 | | Report (issue) | | Pleaoc teturn this publication to the Virginia Geologieal Survcy whcn you havc no further uce for it...COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSTON ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...Deposits of Virginra BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 COMMONWEALTH, OF VTRGINIA STATE COMMISSION...COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN, State Geologist Bulletin...33 Pegmatite Deposits of Virginia BY ARTHUR A. PEGAU UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1932 RICHMOND: DrvrsroN |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCAL INDEX Although perhaps best known for its turquoise crystals, apophyllite on...kyanite, Virginia has, in fact, over 150 mineral species. and D. A L L E N P E N I C K , JR. Virginia Division...Mineral Resources P. O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 T H I S V I R G I N I A M I N E R A L L...world-wide locality index. The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R . V . Dietrich. A l |  | | Journal (issue) | | February 1987 No.1 VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITY INDEX D. Allen Penick, Jr. This Virginia mineral locality...world-wide locality index The localities are listed by county, followed by a listing of the most prominent minerals...source of information in this Virginia index was Minerals of Virginia (1970) by R. V. Dietrich. Although...of the index. Some of the famous localities in Virginia, such Updated from Rocks and Minerals, Vol. 60...pegmatite in Amelia County and the Lynch Station locality (turquoise crystals) in Campbell County, are now closed |  | | Report (issue) | | the cover—Turquois crystals from Lynch Station, Virginia; x ca.; pho tograph by Neal Ycdlin; color plates...C. A. Michael. COLD NUGGET FROM SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY: Longest dimension approximately 13 cm., photograph...of Virginia R. V. DIETRICH* Professor of Geology and Associate Dean of Arts & Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic...Polytechnic Institute Research Division Bulletin 47 Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Va. 24061 *... © R. V. Dietrich and the Research Division of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, 1970 Printed and bound |  | | Journal (issue) | | the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Engineering Experiment Station Series, dealing with Virginia Mineral...Mineral Localities: Virginia Mineral Localities (1960 Edition) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement...(Supplement I) Virginia Mineral Localities (Supplement II) Virginia Minerals and Rocks (3rd Edition) Ex LIBRIS...\I i! II II BULLETIN OF THE ·, I !V I ii VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Engineering Experiment Station...Series No. 151 Ii !I ·1 " ii :c H I I I I ! VIRGINIA MINERAL LOCALITIES ( SUPPLEMENT II ) By Richard |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Connecticut; Russell and Westfield, Massachusetts ; from Bedford, New York ; and many other places. The crystals...occur most frequently in common pegmatite with microcline and orthoclase as the chief feldspars present...at the Rutherford mine near Amelia Courthouse, Virginia, where large amounts were found. A half crystal...Lode pegmatite near the Royal Gorge in Fremont County, Colorado. Common in the pegmatites of Yavapai...Mountain in the Crested Butte region of Gunnison County, Colorado, in good gem crystals. ANDRADITE, calcium-iron |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pegmatite, Amherst County, Virginia R I C H A R D S. M I T C H E L L University of Virginia Charlottesville...Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 GARY E. REDLINE Route 4, Box 320 Slatington, Pennsylvania 18080 Tumble-polished ...peg matite near the Lynchburg Reservoir, Amherst County, Vir ginia. Until now the mineralogy has not been...R . Burford and Lewis A . Hite of Buene Vista, Virginia (Cooper 1953). The site was visited by members...members o f the Geology Sec tion of the Virginia Academy of Science at their annual meeting in May, 1953 (Cormack |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | "SOME NOTES ON ASTE RI ATE D QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA" By RUDOLPH J. BLAND, Jr. Blsnd Minerals, 2807 W. Cary...variety of quartz, it is becoming quite common in Virginia. It has recently been found in a variety of colors...first one of importance is the Ligon mine in Amelia County, Va. This mine is located at the end of State Route...identified by R. S. Mitchell at the University of Virginia as stellate quartz xls on massive beryl. Some...in large books. All of the feldspar noted was