 | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Book (edition) | | mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior |  | | Report (volume) | | .........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...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson |  | | Journal (issue) | | 28 November 1982 No. 4 GOLD OCCURRENCES IN VIRGINIA, AN UPDATE Palmer C. Sweet and David Trimble ... 0 Gold was f i r s t discovered i n Virginia i n 1806 a t the Whitehall mine i n Spotsylvania m y ...near the f a l l s of the Jams River in Amherst County as well as several placer mines were opened in...The f i r s t gold mine campany incorporated i n Virginia was the V i r qinia Mining Campany of New York...operated a t the Grasty mine t r a c t i n Orange County from 1831-1834. This area has been operated intermittently |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINE! AND MINERALS T II) (PAF » MORRILL By P H I L I I N.H. 0 3 0 4 1 East Derry, FAUQUIER ...for old stone mill nearby. Platinum reported in talcose schists in county. 2 ROCKS A N D MINERALS ...northern dent remembers seeing flour gold run Virginia between Rapidan and Rappa ning into waste pile...the Vaucluse Gold Ms. (Orange Culpepper is the County Seat and prin Co.). Sheets of gold size "of hand...N. around horseshoe curves. Shaft RAPPAHANNOCK COUNTY On E edge of Skyline Drive. W of Warrenton. Served |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.; |  | | Report (issue) | | Intrusive rocks----------------------~---------Virginia __________________________________ _ ~ orth Carolina...-- .. ------- - Virginia mines ___ _______________________ _______ _ Fauquier County ____ ______ ______...properties _________ .. _____________ _ Halifax County ______ - _____ - __________ ~- _'- __ _ Virgilina..._____ _ ____ __ ... _________________ _ Orange County-· ___________________________ _ Melville ____ -...________ _________________________ _ Pr~nce William County _____________________ _ Crawford _____________________ |  | | Report (issue) | | ^ Anne Arundel County 43 Baltimore County 45 Howard County - Montgomery County 88 Prince Georges...Georges County Virginia 74 . 120 129 Arlington County 129 Fairfax County 131 Fauquier County 139...139 Loudoun County 143 Prince William County 149 Diabase quarries of northern Virginia 155 CAPTIONS...forming a ridge north of Route 7 near Dranesville, Virginia. Figure 7. Locations of mineral deposits in...mines in the Soldiers Delight region, Baltimore County, Maryland. Adapted from Pearre and Heyl , 19.60 |  | | Report (issue) | | eastern foothills of the DIABLO RANGE in Stanislaus County. ******************** * * * NOTICE TO USERS *...Geological Survey Library 950 National Center Reston, Virginia 22092 UL Personnel whose duty station 1s other...Ajo and part of the Pisinimo quadrangles, Pima County, Arizona. Reston, Va. : U.S. Geological Survey...1820 M (200) MF no.1820 ARIZONA GEOLOGY YAVAPAI COUNTY MAPS. Weir, Gordon Whitney. Preliminary geologic...86-164 D MP ARIZONA MINERAL RESOURCES MAR ICOPA COUNTY. McDonnell, John R. Mineral investigation of a |  | | Report (volume) | | ..... Eldorado County, by E. C. Eckel. ................................ Merced County.......................... Bartow County.................................................. Polk County...................93 Northampton*County.............'................................. . 96 Lehigh County.................104 Carbon County..................................................... 108 Dauphin County..............116 Blount County.. ................................................... 115 Monroe County........... |  | | Report (volume) | | ....... Virginia ............................................................. West Virginia...........showing location of slate deposits of Montgomery-Polk County slate district, Arkansas.........................quarries, Arnherst County, Va....-. 116 14. Map of slate prospects in Fauquier County, Va................particles. In a specimen of shale from Rensselaer County, N. Y.,<^ the incipient alignment of clastic muscovite...slates, and possibly the Lehigb and Northampton County slates of Pennsylvania, may be suspected, but not'demonstrated |  | | Book | | --------------------------Gold --------------------------Platinum -----------------------Sulfides Realgar ________________________...industrial metals; consider the value of the gold, platinum, and silver which have been taken from the ground...lltolybdcnum Nickel Nitrogen Oxygen Phosphorus Platinum Potassium Selenium Silicon Silver Sodium Strontium...Survey) Chester County, Pa.: Alabama; Texas; Montana: Humbolt County, Nevada; Beaver County, Utah; Loudon...Loudon ~unty, Virginia; Wake County, North Carolina; Albany County, Wyommg; and Kern County, California. Natural |  | | Report (volume) | | aspects of the geology of the Culpeper basin of Virginia. The editors are grateful to the authors, technical...and Deep Run basins in the eastern Piedmont of Virginia 40 By Eleanora I. Robbins and Robert E. Weems...characteristics of Mesozoic basalts, Culpeper basin, Virginia lOS By Richard P. Tollo Reinterpretation of the...Mesozoic intrusive rocks in the Culpeper basin, Virginia and Maryland 151 By Albert J. Froelich and David...early Mesozoic diabase sheets, Culpeper basin, Virginia 16S By Paul C. Ragland and Jonathan D. Arthur |  | | Book (edition) | | Noble Metals. 