 | | 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) | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | locality in the State is Russell Gulch in Gilpen County. A small but very fine crystal group from Russell...mind. We have only one small rock outcrop in my county (Orange) at Rock Springs near Apopka. "The beaches...brown in color and comes from Leesville, Vernon Parish, La. Leesville is Louisiana's most noted petrified...wood locality and it is Lovett Word, Box 1129, Leesville, La., who found the first specimens and announced...is good that I got on my visit to Mr. Word in Leesville. The man has a lot of the wood and fossils, etc |  | | 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) | | History of the New River, Southern Appalachians, Virginia By Brenda Houser Open-File Report 81-771 1981...residuum------------ 139 Ratio of zircon to tourmaline---------- 141 Subaerial stability of zircon-----...and Newport 7 1/2-minute quadrangles, Giles County, Virginia-------------------------- In pocket Page...and Newport 7 1/2-minute quadrangles, Giles County, Virginia--------------------------- Figure 1. In...of the New River in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia showing sample locations of modern New |  | | Book (edition) | | backroads and often come across a quarry or a roadcut, stop and investigate it, and bring back some colourful...present additional problems. The famous Hi ghway 62 roadcut north of Bancroft is now closed to collectors because...to get at mineral samples, they undermined the roadcut and it became a safety hazard. If you choose to...Road, tum right and drive 22.2 km to the roadcut. The roadcut is located on top of a small hill, just...actinolite crystals; albite, biotite, white calcite The roadcut contains a small lens of calcium-silicate meta-sediments |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vol. 27 May 1981 No. 2 BLUE QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA Michael A. Wise1 -@ I n 1885, Robert Robertson described...described a peculiar variety of quartz from Nelson County, Virginia. This new variety of quartz, as cited by Robertson...Island to South Carolina. Most blue quartz in Virginia is in the Blue Ridge Complex lying east of the...The complex extends from Loudoun County in the north to Grayson County in the south. A few occurrences...occurrences of blue quartz have been reported from the Virginia Piedmont. The stratigraphic succession of the Blue |  | | Book (volume) | | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...black Tourmaline. 146 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N |  | | Book | | ���������������� 181 54. LaSalle Falls Black Tourmaline����������������������������������������������������������...�������������� 185 55. Pine River Red Tourmaline ������������������������������������������������������������...permitted. Many entries in this book are in city parks, county parks, state forests, state parks, federal lands...to go to a crusher. If you take your wagon to a roadcut, you are collecting too many rocks. This can also...not question why you are so intently studying a roadcut. Dehydration and hunger can make you and your companions |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 'Arizona Gem Fields'. Near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif., and then deep in the Muggins Mountains...), no fl. (s.w.). Wesrville is in So. Vermilion County of Eastern Illinois. INDIANA—"From a little stream...brown by iron. Covington is in Western Fountain County in Western Indiana. I O W A — " W e enclose for...of a large rock found in a field in Des Moines County, Iowa, by Mr. Art Hueschen of Danville, Iowa. "This...and has found many types of rocks in Des Moines County, Iowa, which we predict will be a Rock 247 Hound's |  | | Report (issue) | | parts of North Carolina, Tennessee, and southern Virginia. 4. Geologic section and simple Bouguer gravity...Page 103. Photograph of Linville Falls fault in roadcut along North Carolina Highway 194 about one-half...College and county seat of Watauga County), Blowing Rock, Linville, and Newland (county seat of A very...very County). The main sources of income are tourism and farming. Tobacco (mountain burley), cabbage, beans...rhododendron are scarce, many vines, including Virginia-creeper, cudzoo, and blackberry, add to the undergrowth |  | | Report (issue) | | CIRCULAR 350 OCCURRENCES OF URANIUM IN CARBON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA aP'r- t'-TY OF -U. S. This report...CIRCULAR 350 OCCURRENCES OF URANIUM IN CARBON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By Harry Klemic and R. C. Baker ...occurrences in Carbon County, Pa. ii OCCURRENCES OF URANIUM IN CARBON COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA By Harry...Figure 1. Map of uranium occurrences in Carbon County, Pa............................... 2. Sketch of...Junction, Carbon County, Pa. TABLES Page Table 1. Uranium minerals found in Carbon County, Pa.......... |  | | Report (issue) | | from the roadlog of Thompson (1972). In the Orange County copper district, the stops and descriptions in...Survey National Center, Mail Stop 954 Reston, Virginia 22092 Simplified geologic map of the Glens Falls...expose small (<10 cm-thick) discordant quartz-tourmaline veins. These veins clearly crosscut the Acadian...molybdenite and pyrite in the altered gneiss, and tourmaline along the veingneiss contact. STOP 1-1B Farther...Mineralogically the veins contain widespread tourmaline, with locally common pyrite and molybdenite, |  | | Book | | WARWICKITE OCCURRENCE 3 7 DIAMOND LAKE ROADCUT 3 8 GRACE LAKE ROADCUT 3 8 DESMONT MINE 3 9 ESSONVILLE... epidote, garnet, pyroxene 26 BOWER'S POINT ROADCUT Herschel augite, calcite, scapolite, titanite...apatite, cleavelandite, molybdenite, magnetite, tourmaline 18 DAVIS HILL Dungannon biotite, nepheline...apatite, biotite, calcite, galena, muscovite, tourmaline, uraninite 23 DESMONT MINE Monmouth clinopyroxene... stillwellite, titanite, tourmaline, uranothorite 39 