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Agate from
Beach gravel, Imabetsu, Higashitsugaru District, Aomori Prefecture, Japan


Classification
Species:Quartz var: Agate
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Agate data
Locality Data:Click here to view Beach gravel, Imabetsu, Higashitsugaru District, Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:389933
Long-form Identifier:1:3:389933:5
GUID (UUID V4):53f3ba48-e7e3-484d-8e8a-716477d1814e
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
"Gem and Lithium-bearing pegmatites of the Pala district, San Diego County, California" has just been released...dewdrops, Bits of jasper of ebony hue, Storm-gray agate, fired with a turbulent red: Miracles gathering...Arkansas and about 60 miles from the Tri-State mining district. The park is one of the State's trout hatcheries...Wentworth, 135 Maine Ave., Portland 5, Me. At Hampton Beach, Rockingham Co., N . H., she picked up a 4x4 inch...pyrite. Hampton Beach, on the Atlantic Ocean, is New Hampshire's most popular beach. ROCKS AND MINERALS
Book
An uncomplicated and inexpensive way to polish agate and other gem material is in a rock tumbler. This...Look [ 1] SOUTHERN OREGON BEACHES - Gem quality agate, jasper, petrified wood, serpentine, Oregon "jade"...agates, flower jaspers. "jade" and serpentine in gravel bars of Rogue and Illinois Rivers. Eocene marine...Blanco Lighthouse. [ 2 ] CENTRAL OREGON BEACHES - Agate, jasper, Oregon "jade," petrified wood; good tumbling...fossils, shells, bones of whales, etc., at Beverly Beach State Pk. [ 3 ] NORTHERN OREGON BEACHES - Jaspers
Book (volume)
KINGSTON, S, in area fields, streams, rd. cuts, etc.agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY...COUNTY MACON:  at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate;  N of Calloway airport at rd. jct.Beryl. BURKE COUNTY...along the GA side of the SC borderSavannah River agate, chalcedony, Quartz gemstone, silicified oolite...27: (a) along both sides of Hwy.agate; (b) quarry on W side of rd.agate, chalcedony, chert, opal;  area...area of state fish hatchery on Cloudland Rd.agate (cloudy, vivid red-banded);  W 3 mi. and 2 mi. N:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
little crazy. What was my nose doing in that cold beach gravel at Beaver Bay ? and how came I after thomsonite...our last, Canadian, trip. A jar of Lake Superior agate and a plate of uranium ore chips, (courtesy of our...at Findlay, Minn; and the first agate I ever found, at Paradise Beach. I smell the breakfast bacon and...dry, sunny, dusty aroma of a really fascinating gravel pit. And remember the absolutely charming retired
Book (volume)
.459 Appendix C - The Various Names & Forms of Agate.....................................467 Appendix...variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy minerals, petrified...nodular), Fluorite. CENTREVILLE: c area stream gravel, road cuts, banks, etc.⎯siliceous gemstones; d...pits⎯agate, carnelian, chalcedony, chert, and sardonyx; d along Hwy. 128, both sides, in gravel pits⎯agate...pits⎯agate, and chert; e W 2 mi. on Hwy. 27 on way to Holly Pond⎯agate nodules. 1 Alabama BLOUNT-ETOWAH
Book (volume)
.461 Appendix C - The Various Names & Forms of Agate.....................................469 Appendix...variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy minerals, petrified...nodular), Fluorite. CENTREVILLE: c area stream gravel, road cuts, banks, etc.⎯siliceous gemstones; d...pits⎯agate, carnelian, chalcedony, chert, and sardonyx; d along Hwy. 128, both sides, in gravel pits⎯agate...pits⎯agate, and chert; e W 2 mi. on Hwy. 27 on way to Holly Pond⎯agate nodules. 1 Alabama BLOUNT-ETOWAH
Book (edition)
Chrysocolla, Turquoise LJ Emerald, Beryl *"» Agate ** Jade =p Amethyst ^ X ) y ' £f h % ^...testify that a stone picked up during a stroll on a beach or a hike in the mountains first aroused their interest...stones will remain." On my own table is a section of agate, cut and polished, its concentric rings of rose...yet the insect who makes his home in a pile of gravel on the roadside lives in a palace. clear For the...color, as in emeralds; their pattern, as in moss agate; or their play of color, as in opals. Fashion plays
Book (volume)
mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona...Ridge⎯agate, Amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony, chert (various colors), jasper-like flint, jasp-agate, jasper...AREA⎯agate, Amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony, chert (various colors), jasperlike flint, jasp-agate, jasper...regional gravel pits and stream beds. Along the Cimarron and North Canadian rivers, gravel bars carry...carry agate, jasp-agate, jasper and petrified wood along with fossil bones and teeth of Pleistocene mammals
