 | Hammarstrom, J.M., Meier, A.L., Jackson, J.C., Barden, Ryan, Wormington, P.J., Wormington, J.D., Seal, R.R. (1999) Characterization of mine waste at the Elizabeth Copper Mine, Orange County, Vermont. Open-File Report Vol. 1999 (99-564) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr99564 | Report (issue) | | | Orange County, VT 50 Kilometers Characterization of Mine Waste at the Elizabeth Copper Mine, Orange...Orange County, Vermont by Jane M. Hammarstrom 1 , Alien L. Meier2, John C. Jackson 1 , Ryan Barden 1 ,...SULFIDE DEPOSITS ........................ 2 THE ELIZABETH MINE .......................................................................................... 3 Mine history and previous studies ............................................................... 10 South pit area ...................................... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Copperas to Cleanup— The History of Vermont’s Elizabeth Copper Mine by Matt Kierstead. Milestone Heritage Consulting...pages; 2014; $15 (softbound). The Elizabeth mine in South Strafford, Vermont, is not well known among mineral...mineral collectors despite being the largest copper mine in New England. It worked a volcanogenic massive...comprised largely of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite. The mine was operated intermittently for nearly 150 years...along strike, and the long open cuts to the south extend the mine complex even farther. Matt Kierstead’s book |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GRAND, ISLE: L Jirrwowwux/ lot* llMt UK* U'A VERMONT Mineral Locality Index VANDALL T. K I N G P.O....Massachusetts 01776 MASSACHUSETTS Figure J. Vermont political divisions map; adapted from U.S. Geological...of New Hampshire and Vermont (1972). 324 ROCKS & MINERALS he state of Vermont is relatively small,...ry in the world is in Rochester (Windsor Co.), Vermont. Min eral products mined "as is" for their final...maintained. (The disuse of cobblestone roads prevents Vermont from being a giant mining state today, but in the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | search, but in 1984, while on a day trip to another mine, they happened to look at the cliff from across...Copperas to Cleanup— The History of Vermont’s Elizabeth Copper Mine by Matt Kierstead. Milestone Heritage Consulting...pages; 2014; $15 (softbound). The Elizabeth mine in South Strafford, Vermont, is not well known among mineral...mineral collectors despite being the largest copper mine in New England. It worked a volcanogenic massive...comprised largely of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite. The mine was operated intermittently for nearly 150 years |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Virginia 20192, USA U.S. Geological Survey, 973 Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225, USA c Dartmouth...Dartmouth College, Dartmouth, New Hampshire, USA Accepted 1 June 2004 Abstract Weathering of metal-sulfide...eastern United States. The salts, which are present on mine wastes, tailings piles, and outcrops, include minerals...primarily the highly soluble members of the melanterite, rozenite, epsomite, halotrichite, and copiapite...exploited the massive sulfide deposits in the Vermont copper belt, the Mineral district of central Virginia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ALABAMA—Cherokee County is' in northeastern Alabama. In the central part of Cherokee County is the little...10-yr. old subscriber, Buddy Stewart. "Cherokee County has a wide variety of minerals ranging from those...mica, quartz. Limestone also occurs. Cherokee County is full of minerals, so Buddy informs us, and to...around Rock Run, in the southeastern part of the county, and was mined extensively in recent years. The...over Cherokee County. "Lots of Indian relics are found too." A map of Cherokee County, prepared by Buddy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sphalerite and calcite, 5 cm across, Denton mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. +!.+!+%% 34!2+ ...chalcopyrite, and sphalerite, 12.7 cm high, Hardin County. Marv Rausch specimen. 3(%,"9 -!