DIAMOND LAKE ROADCUT Herschel feldspar, hornblende |  | | Journal (issue) | | in many international publications. Rubellite Tourmaline on Albite from the Itatiaia mine, Minas Gerais...Raven Hills Court, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80919 USA; tel: (303) 598-1233 66 The Mineralogical Record...crystals abound at the locally famous High way 62 roadcut just north of Bancroft, and in numerous other col...vein-dike near Long Lake in Olden Township, Frontenac County. Tabular pseudo-orthorhombic euhedra up to 10 cm...crystal (1.6 x 2 cm) from Olden Township, Frontenac County, Ontario. George and Susan Robinson specimen. menite |  | | Report (issue) | | quarry Renfrew–Madawaska area Renfrew County Road 4 (Bruce Avenue) roadcut Highway 60 quarry Jamieson marble...Carswell quarry Bryson marble blocks Bryson roadcut 1 Bryson roadcut 2 New Calumet mine Calumet uranium occurrence...19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Tourmaline crystals, Quadeville East mine Gutz corundum...Most of the collecting localities are in Renfrew County, Ontario. A wide variety of minerals are found...quartz, graphic granite, and corundum from Renfrew County; feldspar (peristerite, amazonite), jaspilite, |  | | Journal (issue) | | F-OH substitutions in topaz, amphiboles and tourmaline. X-rays were required in the early twentieth...spectacular discoveries began with the Santa Rosa tourmaline mine, followed shortly by finds at the nearby...limited mining for beryl, feldspar and quartz. A tourmaline-garnet layer occurs along the pegmatite contact...appear identical in habit to crystals from Amelia, Virginia, described by Sinkankas (1968). They occur scattered...mineralogy of the Rutherford pegmatites, Amelia, Virginia. American Mineralogist, 53, 373^405. 0 The Mineralogical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geological Survey, National Center, MS 954, Reston, Virginia 20192 Abstract Cobalt-copper ± gold deposits...from analyses of biotite-rich wall rocks and tourmaline, do not uniquely identify the source of the fluid;...as cobalt-tourmaline lodes (Conicu, Haynes-Stellite), lodes in sheared biotite-tourmaline lenses (Blacktail...Uncle Sam), strata-bound lodes in sheared biotite-tourmaline lenses and multilithic breccias (Merle), lodes...in late pyritized breccias (Dandy). The cobalt-tourmaline lodes are breccias and diatremes that cut the |  | | Book | | United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of...ARIZONA-V] 265-352 257-320 353-400 321-384 TOURMALINE ] 327--438 439-508 225-288 289-352 353-416...Iaria from the Howard-Montgomery quarry, Howard County, Maryland (by J. S. White) 25:53-54 AFGHANISTAN...Iron-manganese phosphates of the Williams pegmatites, Coosa County, Alabama (by P. B. Leavens & T. A. Simpson) 6:66-73...ALICE GLORY HOLE The Alice glory hole, Clear Creek County, Colorado (by T. A. Hanson & W. B. Craft) 18:185187 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | comprehensive listing, including detailed spot locations on county road maps, refer to this publication, which can...The price is $5.00 plus 4% sales tax. Individual county road maps can be obtained from the North Carolina...Carolina 27611 B. J . M C K E N Z I E Alamance County Pyrophyllite, cacoxenite, diaspore, sericite, pyrite...hill, 0.2 mile from the road. Alexander County Alexander County is a renowned mineral collecting area in...following are mineral collecting sites in Alexander County: 1) Emerald, rutilated quartz, smoky quartz, and |  | | Journal (issue) | | mines were being worked on three creeks in l inn County. Sma ll go l d miners in Oregon in 1935 so ld bu...[Production and income of all placer miners, by counties] County No. mi ners No. creeks working worked Baker ...side is the Foster Reservoir vi ewpoi nt. In the roadcut on the right-hand side of the road at the traffic...Reservoir, note the paleoriver terraces in the roadcut to the left, indicating that theSantiam River was...contain gold and have been mined in the past. In the roadcut on your left, below the schoolhouse, you can see |  | | Journal (issue) | | is a trade-off: do you grab yet another black tourmaline or do you pick up that odd piece with green crnd...something from that is not the usual amethyst/ tourmaline/ topaz stuff, but actually rea l minerals that...y ve ry au racti ve; many may prefer a large tourmaline, but some of th ese he lv ite s peci m ens would...arranged alphabetically by mineral species. the n by county within each species, simi lar to the format followed...''The Flower of Brazil" c rystal of cranberry red tourmaline, perfec tly perched on a matrix of snow-white |  | | Book | | many years the mines and fields of St. Lawrence County have furnished museums and many lucky mineral col...been depleted through the the years, St. Lawrence County continues to supply many beautiful specimens to...types and mineralized zones of the St, Lawrence County area, A detailed discussion of the geology is beyond...and metamorphic rocks are found throughout the county, the latter prevails. Since more than three-fourths...(metamorphosed gabbro) is present locally across the county. Gabbro is a dark igneous rock composed chiefly |  | | Report (issue) | | estuarine tidal rhythmites Interstate 64, Rowan-Carter County line, northeastern Kentucky L/.S. DEPARTMENT...University, Dayton, OH 45435 J. Bret Bennington Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg...the No. 2 coal bed between Stops 2 and 3, Jackson County, Ohio by David F. Dominic 17 Stop 3: Section...gamma-ray logs of Carboniferous strata in Gallia County, Ohio 9 1 .3. Subsurface cross section of Carboniferous...Carboniferous rocks in Raccoon Township, Gallia County, Ohio - - ----- . 1o 2.1 . Index map of field trip |  | | Book (volume) | | addition, gem Garnets, Quartz crystals, Topaz and Tourmaline add to the fascination of these pegmatites. ...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...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 |
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