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Amethyst from
Edenton Mine, Brokenburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Amethyst
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amethyst data
Locality Data:Click here to view Edenton Mine, Brokenburg, Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:370092
Long-form Identifier:1:3:370092:1
GUID (UUID V4):a60a91c2-f91a-44fa-a8f5-d8d3526806a4
Nearest other occurrences of Amethyst
44.8km (27.8 miles) Stevensburg Quarry (Number 1 Quarry; Culpeper Stone Company Inc.), Culpeper, Culpeper County, Virginia, USA
60.0km (37.3 miles) Ash Lawn, Albemarle County, Virginia, USA
82.5km (51.3 miles) Rutherford Mines, Amelia (Amelia Court House), Amelia County, Virginia, USA
89.6km (55.7 miles) Centreville, Culpeper Basin, Fairfax County, Virginia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho­ tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...of Dr. C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm.,...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
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...Church, Chancellorsville, M i n e Run, Guinea, Spotsylvania; B r o k e n b u r g ; Bel­ mont, Contrary Creek...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
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
Book (volume)
instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...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...Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel
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
Report (issue)
and North Carolina Esso well no. 2, eastern Dare County, N. C________-__------_-_--_---------------__-----_-_5...the two deep Esso Standard Oil Co. wells, Dare County, is here referred to the Oligocene or lower Miocene...occurring in a water well at Camp Lejeune, Onslow County, N. C. OSTRACODA FROM WELLS IN NORTH CAROLINA...75°31'4" W., Lat. 35°15'0.5" N., Cape Hatteras, Dare County, N. C.; derrick floor altitude 24 feet; depth 10...75°33'54" W., Lat. 35°42'12" N., Pamlico Sound, Dare County, N. C.; drive bushing altitude 21 feet; depth 6
Book (edition)
MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state... LJ Emerald, Beryl *"» Agate ** Jade =p Amethyst ^ X ) y ' £f h % ^ K Gem Hunter's ...ivory and carmine enclosing a turbulent mass of amethyst. I bought it some years ago for a few shillings...were unlucky long made them unfashionable, and amethyst lost some of its high status when the abundant...another. The quartz gems, for example, such as amethyst, form crystal prisms with six faces terminated
Book
HfiRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRfiRY 311110G386652Q I V Russell P MacFal A COLOR TREASUF FOR COLLECTORS...it a veritable not just a picof informa- is mine tion, telling everything the collector needs to...to Hunting Locations ? i 9 GIVEN TO THE MARIN COUNTY LIBRARY BY MARI N L MTNF.RAT. SOCTETY DAVID...can use a mountaineering bag or a mili- quarry or mine where a permit tary bag; make it it should...Geological Surveys Distribution Branch. 1200 Virginia 22202. Those S for Eads Street. Arlington
Book
CHAPTER 4 Maryland ... 3 CHAPTER 5 Virginia 4 1 CHAPTER 6 West Virginia 5 CHAPTER 7 Kentucky 6 CHAPTER...was m e r e l y p a r t o f t h e waste o f t h e mine. W h a t t h e y needed was h i g h grade ore o...visit Virginia's noted Rutherford Mine. Photograph by Dr. Virginia Lee Blackford. ical pearls in delicate...rubies, sapphires, aquamarines, garnets, topaz, amethyst and golden beryl are among the historic gems of...Valley, Macon County, North Carolina. An enthusiastic family found and mined an amethyst deposit in South
Report (issue)
beauty are found in Cowee Valley in the Franklin County area of western North Carolina. Many of these...North Carolina include aquamarine, golden beryl, amethyst, almandite garnet, citrine, and smoky quartz....16 Rutile 17 Quartz 17 Rock Crystal 17 Amethyst •• 18 Rose Quartz 18 Smoky Quartz 18 Rutilated...COUNTIES Alamance County • .' 22 24 24 Alexander County 24 Alleghany County 25 Ashe County • 25 Avery...Avery County 25 Buncombe County 26 Burke County 26 Cabarrus County 27 Caldwell County 27 Caswell
Book
not just a picture book. Rather, it is a veritable mine of information, telling everything the collector...you If you plan to vIsIt an operating quarry or mine where a permll Is required make the necessary arrangements...D1stn but1on Branch 1200 S Eads Street Arl Ington Virginia 22202 Those for areas west of the M1ssIssIppI...LAKE BAILEY N I DELAWARE MINE DUMPS IOATOUTE CHLORASTROUTEI 2 AMYGDAlOID MINE DUMPS 3 AGATE HARBOR (AGATES...(AGATES THOMSONITE ON BEACH\ )l MUD VLAKE TO MANDAN MINE - HARD SURFACE Field drawing to locate a collecting
Book
about 1766 to 1782 in New York, Connecticut and Virginia (see Colour Plate 16). New York Private Collection...Meadows and Karen Van Epps Peters at Mount Vernon in Virginia facilitated my study and further use of the significant...in Washington, D.C. At Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia, Beatrix T. Rumford, Carolyn J. Weekley, Catherine...thanks for their ingenuity and persistance go to Virginia Hopcroft, Brian Damien and Cynthia Arnold, research...and enjoyable. The Society of Jewelry Historians USA in New York has provided a clearing house for information
Book (edition)
Washington State Travel Development Division 48; West Virginia Department of Commerce 54, 60, 121; Florida Department...River; go orienteering in the rolling hills of old Virginia; or scuba dive to a coral reef in the Virgin Islands...by the Bureau of Land Management, in state and county parks and forests, and in private parks as well...Knob-Seneca Rocks in eastern West Virginia, Mount Rogers in southwestern Virginia, Shasta-Trinity in northern...which is similar to the springs of Yellowstone; Virginia Falls, twice the height of Niagara Falls; Third
Report (volume)
with State and local historical societies, State, county, and township officers, and individuals in all...Historical Library, Helena, Montana, for data concerning county and town names in the State. Eugene Howell, by...counties. Nearly all the information concerning county names in this State was furnished by him. John...connection with the State names. Complete lists of county and town names were sent by him, and information...of county and town names. John M. Comstock, Chelsea, Vermont, list of town names in Orange County. Virginia
Report (volume)
with State and local historical societies, State, county, and township officers, and individuals in all...Wyoming, Illinois, superintendent of schools, Stark County, 1882-1898, for much valuable information concerning...several hundred cities and towns, and corrections of county names in the State of Illinois. J. P. Dunn, Indiana...Indianapolis, Indiana, for additions to and corrections of county names. M. W. Davis, State Historical Society, Iowa...fora revision of the complete list of Minnesota county names. Franklin L. Riley, Mississippi Historical
Report (volume)
MacBae. ..Asheville. .Wilmington. Frank Wood..Edenton. STATE GEOLOGIST J. A. Holmes Chapel Hill. ... Clay County. Macon County. Jackson County. Transylvania County. Swain County. Haywood County. Buncombe...Buncombe County . Madison County. Yancey County. Mitchell County . Watauga County . Wilkes County. Ashe County...County . Alleghany County . Physiography and ecology of the peridotites. 28 28 29 32 34 35 36 38 42 46...mag¬ nesian rocks. Shooting Creek region, Clay County, North Carolina. Elf dunite. Elf amphibole-peridotite
 
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