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Quartz from
Putnam County, Tennessee, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Putnam County, Tennessee, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:354550
Long-form Identifier:1:3:354550:8
GUID (UUID V4):e6308c6a-da66-42e3-87e9-4dfc31fbae46
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
This is the case for the Tilley Foster mine (Putnam County), which was well described by Nightingale in...mineralogy of the Sterling mine, Antwerp (Jefferson County), which were well documented by Robinson and Chamberlain...Clintontype; 10. Columbia County iron mines (Burden iron mine); 11. Dutchess County iron mines; 12. Staten...old entrance to the former Sterling mine, Orange County. The stratabound orebodies (a) alternate with layers...also from all other known occurrences in Orange County. During his time as the assistant geologist for
Report (issue)
for brickmaking are known to exist in Alachua, Putnam, and Lake counties. The most southerly points where...manufactured are at Tampa, in Hillsboro County, and near Auburndale, in Polk County. It is probable that brick clays...Palatka northward. Ball clays are being mined in Putnam and Lake counties, and it seems probable that the...occur locally for example, near Middleburg, Clay County.' 20-50 Fossiliferous shell marls... Miocene...place, about 2 miles southeast of Marion, Hamilton County, and was analyzed with the following result : Analysis
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
E. Cedar, Globe, Ariz., sent in a massive smoky quartz specimen coated with tiny, lustrous, brown vanadinite...south Gila County, is in central Arizona. ARKANSAS —• "I am sending you some unusual quartz crystals....terminated. North Little Rock, in central Pulaski County, is in central Arkansas. CONNECTICUT—Mrs. Cecil...which consists of white platy barite, tiny smoky quartz xls, tiny xl masses of brassy yellow chalcopyrite...Conn." •—on label. Newington, in central Hartford County, is in central Connecticut. MAINE—A few months
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Tennessee .......... 87 Table 16 Uranium occurrences in...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Tennessee.....................................88 Figure...deposit occurs as a thin seam in graphitic Cleburne County. The property is, about 11.2 SINE phyllite which...Location No. Source of information Fairfield County. Short distance northeast of East Village, on a...beyond the old canal. Schairer, 1931. Fairfield County. Proceed up hill Cameron, et on Portland Ave. from
Report (issue)
BEDROCK GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF PUTNAM COUNTY, INDIANA Special Report 26 -- Special State... Bedrock Geology and Mineral Resources of Putnam County Indiana By JOHN R. HILL, MICHAEL C. MOORE, and... Illustrations Page Map of Putnam County showing physiographic units .2 Map of Putnam County showing general distribution.... . .2 Map of Putnam County showing drainage network . . . . Map of Putnam County showing bedrock topography...topography .3 .4 7 Map of Putnam County showing unconsolidated deposits Map of Indiana showing the
Report (issue)
sandstones below the Mount Simon Sandstone in Warren County, Ohio, in 1988. This sandstone, the Middle Run...Formation extends from Putnam County, Ohio, in the north, to Jessamine County, Kentucky, in the south...south, and to Fayette County, Indiana, in the west. Middle Run elastics are unconformably overlain by the...defined, but the basin may extend into northern Tennessee. Magnetic modeling and seismic interpretation...Ohio Geological Survey research borehole in Warren County (ODNR DGS No. 2627) was predicted to reach crystalline
Report (volume)
Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that... 6 USEFUL MINERALS OF THE UNITED STATES. Tennessee........Mr. George H. Ashley, Washington, D. C...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
Report (issue)
appear to have equivalents in Illinois, Ohio, and Tennessee. The New Albany Shale above the Selmier can be...The low concentration of brownish-black shale in Putnam and Morgan Counties, however, is largely due to...in the shale or as spherical bodies filled with quartz or pyrite. The organic matter appears yellowish...uniformly high quartz content for brownish-black shale samples, but much of this quartz is too fine grained...visible under the petrographic microscope. Grains of quartz silt, visible in thin section, are present in widely
