| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | R E S 18 Singletary Lane Sudbury, Massachusetts 01776 MASSACHUSETTS Figure J. Vermont political divisions...The Belvidere Mountain quarry, Low ell (Orleans County) is the most signifi cant locality in the state...producers. The nearby hamlet of Eden Mills (Lamoille County) is the commonly given but incorrect name for the...grossular (the Vermont state gem), vesuvianite, and clinochlore, in addition to good diopside crystals and, occasionally...anthophyllite associat ed with fibrous talc, clinochlore, magnetite, and occasionally cummingtonite and | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | visit to an old copper mine in Berkshire, Franklin County. Reported finds of mainly massive bornite,...Vermont asbestos quarry, Eden Mills, are artinite, clinochlore, diopside, grossularite, leuchtenbergite, prehnite | | | Catalog/List | . . . . . . 65 Fasciculite Xis, in schist; Massachusetts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3...Kaolin CHLOR-A PATITE-Sce Apatite CHLORITE-See Clinochlore, Prochlorite, and Vermi culite CHONDROD ITE...sulfide) High grade cinnabar-Prices on Request CLINOCHLORE (hydrous magnesium aluminum silicate) Dark green.... . ... . .. . . .. . 6 FiM, xline, white; Massachusetts, 1 0 lbs. or more, .2 0 per lb . . . .. .. .... . . . . . . . . . 51 fVith willemite, etc. "Franklin Ore"; New Jersey . . . . . . . 21 FUCHSITE-Sec | | | Journal (issue) | on limestone along r~:t~JQ.\{t;_t:l'!'P_erland County, 5 miles southwest of Carlisle. Photo courtesy~'of... Greene County, with 12 major underground mines planned, may become the "numero uno" county for coal...A wooded area southeast of Colebrook in Lebanon County contains a unique geologic feature. An unusual...- Located in the woods north of Lawn in Lebanon County is this unusual example of the weatheri ng of diabase...chromite chrysocolla chrysotile clausthalite clinochlore clinohumite clinozoisite cobaltite coffinite | | | Journal (issue) | No. 1 LARGE ANDALUSITE CRYSTALS FROM CAMPBELL COUNTY, VIRGINLA Richard S. Mitchell1,William F. Giannini2...veins at a previously unknown site in Campbell County, Virginia (Giannini and others, 1986; Figure 1)...miles east of Lynch Station in southern Campbell County, Virginia. The Universal Transverse Mercator (U...Resources /rCarnpbell County Figure 1. Location of deposit in Campbell County, Virginia. not common...found in the United States in the ~ a s t . ~elawa&County, Pennsylvania, has yielded crystals (&me altered | | | Book | MASSACHUSETTS MINERALAND FOSSIL LOCALITIES Compiled by Peter P. Gleba 'I!~·· . \. i r,'"--""'4' I...publication. Peter P. Gleba December 2008 Quincy, Massachusetts Member Boston Mineral Club Reprinted by permission...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. Calculating it another way, [Peter Gleba] said...is some of the most valuable real estate in Massachusetts. It has access, it has convenience, it has exposure...window of his car as he passed west of the Massachusetts state lottery offices and saw a spreading rust | | | Book (volume) | Dahlonega Co. and Rabum Co., and the McDuffie County Belt extending through portions of McDuffie, Warren...Sphalerite. BALDWIN COUNTY MILLEDGEVILLE, at state farmjasper. BANKS COUNTY COMMERCE, along Hwy. 59...along adjoining Co. linerock crystal. BARROW COUNTY WINDER, along rd. to Jefferson and 1½ mi. inside...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States BARTOW COUNTY AREA, Saltpeter Cave, as floatjasper. CARTERSVILLE:...agate, (banded, various colors), jasper. BIBB COUNTY MACON: at Holton Quarry, 7½ mi. NWagate; N | | | Report (edition) | much information on collecting sites in Oxford County. Numerous other collectors of Maine minerals also...Railroad : multiple track .. State. Bridge ...... county, parish, municipio .... Power transmission line...Rockland-Thomaston, Rockport, and Union areas in Knox County. They once supported a booming industry based on...specimens of minerals and fossils in Aroostook County and elsewhere in northern Maine. Most of the bedrock...rocks. There are lime quarries in the Aroostook County agricultural belt, where calcite crystals and other | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Large Andalusite Crystals from Campbell County, Virginia: Their Alteration to Kyanite and Sillimanite...veins at a previously unknown site in Campbell County, Virginia (Giannini et a l . , 1986). A l though...miles east of Lynch Sta tion in southern Campbell County, Virginia. The Univer sal Transverse Mercator...permission. 