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Calcite from
Fountain Quarry, Fountain, Pitt County, North Carolina, USA


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Calcite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Calcite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Fountain Quarry, Fountain, Pitt County, North Carolina, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:356622
Long-form Identifier:1:3:356622:0
GUID (UUID V4):dd9c917f-ba86-4a4f-a2da-877ace269350
Nearest other occurrences of Calcite
41.9km (26.1 miles) ā“˜Neverson Quarry, Wilson County, North Carolina, USA
51.1km (31.7 miles) ā“˜Nello Teer Princeton Quarry, Princeton, Johnston County, North Carolina, USA
64.0km (39.8 miles) ā“˜H & H Mine (House), Halifax County, North Carolina, USA
71.7km (44.6 miles) ā“˜R. A. Ellis Prospect, Halifax County, North Carolina, USA
99.8km (62.0 miles) ā“˜Nello Teer Crabtree Creek Quarry, Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina, USA
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Georgia (Cook 1982), Tennessee (Paris 2011), North Carolina (Kenny Gay, pers. comm., 2012; Wilson and ...page). The Bassett Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the...The fluorite pictured in figure 2 is from this quarry. Terry Huizing photo. Downloaded by [Northeastern...on dolomite from the Bassett Stone quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky. Terry Huizing specimen...the Lexington Quarry Company Catnip Hill facility near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris
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at Silver Reef in southwestern Utahā€™s Washington County (figure 1) is a very unique occurrence. The high-grade...perfect bound for just: $35.00 Postage $5.00 in the USA; $23 for foreign. Excalibur Mineral Corp Tel: 434-964-0875...book filled with historical work involving Oxford County, describing and intertwining its minerals, miners...Experiences in Namibia The Ravine, Fine, St. Lawrence County, New York Antimony-bearing Oxidized Minerals -...Pershing County, Nevada Majuba Hill Continued-Collecting Underground Postcards Coppertown USA Mining Museum
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January/February: Gold and quartz, Eagle's est mine, Placer County, California. Tana Daugharthy specimen, Harold and...ovember/Decernber: Fluorite, Blue Circle Cement quarry, Weardale, England. Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka...B., Photo-Essay of Southern AfricanGold, 56-58 Calcite,Colorado, 225, 322; Nevada, 49; Wisconsin, 411...quartz. 118-23; Yaogangxian mine, 258 Chips from the Quarry, M. E. Huizing, 5, 85-87,149-51,213-14,293-95,373-75...49 Collecting the KellerLakePegmatite, Waupaca County. Wisconsin: A New Site for Gadolinite-(Y), T. W
Report (issue)
CI &Ā£ c*z NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT BEN E. DOUGLAS, DIRECTOR DIVISION...BULLETIN NUMBER 67 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NORTH CAROLINA BY RICHARD J. COUNCILL UN 11 &Ā» RALEIGH 1954...1954 ā€¢^^CAHOUNAS SSU^UBftwy NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT BEN E. DOUGLAS...BULLETIN NUMBER 67 THE COMMERCIAL GRANITES OF NORTH CAROLINA By RICHARD J. COUNCILL RALEIGH 1954 MEMBERS...Canton S. ALLEN Durham W. B. AUSTIN Jefferson North Wilkesboro CARL BUCHAN, JR SCROOP W. ENLOE, JR
Catalog/List
sprays, scattered in Granite. (Fountain Q{iarry, Fountain, Pitt County, North Garolina, U.S.A) 1x1 i4.80...Sinter. (See Min Rec (Steamboat Springs, Washoe County, Nevada., U.S.A) C11 CELESTITE rich orange crystalline...50 coppery c0lourcd pieces . (Kewaenaw Peninsula USA) c14 NATIVECOPPER, attractive 1x2 ins t5 in Obsidian... .. c19 DEVILLINE, light blue micro crystals County Galway, S.Ireland) Ā½x; t3.50 in cavity c20 DIGENITE...Czcchoslovakia) Thicker 5mm piece t3 FAIRFIELDITE, "North Carolina rich grey u.s.A) b"'tryoidal 1xĀ½ i:4 pa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ALABAMAā€”Arbacoochee, a tiny town in southern Cleburne County of N / E Alabama, was famous over 100 years ago...You"ā€”Note dated March 3, 1959, from George Robertson, Fountain Valley School, Colorado Springs, Colorado. CONNECTICUT-"Enclosed...received. It is a cream colored botryoidal mass of calcite ā€”rather attractive! GEORGIAā€”"Pegmatites being investigated...miles west of Shoshone, near Bliss, in Gooding County, Idaho. This is on Highway 30. Hope you can identify...from Maj. Prueitt. It was lined with drusy, white calcite xls. "Geode. Muldraugh Hill, Fort Knox (Hardin
Report (issue)
. ā€¢ . . . . . . . . Section A. Beulah, Pueblo County, Colorado................................. Beulah...ā€¢ . Section B. South Hardscrabble Creek, Custer County, Colorado......................... Beulah limestone............... Section C. Specimen Hill, Fremont County, Colorado................................. Fremont...Cotinty, Colorado................................. Fountain formation. . . . . . . ā€¢ . ā€¢ . . ā€¢ ā€¢ ā€¢ . . . ā€¢...Section F. South Tunnel, Phantom Canyon, Fremont County, Colorado ....... Ā·.ā€¢ā€¢..ā€¢ā€¢ā€¢.ā€¢ Fremont limestone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ā€”ā€¢ "The enclosed specimens were found one mile north of Diamond Cave (Newton Co.), near Jasper, Ark....of the many quartz slabs we found. From Tellar County, Colorado." ā€” on label. 30 PLEASE SEND THEM I...Hawkinsville (Pulaski Co.), Ga. It is on land owned by Fountain Bembry and Grady Hogsett. The iron ore, chiefly...Mines, Mining and Geology by L. G. Pattishall and Fountain Bembry. It is now on display at ROCKS AND MINERALS...consisting of a large colorless cleavable mass of calcite embedded in gray limestone. Minutely thin "hairs"
