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Muscovite from
Harris Mine, Hewlett, Hanover County, Virginia, USA


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Comments:Occurs in pegmatite.
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Harris Mine, Hewlett, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:68118
Long-form Identifier:1:3:68118:8
GUID (UUID V4):c75b8947-bcc3-4948-910a-0525cf5b652c
Localities for Muscovite in this Region
Saunders No. 1 Mine, Harris Mine, Hewlett, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
Saunders No. 2 Mine, Harris Mine, Hewlett, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
Saunders No. 3 Mine, Harris Mine, Hewlett, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
Saunders No. 4 Mine, Harris Mine, Hewlett, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
Saunders No. 5 Prospect, Harris Mine, Hewlett, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
2.4km (1.5 miles) Saunders No. 2 Mine, Harris Mine, Hewlett, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
2.5km (1.6 miles) Saunders No. 5 Prospect, Harris Mine, Hewlett, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
2.7km (1.7 miles) Saunders No. 4 Mine, Harris Mine, Hewlett, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
3.3km (2.1 miles) Saunders No. 3 Mine, Harris Mine, Hewlett, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
4.4km (2.7 miles) Saunders No. 1 Mine, Harris Mine, Hewlett, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
4.8km (3.0 miles) Nolan Prospects, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
11.8km (7.3 miles) Southworth Prospect, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
11.9km (7.4 miles) Rose Hill Mine (Langford Mine), Hanover County, Virginia, USA
13.4km (8.3 miles) Stanley Prospect, Hanover County, Virginia, USA
25.7km (16.0 miles) Childress Mine, Louisa County, Virginia, USA
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
E S IN V I R G I N I A "Virginia Division of Mineral Resources" From "Virginia Minerals" By PALMER C....for people who are interested in collecting in Virginia. All the listed localities were open and the informa­...official State Highway Map as well as individual county road maps, both of which are available from the...of Highways, 1221 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. Top­ ographic maps are available from the Vir­...Mineral Resources, Box 3667, Charlottesville, Virginia and from the Distribution Section of the U.S.
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
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 (issue)
-MINERAL-AND FOSSIL-COLLECTING LOCALITIES IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. . . This article presem the most...for people who are interested "in collecting in Virginia (Figure I). All the listed localities were open...ofticial State Highway Map as well as individual county road maps, both of which are available From the...Broad Street. Richmond. Virginia. Topographic maps are available from the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources...Resources. Box 3667, Charlottemille, Virginia and from the Distribution Section a f ~ h eU. S. &logical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VIRGINIA MINES AND MINERALS By P H I L I P M O R R I L L East Darry, N. H. 0 3 0 4 1 (PART 16 SPOTSYLVANIA...SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY Bordered on the N by the Rappahan­ nock and Rapidan Rivers. T h e N edge may be submerged...number of gold operations r u n n i n g across the county from N to S. These are mainly placers and rather...Jackson's Trail, iy mi. S o f Brockroad. Old gold mine on Greene Farm near Brockroad. Marsden Gold M. A...gets up to 124 Dwt. Placer only. United States Gold Mine. Between Rte 620 and Rappahannock R. Nr. power line
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sites in Virginia by PALMER C. SWEET Virginia Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...for people who are interested in col­ lecting in Virginia (Figure 1). All the alphabetically listed localities'were...official State Highway Map as well as individual county road maps (10^ each), both of which are available...Transportation, 1221 East Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. Topo­ graphic maps are available from the Vir­...Mineral Resources, Box 3667, Charlottesville, Virginia and from the National Cartographic Information
Report (issue)
Pleaoc teturn this publication to the Virginia Geologieal Survcy whcn you havc no further uce for it...COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSTON ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Deposits of Virginra BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 COMMONWEALTH, OF VTRGINIA STATE COMMISSION...COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN, State Geologist Bulletin...33 Pegmatite Deposits of Virginia BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 RICHMOND: DrvrsroN
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
Journal (issue)
the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard
Journal (issue)
DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...amazonite, fine moonstone, and topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise...minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which have been used as gemstones and decora...report. Many of the localities will be familiar to Virginia mineral collectors. Someof the areas mentioned...collect minerals. There has been much written on Virginia mineral localities but no reports are available
Journal (issue)
SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR VISIT OUR MINE-KEEP WHAT YOU FIND...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard
Book
volume is dedicated is four-fold: (1) To locate by mine, deposit, or community those mineralized areas of...Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...VILLAGE SPRINGS, Blount Co. Hematite WOODS COPPER MINE, Cloaburne Co. Sphalerite ARIZONA COVEI.I.ITE...Hematite HANOVER, Coosa Co., (near) Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite
Report (volume)
