 | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Catalog/List | | 3-1300 AJOITE (A120x*6Cu0,10Si0?*5^h?0), Ajo, Pima County, Arizona. Describe* in the American Mineralogist...crystals on galena, 1^x2, $10.00. APOPHYLLITE, Centreville, Virginia. Lustrous crystals on green prehnite, lixl|...crystals on matrix, 1x15, Si.00. SCHEELITE, Cochise County, Arizona. Brown, translucent, each specimen showing...xln on matrix, 1x1^, $2.00. TOURMALINE, variety Dravite, Austria. Terminated brown crystal,|x5, $2.00. |  | | Show/Event (guide) | | 2:45 R a r e - e a r t h mineralogy of the Mohave County pegmatites, NW Arizona byS.L. Hanson, A U. Falam;...Natromontebrasite from the Meyers quarry, Fremont County, CObyM. I. Jacobson,.1, W Nizamoff,A. U. Falster...10:30 T h e Fengjiashan Wollastonite mine, Daye County, Hubei Province, China by B. Opens 10:45 N e w...Wisconsin minerals from the Nine Mile Pluton, Marathon County, Wisconsin by T W BuchholzA. U. Falster and WB...District in the town of Parishville, St. Lawrence County,NewYork. Mike earned a bachelor's degree in geology |  | | Journal (issue) | | Creek Pegmatite: A Rare Earth Pegmatite in Burnet County, Texas.............................................100 by Pete J. Dunn and Daniel Appleman The Dravite Crystal Bonanza of Yinnietharra, Western A u s...by Anthony Robert Kampf The Harding Mine, Taos County, New Mexico......................... 115 by Richard...to slip the paper, as well as the accompanying dravite paper, into the pegmatite issue anyway. This issue...between Minot and Auburn, Maine, in Androscoggin County. The Pulsifer quarry, along with the Keith and |  | | Journal (issue) | | M. Pryce and J. Chester The Amity Area, Orange County, New Y o rk ............................... 85...115-year-old Oriental mine in Alleghany, Sierra County, California. In August, about five months after...western city limits of North Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, and south of Camp Robinson. The quarry...what’s new! (703-943-1673) Route 1, Box 222 Afton, Virginia 22920 Specializing in minerals from Morocco, Spain... columbite, co rundum, diopside, doelterite, dravite, schorl (Fig. 3), enstatite, tantalopolycrase, |  | | Journal (issue) | | with prehnite, 14 cm, from the Centreville quarry, Fairfax, Virginia. Smithsonian Institution collection...Lee Boltin photo. Fairfax Quarry, Virginia, 1967 The Fairfax quarry in Virginia is a classic locality...the northeastern corner of the Fairfax quarry in Centreville, Virginia. I visited the quarry the next...museum quality.” (Szenics, 1967) Spruce Peak, King County, Washington, 1977 Beautiful pyrite and quartz specimens...and FLECK, G. (1980) The Grey Horse mine, Pinal County, Arizona. Mineralogical Record, 11 (4), 231–232 |  | | 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 | | United States by Bookcrafters, Fredericksburg, Virginia. PREFACE The end of 1994 marked the close of...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...--and W. Hunt: The Tonopah-Belmont mine, Maricopa County, Arizona 19:139-144 ALLGOOD, GENNE MYERS --and |  | | Book | | originally. Shiny black rutile crystals from Mono County, California, are just as good but smaller. Small...recent rediscovery of elbaite near Pala in San Diego County, California, greatly stimulated an already high...two-colored crystals appear now and then. 2010 County, New Mexico, with its blue-green Madagascar (now...South-West Africa has been formed brown kind called ‘‘dravite’’ from Australia lying the bulk of the good specimens...beautiful crystals found with elbaite in San Diego County, California, but the same variety is also found |  | | Catalog/List | | ·•--- - - --- •·-·- - ·· ··----·--- - - - - - lll4 DRAVITE Bjordammen, Bamble near Kragero,Norway 217 ■■ LEPIDOLITE...Feldspar lxl £3 lx2 £5 small 2x2 £9 502 ANTIGORITE County Bridge Quany,Lizard ,Cornwall 172 BEEKITE Tor Bay...Mg C0/3 128 DUNDASITE . Tynagh Mine, Loughrea, County Galway,lreland White micro fibres or crusts with.... ____ _ __ 106 CORONADITE Cowshill, Weardale, County Durham. Pure black cellular mass, some slightly...lx2£8 FLUORESCENl 1038 OPAL Virgin Valley, Nevada, USA Semi-opal pale yellow-green translucent mass. Green |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | in a g eo d e from Hall's G ap, Lincoln County, Kentucky. Photom icrograph by Ben K inkead. The...will indeed fill a first class quality) Amelia, Virginia (amazonite, cleavelandite, columbite, microlite)...