 | | Book (edition) | | types of agate, opal and petrified this region is noted. The agate is wood for which believed...which can be traced through have been retained. New gem locations are found every season, and to this...material can be found at that locality; and that new while of dubious merit have been dropped. Appearance...Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, New York, or Tom Robert's Rock the caption. All photographs...in color. Turquoise from Los Cerillos mines, New Mexico. Note turquoise vein cutting diagonally |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | replacement agent fied wood. Foxboro, Union Street and vicinity Brookline, on county line separating Brookline...Brookline, Norfolk County and Newton, Middlesex County Cohasset, shore of Massachusetts Bay Foxboro, gravel...10 Cohasset, shore of Massachusetts Bay Norfolk County, shore of Boston Bay Foxboro, Union Street and...maroon-red pebbles. Dark red pebbles. Pebbles. PETRIFIED WOOD Discovered about 1951. One specimen measuring... Drcokline, on county line separating Brookline, Norfolk Countv and Newton, Middlesex County PORPHYRY Pebbles |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALS WORLD NEWS ON MINERAL OCCURRENCES Items On New Finds Are Desired. Alabama—J. R. Lee of Bridgeport...pale smoky crystals, from the Center, Cherokee County, Ala., locality and that they are very good. This...Madison County. "Beryl: as light golden crystals, fractured but gemmy, from near Hissop, Coosa County." Arizona—A...Las Vegas, Nev., publicity director of the Clark County Gem Collectors, carried the following paragraph...locality is the south shore of Lake Mead, Mohave County, Ariz. Another letter from Mr. Drury contained |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ARKANSAS—"I am sending you two specimens of black petrified wood that I collected on Crowley Ridge, about 5...miles northeast of Wynne, Ark. They were found in a new gravel pit and are part of a log that was 24 inches...wide and 1 inch thick. Wynne, in southern Cross County, is in eastern Arkansas. CONNECTICUT—A tiny but...Portland, Conn."-—on label. Haddam, in central Middlesex County, is in southern Connecticut. DELAWARE — "Enclosed...intersection of Rt. 95 and Naaman's Rd., Claymont, New Castle County, Del."—item from Ed Carvalho, 1307 Penna. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 22207 TREASURER Carl Krotki 140 West End Avenue New Cork, N. Y. 10023 1ST VICE-PRESIDENT Mrs. D. E....on its own members, Bernice Rodgers and Charlie Wood to discuss the making of Cabochons; Nell Shirk to...Depot, is carrying a history of the Club in its new Bulletin, Marc Chit Chats. . . . . The Che-Hanna...and Mineral Club, Sayre, reported a visit from the new District Representative, Benjamin Keating, who showed.... . . The Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fallsington, called on member Bob Edgar to show |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 20901 TREASURER Carl Krotki 140 West End Ave. New York, N. Y. 10023 2ND VICE PRESIDENT Frederick Kraissl...Mineral Club of Class II (Multiple Page) Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, deChips and Facets scribe a field...Club) held a field trip to the petrified wood location in Baldwin County. The Piedmont Prospector cover...Quarry was the recent objective of the St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club, Potsdam, for limestones...Members attending received mineral samples from New Jersey! . . . The Geological Section of tbe Buffalo |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 21206 Treasurer—Carl Krotki, 170 West End Avenue, New York, N. Y . 10O23 Assistant Treasurer—Jack T. Burrus...expressed a desire to try collecting. CHIPS NEW AND BITS JERSEY Member Ken Stone of the Matawan Mineralogical...long time member of the New York Mineralogical Club, spoke to the North Jersey Mineralogical Society,...Club Members of the Rock and Gem Society of North Jersey, Dover, heard an interesting talk by Dr. Direk...conducting a Minicourse in Mineral Identification The New Jersey Mineralogical Society, Cranford, had a meeting |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...collector of gem minerals RUSSELL P. Thomas NEW YORK MACFALL Y. Crowell Company / ESTABLISHED...Shop and Herbert Grand Girard, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Ken Kyte of Covington, Louisiana, Merton...Indiana, George E. Lambert of Wappingers Falls. New York, and D. L. Hathaway of Cosmopolis, Washington...plane of lesser molecular cohesion in the splitting wood along the grain. Cleavage cracks across the prism |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | second consecutive year the mineral clubs of New Jersey honored themselves and their mineral-rich home...and 10th, with a field trip to the dumps of the New Jersey Zinc Company at Franklin on the 11th. The 1952...conventions the host organization were the North Jersey Mineralogical Society whose activities center in...Florida. He was for four years president of the North Jersey Mineralogical Society and is also a member of the...(re-elected) ; historian, Miss Florence Hight of the North Jersey Mineralogical Society (re-elected). General chairman |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | outstanding collections of minerals, gems and fossils. New exhibits are continually being added to the larger... They are sometimes found in town libraries or county buildings. Occasionally club members in a community...museum of today is a teacher in action. Some of the new, expertly designed exhibits, constitute a "three... 