 | | Journal (issue) | | SAURATOWN MOUNTAINS ANTICLINORIUM NEAR MARTINSVILLE, VIRGINIA James F. Conley and William S. Henika This road...prepared for a 1Y2-dayfield trip of the Fifth Annual Virginia Geology Field Conference, November 3-4, 1973,... sponsored by the Geology Section of the Virginia Academy of Science. It will serve as a guide, however...area. The route of the road log is in Franklin, Henry, and Patrick counties near Martinsville where the...topographic quadrangle bases, are available from the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Box 3667, Charlottesville |  | | 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 |  | | 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 (issue) | | No. 2 '\ NON-BAUXITIC ALUMINA RESOURCES IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet and William F. Giannini , ABSTRACT...contain appreciable amounts of alumina ( 4 0 3 . The Virginia Division of Mineral Resources has completed a...34 counties and independent cities throughout Virginia were examined, sampled and the samples were analyzed;...or analyzed. Previously published analyses of Virginia coals indicate appreciable amounts of alumina...re- VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL REOURCES Vol. 36 Figure 1. Location of 61 samples in Virginia that |  | | 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 (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) | | COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES, MINERALS AND ENERGY Richmond, Virginia Virginia Minerals Published...Division of Mineral Resources Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 VOL. 48 MAY/AUGUST 2002 NO. 2/3 A GUIDE...GEOLOGICAL DIVERSITY John Marr and Roy Sites Virginia has a very interesting and varied geologic history...in unique and exotic geologic terranes. Across Virginia, the landscape exhibits all rock types: igneous...the Division of Mineral Resources offices. 10 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES VOL. 48 Figure |  | | Report (volume) | | Huntersville Chert (Devonian) extending from southwestern Virginia into southwestern New York, and its Bobs Ridge...(Middle Ordovician) extending from southwestern Virginia into southwestern New York in the central Appalachians...Section of south wall of Lynn Griffin mine //I, Henry County, Ala., type locality of Baker Hill Format ion....H28 9. Core-hole section at Highland Park, Henry County, Ala., lithologies of the farthest downdip part...extent of the Huntersville Chert, southwestern Virginia to southwestern Pennsylvania................. |  | | Book (edition) | | gem stones mon dull are as hard or harder than quartz, a com- mineral everywhere present as dust which...Hardness Scale 6. Orthoclase 1. Talc 2. Gypsum 7. Quartz Topaz Corundum 10. Diamond 3. Colcite 8. 4...Your will scratch orthoclase feldspar but not quartz. In making hardness appears to be a scratch paper...the general arrange- ment of these surfaces. Quartz and amethyst, for example, are frequently crystallized...SPODUMENE DANBURITE DATOLITE GARNET FLUORITE QUARTZ CRYSTALS SPINEL STAUROLITE •^^ VESUVIANITE |  | | 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 (article/letter/editorial) | | A Resume: Pseudomorphs in Virginia by R . V. DIETRICH Department of Geology Central Michigan University...mineral whose outward crystal form it has, e.g., quartz after fluorite" ( A . G . I . "Glossary . . . "...been able to determine, John G . Meem, of the Virginia Military Institute, wrote the first paper dealing...dealing primarily with pseudomorphs found in Virginia. I n 1886, he described and illus trated several...as precursor and/or end-product constituents of Virginia pseudomorphs. Several addi tional examples of |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vol. 27 May 1981 No. 2 BLUE QUARTZ IN VIRGINIA Michael A. Wise1 -@ I n 1885, Robert Robertson described...peculiar variety of quartz from Nelson County, Virginia. This new variety of quartz, as cited by Robertson...occurrence of blue quartz has been reported worldwide. Iddings (1904) noted blue quartz in a gray granite...porphyry in Llano, Texas. Jayaraman (1939) found blue quartz pebbles occurring in the charnockites and gneisses...Goldschmidt (1954) cited the occurrence of small blue quartz pebbles in the metasedimentary rocks of Norway |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (volume) | | Deposits of minerals of wide distribution, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...Burlington. Virginia...........Dr. Thomas L. Watson, Charlottesville. Washington....... Prof. Henry Landes...Landes, Seattle. West Virginia... .Dr. I. C. White, Morgantown. Wisconsin.........Prof. W. 0. Hotchkiss, Madison...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; |  | | Journal (issue) | | Vol. 20 August 1974 No. 3 METEORITES OF VIRGINIA F. B. Hoffer A meteoroid is any naturally occurring...engineers in the designing of spacecraft. 