Log InRegister
Quick Links : The Mindat ManualThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryMindat Newsletter [Free Download]
Home PageAbout MindatThe Mindat ManualHistory of MindatCopyright StatusWho We AreContact UsAdvertise on Mindat
Donate to MindatCorporate SponsorshipSponsor a PageSponsored PagesMindat AdvertisersAdvertise on Mindat
Learning CenterWhat is a mineral?The most common minerals on earthInformation for EducatorsMindat ArticlesThe ElementsThe Rock H. Currier Digital LibraryGeologic Time
Minerals by PropertiesMinerals by ChemistryAdvanced Locality SearchRandom MineralRandom LocalitySearch by minIDLocalities Near MeSearch ArticlesSearch GlossaryMore Search Options
Search For:
Mineral Name:
Locality Name:
Keyword(s):
 
The Mindat ManualAdd a New PhotoRate PhotosLocality Edit ReportCoordinate Completion ReportAdd Glossary Item
Mining CompaniesStatisticsUsersMineral MuseumsClubs & OrganizationsMineral Shows & EventsThe Mindat DirectoryDevice SettingsThe Mineral Quiz
Photo SearchPhoto GalleriesSearch by ColorNew Photos TodayNew Photos YesterdayMembers' Photo GalleriesPast Photo of the Day GalleryPhotography

Chalcedony from
Woodruff, Petrified Forest Mining District, Navajo County, Arizona, USA


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Chalcedony
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcedony data
Locality Data:Click here to view Woodruff, Petrified Forest Mining District, Navajo County, Arizona, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:360979
Long-form Identifier:1:3:360979:8
GUID (UUID V4):4e1adea2-0ea1-42e8-a7b8-453bbdadfb82
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcedony
25.9km (16.1 miles) Unnamed U occurrence [47] (Unnamed B), Hunt, Stinking Springs Mining District, Apache County, Arizona, USA
32.8km (20.4 miles) Joseph City, Navajo County, Arizona, USA
65.5km (40.7 miles) Winslow, Winslow Mining District, Navajo County, Arizona, USA
66.0km (41.0 miles) Rincon Basin occurrences, Winslow, Winslow Mining District, Navajo County, Arizona, USA
74.8km (46.5 miles) Unnamed Petrified Wood occurrence [1], Saint Johns (St. Johns), Warhoop Mining District, Apache County, Arizona, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (volume)
Wyoming VOLUME 4: THE SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada...Abbreviations and Mineral Location Numbers Arizona Arkansas California Colorado 258 Louis B30...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text...an example, under the heading of Arizona, on the map of Maricopa County, the site x How to Use This
Report (issue)
Director Professional Paper 93 GEOLOGY OF THE NAVAJO COUNTRY A RECONNAISSANCE OF PAR~S OF A.RIZONA,...Todilto-N avajo contact..... . . . . . . . . . . 27 Navajo sandstone.................... 27 Distribution and... . . . . Carrizo Mountains.................... Navajo Mountain..................... Predominance of cliffs............................ . White Mesa copper district .............. : Development ........................................... : ..... . Jasper or petrified wood ................. . Building materials .
