 | | 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) | | 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) | | 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 (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 (article/letter/editorial) | | fluorite, and quartz. Pyrite and Other Minerals from BARGERS QUARRY LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA D. A L L E N...C K , J R . Virginia Division of Mineral Resources P.O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 B A...east of the city limits of Lexington in Rockbridge County, Virginia (Fig ure 3). Although the quarry has...has long been known to min eral collectors in Virginia, very little information has been published on...has supplied construction aggregate to the Rockbridge County area continuously since 1922. Around 1975 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Virginia by RICHARD S. MITCHELL Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903...crystalline spessartine masses, microlite crystals, quartz crystals, and others. Simi lar cleavelandite also...same county. I t also has been observed i n pegmatites i n Powhatan County, Spotsylvania County, and...world have specimens of allanite from Amherst County, Virginia. The mineral is usually black and is coated...radioactive. The mineral was reported in Amherst County as early as 1874. Mallet ( 1 8 7 7 ) first described |  | | Journal (issue) | | fee basis for people interested in collecting in Virginia. All the listed localities were open to the public...AMHERST COUNTY The amethyst site is located 4.35 miles southeast of Amherst, Amherst County, about 1...operated by Mrs.Charles R. Schaar of Amherst, Virginia, telephone (804) 946-5721. The collecting fee...fee is $5.00 per person per day. Clear quartz and purple amethyst crystals and crystal clusters to threeinches...BERYL MZNE AMELIA COUNTY The Beryl mine is located 3.8 miles east of.Amelia* Amelia County, off the southwest |  | | Journal (issue) | | MINERALS FROM BARGER'S QUARRY NEAR LEXINGTON, VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. Barger's quarry is located...east of the city limits of Lexington in Rockbridge County, Virginia (Figure 1). This quarry offers a unique...fluorite, and quartz. Although Barger's quarry has long been known to mineral collectors in Virginia, very little...has supplied construction aggregate to the Rockbridge County area continuously since 1922. In 1975 the...Location of Barger's quarry in Roekbridge County, Virginia. VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES BACKGROUND |  | | Journal (issue) | | COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF MINES. MINERALS AND EN Richmond, V i a NOVEMBER 1996 VOL.42...42 NO. 4 DIAMONDS IN VIRGINIA Palmer C.Sweet . INTRODUCTION - @ Five diamonds have been found in...in or near Virginia and two additional sites may offer some potential for diamond exploration (Figure 1)...Spotsylvania, and Tazewell Counties, Vuginia and Monroe County, West Vuginia. It is noted by Holden (1944) that...that several valuable diamonds have been found in Virginia, one of more than forty carats, was found in a |  | | Journal (issue) | | FEBRUARYJMAY 1994 NO. 1 & 2 MINERALS OF ROCKBRIDGE COUNTY, VIRGINIA D. Allen Penick, Jr. INTRODUCTION RockbridgeCountyhas...Figure 1.LocationmapofRockbridgeCounty,Virginia. reported from the county. Rockbridgecounty is one of the more...more prolific mineralcollectingareasin Virginia. A largepercentageof the mineralsare concentratedin threeareas:...of pink to red feldspar, green epidote,and g a y quartz along with other mine& in minor producedexcell...~mberliteisa~kigneousintrusiverockfoundin for Rockbridge County. It wasrecognizedasadistinctmineral species |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | specimen; Chip Clark photo. March/April: Quartz, Middleville, Herkimer County, New York. John C. Medici specimen...Mountain, Lincoln County, Georgia. Ronald E. Bentley specimen and photo. July/August: Quartz, H. deLinde No...No. 4 mine, High Peak, Montgomery County, Arkansas. Private collection; Ronald E. Bentley photo. September/October:...September/October: Barite, Otero County, Colorado. Dan and Dianne Kile specimen; John Muntyan photo. November/December:...Arkansas, 316 Amethyst Scepters, Salem, New London County, Connecticut, W. A. Henderson, Jr., M. Haritos |  | | Journal (issue) | | Richm~ld,Virginia PubJisbed quarterly by the DIVISION O F M t N E W RESOURCES htahttaf RstpwrawBUIMing...as a candidate for such designation. 26 . VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL RESOURCES be more romantic...Pennsylvania is contained in the Balcony Falls section of Virginia...." It was that and a great deal more. Walcott...Walcott. C. D.. 1892, Notes on the Cambrian rocks of Virginia and the southern Appalachians: American Journal...S. Geological Survey Bulletin 13443 p. NO,4 VIRGINIA MINERALS 27 During the charcoal iron era many |  | | Journal (issue) | | TRAVERTINE-MARL DEPOSITS OF THE VALLEY AND RIDGE PROVINCE OF VIRGINIA - A PRELIMINARY REPORT David A. Hubbard, Jr.1...visitation of American Indians to Frederick and Augusta county sites. Thomas Jefferson (1825) wrote an account...eontinue to attract interest in these deposits. 'Virginia Division of Mineral Resources, Charlottesville...2Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA Figure 1. Travertine waterfall...Creek, Alleghany County, Virginia. Note man standing in center of left margin. 