Book (volume)
mixture of chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona...Ridge⎯agate, Amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony, chert (various colors), jasper-like flint, jasp-agate, jasper...AREA⎯agate, Amethyst, carnelian, chalcedony, chert (various colors), jasperlike flint, jasp-agate, jasper...regional gravel pits and stream beds. Along the Cimarron and North Canadian rivers, gravel bars carry...carry agate, jasp-agate, jasper and petrified wood along with fossil bones and teeth of Pleistocene mammals
Book (volume)
rivers, and outcroppings through the Quaternary gravel surfaces. Greatly eroded sandhills fan out across...Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout the more...KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte R., especially to the W of townagate, chalcedony,...surfacesagatized and opalized wood, agate, jasper;  in draws and washes and gravel beds of Spring Cr. and the...region embraced by these two adjoining NW Cos., in gravel cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies
Book (volume)
matrix, road cut, pegmatite, shoreline, quarry, gravel pit, prospect, mine, etc.). Let’s take, as an example...canyons; collect in canyon walls and below them. Agate, fortification (Fairburn var.). Fossils, marine:...both mineral and fossil deposits—fortification agate of the prized Fairburn variety, two colors of jasper...the diggings done by others, such as in quarries, gravel pits, sand and clay pits, mine diggings and dumps...commercial operations, such as mines, quarries, and gravel pits. (Bear in mind hat < ial Soe estore 09
Catalog/List
(calcium aluminum silicate) Xis and xi fragments; Japan, per oz., 30t. XI, n", 101!. ANTHRACITE-See Mineral...which half the world's gold supply came; Rand District, S. Africa . . . . . . . . . . . See also arsenopyrite....30 .60 .50 .60 .50 1.00 QUARTZ (silica) Agate . . . . . . . . . 1.00 Pebbles; Lake Superior. About...gon, Brazil, etc., prices on request. Agate, moss-See Moss Agate under quartz. Amethyst Xled specimens;... . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . Moss Agate Pebbles "Sweetwater"; Wyoming. �" to l", 16 for
Report (issue)
0 cm. (GSC 2006-084) Circle: mosaic of jasper, agate, gneiss, epidote, and labradorite (NMC 859). The...................61 Taylors Island, Saints Rest Beach, Sheldon Point occurrences...............................................................85 Alma Beach, Cape Enrage occurrences...............................................257 Baxters Harbour, Long Beach occurrences........................................323 Red Head, Grey Island, Round Bay, Roseway Beach occurrences..................323 Shelburne Harbour
Book (volume)
Oregon. Information was also supplied by Dowse’s Agate Shop, Salt Lake City, Utah, by William J. Bingham...Mahaffey of Nevada, Missouri. The well-known Texas agate localities of the Alpine Region were described in...Hill—Ellijay area . Map of Cowee Creek area . Cowee Creek gravel washing . Yogo Gulch Mine . Rock Creek, Montana...Hiddenite crystals Hiddenite crystal Map of Pala District Clays and crystals in pocket Vanderberg Mine Pile...Montana moss agates . Oregon moss agate (color) . New Mexico plume agate (color) . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (volume)
viz: II. Tertiary History of the Grand Canon District, with atlas, by Clarence E. Dutton, Capt. U. S...III. Geology of the Conutock Lode and the Washoe District, with afclas, by George F. Becker. 1882. 4°. xv...Price $,1.20. V^n. Palaeontology of tho Eureka District, by Charles D. Walcott. 1884. 4°. xiii, 298 pp...K. P. Whitfleld. Geology of the Eureka Mining District, Nevada, with atlas, by Arnold Hague. Lake Bonneville...Ten-Mile Mining District, Colorado, by S. F. Emmons. Eeport on Silver Cliff Mining District, by S. F. Emmons
Report (edition)
Other mineral occmnbeach dep.psits Collecting tips . . . . Equipment . ....water, etc . (labeled only if water) Quarry - Gravel pit ....................... ................ ....various minerals, as well as agate nodules. The outcrops at the Perry agate locality and other sea cliffs...rhodochrosite, and rhodonite (Pavlides, 1962). Alluvial and Beach Deposits Alluvial mineral deposits, also known...known as placers, are those which occur in sand and gravel laid down by running water. "Alluvium" includes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granite which constitute the rocky framework of the district. In some of these depressions patches of it are...deposit as would be derived from the rocks of the district in which it occurs ; for the grinding down of...looks more like what we should expect to find in a district of Old Red Sandstone, being of a decided brick-red...resembling the elaywe find in the Red-Sandstone district of Kincardine and Forfar. How comes it, then,...sandstone district of Forfar and Kincardine. We also get bits of jasper, sometimes an agate, and pieces
