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| MINERALOGY OF The Granite Mountain Syenite PULASKI AND SALINE COUNTIES, ARKANSAS Within the last few...from the syenite pegmatites of Granite Mountain. HENRY L . BARWOOD Arkansas Mining and Mineral Resources...Resources Research Institute Arkansas Tech University Russellville, Arkansas 72801 A C O M P L E X P L U T O...Saline County to the city limits of Little Rock in Pulaski County. The outcrops in Saline County are weath...the northeast forms a promi nent ridge ("Granite" Mountain) and contains four active and many inactive |
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| the most well-known mineralized veins within the area described as the Central Kentucky Fluorspar District...From A Collector's Notebook: On to the Northeast, Arkansas Collecting-Fall 1999 Art Smith 9118 Concho Street...near Lake Greeson and Mount Ida quartz ~ Our Arkansas collecting trip started early in October, ednesday...after noon. We hit the dumps and moved a bit of rock, but were disappointed and found just a couple of...headed eas t w ith no fur-ther tops. We got to Little Roc k Just be fore complete darkness and checked |
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| PAGE FROM A COLLECTOR'S NOTEBOOK: 3M BIG ROCK QUARRY, ARKANSAS COLLECTING TRIP - FALL 1998, Part 1 Art...Street Houston, Texas 77036-6742 - Our last Arkansas Collecting trip started about a month earlier...group gathered at the 65th Street Denny's in Little Rock at 7:00 AM on October I. _The_encroachment of...proceeded to the 3M Big Rock Quarry in the nephelinc sycnite of Granite Mountain located less than I mile...mile away. Last year, our visit to the Granite Mountain syenitc quarries was almost monomineral with boulders |
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| Newsletter $2.00 from the Mill Creeli. Quarry Polk County, Oregon John Cornish 40 Cedar Glen Lane...The Mill Creek quarry is one of these. The Mill Creek quarry is located in Polk County, off of Highway...one passes the county-maintained Mill Creek Picnic Area. Just beyond the picnic area the road turns into...into the quarry. Park here and hike the short half mile (0.9 km) into the quarry. This small quarry is operated...go to Tucson this year and and I was feeling a little down, I thought that some Mexican minerals like |
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| with igneous mid ocean basaltic or other volnic rock . There are a lso quartz a nd pyrite crystals o...found in a blue roc k (nonesic ul ated basalt) quarry located within the remains of the caldera of the...found in the karst cavern discovered at the Laie Quarry in April 1998. Photograph by Ed Sawada. Japan...provided. • Country Locality Aus tralia White Rock Quarry, near Adelaide, South Australia Aus tria Aus...Mallnitz Grabspitze, near St. Jakob Grossvenediger area, Matrei, East Tyrolia Pebellalpe, wes t of Hinterbichl |
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| 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...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute Quadrangal...Quadrangal Map index. V Contents and Locality Index Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types....Location 1 Montgomery County quartz deposits................. Other Montgomery County quartz mines...... |
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| crystals, Arkansas also boasts an array of other minerals, as evidenced by this county-by-county description...continued with mining in north ern and western Arkansas and Magnet Cove during the Civil War, and peaked...in full swing and the demand for and price of Arkansas quartz crystals has skyrocketed. In October 1987...exploited. Continued interest in and study of Arkansas minerals, par ticularly the microminerals, will...for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting. Particular thanks goes to these hardcore |
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| Calcite Geodes from the Glen Rose Formation of Comal County, Texas William L. Rader 821 0 Bent Tree Road, #219...Canyon Lake in northern Coma! County, Texas. The geodes are found in rock that has been assigned to the...abundantly along the outcrop. Some occur in situ in the rock, but the majority are found at the base of the bed...section of the Glen Rose Formation in the Canyon Lake area. He subdivided the formation into groupings of grossly...a thickness of 16 to 26 feet in the Canyon Lake area. It lies approximately 132 to 158 feet above the |