2 VIRGINIA DIVISION OF MINERAL |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | H E L L Clark Hall University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 Introduction Light-blue earthy...abandoned Kelly Bank iron-manganese mine in Rockbridge County, Virginia. Because of its light color and friable...crystallized tur quoise from Lynch Station, Campbell County, Virginia (Mitchell, 1977), and also it is unlike gem...a similar geological environment in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (Montgomery, 1969). The purpose of...E E L A N D 10340 Holly berry Drive Richmond, Virginia 23234 and new Virginian turquoise and to describe |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Erica VanPelt photographers March-April: Rutile on quartz, North Carolina; Louis Perloff photographer May-June:...July-August: Turquoise crystals on quartz, Lynch Station, Virginia; John C. Medici photographer September-October:...Aragonite, 236 Bald Knob Manganese Deposit, Allegheny County, North Carolina, W. B . Sim mons, Jr., 130 Barite...Columbia, Yukon Territory, 9; rutile, Hastings County, 284 Canfield, F . A . , 232 Canfieldite, 233 Caryopilite...Mineral and Fossil Collec tions and Displays in Virginia, A Com pilation, 198; A "Pathway to the Past" |  | | Report (issue) | | COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA ST.ATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT VIRGINIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY..., Geologic Map of the Appalachian Valley of Virginia with Ti.l Explanatory Text BY CHARLES BUTTS...GEOLOGICAL SURVBY UNIVERSITY, VIRGINIA 1933 COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA STATE COMMISSION ON CONSERVATION...CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT SURVEY VIRGINIA, GEOLOGICAL ttl lI ARTHUR BEVAN, State Geologist Bulletin 42 ... Geologic Map of the Appalachian Valley of Virginia with Explanatory Text BY CHARLES BUTTS PREPARED |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE DIXIE MINE Rockbridge County, Virginia The Dixie mine in Rockbridge County, Virginia, has yielded some...Dixie iron mine, circa 1900 (Watson, 1907). Rockbridge (ount> L A N C E E . KEARNS Department of Geology...Madison University Harrisonburg, Virginia 22807 D. A L L E N P E N I C K Virginia Division of Mineral Resources...Resources P.O. Box 3667 Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 Figure 2: Locality map. 42 ROCKS & MINERALS T H...L O C A T E D in northeastern Rock bridge County, Virginia, about 1.5 miles southeast of Vesu vius in |  | | 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) | | PRECIOUS-METAL MINES, PROSPECTS, AND OCCURRENCES IN VIRGINIA -AN UPDATE Palmer C. Sweet INTRODUCTION In 1985... the Division of Mineral Resources published "Virginia Minerals", volume 31,number 4, which noted 284...284 gold mines, prospects, and occurrences in Virginia. This article describes nine additional unreported...occurrences of precious metals (golclJsilver) in Virginia. Data on these listings was compiled from old... EXPLORATION IN VIRGINIA Interest continues in the Gold-pyrite belt in the Virginia Piedmont province |  | | Journal (issue) | | website: http://www.novamineralclub.org/ Northern Virginia Mineral Club members, Please join our January...California, Colorado, Nevada, North Carolina, and Virginia. He has The Mineral Newsletter NVMC members:...the National Capital Area joined the Northern Virginia Mineral Club for the festivities; the center was...party. The prizes included a geology map, minerals, quartz, poinsettias, two Christmas trees, and posters...grants. We also asked Dr. Shelly Jaye at Northern Virginia Community College in Annandale to submit names |  | | 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) | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The dufrenite locality at Midvale, Rockbridge County, Virginia. Am. Mineral, 5: 197-198. Hidden, W.E...G.A. 1877. On strengite from Rock bridge County, Virginia. Philadelphia Acad. Sci., Proc, 29: 277-278... On sipylite, a new niobate, from Amherst County, Virginia. Am. J. Sci. (3d), 14: 397-400. Marcin, E...E . J . 1958. The manganese mines of Crimoia, Virginia. Rocks and Minerals, 33: 424-425. Medici, J.C.... Minerals of the Fairfax quarry, Centreville, Virginia. Mineral Rec., 3: 173-179. Milton, C , K . J |  | | Report (issue) | | about 10 miles. The area is principally in Roane County. Ore has been mined in many places along the west...about 9 miles, lying partly in Roane County and partly in Rhea County. -Much of this strip is in the bottom...bordered by a fault for about 5 miles. Near the county line on the outcrop the rocks dip 20° to 30° SE...Lookout Mountain in the southern part of Walker County, Ga. The rock structure in Pigeon Mountain is synclinal...southeast, in the southeastern part of Gunnison County. Detailed'maps of the ore bodies were made, to |  | | Report (issue) | | of the Uniuersity of Virginia. Dn. J. I). Eccr,nsrox, President of the Virginia Polytech,rfic Inst,itute...portion of Virginia, showing the location of the Irish Creek tin deposits, Rockbridge County 2. PAGE...and to for pubiication as Bulletin XV-A of the Virginia Geological Survey Series of Reports, a manuscript...of a report on "Tin Deposits Near frish Creek, Virginia," by Henry G. tr'erguson, of the Ilnitecl States...Geological Survey, prepareal in coiiperation with the Virginia recommend Geological Survey. The tin deposits |
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