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Blue Quartz from
Chambers County, Alabama, USA


Locality type:County
Classification
Species:Quartz var: Blue Quartz
Formula:SiO2
Comments:Asterated blue star quartz is the Alabama state gemstone.
Colour:blue gray
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Blue Quartz data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chambers County, Alabama, USA
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:982694
Long-form Identifier:1:3:982694:6
GUID (UUID V4):2798ab06-cffe-414a-a224-6916a0898a8e
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
found here The Rock and Mineral Club of Lower Bucks County, Fairless Hills, is featuring in its bulletin,...Mineral and Gem Society, Eastchester The St. Lawrence County Rock and Mineral Club, Potsdam, demonstrated the...collecting areas and nearby wetlands. The Wayne County Gem and Mineral Club, Marion, made a field trip...trip to Wards in Rochester The Tomp­ kins County Gem and Mineral Club, Ithaca, is planning the purchase...Dover, spoke to the Ran­ dolph Women's Club about quartz and jewelry made from it. Member Gary Weingarten
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
pegmatite was mined at Barringer Hill in Llano County in the early 1900s but was flooded by Lake Buchanan...on "The Weeks Pegmatite Mine, Wakefield, Carroll County, New Hampshire" (March/April 1991). i i • I...27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Cass Chambers Cherokee Clay Coke Coryell Culberson Dallas Denton...66, May/June 1991 197 LOCALITIES BY COUNTY Bastrop County KEY mm T * ? — — — — best occurrence...occurrence Angelina County Lufkin, 1 mile N of Lufkin in railroad cuts, in blue clay; gypsum* (crystals
Report (volume)
each of the States, the State lists begin with Alabama and end with Wyoming. Under each State the minerals...Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...statements regarding their respective States: Alabama.........Dr. Eugene A. Smith, University. Arkansas...compilation. ALABAMA. Aluminum. See Bauxite and Hallpysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Report (volume)
......................................... 5 Alabama..................................................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...form. 10 USEFUL MINERALS OF UNITED STATES ALABAMA. ALABAMA. Alum. See Halloysite. Aluminum. See Bauxite...Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found...commercial quantity or quality. Asphalt. Colbert County, small quantity has been shipped from near Leighton;
Report (volume)
.............................................. Quartz veins............................................discussion Continued. Structural features Continued. Quartz veins.................................................. 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County.......................biotite granite of the Richmond-Petersburg area.. Dark blue-gray biotite granite of the Richmond-Fredericksburg......... Chesterfield County (south of James River)................ Henrico County (north of James River)
Book (volume)
fluorite (121.39 ct), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 ct), Illinois; square cut particolor...amethsyt (78.70 ct), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25.30 ct), Ramona, California;...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...California. NECKLACE. Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of... Oregon; and three Montana sapphires, violetish blue (2.52 ct), yellow (4.17 ct), and pinkish purple
Book (volume)
fluorite (121.39 et), Westmoreland, New Hampshire; blue fluorite (132.12 et), Illinois; sqmu·e cue parricolor...amethsyt (78. 70 et), Hallelujah Junction, Nevada; blue, cushion cut topaz (25 .30 et), Ra1nona, Caufornia;...California. NECKLACE. Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of... Oregon; and three Montana sapphires, violetish blue (2 .52 et), yellow (4.17 et), and pinkish purple...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache
Report (issue)
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas 79968, USA Abstract—Industrial minerals and rocks in the tri-state...Frasch sulfur production in adjacent Culberson County, west Texas. Halite, gypsum, and barite have also...gypsum dune sands, and in northern Chihuahua the quartz dune sands of Samalayuca have been modestly exploited...sedimentary rocks host Frasch sulfur mining in Culberson County, Texas (Fig. 2), and the evaporitic facies in the...area and hopefully, the Samalayuca, Chihuahua, quartz-dune field may be preserved in the same manner
Report (volume)
Genevieve Limestone Ste. Genevieve Limestone (in Blue River Group) Ste. Genveieve Limestone (in Meramec...formation has been called "Ste. Genevieve Limestone in Blue River Group" in another area. Finally, the name...Bull. 1060-D, p. 193, 252-253, pl. 7. In Nemaha County, Kans., member is basal unit of Howard limestone...Aarde farm, sec. 4, T. 26 S., R. 11 E., Greenwood County. Aaron Slatet Precambrian or Paleozoic: Central...Pittsylvania and Halifax Counties, overlies Hyco quartz porphyry. Varies from nearly pure greenstone to
Book (edition)
Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington MA 01803, USA First published 1962 Second edition 1970 Third edition...20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Spodumene Quartz Opal Turquoise Lapis Lazuli Jade – Geology and...Canada, Germany, Thailand, Vietnam, the UK and the USA, making this a truly international collaboration...of glass closely resembling opal in appearance. Quartz, which for many years has been manufactured in...synthetic coloured stones not only in shades of blue and green, but in stones virtually indistinguishable
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New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Published in the USA by Chapman and Hall 29 West 35th Street, New York...example is very rare indeed compared to salt or quartz, but not compared to ruby, the particular conditions... appearing on the gem market in 1967, is a fine blue transparent variety of a mineral which had previously...of it crystallizes as free silica in the form of quartz, as in a granite. Along with the increasing silica...a particular ruby is from Burma or a particular blue sapphire from Kashmir (both these places undoubtedly