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| may be encountered. Batopilas, (Chihuahua) where little specimen material seems to be coming from forth...tarnished exterior and looked nearly black. There is little chance that a collector would miss the correct...Similarly, a great fossil collection will receive little respect and interest from the average mineral dealer/collector...no longer available today, or if the dealer had little or no stocks of these otherwise saleable specimens...generous offer (or any offer at all!). as there is little prospect of prompt turnover. The lesson: if one |
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| 287 288 293 353 A hornfels unit in the Poudrette quarry .................................................and J.Van Velthuizen Figure 1. The Poudrette quarry in the summer of 1988. Photo by L. Horvath. 284...important for the collector to recognize the various rock units which represent the unique mineralogical environments...associations are listed with the descriptions. Quarry maps have not been included because the precise...of many past finds in the quarry were never recorded, and because the quarry has changed so much over |
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| large pegmatite boulder from the famous Gillette quarry in Connecticut yielded some nice beryl samples;...1) frequently occurs within sodium-lithium type granite pegmatitcs; other samples For the sake of clarification...Due to widespread usage of the samples, but very little compared to most varietal names for various beryls...chromophore and various colors and the chemical causes County, Utah. Source: Photographic Guide to Mineral the...nearly so) of cases. Aquamarines often occur in granite pegmatites but may beryl crystals ha\'e been examined |
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| Nature from Madoc. Huntington T ownship. Hastings County, O ntario, Canada. As confim1ed by Dr. Scott Ercit...unit does not contain zeolites. There is a parking area for the viewpoint of the White Bird Battlefield...about 0.2 mile to the south. Across from the parking area at the milepost. the basalt has small cavities lined...smaller. Mesolite (not 1es1ed. bur probable for this area) is also July :.WOO present a~ sca11ered fine...probably tho m so nite arl' al so present. The next area 10 the south is the roadcut ex pos ures 0.2 10 0 |
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| Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino... LOCATION The town of Dal’negorsk is located a little over 35 km inland from the sea of Japan and 300...It serves as the center of a very active mining area; a narrow-gauge railway for hauling ore passes directly...through the center of town. Other ore deposits in the area include Kavalerovo (disseminated cassiterite), Sinerecenskoe...the western slope of the Sikhote-Alin Range, in an area of taiga and mixed forest with subtropical vegetation |
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| Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Maybee/Scofield, Michigan, and the famous Auglaize quarry fluorite occurrence in Ohio). He frequented Martin’s...The Gillespie Family Rhonda Hamblin Indian Mounds Rock & Mineral Club Jayne Johnson Michael & Delores La...9/#3 Kalahari rhodochrosite, Benitoite, Gold L.A. County Paterson (NJ), Brumado district Museum, Himalaya...$10 v .15/#5 Jacupiranga mine (Brazil), Jensen quarry (CA), Cunha Baixa mine, Paulkerrite $10 .16/#4 |
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| Dmitrii V. Runskvist Victor T. Trofimov Marie Huizing (USA) Terry E. Huizing Managing Editor Ludmilla A. Cheshko...Pictures Ltd. 4871 S. Dudley St., Littleton CO 80123 USA E-mail: minbooks@online.ru Web-site: www.minbook........ . . 12 2. GEOLOGY OF THE ILMENY MOUNTAINS AREA .... ... . . . .. 30 3. TYPES OF THE PEGMAmES: ...soon cleaned in a cold lake, and when mixed with rock salt, provided (unrefrigerated) lunch for our hardy...1700s in the search for minerals, and since 1920 the area has been set aside as a nature preserve where minerals |
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| Mira Loma, Cali- RED CLOUD MINE SITE, YU M A COUNTY. ARIZONA WULFENITE, Red Ckud M m 7 JTQ MINERAL...specimen in the foreground, backed by a scene in the area of the mine. The first in the series is a Red Cloud...lapidary, a workshop in micro m ounting, a children's area. We invite you to COME BACK TO RHODE ISLAND IN '88...among one score famous mineralogists and offer little bon mots (or bon bons) on each. Rather, I decided...interject here that the term “ nervous breakdow n” has little meaning today, but I conjecture from what I have |
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| Buying Trip to Pakistan (Part I) Dudley Blauwet Mountain Minerals International PO Box 302 Louisville,...on my back and falling away from an overhanging rock cliff face .. My long-time climbing partner has...so deeply undercut below the overhang of ragged rock that the sky is not visible from my position. More...distant landscape is formless in the transition from rock to cloud. (Continues on page 2) Hudson Institute...considered "glitzy" science any longer, and it receives little respect (and hence, funding) in today's academic |
