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| Eaglesfield in Putnam Co., Ind. GEORGIA—There is a tourmaline loIOWA—F.A. Brown, 976 -25th St., cality near... Des Moines 12, Iowa, sends in the followThe tourmaline occurs in quartz fragments and numerous pieces...1955. "Must tell you of another discovery in tourmaline can be picked up in the fields around the fire...xls of rubellite (tourmaline) which were partly gemmy, with dark green tourmaline xls on grayish microcline...microcline. The other consisted of dark green striated tourmaline (with pinkish center) in dark smoky quartz and |
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| quartz J have yet seen." CALIFORNIA—The limestone quarries in Crestmore Riverside Co., Calif., considered...area, we have closed the Commercial and Lonestar quarries to collectors. W e feel that with blasting and...containing good quality tourmalines and quartz. The tourmaline was both green and red and well crystallized...off at depth so I don't expect to see any more tourmaline except the black schorl which is common all over...such an opinion. "I am telling you about the tourmaline because I have not heard of any gem quality material |
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| Caldwell Mine Angelstone (Tatlock) quarry Omega Marble Tile and Terrazzo quarry Bathurst Quarry Foster...Star gold Mine Kaladar marble quarry Roblindale quarry Actinolite Mine Tweed marble quarry Tweed limestone...(Diamond) Mine Hazzards Corner marble quarries Pinewood Park Lake Road quarries Henderson and Conley talc...Mine Wallbridge Mine Stoklosar (Marmora Road) quarries Perry Mine Coe Mine Perry Lake mine Blakely Mine...Madoc marble quarry Seymour Mine Freeman quarry Dominion Mine Ackerman Mine Marmora Road quarries Deloro |
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| (Tatlock) quarry................................ Omega Marble Tile and Terrazzo quarr y.. . . . . . . . . . ........••...•...••........••......•..•.• Kaladar marble quarry ••.•••....•.........•..............• Roblindale........•..••....•..••.............••...... Tweed marble quarry . . . . . . . . . . . • . . • . . . . .... . . . . . . .........•.. Hazzards Corner marble quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . . . . Pinewood Park Lake Road quarries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . • . . . . . . . • . Henderson |
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| to be discovered, particularly in the Grenville Marble deposits. Directions are given to some of the better...derived from sedimentary rocks) and the Grenville Marble. Graywacke, arkose, shale or siltstone may well...and Black Lake to Edwards, outcrops of Grenville Marble are in contact with many coarse grained rocks....calcite are relatively common in the limestone quarries near Norwood and Norfolk. The authors hope that...pyritic gneiss, which com monly occurs between the marble and granitic gneiss through out the pyrite mining |
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| CLASSIC BROWN TOURMALINE LOCALITY T Gouverneur New York he classic brown tourmaline locality on the...collectors would interpret an old label that reads “Tourmaline from Gouverneur, New York” to mean that the specimen...compounded by the fact that a number of the old marble quarries located within the southern boundary of the...produced brown tourmaline crystals, but these occurred frozen in massive white marble, Figure 3. Location...told me of a locality for tremolite and brown tourmaline three miles distant in the town of Gouverneur |
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| %LJHORZ6W/DZUHQFH&RXQW\1HZtourmaline-group minerals found in New York State demonstrates...Lawrence Valley or Orange County. However, one tourmaline locality in the Village of Bigelow in St. Lawrence...others. Here, large brown-to-green aggregates of tourmaline crystals developed in an unsorted sandstone filling...bounded on the left side by Precambrian Grenville Marble forming a paleokarst. The red asterisks indicate...contact between the sandstone and the Grenville Marble. Note that a power line crosses right over the |
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| limestone have been found in the marble quarries of the Georgia Marble Co. at Tate, Pickens Co., Ga. IDAHO-"About...mile west of the West Side Road, 121 black tourmaline xls, some measuring 5í of an inch in length,...), Ky., I did some collecting in the limestone quarries on the reservation. I found white cubical calcite...Beltway, road construction. I found many black tourmaline xls up to ü inch diameter (they are quite brittle)...officials in charge all seemed to be keen enough." SPAIN—Just as we were going to press, the following letter |
