| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Arkansas Phosphate Minerals A R E V I E W AND UPDATE The abundance and quality of Arkansas phosphate...N R Y L . BARWOOD Arkansas Mining and Mineral Resources Research Institute Arkansas Tech University Russellville...Russellville, Arkansas 72801 H E N R Y DELINDE 6 Homestead Court Mabelvale, Arkansas 72103 H A R D L Y...emerald-green crusts of variscite crystals from Arkansas. The abundance and quality of these specimens...minerals from Arkansas was made in 1877 when specimens (apparently from Montgomery County, Arkansas) were recognized | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | MINERALS of Arkansas A survey phates of mineral that occur resources in several reveals Arkansas ALBERT...Houston, Texas 77079 My first serious exposure to Arkansas minerals was in the summer of 1948, when I was...assist in a sur vey of the mineral resources of Arkansas. Local landowners and prospectors were encouraged...prospect on Fodderstack Mountain, near Norman, Arkansas, which was further sampled in the field. I recognized...but a common love of Arkansas minerals has met at least once a year as the Coon Creek Mining and Recreational | | | Book | Collecting Arkansas JVlinerals A Reference and Guide By Arthur E. Smith, Jr. ,'T Collecting Arkansas...Box 2043 Coeur d’Alene, Idaho 83816-2043 iii Arkansas Counties 1 \ I •( 11 o •« c »««ou cxi ju4«iO«J...573-308-3500 703-648-6045 or phone 800-USA-MAPS Map 3. Arkansas’ Ouachita Mountains 7.5 Minute Quadrangal...Quadrangal Map index. V Contents and Locality Index Arkansas Quartz Crystal Deposits Special Quartz Types....Location 1 Montgomery County quartz deposits................. Other Montgomery County quartz mines...... | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | crystals, Arkansas also boasts an array of other minerals, as evidenced by this county-by-county description...continued with mining in north ern and western Arkansas and Magnet Cove during the Civil War, and peaked...in full swing and the demand for and price of Arkansas quartz crystals has skyrocketed. In October 1987...exploited. Continued interest in and study of Arkansas minerals, par ticularly the microminerals, will...friends in the Coon Creek Association for their good companionship during my years of Arkansas collecting | | | Report (issue) | “Gumeshevsk copper mines,” Russia. (2) Mt. Ida, Arkansas, USA; by electron microprobe, total Fe as Fe2 O3...Series: Mineral Group: Forms a series with turquoise. Turquoise group. Occurrence: A rare secondary mineral...Wavellite, variscite, metavariscite (Mt. Ida, Arkansas, USA). Distribution: From Mt. Chernovskaya, near... Spain. In the USA, at General Trimble’s mine, Chester Co., Pennsylvania; in Arkansas, from the Mauldin... Ida, Montgomery Co., at the Coon Creek mine and Buckeye Mountain, Polk Co., and on Dug Hill, near Avant | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | from the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas; Indian Mountain, Alabama; Irish Creek, Virginia; Waldgirmes, West...mineral occurrences in the Ouachita Mountains, Arkansas, including their paragenesis and probable modes...Avants's claims, the Turquoise Pit, Buckeye Mountain, and Coon Creek mine in Polk County, and Fodderstack...Fodderstack Mountain in Montgomery County. Kidwell discerned three types of occurrences for kidwellite: as interlayerings...species. At the old Irish Creek rockbridgeite locality, Rockbridge County, Virginia, it forms the greater | | | Report (volume) | Mineral Resources of the Caney Creek Wilderness, Polk County, Arkansas By GEORGE E. ERICKSEN and SAM H...Mineral resources of the Caney Creek Wilderness, Polk County, Arkansas. (Geological Survey bulletin; 1551)...Mines and mineral resources-Arkansas-Caney Creek Wilderness. 2. Caney Creek Wilderness (Ark.) I. Ericksen...survey of the Caney Creek Wilderness, Arkansas, in the Ouachita National Forest. Caney Creek was established...Caney Creek Wilderness----Description and resource potential of mineral deposits in the Caney Creek Wil | | | Journal (issue) | Treasure of the Rockies The Story of the Sweet Home Mine. Andrey Atuchin: An Interview with a Natural History...Treats Provided by the Fossil Group MEMORIES OF ARKANSAS: COLLECTING PHOSPHATES AND BAUXITE Mike Nelson...Nelson csrockguy@yahoo.com I have fond memories of Arkansas. Applied for a few jobs in universities and turned...suspect many CSMS members have been to the State of Arkansas on a collecting trip, most likely to collect quartz...quartz crystals and dabble in the diamond mine (see December Pick & Pack). I actually would be interested | | | Journal (issue) | stibnites from a new Nevada locality, the Murray Mine, not the old Manhattan, but he had only three specimens...clear calcites from a small pocket in the Meikle Mine, the new locality for the superb yellow barites...specimens of azurite and malachite from the Flambau Mine in Wisconsin, now completely gone, of the chalcocite...