 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | H E L L Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 Introduction Light-blue earthy...dumps of the abandoned Kelly Bank iron-manganese mine in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Because of its light...crystallized tur quoise from Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia (Mitchell, 1977), and also it is unlike gem...a similar geological environment in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Montgomery, 1969). The purpose of...E E L A N D 10340 Holly berry Drive Richmond, Virginia 23234 and new Virginian turquoise and to describe |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Phosphate Minerals in the Vesuvius, Virginia, Area and Notes on the Type Locality of Rockbridgeite HENRY...Z E L A Z N Y Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 Top: Kidwellite...100/im. Both specimens are from the Dixie mine near Vesuvius, Virginia. 20 ROCKS AND MINERALS There are...west foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains near Vesuvius, Virginia. Iron and manganese ores were mined intermittently...intermittently for over a century in this area, and the Dixie mine was once the largest producer of iron ore in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE DIXIE MINE Rockbridge County, Virginia The Dixie mine in Rockbridge County, Virginia, has yielded...including cacoxenite, dufrenite, kidwelUte, rockbridgeite, and strengite. Figure 1: Dixie iron mine, circa...circa 1900 (Watson, 1907). Rockbridge (ount> L A N C E E . KEARNS Department of Geology James Madison...Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 D. A L L E N P E N I C K Virginia Division of Mineral Resources...Resources P.O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 Figure 2: Locality map. 42 ROCKS & MINERALS T H |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS (PART GOOCHLAND By PHILIP East Derry, COUNTY In N edge of the James R...Line Creek Mills. Extensive gold mining formerly on ex treme W and county line around Rte 605 to Rte 606...inclined shafts-Manning and Old Stevens. Telluric Gold Mining Co. Sev eral stamp mills operated into the 1930's...are flooding this area. After the initial placer mining an adit was driven 400 ft. into the Oak Hill vein...while Maple Hill had 300 ft. of drifts. Hydraulic mining on slopes. Some placer gravels have not been worked |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | WEINSCHENKITE, YTTRIUM PHOSPHATE DIHYDRATE, FROM VIRGINIA* Cu.lnr,ns MrrroN, K. J. MunerA, AND M. M. KNrcnrrl...ConrnNrs Abstract. Occurrence of weinschenkite in Virginia .. Properties of weinschenkite. . . Optical properties...single Bavarian locality, occurs in Rockbridge County, Virginia, where as in Bavaria it encrusts manganiferous...OccuRrBwcB oF WETNSCHENKTTE rN VTRGTNTA The Kelly Bank mine, where the weinschenkite occurs, comprises...mile east of the village of Vesuvius, Rockbridge County, Virginia. The mine was originally worked for limonite |  | | Journal (issue) | | Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia CONSULTING EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault...Virginia's Kelly Bank Mine Richard S. Mitchell Howard R . Freeland 219 A General History of Zinc Mining in...stones only. In most instances, stamps depicting mining only (no rocks or minerals) have been excluded...collecting rocks FUI July 15, 1978 4 sh Emperor gold mine and gold ore BRAZIL June 8 1974 40 c sandstone...sandstone cliffs January 13, 1969 40 c Emperor gold mine and gold ore FRANCE July 8, 1975 September 27, 1969 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia CONSULTING EDITORS Richard D. Dayvault...Virginia's Kelly Bank Mine Richard S. Mitchell Howard R . Freeland 219 A General History of Zinc Mining in...stones only. In most instances, stamps depicting mining only (no rocks or minerals) have been excluded...collecting rocks FUI July 15, 1978 4 sh Emperor gold mine and gold ore BRAZIL June 8 1974 40 c sandstone...sandstone cliffs January 13, 1969 40 c Emperor gold mine and gold ore FRANCE July 8, 1975 September 27, 1969 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | December 2014 Wavellite Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas P hosphate minerals are a traditional...3-cm-tall wavellite from Mauldin Mountain, Montgomery County, Arkansas; kevin Brown specimen, Joe Budd photo...Limestone Company quarry, Pleasant Mills, Snyder County, Pennsylvania. The 2.8 × 2.7 × 1.5-cm specimen...Day Township, Saratoga County, New York; another at Jamestown, Newport County, Rhode Island; and one...one in Carroll County, New Hampshire. Several important wavellite occurrences are in Pennsylvania (Gordon |  | | Journal (issue) | | FEBRUARYJMAY 1994 NO. 1 & 2 MINERALS OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. INTRODUCTION RockbridgeCountyhas...the 1800snear the towns of Buena Vista, Goshen, Vesuvius, and in waverAmoldvalley. Otherearly minesinthecounty...Figure 1.LocationmapofRockbridgeCounty,Virginia. reported from the county. Rockbridgecounty is one of the more...more prolific mineralcollectingareasin Virginia. A largepercentageof the mineralsare concentratedin threeareas:...green epidote,and g a y quartz along with other mine& in minor producedexcellentpyritecrystalsandothernotewyminerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Virginia by RICHARD S. MITCHELL Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...same county. I t also has been observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and...world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is coated...radioactive. The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described...Specimens from the Rutherford pegmatites, in Amelia County, are famous for the per fection of their thin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...