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Obsidian from
Merritt, Kamloops Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada


Classification
Type:Obsidian
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Obsidian data
Locality Data:Click here to view Merritt, Kamloops Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:896698
Long-form Identifier:1:3:896698:8
GUID (UUID V4):80f3ae56-6cfb-48d2-95d5-0f5d9fd1f4bb
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Book (volume)
Field Guide to GOLD, GEMSTONE & MINERAL SITES ot British Columbja “ee 7 Oat | I; Se Rees ce « to...Field Guide to GOLD, GEMSTONE & MINERAL SITES of British Columbjz Volume 2 Sites Within A Day’s Drive of...1947— Gold, gemstone and mineral sites of British Columbia Includes bibliographical references and index...resources — British Columbia — Handbooks, manuals, etc. 2. Prospecting — British Columbia. I. Title. II... Title, Gold, gemstone & mineral sites of British Columbia. TN27B9H82 1997 553.4’09711 ©C96-910287-9
Report (Issue volume)
Printer, Ottawa, from the Geological Survey of Canada, 601 Booth St., Ottawa, and at the following Canadian...available for reference in public libraries across Canada. Price $1.30 Catalogue No. M41-8/8-1 Price subject...Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery Ottawa, Canada 1964 Page 1 e INTRODUCTION 2 3 4 4 5 6 6 7 11...general equipment Care of specimens Collecting in Canada Mineral and rock sets Abbreviations used in references...references YUKON NORTHWEST TERRITORIES BRITISH COLUMBIA ALBERTA SASKATCHEWAN MANITOBA APPENDICES Additional
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Loewinson-Lessing Glaciology. Antarctic Expedition, British (Terra Nova), 1910-1913. Review by T. C. C. By...Harlen. The Channeled Scablands of the Columbia Plateau British Malaya, The Structural Geology of. By...By J. B. Scrivenor Glaciology. British (Terra Nova) Antarctic Expedition, 1910-1913. Review by T. C. C...Review by T. B. R. Collingwood Subdivision, Karamea Division, The Geology and Mineral Resources of the. By...Phenomena in the Crystallization of Igneous Rock Columbia Plateau, The Channeled Scablands of the. By J
Report (volume)
Geologists: Bulletin, vols. 5, 6. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Transactions, vols. 65-67. New York...Mineralogist, vols. 6, 7. Menasha, Wis. American Mining Congress: Reports of 23d and 24th Annual Conventions...Botanical Gazette, vols, 71-74. Chicago, 111. British Columbia, Bureau of Mines: Annual Report of the Minister...vol. 11. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 89, 90. San Francisco, Calif...Bull. no. 20; vol. 2, nos. 1, 2. Berkeley, Calif. Canada, Department of Mines, Mines Branch: Summary Report
Book (volume)
Guide to Gold, Gemstone and Mineral Sites of British Columbia Volume I: Vancouver Island LIDAARY Digitized...Guide to Gold, Gemstone and Mineral Sites of British Columbia Volume I: Vancouver Island Rick Hudson OrCA...1947— Gold, gemstone and mineral sites of British Columbia Includes index. Contents: Vol. I, Vancouver...and mineral resources — British Columbia. 2. Prospecting — British Columbia. I. Title TN27.B7H82 1996...Printed and bound in Canada Orca Book Publishers PO Box 5626, Station B Victoria, BC Canada V8R 6S4 GE) 3
Report (volume)
vols. 9, 10. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Transactions, vols...Botanical Gazette, vols. 79-82. Chicago, 111. British Columbia, Bureau of Mines: Annual Report of the Minister...Minister of Mines for 1924, 1925. Victoria, British Columbia. Bulletins of American Paleontology, vol....11, 12. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletin, nos. 79, 94-97. San Francisco...Stations: Bulletin, vol. 2, nos. 5-9. Berkeley, Calif. Canada, Geological Survey: Summary report for 1924, 1925;
Report (volume)
INTERIOR, UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, POTOMAC DIVISION OF GEOLOGY, Washington, D. C., June 1, 1890. SIR...States and Territories. Asia. Bermudas. Canada, compiising all British possessions in North America. Central... 1-4. Minneapolis, Minn. American Institute of Mining Engineers, Transactions, vol. 15, p. 536 to end...vol. '23, p. 257, to vol. 24, p. 288. Boston. British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report...2d series, vol. 1, parts 1, 2. California State Mining Bureau. Seventh and Eighth Annual Reports of the
Journal (issue)