#/50). /5 ....to the mid-1970s were documented with the exact mine or in many cases even the correct subdistrict. In...sprays of millerite associated with calcite. The coal mine dumps and waste piles scattered throughout much...Fluorite and barite, 6 cm high, Minerva No. 1 mine, Hardin County. Ross Lillie specimen. Figure 5 (above right) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | xline—crystalline CALIFORNIA — From near Indian Pass, Imperial County, Calif, we have a deep blue dumortierite that was... This fine 3x5 inch specimen comes from Teller County, Colorado. ARIZONA — "Would you please identify...was found July 2, 1959, near Cave Creek, Maricopa County, Arizona." — sent in by Clyde N. Hall, Elbridge...silvery white. FLORIDA — Louis Reamer, 336 Elizabeth St., Orange, N. J., sent in a delightful surprise —... Ball Ground is in the northern part of Cherokee County of Northern Georgia. ILLINOIS — An anonymous reader |  | Seal, Robert R., Hammarstrom, Jane M., Johnson, Adam N., Piatak, Nadine M., Wandless, Gregory A. (2008) Environmental geochemistry of a Kuroko-type massive sulfide deposit at the abandoned Valzinco mine, Virginia, USA. Applied Geochemistry, 23 (2) 320-342 doi:10.1016/j.apgeochem.2007.10.001 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | sulfide deposit at the abandoned Valzinco mine, Virginia, USA Robert R. Seal II *, Jane M. Hammarstrom...Reston, VA 20192, USA Available online 7 October 2007 Abstract The abandoned Valzinco mine, which worked...Au–pyrite belt, contributed significant metal-laden acid-mine drainage to the Knight’s Branch watershed. The host...leaching studies of flotation tailings – the dominant mine waste at the site – indicated that they were acid...solution. Field studies of mine drainage from the site confirmed that mine drainage and the impacted stream |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | "Here is an item for World News! "From the Rawley mine at Theba, Ariz., we have found mimetite (acicular...here we went to what we believed was the Old Dick Mine in the same area and found pyrite, chalcopyrite..."Theba is in Maricopa County on Route 80, 5 miles S / W of Gila Bend and the mine is off the road to Painted...believe the Rawley mine was worked for barite. The Bagdad mine was a low grade copper mine. "I have micros...micros, thumb nails and mineral specimens from Rawley mine for swapping. Anyone want to swap?" •— item from |  | | Book (volume) | | Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States SOUTH DAKOTA This northwestern Great Plains state varies...as the continental seas were advancing from the south, the Dakota sandstone represents topset beds, wave...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...to the fascination of these pegmatites. 437 South Dakota The commercial production of minerals, principally...beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Bulldog Tunnel of the Inspiration copper mine. The Live Oak copper mine of the same company (Inspiration Copper...crystals found in the Josephine Mine near Volcanoville, Eldorado County, California. What your correspondent...interest. I happen to be a part owner of the Josephine Mine, and acted as Engineer and Geologist during the...avoid hauling the waste rock to the surface. The mine has been closed for a year and the air now is so...most beautiful sight that I have encountered in any mine. It greatly enriched my mineral collection as far |  | | Report (issue) | | CALIFORNIA ARRANGED BY COUNTIES Prepared by ELIZABETH COLLINS California Division of Mines Supplement...OF MINERALS AND MINERAL LOCALITIES ALLANITE Inyo County: 1, Coarse grained allanite occurs in a pegmatite...quadrangle, McAllister (4) p. 52. Los Angeles County: Additional reference, Patchick (2) p. 237. This...diagrams. 1, AMPHIBOLES ACTINOLITE San Bernardino County: 3, Additional Wrightwood, reported by Berkholz...locality in alluvium, near 21. HORNBLENDE Inyo County: 1, In large prismatic crystals up to 2.5 inches |  | | 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...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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | 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...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...HIGHLAND COUNTY SINKING SPRING, area ore deposit (most important in Ohio) ⎯Hematite. HOCKING COUNTY AREA |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | undoubtedly copiapite. Such a transformation from melanterite to copiapite is worthy of note, especially as...length. (2) Deshong's qusrry, Leiperville, Delaware County. Ia,rge microcline crystals were obtained and one...