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Quartz from
Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA


Locality type:Census-designated Place
Classification
Species:Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Brookite139 photos of Quartz associated with Brookite at this locality.
Limonite3 photos of Quartz associated with Limonite at this locality.
Pyrite2 photos of Quartz associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Cacoxenite2 photos of Quartz associated with Cacoxenite at this locality.
Fluorite2 photos of Quartz associated with Fluorite at this locality.
Monazite-(Ce)1 photo of Quartz associated with Monazite-(Ce) at this locality.
Pyroxene Group1 photo of Quartz associated with Pyroxene Group at this locality.
Kolbeckite1 photo of Quartz associated with Kolbeckite at this locality.
Smoky Quartz1 photo of Quartz associated with Smoky Quartz at this locality.
Perovskite1 photo of Quartz associated with Perovskite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Photo GalleryView Gallery (2 photos)
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:652173
Long-form Identifier:1:3:652173:8
GUID (UUID V4):b6f122f1-d17c-4660-b6ba-3246c8c8719e
Localities for Quartz in this Region
Baroid Mine (Chamberlain Creek Barite Mines), Chamberlain Creek Valley, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Baroid Sales Division pit, Baroid Mine (Chamberlain Creek Barite Mines), Chamberlain Creek Valley, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Magcobar Mine (Chamberlain Creek Barite Mines), Chamberlain Creek Valley, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Christy property (Christy Brookite deposit; Magnet Cove Rutile Mine; Mo-Ti; Wynn O; Christy Titania), Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Diamond Jo Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Jones Mill Quarry (Martin Marietta Quarry; Highway 51 Quarry; Mid-State Quarry), Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Kilpatrick and Adams Mine (Hardy-Walsh Brookite deposit), Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Kimzey Calcite Quarry (Calcite Hill), Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Kimzey Magnetite Mine, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Magnet Cove Rutile Company deposits (Titanium Corporation of America Mine; Beaver Lake Estates), Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Mo-Ti Corporation prospect (The Pyrite deposits; Cotton Golden Farm; Southern Acid & Sulphur Company Prospect), Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Runyon quartz location (Coontail quartz), Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Rutherford deposit (Moses Hill; Cemetery deposit; Miller deposit), Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
Union Carbide Christy Vanadium Mine, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MICHAEL HOWARD Arkansas Geological Commission 3815 W. Roosevelt Road Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 Figure...recent mining activity in the Magnet Cove area. Abundant brookite and smoky quartz were recovered here by many...reclamation in the mid-1990s. lthough the Magnet Cove area of Arkansas was noted before 18.50 in the literature...concerning the discovery of “arkansite” (brookite). Magnet Cove then began to be known for the variety of growth...crystal forms and other mineral species present at Magnet Cove were published in the United States and Europe
Book
Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I •( 11 o •« c »««ou cxi ju4«iO«J...r r 1 0WH4T «MII( ' I I ►UCAJ4I s;r_ I HOT tAAIHC SCVICA I CA A *T I JCffCASO* ' *«< AHS...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute Quadrangal...Contents and Locality Index Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types.....................
Journal (issue)
small black micro crystals of manganbabingtonite, quartz, calcite, datolite, and inesite (identity confirmed)...(8 cm) tall, and J5/g inches (4 cm) thick. The quartz from here can also be nice; I had one large clear...by a quantity of glistening '·Herkimer diamonds" quartz crystals, in which she specializes. Most of them...France. Also, he had small trays holding small clear quartz crystals, one tray with pale green inclusions of...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com
Report (issue)
8.652(8) Z=3 X-ray Powder Pattern: Magnet Cove, Arkansas, USA. 3.08 (95), 3.92 (38), 2.536 (28), 2...16 18.00 49.23 Total 99.98 100.00 (1) Magnet Cove, Arkansas, USA; corresponds to (Ba5.27 Sr0.73 )Σ=6.00...)13 . Occurrence: In a barite deposit (Magnet Cove, Arkansas, USA); in Alpine veins cutting a carbonatite...China). Association: Barite, calcite, quartz (Magnet Cove, Arkansas, USA); calcite, alstonite, fluorite, sphalerite...sphalerite (Cave-in-Rock, Illinois, USA); huntite, barytocalcite, strontianite, pyrite, phlogopite, monazite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
superb quartz crystals, Arkansas also boasts an array of other minerals, as evidenced by this county-by-county...county-by-county description of localities. A R K A N S A S H A S A R I C H M I N E R A L and mining heri­ tage...minerals of Magnet Cove, continued with mining in north­ ern and western Arkansas and Magnet Cove during the...throughout the state and extensive collecting in Magnet Cove. In the 1900s, mining and minerals continue to.... The quartz crystal craze is in full swing and the demand for and price of Arkansas quartz crystals
Journal (issue)