Letsom's British Mineralogy includes the Cube-Trapezohedron combination in its list of British Fluorite...attention to this interesting specimen, and Dorothy Merritt for information relating to the Wet Grooves Mine...good general selection of mainly self-collected British material. Nigel will shortly be moving to Cornwall...for Xmas. Pride of place this year went to the British Micromount Society display, featuring the theme...Mexico at £120, and miscellaneous interesting British specimens. The Lawsons (Moorland Minerals) have
Journal (issue)
Arsenic Family Minerals The Storied Collection of Merritt Romans ROCK & GEM • Vol 47 No. 11 • U.S. $5.99...years for $74.95. Add $24.00 per year postage for Canada and all other foreign countries. EDITORIAL CONTACT...from the Milpillas mine, in Sonora, Mexico. Actual mining of this deep deposit started in the 21st century...discovery of huge malachite masses during copper mining in Russia’s Ural Mountains, nearly 200 years ago...crystals that we could not afford, glassy, black obsidian, and tumbled specimens of Montana agate. These
Journal (issue)
Keokuk geodes? By Jordan D. Marché II OBSESSED WITH OBSIDIAN 36 Knappers love this mineraloid with an edge...years for $74.95. Add $24.00 per year postage for Canada and all other foreign countries. EDITORIAL CONTACT...both the Mineralogical Society of America and the British Association for the Advancement of Science recognized...Hutchinson Hey (1904-84), a mineralogist at the British Museum of Natural History, published An Index of...use in various parts of the world. In 1956, the British Mineralogical Society proposed forming an organization
Report (issue)
G. Crock, S. Donahey, M. Malcolm, G. Mason, V. Merritt, K. Stewart, J. Storey, J. Taggart, and R. B. Vaughn...G. Crock, S. Donahey, M. Malcolm, G. Mason, V. Merritt, K. Stewart, J. Storey, J. Taggert, and R. B. Vaughn...Standards' geological reference materials SRM 278 obsidian and SRM 688 basalt by inductively coupled argon...Garrison, P. B., eds., Northwest Montana and Adjacent Canada: Montana Geological Society 1984 Field Conference...Garrison, P. B., eds., Northwest Montana and Adjacent Canada: Montana Geological Society 1984 Field Conference
Book (volume)
sapphires of Montana, and the jades of Alaska, British Columbia, and Wyoming, are worldrenowned. Handsome...Published in 1959 by Van Nostrand Reinhold Company A Division of Litton Educational Publishing, Inc. 450 West...Birchmount Road Scarborough, Ontario M1P 2E7, Canada Van Nostrand Reinhold Australia Pty. Ltd. 17 Queen...and Technical Surveys of the Geological Survey of Canada, while specific Canadian locality information was...Virginia, and in the case of gemstone deposits in British Columbia, by Ivy Willis of Chilliwack. Many state geological
Report (volume)
vols. 3-12. Tulsa, Okla. American Institute of Mining Engineers: Bulletin, nos. 145-156; Technical Publication...1-157; Transactions, vols. 60-76. New York. See also Mining and Metallurgy. American Journal of Science, 4th...Botanical Gazette, vols. 67-86. Chicago, 111. British Columbia, Bureau of Mines: Annual Reports of Minister...vols. 9-17. San Francisco, Calif. California State Mining Bureau: Bulletins 79, 85-101. San Francisco, Calif...Geography, vols. 2, 3 (no. 1). Berkeley, Calif. Canada, Geological Survey: Summary Reports 1917-1927;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
3247, Ventura, Calif. PAUL F. KERR Dept. Geology, Columbia University, New Yor^, N. Y. Tushar Uranium Area...of uranium in recent years. This long history of mining has led to a series of geologic reports on the...volcanic sequence in general terms. In 1951 the Division of Raw Materials of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission...Commission sponsored a joint study with Columbia University on the uranium mineralization near Marysvale...graduate fellowship of the Union Carbide Ore Company, division of Union Carbide Corporation; and research grants
Report (volume)
.............................. 20 * 20 20 21 Canada.........................'...................................................................... Canada................................................................................................ Canada........................................................................................... British Columbia.............................................36 36 37 37 37 12 CLASSIFIED KEY TO INDEX. Canada Continued. Page. Ontario......................
