 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | diverse array of deposit types that include skarns, limestone replacements, Mississippi Valleytype, volcanogenic...the commercial zinc mines of the BalmatEdwards district in Saint Lawrence County (Smith and Figure 1....2 cm from the Bull Run and Virginia Trap Rock quarries, Loudoun County; the Manassas quarry in Prince...time from zinc mines in the Mascot-Jefferson City district of Knox and Jefferson Counties, Tennessee. Sphalerite...relatively abundant in the Illinois-Kentucky fluorite district including parts of Hardin and Pope Counties in |  | | Book (volume) | | CHEROKKE-PICKENS COUNTIES NELSON (Pickens Co.), a 300 sq. mi. region surrounding this town contains many pegmatite dike...Stone Mt.), areaQuartz crystals. LITHONIA: area quarriesCalcite, Epidote, Fluorite, Garnet, Thulite, Tourmaline...Feldspar, Quartz. STONE MOUNTAIN: two area granite quarriesBeryl, Feldspar, Hyalite opal; area granite...Elberton and Hartwell in Hart Co. The known mica district includes some 250 sq. mi., with most mining revolving...jct., many area minesBauxite, chert, jasper, Marcasite. ROME: W on Rte. 20 to the Rice Springs Farms |  | | Book | | new construction covers up old sites, or because quarries or mines have changed hands. Large construction...regulation and insurance costs make it difficult for quarries to allow visitors. And, of course, many once productive... and along the many rivers and streams of this region where agates, fossils, and minerals can be found...glaciated, and all have great rivers and valleys. Limestone built up from ancient seas is the common surface...are a must. Safety shoes are required in some quarries and are sensible formine dumps too. Safety goggles |  | | Book (volume) | | Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well aquatinted with the famed...sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...these coal seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet...BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS CITY: on the Dallas...top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined with Marcasite & Pyrite with rhombs of Calcite, Sphalerite); |  | | Book (volume) | | Mississippi rivers, and in the southern Fluorspar region. Fossil hunters are well aquatinted with the famed...sandstone, shale, bituminous slates, thin bands of limestone, and seams of coal usually underlain with clay...these coal seams the collector may often find Marcasite and Pyrite. The measures are 1,200 to 1,400 feet...BROOKLYN (SE of Gardner), area coal mine dumps⎯Marcasite, Pyrite. HANCOCK COUNTY DALLAS CITY: on the Dallas...top of the quarry (see map) ⎯geodes (lined with Marcasite & Pyrite with rhombs of Calcite, Sphalerite); |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineral collecting heritage. Its numerous limestone quarries, gravel pits, strip mines. and rock outcrops...(crystals), dolomite, galena, goethite, hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz (drusy), smithsonite (Garvin,...yellow to purple color-zoned, cubic), gypsum, marcasite, pyrite, siderite, sphalerite (Prior 1994). Waukon...(coatings), galena, goethite (after marcasite and pyrite), hemimorphite, marcasite, pyrite, quartz (drusy), sauconite...chalcedony as “coldwater agate”). Shellsburg area, most quarries, road cuts, and natural outcrops; Devonian-age |  | | Book (volume) | | ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite, and second in the production of...(Licking Co.) and Zanesville (Muskingum Co.), a region of rolling, wooded hills. Here, prehistoric Indians...Other collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center...Dolomite crystals, Fluorite (fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT |  | | Book (volume) | | ranks first in the nation in the production of limestone and dolomite, and second in the production of...(Licking Co.) and Zanesville (Muskingum Co.), a region of rolling, wooded hills. Here, prehistoric Indians...Other collectable minerals are rare, although quarries in the western counties, especially the Clay Center...Dolomite crystals, Fluorite (fluorescent), , Galena, Marcasite, Pyrite, Selenite and Sphalerite. A few alluvial...found. ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT |  | Huizing, Terry E., Richards, R. Peter, Clifford, Janet H., Cook, Robert B. (2017) Connoisseur's Choice: Calcite from the American Midwest, Gordonsville Mine, Carthage, Smith County, Tennessee. Rocks & Minerals, 92 (1) 46-63 doi:10.1080/00357529.2017.1241690 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | complexity of form. It is the major constituent of limestone, most cave formations, and many fossil shells...and iron deposits of the upper Midwest. No other region on the continent can boast the same diversity of...Society. 