 | | Report (issue) | | THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING HORACE D. THOMAS, State Geologist BULLETIN 51 A FIELD GUIDE TO THE...ROCKS AND MINERALS OF WYOMING by William H. Wilson THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WYOMING HORACE D. THOMAS,...' 0 MINERALS OF WYOMING By WILLIAM H. WILSO. UN IVERSITY OF WYOMING LARAMIE, WYOMING A GUST, 1965 This...the Department of Geology at the University of Wyoming ( 19 17-631. For more than fift y years his life...life has been devoted toward the understanding of Wyoming geology. but perhaps more important has been his |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | uraniferoussilica precipitatesin the Shirley Basin, Wyoming, identifiedareas where ancient uraniferous ground...to the The study area is the Shirley Basin of Wyoming sameprocedure. Coefficientsof variation are less...104 e x Sample locality Uranium • o-5o p13m WYOMING (•) 50-100 ppm Study area (• >100ppm -- , ...I I 1O0 MILES I FIG. 1. Shirley Basinarea, Wyoming (modifiedfrom Harshman, 1972) showingsamplelocalities...generated by a standard solution of natural Carbon County, Wyoming): Dark gray and uranium. lustrous white cryptocrystalline |  | | Report (volume) | | the State lists begin with Alabama and end with Wyoming. Under each State the minerals found there are...New York.........Mr. D. H. Newland, State Museum, Albany. North Carolina.. .Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel...Wisconsin.........Prof. W. 0. Hotchkiss, Madison. Wyoming.........Mr. C. E. Jamison, Cheyenne. Those members...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; |  | | Report (volume) | | ............................................. Wyoming..................................................Samuel, Map of the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming, with full descriptions of mineral resources, etc...Trenton. New York____Mr. D. H. Newland, State Museum, Albany. North Carolina_.Dr. Joseph Hyde Pratt, Chapel...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; |  | | Book (edition) | | 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^...have a cornfield at Pounding Mill, Tazewell County, Va. A 3 carat stone, bought by a Knoxville |  | | Report (issue) | | PLATINUM NEAR CENTENNIAL, WYOMING By FRANK L. HESS INTRODUCTION . During the winter of 1923-24 numerous...accounts of platinum discoveries near Centennial, Albany County, Wyo., appeared in the press. Startling claims...Centennial Ridge, the Rambler mine, and vicinity, Albany County, Wyo. 1, Cliff fraction; 2, Empire No. 1 claim...claim,; 3, Free Gold claim; 4, Queen shaft; 5, Wyoming Platinum Placer Co.'s giant (all locations approximate)... John B. Kendrick, United States Senator from Wyoming. An assay by E. Theodore Erickson gave the following |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................................. 199 PRECIOUS OPAL DISCOVERIES IN OREGON. PEGMATITES. By David M....place: Jane Hagar Assorted cabochons of pale blue opal in agate, and assorted lapis lazuli : Jane Hagar...Smith Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cass Thomas Warren PRECIOUS OPAL DISCOVERIES IN OREGON Editor R & M: ls this just...mention the name of the cowboy who discovered the opal in Virgin Valley. I am making no claim at all but...(Harney County, Oregon} and on the way I picked up some pieces or fragments of clear sky-blue opal which |  | | 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) | | Cruzeiro mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History specimen, Harold and... near Badger Creek, north of Coaldale, Fremont County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Jeff Scovil photo...manganoan, Argentine vein, Idarado mine, San Miguel County, Colorado. Dave Bunk specimen, Ed Raines photo...Mountain Diamond Mine near Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York, 23 1-37 Bostwick, R., see Media Reviews...Carlson, S., Mineralogy of Point Prospect, Keweenaw County, Michigan, 222-28 Carrollite, Colorado, 388 Celestine |  | | Book (volume) | | — ; Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming ~ AllanW Eckert b i or d , Digitized by...Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming VOLUME 4: THE SOUTHWESTERN QUADRANT Arizona...Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Washington, and Wyoming by Allan W. Eckert Ml PERENNIAL LIBRARY Harper...Oregon South Dakota Washington vi Contents Wyoming 5505 Glossary 608 Key to Principal Abbreviations...volumes, through very precise directions and accurate county maps, to get you to the best and most accessible |  | | Book (volume) | | Erica and. Harol d Van I [iL Albuquerque, Wyoming 6400 Library Academy Albuquerque 87109 N.M. N_E...Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern County, California; octagonal step cut violetish pink...Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from San Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, [D; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gem Center USA, EI Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill O. Murphy |  | | 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 | | | Book (volume) | | Vivid blue matched benitoite gems from Sai, Benito County, California, consisting of 52 benitoites and 75...Cantlin, Ellis, ID; Jeannette B. Carillo, Gen1 Center USA, El Paso, TX; Gary Christopher, The Prospectors Cache...Resources, Vancouver, BC; Barbara L. Muntyan, Ouray County Historical Society, Ouray, CO; Merrill 0. Murphy... 