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Corporation of America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York T he technological development of mankind...sulfides, and a wide variety of silicates including quartz. Because of its unusually wide distribution, only...famous Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County (see Cook 2008 and references therein) was the...Essex County; excellent sharp octahedra to 2 cm have been collected at Port Henry in the same county. The...of America’s No. 4 mine at Balmat, St. Lawrence County, is well known for lustrous magnetite crystals
Book (edition)
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...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior
Report (issue)
Each article was read, annotated, and indexed by county, subject, and geological age where applicable....geographic area of the subject was. greater than a county, subdivisions of the state, based upon physiographic...Published by the Association from Brentwood, Tennessee. ASSOC. SENEGALESE POUR L'ETUDE DU QUATERNAIRE...from Amsterdam, Holland. TENNESSEE ACAD. SCI. JOUR. Journal of the Tennessee Academy of Science. Published...Published by the Acad my from Na shville, Tennessee. TEN NESSEE DIV. GEOL. REPT. INV. Report of Investigations
Report (issue)
periodic kiln, Indiana State Farm, Putnamville, Putnam County. B, Continuously fired tunnel kiln, General...General Shale Co., Mooresville, Morgan County 4 3 Diagrams of silicon-oxygen tetrahedron and aluminum-hydroxyl...in Clark County 22 9 Exposure of shale and siltstone of the Borden Group in Brown County 23 1OA Schematic...micrograph of halloysite from Gardner Mine , Lawrence County 26 11 Exposure of Upper Block Coal Member, Brazil...shale and underlying underclay, near Ashboro, Clay County 28 Illustrations Figure 12 Exposure of Pleistocene
Report (issue)
stratigraphic column of Mississippian formations in Putnam County, Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...conference ends at noon at Shades State Park, Montgomery County, Indiana. Guests of Turkey Run Inn should check...Section NWÂĽSEÂĽ sec. 7, T. 17 N., R. 6 W., Parke County (Time allotted 1 hr. 45 mi This section is part...sandstone containing small iron concretions. A 3 inch quartz and chert pebble conglomerate lies at the base...beds is beautifully illustrated by outcrops in Putnam County. The youngest Chester formation (Elwren sandstone)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Chondrodite TILLY FOSTER MINE, BREWSTER AREA PUTNAM COUNTY, NEW YORK F ew minerals are commonly or uniquely...with New York. The Herkimer “diamond” variety of quartz certainly comes to mind, as do spinel from Amity...specimens from the Tilly Foster iron mine, Putnam County, New York, can be seen in many American and...limestone at Coles Brook in Middlefield, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. It is also known from the Bolton...Bolton or Whitcomb quarry at Bolton, Worcester County, where it occurs in densely packed, yellowbrown, rounded
Report (issue)
stratigraphic column of Mississippian formations in Putnam County, Indiana • • • • • • • 6 18 .. lO Figures...ends at noon at Shades State Park, Mont­ gomery County, Indiana. Guests of Turkey Run I nn should check...1 hr. N7ltsEl sec. 1, T. 17 N., R. 6 W., Parke County 45 This section is part of a Mississippian inlier...sandstone containing small iron concretions. A 3 inch quartz and chert pebble con­ glomerate lies at t he base...is beauti­ fully illustrated by outcrops in Putnam County. The youngest Chester for­ mation (Elwren sandstone)
Report (volume)
............................................ Tennessee.....................^...........................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that... Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas; to list all the literature consulted...minerals of Tennessee, their nature, uses, occurrence, and literature: The resources of Tennessee, vol. 3...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deep red small but beautiful cinnabar xls on drusy quartz xls. ARIZONA — Nice specimens of iridescent, brown...metagraywacke along the county road half way between Chestnut Gap and Lebanon School, Fannin County, Ga. These crystals...aluminum silicate rocks. This area is in Clearwater County, Idaho, and any visiting rockhounds can get directions...(feldspatic sandstone). It consists of tiny crystals of quartz and sanadine feldspar in a silica matrix. The numerous...Greencastle, Ind. "Am sending you a specimen of Putnam Co., Indiana, travertine. "To reach this locality
