 | | Book (edition) | | 11, Illinois Copyright 1951 by Science and Mechanics Publishing Chicago Company 11, Illinois ALL...and Washington occur the many types of agate, opal and petrified this region is noted. The agate...mine, Racooche Valley, White Co. 1866 Vs White County Daniel Light form, % mi. NE Less than 1887 ...Alabama has yielded a 4i%4 carat diamond from Shelby County, 30 miles south of Birmingham, found about 1900...Siding in St. Clair County, 20 miles northeast of Bir- mingham. One found in Lee County in 1901 weighs 4^ |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NSuN, Iy'ezs, Socorro,New Mexico. INrnooucrroN Many opal samples from New Mexico were studied, and it was...cryptocrystalline phase in opal. It has been pointed out by Levin and Ott (1932)that many opal samplesare not amorphousas...suggested.It may be true, however, that the original opal is precipitated as a truly amorphous substanceand...cristobalitein opal has beenreported in other publications,it is not found in the opal samplesof this...The uranoan hyalite or opal of the San Mateo Mountains district, Sierra County, New Mexico contains 25 |  | | Book | | Co. Hematite CALERA, Shelby Co. Wavkllite CLAY COUNTY, Sec. 24. T. 19 S R., 7 E. STATUARY, Coosa Co...Co., (W. border of* Marble Crystalline TALLADEGA COUNTY Marble, (crystalline) VALLEY HEAD, DeKalb Co. Hematite...Feldspar HISSOP, Coosa Co., (near) Beryl JACKSON COUNTY Hematite KENNEDYS, Clay Co., (near) Magnetite MILLERVILLE...MOUNTAINS, E. Slopo, Mohave Co. N.W. of Kingman Opal CALUMET, Cochise Co., 3 ml. N. of Dragoon. ClIRYSOFRASB... PHOENIX, East of Barite PICKET POST, Pinal Co. Opal PEUBLO VIEJO Alabaster RED ROCK MINE, Pima Co. ♦Fluorspar |  | | Book (volume) | | chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona agatized wood. This...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | Book (volume) | | chert, translucent chalcedony, jasp-agate and common opal, rivaling in beauty the Arizona agatized wood. This...ASHTABULA COUNTY CONNEAUT, area pits, quarries, rd. cuts, etc.⎯cone-in-cone Calcite. CLERMONT COUNTY MILFORD...CLINTON COUNTY WILMINGTON, area of Todd’s Ford, a mineral deposit⎯Hematite. COSHOCTON COUNTY AREA, townships...CUYAHOGA COUNTY CHAGRIN FALLS (on Geauga Co. line), area quarries⎯oilstone. DELAWARE COUNTY DELAWARE...nodules⎯Pyrite (crystals sharply cubic). FRANKLIN COUNTY COLUMBUS, area countywide exposures of blue clay |  | | 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 (volume) | | ............................... 105 107 115 Illinois.................................................Atlanta. Idaho______.Mr. Robert N. Bell, Boise. Illinois-_____.Mr. F. W. DeWolf, Urbana. USEFUL MINERALS...See 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;...following localities : Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20 S., R. 7 E.; |  | | Book (volume) | | Illinois ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors...in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin...the famed Coal Measures so often mentioned in Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare |  | | Book (volume) | | Illinois ILLINOIS Known as the Prairie State, Illinois exhibits a length of 378 miles and a width of...above sea level. Though well endowed with fossils, Illinois has little to offer gem and mineral collectors...in the Lead-Zinc mining dists. of northwestern Illinois, the glacial drift of the Late Pleistocene Wisconsin...the famed Coal Measures so often mentioned in Illinois geology. These measures constitute the Upper Carboniferous...600 to 800 feet thick in the north. ALEXANDER COUNTY FAYVILLE, area stream gravels⎯agate, jasper, rare |  | | Report (volume) | | and sapphire are considered precious gems. Some opal is precious, but most varieties are semiprecious...streams, and eventually deposited as alluvial gravels. Opal and agate are formed from aqueous solutions. Diamonds...Del Norte County; Trinity River, Trinity County; Spanish Creek and Gopher Hill, Plumas County; Placerville...Dorado County; Cherokee Flats, Yankee Hill,and Oroville, Butte County; French Corral, Nevada County; Indian...Indian Gulch and