46 ROCKS & MINERALS Tennessee Lead-Zinc district as our Connoisseur’s Choice; this locality is...Gordonsville mine, Central Tennessee Lead-Zinc district near Carthage in Smith County. Calcite from this...specific twins varies from site to site and from region to region. It is not unusual to find multiple types |  | | Report (issue) | | All-Metals mine Gibson Road (western) occurrence Gill quarries Highway 507 road-cut Fraser quarry Nu-World uranium...quarry Cruikshank quarry Wiarton-Oliphant Road quarries Albemarle zinc occurrence Hope Bay quarry Collingwood...Ojibway Mine St. Marys quarries Ingersoll quarries Drumbo Mine Guelph-Hespeler quarries Georgetown-Forks of...quarry Credit Forks celestite occurrence Milton quarries Waterdown area Mount Nemo quarry Nelson quarry...179 Port Colborne quarries Cayuga-Caledonia area Cayuga quarry Haldimand quarries Hagersville mine Caledonia |  | | Book (volume) | | are all undisturbed sedimentaries: sandstone, limestone, shale and clay, with the oldest formation lying...this part of the state. In this rough, uncurried region are found the famed Fairburn agates, brilliantly...for gemstone materials. An extensive collecting region of agatized and opalized wood for high gem quality...Eastern Nebraska has few gemstone localities, but quarries, gravel pits and other excavations throughout...geodes, chert nodules, fossils, Calcite crystals, Marcasite and Pyrite cubes. The area around the confluence |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology, and Mineralogy of the BAYPORT LIMESTONE QUARRIES 8313 Hartel Road Grand Ledge, Michigan 48837...Bellevue Eaton County Michigan Figure 2. Location of quarries in the Bellevue area. 1, 2, and 3 = Michigan Alkali...Cement Company and Alpha Portland Cement Company quarries, with location of the Keehne Environmental Area...the celestine and sulfur crystals from the limestone quarries in Monroe County, which are among the finest...are limited. Despite these limitations, the limestone quarries located near the village of Bellevue, in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | variety of minerals, such as barite, fluorite, marcasite, dolomite, calcite and pyrite. However, one of...outstanding minerals found in the limestone quarries of this region is celestite. This strontium sulfate...state ever since. Although there are numerous limestone quarries in this area which may furnish just as fine...specimens as those in "Crystal Cave", many of these quarries are forbidding rockhounds to collect there due...problems. The insurance agencies that cover these limestone companies will cancel a policy if people other |  | Pfaff, Katharina, Hildebrandt, Ludwig H., Leach, David L., Jacob, Dorrit E., Markl, Gregor (2010) Formation of the Wiesloch Mississippi Valley-type Zn-Pb-Ag deposit in the extensional setting of the Upper Rhinegraben, SW Germany. Mineralium Deposita, 45 (7) 647-666 doi:10.1007/s00126-010-0296-5 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the pore and fracture fluid residing in the limestone aquifer, which had a pH between 8 and 9 in equilibrium...due to the presence of organic matter in the limestone. Mixing between these two fluids resulted in a...Wiesloch MVT deposit occurs in Middle Triassic limestone (Muschelkalk: Figs. 1a, b, and 2), in a carbonate...246 to 229 Ma ago (Hagdorn and Simon 2005). The limestone is dominated by tempestites and highenergy sedimentation...“Trochitenkalk” of the upper Middle Triassic limestone (Upper Muschelkalk (mo)), which consists of 650 |  | | Book (volume) | | rises abruptly into the 6,000 sq. mi. Black Hills region enclosed by the Belle Fourche and Cheyenne rivers...has come only from the core of the Black Hills region. Two divisions are recognized: the Northern Section...Fluorapatite (fluorescent orange). BUFFALO GAP, entire region W 37 mi. to the WY line, in stream gravels, cut...Fall River Co., all regional side rds., look for limestone outcrops and ridgesFairhill agates; in Bull...Ilsemannite (as deep blue coatings), Jordisite, Marcasite & Pyrite, Meta-Hewettite, Montroseite, Paramontroseite |  | | Journal (issue) | | from the famed Upper Mississippi Valley Zinc-Lead District in and around the town of Galena in the north...are the minerals that have been exposed in limestone quarries in west-central Illinois, including display-quality...report were collected from five operating limestone quarries near the towns of Biggsville and Smithshire...west-central Illinois (Fig. 2). HISTORY The history of limestone use in west-central Illinois extends back to the...settlement, beginning in the 1830’s. At that time, limestone was quarried as “dimension stone” for use in constructing |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | calcite ; the other a dark (almost black) compact limestone. Burtwo west One and gray CALIFORNIA — Col....produced enought material for description." The limestone quarries at Crestmore, Riverside Co., Calif., considered...'laminated quartz'.It is the white milky quartz of the district and a black sphalerite in alternate bands each...star in the white quartz. Though it resembles marcasite in structure it was demonstrated by Ransom to...large jointing cracks in massive to thin-bedded