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pyrite, arsenopyrite, pyrargyrite, magnetite, and quartz after pyrrhotite have been reported. Pyrrhotite...6-cm-long pseudohexagonal pyrrhotite crystal on quartz attributed to the Potosi mine, Santo Domingo, Santa...Virginia, and the Ducktown-Copperhill district, Tennessee (Ross 1935). Other important or interesting occurrences...mines, Chester County, the Gap mine, Lancaster County, and the Ecton mine, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania;...5 cm across in the Tilly Foster iron mine, Putnam County, New York; in tabular pseudohexagonal crystals
Report (issue)
formation and cross section from Jackson County, Ind., to Floyd County, Ind. (line A-A'), showing relation...meager data available to him at that time. Numerous county sup­ plements to Logan's Subsurface strata of Indiana...at the be1 Two closely spaced test wells in Jay County appear as a single point. • CAMBRIAN AND ORDOVICIAN...Indiana Indiana Indiana Indiana Indiana Indiana County Berrien Cass Hillsdale Steuben De Kalb Kosciusko...Jasper White Cass Miami Huntington Allen Allen Putnam Adams Wells Grant Grant Grant Grant Grant Howard
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lawrence County. Anthophyllite occurs in a fibrous habit in specimens from Manhattan, New York County; as...arrays (Swan Street, Richmond County); massive (Edwards, St. Lawrence County); spherulitic (Fifty-ninth...(Fifty-ninth Street, New York County); as plumose fibrous aggregates (New York County); and as asbestiform aggregates...on Staten Island, Richmond County, and at Tilly Foster mine in Putnam County). The acicular to fibrous...at talc mines in Talcville, both in St. Lawrence County. It occurs as coarse, subhedral, bladed crystals
Report (issue)
Each article was read, annotated, and indexed by county, subject, and geological age where appliGable....geographic area of the subject was greater than a county, subdivisions of the state, based upon physiographic...National Speleological Society from Knoxville, Tennessee. STATE GEOLOGISTS JOUR. State Geologists Journal...diverse places. TENNESSEE DIV. GEOLOGY REPT. INV. Reports of Investigations of the Tennessee Division of...Geology. Published by the Division from Nashville, Tennessee. TORREY BOT. CLUB. BULL. Bulletin of the Torrey
Report (volume)
deposits of the Cripple Creek district, Teller County, Colo., by A. H. Koschmann_____________________...deposits of the Deer Creek-Wells Canyon area, Caribou County, Idaho, by Charles DeisS-_____________________________...their geologic environment in northwestern Park County, Colo., by Quentin D. Singewald______________________...deposits of the Bonanza-Nonpareil district, Douglas County, Oreg., by R.E. Brown and A. C. Waters._______-__-___...Detailed logs and drill-hole correlations, Hunterdon County, N. J....-__........--._........--...-........_-_----
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAGNETITE DEPOSITS OF PUTNAM COUNTY, NEW YORK B y Henry Truebe Crested Butte, Colorado 81224 This...the result of explora­ tions of the mines of Putnam County, New York, in the late 1950s. At that time the...south of the bor­ der, all the mines are in Putnam County, N.Y. (see Figure 1). In the following, the...Figure 2, Magnetite nines and b e l t s i n Putnam C o u n t y , N.Y. superficial pits. The vertical...Brewster mine is reserves of iron ore in the Putnam County described as "within 0.30km of a point; area
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
were the quartz pits near Hot Springs (Garland Co.), Ark. Here I found about 40 nice quartz xls ranging...are sometimes encrusted with fine grained drusy quartz. Watch for it. Drusy means covered with minute...conglomerate came from my farm north of Greencastle, Putnam Co., Ind." "I have picked many conglomerates in...in fields and in gravel bars here in Putnam County, Indiana."—item received from Walter Reeves, R3, Greencastle...attractive specimen. It is a 2x3 inch mass of smoky quartz and embedded in its very center is a mass of deep
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tennessee Mineral Locality Index 300 T ennessee covers an area of 41,220 square miles in the southeastern...part of the state. Just prior to crossing the Tennessee River and continuing through the middle of the...TRAVIS A. PARIS 5604 Malmsbury Road Knoxville, Tennessee 37921 taparis@msn.com Figure 1 (top left). Calcite...Calcite, 5.5 cm high, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Terry Huizing specimen, Jeff Scovil photo. Figure 2...(above). Fluorite, 13.1 cm wide, Elmwood mine, Smith County. Francis Benjamin specimen, Jeff Scovil photo.
 
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