edu) is located in the old Pima County Courthouse building at 115 North Church Avenue
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
THE SALIENT FEATURES OF THE GEOLOGY OF OREGON. WARREN DUPRE SMITH AND EARL L. PACKARD University of Oregon...workers in the field a clearer idea of 79 80 WARREN DUPRE SMITH AND EARL L. PACKARD the problems... The chief contribution to our knowledge of the Blue Mountain region of eastern Oregon has been made...in many other ways. Western Oregon is a marine province, and its geology in part is, in common with California...is continental and belongs to the Great Basin province. A great portion of Oregon is covered by a part
Book (edition)
Wu!fenite. Red Cloud mine, Si/County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...District, Cochise County 64 The Tombstone District, Cochise County 70 The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal...Pinal County 78 Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 - ā€¢ Vll The Cameron Area 85 Breccia...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites PART... Apache County 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437,438 Gila County 439 Graham County 440 Greenlee
Report (issue)
Mexico from 1922 to 1926, in southern Arizona, Virginia and the Central Mining District of New Mexico...universal association of the ore deposits of this province with sharp or localized features of structure...Furthermore, judging from the conditions in this province this opening must connect with the depths of the...pyrometasomatic deposits are associated in this province and in adjoining areas have 'floors'. If such...associated ore deposits will need revision for this province at least. There is already a large body of evidence
Journal (issue)
typically contains three minerals: kaolinite, mica and quartz. The SRM consists of 60 grams of air-dried and...brown jarosite crystals on matrix from the McLean Mine, Esmeralda Co., Nevada. The Martian material was...manufacturerā€™s standards. NIST Price: $556.00 Hard Rock Mine Waste (SRM 2780a) This Standard Reference Material...analysis used to determine elements in hard rock mine waste and materials of a similar matrix. SRM 2780a...material collected from waste piles of abandoned mine sites in the mountains of central Colorado. A unit
Report (issue)
of the East Shasta copper-zinc district, Shasta County, California: U.S. Geological Survey Professional...1972, Geology and mineral deposits of Esmeralda County, Nevada: Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Bulletin...Nutt Wilderness Study Area (AZ-020-024), Mohave County, Arizona: U.S. Bureau of Mines Mineral Land Assessment...(preliminary), Lights Creek Copper Project, Plumas County, California; Venture 63: San Francisco, Calif....Anaconda Copper Co., 1916, Report on Mammoth gold mine, Pinal Co., Arizona: Butte, Mont., Geological Department
Book (edition)
John M. Guilbert, University of Arizona, read the section on porphyry copper deposits and made constructive...Deposits The Bisbee District Tl1e Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger 17 17 21 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 27 4. "Mine Fire" Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites 31...Auricbalcite and hemimorphite Wulfenite on stalactite Quartz twinned after the Japanese law Banded malachite...14 Chalcotricbite in calcite Chrysocolla with quartz and malachite Cuprite ( chalcotrichite) in calcite
Book (edition)
Muineralogy of Arizona Stope in oxide ore, Copper Queen mine, Bisbee. These old workings were probably mined...John M. Guilbert, University of Arizona, read the section on porphyry copper deposits and made constructive...Deposits The Bisbee District The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger Lee Le 2A 3. Uranium and Vanadium Deposits...The Cameron Area 24 24 Ld 4. ā€œMine Fireā€ Minerals, United Verde Mine 29 5. Arizona Meteorites ol...Chalcotrichite in calcite 15 2 Chrysocolla with quartz and malachite 16 2 Cuprite (chalcotrichite)
Report (issue)
of the Mineralized Areas of the Basin and Range Province in Arizona By Stanley B. Keith 1 Lorraine Schnabel...of the Mineralized Areas of the Basin and Range Province in Arizona......................................Summary of deposit types of the Basin and Range Province in Arizona......................................Table 2. Mineralized Areas of the Basin and Range Province in Arizona....6 Introduction The purpose of...show mineralized areas within the Basin and Range province in Arizona that contain any of the following elements;
Book (edition)
Wulfenite. Red Cloud mine, Silver district, Trigo Mountains, La Paz County, Arizona. Smithsonian Institution...District, Cochise County 64 70 The Tombstone District, Cochise County The Mammoth-St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Pinal...Pinal County Uranium and Vanadium Deposits 80 Monument Valley 81 63 78 il S: The Cameron Area 85...Breccia Pipes 87 Pegmatites 88 ā€œMine Fireā€ Minerals, United Verde Mine, Jerome Arizona Meteorites 93 PART...Apache County ā€” 435 Cochise County 436 Coconino County 437, 438 Gila County 439 Graham County Greenlee
Book
MRECTQRY OF NEVADA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA. CONTAINING A COMPLETE HISTOEY OF THE COUNTY, WITH SKETCHES OF...Officers, etc. State Officers 4 Judicial Districts 4 County Officers 5 Courts 6 Revenue U. S. Officers 6 Post...6 Military Organizations 7 Quartz Mining Laws 8 Historical Sketch of County. ... 9 Declaratory 9 Description...82 Political 33 The Press 40 Vines and Wines 43 Quartz Mining, (by T. H. Bolfe,). 48 Cement Mining. u...Nevada Township 108 Industrial Establishments 133 County Hospital 135 Directory 137 Advertisements 153 Historical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