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. A l |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | wavellite, crandallite, turquoise, variscite, cacoxenite, beraunite, dufrénite, goyazite, gorceixite...Distribution: In England, from Cornwall, at the Tretoil mine, Lanivet, near Bodmin, and at Wheal Pendarves, Camborne...Czech Republic. In the USA, in the Kelly Bank mine, east of Vesuvius, Rockbridge Co., and at the Burley...Burley pegmatite, Amherst Co., Virginia; from Girard, Burke Co., Georgia; on Indian Mountain, Cherokee Co |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 12 Anthony, W., 12 Arizona: Mammoth, St. Anthony Mine, Tiger, Arizona, 5; Minerals Named for Persons Associated...Barwood, H . L . : Phosphate Minerals in the Vesuvius, Virginia, Area and Notes on the Type Locality of Rockbridgeite... 254 Butler, G . M . , 12 Butlerite, 12 Cacoxenite, Virginia, 22 Cahnite, New Jersey, 213 Calcite: Illinois...Denver Museum of Natural History, 58; Clear Creek County, 241 Coming Events: 38, 81, 177, 227, 273 Connecticut...148 Dick, A . B . , 257 Dickite, 257 Dixie mine, Virginia, 21 Downeyite, 73 Downey, W. F . , 73 Dugganite |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard |  | MATSUBARA, SATOSHI, SAITO, YASUJI, KATO, AKIRA (1988) Phosphate minerals in chert from Toyoda, Kochi, City, Japan. Journal of Mineralogy, Petrology and Economic Geology, 83 (4) 141-149 doi:10.2465/ganko.83.141 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurrence were formed on walls came from nearby and cacoxenite of aluminum of fractures fluorapatite were...condition. The phosphate ion by sulphuric and cacoxenite acid generated indicate from wavellite to...one, planerite to be a copper-bearing one, and cacoxenite to be a highly aluminian material, respectively...Saito and Akira Kato of hexagonal prisms of cacoxenite. A bar 0 ƒÊm. Table 1a. 1b. 2a. 2b. 3a. 3b...*calculated. Ditto. Molecular number. (basis: P=4) Cacoxenite. Weight percentage. Ditto. Molecular number. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | uvarovite. Other Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and District of Columbia Clubs like the fossil hunting...good hunting. Down Virginia way from the Staunton State Park to Altavista (Bishop Mine) the hunting is for...Waynesboro, Route 702, South River Mine (Kelly Bank), Augusta — Rockbridge County, the minerals to be found are...psilomelane, cryptomelane, goethite, hematite, cacoxenite, weinschenkite, quartz crystals, chert, and fossil...608 to Old Coal Mine ROCKS AND MINERALS Road to Cold Springs Clay Mine, Augusta County can be found kaolinite |  | | Report (issue) | | the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound |  | | Journal (issue) | | , and D. R. Cook Hyalite from the Spruce Pine District, North Carolina ................................Brazilian localities, Virgem da Lapa and the Golconda mine, have produced remarkable crystals of hydroxyl-herderite...Company spodumene mine, near Kings Mountain, North Carolina, and from the Dunton Gem mine, Newry, Maine,...Lapa, Minas Gerais, Brazil (3)* 71-90% Golconda mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil (6) 53% Waldstein, Fichtelgibirge...Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria, Germany (1) Blue Chihuahua mine, San Diego County, 57-59% California (2) 67-80% Poland, Maine |  | | Journal (issue) | | SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR VISIT OUR MINE-KEEP WHAT YOU FIND...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard |  | | Book | | what was probably one of the earliest hard-rock mining operations in the world. A necklase with a turquois...rather convoluted account of the prospecting and mining of this mineral (Pliny, 38:33): "It [cal/aina,...evaporitic rocks at the Incline, Mariposa County and Big Creek, Fresno County, California. The associated minerals...Custer-Pringle area, Custer County, and at the Etta mine, Pennington County, South Dakota. Also found in...Dakota, especially at the Beecher Lode, Custer County, as masses up to 200 tons in weight; as rounded |  | | Book | | United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of...On a spectacular find of crocoite in the Adelaide mine, Dundas, Tasmania (by A. H. Chapman) 3:111-113 ADOLFSSON...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...AJO Famous mineral localities: the New Cornelia mine, Ajo, Arizona (by W. J. Thomas & R. B. Gibbs) 14:283-298...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73 |  | | Book (edition) | | Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...abbreviations: Rep. (republic), prov. (province), co. (county), munic. (municipio), pref. (prefecture), dept...dept. (departement), dept. (departamento), dist. (district). Less common terms are not abbreviated, e.g....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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Twenty-eight, Number One Hlmois-Kentucky Fluorite District Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael...group, 13 cm, w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection;...York; the Helvetia district, Arizona; O ntario’s Grenville Province; the Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York;...Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin Island; the fluorite mines of Madoc, Ontario; |  | | Book (edition) | | illustrations for SELLAITE, Vesuvius, Italy (12, column 2) and SEMSEYITE, Julcani mine, Huancavelica, Peru (#3...Currier Susie Davis Ray DeMark Paul Desautels Virginia Deshler Mary Dodds Adolph F. Dosse Steve G. Dulla...sandstone at the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,...rnine , Silver Plun1e district, and at the Little Emma mine, Clear Creek County; at the Enterprise n1ine |
|
