 | | 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...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...CARTERSVILLE: area barite pitsBarite, Geodes, Goethite, Hematite, Limonite, Iron minerals; area mines, |  | | Book (volume) | | Mineralogy by Vandall T. King and Eugene E. Foord Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Walter...Resources Information, Maine Geological Survey Walter A. Anderson, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 1994 Copyright ©1994 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All...photograph: Fluorapatite, Pulsifer quarry, Auburn, Maine (2.2 cm specimen), Harvard Mineralogical Museum...Wendell E. Wilson, ©1985. The laws and policies of Maine and the United States prohibit discrimination in |  | | Book (volume) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯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) | | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯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; |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Caldwell Stone Company quarry, Danville, Boyle County. Terry Huizing specimen and photo. K entucky...Commonwealth is Black Mountain in the Appalachians (Harlan County) at 4,139 feet. The lowest point is the floor of...of the Reed quarry near Grand Rivers (Livingston County) in western Kentucky, at 100 feet below sea level...small, nondiamondiferous kimberlite in Elliott County in eastern Kentucky and alnöite intrusions in Crittenden...displacements from inches to more than 3,000 feet. The first mine in the Kentucky district was opened by Andrew Jackson |  | | Journal (issue) | | quarry, Maine. Collected by Terry Szenics; Jeff Scovil photo. Vanadinite, 2.4 cm, from the Apache mine, Arizona...Miglioli photo. Fluorite, 7.4 cm, from the La Barre mine, France. Collected by Aubin Cosson; Niels Brouwer... from left: Caledonite, 1.1 cm, from the Reward mine, California. Collected by Jeff Lines; Ben DeCamp...Thrill of Discovery by Wendell Wilson Epilog: On Mine Safety UThe Field-CollectorsV Anthony J. Albini...the words of the original discoverers. Adelaide Mine, Tasmania, 1971, 2012 Albert Chapman wrote one such |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | several new localities, including the Flambeau copper mine near Ladysmith (Rosemeyer 1999, the Vulcan Materials...Racine (Scovil 1994), the pegmatites of Florence County (Koehier 1989) and the Wausau area (Falster 1987)...zircon), particularly in the Wausau area of Marathon County (Falster 1987). Middle Proterozoic quartzites (1...found there (Merge 1996). One deposit, the Flambeau mine near Ladysmith, has already been mined. Other deposits...extends into Wisconsin from Michigan. The Montreal mine, now abandoned, produced fantastic specimens from |  | | Report (edition) | | Adams County 15 Allegheny County Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Cumberland County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County Lebanon County Lehigh County...County Monroe County Northampton County Sullivan County York County 18 20 21 23 . 25 28 37 38 39 ...the rockhound, of the land, or from quarry and mine operators, before entering to collect. This will...pseudomorphs after pyrite found near Columbia in Lancaster County, described in this report. If the only description |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rare-earth pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake...from 1900 to the middle 1940s; but the Mariposa mine, which produced most of the rare minerals, ceased...& Minerals on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991)...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence..."specimen quality" questionable occurrence Angelina County Lufkin, 1 mile N of Lufkin in railroad cuts, in |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...cuts, cut banks, breaks, draws and washes, gullies, hill slopes, etc.chalcedony roses, Celestite crystals |  | | Book | | Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi...Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Appendixes 615...had been sending great expeditions to prospect and mine for it throughout the Sinai Peninsula since at least...and abandoned, one is also sure to find extensive mine dumps sloping steeply down from the shaft or tunnel...prodvced by atmospheric oxidation, can be found. Old mine dumps often reveal a varied assortment of brightly |  | | Book | | commercial ores and secondary minerals by state, county, township, and geologic range. For easy identification...61 232 PART The Making 43 II 5 7 3 III Mine PART 267 IV Glossary 279 Bibliography 291...cities, and many of today’s prosperous western county seats began as mining-boom camps. trating sand...Whether you such as those listed alphabetically by county, township, and range in Part II of this book. Where...minerals which make lovely cabinet specimens. old mine western states, to kick up and oxidation, |  | | Report (edition) | | with cubic and octahedral cleavages, Pequea silver mine; middle left: azurite crystals on calcite, “old”...bottom: calcite crystals with oriented coatings of goethite, “old” Lime Bluff quarry, Muncy, (courtesy of...authorship. This edition of Mineral Collecting Cedar Hill in quarry where Dave had done IV much of his...from the owners of the land, from the quarry or mine operators before entering to collect. (Land ownership...particular site, remember it is possible to visit the county courthouse in which the site is located, and trace |  | | Report (edition) | | .... . .. . Adams County .... . .. ... ............... . . ... . Allegheny County .... . ...... . ............ . Armstrong County . . . . . . .. . .... ........ .. . .. . Berks County ..... . ..... ......... ...... . Blair County . . .. . ... ... . . .. . .... ........... . Carbon County ..... ..... .............. . Cl1ester County .... . . . .... ... ........... . .. . Cumberland County ...... . ..... . ....... . . Delaware County ... . .. .... . . . .... . . . .. . . . .. . Fulton County . ...... .. . . . |  | | Report (edition) | | of a thin slice of serpentinite from Lancaster County showing olivine (blue-green and red), serpentine...localities, the Grace mine in Berks County, the Stillwell quarry in Lancaster County, and the Medusa Cement...Cement Company quarry in York County, are now This fourth printing is essentially closed to collectors...Adams County 23 Allegheny County 31 . Armstrong County Berks County Blair County Carbon County Chester...Chester County Clinton County Cumberland County Dauphin County Delaware County Fulton County Lancaster County |  | | Book (volume) | | 0 n101ercai o of Maine j f·~ ....__ :,,. . - .._"' ..;. .. ~ L-- -~ \. • .J_..::.; I Volume...History, Gems, and Geology edited by Vandall T. King Maine Geological Survey DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION Robert...Robert G. Marvinney, State Geologist of Maine Volume 2: Mining History, Gems, and Geology Edited by...Resources Information, Maine Geologi,cal Survey Robert G Marvinney, State Geologist Maine Geological Survey...DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 2000 Copyright ©2000 by the Maine Geological Survey, Department of Conservation. All |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fxrnonucrroN Boltwoodite was describedfrom the Delta mine, Emery County, Utah, by Frondel and Ito (1956). ft was...than the latter. At the Delta mine, Utah, and the Lookout No. 22 mine, Colorado,the mineral occurs as...aggregatesfrom Alto Boqueirao, Brazil, and the Little Indian mine, Colorado, are dense mit2 BOLTWOODITD, AN ALKALI...43 100.00 100.00 A. Boltwoodite, Delta mine, Emery County, Utah. Remainder includes AlzO:, CaO, MgO...Boltwoodite, Delta mine, Emery County, Utah (Frondel and Ito, 1956). a Boltwoodite, La Chiquita mine, Quebrada |  | | Report (issue) | | deposits UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON: 1982 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...potassium feldspar, mica-group minerals, and possibly goethite. Heavy-mineral-bearing lithologic units can be...geology is presented; spectral radioactivity data, county soils maps, culture maps, and regional mineralogic...potassium, uranium, and thorium, b. In the three-county area around Charleston, S.C., geologic information...by means of hand-held scintillometer] Units1 1. Mine-dump spoil ____________ 2. Sand on Tenmile Hill2 |  | | Journal (issue) | | com PO Box 455 • Poncha Springs, Colorado 8124 2 USA Phone: 719-539-4113 • Fax 719-539-454 2 SPRING...and Mineralogy of the Ropes Gold Mine. Near Ishpeming. Marquette County, Michigan 3 by Michael P. Basal...specimen o[ a gold nugget from Lhe Ropes Gold Mine, Marquette County, Michigan. The specimen measures I .5x2...and Mineralogy of the Ropes Gold Mine, Near Ishpeming, Marquette County, Michigan by Michael P. Basal ...of a little known lo cation named the Ropes Gold Mine. I had previously read an account o[ this historic |  | Hodges, C.A., Cox, D.P., Singer, D.A., Case, J.E., Berger, B.R., Albers, J.P. (1984) U.S. Geological Survey-INGEOMINAS mineral resource assessment of Colombia. Open-File Report Vol. 1984 (84-345) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr84345 | Report (issue) | | geologic map of the Silver City Mining region, Grant County, New Mexico: U.S. Geological Survey Geophysical...is continental or transitional Skarn Cu (2.6) Mine Vlejs Los Guayabas (Tollma) Cranates (Hulla) Also...Cty, CA Santa Helena, Antioquia, Colombia Co to Mine, Luzan, P.I. References Wells, F. G. et al 1946...ochre (Mn-poor, Fe-rich bedded sediment containing goethite, maghemite, and quartz). DEPOSIT DESCRIPTION ...(Cyprus), York Harbor, (Canada) Turner-Albright, (USA) References 3.1 (continued) Petersen and Zantop |  | | Report (volume) | | or Documents U.S. Government Printing Office Washington, DC 20402 (Check or money order must be payable...Battery St. SPOKANE, Washington--U.S. Courthouse, Rm. 678, West 920 Riverside Ave. WASHINGTON, D.C.--U.S. Department...1992 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1992 For sale by Book and Open-File Report...based on considerations that extend far beyond the mine itself, in some instances relating to the overall...subject, as in a scale model of the workings of a mine, to a unifying concept that explains or describes |  | | Book (edition) | | a mineral was discovered (benitoite, San Benito County, California), or dedicated to a scholar (dolomite...that a collector in the field should visit are mine dumps and quarry rubble heaps, where there will...from the Keweenaw measuring Peninsula (Lake USA) where masses weighing up to 400 metric tons and...Arizona (USA) and in the manganese skarns of Langban (Sweden) and Franklin, New Jersey (USA). Dendrites...Co- Ontario (Canada), Broken Hill (Australia) and Redbeds, Colorado (USA). The largest blocks are from |  | | Report (volume) | | 1019-D UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON : 1957 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR...Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C. They may also be purchased on an over-the-counter...free on application to the Geological Survey at Washington 25, D. C. or at the Denver Federal Center, Denver...Library, Room 1033, General Services Building, Washington, D. C., and 187 188 at various field offices...some can be obtained from the Geological Survey, Washington 25, D. C. U. S. Bureau of Mines book publications |
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