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com...http://www.iea.com/-lream Web address change for Arkansas site A few months ago, the Mineral News ran a | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | (Sverige) Aln6 lsland, titanomagnetite, 265 Brattfors mine, Nordmarks Odalffalt, Viirmland, manganhumite, katoptrite...Gutter, Brook, Hampshire, glauconite, 373 Mill Close mine, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, corundophilite, I7I Seathwaite... 373 Turf Pits mine, Grassington, Yorkshire, spencerite, I76 Cornwall Botallack mine, digenite, I72 Carn...pseudomorphous after analcime, 245 INDEX Geevor mine, neotocite, 279 and M26 Luxulyan, luxullianite (in...apatite, hornblende, diopside, 427 South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, francevillite, I72 Stamps | | | Journal (issue) | Cooper Nottingham, England Anthony R. Kampf L.A, County Mus. of Nat. Hist. Los Angeles, CA Steven R. Morehead...group, 13 cm, w ith calcite from the Minerva No. 1 mine, near Cave in Rock, Illinois. Marvin Rausch collection;...Sterling mine at Antwerp, New York; the Alpine veins near Sherbrooke, Quebec; the Nanisivik mine on Baffin...country and soon became a collector. The cobalt mine at Bou-Azzer was among his favorite localities,...really fine azurite specimens from the now-famous mine at Touissit, and later many superb cerussites and | | | Journal (issue) | the MidstateQuarry Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas Art Smith 9118 Concho Houston, Texas 77036... Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, photo by the author. Middle& PolarUrals...ankerite were described in the Magnet Cove Titanium Mine. This may be from a similar one, though I did not... Midstate Quarry, Magnet Cove, Hot Spring County, Arkansas, photo by the author. these came from anywhere...News, P.O. Box 2043, Coeur d'Alene, ID 83816-2043 USA Phone: 208-664-2448 E-mail: lream@comtch.iea.com | | | Catalog/List | 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. GARNET. Deer Creek, Lemhi Co., Idaho, U.S.A. Lustrous red glassy crystal...association. 2x1-tx1t", £11.00 BARYTES. Force Crag Mine, nr. Keswick, Cumberland. Select, cluster of sharp...1x1", £4.5Op 2 11. BEUDANTITE. Penberthy Croft Mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall. Sharp lustrous light coloured...display. 4ix3tx21'" , £11.00 16. CALCITE. Millclose Mine, near Matlock, Derbyshire. Fine large doubly terminated...specilimen. 6xJ.}x2i", £14.00 17. CALCITE. Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall. Choice creamy-white rosettes | | | Catalog/List | 2txH-xi". £1.25. _ 2. ANDRADITE. Belstone Consols Mine, Sticklepath, Devon. Specimen A - Lustrous, sharp...Andradite. ltJMine, Wilberforce, Ontario, Canada. A well formed translucent...l-txlxl". £4.50. 7. ATACAMITE. Duke of Cornwall Mine, Kadina, S. Australia. Specimen A - A ltxl" cavity...Limonit ic Gossan. 2xlxl". £1.50. 8. AZURITE. Tynagh Mine, Co. Gllway, Eire. Bright blue well formed crystals...2xl-b<1". £3.25. BARYTES. Carbonate Shake, Murton Mine, Scordale, Westmoreland. 1 "C~Oic7' transparent | | | Book | Gem-Jade Fossil-Woolly Mammoth * Arizona Gemstone-Turquoise Mineral-Garnet Fossil-Eubrontes 26 27 * Delaware...Dinosaur-Capitalsaurus fo, Fossil-Petrified Wood * Arkansas Gem-Diamond * Florida Gem-Moonstone Stone-Agatized...Dinosaur-Hadrosaurus foulkii * New Mexico Gem-Turquoise Fossil- Coelophysis * New York Gem-Garnet Fossil-Eurypterus...past evidence of ancient life in North America. Turquoise, flint, quartz, pearl, nephrite jade, and agate...made the “Magic City” of Birmingham, Jefferson County “The Pittsburgh of the South” during the turn of | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | St. Just aureole, Cornwall, 427 Alice Mary copper mine, W. Australia, lavendulan, 369 Alkali feldspar,...breakdown product of staurolite from Donegal, 237 Auburn mine, Michigan, stilpnomelane, 36I and M37 Augite, Turkey...anal., opt., sp. gr., X-ray, I79 