 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GEMS AND GEM MINERALS OF NORTH CAROLINA* Josnrn HvoB Pnerr North Carolina is one of the more notable...material. The variety of gem minerals found in North Carolina is probably greater than in any other state...June 25,1932. 148 JOURNAL MINERALOGICAL SOCIETY Quartz Rock Crystal Amethyst Citrine Smoky RoseQuartz...Sphene Rutile Octahedrite Cassiterite Hematite (in quartz) Pyrite Bronzite Hypersthene Pyroxene Diopside...Drauor.rt Twelve diamonds have been found in North Carolina, and there are also extensive deposits of itacolumite |  | | Report (issue) | | NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT HARGROVE BOWLES, JR., DIRECTOR DIVISION...GEOLOGIST Circular 17 BERYL OCCURRENCES IN NORTH CAROLINA BY WILLIAM F WILSON Ooc RALEIGH 1962 CONTENTS...USESo 8 o . . . BERYLLIUM MINERALS IN NORTH CAROLINA 9 Varieties * o ••••••••.• Mode of Occurrencec...RESOURCES IN NORTH CAROLINA . H OCCURRENCES OF BERYL IN NORTH CAROLINA. 13 Alexander County ...•••••...••.• Ashe County,* ... 0 o * * • o o Burke County* • * • . • . • • • * • • Catawba County* • « . » * |  | | Report (volume) | | the ruby, sapphire, spinel, emerald, rutile, and quartz of gem quality have been synthesized. The best...Fluorite Apatite . 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond The numbers preceding each...of silica (quartz, 7 on Moh's scale) particles, a gem stone should be harder than quartz. Some minerals...react to heat are: violet quartz (amethyst) changing to orange brown, smoky quartz to yellow, pale-green...sapphire, star sapphire, star ruby, rutile, and quartz are gem stones that have been successfully synthesized |  | | Report (volume) | | and Sperry Creek Wilderness Study Areas, Malheur County, Oregon By JAMES G. EVANS, JAMES G. FRISKEN, ANDREW...and Sperry Creek Wilderness study areas, Malheur County, Oregon I by james G. Evans ... [et al.]. p. em...(OR--003--035) Wilderness Study Areas, Malheur County, Oregon. CONTENTS Summary El Abstract El Character...and Sperry Creek Wilderness Study Areas, Malheur County, Oregon E2 Map showing mineral resource potential...and Sperry Creek Wilderness Study Areas, Malheur County, Oregon ES Total-field aeromagnetic anomaly map |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Engineering, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA; pacebetsy@gmail.com * Correspondence: wcalvin@unr...campaign that covered large regions of California, USA, over multiple seasons. This work focused on a Southern...regions (“boxes”) within the state of California, USA, each time: Southern California, Santa Barbara, San...Mountains, and the Chocolate Mountains, which are just north of the US–Mexico border. Table 1. Band centers in...1. Imperial Imperial Valley, Valley, California, USA, study area. A true color image derived derived from |  | | Report (issue) | | .'.' .., Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie RUTILE GUMMITE...THULITE AND PYRITE MONAZITE EMERALD CUPRITE SMOKY QUARTZ ZIRCON TORBERNITE ~/ UBRAR'l USE ONLV ,~O...Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North CarOlina Department of Natural Resources and Community...for the general welfare of the citizens of North Carolina. The Section conducts a number of basic and | | | Report (issue) | | Information Circular 24 Mineral Collecting Sites in North Carolina By W. F. Wilson and B. J. McKenzie Raleigh...copies of this publication may be obtained from: North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community...Geological Survey Section, P. O. Box 27687, Raleigh, North Carolina 27611. Eldon P. Allen, Chief Geologist i ...FRONT COVER PHOTO Twinned emerald crystal from North Carolina, photo from Smithsonian Institution (slide...viable mineral collecting sites through out North Carolina. Some sites are commercially operated during |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | good specimen of a Connecticut mineral. SOUTH CAROLINA Member Lou Dezseran told the Colum bia Gem and...Professor of Paleontology at the University of South Carolina, spoke and showed slides of Diatoms. They must...Society went to Liberty Hill, N.C. to look for smoky quartz of faceting grade. PENNSYLVANIA The Mineral and...pyrites to the Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills. Members Weldon and Edith Storey...Boston Mineral Club went to the Government Pits, North Conway, N.H. (Collecting permits from the White |  | | Journal (issue) | | 11 and 12 (3 issues each) will appear in 1988. North America: Institutional subscription rate is $175...Subscriptions are entered with prepayment only. In North America a special rate is available for individual...Center, Inc., 27 Congress Street, Salem, MA 01970, USA, stating the ISSN 0099-0094, the