Report (chapter)
from some Triassic rift-valley redbeds of eastern North America MICHAEL A. V E L B E L & MOUNIR K. S...State University, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1115 USA Abstract: Previous studies to recognize a 'palaeoweathering'...Chatham Group sandstones of the Deep River basin (North Carolina) and modern sands derived from similar source...unstablegrain contents of the Fountain Fm. (Pennsylvanian) of Colorado (USA) are lower than those of modern...Suttner (1977) to conclude that the climate in Fountain time Was more humid than the present climate.
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shops imported specimens of sphalerite, galena, calcite, dolomite, and chalcopyrite from the TriVolume...lead-zinc district, several hundred miles to the north; drusy quartz and barite from the Potosi area of...areas further east in the Arkansas Ozarks. The calcite and other such minerals suffered greatly from exposure...Route 270. Jim Colemanā€™s shop (fig. 4), 14 miles north of Hot Springs on State Highway 7, has changed with...galena, pink dolomite, chalcopyrite, marcasite, and calcite as well as such uncommon minerals as wurtzite,
Report (issue)
the Coastal Plain Region of South Carolina and Parts of North Carolina and Georgia by David L. Daniels...surveying in the Coastal Plain regions of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Recently Virginia and...line dividing these two areas for eastern South Carolina is shown in figure 2, based upon well data and...Aeromagnetic map of the Coastal Plain of eastern South Carolina showing areas designated '-- ^g W^...(as little as 15 miles (24 km)), and wide in North Carolina (apparently to the shelf edge). The line
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Rosemeyer historiĀ­ cal photo. May/June: Barite on calcite, Stoneham, Colorado; Brian Lees specimen, John...Scovil specimen and photo. November/December: Calcite, France Stone Co., Custar, Ohio; Neal Pfaff specimen...Minerals in Keweenawan Basalt, South Range Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, W. S. Cordua, 412-415 Anatase...Minerals in KeĀ­ weenawan Basalt, South Range Quarry, Douglas County, Wisconsin, 412-415 Covellite, Colorado...Colorado, 144 Crocidolite, New Hampshire, 292 Calcite: Colorado, 133, 143, 215; New Hampshire, 290, 435; Ohio
Report (issue)
.......................................... 18 Calcite .................................................The most common minerals in these sediments are calcite, clay minerals, dolomite, glauconite, goethite...of geodes from Big Walnut Creek, Putnam County; and many quarry operators for granting us permission to...Indians knew of and used Wyandotte Cave in Crawford County (4).2 Ball (1941, p. 39) summarized the various...The Indians found that Wyandotte Cave, Crawford County, Ind., contained two desirable products, a jaspery
Report (issue)
Lick quadrangles ________ Petroleum, Holland, Fountain Run, and Austin quadrangles ___________________________...belt and those used by Butts (1915) in Jefferson County, Ky ___ ____________ Photographs of the Brassfield...calcium, and magnesium; calculated percentages of calcite and dolomite; and calculated Ca/Mg ratios for 18...the south and both limestone and dolomite in the north; (2) Osgood Formation, shale and minor dolomite;...the Waldron indicate a depositional strike about north. The dolomite was originally mostly fossiliferous
Report (issue)
............ Hypothetical resources .......... North Florida district ........ Northeast Florida district...Georgia ..................... South Carolina ................. North Carolina ................. Offshore .....hypothetical phosphate rock resources of Florida, by county ................. Summary of phosphate rock resources...Florida and North Carolina and offshore in the shallow Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina to southern...Southeastern Phosphate Province from Florida to North Carolina. These two provinces presently produce about
Journal (issue)
Collins Gem & Mineral Show Show, Ranch/Larimer County Fairgrounds, Thomas M. McKee Building, 5280 Arena...Show Vol Coordinator d. He has found fossils in Fountain and Monument Creeks and recommends visiting the...Science Fair Chair f. He has found barite and calcite in boulders located on the west side of I25 South...reported that: a. On March 1st at the Senior Center on North Hancock there would be a class from 1-3 PM. C. Pebble...Respectfully submitted, John M McGrath MD COL (RET) USA CSMS Pick & Pack fi fi fi fl fi fi fi fi
Report (issue)