18 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES Vol. 20 ' l History's...approximately 420 pounds, have been recovered from Virginia. Although about 40 percent of the world's approximately...meteorites were observed falls, only three of the Virginia meteorites were seen falling. The other eight... - q - Ivo. 3 d VIRGINIA MINERALS RICHMOND METEORITE, CHESTERFIELD COUNTY . I The first recorded |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Untersulzbachtal, Salzburg, Austria W ith the exception of quartz and the feldspars, few com mon rock-forming silicates...sky-blue kyanite laths frozen in snow-white Brazilian quartz. Two others that stand out as important components...generally common minerals that include, among others, quartz, calcite, vesuvianite, scapolite, talc, wollastonite...Hampshire; and Willimantic, Windham County, and Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut. Gem-quality epidote...to 35 cm have been found at Eden Mills, Lamoille County, Vermont (a traditionally cited locality more accurately |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | thousand crystals from various locations in Fannin County, Georgia, they reported that the proportion of...with almandine, muscovite, biotite, kyanite, and quartz. In higher-grade metapelites, it may be associated...on dark schist, Cook Road, Windham, Cumberland County, Maine. Robert J. Lauf specimen No. 3585. Volume...replaced by, chlorite, mica, magnetite, hercynite, and quartz. Staurolite is, however, extremely resistant to...Staurolite from the region of Patrick and Henry counties, Virginia, is notable for the fairy crosses described |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Jersey Mineralogical Society ( New Jersey), Oxford County Mineral and Gem Association (Maine) and the Newark...clubs. 294 Two of our members, Harry Woodruff and Henry Graves, have served as Presidents of the American...Mineral Club, Farmington, spent an evening studying quartz and other crystals. Maryland A highlight of a...Gem, Lapidary and Mineral Society of Montgomery County, Wheaton, report their January meeting was one...crystals, microscopic in size, by this method. Virginia The Richmond Gem and Mineral Society, Inc., has |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Virginia......................................................................................... West Virginia.................................................of minerals that are widely distributed, such as quartz and calcite, have been omitted, except those that...L. Watson, Charlottesville. Washington___Prof. Henry Landes, Seattle. West Virginia_.Dr. I. C. White...See Bauxite and Halloysite. Asbestos. Tallapoosa County, with corundum deposits near Dudleyville; not found |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Corporation of America Mine No. 4, St. Lawrence County, New York T he technological development of mankind...sulfides, and a wide variety of silicates including quartz. Because of its unusually wide distribution, only...famous Tilly Foster iron mine near Brewster, Putnam County (see Cook 2008 and references therein) was the...Essex County; excellent sharp octahedra to 2 cm have been collected at Port Henry in the same county. The...of America’s No. 4 mine at Balmat, St. Lawrence County, is well known for lustrous magnetite crystals |  | | Journal (issue) | | 1982 INDUSTRIAL ROCK AND MINERAL RESOURCES IN VIRGINIA Palmer C. Sweet Virginia's total mineral production...the only producer of a feldspar, marketed as "Virginia aplite," and was one of three States mining vermiculite...vermiculite. Major industrial mineral resources in Virginia are: barite, cement*, clay materials*, diatomaceous...Prince William County at the Cedar Run mine about 200 yards from the Fauquier County line. The barite...of Vol. 28 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES 1980Mineral Production in Virginia Mineral Quantity |  | | Report (issue) | | ___ _ Feldspars _____ ___________ ____ ____ -' _ Quartz ___________________________ _ Micas _________ ---...66 70 73 73 74 74 __________________ -- 76 Quartz ____ ~--~~----- ~ -------'------------------Beryllium...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 |  | | Report (edition) | | Each article was read , annotated , and indexed by county , subject, and stratigraphic interval where applicable...where the area involved was larger than that of a county , subdivisions of the state, based upon physiographic...Appalachian Botanical Club from Morgantown , West Virginia . COMPASS . The Compass of Sigma Gamma Epsilon...from Athens , Georgia . VIRGINIA GEOL . SURVEY BULL. Bulletin of the Virginia Geological Survey, published...published by the Survey from Charlottesville , Virginia. VIRGINIA POLYTECH . INST . DEPT. GEOL . SCIS . MEM |  | | Report (volume) | | Geological Survey: vol. 4,1902; Garrett County, 1902; Cecil County, 1902. Baltimore, Md. Mexico, Institute...Jr.). [Maryland]. The physiography of Garrett County Md. Geol. Surv., Garrett Co., pp. 27-54, pis....Describes .the topographic and drainage features of the county, and discusses its physiographic history. 2 Adams...economic resources, chiefly building stones. 16 Ami (Henry M.). Bibliography of Sir John William Dawson. ... PETEOLOGY, AND M1NEEALQGY, 1902. 15 20 Ami (Henry M.). Artesian wells, paleontology, archaeology, |
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