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| this Ii~ Usually, the mine name,mountainrange, county and state will be given on specimenlabel, PRICES:It...ej":z:ll" listing of Ariaona specimens. Speckles little 1965: An ine:z:pensive book (81pgs) book loaded...■onite ■ atrix. grten rL 1.25 ArWILLITE:Crest ■ ore Quarry,CA; Glassyto white fiberousxis on ■ atrix. 2.35...1 CANjRare. Largeblack ada■antine xi sections, little 1atrix. ALLOPHANE:N~id of ~unsh1ne Nine,AZl•Blueglassy... ONT.CA~fAttractive ligh~ ~iolet xln speci1ens,little 1atrix. Naica,NEX·Largelite blue xl/xln speci1ensw/ |
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| Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...traveling on the backs o f donkeys to isolated mountain communities. He later served in the Puebla legislature...Union mine lies in northwestern Arizona in Mohave County about 10 miles north of Kingman and 95 miles southeast...which drains north into the Red Lake Playa. The area lies on the eastern edge o f the Mojave Desert and...the 1860’s through the 1880’s, even serving as county seat from 1871 to 1873. However, by the early 1900’s |
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| Foord Fluorite from the Pine Canyon deposit, Grant County, New Mexico .....................................Hanson Ilmenite expitaxial on bixbyite from Sierra County, New Mexico .....................................COVER: FLUORITE from the Pine Canyon deposit, Grant County, New Mexico. (See the article on page 47.) The...Cloud mine), and another on the Point-of-Rocks quarry (15, 149156), an occurrence remarkably similar...relatively underpopulated, containing little more than a million people in an area roughly as large as New England |
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| this 1:, Usually, the minenar:1e,mountainrange, county and state will be given on specimenlabel. PRICES:It...■atrix, grten FL 4.50 2.50 1.25 AFWILLITE:Crest1ort Quarry,CA; Glassyto whitt fiberousxls on 1atrix. 2,35...5.75 3.20 1.50 ALLANITE-Y:Ontario xl sections, little 1atrix. 1 cANj Rare, Largeblackada1antint 2.10...ONT. CAN; Attractivelight violet xln speci1tns,little 1atrix. 2.40 Naica,NEX·Largeliie blue xl/xln speci1ensw/...scorzalite1 rutilt. RARE! 2.50 BERTRANDITE:Bier1ann Quarry,CT;Nicrosinglt • twinntdxis filling btryl casts |
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| Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...to the mine was cut off in 1984. In 1996 the mine area was absorbed into the Saguaro National Monument...is located near the city of Bristol, in Hartford County, north-central Connecticut. After some tentative...c a r i Quarry kHARTFORD Bristol Mine o * ^ i ^ •t K -x \ Portland Strickland Quarry • W ATERBURY...x 5? Gillette H addam V O n a rrv Branchville Quarry * BRIDGEVILLE Figure 1. Location map. Figure |
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| Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...W. Pinch & J. D. Grice The M eikle m ine, Elko County, N e v a d a ....................................by M. Jensen The Ross H annibal m ine, Lawrence County, South D a k o ta ...............................formed purely as a result of the exposure of existing rock or minerals to the atmosphere or to the effects...optical properties, etc., cannot be determined on an area of that size, and that the description is therefore |
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| Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Joseph A. Mandarino...Rossman Orpiment from the Twin Creeks mine, Humboldt County, N e v a d a ....................................by B. K. Lees The Purple Passion mine, Yavapai County, A rizona.................. 323 by E. Davis & B...Stanislaus County, C alifornia 333 by G. E. Dunning Brookite from Hale Creek, Trinity County, California...Brookite and anatase from near Georgetown, El Dorado County, C alifornia.................................. |
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| Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A. County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...Volume Thirty-nine, Number Two Articles The first rock trimmers for mineral collectors . . . . . . . ....minerals during a school field trip to the Los Angeles County Museum. He served in the Army from 1954 to 1957...specimen from the Cryo-Genie mine in San Diego County, California. Al’s main interest was always pegmatites...claim on the Blue Chihuahua pegmatite in Riverside County and Al got some very nice hydroxyl-herderites from |