More Finds at the Midstate Quarry Magnet Cove,Hot SpringCounty,Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Street Houston...77036 In April, 1998, Clyde Hardin of Malvern, Arkansas sent me some specimens he had received in trade...the 51 Quarry, on the outer southeast edge of Magnet Cove (see Mineral News vol. 14, no. 4, ~998). Although...been since the operations have come near to the Magnet Cove igneous rocks that interesting specimens, mostly... 3 mm crystal on quartz, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. 2 Mineral News
Report (issue)
(Columbium) and Titanium at Magnet Cove and Potash Sulphur Springs, Arkansas GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN...(Columbium) and Titanium at Magnet Cove and Potash Sulphur Springs, Arkansas By V. C. FRYKLUND, JR., R...spectrographic analysis.______________________________ Magnet Cove area-_-_-_-___----_-___-__--_-_______-______-____--__..._____________________________________________ Magnet Cove Titanium Corporation rutile deposit-.___________...map of Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Ark___In pocket Pag* FIGURE 2. Location map, Magnet Cove and Potash
Other Paper
MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS: COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS, STORIES AND PHOTOGRAPHS...Jr. and J. Michael Howard MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS: COLLECTOR AND PROFESSIONAL OBSERVATIONS...Michael Howard 16001 Vimy Woods Road Mabelvale, Arkansas 72103 E-mail: jmichaelhoward@sbcglobal.net ©...Additional Magnet Cove Mineral Occurrences……………………………… 49 Part 2 – Minerals of Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County...County, Arkansas and Vicinity……………………..... 49 Part 3 – Briefs of the Important Mineral Locations of Magnet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MAGNET COVE, ARKANSAS By CARL M. WELCH South Dakota School of Mines Box 1 197, Rapid City, S.D. 57701...57701 Magnet Cove has been an area of of punishment since much walking will great mineralogic interest since...natural magnet in the soil and its picks and sledges. Small tools are also basin-like shape. The Cove is located...northern Hot Spring County, Arkansas could be used. A good knapsack is of about 12 miles east of Hot Springs...places where Cove Creek enters and the text as being closed. However, Mr. leaves the Cove. Kimzey will
Report (edition)
STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 MINERAL SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised...Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised 2007 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL...Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F...three-day trip to the Little Rock, Hot Springs, and Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Brookite from Magnet Cove, Arkansas KENNETH E. QUINN 1022 W. McElroy Stillwater, Oklahoma 74074 One...One of the better-known minerals from the Magnet Cove area is brookite which, like rutile, is an oxide of...titanium. It occurs in several spots around the Cove, but the most important locality is the Christy...brookite in Arkansas goes back to 1846, when Charles U . Shepard described a mineral from Magnet Cove and called...of brook­ ite at the Cove in his classic work on the igneous rocks o f Arkansas. Serious attempts at
Book
Minerals of Arkansas ISSUED BUREAU OF BY MINES, MANUFACTURES AND AGRICULTURE STATE OF ARKANSAS W. N...N. WILKES, Commissioner 1925 MINERALS of ARKANSAS Published STATE BUREAU and by of MINES, MANUFACTURES...AGRICULTURE W. N. WILKES, Commissioner PUBLISHED in ARKANSAS 1925 INTRODUCTION of “Minerals an The book...the mineral exhaustive study of the State. as Arkansas” understand as their and the part the finished...paid or ores uses criticism of “Minerals of Arkansas” because of the fact that given State. our
Journal (issue)
Mineral Collector's Newsletter $3.00 2008 Arkansas Aluminum Phosphates: Wavellite with Variscite... Introduction Wavellite has been collected in Arkansas since the middle of the 1800s. A drawing of a...included in Harvey ( 1886), Arkansas' first state mineralogy. Although way behind quartz with only sporadic commercial...collectable mineral as specimens in Arkansas. Dug Hill in Garland County was the source of most early wavellite...from Magnet Cove in Hot Spring County or from Montgomery County. Dug Hill was in fact part of Hot Spring
Report (edition)
STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 S P EC I ES O F A RKA N SA A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard \ 1987... / ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist s·' , STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...23 SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION...State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman...field trip to the Little Rock, Hot Springs, and Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DIAMOND JO QUARRY MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS Even though Magnet Cove with its unique mineralogy...now owned by Henry deLinde of Mabelvale, Arkansas. The Hot Springs Railroad M A G N E T C O V E , S...12 M I L E S E A S T of the city of Hot Springs in Hot Spring County, is a ring-dike complex of alkalic...during Cretaceous time; 1 or 2 miles east of Magnet Cove these rocks are overlain by the Cretaceous and...rocks of the Gulf Coastal Plain. Even though Magnet Cove with its unique mineralogy—it is especially rich
Report (issue)
