 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | E S IN V I R G I N I A "Virginia Division of Mineral Resources" From "Virginia Minerals" By PALMER C....for people who are interested in collecting in Virginia. All the listed localities were open and the informa...official State Highway Map as well as individual county road maps, both of which are available from the...of Highways, 1221 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. Top ographic maps are available from the Vir...Mineral Resources, Box 3667, Charlottesville, Virginia and from the Distribution Section of the U.S. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Darry, N. H. 0 3 0 4 1 (PART 16 SPOTSYLVANIA...SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY Bordered on the N by the Rappahan nock and Rapidan Rivers. T h e N edge may be submerged...number of gold operations r u n n i n g across the county from N to S. These are mainly placers and rather...Jackson's Trail, iy mi. S o f Brockroad. Old gold mine on Greene Farm near Brockroad. Marsden Gold M. A...gets up to 124 Dwt. Placer only. United States Gold Mine. Between Rte 620 and Rappahannock R. Nr. power line |  | | 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) | | -MINERAL-AND FOSSIL-COLLECTING LOCALITIES IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. . . This article presem the most...for people who are interested "in collecting in Virginia (Figure I). All the listed localities were open...ofticial State Highway Map as well as individual county road maps, both of which are available From the...Broad Street. Richmond. Virginia. Topographic maps are available from the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources...Resources. Box 3667, Charlottemille, Virginia and from the Distribution Section a f ~ h eU. S. &logical |  | | 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) | | Sites in Virginia by PALMER C. SWEET Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...for people who are interested in col lecting in Virginia (Figure 1). All the alphabetically listed localities'were...official State Highway Map as well as individual county road maps (10^ each), both of which are available...Transportation, 1221 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. Topo graphic maps are available from the Vir...Mineral Resources, Box 3667, Charlottesville, Virginia and from the National Cartographic Information |  | | Journal (issue) | | DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...amazonite, fine moonstone, and topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise...minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which have been used as gemstones and decora...report. Many of the localities will be familiar to Virginia mineral collectors. Someof the areas mentioned...collect minerals. There has been much written on Virginia mineral localities but no reports are available |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | Pleaoc teturn this publication to the Virginia Geologieal Survcy whcn you havc no further uce for it...COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSTON ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Deposits of Virginra BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 COMMONWEALTH, OF VTRGINIA STATE COMMISSION...COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN, State Geologist Bulletin...33 Pegmatite Deposits of Virginia BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 RICHMOND: DrvrsroN |  | | Report (issue) | | y"",cf' Edited By Gerald R. Baum w. Burleigh Harris ~--e roY"tJ T:~-- ) And Victor A. Zullo ;'...the North Carolina Coastal Plain. (Figure 1 from Harris, Zullo and Baum) Layout by Anne Virant-Lazar and...Charleston Charleston, South Carolina 29401 W. Burleigh Harris and Victor A. Zullo Department of Earth Sciences...Charleston Charleston, South Carolina W. Burleigh Harris and Victor A. Zullo Department of Earth Sciences...STRATIGRAPHY, NORTH CAROLINA Gerald R. Baum, W. Burleigh Harris and Victor A. Zullo ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bassett Stone Company quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky, ca. 1962. Shown are the older underground...from the Bassett Stone quarry at Monticello, Wayne County, Kentucky. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. Figure...facility near Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing photo....Hill facility, Nicholasville, Jessamine County, Kentucky. Harris Precht specimen, Terry Huizing photo....exposed on the Gilley property in western Cherokee County (O’Neill 1950); it is relatively common as purple |  | | Book | | volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Hematite HANOVER, Coosa Co., (near) Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite |  | | Journal (issue) | | GOLD MINES AND PROSPECTS IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet INTRODUCTION Virginia was one of the first gold-producing...mines near the falls of the James River in Amherst County, as well as several placer mines in other parts...productive and sustained period of gold activity in Virginia was from 1830 thru 1856; the average annual value...Bureau of Mines estimates total gold production in Virginia from 1829 through 1934 a t $3,318,388. This figure...during the early boom years of gold mining in Virginia (Park, 1936, p. 8). I t allows for gold that was |  | | Report (issue) | | the Old Church Formation of the Chesapeake Group Virginia Coastal Plain U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL...the Old Church Formation of the Chesapeake Group Virginia Coastal Plain By Lauck W. Ward U.S. GEOLOGICAL...the Old Church Formation of the Chesapeake Group Virginia Coastal Plain. (U.S. Geological Survey professional...Tertiary. 