![](/refpic_414794_6018596bf2423_40_0.jpg) | | 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 | ![](/refpic_554561_60495aed20249_40_0.jpg) | | 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 | ![](/refpic_1230840_6201f9b44a44f_40_0.jpg) | | 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...Cambrian Shad7 (Tom1town) Dolomite at the Jamea River Bydrnte and Supply Compnny Qunrr7 about one mile...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station | ![](/refpic_977969_613fc0dcb7405_40_0.jpg) | | 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 | ![](/refpic_1515310_657de6ff33034_40_0.jpg) | | Book (volume) | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE | ![](/refpic_1518036_65a089dd57933_40_0.jpg) | | Book (volume) | the western counties, especially the Clay Center Quarry 12 miles southeast of Toledo but in Ottawa Co....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...townships of Washington, Virginia, Bedford, Jackson, Jefferson, Bethlehem, Monroe and Clark; on regional...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE | ![](/refpic_1515328_657deb18cca0f_40_0.jpg) | | Book (volume) | cuts, breaks, river banks, stream beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma...Fm. On Elm Cr. Near its jct. with the Missouri River (about 15 mi. S of Chamberlain) gray Barite rosette...rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides, ridges...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles | ![](/refpic_978010_614120e2c1bab_40_0.jpg) | | Book | CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate pastel...dollars at the noted locality of Cowee Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and...the well known old Rutherford mine in Amelia County, Virginia, and found bright spessartine garnets, glowing...green gem spodumene, was discovered in Alexander County, North Carolina, in 1880 and named for one of its | ![](/refpic_95520_5ff6eaece4d19_40_0.jpg) | | Report (issue) | of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, V a. West Virginia Geological and Economic Survey Morgantown, W....________ Tennessee marble belts______________ Virginia marble belts________________ Murphy marble belt________________...__ Valley and Ridge slate belt__________ West Virginia slate belt______________ Pennsylvania slate belt______________...____ Tennessee__________________________ West Virginia and other areas_ ___ ____ Resource potentiaL_...Gap, Pa_____________________________ 18. Vertical quarry face in limestone, 160 feet high, 4 miles south | ![](/refpic_1324258_632b680f236a9_40_0.jpg) | | Book | 5.95 and quickly informative.”— “Practical Virginia Kirkus RANGE GUIDE TO MINES AND MINERALS A by...commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...will help you prospect and explore any state and county. etc., for mineral deposits in Finding Suitable | ![](/refpic_91955_5ff6735ade35c_40_0.jpg) | | Report (issue) | pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ _______________________...pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...bulge in the hanging wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight...granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 9. Same granite...and other units in the Big Bess pegmatite, Gaston County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ | ![](/refpic_1448301_6505d1fb0a88a_40_0.jpg) | | Report (volume) | Guiana is transported from the mines near a river by barge or river vessel to processing plants near the coast...of Bauxite Ore from the Quapaw Deposit, Saline County, Ark. BuMines Rept. of Inv. 5366, 1957, 11 pp....~reek Bauxite Mine, Reynolds ~inmg Corp., Saline County, Ark. BuMines Inf. C1rc. 8016, 1961, 19 pp. ALUMINUM...Te!)-nessee Valley area, and the lo\ver Columbia River a1;ea of the Pacific Northwest. I-Iowever, aluminum...Texas _________.----·-___ .... _. . ___ Ohio, West Virginia, and Indiana_ New York___________ _______ _____ |
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Piney River Quarry, Piney River, Nelson County, Virginia, USA