15 Figure 6. Dallas Gem Mine in San Benito County, CA..............................................Benitoite recovery from alluvial deposits, San Benito County, CA ................ 29 Figure 8. Title page |  | | Book (edition) | | dramatic rock formations Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming)—active geysers, dramatic vistas, and lots of volcanic...National Monument (Wyoming)—impressive volcano “throat” Fossil Butte National Monument (Wyoming)—amazing fossils...the United States; other agencies, such as state, county, and wildlife agencies, also control minor lands...holes sometimes fill with agate, chalcedony, or opal in small, round “blebs” that can weather out and...desert winds. Oregon, California, Nevada, and Wyoming are all known for interesting obsidian deposits |  | | Book (volume) | | excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | excavations in the underlying black, Upper Devonian (New Albany) shales occasionally produces pieces of silicified...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 |  | | Book (volume) | | Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade...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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | ................... 383 OPALIZED WOOD OF MESA COUNTY, COLORADO. BJ' UV. C. l\1inor ...................386 388 389 390 TRAVEL SCHOOL OF MINERALOGY IN WYOMING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 A PICTURE...vicinity of Thomsonite Beach near Grand M arais, Cook County. (See inset key map) Thanks to the recent relocating...R. Fox Park is in the southwestern part of Albany County (close to the Colorado border) which in tu~n...Association, and is the proprietor of a mineral shop, Wyoming Minerals, which is a regular advertiser in R OCKS |  | | Catalog/List | | •*11 A VERY LARGE MEGALODON TOOTH NORTH CAROLINA, USA 6Ω inch tooth of Carcharodon sp. from the Tortonian...9 •*12 A LARGE MEGALODON TOOTH NORTH CAROLINA, USA 6 inch Carcharodon sp. from the Tortonian (12-7...“delivered,” (e.g., a city, village, mountain, river, county, etc.). In a desert, where there are few distinguishing...remain. 32 A SPECIMEN OF PICTURE SANDSTONE UTAH, USA the carved form from the Shinarump formation 15in... *35 AN ADMIRE METEORITE NODULE DISCOVERED LYON COUNTY, KANSAS, 1881 the specimen shows the green clusters |  | | Book | | Metal-Silver Precious Gemstone-Virgin Valley Black Fire Opal Semiprecious Gemstone-Iurquoise Rock-Sandstone Soil-Orovada...Series Fossil-Calymene celebra 140 140 141 142 * Wyoming Gemstone-Jade Fossil-Knightia Dinosaur-Triceratops...body is organized alphabetically from Alabama to Wyoming. Each state’s geo-symbol is arranged by the year...made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of...feet thick, occurs near Sylacauga, in Talladega County, being fine-grained and mostly white, ofexceptional |  | | Book (edition) | | from the Tourmaline Q ueen .1ine, Pala, San Diego County, California. From a pen-and-ink drawing by W. E...PRINCIPAL GEMSTONES Diamond, Corundum, Beryl, Topaz, Opal. II 68 IMPORT ANT GEMSTONES The Feldspar Group...crystal forms 23. Views of opal mines, Spencer, Idaho 24. Nodules bearing opal, Spencer, Idaho 25. Drawing...of hyalite opal specimen, Mexico 26. Hyalite opal photomicrograph 2 7. Map of Honduras opal sources 28...of tourmaline crystal forms 38. Map of San Diego County, California gem sources 3 9. Stewart Lithia· and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Report on the Geology of Clinton County, 14 pp.Geol. Survey of New York, Albany, 1894. Notes on the Areal Geology...on the Geology of Albany County, 24 pp. and 6 of State Geologist for 1893, Albany, 1894. plates.-Report...1894. HERMAN LE ROY, Physical Characters of Monroe County and -FAIRCHILD, " Plants of Monroe Co. and Adjacent...Rhyolite HORACE B., Concretions of Chalcedony and Opal in Obsidian and in Colorado, 6 pp. and 4 plates |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | Ccurrence. Sometimes a village or township and a county, or a village and a state have the same name and...happens that the village or city 1s not 1n the county of the same name nor even in the state. For example...minerals. Chester is also a large city in Delaware County. We have frequently run across minerals recorded...Was the locality the city of Chester or Chescer County ? Worse still, we have run across items in which...Texas; to the one who knows, it is Texas, Lancaster County, Penn. Another instance are the frequent references |  | Hill, Thelma P., Werner, Marian A., Horton, M. Julia (1967) Chemical composition of sedimentary rocks in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming. Professional Paper 561. US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/pp561 | Report (issue) | | Montana Nebraska, North Dakota South Dakota, and Wyoming GEOLOGICAL SURVEY PROFESSIONAL PAPER 561 Chemical...Montana Nebraska, North Dakota South Dakota, and Wyoming Compiled by THELMA P. HILL, MARIAN A. WERNER,... Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming, containing more than 75 percent uncombined silica..._________________________ 6. South Dakota and Wyoming..___________________--_________________________----_----_---_...from Colorado, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming, containing uncombined silica and carbonate each |
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