volume, and the...York Inc. 175 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010, USA Telephone (212) 460-1500 Telex 23 22 35 Responsible...going to press, neither the Secaucus, NJ 07094, USA Telephone (201) 348-4033, While the advice and |  | | Journal (issue) | | As the vertical rays of the sun once again march north across the equator of our fine planet, take a moment... Meteorite Times Magazine The Whitmire (South Carolina) Bolide of February 13th 2012 The search for meteorites...continues. by Robert Verish The Whitmire (South Carolina) Bolide of February 13th 2012 The search for meteorites...picture “slideshow” of my week long stay in South Carolina last month. This is more of an effort to draw...that occurred over the town of Whitmire, South Carolina in the early morning hours of 2012 February 13th |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Schaller . . . . . Cenozoic Mammal Horizons of Western North America. By Henry Fairfield Osborn, with Faunal.... Chamberlin, Rollin Thomas. Notes on Explosive Mine Gases and Dusts with Special Reference to Explosions... Cretaceous and Tertiary Formations of Western North Dakota and . . . Eastern Montana, The. By A. G....Edward Steidtmann . . . . . . . . . . . Explosive Mine Gases and Dusts with Special Reference to Explosions... Lloyd . . . . . . Focus of Postglacial Uplift North of the Great Lakes, The. By J. W. . . . . . Spencer |  | | Report (issue) | | OF THE LITTLE BLACK CANYON QUADRANGLE, MALHEUR COUNTY, OREGON By James G. Evans1 and G. Benjamin Binger2...Black Canyon 7.5* quadrangle is located in Malheur County, Oregon, about 50 km west of the town of Vale.... Principal access is by U.S. Highway 20, north 1.6 km from Highway 20 to the town of Harper, and west...Triangles are peaks and buttes. quadrangle; to the north of the quadrangle it is presumably buried beneath...overlain by the Hunter Creek Basalt (see below), Littlefield Rhyolite (see below) and a pale brown partly |  | | Report (issue) | | QUARTZ AND FELDSPAR. FELDSPAR AND QUARTZ DEPOSITS OF MAINE, By EDSON S. BASTIN. INTRODUCTION. The commercially...commercially important feldspar and quartz deposits, of Maine all belong to a single type of rocks known...granite, their principal constituents being feldspar, quartz, and mica, usually with subordinate amounts of...exposures occur in many open pits, from which feldspar, quartz, mica, or gem minerals have been mined, and in...its gem minerals at Mount Mica, in Paris, Oxford County, is another example of the flatlying, sill-like |  | | Report (issue) | | Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 577 Work done...done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development and in part...Administration Mica Deposits of the Blue Ridge in North Carolina By FRANK G. LESURE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL... Work done in part in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development... Geologic map of part of the Blue Ridge of North Carolina and Tennessee. 2-6. Maps showing location of |  | | Report (volume) | | North Carolina State Library Gift of "JYortk (^arolinti ^Ihranj 0 Digitized by the Internet Archive...in 2019 with funding from State Library of North Carolina https://archive.org/details/corundumperidoti01prat...OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT and JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS North Carolina State Library...Library Raleigh NORTH CAROLINA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY J. A. HOLMES, STATE GEOLOGIST VOLUME I CORUNDUM AND...WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA BY JOSEPH HYDE PRATT AND JOSEPH VOLNEY LEWIS RALEIGH NORTH CAROLINA 1905 |  | | Book (edition) | | out to the field. An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Blvd., Ste...Adventure Your Story is a trademark of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. Distributed by NATIONAL...BOOK NETWORK Copyright © 2020 by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. A previous edition of...ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. The author and The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. assume no liability for...trying to figure out if you have a calcite vein or a quartz vein. You don’t need a PhD in structural geology |  | | Book (edition) | | ........................... _... _..... _. North Carolina..............................................Ledbetter amethyst mine .......................................... . North Geor~ia Co. mine .................................................... . Littlefield beryl mine ................................................... _............ ___. __. _. Beck beryl mine .................................................... . Siskiyou County ................................................. . Butte County .............. |  | | Report (volume) | | conglomerate, flint, gravel,. quartz-mica schist, novaculite, massive quartz, quartzite, sand, "sand-clay...Hartselle sandstone, which crops out in Jefferson County in the northeastern suburbs of Birmingham, has...brown iron ore mines, near Woodstock station, Bibb County, is a bed of sand that is also used in steel foundries...Montgomery Counties [Ark.]: Ark .. Geol. Survey County Mineral Rept. 3, p. 66-74, 87-90. Novaculite is...as the Arkansas stone. It has fewer joints and quartz veins than the Arkansas stone but contains more |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | & Minerals of North Groton, New Hampshire The historical background of the famous North Groton mines is...H A M P S H I R E , is a small village 40 miles north of Concord and just west of Plymouth. I n the late...years from local residents and collectors. History North Groton is unknown to many people outside the mineral...mines in North Groton, New Hampshire. WENTWORTH X McGinnis Mine X Wheat Mine X Belden Mine Atwood...Atwood Mine, F. Davis .XMine DORCHESTER X RUMNEY (118 Penna Coal x Mine Diamond Minex V U n i Holden |  | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY Geologic map of the Littlefield quadrangle, northern Mohave County, Arizona George H. Billingsley...with U.S. Geological Survey Standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, product... INTRODUCTION The Littlefield 7.5' quadrangle lies in the extreme northwestern corner of Mohave County, Arizona...remote areas of the quadrangle. The community of Littlefield, Arizona is just southeast of Interstate 15 along...and flood alterations. GEOLOGIC SETTING The Littlefield quadrangle lies along the eastern edge of the |  | | Report (issue) | | of the Star Creek Reservoir quadrangle, Malheur County, Oregon by James G. Evans1 , James J. Rytuba2,...Geological Survey editorial standards or with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade, firm...about 75 km southwest of the town of Vale, Malheur County, Oregon (figure 1). The quadrangle can be reached...a graded county road that goes south from the Harper turn-off on U.S. 20, or from a county road (Shumway...Numerous jeep trails provide easy access from the county roads to most parts of the quadrangle. Most of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (1990) © Meteoritical Society, 1990. Printed in USA Lechatelierite inclusions in indochinites and the...lechatelierite inclusions is not the conventional detrital quartz. One possible precursor is silica of plant origin...Coast, (3) Czechoslovakian (moldavites), and (4) North American (bediasites, georgianites). The lechatelierite...are usually interpreted as shock-melted detrital quartz. No mineral inclusions or other solid phases, however...although inclusions are common in detrital quartz (Keller and Littlefield, 1950; Kinnunen, 1975). In addition |  | | Report (volume) | | Uranium Occurrences in the Miller Hill Area Carbon County Wyoming By JAMES D. VINE and GEORGE E. PRICHARD...-----------------------------------------------------North Park (?) formation -----------------------------...conglomerate of the North Park(?) formation __ Facing 16. Typical outcrop and closeup view of the North Park(?) formation..._ Facing 17. Photomicrographs of rock from the North Park(?) formation _____________________________...URANIUM OCCURREN·CES IN THE MILLER HILL AREA, CARBON COUNTY, WYOMING By JAMES D. VINE and GEORGE E. |  | | Report (issue) | | Geological Survey editorial standards nor with the North American Stratigraphic Code. Any use of trade names...generally north-striking normal faults. Although the Hurricane fault also strikes generally north-south,...along strike with the largest displacements in the north and the smallest in the south. The Hurricane fault’s...Mountains (Cook, 1953; McDuffie and Marsh, 1991), north of St. George, Utah, and late Cenozoic cinder cones...epicenters becomes broader and more poorly defined from north to south. Surface rupture has not occurred along |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | collected on some mine dumps around Marble Peak in the Santa Catalina Mountains, in Pima County, Arizona. A...taken from the Cherokee district placers in Butte County, California. Mineral Information Service, July...1950, Mrs. G. C. Littlefield of Stonewall in old Campbell County (now Fulton County), sent in an interesting...fluorite have come from the J. L. Davis fluorite mine, Cave-inRock, Hardin Co., 111. I N D I A N A : Last...localities for selenite. Locality No. 1 is about 4 miles north and a little west of Granger, Dallas Co., Iowa, |
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