Volcano, Amador County; and Alpine Creek, Tulare County. Other western localities are: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimens at the famous Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas. I have just received a report from the...nice jasper. "The green chalcedony is from Marin County, north of San Francisco. It was picked up on a...ledge (Coyote Point). The chalcedony from Marin County is a beautiful dark green specimen. COLORADO—W...intere->;ng specimen of amazonstone from Rabun County. This is the first true amazonstone believed to...Shoup whose address is Box 756, Salmon, Idaho. ILLINOIS—A beautiful specimen has been received from Arch |  | | Book (volume) | | chalcedony, jasper and gem petrified wood. BUFFALO COUNTY KEARNEY, area gravel bars and pits along the Platte...townagate, chalcedony, jasper, petrified wood. CASS COUNTY WEEPING WATER, SE, on rd. to Nehawka, in the Snyderville...chalcedony, jasper, fossils. CHERRY COUNTY VALENTINE, in the Sandhills county along the Niobrara R. and Minnechaduza...gem qualityagatized and opalized wood. DAWES COUNTY CHADRON, in N part of Co. and as far W as Crawford...woods, etc. DAWSON COUNTY GOTHENBURG, in sand pitspetrified palm wood. DEUEL COUNTY CHAPPELL, all regional |  | | Report (issue) | | groups, and matrix pieces from Boylston, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia. This little-known locality is an...= Quartz, 3.1 cm, from Boylston, Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada. Tyson’s Fine Minerals specimen...from the Faylor-Middlecreek quarry, Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania. (The Faylor-Middlecreek is a...from the Faylor-Middlecreek quarry, Winfield, Union County, Pennsylvania. Exceptional Minerals specimen...of Top Shelf Minerals) is a devotee of southern Illinois fluorite, and the selection on the Hummingbird |  | | Report (volume) | | Georgia..........Dr. S. W. McCallie, Atlanta. Illinois...........Mr. F. W. DeWolf, Urbana. Indiana.....See Bauxite and Hallpysite. 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;...following localities: Bibb County, Pratts Ferry; Calhoun County, near Tampa; Clay County, T. 20, Pv. 7 E.; Jefferson...Jefferson County, at Elyton; Lee County, at Chewacla lime works; St. Clair County, at Gfeensport; Shelby |  | | Book (volume) | | beds, excavations, etc.Selenite roses. BRULE COUNTY AREA: in the Oacoma zone of the Pierre Fm. On Elm...gray Barite rosette up to 5 or 6 inches. CAMPBELL COUNTY MOUND CITY, W to the Missouri R., regional hillsides...tributary gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream...stream beds, etc. petrified wood, wood opal; along the Grand R. though entire Co., regional banks, breaks...wood, wood opal. 438 A Location Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Riddle's Mill Dist. (gold deposits) of Talladega County, Ala. It is 8l/ 2 x 11 and sells for Si, we believe...several recent trips to Clear Creek, San Benito County, Calif., have shown that the jadeite boulders in...Diablo Meridian, Calif., in southeastern San Benito County. The town of Hollister is 80 miles northwest of...northern San Juan County, Colorado. The mine was in a rather remote section of the county and was never worked...Kingsville, Md. FLORIDA—A 3x3 specimen of white cacholong opal (fl. pale yellow) coating gray botryoidal chalcedony |  | | Book (edition) | | describes sites under of the nearest town and county. and the many maps included book contain such...edition. These include Russell Kemp of Chicago, Illinois, Marcus Daly Pruett of Butte, Montana, Walter...microscope. is — — A few gem materials notably, opal and obsidian are amorphous, lacking crystal structure...with light such as creates the unique beauty of opal or labradorite, the starry splendor of star sapphire...heavier liquids are As gems lie in the range between opal (sp. gr. 2.1) and zircon (sp. gr. 4.7), quick and |  | | Journal (issue) | | For Your Supply of write to: Mintabie Black Opal Company P.O. Box 243-DG Epping 2121 Australia We... Frequently , new locations are referred to by county only, and in not just a few instances, simply the...newly re-opened