{Continued fro m page 86) Gouverneur, New York (dravite, tremolite) Monroe, New York (allanite, mag netite...martite, mesolite, Natrolite, thomsonite) Renfrew County, Ontario, Canada (apatite) Rossie, New York (calcite...Russell, New York (danburite) Silver District, Yuma County, Arizona (vanadinite) Trumbull, Connecticut (fluorite |  | | Book | | also in the cavities of certain basaltic lavas. USA - copper mines of Keeweenaw Peninsula, Michigan,...Saxony. CZECHOSLOVAKIA - Jachymov (Joachimstal). USA - crystals ( ! !), branching masses ( ! !) in copper...laid the foundations for the economic wealth of the USA. The Victorian gold rush of 1851-52 trebled the population...contains very fine gold in a strong conglomerate rock. USA - Crystals ( ! ! !), dendritic-wiry masses ( ! !)...in pegmatites, formerly economically important. USA - Orange Co., and Ticonderoga, Essex Co., N.Y., occasionally |  | | Book | | PROBABLY THE WORLD'S FINEST APOPHYLLITE CRYSTAL, CENTREVILLE, VA. SPECIMEN C O L L E C T E D B Y I S A A C...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 |  | | Book (edition) | | tions PC: Private Collection LA: Los Angeles County Museum (Los Angeles) COMMENTS This section contains...Pyrophyllite: North Carolina Japan San Benito County, Gahnite: Colorado Jadeite: California b 1 ...Connecticut Elbaite: problem. Density 0.206 00135 Virginia New as 0.2* 0.0122 0.0135 0.0134 0.0124 0...Microcline: Amelia, Virginia Ontario, Canada Albite (Ab 99 An,): Amelia, Virginia Serpentine (lizardite):...2 31.8 14 30.3 41.4 4.1YR 1.3/8.8 Amelia, Virginia 40 ? 31 28.3 37.2 37.9 58.6 4. 34.2 4 |  | | Book (edition) | | Gunnison Co., Colorado; Arkansas; Massachusetts; Virginia; North Carolina. Canada; Brazil; Cornwall, France;...Jersey; Oregon; Washington; Colorado; Michigan; Virginia; Pennsylvania. Guanajuato, Mexico; Brazil; Canada;...Many localities in U.S., including New Dakota, Virginia, Colorado. direction. Fracture a = 1.530; B...After California. the occurrence in San Benito County, have the variety known as morganite. Heliodor...Low temperature copper deposits. Connecticut; Virginia; North Carolina; Mon- tana; Arizona; Colorado; |  | | Journal (issue) | | $315/three years, (Canada) $180/one year, (outside USA other than Canada) $259 per year Subscription (individuals...described from the Oceanic mine in San Luis Obispo County, California. In the famous mercury mines of Terlingua...279 Rhodochrosite, 7.5 cm Sweet Home Mine, CO, USA Rudolf Watzl Freistadt, Austria Visit our website...279 Rhodochrosite, 7.5 cm Sweet Home Mine, CO, USA Rudolf Watzl Freistadt, Austria Visit our website...the Viburnum Trend of Missouri (Iron County and Reynolds County); the Tri-State District of Missouri | | | Book (edition) | | Gunnison Co., Colorado; Arkansas; Massachusetts; Virginia; North Carolina. Canada; Brazil; Cornwall, England...localities in U.S., including New Mexico, South Dakota, Virginia, Colorado. Fibrous aragonite from Wyoming, California...gemstones. Name: After the occurrence in San Benito County, California. BERYL Formula: Be3AhSi6O1s Crystallography:...temperature copper deposits. Bristol, Connecticut; Virginia; North Carolina; Montana; Arizona; Colorado; California...California; Nevada; South Dakota; South Carolina; Virginia. Canada; Mexico,· Corn·wall, England; Portugal; |  | | Journal (issue) | | ineralogical R ecord NEW TRAILS BLAZED AT THE CHESTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY “T o blaze some new trails”...approached Travis Coxe, director of the Chester County H istorical Society, 225 N orth High Street, W...and Mr. Rose, all form er residents of Ches ter County, these collections had been virtually hidden away...on the minerals of B rinton’s quarry in Chester County. By under writing the reorganization of the 4...has m ade a contribution not only to the Chester County H istorical Society, but to the general public |  | | Book (volume) | | referring to any locality in the book. JS: Arlington, Virginia. June, 1959 Acknowledgments Tue successful...Royal Ontario Museum, Carl B. Gerber of Arlington, Virginia, and in the case of gemstone deposits in British...Kobuk jade locality. Descriptions of San Diego County, California, gemstones and the mines in which they...the generous assistance of many residents of that county. My special thanks are extended to Elbert H. McMacken...were prepared by Joseph M. Delaney of Arlington, Virginia, under the supervision of the author. The final |  | | Journal (issue) | | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino.... 217 by A. R. Kampf The Dee North mine, Elko County, Nevada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...www.georocks.com e-mail: ryan@georocks.com Great Basin Minerals, Ltd. 300+ Pics of Nevada & World Classics/Rarities...specimens Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Fax: (213) 749-4107 Website: http://nhm.org/minsci...Officers President Susan Eriksson, Geology Dept., Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061 (540) 231-5360 e-mail: |
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