1. 2. 3. 8. 301 . . .... .... Platinum, Iridium, Palladium, Gold, Silver, to the description...crystals. Attached by one extremity. Forct ps, Platinum, 69. Incandescence. White heat. Fracture of mineral... cobalt, r pounds. ; manganese, palladium, platinum and osmium, have been found to be slightly magnetic...arranged for use. The mouth piece e and is made of platinum in order that it may be cleaned when necessary...or by moans of steel forceps, (fig. 103,) with platinum extremities {a b) ; the forceps are opened by |  | | Book (edition) | | Chromium, Nickel, . . . Noble Metals. 2. Platinum, Iridium, Palladium, Gold, . 3. Silver, 1.... 53. Implanted crystals. Attached by Forceps, Platinum, 69. one extremity. Fracture of minerals, 65....the metals nickel, cobalt, manganese, palladium, platinum and osmium, have been found to be slightly magnetic... The mouth piece e screws off, and is made o£ platinum in order that it may be cleaned when necessary...either on charcoal, forceps, (fig. 103,) with platinum extremities (a b) ; the forceps are opened by |  | | Book (edition) | | . . . . Mercury, Copper, Noble Metals. 1. Platinum, Iridium, Palladium 22. 23. 2. Crap. Caap.... 53. Implanted crystals. Attached by Forceps, Platinum, 69. one extremity. Fracture of minerals, 65....the metals nickel, cobalt, manganese, palladium, platinum and osmium, have been found to be slightly magnetic... The mouth piece e screws off, and is made of platinum in order that it may be cleaned when necessary... either on cha>voal forceps, (fig. 103,) with platinum extremities (a b) ; the forceps are opened by |  | | Book (edition) | | Mercury, . . 23. Copper, . . . . 2. Noble Metals. 1. Platinum, Iridium, Palladium, . 2. Gold, . • • . . 3. Silver... jluo, to flow,] 69. Foliaceous, 53. Forceps, Platinum, 69. Fracture of minerals, 65. Friable. Easily...the metals nickel, cobalt, manganese, palladium, platinum and osmium, have been found to be slightly magnetic...The mouth piece e f scre,vs off, and is made of platinum in order that it may be cleaned ,vhen necessary...b:y _means of steel forceps, (fig. 103,) with platinum extremities (a b) ; the forceps are opened by |  | | Book (edition) | | Copper, . . . . . . . . . . . . 2. Platinum, Iridium, Palladium, Gold, 3. Silver, . ....crystals. Attached by one extremity. Forceps, Platinum, 69. Incandescence. White heat. Fracture of minerals...the metals nickel, cobalt, manganese, palladium, platinum and osmium, have been found to be slightly magnetic...use. The mouth piece e f screws off, is made of platinum in order that it may be cleaned when necessary...supported in the flame, either on charcoal, with platinum extremities (a b) ; the forceps are opened by |  | | Book (edition) | | Antimony, 22. Arsenic, 1 . 2, Noble Metals. 1. Platinum, Iridium, Palladium, 2. Gold, 3. Silver, Supplement...crystals. Attached by Foliaceous, 53 Forceps, Platinum, 69, one extremity. Fracture of minerals, 65....the metals nickel, cobalt, manganese, palladium, platinum and osmium, have been found to be slightly magnetic...arranged for use. The mouth piece e and is made of platinum in order that it may be cleaned when necessary...or by means of steel forceps, (fig. 103,} with platinum ex. tremities (a b) ; the forceps are opened by |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Book (volume) | | 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...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | 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...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...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts, |  | | Book (edition) | | next suspend the mineral by a hair, or or a fine platinum wire, to one of the scales, immerse it thus suspended...To Osmium Os Oxygen 0 Palladium Phosphorus Platinum Potassium Pd Pt 68-8 14 199 '2 16 106 '6 81...and it is desirable that it should be made of platinum, in order that it may be cleaned when necessary...with plati- num extremities {a 5), opened on platinum wire or foil. by pressing on the pins pp;...beyond the platinum. Hence compounds of lead, arsenic, anreadily with platinum. ascertain platinum forceps |  | | Report (issue) | | several years bauxite was mined in Tennessee and Virginia. Ho,vever, over 85 percent of the domestic production...Appalachian Valley in Georgia, Alabama, T ennessee, and Virginia. Laterites containing large proportions of iJ:on...1953 for the construction of a smelter in Lane County, Oreg., to produce "master" aluminum-silicon alloys...Investigation of the Springvale Bauxite District, Randolph County, Ga. Bureau of l\1ines Rept. of Investigations...J:Sauxite 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. District, Wilkinson County, Ga. Bureau of l\,1ines R ept. of Investigations |
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