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Galena from
Franklin County, Georgia, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Galena
Formula:PbS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Galena data
Locality Data:Click here to view Franklin County, Georgia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:356525
Long-form Identifier:1:3:356525:4
GUID (UUID V4):35c9609d-ad03-4bb5-aed8-d37b7bb7e827
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (volume)
Florida............Dr. E. H. Sellards, Tallahassee. Georgia..........Dr. S. W. McCallie, Atlanta. Illinois...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...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby
Report (volume)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FRANKLIN K. LANE, Secretary UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS SMITH................................................ Georgia..................................................STATES. Emerson, B. K., A mineralogical lexicon of Franklin, Hampshire, and Hampden counties, Mass.: U. S...Florida-______Dr. E. H. Sellards, Tallahassee. Georgia,_____Dr. S. W. McCallie, Atlanta. Idaho______.Mr...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found
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)
Southeast Missouri Barite District, Valles Mines, Franklin County Mines, and subdistricts of the Southeast Missouri...Mines. Ore minerals are barite (barium sulfate), galena (lead sulfide), cerussite (lead carbonate), anglesite...deposits, followed by the Eminence Dolomite. Because galena, sphalerite, and barite are less soluble than dolomite...for smelting, such as the loss of fine-grained galena during hand cleaning or the discarding of zinc...impurities such as iron minerals and lead sulfide (galena). An earlier bleaching process used lead-lined
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alabama P.O. Box 0 Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35486 85° • County Seat ALABAMA'S MINERAL INDUSTRY began in 1818...iron furnace was built near Russellville, Franklin County, utilizing local brown iron-ore (goethite)...Tennessee River Valley area near Huntsville, Madison County, the first such mineralogical description in the...1831 along tributaries of the Coosa River (Chilton County). Utilization of mineral resources in Alabama has...iron ore, clay, marble, bauxite, and Figure 1. County map of Alabama. Courtesy U.S. Geological Survey
Report (issue)
Lake County - 2, 4 Coso Range deposits, Inyo County - 14 Coyote Mountain deposits, Imperial County - 13...Chance Range) mine, Inyo County - 9, 11, 15, 16, 17 Elgin mine, Colusa County - 6, 12 Full Moon deposit...deposit, Imperial County - 13 The Geysers, Sonoma County - 1, 18 Leviathan mine, Alpine County - 7, 17 Sulphur...Sulphur Bank mine, Lake County - 2, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 17; S 7 Supan deposits, Shasta County - 3; S 7 3. Goldman...hot springs area known as "The Geysers, " Sonoma County. Data given on temperatures, composition of water
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Postcard view of the Waukon iron mine, Allamakee County, cia. 1912. John Taylor collection. ARTHUR E ...Iowa Geological Survey. Localities by County Allamakee County Lansing, Lansing lead mines = Captain...anglesite, calcite, cerussite (crystals), dolomite, galena, goethite, hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz...Waukon, Mineral Creek = Clem Byrnes farm and New Galena, 9 mi. N of Waukon, W 112 N W 1/4 sec. 13, T. 99...anglesite* (pseudomorphs after galena), calcite (crystals), cerussite (coatings), galena, goethite (after marcasite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral has been mined quite extensively in Clay County, Alabama, from one end to the other. It is quite...south of Antimony Peak, near Hollister, San Benito County, California. While it might sound like exaggeration...sent us by Ralph Wayman of Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. The masses were found as float material on the...Madison Co., Fla. (just over the Georgia State Line.) See Georgia, below. GEORGIA—"I am sending under separate...from the Paleocene Clayton formation in southwest Georgia. These are from the Providence Canyons (Little
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
such as those for Alabama (Cook and Smith 1982), Georgia (Cook 1982), Tennessee (Paris 2011), North Carolina...Bassett Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the older underground...from the Bassett Stone quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...Catnip Hill facility near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing...Catnip Hill facility, Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
fine crystallized rhodonite specimens include Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey, and Broken Hill... bustamite, pyroxmangite, and sulfides such as galena and sphalerite. There is an interesting variety...however, only the well-known zinc deposits of Franklin and Sterling Hill, New Jersey, have furnished...prospect, Franklin County; at Coventry and Irasburgh, Orleans County; and at Cavendish, Windsor County, Vermont... at Keene, and southeast of Hinsdale, Cheshire County, and elsewhere in New Hampshire and is reported
Report (volume)