2 4 3 Andalusite Figure 1: Campbell County, Virginia. Area of deposit is marked. 446 ROCKS...found in the United States in the past. Delaware County, Pennsylvania, has yielded crystals (some altered | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | They are from a cut at Hogback Dam in Hartland County, near Riverton, Conn. "In masses of xline limestone...of brownish xline chondrodite, greenish platy clinochlore with greenish masses and grains of serpentine...is rhodochrosite associated with dark green clinochlore in white limestone. Tiny greenish grains of diopside...miles northwest of Bentonsport, Iowa, in Van Buren County, in the southeast part of the State in the geode...near the south end of the Mesabi Range in Itasca County, Minn. Name of mine I doi not know."—item from | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | niversity of V ir ginia. Staurolites from Patrick County have attracted considerableattention for many years...first belt, and extends to and beyond the Franklin County line. Both belts are roughly lenticular in...X-Nicols, X20 Diameters. although sometimes clinochlore is present. Various stages of alteration can | | | Report (issue) | vesuvianite phlogopite , rutile zircon clinochlore brucite danburite talc calcite epidote ...(chalcedony) magnesite garnet spinel enstatite clinochlore chromite pyroxene talc brucite amphibole...2. 1851. 12:6. Lanthanite and Allanite in Essex County, N. Y. Am. Jour. Sci. of Several f2 14 Blum...Jahresber. H. of p, 163; 1863. N. Y. of Erie County. 49th An. Rep't. 1843. nachtrag. Economic Geology... Ser. 3. 1895. 49:213.* Geology of Richmond County, N. Y. Acad. Sci. Ann. 2:161. White Pyroxene | | | Report (issue) | 4, A1 2 O 3 26.8, Na 2 O 16.3, Lenni, Delaware County. Crystals. Eyerman, 1911, 11. Composition: Analysis:...Sp.gr LOCALITIES: Berks County: Birdsboro, and Gickerville; Delaware County: Leiperville, Lenni (druses...Felton's farm (Chester), and Ward's quarry; Montgomery County: Sumneytown, and Perkiomenville ; Philadelphia:...cut east of Reading (probably Birdsboro), Berks County. White, Smith, 1910, 540. silky mass of radiating...42 9.86 4.77 13.60 100.69 2.277 LOCALITY: Berks County: Birdsboro. MESOLITE m Na Al Si3Oio.2H O 2 2 | | | | chrysolite 75 chrysotile /07, 108 cinnabar 12, /3 clinochlore 106 clinozoisite 88 cobalt bloom 73 cobaltite...suppliers are, in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California)...and massive pyrite is found at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York. This very widespread mineral is to be...a touch of pink, and found at Cobalt, Ontario; Franklin, New Jersey; and Silver Cliff, Colorado. Millerite...calcite and chalcopyrite at Rossie, St Lawrence County, New York. It is found in many other localities | | | Book | chrysolite 75 chrysotile /07, 108 cinnabar 12, /3 clinochlore 106 clinozoisite 88 cobalt bloom 73 cobaltite...suppliers are, in order, the USSR, Canada, and the USA (South Dakota, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, and California)...massive pyrite is found at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York. This very widespread mineral is to be...touch of pink, and found at Cobalt, Ontario; Franklin, New Jersey; and Silver Cliff, Colorado. Millerite...calcite and chalcopyrite at Rossie, St Lawrence County, New York. It is found in many other localities | | | Book (volume) | involved in numerous mineral clubs including the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society, acting in various...greater variety of minerals are found in Oxford County, alone, than anywhere else on Earth of comparable...greater variety of minerals in a single mine in Franklin, New Jersey, or Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, than...than Maine's, as well. An area smaller than Oxford County in Murmansk Ob last, Kola Peninsula, Russia, has...clear to slightly blue topazes. However, San Diego County, California, is arguably the most important gem-pegmatite | | | Book (volume) | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason | | | Book (volume) | 600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare...⎯agate, jasper; d RR siding of Clay⎯agate. CALHOUN COUNTY AREA, shores of the Mississippi R., in the Warsaw...crystals). CRAWFORD COUNTY PALESTINE, area deposits⎯Siderite. EDWARDS COUNTY AREA, T. 1 S, R. 10 E...E, regional deposits⎯Siderite. FULTON COUNTY FARMINGTON, W 6 mi. on Rte. 116 to the Rapatee No. 5 strip...mine⎯pyritized gastropods (Pennsylvanian age). GRUNDY COUNTY AREA: c Regional rd. and RR cuts and banks of Mason | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University] at 07:55 02 December 2014 Figure 1. County map of New York State, prepared by William Besse...listed. L O CA L I T I E S B Y C O U N T Y Albany County Indian Ladder: brookite; F. Old Callanan quarry:...11 August 1859: olivinebronzite chondrite. Bronx County Various excavations: chabazite, harmotome, quartz...quartz (amethyst), stilbite; F. Clinton County Au Sable Forks, iron mines north of: microcline (sunstone)...stilbite, titanite, zircon, others; F, C. Columbia County Ancram lead mines: barite, galena, sphalerite, | | | Report (edition) | particular site, remember it is possible to visit the county courthouse in which the site is located, and trace...1722. The water was tested copper by Benjamin Franklin. In 1732 Gap mine land was owned by the honorable...23 23 28 Adams County Native copper localities Teeter quarry zeolite Allegheny County Wittmer wurtzite...wurtzite Bedford County New locality 31 31 locality Paris fluorite locality Sherman Valley cryptomelane...locality Berks County Dyer quarry zeolite locality Frystown fetid barite locality Blair County Altoona barite | | | Report (issue) | The American Philosophical Society by Benjamin Franklin in 1743; The American Academy of Arts and Sciences...geology in 1816. Amos Eaton had surveyed Rensselaer County, N. Y., and the route of the Erie Canal; further...Both of these undertakings were short-lived. Massachusetts established her survey in 1830; she was the...OF THE VERMONT STATE GEOLOGIST In Troy, Orleans County, titaniferous magnetite had been discovered in...value as a building stone." He notes that Essex County is practically all granite and gneiss. Gneiss he | | | Journal (issue) | TeHurium Sulphur Dinmond Gra1,hitc GOLD Albemarle County.-"Streaks" occur in quartz veins in slate belt...east of South western Mt. (ll. 8). Buckingham County.-A placer gold specimen about 7 x 10 x 17 mm. which...collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Culpeper County.-Two specimens with flakes of gold up to 1 cm....collections of the Smithsonian Institution. Dinwiddie County.-Two specimens from the Whitehall Mine with gold...error and should refer to Spotsylvania County.) Fairfax County.-A specimen of gold with galena in quartz | | | Report (issue) | C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...updated “check list” just alluded to, (2) a county-by-county listing of the minerals, and (3) resumes of...(Haydcnitc) 9 Virginia Mineral Localities by County This list is included for possible aid in planning...listed only* if localities arc given for them. The county lists do not include com mon rock-making materials...to occur only as traces. ACCOMACK COUNTY: none given. ALBEMARLE COUNTY: actinolitc, agate, almandine, amethyst | | | Book | chrysolite 75 chrysotile 107, 108 cinnabar 12, 13 clinochlore I06 clinozoisite 88 cobalt bloom 73 cobaltite...and massive pyrite is found at Ellenville, Ulster County, New York. This very widespread mineral is to be...a touch of pink, and found at Cobalt, Ontario; Franklin, New Jersey; and Silver Cliff, Colorado. Millerite...calcite and chalcopyrite at Rossie, St Lawrence County, New York. It is found in many other localities...States; it is however, :>und at Hollister, Benito County, California. The ompact variety is·found at Gerrei | | | Report (issue) | . . ALAMANCE COUNTY 5 5 Pyrophyllite ...... f .......... 5 ALEXANDER COUNTY ................. 9 ALLEGHANI COUNTY 1± Manganese ....... f 11 Barite , 11 Copper . 11 ASHE COUNTY. . . . Copper...Staurolite AVERY COUNTY . . ......... 13 13 13 . 13 Iron and Epidote BUNCOMBE COUNTY Garnet ...........13 Moonstone and Associated Minerals 15 BURKE COUNTY 15 Corundijin 15 Itacolumite 15 Toiirmaline...Amethyst f . , 4 .18 CABARRUS COUNTY 18 Minerals of the Cabarms County Mines 18 CALDWELL COUNT! 18 Pyrite |
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