Journal (issue)
film; developed in DK 20. Superstition Mountains, Arizona By EDMOND READ Second prize winning photo shows...of this month's field trip, lives in Winslow, Arizona, is a civil engineer, surveyor and draftsman. He...British Columbia, served in World War I, arrived in Arizona in 1920—and stayed. He's a confirmed rocknut and...contribution to DESERT was the story of Sunset crater, Arizona (February, 1946), is editor of West Coast Portrait...B O Y AND GIRL, southern Arizona. Photo b y C h u c k Abbott, Tucson, Arizona. PHOTOGRAPHY Prize w i
Journal (issue)
ESTELLE THOMSON. By Adelle Thomson. Phoenix, Arizona Dear Sir: Since writing you last night I have read...this state a few years later. He had lived in Arizona 72 years of his life. The business that my grandfather...commission, subject to revision by county commissioners. 1-Nov. 15 Imperial county dove season. 3-4 Feast Day...Southwest District convention Kiwanis International, at Albuquerque; Frank Lawrence, Gallup, district governor...annual Navajo Tribal Fair, Window Rock, Arizona, tribal fairgrounds. J. C. Morgan, chairman of Navajo tribal
Journal (issue)
photograph was taken in Navajoland near Kayenta, Arizona, by Nell Murbarger of Costa Mesa, California. At...1—Lincoln County Homecoming Day, Caliente, Nevada. June 1—Sheriffs Posse Rodeo, Prescott, Arizona. June 1-22...Southwest Photography Exhibit, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff. June 6-8—Pecos Valley Horse Show, Roswell...20-21—3rd Annual Pages of the Past, Tombstone, Arizona. June 20-22 — 11th Annual State Championship High...23-July 4—8th Annual Southwest Writers' Workshop, Arizona State College, Flagstaff. June 24—Corn Dances,
Journal (issue)
actually written in the heart of Dragoon mountains in Arizona where the Indian fighter had his rendezvous during...Virginia, and is a graduate of the University of Arizona. At various times he has resided in West Indies...annual rodeo and western celebration at Kingman, Arizona. (3 days) 31 Annual Fiesta. Santa Fe, New Mexico...Coronado Entrada pageant to be presented in Clifton, Arizona. (3 days) POETRY DESERT MYSTERY, a n d other...Albuquerque; drive 15 miles to Acoma. 2-3 Duchesne county Stampede, Duchesne, Utah. 6-7 Peach Day at Brigham
Report (volume)
of the Monument Valley Area Apache and Navajo Counties, Arizona By IRVING J. WITKIND and ROBERT E. THADEN...Butte member_________________________________ Petrified Forest member________________________________ Owl...Jurassic(?) system__________________________________ Navajo sandstone_________________________________________...Monument No. 2 mine area, Apache County. 1. Index map of parts of Apache and Navajo Counties________ 2. View...strata____________________ 4. Large alcove formed near base of Navajo sandstone__ _ _ _ _ _ _ 5. Sedimentary strata forming
Journal (issue)
stone monument on U.S. Highway 80 in southeastern Arizona 10 miles from the New Mexico border, commemorates...Annual Junior Indian Art Show, Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff. May 1—Annual Reunion and Picnic of...West Gila Valley Old Settlers Union, at Buckeye, Arizona. May 1 — Fiesta and Spring Corn Dance, San Felipe...New Mexico. May 1-4—Las Damas Trek, Wickenburg, Arizona. May 3—Santa Cruz Corn Dance and Ceremonial Races...(Mexican Independence Day) at Nogales and Gilbert, Arizona, and other border towns. May 4-5—Saugus, California
Journal (issue)
villages, New Mexico. Nov. 5-14—Arizona state fair, fairgrounds, Phoenix, Arizona. Nov. 6-7—Annual Old Tucson...dances, cowboy events, fiesta, parade, Tucson, Arizona. Nov. 7—And following Sundays, lectures on Southwestern...v e m b e r museum exhibit, watercolors by the Navajo artist Beatien Yazz (Little No-Shirt) who illustrated..... Bring the delightful fragrance of the Pinon Forest into your home or office. The burner is a miniature...Sells the Incense of the Pinyon Forest By DOROTHY L. PILLSBURY MINING NEWS HUMOR CONTEST CLOSE-UPS LAPIDARY
Report (issue)
