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| can be found. In recent years the largest Lake Superior agate ever reported was found in Minnesota, and...Minnesota is a Lake Superior State. Wisconsin has shoreline on both Lake Superior and Lake Michigan. Michigan...vast inland fresh water seas, with waters of Lake Superior, Michigan and Huron virtually surrounding it...Indiana are bordered in part by Lake Michigan, and Ohio hugs the edge of Lake Erie. These states were all...states. The cool summer spots are the north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota, and the Keweenaw peninsula |
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| pea-size masses, to finely detailed replacement of the agate fortification bands. Before the sun sets on the...as the mine dumps are crushed for roadfill. Lake Superior Agates Then comes a bag with both native copper...copper minerals possibly stem from conditions during agate formation. The third collecting bag, though small...you see all the way through to the back of the agate. The fourth bag contains marvelous copper agates...Newsletter by Kathy Hrechka The formation of the Lake Superior agates began 1.1 billion years ago during the |
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| competition. The category for June is June - Lake Superior agate - cut or uncut Coming months (so you can...Wisconsin Gem and Mineral Society show Rice Lake Campus, Rice Lake, WI; 10-5 Sat; 10-5 Sun August 20 Madison...meeting Jerry Gunderson âField Trips Across North Americaâ slides and collected specimens Club Competition:...causes that color? The Agateer 2 Thunder Bay Agate Mine By -Dr. Bill Cordua, U.Wisconsin-River Falls...students around Lake Superior. One of the best stops we had was at the Thunder Bay Agate Mine. As it is |
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| structure, whereas chalcedony reveals a fibrous growth. Agate is banded chalcedony. Figure 1 (above). The arid...The beautiful reds and yellows that are found in agate are due to trace amounts of amorphous iron oxides...are seldom described in the literature; the Lake Superior agates from the 1.10 Ga (billion years ago)...the best known. However, knowledge of even older agate hosts is not new. Agates from the 2.72 Ga Chichester... are regarded as being close to the age of the agate (Moxon and RĂos 2004). None of the agates were |
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| 1986 State Mineral: Coal, 1998 State Rock/Stone: Agate, 2000 Figure 6. Kentucky agates that have distinctive...MINNESOTA State Gem: Lake Superior agate, 1969 Figure 8. A Lake Superior agate, 4.8 cm wide, from Minnesota...can be found along the gravelly shorelines of Lake Superior as well as in gravel pits in glacial till deposits...eroded out as pebbles on many beaches of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron, as well as in rock and gravel quarries...Gem: Nebraska blue agate, 1967 State Rock: Prairie agate, 1967 Figure 10. Blue agate from the Chadron |
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| Hide Sacred Places: Rock Art of the Greater Lake Superior Region From sandstone rock shelters of Wisconsin...hidden areas of the Wisconsin Driftless region, Lake Superior Provincial Park, the Boundary Waters and Jeffers...ancient petroglyph and pictograph sites of North America. Commonly called rock art, Geri personally visits...Ancient Petroglyph and Pictograph Sites of North America.â Geriâs work can be found in private and corporate...1st place $10; 2nd place $5. June: Mexican Lace Agate, specimens, slabs, cabochons, etc. July: Jewelry |
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| sec. 16, T. 96 N., R. 6 W.; Ordovician-age Wise Lake and Maquoketa Formations: barite (crystals), bitumen...New Galena = Waukon, Mineral Creek, Allamakee Co. North Buena Vista, Clayton Co. Old Ewing diggings = Durango...Vinton: quartz (variety chalcedony as âcoldwater agateâ). Shellsburg area, most quarries, road cuts, and...Formation: quartz (crystals and chalcedony as âcoldwater agateâ). Black Hawk County Raymond, Peske quarry, S side... N of Shell Rock at gravel pit: quartz (Lake Superior agate); geodes in outcrops and quarries: calcite |
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| Charles Gillette Alice L. Hart A magazine devoted Agate Amethyst Amarzonite Aventurine Bloodstone Citrine...Page Cover Photo Nebraskaâs Marsupial Lake Superior Agate California Famous Midwest } âTigerâ . Q...supial sabre-tooth has been disco\ ered in North America. first of its kind to be found on this continent...marsupial sabre-tooth tiger to be discovered North America Note closed eye socter mammals and another ip...bear, but a tree-dwelling non-placental. In North America there are no living marsupials today, except |