Bali Low copper mine, Capricorn Range, W. Australia, lavendulan, 369... Larne, Co. Antrim, tobermorite, 229 Bambollita mine, Moctezuma, Sonora, Mexico, tlapallite, 183 Ban...Pembrokeshire, 8 I Bingham, Utah, tobermorite, 229 Binny mine, Kondapalli, Andhra Pradesh, India, chromite, bronzite | | | Book (volume) | ...........................................19 Arkansas ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy | | | Book (volume) | ...........................................19 Arkansas ................................................rights, so remember you were told. If in doubt, a county map will tell you who the legal owner is. Good...gemmy qualities for cutting and polishing. AUTAUGA COUNTY PRATTVILLE, N. 6 mi., and just E of the Birmingham...were well known to prehistoric Indians.) BARBOUR COUNTY BAKER HILL, SE 1 mi. : 1 in a deep ravine, as a...deep red to variegated⎯ocher. BIBB COUNTY GENERAL AREA: c county gravel pits along the Cahaba R.⎯gemmy | | | Book (volume) | ...........................................22 Arkansas ...............................................................548 Table of Maps Page Alabama County Map ...................................................................................4 Alaska County and Stream Map ......................................................................22 Arizona County Map .............................................................42 Arizona – Yavapia Co. Burro Creek area Site Map ................................. | | | Report (edition) | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 MINERAL SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised...Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Revised 2007 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL...Williams State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission | | | Journal (issue) | Variscite, and Other Aluminum Phosphate Minerals in Arkansas ................................................Variscite, and Other Aluminum Phosphate Minerals in Arkansas Program Presented to the HGMS Mineral Section...occur in the Ouachita Mountains of west central Arkansas. Most of this mineralization is restricted to...Chert Formation, but it has also been found in the Arkansas Novaculite and other Paleozoic rocks. Wavellite...Gorceixite Variscite Metavariscite Planerite Turquoise Al3(PO4)2(OH,F)3.5H2O, CaAL3(PO4)2(OH,H2O)6, | | | Report (edition) | STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN 23 S P EC I ES O F A RKA N SA A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard \ 1987... / ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman F. Williams State Geologist s·' , STATE OF ARKANSAS BULLETIN...23 SPECIES OF ARKANSAS A DIGEST By J. Michael Howard 1987 Little Rock ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION...State Geologist STATE OF ARKANSAS Bill Clinton, Governor ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL COMMISSION Norman...Magnet Cove areas of Arkansas. The trip was conducted by Mike Howard of the Arkansas Geological Commission | | | Journal (issue) | 3114 El Dorado Ave. N., Lake Havasu City, AZ 86403, USA, and includes CD, pamphlet, and annual updates beginning...the Merced River and its tributaries in .1aripo a County. Results: gold. gold, gold, everywhere, nothing...silver jewelry with various stones such as Chinese turquoise and charoitc. Cardinal Minerals had 2,500 thumbnail... Mexico and several cadmium smithsonites from Arkansas. Leonard Himes had a great selection of North...million was mentioned along with a nice yellow Arkansas diamond mounted into a ring for Hilary Clinton | | | Report (volume) | Alabama.........Dr. Eugene A. Smith, University. Arkansas..........Dr. A. H. Purdue, Nashville, Tenn. California...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 | | | Report (issue) | INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY MINERAL RESOURCES OF ELKO COUNTY, NEVADA By Roscoe M. Smith Prepared in cooperation...district-- -Carlin district Cave Creek district ----Charleston district_--Coal Mine district~ Contact district...district Cornucopia district - -Corral Creek district - Decoy district Delano district Delker districtDivide...---Goose Creek -district Halleck district -.Harrison Pass district - -Hicks district . ' Hot Creek district...district '-Huntington Creek district Island Mountain district. Ivanhoe district Jarbidge district- --Kinsley |
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