General features____________________________ Coosa County _________ ____________________ Randolph County...Cherokee County_____________________________ 72 Elbert County _____________________________ 75 Hall County__...County_______________________________ 76 Hart County. ___ __ __________________ 77, Lumpkin and Union counti...___________ S3 Pickens County _______-______________________ 83 Rabun County-_____________________________...____________ 86 Troup County ________________________________ 86 Upson County _______________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Occurrence in Carroll County, Georgia" (November/December 1988). Banks County 184 ROCKS & MINERALS...Bentley provided many of the photographs. Baldwin County Milledgeville district—between the State Sanitarium...corundum, muscovite, quartz (Hurst, 1956c). Wood pit—east of S.R. 243 near the Baldwin-Wilkerson County line:...property—Route 3, Commerce, 4.8 km from the Jackson County line, 8 km east of Commerce on S.R. 59, and 0.8...garnet, muscovite. Downloaded by [University of Calgary] at 09:55 07 August 2017 Barrow County Arnold
Report (volume)
Gardner, Lexington. Louisiana........Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. Maine............Mr. C. Vey Holman............Prof. George H. Perkins, Burlington. Virginia...........Dr. Thomas L. Watson, Charlottesville...Washington....... Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin......See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Report (volume)
to the Knowledge of the Older Mesozoic Flora of Virginia, by "William "Morris Fontaine. 1883. 4°. xi, 144...meridian of 76° 30', from Tompkins County, New York, to Bradford County, Pennsylvania, by Henry S. "Williams...cents. 16. On the Higher Devonian Faunas of Ontario County, New York, by John M. Clarke. 1885. 8°. 86 pp....57 pi. Price 25 cents. 38. Peridotite of Elliott County, Kentucky, by J. S. Diller. 1887. 8°. 31 pp. 1...Bituminous Coal Field of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, by Israel C. White. 1891. 8°. 212pp. 11 pi. Price
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
black botryoidal hematite from a working strip iron mine at Brookwood, Tuscaloosa Co., Ala. ALASKA—Some of...Creek, in San Benito Co., Calif., by my wife, Virginia. She seems to have a built-in sensitivity to the...Brooklyn mine and adjacent prospects in the Red Mountain range near Silverton, San Juan County, Colo.,...Sept. 13, 1959, from Jan Worth (age 16), 98 New Hanover Ave., Meriden, Conn. DELAWARE—Dark gray chert pebbles...Illinois to Buffalo State Park in central LaSalle County, 111. We found many sam115 pies of the fish-tail
Journal (issue)
SELECTED PALEOZOIC ROCKS, VALLEY-RIDGE PROVINCE, VIRGINIA PART I: ROANOKE, CLIFTON FORGE, FRONT ROYAL AREAS...1974). Between exits 41 and 43, the low linear VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES CUMULATIVE INTERVAL...the Paperville Shale (Ordovician) of Southwest Virginia and the lowermost black shales along the east...Massanutten syncline in northern Augusta County and southern Rockingham County. Middle Ordovician limestones and...described at the Fetzer Gap section in Shenandoah County (Rader and Biggs, 1976). Measured Section: Footwall
Report (volume)
GWENDOLYN W. LUTTRELL, MARILYN L. HUBERT, and VIRGINIA M. JUSSEN U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN ...ted States. I. Hubert, Marilyn L. II. Jussen, Virginia M. III. Title. IV. Series. QE75.B9 no. 1564 1986...Gwendolyn W. Luttrell, Marilyn L. Hubert, and Virginia M. ,Jussen INTRODUCTION This lexicon contains... 147 N., R. 84 W., 4 km N of Riverdale, McLean County, N. Oak. Named for Aggie Brown Coulee, which flows...NW1/4NW1/4SW1/4SW1/4 sec. 17, T. 85 N., R. 7 W., Linn County, Iowa. A-L Peak Rhyolite Oligocene 1. New Mexico
Book (edition)
a glance ; e. g. in limestone beds in the muscovite, (mica) chromite, corundum, calcite, piedmont...Phlogopite. 83. Biotite. Oxides. 2. Silver. 84. Muscovite. 3. Platinum. 40. Cuprite. 85. Labradorite...ities and suggestions from Mrs. H, A. Burdick county, of Mr. J. of A. D. Stephenson of Statesville...found at the Reid Mine, in Cabarrus county, the Crump Mine and the Swift Island Mine, in Montgomery country...Cansler & Shuford Mine, in Gaston count} and the Little John Mine, in Caldwell county, and Pax Hill in
Report (issue)
of the South Boston 30 X 60 Minute Quadrangle, Virginia and North Carolina by J. Wright Horton, Jr.1...Report 93-244 Prepared in cooperation with the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources This report is preliminary... 1 U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA 22092 2 Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, P.O. Box 3667,...quadrangle (Figure 1) is located in south-central Virginia and northernmost North Carolina. It covers an...Halifax, Lunenburg, and Mecklenburg Counties, Virginia, and parts of Granville, Person, Vance, and Warren
Report (issue)
_____________________________________________ ________________ Virginia - __ -__ _ ___________ Farmville district, Buckingham...gneiss _____________________________________ Muscovite schist and gneiss. Kyanite schist _____ Kyanite...36 37 38 38 39 39 Kyanite deposits Continued Virginia Continued Farmville district, etc. Continued Rock...Slate __ . Halifax County Other localities North Carolina Hagers Mountain, Person County.- _.______ Corbett...Corbett deposit, Johnston County Burnsville-Swannanoa area, Buncombe, Yancey, and Mitchell Counties ________
Report (issue)
pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ ...between pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight mine ______ _______________...of granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 9....and other units in the Big Bess pegmatite, Gaston County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
Report (volume)
............................................. Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................Gardner, Lexington. Louisiana____Prof. Gilbert D. Harris, Baton Rouge. F. V. Emerson, Baton Rouge. Maine______...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Report (chapter)
figures; these are defined in Table 1. Sillimanite+muscovite Sillimanite + K-feldspar Following the terminology...Hudson River (HR) is 466 Ma based on 4°Ar/ From HARRIS,A. L. & FETTES,D. J. (eds), 1988, The Caledonian-Appalachian... Canada Rhode Island South Carolina Tennessee Virginia Vermont Northern Appalachians AD ADM AG AT BM...complex Chain Lakes massif Canaan Mountain Dutchess County Elmore Mountain Exeter pluton Green Mountain massif...4°Ar/39Ar biotite 4°Ar/39Ar muscovite K - A r whole-rock K - A r biotite K - A r muscovite K - A r hornblende
 
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