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| officially adopted the Lake Superior Agate as its State Gemstone in 1969. The Lake Superior Agates from the...the Lake Superior region are agates which are not confined to the shorelines of the lake itself. Thus, south...fortification type agates which originated in the Lake Su perior region and were washed down the Mississippi...seen in the ancient granite hills w;st of Lake Superior's north shore. T i m e after time, great seas inundated...underlaid with gravel deposits containing the Lake Superior banded agate. Where these deposits are exposed, as |
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| never heard of. The complex geology of the Lake Superior Region has produced many of these rare minerals...cuts near Hudson, Spring Valley, Nelson and Green Lake, so there are doubtlessly other occurrences. The...rocks in northern Wisconsin (such as exposed near Superior and near Hurley) also will fluoresce red SW and...2014 Thatâs Superlative: Lake Superior Agate The largest Lake Superior agate is alleged to be a 35.8...competiton; Club Picnic instead. September: Lake Superior Agate, cut and polished by member. Calendar July |
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| grinding and polishing machine, made by Kingsley North available in powder coat paint. Heavy duty construction...grinding and polishing machine, made by Kingsley North available in Stainless Steel. Heavy duty construction...(with motor mount) and 7â high. $995. KINGSLEY NORTH DIAMOND GRINDING WHEELS Metal bonded diamond grinding...List $135.00 117.00 SALE $86.00 86.00 KINGSLEY NORTH DIAMOND BELT WHEELS A resin-bonded diamond belt...1-1/2â 3,000 Mesh/Grit Shipping weight Kingsley North, Inc. P.O. Box 216: Dept 3 910 Brown Street Norway |
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| Agates 800 North Lynndale Drive Appleton, WI 54914 Printed in the United States of America by Palmer Publications...Publications, Inc. 318 North Main Street Amherst, WI 54406 Front Cover: Fairburn agates from the authorâs... nse eae 59 Chapter 8 The Riddles of Agate Formation/Agate Formation Theories 1.0.00... 67 eA @ALe...The Fairburn agate is named for the small community of Fairburn, South Dakota. The agate is known for...Jack Zasadil in his article in The Agates of North America published by The Lapidary Journal (1966) they |
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| crystal specimen, bought or found Feb. Lake Superior Agate â uncut, showing orange-peal-rind effect...June Any Wisconsin fossil July Jewelry with Lake Superior Agate Aug. No competition...Club Picnic (Please...opportunity to view the natural Black River course north of the city of Black River Falls. The water held...upstream from Black River Falls, 13.5 river miles north at Hatfield failed in 1993. "One of the most significant...4-inch cloudburst damaged the Hatfield Dam impounding Lake Arbutus. This was not the first time that the Hatfield |
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| Gemstone-Freshwater Pearl Soil-Crider Series Mineral-Coal Rock-Agate * Maryland Fossil Shell-Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae...Minnesota Gemstone-Lake Superior Agate Vil * Mississippi * Louisiana Gemstone-Agate Fossil-Petrified...Montana Agate Fossil-Maiasaura peeblesorum * Nebraska Rock-Prairie Agate Gemstone-Blue Agate Fossil-Mammoth...87 88 * North Carolina Precious Stone-Emerald Rock-Granite 109 110 90 90 91 91 a2 * North Dakota Fossil-Jeredo...South Dakota Mineral-Rose Quartz Gemstone-Fairburn Agate Fossil-Triceratops Jewelry-Black Hills Gold Soil-Houdek |
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| Sources by Glaciers. Common Nebraska Gemstones. Agate, Type II Occurrences. Fortification or "Fairburn"...Prairie Agates . Moss Agates Agate, Type III Occurrences Lake Superior Agates Moss Agates Chalcedony...Chalcedony. Chalcedony, Type II Occurrences. Lard Agate 29 29 30 31 31 31 31 31 31 40 40 41 41 43 43...driver who credits his victories to his "lucky agate." Medicinal properties have been attributed to some...areas to the west and by glaciers moving from the north and east. The use of improper footwear may result |
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| again as many as eleven of us have made the trip north to the beautiful countryside of Michigan's northern-most...around six in the evening, for the expressway headed north. After a number of coffee stops and our supper too...have reserved not far from 758 the shores of Lake Superior. Our first day we are quite tired after the...walk the shores of the big lake in search of the elusive Lake Superior agate, and we visit a couple of...Centennial Mine dump for the rarest of all Lake Superior agates having copper in the bands. W e don't |
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| Menlo Park, California 94025 Figure 1: Lake Superior agate. Cranbrook institute of Science specimen...in volcanic rocks of Keweenanwan age in the Lake Superior region. Although the pink prehnite superficially...lava flows of the Keweenawan Series in the Lake Superior region. It occurs as amygdule fillings, crosscutting.... . " The beaches Lane mentioned are along the north coast of the island where one of the pink prehnite-bearing...study yielded only a few pebbles from the whole north shore of the island that contain thomsonite amygdules |