limestone of the Kinderhookian Series of ROCKS AND MINERALS |  | | Journal (issue) | | Titanite and epidote deposits of the Capelinha Region, Minas Gerais, Brazil ...........................TITANITE AND EPIDOTE DEPOSITS OF THE CAPELINHA REGION, MINAS GERAIS, BRAZIL Andrea Bartorelli1 Carlos...W. Romano3 Since the mid-1960s, the Capelinha region in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, has become...Record, authors Bartorelli and Cornejo visited the region in early July 2017. Their trip from Governador...and to some of the other lavras (mines) in the region. Their friend Lafaiete José Maria de Freitas, a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | "Gem and Lithium-bearing pegmatites of the Pala district, San Diego County, California" has just been released...dolomite while the lighter portions are almost pure limestone. This condition has inspired some university students...most anywhere in the quarry. The limestone quarries in this region frequently blast into old solution...of these contain fine crystals of sphalerite, marcasite groups, some with excellent examples of the spearhead...in the following note: "In the well known fossil region of Indiana at McCormick Creek State Park, near |  | | Conference Proceedings (Volume) | | Neoproterozoic rocks in the Lufilian belt, Domes region, Zambia .........................................through polycyclic orogeny: the example of the Litsa district, Russia Anne-Sylvie André-Mayer, Michel Cuney...mantle-crustal ore-forming systems of the Pechenga ore district (Fennoscandian shield) ........................mineralization of Manono-Kitotolo (Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo): current state of knowledge . . .....production in the Great Moravian archaeological site Břeclav-Pohansko, Czech republic .................. |  | | Book | | the Peak District 2 Mining and Quarrying 4 Ornamental Stone 8 Minerals of the Peak District 10 Selected...industrial centres of Manchester and Sheffield. It is a region of great natural beauty, and presents a continually...delights, the high gritstone crags, the cavernous limestone cliffs, even its famous lattice-work of dry-stone...rather, millenia. For it is difficult in the Peak District to find a viewpoint that does not include a relic...And the search goes on. Although the majority of quarries and mines are now disused, many are still working |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Missouri, mining district. Rocks & Minerals 21:750-53. This lead mining district is located in Madison...of St. Louis. Major species reported: galena, marcasite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, siegenite, sphalerite,...the Tri-State district. Rocks & Minerals 14:3549. A comprehensive article on the district covering its...one of the oldest mining towns of the Tri-State district. A brief description of the geology of the area...mineral collecting in this long-inactive mining region. Schraut, J. A,, Jr. 1950. The occurrence and association |  | Robinson, George W., Dix, George R., Richards, R. Peter, Picard, Michel (2011) Minerals of the Beekmantown Group, Southeastern Ontario, Southern Quebec, and Northwestern New York. Rocks & Minerals, 86 (6) 546-562 doi:10.1080/00357529.2011.622227 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in a handful of widely scattered limestone quarries in the same region have received only modest attention...localities and the specimens they have produced. The quarries referred to above are worked principally for crushed...early quartz deposition (plus or minus pyrite/marcasite Dr. George W. Robinson, a consulting editor of... and minor sulfides (mostly chalcopyrite and marcasite). In some localities, this latter stage of calcite...and possibly as high as 350°C elsewhere in the region (Counter Benison and Lowenstein 1997). Fluid inclusions |  | | Report (issue) | | 8.4, Highway 38 Road-cuts, km 9.3, Highway 38 Limestone quarry, west of Highway 38 Freebern mica mine...Shore occurrences Paul Viau quarry Melochville quarries Rivermont quarry Goyer quarry Dulude quarry Mont...quarry St- Vincent-de-Paul quarry Cap-St-Martin quarries Terrebonne quarry St-Lin fossil locality Road-cut...Shawinigan-Sud quarry Shawinigan and St-Maurice quarries Grand'Mere quarry Black Creek bog Ste- Thecle...occurrence Red Mill ochre deposit St-Marc-des-Carrieres quarries Tetreault mine Montauban mine Portneuf molybdenite |  | | Journal (issue) | | . 3-1 THE MINES AND MINERALS OF THE TRI-STATE DISTRICT, By Ernest f. Pahner ..........................91 THE M INES AND MINERALS OF TH E TRI-STATE DISTRICT By ERNEST The Tri-state Lead and Zinc Mining...mineralogist is thl.! face mac scarcely any other region In the United States furnishes such a large variety...world have come from this district. Unlike most mining camps, this district is not located in a remote...industry and inducement to population. The general region in which the mines are found is mainly a rolling |
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