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| DEPARTMENT OF MINES BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PART III MARBLE By D. F. HEWITT INDUSTRIAL MINERAL REPORT NO...parts: Part T II III IV V Introduction Limestone Marble Sandstone Granite Industrial Mineral Report No...acceptable. BUILDING STONES OF ONTARIO PART III: MARBLE TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Introduction ...........and Durability .......................... Ontario Marble Deposits ................................ Haliburton...township .............................. Grenville Marble Company ...........*.... 25 25 25 Porosity and |
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| and other species). * Double terminated black tourmaline and dravite crystals from 5 € each. ** Please...radiation. – Crystal of Tourmaline We will be able to supply you with any type of Tourmaline made , protective...radiation. We also can supply you with actual tourmaline (Schörl type) specimens. Enquiries from other...6X1,5 13 15 .-cms . Weight - 38 grams – 13. Tourmaline , var. Elbaite , Himalaya mine, California ,...PARGASITE CRYSTALS ON WHITE MARBLE FROM VIETNAM 1. Sizeable red spinel crystals on marble from Luc Yen, Yen Bai |
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| CONNECTICUT — "The Hal e and Andrews feldspar quarries near Portland, Conn., are now closed to collectors...J., reports on a recent trip to some feldspar quarries in New Hampshire. "At Acworth (Sullivan Co.),...hexagonal cross sections of green beryl and black tourmaline xls in the rock wall right where we could touch...St., Franklin (Sussex "We visited the pipestone quarries at Co.), N. J., has sent us some interesting Pipestone...Feldspar xls—both orthoclase and microcline. Tourmaline xls—black of course. Manganapatite xls—fluorescent |
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| Tampa, FL Correspondents Miguel Calvo Zaragoza, Spain Michael P. Cooper Nottingham, England Thomas P....wealth of new specimens mined after the War’s end. Tourmaline, spodumene, garnet and beryl seemed to be coming...pyrite pyritohedrons floating inside; sceptered tourmaline crystals (pink stem and green termination); single...stibnite, quartz), Kenya (ruby), Mozambique (tourmaline, columbite, herderite, microlite, beryl), Namibia...South Africa (sperrylite), Turkey (diaspore, tourmaline), Uruguay (amethyst, citrine, agate), Venezuela |
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| uranium specimen or a strikingly transparent pink tourmaline crystal. These collectors items and many more...plate, until the sun warned us to pack the green tourmaline, pink rubeIIite sprays, lilac 'lepidolite, purplish-brown...and below the ground are his in memory fans, tourmaline sprays, garnet pepper- and ph otographic study...(VerdeAntique) and marble quarries, and the outstanding Proctor world-wide marble exhibit. Passing the...University of Vermont. North of our route is the black marble of the Champlain Isles with white snail-dike maclurite |
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| referred to as "the Pittsburgh of the East." Some quarries of historic note have been omitted because they...w h i c h came the marble for the Connecticut State Capitol; the sandstone quarries of Portland, w h i... stone Point, Waterford, and resulted i n two quarries. A t one time, the granite was used for the construction...Navy as an underwater sound laboratory, and both quarries now house the Millstone Point Nuclear Power Plants...metal mining in Connecti cut. Now, trap rock, marble/limestone, sand and gravel, gran ite, and crushed |
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| Owing to the demand for building mnaterials many quarries have been opened, but few of any great extent...34th Street, and a large quarry, or a series of quarries afterwards merged into otne, was opened on the...kaolin, the orthoclase renmaining unchanged. Tourmaline, black, in good crystals, sometimes terminated... It is a small group of crystals imbedded in tourmaline. Muscovite, biotite and pyrite and two specimens...sometimes large and chiefly of orthoclase. The largest quarries of this are at Frankford. Here the minerals were |
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| lakes, and fishing is good. Many of the mines and quarries listed in this guidebook are on private property...Feldspar and Beryl Nepheline Syenite Fluorspar Marble and Sodalite Mica Uranium Bancroft Trip 1 Bancroft...outside Bancroft. View from Eagles Nest lookout. Marble tectonic breccia on Monck Road. Bicroft uranium...Carson Lake, Highway 60. Feather amphibolite dike in marble, Umfreville. Lake L'Amable, Highway 62 south of...syenite. The sedimentary rocks were altered to marble, amphibolite, paragneiss and quartzite, and the |
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| talc mines, the St. Joe zinc mine, and also marble quarries that were operating at the time. By the 1960's...gneiss or granite and occasion ally Grenville marble, all of which have been rounded by weathering processes...identified as uvite (not short) and the brown tourmaline found in most of the localities in St. Lawrence...better named "marble," once was quarried and ground for agricultural lime. The Sul livan quarries once produced...blocks and monuments. Some 20 years ago, tons of the marble blocks were transported north to Malone to become |