(3) Gottscholt's mine, I mile northwest of Capella Hill, Alsace township, Berks County. Nickeliferous pyrrhotite...Hartnann's mine on Antietam Creek, 1 mile west of Spies Cburch, Alsace township, Berks county. Only inferior...southwest of Pricetown, Alsace Township, Berks County. Fine limonite, stalactitic and mammillary, obtainable |  | | Book | | of some of the principal localities in the same county, was given by Messrs . Greg and Lettsom in their...locality by some independent authority, such as maps, county directories, local guide books, &c. The geological...LONDONDERRY LONGFORD LOUTH MAYO MEATH MONAGHAN . QUEEN'S COUNTY . . . SLIGO TIPPERARY TYRONE . WATERFORD...possible, the various mineral- localities in the same county around their respective post-towns. A few cases...rule, where a parish or village is situated in one county, and its post-town in another. Chains of hills |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Claiborne formation (Eocene) in an exposure, on the south side of lead-gray galena and grayish-white arCopperas...senopyrite in Darien (Fairfield Co.), Levesque, Cross County, Arkansas. The Conn., for over a year. A few weeks...the frozen ground we Riddle, President of the Mid-South have dug a trench along the vein about Earth Science...upper portion is quite oxidized and in it we have South Earth Science Club. found loose chunks of galena...chunks of galena and widely in the farming district south of quartz, and finally a solid vein of rich San |  | | Book (volume) | | feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | | Book (volume) | | feet thick in the south, grading to 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip mine⎯pyritized gastropods...gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason Cr.⎯fossils; |  | Dyar, M. D., Breves, E., Jawin, E., Marchand, G., Nelms, M., O'Connor, V., Peel, S., Rothstein, Y., Sklute, E. C., Lane, M. D., Bishop, J. L., Mertzman, S. A. (2013) Mossbauer parameters of iron in sulfate minerals. American Mineralogist, 98 (11) 1943-1965 doi:10.2138/am.2013.4604 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | O’Connor2, Samantha Peel1,§, Yarrow Rothstein1, Elizabeth C. Sklute1,||, Melissa D. Lane3, Janice L. Bishop4...Department of Astronomy, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts 01075, U.S.A. 2 Department...octahedra in various ways (Hawthorne et al. 2000): melanterite (structure from Peterson et al. 2003) has unconnected...Desert, Chile G2677 29.4.6.1 Metavoltine Cetine Mine, Siena, Tuscany, Italy VZO1142 29.5.1.1 Krausite...Amarantite Los Pintados, Chile G37754 29.6.10.1 Melanterite Locality unknown; Mount Holyoke College collection; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | separate cover a mineral specimen from the Anderson Mine, near Wickenburg, Ariz. Could you please tell me...brown limonite. Wickenburg is in N / W Maricopa County in western Arizona. xline—crystalline tain a...road cut recently made near the old "Dallas Gem Mine" that produced the fine benitoite and neptunite...still be available'. The Dallas Gem Mine is in southern San Benito County in western California. COLORADO...surface shows the interior cently found in San Benito County, here to be an attractive moss agate of pleasing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | is a small fishing town located about 150 miles south of Anchorage, Alaska. On clear days you can see...have a mine where this fine specimen material is found in the Harquahala Range in N / E Yuma County of S/W...desert roses (beds of these are found all over Yuma County). I pick up only the well shaped specimens such...come from the Calico fossil beds of San Bernardino County, Calif." — asks Charley Jones, 14232 Slover Ave...collected at a number of mine dumps in Colorado. At Cripple Creek, Teller County, they found some lustrous |  | | Book (volume) | | Page. 107 . 24, Section of akame, Bennington, south side, . 25, Section of akame, Bennington, north...modified drift under till, Hancock, 108 - 27, South end of Upper Beech pond, Wolfeborough, 128 . 28...Railroad excavation, Dover, . g. 46, Section in kame south-east of Pine Hill cemetery, Dover, . 47, Section...Section at the tin mine, Jackson, . . : : A : . . 67 Fig. 7, Map of the Warren mine, . CHARTS Holland’s...from other ledges, we may trace them southward or south-eastward, but not in other directions. They are |  | | Report (volume) | | cientlfica Circular Classe classification Company, County Collections Committee Communications Comparative...Schr----.----schweizer_..-_ Sci._---_--_-. series south, Survey Sallskapets Schrift schweizerisch Science...Abstracts nos. 5, 6. Bethlehem, Pa. Los Angeles County Museum: Publications nos. 4-7; Quarterly vol. 6...Md. South Carolina Research, Planning and Development Board Bulletin no. 15. Columbia, C. C. South Dakota...Experiment Station Bulletin 25. Salt Lake City, Utah. Vermont, Report of the State Geologist, 1943-44, 1945-46 |
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