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Aragonite from
Hightown, Highland County, Virginia, USA


Classification
Species:Aragonite
Formula:CaCO3
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Aragonite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Hightown, Highland County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:366194
Long-form Identifier:1:3:366194:9
GUID (UUID V4):e6d8cd8b-4416-40b3-b269-37012ca8f831
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (issue)
February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tetrahedrite, tennantite, umangjte, ankerite, aragonite, aurichalcite, azurite, calcite, cerussite, dolomite...smectite group o f clays are found only rare­ Jackson County. Received were two specimens. The first l y in...Connecticut, it is refreshing to k n o w of new Virginia occurrences of this species from miarolitic cavities...Rockingham, Trip to the Igneous Highland, and Bath Counties, Virginia written by Johnson, Milton, and...and Dennison ( 1 9 7 1 ) and published by the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources as Information Circular
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Windham, Maine, and at the Dexter quarry, Lincoln County, Rhode Island. A historical occurrence is with...including those at Edgewater, Bergen County; Bergen Hill, Hudson County; and Great Notch, Upper Montclair...Passaic County. Scolecite has been collected in the diabase quarry at Manassas, Prince William County, and...and near Hightown, Highland County, Virginia. It is found with other zeolites and epidote filling fractures...fractures in stone quarried at Woodleaf, Rowan County, North Carolina, and occurs as similar radiating sprays
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
specimen material was found in abundance at the County Gravel Pit at Mauldin Mountain. Mauldin Moun­ tain...flank. The wavellite is typical of other Montgomery County Locations which differs from the more common Dug...Dug Hill material from near Avant in Garland County. Here it occurs in various shades of light green with...by Dr. Richard S. Mitchell of the University of Virginia and by Dr. Carl Francis o f Harvard University...specimen from the Ruggles mine, Grafton, Grafton County. The flat specimen was placed directly on a piece
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CALCITE PRECIPITATION IN FALLING SPRING CREEK, VIRGINIA, U.S.A. J A N E T S. H E R M A N and M I C H E...Department of Environmental Sciences, University o[ Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903 (U.S.A.) (Received...calcite precipitation in Falling Spring Creek, Virginia, U.S.A. Chem. Geol., 62: 251-262. Chemical and...Cave and Falling Spring Creek in Alleghany County, Virginia, U.S.A., offer an ideal field site for observation...other thermal springs in this area of Virginia and West Virginia, the spring issuing in Warm River Cave
Catalog/List
including name of mine or quarry, nearest town and county, and six figure National Grid Reference. Date coll...ANALCITE 167 ANALCITE 16B ANALCITE 169 ALBITE 170 ARAGONITE 171 CALCITE 17-2 CALCITE 173 CALCITE 174 CHABAZITE...233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 METATORBERNITE ARAGONITE CELESTITE CELSIAN CHALCOALUMITE CHALCOSIDERITE...FLUORITE 496 PYRITE 497 BARITE 498 ANALCITE 409 ARAGONITE 500 CONNELLITE 501 WAVELLITE 502 BERAUNITE ? 503...SCHULENBERGITE DIOPSIDE ORTHOCLASE TITANITE MIMETITE ARAGONITE SIDERITE METATORBERNITE HARMOTOME GYPSUM SIEGENITE
Book
read out a letter from the “Lapidary Journal of USA” and said he had a supply of subscription forms if...On 8th January members went to have a look at Hightown Community Centre which had the advantage of providing...Epps and Mr Dyke had spent time cleaning out the Hightown cellar and setting up machinery. Mr Epps suggested...£3.50 family – also each member had to join the Hightown Centre for 25p + 10p or a year’s membership at...on various aspects of the Society’s use of the Hightown Centre:    The Art Room was often dirty, with
Catalog/List
Copper - County Bridge Quarry, Lizard, Cornwall. V.Holyer 1976. [SW 722 220]. SW.Q4 Serpentine - County Bridge...120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 NY.V3 Aragonite - Heights Quarry, Eastgate, Weardale, Co. Durham...Admiralty Flats on the Second Sun Vein. Tom Wolfe USA label. NY.2A19 Baryte after witherite - Nentsberry...085]. Ex. W.Creighton. Ullcoates section. NY.1Y1 Aragonite - Rowrah Quarry, Frizington. P.Greybill 1977....Co. Antrim. Ex. D.Fraser. E14.3 Apophyllite - Hightown Quarry, Belfast. Ex. D.Fraser. E2.6 Natrolite
Book
of some of the principal localities in the same county, was given by Messrs . Greg and Lettsom in their...locality by some independent authority, such as maps, county directories, local guide books, &c. The geological...LONDONDERRY LONGFORD LOUTH MAYO MEATH MONAGHAN . QUEEN'S COUNTY . . . SLIGO TIPPERARY TYRONE . WATERFORD...possible, the various mineral- localities in the same county around their respective post-towns. A few cases...rule, where a parish or village is situated in one county, and its post-town in another. Chains of hills
Book (edition)
abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...always included in text, except in the cases of the USA, UK, and the provinces Ontario and Quebec in Canada...Uintah County. Utah. and m (2.B. acanthite group). Monoclinic, C2/m, a,b,c Rio Blanco County. Colorado...Plat., Malawi, G 10 17 River Formation in Uintah County, Utah. Deer et al., v. 2A,483, 1997. Aenigmatite...phonolites, rhyolites, and their lavas in Sonoma County, California, in the Picture Gorge basalt, Wheeler
Book
onNewMinerals,Nomenclature andClass::ication. Co. County. EMPElectronmicroprobe - an instrument usedto ...with older fluorite specimens from Weardale in County Durham being a case in point. Many of these specimens..."Cumberland", "Alston" or "Alston Moor" (Cumberland as a county no longer exists, as it was merged with Westmorland...Westmorland in the mid- I 970s to form the new county of Cumbria). The confusion appears to have occurred during... for whatever reason, they opted to change the county of origin (Fisher 2004). The Cornish dealer Richard
Report (volume)
Alabama Alabama Geol Survey Bull Alabama Geol Survey County Rept. Alabama Geol Survey Inf Ser -Alabama Geol...Alabama Bulletm and Geological Survey of Alabama County Report and Geological Survey ofAlabama Informatwn...Liverpool, England Los Angeles County Mus Contr Sci --Los Angeles County Museum Contnbuhons m Science Los...Resources, Mmeral Resources Rept Virginia Div Mineral Resources Rept. Inv. -Virginia DiVlsion of Mineral Resources...CharlottesVIITe, Virgm1a. -Virginia Div Water Resources Bull. -- Virginia D1v1s1onof Water Resources
 
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