Colorado Quartz mine, Mariposa County, California. This mine, originally called the Colorado...of a fine gold specimen from Grus Valley, Nevada County, Cellfornla which wu once In the Peter Bancroft...00 to several thounortheast of Auburn, in Placer County, sand dollars for the best pieces. This California |  | | Journal (issue) | | Publishing Company, Incorporated, Box 1357, Chicago 90, Illinois. Busine Manager, J. Daniel Willems; Busine Associate...1357, Chicago 90, Illinois. @ EDITED BY Ben Hur Wilson 106 Grover St., Joliet, Illinois; Managing Editor...Chief, Ben Hur Wilson, 406 Grover St., Joliet, Illinois. Official publication of the Midwest Fed eration...Minerals Society, Earth Science Club of Northern Illinois, Marquette Geologists Associa tion. (These subscriptions...ground of old time rock hounds. Blue chalcedony, fire opal, myri kite, and others have been found Since the |  | | Book (edition) | | MARIN COUNTY FREE LIBRARY 3 1111 00289 4184 \ I s Fifth Revised Edition A complete, state-by-state...North Carolina, a big diamond or two in Arkansas, opal in Idaho, and so on. Old locations suddenly are...eye of the microscope. A few gem materials notably opal and obsidian are amorphous, lacking crystal structure...with light such as creates the unique beauty of opal or labradorite, the starry splendor of star sapphire...are available. As gems lie in the range between opal (sp. gr. 2.1) and zircon (sp. gr. 4.7), quick and |  | | Book | | closed-packed arrangement of SiO2 sol spheres or opal-A. Calcite in the form of scalenohedra occurred...the extinction pattern of the calcite. Clear-opal (opal-A), therefore, appears to represent a pseudomorphic...of calcite pendants, whereas pore fillings dirty-opal represents alteration of primary minerals by the...Pewkliang et al. (2008). During the formation of the opal, the cruder details of the bone microstructure have...enlarged and filled with chalcedony, which postdates opal creation (Fig. 1.44). These chemical and microstructural |  | | Book (edition) | | mmed at Broken Arrow aud Trout creek, in Sc. Clair county. The strata in this field are more faulted und...prong of Canoe creek, in St. Clair county, to Ha\sop creek, in Bibb county, a distance of 60 miles. Down to...to Helena, in Shelby county, the field has an average width of 5 or 6 miles. Below that point the width...miles being in the latitud" of Blocton, in Bibb county. The south ern end of this field has a greater...Jefferson county; Helena, Montevallo, and Brierfield, Shelby county; and at Blocion. Bibb county. The Warrior |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fairly nice specimens in an old road bed in Lee County, Alabama, about 10 miles north of Auburn, Ala....received from John S. Albanese, P. O. Box 221, Union, N . J. "From near Kingman, Mohave Co., Ariz."—on...of Milledgeville who discovered them in Baldwin County, Ga., between the State Sanitarium and Oconee River...Mineral Hill Dist., Lemhi Co., Idaho."—on label. ILLINOIS—We are indebted to H. E Chelf, 131 Terrace View...picked these up near a gravel deposit in Grant County, Indiana, near the city of Marion."—on label. I |  | | Journal (issue) | | King and Lucky Lass mines near Lakeview in Lake County. These two mines, about 1 mile apart, are under...Steens Mountain in Homey County and in the Bear Creek area of Crook County. The occurrences in the Wallowa...U30S Chem. Anal~sis Fluorescence Mercury BAKER COUNTY: Ernest Rogers Robinette, Ore. Homestead mining...concentrate .3 None None '.b7 '.13 CROOK COUNTY: J" Harley Dosser Redmond, Ore. T. 16S., R....e None Trace Troce None None CUKRY COUNTY: 2 GRANT COUNTY: 1" Ray Summers John Day, Ore. Sec |  | | Book (volume) | | NORTHEASTERN QUADRANT Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible...for the county in which it is located. This site number also appears under the given county in the text...under the heading of Nebraska, on the map of Sioux County, the site x How to Use This Book indicated...Crawford in adjoining Dawes County and 5 miles south of Ardmore in Fall River County, South Dakota): 0.5 mile |
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