Kayenta formation. _ ___________________ 15 16 Navajo sandstone____ ___________________ San Rafael group...26 26 27 CONTENTS Page Page PLATE 9. A, Navajo summer house near mouth of Butler Wash; B, Red...topographic map and sections of the Abajo area, San Juan County, Utah____ 18. A, Valley of Butler Creek; B, Talus...square miles east of the Colorado River in San Juan County, southeastern Utah. This paper is based on reconnaissance...agej'the Wingate sandstone, Kayenta formation, and Navajo sandstone, tentatively assigned to the Jurassic;
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Island area. Monroe L. Weiss, Sec. 65-30 108th St. Forest Hills 75, N. Y. Queens Mineral Society January...Village, L.I. N.Y. HOUis 4-4494 3-2-58 Rockland County Mineral and Gem Society (N. Y.) Over forty members... Marguerite Collyer. West Nyack, N.Y. Capitol District Mineral Club A singular and unique distinction...distinction has become the responsibility of the Capitol District Mineral Club of Albany, New York. At a meeting...to grant a provisional charter to the Capitol District Mineral group in order to incorporate and affiliate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
"—item sent in by Ralph C. Gosse, Albany, N . Y. ARIZONA — The following item comes from Mrs. H. E. Mallott...pyrite cubes in grayish quartzite, and grayish chalcedony. ROCKS AND MINERALS xline—crystalline ARKANSAS—"During...dark gray. Both are picture palm 585 wood (petrified wood) and highly agatized. "This is Picture Palm...conglomerates in fields and in gravel bars here in Putnam County, Indiana."—item received from Walter Reeves, R3...inch quartz geode lined with brown botryoidal chalcedony. MAINE—"Am enclosing 2 specimens of prehnite
Book
Mineralogy of Arizona BY GUILD F. N. Professor of Chemistry and Mineralogy, University of Arizona EASTON...possible discovery of the precious or useful metals. Arizona is attracting considerable attention on account...discovered. In certain respects many of the minerals in Arizona are sufficiently unusual in their mode of occurrence...Tungstates and Molybdates Minerals Discovered in Arizona 92 97 I. NATIVE ELEMENTS Diamond, C is ...Academic des Sciences. 116, 218. THE MINERALOGY OF ARIZONA 6 gest a possible origin of the gem in nature
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...Harold Van Pelt & GEOSCIENCE PRESS, INC. Tucson, Arizona © 1997 by John Sinkankas Library of Congress...events to bring the history of North American gem mining up to date. Here, then, is the latest, most complete...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout
Journal (issue)
Within my heart I hold a tryst. • • • St. David, Arizona A ranch woman knows The song of the spurs Buckled...Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff. June 1—Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona, opens evening sessions...Observatory Library. June 1-3—Kids' Rodeo, Otero County Fairgrounds, Alamogordo, N. M. June 1-15—Second...Barstow, California. June 16-17—Navajo Roundup, Window Rock, Arizona. June 16-17—Kearny Entrada, Raton...June 25-July 6 — Southwest Writers' Workshop, Arizona State College, Flagstaff. Phyllis and Weldon Heald
Journal (issue)
• • • Silk screen prints of Navajo sandpaintings, depicting the Navajo ceremonial "Where the Two Came...Father" is the current showing at Museum of Northern Arizona, Flagstaff. Museum open to visitors on Saturdays...NEWS Here a n d There on the Desert . . . . MINING Current n e w s briefs 32 HOBBY G e m s a n...With the passing of John Wetherill at Kayenta, Arizona, last November, only one brother remains of the...on foot and carried packs on our backs all over Navajo canyon. When we would find a place, we'd go back
Book (volume)
Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Harold Van Pelt ., GEOSCIENCE PRESS, INC. Tucson, Arizona © 1997 by John Sinkankas Library of Congress...and interviews with persons actively engaged in mining gemstones. Pertinent references are furnished throughout... most likely in Canada. Systematic large-scale mining of sapphire-bearing gravels in Montana is beginning...Sierras and Cascades of the West, for examples, dense forest covers extend over thousands of square miles and