INCORPORATED AMERICAN GEOLOGIST FEBRUARY-MARCH, THE VIRGINIA COPPER ā€¢9o6 No. 4 DEPOSITS2 WALTER HARVEY'... INTRODUCTION. The presence of copperoresin Virginia hasbeenknown since the foundationof the early...State. Many and costly attempts have been made to mine the ores, but thus far the only productivepropertieshave...observationsof the geologist in charge of the Virginia Survey, preparatoryto the issuingof a State report...--Copperoresare widely distributed throughoutthe State of Virginia, though there are but few producingminesat present
Report (issue)
INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY., ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin 187...Employer. INDEX OF MINING PROPERTIES IN COCHISE COUNTY, ARIZONA by Stanton B. Keith Geologist Bulletin...still produce copper. The Warren (Bisbee) mining district, which includes this mine, yielded 167,242,000 tons...Tombstone District .. Turquoise District ā€¢ ā€¢ . Warren (Bisbee) District. Whetstone District . Winchester... 10. Index Map to Mining Districts in Cochise County and Explanation of Geologic Symbols. . ā€¢ ā€¢ California
Report (issue)
the coverā€”Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; phoĀ­ 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 *... Ā© R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound
Report (volume)
Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that............Prof. George H. Perkins, Burlington. Virginia...........Dr. Thomas L. Watson, Charlottesville...Washington....... Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin......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;
Journal (issue)
about this Mineral of the Month together. Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Name Origin Please...early Bronze Age at a large surface and underground mine in Kestel, Turkey. The deposit was relatively low...Mineral Newsletter Cassiterite and siderite on quartz, from the Panasqueira Mines, CovilhĆ£, Castelo Branco... Mt. Xuebaoding in Sichuan Province and the Yaogangxian in Hunan Province are tungstenā€“tin mines that...transparent to translucent specimens from Ximeng, Yunnan Province, China. They can be hugeā€”and still be transparent
Book (volume)
interior region The Ā·valley and Ridge Province The Blue Ridge Province 5.1. General geologic features...The Piedmont Province . 6.1. Introduction. 6.2. Pennsylvania and ::.\1aryland 6.3. Virginia . 6.4. North...unaltered Paleozoic r ocks of the Valley and R.idge Province and the Interior Pl ains and are overlapped on...its appendages in the north, and in the Blue Ridge Province farther south. They are partly Precambrian...Precambrian and partly Paleozoic in the Piedmont Province. 4 PHILIP B. KING Shield, and in n1any place::;
Report (issue)
and Grade-Tonnage Information on Low-Sulfide Au-Quartz Veins by James D. Bliss and Gail M. Jones Open-File...mineralogy of deposits classifed as lowsulfide Au-quartz veins were compiled for deposits found throughout...deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...tabulation have characteristics of low-sulfide Au-quartz veins as described in Berger (1986). These deposits...in detail. Alteration minerals associated with quartz in these deposits include carbonates (ankerite
Report (issue)
S. Commissioner of Mineral prepared reports of mine production and gold-mining Bureau, and later now...gold-mining operations; the and Geology and the County a number of bulletins on certain phases and...reports and records, and private reports. Some county records were examined. The author was assisted...John Wells. is also given to the large number of mine owners and operators, mining engineers, and miners...of the Division of Mines and Geology drafting section. Credit CONTENTS Page FOREWORD iii ABSTRACT
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
providing the collector with specimens of smoky quartz, aquamarine. topaz, and other minerals. Unfortunately...(left). Levyne, 6 mm across, on blue thomsonite. Lucky Peak Dam, Ada County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo...cut near Pinehurst, Adams County; Lanny Ream specimen and photo. Ada County Lucky Peak Dam, on east side...LEVYNE, PHILLIPSITE, and THOMSONITE. Adams County Alaska mine, Seven Devils district: azurite, grossular...powellite, and scheelite. Arkansas mine, Seven Devils district: grossular. Blue Jacket claim, Seven Devils district
Journal (issue)
two-mile section of the Astoria interstate bridge at the mouth of the Columbia River. Empire Prestress...repair and construction. Intrusive masses in the northern portion of the Coast Range were studied and will...lightweight aggregate industry. Two plants in Washington County produced expanded shale for concrete aggregate...aggregate and for use as a pozzolan in cement. Empire Building Materials added a third kiln to its plant at Sunset...Sunset Tunnel in Washington County and fired it up in mid-December. Empire produced a special screened
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
o r e , Md. 2 1 2 0 6 Ass't Treasurerā€”James E . Warren, Sr. P. O. B o x 287 Johnson City, N.Y. 1 3 7 9... conducted an interesting program for the Cobb County Gem and Mineral Club, Marietta, on the giant animals...Point Mineral Club, and displayed blue quartz from the Blue Ridge Mountains, unakite from Vesuvius, Va...on the minerals of the Buchanan Valley of Adams County (Pa.). Dr. John H. Way, Jr. spoke on the Geology...Biddle discussed "Man Made Stones." The Mineral Section, RochĀ­ ester Academy of Science, was host to Dr
Report (issue)
Deposits are also located by mining district, county, and latitude-longitude. District names and definitions...and its exploration and 5 6 development as a mine. Some deposits may never be mined because they occur...from 1850 to 1900 when few statistics on individual mine production were collected. During this time national...DOMESTIC MINE PRODUCTION PRODUCTION OF SIGNIFICANT DEPOSITS PERCENT OF TOTAL DOMESTIC MINE PRODUCTION...respectively of domestic mine production of these metals. Statistics on total domestic mine production of these
 
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