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| middle Devonian limestone is producing again at North Vernon, Indiana. The classic go'den, round, complex...them. "The quarry is located on the east edge of North Vernon and is easy to reach." âletter dated April...F. Hess, 309 E. Grimes Lane, Bloomington, Ind. North Vernon, in central County, is in S/E Indiana. Jennings...just collected today an 8 lb. 8 oz. banded Lake Superior agate in my new gravel pit. W e did a little gravel...fresh agate ground than I do of building new roads. "This agate outclasses any Lake Superior agate I ever |
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| to purple. LAKE SUPERIOR AGATE . . . (Offi cial State Gemstone) . . . is a variety of agate and is basically...to the eastcentral to north eastern section of the state. PARADISE BEACH AGATE . . . are small, well-formed...along the north shore of Lake Superior about 13 miles east of Grand Marais. COLD-WATER AGATE . . . develops...nodules with center positions of red and white banded agate. JASPER . . . may be found in any of the glacial...may be found along the north shore, on the beaches near Tofte and on the Cook-Lake County line. T h e thomsonite |
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| Published online 31 August 2017 A new model of agate geode formation based on a combination of morphological...features: surface pitting, indentations of the agate bands, the variation in morphologies of the bands...recrystallization of the inner layers. Key-words: petrogenesis; agate; band formation; morphology; silica solâgel precursor...mechanism of crystallization. 1. Introduction Agate geodes, exquisitely beautiful and fascinating rocks...to crystallize. â Other authors speculate that agate is laid down layer by layer over a long period of |
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| Macon, and Columbus. The first real Gold Rush in America occurred in Georgia following two simultaneous...KINGSTON, S, in area fields, streams, rd. cuts, etc.ďžagate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY...COUNTY MACON: ď at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWďžagate; ď N of Calloway airport at rd. jct.ďžBeryl. BURKE COUNTY...along the GA side of the SC borderďžSavannah River agate, chalcedony, Quartz gemstone, silicified oolite...27: (a) along both sides of Hwy.ďžagate; (b) quarry on W side of rd.ďžagate, chalcedony, chert, opal; ď area |
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| moganite display similarities to those reported in agate, the spectra are not completely identical. Absorptions...heated up to 1060 K became similar to those of agate implying a moganite to a-quartz transformation can...the decomposition of CO3. Key-words: moganite, agate, infrared spectroscopy, dehydration, dehydroxylation...microcrystalline a-quartz has been seen by heating agate at 350â550 C and 100 MPa in the presence of water...sample no a 13 Rio Grande do Sul, 133b Brazil Lake Superior, 1100b USA Mogan D Formation, Mog7 Soledado |
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| Images Front cover top Agate from Germany: bottom Agate from Scotland. Back cover Agate from Germany. Title...Title page Agate from Russian Arctic coast. Distribution NBN International Estover Road Devon PL6 ?PY UK...Introduction 4 Names of agates 6 What is an agate? 10 Properties of agates 44 Sources of agates... 58 USA 76 Canada 108 Mexico 111 South America 122 Africa 131 Asia 138 Australia 144 Lapidary...nce the mid-1900s, agate collecting has become very popular in Europe, North America and the M iddle East |
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| images Front cover top Agate from Germany; bottom Agate from Scotland. Back cover Agate from Germany. Title...Title page Agate from Russian Arctic coast. Distribution NBN International Estover Road Devon PL6 7PY ... Contents Introduction Names of agates What is an agate? Properties of agates Sources of agates Europe...Europe Britain USA Canada Mexico South America Africa Asia Australia 108 111 122 131 138 144 Lapidary...Since the mid-1900s, agate collecting has become very popular in Europe, North America and the Middle East |
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| even if the Sahara had into Lake Superior a short day's ride shifted north of Detroit, I was still comwest...live the dying sun light up the agate beaches, only 15 minutes north where Broadway then you will know...not to miss the Cranbrook Institute of Science, north of Detroit, Mich., and this made up for my disappointment...nose of the car North and headed for the Straits of Mackinac. In Charlevoix on Lake Michigan I saw a...was exquisite ribbon agate in a gift shop window and moseyed inside. The agate was actually put there |
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