Book
the gold rush mS7 never be matohed by a sand-and-gravel rush, nevertheles. some nonmetallics came tro....and Guinea, of ceramic and other raw materials in Japan, Mongolia, Turkey, Iraq, Nigeria, Ghana, Spain,...category); 4· building materials (e.g. granite, gravel and sand, brickloam)· In the division of mineral...the Siretoko-losan volcano on Hokkaido Island, Japan). Sassollte together with ammonium-borates (larderelllte...(Na2C0^ . NaHCO^ . 2 H 2 0) and kaolinitic clays. Beach sands alond the shore lines of miogeosynclines,
Report (issue)
Ilyirak Gravel.. Saligvik Gravel. Quaternary deposits . Stream-terrace deposits Chariot Gravel Colluvium...Wind-deposited silt and sand Flood-plain deposits Beach deposits of the present shoreline Geologic structure...colluvium, fluvial-terrace and flood-plain deposits, gravel and sand of uncertain origin (fluvial or marine)...wind-deposited silt and sand, and sand and gravel of the modern beach. INTRODUCTION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In...deposits and vegetation. Peat, sand, silt, and gravel occur as colluvium, windblown deposits, lake and
Report (chapter)
gravels (Fig. 3). Some of the gravel lies in potholes and other gravel 'runs' that stand slightly higher... Du Toit (1951) thought that the high standing gravel may originally have been deposited in karst-related...underlying kimberlites and basal diamond bearing gravel Angolan Bakerville - Kaapvaal J I[~~~ Lineargravel...sediments, over 300 m thick, begin with coarse basal gravel and terminate in calcrete, aeolian sand and pan...Kasai. Where close to primary sources, the basal gravel of the Calonda Formation and associated younger
Journal (issue)
anything that looks different, pebbles, shells on the beach, anything sparkly. I heard from a good friend through...offered for harbouring boats. There is only one sandy beach. It is now fairly well established that the island...in the 1990s. Photo David Bone The only sandy beach of the island, on the eastern north coast at Ahu...landing spot of the Polynesian settlers. Behind the beach is another platform of moai, but these have all...even though it is covered with a mantle of raised beach and brickearth deposits, as it shows a mottled surface
Report (issue)
with which are level outwash plains of sand and gravel, and gently undulating intermorainic till plains...material carried in suspension forms mud, sand, or gravel depending on the size of the particles. The valiability...calcareous deposits to limestone and dolomite: gravel. where present. has formed conglome'rate. These...sheet and pread a broad sheet of silt, sand, and gravel in front of the terminal moraine, forming what...here the waters emerged f rom the ice, hills of gravel were often formed and these are known as kames
Journal (issue)
everlasting days of glare and dust and countless gravel miles; two twilights stalking grimly up behind...collectors. Of course it was necessary to select gravel of a fine and uniform standard of hardness for...part of the country. Finally, however, a large gravel bar was found upstream where by some strange quirk...in a convenient pile. There was enough rock and gravel at this point to build several dams. Since only...preponderance of quartz minerals. Many of these were of the agate and jasper family and some of them were of gem quality
Report (issue)
of the drift Till or bowlder-clay Bowlders and gravel from Archean and Paleozoic formations Northeastern...Beaches of the Blanchard stages_ The Hillsboro beach ix Page. 276 278 279 282 284 290 292 298 299 503...stages The Gladstone beach The Burnside beach The Ossowa beach The Stonewall beach Beaches of the Niverville...Minn.-. • 18 V. Lake Traverse VI. Upper Herman beach of Lake Agassiz 26 28 VII. The Lightning's Nest...international boundary 24 6. Typical section across a beach ridge of Lake Agassiz 26 7. Eroded terrace marking
Report (issue)
to separate gold and concentrates (jaguas) from gravel in order to facilitate final washing adema nm [min]...agalisico nm plutonic rocks agate nf agate | a. en cinta ribboned agate agente nm agent | a. catalitico...nf an almond-shaped diamond almendrilla nf fine gravel | fine coal | [Guadalcazar, Mex] almond sized fragments...pit | a. de mar beach sand | a. de mina pit sand | a. de oro gold dust | a. de playa beach sand | a. de...nm magnification | a. de una playa advance of a beach auramalgama nf gold amalgam aureo,-rea adj gold
 
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