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Vesuvianite from
Bedford County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Vesuvianite
Formula:Ca19Fe3+Al4(Al6Mg2)(◻4)◻[Si2O7]4[(SiO4)10]O(OH)9
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Vesuvianite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Bedford County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:356182
Long-form Identifier:1:3:356182:9
GUID (UUID V4):4624894e-f6fa-4c5a-9fa4-0c6b7060c3f0
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Connecticut; Russell and Westfield, Massachusetts ; from Bedford, New York ; and many other places. The crystals...at the Rutherford mine near Amelia Courthouse, Virginia, where large amounts were found. A half crystal...Lode pegmatite near the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Common in the pegmatites of Yavapai...Mountain in the Crested Butte region of Gunnison County, Colorado, in good gem crystals. ANDRADITE, calcium-iron...Andradite has been found at Middletown, Delaware County, Pennsylvania and at other localities in Delaware
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
Book (edition)
FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE WILLEMITE ZIRCON CRYSTALS Crystal forms 5...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900...Siding in St. Clair County, 20 miles northeast of Bir- mingham. One found in Lee County in 1901 weighs 4^...have a cornfield at Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Va. A 3 carat stone, bought by a Knoxville
Report (volume)
............................................. Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................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;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.;
Book (volume)
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...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE:  area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts,
Report (edition)
particular site, remember it is possible to visit the county courthouse in which the site is located, and trace...23 23 28 Adams County Native copper localities Teeter quarry zeolite Allegheny County Wittmer wurtzite...wurtzite Bedford County New locality 31 31 locality Paris fluorite locality Sherman Valley cryptomelane...locality Berks County Dyer quarry zeolite locality Frystown fetid barite locality Blair County Altoona barite.... 33 33 35 38 38 42 45 45 47 50 Page Butler County East Unity Church Sedwicks Mill 54 54 54 57
Report (volume)
.........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;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson
Book (volume)
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...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...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)
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...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...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
Journal (issue)
159 John W. Anthony W. John McLean Idocrase (Vesuvianite) — A 250-Year Puzzle, Part 1...................abandoned pyrophyllite mine near Snow Camp, Alamance County, North Carolina. Di­ ameter of lower cluster 0...chemical formula led to numerous applies the name vesuvianite to material found on the attempts at idocrase...characteristics of idocrase. Thus, virtually vesuvianite. Other names are based on color, as in xanthite...to composition: Beryllian idocrase 1930 Titan-vesuvianite 1940 Cerian idocrase 1966 Probably Vesuvius
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...LAZULITE PERIDOT PHENACITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS V^v VESUVIANITE WILLEMITE ZIRCON CRYSTALS HOW TO IDENTIFY...gems, garnet, jade, kyanite, lapis lazuli, and vesuvianite. In such places heat and mineralizing solutions...Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina. In the West, the Rockies...corners of the claimed area, and filing in the county land agent's office. In addition he has to show
Report (issue)
occurrences Road-cuts at km 4.5, Westport Road Kingston (Bedford) mica mine Richardson feldspar mine Glendower iron... 31 c/7 Sydenham. 25E south part of Frontenac County, eastern Ontario (Ont. Geol. Surv.). McFarland... 31 C/7 Sydenham. 25E south part of Frontenac County, eastern Ontario (Ont. Geol. Surv.). 7 Road-cuts... 31 CI7 Sydenham. 25E south part of Frontenac County, eastern Ontario (Ont. Geo!. Surv.). Plate II... 31 C/7 Sydenham. 25E south part of Frontenac County, eastern Ontario (Ont. Geo!. Surv.). Limestone