2' 206 TREASURER Carl Krotki 140 West End Ave. New York, N. Y. 10023 This leisurely pace gives one...could, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, admiring the magnificent gems in the Morgan |  | | Book | | Columbia Dinosaur-Capitalsaurus fo, Fossil-Petrified Wood * Arkansas Gem-Diamond * Florida Gem-Moonstone...Louisiana Gemstone-Agate Fossil-Petrified Palmwood aD 60 Stone-Petrified Wood Fossil-Prehistoric Whale Soil-Natchez...90 90 91 91 a2 * North Dakota Fossil-Jeredo Petrified Wood 111 * Ohio Gemstone-Ohio Flint Invertebrate...Dinosaur-Acrocanthosaurus atokensis * Oregon Rock-Thunderegg * New Hampshire Rock-Granite Mineral-Bery] Gem-Smoky Quartz... * New Jersey Dinosaur-Hadrosaurus foulkii * New Mexico Gem-Turquoise Fossil- Coelophysis * New York |  | | Report (volume) | | Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are:...Diamond Basin, Ada County, Idaho; Curry County, Oreg.; and Nelson Hill, near Glacier County, Mont. The Great...Pierce County; Oregon, Dane County; Kohlsville, Washington County; Saukville, Ozaukee County; Eagle, |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...Edition Russell P. MacFall Thomas Y. Crowell New York / Company Established 1834 Copyright ©...West, the broad plains and the verdant hills of New England hold inestimable treasures of living things...in the vicinity of Paris? Have you heard, Mr. New Jersey, of your famous pearls?" citing other notable...the developer's bulldozer obliterates other sites, new ones are discovered. Books and thetic and scientific |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | diopside (pyroxene). Nashville, in eastern Howard County, is in S/W Arkansas. CALIFORNIA—Don Erpelding,...some in my collection formed around shotgun shells, wood sticks, paper and other items. These I feel make...person's collection. "These xls are found in San Diego County on private property in an area few people have...beautiful— they also fl. a very pale green. San Diego County is in southern California. 176 xli rystalllne...radiating tremolite. Pearl, in northern Jackson County, is in northern Colorado, close to the southern |  | | Report (volume) | | .. New Hampshire........................................................... 190 201 New Jersey.................. New Mexico............................................................. New York. .........F. C. Schrader: Besides giving several thousand new localities of mineral deposits and adding more than...especially from those of Arkansas, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Texas;... S. Geol. Survey Bull. 126, 1895. Jones, F. A., New Mexico mines and minerals, World's Fair edition, |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | WosUd AtewA o*i Mineral Qcculienceò, Items on new finds are desired. Please send them in. Abbreviations:...the Josephine Mine near Volcanoville, Eldorado County, California. What your correspondent writes is...wears down to 32 inches he discards it and uses a new one. "The stuff is cut too big for anyone around...1953, he mentions a few minerals found in Middlesex County, Conn. "Sillimanite evidently exsists, at...limestone. ROCKS AND MINERALS Nos. 4-5-6-7—Petrified wood. Limb sections made up of dark gray chalcedony |  | | 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...MINERALS AND GEMS Russell P. MacFall THOMAS Y. New CROWELL COMPANY York ! Established 1834 Copyright...Boscardin. published in Italy in 1973 by Fratelli New Fabbri Editori. material has been added for this...translated and adapted with American examples to a new audience. In it it his preface to the Italian |  | | Journal (issue) | | the find) DECEMBER, 1965 Whole Number 315 .. New Arrivals AMETHYST CRYSTAL GEODES, Chihuahua, Mexico...HUNDREDS OF SPECIMENS ON OUR GENERAL LIST AND LATEST NEW ARRIVALS LISTS. SEND FOR YOUR COPIES TODAY. BOTH.............................................. 885 NEW FIND OF GIANT AMETHYST, EAST OF DUE WEST, S. C. —.............................................. 890 NEW FRANKLIN MINERAL MUSEUM DEDICATED — G. E. Gregory.............................................. 905 NEW PUBLISHING VENTURE ............................. |  | | Book (volume) | | extensive collecting region of agatized and opalized wood for high gem quality is the Sandhills country around...an abundance of gem quality 283 Nebraska petrified wood, often occurring as huge stone logs lying on...agates, chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits...W of townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza |  | | Book (volume) | | Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified wood. Ohio ranks first...common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona agatized wood. This gem flint occurs in the 8 mile long Flint...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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |  | | Book (volume) | | Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified wood. Ohio ranks first...common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona agatized wood. This gem flint occurs in the 8 mile long Flint...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...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE |  | | 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...banks, tributary gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes...slopes, stream beds, etc. petrified wood, wood opal; along the Grand R. though entire Co., regional...regional banks, breaks, gravels, etc. petrified wood, wood opal. 438 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |
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