microcline. Several large euhedral crystals were found by |  | | Report (issue) | | VIRGINIA DryISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 115 TANTALIAN AND NIOBIAN RESOURCES IN VIRGINIA William...and Palmer C. Sweet .:;: ."' COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY DIVISION...State Geologist CHARLOTTES VILLE, VIRGIMA t99l VIRGINIA DTVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES PUBLICATION 115...RESOURCES IN VIRGINIA William F. Giannini and Palmer C. Sweet COMMONVYEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF...VILLE, VIRGINIA r99r FRONT COVER: Columbite-tantalite crystal from Mitchell Mine, Bedford County, Virginia |  | | Report (volume) | | ................................. Androscoggin County............................................. Auburn......................................... Lincoln County ............................................................-...:.....-................. Oxford County........................;............................................................. Sagadahoc County.. '...... ............................................................................ Hartford County ..... ....................:............ ...... |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with syenite (andesine anorthosite) of Nelson County, Virginia.............................................topographic divisions of the Appalachian ranges. In Virginia the Blue Eidge Mountains form a fairly continuous...feet above sealevel; but southwestward through Virginia the ridge becomes broader and higher, and attains...above the sea are reached at several points in Virginia. The Blue Eidge is composed of a central core...the adjacent portions of the Piedmont Plateau in Virginia one of the dominant igneous rocks of granitoid |  | | Report (issue) | | pegmatite in granite, Short Tom Smith mine, Rockingham County, N. C______ ____ ____________________ _______________________...pegmatite and granite, E. R. Self mine, Gaston County, N. C____________________ 6. Sinuous discordant...bulge in the hanging wall, Knight mine, Rockingham County, N. C- ~ -7. Sharp hanging-wall contact, Knight...granite underlain by schist, Hawkins mine, Stokes County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ _ _ _ 9. Same granite...and other units in the Big Bess pegmatite, Gaston County, N. C _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ |  | | Report (issue) | | COMMONWDALTE OF VIRGINIA VIRGINTA CONSERVATTON COMMTSSTON VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ARTHUR BEVAN,...53 Barite Deposits of Virginia By R.AYMOND S. EDMUNDSON UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA t938 I \e RICHMOND:... RICHMOND: Dwrsror cR Puncn.rsp arvo puxrrr.rc 1938 VIRGINIA CONSERVATION COMMISSION Wrreun C. Her,r,, Chai...recommend for publication as Bulletin 53 of the virginia Geological Survey series of i'eports the manuscript...Geologist of the Virginia Geological SurveY. This re=port is the first issued on barite in Virginia. It describes |  | Bermanec, V., Horvat, M., Zigovecki GOBAC, Z., Zebec, V., Scholz, R., Skoda, R., Wegner, R., Brito Barreto, S. d., Dodony, I. (2012) Pseudomorphs of Low Microcline After Adularia Fourlings from the Alto Da Cabeca (Boqueirao) and Morro Redondo Pegmatites, Brazil. The Canadian Mineralogist, 50 (4) 975-987 doi:10.3749/canmin.50.4.975 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 10.3749/canmin.50.4.975 PSEUDOMORPHS OF LOW MICROCLINE AFTER ADULARIA FOURLINGS FROM THE ALTO DA CABEÇA...TEM experiments show that the samples are low microcline. Calculated values of triclinicity [D = 0.915...demonstrate that they are highly ordered, i.e., maximum microcline. Adularia pseudomorphs are highly ordered triclinic...transformation of a monoclinic parent. Keywords: low microcline, adularia, pseudomorph, granitic pegmatite, Brazil...Ribbe 1968, Smith 1974a). Low albite (LA), low microcline (LM), analbite (AA), and high sanidine (HS) represent |  | | Report (issue) | | general information on a number of mines in Grafton County and extended other kindnesses; M. M. Kilton, of...Keene; and Edward Howard, of East Alstead; in Virginia by P. Lippert and Capt. McCray, of the Ridgeway...be found in the same deposit. Orthoclase and microcline are the most common varieties of feldspar found...with the opening of the Ruggles mine in Grafton County, N. H., about 1803. Later other mines were opened...Cheshire County northward into Sullivan County and the northwestern part of Merrimack County and east |  | | Journal (issue) | | DECORATIVE-ORNAMENTAL STONES OF VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Virginia is noted particularly for beautiful...amazonite, fine moonstone, and topaz. In addition Virginia is well known for staurolite, prehnite, turquoise...minerals, rocks and organic materials found in Virginia, which have been used as gemstones and decora...report. Many of the localities will be familiar to Virginia mineral collectors. Someof the areas mentioned...collect minerals. There has been much written on Virginia mineral localities but no reports are available |  | | Journal (issue) | | Everitt ................ SOME RECENT BERYL FINDS IN VIRGINIA. By W. R. Brown .... RIEBECKITE FROM WEST QUINCY...show, in section, a wall of biotite granite with microcline, then a zone of graphic granite which is finer...quadrangle, that contng tained a sheet of druses with microcline up crystal inclusions, smoky quartz crystals...either by erostion or glaciation, the lining of microcline altered to form kaolinite carrying down the quartz...hard and is composed of kaolinite, fragments of microcline crystals, amethyst or smoky quartz crystals, |  | | Journal (issue) | | yth ANNUAL JEWELRY GEM &MINERAL SHOW Featuring Virginia Minerals, Mines and Localities BE A PROSPECTOR...14,1977 VIRGINIA BEACH CIVIC CENTER (THE DOME) 19TH AND PACIFIC AVENUE VIRGINIA BEACH, VIRGINIA Rocks&...Minerals from Virginia Richard S. Mitchell 230 Mineral and Fossil Collecting Sites in Virginia Palmer C....Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia R. V. Dietrich 244 The Geology of Virginia W. Cullen Sherwood 250 Prehnite—Apophyllite...Minerals of Virginia J. Alexander Speer Minerals from the Old Sulphur Mine, Louisa County, Virginia Richard |  | | Report (volume) | | .........Prof. George H. Perkins, Burlington. Virginia...........Dr. Thomas L. Watson, Charlottesville...Washington....... Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin......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 |  | | Report (edition) | | particular site, remember it is possible to visit the county courthouse in which the site is located, and trace...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.... 33 33 35 38 38 42 45 45 47 50 Page Butler County East Unity Church Sedwicks Mill 54 54 54 57 |  | | 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...gravels, etc.petrified wood, wood opal. CORSON COUNTY LITTLE EAGLE: area ridges, slopes, stream beds...Guide for Rock Hounds in the United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles...of rd. a few yds., outcropRose Quartz. DOUGLAS COUNTY CORSICA, S on US 281 to Armour, area rd. cuts, |  | | Report (volume) | | ...... 51 Baltimore County .................................... 51 Howard County.......................CHAPTER III. GRANITES OF VIRGINIA ...................................... The Virginia Piedmont region ......77 77 CONTENTS. 5 CHAPTER III. GRANITES OP VIRGINIA Continued. PageScientific discussion Continued......... Chesterfield County (south of James River)................ Henrico County (north of James River)......................................... Fairfax County area ......................................... |  | | Report (issue) | | ha ; COUNTY REPORT C56A Geology and Mineral Resources of Southern Somerset County, Pennsylvania...RR RRR FP WWWNON VNN SOUTHERN iv SOMERSET COUNTY Page terest amet Mauch Chunk Formations mercies...163 166 167 167 168 168 vi SOUTHERN SOMERSET COUNTY Page Mississippian limestones #5... 2 oa ats...Mountain anticline 30 Vili SOUTHERN SOMERSET COUNTY FIGURES Page Closeup view of Loyalhanna limestone...Loyalhanna limestone from Connelisville, Fayette County ..°..3.. 2 Fae ee DENY 34 Photomicrograph of |  | | Report (issue) | | occurrences Road-cuts at km 4.5, Westport Road Kingston (Bedford) mica mine Richardson feldspar mine Glendower iron...Highway 38 road-cut at km 9.3 Perthite showing microcline (dark) and plagioclase (light) intergrowths,... 31 c/7 Sydenham. 25E south part of Frontenac County, eastern Ontario (Ont. Geol. Surv.). McFarland... 31 C/7 Sydenham. 25E south part of Frontenac County, eastern Ontario (Ont. Geol. Surv.). 7 Road-cuts... 31 CI7 Sydenham. 25E south part of Frontenac County, eastern Ontario (Ont. Geo!. Surv.). Plate II |  | | Journal (issue) | | p4,, Over two million residents Arizona's Pinal County welcomes everyone as a V.I.P.!!! ?ieU S ~ , ae...Native Copper and Piemontite Localities of Adams County Jay Lininger FEATURES THE EASTERN FEDERATION...5 miles west of Mt. Holly Springs in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Specimen collected by Martin Anne'...Pennsylvania Kline's quarry, Wrightsville , York County, Penn- basis to go mineral collecting, weather...located near Wrightsville in YorJc PENNSYLVANIA County. Wrigh._ille Martin Anne is the immediate past |
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