2. Mollusks, Fossil Virginia Pamunkey River Watershed. 3. Geology Virginia Pamunkey River Watershed...Stafford County, Va. (Loc. 1); B, Rappahannock River, east of Greenfield, Spotsylvania County, Va. (Loc |  | | Report (volume) | | 1977, Geology and mineral deposits of Pershing County, Nevada: Nevada Bur. Mines and Geology Bull. 89...Silver Cliff and Rosita volcanic centers, Custer County, Colorado: U.S. Geol. Survey Misc. Geol. Inv. Map...Chazyan) western Maryland and northern Virginia Harris, A. G., and Harris, L. D., 1978, Lower-Middle Ordovician...1100, p. 231. In western Maryland and northern Virginia where its Rockdale Run Formation (Lower and Middle...Maryland and Virginia and in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Vermont, West Virginia, and Tennessee |  | | Report (issue) | | Stony Mountain Gabbro on Ridges Mountain, Randolph County, North Carolina (see DeDecker et al., this volume)............................. 17 Stop 2B Reed Gold Mine ..................................................Albemarle Group of the Carolina terrane, North Carolina (USA): marks of a mobile lifestyle on a Precambrian sea...LeGrand and Bell, 1966; Gibson and Teeter, 1984; Harris and Glover, 1988; Bradley and Clark, 2006) it is...cadre of graduate students from Virginia Tech especially Charles Harris - James Conley, Don Secor, Victor |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | State University Raleigh, NC 27695 W. Burleigh Harris Department of Earth Sciences University of North....... 1 W. Burleigh Harris The Coquinas of the Neuse Formation, New Hanover County, North Carolina......FEAR AND CAPE LOOKOUT, NORTH CAROLINA W. Burleigh Harris Department of Earth Sciences University of North...(Neuse Hinge) is referred to as the Onslow Block (Harris and Laws, in press). To the north of the Neuse...related to formation and ~ development of the Hanover-Surry Scarp, BogueSuffolk Scarp and the Alligator |  | | Journal (issue) | | 9 I ■" | X. V.v M i i Quartz var. Rock XI. From Jack Steele's Mine, Black Rapids, Lyndhurst, Ont...Talc Beryl Emery Borax Halite Pyrite Barite Sulfur Quartz Galena •Columblte Magnetite Magnesite Scheelite...Aadradlte Groeaular Va" Peridot Rhodonite Rose Quartz Wonderstone Psilomelano Apophylllte Stlbicomte...Conichalcite Petrified Wood Meyerhofferite Smoky Quartz Blue Calclte Pyrophylllte Opalued Wood Va" Aquamarine...Felslte “Turltella" Agate Indian Moss Agate Rutilated Quartz Flowering Obsidian Mizzonlte - Scapollte Barite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | southeastern USA Brian P. Coffey *, J. Fred Read Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg...Blacksburg, VA 24061-0420, USA Received 4 April 2003; received in revised form 5 November 2003; accepted...The inner shelf was characterized by distinctive quartz sand and sandy mollusk facies inshore, passing...Norfolk Arch (Fig. 1A; Bonini and Woollard, 1960; Harris, 1975). Two main structural blocks separated by...the basin and influenced depositional patterns (Harris and Laws, 1997). These blocks include the structurally |  | | Report (volume) | | vol. 12, pp. 95-222. Davenport, Iowa. . Delaware County Institute of Science: Proceedings, vol. 4, nos...1-419; Bulletin, nos. 62-69. Washington, D.'C. Virginia Geological Survey: Bulletin, nos. I-A, II-A. Charlottesville...133-187. Washington, D. C. West Virginia Geological Survey, vol. 4; County Reports, Marshall, Wetzel, and... Alien, Roy Hutching. 18. Notes on Mother Lode mine in British Columbia. Eng. and Min. Jour., vol. 88...for oil. 26. Two areas of oil prospecting in Lyon County., western Nevada. U. S. Geol. Survey, Bull. 381-D |  | | Report (volume) | | Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...Gardner, Lexington. Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman............Prof. George H. Perkins, Burlington. Virginia...........Dr. Thomas L. Watson, Charlottesville...Washington....... Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin......See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Report (issue) | | about 10 miles. The area is principally in Roane County. Ore has been mined in many places along the west...about 9 miles, lying partly in Roane County and partly in Rhea County. -Much of this strip is in the bottom...bordered by a fault for about 5 miles. Near the county line on the outcrop the rocks dip 20° to 30° SE...SE. The ore bed, as observed at the Crescent mine, is 5 to 6 feet thick. From 10 inches to 1 foot of lean...necessary for blast-furnace practice. In the Crescent mine many small folds, diagonal to the strike of the |  | | Report (issue) | | Castle Hayne Formation _______________________ New Hanover Member _____,____________ Comfort Member _____...redefined and divided into three units the New Hanover, the Comfort, and the Spring Garden Members. It...substrate. As an offshore bar became prominent, quartz-rich sandy sediment was deposited in the basin...New Hanover County, N.C. The Ideal Cement Co. quarry just east of Castle Hayne, New Hanover County, N...members: phosphatic lithocalcirudite facies {New Hanover Member), bryozoan and echinoidal biocalcarenite |
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