and consumer of barite. Missouri, Tennessee, and Georgia have been the major sources of barite since mining...been mineralized with barite and small amounts of galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and calcite. Deposits...in the vicinity. In the Cartersville district, Georgia, the deposits are listed as residual because nearly...district, Calhoun County: 2, 65, 102, 118. 2. r Beaver Creek Valley, St. Clair County and Greens Valley...Valley, Etowah County: 2, 102, 118. 3. r Leeds, Jefferson County: 2, 102. 4. r Longview-Saginaw district
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, found quartz crystals, wulfenite, pyro­ morphite, galena and anglesite...Clauser reported that six members of the Bucks County Earth Science Society, Feasterville, placed in...Faceting." The Frederick County Rock and Mineral Club, Frederick, made a trip to Franklin, N.J. for fluores­...Lapidary and Mineral Society of Prince George's County, Md., had a program based on the "Pacific Ring...the Kiwanis Museum monds. The Gem and Mineral in Franklin dedicated a new room in Club ofDeLand reports
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:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STATEMENT. In eastern NorthAmerica fromQuebec to Georgia andwestward as far as Ducktown, Tenn., there is...minerals are pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite,but galena, zinc blend, arsenopyrite,bornite, tetrahedriteand...described the depositsof Gardner Mountain, Grafton County, and the Milan mine, New Hampshire, and gives the...The sulphidesare steelcoloredzinc blend, pyrite, galena and chalcopyrite. Intergrown intimately with them...NEW HAMPSHIRE. The Milan mine is locatedin Coos County, northern New Hampshire, in the foothills of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
brown limonite. Wickenburg is in N / W Maricopa County in western Arizona. xline—crystalline tain a... The Dallas Gem Mine is in southern San Benito County in western California. COLORADO — "Would you please...surface shows the interior cently found in San Benito County, here to be an attractive moss agate of pleasing...term "astonishing" is not an exaggeraSan Miguel County is in southwestern tion ! W e were lucky in being...greenish datolite. Meriden is in N / E New Haven County in central Connecticut. FLORIDA — Mary G. Poole
Book (volume)
Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite (fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A...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...Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin, Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
Book (volume)
Celestite, Dolomite crystals, Fluorite (fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A...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...Rock Hounds in the Untied States townships of Franklin, Keene, Mill Creek and Tuscarawas, as hard dark...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE
Report (issue)
C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...Tellurobismuthite Tctradymitc Argcntite Chalcocite Bornitc Galena Sphalerite (Christophitc) Chalcopyritc Wurtzite...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com­ mon rock-making materials
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,
Book
11ne 2; ••• Amph1bo1ite--see Bolton, Worcester County M1nera1 Loca11t1es. page 85 ••• 11.8 3~ter cerium...•••••••••••••••••'.' •.••.•••• 2--6 Barn.table County ro •• il Localiti ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...Localit1e•••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 21 Br1.tol County Mineral Localit1 ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••...24--25 Dukes County Mineral Loeal1tiea •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 26--21 Duk •• County Fo.sil Loeal1tie...29--3? Bs.ex County Fo ••1l Localit1e •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 37--39 Franklin Couat,. H1D.ral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dick May and Rip Collins of the mining areas of Franklin, North Carolina, was nostalgic for those that...Museum, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, when he talked on Historic Mines of Lancaster County. —...Donald V. Wise, of the Department of Geology, Franklin and Marshall College, on the "Geology of the Moon"...programs enjoyed by members. William Byers of the Erie County Technological Institute talked on "The Geology...page bulletin of the Junior Division, Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society, listed so many items of
Report (issue)
orth Carolina and South Carolina ______ ____ _ Georgia ___________________________________ _ Alabama ..._______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______ _____ _____ _ Franklin _______________________________...properties _________ .. _____________ _ Halifax County ______ - _____ - __________ ~- _'- __ _ Virgilina..._____ _ ____ __ ... _________________ _ Orange County-· ___________________________ _ Melville ____ -...________ _________________________ _ Pr~nce William County _____________________ _ Crawford _____________________
Report (issue)
Uranium occurrences in non-seaimtntary rocks of Georgia ............. 12 Table 4 Uranium occurrences in...Uranium occurrences in non-sedimentary rocks of Georgia.......................................15 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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of...of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden...Greb, Kentucky Geological Survey. in Crittenden County has one major shaft called the “Rock shaft.” The
 
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