gravel in part unconsolidated, in part cemented by calcite into a cliff-forming siltstone or conglomerate...Calcareous or iron-oxidecemented breccia, for example, north of Grant Creek Reservoir (PM) and east of Ayres...the recommendations of the 1983 North American Stratigraphic Code (North American Commission on Stratigraphic...suite of Sybille Creek (for a recent summary see Fountain and others, 1981). The model that stands the test...quartzofeldspathic rocks have been melted and moved as liquids (Fountain and others, 1981; Frost and Lindsley, 1981; .Grant
Report (issue)
____ Process of emplacement__________________ Fountain formation__________________________ Lyons sandstone..._____________________________ Thinning of the Fountain formation to the south by faulting_______________________...Peunsylvnnian Ancestral Rockies were uplifted. The Fountain nrkose contnins detrital material eroded from...Douglas County except for a small area northwest of the South Platte River that is in Jefferson County. The...Routes 67 from the south and 75 and 221 from the north. County and U.S. Forest Service roads, logging roads
Report (issue)
........................................... 11 North and South Table Mountain ....................................... 67 Nederland; mining in Boulder County .............................. 67 Boulder Canyon...showing zeolite-bearing cavity in shoshonite at North Table Mountain ............................................ 14 3. Geologic section of the North Table Mountain area ..................... 15 4. Diagram...of the Dakota Hogback and Red Rocks formations north of Morrison. ..................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the story, as they say, is history. Marquette County alone would eventually have 247 iron mines (Mulligan...many years. Maquette County Marquette County is the easternmost Iron Country county and also the oldest...largest, and most mineralogically diverse. The only county in the region to have had an operating gold mine...Pyrrbotite, 2.1 IUIII high, Gdd mine, Marquette county. Ramon s. DeMsrk specimen, Dan Bebnke photo....November 2014 Figure 4. Ropes Gold mine head fme,M ~ county W (1980s). ~ Photo from Callahan Mining company
Report (issue)
ISGS Guidebook 27 33rd Annual Meeting, April 1999 North-Central Section Geological Society of America Meeting...Guidebook 27 Geological Field Trip 2: April 22-23, 1999 North-Central Section, Geological Society of America rd...61820-6964 IL 61801-2999 U.S. Geological Survey, 221 North Broadway Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 Water Resources...7 8 9 Falling Spring, near Dupo, St. Clair County, Illinois (Stop 1) geological and karst features...(Stop 3) 12 Outcrop of St. Louis Limestone along Fountain Creek (Stop 3) 1 1 13 Map of Illinois Caverns
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sample of two quartz xls coated with siderite and calcite xls. Small but nice I think. About a year ago a...faces of which were coated by dark gray drusy calcite xls. ARKANSASā€”"In the summer of 1958 we dug a well...'Arizona Gem Fields'. Near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif., and then deep in the Muggins Mountains...Co.), on King Solomon Mts., it was found in the North Star Mine. "It was found in the 1700 ft. level of...Georgetown, 111. One specimen is a xled, pale brown calcite (small xls) which fl. bright yellow (s.w.) and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copyright 0 1994 ElsevierScienceLtd Printedin the USA. Allrights reserved 0016-7037/94$6.00 +.OO Pergamon...blocks in Colorado to platform sediment in Kansas, USA ROBERTL. CULLERS Department of Geology, Kansas State...State University, Manhattan, KS 66506-3201, USA (Received September 24, 1993; accepted in revisedjorm...siltstones, so dilution of other minerals by quartz and calcite is not the main reason for the lower concentration... I. 2). In additron, data from samples in the Fountain F~~rrn~~ion(CC!I.LERS and STONL, I99 I) will be
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the mountain, for 3 miles. The gravel road is a county road, usually fair except after heavy rains. At...of novaculite pebbles (gravel). Of course, both north and south coastal plains and streams thereto, have...collector are natrolite, lepidolite, cinnabar, calcite, olivine, bitumens, and so on. I am sending you...wulfenite crystals from the old amethyst locality north of Canton Center (Hartford Co.). Conn. The tiny...the N. W . part of Dade County, Fla., due west of Miami and near the Monroe County line. Among the samples
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is 7 cm across. Rediscovering Lampasas LAMPASAS COUNTY, TEXAS During the summer of 1989, the author and...SURROUNDING the city of Lampasas, Texas (and the county of the same name), has long been recognized as...Antonio. Considered in this article are Lampasas County and portions of the nearby counties of Brown, Mills...sequence of mineralization in Glen Rose Formation I Calcite Strontianite Figure 3 (/eft): Celestine locality...existence, and many who are aware refer to it (or calcite, a frequent associate) as ā€œglass rockā€ or ā€œquartz
 
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