Journal (issue)
we may have another bite at the cherry. Dorothy Merritt. A little further on where the slurry pits were...current owner who used to work for the Strontian Mining SMLS EXHIBITION AT THE GRANGE, ROTTINGDEAN This... We have an overall title : Minerals from the British Isles , but this seems to be translated as English...trouble! We thought we were putting on a display of British Minerals, but the poster implies it is English...Vulcano where they had the opportunity to collect obsidian (volcanic glass) see the volcanic landscapes and
Journal (issue)
Marble Microcline Molybdenite Muscovite Nlccolit e Obsidian Olivine Opal Orplment Palygorskite Pyr ite xi...thrv 77. 2nd Show. Merritt Square Mall. n1 E. Merritt Island Causeway (Hwy. 520), Merritt Island, Fl. 10-9...WASHINGTON Jades. Chrysoprate. Chrysocolla HAMEL MINING & MINERALS Mineral specimens, geodes LOS ANGELES...Pyrrho1ite Rutiloted Quartz Moriposite Flowe ring Obsidian Vonodinite Mlzzonite-Scopollte Bloodstone l imonlte...Greywocke • Kooli nile Gloucophone Slate Block Obsidian Augite Diopside Enstotite Actinollte Borkevikite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
weathered surface distinctive of tektites. In obsidian the flow structure is outlined by crystallites...composition of the glass; consequently etched obsidian is free of fine flow lines and resembles tektites...miles due north of Ottawa) northwest to the Abitibi mining district. It connects tlo formations of doubtful...adjacent to the Concord granite. JOSEITE FROM BRITISH COLUMBIA M. A. PDACOCK Clean fragments (sp. gr. 8.10+0...joseite by Kenngott (1853), tbe materials from British Columbia, Curnberland and Spain are referred to this
Report (issue)
American Society of Civil Engineers, Hydraulics Division, Annual Specialty Conference, Proceedings.......................... Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Special Volume. Toronto. Can....of Earth Sciences (National Research Council of Canada). Ottawa. Can. Mineral..........................Canadian Mineralogist (Mineralogical Association of Canada). Ottawa. Can. Soc. Pet. Geol., Mem . ..........Water (National Water Well Associstion, Technical Division, Journal). Urbana, Illinois. Guelph Symp. Geomorphol
Journal (issue)
BOARD John Pearce Daphne Hall, John Hall & Cyril Merritt SOCIETY SUBSCRIPTIONS Subscriptions are: £8.00...Committee 1993/4 32 33 Devon Delights Cyril Merritt 34 Minerals, Magma and Man Joan Dale 36 Finding...members from Hampshire, Wigan, Durham, Nova Scotia <Canada) and Houston, Texas . Members' interests span...fluorite, depicted and described i~ Greg and Letsom's British Mineralogy and reported from Beeralston, Devonshire...Pearce 1984 - 87 1987 - 90 1990 - 93 Dorothy Merritt Donald Barratt John Long Ken Fitch was Secretary
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MOTIWALA, Third Bhoiwada 38RM, Bombay 2, India. WE ARE MINING EVERY DAY-Gem material shipped, mixed 100 lbs....for the cutter and gem trade. Morton Minerals & Mining, 21423 Highway 66, R.F.D. 1, Barstow, Calif. GEMSTONES—"In...00. Also other minerals. Frank Bibik, Riverside Mining Corp., 9 9 W i l l a r d St., G a r f i e l d ...Georgia asteriated rose quartz—$2.50 lb., both Columbia ¡ade. W e can supply it. H. Reynolds M I A M...N. Y. of Jade in B.C. Write us your wants in British Louisiana banded & fortification agates, selected
Report (volume)
Meetings. Washington, D. C. American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers: Technical Publications...1'Advancement des Sciences Annales vols. 6, 7. Montreal, Canada. Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook...Botanical Review vols. 6, 7. Lancaster, Pa. British Columbia, Department of Mines': Annual Report 1939;...Calif. California Department Natural Resources, Division of Mines: Bulletins 118, 119; California Journal...California Department of Public Works, Water Resources Division Bulletin 49, Sacramento, Calif. California University
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
interactions of aqueous fluid with granitic liquid. Merritt (1924) added a gel hypothesis to the list of possibilities...chemically fractionated composition of the Macusani obsidian (London et al. 1989) to simple hydrous granites...The experimental charge consisted of macusanite obsidian with 3.5 wt% H2O; the experiment was conducted...article. Industry. Mineralogical Association of Canada Short Course Handbook 8, pp 293-327 Jahns RH, Burnham...California (USA). Canadian Mineralogist, in press Merritt CA (1924) The function of colloids in pegmatitic
Journal (issue)
sq. ft. facilitv will house both our mail order division and retail outlet, which without a doubt will...your nearest Inter-Lok dealer VANGUARD ABRASIVE DIVISION FEDERAL-MOGUL CORPORATION LENT A VENUE • LeROY...Made Under U.S. Patents 3.110.579 & 3.201.902, CANADA 705.675 (1965), MEXICO 74399 (1963), BELGIUM 664...Greywocke • Kaolinite Gloucophone Slate Block Obsidian Aug ite Oiopside Enslolile Actinolite Borkevikite...thru 27. 2nd Show. Merritt Square Mall 777 E. Merritt Island Causeway (Hwy. 520), Merritt Island. Fl. 10·9
Journal (issue)
BRITISH MICROMOUNT SOCIETY http://britishmicromountsociety.homestead.com/ NEWSLETTER No. 78 BMS Chairman...Details Membership Subscriptions Reminder 28th British Micromount Svmnosium AGM Minutes, Symposium Leicester...this newsletter. 2 BMS NEWSLETTER 78 1h 28 BRITISH MICROMOUNT SYMPOSIUM - 19th / 20' h SEPTEMBER 2009...times because of the shiny black volcanic glass (obsidian), which is found there in large quantities. In... MINUTES OF THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the BRITISH MICROMOUNT SOCIETY LEICESTER UNIVERSITY on SUNDAY
 
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