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New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE Published in the USA by Chapman and Hall 29 West 35th Street, New York...example is very rare indeed compared to salt or quartz, but not compared to ruby, the particular conditions... appearing on the gem market in 1967, is a fine blue transparent variety of a mineral which had previously...of it crystallizes as free silica in the form of quartz, as in a granite. Along with the increasing silica...a particular ruby is from Burma or a particular blue sapphire from Kashmir (both these places undoubtedly
Report (volume)
U.S.S.R. Alabama Acad. Sci. Jour. Ala. Akademiya Nauk SSSR Voprosy Journal of the Alabama Academy of...Auburn, Alabama Geol. Survey Bull.- Geological Survey of Alabama Bulletin. University, Ala. Alabama Geol...Survey of Alabama Circular. University, Ala. Alabama Geol. Survey Map- Geological Survey of Alabama Map. University...Geology California Div. Mines and Geology County Rept. Geology County Report. San Francisco, Calif. California...Ky. Kentucky .Geol. Survey County Rept. - Kentucky Geological Survey County Report. University of Kentucky
Report (issue)
nited States of America ___________________ _ Alabama _____________________________ _ Alaska _______...------------Stream sediments in the Piedmont and Blue Ridge provinces __________ - __ Unconsolidated sediments...Perce Counties __________ _ Idaho CountY-----------------Valley CountY-----------------Adams, Payette,...and Gem Counties ________________________ _ Boise County ___ --------------Ada, Owyhee, Elmore, and Custer...placers in the Blue Ridge province _____________ _ Spruce Pine district ____________ Madison County and Haywood
Book (edition)
Calcjte 4 Fluorite 5 Apatite 6 Orthoclase 7 8 9 10 Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond In a few descriptions we...crystallize with right- or left-handed forms (e.g., quartz). epitaxy Overgrowth of one crystal on another...(4) fluorite, (5) apatite, (6) orthoclase, (7) quartz, (8) topaz, (9) corundum, (10) diamond. monochromatic...the Fuernrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous...in the Cave Hills and Slim Buttes areas, Harding County, South Dakota. BEST REF. IN ENGLISH: Thompson,
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AFRICA widely in Litchfield County, where good crystals were taken from quartz veins in a variety of metamorphic...Litchfield, where a mass of white quartz on a ridge had once been mined for quartz, and large ilmenite masses...ilmenite crystals to 7 .5 cm in matrix of massive quartz from these dumps-adding that, in his judgment,...region (Brunet, I 977b ). NEW YORK Amity, Orange County. At many isolated collected sites between the towns...Litchfield County. Ilmenite masses and crystals from somewhere near Washington, Litchfield County, were described
Book (edition)
Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals Sagiiache County Pu blic Library Saguache , Colorado DEMCO For...Photo Editor: Wendell E. Wilson Library Saguache County Public Saguache, Colorado VAN NOSTRAND REINHOLD...Calcite Fluorite Apatite 6 7 8 9 10 Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond In a few descriptions we...crystallize with right- or left-handed forms (e.g., quartz). epitaxy Overgrowth of one crystal on another...(4) fluorite, (5) apatite, (6) orthoclase, (7) quartz, (8) topaz, (9) corundum, (10) diamond. monochromatic
Book (edition)
Willard Lincoln. Encyclopedia of minerals ~~cbe County Public Library Saguache, Colorado OEMCO For Refere...Calcite 4 Fluorite 5 Apatite 6 7 8 9 10 Orthoclase Quartz Topaz Corundum Diamond In a few descriptions we...crystallize with right- or left-handed forms (e.g., quartz). epitaxy Overgrowth of one crystal on another...(4) fluorite, (5) apatite, (6) orthoclase, (7) quartz, (8) topaz, (9) corundum, (10) diamond. monochromatic...the Fuemrol No. 2 mine, Temple Mountain, Emery County, Utah; also sparsely disseminated in uraniferous
Book (edition)
is a gem? INTRODUCTION WHAT A IS GEM? cut blue zoisite resembles fine sapphire, dubbed the new...jewelry establishments. Tiffany & Co., noted that blue-violet, transparent zoisite crystals There are...Iron in the beryl structure results in yellow or blue coloration, whereas manganese produces a pink color...example of this is the mineral quartz, the most common mineral on Earth. Quartz, in the form we see as component...characteristic of quartz vibrates too rapidly to hold together in the pattern of the quartz structure. An
Book (edition)
File, 1601 Park Lane. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, USA. Introduction This volume is the third edition...Green River Formation in (TL) Uintah Co .. Utah. USA. Named for P.H. Abelson. 20.7.3 AbernalhJile. K(U00As0...26 A. Z=4 [PDF 1 6-386]. (TL) Temple Mts. Utah. USA. Named for J . Abernathy. Abhurite. S n 30(0HhCl...Sun,. \ler111011t, I . 484. (TL} Derby. Vermont. USA. G. Brush ( 1 862) Amer. J. Sci. 34. 2 1 6. classed...832) Traite Min. 2, 126. A mixture of albite and quartz according to H.J. B rooke and W.H. Miller ( 1 852)
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NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM CAPE TOWN Published in the USA by Oxford University Press, New York 2 Filmset... Bull. Soc.franq. Min. Crist. 92, 420. Greenish-blue hexagonal crystals from the Bou-Skour copper mine...Orthoclase-felspar with a fine blue reflection forming a constituent of quartz-porphyry (Aglauritporphyr)...nickel, 2Ni0.2Al203.3Si02.75H20, as compact turquoise-blue masses, from the river Aidyrly (p. AnabipjiMbi)...hydrated silicate of A1 and Cr, resulting, with blue miloschine, from the decomposition of avalite. Servia
 
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