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kingston (Bedford) mica mine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....1 C / 7E Sydenham. Z5E south part of Frontenac County, eastern Ontario (Ont. Dept. Mines). - 7 - McFarland...31 CI 7E Sydenham. 25E south part of Frontenac County, eastern Ontario (Ont. Dept . Mines). Road-cuts... 31 C/7E Sydenham. 25E south part of Frontenac County, eastern Ontario (Ont. Dept. Mines). Road-cuts... 31 C/7E Sydenham. 25E south part of Frontenac County, eastern Ontario (Ont. Dept . Mines). Limestone
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...Geological Surveys Distribution Branch. 1200 Virginia 22202. Those S for Eads Street. Arlington...may be able to buy specimens. map of Keweenaw County. Mich- Part of the U.S. Geological Survey topographic...ninety-degree angles. These are prized as ornaments. Virginia and Georgia are major sources of such crystals
Journal (issue)
p4,, Over two million residents Arizona's Pinal County welcomes everyone as a V.I.P.!!! ?ieU S ~ , ae...Native Copper and Piemontite Localities of Adams County Jay Lininger FEATURES THE EASTERN FEDERATION...5 miles west of Mt. Holly Springs in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Specimen collected by Martin Anne'...Pennsylvania Kline's quarry, Wrightsville , York County, Penn- basis to go mineral collecting, weather...located near Wrightsville in YorJc PENNSYLVANIA County. Wrigh._ille Martin Anne is the immediate past
Book
CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its
Book (volume)
Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...AZ; Richard A. & Tresa L. Kosnar, Golden, CO: Virginia & Larry Kribs, Desert Dog Mines, Bend, OR; Guy...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy
Book (volume)
chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, 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 qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional
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...earths to make saltpeter, at Nicojack Cave in Marion County, then nitromagnesite at the same location (Shepard...Sevier County (Coskren and Lauf 2000). The following index is arranged alphabetically by county. It is
Book (volume)
Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...AZ; Richard A. & Tresa L. Kosnar, Golden, CO: Virginia & Larry Kribs, Desert Dog Mines, Bend, OR; Guy...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA...........................................
Book
D1stn but1on Branch 1200 S Eads Street Arl Ington Virginia 22202 Those for areas west of the M1ssIssIppI...topographic map of the Delaware q uadrangle o f Keweenaw County, Michigan This ,s an example o f the more picturesque...ninety-degree angles. These are prized as ornaments. Virginia and Georgia are maior sources of such crystals...mine , canyon) district where found (township, county, state) how obtained (found , given , etc., with...in pegmatite Mount Antero , 12,000 feet Chaffee County . Colorado from the Smith co llection 1/10/74
Report (volume)
From the Silver King mine, Calico, San Bernardino County, Cal. Specific gravity, 6:28. Analysis by W. H...From .Teocalli Mountain, Brush Creek, Gunnison County, Colo. Specific gravity, 7.400 at 14.5°, corrected...vol. 3, pt. 1, p. 46. From the Rose mine, Grant County, N". Mex. Specific gravity, 6.644 at 20°. Probably...impurities. From the Missouri mine, Halls Valley, Park County, Colo. Analyses, by Hillebrand, of three different...From the Brobdignag mine, Red Mountain, San Juan County, Colo. Specific gravity, 5.21 at 18°. Analyzed
Journal (issue)
Gregory.... 810 SOME NOTES ON ASTERIATED QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA—R. J. Bland, Jr. 838 HISTORY OF ANDOVER-SULPHUR...San Antonio Rock & Lapi­ dary Society and Bexar County Mineral Hobby Club. Chairman; Fred Stevenson, P...Monroe, Peru, Indiana. April 30, May 1. 1966—Dallas County' Rock Club will hold its Rock Club Showcase at...Federation of Mineralogical Societies. Host: Clark County Gem Collectors, Las Vegas Convention Center, Las...Lan- the American Mineralogist (1961). Un­ caster County, Pennsylvania is dolomite fortunately, dcweylite
Report (issue)
4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis:...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses...Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating...42 9.86 4.77 13.60 100.69 2.277 LOCALITY: Berks County: Birdsboro. MESOLITE m Na Al Si3Oio.2H O 2 2
Report (Issue volume)
Adams Fairfield 4 5 6 Armstrong Armstrong Bedford Yatesboro Apollo Everett Gettysburg Limestone...Quarry, New Enterprise Stone and Lime Co. 7 Bedford New Paris 8 Berks Kutztown 9 Berks Moslem...Steel Corp. H. T. Campbell Sons Corp. 41 Bedford County Stone and Lime Co. Hinter leiter Quarry, Eastern...Corp. Salona Quarry, Lycoming Silica Sand Co. County Location Nearby Town 42 Cumberland Curnberland...for publication in this atlas. 5 Map Number County Location Nearby Town 76 Lawrence Wampum 77
 
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