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...desert of California and the Sonoran desert of Arizona, the lake beaches of the Middle West, the broad... IT'S FUN TO HUNT FOR GEMS and refreshing, a petrified pool never to be disturbed by wind or tide. Few...easily discernible quartz crystals surrounded by chalcedony that is crystalline only to the eye of the microscope...a quality closely allied to fracture pattern; chalcedony and jasper, because of their cryptocrystalline
Journal (issue)
< ad = S wo S N ine THE WHITINGS RECEIVE THE WOODRUFF (see page 17) TROPHY AT DENVER September-October...FEDERATION SHOW AT DENVER hy the Editor Award of the Woodruff Trophy to the Whitings of Rochester, Minn. Cover...would be located on an inlet of Hudson the ost ol mining will Bay so that gasoline and othet ould be brought...Tampa limestone ts ex variety of specimens. After mining, drying posed in shallow water on Tampa Bay and...phosphate rock resembles silicified coral and chalcedony are washed i fine-grained, light yellow sand
Journal (issue)
Chalfant. Auwith sketches 50c CARTOON GUIDE OF ARIZONA. thentic history of the famous sink. 160 pages...FOR THE AMATEUR, S. E. every mile as you tour Arizona with DESERT OF THE PALMS, Don AdHaselton. By a...Centennial at Sun Bowl. 3 Color photography in the Arizona desert, lecture by Natt N . Dodge, park naturalist...monuments, at Arizona museum, Phoenix. 4 Meeting of Mineralogical Society of Arizona, Arizona museum. 10...Walker, park naturalist, Zion National Park, at Arizona museum. 12-14 International Four-States Highway
Book (edition)
UTAH AND NORTHERN ARIZONA a Field Guidebook by John W Perkins " THE LANDSCAPE EVERYWHERE, AWAY FROM...w 5 ica - ; = 3 Ts UTAH AND NORTHERN ARIZONA ROE Eel DG by John W. A Circular Layman, ...Cascades; Scerra Nevada and other areas of the Western USA, A Geokogical Field Guidebook Expected Spring 1989...VALLEY KAYENTA TO CANYON DE CHELLEY N.M. & PETRIFIED HOLBROOK TO METEOR CRATER, SUNSET CRATER THE...FRANCISCO VOLCANOES & FLAGSTAFF FOREST & WUPATKI FLAGSTAFF DISTRICT, OAK CREEK CANYON, MONTEZUMA AND
Report (issue)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter I. Mining Districts of Counties and the State of Utah. .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 County Listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Chapter II. Mining Districts of Utah . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . 4 Mineral Localities Listed by County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Beaver County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the most comprehensive reports being those by Woodruff,2 Gregory,3 and Pierce;4 but the principles of...solitarypeak of Navajo Mountain, which rises to an elevation of 10,416 feet. 2 E. G. Woodruff: Geology of...11-25. The Navajo country. U.S. Geol. Survey Water-Supply Paper 380, 1916. Geology of the Navajo country...Colorado Plateau of southeastern Utah and northern Arizona. U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 132, 1923, pp....thattheconditions 1 H. E. Gregory :Geology of the Navajo country. U. S. Geol. Survey Prof. Paper 93, 1917
Journal (issue)
of Yaqui Indians, Pascua Village, near Tucson, Arizona. April 3—Passion play of Penitente Brotherhood...horseback. Wickenburg, Arizona. April 5 — Easter sunrise services, Grand Canyon, Arizona. April 5—Easter sunrise...Caballeros, Wickenburg, Arizona. April 6-10—Desert Caballeros Annual Ride, Wickenburg, Arizona. April 8-19—Tucson...8-19—Tucson Festival, Tucson, Arizona. April 10-11—All-Indian Show, Arizona State College, Flagstaff. April...Tour to Rocky Point, Sonora, Mexico, from Yuma, Arizona. April 11-12—Annual De Anza Jeep Cavalcade, Hemet
 
and/or  
Mindat Discussions Facebook Logo Instagram Logo Discord Logo
Mindat.org is an outreach project of the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.
Copyright © mindat.org and the Hudson Institute of Mineralogy 1993-2024, except where stated. Most political location boundaries are © OpenStreetMap contributors. Mindat.org relies on the contributions of thousands of members and supporters. Founded in 2000 by Jolyon Ralph.
Privacy Policy - Terms & Conditions - Contact Us / DMCA issues - Report a bug/vulnerability Current server date and time: May 9, 2024 13:07:26
Go to top of page