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| schist. The specimen was collected in the marble quarries at Sylacauga, Talladega, Co., Ala. COLORADO—"After...greenish tinge occurs in a pegmatite in the limestone quarries at Crestmore, Riverside Co., Calif. 462 "The...state include wide varieties of quartz, garnet, tourmaline, spinel, zircon, feldspar, etc., etc., etc. This...Mountain (Boundary Co.), Idaho, slender black xls of tourmaline were found in a granite boulder consisting largely...largely of quartz and biotite mica. The tourmaline xls are arranged in a sunburst arrangement. Several |
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| (gypsum). The specimen comes from the gypsum quarries at Alabaster, Iosco Co., Mich. MINNESOTA—Manicato...MINNESOTA—Manicato, Blue Earth Co., Minn., is noted for its marble quarries. Most of the stone is medium-grained, buff...material has come from the quarry of the Royal Green Marble Co., northeast of Phillipsburg (Warren Co.), N...light as to float on water, has been found in the marble quar- ROCKS AND M I N E R A L S 363 ries at...to Princeton there are two or three limestone quarries. All three have quite a bit of calcite, mostly |
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| mapped the Namanga-Bissel area. The Kenya Marble Quarries Co. Ltd. have for over 40 years worked the...near Turoka for agricultural lime and statuary marble, and a concise but complete account is given of...of the Kajiado area 10 —Plan of the Kenya Marble Quarries . . 11 —Plan of the diatomite deposit, near...structures of the area. The workings of the Kenya Marble Quarries Co. Ltd. are described and other economic prospects...excessive rainfall. The road to the Kenya Marble Quarries is in quite good condition, becoming impassable |
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| intergrown with lepidolite, spodumene, pink tourmaline, and petalite . . . the latter being comparitively...specimen from the locality, a white xline limestone. Marble — Natural Bridge, North Adams, Berkshire Co., Mass...articles. There are a number of abandoned mines and quarries, most of which you can drive up to. "I own several...is a mistake to overlook even the small farmer quarries, i.e. those used only by a farmer for his own...of fluorite crystals. "There are several small quarries near Ottawa, Ohio. Fluorite, calcite and sphalerite |
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| DESIRED •&.... PLEASE SEND THEM I N . ALABAMA—Beds of marble of great beauty have been found along the Cahaba...am sending you a piece of quartz full of black tourmaline. This comes from the gravel pit. "The owner of...black tourmaline xls densely coating massive smoky quartz which is so full of black tourmaline as to...the world's smallest republics, situated between Spain and France, we have a number of specimens sent us...Plaza Sgdo, Corazón No. 1, Villafranca del Panades, Spain. The specimens all come from the little town of |
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| xls of pyrite on snow-white marble have been found in the marble quarries at Sylacauga, Talladega Co....black tourmaline xl sent in by Richard C. Johndy, Cascade Road, Lake Placid, N . Y. "The tourmaline xl,...Santa Gertrudis Mine, Taxco, Mexico." — on label. SPAIN—From Spain's most famous silver mines located at...Hiendelencia, Guadalajara Province, in central Spain, we have a beautiful specimen of massive brassy-yellow...Plaza Sgdro Corazon 1, Vilafranca del Panades, Spain. NETHERLANDS—From C.B.F. Helsloot, J. V. Lennepkade |
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| Conn.). These crystals, previously regarded as tourmaline, occur in a mixture of light green diopside,...goethite while the former possibly being apatite or tourmaline. We were wrong on both guesses for after Miss...The locality for the specimen are the granite quarries at St. Cloud, Stearns Co., Minn. MISSISSIPI—Round...Co., Miss. MISSOURI—Two polished marble slabs from the marble quarries at Mario, St. Genevieve Co., Mo...Stroudsburg, Pa. One slab labeled "Gray Diorado Marble" is dark gray with thin blackish streaks. The other |
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| and lesser amounts of quartzite, marble, and amphibolite. The marble forms relatively thick layers, most...between marble and intrusive granitic rocks. Major marble quarries include the Crestmore quarries at the...Mountains; smaller quarries are the Henshaw quarry located between the Crestmore quarries and the Jensen...of the marble at the Crestmore quarries has a characteristic blue color. The Crestmore quarries are known...unusual minerals occur in a metasomatic zone between marble and a monzogranite intrusive in the Commercial |
Marble Quarries, Macael, Almería, Andalusia, Spain