THE CHRISTY VANADIUM-TITANIUM DEPOSIT, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS By G. N. Breit1, C. Rice1 , D.L. Fey2...THE CHRISTY VANADIUM-TITANIUM DEPOSIT, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS by G. N. Breit, C. Rice, D.L. Fey, and...the Cretaceous Magnet Cove intrusive complex. Major minerals in the deposit include quartz, kaolinite, smectite...sedimentary rocks altered by the intrusion of the Magnet Cove complex. Partial dissolution techniques along...Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in Garland and Hot Spring Counties, Arkansas (Hollingsworth, 1967; Howard, 1974;
Report (issue)
A note on newly discovered kimberlites in Riley County, Kansas William L. Mansker, Bill D. Richards, and...petrography of the Twin Knobs ttl lamproite, Pike County, Arkansas . 205 Michael A. Waldman, Tom E. McCandless...McCandless, and Hugo T. Dummett The Cretaceous Arkansas alkalic province; A summary of petrology and geochemistry...Potash Sulfur Springs igneous complex, Garland County, Arkansas Robert E. Zartman and J. Michael Howard .... 235 Isotopic relationships in Arkansas Cretaceous alkalic complexes . 241 G. R. Tilton, Sung Tack
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
suite of a dozen or so common minerals (ubiquitous quartz; simple carbonates, sulfates, and sulfides; and...states at its 2017 February show (add Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kentucky, and Tennessee); hence, they will all...states— Michigan, Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Arkansas—at the periphery of the area tally over three...inclusions or mixtures (e.g., yellow smithsonite from Arkansas), or bizarre growth habits (e.g., twists and elongations)... Marion County, Tennessee Shepard 1835 1835 Nitromagnesite Nicajack Cave, Marion County, Tennessee
Journal (issue)
Chivor emeralds occur in quartz-pyrite veins in (Continues on page 2) .. Magnet Cove Rutile Sixlings and...sought after mineral from the Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas' intrusive ring-dike complex are...2 cm across. Those of us who have collected Magnet Cove minerals for years would probably agree, strange...data, ideas, and read available articles on Magnet Cove. There are several reasons for this general lack...occurs in the topographically low interior of the Cove where the rocks are deeply weathered and covered
Journal (issue)
Mineralsfrom the MidstateQuarry Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston...Quarry located just off the southeast flank of Magnet Cove. This quarry is in the altered Stanley Shale...Shale a short distance south of the Magnet Cove igneous rocks (mostly syenites). The Stanley Shale is a dark...aboufo:s mmlong, Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, photo by the author. Middle&...the 1930s as the hub of operations in the Dodo quartz deposits, and extended further north to Patak and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
during the past twenty years than the --------Arkansas Magnet Cove locality. - - - - - - - - Minerals of the...Vanadium Mines POTASH SULPHUR SPRINGS, ARKANSAS J. MICHAEL HOWARD Arkansas Geological Commission 3815 West...Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 DON R. OWENS Earth Science Department University of Arkansas at Little Rock...Rock 2801 South University Little Rock, Arkansas 72204 Unless otherwise noted, all photos by J. Michael...Potash Sulphur Springs, and the spring water was bottled and sold in nearby Hot Springs. The property passed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Arkansas Phosphate Minerals A R E V I E W AND UPDATE The abundance and quality of Arkansas phosphate...N R Y L . BARWOOD Arkansas Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute Arkansas Tech University Russellville...Russellville, Arkansas 72801 H E N R Y DELINDE 6 Homestead Court Mabelvale, Arkansas 72103 H A R D L Y...emerald-green crusts of variscite crystals from Arkansas. The abundance and quality of these specimens...minerals from Arkansas was made in 1877 when specimens (apparently from Montgomery County, Arkansas) were recognized
Journal (issue)
Segnitite (Continued from page I) The ubiquitous quartz crystals at the Black Pine Mine are often coated...aesthetically challenged phases. One small lot of quartz specimens had a decidedly greenish-yellow skin...yellow-brown crust that coated only a handful of small quartz crystal groups. Tempted to dismiss it as just another...off a bed of crusty films over the faces of the quartz crystals. An initial analysis via Energy Dispersive...Publications for Collectors By William Shelton Gold is a hot topic partly due to its being the 2004 Tucson show
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
biographies presented here in this special issue on Arkansas were begun by the late Dr. R. S. Mitchell, who...debt of gratitude to Henry deLinde of Mablevale, Arkansas, for his help in locating much useful biographical...was found in the Diamond Jo quarry, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, as aggregates of flakelike crys­ tallites...true for many of us, it was a fascination with quartz crys­ tals that started Henry deLinde on his quest...for minera­ logical knowledge. He was living in Hot Springs, Arkan­ sas, in the 1960s when he decided
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mine roads, and pipeline rightsof-way. During the spring and early summer of 1996, the author mapped the...molybdenite, monazite, muscovite, opal, pyrolusite, quartz, samarskite-(Y), scapolite, schorl, spessartine...THE DOLOMITE PRODUCTS QUARRY, WALWORTH, MONROE COUNTY, NEW YORK. V. H. Collins and J. S. Collins, 1334... northwest of the village of Walworth in Wayne County, New York. The quarry is a producer of aggregate...AND ITS ALTERATION PRODUCTS FROM MAGNET COVE, HOT SPRING COUNTY, ARKANSAS. A. U.Falster, W. B. Simmons,
 
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